Body language is particularly important when we attempt to communicate ___________ culture.

A. across B. over C. beneath D. through

    Visitors to Britain may find the best place   41  (enjoy) local culture is in a traditional pub. But newcomers may get ___42____ trouble in these friendly pubs. Strangers may start with the difficulty of getting a drink. Most pubs have no waiters--you have to go to the bar to buy drinks. This may sound   43   (convenience), but English people are used to doing so.
    Pub culture is formed to help people get along with each other. Standing at the bar for service allows you to chat with others  44    (wait) for drinks. The bar counter is   45   (possible) the only place in Britain                   

      46  a friendly conversation with strangers  47  (consider) to be entirely proper and really quite normal,   48    , if you do not follow the local rules, you may fail to feel the localculture. For example, if you are in a big group,  49   is best for one or two people to go to buy the drinks. Nothing makes the regular customers and bar staff angrier than a group of strangers standing in front of the bar while they chat and wonder  50   to order.

 The life of a high school student is usually active, exciting and full of fun, but it ______ be stressful sometimes.

  A. can        B. must                 C. need                 D. should

   Famous people have a lot of influence on cultural trends, like it or not. When Amal Clooney wears a Stella McCarney dress, sales go way up. However, one trend that seems harmless---but is actually damaging—is the pressure on stars to have their photos taken with rare animals.

Famous people who are asked to have photos taken with wild animals for a magazine spread or who do so while on vacation always have good intentions and even love animals. This makes them easy targets for the often greedy amusement parks and fake animal centers. These businesspeople love the thought of sharing pictures of a star hugging a baby tiger or a whale. Kind people are naturally drawn to places that claim to offer rare animals safety and are eager to see elephants paint, to hug baby bear or to swim with dolphins. However, it has shown that many of these businessmen are breeders, dealers or exhibitors that are using Hollywood’s goodwill for their own ends.

At the recently closed Tiger Temple in Thailand, 40 dead tiger cubs(幼崽) were found in a freezer, secretly killed to make tiger wine and other folk medicine for sale on the black market. But it isn’t just the “tiger temples” that are being closed down. The number of tourist traps using word like “rescue” in their names has increased greatly in recent years.

Many businessmen continually breed the animals just so they’ll have a constant supply of young animals in order to charge money for photos to people. Of course the babies are cute but they grow fast, and within a few weeks they are too big to handle. They’ll spend the rest of their lives, sometimes decades, in small and empty cages — or even be killed.

In some Asian countries, elephants are kept in camps. A few camps are working to help elephants in trouble, but the vast majority are not, and training methods are cruel. As soon as the cameras are gone after someone like Prince William takes a photo with an elephant, the chains go back on.

Fans, tell the stars: Stay away from rare animal photos, and the animals will be grateful. Of course, you don’t have to be famous to make a difference. Whether right here at home or at a place abroad, every one of us must fight the temptation to take a photo with an elephant or hug a baby tiger.

28. The author intends to make an appeal that ________.

   A. all people including stars should refuse to take photos with rare animals

   B. measures should be taken to protect the rare animals

   C. bans should be issued to limit celebrities’ behavior

   D. warns of wild animals should be given to the public

29. It can be inferred that __________.

   A. tiger wine and folk medicine made from tiger babies are sold in the supermarket

   B. most of the elephants in Asia are treated well in camps

   C. people are attracted to amusement parks and fake animal centers where celebrities share photos

   D. when the baby animals that take photos with tourists grow up, they will be set free

30. Businessmen use the following tricks to make profits EXCEPT________.

   A. in the name of rescuing rare animals

   B. take advantage of famous people to take photos with animals

   C. claim to offer rare animals safety

   D. protection of rare animals

31. Which of the following do you think is the best title?

   A. Tell stars to stop!               B. Be careful when sharing photos on media!

   C. No sale, no killing!              D. Rescue the endangered animals!

 Darlene Johnson is sure that she knows the reason why she looks so young. Looking at herself in the mirror, she takes     ___16   in her healthy skin and pink cheeks. “It’s probably because I haven’t    17    makeup,” she says. Not wearing makeup had another     18   , however. It caused her to lose her job.

    In the 21 years that Johnson worked at Harrah’s Casino in Reno, most of the years spent

    19   drinks, she felt makeup was no big deal. But last spring the manager    20   a new “Personal Best Program” for women. This    21    everything. “Makeup must be worn and   22   neatly. And it must be used in complementary colors,”   23   the orders. It should be noted that the orders did not    24    to men who were employed there. Johnson was angry    25   this. “You’re telling me my God-given face has to be    ___26 _  to do this job?” she asked.

Refusing to wear makeup, she was     27     from her $30,000-a-year job. Johnson

   28  it to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She hopes to    29   lost pay. She also wants money for    30    caused by her job loss. But Jan Jones, Harrah’s manager, defends the company’s move. “We are an    31    company,” she says. “We want people we employ to be    32   .”

   Johnson is not    33   being dressed-up.    34   , she dutifully wears good-looking clothes and styles her hair to look nice. However, she refuses to touch up her face. It had never

    35    to her that she would lose her job. “The Personal Best Program,” says Johnson, “plain and simple, just got too personal.”

16. A. pride                  B. option                      C. honor                    D. chance

17. A. dressed              B. shown                      C. made                    D. worn

18. A. event                  B. effect                       C. action                   D. accident

19. A. caring                 B. affording                  C. serving                  D. making

20. A. established         B. imagined                  C. settled                  D. planned

21. A. placed                B. exchanged                C. replaced               D. changed   

22. A. put up                B. put on                      C. put off                   D. put down

23. A. wrote                 B. reported                   C. read                      D. recited

24. A. expand               B. extend                      C. express                 D. explain

25. A. on                      B. of                             C. to                         D. about

26. A. made up             B. made of                   C. made for               D. made in

27. A. depressed          B. frustrated                 C. replaced               D. fired

28. A. said to                B. spoke to                  C. complained about  D. talked about

29. A. discover             B. recover                    C. uncover                D. reuse

30. A. harm                  B. hurt                          C. gains                     D. damages

31. A. trade                  B. advertisement           C. entertainment        D. business

32. A. dressed up         B. dressed down          C. dressed for           D. dressed in

33. A. opposed for       B. opposed by              C. opposed to           D. opposed with

34. A. In truth               B. In fact                      C. In return                D. In case

35. A. occurred            B. happened                 C. appeared              D. showed

There are many principles and values all people live by. The  41  that I live by is honesty. I have always been taught that lying will just get me into more trouble than I might already be  42 . Being honest is a  43  all people need to have and use to go  44  in life. 

Ever since I was a little kid, my parents have  45  me to be honest  46  it is the right thing to do. As I got  47 , I realized something very important that could  48  the way people take me to be a person. If just once you stop being honest and tell a lie it will  49  change people’s opinion of you and their whole way of acting  50  you. When you tell a lie you lose that person’s  51  forever or have to work your whole life to get it back.

 It is my personal   52  to achieve great things in life and honesty will sure help me get there. For me right now losing somebody’s trust would be a truly  53  thing. Whatever you do for a living or  54  you live, honesty is something important for all of us.

Honesty gets you much higher in life than getting into more  55  like lying would. Lying can   56  get you into trouble dealing with the government. Honesty is just as important to me as my family. Already, I know it is something that will  57  my future and my relationship with all people. It is something about myself that I hope to never  58  no matter what happens. Most of all honesty will help me no matter whether I’m at school, home or just  59  with friends. It is something  60  I hope my children will also have and appreciate. 

 The next moment, ________ she had time to realize what was happening, she was hit over the head.

A. since                  B. when        C. before                           D. after

She stormed into the boss’ office ________ about her co-worker’s behavior.

A. complaining          B. complained  

C. having complained    D. to complain 

— I want some information on         package tour to Thailand.

— Ok, it costs $400, including         accommodation.

      A. 不填; the                  B. a; an                         C. the; an                   D. the; 不填

Becoming Refreshed without sleeping

Sometimes there is just not enough hours in the day to get everything done and get a good night’s rest.___16___ Once in a while you can get away with a sleepless night and still feel reasonably good by adjusting your meals and activities.

____17____ The last thing you want to do when you are tired is get warm and cozy, this will cause you to fall asleep. Keeping the air conditioner on will make you feel much more alert and refreshed.

Eat small amounts. Eating small amounts of healthy food will help refresh you. Fruit and nuts are a good choice because they are nutritious and will energize you  ___18___Try to stick to low carbon meals to keep you going. Chewing gum after your snack or small meal will also help keep you awake.

Keep it bright. When it is dark your body thinks it is time to go to sleep. Turn on lots of lights, which will trick your body into waking up and feeling better. ___19___ You get double the benefits if it is daytime.

Take a break. Taking a little break will help you in the long run. Turn up some energizing music to get yourself positive. Relax and talk to a friend in person or on the phone for a few minutes.___20___

A. Keep it cool

B. Calm down and sleep

C. Avoid big, heavy meals as they will make you tired

D. Going outside whether it is day or night for some fresh air

E. Missing sleep regularly can make you sick and should be avoided

F. When you are tired, you may just want to sit around and do nothing...

G. Having a good time for a few minutes will refresh you quicker than anything else.

 Being from a family _____ produced great actors, it’s no wonder that she quickly found her way into the spotlight.   

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

A vertical farm is a concept farm which is planted on levels or floors. A sky scraper type building can house a vertical farm. Since the garden is built upwards, rather than outwards, it requires much less space than a conventional farm.

The world is quickly running out of room for conventional farming. Vertical farms could be a key to this situation. An 18 story vertical farm could feed as many as 50,000 people, all in an area which is the size of the average city block. Vertical farms in the city could cut down on transportation costs as well. Think about the amount of fuel it takes to transport food from farmland to city. The resources saved would be surprising. Besides saving travel time, food would be delivered in fresher condition and with less damage.

There is a growing concern about the use of pesticides in agriculture today. But the vertical farm would be a greenhouse type environment, avoiding the need for a large number of pesticides. Vertical farms can be built in a contained space, therefore they are an excellent solution for living well in an environment far different from our own. Hydroponics(水耕法) could be a big part of vertical gardening. This would reduce the amount of soil needed to grow food. Of course, not all food does well with this type of planting, but there are many crops that actually seem to do better.

In some climates, a lack of sunlight creates a short growing season. The solar power option may not work as well here. The addition of grow lights would make it possible to grow crops in vertical gardens in these areas. In other words, we could grow crops in areas where we never could before.

Vertical farms may just be a concept for now, but they are a concept that will solve many of our problems in the future.

75. According to the passage, a vertical farm______.

A. is mainly built outwards                                 B. is only an environmental friendly farm

C. is planted on levels upwards                             D. is dependent on solar power

76. The second paragraph is mainly about______.

A. the meaning of a vertical farm                          B. the future of a vertical farm

C. the cost of a vertical farm                                D. the benefit of a vertical farm

77. Compared to the conventional farm, the vertical farm can______.

A. help to protect the limited gardens                   B. reduce the harmful effect of pesticides

C. depend far less on sunlight                              D. greatly increase the use of soil

78. It can be learned from the passage that vertical farms______.

A. have been put into use                                           B. need less room than conventional farms

C. only use hydroponics to grow food                  D. may increase the transportation costs

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的工方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个符号（^），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. 每句不超过两个错误；

       2. 每处错误及其修改均只限一词；

       3. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Time flies! This is a third year that I have been in this school. In the past two and a half years, our school had organized many activities. What impressed me best was an activity called “Learning to Farm”. In an autumn afternoon, we were sent to a farm which we learned to plant potatoes. Having been in the city for so a long time, we were so happy to go to the countryside. After divided into three groups, we started to work. Some students cut potatoes into pieces; some dug holes, and the others put the pieces of potatoes into the hole, put the earth back and pushed them down hard. We continued doing that until all the work was done. Although we were exhausted, but we felt fulfilled on our way back home.               

Time for Kids (TFK) gets the great news on the coolest toys for 2014 at the 111th American International Toy Fair.

What’s four days long, bigger than seven football fields, and filled with thousands of toys? It’s Toy Fair 2014!

Each year, hundreds of toy companies from across the country come together in New York City. All kinds of products are shown as a way to know what’s to come in the new year. This year’s trends (款式) include oversize toys. “In 2014, everything is really big and really out there,” says Adrienne Appell, a toy-trends expert.

Toy Fair is the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere (西半球). Toy-store buyers go to the event to decide which toys they may want to sell during the holiday season. Members of the media, like TFK, go to the fair to report back on all the cool trends. Unfortunately, Toy Fair is not open to the public.

This year’s Toy Fair was the biggest in its 111-year history. More than 1,000 toy companies showed products from simple card games to high-tech robots. “Larger Than Life” was a Toy Fair favorite. This trend is all about big toys with a big play value.

Though it is all fun and games at Toy Fair, we saw lots of products making a push towards education, with STEAM. That stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This trend includes word games. And of course, we saw some super cool, high-tech games. “Technology is always going to influence toys,” says Appell. “This year we saw lots of 3D games, and robots.”

To know more information about the event, click (点击) here to watch the video.

32. What can we infer from Toy Fair 2014?

A. Toys are becoming more educational than fun. 

B. Robots are great favorites of buyers.    

C. Big toys will be popular this year.

D. Simple card games will disappear on the market.

33. What’s special about Toy Fair 2014?

A. It is the largest.  B. It is the longest. C. It sells all of its toys.  D. It’s held in New York City.

34. What’s the best title for the text?

A. Kids love toys               B. Toy-stores in New York City 

C. Technology changes toys      D. Time for toys

35. The text is taken from a _____.

A.  website       B. newspaper     C.magazine       D. Textbook

Welcome to Adventureland!

Everyone loves Adventureland! The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore(探索),enjoy, and admire their wonders. Everyone visit will be an unforgettable experience. You will go away enriched, longing to come back. What are you going to do this time?

The Travel Pavilion

Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different ways of life in the world. Visit the Amazon jungle(丛林)village, the Turkish market, the tai floating market, the Berber mountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you about their lives, and things they make. You can try making a carpet, making nets, fishing.

The Future Tower

This exhibition shows how progress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of the next century and the way we’ll be living then. Spend some time in our space station and climb into our simulator(模拟装置) for the Journey to Mars!

The Nature Park

This is not really one park but several. In the safari Pak you can drive among African animals in one of our Range Cruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on to the Ocean Park to watch the dolphins and whales. And then there is still the Aviary to see…

The Pyramid

This is the center of Adventureland. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping center where there are many lovely toys just for children. Come here for information and ideas too.

21. The Travel Pavilion is built to help visitors__________.

   A. realize the importance of traveling       B. become familiar with mountain countries

   C. learn how to make things such as fishing nets.

   D. learn something about different places in the world.

22. If you are interested in knowing about what people’s life will be, you may visit ________.

   A. the Travel Pavilion                           B. the Future Tower.

   C. the Safari Park                            D. the Pyramid

23. If you want to get a toy lion to take home, where will you most likely go?

   A. The Pyramid.                              B. The Nature Park.

   B. The Future Tower.                           D. The Travel Pavilion.

24. Which one is the passage perhaps taken from?

   A. textbook        B. advertisement       C. story                  D. fairy tale

Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar(讨论会). Halfway through  61  （he）talk, the speaker stopped and decided  62   (create) a group activity. He went around the hall and gave each person a balloon. Each one was asked to write his or her name on the balloon    63   (use) a marker pen. Then all the balloons  64   (collect) and put in another room.

   The speaker then led the group to the room full of balloons and asked them to find the balloon that had their name    65    (write) on within five minutes. Everyone was   66   (hurry) searching for their name, bumping into each other, pushing each other around. At the end of the five minutes no one could find their own balloon.

   Now each person was asked to collect    67    balloon and give it to the person whose name was on it. Within two minutes everyone had their own balloon. When everyone quieted down, the speaker began to talk, saying that this is exactly    68   was happening in our lives.

   We may like to think of   69   (us) more important than others, but our happiness sometimes lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness   70    you will get your own happiness.

Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

Malaria is a serious and ancient disease caused by one-celled Plasmodium parasites, and malaria is spread by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. The symptoms of malaria include periodic chills, fever, headache, and sweating. Complications affecting the kidneys, liver, brain, and blood can be fatal. Malaria is a major health problem in the tropics, where it afflicts up to 500 million people every year.

Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought, but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, according to a new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

More than 1.2 million people died from malaria worldwide in 2010, nearly twice the number found in the most recent comprehensive study of the disease. The researchers say that deaths from malaria have been missed by previous studies because of the assumption that the disease mainly kills children under five. They found that more than 78,000 children aged 5 to 14, and more than 445,000 people aged 15 and older died from malaria in 2010, meaning that 42 percent of all malaria deaths were in people aged 5 and older.

The study also found that while the overall number of malaria deaths is higher than earlier reports, the trend in malaria deaths has followed a similar downward pattern. Starting in 1985, malaria deaths grew every year before peaking in 2004 at 1.8 million deaths worldwide. Since then, the number of deaths has fallen annually and, between 2007 and 2010, the decline in deaths has been more than seven percent each year.

Researchers say the biggest drivers of the decline in malaria deaths have been the scaleup of insecticide-treated bed nets and artemisinin-combination treatments. This has been accomplished through the advent of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria & Tuberculosis in 2001 and the creation of organizations focused on fighting malaria, such as the World Health Organization's Roll Back Malaria, Malaria No More and Nothing But Nets. Overall funding for malaria efforts grew from less than 250 million U.S. dollars annually in 2001 to more than two billion in 2009, according to the researchers' latest estimates.

The game taught Jeremy Lin that           character was more important than playing well,

         lesson he still remembers．

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

 —Those grammar rules are really hard to remember.

—________. You know, practice makes perfect.

      A. It’s hard to say    B. It’s up to you    C. You are not alone    D. You can’t be serious