David is an excellent student and he comes from New York. His family was there until he finished eighth grade. David had no choice but to sleep on park benches. Being alone on the streets was scary. One thing kept David going: his determination to do well in school.
Even though many things were difficult in David’s life, one thing was going very well. David was accepted to a special high school called MC2STEM.It is a public school in Cleveland for kids who are extremely good at science. The school turned out a peaceful place for David. He especially enjoyed having the chance to learn by doing lots of projects.
High school wasn’t easy. But David says that the school helped him set high standards for himself. Even when he didn’t have a place to stay at night, David kept his focus on his schoolwork.
While he was homeless, David would sometimes sleep in the park during the day because it was safer. “ If you sleep in the daytime in the park, people won’t bother you,” he says. “you’re just taking a nap. It’s acceptable.” Then David would study through the night. He showered at a friend’s house when his friend’s parents were at work.
All his hard work paid off. In May 2011, David graduated second in his high school class. He was accepted to 22 colleges. He also won a scholarship form the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It will pay for all his college expenses.
Last fall, David began attending Harvard University, one of the top colleges in the US.”I found the perfect school for me.” He wrote in his blog.
In the future, David might look for a job at a company like Google. Even better, he would like to start his own company. David says, “ I want to work for myself.”
1.According to the passage, David ________.
A. liked to sleep on park benches.
B. studied very hard.
C. felt high school was easy.
D. hated doing a lot of projects.
2.We can know from the passage that David would _________.
A. work only in big companies.
B. start a company with partners.
C. win a scholarship again.
D. have a bright future.
3.Which of the following word can best describe David?
A. cautious B.Lazy C. Determined D. Creative
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. A top University B. A Poor Student
C. Homeless to Harvard D. Winning a Scholarship
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Guide to Stockholm University Library
Our library offers different types of studying places and provides a good studying environment.
Zones
The library is divided into different zones. The upper floor is a quiet zone with over a thousand places for silent reading, and places where you can sit and work with your own computer. The reading places consist mostly of tables and chairs. The ground floor is the zone where you can talk. Here you can find sofas and armchairs for group work.
Computers
You can use your own computer to connect to the wi-fi specially prepared for notebook computers; you can also use library computers, which contain the most commonly used applications, such as Microsoft Office. They are situated in the area known as the Experimental Field on the ground floor.
Group-study places
If you want to discuss freely without disturbing others, you can book a study room or sit at a table on the ground floor. Some study rooms are for 2-3 people and others can hold up to 6-8 people. All rooms are marked on the library maps.
There are 40 group-study rooms that must be booked via the website. To book, you need an active University account and a valid University card. You can use a room three hours per day, nine hours at most per week.
Storage of Study Material
The library has lockers for students to store course literature. When you have obtained at least 40 credits(学分), you may rent a locker and pay 400 SEK for a year’s rental period.
Rules to be Followed
Mobile phone conversations are not permitted anywhere in the library. Keep your phone on silent as if you were in a lecture and exit the library if you need to receive calls.
Please note that food and fruit are forbidden in the library, but you are allowed to have drinks and sweets with you.
1.Library computers on the ground floor __________.
A. help students with their field experiments
B. are mostly used for filling out application forms
C. are for those who wan to access the wi-fi
D. contain software essential for schoolwork
2.What condition should be met to book a group-study room?
A. One should first register at the university
B. Three-hour use per day is the minimum
C. A group must consist of 8 people
D. Applicants must mark the room on the map
3.A student can rent a locker in the library if he __________.
A. can afford the rental fee
B. attends certain courses
C. has earned the required credits
D.has nowhere to put his books
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Mike Maietta was eating lunch when he got a text message from his mom.
“Notre Dame,” it said. “Big envelope!”
Mike, a senior at a Californian high school, shouted with joy. The big envelope meant that the excellent university in Indiana had offered him a place in its Class of 2013. But the $51,300 annual fee is a big obstacle. So Mike and his parents are considering offers from several other colleges and are calculating the costs of tuition, housing and holiday trips home.
This year, money is the driving factor for a growing number of high school seniors, who have to decide what colleges to attend this fall. Less jobs and plunging house prices have changed family spending.
“We’re excited that Mike got into eight great schools,” said Mike’s father, an engineer at Microsoft. “But if you consider going to school out of state, you’ve got to think about all of the other costs: moving, flying back and forth for the holidays. You’re looking at about $3,000 a year, just for travel.”
As families weigh their choices, some are going back to financial aid offices hoping help packages can be increased.
Rachel Brown was happy to get a thick envelope from New York University (NYU). Although she has always wanted to live in Manhattan, she is seriously considering the University of California San Diego (UCSD), because of the high cost in New York.
“The tuition for NYU is twice as much as UCSD,” said Rachel, 17. “My mom doesn’t want me to have a big debt when I graduate, and I don’t want that either. I’d have to take out a loan of $15,000. I’ll check and see if there’s any way that NYU can offer me any financial aid.”
More than 7.6 million American students have filled out the Free Application for Students Aid, a 19.9 percent increase over last year.
This month the Federal Department of Education urged college financial aid officers to give more help to certain families. A record 30,428 students applied for 2,300 places at Stanford, partly because the university increased financial aid for families earning below $10,000.
1.Mike may give up Notre Dame because of ______.
A. travel fees
B. poor exam results
C. financial concerns
D. worries about living far away from home
2. The phrase “Big envelope” in paragraph 2 probably refers to “______”.
A. A text message
B. A large gift package
C. A scholarship letter
D. An admission letter
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A.It is hard for college students to borrow money to cover costs.
B. Rachel Brown has given up NYU because of its high tuition and big debts.
C. The number of American senior students applying for financial aid is increasing.
D. An interest-free loan for students helps more students apply for Stanford.
4.The passage mainly focuses on ______.
A. the calculation of different costs including tuition
B. the financial crisis of families over college entrance
C. the excitement of students’ being able to enter ideal colleges
D.the extremely hard financial situation in America
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Who’s in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it’s other people—society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”
So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix (一剂毒品). We worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.
But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom—the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, they're more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions allthe time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.
So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way—make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values---not values imposed（强加）from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.
1.What Oscar Wilde says implies that _____________.
A. most people’s thoughts are controlled by others
B. most people have a variety of thoughts
C. we have thoughts similar to those of others
D. other people’s thoughts are more important
2.What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph ?
A. We need to pay for what we want to get.
B. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.
C. We may lose ourselves to please others.
D. The price of taking drugs is freedom.
3. In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should _________.
A. care about others’ opinions and change opinions all the time
B. guide ourselves by means of values from the outside
C. stick to our own values
D. persuade others to accept our opinions
4.It can be concluded from the passage that __________.
A. it’s important to accept others’ opinions
B. it’s better to do what we like
C. we shouldn't change our own opinions
D. we shouldn’t care what others think too much
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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。
Procrastination (拖延) is a phenomenon we are familiar with. When we procrastinate, we waste our free time and put off important tasks we should do till it’s too late. 1. Here, I will share some personal steps taken to overcome procrastination with great success.
Break your work down into little parts. Part of the reason why we procrastinate is that we find the work too overwhelming (巨大的)for us. Break it down into little parts, and then focus on one part at a time. If you still procrastinate after doing so, break it down even further. 2.
Change your environment. Look at your work desk and your room. Do they make you want to work or do they make you sleepy? 3.
Create a detailed timeline with specific deadlines. Having just one deadline for your work is like an invitation to procrastinate. That’s because we would get the impression that we have time and keep pushing everything back until it’s too late. 4. In this way, you know you have to finish each task by a certain date.
5. I’m pretty sure if you spend just 10 minutes talking to people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, you’ll be more inspired to act than if you spend the 10 minutes doing nothing. The people we are with influence our behavior.
A. Soon, your task will be so simple that you will be thinking you can do it now.
B. Hang out with people who inspire you to take action.
C. Having a companion makes the whole process much more fun.
D. If it’s the latter, you should begin to change your workspace.
E. It’s a bad habit eating us away and stopping us achieving greater success in life.
F. Break down your project, and then create an overall timeline with specific deadlines for each small task.
G. Seek out someone who has already achieved the similar outcome to your goals.
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You had better some time every day for sports or relaxation so that you can keep yourself energetic .
A set aside B. take up C. put away D. give out
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Some has been elected manager of the company to take place of white.
A. /; / B. the; / C. the; the D. /; the
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City life is more convenient than of the country but not quiet and easy.
A. that; as B. such; too
C. which; rather D. one; quite
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We can`t expect our children to do anything their ability.
A. without B. beyond C.within D. cover
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Russian President Vladimix Putin, as well as other foreign guesses, to attend Chinese military parade.
A. were invited B. was invited
C. have invited D has invited
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--Hi,Lucy! When did you arrive in Berlin?
-- Last weekend, I a different culture since then.
A. was experiencing B. will be experiencing
C. have been experiencing D. had been experiencing
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The book by the psychology expert teaches you how to find is causing the stress in your life.
A. referring to; which B. refer to; that
C. referred to ; what D. referred to ; how
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She must have finished her homework yesterday, ?
A. mustn`t she B. hasn`t she
C. didn`t she D. doesn`t she
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Seldom TV when I studied in senior three.
A. I watch B. I watched
C. does I watch D. did I watch
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-- So, you didn`t take his advice?
--No. his advice, I a silly mistake.
A. Were I to take; shouldn`t have made
B. If I had taken; would make
C. Had I taken; wouldn`t have made
D. Have I taken; won`t have made
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Several years ago, my son and I had a brief conversation that has really stuck with me.
My Son: “ Were you there for the first of my game, Dad? I started!”
Me: “ I didn’t get back into town and to the game the second quarter... But you did great!”
My Son: “Oh.”
Me: “ But you really need to start better.”
My Son:(Silence)
So, what was wrong with I said? Well, he understood my flight was late and so I the first quarter. And my compliment(表扬) was good. But, the “but ” was the . Instead of just praising him for his accomplishment, I _him for his eating habits. And that criticism crushed(碾碎) the compliment.
, I realize that the words I had spoken weren’t the words my son heard. The moment I said, “ But you really need...” what my son heard was, “ What you did was good, but not quite good enough.”
So what did I take away from this ? First, I learned that accomplishments should be strong and . Saying “great job” or “good work” is a good when complimenting. But it’s even to say something like, “I’m proud that you the staring team. You preserved and worked really hard to get there.” Second, I learned that criticism should not be a compliment. Criticism can be so to the listener that he won’t even hear a compliment more than criticize. Mark Twain once said, “ I can live for two months a good compliment.” Giving your child a strong compliment can greatly and push him forward. Criticizing your child, although necessary at times, quickly take the wind out of his .
1.A.time B.quarter C.step D.attempt
2.A.if B.until C.unless D.as
3.A.eating B.studying C.working D.playing
4.A.as B.which C.what D.that
5.A.forgot B.lost C.caught D.missed
6.A.question B.point C.challenge D.problem
7.A.taught B.described C.criticized D.corrected
8.A.Looking back B. Turning around C. Moving on D. Coming along
9.A.main B.same C.brief D.detailed
10.A. experiment B.expression C.experience D. adventure
11.A. timely B.weak C.specific D. special
12.A. practice B.sign C.way D.start
13.A.well B.worse C.better D.good
14.A.formed B.made C.found D.took
15.A. separated from B. prevented from C.referred to D. mixed with
16.A. loud B.weak C.high D.frightening
17.A. with B.on C.for D. of
18.A.inspire B. respect C.inspect D.require
19.A.will B.can C.shall D.must
20.A.sail B.room C.heart D.game
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语篇填空 （共10小题；每题1.5分；满分15分）
W: Mr. Clarkon. I wonder if you could start off by telling me a bit about 1. .
M: Yes,er,well, I took 2. science degree in chemistry actually but I didn’t want to stay in that field so I took a master’s in marketing.
W: That was in the States, I see. And ever since you3. (work)for a design company.
M:That’s right. I’ve been with Proton Designs for three years now. I think it’s time 4. (move) on.
W. Could you say a bit more about that?
M: Well, it’s been a very interesting three years and I’ve 5. (learn) a lot. But it’s a very small company and I’m looking for more of a competition.
W: And you think we can offer you that?
M: I hope so. Certainly the job of international marketing manager seems to be 6. I’m looking for. And I can speak Spanish and French.
W: Yes, that could be 7. (use) to us. Do you think you have enough experience 8. this post? After all, you have only three years marketing behind you.
M: I know that doesn’t seem much, 9. I was playing a leading role with Proton.
W: That sounds exciting. Now perhaps I’ll tell you a bit 10. (much) about the sort of person we are looking for and you can see how you might fit in...
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1.Every body is waiting (焦急地） outside the waiting room.
2.People who receive kindness are (很可能）to pay it back to the giver.
3.Mozart was a great (conduct ) remembered by the whole world.
4.I like to sit on the campus, (观察，观看）students playing games.
5.Linda`s mother had her (收养） by a rich woman because she couldn`t look after her.
6.If you finish reading the book, (放回原处） it on the shelf, please.
7.To our (entertain ), Jim passed the driving test for the first attempt.
8.He is famous for (混合，结合）Chinese musical traditions with western forms and instruments.
9.China received messages of (祝贺）from all over the world.
10. (上瘾的） to playing the computer games, the little boy has lost interest in his lesson.
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单词拼写：根据汉语提示写出单词、短语的正确形式（1-15单词16-20短语）共10分
1.稀少地 adv. r
2.疼痛，辛苦 n. p
3.认出，承认 vt. r
4.禁令，取缔 vt. b
5.天赋，才华 n. t
6.作曲，组成 vt. c
7.意识到，实现 vt. r
8.高兴的 adj. d
9.成就 n. a
10.创立，建立 v. f
11.在火车/轮船/飞机上 adv. a
12.有时，偶尔 adv. o
13.争论，辩论 v. a
14.证据 n. e
15.观众 n. a
16.与...有联系
17.属于
18.对...印象深刻
19.和... 相似
20.关心，照顾
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短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
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。错误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。
Patience is great importance in our daily life. Once I waited for a bus to come at a stop. 30 minutes past, but no bus came. Anxiety and annoyed, I decided to walk on foot. But no sooner had I left when the bus arrived. I thought if I had waited for one more minutes, I would have caught it. If I chose to take a next bus, I would have to wait for another 30 minutes. Only then did I realized my problem. Being impatient will possible waste all the efforts that we have made them. Now whenever I am to losing my patience, I will think of this experience.
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你是高三学生李华，进入高三以来你发现你的同桌李雷总是抄作业，为此你很担心。所以借此次月考为契机，请你为他写封信
1. 客观分析抄作业的主要原因 2. 分析抄作业的危害并提出解决方法
注意：1. 字数100词左右
2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
Dear friend,
I am worried about you because ____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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