1 . Four best thrift (节俭) stores in New York

Housing Works

•Address: NYC Multiple Locations

•Opening Hours: 11 am-7 pm Monday-Saturday; 12 pm-5 pm Sunday

Housing Works has locations offering many second-hand treasures all throughout the city, including the Upper East Side. It’s a great place for thrifters living in the area or visiting the neighborhood. Whether you’re looking for clothing, shoes, or even furniture, Housing Works is always worth the stop. The stores also support the unhoused and those living with HIV/AIDS, so you know you’re helping out a great cause by shopping there.

Chelsea Flea

•Address: 729 West 25th St, btw 6 Ave + B’ way
•Opening Hours: 8 am-4 pm Saturday-Sunday

Open year round on Saturdays and Sundays, the Chelsea Flea market is truly a full weekend adventure! There are thrift shops selling everything from antiques to jewelry (珠宝), and even great food options. And of course, you’ll find many sellers offering some of the coolest and most unique vintage (老式的) clothing in all of NYC!

AuH20

•Address: 84 E 7th St, NY, NY 10003
•Opening Hours: 12 pm-7 pm Tuesday-Sunday

This is definitely one of the best places to find a bargain on clothes. You can find tons of items priced between $5-$40, so you won’t blow your budget even if you pick out a few new pieces. This neighborhood store is a highlight of the East Village shopping scene, and should be on everyone’s list of the best thrift stores in NYC.

Celene’s Thrift Shop

•Address: 568 Grandview Ave, Queens, NY, 11385
•Opening Hours: 9 am--7 pm Monday-Saturday; Closed Sunday

Definitely one of the friendliest thrift stores in New York, this is a small but crowded space that offers tons of cool and unique vintage clothes and items. It’s such a great environment to shop, and you can always find what you’re looking for or something you didn’t even know you needed!

1. What is special about Housing Works?

A．It is closed on holidays.	B．It supports charitable causes.
C．It is famous for its vintage treasures.	D．It is limited to a few specific places.

2. Where can customers buy cheap clothes after 6 pm on Sunday?

A．AuH20.

B．Chelsea Flea.

C．Housing Works.

D．Celene’s Thrift Shop.

3. What do Chelsea Flea and Celene’s Thrift Shop have in common?

A．They offer a friendly dining experience.	B．They are open every day all year round.
C．They have the same opening hours.	D．They sell special vintage clothing.

2 . It is said that Lincoln’s ghost(幽灵) often appears in the White House. He appears in the room where the Lincoln bed is kept. Harry Truman once responded to a 3 o’clock knock on his door and found no one there. He attributed the knock to Lincoln.

Lincoln is said to return to the White House when the safety of the country is at risk. He walks up and down the second floor hallway, gently knocks at doors, and stands by certain windows with his hands put behind his back. One staff member firmly said that he had seen Lincoln sitting on his bed pulling on his boots.

A guard to President Harrison was kept awake many nights trying to protect the president from strange footsteps he heard in the hall. He grew so tired and worried; he finally attended a séance(降神会) to beg President Lincoln to stop so that he could get enough sleep to properly protect the president!

Abigail Adam’s ghost was seen wandering through the closed doors of the East Room to hang the laundry(洗衣店) during the Taft administration.

A gardener said that he had spoken to the ghost of Dolly Madison, who was angry with him for trying to remove the rose bushes she had planted over a hundred years ago.

In the 1930’s Andrew Jackson’s ghost could be heard laughing in the Rose room.

In 1952, complete repairs were done to the second floor of the White House. Since then, the ghosts have not walked so actively.

1. How many people’s ghosts appear in the white house?

A．Four.

B．Five.

C．Six.

D．Seven.

2. Whose ghost was found in the Rose room?

A．Harrison’s.

B．John Adam’s.

C．Andrew Jackson’s.

D．Dolly Madison’s.

3. What can you infer from the passage?

A．Harry Truman had heard Lincoln’s footsteps.

B．Lincoln always returns to the White House when he misses his people.

C．President Harrison was not afraid of Lincoln’s ghost at all.

D．The rose bushes were planted by Dolly Madison.

4. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?

A．The White House Ghosts

B．American Presidents’ Ghosts

C．The White House

D．American Presidents

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A．Reporter and manager.

B．Customer and salesman.

C．Housewife and shopkeeper.

2. What is the major aim of this new home system?

A．To save space for people.

B．To protect the environment.

C．To make it convenient to live in.

3. What can the robot do?

A．Some cleaning.

B．Some shopping.

C．Some repairing.

4. What is the possible disadvantage of this new home?

A．It’s hard to use.

B．It’s difficult to build.

C．It’s expensive to buy.

4 . A new suburban neighborhood, Oberbillwerder, is being planned just 15-minute outside of Hamburg. It has all the facilities that most neighborhoods have except driveways and cars. Unlike typical American suburbs where houses have driveways and a garage, this community isn’t banning cars but you will not be able to park at home, and you may not want to drive at all.

Karres en Brands is a Dutch design company that is working with the Danish firm Adept on this new community that will have 7,000 homes and 5,000 office spaces. The new planned development will have schools, stores and offices that residents can walk or bike to on the green loops (圈) that connect the neighborhoods with public spaces.

The parking structures will feature ground level community spaces like gyms and indoor farming. These parking areas will also store and collect energy for the community and as demand for parking spaces decrease, the developers expect them to evolve into new structures.

Oberbillwerder will be an exciting urban area that will be built around the existing landscape and will include a series of canals in low lying areas. The water system will become one of the central qualities of the new community. This combines nature instead of blocking or changing it to fit a traditional neighborhood. The community will also be energy neutral and use the most environmental technologies including reusing waste water, green roofs, and farming space for residents who want to grow their own food.

The developers expect to break ground in 2025 and the entire project is expected to be completed by 2040 according to Fast Company. While most people will be driving electric cars by then, this urban plan is more about a more natural use of space and better quality of life rather than just about reducing greenhouse gases from car emissions.

1. What can residents do in the new planned community?

A．Drive cars.

B．Take buses.

C．Walk dogs.

D．Go biking.

2. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A．The parking areas.

B．Ground spaces.

C．Parking decrease.

D．Indoor farming.

3. What can we infer from the fourth paragraph?

A．The existing canals will be kept.	B．Energy will be provided for free.
C．The water system will be a bright spot.	D．Growing food will be forbidden completely.

4. What’s the advantage for people to live in Oberbillwerder?

A．Live better.

B．Lower costs.

C．Have more water.

D．Rid car emissions.

5 . When it comes to a public library, you usually think of books and computers for people to use. You can even think of educational lectures and concerts that are often held in the library. But few people would expect to have a farm in the library.

But why not? After all, with rising costs, food safety is a community-wide issue. The Cicero Public Library near Syracuse in New York solved this problem by building a farm on its land. When Meg Backus saw all the open space in the library across the street from the building, he realized it could be used to benefit the community.

The farm was created in 2011 and in the beginning, 40 members of the library brought seeds (种子), water, and supplies to see if they could grow food on the land. It turned out that they could. To get the needed supplies for a larger farm, the library began to work with the organization Syracuse Grows Agency.

The community farm donates (捐赠) over 200 pounds of fresh produce (农产品) to local food banks every year. Half of the growing area is used as the Food Educational Garden. The other half is used by growers themselves. During the year, there are educational programs held at the library to teach people how to garden. There are also a lot of gardening books that can be used at the library.

Lauren Rosenstein, a worker of the library, said that she felt like she was giving something back to the community. “You’re really making a difference as a local community because you’re growing the food that people are eating.”

1. Why did Meg Backus build the farm?

A．To earn money.

B．To attract more readers.

C．To improve food safety.

D．To teach readers how to grow food.

2. How did the 40 members feel at first?

A．Doubtful.

B．Stressed.

C．Hopeless.

D．Confident.

3. What are educational programs held at the library mainly about?

A．Farmers’ life.

B．Food donation.

C．Gardening skills.

D．Food banks.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Make a Farm Popular	B．Turn a Library into a Farm
C．Meet the First Library Farm	D．Find a Job on a Library Farm

6 . Popular Libraries in the World

The idea of a public library —— where anyone in the community is trusted to borrow books, often for long stretches of time, for free —— is fairly magical. Some of the libraries in the world are pretty popular now.

The British Library, London, the UK

The British Library is comparable to the Library of Congress in terms of the size of their holdings, many of which are unique. According to its annual report, the British Library welcomes millions of visitors every year, but the figure in 2016-2017 represents a small but disappointing reduction in the overall visitor numbers.

The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

According to its annual report, the State Library of Victoria’s visitors broke the 2 million in 2016-2017 visit record for the first time in its history, making it the busiest library in Australia. It also recorded many online visits, accessed collection items and uses of digitized collection items.

The New York Public Library, New York, the USA

The New York Public Library reports that it has hosted millions of visitors and circulated large numbers of items over their locations. According to a press, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building —— the main branch of the library —— yearly receives the greatest number of visitors.

The National Library of China, Beijing, China

Established as the Imperial Library of Peking in 1909, the National Library of China is now the largest library in Asia, with holdings of over 30 million items. The library’s annual report puts its total visitors across multiple locations at several million every year.

1. What do we know about the British Library?

A．It holds many rare collections.

B．Its visitors are constantly on the rise.

C．It has the largest collection of books in Europe.

D．Its coverage is the smallest in the world’s libraries.

2. What do the four libraries have in common?

A．They possess two branches.

B．They gain plentiful visitors.

C．They are the busiest libraries in their countries.

D．They face a decline in tourism in the 20th century.

3. In which column of a magazine can you find the text?

A．Finance.	B．Culture.
C．Architecture.	D．Technology.

7 . 天津市实施了《天津市文明行为促进条例》，请以校报记者的身份写一篇报道，说说文明条例实施后身边的变化。内容如下：
1. 更多市民遵守交通规则，坐公交不霸座，过马路不闯红灯；
2. 广场舞扰民情况有好转；
3. 市民文明遛狗，主动清理宠物粪便。
注意：
1. 词数不少于80；
2. 内容充实、行文连贯；
3. 文章的标题已给出（不计入总词数）。
有关词汇：天津市文明行为促进条例 the Regulations to Promote Civilized Behaviors in Tianjin

Better Tianjin

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8 . 听下面一段独白，根据题目要求在相应的横线上写下关键信息。每小题仅填写一个词。这段独白你将听两遍。

How to Decorate Your New Apartment
Determine the     1	• Simple: less color design • Industrial: cool color tones
Break down the plan	• Prioritize what rooms are most     2     • Start with the     3     or the living room
Choose the furniture	•     4     for the size you want beforehand • Go to the     5     physical store

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。

Morgan’s Inspiration Island is a water park in San Antonio, Texas. It is accessible to people with disabilities. The attractions, which include Rainbow Reef, Shipwreck Island, and even a boat ride,    1     (be) all wheelchair accessible. Though all people are welcome, the park offers free     2     (admit) to anyone with a disability.

The water park    3    (found) by Gordon and Maggie Hartman. Their daughter, Morgan, has special needs, and they were     4    (concern) about how inaccessible many theme parks were to her. So they set out to create a park of their own    5    people with disabilities could play. Before the water park’s official opening, the Hartmans invited members of the disabled community     6     (try) out the park. Teaming up     7    doctors, theme park experts, and special education teachers, they’ve created a seriously creative experience.

The University of Pittsburgh helped create a new kind of wheelchair particularly for     8    park. To make it convenient for guests sensitive (敏感的) to the cold, the park has a feature that     9     (rapid) warms up the water. In addition, recycling the water it uses is one of the park’s     10    (way) to make the park environmentally friendly.

10 . 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。

A 150,695-square-foot organic rooftop (屋顶) garden will open in the heart of Paris.

More than 30 different plant species will be grown on the roof and gardeners will be able to harvest lots of fruit every day. The fresh produce will be used     1     (feed) local communities and supply a restaurant in the building. The project will use     2    (advance) watering technology and doesn’t require soil, making the farming process     3    (incredible) resource-efficient.

This farming project will provide a window into a rapidly growing form of agriculture that could significantly improve global food security, fight against climate change, and reduce air    4    (pollute).

“The goal     5     (be) to make the farm a globally recognized model for sustainable production,” said Pascal Hardy, founder of Agripolis, the urbanfarming company behind the project.

    6    is obvious that urban farming has become increasingly popular in recent years. Countries such as Singapore are betting big    7    the success of urban farming to improve food security.

In 2016, the Parisian government     8    (launch) a program called Parisculteurs,    9     objective is to create 100 hectares (公顷) of green space in the capital by 2020.

Once Agripolis’ farms start producing fruits and vegetables, the city will be well on its way to     10    (achieve) this goal.