2 . Studying in the library can help many students focus better, especially if their only other option is to study in a noisy home or residence hall. Library study is also handy for groups of students who want to study together.

    1    . Even if you would usually bring your computer or MP3 player to study while by yourself, leave that behind to study with a group. If you do pack these devices in your bag, be aware that you can only use them if your group takes a break or has self-study time during the meeting.     2    . And you can leave them behind altogether if you think you might be attracted to do so.

Stick to a normal floor. If the library is large enough to have a designated quiet floor, stay off it. Quiet floors are meant for individual study.     3    . As such, you should stick with a floor that is not designated as a quiet area.

Find a large table.     4    . If you have a small group of two or three people, a small circular table will still probably work. If you have a group that is larger than that, though, you will likely need a larger rectangular table.

Reserve a larger study room or meeting room. Some libraries will allow you to use any study room as long as it is open when you get there. For exceptionally large groups, consider asking about using a large meeting room at the library.     5    . Oftentimes, you will need to reserve the room in advance, but this is not always the case.

A．Make sure that everyone can sit comfortably

B．Do not bring them out in the middle of the group work

C．Only bring materials that are relevant to your group work

D．These kinds of rooms tend to have stricter conditions placed on them

E．Find out what your library's policy is concerning the individual rooms

F．Make sure to bring any textbooks or notebooks as with individual study

G．During a group study session, you will need to speak with other group members

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语进行续写，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为 150 左右。

Cody wanted to go to school all the time. His older brother, Matt, was in fifth grade and had learned about some amazing places in the world. Cody could hardly wait to go to school. Finally he was really there in first grade. His teacher was nice, and Cody was able to do all the papers without any trouble.

Soon came the Report Card Day. The family had a routine that all the family members would research the Report Card together and look for A’s. And once when Matt got something besides an A, he was grounded (禁足). Cody was pretty confident that he’d get all A’s. He thought his parents would be proud of him!

“...A’s on the report card mean satisfactory and excellent...” His teacher explained in the front of the classroom, while Cody was absent-minded, looking out of the window and thinking, “A’s! I’m not going to get anything but A’s”, paying NO attention to what the teacher said.

The teacher called students’ names one by one. The one who was called would come to the front to receive his card and then go home. Hearing his name called, Cody shouldered his backpack and walked proudly to get his Report Card. He had to walk home alone since Matt went home with friends that day. He made his way through the crowd in the schoolyard before he pulled the card from its envelope (信封) and looked. He got all S’s. He couldn’t believe it. He had failed first grade! He threw the card into his backpack and headed home. But when he got to the stream, he stepped off the sidewalk and went to his secret place under the bridge.

There he pulled the card out again and studied it hard. He was right: not a single A in the whole column. What could he do? What would his parents do? He didn’t realize time passed fast and Matt was sent to look for him. Soon Matt found him under the bridge.

“Mom, I’ve got him!” Matt yelled as he opened the front door.

Along with all the hugs, came the questions from worried faces, “Are you hurt?” “Why were you under the bridge?”

注意：
1.续写词数应为 150 左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Paragraph 1:

Looking at the worried faces, Cody whispered, “I guess I failed first grade.”

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Paragraph 2:

His parents and brother burst out laughing.

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4 . 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。

The terrifying flooding of Venice could and should have been avoided. It hasn’t been this bad since 1966, when the water reached 6 feet, 4 inches. Back then,     1     (frighten) Italians called for immediate action.     2    , once the water moved away, they didn’t take it as seriously as before and thought over the issue for almost 40 years. The massive MOSE flood     3     (protect) system that was finally approved in 2003 still hasn’t been completed.

“Meanwhile, Venice is disappearing beneath the water,” said Jacopo Giliberto. “Climate change and rising sea levels are     4     (blame). But so is the fact that we pumped water from an underground aquifer (蓄水层)     5     the 1930s to the 1980s,     6     (cause) the ground beneath us to fall with impressive speed. Proud Venice is     7     world treasure, an open-air art museum, so officials instead chose more expensive invisible dams that won’t disturb the view. So far, we     8     (spend) more than $ 6 billion on MOSE, which won’t be put into use until next year at the earliest.”

“The project is a disaster, and Italians just aren’t good at long-term planning,” said Maurizio Ferrera. “Look at our booming national debt,     9     now sits at $2.7 trillion, 138 percent of our GDP. If we are to save Venice, we’ll have to change our political culture.     10     is unclear whether we have the will.”

5 . 假定你是李华，得知外教 Mary 对中国艺术和文化感兴趣，请你给她写一封电子邮件，邀请她参加你校近期将举办的“中国传统民间艺术展”。内容包括：
1. 展会的时间和地点；
2. 展出内容；
3. 邀请外教分享英国的文化艺术。
注意：
1. 80 字左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行为连贯;
3. 开头结尾已给出。
参考词汇：中国传统民间艺术展 the Traditional Chinese Folk Art Exhibition Dear Mrs Mary,

Knowing that you are interested in Chinese art and culture,

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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . Miss Taylor was the best teacher in the world. She was able to “read” the children, _________ the class, and teach effectively; most _________, she cared about us. Because of a car accident, I had a scar below my nose, which greatly weakened my _________. People around me always said I was pretty, _________ I did not see myself that way. _________ my scar, I always felt myself not so good as other kids.

However, a _________ number of words made things different. One day, Miss Taylor was just going home with a teacher, and I heard their _________ “Who is she? She’s really cute,” the teacher asked. Miss Taylor answered, “I _________; Bernice is adorable (可爱的).” The words made me excited. It was just the words that I had never _________ but longed to hear. I was over the moon, filled with a sense of great __________. Teachers wouldn’t lie. Maybe it was __________. From that moment on, I __________ to be the best child in my class. About three weeks later, Miss Taylor __________ to the class that I took first place in the exam, saying she was proud of me. __________, I felt truly good about myself. What a __________ one special teacher made!

1.

A．observe

B．inform

C．manage

D．attend

2.

A．importantly

B．generally

C．interestingly

D．obviously

3.

A．career

B．reputation

C．confidence

D．balance

4.

A．for

B．so

C．and

D．but

5.

A．Dealing with

B．Focusing on

C．Referring to

D．Pointing out

6.

A．few

B．many

C．small

D．large

7.

A．conversation

B．speech

C．message

D．secret

8.

A．forget

B．understand

C．hear

D．agree

9.

A．expected

B．wanted

C．ordered

D．spoken

10.

A．achievement

B．happiness

C．humor

D．responsibility

11.

A．true

B．subjective

C．perfect

D．clear

12.

A．refused

B．failed

C．continued

D．determined

13.

A．proved

B．announced

C．described

D．promised

14.

A．In good time

B．At any time

C．From time to time

D．For the first time

15.

A．policy

B．result

C．difference

D．suggestion

7 . Our modern brains seem to struggle to focus on just one task, often jumping from one activity to the next.

Nearly a quarter of people who participated in a British survey said they had been involved in distracted-walking accidents. For example, some of them stared at their smartphones and knocked into lamp posts. We seem to be facing a distraction crisis, but is there a ‘cure’ for not paying attention? And who is stealing our focus?

Social media, targeted advertising, and video sites have learned how to steal our attention systematically and in an industrialized size.

“There is an entire industry aiming at stealing our attention, and most of us don’t even realize it’s happening,” says Belinda Parmar, a former tech supporter who’s now so concerned about the influence of tech on our mental health. “The tech industry keeps promising to bring the world closer, but their target is to take time away from us,” she says, noting some companies, such as Netflix, an entertainment platform. “When Reed Hastings, Netflix’s CEO, tells you that their biggest competitor is sleep, you’ve got to think twice,” says Parmar. “Think about how you can focus in your life if you don’t get enough sleep?”

Tim Wu, a professor from Columbia University says the need to check our phones constantly is due to the lure (诱惑) of what is called a “variable reward schedule”. Professor B.F. Skinner came up with the idea after conducting a series of experiments. It showed that pigeons become more addicted to pecking (啄) at a button that delivers seeds if they don’t know when the seeds will be given.

The irregular stimuli (刺激) of rewards are considered to be the most addictive, says Wu. Thus, like pigeons pecking at that button, we check our phones and often get disappointed. But when there is something that we find exciting, like a good video or article, it will keep us coming back. “In this way you will lose hours of your day on things that you don’t even really care about,” he says.

1. What does the British survey mainly expose?

A．People’s lack of attention.

B．The high rate of traffic accidents.

C．People’s love for electronic devices.

D．The negative effects of smartphones.

2. What can we learn from Belinda Parmar’s words?

A．We pay much attention to technological development.

B．Modern technology takes up too much of our time.

C．Social media does harm to our mental health.

D．The tech industry intends to bring the world closer.

3. The author mentions B.F. Skinner’s experiments on pigeons to show that________.

A．rewards have a positive effect on both animals and humans

B．phones have changed our lives in the way we cannot imagine

C．animals are similar to humans with the development of modern society

D．we are addicted to our phones, similar to pigeons’ response in the experiments

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Modern technology steals our attention

B．The development of modern technology

C．Smartphones: our daily necessity nowadays

D．Tech industry: opportunities and challenges coexist

8 . If you can’t get your hands off your cellphone, you have unknowingly become a slave to this device. Being addicted to a cellphone can be potentially harmful. Here are some reasons why you should use your cellphone less.

    1     Very often you forget the world outside your cellphone. Just leave the phone at home, take a walk, and get to know what you really want in life. Discover what sparks your interest and pursue it with all your heart.

You should focus more on personal interactions in real life. Can you hug your dad and feel his strength through the phone? Can you kiss your mom goodnight over the phone?     2     Cellphones just snatch these precious things away from you.

Your grades will go up. Leave your phone behind when going to school. Once you get home, don’t lie on the bed and text your friends.     3     Your grades will improve.

You need to give your mind a break. Constantly chatting on the phone puts too much pressure on your brain, which does great harm to both your physical and mental health.     4    

You need to keep away from anxiety. Research has shown that people who use cellphones all day long are more anxious and restless.     5     When they don’t get what they want, they will become depressed. Therefore, keep the phone away to keep anxiety at bay.

A．Get through your homework first.

B．You should develop your true interests.

C．You should continuously learn new things.

D．These are small gestures that play a big role in life.

E．With their growing popularity, your laziness will grow, too.

F．They seem to look for recognition and acceptance through the device.

G．So make your mind rest so that you can think and function well the next day.

9 . He’s as big as a small golden dog and covered with scales (鳞片). He is the pangolin (穿山甲), an endangered animal.

According to the wildlife trade monitoring organization Traffic, about one million pangolins were killed from 2000 through 2013, mainly for their scales, which are used in medicine. Pangolins are sensitive creatures and picky eaters that only eat certain species of ants, a diet that’s very difficult to copy in the food chain.

“In the last decade, there’s been a huge growth trade in pangolins between continents, especially their scales,” says Dan Challender, chair of the pangolin specialist group. Previously, most pangolin killing happened within Asia, he says. This shift means that Asian pangolins are becoming difficult to find but that the value of the scales makes it worth the extra cost to take pangolins from Africa to Asia secretly.

All eight species of pangolins, four in Africa and four in Asia, are in danger of extinction due to the illegal trade. International trade in the four species of Asian pangolins has been banned since 2000. In the past few years, a ban on international commercial trade in all eight species has gone into effect. It was voted by 183 governments that are parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which is in charge of cross-border trade in wild animals and their parts.

Pangolins are eaten as bushmeat in western and central Africa and by some local groups in South and Southeast Asia. Their parts also are used in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa as traditional medicine. Typically dried, ground into powder, and put into pills, pangolin scales are used in a range of traditional medicines to help mothers who have given birth to babies to recover. But they are now endangered. Perhaps no pangolins can be seen when our next generation grow up.

1. What do you know about pangolins from Paragraph 2?

A．Their meat is very delicious.

B．Their scales are of great value.

C．They are smaller than young dogs.

D．They are on the top of the food chain.

2. Why are pangolins brought from Africa to Asia?

A．Pangolins are cheaper in Africa.

B．No laws protect pangolins in Africa.

C．People in Asia can really save pangolins.

D．Pangolins have sharply decreased in numbers in Asia.

3. What does the fourth paragraph mainly tell us?

A．Pangolins have many different species.

B．The bans on pangolin trade are ineffective.

C．People used to take advantage of pangolins in different ways.

D．Governments have tried to contribute to the protection of pangolins.

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards pangolins’ future?

A．Positive.

B．Uncaring.

C．Concerned.

D．Confident.

10 . A five-year-old girl from Toronto has raised＄25, 000 in the hope that a cure can be found for her brother’s disability. Na’ama Uzan has demonstrated her love for her older brother in a truly impressive way.

Na’ama’s brother, Nadav, a seven-year-old-boy, was diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome (快乐天使综合症) when he was two years old. The disability is characterized with development delays and speech impairment (损伤) amongst other problems and can occur in one in every 15,000 live births. In a determined attempt to find a cure for her brother, Na’ama set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST). The stand sits in the family’s drive way in a neighborhood in the north of Toronto and its menu changes with the seasons: lemonade for the warmer months and hot chocolate during winter.

Since starting up about a year ago, Na’ama has got some help from other children and members of the community who man the other three lemonade stands that the family has set up. Her father said, “It’s quite amazing. Even at their young ages, they realize that they can do something to help him. It’s quite incredible how they’ve all really stepped up.” So far, Na’ama has raised an incredible $25,000 from refreshment stands (小吃摊).

Na’ama’s efforts caught the attention of David Lowe in California. He recently had to face the news that his son, Joshua, had Angelman Syndrome. Seeing Na’ama in action inspired David to raise an additional $22,000 to be donated to FAST. David said, “The technology and therapies (治疗) will be there to help these individuals and the only way that hope is going to be fulfilled is through the efforts of people like Na’ama and her family who inspire others to give.”

Nadav is said to have a great sense of humor, according to his father. He certainly seems to bring joy into Na’ama’s life, who describes how she loves her brother more than a ton. “I can’t say how much. It never ends.” she said.

1. How much in total was donated to FAST according to the passage?

A．$25,000.

B．$22,000.

C．$40,000.

D．$47,000.

2. What does the underlined word Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．guard

B．manage

C．protect

D．observe

3. What can be inferred from David Lowe’s words in Paragraph 4?

A．Angelman Syndrome is incurable forever.

B．Na’ama and her family failed to inspire others.

C．They’ll find the effective therapies through their efforts.

D．His son pulled through immediately with the help of FAST.

4. In Na’ama’s eyes, her brother is________.

A．a boy to make her happy

B．a boy to cause trouble

C．a boy to have a sense of humor

D．a boy to keep healthy and lovely