1 . 寒假结束了，新学期到来，你是如何计划的，请以“My Plan for New Term”为题，写一篇不少于80词的作文。
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2 . 语法填空

Everyone needs good     1     (friend) because nobody wants to be lonely and a friend can help you in good and bad times. I have a good friend     2     name is Mary. And this friendship is very special, because there are more than twenty years between us. Now she is in     3     (she) thirties. She is good at handwriting, and I admire her so much. She always has time to listen to my problems and     4     they are, she is always the first one     5     (work) them out for me. Although she is much     6     (old) than me, there is no generation gap. We often share troubles and     7     (happy) and she     8     (respect) me. When I make a mistake, she points it out, and tells me the reason why I shouldn’t do it. She is also very     9     (humor). When I am upset, she will tell a joke with her hands and body     10     (move) in a funny way in front of me and then my trouble fades away. So she is my favorite and close friend.

3 . Can the colors you choose for your home affect (影响) your feelings? Of course! Believe it or not, colors can have a great effect on how you feel, from your energy levels (精力水平) to happiness.     1    .

Red: The Color of Being Successful.

Red is a kind of color full of energy. It can raise your energy levels.     2    . It has a great effect on your whole nerve system (神经系统). That means it can make you feel angrier or more excited than before. So it’s very important for you to carefully choose where you use it.

Yellow: The Color of Happiness.

    3    . It’s the color that can make you happy and full of energy. It’s not like red. When it’s chosen in the room, it is both relaxing and exciting.     4    .

Blue: The Color of Rest and Beauty.

Blue is the color of the sea and the sky. It makes you comfortable and always slows you down.     5    . Maybe it is something we need most after a long day of hard work. It lowers (降低) your blood pressure. That means it has a good effect on your health.

A．It’s a color like fire.

B．I don’t like this color at all.

C．You’d better not choose this color.

D．It can be a perfect color for a room.

E．Blue can bring you the feeling of peace.

F．Yellow is known to be an exciting color.

G．There are three kinds of colors for your home.

4 . Though my friend and I have had our own careers in different cities, we still get together, like, once a month to chat and________.

A．catch up

B．make up

C．break up

D．come up

5 . 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。

As artificial intelligence products steadily improve at pretending to be human, people will increasingly be put in the unsettling situation of not knowing     1     they are talking to a machine. But the     2     (true) may make such products less effective: recent research finds a trade-off between transparency and cooperation in human-computer interactions.

The study used a game in     3     paired players made a series of     4     (decision) to cooperate with betray their partner. In     5     long run, it pays for both to keep cooperating. But there is always the desire     6    (earn) extra points at the partner’s expense. Previous work suggested people tended to distrust machines, so the scientists hoped people     7     (play) with a known robot would recognize its ability to cooperate and would     8     (eventual) get past their distrust.

“Sadly, we failed at this goal,” says Talal Rahwan, a senior author on the paper,     9     (publish) last November in Nature Machine Intelligence. “A robot was     10     (likely) to obtain cooperation than another human, even though its strategy was clearly more beneficial to both players.”

It seems that there is a long way to go before trust in robots is established.

6 . The daily life can be busy and at times difficult. It may sometimes feel like bringing just a little more inner peace and calmness into your life is a hopeless wish.     1     Small and smart changes can make a big difference over time. Here are some tips for finding more peace and calmness in everyday life.

Set limits (限制). If your life is overfilled, you may need to set some limits. So stop doing some of the least important things, which honestly don’t matter that much. Set a limit for how many times you will check your mailbox, Instagram,Twitter etc. per day.     2    

Organise your world and your mind.     3     A tidy, clean and ordered space around you brings clarity and order to the mind. So don’t stop there. Simplify and organise your home and life to live in a more relaxing environment.

    4     Reading minds is pretty much impossible. But still we often try it and create anxiety and uncertainty for ourselves. So ask and communicate instead. It may sometimes be a bit hard at first but it can save you and the people around you so much trouble in the long run.

Solve a problem that is weighing heavily on you. Solve your problem and release (释放) all the stress that it is creating in your life. You probably already know what to do, and you are just not doing it yet.     5     So get up from your chair and get started right now.

A．Ask instead of guessing.

B．Sometimes you have a bad day.

C．But it doesn’t have to be that way.

D．And say no if you really don’t have the time.

E．Leave your work and work phone where it belongs.

F．Just take three minutes to organize the room you’re in.

G．But the longer you wait,the worse the tension (紧张) inside becomes.

7 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1. Who is the talk aimed at?

A．Children.

B．Teenagers

C．Adults.

2. What does the speaker say about the programs?

A．They offer courses for beginners only.

B．They provide flexible language lessons.

C．They give online learning materials for free.

3. What kind of teachers are available?

A．Native speakers.

B．Qualified professors.

C．Experienced travelers.

4. What’s the purpose of the talk?

A．To teach communication skills.

B．To promote courses.

C．To discuss a program.

8 . 假设你是李华, 来自英国的师生即将结束在你校为期两周的访问活动。请你写一篇英文发言稿, 在欢送会上代表学生会发言。内容包括：

1. 活动回顾;

2. 活动意义。

要求：

1. 文章开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数;

2. 词数80左右。

Dear teachers and fellow students,

As the representative of the Students’ Union, I, Li Hua,

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We look forward to welcoming you back to our school in the near future.

Thank you

9 . Which of your children is your favorite? Your response is probably “none of them.” What kind of parent would choose one child as his or her favorite? The truth might be surprising to you.

Years of research supports what many have suspected-most parents have a favorite child. Studies have explored reasons from birth order to gender (性别) and shared interests. Yet even with years of research that supports this idea, most parents tend to deny the fact that they have a favorite child. Even if there is no obvious parental favorite among siblings (兄弟姐妹), studies have shown that children often feel preferential treatment of their sibling by their parents. Favoritism often results in family conflicts and feelings of sadness among family members whether parents’ favoritism is real or only felt. Thus both the kids and their parents tend to be plagued by the favoritism.

The question isn’t whether or not you have a favorite child, since it’s pretty clear that many parents do. Typically, favoritism has little to do with loving one child more. It is more about how your personality resonates (产生共鸣) with one child’s personality more than the others’. Essentially, it’s a question of “like”. Still, why is it so hard for us to admit that one of our children might be our favorite? Some parents might worry about harming their children emotionally or psychologically. Some parents confuse liking one child’s personality with the love they show to each child. However, when recognizing that you might hold preferential feelings towards one child you are taking an important step towards creating a better relationship with all of your children.

Instead of denying the fact, you can reflect on how you relate to each of your children. Examining your feelings towards each of your children can provide a greater insight into your own personality and how you function in relationships -- and in fact, how you consider your children might reflect more about your thoughts and feelings of yourself than them. Increased awareness about your inner world can help you build and keep healthier relationships with your children.

1. How do most parents respond to the result of the research?

A．They’re quite concerned about it.	B．They’re unwilling to admit it.
C．They’re sensitive to it.	D．They’re regretful about it.

2. What does the underlined word “plagued” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Encouraged.

B．Troubled.

C．Separated.

D．Confused.

3. According to the passage, why do parents have a favorite child?

A．Because the child is worth more love.

B．Because the child has a good personality.

C．Because the child has more in common with them.

D．Because the child knows how to please them

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Is it OK to have a favorite child?

B．What kind of kids do parents prefer?

C．How can parents get along well with children?

D．Why do parents treat their kids differently?

10 . Act Your Shoe Size, Not Your Age

As adults, it seems that we are constantly pursuing happiness, often with mixed results. Yet children appear to have it down to an art and for the most part they don’t need self-help books or methods.     1     Children’s way is usually more effective than grown-ups’. Perhaps it’s time to learn a few lessons from them.

What does a child do when he’s sad? He cries. When he’s angry? He shouts. Scared? Probably a bit of both.     2     So they don’t influence our behavior. But too often we take this process too far and end up suppressing ( 压 抑 ) emotions, especially negative ones. What we need to do is find a way to acknowledge and express what we feel appropriately, and then again, like children—move on.

    3     If we adults could be obsessed with a bit of silliness and giggling like them, we would reduce the stress hormones (荷尔蒙), improve blood flow to our hearts and even have a greater chance of fighting off infection. All of them would, of course, have a positive effect on our happiness levels.

A couple of Christmases ago, my daughter, who was nine years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas. It cost less than a five but she was overjoyed, and couldn’t stop talking about it. However, too often we adults believe that a new job, bigger house or better car will be the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content.     4    

Having said all above, it’s necessary to add that we shouldn’t try too hard to be happy.     5     Overthinking it will make it more difficult for us to gain happiness. We need to look to the example of our children, to whom happiness is not a goal but a natural byproduct of the way they live.

A．Scientists tell us this can have the opposite effect.

B．Have you ever noticed how much children laugh?

C．As we grow up, we learn to control these emotions.

D．Instead, they look after their well-being unconsciously.

E．Actually, being grateful for small things is a better way.

F．Indeed happiness consists in the possession of a lot of money.

G．People laughing without cause can find the true meaning of happiness.