1 . Question are based on the following passage.
1.

A．For ten years.

B．For nine years.

C．For eight years.

D．For one year.

2.

A．She is more concentrated on her career.	B．She is not sure about the marriage.
C．She’s holding hatred against Frank.	D．She’s not comfortable with children around.

3.

A．Keeping persuading Claire.	B．Give up and compromise.
C．Fight harder with Claire.	D．Give Claire some time.

4.

A．They have just been to Hawaii for a holiday.

B．They cannot reach an agreement on having a baby.

C．They are planning to get a divorce.

D．They are trying to overcome career crisis.

2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

This weekend many families in America will celebrate Mother’s Day. The event dates back to   May 9, 1914,     1     America’s President Wilson   established the official     holiday. Some people had begun campaigning for the holiday a few years     2     (early).   Finally in 1914, the president made it official. He declared that each second Sunday in May     3     (dedicate) to thanking the nation’s mothers. He also ordered all government     buildings     4     (display) the national flag on that day. According to President Wilson, this was done “as a public expression of …love …for the mothers of our country.”

Before long, people in other   countries     5     (begin) asking for a similar   holiday to celebrate their mothers. Mexico celebrated its first official Mother’s Day on May 10, 1922. May 10th became their annual holiday because the country preferred a fixed date to     6     that changed.

Other countries are happy to share the day with the United States. Some on the list include Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan and Turkey.

Oddly enough, the U.S. Congress rejected a Mother’s Day resolution at first. Today, though, Mother’s Day is a highly popular holiday. It’s also very successful commercially. Along with giving cards,   candy   and flowers,     7     (take) moms out for brunch is a very popular gesture. America’s National Restaurant Association says Mother’s Day is the year’s most popular day for eating out.

But why do we honor our mothers? Many moms lovingly dedicate their lives to their children. Moms sacrifice time, sleep and often their own dreams. Moms try to provide a strong foundation     8     children   can   build   their   lives. With     9     (love)   care,   mothers guide their children toward adulthood.

When we consider everything our mothers have done for us, how can we not honor them? There’s no need to wait for a national holiday, though. Every day is a great opportunity to tell our mothers     10     they mean to us.

3 . Questions are based on the following passage.
1.

A．He qualified as a teacher.

B．He became a student.

C．He became a government researcher.

D．He conducted a research on Zimbabwe.

2.

A．Children’s minds are not used to the full.

B．It is a great drain on children’s time and energy.

C．It highlights the flexibility of children’s minds.

D．It prevents children from seeking answers by themselves.

3.

A．To teach people to understand the world

B．To instruct people how to raise good questions.

C．To encourage people to study as they get older.

D．To inform people of problems in foreign countries.

4 . Writing
在你的生活中， 谁对你影响最大？这个人怎样影响了你？ 怎样牵动你的思绪？你一定有很多的话要说。 请你结合自己的亲身经历，描述一件发生在你和这个人之间的事情， 并简单谈谈你的感受。（文中不要出现真实的人名、校名）
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5 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

People discuss their problems with friends in the hope that they’ll gain some insight into how to solve them. And even if they don’t find a way to solve their problems, it feels good to let off some steam.     1     How problems are discussed, though, can be the difference between halving a problem or doubling it.

The term psychologists use for negative problem sharing is “co-rumination”. Co-rumination is the mutual encouragement to discuss problems repeatedly going over the same problems, anticipating future problems and focusing on negative feelings.

    2     In a study involving children aged seven to 15 years of age, researchers found that co-rumination in both boys and girls is associated with “high-quality” and close friendships. However, in girls, it was also associated with anxiety and depression (the same association was not found with the boys). And studies suggest that co-rumination isn’t just a problem for girls. Co-rumination with work colleagues can increase the risk of stress and burn out, one study suggests.

    3     In a group of adults, the effects of co-rumination was compared between face-to-face contact, telephone contact, texting and social media. The positive effects of co-rumination were found in face-to-face contact, telephone contact and texting, but not in social media. The negative aspects of co-rumination (anxiety) was found in face-to-face communication and telephone contact, but not texting or social media. Verbal forms of communication seem to enhance both the positive and negative aspects of co-rumination more than non-verbal communication.

Discussing problems with friends doesn’t always have to lead to worsening mental health, as long as the discussion involves finding solutions and the person with the problem acts on those solutions. Then, relationships can be positive and beneficial to both parties.     4    

A．Research shows that co-rumination is a double-edged sword.

B．In that way, a problem shared can really be a problem halved.

C．Girls are more likely than boys to co-ruminate with their close friends.

D．Indeed, having close friends to trust may protect you against poor mental health.

E．This human tendency to work things out in one’s mind, is common.

F．How you co-ruminate matters too.

6 .

A．Watching TV and videos.

B．Replacing videos with TV.

C．Parents’ involvement.

D．Having baby sitters.

7 . Questions are based on the following passage.
1.

A．The man speaker feels guilty.	B．The woman speaker feels harmful.
C．Both speakers think it funny.	D．Many students dislike the post.

2.

A．Unhappy.

B．Calm.

C．Content.

D．Pleased.

3.

A．He treated Sam kindly.	B．He made fun of Sam.
C．He learned to live with it.	D．He pushed Sam downstairs.

4.

A．Bullying is uncommon in the school.

B．The man speaker will apologize to Bill about what he posted about Bill.

C．The man speaker was fully convinced by the woman speaker.

D．The woman speaker thinks bullying does students harm in grades.

8 . I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina.

The cabin smelt very strongly of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns(临时床铺), on one of which I slept under a bearskin. A rough stone chimney was raised outside, and the fireplace was as long as my father was tall. There was a crane in it, and a bake kettle; and over it great buckhorns held my father’s rifle when it was not in use. On other horns hung jerked bear’s meat and venison hams, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my father’s best hunting shirt; also, in a neglected corner, several articles of woman’s clothing. These once belonged to my mother. Among them was a gown of silk, of a fine, faded pattern, which I always wondered. The women at the Cross-Roads, twelve miles away, were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets. But when I questioned my father on these matters he would give me no answers.

My father was—how shall I say what he was? To this day I can only surmise many things of him. He was a Scotchman born, and I know now that he had a slight Scotch accent. At the time of which I write, my early childhood, he was a frontiersman and hunter. I can see him now, with his hunting shirt and leggins (绑腿) and moccasins（莫卡辛鞋）; his powder horn, engraved with wondrous scenes; his bullet pouch and tomahawk and hunting knife. He was a tall, lean man with a strange, sad face. And he talked little except when he drank too many “horns,” as they were called in that country. These little bad behaviors of my father’s were a permanent source of wonder to me—and, I must say, of delight. They occurred only when a passing traveler who hit his fancy chanced that way, or, what was almost as rare, a neighbor. Many a winter night I have lain awake under the skins, listening to a flow of language that held me spellbound, though I understood scarce a word of it.

“Virtuous(有德行的) and vicious(罪恶的) every man must be,

Few in the extreme, but all in a degree.”

The chance neighbor or traveler was no less struck with wonder. And many the time have I heard the query, at the Cross-Roads and elsewhere, “Whar Alec Trimble got his larnin’?”

1. The mention of the dress in the second paragraph is most likely meant to _____.

A．show the similarity between its owner and other members of the community

B．show how warm the climate was

C．show the dissimilarity between its owner and other members of the community

D．give us insight into the way most of the women of the region dressed

2. Judging by the sentences surrounding it, the underlined word “surmise” in the third paragraph most nearly means _____.

A．to form a negative opinion	B．to praise
C．to desire	D．to guess

3. Why did the narrator enjoy it when his father drank too many “horns,” or drafts of liquor?

A．The father spoke brilliantly at those times.

B．The boy was then allowed to do as he pleased.

C．These were the only times when the father was not abusive.

D．The boy was allowed to sample the drink himself.

4. What is the meaning of the lines of verse (诗句) quoted in the passage?

A．Men who pretend to be virtuous are actually vicious.

B．Moderate amounts of virtuousness and viciousness are present in all men.

C．Virtuous men cannot also be vicious.

D．Whether men are virtuous or vicious depends on the difficulty of their circumstances.

9 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Most people don’t need science to appreciate the importance of a mother’s love.

But to understand how early maltreatment can derail a child’s development requires careful study. In a famous research, Harry Harlow had demonstrated that proper psychological and physical development of infants requires nurturing and attention from a parent.     1     In that research, socially isolated monkey babies that were removed from their mothers were found to be clinging to a cloth-covered surrogate(替代的) mother for comfort.

Such experimentations sound cruel. They, however, have been critical in helping change policies in human orphanages( 孤儿院 ) in the U.S. For centuries some orphanages treated infants equally inhumanely. Despite early evidence that orphanage infants were far more likely to die than others, supporters argued that it didn’t matter whether children had “parents” specially devoted to them at the orphanage.     2     Orphans were supposed to be in positive mental and physical health until adoptive parents were found. Babies, they said, couldn’t remember anyway.

The harrowing consequences of these theories were most vividly brought to light in Romania in the 1980s and ‘90s. A ban on abortion（流产 ) led to a surge in orphanage babies. Simply being fed and changed without individualized affection, some babies present serious problems. Many developed violent behaviors, repetitively rocking or banging their heads. Some were cold and withdrawn or indiscriminately affectionate.     3     Their head sizes were especially small.

They even had problems with attention and comprehension. The longer these children were left alone, the more damage was seen.

The lack of a secure attachment relationship in the early years has destructive consequences for both physical and mental health later in life, with long-lasting effects. The persistence of these effects emphasizes the need to intervene early in life. The Nobel-prize-winning economist James Heckman, has long argued that investing in early childhood education provides a greater return for society than virtually any other type of spending. It is obviously reflected in increased educational success and productivity,. The reduced crime, addiction, distress and disorder point to the same theory. Early life conditions critically affect adult life.     4     Remove it and the harm is great.

A．The appropriate feeding and caring styles were greatly rewarded in all aspects.

B．It was claimed that simply feeding and changing them would be adequate.

C．Some, however, demonstrate little influence with roughly ordinary behavior pattern.

D．Maternal attachment plays a fundamental role in shaping who we are.

E．Necessities are not just the availability of food and water.

F．And they simply didn’t grow like normal infants.

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it.)

I don’t remember ever slamming my door     1     anger at her and shouting, “You just don’t understand!” Because she did understand.

One month before my high-school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment, fear and over-whelming anger that my dad was missing some of     2    (important) events in my life. I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation, the senior-class play and the prom. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief,     3     not hear of my skipping any of those things.

The day before my father died, my mother and I     4     (go) shopping for a prom dress. We’d found a spectacular one, with yards of dotted Swiss in red, white and blue.     5     made me feel like Scarlett O’ Hara, but it was the wrong size. When my father died, I forgot the dress.

My mother didn’t. The day before the prom, I found that dress – in the right size – draped majestically over the living room sofa. It     6    (present) to me – beautifully, artistically, lovingly. I didn’t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel     7     (love) and lovable, creative and imaginative, imbued with a sense    8     there was magic in the world and beauty in the face of adversity. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see     9     much like the gardenia – lovely, strong and perfect – with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery.

My mother died ten days after I was married, I was 22. That was the year the gardenias stopped     10     (come).