1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When is the first meeting of the Garden Club this year?

A．On Monday.

B．On Wednesday.

C．On Friday.

2. What’s the aim of the Garden Club?

A．To teach students to grow food.

B．To promote healthy and organic food.

C．To grow food for the school.

3. What will be served at the first meeting?

A．Cabbages.

B．Cucumbers.

C．Tomatoes.

4. What do we know about first-year students?

A．They can only work in the school garden.

B．They are not allowed to join the club.

C．They will be in charge of community garden.

2 . Mark DeMatteis had just paid money to walk past angry clowns, and a screaming madman with a knife, and he was loving every minute of it. “I love to be scared. …I love the art of it.” said the 38-year-old lover of haunted houses（鬼屋）and horror films. He’s never experienced a fright he didn’t like.

There’s no doubt that real life can be frightening sometimes, or even dangerous to one’s health. That is part of the reason people love a good fright in a haunted house or movie theater, which they can manage with little actual risk involved.

“It’s a big thing for people to do something they’re really afraid of, and come out on the other side knowing, ‘I did it, I controlled it, I didn’t fall apart.’” said Glenn Sparks, a Purdue University professor who has studied how people handle fear from media images.

He said that in modern society, a young male’s ability to face a scary image or amusement park ride could be the thing that could help him prove himself.

Sparks has observed how haunted houses and horror films are common dating experiences for young couples. He believes that males and females have expectations of how the other should act. “If a male goes into one of those situations and shows control, females tend to find him more attractive and he is admired more,” he said. “Similarly, for a female, the normal reaction is to show fear. If a female doesn’t show that, the female becomes less attractive.”

It’s unusual for fright alone to actually harm anyone, although DeMatteis remembered working at a haunted house a few years ago where a man fainted（昏厥）inside. Dr. Cyril Wecht is unaware of any cases in which people reacted to frightening images so strongly that they were actually scared to death. However, he doesn’t say it's impossible. It depends on the strength of the person’s heart at the time he experiences fear. Wecht and others say that a real-life fear is more likely to affect one’s health.

Recently, Theresa Streshenkoff, 16, was on her third trip to the haunted house even though she said she was often scared. Her first time this year, the high school student ran screaming from a frightening figure in costume. She still felt excitement going through again days later, even after she knew what to expect. “It isn’t supposed to be fun to be scared, but if it’s frightening and you know it’s not going to hurt you, it’s fun,” she explained.

1. Why do people love to be scared in haunted houses or movie theaters?

A．Because being frightened is good for their health.

B．Because they know they aren’t taking real risks.

C．Because these places are considered dangerous.

D．Because screaming makes them feel good.

2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．complete a challenge	B．realize a mistake
C．win an award	D．accept a fact

3. According to the passage, which experience would damage your health most?

A．Watching a frightening movie with a classmate.

B．Being scared by your friends on Halloween.

C．Experiencing a terrible earthquake.

D．Going to an amusement park.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Fear Is a Lot Fun	B．How to Overcome Fear
C．Fright Doesn’t Lead to Death	D．Don’t Fight a Good Fright

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Which aspect is the speaker going to cover?

A．Ways to prevent accidents.

B．The functions of the Royal Society.

C．A video of serious accidents.

2. What does the society provide?

A．Useful information on safety.

B．Help in dangerous situations.

C．Special training on living.

3. What does the speaker say about accidents in the UK?

A．They cause serious injuries.

B．They happen quite often.

C．The country pays for them.

4. How many people died at work last year?

A．About 350.

B．About 4,000.

C．About 30,000.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What happens to the youth unemployment in rich countries?

A．It is rising.

B．It is coming down.

C．It stays the same.

2. What is the youth unemployment rate in Brazil now?

A．14％.

B．16％.

C．11.1％.

3. Where does the highest rate of youth unemployment for women lie?

A．In the Middle East and North Africa.

B．In the Middle East and Asia.

C．In the Middle East and Europe.

4. What may be the reason for youth unemployment?

A．Financial problem.

B．World wars.

C．More strikes.

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（）画掉。
修改：在错词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Nowadays, more and more people have their own mobile phones, some of who are always lowering their heads to play the mobile phones instead of communicating with their families. That is so annoying. In fact, the further distance in the world is not between life and death, however when I stand in front of you, you are playing with your mobile phones. I complete understand it because my sister is one of the phubbers（低头族）.

Last weekend, I went to KFC with my sister. I wanted to order some foods, so I asked her what she would like to eat. She didn’t make any response to me but kept talk with her friends on Wechat. I felt angry, and I shouted her: “It is impolite to play your mobile phone at table.”

In my opinion, it is high time that we throw away the phone and raised our heads up. Do cherish everything around me and appreciate the scenery in the front of us.

6 . When Ariyah Georges was born 15 weeks early, she weighed only one pound, 12 ounces. Her mother, Jovan, knew how important breastfeeding was, especially for a premature (早产的) baby like Ariyah, so she began pumping milk to feed her through a tube. But two days later, Jovan felt dizzy and feverish — 104 Fahrenheit degrees, in fact. She had a blood disease and was close to full shock.

She was separated from others for nearly two weeks at the regional Northern Virginia hospital where she’d delivered. During that time, she could still pump breast milk, but Ariyah couldn’t consume it because of the risk of infection (感染). Without it, the newborn was particularly easily affected by diseases. There are many cases like this, which creates the need for the milk donation.

Enter donor milk — breast milk purchased by hospitals for mothers who aren’t able to produce enough milk on their own, due to health complications, stresses, or other factors. The milk comes from milk banks, organizations that collect and screen breast milk from those women willing to donate. Usually processed in intensive-care units, the milk is only available by prescription.

In recent years, both milk banks and the use of donated human milk have risen swiftly in the United States. In 2011, 22 percent of NICUs used donor breast milk; four years later, that number doubled to nearly 40 percent, and went even higher for the most intensive NICUs — as much as 75 percent. There are 23 milk banks in the United States recognized by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, or HMBANA, double the number that existed five years ago.

But as the demand for donor milk rises, banks must find more charitable donors — a task made more complicated by informal networks of milk sharing that happens online. And many of the most vulnerable infants are still not being reached.

1. What’s the problem of Ariyah when she was born?

A．She had a shock.

B．She was too light.

C．She had a blood infection.

D．She felt dizzy and feverish.

2. What’s the influence if a mom has no breast milk?

A．The mom can still pump breast milk.

B．The mom will have to stay at the hospital.

C．The baby will be separated from others.

D．It is more likely for the baby to catch a disease.

3. What is the purpose of using figures in Paragraph 4?

A．To call healthy moms to donate breast milk.

B．To show the demand change of donated human milk.

C．To show the shortage of breast milk in milk banks.

D．To raise the awareness of the importance of breast milk.

4. Where would you most probably see the text above?

A．In a historical fiction.

B．In a science magazine.

C．In an entertainment newspaper.

D．In a textbook.

7 . It is 6:00a.m.on the first day of the school year. In Chery brook Technology High School, mathematics teacher Eddie Woo is already at work.

One of the first things before the first bell rings is to set up his tripod（三脚架）and iPad in the middle of the classroom. “I’m Mr. Woo. I record my lessons. I record all of them. In fact, I’m about to record this one,” he explains to his new maths class.

He started posting videos online in 2012 for a student who was sick with cancer and missing a lot of school, so he started sharing them across the country and beyond. Wootube now has more than 38,000 subscribes(用户) and has attracted almost 4 million views worldwide.

Cherybrook Technology High School principal(校长) Gary Johnson said Mr. Woo was helping maths teachers in Australia and making maths popular again. “He has an ability to simplify(简化) maths to a level where kids can really understand it.” Mr. Johnson said.

12-year-old student Emily Shakespear said Mr. Woo’s teaching style made maths easy and interesting. “I don’t want to say it, but he sucked me into maths,” she said. Owen Potter, who attends high school in Cobar. agreed. “It’s difficult to understand how someone in Sydney can influence thousands of people across the whole country,” he said.

Mr. Woo won the 2017 University of Sydney Young Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement, and he was one of 12 Australian teachers honored at the Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards.

1. Eddie Woo set up an iPadin the middle of the classroom with the purpose of ________.

A．listening to music	B．playing a video
C．recording his class	D．showing pictures

2. What can we infer from the statistics（数据）in the third paragraph?

A．Mr. Woo’s teaching videos online are very popular.

B．Mr. Woo had made a lot of money by selling videos.

C．Mr. Woo posted videos online helping many adults.

D．Mr. Woo created his Wootube in 2012 in Sydney.

3. According to Gary Johnson, Mr. Woo’s maths lessons are ________.

A．difficult to follow	B．easy to understand
C．simple to handle	D．challenging to learn

4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．Mr. Woo is the most well-known maths teacher in Australia.

B．Mr. Woo graduated from the University of Sydney with honors.

C．Mr. Woo won the Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards.

D．Mr. Woo’s contributions to teaching have been recognized.

8 . It is sad to learn that fewer of us now own pets. According to Mintel, just 56% of UK households（家庭）today include a pet, compared with 63% in 2012. It is down to our smaller homes. The housing crisis（危机）is taking away one of our life’s joys: pets.

Pets can help us get over serious illness. Pets lessen our anxiety. Pets can be a godsend for people experiencing various forms of mental disorders. As if all that were not enough, pets also help their owners get a date because of complex psychological reasons.

There do, of course, remain oppositions to the very idea of pets. The charity PET A puts it thus: “This selfish desire to own animals and receive love from them causes immeasurable suffering, which results from selling or giving them away casually, and taking away their opportunity to enjoy their natural behavior.” This is undoubtedly true in some situations. But seen from a different point of view, there’s something quite lovely about the story of people and their companion animals.

What was once a relationship based only on the animal’s functional effects—its ability to kill pests（害虫）, guard houses, and the like—has developed into something much more about care and love.

We share 84% of our DNA with dogs. We share 90% of our DNA with mice, for good ness sake. I have no idea how that works. But still pets remind（提醒）us we’re part something bigger. Pets break down the barriers between us and the animal kingdom. We may teach pets to roll over, stand up, order takeaways and so on. But they teach us much more: that life is actually really quite short and so should be filled as much as possible with life-giving experiences.

1. What does the underlined part “is down to” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Is the result of.	B．Is harmful to.
C．Is away from.	D．Takes

2. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A．The benefits of keeping pets.

B．The reasons for which humans keep pets.

C．The fact that the number of pots is falling.

D．The relationship between humans and pets.

3. What does PETA think of keeping pets?

A．It builds love between animals and humans.

B．It takes away pets’ chance of living freely.

C．It disturbs humans’ normal life.

D．It does good to humans’ health.

4. What lesson can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Human pet roots lie in their shared DNA.

B．Humans are a small part of nature.

C．Two heads are better than one.

D．Like attracts like.

9 . A recent survey in the United States showed that the average family spent more money on its pets than on its children. Although rather shocking, it should not _______ anyone who has seen the doggy parlors(客厅) where loved pets rest. It is possible that: Americans are unique in treating their little friends in this way, but the information we have suggests that the English, too, are _______ to their pets.

This can clearly be seen when we look at pet foods, which often contain more vitamins than human food or at least, are _______ less nutrition. They certainly cost much. Last year the British public spent two hundred million pounds on pet food alone, _______ veterinary(兽医的) bills or animal furniture. It is difficult not to feel _______ with this when considering what the same amount could do for victims of starvation and poverty, so it is _______ for me to get hot under collar when I read an old man left all his money to his dog instead of his children.

There are a variety of reasons why I find the popularity of British pets _______. They cause physical problems. An example of this is New York where they have great difficulty getting rid of the mess that dogs leave on the streets. Many people find this funny, but in a number of large cities it is a major problem. Animals can cause disease, too. It is the threat of rabies—a disease with no known cure—that has made the English government impose strict _______ on animals coming into the United Kingdom. When the Spanish government recently _______ a number of stray dogs as protection against the same threat, English tourists immediately wrote letters to the newspapers ________about 'mass murder'.

Another problem is the ________ of pet owners. Most little children want a dog or a cat, and they continually push their mothers and fathers until they get one. It is only when the "sweet little thing" has been brought home that the parents realize how much time and money must be spent on "Rover" or "Bonzo". Then they just ________ it. This brings me to my last point. Pets, which run free, are often not ________ at all. English farmers lose hundreds of sheep a year, killed by someone’s pet and you must have read of children being hurt by some pets of their own.

________, I would only suggest that we have got our ________ wrong and that something should be done about it. In my view, it’s time we stopped being sentimental about pets.

1.

A．alert

B．surprise

C．disappoint

D．interest

2.

A．kind

B．polite

C．subject

D．available

3.

A．seldom

B．far

C．frequently

D．totally

4.

A．in spite of

B．regardless of

C．not to mention

D．rather than

5.

A．delighted

B．patient

C．mention

D．unsatisfied

6.

A．usual

B．natural

C．concerned

D．essential

7.

A．inevitable

B．understandable

C．ridiculous

D．common

8.

A．orders

B．punishments

C．unacceptable

D．restriction

9.

A．cured

B．destroyed

C．treatments

D．drove

10.

A．inquiring

B．caring

C．enclosed

D．complaining

11.

A．thoughtlessness

B．hesitation

C．worrying

D．kindness

12.

A．isolate

B．scold

C．abandon

D．bind

13.

A．funny

B．sweet

C．desert

D．loving

14.

A．Nevertheless

B．Moreover

C．Therefore

D．Meanwhile

15.

A．mind

B．behavior

C．love

D．priority

10 . Yasuda is 95 years old. Looking for easier ways to search the Web and send email, he bought Apple’s iPad. The company has sold 3.27 million iPads since they entered the market in April. Although it’s impossible to know with certainty how many seniors (老年人) are buying them, evidence suggests that it’s a hit with seniors.

The iPad’s intuitive interface (直观界面) makes it attractive to seniors around the world, says Takahiro Miura, a researcher at the University of Tokyou. “The iPad is a good tool for seniors because it’s very easy to use,” he says. Unlike the PC, it doesn’t require former knowledge.”

James Cordwell, a researcher in London, says the iPad’s popularity with seniors is helping Apple reach beyond its traditional base of young customers. “The world’s population, especially in developed markets, is getting older. It’s probably a market where Apple has least entered,” Cordwell says. Senior users are a key source of growth for them in the future.

Seniors make. up about 22 percent of the population in Japan. They may prove that seniors are willing to accept the iPad. Besides the customer group under 30, they spend more than any other group in the country, according to a report. Motoo Kitamura, 78, a former gas salesman, bought an iPad to help him communicate with his 2-year-old grandson and prevent him from experiencing some of the mental problems that sometimes come with getting older. “Trying new things like that is good mental exercise,” he says.

1. The underlined part “a hit” in Paragraph 1 probably means             .

A．a sudden attack

B．a heavy burden

C．very familiar

D．quite popular

2. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of the iPad?

A．It has intuitive interface.

B．It is easy to operate.

C．People can use it as a way to do mental exercise.

D．Beginners can use it without similar experiences.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．The traditional customers of Apples products are usually the young.

B．People above thirty are Apples largest customer group in Japan.

C．Seniors will soon grow into Apples largest customer group.

D．Seniors in Japan are fond of buying latest hi-tech products.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．iPad influencing the customer group.

B．iPad leading Apple to seniors.

C．iPad’s arrival causing Japanese to think.

D．iPad beating the traditional PC.