1 . 在这部电影中，两位主人公虽然家境不同，但是志趣相投，共同创业，最终成了莫逆之交。（common）(汉译英)

2 . Last year John earned _______ his brother did, who has a better position in a bigger company.

A．twice as many as	B．twice as much as
C．twice as more as	D．twice much as

3 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. motive       B. deliberately   C. convinced       D. injurious E. alerts F. desperately     G.   swept       H. accounts I. unconscious     J. preserving K. charging

Why Humpback Whales (座头鲸) Protect Other Species from Killer Whales

Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist, describes an encounter he witnessed in Antarctica in 2009. A group of killer whales were attacking a Weddell seal. The seal swam     1     toward a pair of humpbacks that had inserted themselves into the action. One of the humpbacks rolled over on its back, and the seal was     2     onto its chest, between the whale’s massive flippers (鳍). “That incident     3     me,” he says. “Those humpbacks were doing something we couldn’t explain.”

Pitman started asking other researchers and whale watchers to send him similar     4    . Soon he was reading through observations of 115 encounters between humpbacks and killer whales, recorded over 62 years. “There are some pretty astonishing videos of humpbacks     5     killer whales,” he says.

In a 2016 article in Marine Mammal Science, a famous scientific journal, Pitman and his co-authors describe this behaviour and confirm that such acts of do-gooding are widespread. But knowing that something is happening and understanding why it’s happening are two different things. Pitman and his co-authors openly reflected on the meaning of these encounters. “Why,” they wrote, “would humpbacks     6     interfere with attacking killer whales, spending time and energy on a potentially     7     activity, especially when the killer whales… were attacking other species of prey?”

Interestingly, humpbacks don’t just hit on killer-whale attacks. They race toward them like firefighters into burning buildings. And like those rescue workers, humpbacks don’t know who is in danger until they get there. That’s because the sound that     8     them to an attack isn’t the sad voice of the victim. It’s the excited calls of the killer whales. Pitman believes humpbacks have one simple instruction: “When you hear killer whales attacking, go break it up.”

I wonder what humpback whales care deeply enough about to actively swim into battle with killer whales. When I ask Pitman, he tells me that, it still comes down to selfishly     9     their own kind. He believes that their occasional rescues of humpback calves (后代) create a strong enough     10     for them to rush in to help, even if it means they end up saving sunfish, sea lions, dolphins every now and then.

4 . 技术员给他推荐的这款新软件应能帮助他快速适应新的书写方式。 (adapt)
__________________

5 . 只有成年人提高了意识才能保护儿童不吸二手烟。(Only)
__________

6 . 出乎我的意料，年轻人对中国古诗词显示出了极大的热情。(passion) (汉译英)

7 . 永远不要对你孩子的缺点熟视无睹。(blind)（汉译英）

8 . 自律和有经验的员工非常受青睐。( prefer ) (汉译英）

9 . 根据新的交通法规，机动车在任何情况下都得避让行人。(way) (汉译英)

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Former World’s Fattest Man Finds Love

He was once the world’s fattest man weighing in at an incredible 980 pounds and consuming 20,000 calories (卡路里) a day. But it seems that after losing 672 pounds following a surgery, it’s not just Paul Mason’s health that has a more promising     1    —his weight loss may have also promoted his love life.

Mr. Mason has only known his new girlfriend Rebecca for a month and the pair are yet to meet, but already   the 52-year old has     2     that Rebecca is the love of his life. The pair met online last month when Rebecca saw   a television     3     about Mr. Mason’s extreme fatness—the result of overeating when a previous relationship ended. She was so touched by his situation as to get in touch, keen to help Mr. Mason get the NHS (National Health Service) to pay for a second operation to     4     him of layers of extra skin.

Mr.   Mason said: “She didn’t really think of anything     5     at the beginning. It wasn’t until the second conversation that I realised there was more there than just friends. She felt the same and brought up the idea of us being boyfriend and girlfriend.”

Mr. Mason says that he doesn’t go for looks and finds Rebecca’s     6     attitude particularly attractive. “It is   her personality,   her     7     and passion that has made me fall for her. We share the same ideas and interests and she has made me look at life in a new way. For a long time I couldn’t really see light at the end of the tunnel, but since Rebecca’s been in my life I’ve got a whole new     8     of worth and excitement.”

Mr. Mason     9     to his incredible size by eating ten times the amount needed by a normal man due to a compulsive eating disorder. As his weight rose sharply he was left unable to stand or walk before finally becoming bed-ridden and being looked after full time by carers.

Firefighters had to knock down the front wall of his     10     home so they could use a fork lift truck to lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed an operation in 2002.