增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词。2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My neighbor had a daughter named Emily, which was always playing with her friends and passing the time by sit at a computer. She was always thinking she was a genius in their studies. Although both of her parent kept persuading her to study, but she didn’t even listen to them. One day, her math teacher asks her a question in class. She was not able to answer it as she never practiced at home. Her classmates were all surprising that she didn’t give an answer to such simple question. She stood in silent and felt ashamed. From then on, she started studying hardly and she finally made great progress.
2 . The Huaqing Palace Heritage Site
Star Pool
It was built in 644 A.D. for Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It is said that at first there was no cover for the pool so that he could enjoy the shining stars of the night while taking a bath.
Tang Well
It has a long history of over 1,300 years and measures 1.9 meters long, 1.26 meters wide and 8.3meters deep. It was used just by Yang Yuhuan for drinking water.
Huaqing Hot Springs
They were named “The Fi Hot Springs in the World” in the Tang Dynasty by Emperor Xuanzong.
The water temperature stays at 43℃ all year round. It was first used as an imperial pool during the Zhou Dynasty (1036B.C.-256 B.C.).
Imperial Concubine Pool (贵妃池)
It was built in 747A.D. for the famous beauty Yang Yuhuan. It takes the shape of a Chinese crabapple (海棠) flower, and is where Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan took baths together every winter.
Address: At the foot of Lishan Mountain in Lintong, 30 kilometers east of Xi’an. Opening hours: From March to November: 7:00-18:00;
From December to February: 7:30-18:30.
Bus routes: 914, 915, U5, and 306.
1. Which of the following has the longest history?| A．Star Pool. | B．Tang Well. |
| C．Huaqing Hot Springs. | D．Imperial Concubine Pool. |
| A．It is half-divided. | B．It is flower-shaped. |
| C．It is for drinking. | D．It has no cover. |
| A．A diary. | B．A guidebook. |
| C．A news report. | D．A story book. |
3 . Great tits（大山雀）in the UK are the same in almost every way as great tits in the Netherlands: black and yellow feathers，and white spots across the cheeks.But the British ones have slightly longer beaks（鸟喙），and the reason might be the wide use of bird feeders in Britain. In a recent study，researchers reported that great tits in the UK have evolved to have longer beaks in past decades.
Both Britain and the Netherlands are home to great tit populations that have been studied for many years，and the team suspected that the birds' genes might help explain whether they've evolved differently.Measurements dating back to the 1970s showed that the UK great tits' beaks had increased in length by about 0.2 millimeters.The birds with the longer-beaked gene variants（基因变种）successfully raised about one more baby bird every five years than those with the short-beaked variants.“The assumption would be that if a great tit has a longer beak and is better able to access food, then it is in general in better condition and better able to focus on its young,”says Lewis Spurgin, one of the researchers.
So are the bird feeders behind all this? "Something in the Dutch habitat might be different from that in Britain, or perhaps the distinct beaks have to do with the song. But previous research has suggested that bird feeders might be driving selection for longer beaks among birds that spend their winters in the United Kingdom,” Spurgin says.
British people adore birds. More than half of their gardens are believed to host a feeder, and the UK spends twice as much on bird food annually as all of mainland Europe.“Humans are causing animals to evolve in lots of ways, many of which we probably don't understand. It's going to be an interesting area for future research,”Spurgin says.
1. What do we know about great tits in the UK and the Netherlands?| A．The British ones live in a fragile environment. |
| B．They feed on completely different food. |
| C．The British ones live longer in general. |
| D．They are almost alike in appearance. |
| A．Possible reasons for the different beaks. |
| B．Further research findings about great tits. |
| C．Different results reported by other studies. |
| D．Strong evidence of bird feeders' influence. |
| A．The birds were evolving rapidly in the1970s. |
| B．Natural selection could be affected by humans. |
| C．All genetic changes are blamed on bird feeders. |
| D．Short-beaked birds tend to have more babies. |
| A．Longer-beaked great tits are found in the UK. |
| B．British people's love for birds might harm them. |
| C．Great tits could be evolving to eat from bird feeders. |
| D．It's easier for longer-beaked birds to eat food from bird feeders. |
4 . The panda bear may be one of the world's cutest animals, but it also has one of the world's grossest habits：They like to spread horse dung（粪便） on their necks and faces and roll around in it to cover their entire bodies. Now, researchers say they have an explanation for these dung baths. The horse dung contains something that might help the animals deal with colder temperatures .
To get to the bottom of things, researchers analyzed 38 instances of dung rolling recorded by cameras at the reserve. The bears tended to roll in horse dung less than 10 days old. The dung contained natural compounds（化合物），called BCP and BCPO，that are scarce in older dung, say the scientists .
The team then added these compounds to the hay（草料） of pandas and found the animals favored the hay treated with these compounds. What's more, the pandas tended to roll in horse dung in colder weather, at temperatures between−5℃and 15°C. Could BCP and BCPO help keep the giant pandas warm?
As giant pandas are a national treasure for China, there are strict limitations on conducting research on these protected animals, so the team turned to mice. Covering mice in a BCP-BCPO solution boosted the animals' cold tolerance, the authors report. Treated mice more readily walked on colder surfaces. The researchers discovered BCP-BCPO blocks receptors that sense cold.
“Although it's not concrete proof, the authors provided solid evidence to explain the unique behavior,”Fan Yang, a biophysicist at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, wrote in an email.“The same receptors are present in many animals. So it is possible that using natural compounds to manage body temperature may actually be a general strategy widely adopted by other animals.”
Staying warm in the winter can be challenging for pandas, notes Zejun Zhang, an ecologist at China West Normal University ,because their low-calorie diet of bamboo makes it hard to store extra fat. It's possible, the authors say, that pandas have used horse dung in this way for thousands of years.
1. What does the underlined word“grossest”Paragraph 1 mean?| A．Funniest. | B．Healthiest . |
| C．Most tiring. | D．Most disgusting . |
| A．By applying them to pandas. |
| B．By experimenting them on mice. |
| C．By analyzing pandas'dung rolling cases. |
| D．By experimenting on different kinds of dung. |
| A．They adjust their sense of cold. |
| B．They make them physically active. |
| C．They provide a heat-trapping cover. |
| D．They help raise their body temperature . |
| A．Their body shape. |
| B．Their body color. |
| C．Their habitat. |
| D．Their diet. |
1.自己学习已经很努力，可父母还是不满意;
2.学校几乎每周都安排考试，心理压力大。
注意: 1.为使语句连贯，可以适当增加细节;
2.词数100左右。信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. Helper,
I’m Li Hua, a Senior 3 student. Faced with great pressure in life, I’m writing to seek your help.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
6 . The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns. The study, led by the University of Leeds, concludes that over recent decades the Himalayan glaciers have lost ice ten times more quickly over the last few decades than that on average since the last major glacier expansion 400-700 years ago, a period known as the Little Ice Age.
The study also reveals that the Himalayan glaciers are shrinking far more rapidly than glaciers in other parts of the world—a rate of loss the researchers describe as “exceptional”. The paper, published in Scientific Reports, made a reconstruction of the size and ice surfaces of 14, 798 Himalayan glaciers during the Little Ice Age. The researchers calculate that the glaciers have lost around 40 per cent of their area-shrinking from a peak of 28, 000 km2 to around 19,600 km2 today.
The Himalayan mountain range is home to the world's third-largest amount of glacier ice, after Antarctica and the Arctic and is often referred to as “the Third Pole”. The acceleration of melting of the Himalayan glaciers has significant impacts on hundreds of millions of people who depend on Asia's major river systems for food and energy.
The Himalayan glaciers are generally losing ice much faster in the eastern regions. The study suggests this variation is probably due to differences in geographical features on the two sides of the mountain range and their interaction with the atmosphere—resulting in different weather patterns.
Dr Carrivick, the leader of the study, said, “While we must act urgently to reduce and relieve the impact of human-made climate change on the glaciers and meltwater-fed rivers, the modelling of that impact on glaciers must also take account of the role of factors such as lakes and debris (杂物垃圾).”
1. What may be the result of the accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers?| A．Himalayan is getting warmer. | B．The Arctic glaciers expand frequently. |
| C．The whole world is going towards Ice Age. | D．Asia’s water, food and energy is under threat. |
| A．The Himalayan glaciers have lost ice since they existed. |
| B．The study came to its conclusion by doing experiments. |
| C．The Himalayan glaciers have the largest amount of ice. |
| D．Climate change is the main cause of the melting of glaciers. |
| A．Because of different landforms. | B．Because of the time of sunlight. |
| C．Because of the amount of glacier ice. | D．Because of the activities of mountain climbers. |
| A．Asian people are in danger of water supply | B．The eastern region of Himalaya melts faster |
| C．Himalayan glaciers are melting at an unusual rate | D．The Himalayan mountain range has more glacier ice |
7 . You improve your robot’s software by improving its software. Agrim Gupta of Stanford University, however, begs to differ. He thinks you can also improve a robot’s software by improving its hardware. He and his colleagues have invented a way of testing this idea.
They brought to their robots, unimals, the principles of evolution (进化) by natural selection. Unimals, with globes for heads and sticks for arms and legs, are software beings interacting with a virtual environment. The environments where they wandered were in three varieties: flat grounds, grounds with hills and steps, and ones that had the complexities of the second sort, but with added objects.
To begin with, the unimals were randomly assigned various shapes, but with identical software— derl. Newly created unimals learned to face the challenges in a virtual bootcamp. They were then entered into tournaments in groups. Each group winner was awarded one mutation (变异) —one extra arm or leg, or one extra turning in a joint. The new replaced the oldest unimal and then was assigned to a new group, and the process repeated. About 4,000 varieties of them underwent training.
The team were surprised by the diversity of shapes that evolved. Crucially, though, the researchers found the most successful unimals learned tasks in half the time their oldest ancestors had taken, and that those evolving in the toughest grounds were the most successful.
In this evolution of unimals’ morphology (形态) to promote the ability to learn, Dr Gupta sees a version of something called the Baldwin effect. In 1896 James Baldwin, a psychologist, argued that minds evolve to make the best use of the morphologies of the bodies. What Dr Gupta has shown, though in software, is that the opposite can also be true — changes in body morphology can improve the way minds work. Even though he held the software constant, it became more efficient at learning as the unimals’ bodies evolved.
Whether that discovery can be turned to account in the way robots are developed remains to be seen. But the way of testing is certainly an out-of-the-box idea.
1. How was the test conducted?| A．By promoting Unimals’ learning. | B．By adjusting the environments. |
| C．By proving the evolution theory. | D．By stimulating unimals’ mutation. |
| A．The number of trained unimals. | B．The decline in time for learning tasks. |
| C．The variety of evolved shapes. | D．The replacement of old unimals. |
| A．Mind evolution affects body shaping. |
| B．Body changes better mind work. |
| C．Hardware changes do not impact software. |
| D．The discovery is useful in robot development. |
| A．Negative. | B．Objective. |
| C．Indifferent. | D．Approving. |
8 . Growing up, I was often the first Jewish person my classmates had ever met. I lived in Mississauga, Ontario, and was the only Jewish student in my grade—sometimes the only one in the whole school. This difference set me apart.
Every September, I hated presenting the note my parents had expertly made to a teacher I was just getting to know. The note explained that I would be absent during the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I fretted that my teachers would label me the “Jewish kid”.
The real trouble always came as the local new year’s festival approached. I was Jewish and celebrated Hanukkah, not this festival. At school, on one day before the winter break, every class would sit in neat rows in the gym and sing songs from the festival. However, the music teacher sometimes played Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, a Jewish festival song, and I would feel hundreds of eyes staring at my red cheeks. As my friends counted down the days until the festival, I counted the days until it was over and I could go back to feeling normal.
Each year during primary school, my mother would coordinate (协调) with my teacher to come to my class and tell the story of Hanukkah. She would prepare treats and materials depending on my age. Every time I would proudly stand beside her as she told the story of Hanukkah and explained the symbols. The children who had attended the presentation previously competed to answer questions. After my mom left, I would overhear them showing off their fried treats to kids in other classes.
My mom’s annual visits to my school sparked (激发) interest from other parents as well. Over the years, we had visits from parents who shared how festivals were celebrated in Germany and Italy.
My mom showed me, my classmates and their families that what sets us apart should be celebrated and shared, an intention which I continue to set for myself as I cycle through another holiday season.
1. What does the underlined word “fretted” in paragraph 2 refer to?| A．Noticed. | B．Disagreed. | C．Worried. | D．Expected. |
| A．Being a trick target. | B．Singing holiday songs. |
| C．Being culturally different. | D．Celebrating others’ festival. |
| A．They welcomed it warmly. | B．They gave away her treats. |
| C．They showed off themselves. | D．They expressed sympathy for her. |
| A．She protected her child from being hurt. |
| B．She encouraged cross-cultural understanding. |
| C．She made Hanukkah a school-celebrated festival. |
| D．She saved the Jewish tradition from being changed. |
9 . Forecasting the technological future is difficult at best. Back in the 1980s,the thought of carrying around a small, portable phone seemed to belong in the world of science fiction. Then in the 1990s, imagining a phone that would allow you to surf the Internet something that didn't even exist until 1990was unheard-of. Today, smartphones can surf the Web, run applications and play games, and those with a near field communication (NFC) chip can act as away to make purchases. Oh, and they can still make phone calls, too.
So what will phones look like in 2050? Based upon phone customer behavior, I imagine the future phones will rely more on combining our physical lives with our digital lives. They probably won't be similar to the ones we’re reusing now. They’ll be built into other devices and products. Imagine a pair of glasses that can display a digital overlay on top of your physical surroundings.
I don’t think video chat is taking off despite services like Skype and FaceTime. Rather, the trend seems to be toward asynchronous(非同步的）communication. That means the two or more people in a conversation complete а discussion over time.
We might even see the phone part of phones disappear. Recent phone customer behavior suggests that texting is a more popular way to communicate than telephone calls. Future phones will need a way to display messages but don’t necessarily include voice communication.
Since we’re talking about 2050 here, there’s even the possibility that research into brain-computer interfaces(脑机接口) will have reached a point in which we won’t need a physical screen or microphone at all. Electronics could be built into clothing. You’d link the devices to an interface connected to your brain and post messages just through thought. It’d be a form of telepathy(心灵感应).
But what do you think? Will we be wearing devices that let us communicate easily? Or will we be carrying around the iPhone 47 and answering texts between games of Angry Birds? Let us know your predictions.
1. What will future phones be like according to the author?| A．Texting may disappear. |
| B．NFC chips can be used for purchasing. |
| C．Phones may be built into other products. |
| D．Phones will combine our lives with our work. |
| A．telepathy between people may come true |
| B．we may send messages just through thought |
| C．clothing may be used as the screen of phones |
| D．phones can be connected directly to your brain |
| A．people started surfing the Internet in the 1980s |
| B．we will be carrying around the iPhone 47 in 2050 |
| C．the author’ s prediction about phones is based on phone customer behavior |
| D．the author is positive about the development of brain-computer interfaces |
Tibet was a region I was desperate to see,
We set off at the Guangzhou train station and three days later, we arrived in Lhasa. The trip certainly took a while; however, we
We started our tour of Lhasa watching pilgrims(朝圣者)doing their morning prayers,
Then we started our journey to the Qomolangma base camp
About a week later, we arrived. We stayed in a guesthouse just next to the base camp and after dropping off our luggage,
