1 . A year back I received a full scholarship to attend the University of San Francisco. All of my hard work had paid off. My mom had spent a lot in my attending a private high school, so I made sure to push myself: I volunteered, joined different clubs, and graduated with honors.

I was so excited to start a new life. I had totally packed two weeks and wanted to go to college at once before it was time to leave.

Soon enough, the big day came, but it wasn’t like what I had thought. The first two weeks were the most difficult days of my entire life. Every night I would cry myself to sleep.

I was so homesick (想家) and I didn’t know how to deal with my broken heart. To distract myself, I threw myself into my studies and I applied for a lot of jobs. In any remaining free time, I started forcing myself to the gym. I wanted to keep every part of my day busy so I wouldn’t think how lonely I felt.

Soon after, I began to limit food, and then I became worse. Finally, I went to see a doctor. When the doctor weighed me, I was crazy about the number of my weight. So I continued to lower my goal, and convinced that controlling this number was the solution to my homesickness. But when I was told that I had no choice but to spend time on my studies. I quickly started recovery in my mind.

How could I do? I told myself that school was what I was best at. I decided to get rid of my homesickness and took exercise actively. My first term of college had passed by at last and I had gotten straight A’s. That’s why I want to share my story—to help other students feel less lonely.

1. How was the author during the two weeks before she left for the college?

A．She was as normal as before.

B．She couldn’t wait to leave for the college.

C．She was afraid to leave her home.

D．She didn’t enjoy her mother’s company.

2. What is the author’s problem at the beginning of studying in the university?

A．Her weight.	B．Her diet.
C．Her homesickness.	D．Her bad study habit.

3. Which can best replace the underlined phrase “distract myself” in paragraph 2?

A．achieve my dream	B．earn money by myself
C．improve my studies	D．take my attention away

4. What is the main purpose of the author in writing the text?

A．To look back at her past middle school life.

B．To help girls to lose weight.

C．To help lonely college students.

D．To increase her own confidence.

2 . 假定你是李华，你的美国朋友 Tom听说在中国通过扫描二维码(scan QR codes)就可以轻松实现移动支付(mobile payment), 他对此感到很好奇。请你写一封邮件告知他移动支付在中国的相关情況。内容包括：
1. 在中国很流行，提供了便利;
2. 快捷且强大的功能：如买早餐,买火车票等等。
3. 改变了人们的生活。
注意：1.词数80字左右;
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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3 . Taking in dirty air does great harm to our health. Air pollution lowers the average life spans by a year worldwide and in more polluted parts of Asia and Africa, dirty air shortens lives up to twice that much. Scientists shared their new findings in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The study used data gathered in 2016 as part of a project known as the Global Burden of Disease and was the first major country-by-country look at the connection between the length of life and what’s known as fine PM.

Air pollution has been linked to many health problems. Most earlier studies had looked at how tiny air pollutants affected rates of illness or death. Joshua Apte is an environmental scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. By looking at life expectancy (预期寿命), his team had hoped to make the threat easier to understand. PM2.5 is what scientists call tiny particles (颗粒) of pollution in the air. Higher levels of PM2.5 can cause health problems and cut months, if not years, from the average length of life. This analysis shows how pollution affects life expectancy in different parts of the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends limiting PM2.5 to 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air. Apte’s group calculated how holding pollution to this low level would help people. In countries with very dirty air, meeting this standard would lengthen people’s lives. However, in countries whose air already meets this standard, the study shows no gain in life expectancy. In other words, meeting the WHO standard won’t reduce health costs resulting from dirty air because even below 10 micrograms per cubic meter, pollution still causes serious risks. Meanwhile, the scientists compared how other threats including smoking and cancer shorten the length of life across the globe.

1. What is special about the study?

A．It won recognition from a professional journal.

B．It discussed health problems caused by air pollution.

C．It gathered lots of data for the Global Burden of Disease.

D．It analyzed the link between life spans and PM by country.

2. What is Joshua Apte’s team trying to do?

A．Help people better understand air pollution.

B．Study life expectancy in different countries.

C．Know how small air pollutants affect health.

D．Deal with different kinds of health problems.

3. What will happen if a country limits PM2.5 to 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air?

A．People’s life spans will surely increase.

B．It will guarantee people clean air.

C．People’s health may not be much improved.

D．It will be awarded by the WHO.

4. What might be discussed in the following paragraphs?

A．How other threats shorten life expectancy.

B．How cleaning up the air can lengthen lives.

C．How air pollution shortens lives by country.

D．How all the countries deal with severe pollution.

4 . The Amazing Penguin Rescue

In the summer of 2016, the ship MV Treasure sunk, creating an oil spill. Thirteen hundred tons of fuel oil were flowing right in the middle of the African Penguins’ habitat. Soon the oil covered about 20,000 penguins. Without swift help, the seabirds would have no chance of survival. Volunteers were showing up by the thousands and I also took part in what was the largest animal rescue operation ever.

A warehouse was turned into a rescue center near the habitat and hundreds of pools were built to hold about 100 oiled birds each. When walking into the center, I couldn’t believe my ears. I had expected to walk into a chorus of honking and squawking(尖声叫). Instead, the center sounded like a library. The penguins were dead silent. My heart ached for the painful birds. Cleaning them all seemed like an impossible task. But we had to carry on like doctors in an emergency room. There was no time for doubt. Cleaning oil off a penguin wasn’t easy. Even with more than 12,500 volunteers, it took a month to bathe all 20,000 birds at the center.

While volunteers were busy bathing the oiled penguins, another crisis(危机) was developing. Oil from the spill had started moving north. Tens of thousands of penguins were in the oil’s path. But we already had our hands full with 20,000 recovering birds. If any more birds were oiled, we wouldn’t have enough resources to save them.

One researcher came up with an idea: What if the penguins were temporarily moved out of harm’s way? Experts decided to have a try. Volunteers rounded up the penguins and released them 500 miles away. The hope was that by the time the seabirds swam home, the oil would be gone. The plan worked! Another 20,000 penguins were saved.

The entire penguin rescue took about three months. More than 90% of the oiled penguins were successfully returned to the wild. Looking back on the rescue, I am still amazed by the work of the volunteers. What I could hardly believe was that we accomplished an impossible task.

1. The African penguins were in danger because of ________.

A．a knock by a ship	B．a change of habitats
C．a spill of oil	D．a lack of help

2. When walking into the rescue center, the author felt ________.

A．ambitious

B．shocked

C．hopeless

D．inspired

3. The crisis was ended by ________.

A．moving the penguins from home	B．cleaning the polluted habitat
C．asking more volunteers to help	D．stopping the flow of the oil

4. The author mainly intends to tell us that ________.

A．we should unite to make the earth pollution-free

B．where there is a will there is a way

C．the future of wildlife is in our hands

D．many hands make great work

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，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。
Great changes have been taken place over the past five years in my hometown, that is a famous historic city. The streets used to be narrow, filling with small shops. Rubbish can be seen everywhere. Nowadays the streets are wider and clean with trees and flowers planted along the sidewalks. Besides, four new parks have been opened for the public and a number of high buildings has arisen in the city. However, some of the historic building have been torn down to make room for high buildings. Our city is now modern and clean and it doesn’t have its own special characteristics. In my opinion, we should try to protect all the historic buildings in process of urban development.

6 . It was early one hot morning in 2015 when, accompanied by my mother, I was________wheeled to the taxi stand. Three weeks earlier, I had________my left ankle at home. Now, I was on my way to being_______ for an operation at the Philippine General Hospital.

I was feeling _______as I’d never had surgery before and the thought of it________me. After waiting for________for more than 90 minutes, we were still standing there. It usually only takes a few minutes, but on this particular Sunday they would_______ us either already filled with passengers or________to take us. Perhaps they weren’t _______to carry my _______. My mother was starting to get frustrated as we were fast running out of time; our________was scheduled for 10:45am. Then a black SUV_______ and stopped in front of us. The driver, taking a look at us, said, “You two look like you could use a_______!” He told us he’d seen us earlier as he was taking his son to a________school activity. He was now returning home and saw that we were still there.

With no questions asked, this good Samaritan welcomed us aboard and got us to the hospital. We arrived at 10:30 – just in time. He refused any_______, saying people should help one another. He left with a smile.

I was finally_______. A long recovery process and physical therapy followed and now I am able to________again.

To this day we have not________again this friendly driver who went out of his way, but his generosity towards us has________in our minds and taught me to keep watch for and help others     ____.

1.

A．deliberately

B．roughly

C．gently

D．toughly

2.

A．broken

B．lost

C．burnt

D．treated

3.

A．protected

B．assessed

C．rejected

D．updated

4.

A．painful

B．cautious

C．optimistic

D．nervous

5.

A．attracted

B．hurt

C．worried

D．impressed

6.

A．a taxi

B．an ambulance

C．my father

D．my doctor

7.

A．pick up

B．squeeze out

C．deal with

D．pass by

8.

A．eager

B．unwilling

C．delighted

D．unable

9.

A．equipped

B．allowed

C．informed

D．demanded

10.

A．stick

B．wheelchair

C．mother

D．ankle

11.

A．enquiry

B．ceremony

C．appointment

D．challenge

12.

A．broke down

B．got through

C．speeded up

D．pulled over

13.

A．lift

B．cart

C．guide

D．treat

14.

A．winter

B．weekend

C．Christmas

D．night

15.

A．comment

B．praise

C．reward

D．blame

16.

A．turned down

B．operated on

C．left out

D．attended to

17.

A．breathe

B．concentrate

C．drive

D．walk

18.

A．get over

B．get across

C．come over

D．come across

19.

A．changed

B．faded

C．stuck

D．disappeared

20.

A．in need

B．in despair

C．in time

D．in sight

7 . Using technology in the classroom can produce unbelievable results．But for note-taking．it may pay to keep it old-school and stick with pen and paper．Students who take notes by hand appear to process information more deeply than those who take notes on a laptop or an iPad and other technologieal appliances，according to a study published this year in Psychological Science．Using the new fashionable method generally produces more raw notes．But students using laptops tend to do worse than note-takers by hand when answering conceptual questions about the material．

Researchers from Princeton and UCLA conducted several experiments with college students watching some video lectures．In one experiment．Note-takers by hand wrote down fewer words than those typing on laptops．But the two groups performed about the same when answering factual questions about the lecture material，and students who wrote longhand（普通书写）did much better than laptop note-takers on conceptual questions．

What gives？Students using laptops tended to write what they heard word by word rather than processing the information；that resulted in a sort of"shallower"learning，the researchers say．

In a second experiment，students taking notes on laptops were told not to write down what they heard word for word．It didn't help；in spite of the instructions．They still took notes word by word and they still did worse on conceptual questions than those taking notes by hand．

In a third experiment，students were able to briefly study their notes before answering questions asked a week after the lecture．Those reviewing their longhand notes did far better than students reviewing their typed notes．A student named Jerry from the experiment said．"The study is right，and we have to think about what was said to take the notes because I could not write down every word．I even developed complex letter symbols to help．To study for tests，I went over and underlined key points to reinforce them．The process helped me understand the lectures better．"

1. What does the underlined part in Paragraph I probably mean？______

A．It is necessary to take notes on a laptop or an iPad．

B．It is not worthwhile to take notes with pen and paper．

C．It needs much money to go to schools with a long history．

D．It may bring good results to use the traditional note-taking style．

2. Compared with those using pens，the students using laptops learn worse because they______．

A．write down fewer words

B．remember information word by word

C．don't process and sort out information

D．don't review their notes after class at all

3. From the last paragraph we know that Jerry is______．

A．against the study and its result

B．good at processing information

C．weak at remembering knowledge

D．excellent at inventing letter symbols

4. What is the best title for the passage？______

A．Take notes word by word from now on

B．keep on using our pens and paper now

C．The pen is losing to the keyboard

D．The laptop is helping to learn well．

8 . While many people dream of mermaids（美人鱼），few people actually try to become one.How can someone become a mermaid if they don’t exist?Just ask Dana Richardson,who is a professional mermaid in Hawaii!

“As a child,I always felt very connected to the ocean and played mermaids in the water,”says Dana.“My love of the ocean took me to different types of work such as a lifeguard,swim instructor,boat crew member,underwater photographer,boat captain and surfer.I just decided to take it to the next level and grow a tail.”

Dana doesn’t mean literally（照字面地）.In 2008 she began making mermaid tails from materials including shiny fabric（织物）that she wears while free-diving in the waters around Kona,Hawaii.Free-diving means diving without any protective equipment.It requires you to hold your breath while swimming deep underwater.As she dives in,Dana not only like a mermaid;she experiences what it is like to swim like one too.

The waters around Dana’s home in Kona are filled with wildlife,including dolphins and whales.Kona is by a sheltered sea where the waters are calm for swimming.For ten years Dana has been swimming with the creatures of Kona.Some of them have even learned to recognize her.

Dana knows how to swim with sea life because she is a trained marine(海洋的)naturalist.She understands the behavior of sea life and knows how to safely interact with it.Every morning when she swims with sea life she gets to experience her other“home”.“The ocean beneath the depths really is another world.Watching how the world works so gracefully in the circle of life underwater is a beautiful thing.”

For Dana Richardson being a mermaid just makes sense.“I always felt more comfortable underwater than on land,”she says.

Would you like to follow your dream,even if it seems impossible？Dana Richardson reminds everyone,“One person can truly make a difference.By following your heart and offering the world your unique gifts,you will inspire others to do so.The world needs you!”

1. What has been influencing Dana’s work experience most?

A．Her hobby	B．Her family
C．Her science teacher	D．Her swim instructor

2. Why does Dana make mermaid tails?

A．She needs them to protect her.

B．She wants to swim like a mermaid.

C．She needs to make money with them.

D．She wants to take photos of mermaids.

3. Being a marine naturalist helps Dana______.

A．get along well with sea life	B．discover her outstanding gifts
C．appreciate the beauty of other people	D．feel comfortable both underwater and on land

4. Dana encourages people to__________.

A．help those in need	B．love marine animals
C．try to realize their dreams	D．protect the marine environment

9 . Life can be so difficult these days. It is the time that you all should admit you need help in organizing your lives. Here are some tips that will help you.

Write everything down and do not rely on your memory.     1     If you want to remember things, put them in writing, or in a digital notebook. Keeping your to-do lists and other information written somewhere allows you to look back at them anytime, even when you have hit your head and forgotten your own name.

    2     Try this experiment before buying one thing, throw out something old or something you do not use. Or, if you are a really pack rat, just throw out one old thing a day until you can not find any more items to throw.

Recycle and donate. Is your closet full of unopened bags and clothes that still have their tags on? Is your bookshelf full of unread books? Chances are that if you have not read, worn, or used whatever they are, then you are probably not going to use them at all.     3    

Create daily, weekly and monthly timetables for cleaning. Organize your cleaning timetable.     4     Distribute tasks evenly, so for example, dish washing could be done daily; while vacuuming could be done weekly and cleaning the windows done monthly.

Whichever of these tasks you decide to do, remember that you can not completely organize your life in one go.     5     Just decide to get organized now, and then take baby steps. Soon enough, you will be making a habit out of it all.

A．Practice putting things away immediately.

B．Throw one thing before buying something.

C．It is a long and never-ending process, so be patient.

D．Give them to a charity or sell on the Internet.

E．It is extremely exhausting to clean everything all at once.

F．To keep up with tasks, you need to work with your family.

G．We all agree most of us have a tough time remembering things.

10 . Ever thought about running a lemonade stand to make money? Sixth-grader Jamaria Crump has. She has been very     1    (success) in it, too. It took the 11-year-old one year to build her lemonade stand to earn money for those in need.
Her business, LemonTopia, is a hil, which her teacher said was surprising. She was praised for it. She makes pies, cakes and cookies besides lemonade.
Jamiaria     2    (build) Lemon Topia herself with     3     help of her mother. “I m a teacher and had no time to help her at first. So she begged for a lemonade stand for a year or two before I let her do it," said Jasmine Hall, Jamaria's mother.
Jamaria's school made an     4    (announce) that it would hold a haking sale in 2017,     5     was the perfect chance to try out Jamaria's plan for a lemonade stand. After the baking sale, she kept selling at school and community events , Now she has her own business at a street market.
Hall says Jamaria does not like the cleaning up. "She is made     6    (wash) all of her own dishes. I try to persuade her to do that     7    (constant)," Hall said.
The lemonade business can have     8    (it) ups and downs. I'm very proud of her for sticking with it ,”said Hall. She wondered if Jamaria would get bored and stop. But that has not happened.
In fact, Jamaria wishes to study in Paris and considers     9    ( become) a dessert cook. For now, she'll bake and sell her goods. She is turning Lemon I opia     10     a strong starling point for a sweet future to help others.