1 . Louie, a pet parrot, saved a whole family. He __________ the sleeping Klein family in the middle of the night as flames swept through their home.

“Louie is a true __________,” Barbara Klein recently told news agency South West News Service (SWNS). “If it hadn’t been for him, I probably wouldn’t have been __________ at that time. He started shouting ‘Fire’. He had never said that word before in my __________. When I woke up, the fire was starting to spread across the living room floor.” Unluckily for the family, Louie didn’t __________. Barbara said, “He was like our babies, so it’s __________.”

Barbara took her five-year-old granddaughter __________ and ran out of the house. Her husband Larry also made it out, but was severely wounded when escaping from the burning building. “He ran to the kitchen and tried to __________ the fire out with water,” Barbara told SWNS. “After we left, he ran back into the house and insisted on __________ the pet but with no __________.” The Kleins suffered great __________ in the fire. Their house was in __________ along with its contents and the parrot Louie passed away.

“People have __________ with clothing and someone donated an apartment for three months,” Barbara said. “The man who donated the apartment also __________ us with a baby parrot. We call him Louie Jr to __________ Louie.”

1.

A．annoyed

B．alarmed

C．digested

D．noticed

2.

A．model

B．chef

C．hero

D．pioneer

3.

A．awake

B．asleep

C．alone

D．afraid

4.

A．opinion

B．version

C．memory

D．sight

5.

A．survive

B．resist

C．relieve

D．respond

6.

A．frightening

B．shocking

C．sorrowful

D．adorable

7.

A．appropriately

B．gently

C．secretly

D．immediately

8.

A．turn

B．blow

C．keep

D．put

9.

A．accompanying

B．saving

C．comforting

D．generating

10.

A．luck

B．doubt

C．bet

D．barrier

11.

A．injuries

B．losses

C．calories

D．failures

12.

A．association

B．link

C．ruins

D．rows

13.

A．rushed out

B．cry out for

C．run away

D．reached out

14.

A．presented

B．equipped

C．expanded

D．compared

15.

A．estimate

B．honor

C．forget

D．reward

2 . Before the Internet age, critical thinking was the most important skill of people. But in the digital age, according to Anastasia Kozyreva, a famous psychologist, a more important skill is critical ignoring..

As researchers point out, we live in an attention economy where content producers on the Internet compete for our attention. They attract us with many eye-catching stories while providing little useful information, so they can expose us to profit-generating advertisements. Therefore, we are not customers but products, and each link we click is a sale of our time and attention. To protect ourselves from this, Kozyreva advocates (提倡) for learning the skill of critical ignoring, in which readers can control their information environment to reduce exposure to raise information.

According to Kozyreva, critical ignoring includes three strategies. The first is to design our environments, which includes removing low-quality yet hard-to-resist (难以抵制的) information from around. Successful dieters need to keep unhealthy food out of their homes. Similarly, we need to set up a digital environment where attention-grabbing items are kept out of sight. Like dieting, if one tries to depend on willpower not to click eye-catching "news", he'll surely fail. So, it's better to keep them out of sight at first!

The next is to evaluate the reliability (可靠性) of information, whose purpose is to protect you from false information. It can be realized by checking the source in the mainstream, news agencies, which are trustworthy.

The last is: "never feed the trolls." Trolls are some people who spread false information online to cause harm. Do not correct them, because they do not care about whether the information is correct. Annoying others is their goal. So, never respond to their bad behaviour with our attention.

By using the above critical ignoring skills, we can make the most of the Internet while avoiding falling victim to those who try to control our attention, time, and minds.

1. What can we learn about the attention economy from paragraph 2?

A．It offers more information.	B．It features depressing stories.
C．It saves time for Internet users.	D．It seeks profits from each click.

2. Why does the author mention dieters in paragraph 3?

A．To discuss the quality of information.	B．To prove the benefits of healthy food.
C．To show the importance of environments.	D．To explain the effectiveness of willpower.

3. What should we do to deal with Internet trolls according to the text?

A．Review their intention.	B．Turn a deaf ear to them..
C．Correct their behaviour.	D．Send hard facts to them.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Reasons for critical thinking in the attention economy.

B．Practising the skills of critical ignoring in the digital age.

C．Maximizing the benefits of critical ignoring on the Internet.

D．Strategies of abandoning critical thinking for Internet users.

3 . 你校将举办英语演讲比赛。请你以Be smart online learners为题写一篇发言稿参赛，内容包括：
1. 分析优势与不足；
2. 提出学习建议。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 题目和首句已为你写好。

Be smart online learners

Online learning has become an important way to learn recently.

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4 . Jim owned a store. A customer once asked him how he managed to stay ________ all the time. His answer was, “When I wake up in the morning, I know that the day will have good and bad ________ for me, but whatever happens, I’m going to choose to be in a good ________.”

Then one day, something ________ happened. Jim was about to leave the store when an armed robber came in, held him up at gunpoint, and made him open the ________. As he was trying to open it, Jim’s hand ________. The robber saw this and probably thought, “He’s about to attack me!” The robber ________ and fired his gun.

Jim was rushed to the hospital. In the ambulance, he felt ________ because the paramedic (医务辅助人员) kept telling him, “I’m sure you’ll be OK.”

But when Jim was in the operating room and he saw the faces of the doctors and nurses, he got the feeling that they thought he was ________ dead. He knew he needed to do something to change their ________.

There was a ________ who was asking him lots of questions, very fast. One question was, “Are you ________ to anything?” “Yes!” Jim said loudly and everybody stopped what they were doing. There was total ________. “Bullets!” Jim said, and all the doctors and nurses burst out ________. And then Jim added, “Please operate on me thinking that I’ll live, and not that I’ll die.”

Jim survived, thanks to the skill of the doctors and nurses. But what also helped was that he managed to remain an optimist even in the most ________ moment of his life.

1.

A．friendly

B．enthusiastic

C．generous

D．positive

2.

A．moments

B．operations

C．tests

D．conflicts

3.

A．atmosphere

B．mood

C．event

D．luck

4.

A．ridiculous

B．awkward

C．horrible

D．challenging

5.

A．safe

B．door

C．window

D．parcel

6.

A．shook

B．waved

C．stretched

D．slipped

7.

A．refused

B．panicked

C．hesitated

D．complained

8.

A．fine

B．painful

C．worried

D．curious

9.

A．nearly

B．already

C．definitely

D．finally

10.

A．routine

B．schedule

C．direction

D．attitude

11.

A．nurse

B．policeman

C．robber

D．guard

12.

A．superior

B．accustomed

C．allergic

D．addicted

13.

A．confusion

B．silence

C．anxiety

D．violence

14.

A．crying

B．applauding

C．laughing

D．debating

15.

A．significant

B．impressive

C．crucial

D．desperate

5 . 假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Jim在给你的邮件中提到他想看一个关于中国文化的展览，并请你推荐，请给他回复邮件，内容包括：
(1) 展览的时间、地点：
(2) 展览的内容；
(3) 询问对方意向。
注意：(1)词数100以上；
(2) 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,

Knowing that you are fond of exhibitions about Chinese culture,

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Lihua

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Do you have a pet?     1     you do, congratulations, you are likely to have a     2     (good) mental state than those who don’t, reported Time magazine.

       According to the report, people with pets usually have lower blood pressure, a lower heart rate and a lower risk of having     3     heart attack. These benefits may come from extra exercise of walking and playing with pets, and stress relief for having a good “friend”.

One study shows that     4     (pet) living creatures can help people with     5     (anxious), while animal toys have no effect at all.

       In a 2016 study     6     (publish) in the journal Gerontology, elderly people    7     were given five crickets (蟋蟀) in a cage became happier than before.

Other researches studied the effect of pets     8     children who have difficulty reading. When the children     9     (ask) to read aloud to a dog and     10     (it) trainer, they were less upset.

7 . In 2012, I had just recovered from a serious illness when I received an invitation to a writer’s conference in Orlando, Florida. My family persuaded that a(n) _______ might be just what the doctor ordered, so off I went.

Arriving in the Sunshine State was rather tiring, but I _______ to catch a taxi to my _______ and settle in. Next morning, I took another _______ to the shopping center to buy a few souvenirs. Later, I went to a café to have lunch, but all the tables were _______. Then I heard a friendly voice saying, “You can _______ my table.”

I gratefully sat down with the _______ lady and we had a happy lunch together. As the meal drew to a close she asked how long I would be in Orlando. I had already told her that I hadn’t _______ a car, and hadn’t realized how _______ taking taxis would be. After a while she said, “My dear, don’t use any more taxis. I’m retired and it would be my pleasure to drive you wherever you wish.” I told her that I couldn’t put her to that ________ , but she brushed aside my protests (反对). She asked me where I was ________ and next morning she was waiting at my apartment at the ________ time to take me to Disney World. She spent some time with me before leaving me to ________ alone. At the end of the day, she ________ to take me back to my accommodation. I offered her money but she refused to take any.

I’ll never forget that wonderful lady who, through her ________, filled my brief holiday in Florida with wonderful memories.

1.

A．holiday

B．ceremony

C．operation

D．experiment

2.

A．intended

B．promised

C．managed

D．deserved

3.

A．hospital

B．company

C．university

D．accommodation

4.

A．colleague

B．taxi

C．suitcase

D．passenger

5.

A．classified

B．occupied

C．decorated

D．painted

6.

A．share

B．reserve

C．set

D．possess

7.

A．stubborn

B．poor

C．innocent

D．old

8.

A．donated

B．repaired

C．hired

D．guided

9.

A．convenient

B．worthwhile

C．unfortunate

D．expensive

10.

A．business

B．argument

C．trouble

D．challenge

11.

A．working

B．staying

C．moving

D．shopping

12.

A．appointed

B．limited

C．favorite

D．regular

13.

A．digest

B．explore

C．perform

D．calculate

14.

A．forgot

B．refused

C．preferred

D．returned

15.

A．confidence

B．dignity

C．curiosity

D．kindness

8 . A young Los Angeles actor in need of a second job to pay his bills has come up with a brilliant way to add his income — people walking.

Chuck McCarthy originally considered becoming a dog walker to earn some extra cash, but soon realized that the job required more than walking dogs on a leash (皮带). “I didn’t want to pick up dog poop (粪便), and that’s kind of what you are really being paid for, for dog walking,” he said. But people don’t usually poop when they take a walk, so Chuck realized there was money to be made walking people around Los Angeles instead.

It might sound like a joke, but the People Walker, as he calls himself, is very serious about his new job. For $7 per mile, he offers to walk with customers around L.A., listening to their problems or simply making conversation and offering them a sense of safety.

His services are aimed at people who need motivational help to go walking, those who don’t feel safe walking alone in some areas, and those who are afraid that people might see them walking by themselves and think that they have no friends.

“I wear my The People Walker shirt upon request and on the first walk with a new customer, so they can be 100% sure it’s me,” McCarthy says. However, he admits that some people don’t agree to this policy, as they don’t necessarily want everyone to know that they are being walked.

Believe it or not, McCarthy’s business has been very successful. He already has another five people walkers employed, covering various areas, like downtown L.A., Hollywood, Eagle Rock, Las Feliz or Fairefax. Once he posted signs around the city, his phone started ringing and customers began rolling in. And with all the free publicity he has been getting in the press lately, he has been overwhelmed (不堪重负的) with requests.

1. Why does Chuck McCarthy need a second job?

A．To kill his spare time.	B．To become more active.
C．To get rid of his loneliness.	D．To increase his income.

2. Chuck McCarthy gave up his original idea because ______.

A．he didn’t want to pick up dog poop

B．he didn’t earn any extra cash

C．people in L.A. didn’t believe in him

D．there were few dogs in L.A.

3. The fourth paragraph mainly talks about Chuck McCarthy’s ______.

A．lifestyle

B．hobbies

C．service targets

D．service areas

4. It can be known from that passage that ______.

A．most people in Los Angeles live a lonely life

B．the People Walker is quite popular with some people

C．people living in Los Angeles lack a sense of security

D．McCarthy’s business has almost spread to the whole country

9 . ________ remains important is ________ we have an incredible desire to think.

A．Which; what

B．Why; that

C．What; that

D．Whether; that