With all the snow and bitter cold we’ve had this winter, it’s hard to imagine jumping into a large body of water. But not far away, there are plenty of warm places where you can not only splash and swim.

29. What do the four places have in common according to the passage?

   A. They own the largest reef systems.

   B. They are good diving spots in winter.   

   C. They all provide you with shipwrecks.

   D. They are all difficult to reach.

30. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. If you want to go to Plunge the Depths of Palau, you can take a flight from Vietnam.

B. Snorkel the Philippines is disliked by the world because of its location.

C. Buddy Dive Resort Bonaire is the only place where you can see corals.

D. Greg Deaver is the coolest one among the four places.

31. It can be learned from the passage that ______________.

   A. Cozumel is a small country in the Atlantic       

   B. Cozumel is famous for the town San Miguel
   C. Cozumel is a close neighbor to Mexico        

   D. Cozumel is located in North America

 When you want to hunt for a piece of environmentally friendly furniture, you should try to know the types of materials         in building the furniture.

       A. used               B. being used                  C. using            D. to use

What impresses me most is________he appears in front of others，he wears a sincere and charming smile.

A．what　   B．which

C．that where　 D．that whenever

    From gobbling(狼吞虎咽）down turkey to spending time with family to watching football, Thanksgiving is filled with traditions. But one of the most popular—pulling the wishbone—dates back centuries.

    The upside-down V-shaped bone is actually called the furcula(叉骨). It is a bone located between a turkey’s neck and its breast. Furcula means “little fork” in Latin. All birds have a wishbone.

    At Thanksgiving, the tradition is for two people to hold one end of the bone, make a wish，and then tug(用力拉). The winner is the person who ends up with the bigger piece. If you believe the legend, the winner's wish will come true.

    The practice of making a wish on a bird’s furcula dates back to the ancient Etruscans, a people who lived in what is today northern Italy. They believed birds were powerful and divine (非凡的）creatures. After killing a chicken, an Etruscan would leave the wishbone in the sun to dry. Passersby would pick it up, stroke it for good luck，and make a wish. That is how the furcula got the name “wishbone.”

The Etruscans passed the ritual (仪式）along to the Romans. Soon，the practice of making a wish on a chicken's furcula became popular in ancient Rome. According to legend，it was so widespread that there weren't enough chickens or wishbones to go around. So the Romans began breaking the wishbone in two. Now, twice as many people could make wishes.

    Then the English picked up the tradition. In the 16th century, English settlers brought the practice to the New World. There, they found an abundance of wild turkeys. So they started using a turkey furcula for their wishes. Today a wishbone tug-of-war is as much a part of Thanksgiving as is gobbling down turkey.

24. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Turkey Tug-of-War           B. A Lucky Turkey

C. The New World              D. The Stories of Thanksgiving

25. What does the fourth paragraph focus on?

A. How to dry the wishbone.

B. The origin of this bone-pulling tradition

C. The place where the ancient Etruscans lived.

D. The practice of the ancient Etruscans making a wish on a turkey's furcula.

26. Why did the Romans break the wishbone in two?

A. To save money.

B. To protect chickens.

C. To create an I-shaped wishbone.

D. To give more people the chances to make wishes

27. Where was a turkey tug-of-war probably served as a Thanksgiving tradition first?

A. In America.          B. In the UK.

C. In ancient Rome.      D. In northern Italy.

Yesterday I went to see him, _________ that he had gone abroad two days before.

A. only to learn    B. to learn only    C. only learned    D. only learning

In US, the potato is one of the most widely consumed crops. French fries are commonly found in typical American fast-food burger joints and cafeterias. French fries were introduced to the US when Thomas Jefferson served them in the White House during his presidency from 1801 t0 1809. Potato chips are popular with consumers as well.

The humble potato is more than just a kind of food. In many ways it’s part of the American pop culture. Let’s take a look at some pop culture potatoes.

Mashed Potato dance

The Mashed Potato dance is a craze that began in 1962. The name of the dance came from the song it accompanies, Mashed Potato Time, performed by American R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp. The move vaguely resembles that of the Twist dance style, by Sharp’s fellow Philadelphian, Chubby Checker.

Hot Potato!

Hot Potato!  is an action puzzle video game released in 2001. In the game the player must drive a bus and clear the road of alien potato beings. The potato beings are either red or blue; when two like-colored potatoes touch each other, they disappear. . Over the years, Hot Potato! has received mostly positive reception from critics.

       Mr. Potato Head

Mr. Potato Head is an American toy invented by George Lerner in 1949. The toy consists of a plastic potato model and a variety of plastic parts like hands, feet, ears and mouths. In 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy advertised on television. This commercial revolutionized marketing and caused a boom that solidified this toy’s place in American pop culture.

25. Which is the newest to the American pop culture?

      A. French fries.                                  B. Mashed Potato dance.

      C. Hot Potato!                                       D. Mr. Potato Head.

26. What can we infer from the text?

      A. French fries were popular in US when first served in the White House.

      B. Mashed Potato Time came from Mashed Potato dance.

      C. Players can play Hot Potato!  on their phone.

      D. Mr. Potato Head can be taken apart.

27. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

     A. Enjoy American Fast Food                         B. Have Fun with Potatoes

     C. Different Uses of Potatoes                         D. American Food Culture

At present, many new workers ________ and in six months they will be sent to build a new railway.

A. are being trained         B. are training           C. will train                D. will be trained

Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?

In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River Cleveland, Ohio. It   61   (be) unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up. The river was so polluted that it   62   (actual) caught fire and burned. Now, years later, this river is one of   63   most outstanding examples of environmental cleanup.

    But the river wasn’t changed in a few days   64   even a few months. It took years of work   65   (reduce ) the industrial pollution and clean the water. Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is   66   (clean) than ever.

   Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you leave a habit   67   is driving your family crazy. Possibly you drink too much or don’t know how to control your credit card use. When you face such an impossible situation ,don’t you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?

   While there are   68   (amaze) stories of instant transformation, for most of us the   69   (change) are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river. Just be   70   (patience)

     Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.

    Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.

People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.

    Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.

    It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.   

45. A good title for this reading passage is______.

    A. Popeye the Sailor                   B. The Truth About Spinach

    C.A Mistake with Numbers  D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong

46. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

    A. They thought spinach made them strong.

B. They thought Popeye was funny.

    C. Spinach had a lot of iron.   

    D. People liked folic acid.

47. A research group told people that spinach______.

    A. made Popeye strong       

    B. was a green vegetable

    C. had less iron than other green vegetables

    D. had more iron than other green vegetables

48. The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.

    A. iron                B. folic acid        C. spinach          D. exercise

49. Folic acid is ______.

    A. something in food                    B. a vegetable

    C. dangerous                         D. a certain kind of spinach

________is our strong suggestion that he ________ a holiday, but ________ doesn’t help.

Taking a taxi in some Eastern European countries can be 　41　shocking experience. It is said that some taxi drivers have metal wires 　42　(stick) into the passenger’s seats. And when a button 　43　(push), the seat will give you an electric shock. These taxi drivers don’t do this　44　fun. They do it to tourists 　45　argue about the ridiculous fares they charge. Some drivers charge as much 　46　ten times the legal fare. They have a secret switch which makes the meters much　47　(fast). If you refuse to pay, you are really in for a shock. In one case, a German woman had no choice but to pay US$120 for a US$20 ride from the airport. She said that she was “really taken for a ride,”　48　what could she do? Besides the 　49　(electricity) shock, she was verbally abused and threatened with physical violence. She has only one piece of advice for tourists, “Take the bus 　50　stay at home.”

Cell phones are one of the most useful invention of the last 50 years, but not everything that is said about them is ____41____. The phones are ____42____ blamed for a number of things, from thumb injuries and headaches to house fires. One theory even blames cell phones for the ____43___ of bees!

The theory is that the bees’ navigation systems are ____44____ by the radiation（辐射） that is given off by cell phones. Bees have a ____45____ system a little like a GPS, and this helps them ____46___ their way back to their hives (where bees live). But recently, thousands of bees have ___47____ to find their way home. It is believed that they are ____48____ far from their hives.

The ____49____ was first noticed by beekeepers in the U.S. and is a lot more ___50____ than it seems at first. Did you know that most of the world’s crops are pollinated (授粉) by bees? Without bees, the crops can’t continue to ___51____. Many beekeepers in the U.S. and Europe have reported ____52____ between 50 and 70 percent of their bees. Rick Smith, a beekeeper in Arizona, says that bees are dying in numbers that “we haven’t seen ___53____”. At one time Smith had 8,500 hives. Now the number has been ____54___ to 1,280.

Nobody has proven that the cell phone theory is true, but it’s a ___55____ that bees are disappearing in very large numbers. And we can’t ____56____ without them. Einstein said that ___57____ all our bees disappeared, man would only live for four more years! The ___58____ needs to be evaluated by the world’s best scientists. If the cell phone theory is ____59___, we need to do something about it ___60____, before it’s too late.

41. A. clear             B. false                   C. good                D. strange

42. A. hardly            B. mainly                C. completely          D. frequently

43. A. movement       B. health                C. protection           D. disappearance

44. A. guided          B. damaged               C. shaped              D. powered

45. A. weak            B. different               C. built-in               D. slowly-moving

46. A. design           B. follow               C. find                 D. choose

47. A. started           B. failed                C. continued            D. refused

48. A. eating            B. dying                C. flying               D. dancing

49. A. problem          B. mistake                C. question              D. difficulty

50. A. actual            B. basic                 C. serious              D. important

51. A. struggle           B. grow                 C. harvest              D. change

52. A. killing             B. catching             C. raising               D. losing

53. A. by the time       B. up till now            C. from then on              D. in the past

54. A. reduced          B. divided                 C. increased            D. reached

55. A. view              B. case                 C. fact                 D. dream

56. A. work             B. stop                  C. manage             D. compete

57. A. if                B. though                      C. because             D. unless

58. A. invention          B. plan                 C. action               D. situation

59. A. possible           B. correct                     C. legal                 D. new

60. A. privately           B. immediately            C. patiently              D. secretly

My parents and two older brothers arrived in Queens from Cuba in 1967, squeezing into a one-bedroom apartment that got even more crampedwhen I showed up two years later. Suspicious of everyone and unable to communicate in English, my parents weren’t about to let their kids hang out in the streets. And since they both worked, we boys spent a lot of time at home.

The main public library on Merrick Boulevard was the first place I was allowed to visit on my own. I started going there when I was eight. Everything I needing was located on what seemed to me an endless single floor. Wandering around that building aimlessly on a Saturday afternoon offered a sense of freedom I’d never experienced before.

Once my father dropped me off, it didn’t really matter what I did so long as I could explore. I find it interesting that people today say that libraries are no longer about books; they weren’t really about books for me back in the 1970s, either. It was more about being around other people who looked like they were being productive-turning pages, making copies, patiently waiting for items. All this was attractive to me.

I felt a certain level of dignity and self-respect at the library. I didn’t borrow books from the library despite spending practically every Saturday of my childhood there. I certainly went over hundreds and hundreds of them during my walks around the building- sports, politics and the solar system were my favorite sections.     

But I felt no great need to bring books home. We had no room for books in our apartment anyway. I felt like a poor kid when I read books at home. I felt like everyone else when I read books at the library.

21. The underlined word “cramped” in Paragraph I probably means “________”.

A. dangerous    B. shabby    C. messy    D. crowded

22. What did the author appreciate most about the library?

A. The atmosphere it provides.    B. The books he could explore.

C. The productive people in it.    D. The seemingly endless floor.

23. The author didn’t borrow books from the library because ________.

A. he had finished reading all the books he preferred

B. he felt like reading at the library to enjoy freedom

C. he didn’t want to lose his dignity and self-respect

D. he was too poor to afford the cost of borrowing books

24. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. How a Public Library Set Me Free

B. Culture Shock Is Never a Barrier

C. My Aimless and Boring Childhood

D. A Building Shaped a Nation’s Spirit

 They have a good knowledge of English, but little ______ they know about German.

A. have                B. did                               C. had                      D. do

A. Decide to settle when growth is guaranteed.

B. Follow other people's paths.

C. Blame others for the fault.

D. Have faith in overnight success. 

E. Only pay attention to the dreams themselves.

F. Believe someone else has the answers for you.

FIVE WAYS TO KILL YOUR DREAMS

    I dedicated the past two years to understanding how people achieve their dreams. When we think about the dreams we have, and the footprint we want to leave in the universe, it is striking to see how big of an overlap there is between the dreams that we have and projects that never happen. So I'm here to talk to you today about five ways how not to follow your dreams.

71. ______

    You know the story, right? The tech guy built a mobile app and sold it very fast for a lot of money. You know, the story may seem real, but I bet it's incomplete. If you go investigate further, the guy has done 30 apps before and he has done a master's on the topic, a Ph.D. He has been working on the topic for 20 years. This is really interesting. I myself have a story in Brazil that people think is an overnight success. I come from a humble family, and two weeks before the deadline to apply to MIT, I started the application process. And, voila! I got in. People may think it's an overnight success, but that only worked because for the 17 years prior to that, I took life and education seriously. Your overnight success story is always a result of everything you've done in your life through that moment.

72. ______

    Constantly, people want to help out, right? All sorts of people: your family, your friends, your business partners, they all have opinions on which path you should take: "And let me tell you, go through this pipe." But whenever you go inside, there are other ways you have to pick as well. And you need to make those decisions yourself. No one else has the perfect answers for your life. And you need to keep picking those decisions, right? The pipes are infinite and you're going to bump your head, and it's a part of the process.

73. ______

    So when your life is going great, you have put together a great team, and you have growing revenue, and everything is set — time to settle. When I launched my first book, I worked really, really hard to distribute it everywhere in Brazil. With that, over three million people downloaded it, over 50,000 people bought physical copies. When I wrote a sequel, some impact was guaranteed. Even if I did little, sales would be okay. But okay is never okay. When you're growing towards a peak, you need to work harder than ever and find yourself another peak. Maybe if I did little, a couple hundred thousand people would read it, and that's great already. But if I work harder than ever, I can bring this number up to millions. That's why I decided, with my new book, to go to every single state of Brazil. And I can already see a higher peak. There's no time to settle down.

74. ______

   I constantly see people saying, "Yes, I had this great idea, but no investor had the vision to invest." "Oh, I created this great product, but the market is so bad, the sales didn't go well." Or, "I can't find good talent; my team is so below expectations." If you have dreams, it's your responsibility to make them happen. Yes, it may be hard to find talent. Yes, the market may be bad. But if no one invested in your idea, if no one bought your product, for sure, there is something there that is your fault. Definitely. You need to get your dreams and make them happen. And no one achieved their goals alone. But if you didn't make them happen, it's your fault and no one else's. Be responsible for your dreams.

75. ______

    Once I saw an ad, and it was a lot of friends, they were going up a mountain, it was a very high mountain, and it was a lot of work. You could see that they were sweating and this was tough. And they were going up, and they finally made it to the peak. Of course, they decided to celebrate, right? I'm going to celebrate, so, "Yes! We made it, we're at the top!" Two seconds later, one looks at the other and says, "Okay, let's go down." Life is never about the goals themselves. Life is about the journey. Yes, you should enjoy the goals themselves, but people think that you have dreams, and whenever you get to reaching one of those dreams, it's a magical place where happiness will be all around. But achieving a dream is a momentary sensation, and your life is not. The only way to really achieve all of your dreams is to fully enjoy every step of your journey. That's the best way.

 When she learnt about her failure in the job interview, she        her disappointment with a smile.

  A. removed                      B. replaced                  C. masked         D. combined

It is generally believed that money can’t buy happiness. However, that may not be always true. According to a recent article, in the last few years, a new research has given us a far deeper understanding of the relationship between what we earn and how we feel. Broadly speaking, people with higher incomes are happier than those who struggle to get by. But it also shows you need to spend wisely if you expect those bank notes to put a smile on your face. ___36___

1.      Buy experiences, not material goods.

In a recently published study, Professor Ryan at San Francisco State University in the US, found that when people don’t have much money to spare, they tend to stick to material goods. ___37___ But they actually provide both more happiness and more lasting value.

2.      ___38___

No matter how much money you spend on something and how special that product is, you will get used to having it over time and lose interest in it. With the same money you spend on one big object, you can buy many little things. Buying small things means you can get frequent small pleasures.

3.      Be sure to buy time.

___39___For example, that big house in the suburbs may seem like a good idea, but a 2014 study by researchers from University of Zurich in Switzerland found that people with longer time on the way reported lower life satisfaction, all other things being equal.

4.      Try giving it away.

Elizabeth Dunn, professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, found that in nations as diverse as Canada, South Africa and Uganda, giving away money consistently made people happier.___40___

A.      Be sure to buy what you like.

B.      Here are some ways to better spend your money.

C.     Buy lots of little things, rather than one big thing.

D.     There are a lot of reasons someone might buy something.

E.      People think experiences only provide temporary happiness.

F.      This was even true when people giving away were relatively poor.

G.     Consider how the things you buy will affect how you spend your time.

In my opinion, we should try our best 61 (realize) our goals even though  there  62 (be)little hope. The efforts seem to be the lights in the darkness, leading the way to hope and success.
    I used to be 63 shy girl in my primary school. I was weak 64 English at that time, especially for spoken English. So I was afraid to answer the teacher’s 65 (question) during English classes. After I entered my dream middle school. Something66                                   (change). I started to read many 67(interest) English 68 (story) and my English teacher was patient to help me a lot. I studied hard in class and practiced by69      (watch) English films and listening to English songs in my free time. Little by little, I found it more and more interesting to learn English. I could even talk with my classmates 70 (fluent)in English and I was not shy any more. At last, I got high grades in English and I had  confidence to do it better in the future.

_{I ____ about what you’ve said and I’ve decided to take your advice．}

_{A．thought               B．have been thinking}

_{C．was thinking          D．was thinking}

Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then. So, the world became his school. With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown. “There’s so much to learn,” he’d say. “Though we’re born stupid, only the stupid remain that way.” He was determined that none of his children would be denied (拒绝) an education.

Thus, Papa insisted that we learn at least one new thing each day. Though, as children, we thought this was crazy, it would never have occurred to us to deny Papa a request. And dinner time seemed perfect for sharing what we had learned. We would talk about the news of the day; no matter how insignificant, it was never taken lightly. Papa would listen carefully and was ready with some comment, always to the point.
    Then came the moment — the time to share the day’s new learning.

Papa, at the head of the table, would push back his chair and pour a glass of red wine, ready to listen.
    “Felice,” he’d say, “tell me what you learned today.”
    “I learned that the population of Nepal is ...”
    Silence.

Papa was thinking about what was said, as if the salvation (拯救) of the world would depend upon it. “The population of Nepal. Hmm. Well . . . ” he’d say. “Get the map; let’s see where Nepal is.” And the whole family went on a search for Nepal.

This same experience was repeated until each family member had a turn. Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders. Our family, however, was growing together, sharing experiences and participating in one another’s education. And by looking at us, listening to us, respecting our input, affirming (肯定) our value, giving us a sense of dignity, Papa was unquestionably our most influential teacher.

Later during my training as a future teacher, I studied with some of the most famous educators. They were imparting (传授) what Papa had known all along — the value of continual learning. His technique has served me well all my life. Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.

34. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to “________”

A. one new thing       B. a request       C. the news        D. some comment

35. It can be learned from the passage that the author ________.

A.  enjoyed talking about news

B.  knew very well about Nepal

C. felt regret about those wasted days

D. appreciated his father’s educational technique

36. What is the greatest value of “dinner time” to the author?

A. Continual learning.                        B. Showing talents.

C. Family get-together.                      D. Winning Papa’s approval.

37. The author’s father can be best described as________.

A.  an educator expert at training future teachers

B.  a parent insistent on his children’s education

C. a participant willing to share his knowledge

D.  a teacher strict about everything his students did