1 . 随着科技的发展，电子书越来越受到人们的欢迎。假设你是校英语报记者，针对“电子书是否应该取代纸质书”这一问题你采访了一些同学。请你结合右边列出的要点为校英语报写一篇报道。

立场	理由
赞成	◆电子书（electronic books）方便、便宜； ◆电子书环保。
反对	◆人们的传统阅读习惯很难改变； ◆读纸质书对眼睛危害小。
你的观点	……

注意：1. 词数120左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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2 . Millions of people crowded onto trains, airplanes and buses across China last week. They were hurrying home, to be with their families for China's most important holiday, Chinese New Year. More than one billion people around the world are celebrating the New Year.

History Behind the Holiday

The Chinese New Year is celebrated at the second new moon after the winter solstice (冬至). According to an ancient legend, Buddha(佛祖) asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. 12 animals came, and Buddha named a year after each animal. The animals were: the mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

A Good Year to Be a Pig

Buddha announced that people born in each animal's year would have some of that animal's personality. If you were born in 1959, 1971, 1983 or 1995, you were born in the year of the Pig. People who were born in these years are believed to be polite, honest, hardworking and loyal. They are also supposed to be lucky, which is why many Chinese like to have babies in a Pig year. They are said to get along best with people born under the year of the Rabbit, Goat, Tiger, Dragon, Horse and Dog.

Festivals, Lions and Feasts

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the Chinese celebrate with fireworks, family gatherings, and feasts. One of the most popular ways to celebrate the holiday is the lion dance. The lion is regarded as a holy (神圣的) animal. During celebrations, dancers dressed as lions (or holding up paper lions in the air) perform to bring good luck to the people they visit at their homes or businesses. People often wear in red, which symbolizes fire. Legend has it that fire can drive away bad luck. The 15day New Year season is celebrated with firecrackers, dragon dances and visits to friends and relatives. The celebrations end with the Lantern Festival, when brightly colored lanterns are hung in parks around China.

1. Why do many parents want a baby born in a Pig year?

A．A pig is a gentle animal.

B．The baby would be friendly to others.

C．It would bring pride to its parents.

D．It is regarded as lucky.

2. People wear red clothes during the festival in order to ________.

A．look beautiful

B．get rid of bad luck

C．appear like a fire

D．suit the atmosphere of the festival

3. The Spring Festival ends with ________.

A．buying lanterns.

B．lion dance.

C．the Lantern Festival.

D．fireworks.

3 . Here are live online conversations for the International Booker Prize.

At Night All Blood Is Black

Thu 13 May 19:30-20:30

French-Senegalese author David Diop’s short novel At Night All Blood Is Black, paints a completely different picture of the cruel 1914-18 conflict.

This event includes a short performed reading from the novel by actor Ken Nwosu.

The Employees

Thu 29 Apr 19:30-20:30

Since she published her first novel Celestine in 2015, Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one of the most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. Her new book, The Employees takes readers aboard the Six-Thousand Ship as it flies through the far universe in the 22nd century.

This event includes a short performed reading from The Employees by actor Lucy Phelps.

We Cease to Understand the World

Thu 20 May19:30-20:30

It is Labatut’s third book, which has been translated from the Spanish version by writer and translator Adrian Nathan West who used his knowledge of World War II and sought out original documents from scientific history into English.

This event includes a short performed reading from the novel by actor Fiona Shaw.

The War of the Poor

Thu 27 May 19:30-20:30

Writer and film-maker Erie Vuillard became famous in his native France when he won the Prix Goncourt in 2017 for his novel The Order of the Day, set in Austria during the Second World War. He’ll join us this evening to discuss his latest work.

This event includes short performed reading from the novel by actor Ken Nwosu.

1. Who wrote a book about space lie?

A．David Diop.

B．Olga Ravn.

C．Labatut.

D．Eric Vuillard.

2. Which book’s author will appear in the online conversations?

A．At Night All Blood Is Black.	B．The Employee
C．We Cease to Understand the World.	D．The War of the Poor.

3. What do the four conversations have in common?

A．The guests do some reading of the novels.	B．The guests have a talk about the novels.
C．They refer to some brief reviews.	D．They start at the same time.

4 . Our lives are full of habits. Unfortunately a great many of them are bad habits. One way to break these bad habits is to fill our lives with good habits. Most people decide one day that they need to make changes to their lives and then they go all out to make big sweeping changes. This may work for them for the first few days, but then they get burned out.     1     This is a very unproductive way to spend your time and energy.

    2     Say your goal is to get up an hour earlier every day. One day you start setting your alarm for an hour earlier and you keep this up for one week. Then because you are naturally resistant to change, you go back to your old habit. A better way is to set your alarm one minute earlier every day. After two months you are getting up an hour earlier and you will not even notice the change.     3    

This approach can work for just about anything. If you are exercising for half an hour every day and you want to increase that time to one hour then add a minute every day. After one month you will have reached your goal with very little resistance from your body and mind.     4    

This method of change is gentle, but very powerful. Think of everything you can accomplish if you just continuously improve a little at a time. The change itself creates the momentum (动力) you need to keep going.     5     What one minute change can you make to your life today?

A．The key is to change a little bit at a time.

B．Keeping on exercising can build up strength.

C．It may take longer, but with this approach you are likely to succeed.

D．Nothing will happen if you are not determined to achieve your goal.

E．Pretty soon they are back to their old habits and nothing has changed.

F．Changing slowly removes the greatest barrier we have to change: fear.

G．Soon you will find yourself reaching your goals with almost no pain involved.

5 . Our principal says it’s beyond ________(argue) that students in Luding High School shouldn’t smoke. (所给词的适当形式填空)

6 . 根据句意填空，每空填一个或多个单词。

After I     1     it over and over again in my mind, the big day finally     2    : my first day at senior high!

“Nice to know we     3    .” said my new teacher. I had been     4     to pay attention when he     5    .

But this is just the kind of thing you are going to face at senior high.     6     like this might sometimes put you     7    .

Keep calm and be prepared. That way, you’ll     8    your time at senior high.

So in physics class on Monday, I did the same, but the teacher spoke     9    I couldn’t     10    .

7 . 选择正确的答案。

A.主语+谓语 B.主语+谓语+宾语 C.主语+谓语+双宾语 D.主语+系动词+表语 E.主语+谓语+宾语+宾语补足语 F.主语+谓语+状语

1. Time flies like arrows.
2. He offered me help.
3. Our form teacher gave me a smile.
4. I will ask my classmates to help me.
5. Seeing is believing.
6. The soldier died here.
7. This exam makes me quite nervous.
8. You look beautiful.
9. A lot of tourists came.
10. I’m looking forward to meeting you.

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Maisie: Hi Bruno,     1     are you finding life at senior high?
Bruno: Oh, hi Maisie. Well, it’s OK, I guess. The one problem is that I just don’t seem to have enough time     2     everything. There are basketball games, the music club, the school party.
Maisie: Wow, you’ve got a lot on. But it’s more or less the same for me. And I find I always forget something.
Bruno: Me too. We need to do something about it. My father told me that I should make a to-do list. What do you think?
Maisie: It’s a good idea     3    (list) the things we’re going to do.
Bruno: And how     4    recording the time it takes to do the activities? We can then see what     5    (take) up most of our time and make better plans. What’s your opinion?
Maisie: Great idea! And I’ve got two more     6    (idea). Number one, only do one thing at     7     time. That way, you’ll get things done more     8    (quick). For example, if you do your homework while     9    (watch) TV, it will just take     10    (long) to finish your homework. Number two, do important things first.
Bruno: Nice!
Maisie: Let’s try all of them for a week and see if things get better.

9 . Ways to improve your skin

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Healthy skin, hair and nails rely on a good supply of vitamins in your diet, and you’ll get the best possible mix if you pile a wide variety of fruit and vegetables on your plate.     2    , vitamin C helps even your skin color, and vitamin E helps protect your skin from the damage that causes ageing.

Take in fat when necessary

Flaky(易脱皮屑的) skin on the arms and face is a sign that you could be low on fats.     3    . They will make your skin shine. A little olive oil or a small piece of butter with your vegetables will increase absorption(吸收) of skin-nourishing vitamins A and E.

Put off the cover-up

    4    , but don’t be too quick to apply sun scream. Allow your face and arms 15 minutes’ exposure(暴露) to the sun if you can to absorb the vitamin D, which helps protect the skin as well as supporting your immune system(免疫系统), before heading for the shade or covering up.

Drink enough water

Keeping well hydrated(吸入水分) not only improves your skin, but also increases energy levels.     5    . Studies show some fruit and vegetables like cucumbers can hydrate the body twice as effectively as a glass of water.

A．Pack in fruit and vegetables

B．Some sun’s rays are healthy

C．Healthy fats are good for you

D．Be careful about your cooking

E．Vitamin A is important for cell renewal and repair

F．So drink plenty, and aim to eat foods high in water

G．It’s important to protect the skin of the face and hands from the sun’s harmful rays

10 . Australian scientists are leading an international project to build an extremely powerful ground-based telescope(望远镜).The telescope’s short name is MAVIS. It is designed to correct a problem common to Earth-based telescopes: image blurring(图像模糊) caused by the atmosphere(大气).

Scientists in Australia say the new technology will help them explore how the first stars formed 13 billion years ago. The telescope will also examine changes in the weather on planets and moons in our solar system. It will provide a deeper and clearer look into space than the Hubble Space Telescope. Images produced by MAVIS are expected to be three times clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope. Sent into space in 1990, Hubble orbits(环绕) Earth from about 550 kilometers away, well outside the planet’s atmosphere.

Richard McDermid of Macquarie University in Sydney says the new telescope will change the way we explore space. He said the telescope will allow scientists to push into a new frontline(前沿) of the furthest and faintest(最微小) things we can see. “The new view will include the universe’s earliest galaxies(星系). This also means an exploration of the past,” McDermid said, “because when we look far away in astronomy we are also looking far back in time because it takes time for the light to reach us.”

The MAVIS team, which includes scientists from Macquarie University, Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics, and France’s Laboratoired Astrophysique, is led by the Australian National University. The telescope will be placed in Chile and run by the European Southern Observatory, a research organization based in Germany. It is expected to take seven years tobuild and cost  $44 million.

1. What is the purpose of MAVIS?

A．To provide clearer pictures of outer space.

B．To find the universe’s earliest galaxies.

C．To observe the planets in different weather.

D．To examine the changes in the solar system.

2. What can we know about MAVIS?

A．It will be placed on other planets outside Earth.

B．It will help explore the past of the universe.

C．It will replace the Hubble Space Telescope.

D．It will be the first telescope to travel to space.

3. What is the purpose of McDermid’s words?

A．To give an example.	B．To explain a concept.
C．To describe a fact.	D．To make a prediction.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The importance of outer space research.

B．The introduction to a new space program.

C．Australia’s plan to build a super telescope.

D．The difficulties of exploring the universe.