1 . Keeping fit often means sharing a busy pathway with cyclists,runners and walkers,but imagine facing the task of doing it all without being able to see or hear.It is a challenge many disabled athletes face,unless someone agrees to be their eyes and ears.

Newly formed group Achilles Brisbane pairs visually and audibly impaired (视觉和听觉受损的) athletes with people who would like to guide them.

Jane Britt,president of Achilles Brisbane,who is—vision and hearing—impaired,said,“When we go out,it’s much less frightening to have someone beside us that has full hearing to listen for us and tell us what’s there.”

Ms.Cullen and Ms.Britt meet up most Saturday mornings to take part in the five-kilometer park run.Their partnership is built on trust,but Ms.Britt said that it took time to develop.

Ms.Britt said it took an unexpected storm for her to trust Ms.Cullen completely.“There was violent rain,my glasses were broken and we were walking together.I suddenly had to tell her I couldn’t see anything,and I was going to have to completely trust her.From that time I knew it was going to work because she was so good about dealing with the special situation we both found ourselves in,” she said.

Isabella Allen and her seeing eye dog Tatum are two new additions to the Achilles Brisbane.Ms.Allen kept active by rowing,running and cycling but found it difficult to keep going as her vision became worse.After nearly giving up completely,she worked up the courage to ask Achilles Brisbane to find someone to share a boat with her.

Ms.Allen said the fear of not finding anyone to row with almost stopped her from reaching out to Achilles Brisbane.“But,they found people and matched me to them,” she said.“It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.”

1. How does Jane Britt feel about going out alone?

A．Relaxed.

B．Excited.

C．Worried.

D．Bored.

2. What happened in the heavy rain according to Ms.Britt?

A．She developed a strong sense of teamwork.

B．She led Ms.Cullen forward on the road.

C．She began to rely on Ms.Cullen as her guide.

D．She fell down on the ground.

3. What was the best thing Ms.Allen has done?

A．Asking Achilles Brisbane for help.

B．Working in Achilles Brisbane.

C．Exercising non-stop.

D．Meeting Tatum.

4. What does Paragraph 1 try to show?

A．The danger of walking on a busy road.

B．The difficulty the disabled athletes face.

C．The exercise people do to keep fit.

D．The necessity of building roads for the blind.

2 . Some people describe American society as a salad bowl while others think of it as a melting pot. In a bowl of salad, all the ingredients are mixed together.    1     Together, however, the ingredients make up a unity. All the ingredients of a salad contribute to the finished product. They may be covered with the same dressing (调味酱), but the green vegetables, tomatoes and cooked corn can all be seen for what they are.

From this point of view, America is very much like a salad bowl where individual ethnic groups mix together, yet maintain their cultural uniqueness. People may work together during the day at similar jobs and in the same companies, but at night they may return to their ethnic groups where their own individual culture directs their way of life.    2     Each ethnic group has its own special customs, language, food and traditions to protect and defend. This idea of the salad bowl is referred to as cultural diversity; that is, American society is a collection of various cultures living together in harmony within one country.

    3     Here, society is like one large pot of soup. All cultural aspects are mixed together, sacrificing their original identity and keeping a bit of what they were to become a new reality. The longer the soup is cooked, the better the taste and the more likely it will be for the mixture to dissolve. In this sense, America can surely be seen as a melting pot where people from all over the world come to live and work together forming one nation. There are dozens of shared symbols.     4     In such a culture, symbols like the flag and the nation’s official song serve to break down the walls which separate ethnic groups.

Whether a salad bowl or a melting pot, America can be best described as a mixture of both.    5    

A．Both are correct depending on one’s point of view.

B．They never lose their shapes, colours or tastes.

C．This is why there is so much diversity within America.

D．In other words, America is a nation where there is unity in diversity.

E．Thus, one needs to abandon one’s culture to be considered “American”.

F．They serve to develop the various ethnic groups to create a new American culture.

G．The other theory, which is also used to describe American society, is the melting pot.

3 . The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 am was so loud that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to investigate, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from outside. Looking out of his bedroom window, he spied a tree engulfed(淹没) in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree’s base, its engine on fire.

Grabbing buckets of water, Languell and his girlfriend ran to the crash site. The wreck looked worse up close. The car, a 1998 Buick, was split nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if planted there. No one should have survived this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his terrified face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible pain. Languell tried putting out the fire with his buckets of water with no success. When the flames got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there.

In an act that a police report described as showing “complete disregard for his own safety”, Languell opened the Buick’s back door and crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free, Languell says. “That’s when I noticed how bad his legs were.” Using a pocketknife he’d had the foresight to bring with him, he sawed through Thompson’s seat belt.

Now that Thompson was free, Languell pulled him out a back window of the vehicle, then dragged the teen to safety before the entire car was engulfed in flames.

Although Thompson suffered multiple fractures(骨折) to his legs, spine, and face, a social media post described him as “looking great, smiling, and joking.” Languell thinks about that day often. “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so directly. ”

1. When Damian rushed to the crash site, 　　　.

A．the police had arrived

B．the whole car was completely in flames

C．Thompson was terrified and painful

D．Thompson was smiling and joking

2. We can describe Thompson as 　　　.

A．brave	B．lucky
C．simple-minded	D．warm-hearted

3. What played the most important role in Thompson’s survival?

A．His own bravery and persistence.

B．The several buckets of water.

C．The timely arrival of the police.

D．The pocketknife Damian carried with him.

4. When Damian heard the big sound,

A．he called 911 immediately

B．he stayed inside his house

C．he woke up his girlfriend

D．he got up to see what happened

4 . Have you ever volunteered for something? Why did you do it? How did you feel when you finished?_______arrive early, stay late, go without breaks, and always smile. They do a job without being paid and they are willing to offer _______. Can you imagine what would happen to our work_______ everybody did that job in the volunteer spirit of “I want to” rather than in the contractual (合同的) spirit of “I have to ”? Contracts require you to do what you have promised to do. Volunteerism _______ requires you too, yet it leads to higher productivity at the same time.

Imagine what a(n)_______would be like without volunteers. Consider the organizations that _______volunteers in every area throughout our country. Our life would be less satisfying if no volunteers selflessly offer their time while _______no pay—and often little or no recognition.

What is the force _______helping others? Volunteers find volunteering _______ personal skills. It ________us to productively use time. More________, it teaches us it isn’t ________what you have, but more often what you ________that matters most in life. It teaches us to place a greater value on what we contribute to society than on what we ________.

Through volunteering, we make more than just a living with our lives—we make a ________ and create “ordinary” miracles.

1.

A．Volunteers

B．Students

C．Doctors

D．Teachers

2.

A．advice

B．proposals

C．chances

D．assistance

3.

A．despite

B．if

C．whether

D．unless

4.

A．also

B．soon

C．occasionally

D．merely

5.

A．organization

B．school

C．hospital

D．country

6.

A．belong to

B．look out

C．depend on

D．get around

7.

A．receiving

B．leaving

C．minding

D．imagining

8.

A．behind

B．against

C．without

D．among

9.

A．requires

B．shows

C．develops

D．arrests

10.

A．challenges

B．allows

C．reminds

D．teaches

11.

A．interestingly

B．importantly

C．reasonably

D．successfully

12.

A．always

B．sometimes

C．finally

D．seldom

13.

A．forbid

B．give

C．achieve

D．expect

14.

A．value

B．appreciate

C．gain

D．recognize

15.

A．choice

B．decision

C．difference

D．project

7 . Complete the passage using the correct forms of the words and phrase in the box.

claim          contain          diverse        earn          occur          percentage        seek one's fortune          settle

Capital cities usually    1     a wide variety of people. This    2     due to people moving to the city to    3    . Although many    4     it is tough to    5     a good living in the city, most choose to     6    there. The latest report shows that the    7     of people moving to the city is on the rise. This in turn increases the cultural     8    of the city, which makes the city even more attractive to outsiders.

8 . Learn more about the benefits and drawbacks of the Internet. Complete the conversations with the correct forms of the words below.

update     false     theft     access     upset     account     benefit     download     database

A: Why do you look so     1    ?
B: All my money has been stolen from my bank     2    . I never thought online identity     3     could happen to me.
A: Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that! Have you reported it to the police and the bank? Maybe you can get all your money back if you’re lucky enough.
B: Yes, I’ve done that already. Let’s hope it’s just a bank error!

10 . Last month, Dongxiang County in Gansu Province was officially removed from the “List of Poorest Counties in China”.

Landlocked in China’s northwest, Dongxiang County is_______to 256,828 Dongxiang people, one of China’s 55 ethnic (民族的) minorities. In 2013, nearly a third of its _______ was still living under the absolute poverty line.

So, how did they do it?

Most of Dongxiang people are _______who grow wheat and potatoes. Then it is _______that anti-poverty projects the county often _______ food.

The potatoes here are_______. Dongxiang people have many ways of _______ potatoes for the table, including spicy potato slices, sour potato rolls, whole potatoes _______ under a bed of hot rocks, and even potato noodles. Now these potato _______are sold all over China.

Fan Chenyang, who works in the Dongxiang potato industry, said that one of the ________ways potatoes helped lift the area out of poverty was through education and ________.   It includes topics like latest planting methods and disease________. “These sessions have helped a lot in ________ both the quality and quantity of the potatoes being produced here,” he said.

Dongxiang County is also famous for its ________. Five years ago, Mada Wude, who left at the age of 17 in order to raise sheep in other areas of northwest China, was encouraged to ________ to his county to set up company, which is now taking care of around 1,800 sheep owned by 25 families in his village. Over the five years, he has helped the villagers raise more and better lambs. The profit is distributed to the participating families. The sheep there are given organic food and monitored continuously by AI systems. Therefore, consumers all over China can eat with peace of mind.

1.

A．witness

B．access

C．home

D．entry

2.

A．crew

B．population

C．police

D．children

3.

A．farmers

B．fishermen

C．singers

D．hunters

4.

A．unbelievable

B．acceptable

C．avoidable

D．understandable

5.

A．center on

B．apply for

C．give up

D．suffer from

6.

A．small

B．sweet

C．famous

D．expensive

7.

A．cleaning

B．cutting

C．planting

D．preparing

8.

A．rotten

B．baked

C．fried

D．hidden

9.

A．rocks

B．products

C．chips

D．tools

10.

A．wrong

B．different

C．main

D．tough

11.

A．training

B．exhibition

C．festival

D．export

12.

A．damage

B．development

C．spread

D．prevention

13.

A．reducing

B．meeting

C．improving

D．judging

14.

A．lamb

B．architecture

C．dancing

D．rice

15.

A．appeal

B．return

C．decline

D．stop