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一、阅读理解
详细信息
1. 难度:中等

XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

Release date: January 20,2017

Starring: Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose, Nina Dobrev, Donnie Yen, Kris Wu

Rating: ★★★★

Plot: Xander Cage (Vin Diesel)is left for death after an incident, and then he secretly returns to action for a tough assignment designed for him.

Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons(妖魔) II

Release date: January 28,2017

Starring: Kris Wu, Kenny Lin, Yao Chen, Jelly Lin

Rating: ★★★★

Plot: The film is a sequel (续集)to the 2013 film, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, which was directed by Stephen Chow. Tang Sanzang (Kris Wu), along with his three disciples, sets out on the Journey to the West. Although they appear to be harmonious, in reality, they are plotting against each other. After a series of adventures where they capture demons, they start to understand one another’s pains and heart, and finally solve their internal conflicts, working together to become the most united demon-killing team.

Live by Night

Release date: January 13,2017

Starring: Ben Affleck, Scott Eastwood, Zoe Saldana, Elle Faning

Rating: ★★★

Plot: In the Prohibition Era, Joe Coughlin, the prodigal son of a Boston police captain, becomes a bootlegger and later, a notorious gangster(恶棍).

The Village of No Return

Release date: January 28,2017

Starring: Hsu chi, Wang Qianyuan, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Eric Tsang

Rating: ★★

Plot: In a beautiful and quiet village, an uninvited guest and mysterious treasure appear, making a series of funny stories happen.

1.Which film can you see if you’re free on Jan. 13,2017?

A. Live by Night    B. Journey to the West

C. The Return of Xander Cage    D. The Village of No Return

2.Who stars two films among the four mentioned?

A. Scott Eastwood    B. Kris Wu

C. Ruby Rose    D. Hsu chi

3.Why can the demon-killing group finally become the most harmonious one?

A. They are facing risks to explore everything

B. They can avoid their internal arguments

C. They can fully know about each other

D. They are fighting against each other

4.How is The Village of No Return different from the other films?

A. It is rated more stars than the other three

B. It is a follow-up film to the 2013 one

C. It is not released in the same month

D. It can make audience laugh a lot

 

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2. 难度:中等

After four silent years, British singer Adele Adkins finally introduced herself to the world again with Hello, the opening song from her third album 25, which came out on Nov. 20, 2015.

Although Adele is a very successful singer now, music wasn’t always what she saw herself doing. At age 10, when she saw her grandmother’s pain over the death of Adele’s grandfather, she pictured herself as a heart surgeon.

“I wanted to fix people’s hearts,” she told the UK music website i-D, remembering the childhood interest she’d had in biology classes until she found out that her real talent was for singing.

“Adele didn’t go to medical school, but many would agree that she still has healing (治愈)powers. Her songs find the kind of memory every listener holds somewhere in their heart. This kind of feeling is what people have always liked in Adele,” said The Telegraph. “She writes a pop diary, sharing the simple secrets of her heart.”

Most successful pop stars make albums at a fast pace, but not Adele. After her second album 21 won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, she made it clear with her label that she would spend “four or five years” making her next album. She told magazine. “I won’t come out with new music until it’s better than 21.”

Instead of seeking fame, Adele remained silent and moved to the countryside. In her free time, she loved to watch TV series Teen Mom, American Horror Story, and The Walking Dead.

Living life as normally as possible is important to the singer’s art. “Nobody wants to listen to a record from someone who’ s not living in the real world,” Adele told i-D.“So I live a low-key life for my fans.”

1.What does die text mainly tell us?

A. The popularity of Adele’s album 25

B. The healing powers of Adele’s music

C. The secrets of Adele’s success in music

D. TV reason Adele’s becoming a singer

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. Adele wasn’t interested in music

B. Adele wasn’t good at music at first

C. Music wasn’t very important in Adele’s life

D. Music wasn’t all Adele wanted to be devoted to

3.Why doesn’t Adele want to make albums at a fast pace?

A. To live a low-key life

B. To win the Grammy Award

C. To guarantee the quality of her music

D. To share the secrets of her heart as a musician

4.What can we know about Adele?

A. Her album Hello will come out on Nov. 20

B. She has kept a diary since childhood

C. She moved to the countryside before 2012

D. Her works are based on real life

 

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3. 难度:中等

Back in the 1860s, a British scientist named Henry Walter Bates noticed something interesting in the animal world: a kind of butterfly, Common Mormon, can change the pattern on its wings so that it looks like another butterfly species, the Common Rose, which is poisonous for birds to eat.

Bates argued that animals develop this ability to protect themselves from being eaten. This theory had been widely accepted by scientists. But one question remains: how do these animals manage to do that?

After more than 150 years, scientists are finally able to answer that question-it is all down to a gene(基因) called “doublesex", according to a study published on March 6 in the journal Nature.

In fact, scientists have long known that genes are responsible for this useful ability. But until the new study, scientists hadn't been able to find out which genes in particular were responsible.

Scientists at the University of Chicago compared the genetic structures of the Common Mormons that changed their wing patterns with those of ones that did not. And all the results pointed to a single gene, “doublesex”.

This was much to the scientists' surprise. They used to expect that something as complex as this would be controlled by many different genes. For example, one gene would control the color of the upper part of the wing, one would do so for the lower part.

However, the “doublesex” gene doesn't quite do everything by itself. Instead, it acts like a switch-it “tells” other genes to change the wing patterns. Isn't that clever?

Scientists believe that this special ability of the “doublesex” gene on Common Mormon was developed throughout the long history of evolution. “The harmless species gains an advantage by resembling something predators(捕食者) avoid,” Sean Carroll, a scientist told Nature. “it was obvious evidence for natural selection.”

1.How do scientists find the truth of butterfly changing wing patterns?

A. By doing experiment on butterflies

B. By comparing genetic structures

C. By observing the butterflies

D. By analyzing the result

2.Which of the following ideas is accepted by scientists?

A. The ”doublesex” gene does do everything by itself

B. The “doublesex” gene is poisonous

C. The “doublesex” gene “tells” other genes to change the wing patterns

D. The “doublesex” gene could only control the color of the upper part of the wing

3.What is the best title of this passage?

A. How Common Mormons stay safe

B. How Butterflies Changed Wings' Pattern

C. What American Scientists Discovered

D. What Genetic Structures of Butterflies Have

 

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4. 难度:困难

Bill Gates recently has predicted that online learning will make place-based colleges less significant, and five years from now, students will be able to find the best lectures in the world online. I applaud Mr. Gates. But what’s taking us so long?

As early as 1997, MIT(麻省理工) decided to post videos of all university lectures online, for free, for all people. But today, how many students have you met who mastered advanced mathematics or nuclear physics from an MIT online video? Unfortunately, the answer is not many. The problem is the poor quality of online education websites and the experience they provide to students. Those who go to the MIT website and watch courses online are surely very smart people, but it’s not like playing a video game such as World of Warcraft. Only the most ardent students, those who are highly motivated, will devote themselves to studying these boring online videos.

The real question is why we aren’t spending more to develop better online education platforms. Where is the Avatar of education? Think about this. The market for Hollywood films per year is worth around 30 billion USD. Education in the world is a trillion-dollar-a-year market, hundreds of times bigger than Hollywood movies. Yet the most expensive digital learning system ever built cost well under 100 million dollars.

Bill Gates’ prediction is going to happen. There is no doubt about it. But it will only happen when we create high level educational content and experiences that engage and excite more than has ever been possible in the real world.

1.What has Bill Gates forecast about online learning?

A. It will concentrate on physics lectures

B. It will completely replace real universities

C. It will help to make universities more successful

D. It will play an increasingly important role in education

2.What does the underlined word “ardent” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. Creative    B. Enthusiastic

C. Well-behaved    D. Experienced

3.According to the author, what is holding back the popularity of online learning?

A. The lack of lectures available online

B. The high cost of access to the websites

C. The low standard of educational websites

D. The competition with online computer games

4.Why does the author mention Hollywood?

A. To show that Hollywood produces many successful movies

B. To prove that education is more profitable than entertainment

C. To argue that movie directors should produce educational content

D. To urge that more money be spent developing educational websites

 

二、信息匹配
详细信息
5. 难度:中等

Make the right choices

What is life’s greatest gift?1.Choice is the ability to select one course of action from a set of alternatives to achieve a goal. What is so great about choice? It transforms us from dumb animals into artists. Each of us becomes another Michelangelo. Choice becomes nothing other than the tool we use to sculpt (雕刻)our life. The tool doesn’t come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility.2.The reward is happiness.

Life is not still. It is a flow.3.We constantly need to monitor where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what corrective measures can I take? What action will I take now to readjust myself to my goals? Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It is the creative power of life.

4.And your life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. For example, you decide which stores to shop at and which gas station to go to. But the decisions that we make to sculpt our lives are far more important than deciding where to shop. The more we appreciate the difference between minor and major decisions, the greater the probability that we will experience happiness and fulfillment.

All chess lovers realize that it isn’t necessary to win to enjoy the game. The pleasure is in the playing. Life is like a chess game.5.

A. It is free will or choice

B. You have to make choices every day

C. Make the best moves you can under the circumstances

D. But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return

E. Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals

F. Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are, the harder they get

G. Choose to carry out responsibilities not because you have to, but because you want to

 

三、短文填空
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6. 难度:中等

Do you know the UK government has1.(successful) passed a law banning branding on packs of cigarettes? That means tobacco manufacturers will be forced2.(pack) their cigarettes in plain packets.

The motivation behind this3.(decide) is to make smoking less appealing to people, especially children.

A similar law4.was passed in Australia in 2012 has resulted5.a fall in smoking rates from 15.1% to 12.8% for people aged 14.

As of January 2015, 22% of adult men and 17% of adult women smoke in Great Britain. The possibility of smoking in the UK increases with age so that by 15 years of age 8% of school children6.(be) regular smokers. Children, it is thought, will be less attracted to cigarettes7.(sell) in unbranded boxes.

Smoking is one of8.biggest causes of preventable deaths in England. Every year about 80,000 die and over 450,0009.(send) to hospital due to smoking. This places a large strain on the health service and is also a factor in why the government would like to prevent people from10.(take) up smoking or help them quit.

 

四、短文改错
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7. 难度:中等

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文,文中共有10处错误,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。

Dear students, good news for you! A blog will be opening on the website of our school, that aims to help students to communicate better and improve your English. The blog serves as open platform where you can do lots of things. Firstly, you can share with efficient learning experience to promote your English study. Secondly, if you had any questions, welcome to post them. And you will possible find proper solutions with the help of our schoolmates. In addition, attracting by interesting topics, you are free to get involved in the weekly discussion. Surely the blog will be very benefit to your English study. And every one of you are encouraged to visit it.

 

五、书面表达
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8. 难度:中等

假如你是李华,是某某中学的一名学生,为了让更多的人了解中国优秀的传统文化,你校近日将举办中国传统文化展(The Traditional Chinese Fair)。请给你的外教Mr. Smith写一封电子邮件,邀请他参加。邮件的内容包括:

1.展会的宗旨、时间、地点及参加人;

2.展出内容:相关书籍、图片、实物等。

注意:

1.词数100左右;

2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

Dear Mr. Smith,

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Yours

Li Hua

 

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