1 . 为了进一步提升英语学习效率，放暑假前，老师建议同学们分析自己在过去一年的高中英语学习过程中的得失，制定一份假期或者新学习英语学习计划，现在请你给校报投稿，内容包括：
1. 学习反思；2. 学习计划；3. 计划理由。注意：
（1） 写作词数应为 120 个左右；
（2） 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

English learning plans for new term/summer vacation

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2 . 假如你是李华，你们学校的体育俱乐部要招聘一位体育老师来帮助学生学习体育技能。作为学生代表，请你给学校的人事招聘部门写一封邮件。
招聘细节要点：
1. 要喜欢孩子，热爱教育;
2. 会多种体育技能；
4. 这份工作不难；
5. 打电话 1234-6688 联系 Ms.Miller
注意：词数应为100左右
Dear Sir/Madam,
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Yours,

Li Hua

3 . 许多人学英语有困难，认为英语是一门疯狂的语言。许多的表达会引起误解。提及这些，他们会给出许多举例，甚至连最小的词汇都令人迷惑。这是因为英语是由人而不是电脑发明的，它体现了人类的创造性。这提醒我们，很多我们在课堂学到的英语跟现实世界的英语是有很大差别的。只有在真实语境当中我们才能理解语言地特性。
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4 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

School Picnic Day

My mom often tells me stories. One of her stories is about the school picnic. At that time, schools didn’t have a track and field day like we have now. Instead, the biggest day for them was the School Picnic Day.

The School Picnic Day was usually held on the last day of school in June. On that day, kids played simple games. No one cared who won and who lost. The true winners were the children themselves bathed in the joyous atmosphere of friendship and mutual respect.

Soon, before anyone knew it, the School Picnic Day would reach its climax with a grand feast at lunch time. Parents always packed picnic baskets for the kids. They filled them with as many good foods as they could afford. Lunchtime was a delightful occasion with children early sharing their baskets and exchanging treats with one another.

There was one family that was very poor. They had no picnic lunch that year. When my mom noticed this from a distance, she quickly tried to figure out how to help them. She knew they would be embarrassed if she gave them something from her own lunch basket.

Just then, the teacher announced there was going to be one final race before lunch. It would be the sack race, in which two people get inside a sack and hop as fast as they can to the finish line. The winner would receive a special lunch basket prepared by the teachers.

My mom wanted to enter this race. She waited until she saw Mary, the oldest sister of the family, get up. She asked Mary if she could be her partner, and Mary agreed. My mom had never been good at races, but as she put her legs into that sack with Mary, she told herself, “You can do it. You have to win!”

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The teacher yelled, “Ready. Set. Go!” and the race was on.

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Later, Mary came and thanked my mom for being her partner.

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5 . Some songs might speak to your soul even if you don't know the words. The almost magical way that music reflects and influences our emotions led American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to declare it the “universal language of mankind”. But how universal is it really?

A team of more than a dozen researchers and countless undergraduates set out to collect and interpret descriptions and recordings of musical performances around the world. Their first finding: Music is indeed universal. Or at least statistical modeling strongly suggests that more than 99% of societies have music. Then, they analyzed the song descriptions for sixty very different societies and looked at different qualities related to song performance.

As they classified the songs, they found that three dimensions (方面) accounted for more than a quarter of the variability between songs. The first was how formal or informal a song was. Songs high in formality had large audiences and lots of instruments, often involved ceremonial events, and frequently had adult-only audiences. Informal events had smaller audiences, including children, or no audience at all. The second was how arousing a song was to its listeners. Lively events involving lots of dancing were high on this dimension, while a low value reflected a calmer event, like someone singing to themselves or a baby. The last was how religious song was. Songs used in ceremonies were high in religiosity, while those without a spiritual context scored low.

The researchers applied their findings to four widespread categories of music: lullabies (摇篮), dance songs, love songs and healing songs, and found clear trend. Most dance was highly arousing and formal, but low in religiosity. Lullabies were mostly low in formality and low in arousal. And healing songs scored high in all dimensions while love songs were low in all dimensions. Even more interesting, the distribution of these behaviors was similar in all societies studied.

Scholars say that their database could fuel future research into even more inspiring questions about music universals. And their method might be used to pick out patterns in other hard-to-analyze fields, like storytelling or visual art.

1. How was the research conducted?

A．By making comparison and contrast.	B．By finding similarities.
C．By collecting and analyzing data.	D．By illustrating examples.

2. Which kind of music may involve the most audiences and instruments?

A．Lullabies.

B．Dance songs.

C．Love songs.

D．Healing songs.

3. How is the future of their research findings according to the scholars?

A．Promising.

B．Unpredictable.

C．Impractical.

D．Limited.

4. What can be concluded from the passage?

A．Songs can speak to your soul only if you know their words.

B．Differences in formality lead to the variability between songs.

C．Music is classified by the number of audience and instruments.

D．Research on the universals of music can help explore other fields.

6 . 阅读下面材料，根据内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

It was still light outside and Dad wasn’t home yet. Mom told us we needed to wait for dinner so all of us could eat together. I didn’t mind. Dad worked all day cleaning pools and if he was late, it meant I could spend more time outside playing basketball with my brother.

Dad played basketball in an old-fashioned way. He always used two hands to hold the ball and he was always careful to line up his body with the basket. Each of his shots is perfectly measured so that the ball drops cleanly through the hoop (篮框). A few years before, when there had been more money to spend, Dad had bought us a backboard and a hoop and had set up a tall metal pole on the side of the driveway. It was primitive, but still, we could imagine it as a basketball court.

We would play basketball all day if Mom let us. We practiced all sorts of shots and tried to sharpen our skills by cutting around each other, sending the ball through each other’s legs and passing it behind our backs. It felt like magic holding a ball, aiming at the basket, sending it into the air and waiting for it to drop into the basket—all the problems of the world seemed to fade away.

Lately Dad didn’t see magic anywhere. He’d lost more customers to job losses. Many of Dad’s customers who had lost their jobs told him they couldn’t afford to pay Dad to clean their pools anymore. I could tell Dad was worried each night.

I squeezed past my brother to put in another layup (带球上篮). That was when I heard Dad arriving home. “Hey, guys!” Dad said as he got out of the car. His shoulders slumped forward with tiredness. It was early and there was still a lot of light left in the sky. In the fading rays of the sun, the light revealed a lot more wrinkles on my Dad’s face than I remembered.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I thought maybe I can cheer him up.

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It was almost too dark to see the ball and the dinner was ready.

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7 . By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in big cities. How all those people live, and what their lives are like, will _______ important choices leaders make today and in the coming years.

Technology has the power to help people live in communities that are more _______ to their needs and that can actually improve their lives. For example, Beijing, troubled by air pollution, is testing a 23-foot-tall air _______ that cleans up smog, filters the bad particles (微粒) and releases clear air.

This isn’t a vision of life in the family comedy The Jetsons. It’s real urban communities responding in real-time to changing weather, times of day and citizen needs. These efforts can cover entire communities. They can vary from monitoring traffic to keeping cars moving efficiently or measuring air _______ to warn residents when pollution levels climb.

Using data and electronic sensors in this way is often _______ as building “smart cities,” which are the subject of a major push to improve how cities function. In part a response to unreasonable infrastructure (基础设施) design and urban planning of the past, smart cities _______ real-time monitoring, analysis and improvement of city decision-making. The results, supporters say, will improve efficiency, environmental sustainability and citizen engagement.

Smart city projects are big investments that are supposed to drive social _______. Decisions made early in the _______ determine what exactly will change. But most research and planning regarding smart cities is driven by the technology, _______ the needs of the citizens. Little attention is given to the social, policy and organizational changes that will be required to ensure smart cities are not just technologically comprehensive but intelligently ________ to their residents’ needs. Design will make the difference between smart city projects offering great prospect or actually increasing or even widening the existing gaps in unequal ways their cities serve residents.

A key ________ of smart cities is that they create efficiency. Well-designed technology tools can ________ government agencies, the environment and residents. Smart cities can improve the efficiency of city services by finding ways to save money and streamlining workers’ responsibilities. The results can provide higher-quality at lower cost.

1.

A．take over

B．consist of

C．depend on

D．lean towards

2.

A．available

B．responsive

C．constant

D．considerable

3.

A．container

B．refrigerator

C．purifier

D．accelerator

4.

A．quantity

B．resistance

C．concentration

D．quality

5.

A．referred to

B．made for

C．logged in

D．blamed for

6.

A．construct

B．promise

C．disturb

D．reflect

7.

A．transformation

B．cooperation

C．productivity

D．regulation

8.

A．position

B．shape

C．process

D．intention

9.

A．in spite of

B．rather than

C．in place of

D．so long as

10.

A．sustainable

B．equivalent

C．adaptive

D．substantial

11.

A．feature

B．entrance

C．ingredient

D．passion

12.

A．represent

B．exhaust

C．benefit

D．approve

8 . But discovering freedom is not like discovering computers. It cannot be discovered once for all. If people do not prize it, and work for it, it will go. Constant watch is its price. (英译汉)
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9 . Do you have a brain for math? New research indicates that levels of two key neurotransmitters (脑神经传递素) — glutamate (谷氨酸) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)can predict mathematical abilities, suggesting brain chemistry may be playing a role in those who find math easy.

The new study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, recruited 255 subjects extending a range of six-year olds in primary school to university students. The research focused on glutamate and GABA, known to play a role in brain plasticity (可塑性) and learning. Based on prior research, the focus was on two brain regions linked with mathematical abilities — the left intraparietal sulcus (IPS 顶叶内沟) and the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG 脑额中回).

The results were interestingly different. In the youngest subjects high GABA levels and low glutamate levels in the left IPS were consistently associated with high math skills. But in the older university group the exact opposite was seen: low GABA and high glutamate were linked with strong mathematical abilities. Levels of both neurotransmitters in the MFG did not associate with math skills.

The group was tested twice over 18 months, allowing the researchers to see if these neurotransmitter levels could predict mathematical ability into the future. And it worked, with neurotransmitter levels effectively predicting one’s success on math tests completed a year and a half later.

Another recent study from the same research team looked specifically at GABA levels in MFG of 14 to 18 year olds. That research indicated MFG GABA levels could effectively predict whether a student was still studying maths or had ceased that subject years prior.

Cohen Kadosh, one of the researchers working on the study, says this may indicate math education can help stimulate the development of key brain regions. Further research will work on whether certain learning interventions can help those children less interested in math so these brain regions still get the developmental workout they need.

“Not every adolescent enjoys maths so we need to investigate possible alternatives, such as training in logic and reasoning that engage the same brain area as maths,” says Cohen Kadosh.

1. What is the new study aimed at?

A．Exploring mental development of the subjects.

B．Finding the tie between brain chemistry and math.

C．Testing the link between brain regions.

D．Revealing the structure of brain.

2. What can be learned from the findings?

A．The levels of GABA decide one’s math skills.

B．Low MFG glutamate means poor math ability.

C．Neurotransmitters in the MFG affect math skills.

D．Math education may help with brain development.

3. What can better math education according to Cohen Kadosh?

A．Studying more possible options.

B．Tracing slow learners’ early learning.

C．Training math learners respectively.

D．Developing key relevant brain areas.

4. What can be the best title of the text?

A．Factors Affecting Math Skills

B．Ways to Promote Math Education

C．Brain Activities Involved in Math Study

D．Math Ability Predicted by Neurotransmitters

10 . The Surprising Strength of “Weak” Social Ties

It’s long been known that a community of supportive relationships improves our quality of life and can even help us recover from illness.     1    . Regularly interacting with a wide variety of social ties, both “weak” and “strong”, enhances our satisfaction. A rich diversity of ties provides more significant benefits to well-being, and “weak” social ties can prove just as important to life satisfaction as core, or “strong” ties.     2    . There you can find the people who cheer, serve, support, comfort, educate, motivate, and entertain you.

Claire gets cheered up by going to the library and chatting with her favorite librarian every week. Sherry gets great joy from her Sunday breakfasts at a local diner because the manager and her favorite waitress are nice to her.     3    . I remember discussing Anna Karenina on an airplane with a wise economics professor, and finding meaningful moments of joy with street musicians and performers.

    4    . When you show kindness to a stranger, your seemingly small act might stay in their memory as a source of support and positivity. Everyone needs to feel significant in the eyes of another. You could be that person for someone in your extended circle. That’s why it’s so important to reach out to people around you, especially when they’re going through hard times.

When we feel blue or lonely, we tend to turn down social engagements, either to avoid the imagined embarrassment of being the only sad person in a group or because socializing with people we don’t know well can be awkward at first.     5    . Being open to both our strong and weak ties allows us to benefit from the comfort, connection, and community they provide.

A．All of those connections matter — and so do you

B．Harvard researcher Hanne Collins discovered something new

C．Even those we meet only once can leave a lasting impression

D．Our shared kindness and familiarity offer me a sense of community

E．Interacting with the weak ties encourages us to behave more professionally

F．But saying yes, despite the hesitation, offers an opportunity to feel less lonely

G．So notice, pay attention to, and be grateful for your big, wide world of loose social ties