1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the speaker go on the tour?

A．It was the prize of a competition.

B．John asked her to go with him.

C．It was her travel plan.

2. What did the speaker dislike about the hotel?

A．The drinks.

B．The food.

C．The waiters.

3. What did the speaker think of the trip to the museum?

A．Disappointing.

B．Amazing.

C．Terrible.

4. What did the speaker do in the second week?

A．She rode an elephant.

B．She went to the mountains.

C．She relaxed in the hotel.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When did the man’s boss call Jeff?

A．In the morning.

B．In the afternoon.

C．In the evening.

2. How did Jeff explain everything?

A．Over the phone.

B．By e-mail.

C．In person.

3. Why didn’t Jeff come to the office on Tuesday?

A．He was sick.

B．He was off the day.

C．He was working somewhere else.

4. How does the woman sound in the end?

A．Excited.

B．Angry.

C．Surprised.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers doing?

A．Discussing their schedule.

B．Packing for a journey.

C．Deciding on a present.

2. What does Jacques like doing?

A．Swimming.

B．Playing basketball.

C．Reading books on modern art.

3. What will the speakers most probably do next?

A．Find a basketball.

B．Leave home.

C．Call a taxi.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How will the listeners go to the Isle of Man from Heysham?

A．By train.

B．By plane.

C．By ferry.

2. What will the listeners do on day 1?

A．Do a little light shopping.

B．Meet the tour manager.

C．Have lunch in the hotel.

3. Where will the listeners go on day 2?

A．The town of Peel.

B．The mountain Snaefell.

C．The village of Laxey.

4. When will the listeners tour around a small island?

A．On day 3.

B．On day 4.

C．On day 5.

5 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

There was once a troubled family. The parents spoiled their children. The son, John, loved to play video games all day long when summer vacation was around and he did not like to study. The daughter, Emily, on the other hand, loved studying without play. To her, video games were for foolish people who were unable to achieve anything useful. Life went on with parents complaining and not changing anything.

One day two new neighbors arrived in their neighborhood. One lived on the right side of John’s house while the other lived on the left side of John’s house. These two people were twins. They did not communicate with anyone other than themselves. John and his family felt uncomfortable living right between them. Strange sounds came from their houses every midnight until the afternoon. People heard and saw thunder and lightning coming from the house. After a couple of weeks of lightning flashing, machines roaring, this disturbed every household. Everyone could not help but wonder what their new neighbors were doing. It was whispered that they were inventing a time machine in secret.

People were beginning to dislike them. Every moment they heard these noises, they felt like something was going to explode soon. To deal with this problem John and Emily’s parents walked to both houses to speak with the owners. But on each door hung a sign that said, “DO NOT DISTURB!” They tried knocking the door and no one responded or came out from the house. The machine noise kept going but once in a while it did stop for a small break before it continued. They tried nearly every day to get the attention of their new neighbors. But in the end they gave up. They decided to send their kids to get their attention instead. So they made a plan and the kids successfully entered the neighbor’s houses.

注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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Unexpectedly, the kids both experienced a journey to their own future there.

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After returning from the neighbor’s houses, the two kids changed totally.

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6 . My 23-year-old son Dan packed, ready for the journey to work abroad for a year. It was a milestone, _________ the transition from his school days to adulthood.

I looked _________ at his face when we were to say goodbye, trying to remember every feature, meanwhile, _________ to say something that had long buried deep in my heart. However, not a sound came over my lips.

This wasn’t the first time I had let such an opportunity _________. On his first day in preschool, I accompanied him to the bus stop. His _________ and curiosity filled all the way. But even still, he boarded the bus and disappeared, I was _________. There still were many other _________ like this.

Now I stood in front of him, trying to recall all the times I had let go of. How often has that not happened to us all? A son graduates or a daughter is married. But at those ceremonies, we don’t seize the _________, telling them what they _________ to us.

Here and now, I knew it really mattered; but I still found myself nervous and uncomfortable. Why does it have to be so __________?

I gathered all my courage. “Dan,” I __________ stammered out (结巴地说出), “If I had the choice myself I would have chosen you.”

I was not sure whether he __________ what I meant. But then he stepped __________ me and put his arms around me. For a short while the world and everything was gone, there were only Dan and me.

What I told Dan was clumsy and commonplace. Yet it was __________.

Then he __________ the airport with his girlfriend in a taxi.

1.

A．making

B．leaving

C．marking

D．setting

2.

A．closely

B．tightly

C．quickly

D．hurriedly

3.

A．hard

B．eager

C．afraid

D．unwilling

4.

A．put down

B．take away

C．set off

D．pass by

5.

A．excitement

B．confusion

C．devotion

D．creation

6.

A．careless

B．selfless

C．wordless

D．hopeless

7.

A．places

B．reasons

C．directions

D．cases

8.

A．chance

B．clue

C．fortune

D．wonder

9.

A．contribute

B．mean

C．lend

D．happen

10.

A．hardworking

B．tiring

C．difficult

D．boring

11.

A．finally

B．formally

C．exactly

D．repeatedly

12.

A．formed

B．written

C．heard

D．caught

13.

A．in

B．towards

C．on

D．against

14.

A．anything

B．nothing

C．something

D．everything

15.

A．searched for

B．worked for

C．headed for

D．applied for

7 . Nearly half of all employees are close to “breaking point” at work due to increased stress levels. A survey of 2,000 professionals found the average working adult feels stressed for almost a third of their working day.

The mounting pressure faced in their job also contributes to five hours of lost sleep per employee every week. Checking work emails after hours, last-minute deadlines, having to do a speech or presentation and an overly demanding manager were named as some of the biggest causes of workplace stress.

It also revealed that in the average week, employees will complain about their boss for 31 minutes and their job in general for another two hours and 45 minutes. Richard Jenkins, psychologist and spokesman for well-being charity CABA, said: “Everyone will experience pressure day-to-day.”

“A level of pressure can actually make us work better, however too much pressure that rises to an unmanageable level leads to stress. The working public needs to know how to manage their pressure to avoid reaching boiling point. Some people cope by blowing off steam through physical activity like the gym or going for a run while for some, things like breathing exercises can help. Everyone will have a strategy that they find works better to help them release the pressure. Unfortunately, in many cases we don’t introduce these decompressing (减压) moments in our lives which can help release the pressure and reduce stress. Finding ways to manage your stress is essential, it is also worth addressing the root causes of your stress to try to manage the source rather than just treat the symptoms.”

The study also found seven in 10 adults have vented about their workplace to a colleague, partner, family member or friend. 46 percent of those who have felt stressed at work didn’t end up doing anything about it, hoping the problem would go away on its own. Of those who do take action, 38 percent have told their manager about it, while 51 percent have gone for a walk to cool down.

1. What is the possible result of pressure faced by workers?

A．Giving a public presentation.	B．His demanding department head.
C．Loss of about 5 hours’ sleep weekly.	D．Constantly checking email after work.

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Pressure will not do you any good in your daily life.

B．It’s better to turn to medicine when one is faced with great stress.

C．Women tend to feel more pressure at work than their male colleagues.

D．Almost everybody will adopt his own way to deal with their stress in their lives.

3. What does the underlined word “vented” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．complained.

B．argued.

C．wandered.

D．asked.

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards the pressure people feel at work?

A．Indifferent.

B．Objective.

C．Positive.

D．Negative.

8 . A. Human feet will become just one big toe.

In a lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1911, a surgeon named Richard Clement Lucas made a curious prediction that the “useless outer toes” will become used less and less, so that “man might become a one-toed race” in the next century. Look and check your toes.

B. Our houses will be cleaned by hoses.

In a 1950 article titled “Miracles You’ll See in the Next 50 Years,” the New York Times’ longtime science editor Waldemar Kaempffert predicted that by the 21st century, all you’ll have to do to get your house clean is “simply turn the hose on everything.”

That’s because he imagined furniture would be made of synthetic fabric or waterproof plastic. “After the water has run down a drain in the middle of the floor” all you’d have to do is “turn on a blast of hot air” to dry everything. A mercy for housewife, right?

C. We’ll live in flying houses.

Inventor, science writer, and futurist Arthur C. Clark—who co-wrote the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey—believed that the boring houses of 1966 would be extremely different by the time we reached the 21st century. Evidently, the houses of the future would have nothing keeping them on the ground and they would be able to move to anywhere on the earth on a whim (异想天开). So easy to travel abroad!

D. We’ll eat candy made of underwear.

In Popular Mechanics, Waldemar Kaempffert predicted that all food would be delivered to our homes in the form of frozen bricks by the 21st century. “Cooking as an art is only a memory in the minds of old people,” he wrote. And, thanks to advances in cooking technology, Kaempffert predicted it would even be possible to take ordinary objects like old table cloth and “silk-like underwear” and bring them to “chemical factories to be made into candy.” No, thanks! Not at all!

1. How many toes would become useless and disappear in his left foot, according to the surgeon?

A．Five.

B．Four.

C．Three.

D．Two.

2. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the candy made of underwear?

A．He likes it very much.	B．He thinks it acceptable.
C．He completely rejects it.	D．He would like to have a try.

3. What do all the articles have in common?

A．They were all put forward by the greatest minds at their time.

B．Although they sounded unbelievable, they were well received.

C．They appeared in the same magazine almost around the same time.

D．They were interesting predictions about the century we are living now.

9 . 阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A.in     B.others     C.group     D.The     E.but     F.afraid G.could     H.What     I. to make     J.are discussing

Some people like talking with others,     1     some people are shy. If you fall into the second group, it can be hard     2     friends. But you can change the situation.

    3     are you interested in? If you like basketball, you     4     talk with some of your classmates who like basketball.    5     easiest way to start talking to people is to find something you have     6     common. When you are standing beside a     7     of your classmates, join in their discussion if you know something about the subject they     8    .But if you don’t, you shouldn’t be     9     to say so. Once you start talking to one person, it will get easier to talk to     10    .

10 . Amy was a 3rd-grade student. Ever since she started school, someone teased (讥笑) her about her speech or her limping (跛行) every single day. Amy was _______ it and the teasing made her feel all alone.

One morning _______ she rounded the corner across the hall, she knocked into a 5th-grade tall boy.“_______ it, fool!” The boy shouted, and _______ the way Amy limped.

Back home at the dinner table that evening, Amy was _______. Her mom knew that things were not going well at _______. That’s why she was eager to have some exciting news to _______ with her daughter.

“There’s a _______ competition run by a local newspaper,” Amy’s mom announced. “Write a letter to the editor, my dear; you might win a prize.”

Amy smiled and started _______ about what she wanted most by now. An idea came to her. Out came pencil and paper, and Amy went to ________ her letter.

Dear Editor,

My name is Amy. I am nine years old. I have a ________ at school. Can you help me? Kids laugh at me ________ the way I walk and run and talk. I have cerebral palsy (脑瘫). I just want one ________ that no one laughs at me or makes fun of me.

Love, Amy

A week later, a picture of Amy and her ________ made the front page of the local newspaper. The story spread quickly. Amy ________ did get her wish of a day without teasing at her school.

Amy was not teased any longer.

1.

A．tired of

B．satisfied with

C．surprised at

2.

A．if

B．when

C．until

3.

A．Forget

B．Repeat

C．Watch

4.

A．felt

B．walked

C．lost

5.

A．clever

B．curious

C．quiet

6.

A．home

B．school

C．work

7.

A．make

B．learn

C．share

8.

A．wish

B．speech

C．dance

9.

A．thinking

B．talking

C．worrying

10.

A．look for

B．take out

C．work on

11.

A．class

B．competition

C．problem

12.

A．because of

B．except for

C．far from

13.

A．week

B．day

C．hour

14.

A．advice

B．gift

C．letter

15.

A．finally

B．hardly

C．usually