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Here are some best sellers of 2018 at Amazon.

The Car

Fourteen­year­old Terry's parents never pay him much attention. So, when they both disappear after one of their all­too­frequent arguments, Terry isn't exactly eager for them to come home. On his own, he fixes an abandoned car. Though he doesn't know much about driving, he gets behind the wheel and heads west, with the intention of visiting an uncle in Oregon. It's an exciting and sometimes dangerous journey. Along the way, he learns a lot about people, about America—and most importantly, about himself.

Boy Robot

Seventeen­year­old Isaak discovers the truth about his origin:a government­made human. But a deadly military force is trying to kill him. He and the other robots can only find protection from the Underground—a secret network of robots and humans working together to ensure a coexistent future. Isaak must decide whether to hold on to his humanity and face possible death or to embrace his true nature in order to survive.

The Running Dream

Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident.

As she struggles to cope with her prosthesis(假肢) and many other difficulties, Jessica develops a close relationship with Rosa, a girl who has a cancer and sees right into Jessica's heart. With the support of family, friends, coach, and her teammates, Jessica is able to run again. But that's not enough for her now. She doesn't just want to cross finish lines herself—she wants to take Rosa with her.

Have a New Teenager by Friday

Do you know this person?

His bedroom looks like a garbage dump.

She changes clothes three times before breakfast.

It seems that he/she never agrees with you.

Congratulations! You have a teenager in your home. But you needn't feel helpless. In fact, you're just five days away from your teenager asking, "What can I do to help?" Internationally recognized family expert Dr. Kevin Leman will help you get real results—really fast.

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1. （1） Which book is a science fiction?

   A . The Car. B . The Running Dream. C . Have a New Teenager by Friday. D . Boy Robot.
3. （2） Which of the following isn't conveyed in The Running Dream?

   A . Friendship. B . Modesty. C . Bravery. D . Determination.
5. （3） Who is the book Have a New Teenager by Friday intended for?

   A . Experts. B . Teenagers. C . Parents. D . Teachers.

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Constantin Levaditi was born in Galati Romania in 1874. His family was poor and his father was a Greek immigrant who worked in the Galati port and his mother was Romanian. When he was only six years old, he had to start working in a shop as both of his parents fell ill. His job was to deliver orders from his uncle's shop.

After two years his parents died and he was taken into care by one of his relatives who worked as a nurse in a hospital. His relative noticed that he was very smart and sent him to school. After graduating from high school, he decided to study at the medical school in Bucharest where he studied under Professor Victor Babes.

Levaditi became a doctor in 1902 and then he specialized in researching tuberculosis (结核病)in Paris at the Louis Pasteur Institute and to Frankfurt , at the Experimental Therapy Institute. He also managed to contribute to the invention of the anti-polio vaccine (消除小儿麻痹症的疫苗) in 1913.

Levaditi returned to Romania in1919 as a researcher to teach at university but Romanian universities did not accept him as he criticized Romania's national health system and its political parties. He often said that it was not acceptable that the government did not care for its people and that there were not enough doctors and hospitals. Thus, he returned to France to continue his research in 1920. That same year he was invited to lead the Rockefeller Institute in New York but he refused.

In 1926, Levaditi became a member of the Romanian Academy. Later on, he was in charge of the bacteriology (细菌学) French school and he devoted his last years to research on antibiotics (抗生素)and other medicines.

special    adj. 特别的，特殊的

specialize   v. 以…为专业

1. （1） What do the first two paragraphs tell us about Levaditi?

   A . He was born into a wealthy family. B . He lost his parents at an early age.   C . He went to school thanks to his teachers. D . He met with Victor Babes at high school.
3. （2） What was one reason why Levadii returned to France in 1920?

   A . His dissatisfaction with the health system in Romania. B . The conflict between universities and political parties. C . The invitation of the Rockefeler Institute. D . The lack of doctors and hospitals in France.
5. （3） Which of the following events about Levaditi happened first?

   A . He became a member of the Romanian Academy. B . He was in charge of the bacteriology French school. C . He did a careful study of tuberculosis in Paris. D . He devoted himself to the invention of anti-poliovaccine.
7. （4） What is the text mainly about?

   A . The influence of Levaditi. B . A brief introduction of Levaditi. C . The development of bacteriology. D . The research on antibiotics.

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I was a shy girl. I didn't even like to answer the telephone for fear I'd have to talk to somebody I didn't know. I enjoyed the loneliness of exploring nature. However, at school I had to spend all day in the company of others. My escape was reading. I spent a lot of time studying and was rewarded with good grades. My only failure was Spanish -I'd get all As on my written work and tests, but Ds and Fs on the spoken part.

Eventually I went to college. During my third year of college, I had enough of being shy and determined to change my outlook and behavior. One day while at school, I noticed an advertisement for positions on the local classical music radio station. I had grown up listening to classical music, and I could easily pronounce names such as Tchaikovsky, Albinoni, and Chopin.

I had absolutely no background in radio, and absolutely no hope of getting the job. The idea of talking to thousands of listeners in "radio land" terrified me. However, I luckily survived the interview. I was given brief descriptions of symphonies (交响乐) and a public service announcement to read, and a list of composers' names to pronounce. It wasn't hard for me. I left the recording session(录音时段) with a sense of relief and a sense of accomplishment. About two weeks later I actually landed the job. It was a challenging job, but I grew to enjoy it greatly. I began to feel comfortable talking to people.

Although I now spend many hours each week talking with people, I'm still basically a quiet person. Perhaps it is my soft voice and my quiet nature that helps draw people out as they respond to my questions as I interview them. My former shyness is a fortune, as I can relate to people who feel uncomfortable when they talk to newspaper reporters. I still enjoy moments of loneliness and the peace found in nature. But I'm also glad I decided to make a change in my life that has opened many doors and opportunities that I never knew existed.

1. （1） What do we learn about the author?

   A . She didn't like reading. B . She didn't work hard enough. C . She wasn't good at speaking Spanish. D . She wasn't interested in music. 
3. （2） How did the author feel before the interview?

   A . Very excited. B . Extremely nervous. C . Highly confused. D . Pretty confident.
5. （3） What does the author later think of her quiet personality?

   A . It makes others feel less comfortable.   B . It draws a negative response from audiences. C . It prevents her being a newspaper reporter. D . It is beneficial for her challenging job.
7. （4） The text mainly focuses on the author's                         .

   A . experience and feeling of overcoming shyness B . feeling about being a radio hostess C . story of exploring the meaning of life D . desire to find her true self

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Yellow is usually the color of happy, joyful emotions (情感). But according to a new study, not all people associate the sunshiny shade with good feelings.

To find out what factors might play a role, researchers tested a new hypothesis (假设): What if people' physical surroundings affect their feelings about certain colors? For example, if someone lived in cold and rainy Finland, would they feel differently about the color yellow from someone who lived near the Sahara Desert?

The researchers looked at color-emotion data from an ongoing international survey (调查) of 6,625 people in 55 countries. The survey asked participants to rate 12 colors on how closely they were associated with feelings including joy, pride, fear, and shame.

The researchers paid particular attention to the data for yellow, and analyzed how different factors — including hours of sunshine, hours of daylight, and the amount of rainfall — lined up with the emotions people reported for the color. The two best predictors of how people felt about yellow were the annual amount of rainfall, and how far they lived from the equator (赤道).

Overall, people were more likely to associate yellow with joy when they lived in rainier countries that lay farther from the equator, researchers reported in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. In Egypt, the likelihood of yellow being associated with joy was just 5. 7%, whereas in cold Finland it was 87. 7%. In the United States, with its mild climate and amber waves of grain, people's yellow-joy association levels were between 60% and 70%.

The researchers also checked whether associations changed with the season — whether, for example, people in a certain country liked yellow more in the winter than they did in the summer. They found that opinions about color remained fairly constant year-round — even when the weather changed, the data on yellow-joy associations were as good as gold.

1. （1） What did the researchers do before the survey?

   A . They went to Finland. B . They studied certain colors. C . They made a hypothesis. D . They analyzed some data.
3. （2） Which of the following affects people's feelings about yellow?

   A . The changeable seasons B . The geographic position.  C . The length of daytime. D . The amount of snowfall.
5. （3） How did the researchers carry out the survey?

   A . By interviewing the participants B . By looking at color combinations. C . By travelling around the world. D . By studying the data collected.
7. （4） What can be the best title of the text?

   A . Yellow: Associated with Joy Conditionally. B . Finland: A Country Admiring Yellow. C . Color: An Important Role in Good Feelings. D . Color-emotion Data: Collected Internationally.

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。

As a student, you must have met all kinds of teachers. Do you love and respect them a lot? Is there a complete understanding between you and them?  But I am lucky enough to have one. She is my English teacher, Miss Li.

Miss Li is very good at teaching English. She can explain the English grammar so clearly that even I, who hate English more than any other subject, can understand it well!  I always think I would do much better if Miss Li taught me physics, which usually has to be well-organized.

I always felt ashamed if I happened to make a mistake or pronounce a word in the wrong way in the other English teachers' classes. But whenever I have made a mistake in her class, she just smiles so friendly and naturally that I am convinced that making mistakes is just part of the learning process. Therefore, I don't feel stupid at all!

Miss Li is very strict and serious.  , I keep coming to the other teachers' classes late, but I'm always on time for her lessons!

Actually, Miss Li is deeply loved by all of my classmates. Any reason? We simply feel and know that she really enjoys teaching us. As soon as she enters our classroom, she just changes then and there. When she thinks we're getting bored, she is always ready to tell us jokes and make us concentrate again. !

How we couldn't miss her

B. We really enjoy her grammar classes

C. Miss Li never makes me feel awkward

D. What a luck to have such a good teacher

E. For many, the answer is usually not positive

F. In her class, I don't dare to make any trouble

G. And her lecture is easy to follow

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Nineteen-year-old Beau Jessup is studying Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She started her own business 1 she was just 15. She is paying her way through college by helping Chinese2find names for their children through her 3Special Name.

In a TED Talk in 2016, Jessup 4 that during a trip to China about two years ago, one of her father's colleagues asked her to 5 an English name for her daughter. Based on the 6 from her father of the young girl's personality, Jessup picked a name that 7 the colleague. This experience 8 her to build the Chinese language website specialname. cn to 9 Chinese parents pick English names for their kids.

Jessup 10 a database of 4,000 names for the website with five characteristics. Each name 11 what that name means. After parents enter the gender (性别)and characteristics of the child, the website will recommend（推荐）three 12 and provide two examples of famous people 13 to each name.

"The parents involve their family and friends in the final14 , making their chosen name both appropriate and special," Jessup explained. Jessup at first provided the service for free, but after naming 162,000 babies, she 15 customers for a fee.

"Most of my customers are parents who 16that their children will study abroad…he English names used by our Chinese friends are 17 names which is used primarily to help them fit in 18 stand out when they study abroad. "

"The first time a parent sent me a photograph of their baby, a beautiful little girl 'Ellen', the mother 19me for giving her an English name and she said that she hoped this name would help her 20 friends in the future."

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Helen Keller couldn't speak, read or write because she couldn't see or hear. She was an exceptionally special girl. (Luck), Anne Sullivan, who was a superb teacher, was brought in to help her. She put an object into Helen's hand and spelt out the word on her other hand. Finally, Helen's knowledge and vocabulary expanded and this changed her thinking process. But was still hard for Helen to learn (concept) like "love" and "think". Helen was (disappoint). However, one day, Helen made breakthrough. She was making necklaces she noticed that she had made some mistakes. She was uncertain how (fix) them. When she did this, Anne touched Helen's forehead and (write) the word "think" on her hand. It was first time Helen had understood such an abstract word! With Helen (grasp) the key to language, she discovered more complex words. She now understood the beautiful truth of the word "love".

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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（ ）,并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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。

How do we acquire knowledges and understanding? To start, we need questions. Then, to found answers, we observe the world and study the facts. Finally, we consider possibly answers and test each to find the right ones. Modern scientists and thinkers are solving the world's problems with this type of analysis. Our understanding is constantly grow and changing. They need to thank the great men of the past for their wise. They were understood that we don't know everything. We owe so much of our knowledge and understanding of the world to people like Bacon and Galilei, what were brave enough to step out from the shadows of convention thought in order to find the kingdom of knowledge that today's civilisation is built upon.

假定你是李华，你从某网站上得知河南省博物馆正在招募暑假英语讲解员，请你根据以下提示，给博物馆负责外国游客接待的Mr. Jason写一封英文自荐信（申请信）。内容包括：

1）表达意愿；  2）自荐理由； 3）恳请获准。

注意：1）词数100左右；  2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3）开头及结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：讲解员 interpreter  招募 recruit

Dear Mr. Jason,

……

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua