第一部分  閱讀理解 （共兩節(jié)，滿分50分）

第一節(jié)  （共15小題；每小題2.5分，滿分37.5分） 

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出最佳選項。

A

Many college students want to look for seasonal, short-term or part-time jobs

to get extra cash, to stay busy or to get working experience. Lifeguard

The job is a great opportunity to build your fitness, keep people safe and be

outdoors to enjoy some fun on the beach in the sun. The average hourly wage for

lifeguards is $ 9.31, but those with certifications or previous experience may be

able to earn a bit more.

Nanny (保姆)

Students can find plenty of positions as parents scramble (爭搶) to arrange

activities and find care for their children. Students who enjoy spending time with

kids, staying active and being outdoors can spend their leisure time making money

without even feeling like they're working. Nannies make $ 14.56 per hour. Camp Consultant

Students who enjoy spending their time with children, being a leader and

monitoring fun outdoor activities are perfect for camp consultant positions. The

average hourly wage for camp consultants is $9.28, but those with many years'

experience or specific academic backgrounds may be able to earn more. Food Server

Although it may not seem like the most attractive way to spend a weekend, working

as wait staff allows students to build up their social skills, stay active, enjoy

free meals at work and posily educate themselves about different cuisines. However,

food servers need to be on their feet for hours at a time and must be able to multi-task like professionals, so take this into account before submitting an application. The 

average salary is $ 9.00 hourly, but trips can raise that number. 

1. Who are the two jobs nanny and camp consultant most fit for?

A. Students who want to develop their social skills.

B. Students who love staying with children.

C. Students who love traveling.

D. Students who love camping.

2. What should you take into consideration before applying to be a food server?

A. The way of cooking.

B. The food you can enjoy. 

C. Long standing time at work.

D. Skill in getting tips from customers.

3. What job can you do if you're good at swimming?

A. A lifeguard.    B. A nanny.     C. A camp consultant.    D. A food server.

B

Connie Monroe clicks a button, flicks her wrist and watches as her neighborhood

floods. The shorelines are first to go. Then, the baseball fields at Fleming Park.

By the time seawater reaches the senior center, it has flooded streets and over a

dozen brick homes. Monroe moves her head up and down, side to side, taking in the

simulated (仿真的) view. This is what could happen to Turner Station, a historic African American community southeast of Baltimore, as sea levels rise.

Climate change presents many challenges to coastal communities and to those trying

to prepare for its impacts, but one of the most basic is also one of the most vexing: How do you show people and convince them of a possible future?

Communicating the realness and immediacy of the climate threat is hugely important

to climate researchers and those aiming to lessen its causes. But it's also the most

important to communities faced with coming changes that are already unavoidable. These

projects need public support and input. That's why Monroe and other residents (居民) are being directed to sit in metal chairs, put on virtual reality headsets and watch their homes flood.

Turner Station, a community which gets flooded easily, is trying to prepare. It

has partnered with the Port of Baltimore, a few nonprofits and a local landscape

architecture firm to adopt a range of tools and ways to communicate climate change to the public, because every person is different and every place is different.

The virtual reality program is only the most recent, and perhaps the most effective

step. Virtual reality is an immersive experience that can trick the human brain into

thinking it's real. But tricking people is not the goal of the sea level rise simulation

being used at Turner Station, says Juiano Calil, one of the program's developers.

“The goal,” he says, “is to start a conversation and help folks visualize the

impacts of climate change and the solutions, and also discuss the trade-offs between

them.” 

4. Who is Monroe?

A. A coastal community citizen. C. An architect.

B. A climate researcher. D. AVR program developer.

5. What does the underlined word “vexing” mean in paragraph 2?

A. Bothersome.    B. Dramatic.     C. Original.   D. Convincing.

6. Why is VR technology employed here?

A. It can cut down the risks of climate change.

B. It can show severe results of climate change.

C. It can introduce technology to the residents.

D. It can predict the climate change accurately.

7. What is the purpose of the program?

A. To trick more people to believe.        B. To win the residents' cooperation.

C. To advocate the application of VR.   D. To inform the residents of the solutions.

C

Before the end of the year, employees at Ubiquitous Energy, a company in Redwood

City, Calif, will gather in a window-lined conference room to stare toward the future.

That's because their new glass windows will offer more than an amazing view of the

North California landscape. They will also be able to power the company's lights, computers and air conditioners.

Several years in the making, Ubiquitous' energy-producing glass is a remarkable

technological achievement. Its power lies in the layers of organic polymers (聚合物) between sheets of glass. As light enters the window,the flow of electrons between

the polymer layers creates an electric current, which is then collected by tiny wires in the glass.

“It's sort of like a transparent computer display run in reverse (反過來),”

says Veeral Hardev, director of business development at Ubiquitous Energy. “Instead

of electricity being shuttled to different points in a display to light them up, light

is producing electricity to be shuttled out of different points in the window.”

Right now the windows produce about a third as much electricity from a given amount

of sunlight as the typical solar cells used in roof panels (板).These windows, about

half as transparent as ordinary glass, don't work as well as transparent ones. Hardev

says the company is likely to improve the transparency significantly. As for the lower

output of electricity, he notes that windows can cover a much greater surface area

than a roof, so numerous windows will produce a surprisingly larger amount of

electricity than the production from a rooftop full of higher-efficiency solar panels.

“You could do both.” says Hardev. “But you'll get more from the windows. The

biggest challenge, he adds, is increasing the windows from less than two square feet

currently to about 50 square feet.” 

8. What makes the new glass windows special?

A. They can offer an amazing view.   

B. They are controlled by computers.

C. They can power the conference room.

D. They can help stare toward the future.

9. What is Hardev trying to explain in Paragraph 3?

A. The source of light. 

B. The significance of different points.

C. The similarity of computer and glass. 

D. The working principle of energy-producing glass.

10. What can affect power production according to the passage?

A. The transparency of the glass. 

B. The quality of the rooftop.

C. The height of the solar panels.

D. The thickness of the glass.

11. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Windows: A New Challenge of Technology

B. Windows: No Longer Just for Letting in the Light

C. Power: A Pressing Problem in the Near Future

D. Power: Not Enough from Rooftop Solar Panels

D

If you've spent any amount of time boating, fishing, or bird-watching at lakes

and rivers, you have most likely seen fishes jumping out of the water. I have seen

it many times. Certainly, fishes will exit water in desperate attempts to escape

enemies. Dolphins take advantage of the behavior, forming a circle and catching the

frightened fishes in midair. But just as we may run fast from fun or from fear, different emotions might motivate fishes to jump.

Mobula rays（蝸鲼）aren't motivated by fear when they throw their impressive

bodies—up to a seventeen-foot wingspan (the distance from the end of one wing to

the end of the other) and a ton in weight—skyward in leap（跳躍）of up to ten feet.

They do it in schools（魚群）of hundreds. They usually land on their bellies, but

sometimes they land on their backs. Some scientists think it might be a way of removing

parasites（寄生蟲）. But I think that the rays are enjoying themselves.

In the clear waters of Florida's Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, I

watched several schools of fifty or more mullets（鯔魚）moving in beautiful formation.

Their well-built bodies were most evident when they leaped from the water. Most of

the time I saw one or two leaps by a fish, but one made a series of seven. They usually

land on their sides. Each jump was about a foot clear of the water and two to three feet in length.

Nobody knows for sure why the fish leaps. One idea is that they do it to take

in oxygen. The idea is supported by the fact that mullets leap more when the water

is lower in oxygen, but is challenged by the likelihood that jumping costs more energy

than is gained by breathing air. It is hard to imagine they will feel any fresher when back in water.

Might these fishes also be leaping for fun? There is some new evidence. Gordon

M. Burghardt recently published accounts of a dozen types of fishes leaping repeatedly,

sometimes over floating objects—sticks, plants, sunning turtle—for no clear reason

other than entertainment. 

12. What can we say about the dolphins in Paragraph 1?

A. They have great escaping skills. C. They are very clever.

B. They are easily frightened. D. They love jumping.

13. What do the ray and the mullet have in common when jumping?

A. Both do it in groups.

B. Both land on their bellies.

C. Both jump many feet out of water.

D. Both make leaps one after the other.

14. How does the author feel about the idea mentioned in Paragraph 4?

A. It is valuable.   B. It is interesting.   C. It is imaginative.   D. It is questionable.

15. Which may be the reason for fish leaps according to the author?

A. To remove parasites.   

B. To amuse themselves.

C. To take in more oxygen. 

D. To express positive emotions.

第二節(jié) (共5小題；每小題2.5分，滿分12.5分)

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

Hotels in Shanghai are requested to stop offering disposable toiletries(一次性洗漱用品) unless customers ask, in order to make efforts to reduce waste and

pursue(追求) green development.   16  . The move is stated in a set of regulations on garbage sorting and recycling that went into effect in Shanghai.

Under the new regulations, most household plastic wastes should be sorted and

recycled. The city also encourages individuals and companies to reduce their use of

disposable plastic products. Kunlun Jing An hotel is one of those that answered the

government call that “not offering disposable toiletries unless asked”.   17 

“Shanghai is taking a lead in the country to fight against plastic waste,'' said

Gerd Knaust, general manager of Kunlun Jing An hotel. “Hotels should make

contributions to sorting and recycling garbage.   18  ''

  19   “It is a good thing to reduce waste in daily life,” said Zhang Wei, 40,

from east China' s Shandong Province who checked in the hotel for a business trip. He brought a reusable toothbrush after being informed by the hotel in advance.

At least 6.5 million sets of disposable toiletries are said to be used every day

if the occupancy rate(入住率)is 50 percent for the 13 to 15 million hotel rooms across

China, said Du Liangliang of the Hotel Business Unit of Ctrip, China's leading online

travel agency. “   20  ,” Du said. 

A. The hotel said the new measure will help reduce plastic waste

B. Guests are encouraged to use recyclable toiletries during their stay

C. If hotels stop offering disposable toiletries, it will be great progress

D. It is one of the steps that the government takes to protect our environment

E. Also, we should encourage customers worldwide to lead an eco-friendly life

F. The hotel has informed people of the change through online and offline means

G. Plastic products harm our environment so greatly that we shall reduce their use 

第二部分 語言運用 (共兩節(jié)，滿分30分)

第一節(jié) (共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分)

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

There are times when we feel as if our bad circumstances will never change. When

we meet troubles or problems in our lives,we are   21  for a sign that tells us everything will be   22  and get better.

When in this mindset(心態(tài)), I think back to a   23  I once heard about a family

having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, everyone   24  their

fortune cookie and read their messages out loud.   25  ,the youngest child did not,

she went to get another fortune cookie. This   26  several times before the mom

stopped her and asked, “What are you doing? “The little child responded, “I am

looking for a cookie with the   27  fortune for me.” The mom said, “There is only one thing you need to

  28  and it's not in a fortune cookie. That is where there is a will there's a

way.”

When   29  are not going our way,we may   30  the right fortune. We seek the hope for our 

  31  so that it will be better than the present. Once the Israelis were expelled(驅(qū)逐) in a foreign country against their will. At that time,everything was   32  for

them, but they didn't lose hope; instead, they  33  to their new environment positively. Years later they returned to their homeland as they had  34  .

In life we need to take action and hope and believe that nothing is impossible

to a willing mind. It does   35  that good things do come out of bad and difficult

situations.

21. A. ready B. grateful C. Responsible  D. desperate 

22. A. settled B. hidden C. defeated D. gone 

23. A. message B. story C. problem D. case 

24. A. ate B. tasted C. touched D. opened 

25. A. Anyhow B. However C. Otherwise D. Therefore 

26. A. changed B. ran C. happened D. showed 

27. A. good B. bad C. wrong D. right 

28. A. doubt B. guess C. know  D. hope 

29. A. memories B. things C. questions D. chances 

30. A. search for B. make up C. take out D. wrestle with 

31. A. family B. work C. business D. future 

32. A. easy B. difficult C. common D. special 

33. A. adjusted B. turned C. stuck D. agreed 

34. A. left B. expected C. talked  D. remembered 

35. A. prove B. tell C. consider  D. understand

第二節(jié)（共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入 1個適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

Increasing pork production and supply will be the top priority for agricultural

authorities in the following year __36__ (ensure) pork production can rebound close

to the level before outbreaks of African swine fever occurred, the Ministry of

Agriculture and Rural Affairs said. Statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and

Rural Affairs show the national pork price slumped by 23 percent in November __37__

(compare) to the peak level in late October. In many areas in North China, prices dropped by about 30 percent   38   below 30 yuan ($4.26) per kilogram.

Domestic pork production   39  (hit) seriously by the outbreaks of African swine

fever since August last year. Total production in the first three quarters was about

32 million metric tons, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.   40  (short)

in supply have resulted in rising pork prices since the beginning of the year,   41  

prices have started to decline recently due to increased production. Pork is the most  

42  (common) consumed meat in China, and the supply of it   43  (matter) to the

nation's food security. So, on Monday, the ministry announced it has started   44 

three-month special campaign aimed at fighting legal violations   45  (involve) the

buying, selling and slaughtering to ensure quality and safety of the meat and its

products in the market. 

第三部分 寫作(共兩節(jié)，滿分40分)

第一節(jié) (滿分15分)

假定你是李華，下個月要參加某外國語大學(xué)入學(xué)英語面試，發(fā)郵件向你校外教Chris請教，

內(nèi)容包括：

1. 口語表達(dá)；

2. 面試技巧；

3. 注意事項。

注意：

1. 詞數(shù)80左右；

2. 可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

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第二節(jié) (滿分25 分)

閱讀下面材料，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容和所給段落開頭語續(xù)寫兩段，使之構(gòu)成一篇完整的短文。續(xù)寫的詞數(shù)應(yīng)為150左右。

At Dana's yard sale, Tim chose a baseball from the toys spread on the card table

and asked about the price. Dana told him everything was a quarter except Nezumi,a

cotton toy rat. It was gray with some cotton sticking out from the hole where an ear

had been torn off. “Nezumi is extra special, so he has ten dollars. He needs a safe

new home,” Dana sighed.

Tim laughed saying he didn't have ten dollars. Dana laughed, too and gave Nezumi

to Tim as a free gift because he was her friend. When Tim whispered it was sort of

old, Dana said old toys were the best. She then invited Tim to her birthday party

the next evening, adding that her parents were giving her a real rat for her birthday.

Tim was amazed and asked if it was a live rat. “Of course,” Dana said.

At home, Tim's mother showed him the gift she had bought for Dana. It was a

knitting spool (編織線軸) shaped like a mushroom. Mom said Dana could knit a scarf for her doll. Tim sighed that Dana wasn't a knitting kind of person but a rat kind of person. Mom laughed after knowing what had happened. Together they drove to the

pet store, where Tim searched and searched and selected a clear plastic ball, one

in which the rat could run around on the floor safe from cats and dogs. Tim thought

of Nezumi's ear and decided Dana's new rat would need this ball.

The next day, Dana brought cupcakes to class. When she handed a cupcake to Tim,she

asked if Tim brought Nezumi to school as Nezumi liked to ride in backpacks. Tim was

at a loss because Nezumi was at home on his bed. Then Dana asked what gift he was

giving her. Tim replied it was a surprise. In silence they sat for a while before

he heard Dana say her parents were giving her a new bike for her birthday instead

of a live rat because they thought rats would bite things.

注意：1. 所續(xù)寫短文的詞數(shù)應(yīng)為150左右；

2. 續(xù)寫部分分為兩段，每段的開頭語已為你寫好。

Paragraph 1: At home that afternoon, Tim stared at the plastic rat ball.

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Paragraph 2: All of a sudden, he had an idea. ___________________________________

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參考答案，僅供參考

1--5 BCAAA   6--10 BBCDA   11--15 BCADB

16--20 BAEFC

21--25 DABDB   26--30 CDCBA   31--35 DBABA  

36. to ensure   37. compared   38. to   39. has been hit   40. Shortages

41. but   42. commonly  43. matters   44. a   45. involving 

第三部分

第一節(jié) Dear Chris,

I'm Li Hua, a student in your class. I'm writing to consult you about my English admission interview by Shanghai International Studies University next month.

Language proficiency is of vital importance for such an interview, so I'm in

urgent need of your professional guidance in my oral English. Besides, any

constructive advice on interview techniques will be highly appreciated. Finally, if

there are any do's and don'ts in terms of dressing, manners and so on, please do let me know.

Sincerely,

Li Hua

第二節(jié)Paragraph 1:

At home that afternoon, Tim stared at the plastic rat ball. Wondering about the use of the clear plastic ball if Dana had no rat, he started walking up and down the room with a frown on his face. Mom was surprised and asked him what was happening. Tim told her Dana wasn't getting a live rat from her parents but a bike. As they were racking their brains to come up with an appropriate gift, Tim turned around and saw Nezumi on his bed.

Paragraph 2:

All of a sudden, he had an idea. All of a sudden, he had an idea. He lifted Nezumi and squeezed Nezumi into the plastic ball with great caution so that Nezumi would be safe from cats and dogs. Seeing this, Mom asked Tim whether he was giving Dana an old cotton rat with one ear as a gift, Tim nodded with a smile saying she would definitely like it. Looking at Mom's confused expression, Tim added that Dana was a Nezumi kind of person who thought old toys were the best.