1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A young man came across a spring of delicious clear water in the desert. It was so sweet that he decided     1     (bring) some water back to his teacher with his leather container .

After four     2    （day）journey he presented the water to his teacher . The old man took a deep drink, smiled warmly and thanked him     3     the sweet water . The young man returned home with a happy heart.

Later, another student tasted the water. He spat it out,     4     (say) it was smelly . It had obviously gone bad because of the old leather container. The student challenged his teacher, “master, the water was awful.     5     did you pretend to like it?"

The teacher replied , “You only tasted the water . I tasted the gift. The water was simply     6     container for an act of loving—kindness and nothing could be     7     (sweet).

I think we understand this lesson best when we receive small gift of love from young kids. The natural and proper respond    8    （be）appreciation and thankfulness because we love the idea within the gift . Unfortunately, most children and many adults value only the thing that     9    （give）rather than the feeling in it. We should remind     10     ( us ) and teach our children about the beauty of feelings and expressions of gratitude(感恩).

3 . 你校近期将举行“小视频”大赛（video contest）,请写一封信给美国的朋友Jim，邀请他参加并告知他相关信息。
1.作品反映校园生活，家庭生活或者家乡变化。
2.视频不超过8分钟。
3.参赛方式和截止时间
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4 . Do dogs understand us?
Be careful what you say around your dog．It might understand more than you think．
A border collie named Rico recognizes the names of about 200 objects, say researchers in Germany．The dog also appears to be able to learn new words as easily as a 3-year-old child．Its word-learning skills are as good as those of a parrot or chimpanzee．
In one experiment, the researchers took all 200 items that Rico is supposed to know and divided them into 20 groups of 10 objects．Then the owner told the dog to go and fetch one of the items and bring it back．In four tests, Rico got 37 out of 40 commands right．As the dog couldn't see anyone to get clues, the scientists believe Rico must understand the meanings of certain words．
In another experiment, the scientists took one toy that Rico had never seen before and put it in a room with seven toys whose names the dog already knew．The owner then told Rico to fetch the object, using a word the dog had never heard before．
The correct object was chosen in seven out of ten tests, suggesting that the dog had worked
out the answer by process of elimination（排除法）．A month later, Rico remembered half of the new names, which is even more impressive．
Rico is thought to be smarter than the average dog．For one thing, Rico is a border collie, a breed （品种）known for its mental abilities．In addition, the 9-year-old dog has been trained to fetch toys by their names since the age of nine months．
It's hard to know if all dogs understand at least some of the words we say．Even if they do, they can't talk back．Still, it wouldn't hurt to sweet-talk your dog every now and then．You might just get a big, wet kiss in return!
1. From paragraph 2 we know that __________．

A．animals are as clever as human beings

B．chimpanzees have very good word-learning skills

C．dogs are smarter than parrots and chimpanzees

D．dogs have similar learning abilities as 3-year-old children

2. Both experiments show that_____________．

A．Rico is smart enough to get all commands right

B．Rico can recognize different things including toys

C．Rico has developed the ability of learning mathematics

D．Rico won't forget the names of objects once recognizing them

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．Rico has a better memory partly because of its proper early training．

B．The purpose of the experiments is to show the border collie's mental abilities．

C．The border collie is world-famous for recognizing objects．

D．Rico is born to understand its owner's commands．

4. What does the writer want to tell us?

A．To train your dog．	B．To talk to your dog．
C．To be careful with your dog．	D．To be friendly to your dog．

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（每空不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be very difficult to let go of your anger. But forgiveness is possible—and it can be surprisingly     1     (benefit) to your physical and mental health. So far, research     2     (show) that people who forgive can have more energy, better appetite and better sleep. “People who forgive show     3     (little) anger and more hopefulness,” says Dr. Frederic Luskin, who wrote the book Forgive for Good. “So it can help reduce the tiredness out of the immune system and allow people       4     (feel) more energetic.”

So when someone has hurt you, cool down first. Take a couple of breaths and think of something       5     gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love. Don’t wait for an       6       (apologize). “Many times the person who hurt you may never think of apologizing,” says Dr. Luskin. “They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things in     7     same way. So if you wait for people to say sorry, you could be waiting a very long time.”

Next keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean     8    (accept) the action of the person who upsets you. Instead, learn to look       9    the love, beauty and kindness around you. Finally, try to see     things from the other person’s perspective. You may realize that he or she was acting out of ignorance. To gain perspective, you may want to write a letter to     10    (you) from that person’s point of view.

6 . Public Speaking Training

Get a coach

    1    , so get help. Since there are about a billion companies out there all ready to offer you public speaking training and courses, here are some things to look for when deciding the training that's right for you.

Focus on positives

Any training you do to become more effective at public speaking should always focus on the positive aspects of what you already do well. Nothing can hurt confidence more than being told that you aren't doing well.     2    , so good public speaking training should develop those instead of telling you what you shouldn’t do.

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If you find a public speaking course that looks as though it’s going to give you lots of dos and don'ts, walk away! Your brain is so full of what you’re going to be talking about.     4    . As far as we’re concerned, there are basically no hard and fast rules about public speaking. Your audience can be your friends.

You are a special person not a clone.

Most importantly, good public speaking training should treat you as a special one, with your own personal habits.     5    . Your training course should help you bring out your personality, not try to turn you into someone you're not.

A．You aren’t like anybody else

B．You already do lots of things well

C．Turn your back on too many rules

D．Check the rules about dos and don’ts

E．Whatever the presentation, public speaking is tough.

F．The one thing you don’t want is for them to fall asleep

G．So trying to force a whole set of rules into it will just make things worse

7 . 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。作文中共有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。

As it is known to us, fewer and fewer students do sports regularly, what makes them weak and easily tired.

There are many reasons about this. First of all, some of the students complain that they have too many homework, result in less time to take exercise. Beside, some of them think that it is very difficult for them to keep doing exercise, because it is very hard thing.

For lack of physical activities, many students were in poor health. I suggest that our school must take measures to encourage more students to take part in sports. For us students, no matter what busy we are, it is necessary to spare some time to do exercise.

8 . Many animals recognize their food because they see it. So do humans. When you see an apple or a piece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat. You can also use other senses when you choose your food. You may like it because it smells good or because it tastes good. You may dislike some types of food because they do not look, smell or taste very nice. Different animals use different senses to find and choose their food. A few animals depend on only one of their senses, while most animals use more than one sense.

Although there are many different types of food, some animals spend their lives eating only one type. The giant panda（大熊猫）eats only one particular type of bamboo（竹子）. Other animals eat only one type of food even when given the choice. A kind of white butterfly（蝴蝶）will stay on the leaves of a cabbage, even though there are plenty of other vegetables in the garden. However, most animals have a more varied diet（多样化饮食）. The bear eats fruits and fish. The fox eats small animals, birds and fruits. The diet of these animals will be different depending on the season.

Humans have a very varied diet. We often eat food because we like it and not because it is good for us. In countries such as France and Britain, people eat foods with too much sugar. This makes them overweight, which is bad for their health. Eating too much red meat and animal products, such as butter, can also be bad for the health. Choosing the right food, therefore, has become an area of study in modern life.

1. We can infer from the text that humans and animals _________.

A．depend on one sense in choosing food	B．are not satisfied with their food
C．choose food in similar ways	D．eat entirely different food

2. Which of the following eats only one type of food?

A．The white butterfly.	B．The small bird.
C．The bear.	D．The fox.

3. Certain animals change their choice of food when ___________.

A．the season changes	B．the food color changes
C．they move to different places	D．they are attracted by different smells

4. We can learn from the last paragraph that __________.

A．food is chosen for a good reason	B．French and British food is good
C．some people have few choices of food	D．some people care little about healthy diet

9 . My sister was against my suggestion while my brother was   _____it.

A．in honour of

B．in memory of

C．in search of

D．in favour of

10 . Plastic-Eating Worms

Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year. Almost half of that winds up in landfills(垃圾填埋场), and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans. So far there is no effective way to get rid of it, but a new study suggests an answer may lie in the stomachs of some hungry worms.

Researchers in Spain and England recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics. The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it. To confirm that the worms’ chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms into paste(糊状物) and applied it to plastic films. 14 hours later the films had lost 13% of their mass — apparently broken down by enzymes (酶) from the worms’ stomachs. Their findings were published in Current Biology in 2017.

Federica Bertocchini, co-author of the study, says the worms’ ability to break down their everyday food — beeswax — also allows them to break down plastic. ＂Wax is a complex mixture, but the basic bond in polyethylene, the carbon-carbon bond, is there as well, ＂she explains, ＂The wax worm evolved a method or system to break this bond. ＂

Jennifer DeBruyn, a microbiologist at the University of Tennessee, who was not involved in the study, says it is not surprising that such worms can break down polyethylene. But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting. The next step, DeBruyn says, will be to identify the cause of the breakdown. Is it an enzyme produced by the worm itself or by its gut microbes(肠道微生物)?

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team’s findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills. But she expects using the chemical in some kind of industrial process — not simply ＂millions of worms thrown on top of the plastic.＂

1. What can we learn about the worms in the study?

A．They take plastics as their everyday food.

B．They are newly evolved creatures.

C．They can consume plastics.

D．They wind up in landfills.

2. According to Jennifer DeBruyn, the next step of the study is to            .

A．identify other means of the breakdown

B．find out the source of the enzyme

C．confirm the research findings

D．increase the breakdown speed

3. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the chemical might            .

A．help to raise worms

B．help make plastic bags

C．be used to clean the oceans

D．be produced in factories in future

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To explain a study method on worms.

B．To introduce the diet of a special worm.

C．To present a way to break down plastics.

D．To propose new means to keep eco-balance.