1 . People generally like to pick out the best-looking fruits and vegetables when shopping for produce (农产品), but Canadian supermarket chain Loblaws is attracting customers with badly-shaped and faulty produce at the price of 30% lower than normal-looking one.

A trial run of the ugly food line, named “Naturally Imperfect”, began with only apples and potatoes to choose from. Consumer demand has been so huge that Loblaws is going to introduce more ugly vegetables and fruits like onions and mushrooms.

All the produce that will be sold through Naturally Imperfect would otherwise have been used in juices, sauces, or soups, or have not been harvested at all. The director Dan Branson explained that this program benefited both food producers who would otherwise have to let abnormal produce go to waste, and consumers who could buy fresh produce at low prices. And he was right, given how popular the line has become.

“It really went well beyond our expectation,” Branson said. “I think it really spoke to the fact that Canadians are out there really looking for some options.”

Of course, Canadians know that beauty is more than skin deep, and they also recognize that they can get the same flavor and nutritional benefits in spite of appearances. The positive response to the initial offering of apples and potatoes showed the opportunity to expand the line and offer more options at a greater price to Canadian families.

“If you grow produce in your backyard, there will be a lot of produce that won’t look as pretty as what you will see in a grocery store”, said Branson. “And nature doesn’t grow everything perfectly. I’d like to think if somebody were to take a No Name Naturally Imperfect apple, put it right beside a No.1 apple, close his eyes and eat them, there would be no difference.”

1. Loblaws is different from other supermarkets in that ______.

A．more fruits are offered at lower prices	B．normal-looking produce is forbidden there
C．only apples and potatoes are sold every day	D．imperfect produce is sold at lower prices there

2. According to Paragraph 3, Loblaws’s program ______.

A．prevents people from wasting their food	B．happens to be a win-win mode
C．teaches food producers how to grow	D．enables consumers to eat more fresh produce

3. What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．Canadians are used to eating perfect produce.

B．Smart consumers know the importance of ugly produce.

C．Loblaws intends to improve customers’ quality of life.

D．Customers’ support promotes the development of the ugly food line.

4. What do Branson’s words in the last paragraph mainly tell us?

A．Imperfect fruits are as tasty and nutritious as perfect ones.

B．The world is usually full of imperfect things.

C．We should eat imperfect apples with our eyes closed.

D．The fruits grown by ourselves are more nutritious than those in the store.

2 . 假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter来信，说他每次大型考试来临，都会感到十分焦虑为此写信向你寻求建议。请你根据以下提示，用英语给Peter写一封建议信。内容包括：
1. 表示理解;
2. 具体建议;
3. 表达祝愿。
注意：1. 词数120左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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3 . Jason, a straight-A student from the University of Pennsylvania, uses the term “pseudo-working” to describe how many of us study. The pseudo-worker looks and feels like someone who is working hard — he or she spends a long time in the library and is not afraid to push on late into the night — but, because of a lack of focus and concentration, he or she’s doesn’t actually accomplish much.

This phenomenon can be seen on most college campuses. For example, at Dartmouth there was a section of the main library that was open twenty-four hours a day, and the students I used to see there late at night crowded in groups, drinking coffee, were definitely pseudo-working. The roommate who flips through her chemistry notes on the couch while watching TV is pseudo-working.

By placing themselves in distracting environments and insisting on working long hours, these students are damaging their brain’s ability to think clearly and efficiently accomplish the task at hand. In the end they get half the results with twice the effort.

The bigger problem here is that most students don’t even realize that they’re pseudo-working. To them pseudo-working is work—it’s how they’ve always done it, and it’s how all of their friends do it. It never crosses their mind that there might be a better way. Straight-A students, on the other hand, know all about pseudo-working. They fear it. It not only wastes time, but it’s also mentally tiring.

In fact, the most important skill in becoming a straight-A student is the ability to get work done quickly and with a minimum of wasted effort. Some cognitive science research concludes that about fifty minutes is the optimal learning period to maximize the material integrated per time unit. So how do these students achieve this goal? To understand their secret to success, consider the following simple formula(公式): work accomplished = time spent × intensity of focus.

Pseudo-working features a very low intensity of focus. Therefore, to accomplish something by pseudo-working, you need to spend a lot of time. The straight-A approach on the other hand, increases intensity in order to use less time.

1. Which of the following phenomenon is pseudo-working?

A．Tom is busy taking notes while attending a lecture.

B．Mike is sitting at a study lounge in preparation for a final exam quietly.

C．Jack spends a long time in the library on his essay while listening to music.

D．Alice and Sara are sitting on the couch reading their favorite books.

2. Compared with straight-A students, the major problem of most students is that they ________.

A．want to spend more time on study

B．are eager to follow their friends’ way

C．have got used to their study approach

D．are unaware of their pseudo-working

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

A．Possible.

B．Best.

C．Least.

D．Accurate.

4. What does the author want to stress by mentioning the formula?

A．The length of time on study counts.

B．Concentration plays a key role in study.

C．Getting work done quickly means everything.

D．Effective study approach is very important.

4 .     1    You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here is how:

Plan your time carefully. When planning your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying.     2     A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you realize what is happening to your time.

Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television. When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.

Make good use of your time in class.     3     Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes, review the important points that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material.     4     If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you’ll remember it longer.

Develop a good attitude towards tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be over worried.

    5     You will probably discover many others after you have tried these.

A．There are other methods that might help you with your studying.

B．Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment.

C．Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teacher says.

D．No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard.

E．Maybe you are an average student.

F．Make full use of class time to take notes of what the teacher says in class.

G．This will help you understand the next class.

5 . 假如你是李华，2月27日你们全班同学参观了市博物馆。请你为校英文报写一篇新闻报道，内容包括：1. 参与人员、 时间；2. 活动内容； 3. 活动反响。
注意：1. 写作词数应为 80 左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

A Visit to the City Museum

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6 . Modern inventions have greatly increased people’s love of speed. Motor cars cover a hundred miles in a little more than one hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year we produce motor cars which go even faster and each new computer is said to save precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet lag (时差反应): our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again, spending too much time in front of computers results in eye pain or finger pain. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists. Too much use may do harm to our brains, a bad result we do not like to think about.

What do we do with the time we have saved then? Certainly not relax. We are so used to constant (连续不断的) activities that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

Modern inventions have brought us great benefits, but at the same time, we have lost a lot of fun as human beings. There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the farming of the land or the care of cattle. Their lives went on at a much slower speed, and in a   familiar pattern. We might admire a way of life like this, yet such a lifestyle will be just a dream for us nowadays. Modern technology has changed everything.

1. The underlined word lightning in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ________.

A．fast

B．unexpected

C．possible

D．exciting

2. According to Paragraph 2, we save time at the price of our ________.

A．happiness

B．health

C．wealth

D．safety

3. According to the passage, modern inventions make life ________.

A．happier and more relaxing	B．faster and less enjoyable
C．simpler and less comfortable	D．slower and healthier

4. The last paragraph suggests that ________.

A．life in the future will be better	B．we should do more physical work
C．we cannot enjoy modern life	D．our life cannot be what it used to be

5. Which section of the newspaper is the passage probably from?

A．Business.

B．Education.

C．Sports.

D．Life.