1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

More than 25 years ago, a train took Saroo Brierley, a 4-year-old boy, a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. There, he     1     (bring) up by an Australian family and flew to Tasmania, Australia with them.

    2     he writes in his new book, A Long Way Home, Brierley couldn’t help but wonder about his hometown back in India. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn’t know his town’s name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country     3     (prove) to be impossible.

Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years     4     (search) for his hometown in the program’s satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across     5     familiar. He studied it and realized he was looking at a town’s central business district     6     a bird’s-eye view. He thought “On the right-hand side you should see the three-platform train station”— and there it was. “And on the left-hand side you should see a big fountain” — and there it was. Everything just started to match.

When he stood in front of the house     7     he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing in the entrance. “There’s something about me,” he thought — and it took him a few seconds but he finally remembered     8     she used to look like.

In an interview Brierley says, “My mother looked so much     9     (short) than I remembered. But she came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, and my feelings and tears and the chemical in my brain, you know, it was like a nuclear fusion (核聚变). I just didn’t know what to say,     10     I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in front of her.”

2 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120—150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是学生李华，你们班上周组织了为期三天的社会实践活动，请根据以下四幅图的顺序，写一篇周记，内容需包括：
●简单记述整个过程；
●简要谈谈社会实践后你的感受。

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5 . Contact between adolescents (between the ages of 15 and 19) and their peers (同龄人) is a universal characteristic of all cultures. However, the nature and the degree of such contact ________ a great deal. In American contemporary society, adolescents spend much more time with their peers than with ________ or adults.

This pattern of age segregation (隔离) in American society did not become usual until the beginning of the industrialized society. Changes in the ________separated children from adults, with adults working and children attending school. The dramatic increase of mothers in the workplace has ________ contributed to (促成) the reduction in the amount of time adolescents spend with adults. School reform efforts during the nineteenth century, which ________ age-segregated schools and grades, have reduced the amount of time adolescents spend with younger children. Finally, the changes in population are considered a(n)________that may have contributed to the emergence of adolescent peer culture. From 1955 to 1975, the adolescent ________ increased dramatically, from 11 percent to 20.9 percent. This increase in the number of adolescents might be a contributing factor to the ________ in adolescent peer culture in terms of growth in size as well as in terms of its impact on society’s other cultures.

Research ________ the view that adolescent s spend a great deal of time with their peers. Reed Larson and his colleagues examined adolescents’ daily ________ and found that they spend more time talking to their friends than engaging in any other activity. In a typical week, ________, high school students will spend twice as much time with their peers as with adults. This gradual withdrawal (退出) from adults begins in ________ adolescence. In sixth grade, adults (excluding parents) account for only 25 percent of adolescent social ________ . Another important characteristic of adolescent peer________ is its increasingly autonomous (自治的) function. While childhood peer groups are conducted under the close supervision (监管) of parents, adolescent peer groups typically make an effort to ________ adult supervision and usually succeed in doing so.

1.

A．reveal

B．vary

C．imply

D．prove

2.

A．younger children

B．professional teachers

C．close relatives

D．responsible researchers

3.

A．interest

B．attitude

C．workplace

D．age

4.

A．slightly

B．seldom

C．regularly

D．further

5.

A．resulted in

B．objected to

C．held back

D．checked out

6.

A．solution

B．factor

C．concern

D．argument

7.

A．spending

B．volunteers

C．partners

D．population

8.

A．increase

B．share

C．disappearance

D．selection

9.

A．opposes

B．doubts

C．supports

D．changes

10.

A．diets

B．activities

C．expenses

D．necessities

11.

A．in addition

B．as a result

C．in particular

D．for example

12.

A．late

B．typical

C．early

D．common

13.

A．pressure

B．networks

C．skills

D．background

14.

A．culture

B．pressure

C．respect

D．education

15.

A．develop

B．control

C．escape

D．apply

6 . The church tower which________(restore) will be open to tourists soon. The work is almost finished. (所给词的适当形式填空)

7 . We will put off the picnic in the park until next week, ________ the weather may be better. (用适当的词填空)

8 . In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic(官僚主义的)management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-equipped factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-collar and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.

The worker and employee are anxious, seemingly because they might find themselves out of a job or they would say that they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. In fact, they feel desperate as they live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.

Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.

Am I suggesting that we should return to the pre-industrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities - those of all love and of reason - are the aims of social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.

1. By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery”, the author expresses the idea that man is _________.

A．an essential part of society though individual’s function is negligible

B．expected to work in reasonable harmony with the rest of society

C．a replaceable component of society, though functioning smoothly

D．responsible for the smooth running of society and business operations

2. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that _________.

A．they are filled with well-founded fear of being unemployed

B．they don’t have any genuine satisfaction or being unemployed

C．they have to face the fundamental realities of human existence

D．they are deprived of their independence

3. From the passage we can infer that real happiness of life belongs to those who _________.

A．hold well-paid and life-long jobs	B．enjoy high social status and reputation
C．outperform their fellow-competitors	D．stay away from over-competitiveness

4. To solve the present social problems the author suggests that we should _________.

A．resort to the production mode of our ancestors

B．offer higher wages to workers and employees

C．enable man to fully develop his potentialities

D．escape consumerism and embrace humanism

9 . She brought her three friends to the party, none of ________I had ever met before. (用适当的词填空)

10 . Gone are the days ________ physical strength was all you needed to make a living. (用适当的词填空)