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，并填在答题卡的相应位置。
I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career as an educational consultant. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from 1. early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school 2. (days) in public schools.
My life improved remarkably when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself 3. words. I went to a workshop and 4. (gradual) got good at making things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled 5. I was in language. I could still be smart and well express 6. (I) with clay. And my confidence came along.
Later I decided to apply my previous experience to 7. (learn) how to read and write. Every day, I 8. (practice) reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was able to read and write.
9. (go) through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally 10. (know), hard, but interesting.
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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。
A short guide to surviving a post-election Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving in the US is a celebration of the blessings of the previous year. This time it included one of the most divisive presidential campaigns. Even now it is over, the possibility of argument has not disappeared. Here we have some tips for you to survive this Thanksgiving.
●Cover up any signal of union
It might be fine to have your Hillary bumper sticker in New York, but it isn't going to go down well in Wyoming, where 70% voted Trump. Similarly, your "I love Trump" T-shirt will probably not be popular in California, where 62% voted Hillary.1.．
●Practice your facial expression beforehand
They say a picture tells 1,000 words. Your face is the same. 2.You need to invest some energy in making sure your true feelings are completely buried. Ten minutes in front of the mirror should be enough to perfect your neutral face. 3.Well, we suggest closing them. Easy.
●Have a list of neutral topics for the dinner table
The weather is A favorite subject of the British. It is inoffensive, bland and can provide a good half-hour's chat, if done well. Everyone has an opinion on whether or not it is colder/hotter/wetter/windier than last year/10 years ago/when they were little. You can involve the whole family.4.With Clinton and Trump supporters largely split on whether climate change exists, it could inadvertently lead to politics. So it's maybe trickier for Americans than the weather-worn Brits. 5.After all, the rivalry between your American football team of choice and your cousin's may have a long and vitriolic history, but it is likely to be less poisonous than the current differences in your politics.
A. Sports may not be a neutral subject.
B. Biting your lip is simply not enough this holiday season.
C. There are hundreds of outstanding topics for Thanksgiving.
D. There is one slight downfall to this particular favorite.
E. Are you one of those people whose eyes always tell the truth?
F. So we advise leaving the T-shirt at home, and covering up the stickers.
G. It would be fine, if people of different opinions would not spend Thanksgiving together.
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My dad loved pennies, especially those with wheat. Those were the pennies he grew up with in Iowa and he didn’t have many.
When I was a kid, Dad and I would go for walks together. We’d spy coins along the way. Whenever I picked up a penny, he'd ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one of those special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth. He told me he often dreamed of finding coins. “I have that dream too!” I told him. It was our secret connection.
Dad died in 2002. One grey day, not long after his death, I was walking down Fifth Avenue and I found myself in front of the oldest church in Manhattan, which my father had been attending. I was greeted in warmly. The song was Dad's favorite, one we’d sung at his funeral.
After the service, I walked out, stepped onto the sidewalk—and there was a penny. I picked it up, and sure enough, it was a wheat, a 1944, a year my father was serving on a ship in the South Pacific. Then, wheat pennies began turning up on the sidewalks everywhere. I got most of the important years: his birth year, the war years, the year he met my mom, the year they got married. But, no 1958 penny-my year.
The next Sunday, after the service, I was walking up Fifth Avenue and spotted a penny in the middle of the street. It was a busy street, but I risked my safety and got it.
A wheat! There was my birthday.
I found 21 wheat pennies on the streets of Manhattan in the year after my father died, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
1.What is the best title for the text?
A. Pennies from Heaven
B. My loving Dad
C. My happy childhood
D. Days in New York
2.What do we know about Dad in the text?
A. Dad helped to build the old church.
B. Dad was once in the navy during the war.
C. Dad had enough money to spend as a kid.
D. Dad was greedy for he always looked for pennies.
3.How did the author find the penny with his year?
A. He searched hard and found it.
B. He dug in the street in order to get it.
C. He sang a religious song in order to find it.
D. He found it by chance but got it by trying hard.
4.What does the author mean by the last sentence?
A. Dad buried the pennies before passing away.
B. Our life is fixed and no one can change it.
C. The author thinks 21 pennies is a lot of money.
D. The pennies started for father’s love from heaven.
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What happens inside the head of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivated a study of the brains of experienced players.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York selected 34 adults, men and women. All of the volunteers had played soccer since childhood and now competed year-round in adult soccer leagues. Each filled out a detailed questionnaire developed especially for this study to determine how many times they had headed a soccer ball in the previous year, as well as whether they had experienced any known concussions (脑震荡) in the past.
Then the players completed computerized tests of their memory and other learning skills and had their brains scanned, using a complex new M.R.I. technique which can find structural changes in the brain that can’t be seen during most scans.
According to the data they presented, the researchers found that the players who had headed the ball more than about 1,100 times in the previous 12months showed significant loss of white matter in parts of their brains involved with memory, attention and the processing of visual information, compared with players who had headed the ball less.
This pattern of white matter loss is “similar to those seen in traumatic (外伤的) brain injury”, like that after a serious concussion, the researchers reported, even though only one of these players was reported to have ever experienced a concussion.
The players who had headed the ball about 1,100 times or more in the past year were also generally worse at recalling lists of words read to them, forgetting or fumbling the words far more often than players who had headed the ball less.
1. Where do you think the text comes from?
A. Medicine instructions. B. A text for doctors.
C. A research report. D. A sports advertisement.
2.What do we know about the volunteers?
A. They had serious injury on the head.
B. They were adults who still played soccer.
C. They were all researchers about soccer.
D. They all had children who played soccer.
3. What was used to find the structural changes in the brains?
A. Advanced computers.
B. A new technique M. R. I.
C. Special questionnaires.
D. Learning skills.
4. We can conclude that frequent heading may have .
A. a significant effect on one’s brain
B. little effect on one’s brain
C. nothing to do with the brain
D. improvement in one’s brain
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When Dawn Bonfield, the former chief executive of the Women's Engineering Society, ran a stand recently at a big military air show, she was in for a shock.
There were around 900 Brownies among the crowd and Ms Bonfield says, "I'm saying to all these girls, 'Do you know about engineering, would you like to be an engineer, have you thought about engineering?' And in the whole day... probably five or six of them said yes. Every other one said no, just straight out no."
What surprised her most, she says, is that it wasn't that these eight and nine-year-old girls didn't know what engineering was. Simply that they had already switched off. They had lost interest in engineering. "So how much work does it take to change that?" asks Ms Bonfield. "I mean it's huge."
There's no shortage of data to back up her estimation of the scale of work required. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that women make up around just 8% of engineers in the UK. And this is at a time when the UK needs to produce thousands more engineers, so much so that the inventor, Sir James Dyson, is planning to open his own instituteto address the skills shortage.
Not enough female role models is well documented as a reason why girls don’t choose engineering.
The attitude of parents was also an important factor in career choices. For girls, perhaps unsurprisingly, mothers were particularly influential.
"My mum was a bit iffy about it at first because she was more like, 'Girls should do this and that and the other,' more like 'keep your posture up and be ladylike'," says middle school student Hannah. "But my dad used to build a lot of stuff and he got me into that. So after my mum saw how me and my dad interacted she said, 'Yeah, go for it' and she's kind of the one who supported me with this."
1. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To show the shortage of girls in engineering.
B. To introduce some famous girl engineers.
C. To promote the social status for engineers.
D. To give girls advice on how to select careers.
2.What does the underlined word “Brownies” in the Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Chocolate cakes. B. Young girls.
C. Girls with brown hair. D. Students in brown.
3.What shocked Dawn Bonfield most?
A. There were so many girls at the show.
B. Many girls had run off before seeing her.
C. Girls didn’t know anything about engineering.
D. Girls paid no attention to engineering.
4. Why did Hannh finally choose engineering?
A. Because she found a woman role model.
B. Because her mother was sure of her future.
C. Because her father had influence on her.
D. Because she wanted to meet the demand of society.
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You’ll need to download free software to connect to our Secure Drop service. It’s easy to use and works like a web browser that you’re familiar with, like Firefox or Chrome.
Here’s how to get started:
1. Visit TorProject. org, and follow the directions to download Tor.
2. Launch the Tor Browser, copy and paste the following URL into the address bar: http://3expgpdnrrzezf7r.onion/
From there, you can complete the instructions for how to send us files and messages. To protect your identity, you’ll receive a randomly generated code name. You’ll want to remember it in case you want to come back--- using the code name provide your name.
For greater security, you may want to use a public WiFi network, rather than your home or office internet connection. Using a USB drive, you can also temporarily boot your computer into the TAILS secure operating system, which includes the Tor Browser; more information is available on the TAILS website.
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You may also contact us via postal mail if you’re living within the United States. You should consider mailing your package from an unfamiliar letter box and not including a return address.
Our mailing address is:
The Associated Press
1100 13th Street NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
1.What should you do after launching the Tor application?
A. We should download Tor.
B. We should visit TorProject.org
C. We should copy and paste the address bar.
D. We should complete the instructions at once.
2. How can you protect your security according to the text?
A. Use our own personal computer.
B. Be sure to log on with our real name.
C. Use the code name given by the software.
D. Send files through home or public internet connection.
3. What do we know about the American users?
A. They can contact the AP only by emailing.
B. They must use their own letter box.
C. They should put a return address in mails.
D. They can send their files through a post office.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
John graduated from a key university and he was very good at his major.He wished to find a good job.One day, he went to a company to ____ for a job.He got the news in a newspaper.He did some research on this company.When he was ____， everything went well.The manager asked him some questions and he answered them ____.John was very satisfied with his performances and was very ____ that he could get the job.But at that moment, the manager’s phone ____.He picked up the phone, listened and nodded.And then he turned around and said to John, “Sorry, I want to get some important ____ now.Please give me the book with the red ____ on that desk.” John looked around and found 3 books on the desk, so John went to the desk, took one book and handed it to him ____.Holding the book, the manager ___ the phone and said，“Sorry, we cannot give the job to you.” John was ____ and wondered why.The manager said, “There are three ____.First, when you came into the office room, I found that the third button on your shirt had been missing.Second, there are three books with red covers on that desk, but you didn’t ask me which one I needed and you took one ____. Third, I was answering the call.You should ___ to the desk to save time.These ____ showed you are not a careful person.” Therefore, John didn’t get the job.
We can learn a(n)____ from John’s experience.Some people don’t __ the details in our life.But it is the details that ____.Not only should we value what we learn but also we should pay more attention to the details.Sometimes they can even ____ our success or failure.We should form the habit of being careful and learn to keep the __ of quantity and quality.We should keep it in mind that ___ comes first, without which quantity is of no significance.
1.A.apply B．vote C．prepare D．wait
2.A.contacted B．interviewed C．asked D．questioned
3.A.immediately B．slowly C．generally D．fluently
4.A.grateful B．excited C．confident D．lucky
5.A.lost B．called C．rang D．answered
6.A.arrangement B．response C．information D．insight
7.A.cover B．picture C．character D．mark
8.A.eagerly B．politely C．purposely D．quickly
9.A.searched for B．picked up C．held on D．hung up
10.A.surprised B．helpless C．disappointed D．worried
11.A.methods B．results C．collections D．reasons
12.A.randomly B．eventually C．regularly D．certainly
13.A.rush B．run C．walk D．move
14.A.parts B．facts C．details D．stories
15.A.subject B．idea C．skill D．lesson
16.A.mind B．mention C．ignore D．provide
17.A.trouble B．count C．interest D．impress
18.A.describe B．replace C．value D．determine
19.A.selection B．importance C．balance D．competition
20.A.quality B．quantity C．safety D．promise
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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限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Hello everyone. I've got something to tell you, so please listen careful. There is several changes in the timetable for today. You start with English for usual, then business studies and after the break, history and art. Because the changes in the timetable, your business studies lesson this morning won’t be in Room 313. Instead, they will be in Room 303. Now the changes in the after-school activity this week. The debating group will met today. There’s some practice on Thursday—that’s tomorrow—for those of you which want to get into the school team. And on Friday, the music group will meet to prepare for the school performance. Finally, let’s see who is on the duty today. George, it was your turn, right?
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假定你是高中生李华，你们学校要在三月十日举办英语配音比赛（dubbing contest），你想参赛，但是不知道该选什么电影。你给笔友Peter写封邮件，请他推荐。
要求： 1. 主题是关于友谊； 2. 时间限定在4到5分钟； 3. 每个节目最多6个角色。
注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
难度: 中等查看答案及解析