1 . 假如你是李华，与你校结对的美国布兰登中学(Brandon Hall School)将于下周到访你校进行为期两周的交流学习，你校正在招募能接待到访美国学生住家的学生志愿者。你有意申请，请给负责教师写一份申请书，内容包括：
1.家庭情况介绍；
2.申请理由；
3.希望选上。
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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2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the man come to Ghaliya’s house?

A．To use the Internet.

B．To pick up his children.

C．To ask for an old mobile phone.

2. What does Ghaliya do?

A．A garbage collector.

B．A teacher.

C．A journalist.

3. How did the journalists announce their activity?

A．Through social media.

B．Through the newspaper.

C．Through the school website.

4. How many mobile phones have been given to the students?

A．About 200.

B．About 300.

C．About 350.

3 . How to Design a Small Garden

Even if you don’t have a large area in your yard, you can still make a beautiful garden that maximizes the space you have by following tips.

    1    . Look for a place in your yard where you can see your garden from a window or a spot in your yard so that you’re able to enjoy it. Make sure you can walk into your garden with ease to make it easier to take care of your plants.     2    .

Plan the layout for your garden by drawing the outline on the paper. Start by sketching longer rectangles（矩形）for your garden beds so they’re to scale for the actual size you want them.     3    . Be sure to leave an 18-inch space between garden beds so you can easily walk between them and care for your plants.

Arrange your design so there are focal points. Aim to have several aspects of your garden design unique so they stand out from the rest of your plants.     4    . Take into consideration where you want people to focus or have their attention drawn to when they look at your garden, and plan your design around those spots. Focal points help your garden feel more inviting and make it more visually pleasing.

Put similar plants across from one another to create rhythm and symmetry(对称). Rather than put different plants in each of your garden beds, choose to use the same plant or ones that have similar textures or colors so they’re across from one another.     5    .

A．And avoid any inconvenience caused by difficult access

B．Try to position smaller plants in between larger ones

C．Pick a place where you can easily get to your garden

D．You may still be able to measure the length of the rectangles

E．Then divide the rectangles into smaller sections for different plants

F．This could be a statue or a fountain placed in the center or on either side

G．That way, when you look at your garden, it will look inviting and make the area feel more balanced

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。

“China would always provide important opportunities for global development, and the nation would remain committed to     1    (drive)economic globalization in a more open, balanced and win-win direction,” an official said on the sixth China International Import Expo(CIIE)on Sunday. In his speech on the CIIE, which opened in Shanghai, he mentioned that various nations should     2    (joint)seek development in the sluggish(迟缓的)global economic recovery.

“The CIIE, first     3    (hold)in 2018, serves as a platform for international procurement(采购), investment promotion and people-to-people exchanges,     4     has contributed to encouraging a new development pattern and global economic growth,” the official noted. He also expressed the     5    (expect)that the annual expo could function as a gateway to the new development pattern and presented new opportunities to the world with China’s fresh development. Additionally, he said the expo should fully play     6    (it)role as a platform for facilitating high-level opening-up and make the Chinese market     7     major one shared by the world, so that the whole world could benefit     8     win-win cooperation.

The official also     9    ( stress)Beijing’s efforts to advance opening-up with greater market opportunities,     10    (far)creating immense economic growth for the world.

5 . Atomic shapes are so simple that they can’t be broken down any further. Mathematicians are trying to turn to artificial intelligence (AI) for help to build a periodic table of these shapes, hoping it will assist in finding yet-unknown atomic shapes.

Tom Coates at Imperial College London and his colleagues are working to classify atomic shapes known as Fano varieties, which are so simple that they can’t be broken down into smaller components. Just as chemists arranged element s in the periodic table by their atomic weight and group to reveal new insights, the researchers hope that organizing these atomic shapes by their various properties will help in understanding them.

The team has given each atomic shape a sequence of numbers based on its features such as the number of holes it has or the extent to which it bends around itself. This acts as a bar code (条形码) to identify it. Coates and his colleagues have now created an AI that can predict certain properties of these shapes from their bar code numbers alone, with an accuracy of 98 percent.

The team member Alexander Kasprzyk at the University of Nottingham, UK, says that the AI has let the team organize atomic shapes in a way that begins to follow the periodic table, so that when you read from left to right, or up and down, there seem to be general patterns in the geometry (几何) of the shapes.

Graham Nib lo at the University of Southampton, UK, stresses that humans will still need to understand the results provided by AI and create proofs of these ideas. “AI has definitely got unbelievable abilities. But in the same way that telescopes (望远镜) don’t put astronomers out of work, AI doesn’t put mathematicians out of work,” he says. “It just gives us new backing that allows us to explore parts of the mathematical landscape that are out of reach.”

The team hopes to improve the model to the point where missing spaces in its periodic table could point to the existence of unknown shapes.

1. What is the purpose of building a periodic table of shapes?

A．To gain deeper insights into the atomic shapes.

B．To create an AI to predict the unknown shapes.

C．To break down atomic shapes into smaller parts.

D．To arrange chemical elements in the periodic table.

2. What can the bar code of each atomic shape tell us?

A．Its holes.	B．Its bends.
C．Its atomic weight.	D．Its properties.

3. What does the underlined word “backing” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．Design.

B．Help.

C．Duty.

D．Threat.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．Thanks to AI, new atomic shapes have been discovered.

B．Mathematicians turn to AI to create more atomic shapes.

C．AI helps build a relationship between chemistry and maths.

D．A periodic table of shapes can be built with the help of AI.

6 . Fresh fish should have a mild smell. Strong fishy smells are the first signs to go bad. How do the fishy smells come from?

It can be several days from when the fish are caught to when they reach the supermarket. In that time, bacteria that grow naturally in fish start to consume a substance called trimethylamine N-oxide(TMAO)in fish. These bacteria change TMAO into trimethylamine (TMA), the substance responsible for the fishy smells. Bacteria in fish can also change lysine(赖氨酸)into cadaverine(尸胺), a substance that’s associated with breaking down the fish once they are caught and giving off fishy smell.

Chemical reactions can also lead to fishy smells. This happens through the oxidation(氧化)of fat. Fish are an important source of omega-3 fatty acids. When these fats are exposed to oxygen, they oxidize and break down into the substance that you can smell.

To slow down the fishy smell, what is beyond question is that the less time between when the fish are caught and when they reach the kitchen, the better. But today, fish are often flown across the globe. To keep smell-producing bacteria at bay, the fish must be frozen or kept at the low temperature possible as soon as they are caught and cleaned.

Controlling fat oxidation can function as well, especially for fattier fish species. While freezing slows bacterial growth, it does not stop fat oxidation. This reaction will occur as long as oxygen is present. Fatty fish are usually not frozen because, despite the cold temperature, they’re going to oxidize pretty fast unless they are stored in a low oxygen container. That’s why those species are often canned.

It’s also important to remember that smell is not always an indicator of safety, especially in processed fish products. “What you might consider the fishy smell may be a delicacy in another culture,” said Carl A. Batt, a professor of food science at Cornell University.

1. Which of the following has the fishy smell?

A．Fish fat.

B．TMAO.

C．Cadaverine.

D．Lysine.

2. What is the best way to reduce the fishy smell of fat fish species?

A．Drying them in the air.	B．Storing them in closed containers.
C．Carefully cleaning them.	D．Exposing them to rich oxygen.

3. What is Carl A. Batt’s attitude to the fishy smell?

A．Objective.

B．Negative.

C．Acceptable.

D．Unclear.

4. How is the text organized?

A．Topic—Example—Conclusion.	B．Topic—Comparison—Opinion.
C．Question——Cause——Solution.	D．Question—Effect—Opinion.

7 . It started with a bit of casual discomfort on the head, but after a week it had spread to the back of my neck, enough to lead me to my laptop. Annoying as it was, I was ________ to take up my doctor’s time with such a silly complaint and then have a wasted journey only to be informed that it would clear up by itself and that ________ would be of no use at all.

As soon as I’d tapped in ‘online self-diagnosis’, the search engine provided me with over 11.5 million results. And during the time normally spent in the clinic’s waiting room reading the Women’s Weekly, I was able to find a site that would provide a free ________ in the comfort of my chair, and with no need for an appointment,

I answered all the questions until I eventually reached a description exactly matching my ________. As I clicked on ‘More Information’, I was hit with what I’d never anticipated. The worst case scenario was complete hair loss. I couldn’t have been more ________.

I headed off to the doctor for what I thought would be a blood test but which turned out to be a valuable lesson in not ________ everything you read on the internet. It took him less than a minute to guess at and locate head lice (虱子). I was relieved to know that I would be ________ my hair, and horrified to know that it was being occupied.

I learnt my lesson, but for some the worry caused by ________ every ache has led to a new form of hypochondria (疑病症). Named ‘cyberchondria’ by the print media back in 2000, this particular condition has ________ greatly. Although most people’s main point of call is still the doctor’s surgery, it’s estimated that ________ worries are now the second most researched topic on the web. This is truly a serious concern when about 25%of the medical information online is thought to be ________.

Once upon a time, hypochondria required time and effort: you had to go to the library to research your diseases and ________ go through the books. Now it’s just a matter of a few clicks of a mouse. But while your doctor will make a diagnosis ________ your age, appearance and medical history, a search engine will rely simply on algorithms (算法). These come up with results graded according to popularity or numbers of key words. So the most highly ranked hits might actually be for very genuine disease, which are nonetheless extremely ________. One minute you think you’ve come down with the flu, the next you’re under attack from sub-tropical, flesh-eating bacteria. Time spent going to the doctor’s for ________ of mind suddenly seems fair enough.

1.

A．reluctant

B．surprised

C．able

D．sure

2.

A．knowledge

B．association

C．evidence

D．medication

3.

A．sample

B．assessment

C．subscription

D．upgrade

4.

A．standards

B．arguments

C．definitions

D．symptoms

5.

A．fortunate

B．touched

C．alarmed

D．different

6.

A．believing

B．explaining

C．questioning

D．covering

7.

A．keeping

B．losing

C．drying

D．washing

8.

A．taking off

B．putting on

C．breaking away

D．looking up

9.

A．dropped

B．differed

C．increased

D．helped

10.

A．safety

B．health

C．access

D．money

11.

A．available

B．accurate

C．misleading

D．complex

12.

A．occasionally

B．automatically

C．painstakingly

D．literally

13.

A．bringing to light

B．taking into consideration

C．putting into practice

D．setting on top

14.

A．rare

B．hard

C．large

D．simple

15.

A．state

B．change

C．freedom

D．peace

8 . 用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空(每个短语只能用一次，其中有两个短语是多余的)

by means of do the trick be all smiles put sb on the spot tell off go about twists and turns think on one’s feet turn down cross out more often than not look on the bright side

1. We were simply ____________ our business when we were caught by the police in our company.
2. ____________, Caesar leaves his homework behind and surfs on the Internet or listens to music instead, waiting until the last minute.
3. I was really ____________ by Kenny when he wanted me to keep an eye on his naughty dog for a few days. I hate dogs because I’m allergic to dogs.
4. The course of life never runs smoothly for it is always full of ____________.
5. This new job doesn’t offer insurance, so Jack had to ____________ the job unwillingly.
6. When she left the department store, she ____________, overjoyed with the fancy shopping bag in her hand.
7. Within the competition, it was essential that the participants should scan a row of words or phrases and ____________ the one that differed from others.
8. Along the long journey of life, we’ll face all sorts of challenges and barriers which are all based on reality and dreams, but all we need to do is ____________ and hold a positive attitude towards life. If we hold on to our dreams in such a humorous way, that’s wise enough.
9. ____________, our Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying started to answer the tricky question raised by a Japanese reporter at the news conference held in Beijing.
10. As is known to every student, in study, not only a positive attitude but also timely action usually ____________. However, the problem is when and how you want to adjust yourself.

9 . 当今社会，与人交往越来越成为一种不可或缺的能力，作为中学生，学会如何与人相处尤为重要。假如上周你们班对“如何与人相处”展开了讨论，请根据以下的讨论结果，以“How to get on well with others?”为题，写一篇英语短文。
注意：
(1)词数80左右；
(2)可适当发挥，以使行文连贯；
(3)文中请勿提及你的真实姓名和学校。
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10 . 任务型阅读

As I inch closer to my sixth decade, I can’t help but reflect on my life’s journey.

My path has taken many twists and turns, as it does for most, and I am grateful for each chapter and all the characters who were a part of my script. Through all the seasons, hills and valleys, I have grown in all areas of life and as a human being in general.

My husband and I have always wanted to retire near the ocean. We are active and love the outdoors. Finally, we were getting closer to our goal. I had put in my final years for retirement at MES, the wonderful school I spent the majority of my teaching career. I had three years left, but with Illinois’ bad weather, I had it in my mind to get us to Florida sooner than expected.

Our son is stationed at Hurlburt Field near Destin, Florida, and after visiting him there, we fell in love with the pretty coast. The salt air,heat,and humidity did my sinuses (鼻窦) and body good. I was back to running daily and did not once suffer from knee pain or sinus issues during our time there. We discussed it when we returned to Illinois, and I decided to act. I applied for teaching jobs in the Destin area.

Fortunately, I landed a teaching job at a great school and left MES. We put our house up for sale and were looking forward to this next adventure.

I moved to Florida in late July to start my next chapter while my husband stayed back to wrap things up.

I got into my new school on Aug. 1st and began preparing to move from teaching seventh to fourth graders.

However, back home, we weren’t selling our house. Besides, we couldn’t find housing in Florida. After much discussion, we decided the timing wasn’t right because of many unforeseen factors, so I packed up and drove back to Illinois.

1. 根据文本内容从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填入文本图示中，每词限用一次，有两词为多余选项

stay     calm     reason     leave     hope     nose     health     grow     disappoint     expect     tire     satisfy

My Life Crossings
I ________ in all areas of life, full of twists and turns.		I’m grateful and ________ with my life.
I wanted to ________ MES.		I was ________ of bad weather in Illinois.
I visited my son and ________ in Florida; the weather was good for my ________.		I fell in love with the pretty coast.
I applied and landed a teaching job in Florida. I moved to Florida and got into the new school, ________ my future.		I was excited and ________.
For some ________, I drove back to Illinois.		I was quiet and ________.

根据文本内容回答下列问题
2. Why did the author go back to Illinois?
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3. What would the author do next?
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4. What’s the author’s opinion of her path?
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