2018年上海高考英语届崇明区高考英语二模(完整版)

2018崇明二模欧阳学文崇明区高考英语质量抽查试卷(考试时间120分钟，满分140分。

请将答案填写在答题纸上) I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a train B. In a theater C. In a meeting room D. In a booking office2. A $2.4 B. $4.8 C. $7.2 D. $9.63. A. A waiters B. A customer C. A secretary D. A saleswoman4. A. The man’s air-conditioner is broken B. The man doesn’t have air-conditioningC. The summer h as been unusually hotD. The music doesn’t bother her5. A. She’s enjoying the music B. The music doesn’t bother herC. She would prefer different musicD. The music will keep her awake6. A. She acted like a stranger today B. She usually talks quietlyC. She didn’t give the lesson todayD. She usually assigns homework7. A. A job opportunity B. A position as general managerC. A travel experienceD. A sales manager’s experiences8. A. She has had her camera broken B. She hasn’t handed in her photoC. She h as been busy taking photosD. She hasn’t ordered a student’s card9. A. He hasn’t prepared well for his lectureB. He wants the woman to postpone the lectureC. He doesn’t know anything about engineeringD. He regularly gives lectures to high school students10. A. It’s more effective if priority is given to listeningB. It’s more effective if reading comes before listeningC. It’s more effective if listening is combined with readingD. It’s less effective if the learner checks the same information Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decidewhich one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. To provide a protective space for giant pandas.B. To stop the loss of giant pandas’ natural habitatsC. To help China to improve its economy on the wholeD. To protect the giant pandas in the proposed territory12. A. About 300 B. Around 1864 C. More than 2,000 D. Less than 156413. A. The park first began to be constructed in January 2017.B. 1.5 billion yuan will be invested in the construction of the parkC. The park will cover a bit more space than Yellowstone National ParkD. The place where the park is to be constructed is a poverty-stricken area.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Smart mirrors than make you look much smarterB. Software apps that allow you to add images to photosC. Virtual mirrors that teach you to use camera functionsD. Special apps that help you see your image after try-on15. A. They can make it easy for customers to make upB. They can help stores avoid damage, loss and theftC. They can teach users how to make smart productsD. The can improve the effect of products on customers16. A. They promote both online and offline businessesB. They have high requirements for mobile devicesC. They enable customers to interact with each otherD. They are quite similar to previous apps like Snapchat Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Their great food and free drinks for lunchB. The numerous benefits of drinking hot liquidsC. The way to get rid of unhealthy drinking habitsD. Their different perspectives on hot and cold drinks18. A. By causing sweat B. By increasing blood flowC. By helping ease painD. By emitting pleasant smells19. A. It slows down blood flow B. It makes one consume moreC. It helps one become slimmerD. It is good for one’s digestion20. A. The man prefers hot drinks only on very cold daysB. The woman may change her habit of drinking cold liquidsC. The woman believes drinking cold water also helps relieve a coldD. The man is trying losing weight by exercising and drinking hot waterII. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For theblanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.China’s Go od Samaritan Law (见义勇为法)Takes Effect China’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people how voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in anger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people (21)_____ (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed(讹诈)later.There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade(22)______people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have beenblackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and 18 people passed by(23)_____offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but (24)_____(accuse) of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when(25)_____(face)with demands for a large sum of money.These cases(26)____(arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years. “If you don’t provide help, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely(27)___(hurt)by the people you help. It is really a difficult choice,” one netizen said on Sina Weibo.(28)______there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed ahead with such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.However, some experts are concerned (29)____there could be some danger from a nationwide Good Samaritan Law. “Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to peoplein critical conditions,” said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Renmin University of China. He hoped the government (30)____introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Bob Dylan Wins a Nobel Prize in LiteratureBob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The productive musician is the first Nobel winner to have followed a career primarily as a singer-songwriter. What’s more, he’s also the first American to have won the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American __31__ the prize.Dylan earned the prize “for having __32__ new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” according to the statement by the Swedish Academy, the committee that annually decides the winter of the Nobel Prize. The academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday. The win comes as something of a(n) __33__. As usual, the Swedish Academy did not announce a shortlist of nominees(被提名者), leaving the betting markets to their best __34__ . And while Dylan has enjoyed favor as an outside shot for the award, the __35__ that the musician would be the one to break the Americans’ long dry period was regarded as unlikely---especially because he made his career mainly on the stage, not the __36__ page.Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but __37__ , both in the U. S. and beyond its borders. The productive singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums. Dylan, who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, “has the status of an idol(偶像),” the Swedish Academy wrote.“His influence on contemporary music is significan t, and he is the object of a steady stream of __38__ literature.”In an interview following the announcement, Danius__39__ the Swedish Academy’s decision: “He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition, and he is a wonderful sampler—a very original sampler,” Danius explained. “For 54 years now he has been at it and reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity.”And for his work, he has been __40__ by critical community. Dylan has won Grammys, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U. S. Now, to the honors Dylan has added a Nobel.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The Companies Doing the Most to Make Their EmployeesHappierFat paychecks, light workloads, and endless vacation days don’t necessarily add to happy employee. In fact, the happiest employees in the U. S. owe their happiness to first-rate employee motivations, sufficient benefits, career advancement programs, and great work-life balance. The companies that have been the most devoted to cultivating and advancing these things in the past year have seen employee happiness __41__ .The jobs site just announced the winners of this year’s “Leap Awards,” which honor the companies that have made the biggest leaps to improve employee happiness year-over-year. CareerBliss evaluated more than 250,000 company reviews and ratings it received from __42__ nationwide to determined the top 50 deserving companies. To __43__ the list, each company had to have at least 50 reviews.“The Leap Awards are important because they highlight __44__ in our workforce,” says CareerBliss’s chief executive, HeidiGolledge. CaareerBliss asked the respondents to evaluate the key factors that __45__ work happiness, including work-life balance, one’s relationship with the boss and co-workers, the work environment, job resources, salary, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, daily tasks, and job __46__ .Each respondent valued each of these things on a 1-to-5 scale, and indicated how important each was to their overall happiness at work. These numbers were __47__ to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each company. These averages were compared to last year’s numbers to find which companies had __48__ the most.“Every employer who receives a Leap Award should __49__ their workplace happiness initiatives,” says Golledge. “Even though we are coming out of a difficult time, it is __50__ to see companies putting their efforts into providing a great environment for their employees. These efforts in workplace happiness will ensure that their employees will be around for years to come, as happiness breeds __51__ .”“We find each year that work-life balance is a key factor in determining employee happiness,” says Golledge. “Employee want to know that they can balance their career with their family and personal life. Often this __52__ over things like salary. Having programs that allow managers to offer employees flexibility can be a key factor in creating a happy work environment. __53__ , we see career advancement programs have a big impact on overall employee happiness. Often employees would rather take a job for a __54__ salary, if the company provides a comprehensive program which will help grow their career. Employees want to learn, develop and sustain a successful career path.”Workplace happiness is the core of CareerBliss’ mission, Miller says. “An individual’s happiness at work will create happiness throughout all areas of their life, and __55__ a company with a happy, motivated workforce will see exceptional results in its products and services.”41. A. soar B. change C. cease D. disappear42. A. netizens B. administrators C. candidates D. employees43. A. make up B. quality for C. count on D. refer to44. A. change B. power C. duty D. variety45. A. lay in B. resulted from C. focused on D. contributed to46. A. analysis B. vacancy C. flexibility D. responsibility47. A. applied B. combined C. compared D. remembered48. A. benefited B. improved C. changed D. produced49. A. approve of B. account for C. take pride in D. get used to50. A. good B. easy C. impossible D. interesting51. A. profit B. honesty C. creativity D. loyalty52. A. turns B. runs C. advantages D. skips53. A. However B. Otherwise C. Besides D. Instead54. A. lower B. fair C. regular D. similar55. A. obviously B. frankly C. fortunately D. similarly Section BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)In the world of higher education in the United States, competition seems more common than schools working together. Every college and university competes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.But one thing almost every school has in common is the difficulty they face in serving low-income students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-income college students are less likely to complete their study programs than other students.It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United Sates and servedifferent populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Alliance or UIA for sharing information related to this problem. Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those students being low-income. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-income graduates.How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a computer program that fellow UIA memberGeorgia State University was using. This computer program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facing difficulties. Hat way the advisors can try to help students before the problems become too serious. Michigan State began using the computer program and it has meant a world of difference. Michigan States has not only received useful information from its parents. It has also shared helpful information of its own.Bridget Burns, the executive director for the UIA, says efforts like this have never been as successful. “There are rankings that measure all kinds of things,” Burns said. “But how well you do for low-income students has not historically been highlighted.”56. What led to the setting up of the UIA?A. The low graduation ratesB. The great need of low-income students.C. The inefficiency of learningD. The severe competition between schools57. The UIA functions in such a way as the member universities ____.A. find out their own graduation ratesB. share and follow each other’s good practiceC. make joint efforts to aid students financiallyD. popularize computer programs among students58. By “it has meant a world of difference” in paragraph 6, the author means Michigan State__________.A. has found the computer program quite different from theirsB. has discovered the computer program is very difficult to useC. has helped students successfully with the computer programD. has involved more academic advisors in the computer program59. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A. Universities Highlighting Their Efforts for Low-IncomesB. Universities Computing for Better Students and TeachersC. Universities Working Together to Help Poor StudentsD. Universities Creating the UIA to Share Information(B)60. The above webpage mainly aims to _________.A. raise funds from readersB. inform readers of quality journalismC. attract more readersD. guarantee readers a secure future61. Which of the following is a difficulty the Guardian is facing?A. It’s losing its editorial independenceB. It’s becoming increasingly reliant on its ownerC. It’s profiting much less from advertisingD. It’s operating ina challenging political climate62. What can be inferred from the webpage?A. Some billionaire owners are the Guardian’s editorsB. The Guardian is independent financially and politicallyC. Shareholders can interfere with the Guardian’s journalismD. Guardian Supporters can put ads on the mobile app for free(C)A new kind of production was underway on the set of the NBC comedy Superstore. Social media stars were crafting 30-second videos to post on their social media channels ahead of the comedy’s second-season return. Each made sure to mention Superstore and its first public show.As networks and studios struggle to reach young audiences in an increasingly fragmented(碎片化的)media marketplace, many have turned to so-called influencers—online stars whose is measured by the size of their Internet followings—as a means of generating awareness. Advertisers are seizing on the strategy in an age of commercial-skipping and ad-blockers. Word of mouth in the digital age means messages travel faster by way of social media. The majority of consumers worldwide trust online recommendations from stars. And when Superstore gave its firstpublic show, it did so to higher ratings than the last show of Season 1.Studio and network executives say they work with influencers to build brand awareness and reputation in a more friendly way through the friend-like connections consumers feel toward the online personalities they follow. At the upper level, influencers typically have thousands of followers on social media and online content platforms and count many millions of people who tune in daily to watch them. Some do something that makes themselves look stupid in their daily routine, sharing videos of their trips to the grocery store or dinner dates. Others have built careers on performances—making comedy videos, reviewing video games, performing magic tricks and teaching cooking lessons, among other pursuits.When in the employ of studios, their efforts can be as simple as publicizing a film or more involved attempts like the marketing push for Superstore. Entertainment companies declined to discuss how much they pay influencers. But several experts said their payranges from a few thousand dollars to several million. Some simply receive gift baskets instead of pay.Over the last year or so, some entertainment companies have begun to cast influencers in their TV and film projects. The strategy is a bit of gamble: It’s a new business model, and questions remain about the effectiveness of using these personalities to improve a show’s ratings—or help open a movie. Just how much influence the influencers have is hard to measure. TV ratings and box-office returns do not reveal what caused a viewer to tune in.What is clear is that these personalities aren’t necessarily getting the work because of their acting skills, but often because of their Internet followings. Yet as social media stars consider whether to take on jobs promoting movies and TV shows, there’s an important consideration for both parties: the credibility of a campaign. “Fans are definitely award when they’re being tempted with promotional posts,” said Z ach King, a social mediastar who performs magic tricks. “It has to be something that is natural and fits with the image of the creator.”63. Why did social media stars post short videos on their channels before Superstore’s second season?A. To attract mo re influencersB. To draw audience’s attentionC. To put on better performancesD. To increase the channels’ popularity64. Advertisers like the influencer marketing strategy because ________.A. audiences believe in whatever online stars recommendB. influencers are quite award of the impact of the digital ageC. ordinary advertisements are often ignored by young peopleD. social media platforms are the cheapest place to spread messages65. What is implied in the passage?A. The influencer marketing strategy help build connections between executivesB. Most influencers get paid from gift baskets instead of from their companiesC. Most influencers take on marketing jobs regardless of their reliabilityD. The influencer marketing strategy may not really work well66. The passage mainly wants to tell us that __________.A. most young people like following influencersB. studios are relying more on social media starsC. influencers are gradually replacing movie starsD. social media are filming videos for SuperstoreSection CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.Feel Young at Heart and You’ll Enjoy a Longer LifeAge-liars and birthday-deniers, you’d best learn a thing or two from those who are young at heart. People who feel younger than their actual age may live longer than those who feel older than they truly are, a new study says.____________67____________ Results from the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,suggest that people who feel a year or more older than they truly are could have around 41 percent greater risk for death. Researchers looked at nearly 6,500 older adults, with an average age of 65.8 for they study. Around 70 percent of them felt younger than they were, about a quarter felt their precise age and just under 5 perce nt felt a year or more older they were, when asked “How old do you feel you are?”Those who felt older than they were had a higher death rate after a follow-up period of 99 months. While just 14.3 and 18.5 percent of people who felt younger or felt their age, respectively, died during those 99 months, 24.6 percent of those who felt aged beyond their years had died.The authors say more research is needed on the topic, but suggest it could be that those who feel “young at heart” have healthier behaviors and a stronger will to live. “____________68____________Individuals who feel older could be targeted with health message promoting positive healthbehaviors and attitudes toward aging,” the authors write in the study.The good news is that you can change your feeling of how young you are. ____________69____________One recent study found that helping participants have positive feelings toward age, by showing them positive word associations, helped older adults improve in physical tasks like balancing and getting up out of a chair, in as little as four weeks. Another study found that negative feeling of aging and poor memory can make older adults feel up to five years older, regardless of their actual mental abilities.There you have it. ____________70__________ .IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter?Should teachers allow cellphones in a classroom? A recent study on the way smartphones disturb learning might help explain the issue. Researchers published findings showing how students were affected by their phones in the classroom. They explored the differences in student performance in four situations: open phone use allowed, phones allowed in the classroom but could not be used, no phones in the classroom and a no-instruction control group. After watching a 20-minuted video, students took a short quiz. The result was that the students in a room without any cellphones performed significantly better on the test. Scientists believe the way we attach ourselves to our phones could be the problem.Smartphones have become to strongly established in society that many people are lost without them. We are now in an age when many people can’t imagine life without a phone. There is even a name for the anxiety caused by not having one-monophobia, which is the powerful feeling people get when they don’t have signal, their battery is about to die, or they are separated from theirphones. Their fear of missing out on important information or connections can have a controlling effect on their lives and can divide their attention from other important things like learning.So does information technology help or block the way we think? In the past, people relied heavily on specific knowledge and knew how in their circle of friends would be most likely to know things in different subjects. Now, our friend with all the information is the Internet. Indications are t hat people don’t remember information as well if they know they can use a computer of phone to recall it quickly. So it may be more difficult to move information from the Internet into our long-term memory.But the impact of being exposed to so much inform ation isn’t all bad. Reports show that frequent Internet use can strengthen fast-paced problem solving and can speed up the ability to spot patterns in a lot of data.V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.何不利用这宜人的天气出去野餐呢?(advantage)73.当你对情况一知半解时，不要随意发表见解。

崇明区2018届第二次高考模拟考试试卷英语（考试时间120分钟，满分140分。

请将答案填写在答题纸上）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a train. B. In a theater. C. In a meeting room. D. In a booking office.2. A. $2.4. B. $4.8. C. $7.2. D. $9.6.3. A. A waitress. B. A customer. C. A secretary. D. A saleswoman.4. A. The man’s air-conditioner is broken. B. The man doesn’t haveair-conditioning.C. The summer has been unusually hot.D. The man hasn’t been using hisair-conditioner.5. A. She’s enjoying the music. B. The music doesn’t bother her.C. She would prefer different music.D. The music will keep her awake.6. A. She acted like a stranger today. B. She usually talks quietly.C. She didn’t give the lesson today.D. She usually assigns homework.7. A. A job opportunity. B. A position as general manager.C. A travel experience.D. A sales manager’s experiences.8. A. She has had her camera broken. B. She hasn’t handed in her photo.C. She has been busy taking photos.D. She hasn’t ordered a student’s card.9. A. He hasn’t prepared well for his lecture.B. He wants the woman to postpone the lecture.C. He doesn’t know anything about engineering.D. He regularly gives lectures to high school students.10. A. It’s more effective if priority is given to listening.B. It’s less effective if reading comes before listening.C. It’s more effective if listening is combined with reading.范文.范例.指导.参考D. It’s less effective if the learner checks the same information.Section BDirections:In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. To provide a protective space for giant pandas.B. To stop the loss of giant pandas’ natural habitats.C. To help China to improve its economy on the whole.D. To protect the giant pandas in the proposed territory.12. A. About 300. B. Around 1864. C. More than 2,000. D. Less than 1564.13. A. The park first began to be constructed in January 2017.B. 1.5 billion yuan will be invested in the construction of the park.C. The park will cover a bit more space than Yellowstone National Park.D. The place where the park is to be constructed is a poverty-stricken area.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Smart mirrors that make you look much smarter.B. Software apps that allow you to add images to photos.C. Virtual mirrors that teach you to use camera functions.D. Special apps that help you see your image after try-on.15. A. They can make it easy for customers to make up.B. They can help stores avoid damage, loss and theft.C. They can teach users how to make smart products.D. They can improve the effect of products on customers.16. A. They promote both online and offline businesses.B. They have high requirements for mobile devices.C. They enable customers to interact with each other.D. They are quite similar to previous apps like Snapchat.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Their great food and free drinks for lunch.B. The numerous benefits of drinking hot liquids.C. The way to get rid of unhealthy drinking habits.D. Their different perspectives on hot and cold drinks.18. A. By causing sweat. B. By increasing blood flow.范文.范例.指导.参考C. By helping ease pain.D. By emitting pleasant smells.19. A. It slows down blood flow. B. It makes one consume more.C. It helps one become slimmer.D. It is good for one’s digestion.20. A. The man prefers hot drinks only on very cold days.B. The woman may change her habit of drinking cold liquids.C. The woman believes drinking cold water also helps relieve a cold.D. The man is trying losing weight by exercising and drinking hot water.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.China’s Good Samaritan Law (见义勇为法) Takes Effect China’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people who voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in danger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people (21)_____ (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed (讹诈) later.There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade (22)_____ people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have been blackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and 18 people passed by (23)_____ offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but (24)_____ (accuse) of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when (25)_____ (face) with demands for a large sum of money.These cases (26)_____ (arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years. “If you don’t provide help, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely (27)_____ (hurt) by the people you help. It is really a difficult choice,”one netizen said on Sina Weibo.(28)_____ there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed ahead with such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.范文.范例.指导.参考However, some experts are concerned (29)_____ there could be some danger from a nationwide Good Samaritan Law. “Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to people in critical conditions,” said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Renmin University of China. He hoped the government (30)_____ introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.Section BDirections:After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.范文.范例.指导.参考And for his work, he has been 40 by critical community. Dylan has won Grammys, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. Now, to the honors Dylan has added a Nobel.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The Companies Doing the Most to Make Their Employees Happier Fat paychecks, light workloads, and endless vacation days don’t necessarily add to happy employees. In fact, the happiest employees in the U.S. owe their happiness to first-rate employee motivations, sufficient benefits, career advancement programs, and great work-life balance. The companies that have been the most devoted to cultivating and advancing these things in the past year have seen employee happiness 41 .The jobs site just announced the winners of this year’s “Leap Awards,” which honor the companies that have made the biggest leaps to improve employee happiness year-over-year. CareerBliss evaluated more than 250,000 company reviews and ratings it received from 42nationwide to determine the top 50 deserving companies. To 43 the list, each company had to have at least 50 reviews.“The Leap Awards are important because they highlight 44 in our workforce,” says CareerBliss’s chief executive, Heidi Golledge. Ca reerBliss asked the respondents to evaluate the key factors that 45 work happiness, including work-life balance, one’s relationship with the boss and co-workers, the work environment, job resources, salary, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, daily tasks, and job 46 .Each respondent valued each of these things on a 1-to-5 scale, and indicated how important each was to their overall happiness at work. These numbers were 47 to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each company. These averages were compared to last year’s numbers to find which companies had 48 the most.“Every employer who receives a Leap Award should 49 their workplace happiness initiatives,” says Golledge. “Even though we are coming out of a difficult time, it is 50 to see companies putting their efforts into providing a great environment for their employees. These efforts in workplace happiness will ensure that their employees will be around for years to come, as happiness breeds 51 .”“We find each year that work-life balance is a key factor in determining employee happiness,” says Golledge. “Employees want to know that they can balance their ca reer with their family and personal life. Often this 52 over things like salary. Having programs that allow managers to offer employees flexibility can be a key factor in creating a happy work environment. 53 , we see career advancement programs have a big impact on overall employee happiness. Often employees would rather take a job for 范文.范例.指导.参考a 54 salary, if the company provides a comprehensive program which will help grow their career. Employees want to learn, develop and sustain a successful career p ath.”Workplace happiness is the core of CareerBliss’ mission, Miller says. “An individual’s happiness at work will create happiness throughout all areas of their life, and 55 a company with a happy, motivated workforce will see exceptional results in its products and services.”41. A. soar B. change C. cease D. disappear42. A. netizens B. administrators C. candidates D. employees43. A. make up B. qualify for C. count on D. refer to44. A. change B. power C. duty D. variety45. A. lay in B. resulted from C. focused on D. contributed to46. A. analysis B. vacancy C. flexibility D.responsibility47. A. applied B. combined C. compared D. remembered48. A. benefited B. improved C. changed D. produced49. A. approve of B. account for C. take pride in D. get used to50. A. good B. easy C. impossible D. interesting51. A. profit B. honesty C. creativity D. loyalty52. A. turns B. runs C. advantages D. skips53. A. However B. Otherwise C. Besides D. Instead54. A. lower B. fair C. regular D. similar55. A. obviously B. frankly C. fortunately D. similarlySection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.（A）In the world of higher education in the United States, competition seems more common than schools working together. Every college and university competes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.But one thing almost every school has in common is the difficulty they face in serving low-income students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-income college students are less likely to complete their study programs than other students.范文.范例.指导.参考It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United States and serve different populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Alliance or UIA for sharing information related to this problem. Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those students being low-income. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-income graduates.How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a computer program that fellow UIA member Georgia State University was using. This computer program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facing difficulties. That way the advisors can try to help students before the problems become too serious. Michigan State began using the computer program and it has meant a world of difference. Michigan State has not only received useful information from its partners. It has also shared helpful information of its own.Bridget Burns, the executive director for the UIA, says efforts like this have never been as successful. “There are rankings that measure all kinds of things,”Burns said. “But how well you do for low-income students has not historically been highlighted.”56. What led to the setting up of the UIA?A. The low graduation rates.B. The great need of low-income students.C. The inefficiency of learning.D. The severe competition between schools.57. The UIA functions in such a way as the member universities _____.A. find out their own graduation ratesB. share and follow each other’s good practiceC. make joint efforts to aid students financiallyD. popularize computer programs among students58. By “it has meant a world of difference”in paragraph 6, the author means Michigan State _____.A. has found the computer program quite different from theirsB. has discovered the computer program is very difficult to useC. has helped students successfully with the computer program范文.范例.指导.参考D. has involved more academic advisors in the computer program59. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A. Universities Highlighting Their Efforts for Low-IncomesB. Universities Competing for Better Students and TeachersC. Universities Working Together to Help Poor StudentsD. Universities Creating the UIA to Share Information（B）We want to make the world a better, fairer place. We want to keep the powerful honest. And we believe that doing so means keeping society informed by producing quality, independent journalism, which discovers and tells readers the truth.It’s essential for the functioning of democracy. And our unique ownership structure means no one can tell us to drop a story.But it’s difficult and expensive work. While more people are reading the Guardian than ever before, far fewer are paying for it. And advertising incomes across the media are falling fast.So if you read us, if you like us, if you value our perspective—then become a Supporter and help make our future more secure.Supporters get closer to the Guardian As a Guardian Supporter, you’ll enjoy a number of benefits, including:◆Exclusive emails from Guardian journalists◆An ad-free experience on our mobile app◆Joining the global Guardian Members community ◆ A welcome giftMost importantly of all, you’ll appreciate every word that you read, in the knowledge that you’ve helped to bring it to the page.Why do we need our Supporters?Like many other media organisations, the Guardian is operating in an incredibly challenging financial climate. Our advertising incomes are falling fast. We have huge numbers of readers, and we are increasingly reliant upon their financial support.范文.范例.指导.参考We don’t have a wealthy owner pulling the strings. Noshareholders, advertisers or billionaire owners can edit oureditor.Our owner, the Scott Trust, protects our editorialindependence from commercial or political interference (干涉). It reinvests income into our journalism, not into shareholders’ pockets.But while the Scott Trust ensures our independence, we need our Supporters, now more than ever before, to help secure our future.We know that not everyone is in a position to become a Supporter. But if you can, you’ll be an essential part of our mission to make the world a better, fairer place, for everyone.60. The above webpage mainly aims to _____.A. raise funds from readersB. inform readers of quality journalismC. attract more readersD. guarantee readers a secure future61. Which of the following is a difficulty the Guardian is facing?A. It’s losing its editorial independence.B. It’s becoming increasingly reliant on its owner.C. It’s profiting much less from advertising.D. It’s operating in a challenging political climate.62. What can be inferred from the webpage?A. Some billionaire owners are the Guardian’s editors.B. The Guardian is independent financially and politically.C. Shareholders can interfere with the Guardian’s journalism.D. Guardian Supporters can put ads on the mobile app for free.（C）A new kind of production was underway on the set of the NBC comedy Superstore. Social media stars were crafting 30-second videos to post on their social media channels ahead of the comedy’s second-season return. Each made sure to mention Superstore and its first public show.As networks and studios struggle to reach young audiences in an increasingly fragmented(碎片化的) media marketplace, many have turned to so-called influencers—online stars whose value is measured by the size of their Internet followings—as a means of generating awareness. Advertisers are seizing on the strategy in an age of commercial-skipping and ad-blockers. Word of mouth in the digital age means messages travel faster by way of social media. The majority of consumers worldwide trust online recommendations from stars. And when Superstore gave its first public show, it did so to higher ratings than the last show of Season 1.Studio and network executives say they work with influencers to build brand awareness and reputation in a more friendly way through the friend-like connections consumers feel范文.范例.指导.参考toward the online personalities they follow. At the upper level, influencers typically have thousands of followers on social media and online content platforms and count many millions of people who tune in daily to watch them. Some do something that makes themselves look stupid in their daily routine, sharing videos of their trips to the grocery store or dinner dates. Others have built careers on performances—making comedy videos, reviewing video games, performing magic tricks and teaching cooking lessons, among other pursuits.When in the employ of studios, their efforts can be as simple as publicizing a film or more involved attempts like the marketing push for Superstore. Entertainment companies declined to discuss how much they pay influencers. But several experts said their pay ranges from a few thousand dollars to several million. Some simply receive gift baskets instead of pay.Over the last year or so, some entertainment companies have begun to cast influencers in their TV and film projects. The st rategy is a bit of a gamble: It’s a new business model, and questions remain about the effectiveness of using these personalities to improve a show’s ratings—or help open a movie. Just how much influence the influencers have is hard to measure. TV ratings and box-office returns do not reveal what caused a viewer to tune in.What is clear is that these personalities aren’t necessarily getting the work because of their acting skills, but often because of their Internet followings. Yet as social media stars consider whether to take on jobs promoting movies and TV shows, there’s an important consideration for both parties: the credibility of a campaign. “Fans are definitely aware wh en they’re being tempte d with promotional posts,” said Zach King, a social media star who performs magic tricks. “It has to be something that is natural and fits with the image of the creator.”63. Why did social media stars post short videos on their channels before Superstore’ssecond season?A. To attract more influencers.B. To draw audience’s attention.C. To put on better performances.D. To increase the channels’popularity.64. Advertisers like the influencer marketing strategy because _____.A. audiences believe in whatever online stars recommendB. influencers are quite aware of the impact of the digital ageC. ordinary advertisements are often ignored by young peopleD. social media platforms are the cheapest place to spread messages65. What is implied in the passage?A. The influencer marketing strategy help build connections between executives.B. Most influencers get paid from gift baskets instead of from their companies.C. Most influencers take on marketing jobs regardless of their reliability.范文.范例.指导.参考D. The influencer marketing strategy may not really work well.66. The passage mainly wants to tell us that _____.A. most young people like following influencersB. studios are relying more on social media starsC. influencers are gradually replacing movie starsD. social media are filming videos for SuperstoreSection CDirections:Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.Feel Young at Heart and Y ou’ll Enjoy a Longer Life Age-liars and birthday-deniers... you’d best learn a thing or two from those who are young at heart. People who feel younger than their actual age may live longer than those who feel older than they truly are, a new study says.67 Results from the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest that people who feel a year or more older than they truly are could have around 41 percent greater risk for death.Researchers looked at nearly 6,500 older adults, with an average age of 65.8 for the study. Around 70 percent of them felt younger than they were, about a quarter felt their precise age and just under 5 percent felt a year or more older than they were, when asked “How old do you feel you are?”Those who felt older than they were had a higher death rate after a follow-up period of 99 months. While just 14.3 and 18.5 percent of people who felt younger or felt their age, respectively, died during those 99 months, 24.6 percent of those who felt aged beyond 范文.范例.指导.参考their years had died.The authors say more research is needed on the topic, but suggest it could be that those who feel “young at heart”have healthier behaviors and a stronger will to live. “ 68 Individuals who feel older could be targeted with health messages promoting positive health behaviors and attitudes toward aging,”the authors write in the study.The good news is that you can change your feeling of how young you are. 69 One recent study found that helping participants have positive feelings toward age, by showing them positive word associations, helped older adults improve in physical tasks like balancing and getting up out of a chair, in as little as four weeks. Another study found that negative feeling of aging and poor memory can make older adults feel up to five years older, regardless of their actual mental abilities.There you have it. 70IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter?Should teachers allow cellphones in a classroom? A recent study on the way smartphones disturb learning might help explain the issue. Researchers published findings showing how students were affected by their phones in the classroom. They explored the differences in student performance in four situations: open phone use allowed, phones allowed in the classroom but could not be used, no phones in the classroom and a no-instruction control group. After watching a 20-minute video, students took a short quiz. The result was that the students in a room without any cellphones performed significantly better on the test. Scientists believe the way we attach ourselves to our phones could be the problem.Smartphones have become so strongly established in society that many people are lost without them. We are now in an age when many people can’t imagine life without a phone. There is even a name for the anxiety caused by not having one—nomophobia, which is the powerful feeling people get when they don’t have signal, their battery is about to die, or they are separated from their phones. Their fear of missing out on important information or connections can have a controlling effect on their lives and can divide their attention from other important things like learning.So does information technology help or block the way we think? In the past, people relied heavily on specific knowledge and knew who in their circle of friends would be范文.范例.指导.参考most likely to know things in different subjects. Now, our friend with all the information is the Internet. Indications are that people don’t remember information as well if they know they can use a computer or phone to recall it quickly. So it may be more difficult to move information from the Internet into our long-term memory.But the impact of being exposed to so much information isn’t all bad. Reports show that frequent Internet use can strengthen fast-paced problem solving and can speed up the ability to spot patterns in a lot of data.V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72. 何不利用这宜人的天气出去野餐呢？(advantage)73. 当你对情况一知半解时，不要随意发表见解。

Section BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)William Herschel was born on November 15th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757, he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772, he convinced his sister Caroline to join him as a singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became occupied in astronomy. William died at his home in Slough, near Windsor on August 25th,1822, and Caroline on September 1st,1848.Herschel’s first major discoveries were to show that Mars and Jupiter exhibit axialrotation (绕轴自转). Herschel struck fame in 1781, when on March 13th, he discovered the planet Uranus (天王星) while engaged in work aimed at determining stellar parallax (恒星视差). This being the first new planet discovered since ancient times, Herschel, until then a mere amateur astronomer relatively unknown even in England, became world-famous. Adopting a historically proven strategy, Herschel named the new planet Georgium Sidum, in honor of the then ruling English king George III. The trick worked once again, as King George III gave William and Caroline the titles of ―The King’s Astronomer‖ and ―Assistant to the King’s Astronomer‖, an honor which came with a life’s pension for both. In 1782 they moved to Bath, and shortly thereafter to S lough, and from this point on William and Caroline could devote themselves entirely to astronomy. The Herschels went on to discover two moons of Uranus in 1787.While Caroline became increasingly occupied with the search for comets at which she was quite s uccessful, William became for a time interested in the Sun. Inspired by Wilson’s 1774 work, he put forth the theory of sunspot, an opinion that continued to exist well into the nineteenth century. In 1800, he became interested in the solar spectrum (太阳光谱), and uncovered the first evidence for solar energy output outside of the visible spectrum, in what is now known as the infrared(红外线). In 1801, he published two papers that effectively started the field of solar influences on Earth’s weather.56.Herschel made himself known to the world mainly by __________.A. discovering the planet UranusB. determining stellar parallaxC. discovering two moons of UranusD. uncovering the evidence for the infrared57. It can be inferred from the passage that George III __________.A. liked science and technologyB. liked Herschel’s naming of the new planetC. was interested in astronomyD. gave Herschel a lot of useful suggestions58. What do we know about Caroline from the passage?A. She was successful in music.B. She was titled ―The King’s Astronomer‖.C. She died later than her brother.D. She published two papers.59. This passage mainly tells readers .A. some information about Herschel and his sisterB. how Herschel and his sister discovered the planet UranusC. Herschel and Caroline got along well with each otherD. Herschel and Caroline’s major scientific publicationsKeys: 56-59: A B C ASection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)The cold northern wind here in the streets of Petersburg strengthens my nerves and fills me with delight. I cannot think of the Pole as cold and empty;in my imagination it is a region of beauty and delight. Who knows what strange landscapes and creatures we may find there. I shall satisfy my curiosity with the sight of an unknown part of the world-and walk where no man has before.Thinking of it, I feel the same joy a child feels when he sails his little boat on a voyage ofdiscovery up his native river.This voyage was the favorite dream of my early years. My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. Uncle Thomas's library contained only books about exploration, which I read day and night. Finally my thoughts comes to the idea of making a voyage of discovery.Six years have passed since I decided on the present voyage. I can, even now, remember the hour when I committed myself to this great enterprise. I began by making my body used to hardship. I went on whale hunting voyages to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, hunger, thirst, and lack of sleep. I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day. Then, at nights, I studied mathematics, the theory of medicine,and sciences of practical importance for a seagoing adventurer. Twice I took jobs as an officer on a Greenland whaling ship. I felt a little proud when my captain asked me to remain with the ship, so valuable did he consider my services. And now, do I not deserve to achieve some great task? My life might have been passed in ease and comfort, but I preferred glory to every pleasure that wealth placed in my path.56.What does the author think of the Pole?A.It reminds him of his childhood.B. It must be a region full of surprises.C. It would fulfil his dream to be an adventurer.D. It's too cold a destination with almost nothing.57. To realize his childhood dream, the author got _______.A. physically prepared by experiencing great sufferingB. spiritually prepared by gaining captain's recognitionC. academically prepared by reading books on explorationD. financially prepared by serving on a whale hunting ship.58. According to the passage, the author is definitely a person full of _______.A. curiosityB. fancyC. perseveranceD.prideKeys:56-58: CACSection CDirections：Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.(A)In 1982, I had responsibility for Stephen Hawking’s third academic book for the Press, Superspace and Supergravity. This was a messy collection of papers from a technical workshop on how to devise a new theory of gravity. While that book was in production, I suggested he try something easier: a popular book about the nature of the Universe, suitable for the general market.Stephen hesitated over my suggestion. He already had an international reputation as a brilliant theoretical physicist working on rotating black holes and theories of gravity. And he had concerns about financial matters: importantly, it was impossible for him to obtain any form of life insurance to protect his family in the event of his death or becoming totally dependent on nursing care. So, he took precious time out from his research to prepare the rough draft of a book.At the time, several bestselling physics authors had already published non-technical books on the early Universe and black holes. Stephen decided to write a more personal approach, by explaining his own research in cosmology and quantum theory.One afternoon, in the 1980s, he invited me to take a look at the first draft, but first he wanted to discuss cash. He told me he had spent considerable time away from his research, and that he expected advances and royalties(定金和版税) to be large. When I pressed him on the market that he foresaw, he insisted that it be on sale, up front, at all airport bookshops in the UK and the US. I told that was a tough call for a university press. Then I thumbed the typescript. To my dismay, the text was far too technical for a general reader.A few weeks later he showed me a revision, much improved. Eventually, he decided to place it with a mass market publisher rather than a university press. Bantam published A Brief History of Time in March 1988. Sales took off like a rocket, and it ranked as a bestseller for at least five years. The book’s impact on the popularization of science has been incalculable.56. What suggestion did the writer give to Stephen Hawking?A. Simplifying Superspace and Supergravity.B. Formulating a new theory of gravity.C. Writing a popular book on the nature of the universe.D. Revising a book based on a new theory.57. Which of the following was Stephen Hawking most concerned about?A. Financial returns.B. Other competitors.C. Publishing houses.D. His family’s life insurance.58. The underlined word ―thumbed‖ is closest in meaning to _______.A. praisedB. typedC. confirmedD. browsed59. The greatest contribution of the book A Brief History of Time lies in _______.A. bringing him overnight fame in the scientific worldB. keeping up the living standard of his familyC. making popular science available to the general publicD. creating the rocketing sales of a technical bookKeys:56-59 CADCSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)Warning from ExpertsA growing amount of human- made orbital debris(太空轨道残骸)---from rocket stages and out-of-date satellites---- is circling the Earth. Scientists say the orbital debris, better known as space junk, poses an increasing threat to space activities. ―This is a growing environmental problem,‖said Nicholas Johnson, the chief scientist and program manager for orbital debris at NASA(美国航空航天局) in Houston, Texas.Johnson and his team have developed a computer model capable of simulating past and future amounts of space junk. The model predicts that even without future rocket or satellite launches, the amount of debris in low orbit around Earth will steady through 2055, after which it will increase. While current efforts have focused on limiting future space junk, these scientists say removing large pieces of old space junk will soon be necessary.Since the first launch of satellite in 1957, humans have been generating space junk. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network is currently tracking over 13,000 human-made objects larger than tencentimeters in diameter orbiting the Earth. ―Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies,‖ Johnson said. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of smaller objects in space. These include everything from pieces of plastic to bits of paint. Much of this smaller junk has come from exploding rocket stages. Stages are sections of a rocket that have their own fuel or engines.These objects travel at speeds over 35,000 kilometers an hour. At such high speed, even small junk can tear holes in a spacecraft or disable a satellite by causing electrical shorts that result from clouds of superheated gas.Johnson believes it may be time to think about how to remove junk from space. Previous proposals range from sending up spacecrafts to grab junk and bring it down to using lasers to slow an objects orbit to cause it to fall back to Earth more quickly. Given current technology, those proposals appear neither technically nor economically practical, ―Space j unk is like any environmental problem,‖ Johnson admits. ―I t’s growing. If you don’t deal with it now, it will only become worse, and the solutions in the future are going to be even more costly.‖56. What is this passage mainly talking about?A. Advanced technology is used to remove space junk.B. NASA is responsible for the environmental problem.C. Cleaning up the space junk is greatly needed.D. Human activities generate much orbital debris.57. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?A. Rocket launches produce more debris than satellite launches.B. Space junk is endangering human beings' space activities.C.It's necessary to clean up the large pieces of old space junk.D. Even a tiny piece of space junk can destroy a spacecraft58. What does John think of the previous proposals to grab space junk and bring it down to the earth?A. Reasonable.B. Unbelievable.C. Reliable.D. Impractical.Keys:56-58 CADSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)Have you ever had the experience of talking to someoneand you think they are lying?Well, you are not alone. We’veall had that feeling. But did you know that there are severalthings you can look for to see if you are being lied to?Sometimes you can tell if a person is lying by observing what they do with their body. When people are lying they tend not to move their arms, hands or legs very far from their body. They don’t want to take up very much space because they don’t want to be no ticed. Sometimes a person who is lying will not look you in the eyes. Other times people wholie try to look at you in a strong way because they want to convince you they are tellingthe truth.Liars also use deflection. For example, if you ask a liar the question ―Did you steal Fatima’s bag?‖, they may answer with something like ―Fatima is my friend. Why would Ido that?‖ In this situation the person is telling the truth, but they are also not answeringthe question. They are trying to deflect your attention. Liars may also give too many details. They may try to over-explain things. They do this because they want to convinceyou of what they are saying.Often when a person is lying, they do not want to continue talking about their lie. Ifyou think someone is lying, quickly change the subject. If the person is lying, they will appear more comfortable because they are not talking about their lie any longer. A little later, change the subject back to what you were talking about before. If the person seems uncomfortable again, they may be lying.It’s very hard for a liar to avoid filling silence created by you. He or she wants you to believe the lies being woven; silence gives no feedback on whether or not you’ve boughtthe story. If you’re a good listener, you’ll already be avoiding interruptions, which initself is a great technique to let the story unfold.Just because a person is showing these behaviors, it does not mean they are lying.They might be shy or nervous. But, if you think someone is lying, you might want to usesome of these techniques. Hopefully, you won’t need to very often.56. By saying ―Liars also use deflection‖, the writer means that liars may __________.A. tell great storiesB. change tone of voiceC. ask a question in replyD. avoid direct answers57. According to the passage, a person could be lying if he or she ____________.A. offers more information than necessaryB. appears to be shy or nervousC. changes the subject of the conversationD. speaks very fast and vaguely58. Whichof the following can be learned from the passage?A. Liars always try to avoid direct eye contact when they tell lies.B. We can make people lie by changing the subject in a conversation.C. Liars are often expansive in hand and arm movements while talking.D. We make liars uncomfortable by giving no feedback in a conversation.59. The passage mainly talks about __________.A. who deceives usB. why people tell liesC. how to detect liesD. what to do with liarsKeys:56-59 DADCSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.AIf a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends. Nitrogen(氦)dissolved in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles accumulate(累积) In a joint,, is sharp pain and a bent body—thus the name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain, the consequence can be death.Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression (减压) sickness if they surface too fast: whales, for example. And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs(鱼龙).That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply. This kills the cells in the bone, and consequently weakens it, sometimes to the point of collapse. Fossil bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends.Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past. What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years. To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the world's natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died, but not a single Triassic specimen(标本)showed evidence of that sort of injury.If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly-and, most strangely, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr. Rothschild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator (掠食性动物) such as a large shark. One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches. Triassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark and crocodile-free. In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, they were prey (猎物)as well as predator—and often had to make a speedy exit as a result.56. Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?A. A twisted bodyB. A gradual decrease in blood supply.C. A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.D. A drop in blood pressure57. The purpose of Rothschild's study is to see___.A. how often ichthyosaurs caught the bendsB. how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompressionC. why ichthyosaurs bent their bodiesD. when ichthyosaurs broke their bones58. Rothschild's finding stated in Paragraph 4_____.A. confirmed his assumptionB. speeded up his research processC. disagreed with his assumptionD. changed his research objectives59. Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs_______.A. failed to evolve an anti-decompression meansB. gradually developed measures against the bendsC. died out because of large sharks and crocodilesD. evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost itKeys: 56-59 ABCASection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.AOne Friday morning, before Michael was leaving for work he told his wife that he had finally determined to ask his boss for a salary raise. All day Michael felt nervous and anxious as he thought about the upcoming showdown. What if Mr.Duncan refused to grant his request? Michael had worked so hard in the last 18 months and brought some great benefits to Braer and Hopkins Advertising Agency. Of course, he deserved a wage increase.The thought of walking into Mr. Duncan's office left Michael weak in the knees. Late in the afternoon he was finally courageous enough to approach his superior. To his delight and surprise, the ever- frugal (一惯节省的) Rowland Duncan agreed to give Michael a raise!Michael arrived home that evening-despite breaking all city and state limits-to a beautiful table set with their best china, and candles lit. His wife, Cassie, had prepared a delicate mealincluding his favourite dishes. Immediately he thought someone from the office had tipped her off!Next to his plate Michael found a beautiful lettered note. It was from his wife. It read: "Congratulations, my love! I knew you'd get the raise! I prepared this dinner to show just how much I love you. I am so proud of your accomplishments!" He read it and stopped to think about how sensitive and caring Cassie was.After dinner, Michael was on his way to the kitchen to get dessert when he observed that a second card had slipped out of Cassie's pocket onto the floor. He bent forward to pick it up. It read: "Don't worry about not getting the raise! You do deserve one! You are a wonderful provider and I prepared this dinner to show you just how much I love you even though you did not get the increase."Suddenly tears swelled in Michael's eyes. Total acceptance! Cassie's support for him was not conditional upon his success at work.The fear of rejection is often softened and we can undergo almost any setback or rejection when we know someone loves us regardless of our success or failure.56. What was Michaels plan that Friday?A. To find a job with the Braer and Hopkins Advertising Agency.B. To ask for a wage increase from his boss.C. To celebrate his success.D. To ask his boss to come for dinner.57. On his way back home, Michael______.A. felt weak in the kneesB. was punished by the traffic policemanC. was too anxious to share the news with his wifeD. couldn't wait to enjoy a meal58. Which of the following statements about the story is FALSE?A. Michael was afraid that his request would lead to a disaster.B. Michael had worked very hard and done his part for the company.C. Michael's boss agreed to his request.D. One of Michael's colleagues had told his wife the good news.59. According to the passage, which of the following can best describe Michael's wife, Cassie?A. Passionate, thoughtful and talented.B. Considerate, generous and reliable.C. Decisive, optimistic and energetic.D. Caring, tolerant and supportive.Keys: 56-59 BCDDSection CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.(A)Last October, I was on a diving holid ay in the Philippines with with seven other advanced divers. I dived off the boat, slowly sinking to about 20m.After nearly 45 minutes, the sound of my breathing was drowned out by a low rumble like an engine, and I felt deep, powerful vibrations(震动), as if a big boat with a propeller was passing overhead. The dive instructor's eyes were wide with confusion too. We both swam next to each other, staying close to the side of the reef(礁石). The situation felt sinister.Then we were enveloped by clouds of white sand that mushroomed up around us, Could it be an underwater bomb? A giant turtle raced past us and into the deep; they are normally slow movers, so this was very weird behaviour. The vibration became so intense that I could feel it in my bones, and the sound turned into a deafening roar. Suddenly, a few meters below us, breaks began forming and the sand was sucked down. That's when I realized it was an earthquake. The noise was the sound of the Earth splintering open and grinding against itself.The instructor and I held hands and looked into each other's eyes; I felt comforted by his presence. I was numb(麻木的)for terror but clear-headed. My body went on high alert, ready to react. But I have no power over whatever this is. The only option is to stay very still and let it do whatever it's going to do.It took enormous willpower to resist the urge to swim to the surface, which is not sensible as situation on the surface at that time was ambiguous with potential threats pending. Soon we saw other divers.The sound and vibration lasted only two or three minutes and when they stopped I heard the swoosh of sand falling over the seabed. We all held hands before resurfacing to avoid decompression sickness, which can be fatal. When up,It was a huge relief to see all the divers and we all shared incredulous looksbefore pulling out our breathing apparatus and shouting, "What was that?"Back on the boat, we rushed to check the news and discovered we had witnessed a huge earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale. It released more energy than 30 Hiroshima bombs, though it seemed that we were not at at the epicentre(震中). I was high and felt lucky surprisingly not because of my recent survival miracle, but to have experienced nature at its most stunning and its most frightening.56. How did the author realize that they met with an earthquake?A. By feeling the violent shake under the sea.B. By witnessing a normally-slow turtle quickly moving by.C. By seeing the seafloor crack.D. By checking the news and be informed of the event.57. Why didn’t the author rise to the surface before the vibration stopped?A. Because the instructor gestured him not to rise.B. Because he was numb in body.C. Because he could sense the unclear water situation.D. Because he tried to avoid unexpected danger above.58. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. At the beginning of the event, a big boat passed by causing big vibration.B. All the divers used the reef as the protection against the violent vibration.C. I felt relieved as the instructor was experience in handling situations like this.D. Powerless to fight nature, I was tame when under the water.59. Why did the author feel fortunate on the boat?A. Because he was not at the epicenter of the earthquake.B. Because he finally survived a huge earthquake.C. Because he could witness a rare natural phenomenon.D. Because he didn’t suffer from decompression sickness.Keys: 56-59 CCDCSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)In the world of higher education in the United States, competition seems more common than schools working together. Every college and university competes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.But one thing almost every school has in common is the difficulty they face in serving low-income students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-income college students are less likely to complete their study programs than other students.It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United Sates and serve different populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Alliance or UIA for sharing information related to this problem. Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those studentsbeing low-income. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-income graduates.How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a computer program that fellow UIA member Georgia State University was using. This computer program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facingdifficulties. Hat way the advisors can try to help students before the problems become too serious. Michigan State began using the computer program and it has meant a world of difference.Michigan States has not only received useful。

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请将答案填写在答题纸上）1. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a train B. In a theater C. In a meeting room D. In a booking office2. A $2.4 B. $4.8 C. $7.2 D. $9.63. A. A waiters B. A customer C. A secretary D. A saleswoman4. A. The man’s air-conditioner is broken B. The man doesn’t have air-conditioningC. The summer has been unusually hotD. The music doesn’t bother her5. A. She’s enjoying the music B. The music doesn’t bother herC. She would prefer different musicD. The music will keep her awake6. A. She acted like a stranger today B. She usually talks quietlyC. She didn’t give the lesson todayD. She usually assigns homework7. A. A job opportunity B. A position as general managerC. A travel experienceD. A sales manager’s experiences8. A. She has had her camera broken B. She hasn’t handed in her photoC. She has been busy taking photosD. She hasn’t ordered a student’s card9. A. He hasn’t prepared well for his lectureB. He wants the woman to postpone the lectureC. He doesn’t know anything about engineeringD. He regularly gives lectures to high school students10. A. It’s more effective if priority is given to listeningB. It’s more effective if reading comes before listeningC. I t’s more effective if listening is combined with readingD. It’s less effective if the learner checks the same informationSection BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. To provide a protective space for giant pandas.B. To stop the loss of giant pandas’ natural habitatsC. To help China to improve its economy on the wholeD. To protect the giant pandas in the proposed territory12. A. About 300 B. Around 1864 C. More than 2,000 D. Less than 156413. A. The park first began to be constructed in January 2017.B. 1.5 billion yuan will be invested in the construction of the parkC. The park will cover a bit more space than Yellowstone National ParkD. The place where the park is to be constructed is a poverty-stricken area.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Smart mirrors than make you look much smarterB. Software apps that allow you to add images to photosC. Virtual mirrors that teach you to use camera functionsD. Special apps that help you see your image after try-on15. A. They can make it easy for customers to make upB. They can help stores avoid damage, loss and theftC. They can teach users how to make smart productsD. The can improve the effect of products on customers16. A. They promote both online and offline businessesB. They have high requirements for mobile devicesC. They enable customers to interact with each otherD. They are quite similar to previous apps like SnapchatQuestions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Their great food and free drinks for lunchB. The numerous benefits of drinking hot liquidsC. The way to get rid of unhealthy drinking habitsD. Their different perspectives on hot and cold drinks18. A. By causing sweat B. By increasing blood flowC. By helping ease painD. By emitting pleasant smells19. A. It slows down blood flow B. It makes one consume moreC. It helps one become slimmerD. It is good for one’s digestion20. A. The man prefers hot drinks only on very cold daysB. The woman may change her habit of drinking cold liquidsC. The woman believes drinking cold water also helps relieve a coldD. The man is trying losing weight by exercising and drinking hot waterII. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.China’s Good Samaritan Law (见义勇为法)Takes EffectChina’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people how voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in anger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people (21)_____ (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed(讹诈)later.There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade(22)______people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have been blackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and 18 people passed by(23)_____offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but (24)_____(accuse) of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when(25)_____(face)with demands for a large sum of money.These cases(26)____(arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years. “If you don’t providehelp, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely(27)___(hurt)by the people you help. It is really a difficult choice,” one netizen said on Sina Weibo.(28)______there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed ahead with such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.However, some experts are concerned (29)____there could be some danger from a nationwide Good Samaritan Law. “Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to people in critical conditions,” said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Renmin University of China. He hoped the government (30)____introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. shockB. guessesC. secondaryD. tracksE. detailedF. printedG. claimed l H. prospect I. influential J. recognized K. createdBob Dylan Wins a Nobel Prize in LiteratureBob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The productive musician is the first Nobel winner to have followed a career primarily as a singer-songwriter. What’s more, he’s also the first American to have won the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American 31 the prize.Dylan earned the prize “for having 32 new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,”according to the statement by the Swedish Academy, the committee that annually decides the winter of the Nobel Prize. The academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday.The win comes as something of a(n) 33 . As usual, the Swedish Academy did not announce a shortlist of nominees(被提名者), leaving the betting markets to their best 34 . And while Dylan has enjoyed favor as an outside shot for the award, the 35 that the musician would be the one to break the American s’ long dry period was regarded as unlikely---especially because he made his career mainly on the stage, not the 36 page.Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but 37 , both in the U. S. and beyond its borders. The productive singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums. Dylan, who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, “has the status of an idol(偶像),”the Swedish Academy wrote. “His influence on contemporary music is significant, and he is the object of a steady stream of 38 literature.”In an interview following the announcement, Danius 39 the Swedish Academy’s decision: “He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition, and he is a wonderful sampler—a very original sampler,” Danius explained. “For54 years now he has been at it and reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity.”And for his work, he has been 40 by critical community. Dylan has won Grammys, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U. S. Now, to the honors Dylan has added a Nobel.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The Companies Doing the Most to Make Their Employees Happier Fat paychecks, light workloads, and endless vacation days don’t necessarily add to happy employee. In fact, the happiest employees in the U. S. owe their happiness to first-rate employee motivations, sufficient benefits, career advancement programs, and great work-life balance. The companies that have been the most devoted to cultivating and advancing these things in the past year have seen employee happiness 41 .The jobs site just announced the winners of this year’s “Leap Awards,”which honor the companies that have made the biggest leaps to improve employee happiness year-over-year. CareerBliss evaluated more than 250,000 company reviews and ratings it received from 42 nationwide to determined the top 50 deserving companies. To 43 the list, each company had to have at least 50 reviews.“The Leap Awards are important because they highlight 44 in our workforce,”says CareerBliss’s chief executive, Heidi Golledge. CaareerBliss asked the respondents to evaluate the key factors that 45 work happiness, including work-life balance, one’s relationship with the boss and co-workers, the work environment, job resources, salary, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, daily tasks, and job 46 .Each respondent valued each of these things on a 1-to-5 scale, and indicated how important each was to their overall happiness at work. These numbers were 47 to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each company. These averages were compared to last year’s numbers to find which companies had 48 the most. “Every employer who receives a Leap Award should 49 their workplace happiness initiatives,” says Golledge. “Even though we are coming out of a difficult time, it is 50 to see companies putting their efforts into providing a great environment for their employees. These efforts in workplace happiness will ensure that their employees will be around for years to come, as happiness breeds 51 .”“We find each year that work-life balance is a key factor in determining employee happiness,”says Golledge. “Employee want to know that they can balance their career with their family and personal life. Often this 52over things like salary. Having programs that allow managers to offer employees flexibility can be a key factor in creating a happy work environment. 53 , we see career advancement programs have a big impact on overall employee happiness. Often employees would rather take a job for a 54 salary, if the company provides a comprehensive program which will help grow their career. Employees want to learn, develop and sustain a successful career path.”41. A. soar B. change C. cease D. disappear42. A. netizens B. administrators C. candidates D. employees43. A. make up B. quality for C. count on D. refer to44. A. change B. power C. duty D. variety45. A. lay in B. resulted from C. focused on D. contributed to46. A. analysis B. vacancy C. flexibility D. responsibility47. A. applied B. combined C. compared D. remembered48. A. benefited B. improved C. changed D. produced49. A. approve of B. account for C. take pride in D. get used to50. A. good B. easy C. impossible D. interesting51. A. profit B. honesty C. creativity D. loyalty52. A. turns B. runs C. advantages D. skips53. A. However B. Otherwise C. Besides D. Instead54. A. lower B. fair C. regular D. similar55. A. obviously B. frankly C. fortunately D. similarlySection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)In the world of higher education in the United States, competition seems more common than schools working together. Every college and university competes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.But one thing almost every school has in common is the difficulty they face in serving low-income students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-income college students are less likely to complete theirstudy programs than other students.It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United Sates and serve different populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Alliance or UIA for sharing information related to this problem. Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those students being low-income. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-income graduates.How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a computer program that fellow UIA member Georgia State University was using. This computer program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facing difficulties. Hat way the advisors can try to help students before the problems become too serious. Michigan State began using the computer program and it has meant a world of difference. Michigan States has not only received useful information from its parents. It has also shared helpful information of its own.Bridget Burns, the executive director for the UIA, says efforts like this have never been as successful. “There are rankings that measure all kinds of things,”Burns said. “But how well you do for low-income students has not historically been highlighted.”56. What led to the setting up of the UIA?A. The low graduation ratesB. The great need of low-income students.C. The inefficiency of learningD. The severe competition between schools57. The UIA functions in such a way as the member universities ____.A. find out their own graduation ratesB. share and follow each other’s good practiceC. make joint efforts to aid students financiallyD. popularize computer programs among students58. By “it has meant a world of difference” in paragraph 6, the author means Michigan State__________.A. has found the computer program quite different from theirsB. has discovered the computer program is very difficult to useC. has helped students successfully with the computer programD. has involved more academic advisors in the computer program59. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A. Universities Highlighting Their Efforts for Low-IncomesB. Universities Computing for Better Students and TeachersC. Universities Working Together to Help Poor StudentsD. Universities Creating the UIA to Share Information(B)We want to make the world a better, fairer place. We want to keep the powerful honest. And we believe that doing so means keeping society informed by producing quality, independent journalism, which discovers and tells readers the truth.It’s essential for the functioning of democracy. And our unique ownership structure means no one can tell us to drop a story.But it’s difficult and expensive work. While more people are reading the Guardian than ever before, far fewer are paying for it. and advertising incomes across the media are falling fast.So if you read us, if you like us, if you value our perspective—then become a Supporter and help make our future more secure.Supporters get closer to the GuardianAs a Guardian Supporter, you’ll enjoy a number of benefits, including:◆Excusive emails from Guardian journalists◆An ad-free experience on our mobile app◆Joining the global Guardian Members community◆A welcome giftMost importantly of all, you’ll appreciate every word that you read, in the knowledge that you’ve helped to bring it to the page.Why do we need our Supporters?Like many other media organizations, the Guardian is operating in an incrediblychallenging financial climate. Our advertising incomes are falling fast. We have huge numbers of readers, and we are increasingly reliant upon their financial support.We don’t have a wealthy owner pulling the strings. No shareholders, advertisers or billionaire owners can edit our editor.Our owner, the Scott Trust, protects our editorial independence from commercial or political interference(干涉). It reinvests income into our journalism, not into shareholders’ pockets.But while the Scott Trust ensures our independence, we need our Supporters, now more than ever before, to help secure our future.We know that not everyone is in a position to become a Supporter. But if you can, you’ll be an essential pat of our mission to make the world a better, fairer place, for everyone.60. The above webpage mainly aims to _________.A. raise funds from readersB. inform readers of quality journalismC. attract more readersD. guarantee readers a secure future61. Which of the following is a difficulty the Guardian is facing?A. It’s losing its editorial independenceB. It’s becoming increasingly reliant on its ownerC. It’s profiting much less from advertisingD. I t’s operating in a challenging political climate62. What can be inferred from the webpage?A. Some billionaire owners are the Guardian’s editorsB. The Guardian is independent financially and politicallyC. Shareholders can interfere with the Guardian’s journalismD. Guardian Supporters can put ads on the mobile app for free(C)A new kind of production was underway on the set of the NBC comedy Superstore. Social media stars were crafting 30-second videos to post on their social media channels ahead of the comedy’s second-season return. Each made sure to mention Superstore and its first public show.As networks and studios struggle to reach young audiences in an increasingly fragmented(碎片化的)media marketplace, many have turned to so-called influencers—online stars whose is measured by the size of their Internet followings—as a means of generating awareness. Advertisers are seizing on the strategy in an age of commercial-skipping and ad-blockers. Word of mouth in the digital age means messages travel faster by way of social media. The majority of consumers worldwide trust online recommendations from stars. And when Superstore gave its first public show, it did so to higher ratings than the last show of Season 1.Studio and network executives say they work with influencers to build brand awareness and reputation in a more friendly way through the friend-like connections consumers feel toward the online personalities they follow. At the upper level, influencers typically have thousands of followers on social media and online content platforms and count many millions of people who tune in daily to watch them. Some do something that makes themselves look stupid in their daily routine, sharing videos of their trips to the grocery store or dinner dates. Others have built careers on performances—making comedy videos, reviewing video games, performing magic tricks and teaching cooking lessons, among other pursuits.When in the employ of studios, their efforts can be as simple as publicizing a film or more involved attempts like the marketing push for Superstore. Entertainment companies declined to discuss how much they pay influencers. But several experts said their pay ranges from a few thousand dollars to several million. Some simply receive gift baskets instead of pay.Over the last year or so, some entertainment companies have begun to cast influencers in their TV and film projects. The strategy is a bit of gamble: It’s a new business model, and questions remain about the effectiveness of using these personalities to improve a show’s ratings—or help open a movie. Just how much influence the influencers have is hard to measure. TV ratings and box-office returns do not reveal what caused a viewer to tune in.What is clear is that these personalities aren’t necessarily getting the work because of their acting skills, but oftenbecause of their Internet followings. Yet as social media stars consider whether to take on jobs promoting movies and TV shows, there’s an important consideration for both parties: the credibility of a campaign. “Fans are definitely award when they’re being tempted with promotional posts,” said Zach King, a social media star who performs magic tricks. “It has to be something that is natural and fits with the image of the creator.”63. Why did social media stars post short videos on their channels before Superstore’s second season?A. To attract more influencersB. To draw audience’s attentionC. To put on better performancesD. To increase the channels’ popularity64. Advertisers like the influencer marketing strategy because ________.A. audiences believe in whatever online stars recommendB. influencers are quite award of the impact of the digital ageC. ordinary advertisements are often ignored by young peopleD. social media platforms are the cheapest place to spread messages65. What is implied in the passage?A. The influencer marketing strategy help build connections between executivesB. Most influencers get paid from gift baskets instead of from their companiesC. Most influencers take on marketing jobs regardless of their reliabilityD. The influencer marketing strategy may not really work well66. The passage mainly wants to tell us that __________.A. most young people like following influencersB. studios are relying more on social media starsC. influencers are gradually replacing movie starsD. social media are filming videos for SuperstoreSection CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.A. Age really should be treated as just a numberB. Felt age might play a role in more than just how you feelC. Feeling young is about maintaining vitality as you get older.D. Self-felt age has the potential to change, so interventions(干预)may be possible.E. And other studies suggest that there could be more benefits to thinking yourself younger, besides a longer life.F. People who feel younger than the number of years they have on the clock get more pleasure than people who feel their age.Feel Young at Heart and You’ll Enjoy a Longer LifeAge-liars and birthday-deniers, you’d best learn a thing or two from those who are young at heart. People who feel younger than their actual age may live longer than those who feel older than they truly are, a new study says.__67 Results from the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest that people who feel a year or more older than they truly are could have around 41 percent greater risk for death. Researchers looked at nearly 6,500 older adults, with an average age of 65.8 for they study. Around 70 percent of them felt younger than they were, about a quarter felt their precise age and just under 5 percent felt a year or more older they were, when asked “How old do you feel you are?”Those who felt older than they were had a higher death rate after a follow-up period of 99 months. While just 14.3 and 18.5 percent of people who felt younger or felt their age, respectively, died during those 99 months, 24.6 percent of those who felt aged beyond their years had died.The authors say more research is needed on the topic, but suggest it could be that those who feel “young at heart”have healthier behaviors and a stronger will to live. “68 Individuals who feel older could be targeted with health message promoting positive health behaviors and attitudes toward aging,” the authors write in the study.The good news is that you can change your feeling of how young you are. 69 One recent study found that helping participants have positive feelings toward age, by showing them positive word associations, helped older adults improve in physical tasks like balancing and getting up out of a chair, in as little as four weeks. Another study found that negative feeling of aging and poor memory can make older adults feel up to five years older, regardless of their actual mental abilities.There you have it. 70 .IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter?Should teachers allow cellphones in a classroom? A recent study on the way smartphones disturb learning might help explain the issue. Researchers published findings showing how students were affected by their phones in the classroom. They explored the differences in student performance in four situations: open phone use allowed, phonesallowed in the classroom but could not be used, no phones in the classroom and a no-instruction control group. After watching a 20-minuted video, students took a short quiz. The result was that the students in a room without any cellphones performed significantly better on the test. Scientists believe the way we attach ourselves to our phones could be the problem.Smartphones have become to strongly established in society that many people are lost without them. We are now in an age when many people can’t imagine life without a phone. There is even a name for the anxiety caused by not having one-monophobia, which is the powerful feeling people get when they don’t have signal, their battery is about to die, or they are separated from their phones. Their fear of missing out on important information or connections can have a controlling effect on their lives and can divide their attention from other important things like learning.So does information technology help or block the way we think? In the past, people relied heavily on specific knowledge and knew how in their circle of friends would be most likely to know things in different subjects. Now, our friend with all the information is the Internet. Indications are that people don’t remember information as well if they know they can use a computer of phone to recall it quickly. So it may be more difficult to move information from the Internet into our long-term memory.But the impact of being exposed to so much information isn’t all bad. Reports show that frequent Internet use can strengthen fast-paced problem solving and can speed up the ability to spot patterns in a lot of data.V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.何不利用这宜人的天气出去野餐呢？(advantage)73.当你对情况一知半解时，不要随意发表见解。

2018届崇明区⾼考英语⼆模及参考答案和评分标准崇明区2018届第⼆次⾼考模拟考试试卷英语（考试时间120分钟，满分140分。

请将答案填写在答题纸上）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a train. B. In a theater. C. In a meeting room. D. In a booking office.2. A. $2.4. B. $4.8. C. $7.2. D. $9.6.3. A. A waitress. B. A customer. C. A secretary. D. A saleswoman.4. A. The man’s air-conditioner is broken. B. The man doesn’t h ave air-conditioning.C. The summer has been unusually hot.D. The man hasn’t been using his air-conditioner.5. A. She’s enjoying the music. B. The music doesn’t bother her.C. She would prefer different music.D. The music will keep her awake.6. A. She acted like a stranger today. B. She usually talks quietly.C. She didn’t give the lesson today.D. She usually assigns homework.7. A. A job opportunity. B. A position as general manager.C. A travel experience.D. A sales manager’s experiences.8. A. She has had her camera broken. B. She hasn’t handed in her photo.C. She has been busy taking photos.D. She hasn’t ordered a student’s card.9. A. He hasn’t prepared well for his lecture.B. He wants the woman to postpone the lecture.C. He doesn’t know anything about engineering.D. He regularly gives lectures to high school students.10. A. It’s more effective if priority is given to listening.B. It’s less effective if reading comes before listening.C. It’s more e ffective if listening is combined with reading.D. It’s less effective if the learner checks the same information.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. To provide a protective space for giant pandas.B. To stop the loss of giant pandas’ natural habitats.C. To help China to improve its economy on the whole.D. To protect the giant pandas in the proposed territory.12. A. About 300. B. Around 1864. C. More than 2,000. D. Less than 1564.13. A. The park first began to be constructed in January 2017.B. 1.5 billion yuan will be invested in the construction of the park.C. The park will cover a bit more space than Yellowstone National Park.D. The place where the park is to be constructed is a poverty-stricken area. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Smart mirrors that make you look much smarter.B. Software apps that allow you to add images to photos.C. Virtual mirrors that teach you to use camera functions.D. Special apps that help you see your image after try-on.15. A. They can make it easy for customers to make up.B. They can help stores avoid damage, loss and theft.C. They can teach users how to make smart products.D. They can improve the effect of products on customers.16. A. They promote both online and offline businesses.B. They have high requirements for mobile devices.C. They enable customers to interact with each other.D. They are quite similar to previous apps like Snapchat.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Their great food and free drinks for lunch.B. The numerous benefits of drinking hot liquids.C. The way to get rid of unhealthy drinking habits.D. Their different perspectives on hot and cold drinks.18. A. By causing sweat. B. By increasing blood flow.C. By helping ease pain.D. By emitting pleasant smells.19. A. It slows down blood flow. B. It makes one consume more.C. It helps one become slimmer.D. It is good for one’s digestion.20. A. The man prefers hot drinks only on very cold days.B. The woman may change her habit of drinking cold liquids.C. The woman believes drinking cold water also helps relieve a cold.D. The man is trying losing weight by exercising and drinking hot water.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.China’s Good Samaritan Law (见义勇为法) Takes EffectChina’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people who voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in danger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people (21)_____ (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed (讹诈) later.There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade (22)_____ people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have been blackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and 18 people passed by (23)_____ offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but (24)_____ (accuse) of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when (25)_____ (face) with demands for a large sum of money.These cases (26)_____ (arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years. “If you don’t provide help, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely (27)_____ (hurt) by the people you help. It is really a difficult choice,” one netizen said on Sina Weibo.(28)_____ there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed ahead with such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.However, some experts are concerned (29)_____ there could be some danger from a nationwide Good Samaritan Law. “Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to people in critical conditions,” said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Ren min University of China. He hoped the government (30)_____ introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.第 3 页/ 共15 页Bob Dylan Wins a Nobel Prize in LiteratureBob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The productive musician is the first Nobel winner to have followed a career primarily as a singer-songwriter. What’s more, he’s also the first American to have won the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American 31 the prize.Dylan earned the prize “for having 32 new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” according to the statement by the Swedish Academy, the commi ttee that annually decides the winner of the Nobel Prize. The academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday.The win comes as something of a(n) 33 . As usual, the Swedish Academy did not announce a shortlist of nominees (被提名者), leaving the betting markets to their best 34 . And while Dylan has enjoyed favor as an outside shot for the award, the 35 that the musician would be the one to break the Americans’ long dry period was regarded as unlikely—especially because he made his career mainly on the stage, not the 36 page.Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but 37 , both in the U.S. and beyond its borders. The productive singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums. Dylan, who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, “has the status of an idol (偶像),”the Swedish Academy wrote. “His influence on contemporary music is significant, and he is the object of a steady stream of 38 literature.”In an interview following the announcement, Danius 39 the Swedish Academy’s decision: “He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition, and he is a wonderful sampler—a very original sampler,” Danius explained. “For 54 years now he has been at it and reinventing himself, constantly creati ng a new identity.”And for his work, he has been 40 by critical community. Dylan has won Grammys, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. Now, to the honors Dylan has added a Nobel.Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The Companies Doing the Most to Make Their Employees Happier Fat paychecks, light workloads, and endless vacation days don’t necessarily add to happy employees. In fact, the happiest employees in the U.S. owe their happiness to first-rate employee motivations, sufficient benefits, career advancement programs, and great work-life balance. The companies that have been the most devoted to cultivating and advancing these things in the past year have seen employee happiness 41 .The jobs site /doc/fdd504f89989680203d8ce2f0066f5335a81673a.html just announced the winners of this year’s “Leap Awards,” which honor the companies that have made the biggest leaps to improve employee happiness year-over-year. CareerBliss evaluated more than 250,000 company reviews and ratings it received from 42第 4 页/ 共15 页nationwide to determine the top 50 deserving companies. To 43 the list, each company had to have at least 50 reviews.“The Leap Awards are important because they highlight 44 in our workforce,” says CareerBliss’s chief executive, Heidi Golledge. CareerBliss asked the respondents to evaluate the key factors that 45 work happiness, including work-life balance, one’s relationship with the boss and co-workers, the work environment, job resources, salary, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, daily tasks, and job 46 .Each respondent valued each of these things on a 1-to-5 scale, and indicated how important each was to their overall happiness at work. These numbers were 47 to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each company. These averages were compared to la st year’s numbers to find which companies had 48 the most.“Every employer who receives a Leap Award should 49 their workplace happiness initiatives,” says Golledge. “Even though we are coming out of a difficult time, it is 50 to see companies putting their efforts into providing a great environment for their employees. These efforts in workplace happiness will ensure that their employees will be around for years to come, as happiness breeds 51 .”“We find each year that work-life balance is a key factor in determining employee happiness,” says Golledge. “Employees want to know that they can balance their career with their family and personal life. Often this 52 over things like salary. Having programs that allow managers to offer employees flexibility can be a key factor in creating a happy work environment. 53 , we see career advancement programs have a big impact on overall employee happiness. Often employees would rather take a job for a 54 salary, if the company provides a comprehensive program which will help grow their career. Employees want to learn, develop and sustain a successful career path.”Workplace happiness is the core of CareerBliss’ mission, Miller says. “An individual’s happiness at work will create happiness throughout all areas of their life, and 55 a company with a happy, motivated workforce will see exceptional results in its products and services.”41. A. soar B. change C. cease D. disappear42. A. netizens B. administrators C. candidates D. employees43. A. make up B. qualify for C. count on D. refer to44. A. change B. power C. duty D. variety45. A. lay in B. resulted from C. focused on D. contributed to46. A. analysis B. vacancy C. flexibility D. responsibility47. A. applied B. combined C. compared D. remembered48. A. benefited B. improved C. changed D. produced49. A. approve of B. account for C. take pride in D. get used to50. A. good B. easy C. impossible D. interesting51. A. profit B. honesty C. creativity D. loyalty52. A. turns B. runs C. advantages D. skips53. A. However B. Otherwise C. Besides D. Instead54. A. lower B. fair C. regular D. similar55. A. obviously B. frankly C. fortunately D. similarly第 5 页/ 共15 页Directions:Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.（A）In the world of higher education in the United States, competition seems more common than schools working together. Every college and university competes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.But one thing almost every school has in common is the difficulty they face in serving low-income students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-income college students are less likely to complete their study programs than other students.It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United States and serve different populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Alliance or UIA for sharing information related to this problem. Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those students being low-income. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-income graduates.How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a computer program that fellow UIA member Georgia State University was using. This computer program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facing difficulties. That way the advisors can try to help students before the problems become too serious. Michigan State began using the computer program and it has meant a world of difference. Michigan State has not only received useful information from its partners. It has also shared helpful information of its own.Bridget Burns, the executive director for the UIA, says efforts like this have never been as successful. “There are rankings that measure all kinds of things,” Burns said. “But how well you do for low-income students has not historically been highlighted.”56. What led to the setting up of the UIA?A. The low graduation rates.B. The great need of low-income students.C. The inefficiency of learning.D. The severe competition between schools.57. The UIA functions in such a way as the member universities _____.A. find out their own graduation ratesB. share and follow each other’s good practice第 6 页/ 共15 页第 7 页 / 共 15 页 C. make joint efforts to aid students financiallyD. popularize computer programs among students58. By “it has meant a world of difference ” in paragraph 6, the author means Michigan State _____.A. has found the computer program quite different from theirsB. has discovered the computer program is very difficult to useC. has helped students successfully with the computer programD. has involved more academic advisors in the computer program59. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A. Universities Highlighting Their Efforts for Low-IncomesB. Universities Competing for Better Students and Teachers（B ）As a Guardian Supporter, you’ll enjoy a nu mber of。

崇明区2018届第二次高考模拟考试英语参考答案及评分标准I. Listening Comprehension（共25分。

第1至10小题，每题1分；第11至20小题，每题1.5分。

）1. B2. C3. A4. D5. D6. D7. A8. B9. A 10. C11. A 12. B 13. D 14. D 15. B 16. A 17. D 18. A 19. C 20. CII. Grammar and Vocabulary（共20分。

每小题1分。

）21. hesitating 22. where 23. without 24. was accused 25. faced26. have aroused 27. to be hurt 28. Although/Though/While 29. that 30. could31. G 32. K 33. A 34. B 35. H 36. F 37. I 38. C 39. E 40. JIII. Reading Comprehension（共45分。

第41至55小题，每题1分；第56至70小题，每题2分。

）41. A 42. D 43. B 44. A 45. D 46. C 47. B 48. B 49. C 50. A51. D 52. C 53. C 54. A 55. D 56. A 57. B 58. C 59. C 60. A61. C 62. B 63. B 64. C 65. D 66. B 67. B 68. D 69. E 70. AIV. Summary Writing（共10分）Researchers recently found smartphones influenced learning. For one thing, smartphones have become an essential part of life, without which people feel at a loss, thus distracting their attention from learning. For another, people rely so heavily on smartphones that their long-term memory can be affected. However, having access to a large amount of information also benefits people in some aspects. (60 words)评分标准：1. 本题总分为10分, 其中内容5分, 语言5分。

崇明县2018年高考模拟考试试卷高三英语（考试时间120分钟，满分150分。

请将答案填写在答题纸上。

）第I卷（共118分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections:In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. At 5:30. B. At5:00. C. At4:30. D. At 4:00.2. A. She’s happy with driving to work. B. Ten miles is too short a distance.C. She lives too far from her working place.D. The road is good but the traffic isn’t.3. A. In aclassroom.B. In a bookstore.C. In alibrary.D. In a department store.4. A. Paying a bill. B. Changing money.C. Counting money.D. Saving money.5. A. Boss and clerk. B. Doctor and patient.C. Teacher and student.D. Father and daughter.6. A. He should draft an outline. B. He should think about his ideas more.C. He should read the essay out.D. He should immediately write the essay.7. A. Curious. B.Enthusiastic.C. Fascinated.D. Uninterested.8. A. Pass thebook.B. Listen to the woman.C. Take the bookhimself. D. Repeat his request.9. A. By bus. B. Bybike.C. By car.D. By taxi.10. A. James is clever but very shy. B. James is smart but not qualified enough.C. James is qualified but very lazy.D. James is pitiful but interested in the job.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following report.11. A. By begging in the street everyday.B. By bringing food from Wan Chenchen’s school.C. By selling paper boards and used plastic bottles.D. By relying on the mo ney Wan Chenchen’s parents left.12. A. He is afraid of the surgery.B. He doesn’t want to be looked down upon.C. He has six fingers on his right hand.D. The government has given him much money.13. A. Independent. B. Intelligent. C. Naughty. D. Timid.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. They can make new friends. B. They can learn more about the world.C. They can know themselves better.D. They can make their own schedules.15. A. They become scientists. B. They cook for their new friends.C. They learn to ride a horse.D. They do a lot of shopping.16. A. Travelling alone is romantic.B. Travelling alone is a good way of travel.C. Travelling alone provides a good way to study.D. Travelling alone is scary and boring for some people.Section CDirections:In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.25. Germs are everywhere, just waiting to enter your body and infect you ________a cold, the flu or other sicknesses.A. toB.at C.from D. with26. Each of them knew the probable purpose of ________ in standing there, and neitherspoke.A. the otherB.another C.others D. the others27. We can't act on your advice; _______, thank you for giving it.A. moreoverB.therefore C.nevertheless D. instead28. One of the basic principles of wildlife protection involves _______ adequatenatural food and shelter to maintain populations of each species in a given environment.A. providedB.providing C. to provide D. provide29. It was from the wallets of these poor people that cigarette makers are determinedto make money by promoting goods ________ are labeled by the WHO as dangerous to health.A. whereB.which C.what D. as30. Wearing shoes _______ for the activity you are doing can help avoid some footinjuries to a large extent.A. designB.designing C.designed D. to design31. It has been proved _______ eating vegetables in childhood helps to protect youagainst serious illness in later life.A. ifB.because C.that D. when32. I _______ to him because he phoned me shortly afterwards.A. needn’t havewritten B. might not have writtenC. couldn’t havewritten D.mustn’t have written33. The question to be discussed is _______ we can make our efforts rewarded.A. howB.if C.which D. what34. _______ the volunteers have to consider their own problems, they are stillencouraged by the spirit.A. If onlyB. Evenif C. As long as D. As far as35. This scientist is known _______ on this problem for about ten years.A. to workB. to beworking C. to have been working D. to have been worked36. It was only when I reread his poems recently ________ I began to appreciate theirbeauty.A. thatB.which C.when D. so37. Smokers who regularly drink are nearly________ to suffer from lung cancer asare smokers who don't drink, according to a new study in Cancer Research.A. twice likely asB. twice as likelyC. as twicelikely D. as likely as38. _______ different life today is from what it was fifty years ago!A. WhatB. Whata C.How D. How a39. ________ thoroughly, the garden looked more beautiful than ever before.A. CleaningB. Having been cleanedC. Having itcleaned D. He had cleaned it40. ________ there is water nearby, make a special effort to breed fish.A. AlthoughB.Unless C.Where D. UntilSection BDirections:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Eacham 41 that naturalists are born and not made. Although we were all brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon 42 their pressed flowers and insects. Unlike them, I had no 43 for music and languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental arithmetic.Before World War I, we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the 44 memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do I recall clearly the large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered next door. But I do have a clear memory of the dogs, the farm animals, the local birds, and above all, the insects.I am a naturalist, not a scientist. I have a strong love for the natural world and my enthusiasm had led me into various investigations. I love discussing my favorite topics and enjoy burning the midnight oil reading about other people's observations and discoveries. Then something happens—that brings these observations together in my 45 mind. Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the 46 , because it all seems to fit together. This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers and books, which some might honor with the 47 of scientific research.But curiosity, a keen eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do not make a scientist: one of the outstanding and essential qualities 48 is self-discipline, a quality I lack. A scientist, up to point, can be made. A naturalist is 49 . If you can combine the two, you get the best of both worlds.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.It’s hardly surprising that weather is a favorite topic for so many people around the world. It 50 where we choose to live, what we wear, our moods, and perhaps even our national features. A sunny day can lessen the deepest 51 , while very bad weather can destroy homes and threaten lives.The human race has always tried to 52 the weather, especially in areas of the world where there are many changes. Two popular traditional ways of predicting weather use pine cones(松果) and seaweed(海草). When the air has a high level of humidity(湿度), there is a higher chance of rain. When the humidity is low, there is more chance of 53 weather. Pine cones and seaweed feels dry when the humidity is low, 54 high humidity has the opposite effect.Today’s methods of prediction increasingly depend on 55 . Satellites, balloons, ships, aircraft and weather centers with 56 equipments send data to computers. The data is then 57 , and the weather is predicted. However, 58 this system can not predict weather for longer than about aweek.A recent study by an Australian scientist suggests that certain people may have a special 59 for predicting weather. However, it is 60 that these people could use their talent in another way, since the same group had a lot of success in predicting changes in another system—the stock market.It 61 that a study of weather may also enable scientists to predict the sudden 62 of a disease. An Ebola epidemic (a kind of disease) in Uganda in the year 2000 came after the same rare 63 conditions that had been present before a sudden spread of the disease 6 years earlier. Efforts to 64 the spread of air-borne diseases such as foot and mouth are also strongly dependent on favorable wind conditions.50. A. shows B. affects C. predicts D. introduces51. A. enjoyment B. sadness C. excitement D. laziness52. A. guess B. use C. change D. improve53. A. windy B. bad C. fine D. cold54. A. when B. while C. although D. as55. A. industry B. intelligence C. technology D. people56. A. monitoring B. predicting C. shaping D. moving57. A. used B. processed C. taught D. answered58. A. also B. still C. only D. even59. A. gift B. concern C. application D. liking60. A. necessary B. easy C. unique D. possible61. A. happens B. occurs C. appears D. estimates62. A. start B. shift C. cure D. crash63. A. living B. working C. health D. weather64. A. encourage B. quicken C. limit D. shortenSection BDirections:Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)Being a victim of schoolyard violence can help pupils learn how to manage argument and develop their ability to get along with others, it was claimed.Helene Guldberg, associate lecturer in child development at the Open University, said trying to stop the “supposedly terrible dangers of bullying(欺负)” can do more harm than good. She insisted teachers should not break up “everyday playground argument”, saying children should be left to deal with it themselves.In an on-line article, Dr. Guldberg said that bullying was “an experience that children need to develop”. But the comments were strongly criticized by anti-bullying campaigners.According to official figures, almost half of children claim they are bullied at school. One of the biggest studies of its kind by Ofsted showed 48 percent of young people had been orally or physically abused in the last year. It comes despite a number of government measures designed to crack down on the threats.Writin g on a website, Dr. Guldberg said: “Teachers are increasingly taking the task of looking after children’s health and well-being rather than being allowed to get on with the task of educating them. Children are encouraged to assume their relationships with other children are damaging, and encouraged to look upon their classmates with suspicion.” She added: “If we treat children as if they cannot possibly cope with hurtful experiences, then we will likely to weaken their confidence and make them less likely to cope with difficult events in the future. In effect, we will prevent them from growing up.”The comments echo(附和) remarks made by teachers in recent years who claim the education system has been too focused on developing children’s social skills at the expense of academic learning. But Sue Steel, national manager of the Anti-Bullying Alliance, said: “Children who are being bullied often find it difficult to tell anyone. Teachers can help by giving appropriate attention.”65. The underlined word “abused” in Para. 4 is similar in meaning to “_________”.A. criticizedB. attackedC. helpedD. judged66. Which of the following is TURE according to Helene Guldberg?A. Teachers should take the task o f dealing with children’s argument.B. Children should be left to cope with their argument themselves.C. Children will gain their confidence if teachers manage their argument for them.D. Children can’t cope with difficult events after dealing wi th hurtfulexperiences themselves.67. Anti-bullying campaigners think that __________.A. teachers should help deal with children’s argument in a proper wayB. the government should take measures to stop children from being bulliedC. children will be prevented from growing up with too much school violenceD. teachers should develop children’s academic learning rather than social skills68. The passage mainly tells us that schoolyard violence is __________.A. difficult to get rid ofB. common among young peopleC. not necessarily bad for childrenD. harmful to children’s academic learning(B)69. If Jack wants to call his friend in Northern Ireland from London, he should dial ________.A. 0184 + area code (without 0) + local numberB. 188 + area code (without 0) + local numberC. area code (with 0) + local numberD. 01853 + the area code (without 0) + local number70. While travelling in Northern Ireland, you _________.A. can shop until 21:00 on ThursdaysB. needn’t leave a tip after receiving serviceC. can use American dollars to buy what you wantD. can draw money from banks from 9:00 to 16:30 every day71. Which of the following is TRUE according to the above Visitor Guide?A. A German needn’t a passport to travel in Northern Ireland.B. A visitor can dial 999 in emergency situations while in Northern Ireland.C. Any European can get healthcare in Northern Ireland at a reduced cost or free of charge.D. A visitor will be charged £3 for leaving luggage in Belfast Welcome Centre for 6 hours.(C)Lots of bacteria can grow in the seemingly unfriendly environment under glaciers(冰川), a region formerly considered free of much biology. This finding by glaciologists working in Switzerland could help solve some puzzles of the last ice age and point the way for finding life on other planets.Bacteria with odd lifestyles have been under increasing study lately, with most research focused on the species which prefer hot homes. The new study shifts attention to the other end of the thermometer(温度计). The exciting thing is the idea of pushing the window of acceptable bacterial environments a little bit farther open.Researchers have previously collected small numbers of bacteria from ice in Antarctica and Greenland, but they could not determine whether these were active bacteria or just frozen cells blown in by wind. In contrast, the earth beneath two Swiss glaciers harbors large colonies of bacteria—hundreds of millions of cells per gram—that appear to be growing at 0℃.Scientists followed upon these findings by taking samples of ice, water, and earth at two mountain glaciers. They found that earth beneath the glaciers contained much larger populations of bacteria than did surface and inner part of ice. Those findings indicate that the bacteria were growing at the bottom of the glacier and are not something washed in while the scientists drilled through the ice.Looking at the bacteria under a microscope(显微镜), the researchers found that many were in the process of dividing, and healthy under the ice. The bacteria might break down minerals and plant remains originally buried beneath the glacier or later washed in by water going slowly through the ice, scientists say.“Some of the assumptions we have made in the past now must be seriously questioned,” say researchers. “If bacteria can live under glaciers on Earth, why not on other planets? The new study points out in many ways that the bottoms of glaciers are probably quite good environments from the point of view of bacteria. So, maybe the bottom of the ice sheets on other planets would be a sensible place to try if you’re going to look for life on them.”72. What is special about the new study on bacteria?A. It focuses on the bacteria in hot environments.B. It opens the windows of the bacterial labs wider.C. It pays more attention to the bacteria in the thermometer.D. It cha nges scientists’ view about the environment bacteria exist in.73. Which of the following facts proves that bacteria under glaciers are alive?A. Water is going slowly through the ice.B. The drills used by scientists are free of bacteria.C. Many of the bacteria are in the process of dividing.D. The earth beneath the glacier contains more bacteria.74. From the passage we can learn that ________.A. bacteria disappear in the inner part of iceB. bacteria must be also alive on other planetsC. bacteria can grow in extreme weathersD. bacteria grow by breaking themselves down75. The passage is mainly about the possibility of the existence of life _________.A. under the seaB. in hot waterC. on other planetsD. under glaciersSection CDirections: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for eachparagraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.Many men are devoted to exercise to build up their bodies, but the phrase “use it or lose it” applies to more than just the muscle in our bodies—it also applies to our brains. Here are 5 tips that can help our brains stay sharp.76. _________It plays an important role in all cognitive activities, including reading, reasoning and mental calculation. There are several types of its work in the brain. Taken together, these are the cognitive skills we may notice most when they begin to fail. To keep a good memory, you need to train for it, which can be easier than you think. Listening to music is enjoyable. By choosing a song you don’t know and memorizing the lyrics, you improve your memory skills.77. _________It is necessary in nearly all daily tasks and it enables you to focus despite noise and to think about several things at once. We can improve the skill by simply changing our routines. Change your course to work or reorganize your desk—both will force your brain to wake up and pay attention again.78. _________It will increase your ability to recognize, remember and understand words. With regular practice, you can expand your knowledge of new words and more easily think of words to say because they will come to you more naturally. For example, if you usually only read the sports section, try reading a few business articles. You’ll learn new words, and by using them you can also exercise your brain.79. _________You can also exercise your brain by taking advantage of your environment. Try walking into a room and picking out five items and their locations. When you exitthe room, try to remember all five items and where they are located. Too easy? Wait two hours and try to remember those items and their locations. Analyzing what you saw will force you to use your memory and train your brain to focus on your surroundings.80. _________It helps you make decisions, build up hypotheses and consider the possible consequences of your actions. Activities in which you must define a strategy to reach a desired outcome and calculate the right moves to reach the solution in the shortest possible time are actually fun activities you can do daily. For example, playing video games requires you to come up with a strategy so as to advance to the next level.Section DDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.In so many ways, cyberspace(网络空间) mirrors the real world. People ask for information, play games, and share hobby tips. Others buy and sell products. Still others look for friendship, or even love.Unlike the real world, however, your knowledge about a person is limited to words on a computer screen. Identity and appearance mean very little in cyberspace. Rather, a person’s thoughts—or at least the thoughts they type—are what really count. So even the shyest person can become a chat-room star.Usually, this “faceless” communication doesn’t create problems. Identity doesn’t really matter when you’re in a chat room discussing politics or hobbies. In fact, this emphasis on the ideas themselves makes the Internet a great place for exciting conversation. Where else can so many people come together to chat about their interests?But some Internet users want more than just someone to chat with. They’re looking for serious love relationships. Is cyberspace a good place to find love? That answer depends on whom you ask. Some of these relationships actually succeed. Others fail miserably.Supporters of online relationships claim that the Internet allows couples to get to know each other intellectually first. Personal appearance doesn’t get in the way.But critics of online relationships argue that no one can truly know another person in cyberspace. Why? Because the Internet gives users a lot of control over how others view them. Internet users can carefully craft their words to fit whatever image they want to give. And they don’t have to worry about what their “faceless” communication is doing for their image. In a sense, they’re not really themselves.All of this may be fine if the relationship stays in cyberspace. But not knowing a p erson is a big problem in a love relationship. With so many unknowns, it’s easy to let one’s imagination “fill in the blanks.” This inevitably leads to disappointment when couples meet in person. How someone imagines an online friend is often quite different than the real person.So, before looking for love in cyberspace, remember the advice of Internet pioneer Clifford Stoll: “Life in the real world is far richer than anything you’ll find on a computer screen.”(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)81. We learn about a person in cyberspace only through ______________________________.82. Why is the Internet a great place for exciting conversation?83. What makes online love relationship often fail?84. From the passage we can learn that the writer __________________________ lookingfor love on the Internet.第Ⅱ卷（共45分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1. 请完成作业后再和你的朋友聊天。

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请将答案填写在答题纸上）I.ListeningComprehension5.A.She’8.A.Shehashadhercamerabroken. B.Shehasn’thandedinherphoto.C.Shehasbeenbusytakingphotos.D.Shehasn’torderedastudent’scard.9.A.Hehasn’tpreparedwellforhislecture.B.Hewantsthewomantopostponethelecture.C.Hedoesn’tknowanythingaboutengineering.仅供个人学习参考D.Heregularlygiveslecturestohighschoolstudents.10.A.It’smoreeffectiveifpriorityisgiventolistening.B.It’slesseffectiveifreadingcomesbeforelistening.C.It’smoreeffectiveiflisteningiscombinedwithreading.D.It’slesseffectiveifthelearnerchecksthesameinformation. SectionBB.Softwareappsthatallowyoutoaddimagestophotos.C.Virtualmirrorsthatteachyoutousecamerafunctions.D.Specialappsthathelpyouseeyourimageaftertry-on.15.A.Theycanmakeiteasyforcustomerstomakeup.仅供个人学习参考B.Theycanhelpstoresavoiddamage,lossandtheft.C.Theycanteachusershowtomakesmartproducts.D.Theycanimprovetheeffectofproductsoncustomers.16.A.Theypromotebothonlineandofflinebusinesses.B.Theyhavehighrequirementsformobiledevices.C.Theyenablecustomerstointeractwitheachother.SectionADirections:Afterreadingthepassagebelow,fillintheblankstomakethepassagecoherentandgrammaticallycorr ect.Fortheblankswithagivenword,fillineachblankwiththeproperformofthegivenword;fortheotherblanks,use onewordthatbestfitseachblank.China’s GoodSamaritanLaw(见义勇为法)TakesEffect仅供个人学习参考China’sGoodSamaritanLawwentintoeffectonOctober1toencouragepeoplewhoarereadytohelpothers.U nderthelaw,peoplewhovoluntarilyofferemergencyassistancetothosewhoare,orwhotheybelievetobe,injured,i llorindanger,willnothavecivilresponsibilityintheeventofharmtothevictims.Thenewlawaimstoeasethereluctancepeoplefeeltowardhelpingstrangersforfearoflegalconsequencesifth eymakemistakesintreatment.Itisaresponsetothephenomenonofpeople(21)_____(hesitate)tohelpfallensenior citizensduetoconcernthattheymightbe blackmailed(讹诈)later.Therehasbeennoshortageofcasesoverthepastdecade(22)_____peoplehesitatedtoofferassistancetothose whoareinneed.AndsomegoodSamaritanshavebeenblackmailedforcharitableacts.In2011,atwo-year-oldgirlk仅供个人学习参考仅供个人学习参考50.A.good B.easy C.impossible D.interesting51.A.profit B.honesty C.creativity D.loyalty52.A.turns B.runs C.advantages D.skips53.A.However B.Otherwise C.Besides D.Instead仅供个人学习参考54.A.lower B.fair C.regular D.similar55.A.obviously B.frankly C.fortunately D.similarlySectionBDirections:Readthefollowingthreepassages.Eachpassageisfollowedbyseveralquestionsorunfinishedstatem ents.ForeachofthemtherearefourchoicesmarkedA,B,CandD.Choosetheonethatfitsbestaccordingtotheinform ationgiveninthepassageyouhavejustread.（A）仅供个人学习参考56.WhatledtothesettingupoftheUIA?A.Thelowgraduationrates.B.Thegreatneedoflow-incomestudents. Wewanttomaketheworldabetter,fairerplace.Wewanttokeepthepowerfulhonest.Andwebelievethatdoingsomeanskeepingsocietyinformedbyproducingquality,independentjournalism,whichdiscoversandtellsreadersthetruth.It’sessentialforthefunctioningofdemocracy.Andouruniqueownershipstructuremeansnoon ecantellustodropastory.akeourfuturemoresecure.仅供个人学习参考Likemanyothermediaorganisations,theGuardianisoperatinginanincrediblychallengingfin ancialclimate.Ouradvertisingincomesarefallingfast.Wehavehugenumbersofreaders,andw Wedon’thaveawealthyownerpullingthestrings.Noshareholders,advertisersorbillionaireo60.Theabovewebpagemainlyaimsto_____.A.raisefundsfromreadersrmreadersofqualityjournalismC.attractmorereadersD.guaranteereadersasecurefuture61.WhichofthefollowingisadifficultytheGuardianisfacing?仅供个人学习参考A.It’slosingitseditorialindependence.B.It’sbecomingincreasinglyreliantonitsowner.C.It’sprofitingmuchlessfromadvertising.D.It’soperatinginachallengingpoliticalclimate.62.Whatcanbeinferredfromthewebpage?A.SomebillionaireownersaretheGuardian’seditors.B.TheGuardianisindependentfinanciallyandpolitically.C.ShareholderscaninterferewiththeGuardian’sjournalism.仅供个人学习参考63.Whydidsocialmediastarspostshortvideosontheirchannelsbefore Superstore’ssecondseason?A.Toattractmoreinfluencers.B.Todrawaudience’sattention.C.Toputonbetterperformances.D.Toincreasethechannels’popularity.64.Advertisersliketheinfluencermarketingstrategybecause_____.A.audiencesbelieveinwhateveronlinestarsrecommendB.influencersarequiteawareoftheimpactofthedigitalage仅供个人学习参考FeelYoungatHeartandY ou’ll EnjoyaLongerLife67Resultsfromthestudy,publishedintheJournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation,suggestthatpeoplewThereyouhaveit.70IV.SummaryWritingDirections:?Readthefollowingpassage.Summarizethemainideaandthemainpoint(s)ofthepassageinnomoret eyourownwordsasfaraspossible.?仅供个人学习参考DoSmartphonesMakeUsSmarter?Shouldteachersallowcellphonesinaclassroom?Arecentstudyonthewaysmartphonesdisturblearningmigh thelpexplaintheissue.Researcherspublishedfindingsshowinghowstudentswereaffectedbytheirphonesinthecl assroom.Theyexploredthedifferencesinstudentperformanceinfoursituations:openphoneuseallowed,phonesa llowedintheclassroombutcouldnotbeused,nophonesintheclassroomandano-instructioncontrolgroup.Afterw atchinga20-minutevideo,studentstookashortquiz.Theresultwasthatthestudentsinaroomwithoutanycellphone sperformedsignificantlybetteronthetest.Scientistsbelievethewayweattachourselvestoourphonescouldbethep roblem.72.73.74.到底是什么促使你放弃了这么稳定的工作，来到这个偏远地区保护野生动物？(it)75.人工智能正以如此快的速度改变着整个世界，你很难预测未来的生活究竟会是什么样子。

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请将答案填写在答题纸上）I. Listening prehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A.In a train. B. In a theater. C. In a meeting room.D. In a booking office.2. A. $2.4. B. $4.8. C. $7.2. D. $9.6.3. A. A waitress. B. A customer. C. A secretary. D. A saleswoman.4. A. The man’s air-conditioner is broken. B. The man doesn’t have air-conditioning.C. The summer has been unusually hot.D. The man hasn’t been using his air-conditioner.5. A. She’s enjoying the music. B. The music doesn’t bother her.C. She would prefer different music.D. The music will keep her awake.6. A. She acted like a stranger today. B. She usually talks quietly.C. She didn’t give the lesson today.D. She usually assigns homework.7. A. A job opportunity. B. A position as general manager.C. A travel experience.D. A sales manager’s experiences.8. A. She has had her camera broken. B. She hasn’t handed in her photo.C. She has been busy taking photos.D. She hasn’t ordered a student’s card.9. A. He hasn’t prepared well for his lecture.B. He wants the woman to postpone the lecture.C. He doesn’t know anything about engineering.D. He regularly gives lectures to high school students.10. A. It’s more effective if priority is given to listening.B. It’s less effective if reading es before listening.C. It’s more effective if listening is bined with reading.D. It’s less effective if the learner checks the same information.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will heartwo short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. The passages and theconversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1 / 15Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. To provide a protective space for giant pandas.B. To stop the loss of giant pandas’natural habitats.C. To help China to improve its economy on the whole.D. To protect the giant pandas in the proposed territory.12. A. About 300. B. Around 1864.C. More than 2,000.D. Less than 1564.13. A. The park first began to be constructed in January 2017.B. 1.5 billion yuan will be invested in the construction of the park.C. The park will cover a bit more space than Yellowstone National Park.D. The place where the park is to be constructed is a poverty-stricken area. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Smart mirrors that make you look much smarter.B. Software apps that allow you to add images to photos.C. Virtual mirrors that teach you to use camera functions.D. Special apps that help you see your image after try-on.15. A. They can make it easy for customers to make up.B. They can help stores avoid damage, loss and theft.C. They can teach users how to make smart products.D. They can improve the effect of products on customers.16. A. They promote both online and offline businesses.B. They have high requirements for mobile devices.C. They enable customers to interact with each other.D. They are quite similar to previous apps like Snapchat.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Their great food and free drinks for lunch.B. The numerous benefits of drinking hot liquids.C. The way to get rid of unhealthy drinking habits.D. Their different perspectives on hot and cold drinks.18. A. By causing sweat. B. By increasing blood flow.C. By helping ease pain.D. By emitting pleasant smells.19. A. It slows down blood flow. B. It makes one consume more.C. It helps one bee slimmer.D. It is good for one’s digestion.20. A. The man prefers hot drinks only on very cold days.B. The woman may change her habit of drinking cold liquids.C. The woman believes drinking cold water also helps relieve a cold.D. The man is trying losing weight by exercising and drinking hot water.2 / 15II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.China’s Good Samaritan Law (见义勇为法) Takes EffectChina’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people who voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in danger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people (21)_____ (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed (讹诈) later.There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade (22)_____ people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have been blackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and 18 people passed by (23)_____ offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but (24)_____ (accuse) of knocking him down. The man mitted suicide when (25)_____ (face) with demands for a large sum of money.These cases (26)_____ (arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years. “If you don’t provide help, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely (27)_____ (hurt) by the people you help. It is really a difficult choice,” one netizen said on SinaWeibo.(28)_____ there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed ahead with such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.However, some experts are concerned (29)_____ there could be some danger from a nationwide Good Samaritan Law. “Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to people in critical conditions,”said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Renmin University of China. He hoped the government (30)_____ introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.Section BDirections:After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.3 / 15Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The productive musician is the first Nobel winner to have followed a career primarily as a singer-songwriter. What’s more, he’s also the first American to have won the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American 31 the prize.Dylan earned the prize “for having 32 new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” according to the statement by the Swedish Academy, the mittee that annually decides the winner of the Nobel Prize. The academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday.The win es as something of a(n) 33 . As usual, the Swedish Academy did not announce a shortlist of nominees (被提名者), leaving the betting markets to their best 34 . And while Dylan has enjoyed favor as an outside shot for the award, the 35 that the musician would be the one to break the Americans’ long dry period was regarded as unlikely—especially because he made his career mainly on the stage, not the 36 page.Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but 37 , both in the U.S. and beyond its borders. The productive singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums. Dylan, who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, “has the status of an idol(偶像),” the Swedish Academy wrote. “His influence on contemporary music is significant, and he is the object of a steady stream of 38 literature.”In an interview following the announcement, Danius 39 the Swedish Academy’s decision: “He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition, and he is a wonderful sampler—a very original sampler,”Danius explained. “For 54 years now he has been at it and reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity.”And for his work, he has been 40 by critical munity. Dylan has won Grammys, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. Now, to the honors Dylan has added a Nobel.III. Reading prehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, Cand D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The panies Doing the Most to Make Their Employees Happier Fat paychecks, light workloads, and endless vacation days don’t necessarily add to happy employees. In fact, the happiest employees in the U.S. owe their happiness to first-rate employee motivations, sufficient benefits, career advancement programs, and great work-life balance. The panies that have been the most devoted to cultivating and advancing these things in the past year have seen employee happiness 41 .The jobs site CareerBliss. just announced the winners of this year’s “Leap Awards,” which honor the panies that have made the biggest leaps to improve employee happiness year-over-year. CareerBliss evaluated more than 250,000 pany reviews and ratings it received from 424 / 15nationwide to determine the top 50 deserving panies. To 43 the list, each pany had to have at least 50 reviews.“The Leap Awards are important because they highlight 44 in our workforce,” says CareerBliss’s chief executive, Heidi Golledge. CareerBliss asked the respondents to evaluate the key factors that 45 work happiness, including work-life balance, one’s relationship with the boss and co-workers, the work environment, job resources, salary, growth opportunities, pany culture, pany reputation, daily tasks, and job 46 .Each respondent valued each of these things on a 1-to-5 scale, and indicated how important each was to their overall happiness at work. These numbers were 47 to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each pany. These averages were pared to last year’s numbers to fi nd which panies had 48 the most.“Every employer who receives a Leap Award should 49 their workplace happiness initiatives,” says Golledge. “Even though we are ing out of a difficult time, it is 50 to see panies putting their efforts into providing a great environment for their employees. These efforts in workplace happiness will ensure that their employees will be around for years to e, as happiness breeds 51 .”“We find each year that work-life balance is a key factor in determining employe e happiness,” says Golledge. “Employees want to know that they can balance their career with their family and personal life. Often this 52 over things like salary. Having programs that allow managers to offer employees flexibility can be a key factor in creating a happy work environment. 53 , we see career advancement programs have a big impact on overall employee happiness. Often employees would rather take a job for a 54 salary, if the pany provides a prehensive program which will help grow their career. Employees want to learn, develop and sustain a successful career path.”Workplace happiness is the core of CareerBliss’ mission, Miller says. “A n individual’s happiness at work will create happiness throughout all areas of their life, and 55 a pany with a happy, motivated workforce will see exceptional results in its products and services.”41. A. soar B. changeC. cease D. disappear42. A. netizens B. administrators C. candidates D. employees43. A. make up B. qualify for C. count on D. refer to44. A. change B. power C. duty D. variety45. A. lay in B. resulted from C. focused on D. contributed to46. A. analysis B. vacancy C. flexibility D. responsibility47. A. applied B. bined C. pared D. remembered48. A. benefited B. improved C. changed D. produced49. A. approve of B. account for C. take pride in D. get used to50. A. good B. easy C. impossible D. interesting51. A. profit B. honesty C. creativity D. loyalty52. A. turns B. runs C. advantages D. skips53. A. However B. Otherwise C. Besides D. Instead54. A. lower B. fair C. regularD.similar55. A. obviously B. frankly C. fortunately D. similarly5 / 15Section BDirections:Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.（A）In the world of higher education in the United States, petition seems more mon than schools working together. Every college and university petes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.But one thing almost every school has in monis the difficulty they face in serving low-ine students.The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-ine college students are less likely to plete their study programs than other students.It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United States and serve different populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Allianceor UIA for sharing information related to this problem.Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those students being low-ine. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-ine graduates.How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a puter program that fellow UIA member Georgia State University was using.This puter program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facing difficulties. That way the advisors can try to help students before the problems bee too serious.Michigan State began using the puter program and it has meant a world of difference.Michigan State has not only received useful information from its partners. It has also shared helpful information of its own.Bridget Burns, the executive director for the UIA, says efforts like this have never been as successful. “There are rankings that measure all kinds of things,”Burns said. “But how well you do for low-ine students has not historically beenhighlighted.”56. What led to the setting up of the UIA?A. The low graduation rates.B. The great need of low-ine students.C. The inefficiency of learning.D. The severe petition between schools.57. The UIA functions in such a way as the member universities _____.A. find out their own graduation ratesB. share and follow each other’s good practice6 / 15C. make joint efforts to aid students financiallyD. popularize puter programs among students58. By “it has meant a world of difference” in paragraph 6, the author means Michigan State _____.A. has found the puter program quite different from theirsB. has discovered the puter programis very difficult to useC. has helped students successfully with the puter programD. has involved more academic advisors in the puter program59. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A. Universities Highlighting Their Efforts for Low-InesB. Universities peting for Better Students and TeachersC. Universities Working Together to Help Poor StudentsD. Universities Creating the UIA to Share Information（B）We want to make the world a better, fairer place. We want to keep the powerful honest. And we believe that doing so means keeping society informed by producing quality, independent journalism, which discovers and tells readers the truth.It’s essential for the functioning of democracy. And our unique ownership s tructure means no one can tell us to drop a story.But it’s difficult and expensive work. While more people are reading the Guardian than ever before, far fewer are paying for it. And advertising ines across the media are falling fast.So if you read us, if you like us, if you value our perspective—then bee a Supporter and help make our future more secure.Supporters get closer to the Guardian As a Guardian Supporter, you’ll enjoy a number of benefits, including:◆Exclusive emails from Guardian journalists◆An ad-free experience on our mobile app◆Joining the global Guardian Members munity◆ A wele giftMost importantly of all, you’ll appreciate every word that you read, in the knowledge that you’ve helped to bring it to the page.7 / 15Why do we need our Supporters?Like many other media organisations, the Guardian is operating in anincredibly challenging financial climate. Our advertising ines arefalling fast. We have huge numbers of readers, and we are increasinglyreliant upon their financial support.We don’t have a wealthy owner pulling the strings. No shareholders, advertisers or billionaire owners can edit our editor.Our owner, the Scott Trust, protects our editorial independence from mercial or political interference (干涉). It reinvests ine into our journalism, not into shareholders’ pockets.But while the Scott Trust ensures our independence, we need our Supporters, now more than ever before, to help secure our future.We know that not everyone is in a position to bee a Supporter. But if you can, you’ll be an essential part of our mission to make the world a better, fairer place, for everyone.60. The above webpage mainly aims to _____.A. raise funds from readersB. inform readers of quality journalismC. attract more readersD. guarantee readers a secure future61. Which of the following is a difficulty the Guardian is facing?A. It’s losing its editorial independence.B. It’s being increasingly reliant on its owner.C. It’s profiting much less from advertising.D. It’s operating in a challenging political climate.62. What can be inferred from the webpage?A. Some billionaire owners are the Guardian’s editors.B. The Guardian is independent financially and politically.C. Shareholders can interfere with the Guardian’s journalism.D. Guardian Supporters can put ads on the mobile app for free.（C）A new kind of production was underway on the set of the NBC edy Superstore.Social media stars were crafting 30-second videos to post on their social media channels ahead of the edy’s second-season return. Each made sure to mention Superstore and its first public show.As networks and studios struggle to reach young audiences in an increasingly fragmented (碎片化的) media marketplace, many have turned to so-called influencers—online stars whose value is measured by the size of their Internet followings—as a means of generating awareness.Advertisers are seizing on the strategy in an age of mercial-skipping and ad-blockers. Word of mouth in the digital age means messages travel faster by way of social media. The majority of consumers worldwidetrust online remendations from stars.And when Superstore gave its first public show, it did so to higher ratings than the last show of Season 1.Studio and network executives say they work with influencers to build brand awareness and reputation in a more friendly way through the friend-like connections consumers feel toward the online personalities they follow.At the upper level, influencers typically have thousands of followers on social8 / 15media and online content platforms and count many millions of people who tune in daily to watch them. Some do something that makes themselves look stupid in their daily routine, sharing videos of their trips to the grocery store or dinner dates. Others have built careers on performances—making edy videos, reviewing video games, performing magic tricks and teaching cooking lessons, among other pursuits.When in the employ of studios, their efforts can be as simple as publicizing a film or more involved attempts like the marketing push for Superstore.Entertainment panies declined to discuss how much they pay influencers. But several experts said their pay ranges from a few thousand dollars to several million. Some simply receive gift baskets instead of pay.Over the last year or so, some entertainment panies have begun to cast influencers in their TV and film projects. The st rategy is a bit of a gamble: It’s a new business model, and questions remain about the effectiveness of using these personalities to improve a show’s ratings—or help open a movie.Just how much influence the influencers have is hard to measure. TV ratings and box-office returns do not reveal what caused a viewer to tune in.What is clear is that these personalities aren’t necessarily getting the work because of their acting skills, but often because of their Internet followings.Yet as social media stars consider whether to take on jobs promo ting movies and TV shows, there’s an important consideration for both parties: the credibility of a campaign.“Fans are definitely aware when they’re being tempte d with promotional posts,” said Zach King, a social media star who performs magic tricks. “It has to be something that is natural and fits with the image of the creator.”63. Why did social media stars post short videos on theirchannelsbefore Superstore’s second season?A. To attract more influencers.B. To draw audience’s attention.C. To put on better performances.D. To increase the channels’ popularity.64. Advertisers like the influencer marketing strategy because _____.A. audiences believe in whatever online stars remendB. influencers are quite aware of the impact of the digital ageC. ordinary advertisements are often ignored by young peopleD. social media platforms are the cheapest place to spread messages65. What is implied in the passage?A. The influencer marketing strategy help build connections between executives.B. Most influencers get paid from gift baskets instead of from their panies.C. Most influencers take on marketing jobs regardless of their reliability.D. The influencer marketing strategy may not really work well.66. The passage mainly wants to tell us that _____.A. most young people like following influencersB. studios are relying more on social media starsC. influencers are gradually replacing movie starsD. social media are filming videos for Superstore9 / 15Section CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.Feel Young at Heart and Y ou’ll Enjoy a Longer LifeAge-liars and birthday-deniers... you’d best learn a thing or two from those who are young at heart. People who feel younger than their actual age may live longer than those who feel older than they truly are, a new study says.67 Results from the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest that people who feel a year ormore older than they truly are could have around 41 percent greater risk for death.Researchers looked at nearly 6,500 older adults, with an average age of 65.8 for the study. Around 70 percent of them felt younger than they were, about a quarter felt their precise age and just under 5 percent felt a year or more older than they were, when asked “How old do you feel you are?”Those who felt older than they were had a higher death rate after a follow-up period of 99 months. While just 14.3 and 18.5 percent of people who felt younger or felt their age, respectively, died during those 99 months, 24.6 percent of those who felt aged beyond their years had died.The authors say more research is needed on the topic, but suggest it could be that those who feel “young at heart” have healthier behaviors and a stronger will to live. “68 Individuals who feel older could be targeted with health messages promoting positive health behaviors and attitudes toward aging,” the authors write in the study.The good news is that you can change your feeling of how young you are. 69 One recent study found that helping participants have positive feelings toward age, by showing them positive word associations, helped older adults improve in physical tasks like balancing and getting up out of a chair, in as little as four weeks. Another study found that negative feeling of aging and poor memory can make older adults feel up to five years older, regardless of their actual mental abilities.There you have it. 7010 / 15IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter?Should teachers allow cellphones in a classroom? A recent study on the way smartphonesdisturb learning might help explain the issue. Researchers published findings showing how students were affected by their phones in the classroom. They explored the differences in student performance in four situations: open phone use allowed, phones allowed in the classroom but could not be used, no phones in the classroom and a no-instruction control group. After watching a 20-minute video, students took a short quiz. The result was that the students in a room without any cellphones performed significantly better on the test. Scientists believe the way we attach ourselves to our phones could be the problem.Smartphoneshave bee so strongly established in society that many people are lost without them. We are now in an age when many people can’t imagine life without a phone. There is even a name for the anxiety caused by not having one—nomophobia, which is the powerful feeling people get when they don’t have signal, their battery is about to die, or they are separated from their phones. Their fear of missing out on important information or connections can have a controlling effect on their lives and can divide their attention from other important things like learning.So does information technology help or block the way we think? In the past, people relied heavily on specific knowledge and knew who in their circle of friends would be most likely to know things in different subjects.Now, our friend with all the information is the Internet. Indications are that people don’t remember information as well if they know they can use a puter or phone to recall it quickly. So it may be more difficult to move information from the Internet into our long-term memory.But the impact of being exposed to so much information isn’t all bad. Reports show that frequent Internet use can strengthen fast-paced problem solving and can speed up the ability to spot patterns in a lot of data.V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.何不利用这宜人的天气出去野餐呢？(advantage)73. 当你对情况一知半解时，不要随意发表见解。