1 . In the past, commoners (平民) ______ (prohibit) from entering the Forbidden City without permission and only imperial families and invited high officials could enter. (所给词的适当形式填空)

2 . [Three Principles of Running]

There will be times when you want to give up. But _________ that it will get easier with time.(根据课文内容填空)

3 . 课文默写

[The Underdog]

Paul jumped up and rushed onto the court... When the game ended, our team     1    . “Well,” said the coach as he hit Paul on the shoulder, “you’ve just     2     , big guy!”

4 . 假如你是李华，你校体育节即将到来，请你为校英语广播站写一篇发言稿，号召同学们都加入到体育运动中来。内容要点包括：1.运动带来的好处；2.详细介绍个人的运动经历和收获。
注意：1、词数100左右；2.演讲稿开头已给出，该部分不计入总词数。3可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。     
词汇：体育节sports festival
Hello, everyone.
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5 . There are a few benefits to users from the cloud besides giving you peace of mind if you lose your phone. You can access your data anytime, anywhere if you’re connected to the Internet. And you don’t have to worry about using up all of the storage on your hard drive, meaning you might not have to pay as much for a device that comes with a ton of storage.

You’ve probably heard of the two biggest names in the market, Amazon Web Services, known as AWS, and Microsoft Azure, IBM, Google and Alibaba are also big players when it comes to providing cloud services.

Many cloud services are based on a subscription pricing model. That means users pay, for example, a monthly fee for cloud services and they can scale up or down as needed. And cloud providers are cashing in. AWS takes up about 12 percent of Amazon’s quarterly sales, but it makes more than half of the company’s operating income.

Before we get too excited about the cloud, let’s take a step back and look at some of the risks. One obvious concern, if all of our data is online, what happens when the Internet goes down? That’s what happened in 2013 when an AWS power cut took down Instagram, Vine and Airbub.

Hacker attacks are another big risk with research showing around one-fifth of all files in the cloud contain sensitive data.

Finally, it can be difficult for consumers and businesses to switch between different cloud companies. I might have a hard time syncing my iCloud and Google Drive accounts. That can give some big companies that are already making big money on the cloud a lot of power over our data.

1. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “access” in Paragraph 1?

A．Get.

B．Show.

C．Understand.

D．Enter.

2. Which of the following provides cloud services?

A．Instagram.

B．Alibaba.

C．Airbub.

D．Vine.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Cloud providers offer services at their own cost.

B．All the cloud services must be ordered ahead of time.

C．AWS gains over 50%of Amazon’s operating income.

D．Customers must pay a regular fixed fee for cloud services.

4. The main idea of the passage is about ______.

A．what the cloud is	B．how the cloud works
C．the advantage over disadvantage of the cloud	D．the advantage and disadvantage of the cloud

6 . Mary Shelley bends over her latest creation. Although the carving is only half complete, the image of a waitress holding a plate of eggs comes out from the board. Of Shelley’s nearly seven hundred carvings, many show scenes with cows on farms and people in restaurants.

From memories to carvings

“My work is a visual diary, ” Shelley says. “The carvings describe things I have experienced and felt at different times in my life.”

Every one of her carvings tells a story. Many of the stories in Shelley’s woodcarvings come from memories of her childhood in a rural (乡村的) area outside of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Shelley’s family managed a small farm. Mary was a serious girl who spent a lot of time raising animals, exploring outdoors, and reading. Although Shelley never felt especially artistic as a child, there was always an art project in the works in the Shelley household. Her grandmother painted. Her father was a commercial artist, who drew and wrote to make a living.

______

Shelley attended Cornell University and hoped to become a writer, but an unusual present took her in another direction. At age 23, she received a gift her father had made-a woodcarving of her as a girl on the farm. The gift caught her interest. After gathering boards from a building site where she worked as a carpenter, Shelley bought some tools and taught herself to carve.

Shelley soon realized that she loved the slow, thoughtful process of working with wood and painting. “A carving is like a jigsaw puzzle (拼图游戏),”   she explains. “I didn’t know how it would all fit together, but the process of solving the puzzle kept me going.”

The Shelley style

Early in her career, people hired Shelley to carve special pieces that took four or five weeks to complete. The money she received motivated her to try more complicated scenes created by carving deeper in the wood. Over time, Shelley’s art began to have its own style. In a typical Shelley woodcarving, some objects seem to reach out of the frame while others drop back, creating a feeling of depth.

1. What can we infer from the “From memories to carvings” part?

A．Art is from but beyond life.	B．Life is short and art is long.
C．It is great art to laugh at your own misfortune.	D．Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

2. Which can be the best title for the second part?

A．Life in School	B．A Dream Come True
C．A Life-Changing Gift	D．Jigsaw Puzzles and Carving

3. What made Mary take up carving?

A．The dream to be an artist in her childhood.	B．Her father’s low-relief carving for her.
C．The rugs hooked by her grandmother.	D．Her school life in Cornell University.

4. According to the text, Shelley’s art ______.

A．is very popular	B．is very expensive
C．has simple scenes	D．creates a feeling of depth

7 . In Paris, Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates, Julia Gardner _______ family was from Boston Massachusctts. (用适当的词填空)

8 . 选择恰当的短语并用正确形式填空。

be addicted to       other than       apply for       make it       even if prefer to       take control of       make up       work out       make sense

1. I’m writing to __________ the position as a student volunteer.
2. I know she has red hair, but __________ that I don’t remember much about her.
3. Some students __________ the computer games and become inactive in real life.
4. Students are encouraged to __________ their own study, rather than just depend on the teacher.
5. I __________ reading books __________ watching TV.
6. Every time John is late for school, he will__________some new excuse.
7. The sentence just doesn’t __________, no matter how you read it.
8. He likes to help others __________ he is very busy.
9. It won’t be long before we __________ a way to get over these difficulties.
10. I believe I can __________ to the top of the mountain.

9 . 假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Mike下周要去旅行，请你根据你的经验给他写一封e-mail 告诉他一些旅行的建议。
要求100词左右，内容可包括：
1．在旅行前，你应该确定旅行目的地、交通工具、提前预定住处。
2．旅行时，不要忘记带手机，以便和家人朋友联系：还可以用手机听音乐、拍照等。
3．…(其它的补充建议)   
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10 . 我感到非常荣幸受邀参加你的生日晚会。(honor) （汉译英）