1 . 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。

When I entered senior high school, I began to take a great interest in poems. Some classmates made fun of me.     1     , I devoted all my free time to learning to write poems. One day, I presented one of my poems to my teacher,       2     opinion I wanted about whether or not the poem was any good. While he was scanning the lines, I waited in anxiety, wondering     3     he would say about it. But he said it was wonderful and deserved       4     (publish).

Wanting to try my luck, I posted my poem to a newspaper without     5     (hesitate). After I waited more than a month, it was my assumption that my poem     6     (reject). Then a letter came informing me     7     the acceptance of my poem. They even wanted me to broadcast     8     on the radio. I had made it.

Although I am not     9     (essential) a successful poet now, this experience has left     10     incredible impression on me.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the man?

A．An inventor.

B．A professor.

C．A reporter.

2. Who is Hermione Granger based on?

A．The woman.

B．One of the woman’s best friends.

C．The woman's favorite teacher.

3. What was beyond the woman’s expectation?

A．The publication of the Harry Potter books.

B．The popularity of the Harry Potter books.

C．The inspiration for the Harry Potter books

4. How different will the woman’s future books on Harry Potter probably be?

A．Rather exciting.

B．More realistic.

C．Rather scary

3 . Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.

Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to place in tin bores.

At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.

1. Shlander thinks man on the earth is ________.

A．a monkey

B．an earth monster

C．a tin box

D．a strange world

2. The earth monster doesn’t have ________.

A．a head, arms and legs	B．brown or yellow strings on its head
C．a hole on its face	D．a swing on its body

3. The earth monsters don’t put ________ on their holes.

A．nice things

B．balls

C．fire

D．water

4. The square window box is ________.

A．a car or a bus	B．a very small earth monster
C．a TV set	D．a radio

5 . Teenagers have their own TV channels, websites and magazines. So what about books?

Last year one publisher, Martins, started publishing a series called Waves. We spoke to the director Julia Smith. She explained, “Teenage fiction has been published since the 1970s but publishers have never been very successful in getting teenagers to buy and read books. Now they're realizing that teenagers are not just older children but they are not adults either and often are not interested in adult fiction. For this series we are looking for new writers who write especially for teenagers.”

Athene Gorr's novel was published in the series last year and is selling well. Its title is The Purple Ring. She says, “The important thing is to encourage teenagers to pick up our book. I'm a new writer, although I've got an unusual name which people might remember, nobody knows it yet! But my book has fantastic cover which makes people want to look inside. Then they realize what an excellent story it is!”

And what do teenagers themselves think about the series? We talked to Sophie Clarke, aged 15. She said, “I've read a few books in the Waves series. They say they are for 14—19 year olds and I agree with that. We're not interested in the same things as people in their twenties and thirties. I like them and I think they look really good too. The only thing is that because bookshops put them in the children section, lots of teenagers won’t find them so they may not do very well. And it's a shame there's no non-fiction in the series as I think lots of teenagers, especially boys, might buy that.”

1. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To compare different series of teenage fiction.

B．To give information about a new series of books.

C．To encourage authors to write more books for teenagers.

D．To explain why teenagers fiction is easier to write than adult fiction.

2. What can we infer from paragraph 2?

A．The Waves series are suitable for adults.

B．Teenagers should be encouraged to read.

C．Teenagers are more interested in reading nowadays.

D．It is necessary to publish books aimed at teenagers.

3. What makes the Purple Ring catch people's eye?

A．Its writer.

B．Its cover.

C．The story.

D．Its title.

4. What do we know about the series?

A．They are wrongly placed in the children section.	B．They are popular with teenage boys.
C．They have attractive covers.	D．They are about real facts.

7 . 假设你是晨光中学的学生李津。你的美国笔友Chris正在学习汉语，他得知“中国诗词大会”在CCTV播出，非常感兴趣，便写信给你，希望你介绍相关情况及更多了解中国文化的途径。请根据以下提示给他写一封回信。（1）简单介绍“中国诗词大会”引起的反响；（2）介绍了解中国文化的途径（如阅读相关书籍、利用媒体资源等）；（3）表达对Chris学习中国文化的祝愿。
参考词汇：中国诗词大会Chinese Poetry Competition
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9 . Why are some people successful and others aren’t? What’s the secret of success?     1    .   

Many of Gladwell’s ideas appear in his social psychology bestseller Outliers.    2    . Gladwell thinks that this is just an excuse for not trying and if you really want to be good at something, you have to work at it. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good,” Gladwell writes. “It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

Central to the book is the “10,000-hour rule”. It means that if you want to be among the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours.    3    . For example, the Beatles played live in Hamburg more than 1,200 times between 1960 and 1964, which is more than 10,000 hours of playing time. And when Bill Gates was 13, he was given access to a high school computer, allowing him to practise computer programming for more than 10,000 hours.

    4    . Take the example of Christopher Langan, who’s mentioned in the book. He’s got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein’s IQ was estimated to have been between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan was able to take an exam in a foreign language he’d never studied and pass it after just skim-reading a text book for three minutes. However, Langan never graduated from university and worked in labour-intensive jobs his whole life. This proves that intelligence alone will not lead to success—you need hard work, support, finance and opportunities. Gladwell adds, “No one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses—ever makes it alone.”

    5    . Even after you’ve put in your 10,000 hours of practice, you still need one other key ingredient—luck. So, you could be the most amazing guitarist in the world, but unless you’re lucky enough to play in front of a record company executive who sees a way of exploiting that talent, you aren’t going to be seeing your name in lights.

A．It isn’t just a question of time and support.

B．Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.

C．That’s equal to three hours a day for 10 years.

D．Of course, many people argue that you can create your own “luck”.

E．The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren’t.

F．The interesting thing is that success is not closely related to intelligence.

G．Someone who’s willing to practise something for 10.000 hours is probably active.

10 .

A．The man likes heartbreaking novels.	B．The woman is also drawn to the novel.
C．The novel’s plot is hard to grasp.	D．The fame of the novel is surprising.