1 . My mom had spent years as a stay-at-home mom. However, I could tell that she _________ the working women. When I asked her about _________ again, she would just tell me to concentrate on my education.

My mom could make anyone _________. She has the ability to reach everyone’s _________. I once asked, “Mom, have you ever _________ being a stand-up comedian?” She laughed at the idea, but then began to cry and said it was too _________ for her. I was sad to watch her struggle between _________ and doubt.

With her birthday coming, I realized what I _________ wanted to give her was the _________ to take a chance. I placed little notes of __________ inside the present I had bought. I asked my family and her close friends to do the same. On her birthday, when she saw and read the notes, she started to __________ with her hands full of notes. She could not believe the support was __________, that everyone knew she had a special __________ and believed in her.

Within two months, my mom made a __________ performance in a New York comedy club. Within a year, she was performing at the nation’s major comedy club monthly. For many parents, their children’s __________ are their greatest achievement, but for me my mom’s is mine.

1.

A．trusted

B．envied

C．understood

D．opposed

2.

A．playing

B．performing

C．working

D．exploring

3.

A．reflect

B．calm

C．pause

D．laugh

4.

A．heart

B．potential

C．objective

D．requirement

5.

A．figured out

B．thought about

C．given up

D．succeeded in

6.

A．fortunate

B．shameful

C．late

D．boring

7.

A．ambition

B．fear

C．confusion

D．trust

8.

A．merely

B．eventually

C．gradually

D．actually

9.

A．strength

B．guidance

C．permission

D．freedom

10.

A．apology

B．congratulation

C．comment

D．encouragement

11.

A．sweat

B．weep

C．rise

D．practise

12.

A．timely

B．constant

C．real

D．limited

13.

A．gift

B．hobby

C．taste

D．need

14.

A．regular

B．disappointing

C．successful

D．conventional

15.

A．interests

B．supports

C．outlooks

D．careers

2 . 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。

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) originated in ancient China. It     1    (include) acupuncture (针灸), Chinese herbal medicine, tai chi, qigong, tuina, guasha, cupping and so on.

Acupuncture was one of the first TCM       2    (method) that were accepted by the healthcare system in the USA. It was first introduced to the USA in 1971 by a New York Times reporter, James Reston, in an article     3    (title) “Now, about my operation in Peking”.

In 1997. acupuncture was     4    (official) accepted by the National Institutes of Health of the US, and in a statement in 2002, the World Health Organization recognized acupuncture as an     5    (effect) treatment for more than 43 common ailments (小病). TCM focuses     6     not only the disease treatment, but also the disease prevention and     7    (improve) of overall health.

Today, TCM is primarily used as an alternative for people     8    (maintain) a healthy state in the US. It is widely practiced in more than 180 countries and regions around the globe; among them, 103 countries have approved     9     use of acupuncture, 29 have established some forms of laws and regulations for TCM, 18 have included acupuncture into their national health insurance systems,     10     more than 30 have colleges and universities that teach students in TCM.

3 . 假定你是李华，请写一封邮件邀请你校新西兰交换生Terry参加在海丝文化国际研学营地举办的“世遗城市泉州旅游推荐官”活动。日程表如下：

时间	活动内容
星期六	开幕式、讲座
	寻迹世遗
星期日	手工制作、成果展示
	结业仪式

注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Terry,

I am writing to invite you to attend a weekend activity to promote the World Heritage City Quanzhou at the Marine Silk Road International Research Camp.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

4 . How to Deal with a Colleague who Keeps Challenging Your Views

It can be difficult to develop an environment of teamwork when you continually run up against a colleague who challenges your views.     1    . This will ensure you respect one another, even when you disagree.

Handle unnecessary confrontation (对峙).

If a co-worker habitually challenges your ideas in a group discussion in a confrontational manner, don’t engage him or get into an argument. Pause for a moment, look the colleague in the eye.     2    . This will force the co-worker to either repeat his comment in front of everyone with the same level of confrontation, or soften his approach.

    3    .

There’s a time and place for everything, including professional disagreements. If a colleague interrupts you or talks over you in an effort to contradict your point or insert (插入) his own opinion, gently remind him that you still have the floor. If the colleague is challenging something you say before you have a chance to address the point, note that as well.

Agree to respect each other.

    4    . Constructive debate and brainstorming can strengthen the overall performance of the entire team. Speak to your colleague at a time when you are emotionally stable. For example, you might say, “Can we agree to a respectful and civil way to discuss matters when it’s clear there’s no one ‘right’ answer?”

Prepare rebuttals (反驳).

If a particular colleague has a long history of disagreeing with you, you might be able to anticipate his arguments or objections. Prepare rebuttals to address anything your colleague might throw at you.     5    . It also strengthens your points without being confrontational, and allows you to give him credit for his constructive comments when necessary.

A．Hold your ground.

B．Ask for peace-making.

C．This will help you support your own arguments.

D．And ask him in a calm voice to repeat what he said.

E．Here are the ways to deal with colleagues of this kind.

F．Just find ways to make peace and communicate with your colleague.

G．The bottom line is, colleagues are not going to agree with each other all the time.

5 . Louis Pasteur once said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” That’s the truth behind the following inventions — the scientists were prepared and were able to see the magic in a mistake.

Mauve

In 1856, William Perkin was trying to come up with an artificial medicine, but his experiments produced a thick mess. But the more Perkin looked at it, the more he saw a beautiful color in his mess. Turns out he had made mauve, the first-ever synthetic dye (合成染料), which was far better than any natural dyes: the color was brighter, clearer, and didn’t fade or wash out.

Superglue

This super-sticky substance was discovered by accident — twice! Chemist Harry Coover had been attempting to make clear plastic gun sights, and in 1942 one method he tested produced an extremely quick bonding adhesive (黏合剂). It was useless for his gun sights, though, and he forgot about it until almost ten years later, when he came across it again while developing heat-resistant parts for airplanes. This time he realised its potential, and the product was put on the market.

Plastic

In 1907, shellac (虫胶) was used in electronics. It was costly, so American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland tried to produce an alternative. Instead, his experiments produced a material that could take high temperatures. He later developed it into plastic, and it was soon used in the production of almost everything.

Teflon

Back in the 1930s, Young DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett was working to make a new kind of CFC for refrigeration. After storing the gas in certain containers, he opened one to discover that it had changed into a white powder that was extremely sticky and had a very high melting point. Three years later, the substance, which was named Teflon, was patented.

1. Which invention came out earliest?

A．Mauve.

B．Superglue.

C．Plastic.

D．Teflon.

2. Who recognized the value of his original invention when developing airplane parts?

A．William Perkin.

B．Harry Coover.

C．Leo Hendrik.

D．Roy Plunkett.

3. What do the inventions have in common?

A．They were made by accident.	B．They could take high temperatures.
C．They received no recognition at first.	D．They could be used in medical fields.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What do people in Bell Labs do?

A．Conduct research in communication.

B．Study the connection between IQ and EQ.

C．Train engineers to be star workers.

2. What is the difference between the studied star workers and others?

A．Academic qualifications.

B．Working years.

C．Emotional intelligence.

3. Why can the star workers get an answer right away?

A．They have higher IQ.

B．They gain access to more resources.

C．They are quicker to send out emails.

4. What is the purpose of the conversation?

A．To introduce the benefits of EQ.

B．To talk about a study.

C．To discuss human relationships.

7 . A little brain stimulation at night appears to help people remember what they learned the previous day, a study of 18 severe epilepsy (癫痫) patients has found.

During sleep, brain cells fire in rhythmic patterns. When two brain areas synchronize (同步) their firing patterns, they are able to communicate. During non-rapid eye movement sleep, the hippocampus, found deep in the brain, synchronizes its activity with the prefrontal cortex, which lies just behind the forehead. This helps transform memories from the day into memories that can last a lifetime.

Dr. Itzhak Fried at the University of California and his team gathered 18 epilepsy patients who already had electrodes (电极) in their brains for medical evaluation. This offered the scientists a way to both monitor and change a person’s brain rhythms. They used a “celebrity pet” test in which participants were shown images matching a particular celebrity with a specific animal. The goal was to remember which animal went with which celebrity.

Patients saw the images before going to bed. While sleeping, some of them got tiny electrical stimulation through the wires in their brains. In patients who got the stimulation, rhythms in the two brain areas became more synchronized. And when they woke up they scored higher on the test.

The experiment was based on decades of research done by scientists, including Dr. György Buzsáki, a neuroscientist at New York University. But changing rhythms in healthy peoples’ brains might not improve their memory, he says, because those communication channels are already in perfect condition. The epilepsy patients may have improved because they started out with sleep and memory problems caused by both the disorder and the drugs used to treat it.

Even so, he says, the approach has the potential to help millions of people with damaged memory. And brain rhythms probably play parts in many other problems. “They are not specific to memory. They are doing a lot of other things,” Buzsáki says, like regulating mood and emotion.

1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The forming process of memories.	B．The working principle for the research.
C．The analysis of brain cells’ firing patterns.	D．The advantages for studies in brain activities.

2. Why were electrical stimulations delivered to some patients at night?

A．To conduct their medical evaluation.	B．To monitor their brain rhythms.
C．To facilitate synchrony of their brain areas.	D．To record scores of the memory tests.

3. What can be expected of the approach proposed in the research?

A．It will strengthen healthy people’s memory.

B．It may enhance people’s communication skills.

C．It can help reduce epilepsy patients’ drug use.

D．It might help people with mental problems.

4. What is György Buzsáki’s attitude toward Fried’s research?

A．Hesitant.

B．Favorable.

C．Critical.

D．Dismissive.

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When did Mr. Mendel discover the reason of our likeness to parents?

A．In 1860.

B．In 1869.

C．In 1953.

2. What did the scientists find in 1961?

A．All the “words” in the DNA map.

B．The first understandable DNA “word”.

C．The functions of all the DNA “words”.

3. What can we do by understanding “words” in the DNA map?

A．Cure some diseases.

B．Test new medicine on animals.

C．Gather information for the sick.

4. What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A．The ways of DNA treatment.

B．The famous biology scientists.

C．The process of understanding DNA.

9 . After being driven to near extinction, wolves are back in Washington state.

Wolf 32M, called The Old Guy by wolf specialist Ben Maletzke, lived some 12 years as the patriarch (族长) of the Teanaway Pack, kicking off the recovery of wolves in Washington. The pack’s territory was roasted by wildfire in 2014. But wolf 32M and his family remained in existence, bringing the call of the wild back for the first time in a century. These wolves are what Maletzke calls stepping stones in recovery — the animals that could help lead the way to new territory not yet repopulated by wolves.

Wolves spread to new territory to find mates and begin packs of their own. It is this pack dynamic that wildlife biologists are counting on, in time, to urge wolves into areas where they do not presently live. “We just need a couple to pick up and go,” Maletzke says.

All along, the Teanaway pack has stayed mostly out of trouble probably, helped by a lot of range riding (牧区巡逻) intended to help reduce conflicts over wolf recovery by keeping wolves away from cattle. “He is an example of wolves living and doing what they do, even around people,” Maletzke says of wolf 32M.

Story Warren, a student at the University of Montana, was just a girl when she first saw 32M’s tracks in the Teanaway River Valley — an exciting encounter that helped generate a serious interest in wildlife that now fuels her studies. To her, the return of the wolf is about more than the species; it is about recovering something even bigger: hope.

“Growing up in my generation, there is so much bad ecological news, a lot of hopelessness about climate change and loss of biodiversity and extinctions,” Warren says, “To have something as wild as wolves coming back to Washington is very encouraging for me — just to know such an amazing and powerful creature exists.”

1. Why does Maletzke call Wolf 32M family “stepping stones”?

A．They are nearly dying out.	B．They are victims of wildfire.
C．They are worth protection.	D．They are pioneers in wolf recovery.

2. What function does paragraph 3 serve?

A．To present a result.	B．To clarify a concept.
C．To offer an explanation.	D．To make a prediction

3. What can be learned from the example of the Teanaway pack?

A．Wolves face a lot of trouble.

B．Wolf recovery counts on its population.

C．Certain measures to ensure cattle safety are required.

D．Wolves should be forbidden from human residence.

4. What does Warren think of the coming back of wolves?

A．It fuels more studies on wildlife.	B．It clears up bad ecological news.
C．It worsens climate change.	D．It excites hope for the ecosystem.

10 . 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。

The Confucian Analects or The Analects (论语) is a collection of the sayings and teachings of Confucius and his disciples (门徒). It     1    (compile) in the early Warring States Period, over 70 years after the death of Confucius, from the notes that his disciples took according to the answers    2    their questions.

The present-day Analects is based on the Lu version compiled during the Han Dynasty and embodies,    3    Confucian concept of ren or humanity or benevolence. Ren is rich in content, and varied in form.

The core of the concept is “The benevolent love of others” or universal love,     4     is the basic virtue of a gentleman of noble character. Confucius believes that being benevolent does not mean     5    (be)without principles. One should be clear about what    6    (love) or hate. Ren comes from learning and self-cultivation: it can be seen from a person’s appearance. To be sure, li or rites and yue or music are important.     7    , ren is the No. 1 principle of being a decent man. It is actually the essence of li and yue. Without ren, li or yue would be    8    (meaning).

Apart from ren, Confucius put forward another concept, which is yi or righteousness. Yi is the codes of conduct under the     9    (guide) of ren. “The virtuous man cherishes a respect for the law,    10    the vile (邪恶的) man cherishes generous treatment. ”