1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

More than 25 years ago, a train took Saroo Brierley, a 4-year-old boy, a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. There, he     1     (bring) up by an Australian family and flew to Tasmania, Australia with them.

    2     he writes in his new book, A Long Way Home, Brierley couldn’t help but wonder about his hometown back in India. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn’t know his town’s name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country     3     (prove) to be impossible.

Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years     4     (search) for his hometown in the program’s satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across     5     familiar. He studied it and realized he was looking at a town’s central business district     6     a bird’s-eye view. He thought “On the right-hand side you should see the three-platform train station”— and there it was. “And on the left-hand side you should see a big fountain” — and there it was. Everything just started to match.

When he stood in front of the house     7     he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing in the entrance. “There’s something about me,” he thought — and it took him a few seconds but he finally remembered     8     she used to look like.

In an interview Brierley says, “My mother looked so much     9     (short) than I remembered. But she came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, and my feelings and tears and the chemical in my brain, you know, it was like a nuclear fusion (核聚变). I just didn’t know what to say,     10     I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in front of her.”

2 . Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the words in the box. Each word in the box can only be used once. There are two words more than you need.

A. determined   B. delivered   C. signaled   D. inspired   E. reflected   F. designed

1. Since we are busy recently, we have our milk ________ every two days.
2. On the way back to the classroom, he ________ on what he had learned in the lab.
3. For most Chinese, the Lantern Festival ________ the end of this year’s Spring Festival and the return to work in the New Year.
4. Although her colleagues didn’t agree, she was ________ to put her new ideas into practice.

3 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120—150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是学生李华，你们班上周组织了为期三天的社会实践活动，请根据以下四幅图的顺序，写一篇周记，内容需包括：
●简单记述整个过程；
●简要谈谈社会实践后你的感受。

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6 . 她太累了，今晚没心情去参加聚会。(too…to…) (汉译英)

7 . 小组讨论有助于更好地理解课文。(help)(汉译英)

9 . Contact between adolescents (between the ages of 15 and 19) and their peers (同龄人) is a universal characteristic of all cultures. However, the nature and the degree of such contact ________ a great deal. In American contemporary society, adolescents spend much more time with their peers than with ________ or adults.

This pattern of age segregation (隔离) in American society did not become usual until the beginning of the industrialized society. Changes in the ________separated children from adults, with adults working and children attending school. The dramatic increase of mothers in the workplace has ________ contributed to (促成) the reduction in the amount of time adolescents spend with adults. School reform efforts during the nineteenth century, which ________ age-segregated schools and grades, have reduced the amount of time adolescents spend with younger children. Finally, the changes in population are considered a(n)________that may have contributed to the emergence of adolescent peer culture. From 1955 to 1975, the adolescent ________ increased dramatically, from 11 percent to 20.9 percent. This increase in the number of adolescents might be a contributing factor to the ________ in adolescent peer culture in terms of growth in size as well as in terms of its impact on society’s other cultures.

Research ________ the view that adolescent s spend a great deal of time with their peers. Reed Larson and his colleagues examined adolescents’ daily ________ and found that they spend more time talking to their friends than engaging in any other activity. In a typical week, ________, high school students will spend twice as much time with their peers as with adults. This gradual withdrawal (退出) from adults begins in ________ adolescence. In sixth grade, adults (excluding parents) account for only 25 percent of adolescent social ________ . Another important characteristic of adolescent peer________ is its increasingly autonomous (自治的) function. While childhood peer groups are conducted under the close supervision (监管) of parents, adolescent peer groups typically make an effort to ________ adult supervision and usually succeed in doing so.

1.

A．reveal

B．vary

C．imply

D．prove

2.

A．younger children

B．professional teachers

C．close relatives

D．responsible researchers

3.

A．interest

B．attitude

C．workplace

D．age

4.

A．slightly

B．seldom

C．regularly

D．further

5.

A．resulted in

B．objected to

C．held back

D．checked out

6.

A．solution

B．factor

C．concern

D．argument

7.

A．spending

B．volunteers

C．partners

D．population

8.

A．increase

B．share

C．disappearance

D．selection

9.

A．opposes

B．doubts

C．supports

D．changes

10.

A．diets

B．activities

C．expenses

D．necessities

11.

A．in addition

B．as a result

C．in particular

D．for example

12.

A．late

B．typical

C．early

D．common

13.

A．pressure

B．networks

C．skills

D．background

14.

A．culture

B．pressure

C．respect

D．education

15.

A．develop

B．control

C．escape

D．apply

10 . As the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) has gone global, we’ve watched professionals fail as they try to improve their emotional intelligence because they either don’t know where to focus their efforts or they haven’t understood how to improve these skills on a practical level. In our work consulting with companies and coaching leaders, we have found that if you’re looking to develop particular EI strengths, it helps to consider areas for improvement others have identified along with the goals you want to achieve and then to actively build habits in those areas rather than simply relying on understanding them conceptually.

The first step is to get a sense of how your self-perception (how you see yourself) differs from your reputation (how others see you). This is especially true for the development of EI because we can be blind to how we express and read the emotional components of our interactions. For example, most of us think that we’re good listeners, but very often that’s really not the case. Without this external reality check, it will be difficult for you to identify the ways that your actions affect your performance. Getting teed back from others can also provide proof of the necessity of shifting our behavior and motivation to do so.

To give you the best sense of where the differences lie between your self-perception and reputation, you should use a 360-degree feedback assessment that takes into account the multiple aspects of EI. The key is to find one to give you feedback, which is focused on development and not on performance assessment. And that can give you a detailed understanding of how other people’s assessments of you differ from your own assessments.

Secondly, when you get your feedback from an assessment, let that inform what you want to improve. But also consider what your goals are. When it comes to cultivating strengths in emotional intelligence, you’re at a huge disadvantage if you’re only interested because others say you should be. Your emotional intelligence is so tied up in your sense of self that being intrinsically (内在的) motivated to make the effort matters more when changing longstanding habits than it does when simply learning a skill.

That means the areas that you choose to actively work on should lie at the intersection of the feedback you’ve gotten and the areas that are most important to your own aspirations (抱负). Understanding the influences of your current EI habits relative to your goals will keep you going over a long period at time as you do the work or strengthening your emotional intelligence.

1. What do we know from the first paragraph?

A．EI can be better improved with others’ help.

B．Leaders are badly in need of improving their EI.

C．EI plays a key role in professional development.

D．Professionals fail to understand the concepts of EI.

2. According to the passage, which of the following is an “external reality check”?

A．You help your siblings make a key decision.

B．Your career development speeds up with others’ help.

C．You reflected yourself and made a New Year resolution.

D．Your teacher directed you towards a better attitude in study.

3. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 4?

A．To improve your EI, following your inner call is the most reliable.

B．It’s bard for others to know your EI because it hides deep inside.

C．To improve your EI, you should take your goals into consideration.

D．Acquiring a new skill is more significant than improving your EI.

4. Which of the following might the author agree with?

A．Your inner self discourages you from improving your EI.

B．Effective EI development is determined by different factors.

C．The importance of performance assessment is underestimated.

D．EI development is unlikely to happen unless you know what EI is.