1 . Directions：Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

If you’ve ever sent an email that started with the words ”Just sending a friendly reminder to please...“ we have some bad news for you: It probably backfired. Not only are “friendly reminder” emails one of the annoying email habits you have, but everyone also secretly hates them.

To you, reminder email could simply be “a friendly way to ask for something that’s late,” Fast Company writes. But unfortunately, that might not be the message coming across to your coworkers. You need to quit this bad email habit and stop sending them immediately, and here’s why.

For one, if you use “hedge words” such as “kind of,” “maybe,” “probably.” etc., they will decrease your credibility with your coworkers. Although you might insert those phrases for a softer tone, they also make you sound insecure and not confident. Be clear with your choice of words, choosing the straightforward “sending a reminder,“ instead. Trust you’re your employees will appreciate the directness.

But that’s not even the worst part. It’s also easy for those reminder emails to get lost in people’s inboxes, if not ignored immediately. With countless emails flooding in per day, yours could easily get lost in the shuffle. Very likely, your coworkers will hit the ”delete“ button.

Still, you need to get their attention somehow, right? After all, you have a job to do! Once you send the classic reminder email, try scheduling a meeting with the person via calendar invite. Even re-sending the classic reminder email with a red “urgent” flag could do the trick. Doing so is practically guaranteed to get the message across - and still save face with your coworkers.

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2 . In today’s American society, background checks have become a routine part of hiring process, employers use them to ______________ potential workers, judging whether they are qualified for the posts. Through background checks, employers can also make sure that the information applicants provide is truthful, which ______________ the applicants’ moral quality.

Then what do background checks investigate? Many include a review of the employee’s employment history trying to confirm whether the employee has ever been fired or forced to ______________ . Employers also pay attention to the length of unemployment, afraid that long-time ______________ from work may bring negative influence to the employee’s performance. Sometimes, an applicant’s residential history is also an issue. Jobs with state or local governments often require that the employee live in certain areas, reducing the chances for them to have contact with ______________ people. Besides living near the work place is always welcome as it saves time and fares on ______________ . Another item which can’t be neglected is the applicant’s criminal history as in whether he has ever been arrested or put into prison. Although ______________ like traffic ticketing or queue jumping are usually pardoned, breaking a criminal law is rarely ______________ and, in most cases, is sure to result in the ending of the employment. Then comes the social history. A background check that involves the applicant’s social history is ______________ needed for government posts or employment in finance and law industries that require greater self ______________ . A small mistake in these posts may result in huge loss. The investigation usually checks drug use, family relationships and social contacts, in order to ______________ hiring someone unsuitable for the posts. Background investigators who ______________ social history may interview neighbors and professional references ______________ by the applicant.

Finally in the field of education background, an application form may ask for copies of licenses or university diplomas to show the applicant’s ______________ performances. In many instances, an education background check is so ______________ about details that investigators even confirm the date on which the employee earned his degree to determine if it agrees with the information the employee provided on his application.

1.

A．qualify

B．assess

C．treat

D．reward

2.

A．practises

B．supplies

C．destroys

D．suggests

3.

A．cheat

B．apply

C．resign

D．complain

4.

A．absence

B．review

C．independence

D．silence

5.

A．bad-tempered

B．ill-intentioned

C．cold-blooded

D．old-fashioned

6.

A．housing

B．facilities

C．communication

D．transportation

7.

A．minor offence

B．serious faults

C．personal experiences

D．public inconveniences

8.

A．bothered

B．spared

C．paid

D．informed

9.

A．temporarily

B．generally

C．fortunately

D．gradually

10.

A．satisfaction

B．confidence

C．discipline

D．awareness

11.

A．explain

B．discuss

C．permit

D．avoid

12.

A．look after

B．look on

C．look into

D．look in

13.

A．recognized

B．examined

C．ordered

D．compared

14.

A．financial

B．academic

C．religious

D．official

15.

A．careless

B．curious

C．realistic

D．particular

3 . 尽管遭遇性别不平等，富兰克林还是独自工作，在解决DNA谜题上取得了关键的突破。(inequality) （汉译英）

4 . 复旦大学的生物学教授钟扬花费了无数的时间来收集种子，保护生物多样性。 (devote, biodiversity) （汉译英）

5 . 我们把近几年来取得的所有进步都归功于这些忠诚的科学家们。(owe) （汉译英）

6 . Directions: Read the following passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

No matter how early she went to bed, Maggie couldn’t fall asleep until the early hours. Though constantly exhausted, Maggie got good grades in school, but she often got in trouble for napping during her morning classes.

After graduating from college, Maggie realized her dream of becoming a teacher. However, waking up for her 8:30 a.m. classes turned her into a zombie (无生气的人) , and she lost her job because she lacked enthusiasm.

Maggie isn’t lazy. She suffers from delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS，睡眠相位后移症候群) --- a disorder that affects one in 750 adults that causes them to be somewhat nocturnal (夜间活动的). DSPS is often confused with insomnia (失眠), perhaps because sufferers seem tired during the day. However, the two disorders are very different. Insomniacs have trouble with the process of falling asleep.     1     They just can’t fall asleep early even if they want to.

Essentially, DSPS means a person’s internal clock is set differently.     2     As a result, they’re out of sync (同步) with the rest of society. People with DSPS struggle to keep their eyes open during morning meetings because their bodies are convinced it’s the middle of the night. They seem less efficient and creative at the office, and make more workplace accidents. DSPS also damages their health, causing depression, anxiety, heart disease and many other illnesses due to sleep deprivation.

    3     Fortunately, that’s not the case. Flexible work schedules are already very common. Traditionally, managers tend to think more people in the office equals more output, but new research shows that people who work flexible hours are more productive and more likely to stay with their company because they are happier and healthier. Thanks to these findings, many European countries have passed laws giving every worker the right to apply for a flexible work arrangement. According to Cary Cooper, a psychologist at Lancaster University, most U.K. employees will be working half from home in five years.

This is great news not just for DSPS sufferers but also for their companies.     4     Consequently, they will be able to save a large sum of money.

A．DSPS sufferers have internal clocks that run at least two hours slower than normal.

B．Businesses that don’t force their employees to live by the dawn-to-dusk schedule would allow those with DSPS to make good use of their most productive hours.

C．DSPS would be unfortunate but unavoidable if our society had to choose one timetable for everyone to live by.

D．Employers willing to let their employees work flexible hours will enjoy access to a greater number of quality employees, higher productivity and lower office space costs.

E．DSPS sufferers are perhaps a small population that’s benefiting greatly from the growth of flexible work in our economy.

F．People with DSPS sleep perfectly fine during the hours their bodies tell them to.

7 . Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives. It is not that pink is intrinsically (内在地) bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls’ identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.

Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletli, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated will, strength. Blue, with its intimations(暗示) of the Virgin Mary(圣母玛利亚), constancy and faithfulness, symbolized femininity(女性化). It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.

I had not realized how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children’ s behaviour: wrong. Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.

Trade publications counselled (劝告) department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a “third stepping slime” between infant wear and older kids’ clothes. It was only after “toddler” (学步的小孩) became a common shoppers’ term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences --- or invent them where they did not previously exist.

1. By saying “it is... the rainbow” (Para. 1), the author means pink ________.

A．should not be the sole representation of girlhood

B．should not be associated with girls’ innocence

C．cannot explain girls’ lack of imagination

D．cannot influence girls’ lives and interests

2. What does the word “encode” in Para. 2 refer to?

A．discovered

B．programmed

C．marked

D．sealed

3. The author suggests that our perception of children’ s psychological development was much influenced by ________.

A．the observation of children’s nature

B．the marketing of products for children

C．researches into children’s behaviour

D．studies of childhood consumption

4. We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to ________.

A．classify consumers into smaller groups

B．attach equal importance to different genders

C．focus on infant wear and older kids’ clothes

D．create some common shoppers’ terms

5. It can be concluded that girls’ attraction to pink seems to he ________.

A．fully understood by clothing manufacturers

B．clearly explained by their inborn tendency

C．mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmen

D．well interpreted by psychological experts

8 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there’s one word more than you need.

A. only     B. gaining     C. spectacularly     D. remarkable      E. works     F. speechless   G. carries          H. unfolding      I. evolves     J. basically     K. shifts

The film was inspired by the evacuation of nearly 600 Chinese citizens in Yemens port of Aden during Yemen’s civil war in 2015.

The Chinese Navy’s Jiaolong Assault Team is sent on a mission to rescue hostages(人质) that eventually takes them on a quest to stop terrorists     1     possession of nuclear materials.

This film Operation Red Sea sacrifices plot and character development for action, and fortunately it     2    . The film editing, sound editing sound mixing, visual effects, action, original score and production design are just     3    .

Having borrowed ideas from several Hollywood blockbusters, Operation Red Sea is     4     every great, good and decent war movie rolled into one amazing spectacle. It’s hard to think of a more ambitious and versatile action war movie that does it anywhere close to this level.

What’s most amazing about the film is how quickly it can shift gears (排挡，齿轮). It kicks off with a Navy Seals like rescue mission before turning to a Black Hawk Down city under siege (围攻) effort. The next scene     5     into a Tears of the Sun type protect the innocents endeavor then nerve damaging shootouts like American Sniper. And just when you think you’ve seen it all, the action     6     towards a fury-style tank battle.

While     7     over the top, Lam doesn’t treat the soldiers as superheroes. Few emerge completely unscratched while others suffer some terrible deaths.

Lam shows the ugliness of warfare without making it too unnecessary. The sight of car bomb and heavy gun attack victims still twitching     8     the desired effect and doesn’t come off like an excuse to show burnt and separated bodies.

The mission was similar in Wolf Warrior 2, but the real inspiration here seems to be Black Hawk Down. Lam’s sense of scale and logistics are outstanding, with scenes     9     across a war-destructed city cross-cut with tense desert showdowns.

Individual stunts are     10    . And despite some obvious effects. The crashes and explosions are far more ferocious than Hollywood offerings.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The Bennets had made plans to dine with the Lucases. And during the main part of the day Miss Lucas was kind enough to spend a lot of time listening sympathetically to Mr. Collins. Elizabeth made sure to thank her, but Charlotte assured her friend that she was happy to be useful, and     1     this was worth the little sacrifice of her time.

This was very kind, but Charlotte’s kindness went further than Elizabeth     2     imagine. Charlotte’s purpose was nothing less than to prevent Mr Collins from proposing marriage again to Elizabeth, by encouraging him to proposing marriage to     3    . Miss Lucas would have felt almost certain of her plan’s success if Mr Collins did not plan to leave so very soon.

But here she underestimated him, because the very next morning he rushed to Lucas Lodge to swear his love to her. In as short     4     time as Mr. Collins long speeches would allow, Miss Lucas accepted his proposal of marriage, and everything was settled down between them.

Charlotte did not think highly of men, but marriage     5    (always be) her only goal. It might not always bring happiness, but it was the only way     6     a well-educated young woman who was not rich could live a secure and prosperous life.

What she liked the least about the arrangement was the surprise     7     would give to Elizabeth Bennet,     8     friendship she valued beyond that of any other person.

In a private meeting with Elizabeth, she told her of the news. Elizabeth was so astonished that she could not help but     9    (cry) out: “Engaged to Mr. Collins! My dear Charlotte-that’s impossible!” “Why should you be so surprised, my dear Eliza? Do you think it is unbelievable that any woman could be attracted by Mr. Collins,     10     he was not lucky enough to succeed with you?”

10 . While DNA from animal bones or teeth can cast light on an individual species, environmental DNA enabled scientists to build a picture of a whole ecosystem.

A core of ice age sediment (沉积物) from northern Greenland has yielded the world’s oldest sequences of DNA. The 2 million-year-old DNA samples revealed the now largely lifeless polar region was once home to rich plant and animal life — including elephant-like mammals known as mastodons (乳齿象), reindeer, hares, lemmings, geese, birch trees and poplars, according to new research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.

The finding is the work of scientists in Denmark who were able to detect and restore environmental DNA — genetic material drop into the environment by all living organisms — in tiny amounts of sediment taken from the Copenhagen Formation, in the mouth of a strait in the Arctic Ocean in Greenland’s northernmost point, during a 2006 expedition.

They then compared the DNA pieces with libraries of DNA collected from both extinct and living animals, plants and microorganisms. The genetic material revealed dozens of other plants and creatures that had not been previously detected at the site based on what’s known from fossils and pollen records.

“The first thing that blew our mind when we’re looking at this data is obviously this mastodon and the presence of it that far north, which is quite far north of what we knew as its natural range,” said study co-author Mikkel Pedersen.

The mix of temperate (温带) and Arctic trees and animals suggested a previously unknown type of ecosystem that has no modern equivalent — one that could act as a genetic road map for how different species might adapt to a warmer climate, the researchers found.

Love Dalen, a professor at the Centre for Palaeogenetics at Stockholm University, said the finding “pushed the envelope” for the field of ancient DNA. “Also, the findings that several temperate species (such as relatives of spruce and mastodon) lived at such high latitudes are exceptionally interesting,” he added.

Further study of environmental DNA from this time period could help scientists understand how various organisms might adapt to climate change. “It’s a climate that we expect to face on Earth due to global warming and it gives us some idea of how nature will respond to increasing temperatures,” he explained.

1. What can we know about environmental DNA from the passage?

A．It makes it easier to understand individual species.

B．It is a collection of DNA from all kinds of living things.

C．It includes DNA of mammals living 2 million years ago.

D．It was first discovered in sediment from northern Greenland.

2. How did the scientists identify the result of their research?

A．By looking at the data of mastodon.

B．By detecting DNA samples at the site.

C．By analyzing fossils and pollen records.

D．By comparing the newly-found DNA with existing ones.

3. What do the underlined words mean in the 7th paragraph?

A．broke the limit	B．laid a foundation
C．raised a new question	D．attracted wide attention

4. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Northern Greenland faces species extinction

B．Oldest DNA reveals a solution to global warming

C．Northern Greenland faces increasing temperatures

D．Oldest DNA reveals a 2 million-year-old ecosystem