1 . Technology use seems to be the new wave of addiction hitting people of all ages. Its extreme use can be compared to the use of drugs, which is called Plugin Heroin.
The next time you’re in a crowded public place, look at the people around you. It’s hard to find someone who isn’t glued to the tiny screen, fingers moving at lightning speeds, texting their friends, emailing co-workers or listening to music. It may seem ridiculous that someone is that addicted to such a small object. I’ve seen people who seem to be at their wits’ end (不知所措) if their phone or iPad has been taken away, lost or left at home.
Some people may ask, “What’s wrong with technology use? It’s a way for people to communicate.” While this is true, the overuse of technology isn’t always appropriate in certain settings. Schools are becoming stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms. Various workplaces have signs hanging on their walls warning employees that “Cell phone use is not permitted” or “Cell phones are forbidden.”
Electronics may be a way for people to communicate and stay in touch with each other, but the disadvantages may outweigh the benefits. People are losing the ability to hold face-to-face conversations with others. However, it’s hard to avoid electronics in this day and age because almost everything is turning into an electronic format. Books, originally meant for paper design, are now being transferred (转存) to electronic forms. Photo albums, and even yearbooks, can now be viewed via the internet. With this growing trend, future generations are bound to become even more addicted to technology.
Is there a cure for electronic addiction? Simply turning electronics off for an hour or two a day may help to an extent, but it will not completely rid electronic addiction. There only seems to be one cure left, and it may be the hardest: self-control.
1. What is Plug-in Heroin?A.The growing popularity of electronics. |
B.The serious consequences of technology use |
C.The unreasonable dependence on electronics. |
D.The future possibility of technology development. |
A.tell people it is ridiculous to use electronics | B.persuade people to quit electronics |
C.prove electronics are harmful to people | D.show people’s addiction to electronics |
A.Too many things are available in electronic forms |
B.The design of paper books is less interesting. |
C.It is a must to use electronics to keep in touch. |
D.Fewer choices are left for communication. |
A.Turn off the electronics for an hour or two. |
B.Be stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms |
C.Learn to control yourself. |
D.Cell phones are forbidden in the workplaces. |
One day my dad came back home in his truck and there was a cage in the back. Naturally I was curious, so I went towards the truck when I noticed that there was a small little goat that wasn’t even an adult yet.
I asked my dad and he said that he bought the goat from his friend and he was going to kill it twenty minutes after he brought it home so that we would have a big meal.
My sister was there too and she was strongly for my view. We found out we got really mad at my dad and told him not to kill it. After about 10 minutes of complaining we finally convinced my dad not to kill it because we told him that there was no reason for him to kill the goat himself when he could just buy goat meat at a store.
My parents know some friends that we visit sometimes and their family really likes animals so we decided to give it to them. For about a month, they had the goat as a pet and they also had the same problems as we had because the dad wanted to kill it and eat it but the rest of the family didn’t want it to die.They also were able to persuade him not to do so. They ended up sending the goat to a family member’s farm where it would grow up happily.
Another thing that has happened to influence my belief is that I have a neighbor that really likes hunting. One day he hunted a deer and brought the body home, but he decided to leave it outside his house for everyone to see. He just left it there as if it were some kind of award that he just won. Sadly little kids started to make fun of the body and pretended to ride on it. They laughed at it and felt no problem with there being a dead deer just laying.
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I felt sick by what was happening and left because of what I had just witnessed._
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It amazes me how we have changed from hunting to survive to hunting for sport._
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3 . There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the
A.way | B.track | C.path | D.road |
A.acts | B.shows | C.appears | D.sounds |
A.open | B.eat | C.find | D.finish |
A.lying | B.waiting | C.talking | D.sitting |
A.goes on | B.ends up | C.lasts | D.returns |
A.bravely | B.happily | C.loudly | D.carelessly |
A.leave | B.shake | C.keep | D.watch |
A.cushion | B.desk | C.shoulder | D.book |
A.action | B.position | C.rest | D.side |
A.thinking | B.working | C.walking | D.driving |
A.changes | B.events | C.ideas | D.accidents |
A.lucky | B.awake | C.calm | D.strong |
A.in time | B.at first | C.as usual | D.for example |
A.dust | B.water | C.grass | D.bush |
A.tired | B.drunk | C.lonely | D.lazy |
4 . Lise Meitner was born in Vienna, Austria on November 7, 1878. She was the third child of eight children in the family. Her father Philipp, who was a lawyer, hired personal teachers to teach the children, and she learned mathematics very well. Music was important to the family, and all the children learned to play the piano. The Meitner children were taught to listen to their parents, but to think for themselves.
When Lise Meitner finished school at the age of 14, she could not go to college for higher education, as were all girls in Austria. But, inspired by the discovery of Henri Becquerel, she was determined to study radioactivity (放射性).
When she turned 21, women were finally allowed into Austrian universities. Meitner was admitted into the University of Vienna; there she was excellent at math and physics and earned her doctor’s degree in 1906. She wrote to Marie Curie, but there was no room for her in the Paris lab, so Meitner made her way to Berlin. There she worked with Otto Hahn, but as an Austrian Jewish woman, she was excluded from the main labs and allowed to work only in the basement.
In 1912, the pair moved to a new university and Meitner had better lab equipment. Though Meitner was forced to escape Nazi Germany in 1938, they continued to cowork. Meitner continued her work in Sweden and later they found the phenomenon “nuclear fission (核裂变)”. The discovery, which finally led to the atomic bomb, won Hahn the Nobel Prize in 1944. Meitner, ignored by the Nobel committee (委员会), refused to return to Germany after the war and continued her atomic research in Stockholm into her 80s.
1. What do we know about Lise Meitner’s childhood?A.She received a good education. |
B.She often went against her parents. |
C.She showed a great talent for music. |
D.She lived a hard life with her family. |
A.She wasn’t interested in college. |
B.Girls in her country were not allowed. |
C.Her family couldn’t afford the school fees. |
D.She wanted to study radioactivity by herself. |
A.She was unfairly treated there. |
B.She made the wrong college choice. |
C.She should have kept her identity a secret. |
D.She should find a better partner than Otto Hahn. |
A.Indifferent. | B.Unclear. |
C.Angry. | D.Supportive. |
5 . “Dad, I need your help. Come here!” My 5-year-old girl pulled me towards the computer. “Dad, please buy everything I have in the Amazon shopping cart (购物车). Here, take this cash from my savings!” The shopping cart showed ten items for a total of about 130 dollars. “Wait!” I replied.“That’s too much money! Why do you need all these things?”“Please, Dad! These items will get here before Christmas. I have a surprise for everyone. No peeking(偷看)!” she explained, and I bought everything.
A couple of days later, she got everything. I saw her then wrapping (包装) all her gifts. “Can I help you?” I asked.“No, Dad. I told you these are special surprises. No peeking!” she replied. Her excitement was obvious.
The day came. She was all around her gifts, planning, protecting, arranging. Everything had to be perfect. As soon as dinner was over, she jumped from her chair and took her gifts. She went around giving each one of us her piece of love. These were small items, but it was the meaning of giving her heart that we were really feeling. As she gave the gift to each person, she watched the expression on our faces. Our smiles were her greatest reward. Her last gift was for my 2-year-old boy—a toy car. It was hard to describe my little boy’s delight at getting this gift! For several minutes, everyone’s attention was focused on watching him go all around the house happily.
Seeing these acts of my 5-year-old helped me understand the power of giving—giving from the heart. Later that day, my girl received some gifts, but she didn’t need them. She focused on others, not on herself. It was clear that she was the one feeling true joy.
1. Why did the girl ask her father for help?A.She didn’t have enough money. |
B.She needed him to keep the secret. |
C.She wanted to get his opinions on gifts. |
D.She couldn’t make the online payment. |
A.She felt proud. |
B.She felt delighted. |
C.She felt cautious. |
D.She felt satisfied. |
A.Pleasant. | B.Creative. |
C.Reasonable. | D.Surprising. |
A.To praise his daughter for her generosity. |
B.To share his experience of raising his kids. |
C.To discuss how to find happiness in daily life. |
D.To share the lesson learned from his daughter. |
6 . It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red.Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middleaged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that!” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code(电子源码) on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?”A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.
“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2015 only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor says you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain special vaccines. With the strawberries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.
It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot,”you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your enewspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.
1. What changes the color of your shirt?A.The mirror. |
B.The preprogrammed electronics. |
C.The sunlight. |
D.The medicine. |
A.By pouring the breakfast into a bowl. |
B.By getting the doctor’s advice. |
C.By testing the food supplies in the kitchen. |
D.By checking the nutrition details of the food. |
A.breakfast | B.lunch |
C.vaccines | D.nutrition |
A.In order of time. |
B.In order of space. |
C.In order of preference. |
D.In order of importance. |
1. 分析现状;
2. 提出建议。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear fellow students,
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The Students’ Union
8 . Within just one year, Jack had abruptly changed from riches to rags. Today was his birthday and rather than go down to the shelter for a meal, he decided he would
On his way to the town, Jack noticed a young woman dressed in
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There are times when misfortunes can
A.leave | B.part | C.desert | D.abandon |
A.wealth | B.fortune | C.equipment | D.possession |
A.tidy | B.worn-out | C.casual | D.thick |
A.sank | B.beat | C.struck | D.lost |
A.something | B.anything | C.nothing | D.everything |
A.provide | B.split | C.spare | D.receive |
A.Looking | B.Focusing | C.Staring | D.Seeing |
A.food | B.money | C.hope | D.idea |
A.eyes | B.face | C.tears | D.head |
A.town | B.road | C.destination | D.position |
A.put up | B.called up | C.made up | D.welled up |
A.happy | B.pleased | C.frightened | D.disappointed |
A.center | B.tracks | C.home | D.approach |
A.time | B.meal | C.watch | D.opportunity |
A.but | B.or | C.since | D.until |
A.bring out | B.bring in | C.bring forward | D.bring up |
A.more | B.less | C.quite | D.just |
A.active | B.positive | C.selfish | D.negative |
A.lately | B.generally | C.instantly | D.exactly |
A.sought | B.wanted | C.gave | D.hoped |
9 . Sonja Redding and her family were on their way home to Omaha, Nebraska, after a weeklong visit to Washington, D. C. with her two sons, one of whom, 5-year-old Xayvior, has autism(自闭症).
Although all of the other flights had gone fine, Xayvior became angry during one of the flights, and Redding couldn’t calm him.
“It felt like everyone on the plane was looking at us and got angry with my son, ” she wrote in a Facebook post after she got home. “I don’t know what to do when others just don’t understand that he is not just a kid with no discipline(自制力),but a child with special needs who doesn’t know how to control himself.”
The day was saved by Delta flight attendant(空乘人员)Amanda Amburgy. She tried to help Xayvior watch a movie, but when that failed, she offered to take him on a tour of the airplane. That worked, and soon the child was not only calm, but having a good time.
“When they came back, Xayvior was much calmer and happier,” wrote Redding in the post,which now has 2,700 likes and over 500 shares. “I want to thank this Delta attendant. She didn’t judge, and she just showed love. We need more people like this in the world. ”
It wasn’t long before Amburgy was told about the post.“ We’re there to help, and that’s what we want to do,” she said in an interview. “So, we always want to make anything easier for the family as well as other passengers.”
She also shared what she felt when she read Redding’s story. “When I read it, it touched my heart. It’s something I would do for anyone on the plane, because that’s what I’m here for. It really made a difference in her life.”
1. How did Redding feel on the plane?A.Tired. | B.Uncomfortable. |
C.Very angry. | D.Deeply afraid. |
A.She asked the family to stay beside her. |
B.She asked the other passengers for help. |
C.She tried her best to calm the boy. |
D.She helped look after the other boy. |
A.To show her thanks. |
B.To help kids with autism. |
C.To get in touch with Amburgy. |
D.To share her travel experience. |
A.Proud. | B.Honest. |
C.Hard-working. | D.Warm-hearted. |
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ),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。
When a news came that I was not chosen as a member of the volleyball team, I was so disappointing that I almost decided to give up. Therefore, my best friend Miranda analyzed my problems, pointed out that my laziness and poor preparation led to my failure. From then on, I devote all my spare time to practising playing and consult my teachers about skills every day. When another chance came up, I had got fully prepared, as a result of that, I selected and became one of the most important players in our school team. From this story, I am definitely convinced that the well prepared we are, the more likely we are able to achieve our goal.