--- She is moving to Alaska.

--- Really? _________

A. And you? B. How come?

C. How’s it going? D. How about?

He decided to choose a different ________ and teach history through storytelling.

A. analysis B. angle C. attitude D. approach

Max is hardworking, cheerful and ________, honest.

A. above all B. after all C. at all D. all in all

All of us want very much to see these amusing movies, especially _____ you

referred to just now.

A. one B. the one C. it D. any

How pleasant the picture is to _______！

A. be looked B. for looking at C. looking at D. look at

He _________, but he chose to stay and fight.

A. escaped B. did escape

C. might escape D. could have escaped

Some students are _____ netsurfing, which does great harm to their physical and

mental health.

A. contributing to B. related to C. addicted to D. appealing to

---We really enjoy ourselves at the party. Thanks again, Mr. and Mrs. White.

--- _____ . Just drop in whenever you feel like it.

A. With pleasure B. Have a good time

C. Go slowly D. Nice having you here

The new type of TV set is very thin, and it’s _____ than a 100-page book.

A. no thicker B. no thinner C. not thinner D. less

That company wants to reduce prices to increase its market share, and this is

_______ we differ from it.

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

Not until I have got all the information _____ some comments about this

incident.

A. I can make B. can I make C. I have made D. have I made

Has everything ______ can be done already been done?

A. that B. which C. what D. when

They suggested that the library _____ open during the vocation.

A. is kept B. was kept C. be kept D. would be kept

_______ environmental damage is done, it takes many years for the ecosystem

to recover.

A. Even if B. If only C. While D. Once

_______ fire, all exits must be kept clear.

A. In place of B. Instead of C. In case of D. In spite of

“Remember, your father is only one year older than you.” That was Mom’s usual 16 when Dad said the wrong thing or did something foolish.

Dad 17 drinking exactly one year before I was born. He 18 a group of other people who had also stopped drinking. I loved my dad but I 19 the way his weekly meetings took him away from me. It seemed like they were more 20 to him than I was. But with my 21 coming up I thought Dad would make an exception. “Can’t you 22 it just this one time? Saturday is my birthday!” I begged him. He 23 , “I’m chairing the meeting on Saturday. We’ll have your party on Sunday.”

Saturday evening I sat on my bed, feeling 24 for myself. Dad started to leave, then 25 and said, “Why not come with me tonight? It’s an open meeting. All are 26 .” What would I do at a meeting? But maybe I needed to see 27 something Dad did every week mattered so much.

After we arrived, Dad announced the 28 of the meeting was going to be gratitude（感恩）. “Today I’m 29 seventeen years of stopping drinking,” he continued. “One year after quitting drinking I received the most 30 gift of my life, my daughter. I’m so grateful that she has 31 seen me drunk.” Shame washed over me.

Later, a man called Dave also told us his 32 . Only then did I know it was Dad that saved his life 33 drinking. Dad showed the purpose he was at the meeting that day. Showing up week after week and 34 with people, Dad was changing lives. I was so 35 of him.

I love Dad, not because what he said but what he did. No matter what he did before my birth, he is my hero forever in my heart.

16. A. business              B. order                                           C. excuse                             D. idea

17. A. quitted                            B. enjoyed                             C. considered               D. practiced

18. A. influenced              B. joined                             C. respected                             D. mentioned

19. A. forgot                             B. avoided                             C. hated                                          D. regretted

20. A. funny                            B. important                             C. successful                             D. helpful

21. A. exam                             B. chance                             C. birthday                             D. graduation

22. A. miss                             B. replace                             C. change                             D. finish

23. A. declared               B. promised                             C. continued                             D. refused

24. A. good                             B. prepared                             C. sorry                                           D. guilty

25. A. paused                             B. parked                                          C. doubted                             D. wondered

26. A. ready                             B. welcome                             C. kind                                           D. familiar

27. A. which                             B. when                                           C. what                                           D. why

28. A. theme                             B. decision                             C. origin                                           D. secret

29. A. facing                            B. performing               C. celebrating               D. suffering

30. A. precious               B. expensive                            C. generous                             D. attractive

31. A. never                             B. ever                                           C. nearly                             D. seldom

32. A. joke                             B. puzzle                             C. response                            D. story

33. A. in                                          B. of                                           C. against                             D. from

34. A. working               B. meeting                             C. staying                             D. moving

35. A. tired                             B. proud                                           C. fond                                           D. ashamed

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36. If you are interested in Italian food and want to try to cook a dish, then you

can search the product code .

A. 3731 B. 5292 C. 5034 D. 3523

37. If you want to experience people’s real life in Rome by double decker bus

with your parents, you have to pay .

A. USD＄192.3 B. USD＄77.73 C. USD＄370.11 D. USD＄247.95

38. You can best visit when you only have less than 4 hours’ free time.

A. Ancient Rome and Colosseum Half-day Walking Tour

B. Independent Castel Romano Outlets Shopping Trip

C. Rome Walking Tour and Cooking Class

D. Rome Hop-on and Hop-off Double Decker Bus Tour

39. Which of the following statements about the Independent Castel Romano

Outlets Shopping Trip is true?

A. It’s perfect choice for first-time visitors.

B. Visitors can get things of top brand by paying less money.

C. Visitors are left with the afternoon free to explore Rome at their leisure.

D. Visitors can have a free meal prepared by an expert Italian chef in the

restaurant.

40. In which part of a newspaper would the passage be most likely to occur?

A. Health. B. Opinion. C. Technology. D. Advertisement.

If you’ve become a household name as a celebrity chef on TV and you sell over two and a half million cookbooks a year worldwide and you’ve just turned 30, what do you do for the main course of your life? Well, if you’re the British chef, Jamie Oliver, you campaign to change the eating habits of school children, not just in Britain but here in the United States. And you also open a restaurant.

You might think there’s nothing unusual about that, but there was. Just over three years ago, Oliver put up more than two million dollars to finance a restaurant from which he will never make a profit. He runs a charity and staffs it with disadvantaged young people that he essentially takes off the streets.

Today, Jamie Oliver’s restaurant is one of the best in London. Jamie Oliver’s plan to turn 15 unemployed and often homeless young Londoners into chefs and to open a restaurant called Fifteen in their honor, was captured in a documentary film that had all the ingredients of a soap opera. Oliver has also confounded（反驳）other critics, who called his idea of training disadvantaged young people to become chefs just a flash in the pan. But it wasn’t. Every year he takes on another 15 new trainees. This is his third group.

Every fall, Oliver takes his trainees to Tuscany，a place in the mid-west Italy, for a tour of the vineyards and olive groves. But Oliver says that trip is not just about eating and drinking. For many of the trainees it’s a turning point in their lives. Oliver says “With Giovanni, in his particular vineyard, and his generosity and they see how he makes his wine and then they drink his wine, and they finally realize that every damn thing in his life is consistent. And actually, if you start acting

consistently, in a good way, from today, it’s only a matter of time before you too can be an expert and a master. ”

41.We learn that Jamie Oliver is the following except______.

A. a successful chef B. a cookbook writer

C. a restaurant owner D. a cook for school children

42. “Disadvantaged young people” in the second paragraph most probably

means _____.

A. young people who have some social problems

B. young people who are disabled

C. young people who have mental problems

D. young people who are unemployed

43. Oliver runs a restaurant and _______.

A. earns more than two million dollars B. hires unemployed young people

C. fires homeless young people D. names it Fifteen

44. Oliver takes his trainees for a tour in order to _____.

A. taste good food and good wine B. see Giovanni, a vineyard owner

C. learn to make wine D. learn how to live and work

45. Which may be the best title?

A. A Restaurant run by Oliver

B. Fifteen is on its way

C. Jamie Oliver: master skill, benevolent（仁慈的）mind

D. Jamie Oliver: a celebrity chef

It’s been said that life turns on small things. Sometimes it’s hard to see how small choices can change your life. But when put together over time, the little things can make the biggest difference.

The theme of Success for Teens is “Little Things Matter”. The book helps teens identify small, positive choices they can make in their lives to help them reach their goals. Lots of teens don’t realize how the little choices in their lives can have lasting effects. Often they focus on the bigger events, such as a major exam, a big game or competition, or choosing a college. The little things, however,can go unnoticed unless your teen understands how important they can be. The little things that lead to success are mostly easy to do. Help your teen identify a few areas in everyday life where he or she can make small, positive choices. It might be as simple as getting up on time, prioritizing(按重要性排列) their schoolwork, putting in an extra 10 minutes of practice or using some spare time to help someone else.

Nineteen-year-old Kyle Freas used to be on his school baseball team and would play every day after school. When the season was over, he had an empty three hours a day, so he started spending one third of such extra time daily looking for ways to help other kids. Over the past few years, his project has raised thousands of dollars to help abused, homeless and sick children. Kyle spent just a little time each day doing something that ended up benefiting a lot of kids. The important thing to understand is that Kyle made the small and positive decisions necessary for success.

Make sure your child understands that even though the results of the positive choices may not be seen right away, they are building on each other and taking him or her on a path that will lead to success.

46. What does the underlined part “turns on” in the first paragraph mean?

A. takes away B. depends on C. sets aside D. puts out

47. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that ________.

A. dealing with big events is the most important in one’s life

B. little choices seldom have lasting effects on one’s life

C. teens should try to focus their attention on big choices

D. many teens fail to realize the importance of little choices

48. Which of the following words can be used to describe Kyle Freas?

A. Kind-hearted. B. Creative. C. Naughty. D. Self-confident.

49. The writer mainly discussed the relationship between _________.

A. little choices and big choices B. teens’ goals and their actions

C. positive and negative decisions D. small positive choices and success

50. The text is most probably written for _____ .

A. teenagers B. parents C. pupils D. teachers

It’s 8:35 a.m. and you’re already late for work. You hurry up and get ready, leaving most of your morning routine undone. In your rush to get out of the door, you leave your laptop parked on the kitchen table. It is only when your boss requests the latest report that you even realize your mistake. Not to worry, one computer is as good as another. Like the clouds in the sky, your work is with you everywhere you go. Just press your boss’s computer keyboard buttons, and the report will appear on the monitor. Welcome to the convenience of cloud computing.

Generally speaking, cloud computing refers to computer services that are delivered entirely over the Internet. The goal of cloud computing is to provide all computer services over the Internet. Software is a service, not a physical product, and the computer is little more than an access point（入口）， so any computer will do the job. Cloud computing is not an entirely new idea. Early computers were big and expensive, so it wasn’t practical to spread out full systems to every user.

Modern computers are smaller and cheaper, and even the lowest-priced laptops are much more powerful than old mainframe（主机） computers. So with computing power so readily available, why the shift toward cloud computing? Cloud computing supporters point to the convenience factor. Users don’t need to fix or manage software. And data and applications are available on any

computer connected to the Internet. Critics of cloud computing argue that it is a bad idea to lose total control of information. They argue that if companies like Google were to suddenly disappear, users could lose all of their valuable data.

These days, however, people seem comfortable with experts handling important matters. They keep money in banks, after all. Is data on the Internet so different?

Still, if you do “work in the clouds”, you might want to keep a backup copy（备份）， just in case.

51. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Cloud computing is a completely new idea.

B. Cloud computing needs big and expensive computers.

C. Cloud computing is aimed at providing all computer services over the Internet.

D. Users of cloud computing need to fix or manage software when connecting to

the Internet.

52. In the time of cloud computing, we can .

A. leave our laptops on the kitchen table

B. use our boss’s computer

C. control the available information and data

D. do our jobs anywhere with any computer connected to the Internet

53. The passage mainly tells us .

A. You don’t need to take your laptop to work

B. different opinions on cloud computing

C. cloud computing is convenient

D. cloud computing is unsafe

54. The underlined word “shift” in the third paragraph probably means _______.

A. share B. shape C. change D. charge

55. We can infer that _______.

A. the writer is for the idea of cloud computing

B. the writer is against the idea of cloud computing

C. the writer feels Google is not a safe company

D. the writer don’t want to go to work with a laptop

Have you ever wondered why you sometimes take an almost immediately liking to a person you have just met? We often get the first impression of a person based on the color1 of a person’s skin or the manner in which he or she is dressed.

Meaning is conveyed not only by words or verbal languages but also by nonverbal communication systems, such as body behaviors.

Nonverbal communication is important because we use the action of others to learn about their affective emotional states. Our emotions are reflected in our posture, face, and eyes — fear, joy, anger or sadness — so we can express them without ever saying a word . For this reason, most of us rely heavily on what we learn through our eyes.

Nonverbal communication is significant in human interaction because it is usually responsible for the first impressions. More importantly, those first messages usually influence the perception of everything else that follows. Even how we select friends and sexual partners is grounded in first impressions with nonverbal communication.

Nonverbal communication is important because it is culture–related. It is based on different beliefs, religions, values and customs in different cultures. When, where, how, and to whom people display his or her specific nonverbal behaviors is greatly affected by culture and context. Culture determines what the appropriate nonverbal behavior is. For example, feelings of friendship exist

everywhere but their expression varies. It may be appropriate in some countries for man to hug each other and for women to hold hands; in other countries these displays of affection may be shocking. Each culture has its own specific interpretation on nonverbal communication. What is acceptable in one culture may be completely unacceptable in another. One culture may determine that snapping fingers to call a waiter is acceptable; another may consider this gesture rude.

56. What is the best title of the passage ? (No more than 10 words)

____________________________________________________________________.

57. Why can we know a person’s feeling through his or her eyes ? (No more than

15 words)

____________________________________________________________________.

58. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “conveyed” in paragraph 1?

(No more than 5 words)

____________________________________________________________________.

59. Do we need to pay attention to nonverbal communication? Why ? (at least two

reasons)(No more than 25 words)

____________________________________________________________________.

60. What can we conclude from the last paragraph? (No more than 15 words)

____________________________________________________________________ .

假如你是学生会主席李华。你们学校学生会将组织学生志愿者参加于5 月1 日在滨江

道为市民做的防治雾霾知识的宣传活动。请你代表学生会写一份书面通知，招募志愿者参

加此项活动。通知内容包括以下要点：

1．活动的时间、地点、内容；

2．参加此项活动的重要意义；

3．志愿者的条件：高中一、二年级学生，有责任心，有积极性;

4．报名办法：到各班班长处签名，有问题联系李华。

注意：词数不少于 100；可适当加入细节，使行文连贯；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：宣传 campaign 雾霾 haze

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An important activity is around the corner.

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