1 . 假定你是李华，住在一个居民区，近期附近的一块建筑工地自清晨开始施工，持续到深夜。巨大的噪音严重影响了你和邻居们的正常生活，包括休息、学习和工作。请你给当地社区管理部门写一封投诉信，说明情况并希望尽快解决此问题。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Community Management,
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Sincerely,

Li Hua

2 . We all are familiar with the term procrastination(拖延症).    1    Thus phenomenon is also called mood repair by some researchers in which we avoid the bad mood associated with our work by spending time on mood boosting activities. Here you’ll find four simple ways to help you quit procrastination habit to grow your career.

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We all need to break down our projects and goals unto smaller, more manageable things. Concentrating on one thing at a time ran help you complete you task more quickly than you think.

Set a realistic deadline.

    3    Tasks are not likely to be concentrated in our minds without a clearly set deadline. The ambiguity(不明确) is also the biggest cause of procrastination.

Step away from a task for a while.

To maintain the level of efficiency, leave your desk to take a break or go outside for a walk.    4    Continuously thinking about your task can cause severe anxiety and make you feel overwhelmed. Taking a break will help you overcome your procrastination and work towards completing your task goals.

Perfectionism wastes time.

It is human nature that we always try to do our best, but in professional life, we all need to complete the task and move onto the next. As no finished product is perfect, we can only try to make it perfect. But if you keep trying for perfection, you will never finish your task. There is no perfect product, anywhere. You can just complete your task that is really good and accept that some faults are unavoidable.    5    

A．Do one thing at a time.

B．Keep away from complex projects.

C．This makes task accomplishment easier.

D．Instead, focus on being better than perfect.

E．Let your mind relax without thinking about your tasks.

F．After all, you can always come back to improve on in the future.

G．It is a thought, an emotional reaction to putting off the task at hand.

3 . 高中生活转瞬即逝, 回想一下我们的高中生活, 有哪个难忘的瞬间让你久久不能忘怀?假设你是李华, 你校英语报正在进行主题为”My most unforgettable moment“的征文活动, 请你给校英语报投稿, 内容包括:
1. 难忘瞬间;
2. 你的感受。
注意：1. 词数 100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节以使行文连贯。

My most unforgettable moment

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4 . One morning when I was seven years old, I woke up to find my mother was gone. I was terrified, running to_______her.

That morning, my father was coming to pick me up to spend a week with him and my stepmother. When he arrived, he_______an envelope on my mother's bed. It read, “Jeff, I’ve carried the_______for the last seven years. Now it’s your_______. I need a life of my own.”

After reading the letter, my father said, “Mom’s very_______and she’s gone on a vacation, so you’ll be_______with me and Melanie for a while, OK?”

I nodded, but I knew the_______——my mother had abandoned me. I was_______all the way to my dad’s house and entered my room without a word. I thought Melanie might be unhappy because of my_______. But I was________. Over the following months, Melanie tried her best to make me feel________and loved. ________I discovered that I loved Melanie a lot.

When I turned 18, my dad and Melanie gave me a car and wanted to throw me a party, but I just wasn’t in the mood(心情) for________. We were in the garage________my birthday present when a postman handed me an envelope. Inside it was a letter from my mother! It read, “My dearest Steve, you turn 18 and become a man today. I know you must be very________with me, but please________me. Six weeks before I left, I was diagnosed(诊断) with cancer. I’d suffered the________ of my mother at 10, and I knew how painful it was. I________that if I left you with your father and you believed I'd started a new life, it’d________you less. I’m writing this and leaving it with my lawyer, and it’ll be posted to you on your eighteenth birthday.”

Tears streamed down my cheeks. It was then that I realized her________was not abandonment but love.

1.

A．call   on

B．learn from

C．glance at

D．look for

2.

A．noticed

B．left

C．expected

D．remembered

3.

A．guilt

B．favor

C．burden

D．reputation

4.

A．turn

B．chance

C．right

D．honor

5.

A．busy

B．selfish

C．popular

D．tired

6.

A．working

B．fighting

C．staying

D．communicating

7.

A．trial

B．truth

C．deal

D．plan

8.

A．regretful

B．silent

C．independent

D．relaxed

9.

A．arrival

B．return

C．request

D．comment

10.

A．ashamed

B．awkward

C．wrong

D．determined

11.

A．occupied

B．welcome

C．cautious

D．calm

12.

A．Generally

B．Unluckily

C．Strangely

D．Gradually

13.

A．inspirations

B．achievements

C．prizes

D．celebrations

14.

A．choosing

B．assessing

C．admiring

D．preparing

15.

A．bored

B．angry

C．patient

D．concerned

16.

A．forgive

B．remind

C．comfort

D．praise

17.

A．loss

B．prejudice

C．failure

D．blame

18.

A．clarified

B．repeated

C．decided

D．promised

19.

A．hurt

B．scare

C．limit

D．transform

20.

A．explanation

B．departure

C．misfortune

D．ambition

5 . First, all participants found it quite easy to link colors and emotions. This was particularly true for colors like red, black, or yellow. Other colors, like brown and purple, received fewer associations. We found that colour-emotion associations were not one-to-one, but many-to-many.

Participants did not select one emotion for a colour, but often chose several emotions. In turn, different colors were linked to the same emotion, like pleasure, which was associated with red but also yellow, orange, pink and purple.

What you can also see is that most colors were associated with positive emotions. Only brown, grey and black—that is, darker colors—were associated with negative emotions. Red was the most controversial colour. For some, it was a very positive colour—the colour of passion, love and desire. For others, it was a negative colour—the colour of danger, anger and hate. For even others, it was both positive and negative. What connects all these emotions and ideas is the fact that red is activating and strong.

Second, we found few cultural differences. In other words, many colour-emotion associations seemed universal. Most participants agreed that pink was associated with love and pleasure, yellow with joy and amusement, or that black was the saddest colour.

Third, if you are interested in cultural differences, we found some specificities too. For example, in addition to the universal associations of love and anger with red, Chinese participants also associated joy and amusement, while Nigerian participants additionally associated fear with red. Another example is the association between purple and sadness that only Greek participants chose. For others, purple was generally a positive colour with very little agreement on the exact emotions associated with purple.

Fourth, participants whose languages were more similar to each other also had more similar associations. To arrive at this finding, we estimated the degree of linguistic (语言的) similarity between two languages, which shows how related or unrelated they are. And then, languages from different language families, like English and Chinese, would have the lowest similarity scores.

1. Which colour is most likely to cause controversy?

A．Black.

B．Red.

C．Yellow.

D．Brown.

2. What is pink associated with according to most participants?

A．Love and pleasure.	B．Joy and amusement.
C．Anger and sadness.	D．Fear and disappointment.

3. Which group of people associate purple with sadness?

A．Chinese participants.	B．Nigerian participants.
C．Greek participants.	D．English participants.

4. What’s the best title of the text?

A．The Deep Meaning of Colours

B．The Link Between Colours and Emotions

C．Cultural Differences in Different Countries

D．Linguistic Similarity Between Two Languages

6 . Even though we may believe that it’s important to say thank you, sometimes expressing gratitude is easier said than done. We might find ourselves getting hung up on the best way to deliver the message.

However, it’s possible that we might be making our thanks more complex. In a paper, researchers compared the effects of expressing thanks in person, over a video call, and over text. And, while people generally expect an in-person thank you to be the most effective, what happened in reality was quite different: Sending a thank-you over text was almost as effective as that. Additionally, texting may be especially well-suited for situations where we feel awkward or embarrassed about expressing our appreciation.

In the study, 219 college students participated in a gratitude activity in which they wrote about three things they were grateful for over a two- week period. After writing, the students were asked to actually thank the persons involved. Some connected with the gratitude recipients (接受者) in person, others via video call, and others via text. At the beginning and end of the two weeks，participants completed surveys measuring their feelings of well-being, connections with others, loneliness and happiness.

The researchers found that people who expressed gratitude gained increased happiness, with only a few differences for the different methods of gratitude expression. Overall, video calls were just as beneficial as meeting in person. Texting was slightly less effective than video calling- it didn’t make people feel more connected and happier, while video calling did. However, participants who sent their thanks over text still experienced benefits: Texting improved their well- being and reduced their loneliness.

Overall, however, the message is that we shouldn’t worry about finding just the “best” way to express our gratitude. In fact, you re better off sending a quick thank you shortly after you receive the kindness than waiting for an occasion to schedule an in-person visit. Don’t put it off just for finding the best way—many times our gratitude goes unsaid because we spend too much time on the details.

1. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Making a video call.	B．Sending a text message.
C．Expressing thanks in person.	D．Writing a thank-you letter.

2. Why did the researchers ask the students to finish surveys?

A．To find the effect of expressing thanks on them.

B．To measure their physical health.

C．To collect a lot more ways to express thanks.

D．To know their views on gratitude.

3. What did the research suggest?

A．In-person gratitude was less likely to be accepted.

B．Expressing gratitude could benefit mental health.

C．Ways of gratitude expression should be improved.

D．Texting made the gratitude recipients much happier.

4. What are we advised to do to express thanks?

A．Search for the best way.	B．Wait for an in-person visit.
C．Express gratitude in time.	D．Make careful preparations.

7 . I was sitting at my kitchen table the other day with a pen, notebook, calculator and a pile of bills. I was doing my monthly budget. There were bills for electric water, rent, insurance, the car payment, the phone bill, and the cable bill. Plus money needed to be set aside for food, gas, clothes and hopefully a little left over to save for those unexpected bills that always seemed to show up. When I was done, I shook my head, closed my eyes and thought of a time long ago when I would regularly get treasures.

When I was a boy, we lived across the road from Camp Caesar. It held week long camps all through the summer and my grandma who I lovingly called “Nanny” worked in her big kitchen. I remember slipping there getting a smile, a hug, a kiss and a hot roll from Nanny. Then she would always take deep in her pockets and pull out a treasure, a shiny quarter. She would give it to me and I would run down the hill to either get an ice cold can of coke from the pop machine or I would head to the camp’s swimming pool where I could buy a warm cup of cherry coke for 15 cents and a tiny 10 cent bag of chips from a stand. I took my time because it was always a big decision. It was nice too feeling so rich for a few minutes.

Looking back now I can see that the real treasure was not the quarter at all. It was the love with which Nanny gave it to me. I would have still visited her at work every day if I had never gotten a single quarter. It was her smile, hugs, and kisses that were priceless in my heart then and now.

The old saying is true, “With your work you can make a living, but it is with your love that you make a life.” You can always welcome love into your heart, soul and mind. And you can always share your love with others. It is that one treasure that lasts forever.

1. According to Paragraph 1, what was the author trying to figure out?

A．Where to get treasures.	B．What food and supplies to buy.
C．How to sort out these bills at hand.	D．How to balance the money available.

2. What does the underlined word “roll” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．A kind of bread	B．A kind of act.
C．A sound.	D．A greeting.

3. Which of the following best describes Nanny?

A．Considerate.	B．Generous.
C．Affectionate.	D．Enthusiastic.

4. Why does the author mention the old saying in the last Paragraph?

A．To change people’s heart and soul.

B．To show what we should value in life.

C．To explain work and love can make a life.

D．To advise more love and sharing in childhood.