We are all called upon to make a speech at some point in life, but most of us don’t do a very good job.   16  

      So, you have to give a speech and you are terrified. You get nervous, you forget what you want to say, you stumble over words, you talk too long, and you bore your audience. Later you think, “Thank Goodness, it’s over. I’m just not good at public speaking. I hope I never have to do that again.”

      Cheer up!   17    Here are some simple steps to take the pain out of speech making. Ask yourself the purpose of your speech. What is the occasion? Why are you speaking? Then, gather as many facts as you can on your subject. Spend plenty of your time doing your research. Then spend plenty of your time organizing your material so that your speech is clear and easy to follow. Use as many examples as possible, and use pictures, charts, and graphs if they help you make your points more clearly.    18    Don’t talk over their heads, and don’t talk down to them. Treat your audience with respect. They will appreciate your thoughtfulness.

     Just remember: Be prepared. Know your subject, your audience, and the occasion. Be brief.   19   And be yourself. Let your personality come through so that you make person-to-person contact with your audience.

      If you follow these simple steps, you will see that you don’t have to be afraid of public speaking. In fact, you may find the experience so enjoyable that you volunteer to make more speeches! You’re not convinced yet?   20 

A. Take several deep breaths before your speech.

B. It doesn’t have to be that bad.

C. Say what you have to say and then stop.

D. This article gives some advice on how to give good speech.

E. Never forget your audience.

F. Don’t say what you aren’t familiar with.

G. Give it a try and see what happens. 

A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of __41_.

“Do you know _42_ you and I are?” she asked. _43__ I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman __44__ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, __45__ how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?” “Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) __46__.” “We don’t __47_ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.

I forgot all about her story __48__ one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.

“And what is your occupation?” she asked. What __49__ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ___50___ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”

The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen ___51__ in mid-air. She looked up __52__ she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.

“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your ___53_?” Coolly, I heard myself __54__, “I have a continuing program of research in the

laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have __55_ credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the __56__ are in satisfaction rather than just money.”

There was an increasing note of __57__ in the clerk’s voice as she __58__ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was __59_ by my lab assistants — ages 13, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program.

I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great __60_.

41.  A. surprise                                         B. anxiety                                               C. anger                             D. excitement

42.  A. who                                             B. what                                    C. how              D. why

43.  A. When                                                       B. As                                             C. Before                                   D. Since

44.  A. at                                                 B. after                                                       C. by                             D. around

45.  A. nervous                                   B. sure                                                      C. anxious                       D. uncertain

46.  A. mother                                            B. worker                                                        C. teacher                        D. doctor

47.  A. think                                             B. list                                             C. expect                                    D. give

48.  A. since                                                         B. unless                                                 C. until                                         D. when

49.  A. got                                                B. caused                             C. permit                  D. made

50.  A. researcher                              B. manager                             C. expert                                     D. scholar

51.  A. dropped                                    B. floated                                                  C. frozen                                     D. broke

52.  A. so that                                             B. even though                   C. as though                     D. because of

53.  A. family                                               B. subject                                                       C. study                                      D. field

54.  A. words                                                       B. reply                                                      C. shout                                     D. whisper

55.  A. two                                               B. three                                                     C. four                                          D. five

56.  A. rewards                                         B. awards                                                      C. profits                                     D. benefits

57.  A. interest                                            B. respect                                                      C. doubt                                     D fear

58.  A. explained                                 B. passed                                               C. completed                          D. filled

59.  A. accepted                                  B. greeted                                      C. recognized                  D. refused

60.  A. person                                            B. award                                                         C. career                             D. business

 It was human errors, rather than the natural disaster, that ________ for the death of so many innocent people in the landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen.

A. is blamed  B. is to blame  C. are blamed  D. are to blame

 Even though it doesn’t feel like a fairy tale, I still feel like I am living in a cartoon with him every day _______ we can lie down and live a carefree life.

   A. where              B. which             C. when         D. whom

       American real estate（房地产）tycoon Donald Trump, whose election as US president surprised many around the world, has been unsurprisingly named Time magazine’s “Peron of the Year” for 2016.

       Trump said while responding to the news, “It means a lot, especially me growing up reading Time magazine. And it’s a very important magazine, and I’ve been lucky enough to be on the cover many times this year-and last year. But I consider this a very, very great honor.”

       Trump has long been obsessed with having his face on the cover of magazines, something that happened more and more often as he won early polls, then Republican primaries, then the nomination（提名）, then the presidency. Trump keeps piles of these magazines in his office and with this mindset, Time’s “Person of the Year” became Trump’s long-cherished wish.

       Although the magazine featured Trump several times on its cover, it passed on naming him “Person of the Year” for 2015. Instead, it selected German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom the magazine credited with opening her nation’s border to hundreds of thousands of refugees（难民）and managing Europe’s debt crisis. Trump did not take that news well. “I told you @ TIME Magazine would never pick me as ‘Person of the Year’ in spite of being the big favorite. They picked the person who is ruining Germany,” he said on Twitter soon after the news was announced.

       Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs said that the decision in 2016 was easy. This title goes to a newsmaker who has influenced events for better or for worse. “When have we ever seen a single individual who has so defied（违背）expectations…beaten not one but two political parties on the way to winning an election… I don’t think that we have ever seen one person, operating in such an unconventional way, have an impact on the events of the year quite like this,” Gibbs said.

24. What do Trump’s words suggest in Paragraph?

A. Luck is on his side.                               B. He deserves the award.

C. He feels proud of the award                   D. Time has a good effect on him.

25. Which is truth according to the article?

A. Trump is afraid to be famous.

B. Trump is angry about Time magazine.

C. Trump is addicted to having his face on the cover of magazines.

D. Trump is addicted to having his face on the cover of magazines.

26. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. Merkel ruined Germany.                         B. Merkel was “Person of the Year” for 2015.

C. Trump thought well of Merkel.               D. Trump won “Person of the Year” twice.

27. Why was Trump elected as Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2016?

A. He’s been on its cover many times.         B. He is the newly elected president.

C. He is the favorite of the magazine.           D. He was highly influential in the year.

 I was caught in a traffic jam for over an hour, otherwise I ______ you waiting for such a long time.

A. will not keep    B. have not kept    C. had not kept   D. would not have kept

A. apparently       B. surprisingly     C. spirituality      D. tried     E. poetry   F. statement     G. physical     H. released     I. lasting   j. recorded    K. instruments

 

When US musician Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of this year ‘s Nobel Prize for literature last month , many people took to social media to suggest that Leonard Cohen was the only other living songwriter who deserved the honor.

  Sadly , on Nov  7 , the deep-voiced Canadian artist died at the age of 82.

  Many tributes ( 称赞) were written for Cohen , who had just ____31____ his 14^th album , You Want It Darker , on Oct 21. “ Leonard Cohen is as important today as he was in the 1960s ,” Canada ‘s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a ____32____ . “ His ability to describe human emotion made him one of the most influential and _____33____musicians ever.”

Cohen’s most famous song , Hallenlujah , in which he compared ___34_____ love to a need for spiritual connection , has been ____35____ hundreds of times by different musicians since it was first released in 1984.

And Cohen’s song Bird on a Wire (1969) could be considered a perfect epitaph (墓志铭) that he wrote for himself. As the song’s first line goes , “ Like a bird on a wire , like a drunk in midmight choir , I have ___36_____in my way to be free .”

“ Cohen writes words that explain what it means to be human . I ‘ve read___37_____that has as much beauty as Cohen’s work , but in the world of music , Cohen is a rarity ,”    US singer Jennifer Warnes told the Ausin American-Statesman newspaper . ‘ He describes things that go on inside a heart and what it feels like to be here.”

Along with his ____38___， Cohen’s dry , deep voice also helped his popularity . In 2006 he spoke with the NPR radio station about how he got his interesting voice ----____39____it was “500 tons of whiskey and a million cigarettes.”

But he never forgot to work on the _____40_____that made up his songs , even though he was most famous for his lyrics and voice.

  假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，以“An Afternoon with Lele”为题，给校刊“英语园地”写一篇英文稿件，介绍你上周三照顾邻居家孩子乐乐的过程。

注意：词数不少于60。

Habits Of Highly Successful Students

    Never Over-Study

    When you spend too much time studying you will quickly lose focus and the time spent in studying will become ‘junk time’. You think you're studying but you're just sitting there re-reading the same sentence about 100 times and you're not getting anywhere. Instead, take regular breaks.  71   Besides, it will give your mind some time to take in what you have been doing.

      72 

    Top students don't just randomly（随意地）sit down and complete work. They actually plan what they are going to do: They actually plan the time they will study and they set goals for what will be achieved. If you want to be successful, do as successful people do. Set a plan and, set a goal and stick to it, which will create a routine and a routine is the first step towards developing a habit.  73  

    Front Up To The Toughest Work First

    Many of us like to do the easy things first to build our confidence. That’s fair enough. The only challenge with this approach is that you use up your primary energy at the start of any study period and so if you are dealing with the easy parts with your primary energy your batteries will be low when it comes the time to deal with the hard part. So what happens then? 74   We all do it. We really shouldn't, though. So develop the habit of giving your primary energy to the hard tasks and completing the easy stuff last.

       75 

    Do we really have to explain this? Just turn them off for an hour, we promise the world will still be there when you log back in! Don't text your friends, don't chat while doing memory activities，don't make phone calls, just focus on what you're doing. Even if you focus on work' for 15 minutes followed by 5 mins of chatting, it’s better than 30 minutes of work while also chatting! You get that right?

    A. Taking breaks can make you get everywhere.

    B. You get tired and impatient and just give up.

    C. Positive habits decide future success.

    D. Plan Your Study

    E. Taking breaks will make you energetic again and refresh your mind.

    F. Get Off Social Networking Sites And Turn Off The Phone

    G. Achieve Your Goal

I remember when I was growing up being painfully shy. I remember my first time standing in front of people speaking. It was ___41___; my knees were knocking ; my palms were sweating and I thought I was going to __42___. But I got through it at last and kind of enjoyed it. Later I regarded it as a good chance to practice my __43___talent. Now, after many years, the act of speaking in front of people brings me great __44____.

Part of life philosophy which allows us to __45___ healthily and creates happiness is how we look at __46___. They are in our life to create growth. Like the ___47___goes“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”We get rid of our weakness then we become ___48___. Challenges are given to us so that we can grow ___49___. The question is how we look at them. Looking at the challenges is to see their ___50___ as positive. But many times when we are faced with a problem, we ___51___ it as negative. If we are___52___ in ourselves and see growth opportunities as creating ___53___ changes in our life, they can help us to become stronger, just as how I ___54___ the speech later.

We need to recognize challenges have their good functions that can ___55__  us. Once you learn to look upon challenges as opportunities to use a ___56___ perspective and test you, they’ll help you gain strength . They___57___ you good chances to grow healthily. Once you___58___ those challenges, they no longer stay in your life and they’ll disappear. Of course that doesn’t mean you make them disappear without ___59__,but the strength and ___60___ you gain are worth the effort.

41. A. unusual          B. common        C. uncomfortable                D. normal

42. A. pass out         B. move on        C. run away                    D. turn away

43. A. story            B. speech         C. article                D. work

44. A. joy             B. value           C. purpose                     D. dream

45. A. talk           B. listen           C. play                  D. grow

46. A. challenges      B. fates           C. success                     D. failure

47. A. word          B. sentence        C. saying                D. example

48. A. stronger               B. happier         C. younger               D. lovelier

49. A. faster                 B. better          C. freer                  D. easier

50. A. reason                B. outcome       C. aim                   D. action

51. A. map                     B. find             C. picture                 D. imagine

52. A. disappointed    B. honest        C. interested              D. confident

53. A. slow          B. unique        C. common               D. positive

54. A. notice         B. suggest       C. regard                 D. confirm

55. A. benefit          B. push                 C. force                 D. attract

56. A. strange        B. new          C. true                   D. good

57. A. throw         B. direct         C. accord                      D. introduce

58. A. overtake        B. overlie              C. overlook               D. overcome

59. A. emotion         B. time          C. result                  D. effort

60. A. spirit                   B. wisdom             C. knowledge                D. virtue

Overwhelmed by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, we're increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you're looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory ─ and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available ─is changing our cognitive habits.

    Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia

University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we don't know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don't remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers' final observation: the expectation that we'll be able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we'll be able to find it.

    But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can't be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia ─ meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren't over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can't Google context.

    Last, there's the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines fail us. As Sparrow puts it, “The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a friend.” If you're going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure it's fully charged.

29. Google's eyeglasses are supposed to _____.

A. improve our memory                           B. function like memory.

C. help us see faces better.                            D. work like smart phones.

30. According to the passage, the underlined words “cognitive habits” refers to ______.

A. how we deal with information.             B. functions of human memory.

C. the amount of information.                 D. the availability of information.

31. Which of the following statements about Sparrow's research is CORRECT?

A. We remember people and things as much as before.

B. We remember more Internet connections than before.

C. We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts.

D. We pay equal attention to location and content of information.

32. What is the implied message of the author?

A. Web connections aid our memory.        B. People differ in what to remember.

C. People keep memory on smart phones.      D. People need to exercise their memory.

    假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,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。

删减: 把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。

修改: 在错词下面划一横线, 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。

My name is Li Hua and as a senior three student, it won’t take long after I graduate. Now, I have much to share with my fellow student.

Firstly, I’d like to show my appreciation for those stand by me all the way, teachers, parents and friends included. Without their help or advice, my life will be different. Secondly, it is high time for I to say sorry to the classmates whom I hurt or misunderstood. I firm believe that communication and smiles act as bridges to friendship. Thirdly, I’ve made my mind to make every effort to study, so hard work is important. It’s the key to a success. Finally, I sincerely hope what all the younger fellows can make full use of time, because time and tide wait for no man.

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处语言错误，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。

Taking parts in recreation activities help us keep fit. There are various kinds of activity in our daily life, for example, listening to music, watching TV, playing chess, or going to cinema. But I think we’d better to have more outdoor activities. As students, we usually sit too longer in the classroom, and as a result our eyes and brains getting tired. But it’s a good idea to play ball games, go swimming, do some runnings, or even go for a picnic. Our brains also need changes to make itself smart and active. In a word, exercise is good for health.

      It is a familiar scene these days: employees taking newly laid-off co-workers

out for a drink for comfort. But which side deserves sympathy more, the jobless

or the still employed? On March 6, researchers at a conference at the University

of Cambridge heard data suggesting it's the latter.

    Brendan Burchell, a Cambridge sociologist, presented his analysis based on

various surveys conducted across Europe. The data suggest that employed people

who feel insecure in their jobs show similar levels of anxiety and depression as

those who are unemployed. Although a newly jobless person's mental health may

“bottom out" after about six months, and then even begin to improve, the

mental state of people who are continuously worried about losing their job “just

continues to get worse and worse", Burchell says.

     Evolutionary psychologists support this theory by arguing that human beings

feel more stress during times of insecurity because they sense an immediate but

invisible threat. Patients have been known to experience higher levels of anxiety,

for example, while waiting for examination results than knowing what they are

suffering from-even if the result is cancer. It's better to get the bad news and

start doing something about it rather than wait with anxiety. When the

uncertainty continues, people stay in a nonstop “fight or flight" response, which

leads to damaging stress.

     But not every employee in insecure industries has such a discouraging view,

Burchell says. In general, women get on better. While reporting higher levels of

anxiety than men when directly questioned, women scored lower in stress on the

GHQ 12, even when they had a job they felt insecure about losing. As Burchell

explains, “For women, most studies show that any job-it doesn't matter

whether it is secure or insecure-gives psychological improvement over

unemployment. " Burchell supposes that the difference in men is that they tend to

feel pressure not only to be employed, but also to be the primary breadwinner,

and that more of a man's self-worth depends on his job.

28. Why do researchers think the still employed deserve sympathy more?

    A. They have to do more work since then.

    B. They have no chance to find better jobs.

     C. They have to work with inexperienced workers.

     D. They constantly worry about losing their jobs.

29. What is most likely to cause a “fight or flight" response?

    A. Not having a paid job.

    B. Fierce competition for jobs.

     C. Not knowing what will happen.

     D. Pressure to work longer hours.

30. What will the writer talk about following the last paragraph?

     A. Advice on preparing a job interview.

     B. Advice to those in insecure industries.

    C. Some knowledge of psychology.

     D. Difference in men and women.

31. What could be the best title for the text?

     A. Is it less stressful to get laid off than stay on?

    B. Should greater sympathy be given to the jobless?

    C. Do employees bear more stress than ever before?

     D. Do men or women show higher levels of anxiety?

I        the hobby of fishing as a child．

   A．built up        B．set up         C．kept up       D．took up

  Students usually have great fun during the vacation. When it’s time to return to school, they usually feel sad.   36   It can be hard to adjust from the dog days of a long vacation to the busy and fast pace of the school year. Here are some tips to get back into the school mode and start this year in a right way.

   __37   I highly suggest getting folders and binders(活页来)with patterns and designs to make note taking more fun. During the first day of class most teachers will tell you everything they require for their courses. Make sure that you get the specified supplies so that you are able to keep up with the class work and stay organized.

   Get an agenda. The school year is such a busy time. Between taking tests, doing homework, and attending activities and school events, it can be really hard to keep track of everything. By keeping an updated agenda you can better mange your time.   38   Time management is the key to being successful and staying on top of everything you need to do.

  ___39     It is very important to know what your teachers are expecting from you. Pay attention to what the teacher is saying about the workload of the class and what they are hoping for you to get out of it. Knowing their expectations and achieving them will help your year start smoothly. Always remember that communicating with your teachers is the key to understanding their expectations.

   Make a list of your academic goals. Write out a list of goals that you want to achieve for the upcoming school year. Do you want to play the lead role in they play, have a wonderful performance on the basketball team or improve your grades? When you write down the goals, you are able to plan and know what you need to do to prepare for them.   40  

A. Know what is expected from you.

B. Prepare folders and binders for your classes.

C. Remember where there is a will, there is a way.

D. You can also know what you have to accomplish

E. You can reach all the goals you have set for this year

F. The relaxing days are over and they’ll get busy again

G. Have the proper school supplies that you need for your classes.

I once watched _____ one-act play, which was played by ___ 11-year-old boy.

A．a , a    B．an , an   C．a , an    D．an , a

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Does this situation seem familiar to you? Your English is progressing well, the grammar is now familiar, the reading comprehension is no problem, and you are speaking quite fluently．  71 

       First of all, remember that you are not alone． Listening is probably the most difficult job for almost all learners of English as a foreign language．   72  what you need to do is to find listening resources． The Internet is really a useful tool for English students． You can download The RealPlayer from RealMedia．com． The RealPlayer allows you to use the Internet like a radio station．

       Once you have begun to listen on a regular basis, you might still be frustrated（受阻）by limited understanding  73 

Here is some of the advice I give my students:

•Accept the fact that you are not going to understand everything．

       •Stay relaxed when you do not understand, and try listening to the material for more times．

•Do not translate everything into your native language ．

•      74      Don't concentrate on detail until you have understood the main ideas．

•Listen to something you enjoy．

I remember the problems I had in understanding spoken German when I first went to Germany． In the beginning, when I didn't understand a word, I insisted on translating it in my mind．   75  Then, after the first six months, I discovered two extremely important facts; Firstly, translating creates a barrier between the listener and the speaker． Secondly, most people repeat themselves constantly． By remaining calm, I noticed that even if I didn’t pay much attention I could usually understand what the speaker had said．

       A．What should you do?

       B．But listening is a problem for most of the beginners!

       C．However, after several weeks, I got used to the grammar rules

       D．The most important thing is to listen as often as possible．

       E．This method usually resulted in confusion．

       F．Listen for the general idea of the conversation．

       G．But you can’t follow a native English speaker at all!

 The team, _______ to climb the world’s second tallest mountain twice, finally decided to give up.

A. to attempt             B. attempting         C. having attempted　  D. attempted