When you cough or sneeze, you’d better turn your head away from others and cover your mouth with the full part of your hand. And then, you should say, “Excuse me.”

This seems so simple, but it is surprising how many kids have never been told to do this. Actually, I notice adults all the time who cough and sneeze in public without placing a hand over the mouth. One important thing I point out to the kids is that after they sneeze or cough on their hands, they should wash their hands as soon as possible. If not, they will be passing those germs (细菌) along to everything and everyone they touch.

If you come to a door and someone is following you, hold the door. If the door opens by pulling, pull it open, stand to the side, and allow the other person to pass through first, then you can walk through. If the door opens by pushing, hold the door after you pass through.                             

 After a few weeks of seeing kids try to get through doors in the school and watching them enter restaurants as the door hit other people, I knew I had to discuss the problem with my students. Teaching them small acts of kindness, such as letting someone else go through a door first as they hold it open, may seem unimportant, but it can go a long way toward helping students realize how to be polite and thank others. Once they’ve been told, they’re halfway there.

 When we have to go up moving stairs, we will stand to the right. That will give others who are in a hurry a choice of walking up the left-hand side of the moving stairs. When we are going to enter a lift, the underground, or a doorway, we will wait for others to exit before we enter.

After college when I moved to London, I was surprised at how polite everyone was in the subways. I was even more touched when I traveled to Japan. In both places, people made efforts to make way for others. On moving stairs, everyone stood to the right and walked to the left. On lifts, everyone would stand over to the side and allow others to exit before they would begin to enter.

72. If you come to a door and someone is following you, do the following except       .

A. hold the door open                          B. let her or him pass through     

C. close the door right after you                  D. stand to the side

73. Holding the door open for people following you        .

A. shows people how they are important to you

B. shows that you're a kind and polite person

C. shows that you’re generous and patient

D. shows that you are important to them

74. From the passage we know the writer is probably a        .

A. doctor              B. reporter      C. teacher            D. writer

75. Who do you think the best title would be ?

A. Stop spreading gems.        B. Show small acts of kindness.

C. Hold the door for others.     D. Make way for others.

 Mary has _________ 18-year-old daughter who has ________ gift for singing.

    A. a; a           B. an; the        C. an; a          D. the; a

___________ was most important to her, she told me, was her family.

     A. It        B.As      C.What     D. This

When I moved into the new house, I felt that the happy life I had been dreaming of ____ at last.

A. coming  B. having come  C. came   D. would come

Eyesight plays a very important role in our daily life. Every waking moment, the eyes are working to see the world around us. Over forty percent of Americans worry about losing eyesight, but it's easy to include steps into our daily life to ensure healthy eyes. Here are five suggestions for a lifetime of healthy eyesight：

·Schedule yearly exams. __36__ Experts advise parents to bring babies 6 to 12 months of age to the doctor for a careful check. The good news is that millions of children now can have yearly eye exams and following treatment, including eyeglasses.

·Protect against UV rays (紫外线). Long­term stay in the sun creates risk to your eyes. No matter what the season is, it's extremely important to wear sunglasses. __37__

·Give your eyes a break. Two ­thirds of Americans spend up to seven hours a day using computers or other digital products. __38__ Experts recommend that people practice the 20/20/20 rule: every 20 minutes, take a 20­second break and look at something 20 feet away.

·__39__ As part of a healthy diet, eat more fruits and vegetables each day. Vitamins (维生素) C and E help protect eyesight and promote eye health.

·Practice safe wear and care of contact lenses (隐形眼镜). Many Americans use contact lenses to improve their eyesight. While some follow the medical guidance for wearing contact lenses, many are breaking the rules and putting their eyesight at risk. __40__ Otherwise, you may have problems such as red eyes, pain in the eyes, or a more serious condition.

A．Eat your greens.

B．Eye care should begin early in life.

C．They can properly protect your eyes.

D．Stay in good shape by taking more vitamins.

E．Parents usually don't care about their own eyesight.

F．Always follow the doctor's advice for appropriate wear.

G．This frequent eye activity increases the risk for eye tiredness.

Making friends is a skill like most skills. It improves with practice. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to take some action. You must first go where there are people. __36__

Joining a club or a group, talking with those who like the same things as you do is much easier. Or join someone in some activity.

__37__ After all meeting strangers means facing the unknown. And it's human nature to feel a bit uncomfortable about the unknown. Most of our fears about dealing with new people come from doubts about ourselves. We imagine other people are judging us, finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. __38__ Try to accept yourself as you are, and try to put the other person at ease. You'll both feel more comfortable.

Try to act self­confident even if you don't feel that way. When you enter a room full of strangers, such as a new classroom, walk tall and straight, look directly at other people and smile, and say something. __39__

Just meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person — friendship is based on mutual (相互的) liking and “give and take”. __40__

A. Many people are nervous when talking to new people.

B. But don't forget that they must be feeling the same way.

C.It depends on one's character to make good friends.

D. You won't make friends staying home alone.

E.I'm a shy person and it is very difficult for me to make friends with other people.

F.Don't wait for the other person to start a conversation.

G.It takes time and effort to develop.

Dragon fruit

   The dragon fruit is a rather impressive thing to look at with its pink peel and seeded white flesh. Dragon fruits are native to Central America. They have a mild flavor(口味), so they are perfect for picky eaters. Dragon fruits are high in vitamin C and vitamin B, plus they are low in calories.

   Dragon fruits are available(可获得的), most any time of the year. Eat the flesh plain or add it to fruit salads.

Star fruit

Star fruits originated in Southeast Asia. They have a sweet, yet sour flavor. Star fruits are high in vitamin C and fiber, plus they are low in calories.

Fresh star fruits are available year round. Choose those that are yellow in color, or let green star fruits ripen a bit at home. Sliced star fruits can be added to salads or eaten out of hand.

Lychee

Lychees originated in south of China and Vietnam. They are high in vitamin C, B-complex vitamins, and potassium. One cup of fresh lychees has about 125 calories.

Remove away the dark red skin to expose the white flesh, which can be eaten raw or added to fruit salads. Fresh lychees may be available in spring, but canned lychees are available year round.

Keep in mind the canned lychees often contain extra calories and sugar.

Sugar-apple

Sugar-apples are commonly grown on trees in the tropical parts of south America, southern Mexico, and the Caribbean. They are also grown in South Florida. Sugar-apples are a good source of fiber, vitamin C, and vitamin B.

They are usually eaten raw(生的), but you have to spit out the seeds or pick the seeds from the delicious flesh and then mix the flesh with milk and ice cubes. They can be found in stores in the fall months.

36. Which fruits are rooted in eastern countries?

   A. Sugar apple and dragon fruit.       B. Sugar apple and lychee.

   C. Star fruit and dragon fruit.         D. Star fruit and lychee.

37. What feature does the dragon fruit have to satisfy picky people?

  A. Its seeded flesh.                  B. Its mild flavor.

  C. Its attractive color.                D. Its low calories.

38. According to the passage, those who are on a diet should eat fewer ______.

  A. sugar-apples     B. dragon fruits   C. star fruits     D. lychees

39. How many kinds of fresh fruits mentioned in the passage are available year around?

  A. 1.             B. 2.            C. 3            D. 4.

40. What do the four types of fruits have in common?

  A. They all can be eaten raw.          B. They have big seeds.

  C. They are high in vitamin B.         D. They all have white skin.

Once upon a time，there was a very big fish named Bob. Bob was already the ___21___ fish in the pond，but he wanted to be the biggest fish in the world.

One day，he was out catching ___22___ for dinner. He ___23___ to catch a very big fly. Before he could swallow it through，the big fly ___24___ for his life. The fly promised Bob a magic wish if he would ___25___ his life.

At first，Bob was very ___26___ about giving up the largest fly he had seen. He was hungry.___27___ more than anything else on this planet，he wanted to be huge.

___28___ he decided to take the magic wish. The fly looked at him and said，“___29___ your wish，fish！”

“I want to be huge，really，really huge. I want to be bigger than any ___30___ that ever lived，” Bob said to the fly.

“That’s really ___31___，” the fly said to him.

Bob looked at the fly and said，“No，I’m smart！Aren’t you going to give me the ___32___？”

“I will keep my promise，”the fly said，and with that Bob started to ___33___. He grew and grew until he was so large that he ___34___ live in the pond any more. Bob ___35___ for water，but he was beached，and after a while he died.

The people fishing in their ___36___，the people standing on the banks of the ___37___，and the people who had stopped their cars on the highway，all ___38___ in surprise at this big stupid fish that was ___39___ on the side of the pond.

Everybody had a wonderful time ___40___ Bob，who was of course eaten.

21. A. tallest    B. cleverest    C. shyest    D. largest

22. A. flies    B. fish    C. animals    D. birds

23. A. promised    B. succeeded    C. managed    D. tried

24. A. searched    B. begged    C. waited    D. struggled

25. A. protect    B. rescue    C. spare    D. keep

26. A. sure    B. uncertain    C. worried    D. pleased

27. A. And    B. While    C. Until    D. But

28. A. Finally    B. Firstly    C. Surprisingly    D. Doubtfully

29. A. Name    B. Remember    C. Tell    D. Leave

30. A. animal    B. fly    C. person    D. fish

31. A. funny    B. stupid    C. sincere    D. royal

32. A. present    B. wish    C. hope    D. gift

33. A. grow    B. change    C. increase    D. add

34. A. mustn’t    B. wouldn’t    C. couldn’t    D. shouldn’t

35. A. longed    B. sent    C. charged    D. paid

36. A. seas    B. nets    C. boats    D. cars

37. A. water    B. stream    C. river    D. pond

38. A. wondered    B. watched    C. glared    D. stared

39. A. swum    B. stuck    C. shocked    D. struck

40. A. beside    B. besides    C. except    D. as well as

South Africa is a multiethnic society encompassing a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions. It has 11 official languages. If you want to say hello, it's "sawubona" in Zulu, and "hallo" in Afrikaans. Now, South Africa's school children may start using "ni hao" to say hello. 
  The country's education minister says, the nation is adding the Mandarin language teaching in some schools. Mandarin is the official spoken language of China. That country is a major trading power for South Africa.

A recent agreement between the two nations centers on five areas of cooperation. They include development in basic education, school books and lessons, mathematics and science, teacher training and career education and research.
    South Africa officials have not said how much they teaching Mandarin will cost. Troy Martens is an officials with South Africa's Ministry of Basic Education. She says the new partnership is extremely valuable.
  A public opinion study last year found that South Africans have mixed feelings about China. The survey showed 46 percent of South Africans do not like the spread of Chinese ideas and customs in their country, the results also showed that 60 percent dislike Chinese music, movies and television.
  But Ms Martens said Chinese trade is more important than those feelings. She said it is extremely helpful to learners in South Africa to study Mandarin as well as Chinese culture. And she said not every school will offer Mandarin.
  “Now this will not be compulsory, it will not be for every school, and it will not be for every child. But for schools that feel they have the capacity to offer Mandarin as a subject, we think it is a great opportunity for South African learners to be exposed to this international type of language,” said Martens.
  Lisette Noonan heads the 80-year-old Pretoria Chinese School in South Africa's capital. The school serves about 500 students from kindergarten to grade 12. Every student studies Mandarin.
  Ms Noonan says the school welcomes the new cooperation between South Africa and China. She said it is in the best interests of children to study Mandarin. She said that especially true with China becoming what she called “a huge economic power in the world”

7.We can learn from Paragraph 1 that    .

A.South Africa introduces Mandarin into its school curriculum.

B.South Africa has 11 official languages.

C."ni hao"is easy to say than other languages.

D.students in school must speak all official languages.

8.The underlined words “the new partnership” in Paragraph 4 refers to      .

 A.a recent agreement about trading cooperation.
B.five areas of cooperation in education.

 C.teaching official languages.

 D.career education and research.

9.From Paragraph 5,we can know that      .

A.South Africans are familiar with Chinese music, movies and television.
B.all South Africans aren’t interested in Chinese ideas and customs.

 C.the spread of Chinese ideas and customs is popular among South Africans .

 D.Chinese culture has a great influence on South Africa ns.

10.Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Every school in South Africa will offer Mandarin to their students.
B.60 percent of South Africans want to learn Mandarin.

 C.It’s 80 years since Pretoria Chinese School in South Africa’s capital opened.

 D.Mr.Noonan isn’t interested in the new cooperation between South Africa and China.

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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；

Now many students had iPods and think it is a fashion to use them. By using a iPod, we can listen to music and download lots of learning materials. Clear, it is of great use to our study. Some students, instead of, bring their iPods to the classroom and listen to music with earphones，which make the teachers and other students badly upset. Some of them even waste time in class played video games.

In my opinions, we should make good use iPods to get success in study. The classroom is a place when students study. Besides, the school should make a rule to guide we students to use iPods properly.

    When a big exam is coming up, you probably feel anxious about any wasted time and want to begin school as soon as you probably can.

But tens of thousands of British high school students will soon be getting up later. They’re taking part in a new experiment by Oxford University to see if later classes can improve their exam results.

Grades 10 students in the UK have to take the nationwide General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams. They have to pass these exams in order to study more advanced courses, and later apply for universities.

The Oxford University project means that GCSE students from more than 100 schools across England will start school at 10 am, more than one hour later than the current start time (8:50 am).

The project is based on scientific evidence that teenagers are “out of sync(同步)” with traditional school hours, the Telegraph reported. And what they need is more sleep in the morning.

“We know that something funny happens when you’re a teenager, in that you seem to be out of sync with the world,” said professor Colin Epsie, who is leading the study. “Your parents think it’s because you are lazy and opinionated（固执己见的）and everything will be OK if you could get to sleep earlier. But science is telling us that teenagers need to sleep more in the mornings.”

Everyone follows a natural cycle of sleep and wakefulness. Biology has decided that teenagers go to sleep around midnight and don’t feel fully awake until 9-10 am, according to scientists. That’s two hours later than adults. And their body clocks stay like this until the age of around 21 for males, and 19 for females.

“Society provides school for learning, but the brain provides sleep. So we are exploring the possibility that if you delay the schools start time until 10 am, that will improve learning performance,” said Epsie.

The results could be positive, based on previous studies.

An early study at the UK’s Monkseaton High School in 2009 found that starting an hour later improved grades in core subjects by 19 percent.

The Oxford project is expecting to publish the results in 2018. It’s time to wait and see whether scientists will give us an excuse to get up late.

1．According to the article, students who take part in the Oxford University project_______.

A．will start school one hour earlier

B．will be guaranteed more sleeping time in the morning

C．will perform better academically than those who don’t participate

D．will no longer have to take GCSE exams

2．We can infer from the article that ________ .

A．children and adults have different natural cycles of sleep and wakefulness

B．getting up late is a sign of laziness in the eyes of most British parents

C．the Oxford University project is targeted at all British high schools

D．there is still no scientific evidence that supports a late school start time

3．What is the author’s attitude toward the Oxford University project ?

A．Critical                                                     B．Uninterested

C．Optimistic                                                 D．Doubtful

4．What’s the best title of the article ?

A．It’s never too late to learn                           B．An excuse to get up late

C．The later you get up, the better you’ll learn   D．Wake up late to excel

 ________ the job takes a significant amount of time, most students agree that the experience is worth it.

A. If only               B. After                C．Although            D．In case

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as “Would you really marry a woman who works?” And today it’d be “Would you marry one who doesn’t?”

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

53. The book Gone with the Wind was ______.

A. first published on a newspaper                          B. awarded ten Academy Awards

C. written in “The Dump”                                     D. adapted from a movie

54. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to______.

A. be very pleased with                                        B. be much taller than

C. show great respect for                                     D. show little interest in

55. We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that ______.
   A. her height made her marriage unhappy                     B. her interest in writing continued as an adult
   C. writing stopped her working as a reporter         D. her life was full of hardship and sadness

56. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.                B. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.

C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House. D. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.

 Filled with anger, he didn’t shout, but just ________ silently at me.

  A. looked         B. stared          C. glared       D. glanced

We had hardly got to the station __________it began no rain.

A. until    B. since

C. while    D. When

 I do hope that one day the Chinese language will become a ______ language, that is, everyone in the world will communicate in it.

A. common           B. universal          C. popular            D. special

University Room Regulations

Approved and Prohibited Items

The following items are approved for use in residential (住宿的) rooms: electric blankets, hair dryers, personal computers, radios, televisions and DVD players. Items that are not allowed in student rooms include: candles, ceiling fans, fireworks, waterbeds, sun lamps and wireless routers. Please note that any prohibited items will be taken away by the Office of Residence Life.

Access to Residential Rooms

Students are provided with a combination (组合密码) for their room door locks upon check-in. Do not share your room door lock combination with anyone. The Office of Residence Life may change the door lock combination at any time at the expense of the resident if it is found that the student has shared the combination with others. The fee is $25 to change a room combination.

Cooking Policy

Students living in buildings that have kitchens are only permitted to cook in the kitchen. Students must clean up after cooking. This is not the responsibility of housekeeping staff. Kitchens that are not kept clean may be closed for use. With the exception of using a microwave oven to heat food, students are not permitted to cook in their rooms.

Pet Policy

  No pets except fish are permitted in student rooms. Students who are found with pets, whether visiting or owned by the student, will face an initial fine of $100 and a continuing fine of $50 a day per pet. Students will receive written notice when the fine goes into effect. If, one week from the date of written notice, the pet is not removed, the student is referred to the Student Court.

 56. Which of the following items are allowed in student rooms?

A. Ceiling fans and waterbeds               B. Wireless routers and radios

C. Hair dryers and candles                  D. TVs and electric blankets

 57. What do we know about the cooking policy?

A. A housekeeper is to clean up the kitchen.    B. Cooking in student rooms is permitted.

C. A microwave oven can be used.           D. Students are to close kitchen doors after cooking.

 58. If a student has kept a cat in his room for a week since the warning, he will face           .

    A. parent visits     B. a fine of $100     C. the Student Court.     D. a written notice

The equipment has been designed to ________ wheelchair users.

    A. take control of      B. give access to      

C. make way for     D. keep pace with

  Doctors have known for a long time that extremely loud noises can cause hearing damage or loss. The noise can be the sound of a jet airplane or machines in factories of loud music or other common sound at home and at work. A person only needs to hear the noise for little more than one second to be affected.

An American scientist has found that using aspirin (阿斯匹林) increase the temporary (暂时的)hearing loss or damage from loud noise. He did an experiment using a number of students at a university who all had normal hearing. He gave them different amounts of aspirin for different periods of time, then he tested their hearing ability. He found that students who were given four grams of aspirin a day for two days suffered much greater temporary hearing loss than those who did not use aspirin. The hearing loss was about two times as great.

The scientist said millions of persons in the U.S. use much larger amounts of aspirin than were used in his experiment. He said these persons face a serious danger of suffering hearing loss from loud noise.

62. Doctors have long known that__________.

A. one may lose his hearing when he hears a terribly loud noise.

B. one may become deaf when he hears a loud noise.

C. loud noises can cause damage to the hearing of the young people only

D. common sounds at home are not harmful to the ear

63. One conclusion you can draw from the passage is that aspirin________.

A. makes hearing damage from loud noise worse

B. should never be taken more than four grams

C. can damage one’s hearing when it is given more than four grams daily

D. always increases hearing loss by two times

64. Millions of Americans are in danger of suffering hearing loss because they__________.

A. take too much aspirin         B. often take air trips

C. like listening to loud music     D. have too much loud noises at home and at work

65. The American scientist did his experiment in order to find ________. .

A. how much aspirin would affect a person’s hearing

B. how much aspirin should be given in the treatment of the patients with hearing damage from loud noise

C. whether aspirin would increase the temporary hearing damage from loud noises

D. whether the people who had hearing damage should use aspirin

    Recently, we have learnt that we have five _36_. Our teacher asked us to find out whether plants have them too. After some research, we found that it is more _37_ that plants have just one or two senses, which is quite different from humans.

    Some plants can sense the light from the sun, and grow towards _38_. What is amazing is that plants which like eating small insects can sense the soft touches of the insects on their leaves. After they sense the insects near them, they move their leaves all of a sudden to _39_ them. It has also been discovered that some plants can feel _40_ the animals want to hurt them or not. No one knows _41_ the plants can do this. The results of a recent experiment _42_ out by some scientists are amazing. It is observed that when plants _43_ dangerous insects, they give off a kind of smell for _44_, because the smell can attract other insects in the _45_ to kill the dangerous ones. How clever plants are!

36. A. approaches       B. feelings             C. senses              D. touches

37. A. likely                 B. certain              C. like                  D. often

38. A. them                 B. it                      C. one                  D. that

39. A. recognize          B. approach         C. observe           D. catch

40. A. what                 B. if               C. whether           D. that

41. A. why                  B. that                  C. which        D. how

42. A. figured              B. worked            C. carried             D. found

43. A. touch                B. sensed             C. felt                   D. observed

44. A. confusion          B. hesitation          C. attraction         D. protection

45. A. distance            B. darkness          C. fog                   D. sight