1 . There are many movies that you can focus on if you want to improve the way you are learning. Choose one of the movies below and the results will be great in the end!

The King’s Speech

The King's Speech tells the story of a man forced to speak to the world with a stammer (口吃).That movie is filled with lots of encouraging information and is a wonderful movie for those who love language classes.

Inside Job

Inside Job is an Oscar-winning film by Charles Ferguson. It provides a detailed analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. which caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. It's a movie for students who want to learn more about the economic market.

Whiplash

Whiplash is a story of a young drummer who wants to realise his dreams although he doesn't receive any help from the people around him. It\s an interesting movie that will help art students better understand how much hard work can help them realise their dreams.

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner with schizophrenia (精神分裂症).It follows his journey from the point where he is not even aware he has schizophrenia, to the point where Nash and his wife find a way to manage his condition. It includes some interesting physics elements that will help you quite a lot.

1. Which film will you choose if you are interested in economic development?

A．The King’s Speech.	B．Inside Job.
C．Whiplash.	D．A Beautiful Mind.

2. What may Whiplash bring to art students?

A．Making efforts.	B．Asking for help.
C．Keeping an interest.	D．Being understandable.

3. What is special about A Beautiful Mind?

A．It focuses on interesting scenic spots.

B．It describes the progress in medicine.

C．It is based on the story of a real person.

D．It records the selection of Nobel Prize winners.

2 . Below is a list of popular movies, which are not only fun to watch, but they give us a lesson.

Booksmart

Booksmart stars (由……主演) Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two high school seniors who feel they haven’t experienced the typical (典型的) high school experience. So they attend different parties held by their classmates, but get into more trouble than they’ve experienced in their lives.

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Mean Girls

Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey, is regarded as one of the best teenage movies ever. The film stars Lindsay Lohan as Cady, a student from Africa. On her first day of school, Cady gets to know Regina George, the most popular girl in school. While she’s happy to be in the cool crowd at first, Cady realizes that popularity isn’t what she imagines.

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She’s All That

She’s All That is taken from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. It was considered one of the best teenage movies in the 1990s and reached number one at the box office in its first week. The film stars Freddie Prize Jr. as Zach, a popular student who becomes unpopular when his cheerleader friend leaves him for a reality TV star.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on Steven Chbosky’s novel of the same name, is a coming-of-age film about a teenager named Charlie and his struggle with anxiety. The film, which is considered one of the best teenage movies ever, follows Charlie throughout his first year of high school.

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1. What topic is Mean Girls about?

A．Friendship.	B．Difficult culture.
C．Being popular.	D．Typical school life

2. Which film is suitable for anxious freshmen?

A．Booksmart.	B．Mean Girls.
C．She’s All That.	D．The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

3. What do the films have in common?

A．Their leading actors are girls.	B．They are mainly about teenagers.
C．They were made in the 1990s.	D．They are of the same price on Amazon.

3 . I was a stay-at-home mother and there never was enough money to go around. So on my mother's birthday, I had no money to _________ a present. So I decided to make some cookies for her and leave a _________ .

Sitting down to write a few words of good wishes got me to _________ . There were many things that I did appreciate（感激）, so I decided to list all of them. Pretty soon, I had several pages of _________ thoughts, so I wrote a letter to my mother expressing my appreciation for the things she and my father had _________ us as children.

My mother taught us to be good neighbors by _________ others if they needed a hand. My father taught us how to work. The _________ went on and on.

I put the cookies and the letter on the table in her kitchen. That evening, she called and _________ me. She said it was a wonderful birthday _________ .

Two years later, she passed away. While cleaning out her house, I __________ a photocopy（复印件）of the birthday letter. I was __________ as to why she would make a copy.

But then I got my __________ . Room after room, I found eight more photocopies of the same letter. When I __________ the drawer（抽屉）beside her bed, I __________ an old handkerchief（手帕）with a piece of paper in it.

It was the original birthday letter. I realized that the letter was the __________ present I could have ever given to my mother.

1.

A．accept

B．prepare

C．need

D．forget

2.

A．note

B．key

C．number

D．picture

3.

A．worry

B．doubt

C．cry

D．think

4.

A．heartfelt

B．mind-changing

C．interesting

D．fresh

5.

A．asked

B．taught

C．bought

D．required

6.

A．helping

B．watching

C．praising

D．inviting

7.

A．game

B．story

C．voice

D．list

8.

A．thanked

B．questioned

C．surprised

D．refused

9.

A．party

B．present

C．card

D．cookie

10.

A．went over

B．put up

C．came across

D．got into

11.

A．confused

B．excited

C．frightened

D．satisfied

12.

A．secret

B．place

C．answer

D．fun

13.

A．saw

B．moved

C．locked

D．opened

14.

A．dropped

B．noticed

C．chose

D．used

15.

A．most expensive

B．simplest

C．most meaningful

D．newest

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Crew members of the Shenzhou XII mission returned to Earth on Friday afternoon,     1     (conclude) a historic journey in China's Tiangong space station.

Nie Haisheng and his crew spent 92 days in space since the Shenzhou XII spacecraft     2    (launch) at the Jiuquan center on June 17. They were the first inhabitants of China's permanent space station     3    (name) Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace.

During    4    (them) stay in Tiangong, the astronauts carried out two extravehicular activities, or spacewalks, using a large robotic arm and other     5    (equip) to install and adjust devices outside the station. They also performed a number of scientific experiments and technological tests, and had video calls with President Xi Jinping and hundreds of researchers, teachers and students in Hong Kong.

It is a     6     (fruit) trip by any measure,     7     proves China's ability to provide a long-term living environment in space. Their work also prepares China for the next steps in its construction. “So far China's manned space programs     8     (contribute) greatly to mankind's peaceful development of outer space     9     the country will continue broadening and deepening its cooperation and communication with the international community to build the Chinese space station     10     a shared laboratory to bring benefits to all people on the globe.” Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, told reporters.

5 . I used to watch her play basketball and laugh. The boys always tried to stop her but _________. No one could. At other times she would practice dribbling and shooting   _________ until dark. She desired to go to college and the only way was to get a(an) _________ by being one of the best players. _________, one day in her senior year, the coach told her that she would probably _________ get to play for a top ranked team for being too short----_________ less offered a scholarship.

She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat _________ as I sensed her disappointment. Her father encouraged that those coaches were _________. They just did not understand the _________ of a dream.“ If you really wished to achieve something, nothing could stop you except one thing---your own __________ . If the dream is big enough, the facts don't __________. Keep dreaming!" Then she smiled and ran towards the court to continue the __________ .

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college __________ who was there looking at the opposing team. She was indeed __________ a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had __________ and worked toward for all those years. And that little girl had more playing time as a freshman and sophomore than any other woman did in the history of that university. All the teachers were __________ with her diligence and rapid progress.

Every time she wanted to __________ , she remembered her father’s words and she will continue to __________ her dream. After work she can still be found sometimes as the sun is __________, bouncing a basketball. And often I hear her tell others, "If the dream is big enough, the __________ don’t count.”

1.

A．succeeded

B．defeated

C．passed

D．failed

2.

A．repeatedly

B．accidentally

C．occasionally

D．naturally

3.

A．diploma

B．scholarship

C．admission

D．training

4.

A．Besides

B．Meanwhile

C．However

D．Therefore

5.

A．only

B．ever

C．merely

D．never

6.

A．much

B．yet

C．alone

D．already

7.

A．ache

B．tighten

C．dry

D．itch

8.

A．correct

B．positive

C．honest

D．wrong

9.

A．importance

B．power

C．imagination

D．restriction

10.

A．family

B．skill

C．attitude

D．height

11.

A．exist

B．stand

C．count

D．debate

12.

A．running

B．shooting

C．routine

D．ambition

13.

A．coach

B．manager

C．athlete

D．consultant

14.

A．indicated

B．attached

C．submitted

D．allocated

15.

A．heard of

B．dreamed of

C．thought of

D．spoken of

16.

A．enjoyable

B．respectable

C．thoughtful

D．impressive

17.

A．last

B．decline

C．quit

D．fight

18.

A．stick to

B．wake up

C．calm down

D．think over

19.

A．setting

B．rising

C．moving

D．glowing

20.

A．failure

B．facts

C．consequence

D．target

6 . It goes without saying that plastic is killing our planet.    1    . Here are some ways you can do your part for the earth:

Go cupless

Plenty of restaurants and cafes are now rewarding their customers with discounted drinks.     2    . Many cups for hot drinks are advertised as recyclable. Skip out the fuss and simply bring your own for a guilt free and cheaper coffee

Buy local

A brilliant way to avoid buying needless plastic is to buy fresh produce from local shops. Supermarkets contribute more than 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging waste every year.    3    .

Cut down on packaging

Companies such as Lush are passionate about bringing beautiful eco-friendly products to their customers and have very little packaging. Get to know the companies you buy from.     4    .You may get to be surprised at the recycling options they give

    5    .

It has become the norm on a shopping trip to buy many cleaning products. But, there’s a safer and more eco-friendly way to go about it. Cut out the packaging and harmful ingredients by creating natural products of your own. You can make the cleaning products all by yourself.

A．Work together

B．Do a little DIY

C．Get to support them

D．And most products they sell include avoidable plastic

E．By buying locally you reduce the waste and support locals

F．The only condition is that they bring in their own reusable cups

G．It's true that we’ve started to take notice but so much more needs to be done

7 . At the first exhibition of Henri Rousseau’s paintings in 1886, the public laughed out loud, and critics made fun of his original, unschooled style, one writing "Monsieur Rousseau paints with his feet, and his eyes covered.”

Despite heavy criticism throughout his life, Rousseau kept painting, confident in his gift. He never received formal training in the arts because his family was too poor. For more than twenty years, he worked at the Paris customs office. It wasn’t until the age of 40 that he took up the brush, teaching himself to paint by copying works at the Louvre and studying nature. “Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.” he said.

Though his best-known paintings are of jungle scenes with monkeys, lions, and small woods, Rousseau never left France or saw a jungle. To paint foreign plants and animals, he relied on books, botanical gardens(植物园) in Paris,and his imagination. "When I go into the glasshouse and I see the strange plants of faraway lands,” he once said, "it seems to me that I enter into a dream.”

Rousseau claimed to have invented a new style of painting called the landscape-portrait, in which he paints a background view and then adds a person in the foreground later, as he did in Myself: Portrait-Landscape (1890).

Called a naive (天真) artist due to his childlike, untrained style, Rousseau painted colors one at a time, starting from the top and working his way down. While critics described his works as flat and inexact descriptions of nature, he earned the respect of artists like Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky, who thought Rousseau was onto something new.

Though his work was never accepted by the art world in his time, Rousseau’s paintings hang in museums around the world today. And Rousseau’s original approach to art has inspired countless artists to follow their own unique views.

1. Why did Rousseau have no formal training in arts?

A．Because he preferred painting in his own way.

B．Because he was afraid of being criticized by others.

C．Because his family couldn’t afford the training.

D．Because there were more to be found in nature.

2. What can we learn about Rousseau?

A．He was unwilling to develop a personal style.

B．He moved to a jungle to study nature.

C．He came from an artistic family.

D．He was indeed a self-taught painter.

3. What is Rousseau' s art like?

A．It is black-and-white.	B．It is simple and original.
C．It presents social reality.	D．It employs persons in the background.

4. What does the last paragraph mainly tell us?

A．Rousseau ’s works have now been recognized.

B．Rousseau earned a good reputation in his time.

C．Rousseau encouraged young artists to follow his footsteps.

D．Rousseau’s paintings have hardly ever been shown in museums.

8 . I have been learning English since I was around 10 years old. All I _________ at school were tenses, rules, grammar--Learning English was always a _________ for me. I got sick of vocabulary, of grammar rules, of English.

And then one day, my parents bought me a _________. I was amazed（大为吃惊）at how _________ things were. The world has become a smaller place and people have become _________ to each other. I could learn whatever I wanted on the computer.

I began to watch TV shows. I _________ quite a lot of vocabulary from TV shows, which became a new and a（n） _________ experience for me. That was also when I started to _________ this language. I also made many foreign friends. We exchanged languages and _________ and we talked long into the night about everything in life. At first, I thought the only reason why people learned English was to __________ with each other. Not until I immersed（使沉浸）myself in the language and __________ that language was the best way to create a strong bond（纽带）between me and the __________ knowledge of the world.

I could see a great improvement in my English skills. And thanks to English, I have come to __________ much more about the world around me. The journey towards language fluency is not always __________. I don't, however, intend to give up on it. I enjoy the __________ that I'm going rather than the destination（终点）ahead.

1.

A．taught

B．changed

C．learned

D．trusted

2.

A．chance

B．challenge

C．pain

D．dream

3.

A．phone

B．map

C．book

D．computer

4.

A．popular

B．difficult

C．wonderful

D．experienced

5.

A．closer

B．more important

C．newer

D．more similar

6.

A．created

B．mixed up

C．lost

D．picked up

7.

A．unforgettable

B．personal

C．unacceptable

D．common

8.

A．remember

B．use

C．love

D．need

9.

A．roles

B．cultures

C．tasks

D．examples

10.

A．agree

B．share

C．communicate

D．compare

11.

A．doubt

B．imagine

C．hope

D．realize

12.

A．basic

B．endless

C．secret

D．local

13.

A．know

B．worry

C．write

D．argue

14.

A．proper

B．easy

C．safe

D．special

15.

A．journey

B．class

C．conversation

D．activity

9 . How to develop a healthy lifestyle in high school

High school is a time known for teenagers spreading their wings and developing their minds.     1     Therefore, it is necessary for teenagers to develop a healthy lifestyle. Follow the tips to live a healthy lifestyle.

    2     With studying and homework, high school students stay up late and still make it to early class. To function properly, your body and mind need at least eight hours of sleep each night. Go to sleep early enough to get your full requirement, and encourage your roommates to respect your need for enough sleep.

Eat a well-balanced diet. High school students may live on a diet of junk food and drinks.     3     If you have the benefit of a meal plan in the high school canteen, make good use of the salad bar and watch out for treats such as ice cream.

Exercise regularly.     4     High school students who exercise regularly benefit from a healthy physique(体格) and a mind with less stress. Make use of the school gym and swimming pool, which are typically available to students free of charge.

    5     High school can bring on a lot of stressful situations. Aim for balance in your life between your social and school activities. Only take as many classes as you can handle successfully and rely on your support system of friends and family when stress arises.

A．Get plenty of rest.

B．Plan your school life.

C．Manage your stress level.

D．Physical activity helps build a strong body and mind.

E．High school students are busy with all kinds of activities.

F．Unfortunately, many often develop an unhealthy lifestyle.

G．Drink plenty of water and eat whole grains and vegetables every day.

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Lunar New Year     1     (celebrate) by around 1.5 billion people across the world.

Lunar New Year     2     (vary) in different countries, but celebrations usually involve families gathering together for feasts. Schools and     3     (business) shut for a few days as the celebrations take place. Traditional foods include dumplings, rice cakes and noodle soup,    4     are thought to bring happiness and wealth. Spreading good fortune is a major theme, and firecrackers are lit     5     (drive) evil spirits away. Parents and grandparents give children money in envelopes. There are parades (游行) and performances,    6     (include) lion dances and dragon dances. Chinese New Year is the     7     (large) Lunar New Year celebration, and takes place over 15 days, ending in a lantern festival.

The Chinese zodiac (十二宫) is divided     8     12 blocks. Each block lasts a year and is represented by     9     animal. This year is the Year of the Ox. The date for Lunar New Year is worked out through the traditional Chinese Lunar calendar, which is based on the Moon's     10     (move). It depends on the new moon arriving in Asia between January and February.