1 . Have you ever noticed how the recital (叙说) of an adventure always finds ready audience? The man with a story of some stirring adventure always takes the floor Men will stop the most important discussion to listen. Women will forget to rock the cradle. Boys and girls will neglect any sport or game. Try it sometime and see how it grips all kinds and all ages. And the reason is that none of us ever really grows up. We are always boys and girls, a little older in years, but with the same nature—alert to the new, questioning, investigating, growing, living; stirred by martial music; thrilled by the sight of the fire-houses dashing madly down the street; lured by tales of subtle intrigue (阴谋)and splendid daring.

It would be sad if men and women ever lost this capacity to be attracted by tales of heroism. The man whose heart leaps for joy at the sight of a heroic deed is the man who will act the hero when his turn comes. No, the love of adventure will never be lost. It is a fundamental part of human nature, just as sentiment (感情) is.

So we reasoned that a magazine edited for this universal hunger of human nature for adventure ought to have a wide appreciation and appeal, and we decided to publish such a magazine and call it ADVENTURE.

It is published as a magazine wherein thousands of men and women can find adventure without being obliged to read through large amounts of stuff they care little about for the sake of getting a little they care a lot about, which is frankly made for the hours when the reader cannot work, or does not wish to, or is too weary to work and made for the reader’s recreation rather than his or her creative hours. If you care for stirring stories (and who does not?) —if you wish to get away for a brief time from the hard grind of the daily mill so that you can come back to it again with renewed passion and courage to walk through the knotty problems and nagging limitations, get a copy of Adventure.

You can get away for such a trip every month for 15 cents or you can get a season ticket entitling you to twelve trips for $1.50. No other kind of story in the magazine; just Adventure Stories. Fact-stories as well as fiction stories .If you don’t like that kind, don’t buy; but if you do like that kind, Adventure is sure to delight you.

1. Which of the following statement is TURE about man’s sense of adventure?

A．People are increasingly attracted by adventures as they grow.

B．The sense of adventure is rooted in a childhood curiosity.

C．Adventure stories are more attractive when told with sentiment.

D．Only children with curiosity grow into adults fond of adventures.

2. What’s the meaning of “grip” in the first paragraph?

A．to draw a clear line between	B．to capture the attention of
C．to affect the way people think	D．to give equal treatment to

3. In what way does the writer think the magazine ADVENTURE can affect its readers?

A．It reminds its work-burdened life driven readers of good old days.

B．It helps them regain their adventurous selves lost in tough life.

C．It offers a refreshing escape from long weary working hours.

D．It encourages them to face the toughness of life and work.

4. What is NOT TRUE about the purchase of Adventure?

A．One can buy one copy for 15 cents.	B．Adventure is available one issue a month,
C．It contains fictional and true stories.	D．Season ticket holders can enjoy free tours.

5. What is the main purpose of this article?

A．To instruct publishers in how to produce a popular magazine.

B．To explore the psychological cause and impact of adventure.

C．To attract potential readers by giving the editorial philosophy.

D．To recommend to working people a refreshing way of recreation.

2 . It did take me quite a while to start noticing Dr. Yuval Noah Harari’s well-received book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (人类简史). I bought the book after I heard Dou Wentao (a renowned TV host) mention it on his podcast, and to be frank, I read the first chapter with little _________. But it turned out to be the best book I read in 2017.

While I was immediately ___________ the book kept evolving as I read it. The book began with a brief introduction of the lives and activities of the earliest proto-humans (原始人)---Neanderthals (尼安德特人), Homoerectus (直立人) and early Homo Sapiens (智人)---and then _________ an examination of why it was the Homo sapiens, after hundreds of thousands of years of surviving but pretty much existing in the middle of the food chain, _________ rocketed to the top of it without any significant genetic changes, conquered multiple climates, and eventually domesticated the world around them from farm animals to crops. And Harari includes an interesting but fairly _________ argument about the true nature of our relationship to our most necessary crop---wheat.

Think for a moment about the _________ Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat. Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East. All of a sudden, within just a few short millennia, it was growing everywhere.

So how did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous (到处存在的)? Wheat did it by manipulating (操纵) Homo sapiens to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life _________ and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to _________ more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Then, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk _________ taking care of wheat plants.

However, the body of Homo sapiens had not evolved for cultivating wheat. Therefore human spines, knees, necks and arches paid the price. Moreover, the new agricultural tasks demanded so much time that people were forced to settle __________ next to their wheat fields. This completely changed their way of life. We did not __________ wheat. It’s the other way around. One of the most important and sustained ideas running through the book is that what ultimately __________ Homo sapiens from all other creatures---other mammals, other apes, and even other “humans” like Neanderthals---was not our opposable thumbs or some other __________ standards, but instead it was our ability to generate (生成), believe in and act upon what Yuval Noah Narari calls “myths” or “__________” (essentially ideas and cultural institutions), particularly on a large scale and collective basis, which eventually transformed us from creatures that lived in small, loosely-organized groups (the typical feature of most apes) to our modern status.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a fascinating ambitious and difficult-to-summarize book that is also just highly __________. So as senior high school students, you won’t experience too much difficulty following the author’s train of thoughts. And I strongly recommend you to indulge (纵情于) yourself in this well-written book.

Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s mind-blowing book:

Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind

1.

A．attention

B．evaluation

C．illustration

D．expectation

2.

A．fascinated

B．confused

C．distracted

D．uninterested

3.

A．turned to

B．gave away

C．prepared for

D．went after

4.

A．naturally

B．randomly

C．suddenly

D．hardly

5.

A．annoying

B．touching

C．embarrassing

D．depressing

6.

A．Industrial

B．Agricultural

C．Cultural

D．Political

7.

A．planting

B．hunting

C．trading

D．wondering

8.

A．spare

B．resist

C．invest

D．demand

9.

A．regardless of

B．contrary to

C．together with

D．other than

10.

A．permanently

B．delightfully

C．temporarily

D．instantly

11.

A．consume

B．grow

C．domesticate

D．harvest

12.

A．distinguished

B．disqualified

C．discouraged

D．dissatisfied

13.

A．intellectual

B．physical

C．psychological

D．moral

14.

A．poems

B．reports

C．documents

D．fictions

15.

A．complex

B．overrated

C．readable

D．appreciated

3 . Film has properties that set it apart from painting, sculpture, novels, and plays. It is also, in its most popular and powerful form, a story telling medium that shares many elements with the short story and the novel. And since film presents its stories in dramatic form, it has even more in common with the stage play: Both plays and movies act out or dramatize, show rather than tell, what happens.

Unlike the novel, short story, or play, however, film is not handy to study; it cannot be effectively frozen on the printed page. The novel and short story are relatively easy to study because they are written to be read. The stage play is slightly more difficult to study because it is written to be performed. But plays are printed, and because they rely heavily on the spoken word, imaginative readers can conjure up at least a pale imitation of the experience they might have been watching a performance on stage. This cannot be said of the screenplay, for a film depends greatly on visual and other nonvisual elements that are not easily expressed in writing. The screenplay requires so much “filling in” by our imagination that we cannot really approximate the experience of a film by reading a screenplay, and reading a screenplay is worthwhile only if we have already seen the film. Thus, most screenplays are published not to read but rather to be remembered.

Still, film should not be ignored because studying it requires extra effort. And the fact that we do not generally “read” films does not mean we should ignore the principles of literary or dramatic analysis when we see a film. Literature and films do share many elements and communicate many things in similar ways. Perceptive film analysis rests on the principles used in literary analysis, and if we apply what we have learned in the study of literature to our analysis of films, we will be far ahead of those who do not. Therefore, before we turn to the unique elements of film, we need to look into the elements that film shares with any good story.

Dividing film into its various elements for analysis is a somewhat artificial process, for the elements of any art form, never exist in isolation. It is impossible, for example, to isolate plot from character: Events influence people, and people influence events; the two are always closely interwoven in any fictional, dramatic, or cinematic work. Nevertheless, the analytical method uses such a fragmenting technique for ease and convenience. But it does so with the assumption that we can study these elements in isolation without losing sight of their interdependence or their relationship to the whole.

1. What is mainly discussed in the text？

A．The uniqueness of film.

B．The importance of film analysis.

C．How to identify the techniques a film uses.

D．The relationship between film analysis and literary analysis.

2. Why is it not handy to study film?

A．Because screenplay is not as well written as literary works.

B．Because a film cannot be effectively represented by a printed screenplay.

C．Because a film is too complicated.

D．Because publishers prefer to publish literary works.

3. From the third paragraph we learn that ________.

A．the means by which we analyze a literary work cannot be applied to the analysis of the film

B．a good film and a good story have many elements in common

C．we should not pay extra effort to study films

D．using the principles of literary analysis makes no difference in film analysis

4. Why can’t we divide film into various elements for analysis?

A．Because these elements are interwoven with each other and cannot be separated.

B．Because films cannot be written down and it is inconvenient to analyze them.

C．Because films elements are too complicated.

D．Because films need not to be analyzed in detail.

4 . It doesn’t matter if books are delivered in print or by smart phone; the main thing is to get lost in reading them. Reading books is vital for human development.

Why should we bother reading a book? All children say this occasionally. Many of the 12 million adults in Britain with reading difficulties repeat it to themselves daily. In a world of advanced technology, increasing time poverty and decreasing attention should they invest precious time sinking into a good book?

The discovery that our brains are physically changed by the experience of reading is something many of us will understand instinctively, as we think back to the way an extraordinary book had a transformative effect on the way we viewed the world. This transformation only takes place when we lose ourselves in a book, abandoning the emotional and mental chatter of the real world. That’s why studies have found this kind of deep reading makes us more sensitive to the inner lives of others.

Reasoningly, we know that reading is the foundation stone of all education, and therefore an essential basis of the knowledge economy. So reading is - or should be - an aspect of public policy. But perhaps even more significant is its emotional role as the starting point for individual voyages of personal development and pleasure. Books can open up emotional, imaginative and historical landscapes that equal and extend the corridors of the web. They can help create and strengthen our sense of self. If reading were to decline significantly, it would change the very nature of our species. However, technology throws up as many solutions as it does challenges: for every door it closes, another opens. So the ability, offered by devices like e-readers, smart phones and tables, to carry an entire library in your hand is an amazing opportunity. Publishers need to use every new piece of technology to embed (嵌入) long-form reading within our culture

1. According to the author, what attitude do the British hold towards reading?

A．No child in Britain likes reading nowadays.

B．Many people in Britain are at a loss as to the function of reading.

C．British people are more interested in others’ lives.

D．British people consider reading a waste of time.

2. Which one is NOT the reason why we should read?

A．Reading can promote the development of human species.

B．Without reading, education does not happen.

C．Reading can physically change our brain.

D．Reading can lead to personal pleasure.

3. When will the transformative effect of reading happen?

A．When we forget ourselves.

B．When the real world doesn’t matter to us.

C．When books open up a new landscape to us.

D．When we are buried in deep reading.

4. Why should reading be an aspect of public policy?

A．Because otherwise no one bothers to read.

B．Because reading can bring economic benefit indirectly.

C．Because reading is the starting point of individual voyage.

D．Because books are the extension of the web.

5 . Reading the world in 195 books

In 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country of all 195 UN-recognized states in a year.    1    . I created a blog called A Year of Reading the World and put out an appeal for suggestions of titles that I could read in English.

The response was amazing. Before I knew it, people all over the planet were getting in touch with ideas and offers of help. Some posted me books. Others did hours of research on my behalf.     2    . Even with such an extraordinary team behind me, however, sourcing books was no easy task.

But the effort was worth it. As I made my way through the planet’s literary landscapes, extraordinary things started to happen. Far from simply armchair travelling, I found I was inhabiting the mental space of the storytellers. I discovered, bookpacking offered something that a physical traveller could hope to experience only rarely: it took me inside the thoughts of individuals living far away and showed me the world through their eyes. More powerful than a thousand news reports, these stories not only opened my mind to basic information of life in other places, but opened my heart to the way people there might feel.     3    . Through reading the stories shared with me by bookish strangers around the globe, I realized I was not an isolated person, but part of a network that stretched all over the planet.

One by one, the country names on the list that had begun as an intellectual exercise transformed into places filled with laughter, love, anger, hope and fear.     4    . At its best, I learned, fiction makes the world real.

A．Lands that had once seemed foreign and remote became close and familiar to me.

B．And that in turn changed my thinking.

C．With no idea how to find publications, I decided to ask the planet’s readers for help.

D．No matter how long your life is, you will be able to read only a few of all the books that have been written.

E．You’ll find yourself enlightened by the thoughts and observations of the most gifted writers in history.

F．In addition, several writers, like Turkmenistan’s Ak Welsapar, sent me unpublished translations of their novels.

6 . The Best Book I’ve Ever Read

Frankly, I have read nearly all of the great works of literature, but no book has ever impressed me as deeply or directly     1     Joel Stein’s Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masendinity.

Haven’t we all, on some level, been Jewish boys in New Jersey in     2     1970s with only female friends, an Easy-Bake oven and a strong preference for show tunes? Haven’t we all had a panic attack     3     learning we’re going to have a son, since that means we’re going to have to figure out how to throw footballs, watch other people throw footballs and decide     4     to be happy or sad about the results of football throwing? Haven’t we all then tried to correct our lack of maleness by becoming a man, fighting fires with firefighters,     5     (drive) a Lamborghini and doing three days of Army training camp? I know I have.

The only parts I didn’t fully enjoy were     6     in which the author suffered horribly. After just three hours of training camp, he fainted weakly into the arms of a soldier. The film rights to Man Made have already been sold to Fox, and I hope it gets     7     (turn) into a movie with George Clooney playing the Stein role, since they remind me so much of each other.

    8     this is only Stein’s first book, I would already consider him as someone like David Sedaris, Dave Barry, James Thurber, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. I     9     (recommend) Man Made not just to all my friends and family but also to strangers on Twitter over and over again. My one fear is     10     after this great achievement, Stein will lose his ability to be a cruel critic of our shallow times.

7 .

A．It is his favorite book.	B．It is not worth reading.
C．It is not the one he likes.	D．It is better than he expected.

8 . Top Six Most Challenged Books in 2017

Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) in the States tracked 354 challenges (formal attempts to remove or restrict access to library materials and services) to library, school, and university materials and services in2017. Some individual challenges resulted in requests to restrict or remove multiple titles. Overall, 416 books were targeted. Here are the "Top Six Most Challenged Books in 2017”.

1	Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher Originally published in 2007. this New York Times bestseller has resurfaced as a debatable book after Netflix aired a TV series by the same name. This young adult novel was challenged and banned in multiple school districts, for it discusses self-killing.	4	GEORGE By Alex Gino Written for elementary-age children, this Lambda Literary Award winner was challenged and banned because it includes a transgender child.
2	Drama Written and illustrated By Raina Telgemeier This Stonewall Honor Award-winning, 2012 graphic novel from a much-admired cartoonist was challenged and banned in school libraries because it includes confused sexual orientation characters and was considered "confusing.”	5	To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, considered an America classical, was challenged and banned because of violence and its use of the N-word to insult black people.
3	The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini This multigenerational novel praised by many critics was challenged and banned because it includes sexual violence and was thought to "lead to 'terrorism" and "promote IsIam.”	6	The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas Despite winning multiple awards and being the most searched-for book on Goodreads during its debut(首秀) year, this young adult novel was challenged and banned in school libraries and curricular because of drug use and offensive language.

1. These six most challenged books are all________.

A．prize winners or well received by the public

B．written for curious young adults in schools

C．banned and challenged in nationwide libraries

D．involved with violence and aggressive language

2. Which of the following would be removed from school libraries to avoid misleading kids into racialism?

A．The Hate U Give.	B．To Kill a Mocking bird.
C．The Kite Runner.	D．Thirteen Reasons Way.

3. It can be concluded from the passage that in the States_______.

A．OIF is responsible for the challenges reported from local schools and universities

B．the government is challenged by intellectual freedom in public materials and services

C．issues like mental illness, drug use and sex education really concern the government

D．best sellers and prize winners are often questioned and rejected by the public

9 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
在你看过的电影、电视或书中，肯定有许多场景历历在目，请你描述令你印象深刻的一个场景，并谈谈为什么。你的文章必须包括:
●描述你印象深刻的一个场景；
●说明你对此印象深刻的理由。
(注:请勿出现真实姓名和学校)
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10 .

A．Borrow the books from the woman.	B．Go to buy the books in the shop.
C．Go to his grandpa for some books.	D．Search for the books on the Internet.