1 . What happened to the speakers?

A．They broke the window.

B．They found something stolen.

C．They came across a car accident.

3 . "The firefighters of Paris told me they are very hopeful about saving the northern tower, " French Junior Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Twitter late Monday, adding that the firefighting efforts would continue for hours.

The Notre Dame Cathedral(巴黎圣母院)， one of the most famous landmarks in the French capital， was engulfed in flames Monday evening as a catastrophic fire tore through the historic structure， collapsing its spire as fire officials raced to save the monument from total destruction.

Video and photos posted on social media showed flames engulfing the cathedral, thus both the ceiling and the 90-meter spire came crashing down. The fire spread to one of the cathedral's towers, but French officials said late Monday that firefighters were optimistic they could save both towers.

French President Emmanuel Macron said a national fundraising campaign would be launched on Tuesday and called on the world's "greatest talents" to assist in the effort. "We will rebuild, Macron told reporters. "We will rebuild Notre Dame because this is what the French expect, because this is what our history deserves.

Officials said there were no deaths in the fire. Jean-Claude Gallet, chief of the Parisian fire department, said one firefighter was injured while responding to the flame. Two-thirds of the cathedral's roof was destroyed,   Gal let   said. The fire broke out just before p. m. minutes after the cathedral, which has been partly rebuilt, closed to the public. Around 30 000 people visit the church daily.

Despite its long history and many treasures the Cathedral needed the help of a writer to become truly famous. Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, presented the building to a wide audience of readers. The book's ugly lead character, Quasimodo, serves as a symbol for Paris forgotten   Gothic architecture. Hugo wrote the book to remind people of it, with hope they would work to protect the beautiful old buildings of Paris. The loss of cultural relics will never come again if they are lost only once.   This is a painful loss of world civilization.

1. The following issues are wrongly stated in the text except________________.

A．the Notre Dame Cathedral was totally destroyed

B．firefighters were pessimistic because they couldn't save both towers

C．a national fundraising campaign would be launched to rebuild the cathedral

D．the Cathedral became truly famous for its long history and many treasures

2. What does the underlined word" engulfed" in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Flooded.	B．Swallowed.
C．Disappeared.	D．Constructed.

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

A．A fire broke out in the Notre Dame Cathedral

B．The mystery of the Notre Dame Cathedral

C．A national fundraising campaign

D．The rebuilding of the Notre Dame Cathedral

4 . High-Wire Act

Mickey Wilson had been on the mountain only a few seconds when he heard the scream. Wilson, 28 years old, had just gotten off the cable car (索道缆车) at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Keystone, Colorado, along with his friends Billy Simmons and Hans Mueller. Their friend Richard had been on the cable car ahead of them, but when the men reached the top of the lift, he had disappeared. The men walked toward the source of the scream and found skiers stopped on the slope, pointing to the cable car. And then the friends screamed too.

“Oh, Richard!” yelled Mueller.

When Richard had tried to jump off the cable car, his backpack had been caught in the chair, which then dragged him back down the hill. In the process, the backpack belt twisted around his neck, making him breathless. Now Richard’s body was swinging four feet above the snow. The cable car operator had quickly stopped it, and the friends kicked off their skis and ran toward the scene. They made a human pyramid to try to reach Richard, but the unconscious man was too far off the ground. With the clock ticking, Wilson ran to the ladder of a nearby lift tower. Scared skiers watched as he struggled the 25 feet. After he reached the top, Wilson’s first challenge was to climb onto the two-inch steel cable that held the chairs. He handled the balance and height bravely, but he knew he could not walk on the cable. Therefore, he calmed down and sat over it and then used his hands to pull himself to Richard quickly. Wilson’s greatest fear wasn’t that he’d fall, but that he wouldn’t reach Richard. “This was life or death,” he said.

When he reached Richard’s chair, Wilson swung a leg over the cable and attempted to drop down onto it. But as he did that, his jacket caught on the movable footrest, which was in the up position. The footrest began to slide down, with Wilson attached. But before that could happen, he managed to free himself and reached Richard.

Fortunately, the ski patrol (巡查) had gathered below and performed emergency treatment on Richard, who had been hanging for about five minutes, then skied him down to an ambulance.

That night, Richard called from the hospital to express his thanks to Wilson, his other friends and the workers at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area.

1. What happened to Richard when he tried to jump off the cable car?

A．He was sick and became unconscious.

B．He left his skis which stopped the cable car.

C．He was too afraid to move forward in the cable car.

D．He was caught by the neck, hanging down the cable.

2. How did Richard survive?

A．People worked together and saved him.

B．Wilson climbed on the cable and saved him.

C．The ski patrol got him down and treated him.

D．Skiers treated him and carried him to the hospital.

3. The author wrote the fourth paragraph to show that _______.

A．the rescue process was dangerous

B．something was wrong with the cable car

C．Wilson could manage the process very well

D．the operator of the cable car ignored his duty

4. The story at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area mainly tells us ______.

A．it is very dangerous to go skiing

B．he that climbs high often falls heavily

C．bravery and calm can help you make a difference

D．a person with a great talent always has great will-power

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where was the woman when the accident happened?

A．Near a bank

B．In Union Street

C．Under the traffic lights

2. What color were the traffic lights when the truck went over them?

A．Yellow

B．Red

C．Green

6 . Why was Julia late?

A．She missed the bus.

B．Her grandma was sick.

C．The bus was in an accident.

7 . A cell phone is one of the few things that we hold close to our faces all the time, and yet it could possibly explode – this is what made the recent Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smart phone accidents so shocking.

According to technology news website, The Verge, flawed (有瑕疵的) phone batteries might be to blame.

Even if you are not a science student, you probably know that it is common sense that the negative end and the positive end of the battery should never touch. If they do, the battery will short-circuit (短路), causing a powerful electrical reaction that can destroy the battery and cause a fire.

This is why all lithium-ion (锂离子) batteries – the kind that can be found in many of our devices (电子设备) like tablets and cameras – have a separator layer inside to stop the two ends from touching one another.

But somehow, the separators in some of the Samsung phones broke, causing explosions.

Overcharging is another problem that can make batteries heat up quickly. Fortunately, most batteries are designed to be able to automatically stop charging once they are fully charged. But again, this somehow failed to happen in some of the Samsung phones.

According to Lynden Archer, a materials scientist at Cornell University, US, we have already achieved 90 percent of the battery life possible from a lithium-ion battery. Customers’ demands that their devices get thinner and their battery have a longer life have given producers little choice but to try to put more power into thinner batteries. However, the more energy you put into a box, the more dangerous it’s going to be.

1. A separator layer is put in lithium-ion batteries in order to ______.

A．ensure a longer battery life

B．reduce a certain electrical reaction

C．connect the anode and the cathode

D．prevent a battery from short circuiting

2. What are the possible reasons for the Samsung phone explosions?

A．Pushing the limits of batteries.

B．Short circuiting and overheating.

C．Overcharging and thinner batteries.

D．Automatic charging and broken separators.

3. What is the writer’s main purpose of writing the article?

A．To describe problems facing cell phone producers.

B．To warn us about the dangers of lithium-ion batteries.

C．To teach us common sense when it comes to batteries.

D．To explain the reasons for the Samsung phone explosions.

8 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

My amazing escape

When Helen Monahan got a phone call asking her to pick up a friend’s children from school while collecting     1     own she grabbed her coat and headed down the road. It meant     2     (leave) home five minutes earlier than she had intended—but it could also have saved her life.

Minutes     3     she shut the door, a light aircraft crashed on to her empty house.

“I am trying not to think     4     would have happened if I had left home at the normal time,’ said Mrs Monahan.

Pilot Donald Campbell also had reason to be thankful. The 52-year-old surgeon walked away from the wreckage     5     only minor injuries to his face and head. He had been steering the four-seater Piper Seneca towards Shoreham Airport in West Sussex when the twin engines cut out. It plunged and clipped a railway bridge,     6     (crash) into the £150,000 three-bedroom house in the town of Shoreham-by-Sea. It fell into the back garden, which     7     (litter) with children’s toys.

Mrs Monahan, 36, said: 'It looks like something out of a film set. The tail of the plane was up in the air and the nose was in the fish pond.’

Mr Campbell,     8     flies all over the country to treat the patients of his private practice, said: “I was coming into the airport and both engines cut out. It began to yaw (偏离航线）quite sharply to one side.

‘I couldn’t land on the railway line because of the electric cable and I saw a gap by the houses and aimed next to them. I remember a bang. The wing tip must     9     (hit) the roof. It was a bit rough.’

Safety official were last night examining the plane     10     (try) to discover what went wrong.

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What might the woman’s job be?

A．She’s a diver.

B．She’s a lifeguard.

C．She’s a swimming instructor.

2. Who called the ambulance?

A．The woman.

B．One of the students.

C．The man’s colleague.

3. When did the ambulance arrive?

A．Immediately.

B．Ten minutes later.

C．Twenty minutes later.

4. How did the girl react when she awoke?

A．She didn’t know what happened.

B．She went back in the pool.

C．She cried.

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Without Hesitation

On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to enjoy walking the streets of New York, a city she     1    （move) to nine months earlier from London to attend journalism school. “When the weather is good, it’s very hard to find a reason     2     (be) dissatisfied with the city “ she said.

At the City Hall station, she settled onto a bench. It was just after 2 p.m. Only a few people were at the station . A man leaned against a pillar （柱）, the way anyone might,     3    （wait) for the train. The stillness was interrupted by an announcement that the next train was two stations away. Then Tulic saw the man at the pillar collapsing forward onto the tracks.

The man who had fallen was not moving. Two more men jumped down to help.

“I don’t know     4     these men got the quickness,” Tulic said. “The man fell was about six foot tall. He was kind of     5     (jam) in the tracks. It was frightening to know that the train was coming.”

On the tracks, the unconscious man was held up to a sitting position by the three men, who then lifted him from below to others who pulled him from above and rolled him onto the platform. Then the rescuers     6     (rescue) by helping hands.     7     they were all clear, the train pulled in. “People getting off the train walked around this unconscious man,” Peterson said. He was not, however, alone. Two of the men     8     had jumped onto the platform were holding his hands. “They were saying, ‘Buddy, you’re going to be fine,’” Tulic said. “This was an additional layer of goodness.”

The ambulance arrived, and the man was taken to a local hospital     9     serious but non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

“That is the     10     (great) thing,” Tulic said. “The infrastructure （基础建设） in this city of millions is the people themselves providing, being there for others. Without even knowing the person, who he is. It was beautiful to see.”