Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. It may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are…but it also turns you into a workaholic, it seems.

A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.

The study by technology retailer Pixmania reveals the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. More than 90 percent of office workers have email-enabled phones, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess (承認(rèn)) they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they make work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., with more than a third checking their first emails in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11 p.m. and midnight.

Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said, “The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones invaluable for many people. However, there are drawbacks. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constant in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity (容量).”

1.What can we conclude from the text?

A．All that glitters is not gold.

B．It never rains but pours.

C．Every coin has two sides.

D．It’s no good crying over spilt milk.

2.The underlined word “accessing” in the third paragraph can be replaced by “________”.

A．calling B．reaching C．getting D．using

3.Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．The average UK working time is between nine and twelve hours.

B．Nine-tenths spent over three hours checking work emails.

C．One-fourth check their first mail between 11 p.m. and midnight.

D．The average time for first checking emails is between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. .

4.What’s the main idea of the text?

A．Workaholics like smartphones.

B．Smartphones bring about extra work.

C．Smartphones make our life easier.

D．Employers don’t like smartphones.

The top ten hottest English words in 2015

Selfie (自拍) is “taking a photo by yourself”, Now “taking a selfie” is generally a way of self-expression.

Budgetwife is the opposite of budget husband (經(jīng)濟(jì)適用男). By name, you can see that the economy strength of budget male is not strong as the "diamond man" (鉆石男), but he is both economically and emotionally reliable.

Phubbing refers to impolite behavior that in social situations people don’t pay attention to the people around, but just look at their mobile phones, we can call it "down". People are called phubber "down" (低頭族).

Bromeo (男閨蜜) are male girlfriends. He is one of your most loyal friends, will support you in every situation.

"Fangirl" or “fanboy” (腦殘粉) refers to those who are crazy about something or a star, even to the point of sanity.

Gayriage (基婚) refers to two people of equal gender form of marriage. Two men to get married, the marriage is called gayriage.

Mompetition, it is the competition between mothers, comparing whose child is more beautiful, more smarter, more fashionable. It can be compared two or more mothers, and the children being compared can be adult.

Social bubble (社交泡沫), which means that some people seem to know many people, but only few people could be friends. After “financial bubble”, “housing bubble”, personal bubbles begin to hit career people.

1.Tom is a ______, crazy about selfies.

A. fanboy B. phubber C. bromeo D. photographer

2.Today’s career people meet many problems except______.

A. personal bubble B. financial bubble

C. housing bubble D. mompetition

3.What will the text talk about next?

A. The use of the hottest words.

B. The way of picking the hottest words.

C. The ninth top hottest words.

D. The effect of the hottest words.

Dear Alcohol,

You’ve been around forever. I can remember all the pain you’ve caused for me.

Do you remember the night you almost took my father’s life? I do. He loves you. Sometimes I think he loves you more than he loves me. He’s addicted to you, to the way you promise to rid him of his problems only to cause more of them. You just sat back and laughed as his car went spinning through the street, crashing into two other cars. He wasn’t the only one hurt by you that night.

Do you remember the night of my first high school party? You were there. My friends were intrigued by you. They treated you as if they were never going to see you again, drinking all of you that they could. I spent two hours that night helping my friends who had fallen completely. “I’m so embarrassed,” they said as I held their hair back so that they could vomit (嘔吐). “I’m sorry,” they said when I called taxis for them, walking them out and paying the driver in advance. “This won’t happen again,” they said as they were sent to the hospital to have their stomachs pumped. Two 15-year-old girls slept in hospital beds that night thanks to you.

Do you remember the night when you took advantage of my 17-year-old neighbor who had to drive to pick up his sister from her dance lessons? Do you know how we all felt when he hit another car and killed the two people in the other car? He died the next morning too. His sister walked home from her dance lesson, and passed police cars and a crowd of people gathering on the sidewalk just two blocks away from the dance studio. She didn’t realize her brother was in the midst of it all. She never saw him again. And it’s all your fault.

I wish you’d walk out of my life forever. I don’t want anything to do with you. Look at all the pain you’ve caused. Sure, you’ve made people happy too from time to time. But the damage you’ve caused in the lives of millions is inexcusable. Stop luring（誘惑）in the people I love. Stop hurting me, please.

Sincerely,

Anonymous

1.What is author’s purpose in writing to alcohol?

A．To introduce Mr. Alcohol to the readers.

B．To describe the harm alcohol did to his family.

C．To show how much alcohol can hurt people.

D．To show the great fun that alcohol can bring to people’s life.

2.What did alcohol do to the author’s father?

A．It made him crash into two other cars and took his life.

B．It made him drink too much and he had to get his stomach pumped.

C．It made him kill two other people when driving.

D．It made him get into a car accident and badly injure himself.

3.What is the tone of the article?

A．Critical. B．Doubtful. C．Unconcerned. D．Humorous.

4.What is the main writing technique of the passage?

A．Making something less noticeable than usual.

B．Representing something in the form of a person.

C．Describing something by listing its harmfulness.

D．Comparing one thing with another to make his point clear.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容, 從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng), 選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

(注意：此題答案寫(xiě)在第II卷答題卷上)

Tips on how to save money

It’s important for you teenagers to know how to save money. You know that the money you save can be for rainy days and be used to pay through your college education. If you think it’s a difficult task and don’t know how to do it, please do as the following.

1.

My dad always tells me that if one doesn’t respect money, it will never respect you. Hence, it’s important that you keep a record of your daily expenses. Make it a habit to write down all that you have spent. And when you find out the total expenses at the end of the month, you will realize what you have spent more money in doing. 2.

Open a savings account.

Opening a savings account is a better way to save money. You can set a goal; say (for example), the money is for a new notebook or for college, and then save, until you have enough money to buy a notebook or until you go to college. 3.

Do not carry much cash.

Do you have the habit of not leaving a store without buying anything? The only way to stop that is carrying less money around with you. Go to the store with the minimum amount of money, which will not even help you buy a drink. 4.

Save the changes.

Save the changes that you get back. If you have gone to a shop to buy something and get back some changes, then do not spend them. 5. And you’ll be surprised at the huge amount of money after days.

Follow these tips above, and thus you can save a lot of money. And surely, they’ll help you to be more responsible in your life.

A. Keep a record of your daily expenses.

B. After a few days, you’ll get rid of this habit.

C. Instead, you can save them in your piggy bank.

D. By that time, you will realize the importance of saving money.

E. Saving money builds your financial power and personal freedom.

F. Next month, you will automatically try and save more in that part.

G. Nowadays in the developed and developing countries, people are all working for the sake of earning money.

閱讀下面短文, 從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng) (A、B、C和D)中, 選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng), 并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Dropping into hopelessness completely, Jack wandered on the streets, knowing he came to the end of life. In his mid-fifties, Jack had never been ___________, experienced the joy of having children or spent holidays with his family. On this miserable rainy night, he felt as if there was___________ in the entire world who cared whether he lived or died.

Meanwhile, I was sitting in my room watching the rain ___________ my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I___________ from my chair and raced out. But my mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found herself face-to-face with a very dirty-looking man with tears streaming down his face. My mother, overcome by ___________, invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room．

___________, I walked secretly downstairs so that I could get a better look. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but the sight of the man, ___________ his head in his hands and crying, made my chest ache. I raced back upstairs to my room and ___________ my hand into my money jar. Pulling out my only half-dollar coin, I ran back downstairs.

When I reached the door of the living room, I walked right in. The three ___________ looked at me in ___________ as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar in his hand and told him that I wanted him to have it. Then I gave him a ___________, turned and ran as fast as I could out of the room and back upstairs. I felt excited but happy.

Downstairs, Jack sat quietly with his head ___________.Tears streamed down his face as he___________held that coin. Finally looking up at my parents, he said, "It’s just that I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years, I have been so___________. That is the first hug I have ever got. It’s hard to believe that somebody ___________”

Jack's life changed that night. When he left our house, he was___________ to live instead of die. Although we never saw Jack again, we received letters from him ___________, letting us know that he was doing fine.

My life changed that night, too, as I___________the hug healing (治愈) power of giving, even if it’s only a gift of fifty cents. Before Jack left, my parents asked him why he had knocked on our door. Jack said that ___________ he'd walked along the streets that rainy night, ___________ and ready to die, he had noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU.

1.A. employed B. understood C. managed D. married

2.A. anybody B. somebody C. nobody D. everybody

3.A. approach B. beat C. break D. cover

4.A. jumped B. ran C. looked D. settled

5.A. fear B. anxiety C. guilty D. pity

6.A. Curious B. Annoyed C. Excited D. Worried

7.A. shaking B. nodding C. holding D. resting

8.A. adjusted B. reached C. presented D. pushed

9.A. strangers B. neighbors C. visitors D. adults

10.A. anger B. delight C. fun D. surprise

11.A. hug B. smile C. kiss D. handshake

12.A. raised B. bowed C. ignored D. turned

13.A. calmly B. tightly C. impatiently D. privately

14.A. anxious B. lonely C. stressed D. bored

15.A. makes B. figures C. cares D. deserves

16.A. flexible B. likely C. disappointed D. ready

17.A. occasionally B. at once C. hardly D. never

18.A. hid B. informed C. assisted D. saw

19.A. as B. before C. until D. unless

20.A. weak B. ashamed C. helpless D. Regretful

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個(gè)單詞）或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

We are what we eat because what we eat every day has 1. great effect on our health. Therefore, we should make every effort to change our bad eating habits. 2. we all know, baked or fried foods may be 3. (taste) but eating too much of them will 4. (probable) result in some illnesses. Moreover, some food that costs us a great deal of money and is not healthy is junk food.

Compared with people in the West, Chinese people used 5. (eat) more grain and vegetables, but 6. (little) meat, which is a good eating habit. However, things are quite different now. With the rapid economic 7. (grow) of our country, now we are also eating a lot of food that is high in sugar and fat. We 8. (take) the risk of eating out without considering the balance of our diet.

The food we choose affects our health, so we must keep it 9. mind that the food we choose should give 10. (we) the nutrients (營(yíng)養(yǎng)物) we need.

短文改錯(cuò)

下面短文中有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤。請(qǐng)?jiān)谟绣e(cuò)誤的地方增加、刪除或修改某個(gè)單詞。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），并在其下面寫(xiě)上該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（＼）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)上修改后的詞。

注意：

1. 每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Jessica was just a girl in one of my classes. I never knew much about her except for that she was strange. She didn’t talk many. Her hair was black and purple, and she worn black sports shoes and a black sweater, although in summer. She was, in fact, rather attractively, and she never seemed care what the rest of us thought about her. Like the rest of my classmate, I didn’t really want to get closest to her. It was only when we did their chemistry project together that I begin to understand why Jessica dressed the way she did.

書(shū)面表達(dá)

某中學(xué)生英文報(bào)近期開(kāi)辟專欄，討論學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣問(wèn)題，習(xí)慣成就未來(lái), 請(qǐng)你結(jié)合自身學(xué)習(xí)實(shí)際, 按以下提示, 用英文為該專欄寫(xiě)一篇稿件。

1．說(shuō)明學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣與學(xué)習(xí)效果之間的關(guān)系；

2．介紹一種好的學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣并提出養(yǎng)成該習(xí)慣的建議；

3．描述自己在學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣方面存在的某個(gè)問(wèn)題并給出改進(jìn)措施。

參考詞匯：學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣：learning habit 學(xué)習(xí)效果：learning effect

注 意：1. 詞數(shù)120詞左右； 2. 可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)。

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If you need to spend time on the road，it’s important to find ways to keep safe on your feet. Don’t suppose it's your right of way. Yes, you might be crossing at the right place, at the right time, within the crosswalk area, but you are still exposed to danger. It could be a distracted driver, or a cyclist with a loose sense of traffic rules, so you could still get hurt. You can be in the right legally, but that won’t be much help when you're in the hospital.

Follow pedestrian signals. Just as drivers aren’t supposed to speed up to beat a light when crossing through an intersection, pedestrians need to take the same care when obeying their own signals. If the hand is flashing and the countdown is into single digits (數(shù)字），stay where you are. Trying to outrun the flashing hand is unsafe，especially as cars try to clear the intersection before the light turns red.

Give drivers enough time to stop when crossing. Don’t suppose that drivers will jam on their brakes when you hit the crosswalk signals. Some provinces, such as Alberta, issue (發(fā)出）a ticket if you don’t give drivers enough time to brake.

Cross quickly. Once you’ve followed all of the other rules, and it is safe to cross the street, don’t then just wander along in front of six lanes (車道）of traffic. There’s no need to run or jog, but respect the drivers who respected you enough to stop for you.

1.Who is the text intended for?

A. Drivers. B. Cyclists. C. Police. D. Pedestrians.

2.What does the underlined word “distracted” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Considerate. B. Strange.

C. Kind-hearted. D. Absent-minded.

3. In what case would pedestrians in Alberta be fined?

A. Racing against time with drivers.

B. Following crosswalk signals.

C. Crossing the crosswalk area.

D. Walking outside six lanes.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Rules for Traffic Police

B. Tips to Keep Safe on Your Feet

C. Things Every Driver Should Know

D. Signals for Both Pedestrians and Drivers

At primary school in New Zealand, I was introduced to a school savings account run by one of the local banks. When our money box was full, we took it to the bank and watched with pride as our coins flowed across the counter. As a reward，we could choose our next money box from a small variety, and start the whole savings routine again. Every week I watched my parents sort out the housekeeping and “make ends meet”. Sometimes it was annoying to wait for things we really felt we needed.

Later, as a university student, I managed on an extremely small student allowance. Students were ignored by banks then, because we were so poor, and there was no way I could have gotten credit, even if I had tried. We collected our allowance three times each year, deposited it to the best advantage and withdrew it little by little to last until the next payout of the allowance.

When our daughter, Sophie, began to walk, we made a purposeful choice to encourage her to use money wisely. We often comment when the TV tells us “You owe it to yourself to borrow our money"—to whom do we really owe it? And what would happen if our income were reduced or dried up? Now, as a 12-year-old child, it’s almost embarrassing to see her tight “financial policy”，and wait for the unavoidable holiday sales to buy what she wants.

I agree that financial education in schools is very important. But the root of the problem lies with us and the way we behave as role models to those who follow.

1.What did the author learn from her parents?

A. How to become a banker.

B. Where to open a savings account.

C. Where to choose a money box.

D. How to make ends meet.

2.How did the author manage the student allowance?

A. He applied for a credit card.

B. He spent it three times a year.

C. He put it in the bank.

D. He seldom withdrew it.

3.What reflects Sophie’s tight “financial policy”？

A. Reducing her savings.

B. Buying things on sales.

C. Canceling holiday plans.

D. Borrowing money from banks.

4.What’s the text mainly about?

A. Parents，money problems.

B.Students' school performance.

C. Children’s saving behavior.

D. Children’s financial education.