1 . Stress Me Not

What are some things in your life that give you too much stress?     1    .

School work and grades

As a student, it is unavoidable that school work and grades are at the top of your stress list. Why not put your mind at ease by setting aside extra time to study and take frequent breaks to avoid burnout?     2    . Manage your time carefully and do not delay. Your teacher is also there when you need help — pick his or her brain or clarify any doubts you have.

Friendships and relationships

Have you ever been concerned with not having enough friends in school or not being in the same class as your best friends? Make friends when you join a co-curricular activity in your school. Make plans to meet with your friends from other classes during break time. Know that everyone is unique and different — do not compare yourself with others.     3    

Poor diet and lack of sleep

Do you know that eating too much fast food and junk food can lead to mood swings, lack of energy and other negative effects? Learn to make wise food choices that you can enjoy. Get your friends to join you in eating healthily.

    4    . Avoid playing computer games before you sleep. Discipline yourself by following your schedule to complete all school assignments before going to bed.

    5    

We know of young, talented performers in the world of modeling, acting, music and even in sports. However, fame for some of these children comes at a certain cost. Stardom can affect a young star emotionally and physically, when, stress becomes unbearable for them. Parents play a critical role in monitoring their child closely, and doing what is in the best interest of the child's development and well-being.

A．The ugly side of fame

B．Try out the strategies right away

C．Find out what you can do about it

D．You will be less stressed that way

E．Unbearable stress and unstable emotion

F．Do not be involved in too much homework

G．Draw up a schedule to go to bed at a set time every night

2 . It was just the three of us—my parents and me. My dad is a truck driver, and when I was a little kid, he was gone most of the time, delivering supplies around the Mid-west. Then we moved to a small house in Brighton. Colorado on my third birthday. There weren't any kids my age in the neighborhood, so I mostly played in the yard with the dogs. I had a lot of imaginary friends—a whole family, actually, with a husband, children, a best friend...no joke.

My first memory is our neighbor Arlene handing me strawberries from her garden. One day, my parents asked Arlene and her husband Bill whether they'd watch me when they went out. This worked well, so it became a weekly occurrence.

When I was about five, I had an idea: “What if I adopted Bill and Arlene as my grandparents?” I knocked on their door and said, “Will you guys be my grandparents?” They started crying and enthusiastically accepted it. Soon after, they printed out an adoption certificate and it hung on their living room wall from then on.

I remember being surprised that they took my offer so seriously. Thinking of that moment still brings tears to my eyes. There's something truly remarkable about a child offering her love and adults being so ecstatic to accept it. From the day I adopted them, I called Bill and Arlene grandpa and grandma. Pretty soon, my parents were calling them Dad and Mom. Even our animals would often sneak out of our yard to visit them. Over the years, Bill and Arlene supported me in all my dreams. And when I got accepted to a university, they presented me with a fund. They told me they'd been putting away money since the day I adopted them.

After Arlene passed away, Bill gave me the ring he'd gifted to Arlene. It's a simple gold band that I wear on my ring finger as a reminder of the kind of love I wish to put into this world.

1. Before meeting Bill and Arlene, the author probably felt ______.

A．worried

B．scared

C．lonely

D．desperate

2. What do we know about the author's adopted grandparents?

A．They were unfriendly to her animals.

B．They influenced her to reward the world.

C．They ignored her offer to adopt them at first.

D．They gave all their savings to help her with study.

3. What can we learn from the story?

A．Parents should keep their kids company	B．Love goes beyond blood relationship
C．A friend in need is a friend indeed	D．There is no place like home

4. What's the author's purpose to write the text?

A．To recall her childhood.

B．To encourage herself to pursue dreams.

C．To treasure the memory of her “grandparents”.

D．To thank her “grandparents” for their instructions.

3 . There're many ordinary people who have been volunteering for decades. When Sholapurkar got a call from the Red Cross ______ whether he could help get in touch with some ______ donors, he said "Yes!" and acted immediately.

He started contacting voluntary donors and convinced scores of people to go to the blood bank and donate their blood. "There is ______ in the air when people think of donating blood So it's my task to help them overcome fear, ______ confidence in them and tell them that it's secure to donate blood, "Sholapurkar says.

Sholapurkar has been donating blood for more than 40 years—163 times to be ______ . "As I complete 90 days after a donation, I feel my body and mind ______ me towards a blood bank," Sholapurkar laughs.

For Sholapurkar, regular blood donation is not only a healthy ______ , but also one way of showing that you ______ others. "Voluntary blood donation is just a (n) ______ thing. Nobody can force you to do it and you just do it ______ love for other people. It actually brings you a sense of satisfaction." He also ______ his first donation experience, "My mother was rather upset first, but she voiced ______ when I explained to her how blood donation helped."

Sholapurkar has devoted most of his time ______ the message of the significance of blood donation. He tells people not to be under the ______ that blood donation has side effects. Actually, a donor will remain healthy and contribute to other people's fitness ______ .

1.

A．enquiring

B．assessing

C．guessing

D．stating

2.

A．helpless

B．passive

C．willing

D．curious

3.

A．joy

B．faith

C．sorrow

D．horror

4.

A．express

B．inspire

C．shake

D．regain

5.

A．honest

B．guilty

C．considerate

D．exact

6.

A．forgiving

B．dragging

C．leaving

D．delaying

7.

A．practice

B．origin

C．theme

D．source

8.

A．depend on

B．watch over

C．care for

D．wake up

9.

A．abstract

B．public

C．intentional

D．personal

10.

A．away from

B．far from

C．out of

D．regardless of

11.

A．admitted

B．related

C．planned

D．regretted

12.

A．impatience

B．complaint

C．support

D．defence

13.

A．editing

B．collecting

C．evaluating

D．spreading

14.

A．principle

B．impression

C．responsibility

D．direction

15.

A．instead

B．though

C．meanwhile

D．otherwise

4 . Thanks to Arizona's tax credit program, taxpayers can make a big difference with their dollars. Learn how these four organizations are making a difference and how you, too, can be part of the solution to help the underserved through donations.

Catholic Charities Community Services

Catholic Charities Community Services provides adoption for foster（领养）children as well as education and certification for foster families throughout central and northern Arizona. But they can't do it without your help. You can change the life of a child.

Visit Catholic Charities at www. catholiccharitiesaz. org to learn the impact your gift makes.

Catholic Community Foundation（CCF）

Established in 1983. CCF aims to build the future of faith by providing sustainable support for those who serve the community. Since 1995, CCF has given more than $ 27 million back into the community through donor-advised funds, savings and growth funds, etc.

You can learn more by visiting ccfphx. Org.

Catholic Education Arizona

Catholic Education Arizona has been creating future leaders for 23 years. And it has raised 268 million and awarded underserved youth 138,000 scholarships to change lives, strengthen families and transform culture. With more than $9 million remaining to claim, interested corporations are encouraged to contact our office for more information.

You can learn more by visiting catholiceducationarisona. Org.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul

The staff and volunteers at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul packaged more than 4,000 meals for individuals and families to pick up on a daily basis. St. Vincent de Paul's family dining room, food boxes, medical and dental care, shelter and other services are nearly 100% funded by private donations. Donors can claim up to $800 in Arizona charitable tax credits.

Learn more at svdptaxcredit. info.

1. Taxpayers can learn more about their charitable gifts to foster children by visiting _________.

A．cefphx. org	B．www. catholiccharitiesaz. org
C．svdptaxcredit. info	D．catholiceducationarizona. org

2. What does Catholic Education Arizona mainly focus on?

A．Serving the community.	B．Supplying food to those in need.
C．Aiding foster children or families.	D．Financially supporting underserved youth.

3. What do these four organizations have in common?

A．They only offer service to families.	B．They provide help for patients.
C．They bring hope to the underserved.	D．They are profitable organizations.

5 .

Shooting down an ice-covered track, a bobsled（大雪橇）can go faster than 80 miles an hour, and riders can feel force five times stronger than the pull of gravity. A race can be won or lost by one hundredth of a second. How do bobsleds go faster than cars on a highway? The answer is a combination of athletics and science.

At the start of a race, the crew push their sled, building up speed before they jump in for the ride. For months before the race, the crew have built up power in their legs. The push is the crew's only chance to add speed. All other work goes into keeping friction and drag（摩擦力和阻力）from slowing the sled down.

The design of the sled's runners（滑板）reduces their friction with the ice. The friction of a moving runner melts a little ice right under the runner, and the runner rides on that thin layer of water. The runners are rounded on the bottom. Runners that are too flat may not melt enough ice for fast ride. Runners that are too round may become too warm, softening the ice and slowing the sled down. No amount of rounding is perfect for all races because the hardness of the ice depends on the weather on race day.

Bobsleds used to be open. The riders did not sit inside a hull（外壳）. As the crew sped down the track，the air would create drag. Today, a sled's hull reduces drag by splitting the air in front of the sled and making it flow smoothly along the slides. As with the runners，strict rules apply to the hull. For example，no team may add any part that would create helpful air currents.

Reducing friction and drag creates another challenge: high speeds. “The faster the sleds car travel on the run, the more thrilling the race,” one research team wrote. “But the track must not be too fast: he crew still need to be able to reach the bottom safely.”

1. What's the text mainly about?

A．The shape of the sled.	B．The design of the runners.
C．The safety rules applying to the sled.	D．The elements relating to the sled's speed

2. What can we know from the third paragraph?

A．Proper amount of melted ice is needed for a fast ride.

B．The rounder the runners are, the faster the sled goes.

C．Thin layer of water would drag the runners backward.

D．A sled's movement has nothing to do with weather.

3. What advantage does a sled with a hull have?

A．It's comfortable to sit in.	B．It leads to beneficial air flow.
C．It helps to create a safe ride.	D．It's free from strict rules.

4. What is implied in the last paragraph?

A．Safety is the most important.	B．Keeping high speed is difficult.
C．Riders' desire to win is understandable.	D．The crew's cooperation is necessary.

6 . To help you be persistent (坚持不懈的) in the face of "noes" in the job interview, I'd like to share a few rules that I've learned.

    1    .It's just an interview. Pull emotion out of "noes" and don't allow yourself to feel rejected because someone only rejects your application. A "no" does not mean that you weren't qualified for a job. As I mentioned earlier, it might have been a case of bad timing.

Don't shy away from being persistent. Persistence in the face of challenges, failures and unexpected situations is the mark of a good employee-and future employers notice that.    2    .

Be respectful. You won't get anywhere if you respond to a "no" with a hurt or bitter response.    3    .Don't burn bridges. And don't be rude and contact employers or people in charge every five minutes. This advice is especially important now because there will likely be even more "noes" during this period, as well as a delayed timeline on responses. In times of crisis, you should wait even longer to follow up with prospective employers. Even so, you should be even more respectful in your responses.    4    , let the other party know that you are still interested in working with them in the future.

I will continue to receive "noes" throughout my life, as will you.    5    . I've built up my resistance to "noes" by being persistent—and for me, that's been an important element of my career advancement and professional development.

A．Honor employers

B．But I'm not afraid of them

C．Don't take rejection personally

D．Even if the final response is "no"

E．Whenever I get a "no", I will get impatient

F．In casę you make the wrong choice in the job interview

G．There's nothing wrong with sending them a follow-up email

7 . Welcome to one-day private Beijing tour

Your private guide will pick you up in your hotel lobby at 8 am. If you'd like to start from the airport or the train station, we're happy to arrange a pick-up there.

Your journey will start at Tian'anmen Square. And your guide will provide you with an introduction to the history and architecture. Enjoy your time, taking photos there.

Later, enjoy the Forbidden City, which was home to 24 emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Here there’ll be plenty of time to take photos, about 2 hours. After that, begin your tour of the Great Wall. You’ll travel for 1.5 hours from downtown to the Great Wall at Mutianyu. Have a rest and enjoy delicious Beijing dishes for lunch at our well-selected local restaurant, Xinshuangquan. Your guide will order the dishes according to your preferences.

Around 1 pm, we will hike on the Mutianyu Great Wall. Your personal guide will walk with you on the Great Wall to give you some information. You’ll have free time to walk around after that. After the hike, we’ll drive back to downtown Beijing and transfer you to your hotel at 6 pm!

Trip Notes:

1. This tour is recommended for business tourists who can only stay in Beijing for one day. If your stop is only for 10-11 hours, we suggest skipping the Forbidden City and just having a day trip to the Great Wall.

2. The price you’re given is only for reference. The price may vary according to the location of your hotel. There’ll also be extra costs if your tour starts from or ends at the air- port or the train station.

1. What's the route of the one-day private Beijing tour in the text?

A．Mutianyu—Tian’anmen Square—The Forbidden City—Xinshuangquan.

B．Tian’anmen Square—The Forbidden City—Xinshuangquan—Mutianyu.

C．Xinshuangquan—Tian’anmen Square—The Forbidden City Mutianyu.

D．The Forbidden City—Tian’anmen Square—Mutianyu—Xinshuangquan.

2. Which of the following takes the tourists the longest hours?

A．Xinshuangquan.	B．The Forbidden City.
C．Tian’anmen Square.	D．The Great Wall at Mutianyu.

3. Who may be most interested in the one-day private Beijing tour?

A．People who are tight on time.

B．People who enjoy modern construction.

C．Foreigners who love anecdotes about Chinese dishes.

D．People who study ancient Chinese dialects.

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一箱完整的短文。

I first met Lisa Kincaid on the volleyball court as she played for a rival high school belonging to the conference I coach in. Many times I was on the opposing sidelines and watched in amazement at her athleticism. The speed of a cheetah (猎豹), the mental toughness of an accomplished player, and a 32 inch vertical jump as only a second-grader.

Starting her junior year, I was fortunate to coach Lisa on a USA Junior Olympic Volleyball team, and it was during those two years that I grew to love and respect her.

If anyone had a right to be cocky of herself it was Lisa. Besides being one of the best volleyball and basketball players in the state, she became a track legend in the Dairy State. How good was she? She went 64 straight conference meets and never lost in any event she was entered in. She made trips to the state finals all four years in high school, and returned with 6 state titles. Many times she was the lone representative at the state competition for her team, and single-handedly placed her high school as high as third. Even when she filled in for other events, she never lost one.

However, never once did she boast about her accomplishments. Instead, she usually shifted the conversation to the performances of other teammates.

There was one particular track meet during Lisa’s junior year, where she impressed upon me most. It was a non-conference meet in the year and Lisa’s coach told her to run the mile. Again she agreed.

First, Lisa outdistanced the competition, but on the last lap, she “seemed” to grow “tired”. Two athletes from the other team passed her, and then so did Julie, Lisa’s teammate. Thinking of the fact that Julie needed to earn a set amount of points in her track program to earn a favorable letter and that she needed to finish at least third for the first time, Lisa was “able to stay just behind’’ her teammate and cross the finish line at Julie’s heels.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；

Lisa “lost” an event for the first time in her track career,

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I wondered at her beaming face when she approached me.

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9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why hasn't the man exercised recently?

A．He was on vacation.

B．He injured his back.

C．He was busy with his work.

2. Which part of the gym is available to use today?

A．The weights area.

B．The swimming pool.

C．The bicycle machine.

3. How does the man usually get to the gym?

A．By bus.

B．By car.

C．By bike.

4. What will the woman do next?

A．Finish exercising.

B．Drive the car.

C．Change clothes.

10 . The Arctic's permafrost is inciting— and fast. That's bad news, because these frozen soils store billions of tons of carbon, just waiting to be released. So is there a way to save the permafrost? One team of researchers thinks it may have found a possible solution: big animals, herbivores - animals that eat only plants.

Back in 1996 researchers started an experiment called Pleistocene Park. They fenced in about eight square miles of land in northeast Siberia. Then they introduced different types of herbivores: reindeer, horses, bison, sheep and other large creatures.

Since then, scientists have studied these animals' effects on the ecosystem. One outcome is that these large herbivores help keep the ground very cold — cooler than it would otherwise be.

“The snow in winter is important for soil temperature, because it acts as an insulating layer. So the air in winter, at the high latitudes, is much colder than the soil." Philipp Porada, a vegetation ecologist at the University of Hamburg. "So the idea of this experiment was to introduce large herbivores — and to quantify their effects on soil temperature to see if they can actually protect permafrost soils against melting. And this works because of the animals' trampling (践踏), and this leads to less insulation of the soil against cold air temperatures and results in a cooling effect.”

Freezing air reaches the soil more easily. Porada and his colleagues realized the significance of this effect, so they pulled data from Pleistocene Park and Sweden to model what effect herbivores could have on permafrost if they lived in large numbers in the Arctic.

They found that even in a worst-case situation, some four degrees Celsius of global wanning: “These herbivores in the model reduce soil temperature substantially, by 1.7 degrees on average. And this leads to a preservation of around 80 percent of the original — today's permafrost area. Without the herbivore effect in the model, only 50 percent of the permafrost area would remain by the year 2100. So we can say the effect of the herbivores in the model leads to a substantial preservation of permafrost soil."

1. Why is the Pleistocene Park Experiment mentioned?

A．To provide the past research data.

B．To share soil preservation experience.

C．To introduce a way to save permafrost.

D．To prove animals' effect on soil temperature.

2. What does the underlined word "insulating" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Covering.	B．Blocking.
C．Storing.	D．Freezing.

3. What does herbivores' trampling contribute to?

A．Cooling the ground.	B．Heating the soil
C．Damaging the ground.	D．Softening the soil.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Permafrost Is Disappearing	B．Preservation of Permafrost
C．An Experiment on Herbivores	D．Herbivores Help Save Permafrost