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Artful Experience

It’s an artful experience even if you’re artistically challenged. Adults, teens, and children of all ages are welcome at Contemporary Art studio. We provide everything: stamps, idea books, a little coaching, and a lot of encouragement. Drop in anytime. It’s creative fun for everyone to paint your own pottery(陶器)! No experience needed. Our studio will show you how. It’s as easy as 1-2-3!

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Chinese-English Translator

This is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates looking to put their Chinese skills to use.

Requirements: native speaker of English; business translation experience is preferred but not a must; able to fulfill several projects on time; excellent reading skills in Chinese. If interested, please email staff@young.com or call 453-268-130.

Ancient Object Market

Here you find a large variety of old European furniture, statues and paintings. We also offer a large selection of clocks in bronze, wood, white metal. Organizing buying tours based on the needs of our clients is something else we do. We pick you up from the airport, make hotel reservations and drive you around to the best wholesale(批發(fā)) dealers. Our email is artworkdeal@com.

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We are delighted to offer you an efficient and reasonable priced service of high- class car rentals (租賃) with qualified drivers. Suitable for your journeys to and/or from Rome’s airports or other destinations. We will be there to meet you on your arrival at the airport and drive you to your destination in complete safety and comfort. If you need the service, please call 668-556-429.

1.Contemporary Art studio is a place where ________.

A. one can enjoy many kinds of artworks

B. one can learn how to paint on pottery

C. one can make pottery by himself/herself

D. one can improve his/her painting skills greatly

2.Who may be suitable for a Chinese-English translator?

A. An American graduate who is good at Chinese.

B. A Chinese graduate who majored in business.

C. A Chinese college student who has good English writing skills.

D. An American college student who is interested in English translation.

3.If Mr. Black wants to buy a painting, he can ________.

A. send an email to sumplastpl@hotmail.com

B. send an email to artworkdeal@com

C. call 453-268-130

D. call 668-556-429

4.Which of the following can be the best title for the fourth advertisement?

A. Nice Rome trips

B. Airport Car Rentals With Drivers

C. Cheap Car Tours

D. Flight Service To Pick You Up

To the mom I used to be:

Two years ago, you were happy and whole. You had a plan for life — start a new business, get involved in the Parent-teacher Association, teach your sons how to ride bicycles, spend as much time with your friends and parents as possible, watch your children mature and grow old with your husband. You were a “glass half full” person who often felt so much joy. You always looked forward, smiled and danced.

Two years ago, on December 14, 2012, the world changed and you changed with it. Disturbed young men with access to high-powered guns went to your sons’ school and killed six educators and twenty first-graders. Your eldest son Jake survived, but was changed by the day he discovered some monsters are real. He describes it as the day “when evils came to my school.” Your youngest son, Dylan, whom you thought of as a pure love, with his charming eyes and infectious giggle(微笑)，was killed. Shot multiple times, he died instantly in the arms of his special-education assistant who also died while trying to protect him.

The tragedy changed all your life, not only because of losing your child, but because of the hole inside you that can never be filled. Your eldest son has been forced to grow up too fast because of the loss of his brother. The pain has altered the lines on your husband’s face. The way you look at the world has changed. Your interactions with friends and family seem foreign.

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But the things have moved on with hopefulness. You are now someone far more realistic. You control your feelings because you fear if you really let it out, you would never recover. It would destroy you. You know what you should do is try everything to protect more children. You’re fighting a good fight, what the whole society really needs.

With love,

Nicole Hockley, Dylan’s mom

1.Saying a "glass half full" person, the author means she ________.

A. was once an optimistic mom

B. was always a very busy mom

C. was living a life to the fullest

D. got drunk with half a glass of beer

2.The letter tends to indicate that Dylan ________.

A. might have some mental disability

B. has become childish since his teacher died

C. should have been protected from being killed

D. was then studying in the same class as his brother

3.Which can best describe Dylan's mom's attitude towards life today?

A. Negative.B. Positive.C. Hopeless.D. Depressed.

4.The author writes the letter mainly to ________.

A. tell herself not to forget the bitterly painful past

B. praise the educators' brave deeds in time of danger

C. tell the readers how the shooting has changed her family

D. describe the bad effects of school violence on students

Life is not easy in senior high school. You’ve got the pressure of studies and exams.

From time to time, you may feel depressed and frustrated. When depression strikes, you have to take measures to fight it. One of the strangest ways to fight depression is to eat salt, scientists have found.

Salt acts as a natural anti-depressant (抗抑郁劑), researchers say. While too much can lead to high blood pressure and heart disease, not enough can cause “psychological(心理的) depressions”, a study has reported.

The study, by researchers at the University of Iowa in the US, discovered that when rats are deficient in salt, they don’t do activities they normally enjoy.

The recommended daily salt intake for an adult is four grams, although experts say the body needs only half as much.

However, most adults in the developed world consume（消耗）around ten grams a day, mainly because their diets contain high salt amounts. Today, 77 percent of US salt intake comes from processed and restaurant foods, like frozen dinners and fast food.

The minerals in salt are required by the body—in small quantities—to help move liquid in and out of cells. But too much can cause diseases, for example high blood pressure.

Today scientists are finding that salt is an addictive substance—almost like a drug.

One sign of addiction is using a substance even when it’s known to be harmful. Many people are told to eat less salt due to health concerns, but they have trouble doing so because they like the taste and find low-salt foods tasteless.

Humans have a long history of eating salt. In the Stone Age, people didn’t need to find salt, because they hunted most of their food, and ate a lot of red meat, which has plenty of salt in it. But when people began to farm, about 10,000 BC, they started to eat mainly grains like rice and wheat, and very little meat. Then they had to find another way to get salt.

1.What does the underlined word "deficient" in the fourth paragraph mean?

A. enoughB. far from enough

C. more than enoughD. plenty

2.The major role of salt is to ________.

A. help the body work well

B. help fight against depression

D. help people get rid of an addiction to drugs

D. help people enjoy sugary substances

3.Which of the following statements is true?

A. People have trouble reducing salt because they don't know it is harmful to eat too much of it.

B. Before 10,000 BC, human beings did not need salt.

C. The richer the country is, the more salt is eaten there.

D. Taking more than 4 grams of salt a day can be harmful for an adult's health.

4.What kind of food should people eat more of?

A. Frozen foodB. Fast food

C. Red meatD. Low-salt food

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)。

One of the greatest biologists the world has ever seen was Charles Darwin. Darwin was born to a middle-class family in Shrewsbury, England, in February, 1809. His father was the leading doctor of the town.

1. He loved to walk through the woods looking at plants and birds. At the proper age, he was admitted into Shrewsbury School. There he studied Latin, classical literature, and ancient history. Young Charles thought that these subjects were dull and useless. He would have preferred scientific studies. 2.

In 1825, at the age of sixteen, Darwin was sent to Scotland to study medicine. He studied there for two years and continued to do poorly. He once wrote to his sister that his medical courses were completely stupid. By then, Darwin’s father knew that his son would never become a doctor.

Darwin’s father then sent him to Cambridge to become a clergyman (牧師). During his Cambridge years, Darwin loved to collect beetles(甲蟲), but to him it was only a hobby. He didn’t take it seriously. 3. That was Professor John Henslow, the head of the Botany Department.

Somehow, Darwin managed to graduate from Cambridge in 1831. Upon graduation, Professor Henslow arranged for him to go with Captain Fitzroy on a survey trip around the world. During the voyage, Darwin collected rocks, bones, and insects. He took many notes on all that he observed. 4.

The widely believed theory in those days was that God created each creature separately and individually. In 1859, Darwin published his famous book, The Origin of Species. 5. The theory was instantly and very strongly attacked. Darwin was accused of destroying religion and insulting (侮辱) the human race. Today, however, Darwin’s theory is considered to be one of the major discoveries of modern science.

A. As a result, he did poorly.

B. One person at Cambridge, however, did.

C. As a boy, Darwin showed a great interest in living things.

D. In it, he explained his theory of evolution by natural selection.

E. Shrewsbury was a busy market town surrounded by rich farmlands.

F. The thoughts that led to his theory of evolution were beginning to form.

G. By the time Darwin died in 1882, he was recognized as one of England's greatest scientists.

閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A,B,C和D）中，選出可以填人空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

You’ve probably seen blind people walking with their trusted and gentle four-legged guides-or “seeing-eye” dogs. The ________ trained dogs serve as eyes for people who can’t see, making it ________ for them to lead independent lives. ________ what you probably didn’t know is that about 80 years ago, a doctor and his patient discovered this entirely ________!

Many people were killed or injured during World WarⅠ. Near the end of that war, Dr. Gerhard Stalling and his ________ walked with a patient—a German soldier who had been ________-around hospital grounds in Germany.

While they were walking, the doctor was ________ away. The dog and the soldier stayed outside. A few moments later, when the doctor returned, the dog and the soldier were ________! Searching the paths worriedly, Dr. Stalling made an astonishing ________. His pet had led the soldier ________ around the hospital grounds. And together the two ________ peacefully back toward the doctor.

________ by what his dog could do, Dr Stalling set up the first ________ in the world to train dogs as guides. Dorothy Eustis, an American woman ________ as a dog trainer for the International Red Cross in Switzerland, was ________ to study the way Stalling trained dogs and spent several months in his school. She came away so impressed that she wrote a(an) ________ about it for the Saturday Evening Post in America.

A blind American man, Morris Frank, ________ the article and he wrote to Dorothy Eustis and asked that she ________ a dog for him. Dorothy Eustis took up the ________, and trained a dog, Buddy. She brought Frank over to Switzerland to join her in the training ________. Frank went back to the United States with what many believe to be America’s first guide dog in 1928.

1.A. speciallyB. regularlyC. naturallyD. generally

2.A. possibleB. complexC. necessaryD. proper

3.A. SoB. ButC. AndD. Or

4.A. in timeB. by accidentC. by forceD. in turn

5.A. horseB. assistantC. nurseD. dog

6.A. abandonedB. admiredC. blindedD. protected

7.A. givenB. keptC. calledD. sent

8.A. goneB. lostC. asleepD. alone

9.A. fortuneB. mistakeC. discoveryD. decision

10.A. unwillinglyB. safelyC. immediatelyD. gratefully

11.A. ranB. droveC. flewD. walked

12.A. InspiredB. AmusedC. PuzzledD. Required

13.A. hospitalB. schoolC. factoryD. hotel

14.A. workingB. growingC. dressingD. coming

15.A. nervousB. carefulC. tiredD. curious

16.A. letterB. bookC. articleD. introduction

17.A. laughed atB. learned fromC. paid forD. heard about

18.A. feedB. buyC. raiseD. train

19.A. advantageB. offerC. challengeD. invitation

20.A. situationB. processC. competitionD. preparation

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。

Everything that is alive needs energy. All animals get the energy they need from food. People are animals. Think about the human body as an 1.(amaze) machine. It can do all kinds of things for us. Food is the fuel 2. helps keep the machine 3.(run).

Plants use sunlight to make their own food. Animals are not able to do that. Some animals eat plants. Some animals eat other animals as meat. Some animals, like people, eat both plants 4. animals.

Since plants make their own food using sunlight, the sun’s energy is found in plants. The sun’s energy is very strong. It loses a lot of its 5.(strong) by the time it goes into a plant.

When we eat plants, we get 6.(much) of the sun’s energy than when we eat animals. That’s 7. it is good to eat fruits and vegetables. When an animal eats a plant, it gets less energy. The animal also used its energy 8.(find) the plant to eat. When a second animal eats the first animal, it gets even less energy than the first animal got. 9. second animal used a lot of energy to chase the first animal.

Like a car that has to10.(fill) with gasoline, living things have to eat again and again. Instead of gasoline, living things use food as fuel.

短文改錯(cuò)

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文,請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有2處，涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加:此行缺一個(gè)詞在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除:把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改:在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，在該詞下面寫出改正后的詞。

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。

Exercise can have a surprised number of benefits. It is important way to keep fit. Not only can it help you achieve beneficial weight loss, and every time you exercise, it helps to reduce the risk of disease more efficiently. By exercising regular, you look better and feel more confident, which have a positive effect on both physical and mental well-being. While you exercise, especially in some challenging sports, you often work as a member of a team. In this way, it also teaches us how to work with others.

A healthy, fit brain means you can answer questions more quickly, think more clearly and developed a better memory. Have a healthy brain is useful for no matter what point you are at in your life. For these reasons, we students should take exercises.

隨著智能手機(jī)的普及，眾多解答習(xí)題答案的作業(yè)APP出現(xiàn)。（即拍下一道題上傳后，很快就會(huì)獲得答案的軟件。）越來越多的學(xué)生寫作業(yè)用此類軟件。請(qǐng)寫一篇英語短文，談?wù)勀銓?duì)這個(gè)現(xiàn)象的看法，要點(diǎn)如下：

優(yōu)點(diǎn)：提高效率，節(jié)省時(shí)間；遇到不會(huì)的問題可以及時(shí)得到解決

缺點(diǎn)：過分依賴此類軟件，不愿意思考問題等……

你的觀點(diǎn)：……

注意：1. 詞數(shù)100左右；

2. 開頭語已為你寫好；

3. 可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

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In eighth grade, I decided to try out for my school musical. I only made it through the first verse(節(jié)) before the drama teacher stopped me. It goes without saying that my Christmas song didn’t get me any role.

Am I embarrassed? NO. Not just because it was ten years ago, but also because it’s such a great story to share. Why? I think the main reason is that admitting mistakes makes you easier to relate to. Interestingly enough, science confirms this theory.

Researchers have conducted many studies and have concluded that when someone makes a mistake or acts in a clumsy way, they are found to be more likeable. In other words, if you’re able to do well and then you mess up, it shows your human side. This allows others to connect and relate to you, which in turn makes them like you more.

Growing up, I was type of student who had to get straight A’s and the type of athlete who always had to perform at the top of the game. The problem was that my standards were so ridiculously high that I was never happy. It was only when I learned to let go and forgive myself for my mistakes that I truly felt relaxed.

When one of your close friends or family members makes a mistake, are you quick to forgive and forget? Sadly, many of us often express more sympathy for others than ourselves. With each mistake coming a lesson, you will be better equipped to handle life’s challenges going forward.

More importantly, if you are always worried about looking silly, you will never be able to get improved. Even if you make a fool of yourself, it isn’t the end of the world. Think about it: What’s the worst that can happen? In many cases, the reward often outweighs the risk.

1.By writing the passage, the author wants to tell us ________.

A. it is time to forgive others

B. everyone may make mistakes

C. it’s okay to make mistakes

D. what can be done to forgive our mistakes

2.What does the underlined part “this theory” probably refer to?

A. A mistake makes you more likeable.

B. An embarrassed person tends to act clumsily.

C. People mess up in life at times.

D. It’s good to share a great story with others

3.According to the passage, we know the author ________.

A. is pleased with her hard work

B. was once a person who wants things to be perfect

C. was happy with her high standard

D. never forgives herself for the mistakes she made

4.What message is delivered in the last two paragraphs?

A. Making a fool of yourself.

B. Viewing mistakes as learning opportunities.

C. Admitting mistakes is risky.

D. People tend to feel sorry for themselves.

The Spring Festival is supposed to be a period of time entirely for family reunion. However, as people’s enthusiasm for digital hongbao increased, the amount of the time they spend with family members during the holiday decreases. There has been widespread criticism(批評(píng)) over digital hongbao that it has alienated family reunion.

“I used to discuss programs in the Spring Festival Gala(春晚) with my family members, but this year, I hardly had the time to watch the gala because I was staring at my cellphone all the time,” said Kang, a 30–year old radio station editor. “I went to Karaoke with my cousins during the holiday, and I was grasping digital hongbao the whole time, even when I was singing Karaoke.”

“On the last day of the holiday, I started to regret spending too much time on these digital hongbao. Therefore, instead of fighting for hongbao, I watched TV with my mom that night. I left home feeling sorry! I should have spent more time with my parents.”

But Kang said regret came with a sense of achievement when he managed to bring classmates together.

“Next year, I will still play the game, but with less money and for a smaller amount of time,” Kang said.

Dong Chenyu, a teacher from Beijing Foreign Studies University, said it unfair to blame hongbao for destroying family reunion.

“When television was invented, people accused it of standing in the way of face-to-face human communication. The same accusation came up on telephone and text message services when they were first invented. The same goes with digital hongbao,” Dong said.

“It does nothing but offers a new way of human communication. The rest is people’s choice. As long as no one expects to earn money from this and takes this as a means of gambling(賭博), it’s a good way to improve human connections,” Dong said.

1.The underlined word “alienated” in Paragraph 1 most probably means ________.

A. separatedB. reservedC. encouragedD. improved

2.How did Mr.Kang feel about digital hongbao according to Paragraph 2?

A. He felt regretted in spending too much money.

B. He had a strong preference for it.

C. He was happy to spend too much of his time.

D. He felt a sense of guilty in getting it.

3.What can we infer from what Mr. Dong said about digital hongbao ________.

A. it will bring us trouble in holiday reunion

B. it will be out of fashion soon in future

C. Mr. Dong is in favor of the digital hongbao

D. lots of people will use it to earn money

4.What’s mainly described in the passage?

A. The Spring Festival is the best time for family reunion.

B. Digital Hongbao is a double-edged sword.

C. People’s holiday enthusiasm has decreased.

D. Digital hongbao has become a popular way to make money.