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第一部分 听力（共两节）
第一节 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Where is the man going?
A. Lucky Street B. Michigan Avenue C. California Steet
2. What does the woman mean?
A. Jeremy and she always eat meat for dinner
B. Jeremy always gets the opposite of what she orders
C. She usually has salad instead of steak
3. What can we learn about the hat?
A. The man doesn’t wear it very often
B. It was a Christmas present from the man’s grandfather
4. Why is the woman upset?
A. Because the man isn’t following her directions
B. Because the man is driving unsafely
C. Because the man won’t let her driver the car
5. What did the woman want Eric to do?
A. Give her a ticket to the game
B. Watch a basketball game on TV with her
C. Sell her a basketball ticket
第二节:听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你都有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. What is wrong with Randle?
A. He refuses to go to the bathroom
B. He is being violent with other dogs
C. He isn’t interested in playing at the park
7. What is the woman’s suggestion?
A. Be patient with Randle
B. Take Randle to see the vet
C. Read about some solutions online
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What can we get about the man from the conversation?
A. He is a big fan of baseball
B. He only watches the World Series
C. He doesn’t care about baseball at all
9. What is the man’s attitude during the conversation?
A. Interested and excited
B. Frustrated and annoyed
C. Confused and angry
10. What is true about the man’s favorite childhood team?
A. They play in a different city now
B. They never make it to the playoffs
C. They won a championship when the man was little
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. The price of new cars
B. How to shop for a new car
C. What kind of car would suit the man’s needs
12. What is most important to Freddie?
A. Saving money B. Being safe C. Looking good
13. What will the man probably do in the end?
A. Buy a used sports car
B. Buy a new car with good as mileage
C. Buy the woman’s SUV
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. At a coffee shop
B. At a police station
C. At a crime scene
15. How did Mr. Parker see what happened?
A. He walked by on his way home from work
B. He drove by on his way to work
C. He was in that neighrhood during his lunch break
16. According to Mr. Parker, what was the thief wearing?
A. A brown jacket and blue jeans
B. A black shirt and a white baseball hat
C. A black jacket and white shoes
17. How tall and heavy was the thief?
A. Over six feet tall and over two hundred pounds
B. Over six feet and under two hundred pounds
C. Under six feet tall and over two hundred pounds
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. Who is the man?
A. The head flight attendant B. The co-pilot C. The captain
19. When will the passengers arrive?
A. Five minutes ahead of schedule
B. Fifteen minutes ahead of schedule
C. Ten minutes ahead of schedule
20. How can people find out which movies are being shown?
A. By looking in a magazine
B. By waiting for the man’s announcement
C. By looking in the pocket on the side of their seats
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）
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。
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Lego Bricks & More 10664 Creative Tower
List Price: $119.99
Price:$101.35 & FREE Shipping
You Save: $18.64(16%)
Featuring 160 colorful Lego bricks to create anything your young kids can imagine, this item is designed to allow children complete flexibility and not to keep them to specific items made of certain parts. If you are looking for instruction sheets, many are found on the Lego site.
If you buy it together with the LEGO Ideas Book, the price for both will be $115.44.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews:
★★★★Spectacular value!
By Marissa McRoberts on November 29
The typical price per piece of Lego has been slightly more than $10 since 2005. At $101 for 160 pieces, this set is about $ 0.6 per piece. It is a great deal.
But there are some downsides: no wheels, bushes, trees, grass, technic elements and that sort of thing, otherwise this is a fantastic starter set.
★★★★★A great deal!
By Shawn Bosworth on December 6
I got this set as a Black Friday deal for an amazing $30! I wanted 2 sets but they were gone before I could even get my hands on one. A very nice man gave me a spare that he grabbed. It’s huge, strong and well-made. The box is about 2 feet tall and is strong enough for a storage option. I will absolutely be looking to get another set one day!
★★★★★Impressive gift, even more impressive value!
By Katie Kate on December 25
It’s a great variety of pieces. The box is about 2 feet tall and is strong enough
for a storage option. If you’re looking to add some basic bricks to start a collection, this is your set!
21. The Lego Bricks & More 10664 Creative Tower includes ______.
A. a few wheels B. a strong container
C. technic elements D. The LEGO Ideas Book
22. According to Marissa McRoberts, this set of Lego Bricks ______.
A. is a perfect starter set
B. costs too much money
C. should contain more pieces of bricks
D. is much cheaper compared with similar products
23. How did Shawn Bosworth get a set of Lego Bricks for $30?
A. He got the chance from a man who had an additional set.
B. He ordered two sets and was then offered a discount.
C. He grabbed the bargain when it was first served.
D. He made a deal with the seller for a lower price.
B
On a hot August morning, in a classroom overlooking New York’s Hudson River, a teacher guides a group of 3-year-olds completely in Chinese. This is just a language summer camp run by the primary school Bilingual Buds, which offers a year-round course in Chinese as well as Spanish for kids as young as 2.
A lot of research now shows the regular, high-level use of more than one language may actually improve early brain development. Knowing two or more languages can improve the ability to focus, decide and deal with information better. These important skills are grouped together, known in brain terms as “executive function”. The research suggests they develop ahead of time in bilingual children, and are already evident in kids as young as 3 or 4. Bilingual education, common in many countries, is a growing trend across the United States, with 440 elementary schools offering the study in Spanish, Chinese and French.
But Tamar Gollan, a professor at the University of California, has found a vocabulary gap between children who speak only one language and those who grow up
with more. On average, the more language spoken, the smaller the vocabulary in each one. Gollan’s research suggests that while that gap narrows as children grow, it does not disappear completely. Gollan says, “Vocabulary tests help us find that bilinguals have the disadvantage, where you know the word but you just can’t get it out.”
In fact some of the values of bilingualism can’t be measured at all, of course. To speak more than on language is to open the mind to more than one culture of way of life.
Bilinguals also appear to be better at learning other new languages. Clarisse spent her early childhood in Switzerland speaking French. At 6, she learned English. Later she learned Spanish, German, and, during three years living in Tokyo, Japanese. Now she has easily mastered several languages.
24. Why should children learn more than one language according to Paragraph 2?
A. Because it can do good to children’s brain development.
B. Because it’s part of a language summer camp.
C. Because it is common in many countries.
D. Because it is popular with children.
25. The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 probably refers to_______.
A. many countries B. bilingual children
C. these important skills D. two or more languages
26. According to Tamar Gollan, _____.
A. knowing two or more languages can improve children’s skills
B. the more languages children know, the better they will be
C. children had better not take vocabulary tests
D. bilingual education is not always good to children
27. From the passage we can learn______.
A. Clarisse likes French best instead of Japanese
B. bilingual education is mainly loved by children
C. bilinguals can have a disadvantage in learning other new languages
D. knowing more languages can help children learn more about foreign cultures.
C
A machine that takes sweat-laden(浸满汗水)clothes and turns the sweat into drinking water is in use in Sweden. The machine make the clothes turn round quickly, heats them to remove the sweat, and then passes the steam through a kind of special material to make purified water.
Since it has been brought into use, its creators say more than 1,000 people have drunk other's “sweat” in Gothenburg. They add the liquid is cleaner than local tap water.
The device was built for the United Nations’ child-focused charity UNICEF to promote a campaign highlighting the fact that 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water.
The machine was designed and built by engineer Andreas Hammar, known locally for his appearances on TV tech show “Mekatronik”. He said the key part of the sweat machine was a new water purification part developed by a company named HVR.
"It uses a technique called membrane distillation(膜蒸馏)," he told the BBC. "We use a special kind of material that only lets steam through but keeps bacteria, salts, clothing fibers and other things out. "They have something similar on the International Space Station, but our machine is cheaper to build. "The amount of water it produces depends on how sweaty the person is but one person's T-shirt typically produces 10ml, about a mouthful."
The device has been put on show at the Gothia Cup - the world's largest international youth football tournament. Mattias Ronge, chief executive of Stockholm-based advertising agency Deportivo, said the machine had helped raise awareness for UNICEF, but in reality had its limitations.
"People haven't produced as much sweat as we hoped - right now the weather in Gothenburg is lousy," Mattias Ronge said. "So we've equipped the machine with exercise bikes and volunteers are cycling like crazy. "Even so, the demand for sweat is greater than the supply. And the machine will never be produced in large numbers, since there are better solutions out there such as water purifying pills."
28. Which of the following is the disadvantage of the sweat machine?
A. It takes too long for the machine to produce water.
B. It costs a large amount of money to build the machine.
C. The amount of water the machine produces is rather limited.
D. The water processed by the machine is not clean enough.
29. UNICEF is mentioned in the text to______.
A. show how the sweat machine works
B. tell us who invented the sweat machine
C. show the importance of the United Nations
D. explain why the sweat machine was invented
30. What did Mattias Ronge think of the sweat machine?
A. It did not work at all.
B. It was not worth popularizing.
C. It could only be used in summer.
D. The water it produced tasted sweet.
31. The text is written mainly to tell us that____
A. a better solution to purifying dirty water is discovered
B. 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water
C. a machine which turns sweat into drinking water is invented
D. the pill which turns dirty water into clean water is produced.
D
In anticipation(预料)of an extraordinary visit, the streets and buildings of Havana, Cuba, were cleaned and painted by dozens of workers. What was the occasion?
For the first time in nearly 90 years, a sitting United States president was coming to Cuba, an island nation 90 miles south of Florida. On Sunday, President Barack Obama, joined by his family, stepped off Air Force One and onto a rainy runway, where Cuban dignitaries(高官)eagerly awaited him. “It’s wonderful to be here,” the president said. The last time a U.S. president came to Cuba was in 1928. It was President Calvin Coolidge, and he arrived on a battleship. Obama will be in Cuba through Tuesday. He is set to meet with Cuba’s president, Raul Castro, attend a state dinner and even take in a baseball game.
The U.S. cut all ties with Cuba after Fidel Castro’s communist government took control of the island in 1959. In the years that followed, both countries’ opposing political views furthered the separation. Plans for social and economic change began after President Fidel Castro transferred power to his brother, Raul in 2008. Raul Castro then set a plan in motion to revive the country’s economy.
Since then, Cuba has been taking small, yet lasting steps toward change by removing a number of restrictions that had been set on its citizens, such as access to the Internet, the use of cellphones, and by allowing people to work at jobs not controlled by the government. Cuba, however, still has tough limits on media, public assembly and political opposition.
Obama hopes to share his vision for Cuba’s future during a speech he will deliver. Before the trip, Senior Advisor Ben Rhodes said the president hoped to use this visit as a way to “continue to create openings for great engagement between the American and Cuban people.”
32. What is stressed in the second paragraph?
A. President Obama’s arrival on television.
B. Obama and Castro talk about human rights.
C. The first serving U.S. president to visit Cuba recently.
D. First lady Michelle Obama was later welcomed.
33. What was the event showing Cuba’s change for the better?
A. Fidel Castro rose to power.
B. Raul Castro came to power.
C. Calvin Coolidge arrived in Cuba.
D. The U.S. officials arrived in Cuba.
34. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Cuba is central to conflict.
B. Cuba takes on media freedoms.
C. Cuba is working towards progress.
D. Cuba makes sure the right to healthcare.
35. According to Ben Rhodes, which is the purpose of Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba?
A. To bring negative change for Cubans.
B. To carry out his vision for Cuba’s future.
C. To break silence and no communications.
D. To give Mr Castro a list of political views.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两处为多余选项。
Usually summer break provides teens with an opportunity to get away from the boring life of going to school, to visit friends and have fun with them, and to make a little extra money. The summer job market for teenagers can be highly competitive. Half－heartedly (不认真地) looking for a job is the quickest way to get turned down over and over. 36.________
___37_____ Look at the skills required for each. Then compare these skills with those you already have. The closer the match, the more likely you will enjoy your summer job while building a good reference for future jobs.
Understanding why you want to work will also help you determine where to apply. Do you want to earn extra money for something special, or do you need the job to make ends meet? ____38____ These are just a few of the questions you need to answer before starting your job search.
When you're searching for a summer job, look for help beyond the wanted signs. ___39___ And even if a business doesn't have a sign or advertisement indicating that they are looking for help, stop by and ask a manager. You might fill in an application anyway, which could lead to a position in the future.
___40_____ Ice cream shops, restaurants, grocery stores and movie theatres commonly hire students. You might take a job that has less desirable hours or that you don't necessarily enjoy. However, summer jobs don't last forever. You can still build your skills and experience while making money.
A．Here are some tips on finding summer jobs.
B．Take time to think about the types of jobs that are suitable for you.
C．Be flexible and creative when you're looking for a summer job.
D．If you are poor in math, you probably would lose your job.
E．Let your family, neighbours and teachers know that you're looking for a job.
F．A good attitude towards work sometimes can make up for lack of skills.
G．Are you looking for a job where your friends work, so you can be with them?
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分55分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分， 满分40分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One afternoon last summer I was driving along on my way home when I noticed a woman at the roadside near the edge of town. She was 41 a wheeled suitcase and was having a rough way to go since there was no sidewalk, only grass.
Along the way, we stopped for food and drink for her which she 52 on paying for with her own money. When we well reached the town I had agreed to take her to, she asked if we could stop at a grocery store.
I was 53 that by this time she had developed enough 54 in me to leave her suitcase in the car while she shopped. While she was inside I located a Holiday Inn nearly and 55 ahead to see if there were 56 ; I explained my rather unusual situation to the person on the other 57 of the phone.
Upon her 58 from the grocery store, I shared what I had done and she 59 offer of a room for the night. We drove to the 60 and the kind young woman there provided what discounts she could as well as a room with a refrigerator. She stated that she was touched that “people don’t do this kind of thing.”
41. A. fighting against B. struggling with C. wrestling of D. striving for
42. A. watch B. monitor C.
anticipate D. inspect
43. A. setting off B. getting through C. referring to D. heading for
44. A. For B. With C. As D. So
45. A. fashionably B. conservatively C. untidily D. shabbily
46. A. assessing B. calculating C. estimating D. adjusting
47. A. potential B. talent C. estimating D. adjusting
48. A. chance B. gift C. favor D. lift
49. A. abstract B. concrete C. vague D. ambitious
50. A. friends B. strangers C. relatives D. by-standers
51. A. home B. place C. habitat D. destination
52. A. persisted B. stuck C. objected D. insisted
53. A. satisfied B. confused C. touched D. amused
54. A. trust B. belief C. interest D. relief
55. A. scheduled B. bargained C. called D. urged
56. A. houses B. vacancies C. shelters D. differences
57. A. line B. tip C. side
D. end
58. A. recovery B. return C. arrival D. departure
59. A. declined B. rejected C. reseived D. accepted
60. A. city B. restaurant C. hotel D. grocery
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面填空，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Learning any language takes practice---lots of practice! Often, it’s difficult to know 61 you should practice it. Should you watch a video? Perhaps, 62 would be a good idea to do a few 63 (quiz). Of course, you should try to speak English with your friends. All of these are great ideas, but it’s also important to build a routine. A routine will help you make 64 (study) English a habit. That’s the best way to improve your English!
It’s important to 65 (expose) to many different areas every day. 66 , you shouldn’t try to study too many 67 (differ) subjects. These suggestions take a 30-minute listening and reading as the basis for daily practice. You are trying to learn many new things, so don’t’ try to learn too much in any one area too 68 (quick)!
Take 5 minutes to write down all the new words you find in your listening and reading exercises. Keep a notebook, and write in the 69 (translate) in your native language. Don’t forget to learn grammar for 10 minutes. Try to quickly summarize what you listened to and what you read and speak out loud.
That’s it! Approximately 45 minutes a day, every day or at least four times a week! If you continue to do this, you will be 70 (surprise) at how quickly your English improves!
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
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。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（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
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。（题见答题卡）
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是中学生李华，你的好友Della想要竞选（run off ）学生会主席，请你根据以下写作要点和要求，给她写封信。
1.对Della参加竞选的想法表示赞同；
2.陈述自己赞同的理由（至少两条）；
3.祝愿她竞选成功。
要求：1.词数100字左右；
2.内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯。
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