1 . 选词填空

be set in       lose track of          in advance        what if        make one’s fortune turn up        be anxious about     up to               keep in mind       tend to

1. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, and it’s worth it if my old partner _______________.
2. How would you feel if moving to a new town meant _______________ your friends?
3. We need to _________________ that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person.
4. On social media sites, people _____________ post only positive updates.
5. It is cheaper if you book the tickets _______________.
6. The short story “After Twenty Years” _______________ New York on a cold, dark night.
7. Social media tools let us see what our friends are ______________ and maintain friendship.
8. ______________ the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered?
9. Johnson _________________ his job interview tomorrow.
10. The next morning I was to start for the West to ________________.

2 . 假定你是李华，你的美国朋友John来信询问你的家乡——银川，并打算暑期来这儿旅游。现请你回信对你的家乡进行简单介绍。
主要内容：
1.简况：也被称作“凤凰城”，人口290万，面积9025平方公里；
2.有着2000多年的历史，是古丝绸之路的重要节点（node）；
3.其他特色。
参考词汇：古丝绸之路 the ancient Silk Road；凤凰城the Phoenix city；
西夏王陵Western Xia imperial tombs；岩画 rock paintings；
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3 . 假定你是学校英语社团的负责人，最近社团要组织一次主题为“中国文化特色校园建设”(Campus Construction With Chinese Cultural Characteristics)的征文比赛，请用英语写一则书面通知，内容包括：
1、征文的内容和参赛要求；2、征文的截止日期和投稿邮箱；3、参加比赛的意义。
要求：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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4 . Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathize (产生共鸣) with others is of great significance to children’s creativity, new research suggests.

Pupils at two inner London schools were involved in the study. Pupils at one school spent the year following curriculum-prescribed lessons, while the other group’s lessons used a set of engineering design thinking tools which aim to develop students’ ability to think creatively and to cause empathy, while solving real-world problems.

Pupils at the intervention school were asked to design an asthma-treatment “pack” for children aged six and under. Pupils were given various creative and empathetic “tools” in order to do so: for example, they were shown data about the number of childhood asthma deaths in the U.K., and a video which describes a young child having an attack. They also explored the problem and tested their design ideas by role-playing various stakeholder (参与方) — patients, family members and medical staff.

Both sets of pupils were assessed for creativity at both the start and end of the school year. The results showed a statistically significant increase in creativity among pupils at the intervention school, where the thinking tools were used. At the start of the year, the creativity scores of pupils in the control school, which followed the standard curriculum, were 11% higher than those at the intervention school. By the end, however, the situation had completely changed: creativity scores among the intervention group were 78% higher than the control group.

Nicholl, the leading researcher of the study, said, “Teaching for empathy has been problematic despite being part of the National Curriculum for over two decades. This evidence suggests that it is a missing link in the creative process, and vital if we want education to encourage the designers and engineers of tomorrow.”

1. What were pupils at the intervention school asked to do?

A．Watch the process of an asthma attack.

B．Gather data about asthma deaths in children.

C．Show sympathy for the young asthma sufferers.

D．Test their asthma-treatment “pack” on patients.

2. What does the research find about the pupils in the control school?

A．They preferred to study the standard curriculum.

B．They were smarter at the beginning of the school year.

C．They had little empathy for the young children with asthma.

D．There were less creative than those at the intervention school in the end.

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Empathy education and creativity go hand in hand.

B．Empathy education was neglected in the creative process.

C．Empathy education is a must for future designers and engineers.

D．Empathy education hasn’t been included in the National Curriculum.

4. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．The standard curriculum limits pupils’ creativity.

B．Teaching pupils empathy improves their creative abilities.

C．Solving real-world problems promotes pupils’ all-round development.

D．An asthma-treatment “pack” was created by pupils at a London school.

5 . It _________that some people buy animals as pets just for fun but treat them badly. (是耻辱，是丢脸的事)（根据汉语提示完成句子）

6 . _______ ________the kind-hearted public,we have raised enough money for the sick boy.
多亏了善良的公众，到目前为止，我们已经为生病的男孩凑够了钱。

7 . My friend told me that many factories in his city          to close down because of serious pollution.

A．have been forced	B．had been forced
C．have forced	D．had forced

8 . He is creative? Do you mean he can always         an excuse whenever he makes a mistake?

A．take up

B．bring up

C．make up

D．set up

9 . Teens shifting their focus from parents to peers is normal. The self-protective urge to pull away at this stage of parenting can be strong. After all, they don’t seem to need me or want me around, right?       1    

Stand back and remember that this is not personal.

Children are trying to figure out what their relationship with their parents as an adult is going to look like.     2     It’s really painful to parents who are savoring every last moment with their teen under their roof to get their teenager annoyed at any proposal that the parent is using to try to pull them close. Nobody’s doing anything wrong. This is normal development.

Be a lighthouse.

Parents should reach an ideal balance —— “lighthouse parenting”. The adolescent years are a unique opportunity to support and influence our kids, if we can see through their apparent lack of interest in us and recognize how important we really are. As they’re growing, adolescents have a big job to try to answer this fundamental question, “Who am I?”     3     As our teens struggle to imagine themselves without us, they will sometimes actively push us away or give us the silent treatment.    4    

Remember that the lame duck experience will be temporary.

Interdependence often looks like once again living under one roof. So parents shouldn’t start counting down the days to that perfectly clean home just yet. Beneath teenagers’ too-cool-for-this exterior, there are soft spots that occasionally show themselves.    5    

A．Part of parent’s job is to wait patiently and non-judgmentally for them to appear.

B．And part of the answer is: ‘I am someone distinct and separate from my parents.’

C．Normal and even desirable as this stage is, it can be surprisingly hurtful for parents.

D．But the transition for parents from all-important to more of a barrier is often overlooked.

E．You should be a stable force for your children to measure themselves against and always return to.

F．But we shouldn’t take that outward expression of their struggle toward independence as evidence that we’re no longer needed.

G．But just as any parent at this stage may feel powerless, maybe this is a time to be more hands-on, just in a different way.

10 . 假如你最喜欢的喜剧演员是英国的罗温·艾金森 (Rowan Atkinson)，请根据下面的提示写一篇短文介绍这位喜剧演员。

罗温·艾金森是世界上最有趣的喜剧演员之一；他出生于1955年，在小学时就表现出惊人的表演天赋；在1990年成功扮演了憨豆先生，这一角色是国际公认的电视和电影中的喜剧人物，角色表演生动滑稽又非常有趣，给观众留下了深刻的印象。

注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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