听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does the man talk to the woman?

A．To book a ticket.

B．To call off a flight.

C．To change a reservation.

2. How much will the man pay?

A．$ 4,112.

B．$ 4, 479.

C．$ 8,591.

3. What’s the advantage of Air Canada flights for passengers during their stay?

A．Staying a night in the hotel for free.

B．Access to nearby tourist attractions.

C．A chance for entertainment at any time.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does the woman want to join the gym?

A．Out of curiosity.

B．For bodybuilding hobby.

C．To improve her fitness.

2. What does the man think of being active?

A．Beneficial.

B．Energy-consuming.

C．Challenging.

3. What does the man suggest the woman do before going to the gym?

A．Eat dry fruits.

B．Avoid drinking milk.

C．Get enough sleep.

4. What is the man mainly talking about?

A．The significance of doing exercise.

B．A balance between diet and exercise.

C．Some instructions on gym exercise.

Study Areas in Iowa State University’s Library

Quiet Area

The Periodical Room on Floor 2 is a Quiet Zone, requiring an absolute minimum of noise and distraction. Users are completely banned from conversations (including mobile phones), and no group work is allowed.

Group Study Rooms

•Group study rooms must be reserved online using a valid University account and a University Card on a first-come-first-served basis.

•Thirteen rooms are available for groups wanting to work together in the Library.

•Reservations can be made up to 30 days in advance.

•Groups have 15 minutes after the start of their reservation to arrive. If a group has not claimed their study space by that time, their reservation will be cancelled.

Research Study Rooms

•Research study rooms are assigned to individual users for research and other scholarly activities that require extensive use of library materials.

•Applications can be picked up at the Circulation Desk in the Library or request one via email at libstudy @iastate. edu.

•There is usually a waiting list for these rooms. Applications should be made in advance if possible. Generally, these rooms are shared spaces because of the high level of demand.

•Essential equipment is provided for each study, and additional equipment may not be added without authorization. The Library is not responsible for personal property (laptops, textbooks, notebooks, etc) left in these rooms. All Library rules and regulations apply to these rooms. Food and fruit are forbidden, though drinks in covered, spill-proof containers are permitted.

•At the end of the assigned period, the key issued for each study room must be returned promptly to Circulation staff or the user will be billed.

1. What may be suggested doing in the Periodical Room?

A．Reading in small groups.	B．Having a discussion in a low voice.
C．Putting one’s stuff in order.	D．Setting one’s phone on silent mode.

2. What condition should be met to book a group study room?

A．Possessing an active student card.

B．Leaving phones out of the room.

C．Groups consisting of over 15 members.

D．Filling in an application form 30 days earlier.

3. What is prohibited in a Research Study Room?

A．Personal computers.

B．Bottled water.

C．Sandwiches.

D．Study materials.

The most beloved bird in history may very well have been a 29-year-old pigeon by the name of Martha. It was the early 1900s, and Martha was at the height of her fame. Perched on her humble roost at the Cincinnati Zoo, she was an object of fascination to the thousands of visitors who lined up just to catch a glimpse. Martha may not have looked the part of an animal celebrity, but she was hardly average—in fact, she was the very definition of one of a kind. After the death of her companion George in 1910, Martha had become the world’s last-living passenger pigeon.

There was a time not long before when her kind accounted for more than a quarter of the birds in North America and may have been the most abundant bird species on the planet. Passenger pigeons used to travel at 60 miles an hour in flocks a mile wide and 300 miles long. Witnesses compared them to a train rumbling through a tunnel.

Ironically, the passenger pigeons’ very abundance may have spelled their doom. An agricultural pest and reliable source of protein, they became easy targets for hunters who killed them in the tens of thousands. In a matter of decades, a bird that once numbered in the billions was reduced to a few, and then, eventually, to one.

Martha, who’d grown up in captivity, had no offspring of her own. At 1 p.m. on September 1, 1914, Martha fell from her perch, never to rise again—one of the rare occasions in which historians could identify the exact moment of a species’ extinction.

Of course, the real tragedy was that the loss of the passenger pigeon was neither surprising nor unique. For as long as the Earth has sustained life, it has also seen the permanent disappearance of life forms, the dinosaurs being a particularly extreme example. But Martha’s high-profile death trained national attention on an alarming new trend. Close to a thousand animal species alone have died off in the last 500 years, and the trend is only getting worse.

1. What caused the extinction of passenger pigeons?

A．The loss of their habitats.	B．The worsening of global warming.
C．The burning of fossil fuels.	D．Their nutritional value and threat to farming.

2. Why are dinosaurs mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To illustrate we can do nothing to stop species extinction.

B．To show the extinction of a certain species is not a rare case.

C．To explain human activities are to blame for species extinction.

D．To stress immediate measures should be taken before it is too late.

3. What is the author’s attitude towards the new trend of species extinction?

A．Optimistic.

B．Confused.

C．Relieved.

D．Concerned.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．The most beloved bird George died.

B．Birds are the best friends of human beings.

C．The tragic loss of the last passenger pigeon.

D．The most abundant bird species are endangered.

Personality used to be a one-per-customer deal: like it or not, you were who you were, and lying to a pen pal was about the closest you could get to have a different ego. That was then. With the appearance of MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites, a second, carefully crafted identity is now available to anyone with an Internet connection. And that has psychologists wonder: just how well do these online personalities match the person sitting at the keyboard?

The answer, it turns out, is pretty well. In a recent study of 133 undergraduates with Facebook profiles, University of Texas psychologist Samuel D. Gosling measured the correlation between personality tests online and off, and found — contrary to the assumption that social networking sites can’t capture one’s features—that the students represented themselves quite faithfully.

Gosling surveyed the group on a standard five-point personality test, which measures extroversion (外向性), agreeableness, sense of responsibility, emotional stability, and openness to new experiences. Then he rated the same subjects based only on their Facebook profiles, which usually included photos and lists of interests, from academic majors to favorite books and movies.

Gosling found a correlation between assessments in four of the five categories, with emotional stability as the only one showing no significant results across personal and online assessments.(Gosling says he was not surprised at the latter, since emotional stability is something that people are good at hiding across most media.)While extroversion showed the highest correlation, the study suggests that “openness to new experience” is perhaps better conveyed online than in person.

“Facebook users don’t tend to put a lot of personal information on their pages, ” Gosling says, so someone who posted touching personal stories, for example, might come off as oversharing without intending to.

In short, says Gosling, Facebook users aren’t generally using the site as an image buffer, a resume enhancer, or a separate self. “They just use it as a medium for social life.”

1. What is the usual assumption about social networking sites?

A．They provide good study platforms.

B．They contain totally fake information.

C．They couldn’t show one’s real nature.

D．They are friendly to various personalities.

2. Which showed no connection between personality tests online and off?

A．Openness to new experience.	B．Extroversion.
C．Sense of responsibility.	D．Emotional stability.

3. Why do Facebook users stay true to themselves online?

A．True personality beautifies image.

B．The site is a medium for social life.

C．Only cheats invest in a false identity.

D．Various interests can be shared there.

4. What’s the purpose of the text?

A．To introduce a finding.	B．To offer a recommendation.
C．To defend a viewpoint.	D．To present a phenomenon.

Pursue Your Dreams Today, Not Tomorrow

Have you caught yourself daydreaming about your dreams? We often postpone our dreams, trapped in a cycle of delay. But why wait?     1     You don’t have to take a huge, life-changing step. You can take minute steps toward a brighter future. And start right now.

    2     If you never try, you’re going to be weighed down by your regrets. You’re always going to wonder how your life would’ve turned out if you actually took a chance on yourself. Don’t let your future self be disappointed by your present self.

It doesn’t matter how old you are or how many people have warned you that you’re never going to succeed. Even the most successful people have had their hesitations about whether they had what it took to make it in their field.    3     Embrace a mindset of determination, knowing that success is within your reach.

At the end of the day, you need to carve out a path for yourself that will lead to the most satisfaction. If you allow your fear to get the best of you, you’re never going to forgive yourself.    4    . It’s what you would encourage your friends to do, so why aren’t you giving yourself that same push?

Sometimes, following your passion means spending a lot of your time each day. It may require making slight adjustments to your schedule, but you don’t have to sacrifice everything to follow your hearts. Try to strike a balance between your current life and your dreams.    5    

Pursue your dreams now, even though that means you might need to break out of your comfort zone, and even though it means entering the unknown.

A．Ask yourself what would be worse.

B．Starting small is completely acceptable.

C．You owe it to yourself to go after your dreams.

D．New opportunities may lead to personal growth.

E．If things go well, you can gradually make further shifts.

F．You need to move past your insecurities and explore your full potential.

G．Hard as it is, it’s crucial to wave off the doubts in the back of your mind.

Last Christmas, I volunteered for WNWNB, a charity which takes surplus (剩余的) produce from New Covent Garden Market and ________ it to the local community.

The food was already in containers. So we set up the stand and got ready to distribute some Christmas ________. At first, it was ________. People seemed a bit suspicious of taking food for free. But they gradually ________ us and we had a fun afternoon singing carols and trying to ________ passersby to take our food.

It was then time to deliver meals to those who weren’t able to come. This is ________ things changed for me. The first door I knocked on was ________ by a woman in her 30s. She had children and looked absolutely worn out. I told her I was from WNWNB and gave her the ________ meals. It was probably only about two days’ worth of food but, the way she ________, I felt as if I was handing her gold.

I had similar responses to my next ________. In some cases, when people were elderly or alone, I’d go into their homes and have a brief ________ before heading off. Many felt ________, but I saw how happy they were to have another adult human to ________.

As a local politician I knock on doors and talk to people a lot, but there was something deeper about those ________ on Christmas Day. I finished my day at WNWNB a slightly different person from the one who ________.

1.

A．distributes

B．introduces

C．sells

D．exhibits

2.

A．forgiveness

B．images

C．recipes

D．cheer

3.

A．easy

B．nice

C．slow

D．safe

4.

A．broke away from

B．put up with

C．cut in on

D．warmed up to

5.

A．threaten

B．encourage

C．allow

D．command

6.

A．why

B．how

C．where

D．when

7.

A．opened

B．repaired

C．cleaned

D．guarded

8.

A．costly

B．unfinished

C．deserted

D．ready

9.

A．declined

B．reacted

C．argued

D．traded

10.

A．purchases

B．interviews

C．deliveries

D．schedules

11.

A．meal

B．chat

C．report

D．silence

12.

A．proud

B．free

C．lonely

D．content

13.

A．connect with

B．look after

C．turn to

D．rely on

14.

A．conversations

B．budgets

C．explanations

D．deals

15.

A．hesitated

B．started

C．ignored

D．struggled

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In recent years, various regions in China     1     (take) advantage of their unique resources and developed a diverse and dynamic rural tourism industry according to local conditions. They have created     2     (innovate) development models, giving rise to a number of desirable rural tourism destinations. They have paved the way for Chinese rural development     3     combines culture and tourism, promotes harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and fights     4     both material and cultural prosperity (繁荣).

With different types and rich forms, rural tourism is     5     (gradual) becoming a new hotspot in the Chinese tourism market. The annual reception and the tourism revenue (收入) have seen significant growth,     6     (boost) the world’s tourism development.

For foreign tourists, visiting rural areas in China is not just about sightseeing, but an opportunity     7     (get) a view of Chinese culture and customs. The beautiful countryside in China holds     8     strong appeal for foreign visitors.

Nowadays, some foreign tourists have shown a     9     (prefer) for immersive experiences in rural areas, such as enjoying tea and traditional opera performances in rural villages in Zhejiang, watching face-changing and fire-spiting shows of Sichuan Opera in rural parks in Sichuan,     10     listening to folk songs in ethnic villages of Guangxi.

假如你是李华，上个月你校组织了“读名著、学英语”活动。请你写信与你的英国笔友James分享此事，内容包括：
1. 活动过程；
2. 你的感想。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。（答题卡上不用再写已给部分）
Dear James,

Last month, my school organized a month-long reading activity named “Classics for English”.

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Does your school have similar activities? Looking forward to your sharing.

Yours

Li Hua

阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

When starting my sixth-grade year, I was nervous about many things. But nothing compared to the problem that I got to the age where my voice started changing. At first, the voice getting deep excited me. But then I learned before getting deeper, it can crack (变嘶哑).

The first time it happened I was so embarrassed. Surprisingly, my friends didn’t make fun of me. In fact, they didn’t even mention it. But in my self-conscious sixth-grade mind I was certain they made fun of me behind my back. They weren’t having the same problem.

After my first voice crack experience, I was determined to make sure it wouldn’t happen again. At least not in public. So, except for strategic times I said, “cool” and “yeah”, I didn’t talk. My logic was, “If I don’t use my voice, it cannot crack.” However, I couldn’t go without talking forever. I needed a new solution.

I began clearing my throat before speaking, which actually seemed to help. Limiting how much I spoke and clearing my voice made me much less stressful. This was great but there was a larger problem. I was much more scared about having a voice crack during class. My class had many new kids I’d never spoken with. I didn’t want their first impressions of me to be based on a voice crack.

Unfortunately, one day my concern came true. It was about two months after the beginning of the term. On the day it happened everything was the same as always until I got into the classroom. I noticed that we had a substitute teacher (代课老师) and immediately started thinking about how he would take attendance. My permanent teacher never had to, since he already knew each student, I panicked. So many thoughts rushed through my mind that I couldn’t think straight. I calmed myself down by telling myself that I only had to say one word “Here”. “Easy enough, right?” I thought so until my name was called. I did my routine — cleared my throat, took a breath, and said, “Here.” The only problem was that while saying this, I had the worst voice crack in the history of voice cracks.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为 150 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The whole class turned to look at me.
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“You know, the voice problem you met in class is normal,” a classmate came to me and said.
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