1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the speaker go on the tour?

A．It was the prize of a competition.

B．John asked her to go with him.

C．It was her travel plan.

2. What did the speaker dislike about the hotel?

A．The drinks.

B．The food.

C．The waiters.

3. What did the speaker think of the trip to the museum?

A．Disappointing.

B．Amazing.

C．Terrible.

4. What did the speaker do in the second week?

A．She rode an elephant.

B．She went to the mountains.

C．She relaxed in the hotel.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers doing?

A．Discussing their schedule.

B．Packing for a journey.

C．Deciding on a present.

2. What does Jacques like doing?

A．Swimming.

B．Playing basketball.

C．Reading books on modern art.

3. What will the speakers most probably do next?

A．Find a basketball.

B．Leave home.

C．Call a taxi.

3 . —You should         enough time to discuss these matters.
—I know, but I have really been too busy recently.

A．set aside

B．set back

C．set down

D．set up

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What will the man do on Monday?

A．Start a new position.

B．Pack his belongings.

C．Attend a meeting.

2. What is the man busy doing now?

A．Moving to his new office.

B．Checking off office supplies.

C．Preparing for a promotion campaign.

3. What does the woman offer to do?

A．Review an expense report.

B．Provide the man with supplies.

C．Arrange a company celebration.

5 . In the early 1990s, Eric Domb, a highly successful lawyer, came up with the idea of building a bird park. His father-in-law ________ the idea in the beginning, but when the ________ started to make shape he backed out. Domb thus had to ________ money from former clients, his two brothers and father as well as a bank to build a zoological park known as Pairi Daiza.

After the park opened in 1994, his inexperience led to many ________, but he pushed on with his venture (冒险). By 2000, the park was turning a profit, and Domb’s ambitions were ________. The park needed more than birds, he believed, and other creatures and cultural gardens would help turn it into something ________.

Since his childhood he has been fascinated by Chinese ________. In 2006, he built the first Chinese garden, Dream of Han Wu Di in his zoo. It was said to be the largest Chinese garden in Europe. Domb kept ________ new elements. It finally took more than six years to complete the project.

Domb felt ________ by the joint panda breeding program. Domb and his people spent the following months ________ building giant panda houses with no guarantee that Pairi Daiza would be fortunate enough to ________ giant pandas. The huge enclosure built includes a pool, cave and ________ plantation.

Now, Domb is eager to tell how he ________ a pair of giant pandas, Xing Hui and Hao Hao in February 2014. The sense of ________ is all the more profound in that Pairi Daiza is one of the few private zoos outside China to ________ giant pandas.

1.

A．rejected

B．supported

C．doubted

D．raised

2.

A．project

B．rule

C．law

D．document

3.

A．steal

B．win

C．earn

D．borrow

4.

A．rewards

B．wonders

C．mistakes

D．regrets

5.

A．missing

B．spreading

C．shaking

D．growing

6.

A．extreme

B．unusual

C．irregular

D．essential

7.

A．culture

B．food

C．poetry

D．dream

8.

A．containing

B．changing

C．adding

D．removing

9.

A．embarrassed

B．surprised

C．confused

D．inspired

10.

A．willingly

B．enthusiastically

C．automatically

D．confidently

11.

A．take charge of

B．pay attention to

C．get hold of

D．gain knowledge of

12.

A．grass

B．tea

C．coffee

D．bamboo

13.

A．bought

B．protected

C．received

D．tracked

14.

A．pride

B．humor

C．security

D．duty

15.

A．hide

B．house

C．train

D．save

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。

A major fire broke out at Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Monday, one of France’s most visited landmarks. Flames burst     1     the roof of the cathedral, live TV pictures showed. Firefighters cleared the area around the cathedral,     2     marks the very centre of the city.

    3     (build) in the     4     (twelve) century, Notre Dame is the     5     famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages. “It’s been 800 years that the Cathedral watches over Paris”, Pascal,     6     French historian said. “Happy and unfortunate events for centuries     7     (mark) by the bells of Notre Dame.” The cathedral is home to incalculable works of art and is one of the world’s most famous tourist     8     (attract), immortalized by Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Its     9     (price) treasures include a Catholic relic, the crown of thorns, which is only     10     (occasional) displayed.

7 . At least three reasons stand out why a girl should acquire a college education: it can ensure her greater financial gain, better patterns of family life, and richer personal resources.

Initially, the girl who obtains a college education is likely to find a better occupation and make more money. A typist, for example, may earn no more than $2,000 a month.     1    . In a sense, salary varies with the level of education.

    2    . For instance, she’ll be able to have a better interpersonal communication particularly with her husband, since she is more aware of reasonable ways of thinking and livelihood than the woman who drops out of school in the tenth grade, spends most of her time washing diapers and develops an addiction to electronic devices like TV, the cell phone, etc.

Additionally, a woman with a higher education can have an effect on her children’s growth. Nothing makes a cooler mom than one that is involved in the children’s hobbies by taking an intelligent, informed interest in it.     3    . They will keep a distance from their children’s space, privacy, and independence and trust that they can have a strong relationship without knowing every aspect of their lives.

Eventually, perhaps the most important of all is the fact that a college education gives a woman richer personal resources than she would otherwise have.     4    . The unique circles based on her education, of people from art, science, philosophy and so forth, are bound to enrich a woman’s life.

If you are not one of those who want to be a kept woman or take money from your parents or your husband, you will need certain skills that of course can be obtained at a university or college.     5    , as is mentioned.

A．So a woman can leave the kitchen and diapers

B．Every woman should try to get a college education

C．It gives her a taste for ideas and a knowledge of the world

D．Next, a girl with further education can get a good marriage

E．Secondly, a college-educated girl probably has a better family life

F．Moreover, a well-educated mom knows how to show respect for her children

G．A research chemist in contrast, may make a profit of more than $ 150 000 a year

8 . Time was, being called “nerd (书呆子)” was a bad thing.

That is happily different now, says Sarah Jane, director at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, which is home to the exhibit “Obsessed: The Art of Nerd-dom” through March 15. “I think the majority of my friends are nerdier than I am,” she said, “and I mean that in a ‘my friends are cooler than I am’ kind of way.”

Jane said the rise of the Internet certainly helped blossom, connecting people with common interests across geographies. Now, it’s almost mainstream—exhibitions of nerd culture fill convention halls, comic book superheroes and science fiction stories are the focus of blockbuster movies, and more.

“It has made being a nerd less of an isolating experience, and more of a community experience because you’re connecting with other people who have that shared interest,” she said.

Holladay, the co-curator (副馆长), spoke up in a meeting about what the coming exhibition season would look like.“I knew of another nerdy exhibition that had happened in LA recently... and I just thought ‘you know, I bet there are nerdy artists on the (Olympic) Peninsula and in Washington who have really quality work, where the subject matter might not fit into most exhibits’,” she said.

And she wasn’t surprised when they received plenty of recommendations.“My theory was that nerds are everywhere,” she said. “Once I got in touch with the right people, everyone was coming out of the woodwork.”

The exhibit features comic art, and things like Pokemon cards arranged in a collage (拼贴画). One work invites viewers to imagine the unique talents and abilities they have as superpowers they bring to the world. Holladay says the evolution of the idea of nerd culture has been positive over the past several years.

1. What is Sarah Jane’s attitude towards “nerds”?

A．Neutral.

B．Critical.

C．Appreciative.

D．Uncaring.

2. Which of the following contributes most to the popularity of nerd culture?

A．People’s varying views of nerd.

B．Movies’ great influence upon people.

C．The sufferings people have gone through.

D．The Internet connecting people with shared interests.

3. What does the underlined expression “coming out of the woodwork” mean ?

A．Springing out.	B．Getting out of the woods.
C．Rushing outside.	D．Expecting high quality of work.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The exhibition shows how being a “nerd” becomes good.

B．The nerd culture is always evolving positively.

C．Many unusual exhibitions are scheduled.

D．Another different culture appears recently.

9 . 假设你是新华中学的高三学生李华，得知今年香港中文大学在大陆进行自主招生的消息后，有意申请参加其自主招生考试。请用英文写一封申请信，主要包括：
1.基本情况； 2.文化艺术方面的爱好；3.诗歌鉴赏方面的能力。
注意：1.词数不少于100；
2.可以根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：自主招生：independent recruitment
香港中文大学：The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Li Hua , from Xinhua Middle School.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

10 . About five years ago, when the first generation of wearable fitness trackers became popular, they were announced as the _______of a revolution. Health experts and business people alike said that giving people _______ to real-time calorie-burning and step-count data would inspire them to lose weight, eat better and most importantly _______more. But even as the U.S. market for _______ devices hits $7 billion this year, there’s evidence that their promise isn’t quite paying off.

The U.S. has an exercise problem, _______ 28% of Americans aged 50 and over considered wholly _______. That means 31 million adults move no more than is necessary to perform the most basic functions of daily life. Wearables, experts_______, were going to change that. But limited academic research has been done to figure out whether wearables _______people’s behavior in the long term. The research that does exist isn’t _______. For a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers wanted to see whether activity trackers would help overweight people lose more weight over two years than if they just did a weight-loss intervention alone. They didn’t. “We found that just giving people a device doesn’t mean it’s going to ________ something that you think it’s going to lead to,” says John Jakicic, the author of the study, from the University of Pittsburgh. “These activity trackers don’t engage people in strategies that make a ________ in terms of long-term change”

Another new study ________ a different challenge: user ________. By the end of a yearlong study of 800 people, just 10% of participants were still wearing the trackers, according to, Eric Finkelstein, a professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. “We didn’t find that Fitbits really have much of an effect,” he says. This may well be because people expect trackers to do something they’re not designed to do—________, force them to change their behaviors. “There’s __________among people about their function, a measurement tool and an intervention,” Finkelstein says. A scale counts pounds, for example, ________it won’t teach you how to eat less. “When people put these devices on, they might interact with the app for the first few weeks, maybe the first few months, but there comes a point where that starts to fall off,” says Finkelstein.

To be ________, some of the costlier and higher-tech wearables have features baked into them ________ encourage users to move more, says Shelten Yuen, Fitbit’s vice president of research. Among them are: shaking sensors, movement reminders and social-media combination, all designed to ________ users to make better health choices every day. But more research will be needed to determine whether or not these features or others like them— could ________ improve people’s health and fitness levels.

1.

A．consequence

B．dawn

C．dusk

D．process

2.

A．access

B．assistance

C．material

D．tendency

3.

A．consume

B．purchase

C．exercise

D．perform

4.

A．wearable

B．electronic

C．appropriate

D．conventional

5.

A．among

B．with

C．for

D．by

6.

A．outspoken

B．inactive

C．discouraged

D．ridiculous

7.

A．announced

B．determined

C．hoped

D．convinced

8.

A．limit

B．comprehend

C．interpret

D．change

9.

A．encouraging

B．interesting

C．pioneering

D．challenging

10.

A．benefit from

B．result in

C．add to

D．focus on

11.

A．consequence

B．movement

C．profit

D．difference

12.

A．imitated

B．arranged

C．highlighted

D．informed

13.

A．reduction

B．participation

C．creation

D．expectation

14.

A．shortly

B．therefore

C．deliberately

D．namely

15.

A．evaluation

B．popularity

C．confusion

D．interaction

16.

A．but

B．and

C．or

D．so

17.

A．casual

B．fair

C．accessible

D．technical

18.

A．what

B．why

C．that

D．how

19.

A．persuade

B．advocate

C．follow

D．motivate

20.

A．frequently

B．automatically

C．faithfully

D．measurably