________ allow drugs to become uncontrolled in our district.

A. In certain circumstances can we                          B. In no circumstances we can

C. Under any circumstances we can                         D. Under no circumstances can we

    New York----Michelle Obama made a daring decision to return to the same designer who created her Inaugural (就职）Ball dress four years ago -- and the risk paid off.

The First Lady looked extremely attractive in a thin, sweeping, and ruby-colored dress by designer Jason Wu. She teamed the dramatic dress with heels by Jimmy Choo and a diamond ring by Kimberly McDonald.

 She surprised the fashion establishment by returning to a Wu design which had been the custom made for her.

 Four years ago at her first Inauguration Ball, Michelle shimmered（熠熠生辉）in an off-white, one-shouldered floor-length dress by the designer.

 Wu, who was 26 at the time and had only been working in fashion for three years, saw his career take off after the First Lady's surprise decision to wear one of his dresses.

 He said at the time that he was unaware she had chosen the dress and had been watching at home on his couch and eating pizza when she appeared.

 After her 2013 decision, Wu told Women's Wear Daily: “Mrs Obama likes to keep her secrets. She fooled me again.”

 Wu released a women's clothing and accessories（装饰品）collection at Target last year and continues to be popular with the First Lady for official engagements.

 The sleeveless, cross-halter neck dress with low-cut back flattered（突出）49-year-old Michelle's arms and neat waist.

 It had been created especially for her by Wu and was a departure from the dark and plain colour tone she stuck to at earlier inauguration events.

 Mrs Obama's new hairstyle -- she had bangs（美发沙龙）cut on her birthday last week  had been loosely tousled（蓬松的）for the special night.

 Vice-President Joe Biden's wife Jill also looked attractive in a blue silk dress by Vera Wang at the Inauguration Ball.

29. What does the passage mainly talk about？

A. Designer Wu’s great works        

B. Mrs. Obama’s decision to return to her former fashion designer  

C. The First Lady’s secrets.      

D. Wu, a great designer.

30. Michelle Obama’s brave decision proved to be a_________.

A. risk           B. danger      C. surprise      D. success

31. According to the passage, which of the following is correct?

A. Mrs Obama’s inaugural dresses were made by the same designer.

B. Joe Biden’s wife Jill also had her dress created by Wu.

C. The colour tone at Michelle’s earlier inaugural events was not satisfactory.

D. Mrs Obama had straight forehead hair as her new hairstyle for the special night.

32. Which of the following best describes Jason Wu?

A. Daring and gifted.      B. Unusual and cautious. 

C. Careful and brave.   D. Talented and lucky.

Last year more than 13 Korean (韩国) TV series were introduced in China. Turn on the TV, and Korean beauties are appearing during peak viewing times(黄金时段). Some of the dramas are being repeated, but audiences continue to watch them. Why are the South Korean TV series loved by so many Chinese people? Cheng Yiting, a student from East China Normal University, gives us her reasons. She thinks that the good-looking actors with cool clothes and the beautiful sight in the dramas are the selling points for South Korean TV dramas. But what attracted the young audiences most is the pure and moving love stories.

And it seems that South Korean TV series has also won the hearts of middle-aged people. They are touched by the morals(道德)in the shows. These include the importance of respecting elders and social order. Though some people think South Korean TV series are too slow and too long, most of the Chinese audiences like them. Maybe we are really tired of Western TV series. Compared with that, South Korean TV series are not bad.

1．Which of the following is NOT mentioned（提及）about South Korean TV series in the passage?

A. Love       B. Morals

C. Social order      D. The youth self-respect

2．What is the main reason why South Korean TV series are popular?

A. The series are slow and long.

B. The actors wear cool clothes.

C. The stories with morals in them are pure and moving.

D. The actors are cool.

3．What does the writer want to tell us?

A. We are fed up with South Korean TV series.

B. South Korean TV series is a great success and popular in China.

C. South Korean TV series are better than Chinese TV series.

D. We can learn a lot from Korean TV series so we need to watch them again and again.

 你校将举办校报英语写作大赛，以下是相关信息：

The Winthrop Middle School Drama Club has recently given their annual Winter Shows. Over

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Dear fellow students,

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                          The Student Union

根据下列句子所给汉语意思写出空缺处单词，或根据所给词写出正确形式。

1. We're in the building _________ (在…对面) the government offices.

2. ________ (政治上) and economically this is an extremely difficult question.

3. Though ten years old, this book is highly ___________ (推荐).

4. Delivery times are arranged at your __________(方便).

5. I have no doubt that the man is guilty and that he deserves __________(惩罚).

Recently the Barbican Museum in London held an exhibition called the Rain Room. During the time this exhibition was open, my twitter stream was filled with photos of people standing in the rain room, accompanied by the caption “rain room@ the barbican!” and a location attachment to prove that they were indeed in the rain room.

This got me thinking. What were people actually saying by Tweeting about their visit? I think all they were doing was fulfilling the obligation that we have to share. Not sharing in the sense of treasuring a moment with people close to us, but sharing in the sense of “tell the world that I am doing a thing”.

It’s not sharing; it’s showing off. When we log in to Facebook or Twitter we see an infinitely updating stream of people enjoying themselves. It’s not real life, because people only post about the good things whereas all the dull or deep stuff doesn’t get mentioned. But despite this obvious fact, it subconsciously makes us feel like everyone is having a better time than us.

This is the curse of our age. We walk around with the tools to capture extensive data about our surroundings and transmit them in real-time to every friend we’ve made. We end up with a reduced understanding of reality because we’re more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter(过滤器) for our meal than how it tastes.

I don’t think that it’s inherently（内在的、固有的）wrong to want to keep the world updated about what you’re doing. But when you go through life robotically posting about everything you do, you’re not a human being. You’re just a prism that takes bits of light and sound and channels them into the cloud.

The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you are detracting from them because all your efforts are focused on making the look attractive to other people. Once you stop seeing things through the eyes of the people following you on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, you can make your experiences significant, because you were there and you saw the sights and smelled the smells and heard the sounds, not snapped a photo of it through a half-inch camera lens.

28.What do we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A. Rain Room exhibition received a large audience in London.

B. Most of people feel obligated to share their experience with friends.

C. Many people want to inform others of their experience by Tweeting.

D. All people having gone to the Rain Room took pictures.

29.It seems to the author that ___________.

A. Facebook or Twitter is a good place where we share personal experience

B. people seldom show depressing stuff on the social networking websites

C. most people tend to show off that they are having a better time than others

D. sharing experience on the social networking websites is not real life

30.By talking of “a good Instagram filter for our meal” (Line 3-4, Para.4), the author wants to show _____.

A. we are surrounded by various tools to capture our daily data

B. we are more concerned about how our life seems to be to others

C. we transmit our experience immediately to everybody we know

D. we gain more extensive perception of reality with digital tools

 ---- I was reading A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin yesterday, but I couldn’t understand it.

---- ______. It is classical literature, so take your time to enjoy it.

A. Don’t fly off the handle                      B. You got me there

C. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart     D. More haste, less speed

   What do British students do in their leisure time? The most popular activity must be party, such as birthday party, after-exam party and house party. Sometimes, they don't even need a reason to throw a party. From the very beginning of the term to the end of the exam, student societies, students and schools organize many parties, balls and dinners in which alcohol never gets removed from the drinks. I went to many house parties, birthday parties and the great end-of-term party held in the Student Union Building. They were unforgettable experiences for my study in the U.K.

Apart from parties, British students also participate in societies, sports and voluntary work. Except for societies similar to Chinese ones which are related to students' hobbies, such as basketball, debating and painting, some societies are more likely to be found in western countries, such as horse riding, cheerleading and extreme sports. As for voluntary work, it has developed into a fully functional well-organized financial sector. There're many charity shops which sell second-hand clothes, books and utensils. Those shops both offer paid jobs for full-time workers and also part-time voluntary jobs for students. The most common voluntary work is to make and provide food for homeless people, perform in nursery house and street fundraising for charities. I signed up for a Biko-bike project which is aimed at fixing second-hand broken bikes and rent them to students at a low price. Although I had no experience in repairing anything, let alone bikes, my mentor patiently taught nie step by step how to use certain tools to fix the specific part of a bike. As a student majoring in arts, it was quite interesting and useful to learn some knowledge of science from fixing bikes. The societies and voluntary work develop students' skills and even become a starting point of their careers. One of my friends worked as a volunteer at a charity shop for three years and she became a manager of that charity after graduation.

21. What does the underlined word "throw" mean in the first paragraph?

   A. Cast.     B. Attend.    C. Hold.       D. Put.

22. Which one are the students in China less likely to join in their spare time, compared to British students?

   A. The debating society.        B. The painting club.

   C. The basketball association,  D. The horse riding league.

23. Which of the following statements is true?

   A. I learnt more knowledge of arts from voluntary work.

   B. I have never taken a sip of wine at so many parties.

   C. I repaired broken bikes to rent them to students cheaply,

   D. I will become a manager of a charity after graduation.

Last summer, my friend and I hired a car and headed for Toronto. We didn’t book a hotel room   61   it was at the beginning of September and we thought it would be easy for us    __62   (find) a hotel.

    We   63   (drive) for six hours when the weather changed and it looked as if a thunderstorm was coming. We got lost and both were   64   (exhaust) when I saw an old lady parking her car. I stopped and asked   65   she knew a hotel nearby. She said there was a hotel down the road,   66   it might have been closed. The lovely old lady looked at me and said, “Why don’t you girls just stay the night at   67   house? I’ll cook for you.”

   We ended up going to a little island in Lake Muskoka,   68   her family lived. We slept in the   69   (comfort) beds they built for their kids, and they cooked for us. We stayed at their house for three nights in all and also met their friends. Those days were the   70__   (good) part of our three-week trip! We were glad that we got lost and met the old lady.

    Yinchuan, ____61_____ capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region , ____62_____ (lie) to the west of the Yellow River and to the east of Helan Mountain. The city ____63_____ has a history of more than 1,300 years was ____64_____ (original) founded in 678. It was called Western Xia from the establishment in 1038 by Dangxiang ethnic group that created splendid culture ______65_____ superb architecture.

     A brilliant culture has contributed to Yinchuan _____66______(be) a famous tourist city. There are over 60 historical sites including pagodas, temples and imperial tombs.

      A transportation system of highway, railway and airline in Yinchuan provides speed and ____67______(convenient). There are several national highways leading _____68______ all ports of the country.

Here you ____69_____taste the local dishes or snacks of rich Islamic flavor. Hotels of different grades are available to visitors, providing you with warm and comfortable places to relax ____70_____ (you).

For all the dinner table, a glass of milk seems to be a constant, at least it was when I was growing up. It was widely believed that milk was integral in building strong bones and teeth. There’s no doubt that dairy products (乳制品), and milk in particular, are high in protein and calcium, and most milk products are supplemented with Vitamin D and A.

While it’s well known that our bones need calcium, some studies suggest that high calcium intake doesn’t necessarily lower a person’s risk for fractures (骨折). A Harvard study found that people who drank two or more glasses of milk had no greater protection from breaking a bone than those who drank a glass or less a week.

There’s no doubt that we need calcium. Some anti-dairy supporters claim that dairy can lead to heart disease. Much of this claim is based on high fat and high dairy products, like cheeses and creams, which may indeed contribute to cardiovascular problems. Some studies have linked high milk intakes with a risk of prostate cancer; this seems to be caused by high-fat dairy products, not dairy in general.

Although milk was always regarded as one of the most important thing we need for our bones, yet least promoted, factors involved in strengthening bones. Perhaps we should think of dairy as less like a nutrient and more like a food. If you like it, eat it. If not, find some others. Because some claims may not be completely true, when I eat a cream, I’m not thinking about calcium, protein, or any such thing I’m thinking delicious.

56. Which of the following is TRUE on the milk?

A. The more milk you drink, the more risk for fractures you might be.

B. The more milk you drink, the less risk for fractures you might be.

C. The less milk you drink, the less risk for fractures you might be.

D. There is no link between them.

57. Some anti-dairy supporters claim that dairy can lead to except _________.

A. cardiovascular problems                         B. heart disease

C. prostate cancer                                      D. stomach cancer

58. The underlined words “some others” in the last paragraph refer to _________.

A. dairy products       B. milk                 C. food                     D. cream

59. What’s the author’s attitude towards milk?

A. He doesn’t like milk any more.      B. He used to drink milk as a child.

C. He regards milk as a nutrient.      D. He always cares about calcium, protein when he eats something.

60. We can learn from the text that _________.

A. All the claims are not completely true.              B. High milk intakes can lead to cancer.

C. It’s necessary for you to reduce milk intakes.     D. Give up milk for your health.

 ---Alice seems absent these days.

  ---She _______ a job from city to city---you see, she is graduating in June.

   A. hunts for       B. is to hunt for        C. has hunted for     D. has been hunting for

--- Argon, can I borrow your textbook?

--- Sorry, not _____ you help make a note of what the teacher says.

A. unless       B. if        C. when      D. since

In this article you will discover several techniques you can use to improve your interpersonal relations with friends, family, coworkers, and employees. In fact, you can use these techniques to influence others to have a positive attitude toward you in just about any type of relationship.

1. Don’t criticize or complain about people.

There’s no faster way to create resentment toward you than to criticize or complain about a person. Instead of telling people they’re doing something wrong, consider asking them questions to try to find out why they do what they do. Offer them an alternative in a way that comes across as (给人以……的印象) trying to help. Show them how doing things the way you would like them done can benefit them or lead to reward.

2. Appreciate people.

I’ll let you know a secret that vastly improve your interpersonal relations very quickly: whenever you see someone, imagine them wearing a flashing sign on their chest that says APPRECIATE ME, PLEASE! Then, give them what they want.

3. Be genuinely interested in others.

You’ll make a lot of friends by being interested in others. Not everyone will admit it, but the truth is, most people’s favorite subject is themselves. Use this to your advantage. Become genuinely interested in other people. Ask them questions. Talk to them about things they’re interested in. Put the focus on them. You’ll quickly gain their friendship.

4. Be a good listener.

This goes back to the principle of focusing on the other person. Listen more than you speak and encourage others to talk about themselves and you’ll quickly develop good interpersonal relations with them.

5. Make others feel important.

If someone is important to you in any way, tell them so! This goes for any type of interpersonal relationship! People like to feel important. Give them what they want and they will love you for it.

41. The underlined word “resentment” in paragraph 2 can be replaced by ________.

   A. sadness          B. anger          C. pleasure          D. exhaustion

42. When your friends do something wrong, you are advised to ________.

   A. point out their mistakes                         B. correct their mistakes

   C. put forward a new plan                               D. solve the problem for them

43. What’s the purpose of an imagined flashing sign on people’s chest?

   A. To attract others’ attention.                          B. To remind people to talk to them.

   C. To remind people to praise them.                 D. To help people to remember them.

44. What should we do if we want to improve interpersonal relations according to the passage?

   A. Listen more than we speak.                         B. Try to argue when we are right.

   C. Get people to be interested in us.        D. Talk more about things we’re interested in.

45. What does the passage mainly talk about?

   A. How to make others feel important.             B. How to listen to others.

   C. How to improve interpersonal relations with others.

   D. It’s bad to criticize or complain others.                       

 Could I speak to ________  is in charge of International Sales please?

A. who                     B. what       C. whatever          D. whoever

High Speed Learning Center

    Express Your Opinion

    The Letters to the Editor column in your local paper is a public place for expressing opinions on matters of interest to all citizens．In this course，you will learn how to express your opinions well and improve your chances of getting your letter published．

    Fridays，8：45—10：00 p．m．

    Write It Right 

    Writing a research paper involves more than gathering information．It is essential to organize your information，document your sources，and express your ideas clearly．This course is specifically designed for students preparing to enter college．

    Tuesdays，3：30—5：00 p．m．

    Fiction Workshop

    This course is for writers who are currently working on a novel or short story．Class time will be spent reading and critiquing(评论)classmates’work．

    Saturdays，9：30—11：30 a．m．

    Report It

    Have you always dreamed of being a journalist for a newspaper or magazine? This course will cover the basics of gathering news and turning it into interesting newspaper and magazine articles．

Wednesdays，1：00—3：00 p．m．

Writing to Sell

In this course，you will learn to write advertisements that will attract more customers to your products or business．Previous business writing experience is required．

    Thursdays，9：30—11：30 a．m．

    Retelling old Favorites

    Do you remember the traditional fairy tales that you loved as a kid? In this course，you will rewrite some of your favorite old tales in new ways that will delight youngsters in your life．

Tuesdays，5：00—7：00 p．m．

The Art of Correspondence(通信)

Have you always wished you could write more elegantly? This course will help you develop your own style when writing letters of friendship，thanks，invitation，congratulations，and so on．

Mondays．5：00—7：00 p．m．

21．Expressing Your Opinion will help you_________．

A．get your views published       B．become a local paper’s editor

C．write a letter in your own style   D．attract the interest of most citizens

22．Those who are going to start university may choose_________．

A．Wring to Sell                 B．The Art of Correspondence

C．Express Your Opinion       D．Write It Right

23．If you are interested in re-creating fairy tales，you may choose the class_______．

A．at 1：00—3：00p．m．on Wednesdays      B．at 5：00—7：00 p．m．on Tuesdays

C．at 8：45—10：00 p．m．on Fridays            D．at 9：30—11：30 a．m．on Thursdays

Sammy Armstrong was driving to his office___41___he noticed a car was stuck on railroad tracks.Then he___42___   (hear)a train whistle.Sammy threw down his sunglasses and keys and ran toward the car.___43___elderly man,Jean Papich,eighty-four,sat in the drivers seat,___44___(turn) the key and hitting the gas.His wife,Marion,seventy-eight,was looking___45___(nervous) at him.Then Sammy walked to the back of the car and pushed it forward,but his boots slipped on the warm asphalt（沥青）.He could see the train approaching fast.

___46___might be easier to push the car backward,Sammy thought.He ran around to the front of the vehicle and shouted at Jean___47___(put) the car in neutral（空挡）.Sammy could feel the ground trembling under his feet.He put his boots against the tracks and pushed forcefully.Finally,the car rolled off the tracks.When Sammy looked up,the train was just a couple of___48___(foot)away.Sammy,___49___(shock) and speechless,went back to work as crowd gathered at the scene.

Weeks later,Marion called to thank Sammy.He responded,“I just did___50___I believe is the right thing to do as an average citizen."