1 . I always dreamed of studying abroad, to learn at a world-class university while further exploring the grounds on which these nations achieved new milestones of development with each passing day.

To study abroad after my graduation, I could not stop seeking my dream. To take the first step, I did some brainstorming and explored opportunities on the Internet and finally decided to go for China. There were a number of reasons behind it - its advanced education system and thousands of centuries of rich culture inspired me to study there. The primary one was my curiosity how a nation has left many nations behind in a short time at its fast pace of development.

So just like that, I applied, along with some of my friends, for a master's degree program at Communication University of China. I was the only one who got selected in the said program and in addition, the Chinese Scholarship Council sponsored all of my expenses. This good news was welcomed by my family.

This is my seventh month in Beijing. In my experience so far, one thing that appeared to be missing was the internship (实习)which I tried to find because I want to work here after completion of my studies. After some struggles I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to work as an intern with the Center for China and Globalization (CCG). It' s very exciting to work on their team as a researcher. Now I can proudly say that my decision to choose China as a study destination was the best decision I have ever made.

1. The writer writes the first paragraph mainly to       .

A．encourage people to pursue dreams

B．summarize the main idea of the text

C．explain the reason for writing the passage

D．add some background information

2. What is the most important reason for the author coming to China?

A．China's rich culture.

B．His curiosity.

C．China's advanced education system.

D．His family's support.

3. What can we learn about the author from the last paragraph?

A．He is most proud of living in China.

B．He wants to be a researcher in his own country in the future.

C．He plans to work in China after graduation.

D．He found a job upon arriving in Beijing.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Learning and Working in China

B．Travel Experiences in China

C．Realization of Dreams in China

D．Importance of Having Dreams

2 . Larry was on another of his underwater expeditions(探险)but this time, it was different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.
Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the             shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down             without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.
After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous             areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, he was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.
Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them. Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different Spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was, how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.
Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than had been then. This was the key to a successful             underwater expedition.
1. In what way was this expedition different for Larry?

A．His daughter had grown up.

B．He had become a famous diver.

C．His father would dive with him.

D．His daughter would dive with him.

2. What can be inferred from Paragraph2?

A．Larry had some privileges.

B．Larry liked the rented diving suits.

C．Divers had to buy diving equipment.

D．Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.

3. Why did Larry have to stay in a cage underwater sometimes?

A．To protect himself from danger.

B．To dive into the deep water.

C．To admire the underwater view.

D．To take photo more conveniently.

4. What can be learned from the underlined sentence?

A．Larry didn’t wear a watch.

B．Larry was not good at math.

C．Larry had a poor memory.

D．Larry enjoyed the adventure.

5. What did Larry expect his daughter to do?

A．Become a successful diver.

B．Make a good diving guide.

C．Take a lot of photo underwater.

D．Have longer hours of training.

3 . 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l0处，多者 (从第11处起) 不计分。
Dear cousin,

Long time no see! It has been almost a year ever since you move to London. I miss you a lot of. I’m writing the letter to ask you for help. As you know, I am eager to be photographer like you, so I asked my parents to buy me the camera last week. But he told me I wouldn’t concentrate in my schoolwork if I got it. Oh, my God! What can I make them trust me? I’m not a kid any longer, but I can control myself. What’s worse, I have promised that I will take photos for the school’s newspaper next month. When asking by my classmates, I will be absolutely embarrassed. Therefore, would you like to lend me some money? If you’d like, I will return it as soon as possibly.

Yours Sincerely,

Tom

4 . Two Chinese sisters have landed a dream trip to Buckingham Palace and the Peppa Pig World theme park in the UK. Lately, their mother helped them express their wish online to meet Queen Elizabeth II, which not only caught millions of social media users’ attention but also the attention of the British ambassador (大使) to China.

Five-year-old twins Mi Ai and Mi Ni, who live in Beijing, appeared in a video on social media platform Weibo last week, where they spoke of their love of British cartoon Peppa Pig and their keen interest to visit the Buckingham Palace. Mi Ni said she and her sister wanted to visit the gardens at Buckingham Palace, just like Peppa Pig and her friends did in the cartoon program.

The British Ambassador answered their call with her own video, inviting the twins to her house in Beijing. “Hello Mi Ni and Mi Ai,” she said. “I’m the British ambassador. I’d like you to come and visit me in my house in Beijing and we can perhaps have tea and cookies in a British style.” The twins accepted the ambassador’s invitation and joined her for a traditional afternoon tea on Monday, when they ate cake and drew pictures of their favorite characters from Peppa Pig.

The ambassador has made arrangements for the girls and their parents to tour the UK. They are going to tour the studios where Peppa Pig is made, take a trip to Peppa Pig World in Hampshire and visit Buckingham Palace. The queen has not yet said if she will have time to welcome the girls.

The Peppa Pig series, introduced in the mid-2000s in China, has become extremely popular among Chinese children and adults. As this year is the Year of the Pig according to Chinese tradition, the country has set to mark the Chinese New Year with a film starring Peppa Pig, where audiences can see a number of Chinese cultural elements (元素).

1. How did the sisters tell their dream to the Queen?

A．By taking a personal trip to the UK.

B．By writing a letter to the Queen.

C．By expressing their wish online.

D．By giving a call to the ambassador.

2. How did the ambassador respond (回应) to the sisters’ wish?

A．She paid no attention to it.

B．She arranged the trip for them.

C．She sent her agreement by a call.

D．She would show them around the UK.

3. What are the two sisters going to do in the UK?

A．Enjoy a traditional afternoon tea.

B．Draw pictures in the Peppa Pig World.

C．Visit the studios producing Peppa Pig

D．Meet the Queen in Buckingham Palace.

4. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．An Afternoon Tea with the Ambassador

B．The Film Starring Peppa Pig Put on Soon

C．The Popularity of Peppa Pig Series in China

D．Twin Fans of Peppa Pig to Get Dream UK Trip

5 . Dream is strength. The strength can bring us wherever we want to get to and it can bring us a lot of wonders on our way to the place in our dreams.

Dream is beauty. Maybe you can see the things full of magic and maybe you will be moved by your own dream.    1    . But should we have our life without dreams? Of course not.

Everyone has his dreams and dreams are especially important to teenagers. As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small,for example, you may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.     2    , what do you do with it?Do you ever try to make your dream come true?

Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams come true is the biggest challenge in our life.     3    , or that it is impossible for you to become a writer.    4    . In fact, everyone can fulfill his dream. The first thing you must do is remember what your dream is.Don’t let it leave your heart.Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true earlier because a big dream is made up of many small dreams.

You must never give up your dreams.    5    . But the biggest one comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important and face all these difficulties bravely.

A．These kinds of thoughts stop you realizing your dream

B．There will be many difficulties on the road to your dreams

C．Once you find a dream

D．You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects

E．Both big dreams and small ones are very important to our lives

F．The world is so real that the dreams seem weak

G．Your talent is one of the most important factors in living your dreams

6 . 假定你是李华，你在网站上看到英国留学生 Terry 发帖，希望找人辅导他学汉语，并且愿意教英语作为回报。请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：
（1）表示愿意帮助他学汉语；
（2）说明你能胜任辅导的理由；
（3）提出你学习英语的具体需求。
注意：1. 词数100 左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Terry,
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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

7 . Rujuta Teredesai grew up in Pune, a city in India. She saw that girls and boys in her community were not treated equally. Girls were responsible for all the household work.    1    women didn't have the same rights as men. They often suffered from mistreatment and sometimes even physical violence.

    2    But she saw that organizations working to end gender discrimination usually paid attention only to the actions and attitudes of girls. "Nobody talked to young boys about equality," she said.    3    The organization, Equal Community Foundation (ECF), now reaches 40,000 people in 20 communities in Pune.

ECF matches small groups of boys, ages 14 to 17, with male mentors for a 15-week period. The mentors talk to the boys about treating girls with respect.    4    They discuss times when the boys experienced unfair treatment. Then they work with the boys to come up with ways the boys can help spread tolerance. Boys have completed projects like making maps of the safest routes for girls to walk at night.

"What we have found is that these boys don't mean to be discriminatory," Teredesai says. "They don't mean to hurt someone.    5    " When boys work to make girls' lives better, everyone in the community wins.

A．They help boys relate to girls' experiences.

B．It's part of the solution to end discrimination.

C．It's just that they don't realize they’re doing it.

D．Many families didn't send their daughters to school.

E．Unfair treatment of girls and women is a problem in India.

F．Teredesai wanted to make a difference for girls and women.

G．So she decided to create a space for boys to learn about girls' rights.

8 . Silk production has a long and colourful history unknown to most people. Scientific discoveries have shown that silk production existed in China from around 2500 B.C., although it could be much older. For hundreds of years, China kept the secret of silk to itself as one for the most closely protected secrets in history. Anyone revealing the secret of silkworms or trying to take silkworm eggs out of ancient China was punished by death.
At one time silk was reserved only for the Chinese emperor. Gradually, others began wearing silk. In addition to being used for clothing, silk came to have industrial uses in ancient China, something that happened in the West only in modern times. Silk was used to make musical instruments, fishing lines, weapons, ropes and even paper. During the Han Dynasty silk became a form of money. Farmers paid taxes in both rice and silk. The prices of goods were calculated in lengths of silk just as they had once been calculated in gold. The importance of silk is even reflected in the Chinese language. For example, of the 5000 most common Chinese characters, around 500 have silk as their “key”.
In spite of their secrecy, the Chinese eventually lost their monopoly on silk production. It reached Korea in around 200 B.C. when immigrants from China arrived there. Silk production came to India in 300 A.D.. It was not until 500 A.D. that silk production came to Europe when travellers ______ silkworms in hollow tubes of bamboo. These were used to establish silk industry in Rome (modern-day Italy), although Chinese silk was still considered to be the best.
Silk was brought to Rome from China by means of the Silk Road. There were actually two Silk Roads, one over land and one on the sea. The land route in particular had a huge effect in history. All sorts of trade goods — silver, gold, jade, porcelain — passed along this road. Ideas travelled the Silk Road too. For example the religion of Buddhism was carried to China from India by traders on the Silk Road. The Silk Road created the first international culture, exposing many people to the ideas and treasures of both Western and Chinese cultures.
1. How was China able to keep the secret of silk production?

A．It refused to sell its silk to other countries.

B．Foreigners were not permitted to enter China.

C．The silkworms needed were not able to survive outside China.

D．Chinese passing on the secret to foreigners were seriously punished.

2. Which of the following uses of silk is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．A way of purchasing goods people sold.

B．A material used for making different products.

C．A method of paying money to the government.

D．A valuable gift given to foreigners travelling in China.

3. In what order did silk production spread throughout the world according to the passage?

A．Europe àIndia àKorea àChina.	B．China àKorea àIndia àEurope.
C．China àIndia àKorea àEurope.	D．China àEurope àIndia àKorea.

4. The underlined phrase “smuggled out” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

A．quietly traded	B．openly removed
C．illegally transported	D．violently stole

5. Which of the following is true about the Silk Road?

A．It allowed for economic and cultural exchanges between countries.

B．It made China the most powerful country in the ancient world.

C．It could only be completed by travellers with access to a boat.

D．It was first developed for transferring religious ideas.

9 . Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time blaming ourselves for our negative qualities, thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However, a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can stop our efforts to make friends with other people. How can we believe that others could like us if we believe our inner being is flawed?
If someone seems to dislike you, the reason for that dislike might have little or nothing to do with you. The person who doesn’t like you might be fearful, or shallow or busy or shy. Perhaps you and that person are simply a mismatch for each other at this particular time.
Don’t take yourself out of the game by deciding that your flaws are bigger than your good qualities. In fact, some of the very qualities you consider to be flaws may be irresistible to someone else. Although some factors that might cause one person to reject you, there are at least many factors that will work in your favor.
You might be thirty pounds over your ideal weight, but you may have a wonderful laugh and a real enthusiasm for life. There are many people who don’t mind your extra pounds. You may drive a shabby car, but you might be a great dancer and a loyal friend. There are people out there   looking for loyalty, or fun, or sweetness, or wisdom, and the package it comes in is not important. If you are worried that you are not beautiful enough to attract friends, keep in mind that not everyone is looking for physical beauty in their friends. You can decide to feel inferior because you don’t have much money and you don’t drive a nice car. You can believe that this is the reason                                                                 
that you don’t have many friends in your life. On the other hand, if you are very wealthy you may be suspicious that everyone is after your money and that nobody really likes you as a person.
The point is that you can focus on just about anything and believe it’s the reason you do not have friends and cannot make any.
1. According to the passage,         plays an important role in making friends.

A．admitting your shortcomings	B．self criticism
C．modesty	D．confidence

2. If you are not liked by a person,        .

A．you should find the reason in yourself

B．you’d better talk with the person face to face

C．you may not be the one to be blamed

D．you and that person misunderstand each other

3. We can learn from the third paragraph that        .

A．your good qualities may make you earn more money

B．your weakness may also be your strengths in some way

C．your negative qualities may cause you to lose friends

D．you’ll have few friends if you don’t share the same interest

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the author?

A．It is important to lose weight.

B．It is easier for a wealthy person to make friends.

C．Inner qualities are more important than physical appearance.

D．If you are not beautiful enough, try to improve your physical beauty.

5. What do you think the author is most likely to suggest if he continues to write?

A．How to find your good qualities.	B．How to make friends.
C．How to make self criticism.	D．How to keep fit.

10 . When I was about twelve years old, my mother told us that we would not be ____ Christmas gifts for lack of money．I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d ____?” Then，three women ____ at our house with gifts for all of us．For me they bought a doll．I would no longer have to be ____ when I returned to school．
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my ____ Christmas special and memorable there, I ____ remembered the women’s visit．I decided that I wanted to create the same feeling of ____ for as many children as I could possibly ____．
So I ____ a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help．We gathered about 125 orphans （孤儿） at the Christmas party．For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, each with a child’s name．We wanted all of them to know they were ____．Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I ____ them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward．Finally the ____ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three．Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles ____ up the room．The ____ in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys．It was a feeling---the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit．I wasn’t forgotten．Somebody still remembered me．I know I____．1.

A．sending

B．receiving

C．making

D．exchanging

2.

A．found

B．prepared

C．got

D．expected

3.

A．broke in

B．settled down

C．showed up

D．turned off

4.

A．puzzled

B．embarrassed

C．worried

D．relieved

5.

A．present

B．first

C．recent

D．previous

6.

A．hardly

B．suddenly

C．regularly

D．occasionally

7.

A．strength

B．sadness

C．importance

D．safety

8.

A．know

B．reach

C．remember

D．mention

9.

A．kept up with

B．caught up with

C．came up with

D．put up with

10.

A．fine

B．special

C．helpful

D．normal

11.

A．reminded

B．waited

C．convinced

D．promised

12.

A．chance

B．gift

C．moment

D．reward

13.

A．lit

B．took

C．burned

D．cheered

14.

A．atmosphere

B．sympathy

C．calmness

D．joy

15.

A．matter

B．wonder

C．doubt

D．suppose