It’s really a wonder that all the passengers on board______ while the plane itself sank into the freezing Hudson River in New York.

   A. should have been saved  B. could have been saved   C. can be saved    D. must have been saved

 However occupied you are with study, try to ______ at least 15 minutes each day to have some exercise.

A. put out        B. put through        C. put off       D. put aside

As a good mother to three children, I have tried never to let my passion stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows （誓言）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure; it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It’s so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It’s so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I      learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. If you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

9．It can be inferred from the passage that______．

A．the author didn't try her best to work well

B．the author spent all her time caring for her children

C．the author is a success in personal life

D．the author likes traveling very much

10．How did the author form her view of life?

A．Through social experience．

B．By learning from her friends．

C．From her children and husband．

D．Through an unfortunate experience．

11．By the underlined sentence “It’s so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to.

A．work rather than enjoy life

B．make a living rather than live a real life

C．waste a lot in life

D．forget the most important lessons in life

12．What’s the author’s attitude toward work?

A．Don’t let it affect your real life．

B．Earn enough money to make life better．

C．Do it well to serve others．

D．Try your best to get a higher position and a pay raise.

It is important to have good study habits.   36   Here are a few tips to help you in your studies.

  37  It's OK to spend a little extra time studying right before a big test, but you don't want to try to learn everything that night. Give yourself plenty of time to get things done. Figure out when you study best and then study at that time every day, which will make you energetic.

    Study the most difficult subjects first. Doing this allows you to devote all of that fresh power to the materials that give you the most trouble.    38 

    Don't study in a room that is too hot or too cold, and make sure there is adequate lighting. Be aware of what things take your attention away the most and avoid them at all costs during study time. Don't do homework in front of the TV. Don't try to study if you are tired, depressed, angry, or feeling rushed.   39 

    Friends can be a great resource. You can compare notes and ask each other questions at the end of a period of study. Friends can also keep you motivated to study.

    It has been proved that short bursts of concentration repeated frequently are more effective than one long period of concentration. Studying for hours on end is boring.   40 

    While studying, try to relate the information to things you already know or to your own experiences. Making that connection can make new information more interesting and memorable.

A. So you can save up more time.

B. It is worthwhile spending more time on the harder subjects.

C. It is better to study when your brain is not affected by other emotional issues.

D. Make some changes in your study habits.

E. Schedule some daily study time.

F. And it stresses out your body and mind.

G. With the proper study skills, you can significantly improve your grades.

近期英国伊顿公学师生一行将来我校进行交流访问。我校将组织一次参观活动从而让他们更好地了解绵阳。现有两种方案，一种是绵阳博物馆（Mianyang Museum）,一种是江油李白故里（Li Bai’s hometown）。假如你是李华，是参与接待的学生代表，请你给组织活动的老师Danny写一封100左右词的信，内容包括；

1、选择其中的一种方案;       2、陈述理由;         3、相关准备;

注意：信的开头已给出（不计入词数）。

Dear Danny,

I am extremely delighted to have a chance to receive our distinguished guests from UK on behalf of all the students. I’m writing to ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                         Yours ,

                                                        Li Hua

 We'd ______ it if you'd call Ms Auger and tell her that we're on our way up there to see her.

   A. express B. dismiss   C. admire   D. appreciate

假定你叫张华，你的同学李明即将去上海学习。现由你写一封便函给你们的朋友Jim，约他聚会。内容要点如下：

（1）.聚会时间：本星期五下午3点30分；

（2）.聚会地点：东风路225号，李明家。

（3）.按下图所画路线告诉Jim怎样去李明家。

注意：（1）便函用英语写，并注明便函的时间：2010年4月9日；

（2）内容包括说明部分和要点；

（3）字数：80－120。

Dear Jim,

Our friend Li Ming will leave for Shanghai to study.                                             

                                                                              Yours truely,

                                                                                 Li Ming

Women in Nazi Germany were to have a very special job. Hitler was very clear about this. This job was that they should be good mothers bringing up children at home while their husbands worked. Except for some special fields, Hitler saw no reason why a woman should work. Within months of Hitler coming to power, many female doctors, teachers and lawyers were sacked. By the start of the Second World War, very few German women were in fulltime work. From their earliest years, girls were taught that all good German women married at a young age to a proper German and that the wife’s job was to keep a good home for her working husband and to have children.

One of the earliest laws passed by Hitler once he came to power in 1933, was the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage. This law stated that all newly married couples would get a government loan (贷款) of 1000 marks. This loan was not to be simply paid back. The birth of one child meant that 25% of the loan did not have to be paid back. Two children meant that 50% of the loan didn’t need to be paid back. Four children meant that the entire loan was cleared.

What was more, as housewives and mothers, their lives were controlled. Women were not expected to wear make-up or trousers. Only flat shoes were expected to be worn. Women were discouraged from slimming as this was considered bad for child birth. 

25. The aim of the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage was to ________.

A. attract more young people to join the army willingly

B. make those married couples become rich quickly

C. encourage people to loan more from the government

D. encourage couples to have as many children as they could

26. The underlined word “sacked” in Paragraph one probably means “________”.

A. punished           B. fired           C. killed         D. raised

27. According to the passage, women in Nazi Germany ________.

A. could make up or wear beautiful clothes  B. were to have children and do housework

C. could receive a good education at school  D. were offered the equal rights as men

28. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A. The life of women in Nazi Germany     B. The cruel rule of Hitler in Germany

C. The marriage policy in Nazi Germany    D. Hitler — a powerful leader in Germany

One Sunday, a mother took her son and little daughter to watch a circus. In the  41  of the circus, the little girl, Jenny, fell 42  in her mother’s lap(大腿). The brother, Jack, who was six, stayed awake, and  43  the latter half with his mother. When it was over, the mother  44  Jenny in her arms and carried her to the bus station. It was 45 that night, so she took off her scarf and gently  46  Jenny’s head with it.

    When they arrived home, the mother  47 carried Jenny into the bedroom and  48  her to sleep. After Jack had changed his clothes, his mother lay down next to him to talk about the evening together.  49 , when the mother asked what he liked most, there was no 50  on his part. She was a little  51 . He used to speak non-stop whenever something exciting happened.

She was 52  that something was wrong: he had been so 53  on the way home and while getting ready for bed. She  54   hearing nothing from him.

Suddenly Jack  55  on his side, facing the wall. She 56  why and got up to see his eyes welling up with tears.

“What is  57 , honey? ”

 He turned back. She could sense he was feeling some  58 for the tears although he wiped away the tears right away.

“Mom, if I were cold, would you put your scarf around me, too? ”

Of all the  59  of that special evening out together, the most important for Jack was a little    60  of affection—a momentary, unconscious showing of her love to his little sister.

In relationships, little things matter the most.a

41. A. beginning              B. middle                   C. end                        D. course

42. A. tired                         B. sick                  C. asleep                           D. bored

43. A. waited                   B. heard        C. performed                     D. enjoyed

44. A. took up                    B. picked up            C. woke up                 D. held up

45. A. dark                         B. cloudy                   C. rainy                             D. freezing

46. A. covered                   B. shook               C. knocked              D. turned

47. A. second                            B. next           C. first                        D. last

48. A. begged                   B. forced         C. put                      D. encouraged

49. A. Therefore             B. Finally        C. Instead               D. However

50. A. surprise                B. response            C. pleasure                D. impression

51. A. polite                     B. dishonest            C. rude                  D. disappointed

52. A. satisfied                    B. convinced    C. amazed               D. judged

53. A. relaxed                 B. still              C. quiet                       D. sad

54. A. regretted               B. remembered         C. forgot                   D. appreciated

55. A. turned over                     B. turned up           C. took over                      D. looked over

56. A. realized                           B. explained            C. learned                  D. wondered

57. A. on                                   B. up                    C. about                            D. over

58. A. danger                           B. time          C. embarrassment            D. experience

59. A. people                            B. processes      C. performances             D. events

60. A. movement             B. support              C. act                  D. behavior

下列表格为某市2006年与2016年人们度假方式的情况比较，请按表格内容写一篇120词左右的短文，并对度假方式变化原因加以简要评析。

注意：1.词数120左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

The way people spend their holidays changed a lot from 2006 to 2016.

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 There is little doubt 　　　 you will be able to judge truth and error if you have confidence in yourself. 

A. that               B. who     C. when                  D. if

October 21 was a very dark day in Texas. Not only did Hurricane Hanna destroy homes, it caused the largest business damage in Texas’s history. The worst thing is Hanna’s destructive force nearly wiped out(摧毁) most power poles and power lines. According to Center Point Energy, Hurricane Hanna affected 2.15 million customers. Currently, more than 4,000 of them are still in the dark. Crews have worked 16-hour shifts(更换) to restore power to residents.

Most of Houston seems to be returning to normal. Schools, restaurants, retail(零售) stores and gas stations are open. Smiles are back. But harder-hit places, including Galveston, will take much longer to recover. Hundreds of people are still missing, and coastal towns are a mess. Some ruins from storm have drifted(漂流) south to other beaches in Texas. Several public schools in Galveston are closed due to water damage. Parents are registering kids in other area schools which are scheduled to begin class on November 13. Many school supplies were destroyed.

Clara Barton Village is an emergency shelter located at Alamo Elementary School in Galveston, Texas. This is where Paula Reed and her family are staying. Believe it or not, Paula Reed and her family consider this hurricane a blessing. When Paula was a girl, she was an orphan, but was taken in by her stepmum, Antonia Flores. Reed lost contact with Flores and had been trying desperately to locate her for the past few years. Before the hurricane, Reed and her family moved away from Galveston to a San Antonio shelter. There, she reunited with Flores after 30 long years! The moment they saw each other, their lives were changed.

21. What’s the most serious damage caused by Hurricane Hanna?

A. Hundreds of people are still missing.   

B. A large number of people are homeless.

C. Power facilities are severely destroyed.

D. Factories are closed and many people are jobless.

22. It can be inferred that the residents in Houston________.

A. have fully recovered from the disaster

B. were the most unlucky people in the disaster

C. need a long time to bring their life back to normal

D. suffered less from Hanna than people in Galveston

23. Kids in public schools in other areas of Houston will have to stay at home for_______

A. at least one month                             B. at least three weeks

C. two weeks at most                               D. nearly half a month

24. Paula Reed and her family consider the hurricane a blessing because_______

A. they had nothing lost after Hurricane Hanna

B. they lived a happier life in San Antonio shelter

C. Paula was taken good care of in the shelter

D. Paula reunited with her stepmother after three decades

My mother was a responsible teacher and she retired. So I decided to give her one of my old computers to help her pass the time. She had a little bit of computer    41   , so I just set it up for her and let her    42    with it on her own.

As time went on, I    43    the computer was hardly touched. She said she didn’t know    44    to use it. I decided to teach her. I sat and    45    everything and she seemed OK with what I said. Unfortunately, my sister called me at that moment    46    we talked on the phone for an hour. Then when I saw her again, she was sitting in front of the computer, looking quite    47   . The screen saver (屏幕保护) had appeared and she didn’t know how to    48    it off. She had tried    49    every key and it didn’t work. I told her, “Just    50    the mouse a little.” What I meant was that she just needed to move the mouse around to    51    the computer up. What she did was to   52    the mouse and start shaking it around in mid-air until the    53   went completely black. I couldn’t help laughing because of her funny    54   . The more I laughed the  55    she got.

She thought that I was a (n)    56    teacher and she decided to figure the thing out herself. Well, at least I helped her overcome her    57    of breaking something and encouraged her to  58    a little.

About a week later, I found a home-made  59    card with a mouse on the front making a funny face  60  to my door. It said, “Thanks for the computer lessons. Love, Mom.”

41. A. theory         B. knowledge  C. technology      D. history

42. A. watch          B. train               C. play              D. see

43. A. found          B. heard             C. thought    D. ignored

44. A. why            B. when             C. how       D. where

45. A. learned        B. described       C. explained     D. discussed

46. A. and             B. but               C. because    D. since      

47. A. amusing       B. relaxed          C. interesting     D. discouraged

48. A. get           B. break             C. cut        D. turn

49. A. hitting          B. feeling            C. changing      D. removing

50. A. hang            B. shake             C. rub       D. push

51. A. clean           B. wake             C. bring       D. take

52. A. put up         B. cut off            C. pick up     D. put away

53. A. screen         B. curtain           C. cover       D. window

54. A. gesture       B. movement      C. Expression  D. action

55. A. ruder           B. happier          C. angrier      D. better

56. A. impatient  B. humorous         C. careful      D. helpful

57. A. sadness       B. pressure         C. fear          D. depression

58. A. reply           B. observe         C. answer           D. experiment

59. A. inviting        B. greeting          C. shopping        D. birthday

60. A. appeared    B. stuck             C. combined    D. printed

 ______ hard all day, I went to bed at 8 o’clock.

A. Having worked                      B. Working        C. To work   D. To have worked

Napoleon agreed to plans for a tunnel(隧道) under the English Channel in 1802. The British began digging one in 1880. Neither tunnel was completed. Europe has had to wait until the end of the 20th century for the Channel Tunnel. After nearly two centuries of dreaming, the island of Great Britain is connected to Continental Europe for the first time since the Ice Age, when the two land masses moved apart.

On May 6, 1994, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and France’s President Mitterrand carried out the official opening. The Queen was accompanied(陪同) on her train journey through the historic tunnel by one of her Rolls-Royce cars which was placed on the train. The following day saw celebrations taking place in Folkestone and Calais. Regular public services did not start until the latter part of 1994.

28. The island of Great Britain is _______.

A. connected to France all the time

B. separated from France with a tunnel

C. separated from France all the time

D. joined to France with the tunnel

29.  Queen Elizabeth  _______ at the opening.

A. took her car Rolls-Royce through the tunnel

B. took her car which was placed on her train through the tunnel

C. took her train through the tunnel

D. took Mitterrand’s train through the tunnel

30. Before 1994, one could go to Britain from France _______.

A. only by ship                            B. by ship or plane

C. by car or train                       D. by ship, car or train

31. Which of the following is right?

A. Napoleon made plans for the tunnel.

B. The public could pass through the tunnel by train after May 6, 1994.

C. The tunnel was built for two centuries.

D. The tunnel will do great good to Britain and France.

   For certain reasons I    71    (stay) with relatives currently, and in their living room sits a piano which is my favourite musical instrument.

As    72    child I started learning to play the piano but soon decided to stop so that I could concentrate more    73    my studies. This is one of my biggest regrets. Every year I would say, “I’m going back to it soon” but I never managed to. Some years later, my teacher    74    had taught me to play the piano died. I was heartbroken.

   75    (sit) sat their piano, I think of the times when I used to practice. One time my teacher hugged me after I played an entire sheet of music    76    (correct) in front of her colleagues. I was so    77    (embarrass) but her efforts to comfort me helped in easing the shame. These occurrences, good or bad, never decrease my desire    78    (play) the piano. I still want to make music.

This    79    (think) then leads me to think that life is like music. Sometimes the music   80   

(produce) is perfect while other times we are out of tune. However, we all coutinue to create our own unique style of music.                   

The New York Times’ Room for Debate blog has a panel (专门小组) considering the pluses and minuses of summer homework. This has been the subject of debate in our house. Our 11th-grade daughter’s summer assignments were very challenging, to the point where I sometimes wondered if more of her time would have been better spent just riding a bicycle or swimming around a pool.

Here are some opinions from the panel:

Harris Cooper, psychologist, Duke University: “The long summer vacation disrupts the rhythm of instruction, leads to forgetting and requires time be spent reviewing old material when students return to school in the fall. My advice? Teachers, you need to be careful about what and how much summer homework you assign. Summer homework shouldn’t be expected to overcome a student’s learning deficits; that’s what summer school is for. Parents, if the assignments are clear and reasonable, support the teachers. ”

Nancy Kalish, co-author of the Case Against Homework: “Schools should rethink summer homework, and not just because it stresses out kids (and parents). The truth is, homework doesn’t accomplish what we assume it does. According to a Duke University review of more than 175 studies, there is little or no connection between homework and standardized test score or long-term achievement in primary school.”

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University: “To the general question of whether or not schools should assign summer homework, the answer is ‘Yes.’ The reason comes not only from the brain drain of summer. It relates also to an attitude young people take toward education. They tie knowledge to the syllabus, not to themselves. They read and study to write the paper and score highly in the test, not to furnish their minds. In a word, they regard learning as a classroom thing. That’s all.”

It seems to me that summer homework is a good idea to keep the brain cells moving, but like everything else it should be given in moderation.

21. Harris Cooper seems to believe that________.

A. more summer homework causes students’ learning difficulties

B. students should go to summer school if they have no homework

C. teachers should give careful consideration to summer homework

D. parents should tell teachers how much homework their kids need

22. In the 4th paragraph, Nancy Kalish explains her idea by________.

A. making comparisons                 B. giving research findings

C. raising questions                       D. telling stories

23. Mark Bauerlein might agree that summer homework________.

A. should be based on the school’s teaching program

B. has no direct connection to students’ higher grades

C. brings more pressure to both students and their parents

D. helps students develop the right attitude toward learning

   Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

    Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples had already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

    "I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.

    "The tractor was too small " Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!"

    "I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish (傻的) we were !"

33. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.

A. they hope to save money                    B. they're both poor

C. their farms are at the foot of the mountain     D. they're not far from their farms

34. The two farmers carried the apples to the city to _________.

A. make a journey               B. visit some places of interest

C. meet their friends           D. make a profit

35. the two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.

A. theirs weren't as good as the others'

B. theirs were much less than the others'

C. a lot of apples had been already carried to the city

D. they forgot to carry them on a truck

A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all-milk. At the same time, a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk. She buys it. But she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband’s niece. Then she gets coffee for breakfast, ice cream for dessert and remembers stamps to mail the bills. And don’t forget soap for the bathroom.

And that is the difference between the female and male brains simply explained in a grocery store.

Generally speaking, men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Now scientific research supports this theory about male and female brains. A recent study has confirmed what we have known all along—men and women think differently.

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain images of 949 people aged from eight to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain, or hemisphere. In the female brains, they found more activity and connections between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of “reason.” The right hemisphere is known as the “creative” side.

Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-wrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men, she adds, generally use just one side of the brain. As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. There is a strong connection between the “understanding” and the “action” parts of their brains. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain when solving a problem. Women take a less direct path to find a solution.

25. The author mentioned the shopping in Paragraph 1 to___________.

   A. show women’s carefulness                  B. prove men’s quick action

   C. object to an opinion                       D. bring up the topic to be discussed

26. The main idea of Paragraph 4 is that ___________. 111]

   A. women have two same brains on both sides      B. men have more complicated brains than women

   C. different kinds of brain images have been studied  D. men’s structure of brain is different from women’s

27.What causes the difference between men’s and women’s behavior?     

   A. Watching things from different sides.        B. Having different attitudes towards life.

   C. Using different parts of the brain to think.  D. Reacting at different speed to problems.

 --- Shall we watch Personal Tailor directed by Feng Xiaogang this weekend?

   ---        . Isn’t it meaningful that we do some voluntary work in the nursing house?

A. How come       B. Forget it        C. Don’t mention it    D. Couldn’t agree more