1 . Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese-style spelling bee. In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.

Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy(书法) to be one of their primary contributions to civilization. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet. The correct character is chosen from a list. The result? It’s possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.

But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write.

In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-year-olds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully attempting to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?” we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin. “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture,” she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.

1. What can we learn about the Character Hero?

A．It’s open to people of all ages and all walks.

B．It’s the most-viewed TV programs in China.

C．It aims to spread Chinese culture to the world.

D．It draws great public attention across the country.

2. Why are Chinese people forgetting how to write the characters?

A．Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often.

B．Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy.

C．Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters.

D．Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology.

3. .According to Shen Bin, being able to write characters by hand is_________.

A．necessary for adults to survive in China

B．a requirement made by the Education Ministry

C．helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive

D．an ability to be developed only when you are students

4. Where does this text probably come from?

A．A news report.	B．A science report.
C．An advertisement.	D．Children’s literature.

2 . 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（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，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。

It is known that some students cheat in exams. There are three reason for it. First of all, there are so many exams. Beside, the exams given are difficulty in some way. Secondly, some students have to cheat in exams because of they are too lazy. The last reason is to please our parents and teachers. For some students, low marks brought them great pressure and make them depressing.

In my opinion, cheating in exams are wrong. We should take positive attitude to our studies, and try to get a mark what is true as well as good.

3 . How was 2019 for you? Was it pleasant and full of joy? Or was it unpleasant and full of sadness? Either way, some good things happened this year that can warm your heart. Let's take a look.

A Thailand supermarket came up with a great way to cut down the plastic packaging. It wraps the things in banana leaves instead of plastic.	South Korea is having the daytime disco parties for people over 65.The goal is to help fight loneliness and dementia in the elderly people.
There are only two northern white rhinos left in the world. They live in Africa. This year, scientists successfully fertilized seven of their eggs. This might help to save the dying ones!	Students at a primary school in Maine, the US, are learning the sign language. They are doing this in order to help a deaf 6-year-old girl feel welcomed at their school. They hope that she'll be happy every day.

1. The text is about _________________.

A．dangerous animals around the world	B．different cultures in different countries
C．exciting things that can warm our hearts	D．something special that happened in 2018.

2. What is the purpose of the daytime disc parties in South Korea?

A．to cut down the plastic packaging	B．to help a deaf 6-year-old girl
C．to save the dying ones.	D．to help the elderly people.

3. According to the text, which of the following is TRUE?

A．A Chinese supermarket uses the leaves to wrap the things.

B．South Korea set up a disco club to help dementia people.

C．Scientists in Africa try to help save the white rhinos in danger.

D．Primary school students are learning the sign language to help a boy.

4. The text above might from the _______ column in a magazine.

A．Language Corner	B．Magic World
C．Food Square	D．School Time

4 . You and your friends are settling into your seats. The new movie is about to start and you've got the snacks: soda and popcorn. Food is part of what makes the movies fun.

Just as the lights go out, you catch a slight smell of...tuna fish! You turn your head, searching for the source. Then you spot him: A guy is enjoying a tuna fish sandwich. How'd he get that here? You wonder. Then you remember how much you paid for your snacks.

What invites the unwelcome outside food is probably the price. Why pay $5 for a bag of M&MS when you can get them for a dollar at the corner store?

Earlier this year, a Michigan man decided to fight for his right to snack. Joshua Thompson is suing his local theater after it banned outside food. He argues the ban breaks a Michigan law that prevents businesses from charging extremely high prices. However, most legal experts believe Thompson has little chance of winning his case, though he does have a point: 85 cents out of every dollar of treats a movie theater sells is pure profit.

The truth is that movie theaters are more in the snack business than the movie business. A huge part of the ticket income goes to the Hollywood studio. This makes sense, since the studios have to pay the costs of movie production and advertising. But that often doesn't leave much cash for the theater, which also has its own running costs. If customers stopped buying food, owners would have to raise ticket prices even higher.

Of course, there's another reason to think twice before bringing food into the movies: It's against the rules. Breaking those rules can have unpleasant consequences too. Some theaters will kick you out if they catch you. Even without the threat of punishment, we should follow rules all the time—out of respect.

Here's a good idea: Eat before the movie.

1. What can we infer about the guy mentioned in Paragraph 2?

A．He prefers eating things in the dark.	B．He brought the sandwich from outside.
C．He showed little interest in the new movie.	D．He dislikes the food provided by the cinema.

2. What do we know about Joshua Thompson?

A．He broke a Michigan law.	B．He is likely to lose the case.
C．He thinks cinema tickets are too expensive.	D．He was forbidden to have snacks at the theater.

3. In Paragraph 5 the author mainly explains________．

A．how movie studios work with movie theaters	B．how movie theaters reduce their operating costs
C．why Hollywood studios must pay high costs	D．why snack sales are important to movie theaters

4. How does the author feel about bringing outside food into the cinema?

A．It is unacceptable.	B．It is convenient.
C．It is great fun.	D．It is lawful.

5 . The way that others judge you is similar to placing marbles (玻璃弹珠) on a scale (天平盘) as soon as they get any information. We form impressions of people the same way we form an impression of anything: As soon as our scale of marbles starts tipping one way, we start collecting evidence to back that up by picking up the marble that’s easiest to pick up.

Why? Our brains are lazy and our time is limited. As we get more choices, we become more careless about everything. “Basically, we get around choice overload by ignoring most of the choices we have,” says the decision-making researcher Peter Todd.

Think about an employment manager working through a stack of résumés (一摞简历), one of which advertises an applicant’s (申请人的) fluency in French. Does it matter, even if the position is for a web designer? It just might.

“Suppose the manager has a great interest in learning French to talk to her elderly aunt in Montreal. No doubt the applicant would feel excited about being offered the job,” writes Warren Thorngate in Judging Merit. “But how would you feel about such a one-step judgment, especially if you’d spent three days preparing your résumé for the job opening but did not trouble to note in your résumé that you, too, spoke French?”

I called Thorngate to ask how such things manage to continue. “Some very good applicants may be missed, but they don’t care,” the judgment and decision-making researcher replied.

“It’s one of those problems where everybody thinks that they’re a good judge of character,” says the researcher Kristine Kuhn. “But obviously people just are not nearly as good as they think they are. Even if they met someone and judged them as great employees and employed them, and then they turned out to be bad, that doesn’t shake people’s confidence. They can always explain away that it really didn’t have anything to do with them not being a good judge of character.”

1. What does the author say about first impressions in Paragraph 1?

A．They’re lasting.

B．They’re important.

C．They’re hard to make.

D．They’re often unreliable.

2. Why does the author give the example of an employment manager’s judgment?

A．To prove it is not easy to prepare a résumé.

B．To suggest the employment manager is irresponsible.

C．To explain how your résumé makes a first impression.

D．To show first impressions are formed quickly and easily.

3. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

A．Employment managers.

B．Decision-makers.

C．Researchers.

D．Applicants.

4. What would happen if people made a wrong judgment according to Kristine Kuhn?

A．They would hide it.

B．They would be punished.

C．They would excuse themselves.

D．They would lose their confidence.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the past a gentleman would offer his seat to a lady on a     1     (crowd) bus. But now, he will probably look out of the window or hide behind his newspaper,    2    (leave) the lady standing     3     someone else gets off. Some ladies still feel they have no choice but     4     (blame) the rude man. But time is changing. You can’t entirely blame men for this change in manners. The days are gone when women could     5     (refer) to as the weak. A whole generation has grown up demanding     6    (equal) with men in jobs, in education and in social life. Hold a door for some women,     7     you are likely to get     8     angry lecture on treating women as weaklings (弱者). Take a girl out for a meal and she’ll probably insist on paying     9     share of the bill. All these, according to some sociologists, will change men’s attitude towards women and the traditional politeness is perhaps slowly being     10     (replace) by true consideration for the needs and feelings of women, so that men can see women as equal human beings.

7 . New research says 35 percent of the deaths of children worldwide are caused by hunger. The research is from poor to middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Robert Black from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland was the leading writer of the research. He says more than 3.5 million mothers and children under five die in poor countries each year because of hunger.

He says more than two million children die from underdevelopment, either before or after birth. Millions of others who survive face a lifetime of disabilities or early death. And the effects are not just physical. Poor brain development can limit economic success as children become adults. Then the cycle of poverty and hunger often repeats for their children.

Doctor Black says hungry children are also more likely to have conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease as adults. He says the studies show that food programs need to place the greatest importance on the first two years of life. Hungry children can suffer the whole life damage from age two.

So it is high time to improve their diets. Diets should include foods rich in vitamin A and other useful things. The researchers say early help like these could reduce child deaths by 25%.

The research has faced some criticism（批评）. A medical aid group says the researchers underestimate（低估）the number of child deaths from hunger. The researchers say there are findings that support this treatment but more studies are needed to compare it to hospital care.

1. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?

A．Poverty and hunger have influenced all children's lives in the world.

B．Hunger has some bad effects on children's physical and mental development.

C．Ever year over two million children die of hunger after birth.

D．Poverty and hunger can limit people's success.

2. What can we learn from this passage?

A．If a child is hungry at childhood, he will be disabled in the future.

B．Criticism is the best medicine for hunger.

C．The results from the research is not satisfactory.

D．Generally speaking, hungry children have less chance of catching heart disease when they grow up.

3. Which period is the most important for children's physical development?

A．Before birth.	B．Between birth and the age of two.
C．From age two to five.	D．Under the age of five.

4. Which of the following is the most suitable title for this passage?

A．Hunger—children's biggest enemy.	B．How to prevent hunger.
C．A latest survey about hunger all over the world.	D．Time to improve our living conditions.

8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

Jim is one of my closely friends. Two months ago，his mother bought a computer to him as a present. She hoped Jim will study hard with the help of the computer. To his surprise，Jim just wasted   plenty of time play computer games every day.   Now she regrets buying the computer. As matter of fact，a computer can do a lot of jobs for us. It is wide used in factories，hospitals，banks and so on. Many computers scientists are now trying to make the computer to think like a man. At my opinion，the key is that we should use it wisely.

9 . 疫情期间，开展线上教学，青少年由于看电脑，用手机时间过长，眼睛近视问题越来越严重，成为学校、家长和社会关注的热点问题。请你就此问题，并结合自身情况，就如何改善青少年近视问题给出合理建议，以“How to Protect Our Eyes ”为题写一篇作文。

Nowadays more and more students are becoming short-sighted,

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10 . Below are the future optional majors for you to take into consideration before entering college.

Architecture

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Architecture is the design of the built environment: buildings and their surroundings. As a profession, it is an art, science, and business with careers(职业)available in schools of architecture, and in architectural research. Department of Architecture Design 101 Alumni Hall Phone: 513-529-7210

Accountancy

Degree: Bachelor of Science

Accountancy is the language of business. Accountants prepare profit and loss statements, cost studies, and tax reports. They can work for any size firms, ranging from a large international firm to a small local accounting practice, and government. Farmer School of Business Student Services Office Phone: 513-529-1712

Journalism

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Journalism includes the fields of Media & Culture, and Interactive Media Studies. In addition to fundamental reporting, writing, and editing skills, journalism combines the art of communication with the science of digital technology. Graduates may become magazine editors, reporters, or copywriters.

Department of Media, Journalism & Film 206 Williams Hall Phone: 513-529-5893

Anthropology

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Anthropology is the study of humans. Individuals and societies are complex and dynamic, which means anthropology covers a lot of ground. The study of people can lead to almost any career path, including education, health care, social work, international development, government and human relations.

Department of Anthropology 120 Upham Hall Phone: 513-529-8399

1. Which of the following directly involves the art of communication?

A．Architecture.	B．Accountancy.
C．Journalism.	D．Anthropology.

2. What is the unique advantages of majoring in anthropology?

A．Graduates will receive further education for free.

B．Graduates will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree.

C．Graduates can apply for a position in government.

D．Graduates have a wider range of job chances.

3. Who is the passage most likely intended for?

A．Ordinary job hunters.	B．Senior high school graduates.
C．College staff.	D．Social workers.