1 . In many African countries, the care of orphans has been mainly led by foreign donor organizations. However, Sister Florence has changed all that. Using her own resources, Sister Florence is leading the work of raising orphans from different backgrounds. Sister Florence Wanjala’s biggest motivation to start the orphan program was when she saw a little boy whose parents had died. The boy was living with a cruel grandparent and he would visit the grave of his mother, crying for support. Sister Wanjala wanted to give a helping hand and give him hope. From that time, she started feeling the call to help a larger number of orphans.

She opened an office with a few friends and coordinated (协调)a program to help the orphans. All the registrations were done in the office and the program so far has 8000 children. Sister Wanjala said, “My dream is to help the orphan to live a holistic (完整)life and be a good Kenyan citizen to help this country. Many people think that the way to support orphans is to put them in an institution. Others support them up to the age of eighteen, but here, we do it very differently.” For Sister Wanjala, putting a child in an institution is normally her last choice . She prefers the orphans to live in a foster home.

She said, “I’m so encouraged and happy to see the orphans succeeding. When they come first or second in class, it shows how the program has helped them, and that’s encouraging to me as I continue to coordinate the program.” Through her charity work, more than 1000 orphans have been able to find a home. Sister Wanjala, as a mother, takes care of her own family.

1. What inspired Sister Wanjala to start the orphan program

A．Her preference for kids.

B．Her own similar experience.

C．A sad story about an orphan.

D．Her successful charity work.

2. Sister Wanjala opened an office mainly to ______.

A．set up as many institutions as possible for orphans

B．start a program to offer orphans a foster family

C．provide school education for those orphans

D．raise more money for the homeless kids

3. What does the underlined sentence probably mean

A．She didn’t want orphans to live in an institution.

B．She preferred to put orphans into an institution.

C．She had no choice but to put orphans in institutions.

D．She sent orphans into an institution in the end.

4. What can we learn from the text

A．Sister Wanjala finally adopted the little boy.

B．Sister Wanjala found foster homes for 8000 orphans.

C．Sister Wanjala was too busy to care for her own family.

D．Sister Wanjala was not alone in helping orphans.

2 . "Sorry, but I don't agree with you ..."This is usually followed by unbearable silence and angry tears. I've always found it difficult to disagree with someone, because I don't want to lose a friend. I've found it even harder to accept it when someone disagrees with me, because my ego（自尊心）is hurt.

Before the other person gets a chance to explain why she disagrees with me, my usual response would be," If you aren't able to see my point of view, then what you think isn't worth my time or consideration, either." But now I've come to realize that when a friend disagrees with me, sometimes she is simply saying, "I don't agree with the way things are done." She still respects me as a person, and is only pointing out a better way to look at a matter. However, there may be times when my friend disagrees with me because I'm against the truth. That's when need to listen to what she says.

I've learned that one way to help my friend is for me to be open and honest with the other to voice my thoughts and listen to the other carefully. While we can't control how a person will respond to our views, we must learn to disagree with our friends in love. We will never feel that we are better than the other person.And that will help us to be less emotional, and more objective in the way we express our opinions.In the same way, we can also stay open to feedback（反馈）from others,knowing that our friends may be correcting us in love.

Good friendships build each other up, sometimes through disagreements and honest opinions. Though I don't like being disagreed with, I'm starting to see the value of such disagreements.

1. The author has found it difficult to disagree with someone because       .

A．he is a friendly person	B．he usually hides his ideas
C．he has no mind of his own	D．he wants to keep the friendship

2. When a friend disagreed with him,the author used to       .

A．be unhappy	B．argue with the friend
C．break up with the friend	D．explain things calmly

3. The author will listen to a friend when       .

A．he is against the truth	B．he doesn't tell the truth
C．he is respected by a friend	D．he does things in the wrong way

4. What does the author mainly talk about in the text?

A．How to keep friendship.	B．How to avoid hurting a friend.
C．How to express disagreements.	D．How to deal with disagreements.

3 . Have your parents ever inspected your room to see if you cleaned it properly? Imagine having your entire houses, garage, and yard inspected at any time — with no warning. Inspections were a regular part of lighthouse (灯塔) living, and a keeper's reputation depended on results. A few times each year, an inspector arrived to look over the entire light station. The inspections were supposed to be a surprise, but keeper sometimes had advance notice.
Once lighthouses had telephones, keepers would call each other to warn that the inspector was approaching. After boats began flying special flags noting the inspector aboard, the keeper's family made it a game to see who could notice the boat first. As soon as someone spotted the boat, everyone would do last-minute tidying and change into fancy clothes. The keeper then scurried to put on his dress uniform and cap. Children of keepers remember inspectors wearing white gloves to run their fingers over door frames and windowsills looking for dust.
Despite the serious nature of inspections, they resulted in some funny moments. Betty Byrnes remembered when her mother did not have time to wash all the dishes before an inspection. At the time, people did not have dishwashers in their homes. In an effort to clean up quickly, Mrs. Byrnes tossed all the dishes into a big bread pan, covered them with a cloth and stuck them in the oven. If the inspector opened the oven door, it would look like bread was baking. He never did.
One day, Glenn Furst's mother put oil on the kitchen floor just before the inspector entered their house. Like floor wax, the oil made the floors shiny and helped protect the wood. This time, though, she used a little too much oil. When the inspector extended his hand to greet Glenn's mother, he slipped on the freshly oiled surface. "He came across that floor waving his arms like a young bird attempting its first flight," Glenn late wrote. After he steadied himself, he shook Glenn's mother's hand, and the inspection continued as though nothing had happened.
1. What does Paragraph I tell us about the inspection at the light station?

A．It was carried out once a year.

B．It was often announced in advance.

C．It was important for the keeper's fame.

D．It was focused on the garage and yard.

2. The family began making preparations immediately after ________.

A．one of the members saw the boat

B．a warning call reached the lighthouse

C．the keeper put on the dress uniform and cap

D．the inspector flew special flags in the distance

3. Mrs. Byrnes put the dishes in the oven because this would ________.

A．result in some fun

B．speed up washing them

C．make her home look tidy

D．be a demand from the inspector

4. The inspector waved his arms ________.

A．to try his best to keep steady

B．to show his satisfaction with the floor

C．to extend a warm greeting to Glenn's mother

D．to express his intention to continue the inspection

4 .

Hi Maz and Bobby, I don't know what you're up to this Sunday, but if you're at a loose end, come over to my place. We're going to have a barbecue. Tom

Hi Tom, Thanks mate, but I'm completely snowed under at the moment. I have to write an essay by Monday afternoon, so I'll be working all weekend. I've got nothing arranged for the following weekend though, so maybe we can meet then? I'll call you later. Bobby

Dear Tom, Like Bobby, I'm a bit tied up tomorrow. Unfortunately, I have to go to my great uncle's house for a family lunch. He was ill so we thought it might not happen, but it looks as if it's going ahead. I really can't get out of it because it's the old man's 60th birthday and most of the family will probably be there. Maz

Ok you guys, I'm calling off the barbecue. Judging from the grey sky, it's going to rain all weekend anyway. Maybe you'll have done your various duties by the end of the evening and we can go for a drink instead! If you want to relax, I'll be in The Hart, a pub on King Street. Gloria and I are meeting there at about 8:30, as long as nothing else pops up! Don't forget it closes at 10:30 on Sundays. Ok, time to put my feet up and take it easy! Later, Tom

1. What does Tom intend to do at first?

A．To have a family lunch.

B．To invite his friends to a barbecue.

C．To go for a drink with his friends.

D．To ask for help from his friends.

2. The underlined part "snowed under" in the second email means "________"

A．buried under snow

B．very bored

C．extremely busy

D．entirely relaxed

3. Which statement is TRUE according to the emails?

A．Bobby is not available this Sunday.

B．Maz has to visit his uncle for he is ill.

C．The barbecue will take place on time.

D．Tom will hold a party with his friends.

4. What will Tom probably do after sending the last email？

A．Prepare the barbecue.

B．Go to the pub.

C．Have a rest.

D．Call his friends.

5 . The more hours that young children spend in child care, the more likely they are to turn out aggressive and disobedient by the time they are in kindergarten, according to the largest study of child care and development ever conducted. Researchers said this correlation (相关性) held true regardless of whether the children came from rich or poor homes, were looked after by a relative or at a center, and whether they were girls or boys.

What is uncertain, however, is whether the child care actually causes the problem or whether children likely to turn out aggressive happen to be those who spend more hours in child care. It also remains unclear whether reducing the amount of time in child care will reduce the risk that a child will turn into a mean person. What’s more, quality child care is associated with increased skills in intellectual ability such as language and memory, leading some academics to suggest that child care turns out children who are “smart and naughty”.

The government-sponsored research, which has tracked more than 1,300 children at 10 sites across the country since 1991, is bound to cause the debate over child care again: How should people balance work and family? And how should parents, especially mothers. Resolve the demands that are placed on them to be both breadwinners and supermoms?

That debate was already on display at a news briefing yesterday, where researchers themselves had different opinions about the data and its implications (含义). “There is a constant relationship between time in care and problem behavior, especially those involving aggression and behavior,” said Jay Belsky of Birkbeck College in London, one of the lead investigators of the study who has previously annoyed women’s groups because of his criticisms of child care. “On behalf of fathers or mothers?” interrupted Sarah Friedman, a developmental psychologist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and one of the other lead scientists on the study. “On behalf of parents and families,” responded Belsky.

“NICHD is not willing to get into policy recommendations.” said Friedman, contradicting her colleague. “There are other possibilities that can be entertained. Yes it is a quick solution—more hours in child care is associated with more problems. The easy solution is to cut the number of hours but that may have implications for the family that may not be beneficial for the development of the children in terms of economics.” In an interview after the briefing, Friedman said that asking parents to work fewer hours and spend more time with their children usually meant a loss of family income, which adversely(不利地) affects children.

Scientists said that the study was highly reliable. But the researchers said they had no idea whether the behavioral difficulties persisted as the children moved to higher grades.

1. Children who spend more time in quality child care will ________.

A．develop greater ability in language	B．be easy to manage and less naughty
C．possess great risk-taking spirit	D．be greedy and mean to their classmates

2. What is still unknown about higher level of aggressiveness in kindergarten children?

A．Whether higher level of aggressiveness can be avoided with longer child care.

B．Where longer child care equally affects children from different families.

C．Whether aggressiveness is a direct result of longer child care.

D．Whether longer child care improves intellectual ability in children.

3. In the fifth paragraph the word “it” probably means ________.

A．NICHD is unwilling to give parents recommendations

B．NICHD is willing to give policy advice concerning child care

C．the number of hours in child care should be reduced significantly

D．parents should discipline the behavior of their children more strictly

4. According to Friedman, Cutting the number of hours in child care ________.

A．may prevent families from having the necessary financial sources

B．will make families unable to enjoy much of the social benefits

C．will result in subsequent behavioral difficulties in children

D．should be accompanied with the improvement in the quality of child care

6 . "Some secrets are hidden from health," wrote John Updike in his poem "Fever".
I have experienced the truth of Updike's observation. My excellent health kept me from seeing some things—things that became secrets of sort.
One relates to my son Chris. When I lost my health in March, I discovered something I had missed about him.
Christopher has been a scholar and athlete through high school. He has behaved responsibly, engaged in community service. He has had an impressive peer group of serious students.
While I saw these things, I had missed before what I experienced while in hospital. Early on, Christopher offered the clearest and most forceful words about my need to be positive and to fight acute leukemia(急性白血病). He never left the room after a visit without making me promise that I would be mentally tough and positive.
During the first week, he showed his own mental toughness, researching leukemia and learning what the chances were. He even stopped my doctor outside the room, introduced himself and asked directly what he thought of my chances. He processed the answer without overreaction.
Christopher did admonish(劝告) me against my choice of words the first week at home. I had moved back into my room from weighing myself, discovering a thin figure I did not know. I announced to him and my wife, “dead man walking”. I thought it was a way to lighten the obvious. He saw it as negativity and was strongly against such thinking and talking.
When I resisted taking medicine sometimes, Christopher formed a “good-cop-bad-cop” team with his mother. Betsy gently and patiently encouraged. He directly and forcefully insisted. He always made the logical arguments for why I needed to take some awful pills.
My health had hidden something from me; my ill-health helped me to see it.
1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 indicates that the author ________.

A．got to know more about his son while in hospital

B．knew little about his son until in hospital

C．had no chance of knowing more about his son

D．hardly remembers what happened in the hospital

2. What did Christopher do when the author was in hospital?

A．He told the author not to say anything wrong.

B．He offered some suggestions to the doctor.

C．He always encouraged the author to be confident.

D．He tried to get help from community service.

3. What does “good-cop-bad-cop” in the text refer to?

A．A trick to force the author to obey.

B．A measure to keep the author happy.

C．A friendly way to make the author see what was good for him.

D．A joint effort to persuade the author both kindly and forcefully.

4. What may be the best title for the text?

A．Lessons from Ill-health	B．Unexpected Love
C．Secrets Hidden from Health	D．Discovery Made in Hospital

7 . Jeremy Kerr, a researcher at the University of Ottawa in Canada, and his colleagues analyzed more than 400,000 observations of bumblebee species collected in North America and Europe from 1975 to 2010. When the researchers recorded the locations of these bee populations, they found that many of the 67 species analyzed were moving northward from their southern limits while the northern edges of the bees’ ranges are staying in place. What it results in is obvious.
Bees have been paid more attention to in recent years, with populations of honeybees and bumblebees obviously declining in some parts of Europe. Previously, attention on the decline of bee populations has focused on causes including habitat loss, pesticide use and the spread of bee parasites(寄生虫). But the work by Kerr’s team found something different.
"For every species, there is one or two species declining and others that are not moving at all," says Kerr. This shift has also been observed in other species, such as butterflies. But due to a new cause — the rise of temperatures instead of total pesticide use, a change in land use or parasites, bumblebees — unlike butterflies — have failed to extend the northern boundaries of their ranges into the territory that is now habitable for them, so bumblebee species across Europe and North America are declining rapidly, the latest study led by Kerr’s team finds."Our data suggest that the new factor plays a leading, or perhaps the leading, role in this trend," says Kerr.
"This study shows that a fourth factor is also beginning to affect it. It is likely that the combined stresses from all of these pressures will have destructive impacts on bumblebees in the not-too-distant future," says Dave Goulson, a bee researcher at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Exactly what can be done to help bumblebees is not clear. Kerr’s team suggests that relocating colonies might be an answer but Goulson says that because the insects are mobile they are capable of moving northwards if there is suitable habitat available.
1. What does the move of the bees’ southern limits lead to?

A．The birth of new bee species.

B．The rise of the bees’ population.

C．The evolution of the bees.

D．The reduction of the bees’ habitat.

2. What’s the new cause of bee populations’ declining according to Kerr?

A．Habitat loss.

B．Pesticide use.

C．Climate change.

D．The spread of bee parasites.

3. Which statement may Goulson agree with?

A．Relocating bumblebees isn’t much good.

B．The findings of Kerr’s study are doubtful.

C．The future of bumblebees is still promising.

D．Knowing bumblebees’ living habits is the most urgent.

4. What kind of writing is this passage?

A．A book review.

B．An announcement.

C．A scientific report.

D．An official report.

8 . LONDON(AP)---A suburban house that starred onscreen as Harry Potter’s childhood home is on the market---complete with a cupboard under the stairs.
Fans of the boy wizard will recognize 12 Picket Post Close as 4 Privet Drive, home of Harry’s cruel aunt and uncle, the Dursleys.
The couple unwillingly took Harry in after his parents were murdered and made him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs.
The house in Bracknell, 30 miles(50 kilometers)west of London, was a location featured in the 2001 film “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” A studio set of the house was built for later films of the eight series.
Real estate agency Chancellors(房地产公司总代理)says the three-bedroom house has recently been made over to an extremely high standard.” It’s listed at a price of 475,000 pounds$616,000.)” Real estate agent Paul Bosanko said, “the original plan was to take this property to market without using any reference to Harry Potter. But since news of the connection got out, interest has shot up, and that may or may not influence the final price that we achieve at this property,” Bosanko said.
Neighbor Karen Field said that the house still attracts Potter fans a decade-and-a-half after the film crews left. When the movie first came out, “there were tour buses, literally tour buses coming down the road,” Field said. “It’s a lot quieter now,” she said. “School holidays, you still get people coming along.”
1. What is the news mainly about?

A．12 Picket Post Close in Bracknell for sale

B．Harry Potter’s s childhood home

C．Visits to Harry Potter’s home

D．Films of Harry Potter at 4 Privet Drive

2. What happened to the suburban house west of London?

A．Harry Potter lived in it in his childhood

B．Harry Potter series were all filmed here

C．It was modeled on as a studio set later

D．It was sold at a price of 475,000 pounds

3. What is not true with the house?

A．It is now on the market

B．It belongs to the Dursleys

C．It was related to Harry Potter

D．Potter fans keep coming to it

9 . Donald John Trump(born in June 14，1946)，is an American businessman and politician who became the President-elect of the United States on November 8，2016．Since 1971 he has chaired The Trump Organization，the principal holding company for his real estate ventures and other business interests．During his business career，Trump has built office towers，hotels，casinos，golf courses，and other branded facilities worldwide．

Trump was born and raised in New York City and received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton Schoo1 of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968．In 1971，he was given control of his father Fred Trump’s real estate and construction firm．Trump has appeared at the Miss USA pageants，which he owned from 1996 to 2015，and has made cameo appearances in films and television series．

Trump and his businesses，as well as his three marriages，have received prominent media exposure．He hosted a popular NBC reality show，The Apprentice，from 2004 to 2015．As of 2016，he was listed by Forbes as the 324th wealthiest person in the world，and 156th in the United States，with a net worth of $3．7 billion in October 2016．

Trump first campaigned for the U．S．presidency in 2000，winning two Reform Party primaries．On June 16，2015，Trump again announced his candidacy for president，this time as a Republican．Trump became known for his opposition to illegal immigration and free trade agreements，as well as his frequently non-interventionist views on foreign policy，and quickly emerged as the Republican nomination front-runner．As of March 23，2016，Trump has won 21 contests in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries．

He was elected as the 45th U．S．president in the 2016 election on the Republican ticket，defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton，and took office on January 20，201 7．At 70 years old，he is the oldest person to ever assume the presidency．

1. This passage is mostly probably taken from__________．

A．a story book	B．a biography book
C．a science book	D．an advertisement

2. Where is Donald Trump’s hometown?

A．London．	B．Paris．
C．New York．	D．Beijing．

3. From the passage，we can know that Donald Trump was________．

A．wealthy and Successful	B．intelligent but mean
C．good-tempered and tolerant	D．forgetful and sensitive

4. We can 1earn from the passage that_________．

A．Donald Trump is only successful in business field

B．Donald Trump was born in a poor family

C．Donald Trump is in favor of illegal immigration

D．Donald Trump is the oldest president of the United States

10 . Papa’s jaw dropped when Mama told him that Sister had cheated on her final exams — not to succeed but to fail. “It’s unbelievable!” he said. “Sister has always been so proud of her good grades!”

“Yes, she has,” said Mama. “But it’s not unbelievable. It just shows how badly she wanted off the swimming team.”

“Wanted off the swimming team?” said Papa. “She never said anything about that to me.”

“Of course she didn’t,” said Mama. “She was afraid you’d blow your top. You already had her getting a swimming scholarship to college and winning gold medals at the Olympics. Can you imagine how much pressure she must have felt? For her, being on the team couldn’t have been much fun.”

“Oh, my gosh!” Papa said, clapping a hand to his forehead. “I’ve been so stupid! I just thought she’d want to be a champion swimmer because she’s so good at it.”

“It’s like anything else, dear,” said Mama. “No matter how good at it you are, if it stops being fun, you won’t want to do it anymore.”

Papa put his head in his hands.

“She must be really mad at me,” he mumbled. “Maybe I should say sorry to her.”

Sister’s footsteps could be heard on the stairs. She came into the kitchen and looked hopefully up at her parents.

“Honey,” said Mama with a smile, “your papa and I have decided that there’s no reason for you to be on the swimming team if you don’t want to.”

Sister’s face lit up like a Christmas tree. “Yippee!” she cried.

“And,” added Papa, “there’s no need for any more drills. I’m sure you’ll bring your grades back up all by yourself.”

Sister ran to Papa and jumped into his arms. She gave him a big hug. “I’m going to go play cards with Lizzy!” she said. “See you later!”

From the kitchen window, Mama and Papa watched their daughter run down the sunny road toward Lizzy’s house.

“It’s good to see her happy again,” said Mama.

“It sure is,” Papa agreed. “As for the swimming team, there’s always next year.”

“If?” Mama prompted him.

“Oh, right,” said Papa. “If she wants to.”

Mama smiled. “At least you’re learning, dear,” she said. She kissed him.

“Well, you know what they say,” Papa said. “Better late than never.”

1. The underlined expression “blow your top” probably means ________.

A．change your opinion	B．become very excited
C．get very angry	D．fall down with fear

2. Mama insisted that the child should do ________.

A．what she was willing to	B．what she felt easy to
C．what she was able to	D．what she felt right to

3. Which of the following words best describes Papa?

A．Cruel but reasonable.	B．Crazy but confident.
C．Stubborn but honest.	D．Ambitious but considerate.

4. Which might be the proper title for the passage?

A．Easier Said Than Done	B．Health Is Better Than Wealth
C．Better Late Than Never	D．Something Is Better Than Nothing