五、完型填空 （共15分，每小题1.5分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
A Move to Safety
The Turners sat at the kitchen table. The sun was shining and filled the kitchen with a warm light. It was a perfect day for having a picnic or going surfing. But in the Turners’ kitchen, no one seemed to be paying attention to the ______ (31).
“Okay, girls,” said Mrs.Turner. “I can tell by the expressions on your faces that you have a pretty good idea of why we need to have this family ______ (32).” Linda and Kala exchanged looks and slowly nodded.
“Your mom and I have had many talks lately about the possibility of ______ (33),” said Mr.Turner. “We were hoping that it wouldn’t come to this, but we don’t have other choices.”
“But Dad,” said Kala, “Kilauea has been an active volcano (火山) since 1983! Nothing has happened to us or to our house yet. I know we’ll be ______ (34) here. ”
“But your dad and I care about all the recent warnings given by the government. Even though we’ve been safe up to now, there is no way to guarantee (保证) that a larger eruption (喷发) isn’t coming up,” said Mrs.Turner.
“Mom, this is our ______(35). I can’t even remember living anywhere else!” Linda said, fighting back tears.
Mrs.Turner put an arm around her daughter’s shoulder. “This won’t go ______ (36) for any of us,” she said. “Dad and I love this house, too. We have so many happy memories here. But we’re tired of living with such uncertainty.The most important thing in the world to us is that our family stays safe.”
Mr. Turner ______ (37).“ Girls, there are other places in Hawaii where we’ll feel safer. We’ll have to give up our house, but you know home is wherever we go as a family. We’ll make new memories, and we’ll find things to love about our new home.”
The girls were quiet for a moment as they considered what it would mean to move. “There are so many things I’ll ______ (38) here, ” said Kala quietly.
“We all will, ” said Mrs. Turner. “But one of the places that your dad and I have looked at is only a few minutes’ walk to the beach.”
Kala and Linda couldn’t help ______ (39) when they heard that. They both spent every spare minute they had surfing. If their parents told them that they could actually live in the water, they would have been perfectly happy.
Mr. Turner walked around to the other side of the table. He put one large hand on each of his daughter’s shoulders. “I’m proud of you two,” he said. “Thank you for trying to ______ (40) why this is so important to your mom and me.”
Linda and Kala smiled. Dad was right: home was wherever the family was. 31. A.kitchen 32. A.trip 33. A.moving 34.A.happy 35. A.dream 36. A.early 37. A.nodded 38. A.sense 39. A.smiling 40. A.explain
B.table B.meeting B.traveling B.safe B.choice B.easily B.shouted B.stress B.arguing B.wonder
D
Do you know what to do if you see a python (蟒蛇) in your community? What about a seven- foot long American lizard in front of your house? People who live in most areas in the United States do not have experiences like these. But if you live in southern Florida, you may run into a number of exotic (外来的) animals.
Exotic pets have become more and more popular in recent years in Florida. People often buy an animal as a baby without realizing how difficult it may be to care for that animal when it is fully-grown. For example, Burmese pythons are easy to buy at exotic pet stores or online. When the snake is young, it does not require much more work than other pet. But Burmese pythons can grow to be more than 20 feet long and can weigh about 250 pounds. There is not much
C.picnic C.dinner C.returning C.brave
C.home C.quickly C.judged C.respect C.worrying C.understand
D.relaxed
D.island D.successfully D.repeated D.miss D.doubting D.discuss D.weather
D.celebration D.rushing
space in the typical American home or yard to care for such a big animal! When the snake outgrows its cage and its owner becomes bored with caring and feeding it, the snake may be left in a wild area.
In other parts of the country, many of these exotic animals would probably not be able to live long in the wild. But the climate(气候) in southern Florida is wet and warm — similar to the areas where many of the animals are naturally found. Many exotic pets have gradually got used to the new situation in Florida’s natural areas, and when enough of them are free in the wild, they can start breeding(繁殖).
The problem with these unexpected animals is that scientists don’t always know which ones will change or harm the local environment. In the last few years, people visiting Florida’s Everglades National Park have watched fights between American alligators(短嘴鳄) and exotic pythons. It is not hard to imagine the effect of aggressive(凶悍的) animals. But even animals like vervet monkeys, which seem harmless, compete with other animals that eat the same plants. If their presence or behavior causes a change in the habits of local animals, the overall changes can be far-reaching.
Think about a set of dominos (多米诺牌) lined up next to one another, None of them may be touching, but as soon as you tip one over, the whole row will fall down.
53. The writer talks about Burmese pythons in Paragraph 2 to ______. A. introduce an exotic pet to animal lovers B. explain why exotic pets appear in the wild C. suggest right ways to look after exotic pets D. stress the importance of caring for exotic pets
54. Why can many exotic animals live long in the wild in Florida? A. Because there is enough space. B. Because they can find new food. C. Because the climate is fit for them. D. Because people there protect animals well. 55. What may be the writer’s opinion on exotic pets? A. Seeing different kinds of exotic pets in the wild is exciting.
B. Exotic pets and local animals should be kept in different wild areas. C. Exotic pets in the wild may break the balance of the local environment.
D. Harmless exotic animals can live peacefully with local animals in the wild.
书面表达（共15分）
九、文段表达（共15分）
66.从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的．．．．文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。 题目①
假如你是李华，你们班在本周六将要组织一次春游，你打算邀请外教Peter Smith参加。请用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉他春游集合的时间和地点，春游要去哪里、做什么，以及他需要做什么准备。
提示词语: spring outing(春游), picnic, sports shoes
提示问题:
When and where will you meet?
Where are you going? What are you going to do there? What do you advise Mr. Smith to prepare for the spring outing? Dear Mr. Smith, I’m writing to invite you to take part in our spring outing on Saturday. I’mlooking forward to your early reply. Yours, Li Hua 题目②
生活中有一些人对你很重要。这个人可能是你的父母、老师或朋友。假如你是李华，请你用英语写一篇短文给某英文网站投稿，谈谈对你很重要的人是谁，为什么他(她)对你很重要，以及你想为他(她)做些什么。
提示词语: help, encourage, respect, cook 提示问题:
Who is very important to you? Why is he/she so important?
What are you going to do for him/her?
五、完形填空（共15分，每小题1.5分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
The Winner
It was the first swim meeting of the year for our newly scorned middle-school swimming team. The atmosphere（气氛）on the three-hour bus ride was exciting as the team only thought of 31 . However, the excitement turned into shock as they walked off the bus and stared（盯着）in disbelief at their strong Greek-god-like opponents（对手）.Halfway through the meet, Coach Huey realized that be had no swimmers for one of the events.
“Okay team, who wants to swim the five-hundred-yard freestyle?” the coach asked. Several hands went up, including Justin Rigsbee’s. “I’ll race, Coach!”
The coach looked down at the young boy and said, “Justin, this race is twenty lengths of the pool. I’ve only seen you swim eight.”
“Oh, I can do it, Coach. Let me try.”
Coach Huey finally agreed, not 32 though. After all, he thought, it’s not the winning but the trying that builds 33 . The whistle（哨子）blew and the opponents flew through the water and finished the race in just four minutes and fifty seconds. The winners got together to socialize while our group 34 to finish. After four more long minutes, the last tired members of our team got out of the water. The last except for Justin.
Justin was 35 breaths as his hands hit the water and pushed it aside to move his thin body forward. It appeared that he would go under at any minute. Yet something seemed to keep pushing him onward.
“Why doesn’t the coach stop this child?” the parents spoke among themselves. “He looks like he’s not going to make it, and the race was won four minutes ago.”
But what the parents did not realize was that the real race, the race of a boy becoming a man, was just 36 .
The coach walked over to the young swimmer and quietly spoke. The parents thought, “Oh, he’s finally going to pull that boy out before he kills himself.” But to their 37 . the coach stepped back from the pool’s edge, and the young man continued to swim.
One teammate, inspired by his brave friend, went to the side of the pool and walked the lane as Justin continued. “Come on, Justin, you can do it! Keep going! Don’t give up!” He was joined by another, then another, until the whole team was walking the length of the pool cheering for and 38 their teammate to finish the race set before him. Their opponents
saw what was happening and 39 them. Soon the room was full of energy and excitement as teammates and opponents alike gave courage to one small swimmer. Twelve long minutes after the starting whistle had blown, a tired but 40 Justin Rigsbee swam his final lap and pulled himself out of the pool, The standing ovation （起立鼓掌）they gave Justin that day proved that the greater victory was his, just for finishing the race. 31. A. friends D. victory 32. A. willingly
B. holidays
C. training
B. nervously B. bridgea B. started B. holding
D
C. curiously C. success C. tried C. losing
D. seriously D. character D. failed D. wasting D. organized D. satisfaction D. asking D. joined D. helpful
33. A. friendship 34. A. learned 35. A. stealing 36. A. ending 37. A. shame 38. teaching 39. A. left
B. beginning B. joy
C. canceled C. surprise C. forcing C. guided C. smiling
B. encouraging B. stopped
40. A. crying B. energetic
Mindlessly checking Facebook makes you an awful lot like a lab rat (老鼠) continuously pushing a button in order to get a treat.
When you check your phone, your brain gets its own little zing; Someone might be talking about you on Facebook! No? Reload. Maybe your Instagram got a heart! Reload. Reload.
But you’re no rat. Human brains can fight the ways apps hijack our brains, if we learn some skills to deal with this problem.
Are Facebook or Twitter “addictions” (瘾)? Recent scientific research about social media (媒体) doesn’t agree on that term, but evidence (证据) that we aren’t doing well is present at dinner tables where everyone is staring at screens, and at crosswalks where absent-minded people walk into traffic.
I became mindful of my early-morning bad habits. Pre-coffee, half awake, I’d lie there for an hour with my phone. So I called up psychologists, brain scientists and app designers for advice on what actually would help me.
Surprisingly, they didn’t tell me to immediately stop, but instead told me I needed the skills for managing social media as part of my life.
Limit Triggers (诱因)
Our brains are made to quickly eat up information. So why let social-media companies decide when to attract you? Turn off app notifications (通告) on your phone and computer. Especially forlive video broadcasts. They are designed to create the fear of missing out.
Avoid Quicksand
When you’re on Facebook, it is easy to read one article, then another.
Nir Eyal, author of the 2014 book “Hooked” says he forces himself not to read
anything right away. Instead, he saves articles to a service called Pocket, which reads them aloud while he’s at the gym.
We hurt ourselves when we use social media as a break from serious work .Our brains need a chance to be empty .Research suggests the best way to help your brain focus is
exercise, even for a short period. Staring into space would be better than refreshing Facebook.
Make New Norms
Not that long ago, you could be fired for not paying attention during a meeting or class; now, many openly use their phones or laptops. Bosses could set a better work culture by providing charging（充电）stations at meetings where everyone could leave their phones, then focus on the discussion at hand. Mr. Eyal suggests you try shaming friends who have bad habits –if you do it politely. If someone is not listening to you at dinner. ask,“Is everything OK?” The answer might start an important conversation.
Tech Should Help
The social-media industry has a responsibility here, too. Since companies usually know exactly how much time users spend on their apps. they should offer help to people who have problem behavior. And for the rest for the rest of us, let’s encourage app makers to make their products more helpful, not more demanding of our time.
52. What does the underlined word “hijack” in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Wash.
B. Hurt.
C. Control.
D. Empty.
53. Why does Mr. Eyal save articles to Pocket? A. To rest his tired brain.
B. To refresh his Facebook immediately
C. To get more time to exercise. 54. What is the best title of this passage? A. Take a break from busy life. B. Free your brain from social media. C. Separate social life your work. D. Keep your life away from apps. 55. What can we infer from the passage?
D. To avoid being attracted by social media.
A. The social-media industry should make more app products. B. People with problem behavior should ask brain scientists for help. C. We should decide when to connect to social media by ourselves.
D. A company with charging stations must have a better work culture.
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