I was driving down the road the other day, listening to sweet music coming out of my car radio. My heart felt peaceful, my mind was clear, and my soul was full of love. Even with all its problems: life seemed good. Then the music stopped and the news came on. There was talk of another famous millionaire in drug rehab (康复) after an incident with the police. There was news on the murder of a poor man whose life was supposed to be changed after winning the lottery. There was even a discussion on how much greed and excess (放肆) had damaged our world.

Every story seemed to point once again to the old saying that money can't buy happiness. Hearing them made me think of a movie I saw many years ago on Mother Teresa's home for the dying in India. What struck me most when I watched it wasn't the unbearable poverty there. It wasn't the sickness and suffering that the people there were going through. It was rather the peaceful smiles of love, kindness, and happiness that they shared with the Sisters and with each other. These people had nothing. Many were struggling at the end of death. Yet, they knew the simple truth that so many of us here are still learning: Joy is Free.

We can have joy and spread joy every day of our life here. Don't love or admire dollar signs and think that money will bring you happiness then. Joy can't be purchased. It can't be owned. It can only be chosen and then given freely to others. In the eyes of eternity (永恒), money is only worthless paper. The only thing that matters is the love within you and the love that you give to the world. Make that your legacy (遗产) and your life will forever be rich in joy.

24. According to the first paragraph, we can know that______.

A. the author was very lighthearted that day

B. the poor man's life was improved greatly due to the lottery

C. the author has a habit of driving while listening to music

D. the millionaire was put in prison for taking drugs

25. All the information about the movie mentioned in Paragraph 2 is true EXCEPT______.

A. it was about Mother Teresa's contributions

B. it left the author a deep impression

C. people in it were very kind and happy

D. people in it were extremely poor and suffering

26. By saying "Make that your legacy", the author means "______".

A. Give your fortune to your coming generations

B. Treat your fortune as very valuable things

C. Pass your joy on to your coming generations

D. Have joy and spread joy to people around you

27. Which section of a newspaper is this passage most probably taken from?

A. Business.            B. Culture.            C. Life.                 D. Entertainment.

 Knowing office rules––whether ________ or not––is critical, especially for young job seekers.

      A. written                                                   B. writing   

      C. being written                                          D. having been written

A new study revealed that the formation of the Earth, Sun and Moon that cause changes in Earth's tides can also trigger a special kind of Earthquake along the California's San Andreas Fault(断层)．

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science，is based on previous researcher suggesting that the gravitational tug of sun and moon is not only affecting the sea levels of Earth, but can also stretch and compress that Earth's crust, producing tremors and quakes. Furthermore, the new study showed that small tremors deep underground were more likely to occur during certain periods of the tidal cycle.

For the study, the researchers looked at about 81，000 low­frequency earthquakes from 2008 to 2015 along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas Fault and compared it to the two­week tidal cycle known as the “fortnightly tide”. Low­frequency earthquakes are named due to the rumbling sound they make and not by the rate of its occurrence. These kinds of earthquake only occur about 15 to 30 kilometers below ground and are no larger than magnitude 1 in the Richter scale.

The researchers discovered that low­frequency earthquakes tend to occur during the waxing period of the tidal cycle, when the tides are getting little by little. It is already known that the strongest Earth tides occur when the sun and moon are in a straight line, while the tide is at its weakest state when the sun and moon are 90 degrees apart.

According to the researchers, low­frequency earthquakes show that some part of the San Andreas Fault is creeping, or slowly moving, almost all the time. With the help of the tidal forces, low­frequency earthquakes could provide more information about the deeper part of the fault.

“They tell us that the fault continues down below where the regular or typical earthquakes stop on the San Andreas, about 10 or 12 km (about 6 to 7 miles)，” said David Shelly, a seismologist at USGS and helped write the study, in a statement. “And they tell us a lot of things about that deep part of the fault that we had no idea existed at all before.”

“It's almost like having a lot of little creep meters embedded in the fault，” Shelly said. “We can use these low­frequency earthquakes as measurements of, at least in a relative sense, how much slip is happening at each little spot on the deep part of the fault where we see these events. When we don't see them, we don't know what's happening; we don't know whether it is slipping silently or not slipping at all.”

The information is incredibly useful, he added. Whenever the deep part of the fault slips, the stress gets transferred to the shallow part of the fault.

“So if all of a sudden, we saw that the deep part of the fault was slipping a huge amount, it might be an indication that there was an increased chance of having an earthquake come at the shallower part of the fault”， he said.

38. What causes tremors and quakes according to the passage?

A. The formation of the Earth, Sun and Moon.

B. The change of the sea levels of Earth.

C. The effect of the gravitational tug of sun and moon on Earth's crust.

D. The movement of creeping in the deep part of the San Andres Fault.

39. The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to ________．

A. the researchers  B. the tidal forces

C. the low­frequency earthquakes  D. the typical earthquakes

40. Low­frequency earthquakes occur when ________．

A. the tides are getting bigger gradually  B. the sun and moon are in a straight line

C. the sun and moon are 90 degrees apart  D. the San Andreas Fault moves slowly

41. According to Shelly, the most important function of the study is to ________．

A. find out where the typical earthquakes occur

B. indicate when the regular earthquakes occur

C. uncover how low­frequency earthquakes occur

D. offer more information about the deeper part of the fault

 Jane is good, kind, hardworking and very clever. _______, I can't speak too highly of her.

A. As a result             B.  By the way          C.  In a word          D. On the contrary

 “What’s that?” my ten-year-old daughter, Genie, asked. She’d caught me laughing at a piece of mail I’d just opened. “Wake-up service, $2.50 per call.” At the bottom was a phone number and a drawing of a rotary phone, like the one my great- aunt Sara had owned 40 years ago.

“Is that mail funny?” Genie asked.

“Not really,” I admitted. “It’s just outdated.”

“What’s a wake-up call?” She asked. I explained how, before smart-phones, people sometimes paid someone to wake them with a call.

“Who sent this flyer（传单）?” she pressed.

“Probably someone older,” I said.

Her eyes lit up. “Can we order a wake-up?” she asked.

“We don’t need it.” I picked it up and headed for the recycling bin.

“Wait!” she screamed. “I feel sorry for the wake-up man, if he needs some money,” she said, tearing up. “Can’t we order?”

I looked at the flyer with its drawing of a rotary phone. I remembered, again, my great-aunt Sara and her rotary phone. As a kid, I’d visited her over Labor Day, when Jerry Lewis would host his charity event for the disabled kids. Aunt Sara would squeeze my hand, then reach for the rotary phone, dialing the number on the screen. Holding the receiver between us, we’d announce to the operator, “We’d like to help those kids.”

Now here was my own child, showing the same big heart I’d once been encouraged to have, and how could I ignore her? I googled the flyer’s return address. The address belonged to a man called Raymond. He was in his mid-60s. We called him and, holding the receiver between us, the way Aunt Sara and I used to, told him we needed his services. “Great!” Raymond said in a shaky but friendly voice, clearly amazed at receiving an order from a child.

Genie was happy all week.

Technology has made some things outdated. But there are still other things the world will always require. In the rush of my daily life, I’d temporarily forgotten that, I guess I just needed a wake-up call.

24. Why did Genie beg to order the service?

A. She was afraid of being late.       

B. She wanted to help the old man.

C. She was curious about the service.  

D. She was interested in the rotary phone.

25. What made the author finally decide to order a wake-up call?

A. Her own childhood experience.    

B. The less fortunate wake-up man.

C. Genie’s curiosity about the service.   

D. The information she found on Google.

26. How did Raymond feel when receiving our order?

A. Excited.      B. Disappointed.    C. Doubtful.     D. Regretful.

27. What could be the best title for the passage?

A. A Wake-up Man                 B. A Kindhearted Girl

C. The Wake-up Call               D. The Rotary Phone

Anyone who has ever played the game of Tetris (俄罗斯方块) knows the game’s surreal ability to spill into real life. After you shut off the game, you still see those Tetris blocks falling in your mind. You're grocery shopping and find yourself thinking about rearranging items on grocery shelves. Your mind continues to play the game, even when you're physically not.

Robert Stickgold, a Harvard professor, noticed something similar after a day hiking a mountain. That night, he dreamt he was still going through the motions of mountain hiking. Curious about this, he tried something: he got a group of college students of various skill levels to play Tetris and let them sleep in the Harvard sleep lab.

Over 60% of the students, including those who suffered from amnesia (键忘症)，reported dreams of images of Tetris pieces falling，rotating (旋转)，and fitting together. Interestingly, half the Tetris expert students reported such Tetris dreams, while 75% of the beginners did.

A study found that playing Tetris can grow your brain and make it more efficient. Adolescent girls played the game for an average of 1.5 hours a week over three months. The cerebral cortex (大脑皮层) of the girls grew thicker, while brain activity in other areas decreased. Richard Haier, who had found that there was a "Tetris learning effect", in which the brain consumed less energy as mastery of the game rose, concluded, "The brain is learning which areas not to use."

Haier's study showed that as the girls practiced playing the game, nerve cells made connections, communicating through synapses (a synapse is a connection between two nerve cells). When you learn something, you change those connections. Every time you reactivate(激活) a circuit, synaptic efficiency increases, and connections become more durable and easier to reactivate. Stickgold says sleep plays a role in this memory process.

So to sum up, whenever you do specific tasks over and over again, they take up less of your brain power over time. And that’s pretty amazing.

5. What does the underlined part ‘surreal ability’ in the first paragraph mean?

A. The game can help people arrange things in life.

B. The game can be applied to many aspects of life.

C. There are great similarities between the game and things in life.

D. The mind continues to play the game when we are doing other things.

6. What can we learn from Stickgold’s study?

A. More than half of the students dreamed of images of Tetris.

B. Students having bad memories didn’t dream of the game.

C. The Tetris expert students were more likely to dream of the game than the beginners.

D. More than half of the Tetris expert students didn’t dream of the game.

7. Playing Tetris for a long time can help_________.

①grow one’s brain

②one’s brain function efficiently

③arrange things tidily in life

④improve the adaptability of one’s brain

A. ①②③    B. ①②④

C. ②③④    D. ①③④

8. The purpose of the passage is to _________.

A. encourage people to play Tetris

B. warn people to focus while doing things

C. warn people not to play games before sleep

D. tell people they will improve at something if they keep doing it

Many people associate crying with weakness. If a person easily breaks down, it gives the  

 36  that the person is soft and can easily be overpowered. But many do not know that tears have a purpose. It has a  37  after-effect on a person that can give comfort and strength to  38  any negative feeling or depression.

People cry for a reason. You may cry because you are too happy or too sad or very angry. Letting your tears flow freely gives you a sense of  39  to be true to your feelings and to yourself. It is a surrender (屈服) to your emotions that  40  you that you are human and you have the right to your emotions,  41  they are pleasant or not.

Just like water that washes off filth (污物), tears slowly wash off the  42  thoughts and feelings. That is why when you are in pain or in sorrow, do not  43  and let your tears roll down naturally. After a while you will  44  feel a bit better. Your tears become a form of  45  when problems become too much for us to bear.

In my opinion, people who are not afraid to cry  46  are stronger than those who control the tears for later. If the reason for crying is  47  and your emotions are very strong, you have no reason to be ashamed.

Tears can make you stronger in a way. When faced with a problem, people who control their tears  48  to constantly worry and stress about the problem and fail to see the  49  right away. This makes them more prone (易于…的) to weakness and to more mistakes. These people may  50  strong because they hide what they truly feel. But the truth is, all the pretensions make them a weaker person.

On the other hand, people who openly  51  themselves to cry release their emotions much sooner. After crying, these people feel more  52  and can then begin to think straight.  53  the negative thoughts and emotions have been reduced, they can  54  think of ways to solve the problem.

As the saying goes, “The truth shall set you free.” Tears show others your true emotions. Your true strength is using your tears to easily  55  your moment of suffering. That is the power of tears.

36. A. impression             B. inspiration        C. intention              D. identification

37. A. careful                            B. thankful          C. thoughtful                D. powerful

38.A. overlook            B. defeat                    C. display                  D. possess      39. A. security                       B. direction                 C. satisfaction                    D. responsibility

40. A. acknowledge                   B. persuade                C. remind                           D. promise

41. A. however                   B. whatever                 C. whether                  D. whenever

42. A. negative                  B. common                  C. practical                 D. positive

43. A. give up                            B. hang around           C. turn over                D. hold back

44. A. desperately                   B. suddenly                 C. somehow          D. anyhow       

45. A. release                           B. weakness               C. burden                          D. emotion

46. A. in secret                   B. in turn                            C. in public                  D. in need

47. A. personal                B. valid                        C. simple                            D. ambiguous

48. A. hesitate                           B. tend                        C. expect                           D. attempt

49. A. effect                       B. potential                 C. solution                  D. result

50. A. become                           B. remain                           C. sound                            D. appear

51. A. allow                        B. enable                   C. encourage                     D. urge

52. A. aggressive               B. sharp                      C. dynamic               D. calm

53. A. While                       B. Though                   C. Since                      D. Until

54. A. equally                            B. easily                      C. independently        D. individually

55. A. get over                  B. come over                     C. take over                D. look over

我们学校要开办英语专栏，讨论学习习惯的问题。请你结合自身实际，按一下要点，用英语为该专栏写一篇稿件。...

1. 说明学习习惯和学习效果之间的关系

2.. 描述你在学习中的不好的学习习惯并提出改进措施。

3. 同时提出一种好的学习习惯并提出养成该习惯的建议。

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1. 字数110左右，开头已写好      

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4. 短文的标题已给出，不计入总数量

Good learning habits are very useful and necessary for us high school students.

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 Tchaikovsky, a famous Russian composer of the late-Romantic period, was born on 7 May 1840 in the mountains of western Russia. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky’s training set him on a path to combine what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. He first helped write a song in 1844, at an age when most children are still in kindergarten. At home, his mother sang folk songs, which helped develop his interest in music. Mozart was Tchaikovsky’s favourite composer and he influenced Tchaikovsky’s life and work. For 11 years, beginning in 1866, Tchaikovsky taught at the Moscow School of Music. During his time there, he wrote music for the piano, along with ballets, operas and symphonies. He was famous for writing the music for the ballet Swan Lake in 1876. Because of his musical talent, Tchaikovsky toured many countries as a conductor, including a voyage to the USA in 1891. He continued to write for the ballet until his death in Saint Petersburg in 1893.

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Who decided that blue jeans and T-shirts are “cool” for kids to wear today? Who designs the clothes you see for sale in stores? All of these questions concern the world of fashion.

Fashion refers to the styles of dress that are currently popular. Fashion goes beyond just clothes, though. It’s important for some people to wear only the latest fashions and styles. For others, though, keeping up with trends isn’t that important. The one thing that stays the same with fashion is this: it always changes!

In the 1960s and 1970s, hippies made bell-bottomed blue jeans popular. In the 1980s, Michael Jackson made parachute pants (降落伞裤) all the fashion. Now try to find these items in today’s clothing stores!

Why do fashions change? The answer is probably as simple as the fact that people change. Over time,

The stars of popular culture are always searching for a new angle to maintain (保持) their popularity. Often these new angles come in the form of new clothing or hairstyles. When people see these new styles, they often want to imitate their favorite stars. To do so, they seek out the latest fashions to make themselves look like the people they want to imitate. In this way, fashions evolve and change over time.

For years, clothes have been used to separate people into groups. Even today, brand-name clothing that is more expensive than other types of clothing can be used by some people to distinguish themselves from others.

Unfortunately, this can often have the effect of distancing certain groups from others. Don’t forget that it’s always OK to develop your own sense of style that is unique and separate from what the fashion world determines! Stay true to yourself and let your personality — not your clothes — speak for who you are!

17. The examples of bell-bottomed blue jeans and parachute pants in Paragraph 3 suggest that _____.

A. fashion always changes                    B. stars are always influential

C. people have different dressing styles          D. hippies and Michael Jackson are good designers

18. Fashions change mainly because _____.

A. advertisements change rapidly                       B. popular culture influences people

C. movie stars are changing over time                D. new films and shows replace the old

19. In the last paragraph, the author mainly wants to stress _____.

A. the advantages of staying unique                    B. the bad effects of following fashion

C. the good influences of popular styles                     D. the importance of having one’s own personality

20. We can learn from the text that _____.

A. fashion is all about clothes                             B. the author has gone out of fashion

C. clothes may separate and distance people        D. people like imitating others’ dressing style

Bullying(欺负) in school is a problem for many staff as well as pupils, according to a teachers’ union survey. The bullies are often other teachers who pick on their colleagues—with heads and senior staff bully most often. The survey says about a quarter of teachers have been bullied by another member of staff.

The survey of more than 900 primary, secondary, and further-education staff across the UK, showed that many teachers faced a range of workplace-bullying threats.

But among the teachers who felt they had been bullied, 50% said it was by a senior member of staff, compared with 25% by pupils and 23% by parents.

“I didn’t report it as the person bullying was the head teacher,” said a primary school teacher.

“I was driven from a previous job by a head teacher. She lashes out(痛斥) at everybody around her,” said a secondary school teacher.

Another teacher, a head of department in an academy, said: “following a poor set of results my whole department have been spoken to again. As a result two are leaving and others would if they could.”

The survey looked at the type of bullying that these teachers had faced from pupils, parents and fellow teachers. The most widespread forms of bullying were “negative comments” and verbal insults(口头侮辱).But almost half of bullying victims claimed they had been threatened and two in five reported “mental abuse.” There was physical violence in just under 2% of cases.

The union’s general secretary, Mary Bousted, warned that schools needed to have policies in place to protect staff from workplace bullying.

“It is unacceptable for any staff to be bullied by colleagues, and schools and colleges need robust (稳健的) policies in place to pick up any problems and deal with them immediately. It is not good enough to just deal with the symptoms(症状); schools and colleges also need to deal with the cause of the bullying,” said Ms. Bousted.

25. What would be the best title for this text?

A. Time to Deal with Bullying.                            B. Teachers Suffer from Bullying.

C. Students Are victims of Bullying.                        D. Bullying becomes Common at school

26. Most of the teachers were bullied by_________

A. students　　        B. parents             C. leaders            D. colleagues

27. The author gives the examples of three teachers to show that________

A. bullying exists in primary schools                       B. bullying leads to negative result

 C. bullying in school is serious                            D. bullying has different forms

28. What’s Mary Bousted’s attitude towards workplace bullying?

A. It’s unacceptable but hard to solve.                       B. Teachers should protect themselves.

C. Schools need to punish the bullies.                       D. Solving bullying itself is not enough.

One cold night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco．There I was walking home around one o’clock in the morning after a   36   practice at the theatre. With the opening night only a week   37  , I was still learning my lines by heart. I was having   38  handling my part-time job at the bank in the daytime and my  39  at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about  40   both acting and San Francisco. I had   41  too much of city life.

       As I walked down the   42  streets under the tall buildings, I felt very small and   43  , so I began   44  both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were  45   out except a few homeless people under blankets.

       About a block from my   46  , I heard a sound behind me. I   47   quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife  48  a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me   49  , so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I   50  what the noise had been. It had been my wallet   51  to the sidewalk.

       Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk   52  for 15 minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

       Just as I was about to quit the   53  , I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde man with an    54   look in his eyes. “Is this what you’re looking for?” He asked, holding up a wallet.

       It was already 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I couldn’t get much sleep, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some   55   of city life. I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were willing to help each other.

36. A. comfortable         B. serious              C. tiresome            D. fortunate

37. A. from                   B. away                 C. out                   D. far

38. A. comfort                     B. desire                C. pain                  D. trouble

39. A. working              B. cleaning             C. finding              D. acting

40. A. setting up            B. giving up           C. holding up         D. picking up

41. A. expected             B. changed            C. controlled          D. possessed

42. A. deserted                     B. rowed               C. busy                 D. wild

43. A. warm          B. lonely          C. cold                 D. tedious

44. A. running               B. jumping             C. moving             D. marching

45. A. yet            B. still           C. already         D. even

46. A. bank                   B. theatre               C. apartment          D. office

47. A. stood                  B. walked              C. turned               D. left

48. A. or              B. and            C. but            D. with

49. A. satisfied                     B. confused           C. frightened          D. annoyed

50. A. turn out                     B. figure out          C. give out             D. pull out

51. A. belonging            B. adding               C. sticking             D. falling

52. A. aimlessly             B. anxiously           C. skillfully            D. delightedly

53. A. discovery            B. research          C. hunt                  D. finding

54. A. amused               B. unpleasant         C. uneasy                     D. embarrassed

55. A. production          B. judgment           C. friendship          D. appreciation

What is a fair wage?     26     These are some of the questions the United Nations International Labour Organization(ILO) has recently investigated.

 With a global population of over seven billion, is it actually possible to measure an average amount?    27    Using the total wage bill from over seventy countries, they have multiplied the amounts by the number of earners in each country. The economists then tallied up the results and divided them by the total number across the world. The result was a world average wage equivalent to $1,490 a month.   28   

This figure might seem very high because they calculated the amount using purchasing power parity dollars, which takes into account the fact that it is cheaper to live in some countries than others.     29  .

Calculating an average sum like this might not be a completely fair representation, but these figures do help us to understand how the world is developing , both economically, in the quality of life people are experiencing and their standard of living.

But the result shows that the average wage is still relatively low and there remains a huge difference in levels of affluence around the world.   30   Is this fair? For many, pay equality still seems very far out of reach.

A. The ILO has now tried to work out the sums.

B. The ILO used statistics from over 70 different countries.

C. Why aren’t more people in the world offered pay equality?

D. That is approximately $75 a day for a 20-day working month.

E. Some people live on just two dollars a day, while others are earning more than a million

       dollars a year.

F. When someone works for themselves, what are they called?

G. The data also did not include the huge number of people who appear in poverty statistics

       or who are selfemployed.

                 How to Say No to Your Boss
   Saying “no” to a request can be a difficult thing, especially when the person making the request is your boss.16.        The following steps are helpful.
     Give yourself some time to think about the request before saying “no”.
    If the request arrives via email, don’t reply right away.

17.        If your boss asks you in person or on the telephone, request some time to give it thought and tell her you will get back to her by a specific time. Consider the request carefully to determine whether you have to say “no”.
     Prepare your answer before telling your boss “no”.
   Anticipate questions she might ask in response to your answer, and decide how you want to answer them. Rehearse your conversation with your boss out loud to help build your confidence before the real conversation.
     Choose the right time and place to speak with your boss.
   Have the conversation in private if your work situation allows you to get a moment alone with your boss. Keep in mind your boss’s workday pressures and work style. If she is a morning person and gets grumpy(脾气暴躁的)in the afternoon, be sure to speak with her before lunch.
      18.        
  If your boss is asking you to take on more responsibility, that shows that she has faith in your ability to do the job. Acknowledge that it means a lot to you before telling her that you feel you cannot do it.
     Tell your boss why you have to say “no” to the request.
19.         Your boss will be grateful that you answered honestly, rather than trying to take on a project you cannot handle.
      Offer an alternative solution.
 For example, if your boss asks you to serve on a committee, suggest someone else in the company that you think may be interested and capable of serving.20        
A. Pay your boss a compliment while denying her request.
B. Even if you try your best to do everything the boss lets you do, there are times when you can’t do and have to say “no”.
C. Put yourself in your boss’s shoes and consider how the company will be affected if you refuse the request.
D. Maybe you could offer to share the workload with someone else.
E. Most employers respect honesty in their employees.
F. Try a compromise.
G. Set the request aside and think about it for a while.

       Have you fallen into a pattern of sleeping poorly?  36  Getting a good night sleep is very important to your physical and emotional health.Here are some simple actions and choices you can make right now to help you sleep better at night.

       1.Avoid coffee,smoke,and alcohol.If you want coffee in the afternoon or evening,drink less.An alcohol drink,especially more than one,will not help you sleep better.A drink may,or may not,help you fall asleep,but alcohol causes you to sleep poorly and be unable to sleep all night,  37   

       2.Don’t overeat,but don’t go to bed hungry.If you aren’t tired of milk,try a small glass of warm milk or a piece of mild cheese in the evening.A small piece of chicken or other protein may also work well before bed.  38   

3.  39  It can help you avoid lacking water and is generally good for your health.However,avoid water and other fluids for the last two hours before bedtime to reduce your need to go to the bathroom during the night.

       4.Make your bedroom as quietly as you can.  40  Consider using earplugs(耳塞) if your bedroom is noisy. Some people find that the white noise from a fan,as well as the air flow,helps them sleep better.Others find soft music or natural sounds like waves or bird songs to be relaxing and contribute to sleep.If you use music to help you fall asleep,you may find that you get better rest later in the night if you set the music to turn off after an hour.

A.Drink enough water early in the day.

B.If you have a clock that ticks loudly,replace it.

C.If you drink too much water,you will feel bad.

D.Don’t have your stomach empty before going to bed.

E.Are you concerned that you may not sleep well tonight?

F.Are you always worried about what you eat in the evening?

G.Cigarettes are always an unhealthy habit,especially in the evening.

Alibaba started taking the lead in China by connecting big Chinese manufacturers(制造商) with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba.com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to judge: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its market attracts 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year — and Alibaba is just the middleman. It encourages people to use its markets — not charging small sellers a percentage of the sale.

    If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else my wife wanted. “You’re looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ” my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.

    Alibaba’s original business-to-business model now is second to consumer buying. Chinese retail(零售) buying makes up 80% of Alibaba’s profit, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things you’ll ever find. TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.

    What I have a hard time explaining to friends and family back in the U.S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shopping — big-box retailers especially —in favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.

    I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how wide the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shipping. I’m not even a big buyer, because I need friends to help me search the Chinese-language site. When I was searching my purchase history on my Chinese teacher’s iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine.

19. Alibaba’s advantage mainly lies in          .

A. its low price                                          B. its big size

C. its not charging small sellers               D. its business-to-business service 

20. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage?

   A. Alibaba will continue to develop.

B. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.

C. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers.

D. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites.

21 . What can be inferred from the passage?

A. TMall.com provides more profit than Taobao.

B.The author’s Chinese teacher is also an online purchase lover.

C. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites.

D. Alibaba’s business-to-business service earns more money than retail.

22. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Shopping online in China is TaoBao.

B. How the author purchases online in China.

C. Shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping.

D. Alibaba influences people’s daily purchase in China.

    为丰富校园文化生活，学生会举办了校园歌手卡拉OK大奖赛。假设你是《大庆实验中学报》英文版的记者，请你根据采访记录，写一篇校园卡拉OK大赛决赛情况的报道。要点包括：

    1．时间：10月28日中午12:00—13:00；

    2．地点：阳光大厅；

3．参赛及获奖情况：经过选拔，18名师生晋级决赛。他们演唱了民歌或流行歌曲。孙志业、李馨桐老师获得教师组一等奖；高志强、王欢同学获得学生组一等奖；

4．观众的感受。

注意：1．词数100左右；

          2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

          参考词汇：卡拉OK   karaoke     民间的   folk     参赛者   contestant

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A Canine (犬科的) Reading Partner

Dogs and people have developed a special bond over time. Recently, however, some dogs have taken a different role in people’s lives—therapy dogs.   36   Some therapy dogs visit patients in hospitals or nursing homes, while others visit children in schools and libraries. They are there to help children become better readers.

Reading programs that use therapy dogs have been in existence for more than ten years. All therapy dogs of this program are registered with an organization that tests the dogs to make sure they have the right personality for the job.   37   Both the dogs and the handlers are volunteers with the reading program.

At the start of a reading therapy session, a child and a dog are introduced. The pair is allowed to settle down in a quiet corner together.   38   An adult handler stays nearby but generally lets the dog perform its job without interfering (干涉). Sometimes, a handler may ask a question that encourages the child to work with the dog to help the child feel more comfortable.

Not every child will be able to be part of a reading therapy program that uses dogs. A few children might be allergic to dogs or afraid of them; some children might have cultural traditions that prevent them from touching a dog.   39     

Reading therapy programs inspire learning and change.   40   They spend time with human friends. For dogs that love human companionship and a quiet place to rest, being part of a reading therapy program can be a great way to spend a few hours each day. The readers benefit too, gaining confidence and learning that reading aloud can be a relaxing experience.

A. How do the therapy dogs benefit from it?

B. But therapy animals also serve in many other areas.

C. As the child reads, the dog usually lies quietly and listens.

D. When reading to an animal, some children may become relaxed.

E. In these circumstances, other animals are available, such as cats and parrots.

F. A therapy dog is more of a companion and is trained to help people in different ways.

G. A dog’s handler also takes a class and must pass a test to work in the therapy program.

假设你是李华，你所在的学校将在暑假期间举办“加拿大文化展览”。请你根据以下要点给加拿大教授Peterson写一封邀请信，请他届时来给你们做一次讲座。

目的：帮助师生了解加拿大历史与文化；

内容：简要介绍加拿大的风土人情；

日期：七月第二个星期的任何一天下午；

时间：3：00---5:00，大约两个小时

注意：可增加细节，以使结构完成，词数100左右。

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       The City Bike program rolled into New York last spring and proved a hit, with nearly 12,000 New Yorkers signing up for annual memberships. Since 2010, over a dozen US cities have introduced bike-share programs.

       There’re plenty of bike stations near parks and other car-free areas. The programs we looked at in major cities work the same way. You buy a 24-hour pass. During the time, you get an unlimited number of 30-minute rides. If you go over your given half-hour ride time, you start paying fees for each following 30-minute period. Here are some of the biggest bike-share program in America.

Minneapolis: Nice Ride Minnesota

       Station : Minnehaha Ave. & Minnehaha Pkwy

       How much: $ 6 for a 24-hour pass.

       How it works: The first 30 minutes are included in the pass; $ 1.50 for the second 30 minutes; $ 4.50 for the third 30 minutes; later $ 6 for every half an hour.

Chicago: Divvy Bikes

       Station : Lakeshore Drive and Monroe St; also Museum Campus

       How much: $ 7 for a 24-hour pass, with unlimited 30-minute trips.

       How it works: The first 30 minutes are included in the pass; $ 2 for the second 30 minutes;

$ 6 for the third 30 minutes; later $ 8 for every half an hour.

New York City: Citi Bike

       Station : Central Park So. & 6^th Ave; also Broadway & W.57^th St.

       How much: $ 9.95 for a 24-hour pass.

       How it works: The first 30 minutes are included in the pass; $ 4 for the second 30 minutes;

$ 9 for the third 30 minutes; later $ 12 for every half an hour.

Boston: Hubway

Station : Tremont St. & West St.

       How much: $ 6 for a 24-hour pass.

       How it works: The first 30 minutes are included in the pass; $ 2 for the second 30 minutes;

$ 4 for the third 30 minutes; later $ 8 for every half an hour.

       We are volunteers. If you want to know more information, please contact us.

21. According to the text, the City Bike program _______.

       A. was first set up in New York.

       B. has a long history in America.

       C. is very popular in American cities.

       D. develops very fast all over the world.

22. Which of the following bike-share programs costs the riders most?

       A. Divvy Bikes.                             B. Citi Bike.

       C.Nice Ride Minnesota.                      D. Hubway.

23. If you visit Boston by riding Hubway bike for 3 hours, you have to pay ______.

       A. $6                    B. $ 30                 C. $ 20                 D. $ 36