1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How long has the man waited for the woman?

A．For nearly an hour.

B．For about five minutes.

C．For more than an hour.

2. How did the woman come?

A．By taxi.

B．By bus.

C．On foot.

3. Why did the woman go off work late?

A．She had to check her own letters.

B．She had a talk with her boss.

C．Her boss gave her a task.

2 . BEIJING——Terry Crossman has spent 20 years in the city of Beijing he now calls home.

Wearing his bright red armband and speaking fluent Chinese. from a distance 62-year-old Gao Tianrui could be taken for any regular Chinese man. But on closer inspection. things are not quite what they seem: Gao's real name is Terry and he is from the United States. Having lived in Beijing for more than 20 years, Terry Crossman has finally realized his Chinese dream: becoming a public security volunteer. Life as a "Xicheng Dama" has even made him an online celebrity.

Xicheng Dama are volunteers. usually women in late middle-age. who wander around the streets of downtown Beijing's Xicheng district, And now Crossman has joined their club. In the video footage（片段）that recently went viral（疯传）. Crossman said that at first he saw the group as busybodies, but his opinion changed once he was on the inside. "Gradually I saw that It is a good thing for retired seniors to come out and help others," he said. In the footage. he is seen giving tourists directions. getting water for a baby and even helping a neighbor sell yogurt. "I like helping others," he said. "I live in the hutong and my neighbors and I usually help each other…This is where I live, where my friends are and where I call home."

Crossman became interested in Chinese culture as a teenager when he read the Tao Te Ching by Laozi. At 18, he took a shup to Taiwan to learn Chinese. On the shup the captain suggested that he should have a Chinese name. "He named me Gao Tianrui. based on the pronunciation of my English name," he said. After Taiwan he worked in several places including New York, Singapore and a 12-year period in Hong Kong.

Crossman first came to the Chinese mainland in 1981, when he went to Shanghai and Suzhou in Jiangsu province. "Wherever I went. I had at least 30 people following me, asking about Hong Kong. how much I earned, what my hobbles were and how I felt about the victory of the Chinese women's volleyball team." he said. His first visit to Beijing was six years later on business. "There were few cars and lots of bicycles on the roads.”

Crossman and his family moved to Beijing in 1997, when the traffic was heavier and the city busier. "There were only two subway lines, with no air conditioning," he said. Since then he has lived and worked in Beijing.

1. What does the underlined word "busybody" in the third paragraph mean?

A．A person who does a job with a high pay.

B．A person who works in a government office

C．A person who is too interested in what other people are doing.

D．A person who takes part in a sport or other activities for enjoyment.

2. What is the right order of what Crossman did?
a. He read the Tuo Te Ching by Laozi                       
b. He worked in New York and Singapore.
c. He moved to Beijing in 1997 with his family.          
d. He became a member of the club of Xicheng Dama.
e. He went to Shanghai and Suzhou in Jiangsu province.

A．e, d. b, c, a	B．e, a, c, b, d
C．a, e, c, d. b	D．a, b, e, c, d

3. How were the people who followed Crossman wherever he went in Para. 5?

A．They were satisfied with him.	B．They were curious about him.
C．They were patient with him.	D．They were worried about him

4. What can be the best title for the news report?

A．Terry, an American who works in Beijing

B．American in Beijing speaks fluent Chinese

C．American in Being lives his Chinese dream

D．Terry. an American who likes Chinese culture

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How will Lily go to London?

A．By train.

B．By bus.

C．By plane.

2. How much is a student travel card for six months?

A．£6.

B．£16.

C．£60.

3. What else are needed to get the card besides money?

A．The ID card.

B．A letter and photos.

C．An application form.

4 . Malaysia is a fortunate nation when it comes to food. Food is readily available, especially in towns and cities. There are hawker stalls (小贩摊位) along streets, restaurants, and food courts.     1     People have the choice of eating out or cooking their meals at home. Three factors that affect the choice of eating out and eating at home are cost, convenience, and quality.

    2     For example, buying the ingredients (食材) to cook a plate of fried noodles may cost less than half the price of a plate of fried noodles at a restaurant. Restaurants and food stalls need to make a profit. Therefore, they have to charge more than the actual cost of the food they serve.

The second factor that determines to eat out or at home is convenience. Having someone cook for you, serve you, and clean up after you, definitely makes eating out more convenient than eating at home. It saves you the trouble of having to shop for the ingredients, doing the actual cooking, and washing up afterward.     3     So it is no wonder that busy people prefer to eat out most of the time.

Quality is the third thing to consider when choosing between home-cooked food and outside food.     4     And it is more hygienic (卫生) generally. In contrast, food served at stalls and restaurants is often not prepared with such good quality ingredients as this would reduce their profit margins.

In brief, eating out is more convenient while eating at home is less costly and much healthier. Making the choice is really not that hard as it just depends on what is most important to you.     5     If you do not want to spend so much on food, then cooking your own meals is the better choice. Finally, if health is your most important concern, it would be better to eat at home.

A．Preparing a meal is also time-consuming.

B．If you dislike cooking, eating out is the solution.

C．A great variety of delicious food is sold in these places.

D．Eating out is more and more popular around the world.

E．It is convenient to eat out despite the high fat food.

F．Naturally, food prepared at home uses better quality ingredients.

G．In terms of cost, eating out is usually more expensive than cooking at home.

5 . For many people, working from home, or ‘WFH’, has also come to mean ‘WFB’-working from bed. Getting dressed and going to an office has been replaced by splashing water on your face and switching on a computer as you settle back under your blanket. People may have a desk or a kitchen table to place their computer on-they just choose not to.

But the reality is that turning your bed into your office can set off a large number of health problems, both psychological and physical. And even if you don't notice them now, adverse effects-possibly permanent-could appear later on in life. Young people are particularly likely to fall victim to these bad habits, because they may not feel the consequences right away, which could include simple headaches, and could also extend to permanent stiffness in your back, and severe pain in the bones.

When you work from bed for a year, it doesn't just potentially ruin your body. It's possibly bad for your productivity and sleep habits, too. Rachel Salas, a sleep expert at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, explained that “the more you watch TV in bed, play video games in bed and not sleep in bed, your brain starts learning,' oh, OK, we can do any one of these activities in bed'. It starts building connections.”

So, when you spread out on your bed your laptop, phone and all the screens your job requires every day, your brain and body eventually stop associating bed with rest. “You're really training your brain to be alert, and telling it this is where your ideas come and this is where the work is done,” adds Salas. “When you're trying to go to sleep, your brain is like-'wait a minute, what are we doing? This is work time'.” Doing this for a year, or any extended period of time, could lead to circadian rhythm disorder (昼夜节律紊乱）. And disturbed nights, body pain or both mean that you're less likely to be productive, creative or focused, making it likely your work could suffer.

1. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “adverse" in paragraph 2?

A．Beneficial.

B．Harmful.

C．Temporary.

D．Ever-lasting.

2. What do we know about the health problems caused by working from bed?

A．Young people are less likely to suffer from them.

B．They can be permanent and can be easily noticed.

C．Young people might notice them later on in their life.

D．They only appear when you work from bed for a year.

3. What does Rachel Salas say about working from bed?

A．It trains your brain to be more alert and creative.

B．It makes you sleepy and easily distracted from work.

C．It's better than watching TV or playing games in bed.

D．It makes your brain connect bed with work rather than rest.

4. What is this passage mainly about?

A．Beds are not the perfect working sites.

B．Your productivity suffers from working from home.

C．Working from bed could ruin both your health and work.

D．Turning your bed into your office has become a new trend.

6 . My friend Mary and I set a goal many years ago to change our busy city lifestyle to a slower country pace. But every time she asked when we would move, I always said, “I’m not ready yet.” I could hear the hesitation and concern in my voice. Going to the country meant I had to leave the city where I had lived for the last 26 years, and leave friends who had become like family to me.

Mary left the room and came back carrying a bag. “This is for you,” she said and smiled. I opened the bag and found this poem:

Believe in yourself and in your dream,

Though impossible things may seem,

Someday, somehow you’ll get through to the goal you have in view.

Mountains fall and seas divide,

Before the one who in his stride,

Takes a hard road day by day.

Sweeping obstacles away.

Believe in yourself and in your plan,

Say not—I cannot but, I can.

The prizes of life we fail to win,

Because we doubt the power within.

After I read the poem, my concern disappeared. I knew it would be all right. I did have a dream. And although at times it appeared impossible, I set my goal and never lost sight of that goal. Yes, many times as I worked towards that goal I faced difficulties. When I faced those difficulties, I always remembered “Persistence (坚持) wins when all else fails.” I believed I could do it.

I am writing this story on Sunday, and tomorrow, on Monday, the moving truck will arrive. I am leaving Mississauga and moving to the country in New Brunswick.

1. From Para. 1, we can learn that _______.

A．country life is better than city life

B．the author lived a comfortable life in the city

C．the author was concerned about moving to the country

D．the author prepared for a long time before she moved

2. Mary gave the author that poem to ________.

A．encourage the author to move

B．show the advantages of country life

C．explain why they needed to change their lifestyles

D．tell the author about her determination to change

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Failure is the mother of success.

B．Friends are really important to us.

C．Don’t hesitate to realize our dreams.

D．We have to enjoy every day to the fullest.

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does the man want to have his phone disconnected?

A．He will quit his present job.

B．He will move to another place.

C．He will go to a foreign university.

2. What information does the woman need about the man?

A．His departure time.

B．His ID number.

C．His birth date.

8 . ①Beat the Crowds

Look up where you want to shop today on Google Maps, and it will display a bar graph of the busiest times for that store. You can also look at other days of the week to see how traffic patterns change. Google gathers data from specific stores, so you can compare how busy the various Targets or Walmarts in your area are on any given day.

②Shut Down Stress

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, step outside－or open a window. Researchers say getting more oxygen to the brain is a quick and effective stress reliever. “Taking in a deep breath of fresh air can immediately shift your neuro-chemistry,” says Deborah Serani, PsyD, a psychology professor at Adelphi University and the author of Living with Depression. The American Psychological Association recommends the fresh air approach too.

③Protect Your Fingers When Hammering

Ouch! You just hammered your finger instead of the tiny nail you were trying to pound into that piece of wood. To keep this from happening again, before you start hammering, stick the nail through a small piece of thin cardboard. Position the nail and holding the cardboard by the edges hit it home. When you’re finished, tear away the protective cardboard.

④Clean Your Charging Port

When you stuff your phone into your pocket or purse, dust can get caught in the charging port, causing problems with charging. Similarly, dirt in the headphone jack can make it malfunction. If you are careful, you can clear any dirt with a toothpick. To keep an opening, insert a dust plug(a package of them cost less than $10 on Amazon.

1. What section of a magazine presents the above four pieces of information?

A．Quotable Quotes	B．Cover Story
C．Drama in Real Life	D．We Found a Fix

2. Which of the four relate to technology?

A．①③

B．②③

C．①④

D．②④

3. Which of the following matches the text?

A．Have a break and go outdoors.	B．Take advantage of Google to shop online.
C．Wrap your fingers while hammering.	D．Buy phone cleaner on Amazon.

9 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的文章。

The Feel-Good Shoebox

Catherine sat on her bed with her chin in her hands. “Why aren't you getting ready for Grandma's birthday party?”asked Mother.

“I can't bake like Sylvia or knit like Anne,” Catherine grumbled. “They made good presents. All I made for her is an ugly card.” “It's a lovely card. And no one can be good at everything,” said Mother. She sat on the bed next to Catherine. “When I was your age, I felt sad when I couldn't do certain things. But one day Grandma showed me the shoebox game, and it made me feel a lot better.” Catherine frowned （皱眉）. “How can a shoebox make me feel better？”“You＇ll see，” said Mother. She disappeared down the hall, then came back carrying a shoe box, a pencil, paper, and scissors.

Catherine watched as Mother cut several pieces of paper into squares. “Nôw, I want you to write down all the things you can do,” said Mother. “Like what?” asked Catherine. “Why not start with things you've learned in school? Give it some thought while I ice Grandma's birthday cake.”

Catherine sat for a while wrinkling （起皱纹） and unwrinkling her eyebrows.Slowly Catherine began to write and write. Before long she had written on every square of paper. She was so busy that she didn't hear Mother come into the room.“My goodness!"said Mother.“Do you think they'll all fit in the shoebox?”“I hope so,” said Catherine. “It was fun thinking of all the stuff I can do.”“And the next time you feel sad because you can't do something, your feel-good shoebox will remind you of how much you can do-just as mine did when I was a little girl,” said Mother,“Now let's finish getting dressed for Grandma's party.”

注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右；
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“Happy birthday！” yelled（欢呼） the children when they arrived at Grandma’s house.
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Then Catherine gave her card to Grandma.
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10 . How to Break Bad Habits

Habits are ways of dealing with issues in your environment. You often do not think about them. James Clear, in his book Atomic Habits, describes a four-step process by which habits are made. These steps are cue (提示), craving (渴望), response, and reward.

A cue is a signal.    1    . A craving is a desire for something. The response, or reaction, is the habit that you perform. The response gives you a reward.

    2    . Perhaps you are learning new words or expressions. But then you feel the need to check your phone. You return to your studies, only to look again at your phone a short time later. This process, when repeated many times, could reduce your ability to learn new material.    3    —a custom or repeated action that has a negative effect on you or your goals.

James Clear notes that to break bad habits, you need to think about each step in the habit-making process. In the cell phone example, the cue is seeing the cell phone. The craving is the desire or urge to check your phone.    4    . The reward might be seeing something interesting on social media. To break a habit, he writes, you should think about making the bad habit invisible, unattractive, difficult and unsatisfying by hiding it away, stopping checking, increasing the space between you and your phone, making a habit contract (合同) and so on.

The important thing to remember is that people can change their habits. Habit changes take time.     5    .

A．Imagine you are studying English

B．It is what you might call a bad habit

C．You may realize that this is a mistake

D．The response is checking your phone

E．It tells your brain to do something to begin a behavior

F．Let’s say you’re always looking up words on your phone

G．But with patience, planning, and repetition, you can do it