1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker?

A．An astronaut.

B．A TV reporter.

C．A radio hostess.

2. What will the weather be like on Saturday?

A．Sunny.

B．Windy.

C．Rainy.

3. When will the weather warm up again to 18 degrees?

A．Next Tuesday.

B．Next Monday.

C．This Sunday.

4. What does the speaker advise the listeners to do on damp days?

A．Stay indoors.

B．Put away warm coats.

C．Take umbrellas along anytime.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What will the woman do with her family?

A．Attend a food festival.

B．Watch a soccer game.

C．See a play about lions.

2. How much will the woman pay for the tickets?

A．$20.

B．$30.

C．$45.

3. Which of the following is forbidden in the stadium?

A．Entering with food.

B．Talking with others.

C．Eating and drinking

4. Where can the woman get the tickets?

A．At the stand.

B．On the Internet.

C．From the man’s house.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers probably doing?

A．Waiting for the girl’s mother.

B．Making plans to save money.

C．Shopping in the supermarket.

2. What does the man advise the girl to do?

A．Make a shopping list.

B．Send her friends e-cards.

C．Use paper to make Christmas cards.

3. What did the girl learn from the man?

A．The reuse of gift boxes.

B．The importance of time and money.

C．The ways to protect the environment.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下题。
1. What should a public speaker avoid doing according to the woman?

A．Talking too loudly.

B．Speaking too fast.

C．Saying too much.

2. Why should the closing of a speech be carefully planned?

A．It’s usually the most remembered part.

B．It’s the last chance to make your point.

C．It’s as important as the opening words.

3. What does the woman suggest a public speaker do during the speech?

A．Show a good sense of humor.

B．Motivate the audience to act.

C．Meet challenges with courage.

5 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下题。
1. Why does Joshua make the call?

A．To check the time.

B．To ask for advice.

C．To make an apology.

2. Where is Joshua now?

A．In Cider Street.

B．On Elmer Road.

C．In Poplar Street.

3. What is Joshua’s destination?

A．Maria’s house.

B．Weston Hospital.

C．The National Bank.

6 . Capybaras (水豚) are group animals, so they do not like being alone. In fact, leaving a capybara alone is not only uncomfortable for the animal, but it can be harmful to their physical health, as well as their mental well-being. Capybaras love to talk to each other throughout the day. Groups of capybaras spend their days sunbathing along the edge of rivers, where they enjoy swimming together in the water. They spend half of their lives in the water.

Since they spend so much time around water, it makes sense that capybaras would come into contact with a wide variety of other animals who stop in for a drink. Capybaras are gentle and peaceful river animals who enjoy napping (小睡) along the water’s edge — and often do so with other animal species as well. You can find pictures all over the Internet of these lovely animals lying beside turtles, birds, ducks, rats, and even monkeys as they enjoy a nap by the water.

Capybaras are also known to be excellent and friendly taxis in the animal world. Birds and monkeys commonly stand on the back of a capybara for a ride as capybaras search for grass to eat. Sometimes capybaras even serve as boats for other animals, letting them sit on their heads as they swim through the water!

However, if you see a capybara lying on its side with a yellow-headed caracara (长腿兀鹰) stopped on its body, don’t panic just yet. Most likely the capybara is enjoying a nice spa day. Birds often make friends with capybaras and act as a natural cleaning service, picking off bugs (虫子) that live in the capybara’s fur. It’s a symbiotic (共生的) relationship, since the yellow-headed caracara also gets to enjoy eating a bunch of tasty bugs.

1. What does the first paragraph mainly tell us about capybaras?

A．Their life habits.	B．Their survival skills.
C．Their appearance.	D．Their risks in health.

2. Why does the author call capybaras “friendly taxis”?

A．They search for food for birds and monkeys.

B．They carry their food by riding on another animal.

C．They allow other animals to stay on their backs or heads.

D．They guide other animals to swim through the water.

3. What does the author mean by saying “don’t panic just yet” in the last paragraph?

A．The caracara won’t attack you.

B．The capybara won’t suffer any injury.

C．The caracara may just take a break.

D．The capybara may be providing its cleaning service.

4. What is true about capybaras according to the passage?

A．They hate lying beside lovely animals.

B．They enjoy swimming alone.

C．They are aggressive animals.

D．They can live in harmony with other animal species.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Who is the woman?

A．The chair of the Youth Council.

B．The accountant of the Youth Council.

C．The administrator of the Youth Council.

2. Why does the man want to join the Youth Council?

A．To learn from Stephanie.

B．To gain experience in it.

C．To get to discuss local issues.

3. Which age group is the Youth Council for?

A．The 13-18 age group.

B．The 12-16 age group.

C．The 10-15 age group.

4. Where will the man probably stay on Saturday night?

A．In a hostel.

B．At his parents’.

C．In the council’s flat.

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

The end of the year had finally arrived. The first year of my teaching career would be over in a matter of days, but I hated Awards Day. Although I had a class of outstanding students, I feared one student wouldn’t have an award.

Brent just didn’t have the high averages as some of his classmates. As I sat down and began looking over my grade book, I filled in the blanks on the award sheet for the highest grade in each subject. Then, I proceeded to “A Honor Roll” and on through the list. When I began checking averages for the “AB Honor Roll”, I knew Brent hadn’t made it yet now. But while the first honor roll was determined by the average of all grades of the first three months, the yearly honor roll was the average of the final grade in each class for the whole year. Maybe there was a chance.

Brent’s grades may have been considered average, but he was far from it. He was no quitter. That boy was very persistent. If he failed a spelling test midweek, by Friday, he would pass. If his math grade slipped a bit, he’d work to get it higher. Unlike the other students who would often attempt to “one up” one another, Brent’s only competitor was himself, and his goal for the entire year was the AB Honor Roll.

With each report card, his face had fallen when he had missed that elusive (难以达到的) B average, and although he had never made any honor roll, he had never stopped trying to reach   that goal. Now, he had one last opportunity. I entered his final grades into the computer and averaged. It was a B! I checked again. Yes, it was a B. His grades had gone up and down. When he focused harder on one subject, another slipped a bit. Overall, he had a B average.

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Awards Day came!

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While everyone who got an award made me proud, I knew what it took Brent to achieve it.

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9 . 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。

This year marks the 15th anniversary of China’s Double 11 online shopping festival.

The first Double 11 event     1     (initiate) by Alibaba on November 11 in 2009 and has become the largest e-commerce shopping gala in the world today. Every year people usually look forward to this online shopping festival at     2     many merchants will do promotional activities. The     3     (innovation) marketing model has profoundly transformed China’s     4     (consume) market and injected enormous power into the country’s economic development.

This year’s Double 11 shopping festival witnessed     5     increase in consumers’ demand and enthusiasm     6     quality products.

According to Tmall, a leading online retail platform affiliated with Alibaba, 155 brands achieved sales of over 100 million yuan ($13.72 million) as soon as the event     7     (official) started at 8 pm on October 31. 71,900 brands broke the first-day     8     (sale) record of last year in the first hour     9     business volume of 29 livestreammg rooms hit 100 million yuan at the start.

Over the past 15 years, the Double 11 festival has become the most important platform     10     (satisfy) the needs of consumers as well as promote economic development in China.

10 . Kitchen remodeling (改造) is not easy or fun, but sometimes it produces the most surprising benefits.

When having our kitchen remodeled, I emptied all the drawers and cabinets. I was surrounded by boxes filled with dishes, cups and cooking tools, not knowing where many of the things even came from, or even what they were supposed to be used for.     1     I took a break and watched some television — one of the channels that dealt with home and garden issues.

    2     Her advice was to throw away all but the seven basic tools that are really needed for cooking the majority of our meals. The idea made me sit up straight and bring out the boxes of tools.     3     I was shocked by what were still in the boxes. I closed up the boxes of tools and put them in the basement.

As I fit my seven surviving “essential” tools into just one of my beautiful new kitchen drawers, I instantly felt lighter and freer. In the next month, my experiment produced some very surprising and interesting results.     4     Next, it was much more interesting to cook without searching in the drawers to get what I needed! And because it was more interesting to cook, I was cooking more!

Looking back over the whole thing, there is not much I would do differently. Occasionally I stand at the stove and miss a specific tool, but I only have to look at my orderly drawers and do some creative thinking to put the smile back on my face.     5    

A．First, I rarely faced a cooking project that couldn’t be done with what I had saved.

B．I dug out the seven items and set them aside.

C．My kitchen had become quite the storage space.

D．The host talked about our craze for cooking tools.

E．I took the opportunity to lighten lots of my other drawers.

F．First of all, I simply put back what I used on a regular basis.

G．It was the kitchen remodeling that produced the most amazing results ever!