阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    Kevin was eagerly waiting for his holiday. His mother kept on saying there would be a big   36  for him during the holiday. The exams were just over and summer vacation just started. Now Kevin was   37   like a bird.

       Suddenly the   38   rang. It was his cousin, Max. “Hi!” screamed Max as he jumped on to Kevin’s bed   39   his crayons (蜡笔) during the process. “I’ve come to stay here for the holidays.”

       Kevin never expected his mother’s surprise to be so   40  . After breakfast Kevin   41   to do some painting.   42   Max was not around. When he was doing the finishing touches, Max entered and spilled some juice all over the painting,   43   ruining it.

       The next day was even   44   for him.

       It all   45   when Max put the dirty clothes in the washing machine. After some time Kevin heard some   46   sounds from the machine and he found that Max had put his shoes into the machine. One day, a piece of   47   caught Kevin’s attention. “The world famous collector Dick Brown’s stamps have been   48  .”

       Kevin had a stamp collection and it was with his friend Allan. So, Kevin gave Max the   49   and sent him to get his album back. Max soon came back with the album and Kevin found it was not his album --- it   50   valuable stamps. Actually Max had gone to another   51   whose door was unlocked by mistake and found an album which resembled Kevin’s and brought it back. Kevin   52   that it might be the album belonging to Dick Brown. Kevin called the   53   and told them he had found a valuable album. A week had passed since that incident, and Kevin and Max were   54   for finding Dick Brown’s album.

       “I’ll never be   55   with Max,” Kevin thought.

36. A. challenge            B. surprise            C. chance                  D. worry

37. A. anxious               B. puzzled             C. free               D. curious

38. A. mobile phone      B. doorbell            C. clock                   D. landline

39. A. breaking              B. seeking             C. removing           D. taking

40. A. hard                   B. small                C. late                  D. bad

41. A. asked                  B. stopped            C. recommended   D. decided

42. A. Simply                B. Frankly             C. Luckily             D. Strangely

43. A. roughly              B. totally               C. gradually          D. eventually

44. A. better                  B. happier              C. longer               D. worse

45. A. started                B. mattered            C. worked            D. changed

46. A. familiar              B. strange             C. lovely               D. worse

47. A. research             B. advice              C. news               D. advertisement

48. A. sold                   B. stolen               C. exchanged               D. exhibited

49. A. address               B. number             C. photo                      D. name

50. A. offered               B. showed            C. mentioned         D. contained

51. A. store                  B. office                      C. house               D. club

52. A. expected            B. suspected         C. imagined           D. believed

53. A. owner                B. friend               C. cousin              D. police

54. A. rewarded            B. punished           C. found               D. scolded

55. A. strict                  B. angry                      C. honest              D. happy

 There are more than 740 million Chinese ______ to second-hand smoking in public places now.

A. are being exposed                B. to expose

C. having been exposed              D. exposed

假如你是李华。你的朋友Tommy是一个手机低头族，无论站着、坐着、走着，他都在低头玩手机。请就此给Tommy写一封信。

内容包括：1．做手机低头族的危害；（至少两点）

2．希望他改掉这个坏习惯。

注意：1．词数100左右；    

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．开头语和结尾语已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：过度使用overuse

Dear Tommy,

There seems to be a trend that people now tend to play with their cell phones no matter where they are. And I know you are not an exception.

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Yours,

Li Hua

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

Guiding students through open-ended discussions can help students develop their understanding of the nature of science.

One useful practice in classroom discussions involves developing a discussion map. A discussion map is a graphic timeline created by the teacher on which a discussion is recorded --- who initially states the idea and who adds to or refuses the idea.

Discussion maps let teachers gain a deep understanding of students’ level of participation, the origins of ideas, and the claims that seem meaningful, useful, and/or reasonable to students. They also give the teacher an idea of students’ science thoughts of phenomena and ideas.

To make a discussion map, the teacher needs to do a couple of things. First, the teacher needs to keep informed of the ideas that are shared and who shared the idea. The teacher does this as the children talk, making quick notes of the ideas and thoughts. It can be helpful to record the discussion, but it isn’t required. Then, after the discussion is over, the teacher reflectively creates the discussion map to clarify the understanding of the ideas and connections that students were making in their talk.

Educators have identified discussions as consistent with reform recommendations in that they help children learn about the nature science and are useful in combining literacy and science. It is suggested that discussions can be useful for teachers in evaluating students’ ideas and building excitement as science. Discussions offer windows on students’ thinking, provide students who struggle in reading and writing with a chance to participate more actively in class, and create situations where students can express their ideas differently than in traditional schools tasks.

However, I suggest that there are additional reasons for having reasoned discussions in classrooms. First, discussions like this allow students to use their own vocabulary --- the words and terms that make sense to them and their classmates --- to drive the intellectual and academic work of understand phenomena. Many times learning science can become focused on learning terms but not necessarily understanding and explaining phenomena. Second, discussions allow students to think about their experiences and the things that they know and try to reconcile these with science ideas. This is challenging, but working together with classmates can help. Finally, reasoned discussions are fundamentally scientific because they offer an open forum that allows all students to be heard, and students’ ideas can be evaluated and connected to their experiences with scientific explanations of those phenomena. For example, during the children’s reasoned discussion about plants, the group came to the agreement that seeds grow into plants. The students understood that most seeds get buried in the ground, the seeds get wet, and then plants grow. This led to a question about whether the seed was still in the ground when the plant had grown into an adult plant. The students came up with several ideas about where the seeds were. During this conversation, the teacher took careful notes so that later investigations could respond to the questions that children were asking. Thus the students were working together using their ideas and understandings and realized something as a group that they didn’t understand as individuals.

The latest attack on the Internet and on computers in general is Nicholas Carr’s writing, “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.”

Carr and other digital alarmists make a case that seems reasonable, at least on the surface. They argue that Internet communication tools trap us in a shallow culture of constant interruption as we crazily tweet, text and e-mail. This in turn leaves us little time for deep reading, reflection and serious conversation — activities traditionally thought to build knowledge and wisdom.

The alarmists use the concept of “neural plasticity(神经可塑性)” and talk of technology “reshaping” the brain to convince us that the new distractions make us not just less willing but less able, on a physiological level, to focus. 

Whenever you hear that something is changing your brain, you ought to be worried — or at least the person telling you wants you to be worried. But does a cultural change like this necessarily lead to a fundamental change to the brain? 

The appeals to neural plasticity, backed by studies showing that new changes can reorganize the brain, are largely irrelevant. The basic plan of the brain’s “shaping” is genetically determined long before a child discovers Facebook and Twitter. There is simply no experimental evidence to show that living with digital culture fundamentally changes brain organization in a way that affects one’s ability to focus. Of course, the brain changes any time we form a memory or learn a new skill, but new skills build on our existing capacities without fundamentally changing them. We will no more lose our ability to pay attention than we will lose our ability to listen, see or speak.

The idea that the Internet might make us shallower has some instant appeal, because it is easy to see how the cognitive performance of people around us drops when they are distracted. But the notion that prolonged focus and deep reading mark the best path to wisdom and insight is just an assumption, one that may be an accidental consequence of the printing press existing before the computer. To book authors like us it seems a weird notion, but it is possible that spending 10 or more hours engaged in a single text might not be the most favorable way for building brainpower.

So don’t be afraid of the digital era. Google is not making us stupid, PowerPoint is not destroying literature, and the Internet is not really changing our brains.

Children who speak English as their first language are now a minority in inner-city London primary schools，official figures show.

Youngsters with foreign mother tongues form a majority at primary schools in 13 out of33 London cities. Across the country，English is a foreign language to more than one in seven primary school youngsters.

The figures from the Department for Children，Schools and Families (DCSF) point to major demographic (人口的) changes over the past few decades，with around a fifth of pupils now coming from ethnic minorities.

There are concerns that school finances are coming under stress from the growing numbers of youngsters requiring help with English. The government has been urged to provide more funding，and give fair treatment to schools with large concentrations of non-English speakers.

In Tower Hamlets almost four out of five youngsters do not have English as their mother tongue. In other areas，including Leicester，Luton and Bradford the proportion approaches 50 percent.

The figures indicate that many recent migrants have settled in London. Sir Andrew Green，Founder and Chairman of Migration Watch UK，says，“These figures confirm the huge impact immigration is having on our society. When government funds are as tight as they are，this is bound to have a negative impact，since children for whom English is a second language need extra tuition (学费).”He adds，“In inner London it's hard to know with whom immigrant chil­dren are supposed to practice English，since the number of immigrant children is much larger than that of local. ”

A spokesman for DCSF stresses that the figures “only indicate the language to which a child was initially exposed at home，regardless of whether he or she comes to speak English fluently later on. It is only a relatively few recent arrivals for whom communication problems are serious”.“We are increasing funding to the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (助学金)to £206 million by 2010，to help bring students weak in English up to speed. We’re also equipping schools to offer effective English as an Additional Language teaching to new arrivals，”he adds

1.A minority of London primary school students speak English as their first language because

       .

A. local children prefer to speak other languages

B. more and more immigrant children are attending school in London

C. children learning English as an additional language need extra tuition

D. English is too difficult a language for primary school children to learn

2.Some people worry about       .

A. the increasing number of adults needing help with English

B. the government taking no measures to help the schools

C. non-English speakers putting school finances under stress

D. London schools not providing adequate service for children in need

3.It can be inferred from the passage that         .

A. most immigrant children make a great effort to learn English

B. the government used to treat non-English speakers unfairly

C. it's not easy to find English speakers for immigrant children in some parts of London to communicate with

D. local children are influenced by immigrant children

4.According to the spokesman for DCSF，the figures indi­cate        .

A. that children will speak English fluently later on

B. that immigration is having a huge impact on English society

C. what the language the children were exposed to first was

D. that funding is increasing to help students weak in English

It is described in her new book, one about sea life, ______this kind of fish lives in the deep sea.

   A. which             B. that            C. what          D. who

 Shanghai has climbed up the cost-of-living ladder to No.21 on ________ world’s most expensive city list, overtaking New York for the first time, according to ________ global cost-of-living survey.

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

   The 16th Annual Our Own Words Teen Poetry & Fiction Writing Contest

Attention, teen writers!

Win cash, get published.

Entries will be accepted between March 8th and April 21st, 2015.

Awards ceremony at Lagerquist  Hall , Pacific Lutheran University on December 27th, 2015.

    Winning poems and stories will be published as written. Contest winners will read their work at the awards ceremony at Lagerquist Hall, Pacific Lutheran University on December 27th, 2015.

   Your poems and stories will be judged on the basis of originality, style, general presentation, grammar and spelling. All entries will belong to Pierce Country Library System and will not be returned. Winners' names may appear in newspapers and on the Library's  Website.

     You may enter both the short story and poetry categories, but you can only offer one entry per category.

24. To enter the contest, you should

     A. hand in a poem

     B . be a teenage student from Pierce County

     C. turn in published works

     D. pay some entry fees

25. Your poem or story will be judged on_____.

     A. how many words there are

     B. when you hand it in

     C. whether it is first written by yourself

     D. what topic it is about.

26. What information can we get from the passage?

     A. There will be 18 teenagers to be awarded in all.

     B. Your work will be published in newspapers.

     C. Your work will be returned to you if you fail.

     D. Winners will be awarded prizes in more than half a year.

27. The passage can be classified as______.

    A. a contest announcement

    B. an official report

    C. an art show review

    D. an exhibition explanation

How to Improve Speed Reading Skills

Speed reading is one of many skills that can improve your reading comprehension and shorten your study time. _36_.

Look at groups of words,not single words.

37___.However, if you can get into the habit of reading groups or chunks of words at one time, then you can read much faster. Start by trying to look at a group of three or four words at once, then work up to looking at an entire line of words. Focus on words that give the sentence meaning, such as the nouns and verbs and pay less attention to the filler words, such as “A, the, and, etc.”

Scan for keywords.

Scanning is a highly effective way of extracting answers from a text without really reading it. If you know exactly what you are looking for-a name, a date, a statistic, or a specific word-you can find it quickly by skipping over large chunks of the text. To scan, first visualize the word, number, or phrase you would like to find   38   . The information you are looking for should pop out at you.

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You can train yourself to read faster by timing yourself as you go. Start by getting your base time. Set a timer for fifteen minutes, and speed read as you normally do.   40   .  Do not count the words, just the pages or paragraphs. Record your figures: for instance, you might write “15min/6.5 pages.”

A. Then, run your eyes rapidly over the text.

B. Race the clock

C. Check your comprehension.

D. If you read a text one word at a time, then this will slow your reading speed way down.

E. Here are some Speed Reading Techniques.

F. One of the reasons you read slowly is that you have to pause sometimes to understand what a passage is saying.

G. When the timer goes off, check to see how far you have got.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 Thank you for sending us ____ fresh vegetables of many kinds. You have done us ____ great service.
A. 不填；a     B. the；a     C. 不填；不填     D. the；不填

More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditioanal marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving(兴盛)。As Skolnick notes, Americans are marrying people----relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context: some 80percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.

What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses.

Thus, one can find the very type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with full time children from the present marriage and part time children from former marriages. These are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers, and half-sisters. It is not all the unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! There are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, one thing remains constant: most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.

44. By calling Americans marrying people the author means that________.

A. more of Americans, as compared with Eroupeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger ate.

B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans

C. there are more married couples in USA than in Europe

D. Americans are more traditional than Europeans.

45. Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families?

A. A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.

B. Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.

C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.

D. There are no nuclear families any more.

46.Even though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families_______.

A. the functions of marriage remain unchanged

B. most Americans prefer a second marriage

C. the vast majority of Americans still have faith in marriage

D. marriage is still enjoyed by all Americans.

—Mum, where is my backpack?   

—Just ________ it was yesterday.

A. what                        B. how                         C. as                     D. where

假如你是李华，要参加一次关于环保话题的演讲比赛。最近一段时间我国多个地方出现雾霾天气，极大地影响了人们的健康与生活。因此你想以此为话题，写一篇演讲稿。应包括以下要点：

     1. 现象描述；    2. 对生活造成的影响； 3. 所采取的措施.

     要求：1.词数 100左右；   2.开头已给出，不计入总词数.

     参考词汇：雾霾haze  雾霾天气hazy weather

 Recently hazy weather has occurred in many areas of China ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 Walking is a nice way to relax. ______, it can help reduce body weight if you do it regularly.

A. However       B. Instead         C. Therefore       D. Besides

    You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It’s the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed by Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search reveals plenty of products to assist you in the task. Whatever your age there are CDs and books to help you taste the power of Mozart’s music, but when it comes to scientific evidence that it can make you more clever, the picture is more mixed.

    The phrase “the Mozart effect” was made up in 1991, but it was a study described two years later in the journal Nature that sparked（激发）real media and public interest about the idea that listening to classical music somehow improves the brain. It is one of those ideas that sound reasonable. Mozart was undoubtedly a genius himself; his music is complex and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it ,we’ll become more intelligent.

    The idea took off, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the US, even asked for money to be set aside in the state budget so that every newborn baby could be sent a CD of classical music. It was not just babies and children who were exposed to Mozart’s music on purpose, even an Italian farmer proudly explained that the cows were played Mozart three times a day to help them to produce better milk.

    I’ll leave the debate on the impact on milk yield to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of sixteen different studies confirmed that listening to music does lead to a temporary improvement in the ability to handle shapes mentally, but the benefits are short-lived and it doesn’t make us more intelligent.

33. What can we learn from paragraph 1?

  A．Mozart composed many musical pieces for children.

  B．Children listening to Mozart will be more intelligent.

  C．There are few products on the Internet about Mozart’s music.

  D．There is little scientific evidence to support Mozart effect.

34. The underlined sentence in paragraph3 suggests that    ________.

  A．people were strongly against the idea

  B．the idea was accepted by many people

  C．Mozart played an important part in people’s life

  D．the US government helped promote the idea

35. What is the author’s attitude towards the Mozart effect?

  A．Favorable        B．Objective            C．Doubtful             D．Positive

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

   I am honored to have the chance to write for you. I have noticed that our school has very limited resources in term of students’ opportunities to do sports.

   It is known to all what sports are very important to young people. If they have an access to god sports facilities, young people can adopt a healthy lifestyle and become more confident.

   I suggest build a new playground, where should be designed for students with different interests. They should have a different section for each activity and available to students all year round. I believe so a sports area will meet our sporting needs.

   Thanks for your reading.

A    Make sure the respondent has enough information

B    Remember your survey’s purpose

C    Keep your questions simple

D    Include only one topic per question

E    If in doubt, throw it out

F    Avoid leading questions

                     Write more effective survey questions

Naturally, no question is “good” in all situations, but there are some general rules to follow. Using these rules and examples will help you write useful questions.

61.________________

All other rules and guidelines are based on this one. There was a reason you decided to spend your time and money to do your survey, and you should ensure that every question you ask supports that reason. If you start to get lost while writing your questions, refer back to this rule.

62. ________________

This is another way of stating the first rule, but it is important enough to repeat. A question should never be included in a survey because you can’t think of a good reason to keep it. If you cannot come up with a concrete benefit that will result from the question, don’t use it.

63._________________

Compound sentences force respondents to keep a lot of information in their heads, and are likely to produce unpredictable results. Example: “Imagine a situation where the production supervisor is away from the line, a series of defective parts is being manufactured, and you just heard that a new client requires ten thousand of these parts in order to make their production schedule. How empowered do you feel by your organization to stop the line and make the repairs to the manufacturing equipment?” This question is too complex for a clear, usable answer. Try breaking it down into components parts.

64. ________________

How would you interpret the responses to “Please rate your satisfaction with the amount and kind of care you received while in the hospital.” or, a question asking about speed and accuracy? If you want to be able to come up with specific recommended actions, you need specific questions.

65. ________________

Asking respondents “How effective has this company’s new distribution program been?” may not be as effective as “Recently, we used a new distribution system. Did you know this?” followed by “Have you seen any positive benefits resulting from this change?” It can be beneficial to break down questions that require background information into two parts: a screening item describing the situation which asks if the respondent knows about it, and a follow-up question addressing attitudes the respondent has about the topic.

The Red Cross is an international organization 61.________ task is to stop suffering. They don’t care about the people’s race, nationality, religion 62._____ political beliefs. They help anyone 63._____ need of help.

The story of the Red Cross begins with Henry Dunant, a Swiss businessman who saw a battle in 1859 in Italy. After the battle, 40,000 soldiers were 64._____ (die) or injured, but there was no one to help them. Dunant worked for three days helping them.

When he returned to Switzerland, he wrote a book about his experience. The leaders of many countries read his book and wanted to do something. As a result, the Red Cross 65._ _______ (establish) in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863. It was an organization that would help all the people affected.

In 1864, there was 66.______ Red Cross meeting in Geneva, an American woman called Clare Barton wanted the Red Cross to help people in peace time as well as in wartime. She wanted the Red Cross to get 67.________ (involve) in disaster relief. Since then, the Red Cross 68._____ (help) millions of victims of earthquakes and other disasters all around the world.

The Red Cross not only works worldwide at big disasters, but also works in the community, 69._____ (take) care of victims at small accidents or fires. The Red Cross is 70._______ (clear)  fulfilling its task to stop suffering in this world.