注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
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1. What did the man study in college?
| A．Art history. | B．Medicine. | C．Business. |
| A．They’re neighbors. |
| B．They’re salesman and customer. |
| C．They’re teacher and student. |
| A．Doing what her father suggests. |
| B．Exploring all the possibilities. |
| C．Making a decision as early as possible. |
1. What is the average height of Salt Lake City?
| A．4327 feet above sea level. |
| B．200 feet above sea level. |
| C．110.4 feet above sea level. |
| A．“Great Salt Lake”. |
| B．“Great Salt Lake City”. |
| C．“Crossroads of the West”. |
| A．The sports game. |
| B．The tourist industry. |
| C．The construction of railroad. |
| A．The ocean. | B．Rivers. | C．Mountains. |
I’m standing on the shoulder of a not-busy-enough road outside of Cortland, New York trying to hitchhike(搭顺风车)back to campus seventy-five miles away, deep in a sophomore slump(二年级低迷期). I haven’t been to classes in two weeks and I’m considering dropping out.
I hold up a cardboard sign with “Oneonta” on it.
“Hey, buddy,” someone shouts in a brown car across the road heading in the opposite direction. “You go to college in Oneonta?”
“Yes, ” I say. “Oneonta State.”
“Wait a minute,” the driver says. He turns his car around and pulls to the shoulder in front of me. I walk over to the driver’s window and see a woman holding a baby sitting beside him.
“It’s getting late,” he says. “Traffic’s thinning out.” He glances at his watch and turns to the woman next to him. They exchange a knowing look.
“Get in,” he says. “We’ll drive you.”
“Are you sure?” I ask. “You were headed in the other direction.”
“We’re just out for a ride,” he says. “We don’t mind driving you.”
I walk to the passenger’s side of the car and climb in. I can’t believe it. This man is going to drive me an hour and a half out of his way and then drive back again.
“I’m Aaron,” he says. “This is my wife, Sylvia, and my son, Zack.”
“Hi,” I say. “I’m Dave.”
I settle in as Aaron and Sylvia decide on the route. They agree quickly, and we’re off.
“So what are you taking in college?” Aaron asks. The question is innocent, but I know it will lead to others.
“English,” I say. “Secondary education.”
“So you’re going to be a teacher?”
“Yes.” I am surprised how quickly and definitively(决定性地)I answer.
“That’s fantastic!” he says. “Did you hear that, Sylvia? Dave’s going to be a teacher.”
“I did,” she says. “Aaron’s dream was to be the first in his family to go to college, but he couldn’t afford to go.”
“You have quite an opportunity,” Aaron says. “Your future is bright.”
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As we drive on, Aaron asks me about my college life.
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I watch the car until the tail lights disappear.
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8 . Every year, my high school’s Chinese club sponsors an event to celebrate Chinese New Year called “China Night.” During the evening, we show
For this year’s event, I played cello (大提琴) in a string quartet (弦乐四重奏). We
During one particular break, I told my friends to meet me at one of the
Through attending China Night, I was surprised to see how enthusiastically my community
| A．ancient | B．famous | C．traditional | D．initial |
| A．arts | B．exhibitions | C．fairs | D．performances |
| A．played | B．enjoyed | C．read | D．practiced |
| A．skilled | B．important | C．eager | D．positive |
| A．move | B．exist | C．combine | D．break |
| A．pride | B．humor | C．security | D．responsibility |
| A．discussing | B．replacing | C．appreciating | D．sharing |
| A．food | B．phone | C．ticket | D．book |
| A．strange | B．friendly | C．shy | D．different |
| A．sell | B．try | C．bring | D．cook |
| A．predicted | B．argued | C．worried | D．imagined |
| A．seriousness | B．satisfaction | C．calmness | D．puzzlement |
| A．change | B．difficulty | C．achievement | D．experience |
| A．abandoned | B．considered | C．accepted | D．discriminated |
| A．open | B．free | C．easy | D．careful |
9 . Last weekend, I said goodbye to another dear old friend. We had 12 fine years together, but our relationship was becoming dysfunctional(不正常的). Unwanted emissions and serious health problems were the final straw, leaving me with no choice but to make a trip to the knacker’s(收废汽车者的)yard.
I am now car-free for the first time in 20 years, and it feels strange. When I gave up meat, I did so mainly for environmental reasons, and I didn’t miss it at all. I would like to say the same about my car, but I can’t. It was first and foremost a financial decision: keeping the old car on the road was getting too expensive.
But doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is still doing the right thing — I now have a chance to rethink how I move myself and my family around, and can try to find a more environmentally friendly means of transport.
Going car-free is, I think, a lifestyle change that many of us are going to make over the next few years, as car ownership becomes increasingly unnecessary, expensive and socially unacceptable. However, it is easier said than done. Now my car is gone. I still need to get around. But how? I already cycle to work and use public transport when appropriate. But there are some occasions when a car seems to be the only way.
I won’t buy one: I have joined a car-share program and will use taxis more often. I will hire a car if I need to drive a long distance. But then I am still travelling in fossil-fuelled cars(燃油汽车), like when I quit meat and ended up eating more cheese. I fear I may have swapped one environmental problem for another.
I am also afraid to think about the ultimate fate of my car. I have just offloaded more than a ton of metal, plastic, rubber, fabric, electronics, oil and petrol that will end up in a landfill. There are millions of similar vehicles in the UK alone that will have to go somewhere.
Maybe I am overthinking it. According to Charlie Wilson, a climate scientist at the UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, getting rid of a private car is no doubt a positive step to reduce CO2 emissions.
He points to research by the OECD’s International Transport Forum. “They showed that moving from a private vehicle fleet(车队)to a shared vehicle fleet can greatly cut the number of vehicles you need to deliver the mobility that we need and want. If that vehicle fleet is electrified, you can also bring CO2 emissions close to zero.”
So in other words, just get rid of your car.
1. What do we know about the author’s car?| A．It was old. | B．It was green. |
| C．It was his first car. | D．It was a second-hand car. |
| A．He did both for the wrong reasons. | B．He thinks both help him save money. |
| C．He considers both are right decisions. | D．He did both out of concern for the environment. |
| A．He may have to spend more on travel. |
| B．His lifestyle might be changed completely. |
| C．He might get bored with public transportation. |
| D．His decision may fail to help the environment. |
| A．It is wise to do away with old private cars. |
| B．It is very easy to deal with old private cars. |
| C．Electric cars are the solution to traffic problems. |
| D．The OECD plays a key role in promoting car-sharing. |
10 . It is likely that anyone who pays attention to fitness trends has heard the term “muscle confusion”. It was invented and popularized in the past decade by the creators of various weight-training programs, particularly P90X.
P90X advises participants to adjust their routines all the time, threading in different combinations of exercises and rarely, if ever, repeating any particular workout. The theory for the inconstancy is that unfamiliar routines should perplex our bodies and muscles and prevent them from getting into a settled state or reaching a training plateau (a time of little change after a period of progress). Instead, our muscles supposedly will respond to the unfamiliar demands of the workouts by continuing to adapt.
That idea has some appeal and many supporters but little independent scientific backing. So, for a new study, which was published in PLOS One, a group of of researchers from Spain and the United States who long had been interested in the impacts and specifics of resistance training decided to try to confuse a few muscles and see what would happen.
They divided 19 healthy young men who already lifted weights into two groups, after testing their muscles’ size and strength and completing an online questionnaire about their interest in and motivation for exercise.
Then one group began a standard, weight-training routine, performing the same exercises in the same order each week. The other group, though, did a different workout each session, picking exercises randomly from a database of 80. These routines continued for eight weeks at a university gym, after which the men returned to the lab for new muscle tests and a repeat of the online questionnaire.
The researchers then compared results and, quite unexpectedly, found that it is no easy job to make muscles feel confused since overall the men’s gains in muscular size and strength were almost exactly the same. Our muscles are not discouraged or bored by unvarying routines, says Brad Schoenfeld, a co-author of the study.
There was one notable difference between the groups, however. Those men completing the ever-changing workouts reported showing more enthusiasm for exercise at the study’s end than the other group. “The differences in drive scores at the end were significant,” he says, suggesting that “from a purely motivational standpoint, variety matters.”
1. The underlined word “perplex” can be replaced by ______.| A．pull | B．relax | C．strengthen. | D．confuse. |
| A．Whether their workouts varied. |
| B．Whether they received two muscle tests. |
| C．Whether exercises were completed at a gym. |
| D．Whether they lifted the same amount of weight. |
| A．It is simple to confuse our muscles. |
| B．Men dislike ever-changing workouts. |
| C．Regular exercise makes one feel enthusiastic. |
| D．Changing workouts helps improve motivation. |
| A．Will P90X benefit health? | B．How can muscles be built? |
| C．Will muscle confusion work? | D．How should workouts be done? |
