1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. When was the British Library founded?

A．In 1937.

B．In 1973.

C．In 1965.

2. How many books does the British Library collect?

A．About 4 million.

B．About 14 million.

C．About 40 million.

3. What do we know about the library in the speech?

A．It holds many concerts every year.

B．It has a wide collection of stamps.

C．It is the oldest library in the world.

4. Why are people required to provide proof of address?

A．For returning the books.

B．For doing more research.

C．For security purposes.

3 . Reading poems is not exactly an everyday activity for most people. In fact, many people never read a poem once they get out of high school.

It is worth reminding ourselves that this has not always been the case in America. In the nineteenth century, a usual American activity was to sit around the fireside in the evening and read poems aloud. It is true that there was no television at that time, nor movie theatres, nor World Wide Web, to provide diversion. However, poems were a source of pleasure, of self-education, of connection to other people or to the world beyond one’s own community. Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual. Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, like reading poems by the fireside, another way in which poetry has a place in everyday life.

How did things change? Why are most Americans no longer comfortable with poetry, and why do most people today think that a poem has nothing to tell them and that they can do well without poems?

There are, I believe, three factors: poets, teachers, and we ourselves. Of these, the least important is the third: the world surrounding the poem has betrayed us more than we have betrayed the poem. Early in the twentieth century, poetry in English headed into directions unfavourable to the reading of poetry. Readers decided that poems were not for the fireside or the easy chair at night, and that they belonged where other difficult-to-read things belonged.

Poets failed the reader, so did teachers. They want their students to know something about the skills of a poem; they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles.

1. Why is reading poems thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century?

A．Because it built a link among people.

B．Because it helped unite a community.

C．Because it was a source of self-education.

D．Because it was a source of pleasure.

2. What does the underlined word “diversion” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Stories.

B．Changes.

C．Amusements.

D．Concentrations.

3. What is the main cause of the great gap between readers and poetry?

A．Students are poorly educated in high school.

B．Poems have become difficult to understand.

C．Students are becoming less interested in poetry.

D．TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry.

4. What does the author try to tell us by writing the text?

A．The history and changes of poetry.

B．The correct way for teachers to teach poetry.

C．The failure of poetry in people’s life nowadays.

D．The reason why people aren’t keen on poetry today.

5 . 最近，你班涌现出了一股时尚攀比风，有些同学甚至不惜花重金网络代购限量版球鞋。对此你打算给校英语报投稿，发表你的看法，内容包括:
1.分析产生这一现象原因;
2.该现象造成的不良影响;
3.发出积极的倡议。
注意:
1.写作词数应为80左右;
2.短文的题目和首句已为你写好(不计入总词数)。

Too much expenditure on fashion

Recently, an increasing number of students are pursuing fashion in our class.

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6 . 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。

In much of Africa, traditional radio sets     1    (use) widely. Radios are more popular       2    smartphones and computers because the Internet service is not always available (可利用的) in many places in Africa.

Afrobarometer is a research group based in Accra, Ghana. It found radio is the most common way of       3    (get) news in Africa. About 68 percent of respondents (调查对象) said they listened at least a few times a week, compared to about 40 percent of respondents     4    use social media (社交媒体) and the Internet. Traditional radio sets are easier and less       5    (cost) to use in comparison to the Internet service. Many small radio sets now come with solar cells that allow people       6    (listen) to the radio even when they do not have electricity. John Masuku has been       7     radio host for 50 years. He said many people trust information from     8    (they) radio sets over other sources (来源).“There is a lot of disinformation an misinformation so people still want to check … If it is not said on the radio, it is     9    (usual) not true. That’s the reason for the       10    (popular) of radio in Africa,” he said.

7 . 最近，你校同学正在参加某英文报组织的一场讨论，讨论的主题是：公园要不要收门票?
请你根据下表所提供的信息，给报社写一封信。

60%同学认为	40%同学认为
1. 不应该收门票	1. 应收门票，但票价不要太高
2. 公园是公众休闲的地方	2. 支付园林工人工资
3. 如收门票，需建大门、围墙，会影响城市形象	3. 购新花木

注意：1. 词数：100词左右
2. 参考词汇：门票—entrance fee
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10 . 阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

On Sunday, the second day of Spring Festival, a man was killed after he fell into the tiger enclosure while trying to get into the zoo in Ningbo, East China’s Zhejiang Province, without paying for a ticket.

The tragedy cost two lives, as the tiger was shot dead when zoo employees tried to rescue the man.

As news of the incident spread, the majority of voices online blamed the dead man for the animal’s death. Some said this was a sign that people are becoming more cold hearted. But they are wrong. People have been displaying increasingly more enthusiasm for helping those in need and participating in charity work. In 2016, the China Charity Federation received donations of 18.8 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) in total, 46 percent more than the donations received in 2015, and they sent helping hands to one tragedy after another.

People are just tired of forgiving those in the wrong. While sympathy is right, it has been abused too much. When somebody commits a crime, no matter how cruel the crime is, media outlets explain the criminal’s miserable childhood and there are calls for forgiveness. When someone smokes in public, there are always people calling for tolerance.

People are fed up and angry with lawbreakers escaping their due punishments in the name of forgiveness and tolerance.

But going back to the tragedy at the wildlife park in Ningbo, the tiger’s death shows the park was not well prepared for such emergencies. They did not have any tranquilizer guns that could sedate the tiger immediately and save the lives of both the man and the endangered animal.

In the meantime, it is necessary to raise people’s awareness that the animals in zoos and wildlife parks are not domesticated pets, and of the need for visitors to observe rules for their own safety.

The man in the Ningbo incident paid for his fault with his life, but the tiger was killed for his fault, too. We sincerely hope no more tigers or humans will pay for such fault.

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