1 . Why does the man choose the guitar?

A．He wants to be different.

B．He wants to be like his friends.

C．He thinks it is cool to play the guitar.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When will the first storm arrive?

A．Today.

B．This weekend.

C．Next week.

2. Which city will have fog?

A．New York City.

B．Saint Paul.

C．Boston.

3. For whom will the ice cause problems according to the speaker?

A．People traveling on foot.

B．People driving on the road.

C．People celebrating by the water.

4. What will the weather be like in Chicago?

A．Sunny.

B．Snowy.

C．Windy.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Which is the woman’s favorite hobby?

A．Doing exercise.

B．Writing at home.

C．Collecting recipes.

2. Why does the woman suggest cooking?

A．It is good to do alone.

B．It is a creative hobby.

C．It helps avoid going to restaurants.

3. What does the man probably think of cooking?

A．It’s hard to learn.

B．It’s healthy to cook his own food.

C．It’s a fun thing to do with his family.

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Molly ran back home from school and dropped her schoolbag on the sofa. Then on the table she saw “Mum’s Wish Book” —a mail order catalog from a gift shop. “Mum,” she said excitedly to herself, “this year you’ll get the gloves you want!” Molly had walked a dog for a neighbor and saved her money all year to buy Mum the gloves.

She opened “Mum’s Wish Book” and hoped that she could find these gloves in it. So carefully did she look through that tears ran down her face when she saw the gloves in the catalog. Mum wouldn’t buy them for herself, because the family had a hard time on the farm. She once heard Mum say to Dad, “Maybe some day, I’ll have the money to get them.”

Molly ran out by the back door and went straight to the post office. There she carefully filled out the order form torn from the catalog.

“I need to buy a stamp to send the form.” She said to Mr. Smith, the only worker in the post office.

“Umm, a pair of gloves?” said Mr. Smith, as he passed a stamp to her.

“Yes, It’s a Christmas gift for Mum, but please don’t tell her. It’s our secret, OK?” Molly didn’t realize how white Mr. Smith’s beard was until that moment. In fact, he reminded her of Santa Claus.

As Molly walked back home, she decided to tell Dad her secret. “You’ve got to check the mailbox every day,” said Molly quietly to Dad. He nodded, with a big smile.

Coming home from school every day, Molly peeked at Dad when Mum wasn’t looking , but every time he shook his head.

On Christmas Eve, Dad came back from the mailbox, still empty handed. Molly felt sad when she went to bed, because she didn’t have the gloves for Mum.

注意:
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语;
3. 续写部分分为两段, 每段的开头语已为你写好;
4. 续写完成后, 请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Before Christmas dinner, Molly felt so hopeless.

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Mum thanked Mr. Smith and took the box.

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5 . Many people travel to enrich and enjoy themselves.     1     Lonely Planet and Forbes listed their top trends of 2019. Here, TEENS has picked out three of them. Let’s take a look.

Augmented attractions

World travel can be expensive. But virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR), are giving more possibilities to “travel” for little cost. With ever-improving headsets, smartphones and WiFi connections, technologies have changed the way we travel.     2    

In 2019, NASA provided a VR experience of Mars, allowing people to “walk” its surface with just a headset. Paris’ famous museums, meanwhile, provided more applications with AR technology, which gives visitors more context and information about exhibits.

    3    

Which style do you prefer, travel on your own or with family and friends? Traditionally, travel seems to be a group activity to have fun together and avoid loneliness. But that has changed. This year, solo travel has become popular, especially among young people.

Traveling on your own means that you are the boss of everything, choosing wherever you want to go, whatever you’re eager to tuck into and whenever you go out. For some people, it also releases a better person, ready to deal with anything.     4     It opens up your mind to new things and pushes you out of your comfort zone.

Getting off the common path

There are always some “must-see” spots anywhere you travel. Paris’ iconic Louvre Museum is an example. However, with crowds blocking your view of Mona Lisa to take pictures with their phones, you may not be able to enjoy this masterpiece.

In order to avoid the crowds, many like to visit less famous places after searching online or following local agencies. With less transportation and fewer things to do, hitting up small towns lets people slow down and notice the little things.     5     What better way to enjoy the scenery?

A．Travel brings power and love back into your life.

B．However, their travel methods may be different each year.

C．It brings the 360-degree experience of museums, and historical sites to our homes.

D．Solo Travel

E．Package Tour

F．Traveling in a totally foreign land on your own can be challenging.

G．Take a walk, ride a bike, sip coffee a little slower, take a deep breath and explore.

6 . A letter to Alcohol

Dear Alcohol,

Do you remember the night when you took ________ of my 17-year-old neighbour who had to drive to ________ his sister from her dance lessons? Do you know ________ we all felt when he hit another and killed two people? He ________ the next morning too. His sister walked home from her dance lesson, and passed police cars and a crowd of people ________ on the sidewalk just two blocks ________ from the dance studio. She didn’t ________ her brother was there. She never saw him again. It’s all because of you!

Do you remember the night of my first high school party? You were with my friends. They treated you ________ they were never going to see you again. I spend about two hours that night helping my friends. I called taxis for some of them and took ________ two to hospital. Thanks to you, the two ________ girls slept in hospital beds that night.

Do you remember the night you almost ________ my father’s life? I do! He loves you. Sometimes I think he loves you ________ he loves me. He is ________ to you. You have brought him much more ________ instead of taking his problems away. One night, he drank too much of you which ________ killed him! You just sat back and laughed ________ his car went like a flash through the street, ________ into two other cars. And he wasn’t the only one hurt by you that night.

I wish you’d walk ________ my life. I don’t want to have ________ to do with you. Look at all the ________ you’ve caused. Stop hurting the people I love and stop hurting me, please.

Sincerely,

Stella

1.

A．use

B．benefit

C．advantage

D．convenience

2.

A．break up

B．bring up

C．make up

D．pick up

3.

A．how

B．what

C．who

D．why

4.

A．survived

B．challenged

C．died

D．woke

5.

A．approaching

B．attracting

C．gathering

D．meeting

6.

A．away

B．in

C．of

D．out

7.

A．imagine

B．realize

C．recognize

D．reflect

8.

A．as if

B．even if

C．only if

D．what if

9.

A．other

B．others

C．another

D．the other

10.

A．eager

B．lucky

C．poor

D．upset

11.

A．cost

B．took

C．spent

D．pay

12.

A．more than

B．less than

C．other than

D．rather than

13.

A．absorbed

B．addicted

C．admitted

D．devoted

14.

A．amusement

B．company

C．puzzle

D．trouble

15.

A．completely

B．hardly

C．nearly

D．merely

16.

A．when

B．while

C．before

D．after

17.

A．hitting

B．striking

C．crashing

D．knocking

18.

A．around

B．into

C．out of

D．towards

19.

A．anything

B．everything

C．nothing

D．something

20.

A．conflict

B．inconvenience

C．pain

D．result

7 . Some of you may play Ant Forest, a game on Alipay. Users collect “energy” to make their “trees” grow. When the “energy” reaches a certain level, some organizations and companies will plant a real tree in a desert area of China. And now it seems that the nation’s efforts as a whole to make a greener world have paid off.

According to a research by NASA, China and India are mainly responsible for making the Earth greener over the past two decades. The study has found that since 2000 the Earth’s green leaf area has increased by 5 percent, or over 5 million square kilometers. That’s an area equivalent to the total area of the Amazon rainforest. It is mainly the result of big tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries, according to NASA. China was the major contributor, adding 25 percent to this increase, while India added 6.8 percent.

Over the past decades, China has made great efforts to green the land. In 1978, China began a national-level forestation project – the Three North Shelterbelt Forest Program, also known as the “Great Green Wall”. The program has seen many trees planted in 13 provinces and autonomous regions in northern China to act as windbreaks, according to China Daily. By the end of 2017, the forest coverage rate among the regions of the project had reached 13.57 percent, compared to 5.05 percent 40 years ago.

In the light of China’s success in dealing with desertification, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) believes the country is a good example for others to follow. “China is one of the most successful countries in greening the desert and has lessons to share with the world,” UNEP Executive Director Erik Solheim told Xinhua.

1. Which of the following is the nearest meaning of the underlined word in para 2?

A．equal

B．similar

C．previous

D．absolute

2. What can be inferred from the text?

A．China is the most successful country in greening the desert.

B．Through Ant Forest, users can plant a real tree on their own.

C．China has made great contributions to greening the earth.

D．Most desert areas in China had been forests by the end of 2017.

3. Where is the text probably taken from?

A．A research report

B．A magazine

C．A guidebook

D．A book review

8 . In the past, people could only find information from books and their teachers. For serious students, it was dream to hear lectures from professors at top universities. The Internet has changed this situation completely. Online courses offer people around the world access to global resources.

On November 2, the Ministry of Education announced that, as of August 2019, about 270 million Chinese people had taken Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) — one of the platforms for distance education. “It means high-quality, low-cost and large-scale online learning has become the norm. A higher education revolution is spreading worldwide,” Gao Song, vice president of Peking University, told Xinhua.

First introduced in 2006, MOOCs emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012. Since then, top universities around the world, including Peking University and Tsinghua University, have offered MOOCs on different platforms.

According to China Daily, China has now built an extensive@ MOOC network, offering around 15,000 courses in variety of disciplines. Subjects range from physics and chemistry to Chinese traditional culture. “The wide variety of courses they offer is like a buffet, where you can pick whatever interests you, and that's why I use MOOCs very often,” said Wang Kerui, a freshman at Beijing Normal University.

The course Introducing China in English, from Hubei University, for example, provides participants with a wide range of areas, including Chinese philosophy, traditional festivals and foods that best define Chinese culture. One foreign learner left a review online: "The course helps me learn more about Chinese culture.”

The interactive and flexible learning also keeps students coming back. Unlike traditional courses, students don't need to be simply satisfied with what the teacher has taught or busily take notes of all the key points in the class. They could even learn something new or review what they learned in their spare time.

1. What can we learn from Wang Kerui’s words?

A．He likes buffet very much.	B．He benefits a lot from MOOCs.
C．He only takes online courses.	D．He is a freshman at Beijing Normal University.

2. Which may not be provided in the course Introducing China in English?

A．Traditional costume	B．Chinese philosophy
C．Spring Festival	D．Chemistry

3. Why has online learning become the norm?

A．It makes students’ dream come true.

B．It provides a wide range of courses with high quality but low cost.

C．It offers students chances to interact with people around the world.

D．It helps students get rid of taking notes.

9 . 假如你是李华，你的新西兰笔友Edward计划下个月来杭州旅游，他热衷于中国历史和传统文化，请你用英文给他写信介绍下杭州，并推荐两处景点，主要内容包括：
1. 写信目的。
2. 你的建议及理由。
3. 你的祝愿。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：the West Lake(西湖)；Song Dynasty Theme Park(宋城)；Lingyin Temple(灵隐寺)；Xixi National Wetland(西溪湿地)
Dear Edward,
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Yours,

Li Hua

10 . Mumbai, India’s financial capital, is famous for its terrible traffic. But since October 22nd its roads have been unbelievably clear. The reason is that drivers for Uber and Ola, India’s two biggest ride-hailing(打车服务) companies, have been on strike(罢工). Local newspapers reported that 90% of the roughly 35,000 drivers in the city have stopped working. Mumbai’s middle classes have been forced back onto trains and buses to get around.

Protests(抗议者) against working conditions at ride-hailing companies are not new, nor unique to India. The drivers’ complaints are clear. When Uber, an American company and Ola, from Mumbai, started operating five years ago, they paid drivers generously. Some made as much 100,000 rupees a month ($1,360), a fortune in India. But over the past two years pay has been cut strongly. And in recent months, rising petrol prices have made things worse.

But that drivers are poor can’t make sure a successful strike. What seems to be making a difference in Mumbai is the organizing strength of powerful unions, in particular one called Maharashtra Rajya Rashtriya Kamgar Sangh. If it were not for those colleagues of this union who keep order, forcing striking drivers to take off their clothes or destroying their phones, thousands of angry drivers would have crossed the warning line.

The ride-hailing companies do not think they have the support of the authorities; last year, Uber won an injunction(禁令), forcing police officers to stop threatening its drivers. But if the companies give in to the strikers, what will happen? In July, one of Ola’s top managers said that the company’s losses increased by 55% last year to $660m. Uber does not publish figures for each of its markets, but it is not thought to be making money in India. Striking drivers should perhaps not push things too far: they may find themselves out of jobs.

1. Why have the roads in Mumbai been clear recently?

A．People in Mumbai prefer trains and buses to get around.

B．Most of drivers stopped working because of the strike.

C．The roads are under repair.

D．Unions in Mumbai stopped all the drivers from working.

2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Unions in Mumbai have little organizing strength.

B．The decrease of drivers’ income is the main cause of this strike.

C．Mumbai’s traffic used to be very terrible.

D．Uber may not earn much money in India market.

3. What does the author think of the recent strike in Mumbai?

A．With the help of the authorities, ride-hailing companies will not give in to drivers.

B．The strike will be successful in the end.

C．Drivers should continue their strike until their demands are met.

D．Drivers should not protest extremely, or they would lose their jobs.

4. The best title for this text would be ______.

A．Ride-hailing in India: A Hopeless Story.

B．Ride-hailing in India: A Successful Business.

C．Ride-hailing in India: Facing Great Challenges.

D．Ride-hailing in India: Struggling for Survival.