With his strong interest in national affairs, 37-year-old Song Zhigang was glued to the TV news during the 2014 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. He not only learned all the latest information about the event, he was also inspired to write a song for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan. Titled Xi Dada Loves Peng Mama, the song tells of the love between the couple, which goes "Xi Dada loves Peng Mama. Their love is like a myth. Peng Mama loves Xi Dada. A nation with love is the strongest".
When the song was released in an online video on Nov 18, it became an instant viral hit, which has been viewed over 40 million times and stirred hot discussion. Many netizens said it's sweet to listen to the song while seeing such photos, and some believe that the couple sets a good example for China's young couples.
Born in Zhengzhou, Henan province, Song works as an independent songwriter along with his team there, including singer-songwriters Yu Runze, Xu An and Wu Bai. Song says that he finished the lyrics within an hour and sent it to his team via cellphone. The team finished composing(作曲) that night. They also made the music video by themselves, which was the first time that they had ever produced a music video and uploaded it online. The video of the song contains 33 photos and 2 cartoon illustrations(插图) of the couple, displaying small interactive moments, including tacit(心照不宣的) eye contact between the couple and hand touching when the couple played a swing. Nine children between 4 and 12 years old were invited to rap and sing along with the team. "When I watched the couple appearing on TV, they seemed just like any other ordinary couple and I felt close to them. With some small sweet moments, I could feel the love between the couple," says Song.
"Xi Dada" and "Peng Mama" have both become Internet buzz words, referring to the Chinese president and his popular wife. Song notes that the couple has attracted worldwide attention and even what Peng wears becomes headlines.
Yu Runze, 32, is one of the singers and also comes from Zhengzhou. She says the team started to release songs online around four years ago, mostly pop love ballads(歌曲，歌谣). Though they could make ends meet by making music, they remained unknown before this song. "We didn't expect that the song would gain so much popularity online. People share the same feeling we have about the couple, which is warm and sincere," says Yu, who is a graduate of the Qilu Conservatory of Music, Shandong province, and has released five albums since 2006.
"We want to sing the song at 2015's CCTV Spring Festival Gala."
1.What does the underlined word “hit” mean?
A. something that is successful but confusing.
B. something that is popular but complicated.
C. something that is popular and successful.
D. something that is popular and instructive.
2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The video “Xi Dada loves Peng Mama” has been watched 40 billion times.
B. It took Song just an hour to finish the lyrics and the composition of the song.
C. Song and his team started to release songs online around four years ago, mostly folk songs.
D. Many netizens think that President Xi Jingping and his wife are the model couple.
3.What might be the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To introduce something about the song and its writer.
B. To show the influence of the couple on young people.
C. To introduce the team that produced the song.
D. To show the importance of true love.
4.Which section of the newspaper is the passage taken from?
A. Politics B. Health
C. Entertainment D. Economy
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Many kids don't drink enough water daily, according to a new study. The study's lead author, Erica Kenney, at first planned to look into the amount of sugary drinks kids were drinking in schools. However, during her research she found that many kids were simply not drinking enough water.
Kenney and her team examined data from a group of 4,000 children, aged 6 to19, between the years of 2009 and 2012. The data was taken from the National Health and Nutrition Survey,a study on the health of children in the United States conducted each year by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention..
While looking through the survey results, she noticed that more than half of the kids who took part in the study were dehydrated (脱水的). Of' that group, boys were 76% more likely than girls not to have enough water in their system. Nearly one quarter of the kids in the survey reported drinking no plain water at all.
“These findings highlight(突出) a possible health issue that wasn't given a lot of attention in the past," Kenney said in a statement. “Even though for most of these kids this is not an immediate and great health threat, this is an issue that could really be reducing quality of life and well-being for many children and youth."
The United States-National Agriculture Library says average kids need between 10 to 14 cups of water every day. This water can come from a mix of drinks and foods that contain high amounts of water, such as celery, melons or tomatoes. It is also recommended that fluids（液体）come from water instead of sugary drinks that are high in calories and can lead to weight problems.
1.What was Erica Kenney's purpose in doing the study?
A. To study if kids drink enough water daily :
B. To prove that sugary drinks are harmful to kids
C. To show what kind of sugary drinks kids love.
D. To find out how many sugary drinks kids drink at school.
2.According to the findings of Erica Kenney's study, we know that ________.
A. school kids cannot find drinkable water easily
B. boys are more likely to get dehydrated than girls
C. sugary drinks are very popular with school kids
D. most kids know the importance of drinking plain water .
3.From the last paragraph we learn that kids________.
A. should drink plain water to lose weight
B. can try to take in water from sugary drinks .
C. can eat celery, melons and tomatoes for water .
D. should drink no more than 10 cups of water every day
4.The text mainly tells us that many kids_____________
A. don ' t like drinking water
B. prefer sugary drinks to water
C. are at risk of health problems
D. don ' t drink enough water daily
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A machine that takes sweat-laden clothes and turns the moisture（分子） into drinking water is in use in Sweden. The device spins and heats the material to remove the sweat, and then passes the vapor through a special membrane(膜) designed to only let water molecules get through.
Since its Monday launch, its creators say more than 1,000 people have “drunk others’ sweat（h汗液）" in Gothenburg. They add the liquid is cleaner than local tap water.
The device was built for the United Nation's child-focused charity UNICEF to promote a campaign highlighting the fact that 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water.
The machine was designed and built by engineer Andreas Hammar, known locally for his appearances on TV tech show Mekatronik. He said the critical part of the sweat machine was a new water purification component developed by a company named HVR in collaboration with Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology.
"It uses a technique called membrane distillation(膜蒸馏)," he told the BBC."We use a substance that's a bit like Gortex that only lets steam through but keeps bacteria, salts, clothing fibers and other substances out."They have something similar on the International Space Station to treat astronaut's urine(尿液) - but our machine was cheaper to build. Volunteers have been sampling the treated sweat since the start of the week in Gothenburg .“The amount of water it produces depends on how sweaty the person is - but one person's T-shirt typically produces 10ml , roughly a mouthful."
The equipment has been put on show at the Gothia Cup - the world's largest international youth football tournament. MattiasRonge, chief executive of Stockholm-based advertising agency Deportivo - which organized the stunt(惊人的表演) - said the machine had helped raise awareness for UNICEF, but in reality had its limitations.
"People haven't produced as much sweat as we hoped - right now the weather in Gothenburg is lousy," he said."So we've installed exercise bikes alongside the machine and volunteers are cycling like crazy."Even so, the demand for sweat is greater than the supply. And the machine will never be mass produced - there are better solutions out there such as water purifying pills."
1.What can we infer from the passage ?_______.
A. The water processed by the machine is cleaner than local tap water .
B. The machine can help raise awareness of lacking water in the world .
C. The machine is cheaper than the similar one on the International Space Station
D. The amount of water the machine produces is roughly a mouthful.
2.What is the main idea of the fifth paragraph ?
A. How the machine works.
B. Who developed the machine.
C. How the machine was invented.
D. Why the machine was invented..
3.What does Mattias Ronge think of the machine?____
A. The machine can solve the severe water shortage in the world.
B. People do not like the water the machine processes
C. The machine should be used in rather hot areas in summer.
D. The machine is not worth popularizing.
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Scientists at Harvard University have recycled a kidney(‘肾)-in a rat. The researchers removed a kidney from a dead rat. Later, the renewed kidney was put into a living rat. It wasn't perfect. It did, however, show signs of working like a kidney should.
"It's really beautiful work," Edward Ross, a kidney researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville, told Science News. He didn't work on the new study.
Kidneys are bean-shaped and act like guards in the body. They clean the blood by removing waste and extra water. Every day, an adult's kidneys filter(过滤) enough blood to fill a bathtub half full. Along the way, they produce eight cups of urine(尿) from that waste and water. When a person's kidneys fail, all of that waste stays in the body. Such patients can quickly become very sick and die, unless they are regularly connected to a machine that filters their blood.
At any given time, about 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a replacement kidney. But healthy donated kidneys are difficult to get. Either a living person must donate one, or a kidney must be removed from someone who just died and earlier had agreed to the donation. In either case, people receiving new kidneys face the risk that their bodies will reject the donated ones.
But there may be another option. Researchers use knowledge of living things to grow or improve tissue that can aid human health. Harald Ott's team at Harvard started with a "used" kidney.
Scientists added kidney cells from rats and blood vessel cells from people to the matrix（母体）. These cells attached themselves and began to multiply. Before long, they formed new kidney tissue.
The scientists placed this renewed kidney into another rat. There it produced a small amount of urine. This experiment shows that the lab-grown kidney can do at least some of the work performed by a healthy kidney.
The results are a promising first step toward helping people with serious kidney problems. "This is still very early, but they've come a long way," Ross said.
1.What can we infer from Paragraph l?
A. Biology is a new and helpful science.
B. It's hard to put the rebuilt kidney into the rat.
C. Kidneys are very important to our life.
D. A used kidney may be recycled for new life.
2.What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A. The relationship between kidneys and health.
B. The difficulty of curing serious kidney diseases.
C. The function and importance of kidneys.
D. The methods of curing kidneys diseases.
3.For what purpose does the author use the figure 100,000 in Paragraph 4?
A. To stress used kidneys are hard to get.
B. To show the great need for healthy kidneys.
C. To explain many American people get kidney diseases.
D. To call on people to donate kidneys.
4.Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. The scientists are satisfied with the result of the experiment.
B. Ross is a kidney expert who is involved in the experiment.
C. The function of the renewed kidney is the same as a healthy kidney.
D. The renewed kidney produced a great deal of urine.
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to stand up and say – problem, I don’t want you in my life.
1. Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children – the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems come in different shapes and colors and feelings.
But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems.
Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help. 2. Talking helps you move on and let go.
Write your problems. 3. When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems. By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life.
Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family… you should still have faith. 4.
Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours. 5. Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed. Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out.
A．But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you.
B．When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, life-threatening problem, how do we try and solve it?
C．We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack.
D．Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with.
E．With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose.
F．Of course, we’ve been fighting troubles ever since we were born.
G．Tell yourself: when they can deal with them, why can’t I?
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处
Every time I passed boys who were playing basketball, I stopped to silently watch them. I really ________ them. But as a girl, I once thought that I could never play basketball.
I like playing basketball though I'm not good at it. I've had a basketball I was a child. At first, I could play freely because no one when I was just a kid. But as I grew up it seemed harder and harder for me to enjoy basketball.
At school, it was always the boys who played basketball during PE classes. The girls were________ allowed to play volleyball or badminton.
My parents did not________ me play basketball at home. "Basketball is not fit for girls," they said. ________when I went to play basketball with my friends, boys at me on the court as if I were an alien.
I was feeling ________ and had lost hope of playing basketball. ________, something changed the first day of high school. I made some friends who also enjoyed playing basketball. They ________ me to get back on the court.
One of them told me with a smile, "Go your own ________ , let others talk." This girl would always play basketball with me. Even the boy who sat next to me in class talked about________ with me almost every day.
I was inspired by them. Confidence and passion ________ to my heart. I am ready to stand up and play. I will play as well as I can, ________ for me, even the sky is boundless (无垠的).
Basketball has become an important part of my ________ . I am interested in it. I watch matches and enjoy playing almost every day. Through basketball, not only do I feel happy and confident, but also ________ a lot.
I've heard the NBA star Tracy McGrady say, "Nothing is impossible." It is from an advertisement on TV. I have________ to realize that life is just like playing basketball. You should have an ________. After that, just be confident and ________ going. Never give up and you'll make it sooner or later.
I love the motto of the NBA. It can________ my strong feelings for basketball, "I love this game!"
1.A. dislike B. annoyed C. envied D. appreciated
2.A. when B. before C. after D. since
3.A. struggled B. cared C. enjoyed D. joined
4.A. only B. almost C. hardly D. not
5.A. encourage B. agree C. let D. permit
6.A. Still B. Yet C. Just D. Even
7.A. looked B. glared C. glanced D. stared
8.A. up B. down C. excited D. satisfied
9.A. Unluckily B. Naturally C. Unexpectedly D. Clearly
10.A. encouraged B. forbade C. ensured D. explored
11.A. effort B. way C. business D. direction
12.A. basketball B. sports C. interests D. dreams
13.A. stuck B. referred C. turned D. returned
14.A. but B. though C. and D. however
15.A. wish B. life C. work D. study
16.A. experience B. grow C. learn D. play
17.A. come B. turned C. refused D. happened
18.A. idea B. aim C. opinion D. effort
19.A. insist B. remain C. keep D. last
20.A. inform B. express C. ignore D. connect
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课本落实
1.Sunshine is _____________ to all living things. (对…有益处的)
2.He is ___________ after running back to the classroom.(气喘的)
3.Although ___ by polio during the Second World War, Proctor was also a first-rate helmsman. （使丧失能力;使伤残）
4.He took time out from campaigning to _____________ his mother to dinner. （陪伴）[
5.The way he ____________ himself will increase criticisms against him. （表现;举止）
6.A military court sentenced him to death in his ___________. （不在，缺席）
7.Eve isn't the type to sit __________ doing nothing（闲坐着;无所事事）
8.If you resign yourself ______ an unpleasant situation or fact, you accept it because you realize that you cannot change it
9.I wish everyone would stop talking and just _____________. （让我一个人待着）
10.A common saying goes, " Knit the brows（眉头） and you will hit upon a stratagem. "___________________, much thinking yields wisdom. （换句话说）
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语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
1. (spend) too much time online can increase your risk of catching 2. cold or flu，scientists have warned.
Those with greater levels of Internet addiction are 3. (likely) to give in to illness than those who spend fewer hours online.
Researchers believe the reason lies 4. the fact that people with an Internet addiction are more lonely，and as a result have 5. (weak) immune(免疫)systems.
They said the lack of interaction with other people and less time spent outside exposing 6. (them) to germs(细菌)played a role.
Also, recent studies 7. (find) people who spend more time online experience greater sleep problem, have 8. (bad) eating habits, do less exercise and tend to smoke and drink more alcohol.
These 9. (behave) can harm their immune system and increase chances of getting diseases.
Professor Phil Read said，We found that the impact of the Internet on people's health was independent of other factors，like depression，sleep problem，and loneliness， 10. are associated with high levels of Internet use and also with poor health.
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短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Today I’m going to talk about something about e-hongbao, that is becoming popular in China. E-hongbao is actual a kind of lucky money from and to relatives and friends during festivals or on some special occasion. For many young people, grabbing e-hongbao on their mobile phones is a fairly common and exciting activity. Unlike the tradition of elders give lucky money to their children, over half of the people sending e-hongbao is in their 20s. It’s just for fun, and the sum of money mattered little. In word, e-hongbao is bringing new color to the old tradition. Nevertheless, I’m interested with the safety of online payment. It’s hoped that whether rules and regulations should be improved about the e-hongbao system to guarantee their operation.
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书面表达
以"Are pets Good for People"为题，写一篇120词左右的文章。文章包括以下内容要点：
1.有的人认为宠物对人类有益；
2.有的人认为饲养宠物有弊端；
3.我的看法；
参考词汇： 同伴 companion 卫生 hygiene
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