Two creative people Jesse Leeworthy and Jonathan Byrt, both 28,designed the bottle to be convenient to carry and environmentally friendly. It is made from a durable and dishwasher-friendly“green” plastic.

Leeworthy and Byrt,from Australia, say more than 600 billion single-use bottles were sold globally last year. In America alone, studies show that around 1,500 single-use water bottle are consumed every second—only 20 percent of these are recycled. And the cost of buying more and more plastic bottles adds to— the pair say that bottled water costs approximately 1,400 times more than tap water.

“We’ve always been passionate about the environment,” said Leeworthy.“For years we have been focused on creative design that provides environmental remedy while improving social convenience. The Memobottle was designed to overcome two problems that we see in our society: our attachment to the outdoors,and our inability to fit water bottles in laptop bags.”

The bottle will be available in three different sizes— A5 which holds 750 ml,A4 which holds 1.25 litres and letter size which stores 1.25 litres. The product is seeking funding on Kickstarter and has already soared（飆升）past its primary goal of raising 8,310 ($13,500),reaching it in just 36 hours. Jonathan Byrt said, “The feedback we’ve received has been overwhelmingly positive! The emails of support and interest, and social media comments have been amazing!”

The product is expected to be on the market by Christmas and will be available for global delivery.

【1】What is the main character of the newly-designed water bottle?

A. Clean and easy to wash.

B. Practical and friendly to environment.

C. Flat and popular with housewives.

D. Cheap and convenient to carry in bags.

【2】What are the two designers most concerned about?

A. Materials and shape. B. Price and production.

C. Comments and popularity. D. Environment and convenience.

【3】What is people’s attitude towards the water bottle?

A. Opposed. B. Indifferent.

C. Supportive. D. Doubtful.

【4】What can be the best title of the text?

A. The way to protect water resource.

B. Round water bottles are out of date.

C. Seeking fund for an ideal water bottle.

D. Two creative Australian young designers.

Initially, the magic wasn’t any good. At first it wasn’t even magic; it was just a trick — a bad trick. I spent hours each day in the bathroom running through the secret moves in front of the mirror. I dropped the coin over and over, a thousand times in a day, and after two weeks of this my mom got a carpet sample from the store and placed it under the mirror to eradicate the sound of the coin falling again and again.

I had heard my dad work through passages of new music on the piano, so I knew how to practice — slowly, deliberately, going for precision rather than speed. And then I tried the illusion (錯覺) in the mirror and an unbelievable scene took place. It did not look like a magic trick. It looked like a miracle. I knew that I had got what I wanted.

One day I made the performance on the playground. We had been playing football and were standing by the backstop in the field behind the school. A dozen people were watching. I showed the coin to everyone. Then it disappeared. The kids screamed. They yelled, laughed, scrambled away. Everyone went crazy. This was brilliant.

【1】What did the author enter the adult section of the library to do?

A.To kill his time.B.To find a book of magic.

C.To read The Lord of the Rings.D.To learn knowledge of literature.

【2】What does the underlined word “eradicate” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.Get rid of.B.Give out.

C.Imitate.D.Distinguish.

【3】What contributed to the author’s success?

A.His mother’s help.B.The secret of quick moves.

C.The inspiration from his father.D.His repeated hard practice.

【4】How would the author feel about the result of his performance on the playground?

A.It’s fantastic.B.It’s funny.

C.It’s awkward.D.It’s disappointing.

Don’t take it personally.

Difficult people see others’ opinion as conflicting (沖突) to their belief. Their behaviour is already a habit to them so if you take it personally, they may even plan to make your life more terrible. Remember the problem is not only with you.【2】

Listen to what they say.

Sometimes what difficult people want is someone’s attention and love. There are also difficult people who don’t even speak but will just throw you with sullen ( 慍怒的) looks to make you feel uneasy. 【3】 The thought of you standing there and waiting for a response will make them feel uncomfortable and they will just decide to speak up. If they do, listen carefully and analyze it.

Don’t get discouraged.

I have already told you that it would be really difficult for you to change their behaviour but never give up. It should be you affecting them and not them affecting you.【4】 They would not interfere (干擾) with you again. If they realize that, you can already enjoy your stay in the office or in the school.

【5】

Instead of dealing with their pessimistic attitude every day, try to look at what advantages these people have. That way, they will start to like and appreciate you. Also, they won’t give you cold stares any more.

A.See what’s good in these people.

B.Choose topics that you both like.

C.Difficult people are sometimes suffering from low self-esteem (自尊).

D.If this happens, ask them and wait for a minute until he or she speaks.

E.What’s worse is that they can even make your enjoyable day unhealthy.

F.There must be many people who feel annoyed with their unpleasant behaviour.

G.Once they feel that you are different and they can’t beat you, they’ll learn to become distant.

●Michele Manhire

My son Aaron is 8. It’s been 8 birthdays and 9 Christmases of “What can we get, Aaron?” without proper toys along the way. He is just simply particular about toys. I can honestly tell you, I am printing this list, and heading to a couple of stores (some online) that I can get some of these items! Maybe this won’t be such a depressing Christmas.

●Vera

Do you have any yam balls (紗球)I bought a giant one for my classroom but ended up keeping it for my own kids. They’re strong enough to throw but soft enough to use as a doll bed.

●Natalie

Excellent post! Thank you so much for putting this together. I have been looking through special needs toy lists to find one that I thought would be most helpful to my followers. This post agrees to our personal experience most closely. I have shared it with many other groups and the feedback has been wonderful.

●Meagan

This is a great list. My son loved his egg chair and empty bottles are always a win. He also loves to turn a globe and look at wonder tubes. Wonder tubes are about $ 6 on Amazon. This year one of his gifts is a gel (凝膠）filled medicine ball.

【1】What are the four posts responding to?

A. A game list B. A party list

C. A toy list D. A food list

【2】What is Michele’s problem?

A. She has no money for toys.

B. She can’t find good toys for herself.

C. Her son has a special taste for gifts.

D. Her son missed too many birthdays.

【3】Who suggests a good toy which can be used as a bed for dolls?

A. Michele Manhire. B. Natalie.

C. Meagan. D. Vera.

Jackie Robinson made his debut（初次露面）with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15,1947, and broke the color barrier【1】African Americans in baseball.

“It was the most 【2】(eager) expected debut in the history of the national pastime," sports author Robert wrote. “It 【3】(represent) both the dream and the fear of equal opportunity,

【4】 it would change forever the color of the game and the attitudes of Americans."

【5】quietly tolerating harsh racist treatment from baseball fans and team members【6】(like), Robinson rose to Rookie of the Year and proved himself to be one of the most【7】(talent) and fiercest players in the game. Just two years into the Major Leagues, Robinson won the National League Most Valuable Player Award. He'd go on to play in six World Series and helped give the Dodgers 【8】 World Series win in 1955.

Off the field, Robinson was a forefather of the Civil Rights Movement, speaking out

against 【9】 (race) discrimination and 【10】 (push) baseball to use its economic influence to fight against racialism.

注意:1.詞數(shù)100左右；

2.可適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫；

3.開頭和結(jié)尾已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。

Dear sir/madam,

My name is LiHua.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

LiHua

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（＼）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1．每處錯誤及其修改均限一詞。

2．只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。(此題在答題卡上作答)

At the Lantern Festival this year, I hurried back home from school to take part the preparation for our big family dinner. Grandparents taught me how to make up dumplings while Dad and Mom made dish. Then comes the dinner time. We all agreed that the dumplings making at home tasted much sweet than those from shops. Then they went to the park to appreciate beautiful lanterns-the most interesting part of this festival. Walking in the park and admiring a beautiful moon, we felt we were such lucky to have each other as a familyy. We valued the time when we spent together.

The two features of life in England that possibly give visitors the worst impressions are the English weather and English cooking. 【1】 former is a natural phenomenon and nobody can do anything about it. But cooking is something 【2】 can be learned. English food has often been described as 【3】 (taste). Recently, the situation has changed somewhat because so many people have been spending their holidays abroad and 【4】 (learn) to appreciate unfamiliar dishes. One of the traditional complaints about English food is the way that vegetables are cooked. The only way that many British housewives know to cook green vegetables is 【5】 (boil) them for too long in too much salt water and then to throw the water away so that all the vitamins are lost. To make matters 【6】 (bad), they do not strain the vegetables sufficiently so that 【7】 appear as a wet mass on the plate.

However, it would be unfair to say that all English food is bad. Indeed not only the raw ingredients are usually 【8】 very high quality, especially the meat and fish, 【9】 many traditional British dishes are as good as anything you can get anywhere. A visitor, 【10】 is invited to an English home might well enjoy steak and kidney pudding or pie, all sorts of smoked fish .

For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫不掩飾的).

In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.

In adulthood the things that bring deep joy — love, marriage, birth — also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated.

My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.

I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.

Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don’t think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.

We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we’ve got to have. We’re so self-conscious about our “right” to it that it’s making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.

Happiness isn’t about what happens to us — it’s about how we see what happens to us. It’s the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have, but enjoying what we do possess.

【1】As people grow older, they .

A. associate their happiness less with others B. feel it harder to experience happiness

C. will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness D. tend to believe responsibility means happiness

【2】What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 5 and 6?

A. She cares little about her own health. B. She enjoys the freedom of traveling.

C. She is easily pleased by things in daily life. D. She prefers getting pleasure from housework.

【3】What can be inferred from Paragraph 7?

A. Psychologists think satisfying work is key to happiness.

B. Psychologists’ opinion is well proved by Grandma’ case.

C. Grandma often found time for social gatherings.

D. Grandma’s happiness came from modest expectations of life.

【4】What can be concluded from the passage?

A. Happiness lies between the positive and the negative.

B. Each man is the master of his own fate.

C. Happy is he who is content.

D. Success leads to happiness.

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Collect 30 Stars within 12 months and you’ll be at the Gold level.

●What is included in the Green level plus

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【1】Which of the following is a way you can apply for membership?

A.To update the Starbucks App.

B.To collect 5 stars within 12 month.

C.To send an email to StarbucksStore.com.

D.To enter a Starcode from specially marked Starbucks products.

【2】With a Starbucks Card of Green level, you will get ________.

A.a free drink itemB.free in-store refills

C.personalized Gold CardD.all purchases 15% off

【3】Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.To earn a Star, you must pay by credit card.

B.You can enter your Starcode three times a day.

C.With the Starbucks App, you can view current offers.

D.For Welcome level, you can refill iced brewed coffee or tea.