1 . 尽管困难重重，李红出色的音乐天赋使她最终卫冕了冠军的头衔。(enable) (汉译英)

2 . 经历了这场激烈的比赛并险胜对手，他才坚信在经典文学中投入的时间越多，收获就越多。(Only) (汉译英)

3 . 你给灾区捐衣捐款，又不求回报，真慷慨！(It) (汉译英)

4 . 希望人人都能在会上各抒己见。(express)(汉译英)

5 . Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals, while the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think so much of them that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general.    1    .

It is possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight, so do savages（野蛮人）; so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized.    2    . People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some ways of setting their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won. And not only has it won, but also because it has won, it has been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means power is right. This is what the story of mankind has been like. But we must not expect too much. After all, the race of men has only just started.     3    . Scientists assume that there has been life of some sort on the earth for about twelve hundred million years; but there have been men for only one million years, and there have been civilized men for about eight thousand years.

    4    . Taking man's civilized past at about seven or eight hours, we may estimate his future at about one hundred thousand years. Thus mankind is only at the beginning of its whole a pretty beastly business, a business of fighting and killing. We must not expect even civilized peoples not to have done these things. All we can ask is that they will sometimes have done something else.

A．Even being good at getting others to fight most efficiently is not being civilized.

B．Most people believe those who have conquered the most nations are the greatest.

C．However, every year conflict between countries and nations still claim thousands of lives.

D．From the point of view of evolution, human beings are very indeed, babies of a few months old.

E．So there has been little time to learn in, but there will be oceans of time in which to learn better.

F．People don't fight and kill each other in the streets, but nations still behave like savages.

6 . I love books that are great to read aloud, side-splittingly funny, hair-raisingly exciting and make me cry. Here are my top four children's books.

A book that made me cry: The Lorax by Dr. Seus

The Lorax's doomed fight to save his beloved Truffula trees from extinction at the hands of the blue-armed capitalist called the Onceler, has that lovely mixture of humour, truth and pathos. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not," says the Onceler, throwing the Very Truffula Seed of Them All down to the child who is being told the story.

At this point, if you are not in tears, you have a heart of stone.

A book that made me want to be the heroine: Pippi Long-stocking by Astride Lindgren

Pippi Lon-stocking was so strong that she could lift a horse above her head. She had independent means, no visible parents, the cheek of several Peter Pans and her very own monkey. I longed to be her.

A book with a fantasy world I am tempted to believe is true:

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

"The best thing for being sad, is to learn something," says Merlin, the magician who lives life backwards. This is a book about learning to be a hero, and it is funny and wise. The fight between the two knights with armour（盔甲）so heavy that they can barely move still makes me laugh out loud.

A book for your inner and your actual teenager: Holes by Louis Sachar

Stanley Yelnats is a young delinquent who is pointlessly digging holes at Camp Green Lake as punishment for a crime he did not commit. A thrilling story of crime, redemption（救赎）and how the past haunts the present.

1. Which book is hair-raisingly exciting?

A．The Lorax

B．Pippi Long-stocking

C．The Sword in the Stone

D．Holes

2. Which of the following is true according to the article?

A．The Lorax tells a thrilling story that may scare many children.

B．Pippi Long-stocking is a hero with special personality traits.

C．The Sword in the Stone tells a story about a magician looking for as sword all his life.

D．In Holes, Stanley Yelnats is wronged and punished.

3. The following adjectives can be used to describe the features of the above four books except ________.

A．imaginative

B．exclusive

C．thrilling

D．humorous

7 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. disturbing；B. accustomed；C. deposit；D. prospects；E. inherited F. overcome；G. vaguely；H. bettering；I. flexible；J. miracle；K. rewarded

For more than three centuries, the American colonies and later, the United States have been a place for many "have-nots" to make the "American Dream" come true for themselves and to become "haves." And the optimism that people have, knowing that this    1    will always happen, has grown out of some key elements in the history of the nation, a nation that has differed profoundly from every other country in the world. The economic    2    of the nation will also be very much tied to these success stories. Three characteristics have contributed to such attainments.

First, the United States had natural resources undreamed of in other parts of the world. For farmers and ranchers there was land, often to be had cheaply or even for free. There were endless forests to supply lumber and rich    3    of coal, oil, silver, copper and gold. Besides, critical to the development of these resources was a population of both native-born Americans and immigrant who were connected by their common work ethic. This ethic held that industry and thrift should be

    4    with - as Benjamin Franklin says -- "a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World," These Americans believed in self improvement as well as in the nobility of all kinds of work. They also, if somewhat    5    , often linked material success with spiritual movement. Next, by and large, America was characterized by a(n)     6    class structure. In contrast to England and other European countries with their history of aristocrats（贵族）, this country was filled by numerous communities in which family connections or    7    money counted for little.

However, the pursuit of American Dream sometimes also proved to be a source of tension and strain. At the beginning of the 20th century, writers like Jack London and F. Scott Fitzgerald depicted a lot of "have-not" characters whose fate is not a matter of free will. They are    8    by forces beyond their control. Often, in their works, children or young people are victimized by poverty that prevents them from    9    themselves. Convinced that a person's destiny is the result of his or her heredity interacting with the environment, they employ many    10     details to explore the oppressive world in which their characters are trapped. Analyzing characters' assumptions and values continued to illuminate the American experience.

8 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. portraits	B. resistance	C. mixed	D. forgotten	E. concerns	F. drafts
G. explores	H. alternatives	I. criticizes	J. regarding	K. inspired

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily     1     the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his crazy passion and obsession for the beautiful former lover Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's masterpiece, the Great Gatsby     2     themes of degradation, idealism,     3     to chance and social conflicts, creating     4     of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties described as a warming tale     5     the American Dream.

Fitzgerald-     6     by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore - began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, "something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and elaborately patterned." Progress was slow, with Fitzgerald completing his     7     following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was vague and persuaded the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald repeatedly hesitated about the book's title and he considered a variety of     8    , including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchi o; the title he was last documented to have desired was Under the Red, White and Blue.

First published in April 1925, the Great Gatsby received     9     reviews and sold 20,000 copies in its first year. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work     10    . However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, the Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a competitor for the title "Great American Novel".

9 . I believe in figuring out my own way to do things. This approach can yield great results, but it's got its negative sides. Much of my individualist, bone-headed nature comes from my grandfather.

Opa grew up in New York's rough-and-tumble Lower East Side, didn't go to college, but owned and ran two successful business: a restaurant and a car wash. He figured out what he wanted to do, and how to do it without studying a manual. He used his own creativity to solve problems as they came up.

After he died, realtors (房产经纪人) tried to sell his home. They discovered he had devised his own way of hooking up the septic system. No one could figure out how it worked, so it couldn't pass codes. But it worked, and for many years beyond his time.

Sometimes I wonder if my banjo (班卓琴) playing would pass codes. I didn't learn to play bluegrass, classic music or jazz in school. I took banjo lessons from some of the best, but my breakthrough moments came when I left the lesson plans. I remember seeing jazz great Chick Corea when I was 17. There was a moment of revelation when I realized that all the notes he was playing had to exist on my banjo. I went home and stayed up most of the night, figuring out the scales, modes and arpeggios (琶音) for myself, mapping out the banjo fingerboard in my own way.

When I perform with my own group, my map of the banjo is all I need. But when I move into, more conventional jazz or classical situations, I don't always have the tools to fit in. I can barely read music. I don' thoroughly understand the conventions of each tradition and I'm not sure how to voice jazz chords — which notes to leave out and all the rhythmic concepts. I worry that my approach might not be built on a strong enough musical foundation.

It's this fear that allows me no rest in my musical pursuits. When I'm at work — whether it is writing, practicing or editing and mixing CDs — I obsess. To say that I am picky is understatement. Delegating is pretty much impossible; I can be downright controlling. I have to get everything just right. Then, one day, the intensity disappears. This usually means the project is done.

1. What can we learn about the grandpa according to the passage?

A．His secret weapon of problem-solving is his innovation.

B．He owned a restaurant and a car factory.

C．He can wash cars without studying a manual.

D．His design of septic system was recognized before he died.

2. Which of the following difficulties is NOT the one the author met with in his learning?

A．He couldn't remember the rhythmic concepts.

B．He found it difficult to read music.

C．He didn't know how to fit into the classical situations.

D．He didn't have an appetite for conventional jazz.

3. What can be inferred according to the passage?

A．The author's major is music in college years.

B．His awareness of insufficiency urges him to pursue music.

C．He works at a band and is famous.

D．He can control all kinds of music later.

4. The author wrote this passage in order to ________.

A．show the power of constant pursuit

B．express his love of music

C．show how his grandpa helped him

D．express his regret for not learning basic music knowledge

10 . From Oxford’s quads to Harvard Yard and many a steel and glass palace of higher education in between, exams are given way to holidays. As students consider life after graduation, universities are _______ questions about their own future. The higher education model of lecturing, cramming and examination has barely _______ for centuries. Now, three disruptive waves are threatening to shake established ways of teaching and learning.

On one front, a funding _______ has created a shortage of fund that the universities brightest brains are struggling to solve. Institutions’ costs are rising, _______ pricey investments in technology, teachers’ salaries and increasing administrative costs. That comes as governments conclude that they can no longer afford to subsidize universities as _______ as they used to. American colleges, in particular, are under pressure: some analysts predict mass bankruptcies within two decades.

At the same time, a(n) _______ revolution is challenging higher education’s business model. A(n) _______ in online learning, much of it free, means that the knowledge once a lucky few had access to has been released to anyone with a smartphone or laptop. These _______ and technological disruptions coincide with a third great change: whereas universities used to educate only a tiny elite, they are now _______ training and retraining workers throughout their careers. How will they ________ this storm—and what will emerge in their place if they don’t?

The universities least likely to lose out to online competitors are elite institutions with established reputations and low student-to-tutor ratios. That is ________ news for the Ivy League, which offer networking opportunities to students alongside a degree. Those colleges might profit from expanding the ratio of online learning to classroom teaching, lowering their costs while still offering the prize of a college education conducted partly on campus.

The most vulnerable, according to Jim Lerman of Kean University in New Jersey, are the “middle-tier institutions, which produce America's teachers, middle managers and administrators.” They could be ________ in greater part by online courses, he suggests. So might weaker community colleges, although those which cultivate connections to local employers might yet prove resilient (有弹力的).

Since the first wave of massive online courses launched in 2012, an opposition has focused on their ________ and commercial uncertainties. Yet if critics think they are immune to the march of the MOOC, they are almost certainly wrong. Whereas online courses can quickly________ their content and delivery mechanisms, universities are up against serious cost and efficiency problems, with little changes of taking more from the public purse.

Without the personal touch, higher education could become “an icebound, petrified (石化的) cast-iron university.” That is what the new wave of high-tech courses should not become. But as a(n) ________ to an overstretched, expensive model of higher education, they are more likely to prosper than fade.

1.

A．answering

B．facing

C．settling

D．guessing

2.

A．reviewed

B．existed

C．substituted

D．changed

3.

A．situation

B．trend

C．crisis

D．relief

4.

A．owing to

B．apart from

C．except for

D．rather than

5.

A．patiently

B．generously

C．naturally

D．ignorantly

6.

A．technological

B．professional

C．educational

D．geographical

7.

A．difference

B．emphasis

C．harmony

D．explosion

8.

A．fundamental

B．administrative

C．financial

D．psychological

9.

A．responsible for

B．eager for

C．curious about

D．enthusiastic about

10.

A．observe

B．chase

C．witness

D．survive

11.

A．shocking

B．good

C．annoying

D．neutral

12.

A．promoted

B．replaced

C．maintained

D．marketed

13.

A．failure

B．projects

C．innovation

D．progress

14.

A．resist

B．release

C．adjust

D．resemble

15.

A．object

B．relation

C．implication

D．alternative