1 . 选词填空

rather than, fluent, exchange, powerful, flood, percent, civilization, teenager, extremely, comparison, economy, graduate, sweep away, focus, senior, adapt to, prevent, advanced

With the rapid development of China’s     1    and new technology, China has already       2    its poverty (贫穷) and the Chinese people have become     3    wealthy (富有). As a result, more foreign people including     4    from high schools are     5    in to come for sightseeing, to do business, or to learn new technology. Martin Mahanmad, a boy at the age of 16, after     6    from junior high school, was admitted to a local senior high school and two years later came to a high school in Beijing as an     7    student. In the beginning, he came across a great many difficulties, but as time goes on, with the help of his Chinese classmates, he has already     8    living in China. Now Martin can speak       9    Chinese.

Some years ago, Martin met a tourist from China, from whom he learnt that China was a country with 5, 000 years of     10    , powerful but friendly.

He also learnt China’s science and technology in the history was very     11    all over the world, and most importantly, ninety     12    of the high school students in China are studying hard for a brighter future.

Originally Martin’s parents wanted him to go to Japan but after a careful     13    , Martin chose China    14    Japan. He believed that nothing could       15    him from going to study in China.

3 . Directions: In this section, there is one passages with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

A. suburbs             B. ratio                      C. resign                    D. ageing                      E. grappling           F. inequity             G. mortgage          H. commutes        I. outlandishly        J. departure

On every side, Britain’s politicians are     1     with problems of immense scale and nightmarish complexity. How to manage the     2     from the European Union? How to help a crumbling health service cope with an     3    , weakening population? How to deal with persistent regional deprivation? Yet one national scourge that holds back the economy and poisons politics is readily solvable — politicians just need to be brave enough to act.

That scourge is the cost of housing. The     4     of median house prices to earnings in England hit 7.7 in 2016, its highest recorded level. In the past four decades house prices have grown by more in Britain than in any other G7 country. Home ownership has been falling for more than a decade, after rising for most of the past century. In London housing is     5     dear: before the Brexit vote sent the pound tumbling, it was the priciest city in the world for renters. The cost of housing has knock-on effects across the economy. As people are forced out to the     6    , cities become less dynamic. Workers waste time on marathon, energy-sapping     7    . People from the regions cannot afford to move to cities where they might find work. Businesses cannot clear land to build. It is perhaps no coincidence that Britain’s growing housing mess has coincided with stagnant productivity. All this has fostered a growing sense of     8    . Britons over the age of 65, a fifth of the population, own over 40% of the housing wealth held by owner-occupiers. Youngsters with rich parents can buy their first house thanks to the “Bank of Mum and Dad”. Everyone else must     9     themselves to renting small properties for life, or to continuing to pay off their     10     long after retirement.