On 29 May last year, I was doing my swim training for a half Ironman race in the bay near my home.
I was finishing my first loop (圈) when I felt jaws coming around my body and a sharp pain. The water was dark, so I couldn’t see anything. It just came out of nowhere and then it was gone in a flash. I knew it was something really big and assumed it was a shark. I panicked, but knew I needed to get out of the water. I was kicking wildly in case it came back. There was a lifeguard boat close by, so I waved my arms in the air and screamed for help. It got to me within 20 seconds. At that point I didn’t feel anything; adrenaline (肾上腺素) had taken over. The lifeguards held me under the arms and pulled me up out of the water. Then the pain kicked in and it was pretty hard to bear. Some muscle had been bitten off my right arm. I felt a lot of warm, gushing blood.
My chest felt heavy, as if someone had put their foot on it, and I was having trouble breathing. It was extremely painful. When I got to the hospital, I told the nurses to put me to sleep because of the pain. I just wanted them to fix me.
I woke up after surgery four hours later. My doctor was amazed when I managed to move my fingers: the bite just missed a major nerve. My right lung had been damaged; I had several broken bones and a nerve in my leg was cut, so I have reduced feeling at the top of my leg. The shark also bit through my upper back muscle.
Local experts determined that the shark was probably 9-10 feet long. It was young, about seven years old. It just attacked me, left and didn’t come back because it figured I wasn’t food.
1.The writer mentions Adrenaline in Paragraph 2 to ________.
A. explain why she didn’t feel pain at that time
B. offer a possible reason the shark attacked her
C. show how dangerous the situation was then
D. describe the suffering a shark bite could cause
2.The writer of the text can be best described as ________.
A. grateful B. confident
C. tough D. aggressive
3.Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A. A Shark from Nowhere
B. Surviving a Shark Attack
C. A Race against Time
D. No Panic over Sharks at Sea
假如你是李华，你的英国笔友Issac曾表示希望来中国教书。你现在开办一家英文培训学校，招聘外籍教师。请给他写封信，告知招聘信息。内容主要包括：
1．教授课程：英语口语和写作；
2．授课对象：大学本科生；
3．工作量及报酬：每周12学时，一学时200元。
注意：1.词数100左右
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3.开头语已为你写好，请将完整的内容与在答题卡上。
Dear Issac,
I remember you are interested in teaching in China.____________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best regards,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Children have their own rules in playing games. They seldom need the referee and rarely trouble to keeping scores. We don’t care much about two wins or loses, but it doesn’t seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Yet, they like games that depend a lot of on luck, so that their personal abilities cannot directly compared. They also enjoy games that move in stage, in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, or the deciding of which side shall started, is almost a game itself. Grown-ups can hard find children’s games exciting, and they often feel puzzled at how their kids play such simple games again and again.
New York City is one of the Largest cities on the globe, 1.it consists of five districts: Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island. New York City 2.has a very unique personality is very popular with people. After all, you can sense its3.(special) at the first glance: countless skyscrapers, busy people4.(move)about street corners and nightly skyline brightened by flash light. If you are willing 5.(explore), New York City can never be6.place that kills you. Even7.normal days, you can meet people of different colors with different languages8.(speak). 9.(additional), you never go short of any particular food or entertainment, no matter what country10.comes from.
I was the first in my family to go to college, but I was a little ______because most of my classmates had______private schools where creative writing and other electives(选修课) were given. I, on the other hard, had graduated from a small rural high school______there were only six or so teachers totally.
Our first assignment was to write a short story. Our teacher Shelly Paulinus made very ______other specifications (说明), allowing our _______free rein(自由发挥).
I remember feeling quite proud_______I handed in my “masterpiece”. It had a boy-meets-girl plot, and I had _______it until I was certain that every word was perfect.
Shelly________an entire class to each of our stories, returning them one________so that the author could read her work to the class and get _______from her classmates. The other girls’ stories were wonderful. The more I heard, the more I knew how _____my story was.
It was several weeks_______Shelly returned my assignment. With much _____, I read my offering aloud. My classmates found even more faults than I had imagined they would! It was “dull”, it was “completely ______in imagination”---even now, their words _______in my memory.
Wondering if the criticism would ever end, I heard Shelly say _____, “Can’t you see what Carol has done? She has taken a very ordinary plot and, _______use of her creative words, has made ______sparkle(生动). Shakespeare often did the very same thing.”
I couldn’t believe my ears!________the flaw(缺点), Shelly had not only found something in my work worth_____, but had compared it to Shakespeare’s.
Years have passed, and I never did tell Shelly how much her praise meant to me. I became a teacher like her, who often transforms words of hope to the students.
1.A. worried B. happy C. proud D. sad
2.A. went B. attended C. taken D. heard
3.A. which B. where C. that D. on which
4.A. a few B. few C. little D. a little
5.A. thoughts B. opinions C. feelings D. imaginations
6.A. since B. as C. when D. until
7.A. rewrote B. adopted C. polished D. copied
8.A. devoted B. subscribed C. applied D. supplied
9.A. at a time B. at times C. at the time D. at one time
10.A. replies B. words C. gifts D. reactions
11.A. regular B. ordinary C. powerful D. meaningful
12.A. after B. until C. when D. before
13.A. fear B. delight C. attention D. care
14.A. finding B. filling C. lacking D. looking
15.A. hear B. tell C. ring D. sing
16.A. merrily B. excitedly C. proudly D. gently
17.A. for B. with C. by D. through
18.A. this B. it C. what D. that
19.A. Despite B. Because of C. Even if D. Though
20.A. doing B. writing C. praising D. teaching
Maps of the world’s population show that the majority of people today live near water. 1.We also vacation at the beach and find comfort fishing on a lake. Nothing makes small children happier than the chance of playing in water. More interesting, this human favor for water makes evolutionary sense. 2.
Neuroscientist(神经系统科学家) Michael Crawford of the University of North London has proposed that our ancient ancestors attached to the sea, and that their devotion paid off by allowing the human species to develop large and complex brains. Crawford claims that when humans separated from apes and appeared in the forests of Africa, they stuck close to rivers and beaches and started catching fish and crabs.3.
It's no coincidence, Crawford claims, that human brain growth began to increase rapidly once we left the woods and headed for the beach.
4.Psychiatrist(精神病学家)and biochemist Joseph Hibbelin of National Institutes of Health has shown that across cultures there is direct link between amount of fish eaten each week and rates of depression. More interesting, Hibbelin and researcher Laura Reis have found that fish is commonly used as a symbol of happiness and good health in various religions and cultures.
5.We vacation on the coast and see the waves come and go, feeling happiness has taken over our brain. When we move inland, or go home from vacation, we lose touch with our sea roots and feel unhappy.
A. Sure, we need drinking water to live, but we have also benefited from what’s swimming under waves.
B. We know that fish and the sea are good for us, and we seek them out.
C. We live along coastlines, around bays, up the course of rivers and streams and on islands.
D. Scientists help people overcome depression.
E. Scientists have also discovered that people who eat fish regularly are less likely to suffer from depression than those who eat less seafood.
F. It is good for our health to swim under the waves.
G. That sea food was packed with omega-3 fatty acids, essential fatty acids that promote brain cell growth.
