—What do you think we can do for our aged parents?

—You __ ___   do anything except to be with them and be yourself.

A. don’t have to          B. oughtn’t to    C. mustn’t         D. can’t

There are many different taboos (禁忌) around the world. A taboo is a social action that is not ___41___ (allow). Almost every culture in the world has ___42___ (it) own taboos. When you meet people from different cultures, it is important ___43___ (understand) what you can and cannot do. If we are not aware ___44___ these differences, some unusual ___45___ (thing) might happen. For instance, in China, it ___46___ (be) rude to put the chopsticks into a bowl of rice straightly as it is often done for the dead. If you visit Nepal, you will find Nepalese often greet each other with the hands pressed together instead of shaking hands, ___47___ in North America and the UK, people greet one another by ___48___ (shake) hands. If you will do business with a South American, it seems ___49___ (impolitely) to be dressed in the light colors. What about Japanese? They dislike the lotus and ___50___ not give it as a gift to Japanese because they regard it as the mourning flower (丧花). While these different customs might seem strange to you， remember that what you consider normal probably seems just as unusual to others.

 We are invited to a party ________ in our club next Friday.

  A. to be held     B. held            C. being held       D. holding

    假如你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的美国笔友Chris在给你邮件中提到他最近在准备SAT考试（美国高考），心理压力很大，很苦恼，希望得到你的帮助。请你给他回信，内容包括：

1．安慰对方；

2．分析心理压力过大会导致的后果；

3．给出相应的建议及其理由。

注意：词数不少于100。

Dear Chris,

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                     Yours,

                                                                                     Li Hua

How long do you think it will be ______ another e-commerce giant comes out to exceed Alibaba?

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

On Friday I called my parents, who are in their early 90s now. They were upset as they didn’t___21___what to send us and our adult kids for Christmas presents. Both of them have suffered serious___22___problems recently, and I___23___them not to worry about it because all of us had what we needed and didn’t___24___anything more.

    Not happy with that,they___25___getting us all-something. Although they were in poor health this year, they still thought it was___26___for them to send something to us all. My mother said that she was___27___the other brothers and sisters fruit and delicious food baskets. That gave me a(n)___28___.I asked her to___29___,in that case, giving whatever she would have given us to a local food bank.Or___30___,they donate money she would have___31___on all of us to the food bank. When I checked with my kids, I knew what I suggested was proven exactly.___32___,for all of us would be ___33___to know we had been able to donate to a local food bank.

    She and my father___34___this idea, but had no idea where a food bank would be.___35___my father was still quite able and interested in doing his own computer searches,his___36___to do this has gradually been going down.I looked it up right there and then discovered not one___37___three local food banks, and the center for a state-wide food bank___38___right there in their town. I gave them the___39___and phone number, which they asked for. They seemed to feel a great___40___at this suggested solution and I was very grateful.

21. A. admit            B. abolish      C. know             D. keep

22. A. finance          B. health           C. work             D. affection

23. A. begged           B. ordered      C. warned           D. rejected

24. A. borrow           B. sell         C. refuse               D. need

25. A. gave up          B. insisted on      C. dreamed of           D. applied for

26. A. difficult            B. strange      C. impossible           D. important

27. A. giving           B. owing            C. lending          D. sharing

28. A. belief           B. mind         C. idea             D. opinion

29. A. allow            B. consider    C. practice         D. avoid

30. A. easier           B. worse            C. less             D. stronger

31. A. made         B. paid         C. spent                D. cost

32. A. real         B. controversial   C. unreasonable      D. right

33. A. delighted        B. disappointed   C. generous           D. energetic

34. A. deleted          B. hated            C. liked                D. found

35. A. Unless           B. Although    C. If                   D. When

36. A. chance           B. purpose      C. desire               D. ability

37. A. and          B. so           C. but              D. or

38. A. floated          B. located      C. covered          D. adjusted

39. A. address          B. date         C. appointment      D. sign

40. A. egret            B. curiosity        C. interest         D. relief

作为一名高三学生，你或许经常跟你的父母就看电视问题闹矛盾。你的父母以学业繁重和影响视力等为由阻挠你看电视，而你又认为电视能满足你的兴趣爱好同时繁重的学业下也需要放松，最后你们之间相互妥协达成了一致意见。请你以该话题写一篇字数120左右的短文。

注意：1. 就双方的理由可以进行适当的扩充，协议自己想象。

      2. 开头已写好，不计入字数

    I am a Senior 3 student. I often quarrel with my parents over whether I can watch TV after school.

                                                                                   

                                                                                    

Kobe Bryant probably could have achieved more if he and Shaquille O'Neal never ______.

A. broke down     B. split up

C. took off       D. put off

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在此处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；

   2.只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。

I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant last Sunday and wait for the food I had ordered to arrive. I suddenly found that Lin Ling, one of my classmate, worked like a waitress there. Honest speaking, it was great surprise for me to find her working there. As far as I know, she’s from a richer family. What was it that made her to work there? I walked up to her and asked her the reason. When asking, she said, “I just want to earn some pocket money so that we can help some children in poor areas go back to school.” How a good girl! I should learn from her.

 It is apparent that an equal ________ of the educational resources is what  the public need badly nowadays.

A. contribution    B. distribution   C. location               D. separation

Are you a foreigner in Shanghai, China, wanting to find a job? Here’s some information for you.

Teaching Job in High School

Description:

High school (students aged 14 -18)

12 classes/week

Benefits and Compensation (补助):

Salary: 7,000-8,000 RMB/month

Paid public holidays and winter holidays

Free accommodation with full furniture

Medical insurance

Requirements:

English native speaker

Bachelor’s degree or above

New graduates are welcome

To apply, please send your resume, and one recent photo copy to: eslchina @zone-edu.com.

Coffee & Bar Manager Needed

Description:

A big Coffee & Bar in Ganghui Plaza, Xujiahui, Shanghai, is looking for a manager. The Coffee & Bar has about 300 seats; main service is western food and coffee.

Benefits and Compensation:

Salary: 12,000 RMB/month

Requirements:

Male, about or above 30

Speak fluent Chinese

5 years’ experience in restaurant management

If you’re qualified and interested, please send me your resume with picture: swd3rfv@ gmail.com.

Office Receptionist & Sales Assistant

Description:

We are a well-known tourism company in Shanghai, and started our business at the beginning of 2000.

Responsibility:

Assist the sales manager and sales representatives

Welcome the visitors

Requirements:

Female, 20 to 30 years old

Sales experience will be an advantage, but not a must

If you’re interested, please send me your resume with picture (we won’t accept without it): david @ jobsitechina.com.

21. What can we learn about the Coffee & Bar in Ganghui Plaza?

A. The applicants can get medical insurance once accepted.

B. The position it advertised won’t accept females.

C. It mainly serves Chinese food to westerners.

D. It started business at the beginning of 2000.

22. What is a must for a person in applying for the “Office Receptionist & Sales Assistant”?

A. Sending the resume with picture.                  B. Speaking fluent Chinese.

C. Having Sales experience.                         D. To be above 30 years old.

23. Which of the following positions will provide free accommodation?

A. Coffee & Bar Manager.                            B. Sales Assistant.

C. Office Receptionist.                               D. High School Teacher.

    The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish from each other a

lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems    4 1    .

    The origin of the eastern culture is mainly from two countries: China and

India. Both of the two cultures are gestated（孕育）by    42  .In China, the

mother river is the Yellow River,    43    the Indian one is the Hindu River.

These two cultures were    44    for several thousand years and formed their own

styles. Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture    45    went overseas

to Japan,    4 6    into the Japanese society and    47    the Japanese culture

nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it    48    to the same

system.

    When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another

famous culture was  49  on the Mesopotamian Plain（米索不达米亚平原）  the

Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures

of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the

  50    of the European culture.    51    the Chinese culture, the European one

also    52    waters. When the colonists of England    53    in America, their

culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't

    54    from the European one a lot.

    At the same time, the    55    of the language systems adds to the cultural

differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic（象形文字的）

languages while the Western languages are    56    based on the Latin system, for

example, the one I'm using to write this paper.

    Other factors like human race difference    57    as well. However,    58

the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures

seldom    59    until recent centuries.    60    they grew up totally in their own

ways with almost no interference from the other.

41. A. above all    B. on the whole    C. in all    D. in no case

42. A. mountains    B. plains    C. lakes    D. rivers

43. A. or    B. for    C. while    D. when

44. A. developed    B. improved    C. created    D. protected

45. A. suddenly    B. quietly    C. gradually    D. naturally

46. A. mixed    B. changed    C. made    D. forced

47. A. expanded    B. interrupted    C. ended    D. shaped

48. A. comes    B. belongs    C. brings    D. adds

49. A. brought up    B. carried out    C. given out    D. picked up

50. A. result    B. sign    C. base    D. content

51. A. Through    B. Except    C. With    D. Like

52. A. affected    B. spread    C. crossed    D. formed

53. A. joined up    B. settled down    C. broke down    D. went up

54. A. come    B. suffer    C. result    D. differ

55. A. distinction    B. contact    C. appearance    D. feature

56. A. properly    B. hardly    C. simply    D. mostly

57. A. last    B. count    C. reduce    D. change

58. A. in terms of    B. due to    C. as to    D. in case of

59. A. transform    B. display    C. communicate    D. distinguish

60. A. Therefore    B. Meanwhile    C. Furthermore    D. However

IT’S always exciting to think about the future and what kind of technology might exist in years to come. But what if that future is closer than you think?
The name Magic Leap is starting to spread across the Internet, and for a good reason. The Magic Leap technology company in the US has been working on something new and exciting, keeping it so secret that even the people working on the project have been hidden from the media. But recently they have started to release more information, and it seems like the future of computing is about to change dramatically.
Magic Leap’s preview shows the possibility of a classroom where you can interact with a miniature 3-D man and watch animals floating in front of your eyes. You could come face to face with fierce creatures like tigers and sharks, and more might be possible very soon.
The company hopes to create new technology that mixes reality and virtual reality computing. This means that the way we interact with computers could change completely, and so could the gaming industry.
Imagine a game in which you can not only look after a dragon on a screen, but also see it walking around your home, feed it and play with it. This is a world where movies will make you jump as things come, flying at you. Rio Caraeff, the company’s chief content officer, said that instead of staring at a phone screen, “the world becomes your screen”.
All of this could be the next step for Magic Leap, and their newly-released video suggests so. The video shows a small elephant floating in the hands of its user, a virtual reality pet that the user can interact with. Exciting to think about, no?
It seems that the excitement has inspired other companies who are lining up to join in on this new project. The technology, called Cinematic Reality, is attracting the attention of large companies like Google, who are already investing large sums of money in the project hoping to see it become a reality.

12．Which of the following is TRUE about the Magic Leap technology company?
A. The company keeps updating the media on its progress.
B. The company has just discovered a way to mix reality and virtual reality

computing.
C. The company is working on new technology that could improve the future of

computing.
D. The company’s newly released video is about the interaction between a dragon

pet and its user.

13. What could a classroom in the future look like, according to Magic Leap?
A. A miniature 3D man could take the place of teachers.
B. Students could interact with ​virtual reality animals.
C. Students could be encouraged to raise a virtual reality pet on campus.
D. The gaming industry could be invited to help students improve their studies.

14. How could Magic Leap’s technology change the world according to the article?
A. It could discourage people from playing a lot of computer games.
B. It could turn the whole world into an interactive screen for its users.
C. It could help people improve their ability to interact with others.
D. It could make it hard for people to distinguish between virtual reality and reality.

15. What is Google’s attitude toward the technology named “Cinematic Reality”?
A. Optimistic.                              B. Negative.
C. Worried.                                        D. Unconcerned.

       In New York, high school smoking hit a new low in the latest surveys--13.8%, far _____ the national average.

       A. over                                                     B. beyond

       C. below                                                  D. on

假如你是新世纪高中将要毕业的高三学生李华,想去香港大学(Hong Kong University)学习,因此你打算给该校写一封电子邮件,就—些相关事宜进行咨询。

1.你对环境科学(Environmental Science)很感兴趣,如何才能够被该学校的相关专业录取;

2.是否需要参加英语考试;

3.该校的奖学金、学费、食宿安排和生活费用等情况。

注意:1.邮件必须包含以上所有内容,可适当增加细节;

2.词数100左右;

3.开头和结尾已经给出,不记入总词数。

参考词汇:食宿:accommodation　奖学金scholarship

Dear Sir,

My name is Li Hua. I am a student from XinShiji Senior High School.                   

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

—Dad, I want to buy an iPad 2

—_________You failed the examinations again.

A.Go ahead!              B.Why not?                  C.Forget it!            D.No problem.