1 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使其构成一篇完整的短文。

Niesha could not forget the way she froze in front of the class today. Mr. Roberts had divided the class into groups to do presentations. Today was Niesha’s turn. However, her hands shook so violently that she couldn’t read her notes. Her voice became softer even to silence. Mr. Roberts kindly ended Niesha’s part of the presentation even though she did clearly not finish. He also asked Niesha to stay after class for a moment.

“Niesha, I know you’re shy, but you worked hard on this project. I’d hate to see you give up on yourself.” Then Mr. Roberts hesitated, “If I give you another chance until tomorrow, do you think you can find your courage?” Niesha nodded, grateful for the chance. She went as quickly as she could to her next class. She kept her head down and hoped the school day would end soon.

When she reached her back steps that afternoon, she could see an inviting light coming from the kitchen windows. Momma was baking. Momma studied Niesha’s face as she came into the kitchen. “What’s wrong, Niesha?”

Tears shone in Niesha’s brown eyes. She told her the whole story. Momma was silent for a moment, her hands still busy with the cake. “Why is it that you can talk to me about anything and everything, but you can’t talk to your class?” Momma asked. She set the timer (计时器) and then said, “Let me show you something.”

Niesha followed Momma to her bedroom. There Momma showed her a book filled with newspaper clippings (剪报) and pictures. In it there was a blue ribbon (丝带) that said “First Place” and a picture of herself when she was very young, standing with her parents.

“I won it for public speaking. I started the school year as the shyest girl on the speech team, but I ended the year as the blue ribbon winner. It wasn’t easy at first-- I was not sure of myself at all. I worked hard, and mostly I faced my fears. You just need to find your courage.”

注意：(1)所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
(2)续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:

Hearing Momma’s words, Niesha stared at the precious blue ribbon, lost in thought.

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Paragraph 2:

The next day Niesha again walked to the front of the classroom to give her presentation.

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2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How long did it take to get to Nanjing before?

A．2 hours.

B．1.5 hours.

C．1 hour.

2. Why did the man come to China?

A．To have a trip.

B．To work as a teacher.

C．To visit a Chinese university.

3. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A．On a train.

B．At a ticket office.

C．In a waiting room.

3 . My car needs________but I forgot________it to the repair shop.

A．to repair; to take	B．repairing; to take
C．to be repaired; taking	D．repairing; taking

5 . New App Helps People Remember Faces

Large gatherings such as weddings and conferences can be socially overwhelming. Pressure to learn people’s names only adds to the stress. A new facial-recognition app could come to the rescue, but privacy experts recommend proceeding with caution.

The app, called Social Recall, connects names with faces via smartphone cameras and facial recognition, potentially avoiding the need for formal introductions. “ It breaks down these social barriers we all have when meeting somebody, ” says Barry Sandrew, who created the app and tested it at an event attended by about 1,000 people.

After receiving an invitation to download Social Recall from an event organizer, the user is asked to take two selfies and sign in via social media. At the event, the app is active within a previously defined geographical area. When a user points his or her phone camera at an attendee’s face, the app identifies the individual, displays the name, and links to his or her social media profile. To protect privacy, it recognizes only those who have agreed to participate. And the app’s creators say it automatically deletes users’ data after an event.

The start-up has also developed a version of the app for individuals who suffer from prosopagnosia, or “ face blindness, ” a condition that prevents people from recognizing individuals they have met. To use this app, a person first acquires an image of someone’s face, from either the smartphone’s camera or a photograph, and then tags it with a name. When the camera spots that same face in real life, the previously entered information is displayed. The collected data are stored only on a user’s phone, according to the team behind the app.

Ann Cavoukian, a privacy expert who runs the Privacy by Design Center of Excellence praises the app’s creators for these protective measures. She cautions, however, that when people choose to share their personal information with the app, they should know that “ there may be unintended consequences down the road with that information being used in another context that might come back to bite you. ”

1. Social Recall is used to ________ .

A．take photos

B．identify people

C．organize events

D．make friends

2. Paragraph 3 is mainly about ________ .

A．how the app works	B．how the app was created
C．what makes the app popular	D．what people can do with the app

3. Social Recall helps people with prosopagnosia by________.

A．giving names to the photos kept in their smartphones

B．collecting information previously entered in the phone

C．providing the information of a person when they first meet

D．showing the person’s information when it spots a stored face

4. What can we infer about Social Recall according to Ann Cavoukian?

A．It may put people’s privacy under threat.

B．It has caused unintended consequences.

C．It can prevent some communication disorders.

D．It is praised by all users for its protective measures.

6 . The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish from each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems ______.The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated (孕育) by ______. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River   ______ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were   _______for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in the Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture ______ went overseas to Japan, ______ into the Japanese society and ______ the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it ______ to the same system.

When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was ______ on the Mesopotamian Plain—the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the ______ of the European culture. ______ the Chinese culture, the European one also ______ waters. When the colonists of England ______ in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't ______ from the European one a lot.

At the same time, the ______ of the language systems adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic (象形文字的) languages while the Western languages are ______ based on the Latin system, for example, the one I'm using to write this paper.

Other factors like human race difference ______ as well. However, ______ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom ______ until recent centuries. ______ they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.

1.

A．above all

B．on the whole

C．in all

D．in no case

2.

A．mountains

B．plains

C．lakes

D．rivers

3.

A．while

B．for

C．or

D．when

4.

A．protected

B．improved

C．developed

D．created

5.

A．gradually

B．naturally

C．suddenly

D．quietly

6.

A．mixed

B．changed

C．decided

D．forced

7.

A．expanded

B．shaped

C．interrupted

D．influenced

8.

A．amounts

B．comes

C．belongs

D．adds

9.

A．brought up

B．carried out

C．given in

D．picked out

10.

A．result

B．sign

C．base

D．content

11.

A．Through

B．Except

C．With

D．Like

12.

A．affected

B．spread

C．crossed

D．formed

13.

A．joined in

B．settled down

C．broke down

D．went up

14.

A．differ

B．come

C．suffer

D．result

15.

A．difference

B．development

C．history

D．feature

16.

A．properly

B．partly

C．mostly

D．simply

17.

A．last

B．count

C．reduce

D．change

18.

A．in terms of

B．as to

C．due to

D．in case of

19.

A．transform

B．communicate

C．display

D．distinguish

20.

A．Furthermore

B．Meanwhile

C．However

D．Therefore

7 . Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time fighting against the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.

I see people trapped in a pathological (病态的) relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” But it’s time to discover that it does not work for technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.” To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today’s overused technology.

1. From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.

A．attract people to buy their products	B．provide the latest information
C．improve people’s quality of life	D．deal with cultural diseases

2. It can be inferred from this passage that people ______.

A．consider too much technology wonderful

B．have realized the harm of high-tech devices

C．can regain freedom without high-tech devices

D．may enjoy life better without overused technology

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?

A．Neutral.

B．Skeptical.

C．Disapproving.

D．Sympathetic.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．the impact high-tech devices have on people

B．the relationship between modern people and high-tech devices

C．the reason why people are obsessed with high-tech devices

D．how fantastic the life could be without high-tech devices

9 . Such funny stories _______the teacher tell us that we all laughed.（用适当的词填空）

10 . After she ________(lay) the baby on the bed, she lay down and began to read. （所给词的适当形式填空）