1 . The computer system crashed and I lost　　　　of work.

A．three hour’s worth	B．three hours’ worth
C．three hours’ worthy	D．three hour’s worthy

2 . 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. reward B. encouraging C. progression D. serving E. supplied F. native G. skin H. rate I. loaded J. shine K. remove

Pomegranate(石榴): Still Healthy at 5,000 Years Old

The pomegranate is one of the oldest known fruits. Pomegranates are found in ancient writings and pictured in the ancient art of many cultures and religions. The pomegranate is also a symbol of health, fertility and long life.

Experts   think   the   pomegranate   is    1     to   northern   India,   Pakistan,   Iran     and     Afghanistan. Today it also grows in Southeast Asia, the western U.S., Armenia and parts of Africa, among other places.

The    2     of   a pomegranate   is   strong.   It   can be red,   purple or   orange-yellow. The   inside is filled with beautiful dark red seeds that    3    like rubies( 红 宝 石 ).     It is not easy to get them out. But the    4    is great.

Health benefits

The pomegranate grows on trees. Parts of the pomegranate tree and fruit are used to make medicine.

The pomegranate is used for many conditions. However, the U.S National Institutes of Health says there is not enough scientific evidence to    5    pomegranates as effective for any of them.

Still, in traditional medicine, the pomegranate is used for conditions of the heart and blood vessels, including high blood pressure and “hardening of the arteries”.

The jewel-like seeds of the pomegranate are    6    with many nutrients and chemicals   called antioxidants( 抗 氧 化 物 ). These antioxidants    7    poisons from the body.

Antioxidants   slow   the    8     of   age-related   sickness   and   may   slow   the   growth   of cancer cells. Men who have prostate cancer may benefit from a daily    9    of pomegranate juice.

Pomegranates are used for weight loss and used as a treatment for sore throat. Pomegranates are also high in vitamin K, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, zinc and iron.

Let’s just say pomegranates are loaded with great things for the inside of your body.

Beauty benefits

But let’s not forget the outside, too!

Pomegranates are great for the skin. They protect the skin by    10    new skin growth,     healing wounds and repairing tissue. Pomegranates protect the skin against sun damage as well. They may help skin look younger by providing moisture and elasticity.

3 . Paris serves both as the political center of the nation and as_______.

A．the cultural center also

B．being a cultural center

C．to be a center of cultural activity

D．a center of cultural activity

4 . Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1. 弘扬中华民族的美德，并不意味着我们不需要与时俱进。(mean)
2. 出于安全考虑，任何账户的密码都应该包括字母、数字和符号。(concern)
3. 尽管最后期限延长了一个月，研究团队仍需调整策略，以便如期完成项目。(so that)
4. 很多医生表情严肃说着难懂的术语，但张医生是个例外，他做事脚踏实地，话语浅显幽默，赢得了公众的认可。(whose)

5 . Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1. 这位诗人的作品以天马行空而著称。(famous)
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2. 越来越多的旅游公司开始涉足自助游项目的开发。(involve)
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3. 在全球教育市场上,美国和英国仍占主导地位,但中国正在快速迎头赶上。(the lead)
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4. 我们所需要的是这样的科学家,他们能用通俗的语言解释复杂的问题,并且敢于就重要的事情提出自己的见解。(What)
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6 . Directions:   Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1. 我真不明白为啥他总是对别人的家事指手画脚。(affair)
2. 生活中我们要学会倾听，即便是与自己相悖的意见。(opposing)
3. 在英国除了急症，没有预约有病也看不了。(unless)
4. 这对夫妇刚要吃饭，门铃响了，是女儿送给他们的纪念日鲜花到了。(Scarcely)

7 . 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.

8 . Jack lost his father to AIDS last year, since when he has lived on a monthly ______ of £200 from the government.

A．receipt

B．allowance

C．revenue

D．finance

9 . 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.

10 . This year's English movie dubbing competition will be held, but no date has yet been set for the ________of the entries to be selected.

A．commission

B．submission

C．association

D．occupation