The newly-invented cell-phones emit large amounts of radiation. This is why they ________ disapproval from experts as soon as they are on sale.

A. came across B. met with C. set aside D. turned up

Most of the old are somewhat cut off from the fast developing world and that’s why they are so easily ________ by the cheaters.

A. taken in B. taken up C. taken on D. taken off

Those kind-hearted donators would like to set up a special school to accept all disabled students, ________ education level and background.

A. in need of B. in honor of C. in favor of D. regardless of

While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I noticed a man coming toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to his family.

First he moved to his younger son as he laid down his bags. They gave each other a long, loving hug. they separated, I heard the father say, “It’s so good to see you, son. I missed you so much!” His son smiled somewhat shyly and replied softly, “Me, too, Dad!” Then the man stood up, gazed in the of his older son and said, “You’re already quite the young man. I love you very much, Zach!” They too hugged a most loving, tender hug. After several , he turned to his wife and declared, “I’ve saved the best for last!” and to give his wife the longest, most passionate kiss I ever remember .

For an instant they me of a newly-married couple, but I knew by the age of their kids that they couldn’t possibly be. I puzzled about it for a moment and gathered my to nervously ask, “Wow! How long have you been married?” “Almost twelve years.” he replied, breaking his gaze from his lovely wife’s face. “Well then, how long have you been away?” I asked. The man turned and looked at me, “Two whole days.”

Two days? I was . By the intensity of the greeting, I had he’d been gone for at least several weeks — if not months. I know my expression me. Hoping to stop our conversation politely and continue with my for my friend, I said almost immediately, “I hope my is still that passionate after twelve years!”

The man suddenly smiling. He looked at me straight in the eye, and with power that burned right into my soul. He told me something that left me a person. He told me, “Don’t , friend …decide!” Then with a wonderful smile, he and his family turned and left together.

I was still watching that special family walk just out of sight when my friend

to me and asked, “What are you looking at?” Without , and with a curious sense of certainty, I replied, “ My future!”

1.A. appreciate B. watch C. comfort D. greet

2.A. As B. After C. Because D. Since

3.A. mind B. eyes C. heart D. head

4.A. months B. hours C. moments D. weeks

5.A. proceeded B. inspired C. pretended D. promised

6.A. dreaming B. studying C. seeing D. sensing

7.A. thought B. exposed C. warned D. reminded

8.A. confidence B. courage C. imagination D. patience

9.A. on B. after C. without D. by

10.A. directly B. finally C. cautiously D. deliberately

11.A. discouraged B. frightened C. delighted D. shocked

12.A. assumed B. planned C. realized D. decided

13.A. discovered B. overlooked C. betrayed D. withdrew

14.A. research B. search C. control D. touch

15.A. marriage B. relatives C. family D. friends

16.A. continued B. kept C. tried D. stopped

17.A. different B. reliable C. wonderful D. perfect

18.A. remark B. imagine C. hope D. quit

19.A. called on B. dropped in C. came up D. waved at

20.A. hesitation B. decision C. difficulty D. intention

It’s still there, the Vietnamese school where my brother and I used to go. Even with a new coat of paint and the high wire fence, the school I knew ten years ago remains the same.

Every day at 5 p.m., instead of flying kites with our friends, my brother and I had to go to Vietnamese school. No amount of kicking, screaming, or arguing could stop my mother, who was determined to have us learn the language of our culture. She held us by the collar and walked with us the seven long, hilly blocks from our home to school, leaving our tearful faces before the front of the school.

We all sat in little chairs in a big empty room, which had a slight smell of old clothes that had been stored for a long time. I hated that smell. There was a stage far to the right, with an American flag on one side and the flag of the Republic of Vietnam on the other side.

Although the school mainly taught language ---- speaking, reading, dictation ---- the lessons always began with an exercise in politeness. With the entrance of the teacher, the best student would tap a bell and everyone would get up, and say in Vietnamese, "How are you, teacher?"

The language always made me embarrassed. More often than not, I had tried to separate myself from the loud voice that followed me whenever I went to the American supermarket outside our area. The voice belonged to my grandmother, a small old woman who could shout louder than anyone on the street. Her Vietnamese was quick, it was loud, and it was not beautiful.

In our area, the comings and goings of hundreds of Vietnamese on their daily tasks sounded crazy. I did not want to be thought of as being mad, as talking stupid. When I spoke English, people nodded at me, smiled and encouraged me. Even Vietnamese people would laugh and say that I’d do well in life.

My brother was even stricter than I about speaking English. He was especially cruel towards my mother, scolding her for her poor English. Bits of Vietnamese were often mixed in her conversation.

After two years of struggle, I finally divorced my culture. I was permitted to stop Vietnamese school. I thought of myself as American. At last, I thought I was one of you; I wasn’t one of them.

Sadly, I am only an American.

1.What can be learned from the passage?

A. The author’s brother liked learning Vietnamese.

B. The author’s mother taught him English at home.

C. The author’s mother put her sons in a language school in Vietnam.

D. The author didn’t like learning Vietnamese when he was young.

2.The author often felt embarrassed because ________.

A. his Vietnamese was not beautiful enough

B. his grandma spoke Vietnamese loudly in public

C. he could not fly kites like other kids at school

D. his mother always treated him rudely in the market

3.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the author feels ________.

A. regretful B. peaceful C. satisfied D. frightened

4.What’s the theme of the passage?

A. It is important to adapt to a new environment.

B. It is important to remember your childhood.

C. It is important to appreciate your own culture.

D. It is important to learn a foreign language.

As is shown in a recent study, the way people sleep at night actually determines a lot about the type personality they have. Robert Phipps, a body language expert, has identified four sleeping positions that affect personality.

Phipps found that worriers, those who stress the most, tend to sleep in the fetal(胎兒的) position. He found that this is by far the most common bedtime position, sleeping on their side with knees up and head down. The more we curl up(蜷曲), the more comfort we are seeking, according to Phipps.

The second most common position is the log, indicating stubbornness. People sleep with a straight body, with arms at each side, as if they are standing guard at Buckingham Palace, and these people (the 28 percent who sleep this way) often wake up stiffer(更僵硬) than when they went to sleep.” The longer you sleep like this, the more rigid your thinking is and you can become inflexible, which means you make things harder for yourself,” according to Phipps.

Yearner(向往型的) sleepers are next on the list. About 25 percent of people sleep in this style----on their backs with arms stretched out in front, looking as if they are either chasing a dream or perhaps being chased themselves. Yearners are typically their own worst critics, always expecting great results, explained Phipps. These people often wake up refreshed and eager to face the challenges of the day ahead.

Perhaps the most special sleep style is the freefaller position. This sleep style makes up 17 percent of the population. They sleep face down with arms stretched out. These people, according to Phipps, feel like they have little control over their life. Not only is this the strangest of sleep styles, it also the least comfortable, and people may wake up feeling tired and have no energy.

In conclusion, Phipps has only one more thing to add: “A good night’s sleep sets you up for the following day and our sleeping positions can determine how we feel when we wake.”

1.Which of the following pictures is the fetal position?

A. B. C. D.

2.The underlined word “rigid” the third paragraph is closest in meaning to “________”.

A. comfortable B. flexible C. stubborn D. strange

3.Which sleeping position indicates that the sleeper tends to seek perfection?

A. The fetal position B. The log position

C. The yearner position D. The freefaller position

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Which sleeping position helps you sleep comfortably？

B. A good night’s sleep sets you up for the following day.

C. How you sleep at night affects what you do the next day.

D. Your personality depends a lot on how you sleep at night.

OK, I admit it: emoticons(表情符號(hào))are popular. Some people even think they are fun. Many seem unable to get through an e-mail or Instant Message chat sentence without using one. Some feel that they add feeling and character to otherwise cold digital communications.

Some people, such as a Hollywood scriptwriter John Blumenthal, however, blast the use of emoticons as “infantile(幼稚)just like the people who use them”. He believes that words themselves should be enough. “If you’re funny, happy or sad, that should be apparent from the comment that goes before the emoticons,” he argues.

In the eyes of Blumenthal, the use of emoticons is a gender issue. “Men don’t use emoticons very much. Maybe not at all,” he said, “Teenage girls and women seem to use them a lot. Maybe there’s an emoticon gene.”

It’s an interesting opinion, but it is not shared by all.

In an interview with The New York Times, Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California, said that emoticons are popular because our brains are programmed “to seek out representations of humanity”. He believes that they are popular not because they are shortcuts for the lazy, but because they bring in something beyond language. They satisfy our needs to be with and communicate with people.

All of these arguments may be somehow right. Each one of us will choose to communicate in our own way. I tried to use one once and felt like I was stealing into a primary school class that I had no place being in. I’d rather let my words do the talking.

Friends, however, send me messages and e-mails full of emoticons. I have no problem with this. I don’t regard any of my friends as lazy or immature. It’s just a question of individuality.

1.What does the underlined word “blast” in the second paragraph mean?

A. clarify B. criticize C. support D. approve

2.Which of the following views would John Blumenthal agree with?

A. It’s enough to use language in digital communication.

B. Instant Message chatters are childish.

C. Men never use emoticons.

D. There must be an emoticon gene in everybody.

3.From the text, we can conclude that the author______________.

A. feels he has no difficulty using emoticons

B. thinks emoticons don’t suit him

C. encourages his friends to use emoticons

D. believes that emoticons are suitable for everyone

4.What is the main point of the article?

A. Advice on language used over the Internet.

B. Arguments over the use of emoticons.

C. The history of the use of emoticons.

D. Reasons for the popularity of emoticons.

Many of us enjoy doing it: you turn on the camera on your mobile phone and hold it at a high angle, making your eyes look bigger and your cheek­bones more defined. You turn to your best side and click. There it is — your selfie.

Over the past year, “selfie” has become a well-known term across the globe. This August the Oxford diction­ary added the word to their online dic­tionary and defined it as: “A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and up-loaded to a social media website.”

Today it’s not difficult to find social networking pages full of photos people have taken of themselves and their friends. And selfie culture has become especially relevant for young people. As many as 91 percent of teenagers have posted photos of themselves online, according to a recent survey by the US Pew Research Center.

So what are the reasons for the rise of selfie culture?

“The cult (狂熱) of the selfie celebrates regular people,” Pamela Rutledge, a profes­sor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, told Vogue magazine. “There are many more photo­graphs available now of real people than models.”

Posting selfies also allows you to control your image online. “I like having the power to choose how I look, even if I’m making a funny face,” Samantha Barks, 19, a high school student in the US, told Vogue.

In addition to self-expression and documentation, selfies “allow of a close friendship for long­-distance friends, because you can see each other’s faces every day”, wrote Casey Miller at The Huffmgton Post.

But US psychologist Jill Weber is concerned that selfies might lead to social problems, “There’s a danger that your self-esteem may start to be tied to the comments and ‘likes’ you get when you post a selfie, and they aren’t based on who you are — they’re based on what you look like,” Weber told Vogue. “When you get nothing or a negative response, your confidence can plummet.”

1.With the first paragraph, the author intends to .

A. tell us the fun of taking a selfie

B. describe what a selfie is

C. introduce where the selfie came from

D. inform readers that the selfie is popular among teenagers

2.Why is selfie culture so popular according to the article?

a. It enables people to choose how they look.

b. It helps people improve their self-esteem.

c. It’s a chance for ordinary people to show off themselves.

d. It is believed to be a helpful way to develop a new friendship.

e. It is considered a good way to stay connected with friends that are far away.

A. a, c, e B. b, c, d C. a, b, c D. b, d, e

3.What is Jill Weber’s attitude toward selfies?

A. She thinks they are a good form of self-expression and documentation.

B. She believes the disadvantages of selfies outweigh the advantages.

C. She is worried that people’s self-esteem might be affected by how others react to their selfies.

D. She thinks that selfies can help people learn about their friends based on who they really are.

4.The underlined word “plummet” in the last paragraph probably means .

A. rapidly develop B. greatly exaggerate

C. become dangerous D. quickly fall

You have two eyes and they are set close together on the front of your face. Have you wondered why? The reasons are simple and important to the way you see the rest of your world.

Your eyes are like two small cameras. A camera catches an image of an object and records it on film. Similarly, when you look at something, each eye takes in what it sees and sends this image to the back of the eyeball. Because your eyes are set close together, they view the world from about the same height but from slightly different angles. Working as a team, the eyes send the images to your brain, which puts them together into a single, centered image.

Seeing in stereo means seeing with two eyes working together, which is called stereoscopic sight. This allows you to view the world in three dimensions, or 3-D. Seeing depth helps you to judge the distance between you and the objects you see and to adjust to the changing angle at which you see something as you move closer to or farther away from it. If images are coming from only one eye, however, only two of these dimensions----height and width----can be perceived. A world seen with one eye is thus two-dimensional, as in a photograph.

Now consider why your two eyes are on the front of your face. Think of other animals with the same arrangement. They are all animals that hunt, like lions and wolves. Their eyes face directly in front of them. This provides a field of sight about 180 degrees wide, which is called binocular(雙眼的) sight. On the other hand, animals that are hunted have eyes on the sides of the head, which provides nearly360-degree field of sight. In order to stay alive, they need to see things coming from the sides and from behind. However, without stereoscopic sight, they have difficulty determining how far a danger is.

With sight both stereoscopic and binocular, humans share with animal hunters the ability to see from side to side and to accurately determine the distance. If you think it would be great to have another type of sight, perhaps with hundreds of tiny eyes like many insects do, think again! Each tiny insect eye sees only a tiny part. Besides, what if you needed glasses? Be glad for the eyesight that you have.

1.According to the passage, the similarity of an eye and a camera is that they both .

A. can imagine objects B. can record images

C. provide centered images D. work at the same height

2.Stereoscopic sight is a result of having .

A. two eyes close to each other that work together

B. hundreds of eyes, all seeing tiny parts of an image

C. a three-hundred-sixty-degree field of sight

D. one eye on either side of the head, each seeing a different image

3.What is the meaning of the underlined word “perceived” in Para3 most similar to?

A. known B. seen C. taken D. understood

4.We can infer from the last paragraph that .

A. our eyes work like cameras

B. animal hunters are glad for the sight they have

C. the three dimensions are depth, height and width

D. human beings are fortunate to have such eyesight

閱讀下列各小題，根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示，用句末括號(hào)內(nèi)的英語(yǔ)單詞完成句子，并將答案寫在答題卡上的相應(yīng)題號(hào)后。

1.The school shop, _____________________customers are students, is closed during the holidays. （majority）

顧客大部分是學(xué)生的那家學(xué)校商店放假期間會(huì)關(guān)門。

2.With the arrival of autumn, those naughty leaves _____________________ to run back to their mother. (alternative)

隨著秋天的到來(lái)，那些調(diào)皮的樹葉們沒(méi)有選擇，只能跑回大地母親的懷抱。

3.If the profit of the four state-owned banks hadn’t been influenced, they __________ Yu Ebao, teaming up with each other. (resist)

如果四大國(guó)有銀行的利潤(rùn)沒(méi)有受到影響，他們就不會(huì)聯(lián)合抵制余額寶。

4._________________the Qin Dynasty, the traditional crosstalk shows, or Xiangsheng shows have made people all over China roar with laughter for centuries. (date)

追溯到秦朝的傳統(tǒng)脫口秀，或者說(shuō)是相聲已經(jīng)讓全中國(guó)人大笑了幾個(gè)世紀(jì)。

5.Widely _________mothers-in-law in China, the attitude “no house, no marriage” has contributed a lot to the high housing price and the pressure on young men. (adopt)

中國(guó)丈母娘們廣泛采取的“沒(méi)有房子不能結(jié)婚”的態(tài)度推高了房?jī)r(jià)也增加了年輕人的壓力。

6.As the square-dance is popular, ______________ the noise of it increasingly becomes a great concern to all involved in it. (deal)

隨著廣場(chǎng)舞的流行，怎樣處理它的噪音日漸成為所有相關(guān)人員關(guān)注的問(wèn)題。

7.________________ in A Bite of China was the fantastic music carefully chosen by the music editors. (appeal)

《舌尖上的中國(guó)》最吸引我們的是音樂(lè)編輯們精心挑選的美妙音樂(lè)。

8.Tonny bear, as well as his friends, ____________ the importance of communication since the fierce quarrel. (aware)

自從大吵過(guò)后，托尼熊和他的朋友們意識(shí)到了交流的重要性。

9.As far as they are concerned, by no means __________ with Japan unless they apologize for their inappropriate behavior. (compromise)

在他們看來(lái)，中國(guó)絕不能和日本妥協(xié)，除非他們?yōu)樽约旱牟划?dāng)言行道歉。

10.______ the boy that the affair was likely to be a kind of commercial exploitation. (occur)

那個(gè)男孩突然想到此事很可能只是一種商業(yè)炒作。