1 . Sometimes, you are not good at some of your subjects.     1     You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessary so, however. Anyone can become a better student if you want to. Here’s how:

Plan your time carefully. When you plan your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc., then decide a good, regular time for studying.     2     A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you to realize what is happening to your time.

Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television! When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.

Make good use of your time in class.     3     Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teachers say.

Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes, review the important points that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material.     4     If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you will remember it longer.

Develop a good attitude about tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. It helps you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be over worried.

    5     You will probably discover them after you have tried these.

A．Maybe you are an average student.

B．This will help you understand the next class.

C．Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment.

D．No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard.

E．There are other methods that might help you with your studying.

F．Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teachers say.

G．Make full use of class time to take notes of what the teachers say in class.

2 . 短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处，每处仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Alice,

I have just got a good news to tell you. I win a national prize for painting last week. My father was so pleasing that he suggested I go to England for a holiday. I’d like to staying there for half a month, visiting place of interest and practicing my English as well. We’ve been written to each other for nearly a year now. I have often dreamed of talk face to face with you. I imagine you’ll be at vacation yourself by that time. Perhaps you will go out do some sightseeing together.

Best wishes!
Yours
Lily

3 . .
Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.
“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?’ ” says Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”
Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.
Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families. Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and common. And parent-child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.
No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.”
But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “There’s still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents.”
Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.
“My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It’s not something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”
1. Which of the following shows that the generation gap is disappearing?

A．Parents help their children develop interests in more activities.

B．Parents put more trust in their children’s abilities.

C．Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs.

D．Parents share more interests with their children.

2. The change in today’s parent-child relationship is _________.

A．more confusion among parents

B．new equality between parents and children

C．1ess respect for parents from children

D．more strictness and authority on the part of parents

3. By saying “today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side.” the author means that today’s parents _________.

A．follow the trend of the change	B．can set a limit to the change
C．fail to take the change seriously	D．have little difficulty adjusting to the change

4. The purpose of the passage is to _________.

A．describe the difficulties today’s parents have met with

B．discuss the development of the parent—child relationship

C．suggest the ways to handle the parent—child relationship

D．compare today’s parent—child relationship with that in the past

4 . Every Wednesday，I go to Cantata Adult Life Services，a local retirement community，with my classmates to do community service．
Our visits last about an hour, playing board games and cards with the residents ____ we’re there．
You can watch all the movies and TV shows you want about“life back then”，but nothing ____ with talking to the people who were actually there．Just hearing their stories has ____ me in a way never thought possible．
Whether it was talking to 98-year-old“Hurricane Hilda”about her glory days ____ a roller skater or chatting with Lou about the times she danced with a famous actor, I was completely impressed by every single ____ the residents wanted to share with me．
Even the residents who don't have ____ memories make the experience fulfilling．I remember visiting Mrs．Robinson．She couldn’t ____ much about her past，but she told me she'd ____ forget how kind I was just to listen to her“rambling(漫谈）”. It made the realize that it's the ____ things that make life worth living．That’s something I won't ____ anytime.
If there’s one thing I’ve realized in my three years of visiting Cantata，it's that ____ -just being there-means more than anything to many of the residents．And despite how ____ our lives are, there’s always time to make them happy．
For me，it feels great to be a ____ of happiness，a smile on a bad day or a(n) ____ for old memories．And at the end of the day，that’s all that ____ ．
It’s easy to feel like you don’t have much in common with the ____ -especially，when you’re a(n) ____ ．But that's not true at a11．
I hate to make much comment here，but age really is just a(n) ____ ．As young adults，it's important for us to realize this sooner ____ later．We can learn a lot from the elderly, and they can often ____ from teenagers，too．1.

A．until

B．unless

C．before

D．while

2.

A．Compares

B．competes

C．combines

D．connects

3.

A．touched

B．reached

C．captured

D．disgusted

4.

A．1ike

B．as

C．about

D．towards

5.

A．imagination

B．truth

C．picture

D．memory

6.

A．suffering

B．depressing

C．amazing

D．1onging

7.

A．concern

B．describe

C．recall

D．mention

8.

A．ever

B．always

C．even

D．never

9.

A．important

B．1ittle

C．major

D．sweet

10.

A．care

B．skip

C．believe

D．forget

11.

A．presence

B．appearance

C．companion

D．protection

12.

A．messy

B．happy

C．easy

D．busy

13.

A．trend

B．chance

C．source

D．cause

14.

A．mind

B．ear

C．tongue

D．heart

15.

A．matters

B．favors

C．differs

D．exists

16.

A．friendly

B．1ively

C．1onely

D．elderly

17.

A．adult

B．teenager

C．adolescent

D．waiter

18.

A．amount

B．difference

C．advantage

D．number

19.

A．or else

B．rather than

C．other than

D．except for

20.

A．hear

B．differ

C．judge

D．benefit

5 . Friendly doctors are “bad for their patients’ health”, researchers have warned as a new study revealed two thirds of young doctors struggle to be truthful with patients they like.

Blurring (使……模糊) the lines between social and professional relationships can affect the level of care offered and prevent patients from being honest about important side effects.

“Doctors should avoid adding patients as friends on Facebook, they should not hug or allow patients to call them by their first names.” regulators have warned. “Those who break the boundaries will face some punishment.”

It comes as a survey of 338 oncologists (肿瘤科医生) under the age of 40, found 59 per cent said they found it difficult to tell the truth to those patients they liked. Sixty per cent of respondents said if doctors felt too close to their patients, it could prevent them from making objective decisions about a person’s care.

Lesley Fallowfield, of Brighton and Sussex Medical School, said: “Oncology is a profession that can be enormously rewarding but is filled with many challenges. Young oncologists have to master dealing with anxious patients who are facing a life-threatening disease; conveying the true prognosis (预后); discussing the complexity of modern treatments; and explaining the unavailability of some drugs, the side-effects of treatment, and likely treatment aims.”

But she said, “Those doctors who have entered the profession in the age of the ‘Internet world’are more likely to fall victim to blurring the professional boundaries with patients.”

She said: “The difficulty, if you hug and kiss patients, if you allow them to call you by your first name, is that quickly the relationship can become confused as a social one rather than a professional one. Doctors become confused, ‘I really like this person, how can I bear to tell them that they’re going to die?’ They find it more difficult to be objective.”

1. Why are friendly doctors bad for their patients’health?

A．They don’t like to cheat patients.

B．They are not good at treating patients.

C．They find it not easier to be objective to the patients.

D．They seldom blur the relationship with patients.

2. What should doctors do according to the regulations?

A．Add patients as friends on Facebook.

B．Have close connection with patients in life.

C．Always be cold to patients.

D．Keep a proper distance to patients.

3. Which opinion will Lesley Fallowfield agree with?

A．Oncology is a rewarding profession without challenges.

B．The Internet makes it easier for young doctors to break the boundaries.

C．It’s not the duty of doctors to deal with patients’ anxiety.

D．Becoming friends with patients will help them recover soon.

4. Young oncologists will face the following challenges except_____________.

A．dealing with a lot of life-threatening diseases

B．discussing difficulties of treatment with patients

C．explaining the reason for the lack of some medicine

D．informing patients of the possible results of the treatment

6 . At least 3 people are dead in the Philippines now that Typhoon Hagupit has landed．
The typhoon，which hit the eastern Philippines over the weekend，has blown down trees and sent more than 650-thousand people into shelters before weakening．
“There were very strong winds last night．The roof was beginning to move，and rain was getting inside the room，”said a villager．
The storm hit with gusts(强风)of over 100- miles per hour．
And while the storm has slowed considerably，from the Super Typhoon level it had last week，Hagupit still remains strong enough to create more damage．
Christopher Perez is a local weather forecaster．
“we are continuing to expect bad weather and rough ocean waves．Threats of possible flash floods and landslides(泥石流)as well as possible storm waves occurring in coastal areas．”
Hagupit is expected to roll into the South China Sea tomorrow．
It’s currently going a westward toward the southern tip of Vietnam，meaning it's unlikely to affect China．
Hagupit’s strength in the Philippines is much less severe than Typhoon Haiyan，which rolled through the country last year．
Haiyan’s tsunami-like storm waves and killer winds left thousands of people dead and ____________ ．
The central Philippines is still trying to recover from last year’s massive storm．

1. It can be inferred from the passage that the Typhoon Hagupit is_______．

A．getting stronger

B．weakening

C．going to affect China soon

D．more destructive than Haiyan

2. The under lined part “leveled entire villages”probably means______.

A．destroyed all the buildings in the villages

B．were of the same sea level as the villages

C．killed all the villagers in the villages

D．blown down all the trees in the villages

3. Which of the following suffered most when Haiyan rolled over?

A．The eastern Philippines．

B．The southern tip of Vietnam．

C．The South China Sea．

D．The central Philippines．

4. What do we know about Haiyan from the news?

A．It caused less severe damage than Hagupit．

B．It also rolled over Vietnam and China．

C．It brought about a lot of deaths．

D．It damaged the roofs of all the houses．

7 . Everyone can benefit a lot from reading books. The following is about the various benefits of reading books.

    1    . Whenever you read something, you learn information that you otherwise wouldn’t have known. It can be a fact about history or a theory you didn’t know existed. If you want to learn new words, reading books is a great way to enlarge your vocabulary.

    2    . Similar to solving puzzles, reading books allows your mind to practice its processing skills. Going without books for too long will turn your mind into a whirl (混乱).

One of the primary benefits of reading books is its ability to develop your critical thinking skills.    3    . Wherever you are faced with a similar problem in real life, your mind is able to put its mystery-solving skills to a test.

One of the real benefits of reading books is that the information in it can be accessed over and over again. For example, reading a cookbook allows you the luxury of reviewing the procedures whenever you need to.     4    . Don’t even think about writing the information down because you may lose the paper you wrote down on sooner or later.

These are just some of the wonderful benefits of reading books.     5    ? If you can’t even go outside, you can download free e-books online and read them on your computer. That way, you can set how advantageous reading can be for yourself.

A．Reading books keeps your mind active

B．You can improve your memory by reading

C．Reading books provides you with new knowledge

D．Following a recipe from a cooking show will be difficult

E．Reading mystery novels, for example, sharpens your mind

F．Reading keeps your mind in good condition

G．Why don’t you drop by the bookstore or library and pick a book up

8 . 语法填空

A man looking at his Smartphone while walking across a railway    1     (have) a close knock on Oct 22. He was so    2    (absorb) in his Smartphone that he didn't see a train approaching until it brushed past him,    3    (throw) him to the ground. This should serve    4    a warning that people should be aware of their surroundings, especially    5    crossing roads.    6    (lucky), the man survived, but the incident forced the driver     7    (stop) the train. An l8-minute delay followed the incident,    8    led to a break in the running of other trains on the route.

The Smartphone    9    (addict) has spread like an infectious disease. It's evident that it will do great harm to society. What's even    10    (bad),some addicts become impatient with relatives and friends. Some people blame the Smartphone for the sad story, yet in fact people's weakening self-control and self-discipline are to blame.

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Bob,

I studied in your school for six month a couple of years ago. I’m very grateful to your help during my study in the U. S. Without your help, my English couldn’t have improved so rapid and I couldn’t have been enjoyed my life there so much. Do you know why everything is going with Mr. Smith? I failed to get in touch with him after I leave America. I’ll be very thankful if you can offer me his e-mail address.

I remember that you are very interesting in Chinese culture. I’m very glad to invite you to China during the Spring Festival enjoy our culture. I’m sure it will be a unforgettable trip. I’ll be happy if you can accept my invitation.

I’m looking forward to hear from you soon.

Li Hua

10 . Robots make me nervous-especially the ones which seem to think for themselves．I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates，the founder of Microsoft，felt the same way．Gates said in an interview with the website Reddit：“I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence．First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super   intelligent．That should be positive if we manage well．A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern．”
Well，maybe I don’t have to worry about my laptop and kitchen appliances yet．After I   use them I can always pull the plug．But in the future，machines might find a way to prevent   us from switching them off．There’s a scary thought!
Professor Stephen Hawking warned a few months ago about the possibility that artificial intelligence could evolve and end up beyond human control．He suggested that machines could“ spell the end of the human race”．
Maybe the problem with computers too clever for us is not that they are evil or rebellious．What could put us in danger is that they might be too efficient．That’s what philosopher Nick Bostrom from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University believes．He says that machines are indifferent to humans and in pursuit of their own goals，the destruction of people might be just collateral(附带的)damage．A machine would not take pity on you．
I’m glad my machines at home are“dumb”．All my vacuum cleaner wants to take over is the carpet in my living room．Let’s hope they don’t create an appliance which wants to take over the world!
1. We can conclude from Gates’statements that ___________．

A．he is embarrassed that he is afraid of robots

B．he doesn’t think machines are intelligent

C．machines should be fully employed

D．machines’super intelligence should be a concern

2. The underlined word“spell”in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____________．

A．record

B．cause

C．explain

D．develop

3. Why are computers dangerous according to Nick Bostrom?

A．They are too evil and rebellious．

B．They are indifferent to humans．

C．They show pity on humans.

D．They are too clever and efficient．

4. What can be inferred about the author?

A．He doesn’t agree with Bill Gates．

B．He is not content with the present kitchen appliances．

C．He is scared about the super intelligence of machines．

D．He expects that machines will take place of humans．