1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号中单词的正确形式。

Every day   many   teens   wake   up   afraid   of    1     (go)   to   school.   School bullying(校园欺凌) is a problem    2     affects millions of students, and it makes everyone    3     (worry), not just the kids. Yet because parents, teachers and other   adults don’t always see it, they may not understand how bad bullying can be.

School bullying can threaten students’ physical and emotional    4     (safe) at school and can influence their ability to learn. There     5     (be) a number of things   you can do to make schools safe and prevent bullying.

For younger kids, the best way of solving the bullying problem is to tell a trusted adult. For teens, the tell-an-adult way depends on the bullying situation. If you see or hear someone     6       (beat), you should step in     7       (stop) the bullying right away.   If you   cannot stop it by    8     (you), then find someone who can. It   is   important to keep the bully away from the person he or she is bullying. Do not force the two parties to be in the same room together. Bullying is a problem that can cause serious damage unless the problem     9       (solve) in time. Take any bullying that     you hear about very     10       (serious). You might even need to call the police in        some situations.

2 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Desertification

Desertification is one of the world’s most alarming processes of environmental degradation(退化). The issue is often unclear, however, by a common misperception: that it’s a “natural” problem of advancing deserts in faraway developing countries. In fact, desertification is about land degradation: the loss of the land’s biological productivity, caused by man-made factors and climate change.

Each year, desertification and drought cause an estimated $42 billion in lost agricultural production. The risks of desertification are sufficient and clear. It contributes to food insecurity, hunger and poverty, and can give rise to social, economic and political tensions that can cause conflicts, further poverty and land degradation. The great urgency of this challenge led the United Nations General Assembly to state 2006 to be the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (IYDD). It is a strong reminder of the urgent need to address the far-reaching implications of this problem. United Nations General Secretary recently summarizes in this way: “I look forward to working with Governments, civil society, the private section, international organizations and others to focus attention on this crucial issue, and to reverse the trend of desertification and set the world on a safer, more sustainable path of development.”

The IYDD also presents a golden opportunity to get the message across strongly and effectively that desertification is a global problem which we ignore at our risk. It is important to recognize that dry-lands are home to some of the most magnificent ecosystems of this world. These unique natural habitats have been home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations. They stand like open-air museums, bearing witness to bygone eras. The Year will therefore also celebrate the delicate beauty and unique inheritance of the world’s deserts.

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3 . Hello,

The International Student Center has heard of several frauds(诈骗) that are targeting international students. Someone may call and say that they are from:

·Immigration Canada

·home country’s Embassy

·Canada Revenue Agency

·Police Department

In most situations, the caller will request that you make a payment or you will face serious consequences when returning to your home country. They may talk or threaten until you make a payment.   While there is no way that these fraudsters can know you are an international student (they call Canadians too), here are some things that you should know in order to better protect yourself:

·UTSC provides you with FREE Immigration advising and application help (for Study &Work Permits, Visas, Permanent Residence, and Citizenship).

·Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)，and Canadian Border Services Agency ( CBSA) will not call you, and will not ask for money or personal information by phone. If you call them, you will have to identify yourself.

·Embassies will not threaten you to make a payment or request an investigation fee due to a fake (伪造的) passport.

·Never feel like you need to pay anyone money right away. Ask for an employee number and hang up. You can call back the company (find their number online) and ask about your situation to confirm.

·Be skeptical of anyone asking you to make a payment.

·Think twice before clicking the we blinks provided and make sure they will actually go where they say.

·If you feel that you have been the victim of a fraud, you should report this to the police in the region where you live (e.g. Toronto Police Services). You can also inform Campus Police.

·If you’re not sure about something, WAIT. Come to the ISC (IC-350) and meet with a Transition Advisor. We can help you understand what’s happening.

Kendel Chitolie

International Student Advisor, RISIA S700907

International Student Centre

1. It may be a fraud if the caller asking for money says he/she is from      .

A．International Student Centre	B．International Airline
C．Canada Travel Agency	D．Immigration Canada

2. What can be learned from the passage?

A．Embassies will not ask you to pay for an investigation fee for a fake passport.

B．UTSC will ask for money if you need help for Study & Work Permits.

C．You can go right away to the given weblinks and believe what they say.

D．If you’re not sure about something, report it to the police in the region where you live.

3. Who is this e-mail intended for?

A．International students.	B．Students’ parents.
C．Canadians.	D．School teachers.

4 . 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。

Do you ever throw away food at home? Have you ever thought about     1     happens to the food that shops and supermarkets don’t sell? Well, you might be shocked     2     (find) out that nearly one third of the food     3     (produce) by food industry gets wasted. What’s more, around 800 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead     4     healthy life.

Many people in the UK are trying to do something about this imbalance and make use     5     thrown-out food that is edible (可食用的). For example, there is a cafe in Leeds whose meals are created using unsold food from supermarkets,     6     (include) a lot of vegetables, fruit, fish and other items. This unwanted food is turned into delicious soups that feed the hungry people of Leeds. Customers     7     (simple) pay what they can afford, or help with the washing up.

More cafes like this are being opened in other parts of the UK such as Bristol and Manchester, and it is now becoming a worldwide tendency. This is a(n)     8     (amaze) project as food waste is one of the world’s biggest     9     (problem). Also, new law should     10     (pass), so that supermarkets don’t throw away so much perfectly good food!

5 . Michael Wang was a senior at James Logan High School, US, back in 2012. According to The New Yorker, he was confident that he could get into an Ivy League university, such as Harvard or Yale. He had a high GPA, _______ at debating and co-founded a math club. He was also a talented pianist. _______, his dream universities turned him down. His less talented classmates, who were Hispanic or African-American, were admitted into these schools. It made him wonder if he was _______ because he was Asian.

On Oct 15, a lawsuit against Harvard brought on behalf of Asian-American students like Wang Began. students for Fair Admissions(SFFA),a US non-profit organization. _______ Harvard for using racial balancing in their admissions process. Harvard has denied the _______considers many factors when _______ whether a student should be admitted, including academic performance and extracurricular activities . Harvard added that the number of Asian-Americans admitted to the school had greatly increased since 2010.”Race alone is never the reason a student _______ admission, ”William Lee, a lawyer for Harvard, told the guardian. ”And race is never the reason a student is denied.”

Harvard is not the only university to have been accused of _______against Asian-Americans. In September, the US Justice Department begin to_______whether Yale University discriminates against Asian-Americans, The case has ________ a longstanding debate over affirmative action policies(平均法案政策) that allow universities to use race as a factor when considering applications. The policies________ benefit African-American and latino students in an effort to make up for centuries of racial discrimination, according to THE NEW YORK Times, the SFFA wants the use of race in the admissions process to be ended, ________ that it causes inequality.”People should be judged on character and ________,”However, a student,   Havard said that ________ the race criterion would “reduce students’ opportunities to live and learn in a diverse campus environment”.

Although the case has just begun, the________judgement” could influence admissions to US universities for years to come,” according to AI Jaxeera, a Qatar based TV station

1.

A．crazy

B．amazed

C．gifted

D．slow

2.

A．Besides

B．Fortunately

C．Undoubtedly

D．However

3.

A．rejected

B．dismissed

C．enclosed

D．stopped

4.

A．trapped

B．oppressed

C．sued

D．blamed

5.

A．charge

B．mistake

C．claim

D．compaint

6.

A．conforming

B．determining

C．acknowledging

D．surveying

7.

A．robbed

B．granted

C．entitled

D．convinced

8.

A．preference

B．favor

C．opposition

D．discrimination

9.

A．investigate

B．research

C．wonder

D．inquire

10.

A．preferred

B．infected

C．fueled

D．brought

11.

A．necessarily

B．equally

C．traditionally

D．unintentionally

12.

A．considering

B．debating

C．annoying

D．arguing

13.

A．academics

B．strength

C．benefit

D．moralities

14.

A．dropping

B．setting

C．implementing

D．imposing

15.

A．official

B．existent

C．gradual

D．eventual

6 . 第二节、书面表达
假如你们学校“英语爱好者俱乐部”将对“良好饮食习惯”这一话题进行讨论。
请根据下列提示，用英语写一篇发言稿。内容要点应包括：

部分学生的饮食习惯	良好的饮食习惯	个人看法
不吃早餐； 爱吃零食； 偏食； 饮食过量	饮食多样化 饮食平衡 ……	培养良好饮食习惯的 重要性： 有助于身体健康……

注意：
1.发言稿必须包括所有内容要点，可以适当发挥；
2.发言稿开头与结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；
3. 词数100左右。
4.参考词汇：偏食 be particular about food 零食snack。
Dear fiends,
As we all know, we are what we eat. Therefore, it’s very important for us to form healthy eating habits.                                                                                                                             
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________                                                                                                                                                                  That’s all . Thank you !

7 . The words “protect animals” appear everywhere in books and on screens because some animals are in danger of dying out. But sometimes the reality can be a little different from what people read or watch.

Florida, US, has held its first bear hunt since 1994. The local government gave people nearly 4,000 permits to kill black bears. And more than 200 were killed on Oct 24.

Animal protection groups protested this decision. But local officials explained that the black bear population had grown to 3,500 and become a menace to local people. In the past two years, bears have hurt at least four people in Florida.

This brings an old question back into the spotlight – which is more important, protecting animals or protecting people’s interests?

This question is asked in other countries too. In Switzerland, a wolf was sentenced to death by the Swiss government months ago. This is because the wolf killed 38 sheep and local people lost a lot of money. Days ago in China, three old men were arrested for killing a serow(鬣羚), a protected species. But they insisted they didn’t know about this and killed the animal because it ruined their crops.

However, these stories don’t always mean that animal protection stops due to human interests, especially involving economic development. A man named Zhou Weisen set up a wild animal base in Guilin, Guangxi. He saved over 170 tigers and 300 bears. But his base also offered jobs to local people.

“There may never be a standard answer to the question of whether we should give more attention to the environment or human development,” said Robert May, a British biologist at Oxford University. “But we shouldn’t push either one to the side, as the future is hanging in the balance.

1. What does the underlined word “ menace” in the third paragraph mean?

A．danger

B．chance

C．relief

D．treasure

2. What does the author intend to tell us by mentioning Zhou Weisen 's story?

A．Protecting animals needs hard work.

B．Zhou was good at feeding wild animals.

C．Zhou had a good relationship with local people.

D．Protecting animals can bring economic development.

3. Which of the following statements might Robert May agree with?

A．Human development should be considered first.

B．We should pay more attention to animal protection.

C．We should consider both the environment and human interests.

D．It's difficult to find proper ways to solve environmental problems.

4. We can infer from the text that_____________.

A．animals always do no harm to people

B．last bear hunt in Florida took place more than twenty years ago.

C．protecting animals is more important than protecting people's interest.

D．the three old men arrested in China days ago knew that the serow is a protected species.

8 . Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor cars ____ a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, ____ computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of ____ seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of ____ precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but ____ a cost. When we lose or ____ half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag ( 时差). Our bodies feel that they have been ____ behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at ____ results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit (传播) harmful ____ into our brains, a consequence we do not like to ____ about.

However, how do we ____ the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant activity that we find it ____ to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a ____. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen ____to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into ____ world.

There was a time ____ some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation ( 耕作) of the ____ or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking ( 多 重 任 务 ) there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a ____ of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors ____. Modern machines have ____ people from that primitive existence.

1.

A．explore

B．get

C．cover

D．fly

2.

A．when

B．as

C．thus

D．while

3.

A．speed

B．time

C．product

D．distance

4.

A．wasting

B．losing

C．saving

D．spending

5.

A．in

B．at

C．on

D．with

6.

A．earn

B．drop

C．miss

D．gain

7.

A．left

B．come

C．forgotten

D．felt

8.

A．ships

B．airplanes

C．computers

D．cars

9.

A．prevention

B．radiation

C．combination

D．damage

10.

A．think

B．tell

C．carry

D．wish

11.

A．control

B．handle

C．do

D．deal

12.

A．uncomfortable

B．easy

C．difficult

D．good

13.

A．second

B．day

C．year

D．time

14.

A．actively

B．quietly

C．enthusiastically

D．curiously

15.

A．another

B．else

C．other

D．all

16.

A．what

B．which

C．where

D．when

17.

A．surface

B．water

C．land

D．island

18.

A．way

B．view

C．pathway

D．point

19.

A．expressed

B．charged

C．inspired

D．faced

20.

A．freed

B．remained

C．kept

D．cleared

9 . 语法填空

It’s discovered that poor health habits can equal poor grades, as those     1     are at the top of the class tend to have     2     (few ) unhealthy behaviors, including drug use.

The survey     3     (conduct) by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and showed a strong link     4     the health habits of teens and their academic achievements.

“As our nation’s children begin another school year, it’s important     5     (remember) that health and academic performance are actually related,” said the CDC’s director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald.

Researchers analyzed the data from     6     2015 government survey and found that students whose grades were     7     (most) Ds and Fs were more likely to have engaged in behaviors such as     8     (inject) illegal drugs, skipping school, or having other personal     9     (problem). The students who maintained A averages were twice as likely to eat breakfast every day and also maintained physical activities of at least 60 minutes a day five or more days a week.

There is no direct cause and effect relationship, but Fitzgerald says that there is a     10     (connect) between health habits and academic achievements.

10 . 语法填空

The day that you all the     1     (satisfy) of having all the housework     2     (do) by a robot might still be a few decades off. But increasingly engineers are saying that     3     (robot) are going to make the leap from the factory floor to your family room.

Bill Gates once predicted the “Dawn of the Age of Robots”. What’s behind this new era? It’s     4     (part) a matter of technology. Devices that can recognize and respond to a human voice have been developed. There are now a few different ways for robots     5     (move) around. They can walk, crawl or ride on wheels. They are being made smaller these days and also becoming     6     (efficient).

A bigger part of the story depends     7     the consumers. People around the world have tirelessly searched for ways to get lazier since the 1950s     8     the television remote control was invented. Also considering the increasing wealth of people, engineers believe the opportunity     9     (appear) ripe to introduce robots to ease our daily lives. Robots will do most of the basic housework     10     just help you have more fun on the basketball court.