单词拼写（共30小题；每小题1分，满分30分）
根据所给首字母和汉语提示选用适当的单词完成句子，每空仅限一词。
1.The campaigns result effectively in a c____________（民用的，国内的）war.
2.Scientists are working hard to find out a______________（可替代的）energies.
3.Shopping windows d______________（展示）the latest fashions are very attractive.
4.Language is a major means of c______________（交流）, which we know.
5.A______________（农业）plays a very important part in the world.
6.Jill was sitting on the floor s______________（围绕）by boxes.
7.The s____________（结构）of the brain is very complex.
8.E______________（最后）, he was tired of doing that sort of things.
9.Few people have e____________（探索）the area from St. Louis to the Pacific.
10.I didn’t realize putting on a play i____________（包括）so much work.
11.The soldier e____________（逃脱）from the enemy’s prison on a snowy night.
12.N______________（自然地）, you’ll want to discuss the matter with your parents.
13.When we got to the hotel, it was still under c____________（建造）.
14.He was d____________（诊断）with cancer so he was filled with despair.
15.There are no simple s____________（解决办法）to the problem of overpopulation.
16.This festival is t______________（传统地）held in May.
17.The car should be returned to its o____________（最初的）owner.
18.Women are f______________（禁止）form going out without a veil in Arabian world.
19.What he said just now was r____________（荒谬的）. None of us believed it.
20.She swam well despite all her d______________（伤残）.
21.The sick person r____________（反应）badly to this medicine and died at last.
22.She may be angry if you don’t reply to her i______________（邀请）.
23.A large q____________（数量）of air-conditioners has been sold since the temperature is high.
24.There are plans to widen the n____________（最狭窄的）sections of the road.
25.The room was not big enough to a______________（容纳）all the people present at the meeting.
26.Doctors are not very o____________（乐观的）about the result of the surgery.
27.Spain is still our most popular holiday d____________（目的地）.
28.The protests became more violent and many landowners were p____________（惊慌）into leaving the country.
29.The public should be e______________（教育）in how to use energy more effectively.
30.When I was a little boy, I’d like to stare at the r____________（遥远的）stars at night.
(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
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。
Smith: Mary, have you got the result of the exam?
Mary: No. How is it?
Smith: Terrible. It seems that only half of the students passed the final exam.
Mary: Really? The exam 1. _ been very difficultthis time.
Smith: Well, I’m really 2. (surprise) too. There are many students who definitely didn’t fail. According to Carl, there are eight boys in his class who failed, 3. (include) himself and Gorge.
Mary: Oh! Gorge is 4. of the top students in the college. What about his sister, Catherine? Did she pass?
Smith: Oh, yes. It seems that she 5. (get) good marks.
Mary: That’s 6. (absolute) unbelievable! Gorge was 7. much better student than his sister, and has been working so hard for the last few months.
Smith: It seems 8. (fair), doesn’t it? But, from 9. I’ve heard, perhaps he worked too hard. He was ill during the week of the exam.
Mary: Oh, I see. These things happen, sometimes. I suppose the teacher will take his illness into account and give him a pass.
Smith: Well, there is a rumor going around 10. the head of the Department is leaving.
Mary: Because of the bad result, you mean?
Smith: Well, I suppose so. I’m not sure. Maybe Mr. Dustin is going to be the new Department Head.
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As I left Spacsavers, I walked along the Regent Road, and suddenly the world was closing in around me. I could no longer hear the sound of busy London traffic, the footsteps walking behind me, the buzz of conversation around me. I felt anxious crossing the road. All the I take for granted had gone. I had entered into a world of silence.
This experience occurred a few weeks ago when I agreed to “go deaf for the day” to the work of the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. Now I serve as an ambassador.
That day when I a cab to take me to the office of my manager, Gavin, I couldn’t hear what the taxi driver was saying to me. was impossible. Then, when I reached the office, I had to the interphone (对讲机)five times as I couldn’t hear a(n) .
Everybody said I was shouting at them — I simply wasn’t of the volume of my own voice. Gavin kept telling me my phone was ringing, but I didn’t . I was too busy trying to concentrate on his lips. And when he tried to tell me a code to put into my phone, I had to keep asking him to repeat it more slowly again and again. he lost his patience and shouted at me: “Just give me the phone!” I was shocked.
People couldn’t be to repeat themselves, so they kept trying to do things for me that I was to finish by myself. I lost control, feeling and awkward.
Being deaf for the day was extraordinarily . I had to work so hard to “ ” with my eyes, get people’s attention and use my other to make up for my lack of hearing. It was a huge, exhausting effort. Until that I didn’t realize how much I took my own hearing for granted, or the sorts of emotions and experiences deaf people go .
Therefore, if a deaf person asks you to repeat something, say: “It doesn’t matter.” It does matter. It matters more than you know.
1.A. friends B. responsibilities C. sounds D. efforts
2.A. puzzling B. disturbing C. inspiring D. inviting
3.A. advertise B. support C. check D. improve
4.A. called for B. waited for C. sent for D. made for
5.A. Prayer B. Explanation C. Payment D. Conversation
6.B. repair B. ring C . examine D. touch
7.A. argument B. recall C. response D. rhythm
8.A. aware B. careful C. proud D. ashamed
9.A. realize B. accept C. agree D. hope
10.A. kissing B. describing C. drawing D. reading
11.A. Happily B. Automatically C. Finally D. Curiously
12.A. required B. bothered C. ordered D. persuaded
13.A. free B. lucky C. regretful D. able
14.A. confident B. relaxed C. desperate D. embarrassed
15.A. amazing B. frightening C. tiring D. convincing
16.A. listen B. understand C. communicate D. share
17.A. interests B. senses C. behaviors D. disabilities
18.A. performance B. lesson C. challenge D. experience
19.A. after B. into C. through D. for
20.A. never B. sometimes C. always D. still
（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
One of the common complaints we hear from the people around us are problems they are facing. Every day and everywhere there are problems. Many times we find it hard to stay happy. When one problem is solved, another one comes up. How to solve them? The answer is that we must equip ourselves to deal with different kinds of worries by learning the three basic steps of problem analysis. The three steps are:
Get the facts
Why is it so important to get the facts? Unless you have the facts, you can’t possibly attempt to solve your problem intelligently. Without the facts, all you can do is wondering around in confusion. It is not an easy job to get facts. When you are worried, your emotions are riding high. 1. .
When trying to get the facts, you can pretend that you are collecting this information not for yourself but for some other person. 2. You can also pretend that you are a lawyer preparing to agree. Try to get all the facts both on your side and the other side of the case. You will generally find the truth lies somewhere in between.
3.Whenever you are worried, write down the questions that make you worry. And write out all the various steps you could take and then the probable consequences of each step. For example, what am I worrying about? What can I do about it? Here is what I’m going to do about it. After carefully weighing all the facts, you can calmly come to a decision.
Act on that decision.
4. How can you break the worry habit before it breaks you? Crowd worry out of your mind by keeping busy. Plenty of action is one of the best ways to cure worry. 5. If you know a situation is beyond your power, say to yourself: “It is so; it can’t be otherwise.” Don’t permit little things to ruin your happiness. Try to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness.
A. Analyze the facts.
B. Accept what can’t be avoided.
C. Decide how much anxiety a thing may be worth.
D. This will help you to take a cold and fair view of the evidence.
E. There comes a time when you must decide and never look back.
F. But here are two ideas that can help you see the facts in a clear and objective way.
G. Unless you take your action, all your face-finding and analysis is a sheer waste of energy.
When Danny Wallace, 26, got bored, he put an ad on the worldwide web reading simply: “Join Me. Send a passport photo.” A year and a half later his east London flat is the headquarters for a global internet-based “club” whose members carry out good deeds for strangers every Friday.
It’s not common for people in London to talk to strangers. If you see someone struggling with something, part of the brain goes “I want to help”. But the trained part of the brain says: “They will think you are mad or going to mug them”, so you walk away.
Join Me now has about 3,000 members around the world who do an act of kindness every Friday. For example, I’m usually out on a Friday so I go for one of the standard acts — the unexpected cup of coffee. You might be sitting in a cafe and see an old man in the corner drinking coffee or tea, and you walk up with another cup of whatever they are drinking , and say: “ I’ve bought you a coffee” and walk away. It’s a pleasure to see the look of surprise on their faces. There can be some suspicion, but I think that was mostly in the early days when I didn’t know how to do it properly. I would walk up quite nervously like I was doing something wrong and I didn’t know when to leave. In the end, I learned through trial and error. Sometimes it worked, other times it didn’t. I discovered that you have to walk up with confidence and humour and not “get in their faces”. You say: “This is for you”, then you go. It’s hit-and-run kindness. And there is no point in doing it half-heartedly. You’ve got to do it because you really mean it.
Join Me is without geographical boundaries, but there are quite a few members in London, and such stories about things happen on the underground or on the buses. One lady got on the bus and put a £10 note down and said: “That’s for me and the next nine people”. So at every stop, anyone who got on was told it was paid for. A lot of people were doing this sort of thing anyway. For them it’s an excuse or reason to do something nice for a complete stranger, and it gives them the confidence to walk up and start chatting.
1.When Londoners see someone in trouble, they _______.
A. often give a hand
C. pretend not to have seen it
B. stop and ask questions
D. telephone the police
2.According to the passage, members of Join Me often _______.
A. put an advertisement on the worldwide web
B. go out and make friends with strangers
C. do an act of kindness every Friday
D. buy coffees for the strangers
3.The underlined expression in the third paragraph possibly means _______ .
A. finding something very difficult
B. doing something without much effort
C. making a few mistakes
D. experimenting to get the right result
4.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. Hit-and-run Kindness B. History of Join Me
C. Danny Wallace and Join Me D. Why not Join Me
Entering Space, astronauts can give us a fascinating account of a shuttle flight, describing the pressure of a countdown and launch, the complexities of living the days in the strange weightless environment, the challenges of working in space, the emotional effect of seeing earth from space, the drama of the meteoric landing.
However, there are also plenty of things that astronauts can’t do because of their weightless environment, and that’s very sad. What’s more, they can’t even let their sadness show, because it’s impossible to cry in zero gravity.
Of course, astronauts can still produce tears. But crying is much more difficult in space, reported The Atlantic in January. Without gravity, tears don’t flow downward out of the eyes like they do here on Earth. This means that when you cry in space, your tears have nowhere to go – they just stick to your eyes.
In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustel experienced this during one of his spacewalks. “Tears,” he said, “don’t fall off of your eye... They just kind of stay there.”
Besides making your vision unclear, this can also cause physical pain. Back on Earth, tears are supposed to bring comfort to the eyes. But that’s not the case in space. The space environment dries out astronauts’ eyes, and when tears suddenly wet the eyes, it can cause pain rather than comfort. “My right eye is painful like crazy.” Feustel told his teammate during the walk.
Since gravity doesn’t work in space, astronauts need some extra help to get rid of the tears. Feustel chose to rub his eyes against his helmet to wipe the tears away. Another choice is to just wait – “When the tears get big enough they simply break free of the eye and float around,” astronaut Ron Parise told The Atlantic.
There are lots of small things – things like crying – that we are so used to on Earth. We usually take them for granted, until they become a problem in a totally different environment, like space. There, astronauts can’t talk to each other directly. They also can’t eat or drink in normal ways. They can’t even burp (打嗝), because there is no gravity to hold the food down in their stomach. If they do burp, they just end up throwing up (呕吐) everything in their stomach, according to the UK National Space Center.
Thus, perhaps it’s only space explorers who can honestly say: “Gravity, you’re the best.”
1.What can we conclude from the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs?
A. Astronauts are unable to feel sad in space.
B. Tears produced in space don’t flow downward.
C. Astronauts produce fewer tears in space.
D. Tears produced in space flow down more slowly.
2.What can the astronaut do to get rid of the tears?
A. Get the tears big enough to break away from his eyes.
B. Get the tears big enough to fall off of his eyes.
C. Rub his eyes against his helmet to let the tears float forward.
D. Rub his eyes by hand to let the tears float around.
3.What’s the second-to-last paragraph mainly about?
A. Suggestions on how astronauts can stay comfortable in space.
B. Why burping is impossible in space.
C. Things that humans can’t do without gravity.
D. Other basic things that are difficult to do in space.
4.What can be the best title of this passage?
A. In the sky, you can’t cry
B. In the sky, you can’t burp
C. No Gravity, no tears
D. Better life with gravity
