1 . 你所在的英语社团正在开展“我为英雄代言”主题演讲活动。请你写一篇演讲稿，要点如下：
1）你要代言的英雄；
2）简述英雄事迹；
3）你的感想。
注意：
1）词数80左右；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

My Hero

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2 . I always seemed to be running late and hurrying up. I’d wake up early in the morning in order to have enough time to get to where I wanted to go. But by the time I found myself on the road, I was clearly going to be late.     1     This constant rush entered every area of my life. For example, when I went shopping, I’d race up and down the passage.

Then one day when going to work, I had been running behind again. Unluckily, on the way, my car was out of gas. As my car left the road, I looked at my watch. It’s clear that I’d be late.     2    I had a meeting in fifteen minutes and I hadn’t finished preparing for it.

But as I looked out towards the east, the sun was just beginning to climb out of the hill. There was fog hanging over the river and some ducks were swimming across the glass-like surface of the water. A few boats sat on the river, which was shining in the sunshine.     3    

I was surprised. This pretty scene had been going on right outside my car every morning.     4    I had been rushing around in such a hurry to not miss anything that I had been missing everything!

    5    I understood I needed to set schedules and made good preparations for big events in case of any hurry. More importantly, I should try to stay relaxed and enjoy present life. And there was no need to worry about unimportant things. Now I am here traveling this life joyfully and patiently.

A．How could I avoid it?

B．I became worried and upset.

C．What an amazing picture outside!

D．I found some surprising things happened.

E．However, I had never taken the time to see it.

F．So I would drive fast to make up for the minutes I had lost.

G．Finally a co-worker recognized my car and stopped for me.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Hanami, which means “flower viewing” in Japanese, is    1     country’s tradition of enjoying the beauty of cherry blossom. Every year, from the end of March to the start of May, families and friends gather     2     (see) cherry blossom (called sakura) bloom all over Japan.

The history of Hanami dates back to around AD 710. Back then, it was plum blossom that people admired rather than cherry blossom. Emperor Saga, who     3     (rule) from 809 to 823, was the first to hold a viewing party for cherry blossom after he saw a tree he liked in Kyoto. In the 16th century, a leader called Hideyoshi Toyotomi brought Hanami to the     4     (mass) by planting hundreds of cherry trees across the country. Once the cherry trees are in bloom it’s a race     5     time to see them because the blossom is soon carried away by the wind. The short life span of the flowers is     6     (center) to Hanami and the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which is a     7     (celebrate) of nature and its imperfections.

Today, Hanami involves     8     (gather) underneath trees for picnics and parties. Companies often send out junior members of staff to save a good spot for others. People     9     (advise) not to sit near a pavement because of the large crowds that gather throughout the day. Some people bring heat packs to keep themselves warm. Parks have strict rules about     10     people can sit and when, and everyone is expected to clean up after themselves.

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

I was sitting at my desk surrounded by New Year gifts, feeling happy that I had managed to buy some hard — to — find items. These were for Kids Need More, a charitable organization offering services to socially disadvantaged children. One of its most popular events is the Holiday Cheer Bus. The organization always fills the buses with donated gifts for the families on the Cheer Bus routes. Each bus is manned by a team of volunteers. My family had been volunteers for years. I had a list of the families on our route.

Just as I was packing up the items with my husband and my son, I received a call from the director of the organization. She asked if I could add a family to my route— here was a young mother, Leanne, and her son.

I called Leanne and told her that a Holiday Cheer Bus would be visiting her family. Leanne seemed really excited and began to cry. I comforted her, “The Holiday Cheer Bus is really going to come. Is there something special that your child would like?”

“My son is three. All he wants is a pair of Spider-Man snow boots so that he can play outside in the snow. ”

I asked about her son's shoe size. She told me the size and I promised I would have Spider-Man snow boots in size 9 for her son.

After I said goodbye and ended the call, panic set in. It was two days before the Holiday Cheer Bus was going on its run, less than a week before New Year. I was going to need a holiday miracle to find Spider-Man snow boots in size 9.

“We have to go shopping!" I called out to my husband and son. They were surprised but still we set off. We went to a few department stores and the shoe departments, without success. We were tired and hungry. We were becoming disheartened. My son suggested giving Leanne a gift card so she could get the boots herself. But I didn't want to give up. I promised we would bring boots.

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。

At our final stop, expecting defeat, we entered the shoe department.

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Two days later, we arrived at the young mom's home.

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5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Wearing wristbands with the names of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant     1     (write) on them, 17-year-old Tibetan girl Cigla plays her favorite sport — basketball — at Nagqu No 2 Senior High School in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. For her,     2       (study) in Lhasa, the region’s most developed city, has made it much     3     (easy) for her to realize her basketball dream.

With     4       average altitude of over 4,500 meters, Nagqu is among the most uninhabitable places in Tibet.     5     have long compromised the health of Nagqu students are low-oxygen environment and extreme weather. “The students had barely played any sports due to     6       (limit) sports facilities and frequent bad weather in Nagqu.” said Bachug, the school's physical education teacher.

However, in a bid to ensure equal access     7     quality education, in recent years, the Tibet regional government     8       (establish) several schools in Lhasa to recruit Nagqu students. Like Cigla, many Nagqu students are from poor farming and herding families. The school     9       (campus) in Lhasa have seven concrete basketball courts, a standard soccer field and a sports stadium, which gives students opportunities     10       (train) their bodies and find the sport that appeals to them.

6 . A Japanese start-up called Ashirase is stepping into the global market with a new navigation (导航) assistance product intended to help people with low vision.

Its new product will feature flexible vibrating (震动) bases around each foot and are put into each shoe, and a small pack that can be removed for charging (充电). Once fitted, the vibrating parts are set along the sensitive nerves on the foot and can send coded walking instructions to the user.

Its present form navigates a route that comes from a smartphone app. It can help clear up distractions by freeing up the attention that is normally needed to either listen to voice directions or check the phone. Visual-damaged users can use their hearing to listen to traffic sounds and signals, like warning beeps at crossings or sidewalks, and use their hands to carry walking sticks or other belongings.

The device is paired with an app through a Bluetooth connection. The app uses information from Google Maps or similar vendors to draw up a walking route to the destination. Based on the destination and how the user is walking, it will send signals to the device that will cause a vibration on the foot.

The device will vibrate at a regular frequency at the front of the foot to let the users know they’re on the right track and should keep going straight. It will speed up the vibrations once the user is approaching a turn and needs to stop, and it will vibrate in either the left or right shoe to signal the direction the user needs to turn.

Ashirase’s new tech is waterproof and washable. It can be charged at the end of the week to power through seven days of walking, accounting for three active hours each day. And it can be fitted in two types of shoes: sneakers and leather lace-up shoes.

1. Who can benefit most from this device?

A．Deaf people.

B．Blind people.

C．Normal people.

D．Poor people.

2. What is most likely to be needed to make the device work?

A．A computer.

B．Nothing else.

C．A mobile phone.

D．Both A and C.

3. How can the user know that he or she is on the right way?

A．By how often the device vibrates.	B．By the sound sent by the device.
C．By the signals from their mobile phones.	D．By how long the device vibrates.

4. What can we infer from the text?

A．The device can be used for 21 hours a week.

B．The device can’t be washed or charged.

C．The device can only be fitted into sneakers.

D．People wearing the device can’t hear traffic warnings.

7 . While many people prefer to buy a new dog from a breeder, another option is to adopt a rescue dog. As the Svilicics already had a healthy daughter Charlotte, they felt fortunate enough to save another life. Thus, Catherine adopted a dog and named it Khan. Catherine was hopeful this would provide valuable lessons for her baby, such as sharing, learning to love and responsibility to care for animals.

They trained Khan during the first few days and everything began smoothly. Charlotte and the new dog made a habit of playing out in the backyard. However, things were different this day. They began running through the backyard grass together. That was until Khan’s temperament seemed to change dramatically. Khan began acting wildly aggressively (富于攻击性的), grabbing the baby.

This was not the normal play between the two. Mouth open, Catherine watched in complete and utter shock. She watched as Khan tossed (抛) Charlotte across their lawn. What happened next alarmed Catherine and everyone present. He tightly clenched his jaws into her diaper to toss her back and forth. Therefore, with urgency, she ran to Charlotte and carried her to safety.       

Miraculously, her child was unharmed. While Catherine brought her baby to shelter, Khan barked madly and then collapsed. The dog began crying. No one understood what was going on! Khan was obviously not doing well. The dog continued crying and then fell lifeless. Catherine focused on the dog, watching his dying eyes and realized he had been protecting her child. It turned out that Khan was protecting Charlotte from a poisonous, dangerous snake. She used all her strength to bring the dog to her car and sped for the vet, hearing his breath slow. When the vet took over, Catherine cried and felt totally helpless, so she prayed for his recovery.

The vet had to remove all the snake poison from the body. Quite a few days later, Khan was slowly getting stronger through the vet’s effort. Eventually, he made progress and the snake’s venom was removed. Actually, Khan impressed even the vet with his rapid recovery and progress.   

The whole family could be reunited once again with this amazing and heroic animal. Catherine was determined to protect this amazing animal as if it were her own child.

1. What caused Catherine to carry her child away from Khan?

A．That Khan tossed her child back and forth.

B．That Khan grabbed her child aggressively.

C．That Khan tossed her child across their lawn.

D．That her child played with Khan for such a long time.

2. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．Catherine adopted Khan to protect her child.

B．Khan’s sickness was too serious to be cured.

C．The child was hurt because she was treated badly.

D．Khan was attacked by a snake in order to protect the child.

3. According to the passage, which word can best describe Catherine?

A．Outgoing.

B．Caring.

C．Faithful.

D．Honest.

8 . In times of stress, particularly when the water gets too warm, the coral(珊瑚)erupts the algae(海藻), and the coral turns white, causing a state called coral bleaching(漂白). Just a few degrees of heat can lead to coral bleaching, putting the coral on a path to starvation and death.

Driven by climate change, marine heat waves are becoming one of the greatest threats to the existence of coral, which is important to the ocean ecology. But in some rare good news researchers have discovered coral can recover from bleaching even before a heat wave ends, suggesting it has the potential to survive long heat waves. Coral was thought to survive only if a heat wave lasted just a few weeks.

But no one had studied this process during a longer heat wave. Then in 2015, Julia Baum, a marine ecologist at the University of Victoria, began a survey of two common species: brain and star coral around Kiritimati in the central Pacific Ocean. They checked the condition of the coral as the heat wave struck and disappeared.

Starting in May 2015, the temperature rose about 1 ℃ within 2 months. As expected, coral that housed heat-sensitive algae bleached sooner than those housing the heat-tolerant kind of algae. As the water continued to warm, even heat-tolerant algae erupted.

Many brain and star coral on Kiritimati recovered from bleaching while the water was still unusually warm. Baum said, "The unexpected recovery provides new hope, because it means that even under lasting heat waves, there's a path forward for some of them."

An unusual feature of the recovery is that brain coral that started out with heat-sensitive algae had a higher survival rate(82%)than coral that began with heat-tolerant algae(25%). "That finding is surprising," said Baum, expecting that heat-tolerant algae would be better suited for helping coral survive a heat wave. But during a longer heat wave, it might be more advantageous to start with a heat-sensitive algae.

1. What results in coral bleaching?

A．The white algae.	B．The coral's death.
C．An attack of waves.	D．A rise in ocean temperature.

2. Why did Baum begin the survey?

A．To prove that coral can stop climate change.

B．To study how coral bleaching comes about.

C．To figure out whether coral survives long heat waves

D．To explain why coral bleaching is a big threat to coral

3. How did Baum feel about the finding?

A．Ashamed.	B．Confused
C．Worried.	D．Astonished.

4. What can the finding be used to do?

A．Protect the ocean environment.	B．Reduce coral bleaching.
C．Grow more different algae.	D．Regulate the heat wave.