Along with graduation _____ to look for a job!

A. is the need come     B. does the need come  C. the need comes      D. comes the need

假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Alice对中国艺术感兴趣，特写信请你向她介绍中国传统艺术。请依据下列要点，给其写封回信。

  要点：1.介绍传统艺术――――年画；

        2.欢迎Alice来中国体验中国年画的创作。

注意：1. 词数100左右。

      2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

提示词：年画Chinese New Year paintings

Dear Alice,

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                                                                                  Yours truly,

                                                                                  Li Hua

 “Fast fashion” means clothes that are inexpensive but look like the latest designs. One reason for the success of fast fashion is social media. A report by the investment research firm Bernstein found that Millennials—people born in the 1980s and 90s—wanted to wear a variety of clothes in the photos they posted on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. As a result, many businesses that offer trendy, low-cost clothes are growing.

But the situation is changing now. Maxine Bédat, a woman who is in her early 30s, looks in her closet full of clothes, but she has nothing to wear. She says she hates always shopping for what is in style. Instead, she says, she wants to buy fewer clothes that she can wear over and over. Other people want the same thing, she says.

So Ms. Bédat and a business partner, Soraya Darabi, started a “slow fashion” clothing company called Zady. “Slow fashion” means clothes that last a long time. They are often classic colors and shapes, and are made from natural materials that are biodegradable over time.

The terms “fast fashion” and “slow fashion” are related to “fast food” and “slow food”: fast food is still popular in the U. S. , but many restaurants increasingly offer higher-quality, more expensive and relaxed meals.

Like slow food, slow fashion also aims to use sources that are good for the environment and workers. Maxine Bédat says people in her generation want to know where their clothes come from and who is making them. To answer Millennials’ demand for information about the products they buy, Ms. Bédat’s company, Zady, includes details about the history of the brands. It also describes the process in which the clothes are made. Ms. Bédat says Zady aims to tell shoppers where their clothes come from, where they go, and how they impact the world.

The international business “H&M” is answering Millennials’ demands in another way. It has created a recycling program for clothes. Shoppers who bring clothes they no longer want to H&M stores can receive a discount on new things they buy. An H&M spokesperson says, “We have a clear vision to avoid and minimize waste that goes into landfills.”

12. What’s the attitude of some Millennials towards fast fashion now?

A. Crazy.    B. Tired.    C. Supportive.    D. Doubtful.

13. “Slow food” is mentioned in the text to tell us ________.

A. it is better than fast food        B. it is the healthiest food

C. why slow fashion comes now    D. why people like fast fashion

14. What can be learned from the program of H&M in the last paragraph?

A. It can help the environment.            B. It does good to people’s health.

C. It can help change people’s lives most.    D. It will take the lead in the latest fashion.

15. What is the best title of the text?

A. What Is out of Fashion        B. Fast Fashion Is Not Fast

C. Slow Fashion Is in Fashion.    D. Fast Fashion, Good or Bad

Poorer families often lack _____to a car ，which they would need to drive their children to a more

successful school outside their own district.

A. talent B. concept    C. access      D. affection

Singapore's schools have become global role models with high results in international tests.But now they want to move,beyond this—towards something that encourages creativity and what they term "holistic（全面的）education".

Minister of Education,Heng Swee Keat,says this is "less about content knowledge",but "more about how to process information".He describes this challenge of innovating（创新）as being about to "tell truth from untruth,connect seemingly different things,and create knowledge even as the situation changes".

This approach aims to prepare today's students for the demands of the next 20 years.It means that schools are under more pressure,and will be given more freedom,to come up with creative ways to teach students.So instead of the traditional impressions of high-pressure Asian schools,with rows of heads buried in books,they are trying different approaches to learning.

To put this into practice,on a sunny April morning,80 students from one of Singapore's top schools were traveling outdoors.The nine to ten-year-old from Rosyth School were on a "learning journey" in a park,with science topics and values such as caring for the environment.

"We are conducting a biopsy（活组织检查）to find out why a bee,a fish,a bird or a plant died strangely,"said one student."Is it because of human actions?"

They photographed "evidence" on smart phones and digital cameras,getting facts on plants and animal species. "They can really learn through hands-on experience and putting things into action,"said moral education teacher, Joslyn Huang.

4. What are Singapore's schools famous for according to the passage?

A. Test results.    B. Strict management.

C. Teaching methods.    D. Learning environment.

5. What does Singapore's "holistic education" lay emphasis on?

A. Students' moral behavior.    B. Students' creative ability.

C. Students' content knowledge.    D. Students' hands-on experience.

6. Why did the 80 students from Rosyth School conduct a biopsy?

A. To improve the environment.

B. To protect animals and plants.

C. To study the relationship between human actions and some animals' death.

D. To find out the relationship between human behaviors and climate changes.

7. How did the author tell us about a different way of learning in Singapore's schools?

A. By giving examples.    B. By making comparisons.

C. By listing figures.    D. By analyzing cause and effect.

 Wishing you the best of luck. We _______ your telephone number and will call you if anything comes up.

   A. have                    B. will have          C. had                D. would have

下文中共有10处语言错误，每行中最多有两处。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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

       注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

       2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

       The American Civil War came to end in the year 1 86 5，which the Northerners

beat the Southerner．However，even today，many Southerners had not forgotten their

defeat．Once some American tourists were visiting to the battle field of the Civil War

with Stella，a woman guide from the South．She kept tell smiles about how the Southern

soldiers had survived powerfully forces of the Northemer Finally，a tourist，who were

from the North，stopped Stella and said，“And surely，the Northerners must have won at

least one victory．"“Not as long as I'm the guide．”he answered．

I love a good murder mystery. It is so   41  to watch or read an exciting and interesting detective story and try to solve the   42  yourself. Agatha Christie is undoubtedly queen of the detective story considering she  43 over eighty books. Many people have fallen in love with her  44 -----Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective and Miss Marple, an old lady who is also an amateur   45   .

As I am a big   46 of Agatha Christie, I was excited to  47 her house in Devon called Greenway. I travelled to her  48  by steam train. We went through a dark tunnel and there was lots of smoke. It was a  49 setting for a murder like in her famous novel Murder on the Orient Express.  50  , all the passengers arrived safely!

After a pleasant walk through the woods, I  51 the splendid house. I did a tour and I loved seeing where she wrote her  52 . Many first editions were on display in a revolving(旋转的)bookcase. However, my  53 part of the estate(房产) was the boathouse. There was a lovely view of the river  54  the boathouse also served a more special purpose---inspiration for a crime  55 . In the Poirot novel, Dead Man’s Folly, a girl’s body is   56  in the boathouse. They even  57 the TV adaptation of the book at Greenway.

I really  58 my visit to Greenway. It was such a  59  place and I was interested in seeing where Agatha Christie was  60 write so many exciting stories.

41. A. attention            B. heat             C. success      D. fun

42. A. doubt                B. problem          C. murder       D. method

43. A. read                 B. wrote            C. saw          D. contributed

44. A. creations            B. inventions       C. discussions  D. reasons

45. A. guard                B. detective        C. creator      D. spy

46. A. guide            B. fellow               C. fan              D. gift

47. A. watch            B. rebuild              C. explode          D. visit

48. A. house            B. family               C. hometown         D. site

49. A. perfect          B. central              C. colorful        D. direct

50. A. Sadly            B. Fortunately          C.Hopefully      D.Surprisingly

51. A. fetched         B. got                  C. reached       D. mentioned

52. A. posts           B. novels               C. letters       D. books

53. A. personal         B. useful          C. rewarding       D. favourite

54. A. or               B. and              C. but              D. for

55. A. scenery          B. sight                C. view             D. scene

56. A. dissolved        B. tended               C. found            D. buried

57. A. developed        B. filmed          C. adapted              D. affected

58. A. enjoyed          B. treasured            C. exploited       D. focused

59. A. shocking         B. beautiful        C. skillful             D. helpful

60. A. inspired         B. disappointed    C. marked               D. honored

 The prisoner didn’t imagine he would soon be set free, ____________?

A did he              B would he            C wouldn’t he            D didn’t he

 The wrong you’ve done to her is terrible, ____ you should make an apology to her, I think.

    A. for which     B. about which       C. of which     D. with which

Real-life Room Escape Games

Real-life room escape games are a type of physical adventure game in which people are locked in a room with other participants and have to use the things in the room to settle a series of puzzles, find clues (线索), and escape the room within a set time limit.

The games are based off Escape the Room video games, such as Crimson Room and QP-Shot, created by TAKAGISM Inc. by Toshimitsu Takagi in 2005, in which the player is locked inside a room and must explore his or her surroundings in order to escape.   36   Other inspirations include adventure board games and movies. Real-life room escape games are becoming popular in the United States, Japan, and China.   37   For example, some games require you escape prison cells while others require you escape space stations.

  38   Soon, they were exported to North America, Asia and Australia. Examples include the two pioneer companies Hint Hunt and Adventure Rooms.

The games were so successful that new locations began opening up across China, in cities big and small, according to Want China Times. In the southern city of Shenzhen, for example, the first escape game location opened last August.   39   “These real-life escape games can help those who stay at home on their computers and iPads all day to experience real social circles,” Tian Xiaochuan, who owns two room escape game stores in Jinan, told Want China Times.

Earlier this year, The South China Morning Post said the real-life escape games are a hit among “highly stressed students and overworked young professionals.”   40   Some players get so involved that they tear down equipment or decorations inside their “prisons”, as Zhu Yumeng, chief operating officer of Beijing room escape game store Taoquan told China Daily.

    A. Each game adds local themes to settings.

    B. And seven new game locations quickly followed.

    C. They should also be brave enough to face their fears.

    D. Sometimes the excitement becomes a bit much, though.

    E. Weekend or day event escape games have been held in some stores.

    F. Permanent real life escape games in a fixed location were first opened in Europe.

    G. Players must be observant and use their critical thinking skills to escape the room.

 —I’m terribly sorry to have put you through so much trouble.

—         . I know you didn’t mean to.

A. Forget it                 B. No trouble              C. All right          D. You’re welcome

The War Against Sand

Imagine living on the edge of a vast desert, which is moving quietly closer to your village every day and covering your fields. The desert is on the move. This is called desertification.

Desertification occurs in regions close to an already existing desert.     71     The first is over-use of water in the area. There is not enough water in any case, and if it is not carefully used, disaster can follow. As time goes on, water shortages make farming more and more difficult. In some places, locals can remember local lakes and marshes which were once the homes for all kinds of fish and birds.     72     Farmers leave the land, and fields are replaced by deserts.

The second cause is misuse or over-use of the land.     73     Ploughing(耕) large fields and removing bushes and trees means that the wind will blow away the soil. Once the soil is lost, it is hard to replace, and if there is rain, it has nowhere to go, and brings no benefit.

    74     Every spring, the skies over some of eastern cities, thousands of kilometers away from the deserts, can be darkened by sandstorms. Dust from deserts can have a great effect on weather systems. While desertification is perhaps being partly caused by global warming, these sandstorms can make global warming worse by adding to what is known as the greenhouse effect.

What can be done to slow down or stop the process of desertification? A great deal of work is already under way. Obviously first steps are to find new water sources.     75     Some types of grass also hold the soil together, and stop the wind taking it. Without these efforts, it will be harder and harder to stop the world’s deserts in their tracks, and more and more farmers will give up and head for cities. The lesson to be learnt lies beneath the sand.

A. It generally arises from two related causes.

B. It is not only the farmers and villagers who suffer.

C. They have been completely buried by the sand now.

D. Scientists are doing the research on the cause of desertification.

E. They destroy the land, as the soil dries out and is then blown away.

F. Tree planting can help, by providing barriers between desert and rich field.

G. This means that the wrong crops are planted, and need more water than is available.

Though it's a challenging job,  he did it          it took me．

     A．one-third a time                                    B．one – third time

       C．the one - third time                                     D．one - third the time

 Don’t try to persuade your boss；he won’t have the       of employing me—a fresh student.

A. intention          B. attention         C. sense           D. attraction

If you can’t wait until the summer for your sunshine fix，why not fly off on a winter break? Here are some great deals for all budgets．

1．ST LUCIA

The beachside resort(度假胜地)of St James’s Club in Morgan Bay is fairly quiet—the local market is nearly 5kin away—but it has six bars，six restaurants and four outdoor pools．There are plenty of watersports，you can travel through the rainforest，go on a jeep trip or enjoy dolphin-Spot-ting．Average temperature in March is 27℃．

THE DEAL：A seven-night stay with flights from Gatwick for 1，429pp．From March 1．

2．GOA

With an average February temperature of 26℃，scenic Goa makes for a warm winter get’away. In the village of Arpora，the Resorte Marinha Dourada is a 10-minute walk from the clear beach—the hotel provides transfers for guests．Alternatively，relax by the outdoor pool and have a drink at one of the hotel’s two bars．A visit to Arpora’s lively Saturday night market is also recommended．Go bird-watching，beating on the lake，or fishing．

THE DEAL：10 nights’bed and breakfast with flights from Manchester for 1，157pp．From February 18.

3．DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Bayahibe is a beautiful fishing village on the shores of the Caribbean and it is also the Dominican Republic’s premier scuba-diving destination．There are around 20 dive sites just off its coast. Enjoy golf，spas，watersports and large outdoor pools．If you simply want to relax，the．Catalonia Gran Dominicus hotel is right on a pure white sandy beach，complete with palm trees．With average February temperature of 28℃，it’s the perfect escape．

THE DEAL：A seven-night stay with Gatwick flights for 1，403pp．From February 20.

4．SOUTH AFRICA

February is summer in South Africa，with average temperatures in the mid-20s℃．If you fancy chilling out in the sunshine，the Southern Sun Waterfront hotel has a large outdoor poo1．But it is also in the heart of the city，which makes it easy to explore its many historic attractions．Take a cable car ride up Table Mountain，or a short boat trip to Robben Island，where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner．

THE DEAL：10 nights for 1，662pp，with Heathrow flights．From February 18.

21．If you are only available in March，which resort should you choose?

A．ST LUCIA                         B．GOA

C．DOMINICAN REPUBLIC      D．SOUTH AFRICA

22．What’s the price for the deal including underwater exploration?

A．￡1，429pp．            B．￡1，157pp．

C．￡1，403pp．               D．￡1，662pp.

23．What do these resorts have in common?

A．The same average temperature．        B．The outdoor pools.

C．The local markets．                             D．The clear beaches．

Teenagers _____ their health because they play computer games too much．

A．have damaged  B．will damage        C．damaged         D．are damaging