Throughout the past few years, I’have tried to give myself to others. I have bounced around to find where I truly fit in. I found my place while I stayed in Guatemala, an orphanage(孤儿院), with the children living there. Through hearing many stories of their lives, I was moved to tears and started question my living ways and gave up everything that wasn’t essential: makeup and any other sort of luxury(奢侈品). I lived like they did. It was the most relaxing feeling in the world.
When at Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, we were given the task of creating a pig pen. At first, I thought it should be easy. After arriving at the area where the pig pen should be, we saw a hill. We were told to uproot the weeds as well as level the entire area. Looking at it, we felt ‘it would be impossible. On my own faith journey, I have felt this type of doubt before. The “hole”, as we referred to, is a symbol of my faith journey. It appeared to be an obstacle I could not overcome, but in the end I completed i! with efforts. I feel this pig pen wasn’t easy to create but was so rewarding to give.
I’ve always struggled to be on a journey of faith, but I’ve never completely stepped foot onto the path until Guatemala. I’ve always tried to open my heart to everyone around me and give them my love. I feel as though I cut open my heart and share every bit of love ‘I had with these orphans. There is one orphan named Ceto who will always remain very close to my heart. In Guatemala, I sponsor with thirty dollars a month, but it doesn’t seem enough. I’ll return there next summer and give more of my love for a whole month.
When it was time to leave, I looked out of the window and saw not just ordinary children. Overall, the most significant accomplishment I made in Guatemala was stepping towards my own faith journey and not looking back.
1.What resulted in the author’s decision to live a new life?
A. Desire to help others. B. Decrease in his income.
C. A knowledge of the orphans’life. D. Awareness of the difficulty in his life.
2.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Removing the doubt. B. Uprooting the weed.
C. Starting the faith journey. D. Creating the pig pen.
3.What did the author think of his experience in Guatemala?
A. It was regretful. B. It was meaningful.
C. It was interesting. D. it was frightening.
4.What may be the best title for the text?
A. A Step into a New World B. An Awful Faith Journey
C. A Great Success in Life D. A Return of Confidence
难度: 困难查看答案及解析
Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you re using affect the moral decisions you make when using it? To test it, researchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random.
One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley(有轨电车) problem”: A runaway trolley is headed towards five people tied up on a-set of train tracks. You can do nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which 33. 5 percent of smartphone users chose, compared to 22.3 percent of PC users.
“What we round in our study is that when people used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma, “Dr Albert Barque-Duran, the lead author of the study, told City, University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices compared to PCs.”
As for why the researchers started this study, Dr Barque-Duran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even shopping take place online, it is important to think about how the contexts where we typically face moral decisions and are asked to engage in moral behavior have changed, and the impact this could have on the hundreds of millions of people who use such devices daily. “it’s clear that we need more research on how our devices affect our moral decision making because we’re using screens at an ever increasing rate.
1.Why did the author mention the trolley problem?
A. To introduce a difficult problem to readers.
B. To introduce the aim of carrying out the study.
C. To show an example of the questions in the study
D. To show the difficulty in dealing with dilemmas.
2.How do the smartphone users of the study behave in dealing with emotional dilemmas?
A. Calmly. B. Cruelly.
C. Hesitantly. D. Enthusiastically.
3.Dr Albert believes that compared with PCs, smartphones .
A. help people bear more pressure
B. help people make decisions quick
C. make people feel more mentally distant
D. make people stay happier to solve problems
4.What can we infer from the text?
A. Shopping online has a great effect on making moral decisions.
B. The people using smartphones are more than those using PCs.
C. People who often use smartphones or PCs always meet with dilemmas,
D. It is common for people to be involved in making moral decisions in daily life.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
It’s a white Christmas in the United States today, with snow falling from Seattle to Maine.
• Northeast
Biting winds with snow swept the Northeast.
Earlier, up to 15 inches of snow fell during a snow storm in Maine, while up to one foot fell in New Hampshire. Winds reached 76 mph on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while up to 61 mph winds tore through Long Island, New York. Falling snow collected on the runways at Boston’s Logan International Airport, causing temporary flight delays.
The wind was so severe in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that the annual (重演) of George Washington and his soldiers’crossing the Delaware River was canceled, the Washington Crossing Historic Park told ABC News.
• Midwest
Heavy lake effect snow fell in western Michigan.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind-chill warning and advisory (公告) from Montana to Michigan. Bitter cold air in the Midwest produced wind chills Monday morning as low as minus 48 degrees in North Dakota and minus 47 in northern Minnesota.
As this bitter cold made its way east overnight, it was expected to move over relatively mild Great Lakes, producing intense lake-effect snow bands capabie of producing 2 to 4 inches of snow in an hour.
• West Coast
That storm system moved overnight through the Rockies, bringing more snow and the threat of avalanches(雪崩). The National Weather Service has issued an avalanche warning for the Wasatch Range Mountains outside Salt Lake City.
1.Why was the annual reenactment of George Washington and his soldiers’crossing the Delaware River canceled?
A. Because the river was frozen. B. Because the wind was too strong.
C. Because the snow was too thick. D. Because the temperature was too low.
2.Which of the following is the bad weather that has set in according to the passage?
A. The avalanches. B. A white Christmas.
C. A mess of people’s life. D. Heavy snow, biting wind and chills.
3.What is the style of the passage?
A. Weather report.
B. News about the effect of bad weather.
C. News about bad weather.
D. A bad-weather warning and advisory.
难度: 简单查看答案及解析
As the weather costs you a loss on trains and flights, we look at your rights.
• Cancelled trains
On a single ticket, a passenger will usually receive 25% of the fare if the train is delayed by 15 minutes. If the delay reaches 30 minutes, the compensation(补偿/补偿金) rises to 50%, and if it’s over an hour you should be able to reclaim the whole cost. Clear arrangements vary according to train operator (运营商).
If you were due to travel, to say Aberdeen from London, your train is cancelled and you decide not to travel, you can get a full compensation. If you had a non-cancelable ticket with one operator, and failed to make that train because the connecting train was delayed, you can take the next available train.
• Flights
If your flight is cancelled because of the snow you have the right to a full compensation of the ticket, or to be rerouted home on a later flight.
But you will have no right to get a delay or cancellation compensation under EU rules, because the snow is an extraordinary circumstance beyond the airline’s control. If you don’t take the compensation and choose to be rerouted, and It means you are stuck at the airport overnight, it’s the airline’s duty to pay for a reasonably priced hotel room and meals.
The airline has to reroute you at the earliest opportunity, or at the passenger’s free time, you are supposed to take the availability of seats.
If you choose to be rerouted or if your departure is delayed by more than two hours, airlines also have to provide assistance such as food. The airlines keep this quiet and getting the money out of the low-cost operators can be a hard job. Keep evidence of cancellations, all receipts, and use your mobile to video any offer to pay by airline staff.
1.What does the compensation you can get rely on when your trains are delayed by bad weather?
A. The price of the ticket. B. The length of delay time and the operator.
C. The length of delay time. D. The class of the service and the price of the ticket.
2.How many choices do you have if you are to travel Aberdeen from London, and your train is cancelled?
A. One. B. Two.
C. Three. D. Four.
3.What is the compensation if you choose to be rerouted and if you are stuck at the airport overnight in the EU countries?
A. The availability of seats.
B. Any seat you’d like to choose.
C. Hotel rooms and meals of any price.
D. Acceptably priced hotel rooms and meals.
4.How can you save the trouble in getting money out of the low-cost operators?
A. By keeping the evidence and videoing any offer to pay.
B. At the earliest opportunity, or the passenger’s free time.
C. By preventing the airlines from keeping their duty quiet.
D. By arguing reasonably with the staff of the airlines offering you the flight.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter对中国春联（Spring Festival couplets）产生了浓厚兴趣，来信向你了解中国的春联文化。请你用英语写一封回信，为他介绍春联的用途、内容和寓意等。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
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难度: 中等查看答案及解析
I grew up on a farm in the small rural (乡下的) community of Catawissa, Missouri, as the sixth of seven children. 1. In the fall of 1970, he was working on a house when the ladder broke. His back was broken.
He stayed in the hospital for three weeks. When Dad returned home, he was still in a back brace(支架) and unable to work. 2.
One night we heard a car coming up. 3. Rose was at the door, holding an envelope filled with money. She told my dad she had collected money and was there to deliver it
4. I can still hear her saying, “Archie, whenever someone’s baler (干草打包机) is broken, you bale their hay. Someone passes away, Altha is cooking. It’s our turn.”
That evening, this 6-year-old understood what being a good neighbor was, and that because her parents were good neighbors, their kindness would be returned. I learned later my mom’s sisters all “adopted” one of us kids to help with Christmas, and we received gift baskets from more than one organization.
My parents were used to being the givers and not the receivers of such generosity (慷慨). 5.
A. He tried to protest but Rose would have none of it.
B. Besides running the farm, Dad was also a carpenter.
C. Apart from a carpenter, Dad was also running a farm.
D. We kids were always curious about who was visiting.
E. I was too young to realize our family had no money coming in as Christmas approached.
F. It was comforting to be helped when in trouble, but what was important was to help others in return.
G. They had a bit of pride to swallow, but continued all of their lives to show us kids the value of kindness.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
When Mrs. Green told her pupils to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, she thought how little these children in a(an) ____ neighborhood, had to be ____ for. Most of the ____ would draw pictures of turkeys (火鸡) or of Thanksgiving tables full of everything ____ to eat. That was what they believed was ____ them.
What made Mrs. Green ____ was David’s picture. David was so disappointed and likely to be ____ close in his shadow as they went outside for breaks. David’s drawing was ____ this:
A hand, whose hand? The class was strongly attracted by his image. “I think it must be the ____ of God ____us food,” said one student,
“A ____,” said another, “because they ____ the turkeys.”
“It looks more like a policeman, and they ____ us.” “1 think,” Lucy said ____, “that it is ____ to be all the hands that help us, but David could only draw one of them.”
Mrs. Green had almost forgotten David in her ____ at finding the class so responsive(共鸣的). Having the others working on another project, she bent over his ____ and asked whose hand it was.
David whispered, “It’s yours, Teacher.”
Then Mrs. Green ____ she had taken David by the hand from time to time; she often did that with the children. But that it should have ____ so much to David . . .
Perhaps, she thought this was her Thanksgiving, and everybody’s Thanksgiving—not the things given to us, but the small ____ that we give something to others.
1.A. bettering B. developing C. interesting D. worsening
2.A. eager B. thankful C. ready D. greedy
3.A. class B. school C. group D. boys
4.A. rare B. delicious C. expensive D. fit
5.A. convinced of B. informed of C. warned of D. expected of
6.A. satisfied B. touched C. amazed D. encouraged
7.A. found B. shut C. hidden D. stuck
8.A. only B. simply C. clearly D. exactly
9.A. head B. arm C. hand D. foot
10.A. fetching B. earning C. sending D. bringing
11.A. worker B. carpenter C. farmer D. banker
12.A. raise B. milk C. have D. grow
13.A. bring B. protect C. watch D. guard
14.A. seriously B. rudely C. naughtily D. noisily
15.A. proved B. known C. said D. supposed
16.A. surprise B. pride C. pleasure D. wonder
17.A. picture B. book C. schoolbag D. desk
18.A. realized B. wished C. remembered D. believed
19.A. sensed B. meant C. accounted D. affected
20.A. ways B. chances C. abilities D. hopes
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
China’s industrial output is expected to rise by around 6.5 percent this year, marking the best 1. (perform) since 2010, 2. the Made in China 2025 strategy (策略) helps to raise productivity and revenue(税收).
The increase is 0.5 percentage points 3. (high) than the targeted growth, partly 4. (drive) by strong efforts to increase the use of new technology at traditional enterprises(企业), Miao Wei said on Monday.
“The country’s industrial economy has maintained steady and sound growth thanks 5. the Made in China 2025 strategy. It promoted the combination of manufacturing and new technologies such as 6. Internet, big data and cloud computing,” Mina added.
The ministry also predicted that the country’s industrial output would be likely 7. (grow) by around 6 percent next year, with revenue from the telecommunications, Internet, and software and information technology service 8. (increase) by 50 percent, 30 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
According to Miao, the country will also publish policies 9. promoting the development of digital economy. Official data show that the country’s digital economy added up to 22.58 trillion yuan last year, ranking second 10. (global) and accounting for around 30 percent of national GDP.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。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：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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。
Dear Mr. Li,
I’m Wangtao. I’m written to tell you my opinion about employing a foreign language teacher.
They are two factors to take into consider. For a thing, the sense of humor is necessary for a teacher, who makes his class interesting and lively. For another, ensure efficiency in teaching and learning, the foreigner’s ability to speak Chinese matters much, so only with the help of Chinese can they communicate with each other smoothly.
Various of activities out of class, such as English Evening and English Corner, should be organized by the foreign language teacher, which brings the students more chances to communicate with the teacher and improve his oral English.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析