The agreement was made quickly as both sides were satisfied with the conditions of _____.

A. the other                    B. others                      C. another                    D. either

 Yesterday’s fog was very heavy and ______ all the flights were cancelled.

         A. constantly            B. consequently    C. continuously   D. consistently

Flying cars may soon become a ___61___(real). The rideshare service Uber has asked __62__ expert from NASA, the American space agency, __63___(help) the company develop cars that can fly.

Uber plans to use flying vehicles ___64__the future to avoid traffic in and around cities. The company wants to use small, totally electric aircraft, ___65__could take off and land like a helicopter on top of parking garages. Uber said its flying vehicles would be much __66___(quiet), cost less to operate and produce less pollution than helicopters.

One person in San Francisco__67__(write) on Twitter, “I used to think flying cars was a ridiculous idea. ___68__ I changed my mind this morning when I sat in heavy traffic.” Another person added from Mumbai, India: “I’m reading about Uber ___69___(hire) a NASA engineer to build flying cars, while I’m stuck in traffic. There is hope.”

The expert predicts there will be several early models of flying cars that can’t fly ___70__(they) but with human pilots within one to three years.

                            How Super Are Supermarkets?

       Buying e week’s groceries is tiring. You want to get it over and done with quickly, so you head for the nearest supermarket, you find everything you need under one roof, and you feel glad that those days of going in and out of different shops in the high street are over. Supermarkets seem to be a big plus. There is a downside, though.

       In the UK 90% of all the food people consume is bought at 5 different supermarket chains. This makes these companies extremely powerful, which lets them use their huge buying power to squeeze small suppliers to get the best deal. Milk is a good example. Supermarkets like to use things like milk, which is the top of almost everyone’s shopping list to attract customers. To offer the lowest price possible to the consumer, the supermarkets force dairy farmers to sell milk at less than the cost of production. Supermarkets guarantee their good profits while farmers are left struggling to make ends meet, and the taxpayer pays to support the system without even knowing it.

     It would be nice if local grocers supported local agriculture. But for the big supermarkets this just doesn’t make sense. Supermarkets don’t want little farmers thinking they can decide prices. So supermarkets have started a global search for the cheapest possible agricultural produce. In many supermarkets it is difficult to find anything which is produced locally.

     UK farmers used to grow a lot of apples. Not anymore. In 1999 36% of apples were imported. By 2015 the figure had risen to 80% and the domestic production of apples had fallen by two thirds. The consumer might just be happy to get a reasonably priced meal made up of foods from Thailand, Spain, Italy and Zambia, but we should also bear in mind the Influence on local producers.

Then there’s packaging. Supermarkets like everything to be packed and wrapped so it can be piled neatly on shelves. Supermarkets produce nearly 10 million tons of waste packaging in the UK every year, of which less 5%is recycled. Some supermarkets make sure that large recycling bins are obvious in their car parks, showing that they are environment-friendly. But that is just an image.

    When a new supermarket is planned there are claims about the number of new jobs that will be created. Unfortunately, the number of jobs lost in the area is larger than the number of new positions in the supermarket. On average each new supermarket leads to the loss of 276 jobs.

    However, the modern world is all about shopping, and the freedom to buy whatever you what, so it would be impossible to stop people shopping at some particular kind of shop. But some measures do need to be taken when small suppliers lose profits, local producers suffer, sea levels rise and jobs are lost, anyway, we can’t just care about a free car park and special offers.

13. The author mentions “milk” in paragraph 2 to explain how supermarkets ____________.

A. harm small suppliers ‘benefits      B. support local dairy farmer

C.cheat the taxpayers                D .provide customers with the cheapest product

14. According to the passage, supermarkets keep price advantage by_______________.

A. competing against each other      B. reducing product tax

C. purchasing local products         D. importing foreign products

15. What is the author’s attitude towards supermarkets?

A.  Doubtful      B. Sympathetic      C. Critical .       D. Cautious

 Dad promised Tom to buy him a nice gift for his birthday, ______ beyond his imagination.

A. which               B. the one         C. that                D. one

-----Can I speak to Mr．Wang?

-----Sorry, he' s out．Can I _____ a message?

A．leave               B．take               C．ask for                  D．want

 He is rather difficult to make friends with, but the friendship of his, _____, is truer

    than that of anybody else’s.

A. while gained    B. when to gain     C. after gaining   D. once gained

I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.

While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, "Mr. Castle, how are you?" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, "It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn’t remember me at all. He just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irving" down on my name plate. If he’d have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?" I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.

The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn’t accept tips. Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, "I’m sorry, I can’t." They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot." When you say, "I’m sorry, I can’t." they feel a little put down. They say, "No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can’t."

It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.

I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.

4. What can be the best title for this text?

A. The Art of Taking Tips

B. Why I Gave up My Job

C. How Hard Life Is for Box Boys

D. Getting along with Customers

5. From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.

A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job

B. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett

C. with a name plate, people can easily start talking

D. Irving was the writer’s real name

6. The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.

A. customers only gave small tips

B. he didn’t want to fight with the customers

C. the store didn’t allow the box boys to take tips

D. some customers had strange ideas about tipping

7. The underlined phrase "put down" in the third paragraph probably means ________.

A. misunderstood    B. defeated

C. hateful          D. hurt

Every day we go to school and listen to teachers, and the teacher will ask us some questions. Sometimes, the classmates will ask your opinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the class what you have found out about these topics, remember that they must be able to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family conversation or having a chat with friends --- you are in a situation where a large group of people will remain silent, waiting to hear what you have to say. You must speak so that they can hear you loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying to shout or appearing to force yourself.

    Remember, too, that it is the same if you are called to an interview whether it is with a professor of your school or a government official who might meet you. The person you are seeing will try to put you at your ease in ordinary conversation but the situation is somewhat different from that of an ordinary conversation. You must take special care that you can be heard.

5．When you speak to the class, you should speak __________.

A. as loudly as possible    B. in a low voice       C. loudly       D. forcefully

6．The situation in the class is _________ that in your house.

A. not very different from                      B. sometimes the same as

C. sometimes not the same as                    D. not the same as

7．If you are having a conversation with an official, the most important thing for you is _____________.

A. to show your ability                         B. to be very gentle

C. to make sure that you can be heard               D. to put the official at ease

8．The main idea of this passage is __________.

A. that we must use different ways at different situations

B. that we must speak loudly

C. that we must keep silent at any time

D. that we must talk with the class

We won’t start the work until all the preparations _____.

A are being made                                  B will be made

C have been made                                D had been made

  高中生考入大学后，是否要立即为其配备笔记本电脑呢？对此，有人赞同，有人反对。请你根据下列表格的内容写一篇英语短文，并发表你的看法。

注意：1. 对所给要点逐一陈述并适当发挥，不要简单翻译。

3.       词数100左右，开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

Is it necessary for freshmen to have a laptop when they go to university? Different people have different ideas.

When my brother and I were young, my mom would take us on Transportation Days.

It goes like this: You can’t take any means of transportation more than once. We would start from home, walking two blocks to the rail station. We’d take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching to the tram, then maybe a taxi. We always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but we didn’t like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. At the end of the day, we took the subway to our closest station, where Mom’s friend was waiting to give us a ride home—our first car ride of the day.

The good thing about Transportation Days is not only that Mom taught us how to get around. She was born to be multimodal (多方式的). She understood that depending on cars only was a failure of imagination and, above all, a failure of confidence—the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels.

Once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform, nothing is frightening anymore. New cities are just light-rail lines to be explored. And your personal car, if you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolbox—and often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and your wallet.

On Transportation Days, we might stop for lunch on Chestnut Street or buy a new book or toy, but the transportation was the point. First, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train window. As I got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed my first attempts to do it myself: How do I know where to get off? How do I know how much it costs? How do I know when I need tickets, and where to get them? What track, what line, which direction, where’s the stop, and will I get wet when we go under the river?

I’m writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didn’t try on our Transportation Days and, we now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. My flight routed me through Philadelphia. My multimodal mom met me for dinner in the airport. She took a train to meet me.

– Where are my new sneakers? Have you seen them?

-- How __________ I know? I’m your sister, not your servant.

A. shall       B. should       C. will       D. might

       — You couldn’t have chosen any gift better for me．

       —        

       A．Oh, it can’t be helped．                              B．That’s all right．

       C．I’m glad you like it so much．                            D．It’s nothing, isn’t it?

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.

An interview with Benno Nigg, the sports scientist

76.

Nigg’s Answer: That is a little bit overstated. But the literature shows that shoes are a minor player in injury development. If you take a group of people and want to injure them, send them out every day for a 20-kilometre run. A lot of them will be injured in three weeks. The major factors are the distance run, the intensity and recovery time, not the shoes.

77.

Nigg’s Answer: The problem is that if you go to a store and want to find your best shoes, you don’t know what to do. Things that are sometimes done, like video analysis of your rear foot movement, may not help. The only way to assess whether a shoe is right for you is how it feels. If you feel comfortable in a shoe, it’s likely to be good for you.

78.

Nigg’s Answer: A shoe may act as a training device, making some muscles to function more effectively for a majority of users. Or it may use materials that last longer. That may have something to do with its price. However, for the average runner it is difficult to distinguish between actual functional designs and unnecessary features. Generally, the more a shoe controls movement, the more it acts like a cast, which means you lose some muscle strength, and your feet are more likely to be injured.

79.

Nigg’s Answer: Yes, for about 80 per cent of people. The major benefits are training the small muscles crossing the ankle joint, and a reduction of knee and lower back pain. However, some claims for these unstable shoes are overstated, such as the general muscle strengthening that they are claimed to produce.

80.

Nigg’s Answer: There are claims that there are fewer injuries when you run barefoot, but there is not yet enough evidence, or enough research, to prove that. If you look at performance, most papers suggest an advantage of 3 to 4 per cent. With a few exceptions, people don’t run barefoot, so it may be that it’s not an advantage, or it may be that we’re just not used to it.