When you go to the doctor, you like to come away with a prescription．It makes you feel better to know you will get some medicine. But the doctor knows that medicine is not always needed. Sometimes all a sick person needs is some reassurance that all will be well. In such cases the doctor may prescribe a placebo.

A placebo is a sugar pill, a harmless shot, or ail empty capsule. Even though they have no medicine in them, these things seem to make people well. The patient thinks it is medicine and begins to get better. How does this happen?

The study of the placebo opens up new knowledge about the way the human body can heal itself. It is as if there was a doctor in each of us. The doctor will heal the body for us if we let it. But it is not yet known just how the placebo works to heal the body. Some people say it works because the human mind fools itself. These people say that if the mind is fooled into thinking it got medicine, then it will act as if it did, and the body will feel better.

Placebos do not always work. The success of this treatment seems to rest a lot with the relationship between the patient and the doctor. If the patient has a lot of trust in the doctor and if the doctor really wants to help the patient, then the placebo is more likely to work. So in a way, the doctor is the most powerful placebo of all.

A placebo can also have bad effects. If patients expect a bad reaction to medicine, then they will also show a bad reaction to the placebo. This would seem to show that a lot of how you react to medicine is in your mind rather than in your body. Some doctors still think that if the placebo can have bad effects it should never be used. They think there is still not enough known about it.

The strange power of the placebo does seem to suggest that the human mind is stronger than we think it is. There are people who say you can heal your body by using your mind. And the interesting thing is that even people who swear this is not possible have been healed by a placebo．

1.What do we know about placebo according to the passage?

A. It contains some sort of medicine.

B. It won’t function if you are negative about medicine.

C. People who don’t believe placebo can’t be healed by it.

D. Patients and doctors know clearly how it helps to heal the body.

2.Why is the doctor sometimes the most powerful placebo?

A. The patient needs help badly．

B. The patient believes in the doctor．

C. The doctor knows better about your body．

D. The doctor has carefully studied medicine．

3.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

A. The placebo.    B. The bad effect.

C. The body.    D. The medicine.

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Placebo：Work on Your Mind

B. Placebo：The Most Powerful Medicine

C. Placebo：The Best Doctor

D. Placebo：Heal Your Body

The Internet is full of headlines that grab your attention with buzzwords (流行词). But often when we click through, we find the content hardly delivers and it wastes our time. We close the page, feeling we've been cheated. These types of headlines are called "click bait".

A headline on Businesslnsider.com reads: "This phrase will make you seem more polite". First, when you click through, you find another headline: "Four words to seem more polite." Then, on reading the article, you find it's actually an essay about sympathy. And what are the four words? They're "Wow, that sounds hard." On some video websites, you might encounter headlines such as "Here's what happens when six puppies visited a campus". Turns out it's just some uneventful dog footage (镜头).

Nowadays, with the popularity of social media, many news outlets tweet (推送) click bait links to their stories. These tweets take advantage of the curiosity gap or attempt to draw the reader into a story using a question in the headline. These click bait headlines are so annoying that someone is attempting to save people time by exposing news outlet click bait through social media. The Twitter account @SavedYouAClick, run by Jake Beckman, is one such example.

Beckman's method is to grab tweets linking to a story and retweet them with a click-saving comment. For example, CNET tweeted "So iOS 8 appears to be jailbreakable but...", with a link to its coverage of Apple's product announcements. Beckman retweeted it with this comment attached: "... it hasn't been jailbroken yet."

Since founding the account, Beckman's Twitter experiment has brought him more than 131,000 followers. Beckman said that @SavedYouAClick is…"just my way of trying to help the Internet be less temble." Asked about his goal, he said, "I'd love to see publishers think about the experience of their readers first. I think there's an enormous opportunity for publishers to provide readers with informative updates that include links so you can click through and read more.

1.The article on Businesslnsider.com turns out to be___.

A. useful suggestions on politeness 

B. an essay about another topic

C. an article hard to understand

D. a link to a video website

2.Why are readers often cheated by tricky headlines?

A. Social media has become more popular. 

B. Readers have questions to be solved.

C. Such headlines are fairly attractive.

D. There're always stories behind them.

3.Beckman attached his comment to CNET's tweet to ___

A. criticize CNET    

B. save readers' time

C. advertise apple's new product

D. tell readers something about iOS 8

4.In the last paragraph, Beckman appeals that _____

A. publishers be more responsible for the link

B. readers think about their needs before reading

C. publishers provide more information for readers

D. people work together to make the Internet less temble

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

In US, the potato is one of the most widely consumed crops. French fries are commonly found in typical American fast-food burger joints and cafeterias. French fries were introduced to the US when Thomas Jefferson served them in the White House during his presidency from 1801 to 1809. Potato chips are popular with consumers as well.

The humble potato is more than just a kind of food. In many ways it's part of the American pop culture. Let's take a look at some pop culture potatoes.

Mashed Potato dance

The Mashed Potato dance is a craze that began in 1962. The name of the dance came from the song it accompanies, Mashed Potato Time, performed by American R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp. The move vaguely resembles that of the Twist dance style, by Sharp's fellow Philadelphian.

Chubby Checker.

Hot Potato!

Hot Potato! is an action puzzle video game released in 2001. In the game the player must drive a bus and clear the road of alien potato beings. The potato beings are either red or blue; when two like-colored potatoes touch each other, they disappear. Over the years, Hot Potato! has received mostly positive reception from critics.

Mr. Potato Head

Mr. Potato Head is an American toy invented by George Lerner in 1949. The toy consists of a plastic potato model and a variety of plastic parts like hands, feet, ears and mouths. In 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy advertised on television. This commercial revolutionized marketing and caused a boom that solidified this toy's place in American pop culture.

1.Which is the newest to the American pop culture?

A. French fries.                    B. Mashed Potato dance.

C. Hot Potato!                     D. Mr. Potato Head.

2.What can we infer from the text?

A. French fries were popular in US when first served in the White House.

B. Mashed Potato Time came from Mashed Potato dance.

C. Players can play Hot Potato!  on their phone.

D. Mr. Potato Head can be taken apart.

3.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Enjoy American Fast Food      

B. Have Fun with Potatoes

C. Different Uses of Potatoes 

D. American Food Culture

假设大庆电视台打算开办“All-around Daqing” 的英文节目，节目编辑助理John就该节目向广大中学生征求意见。假如你是学生李华，请根据以下内容给John写一封信：

1. 该节目应当介绍当地的历史、教育、饮食文化、著名景点；

2. 播出时间应安排在每周六晚上，方便学生看；

3. 希望学生们有机会参与主持该节目。

提示词：主持：host

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

Dear John,

I’ve learned that you’re going to set up an English program All-around Daqing for middle school students.___________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

                                                                      Li Hua

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同学写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^),并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

Yesterday my friend Julia and me had lunch in the Pizza Hut behind our school. I knew Julia wasn’t crazy about pizzas, but she came along just because me. At the table next to ours, there were two guys from our class. One of them was real funny. He tried to imitate all the customer in the Pizza Hut. We couldn’t stop to laughing. And there were some people whom did not like the fact that two boys were imitating them. They complained to an owner of the Pizza Hut, so he came over and tell them to stop. Seeing it, Julia and I was greatly embarrassed.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Have you ever imagined    1.    (live) in 2116, 100 years from now? A recent study describes robots, underwater cities and holidays in space. City planners and experts on space and architecture were asked    2.   (give) their ideas on life in 2116. According to them, the way people live, work and play will be totally different  3.   how we do these things today. They also said that 25 years ago, people couldn’t imagine how the Internet 4.   the smart phones would change our lives. But today, both have changed the way we communicate, learn and do daily things, and the changes in the next century will probably be even   5.  (great).

Those   6.  (question) in the research said that people may not go to offices in the future but will work at home instead. People will have advanced 3D printers that will let    7. download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then “print” the sofa, table or pizza at home.   8.  will also be less need for visits to the doctor. People will have a home health capsule that will “diagnose” what the problem is and provide    9.  (treat). They will also be going into space for holidays, and    10. (hopeful), to get resources that have been used up on the earth.

One advantage of living on the top floor is that you can get a good ______.

A. sight             B. view

C. scene             D. scenery

Don’t leave the water ______when you brush your teeth. 

A. run    B. to run    C. running   D. being run

Follow your doctor’s advice, ______ your illness will get better.

A. then     B. or       C. and      D. but

Planning ahead so far ______no sense—so many things will have changed by next year. 

A. makes                   B. made

C. is making               D. has made