Where does this conversation probably take place?
A. In a bookstore. B. In a library. C. In a classroom.
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How often do Jane’s parents call her?
A. About twice a week.
B. About twice a month.
C. About once a month.
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What are the speakers mainly discussing?
A. The exam schedule. B. The study report. C. The way to relax.
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What will the speakers do on Saturday?
A. Go to work. B. Eat brunch. C. Exercise at the gym.
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Which lesson will the boy have first tomorrow?
A. French. B. Science. C. Maths.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What do we know about the room the man wants?
A. It’s a smoking room.
B. It’s a double-bed room.
C. It’s on the 7th floor.
2.How much will the man pay for the room?
A. 80 dollars. B. 88 dollars. C. 90 dollars.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.Why is Mr. Taylor talking to the woman?
A. To ask for a job.
B. To play more games.
C. To learn computer skills.
2.What will the woman possibly do after the conversation?
A. Gall Mr. Taylor back.
B. Make the website herself.
C. Talk with another interviewee.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What makes Black dislike online shopping?
A. Planning ahead.
B. Tracking the parcel.
C. Waiting for packages.
2.What does Black advise Sophie to do?
A. Go to the store. B. Clean the house. C. Download an app.
3.What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Sister and brother.
B. Mother and son.
C. Customer and seller.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.Why does the woman want to change her job?
A. It is poorly paid. B. It is boring. C. It is challenging.
2.What’s the job in today’s paper?
A. A translator. B. An assistant. C. A travel agent.
3.What is necessary for the new job?
A. Relevant experience. B. A fresh mind. C. Writing skills.
4.What attracts the woman to the new job?
A. The long vocation.
B. The safe environment.
C. The good welfare benefits.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.What is the key part for a white lotus to stay clean?
A. Its flat surface.
B. Its growing place.
C. Its hairs and needles.
2.What can we do from the finding on the lotus (荷花)?
A. Produce new paints.
B. Build clean houses.
C. Collect fresh raindrops.
3.What makes scientists interested in butterflies?
A. They’re cold-blooded.
B. They have special wings.
C. They have fans with them.
4.Where can you hear this monologue (独白)？
A. On a radio.
B. In an interview.
C. At a conference.
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KIPP schools work closely with families to create a welcoming school environment where students can succeed. Through phone calls, emails, home visits, and parent-teacher conferences, KIPP schools regularly communicate with families about their child’s academic development to help students from educationally underserved communities develop the knowledge, skills, character, and habits needed to succeed in college and the competitive world beyond.
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KIPP schools are tuition-free, public schools open to all students. To enroll your child in a KIPP school, please contact the school in your community directly by phone or email.
A safe and structured environment
Students need physical and emotional safety in order to take risks and learn from their successes and their mistakes. Our schools provide an environment with minimal distractions (干扰)and more time for academics, so our students love school and maximize their learning.
A three-way partnership
By choosing KIPP, students, parents, and teachers make a commitment to excellence. All three parties are in it together. They sign an agreement called the “Commitment to Excellence,” which ensures that each will do whatever it takes to help the student learn.
All KIPP schools share a common approach and yet every KIPP school is unique. Tour a school to better understand the culture, schedule, and curriculum.
1.Who are allowed to be admitted to KIPP schools?
A. Students from all classes.
B. Students with good talents.
C. Students from poor families.
D. Students with special education.
2.Why does KIPP offer a structured environment for students?
A. To communicate with each other.
B. To reduce parents’ worries.
C. To lengthen the time in learning.
D. To share their experience.
3.What is the purpose of the last part of the text?
A. To attract tourists.
B. To make a summary.
C. To introduce the school.
D. To make a suggestion.
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For its outsize reputation, Silicon Valley is a narrow thing. America’s innovation (创新) capital mainly consists of many small towns and cities on the San Francisco peninsula (半岛) squeezed between the coastal mountain range to the west and the bay to the east. It is traditionally made up of the top of Santa Clara County as well as the very bottom of San Mateo County.
Not long ago, this place was known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight, famous for its plentiful fruit yards. The circumstances that turned the countryside into a technological center have been studied carefully, and many have attempted to replicate the magic in Silicon Valley. Would-be followers would be right to conclude that access to basic research and start-up capital. But for the past two decades, photographer Beth Yarnelle Edwards has been documenting the one aspect often unnoticed by these observers: Silicon Valley’s fundamentally suburban (郊区的)character.
Edwards’ Suburban Dreams project was born in 1997. “I felt lonely and trapped, but I realized that the people around me really loved being there, ” she recalled. She began by photographing friends and acquaintances near her home in San Carlos. The project grew as she interviewed her subjects to understand how their environment shaped their hopes and dreams. “It’s really important to me that the pictures are true to what is happening in the home,” she says. In 2016, Edwards began revisiting her subjects to see the effects of the growth and the wealth. But she was surprised by how little had changed in the lives of those still there.
Many Silicon Valley natives do not recognize much of what they see there nowadays. It’s true that modest bungalows have been replaced by very large houses. Almost everything is more crowded and more expensive. But a lot will never change. The main roads — Highway 101, the El Camino — are the same. So too the freestanding oak trees and gentle hills surrounded by golden grass. And at the heart of it all, as Edwards’ photos illustrate, the suburban dream is still alive.
1.Where is Silicon Valley?
A. In the center of San Francisco.
B. On the San Francisco Peninsula.
C. On top of Santa Clara County.
D. At the bottom of San Mateo County.
2.Which of the following best explains “replicate” underlined in paragraph 2?
A. Copy. B. Replace. C. Study. D. Report.
3.What did the project focus on later?
A. People’s hopes and dreams.
B. The wish of the acquaintances.
C. The true life of the local people.
D. Silicon Valley’s influences on the locals.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Crazy Changes, Crazy Followers
B. Wild Dream, Successful project
C. Lively City, Major Innovation
D. Unchanging life, Unchanging Dream
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As I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband, Scott, paces behind me, annoyed. “Have you seen my keys?” he asks. In the past I would have turned off the tap and joined the hunt while trying to comfort my husband. But that only made him angrier. Now, I focus on the wet dish in my hands. I don’t turn around. I don’t say a word. I’m using a technique I learned from a dolphin trainer.
For a book I was writing about animal trainers’ school, I started spending my days watching professional trainers do the seemingly impossible: teaching dogs to dance on command and chimps to skateboard. Eventually it hit me that the same techniques might work on that stubborn but lovable species, the American husband. The central lesson I learned is that I should reward behaviour I like and ignore behaviour I don’t. After all, you don’t get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by talking. The same goes for the American husband.
I began thanking Scott if he threw one dirty shirt into the laundry basket. If he threw in two, I’d kiss him. I was using what trainers call “approximations”, rewarding the small steps toward learning a whole new behaviour. With Scott the husband, I began to praise every small act every time: if he drove just a mile an hour slower, or was on time for anything.
I followed the students to Sea World San Diego, where a dolphin trainer introduced me to Least Reinforcing Scenario (L. R. S.). When a dolphin does something wrong, the trainer doesn’t respond in any way. The idea is that any response, positive or negative, fuels a behaviour. If a behaviour causes no response, it typically dies away. It was only a matter of time before he was again searching for his keys, at which point I said nothing and kept at what I was doing. It took a lot of discipline to maintain my calm, but results were immediate. I felt as if I should throw him a small fish.
1.What can we infer about the writer?
A. She treats her husband like animals.
B. She often quarrels with her husband.
C. She behaves differently to her husband.
D. She’s determined to learn from the dolphin.
2.How did the writer get the idea of treating her husband?
A. By rewarding her husband.
B. By writing a book on animals.
C. By watching professional training.
D. By focusing on washing the dishes.
3.What will happen if the trainer doesn’t respond to the dolphin’s mistake?
A. It will feel embarrassed.
B. It will forget the mistake.
C. It will remember its mistake.
D. It will repeat the wrong action.
4.What is the tone of the text?
A. Humorous. B. Serious. C. Aggressive. D. Doubtful.
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Police recently caught the suspected Golden State Killer using a tool they could only have dreamed of decades ago, when a shocking series of murders shook California: a database filled with people’s genetic data (基因数据).
Police used an open-source database called GEDmatch to find relatives who matched genetic material taken from an old crime scene, then worked backward to identify and catch 72- year-old former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo.
GEDmatch’s 950, 000 users voluntarily upload and share their genetic information, making it accessible to others who share their own data — including law enforcement (执法). More than a dozen other similar platforms also exist. “If your relatives have contributed and you are part of even a family tree that appears online in one of these shared resources, you can be indirectly tracked through the combination of their DNA and the publicly available family history,” says Dr. Robert Green, a medical geneticist at Harvard Medical School.
Data sent to commercial companies like 23andMe, which has over 5 million customers, is much tougher for outsiders to access, but the case has still highlighted the issue of genetic privacy.
Although many genetic-testing companies have been asked to cooperate with legal investigations (调查), and clearly warn customers of this possibility, not all requests are honored. “23andMe has never given customer information to law-enforcement officials, ” a company representative told TIME.
The risks of keeping such sensitive data private are high. The potential for abuse exists; for example, insurance companies could theoretically use genetic data to refuse coverage (保险项目), Green says. But the systems in place to prevent misuse appear to be working. One is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, a 2008 law that protects consumers from employment and insurance discrimination related to genetics. As long as that’s the case, Green says, the good of genetic tests outweighs the bad.
Sharon Zehe, a lawyer for the department of laboratory medicine and pathology at the Mayo Clinic, takes a more cautious approach. “Family tree services can be fun, but make sure you are using a reputable organization that has strong privacy policies in place, ” she says. “Genetic data is biologically as important as a fingerprint.”
1.Who is the Golden State Killer?
A. Robert Green. B. Joseph James De Angelo.
C. The author. D. Sharon Zehe.
2.What drives the users to upload their genetic data?
A. The Police’s force. B. Their relatives’ advice.
C. The boss’s order. D. Their own willingness.
3.Who might misuse customers’ genetic data?
A. The police. B. GEDmatch.
C. Insurance companies. D. 23andMe.
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A. Genetic data is equal to a fingerprint.
B. A 72-year-old killer was put into prison.
C. Murders causes concern for genetic privacy.
D. Genetic information is shared on the Internet.
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One of the areas of our body which conveys most about how we feel is how we move our hands and arms. 1., but most often they occur unconsciously and naturally.
2.. Open hands and arms, especially extended, and with hands up in front of the body at chest height, indicate that what you’re saying is important, and, especially when people are speaking in public, a pointing finger or a hand waving above the shoulders stresses a personal point. However, research shows that people often find speakers who point their fingers a lot rather annoying.
Openness or honesty. 3., they will often hold one or both of their hands out to the other person. Footballers who have just committed a foul (犯规)often use this gesture to try to convince the referee that they didn’t do it.
Nervousness. If a person puts his hand to his mouth, this either indicates that he is hiding something, or that he is nervous. 4., and so does holding a bag or briefcase very tightly in front of the body.
Feeling defensive. Arms folded tightly over the chest is a classic gesture of defensiveness and indicates that you are protecting yourself. It is often seen among strangers in queues or in lifts or anywhere where people feel a bit insecure. People also sometimes use this gesture when they are listening to someone, to show that they disagree with what is being said. 5.!
A. Saying something important
B. When people want to be open or honest
C. Hand and arm gestures are sometimes intentional
D. But this gesture can simply mean that the person is cold
E. Playing with your fingers, like tapping the table, also shows anxiety
F. This gesture is typical of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals
G. When someone puts up his both hands, he probably gives in to his enemies
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Having a job is great. It means I can have a place to ________ in. And with an above-average job, I can ________ a car and overseas vacations.
However, I also understand how ________ it is to have a below-average job, having had many of them before. It’s quite ________. Owning a car was out of the question — I could ________ pay for the subway ride.
I emailed my ________ to every company with an online careers page. I even printed my resume (简历)and ________ it out to hundreds of offices.
One summer I got a job at a high-tech company, which I was ________ at. It was no ________ when I was asked to leave that job after only four days.
A lot of people today believe the problem of ________ in my generation is our ________. Some criticize (批评)us for being lazy or careless. Some ________ members of my generation of having a sense of “specialness” that has ________ us to believe we can all be astronauts, movie stars or singers if we put our ________ to it. Also, a few of them think that we would all be happily ________ if we would only learn trades or software engineering.
I understand that not everyone can go into space, star in Hollywood movies or fill stadiums with fans, ________. Everyone is good at something, but no one is good at ________. It took me hundreds of rejection emails to ________ that I had to focus on finding a job where I could actually be ________.
And now, I finally have that job. It’s not the best ________, but it’s not bad for a start either.
1.A. live B. hide C. step D. play
2.A. afford B. offer C. buy D. own
3.A. easy B. special C. difficult D. impossible
4.A. wonderful B. awful C. beautiful D. guilty
5.A. often B. necessarily C. meanwhile D. barely
6.A. achievements B. photos C. details D. grades
7.A. dragged B. handed C. figured D. tried
8.A. expert B. skillful C. terrible D. amazed
9.A. fun B. good C. surprise D. use
10.A. population B. education C. poverty D. unemployment
11.A. duty B. fault C. task D. project
12.A. rob B. remind C. accuse D. warn
13.A. led B. asked C. chosen D. told
14.A. hands B. minds C. feet D. spirits
15.A. employed B. fired C. praised D. admired
16.A. too B. however C. either D. instead
17.A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything
18.A. realize B. remember C. respect D. forget
19.A. lazy B. average C. rich D. successful
20.A. end B. story C. salary D. start
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World Sleep Day falls on March 21. This year’s theme concerns sleep and women.
More women suffer from insomnia (失眠)than men, but only 4 percent of them go to a doctor to get help. Beijing’s The First newspaper 1.(report) recently. A study by 2. international organization in the paper said that women 3.(age) 30 to 60 sleep six hours and 41 minutes a day 4. average.
Young people have also been shown to suffer from a lack of sleep. Statistics from a Chinese medical research centre show that in 5.(city) like Beijing and Shanghai, 40 percent of young people suffer from insomnia, and 80 percent suffer from great tiredness due to poor quality sleep.
Experts blame heavy 6.(press) and competition at work for poor 7.(sleep) habits. The long-term effects can be unhappiness, anxiety and depression, 8. can in turn lead to chronic illnesses (慢性病), 9.(especial) in women.
There are, however, a couple of tricks for getting a good sleep, such as maintaining an optimistic attitude, keeping a regular, 10.(day) routine, or finding time for sports. Also, you can develop healthy habits, such as keeping the bedroom clean and avoiding tea, coffee, or wine before meals.
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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。每次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(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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 Sir,
Last Saturday I went shop at your food store and saw a saleswoman take the ready-to-eat food with the same hands that she took the money. I didn’t think this was not the right thing to do for her. But when I told her so, she got so angrily that she said it was none of your business and asked me to leave the counter.
A saleswoman has a bad effect on your store. I am sure that you will not allow so kind of things to happen again. I suggest that you had ways to punish those who is irresponsible to the work and impolite to the customer. I will appreciate if you let me know what you have done to solve the problem.
Yours faithfully,
Lei Yang
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假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack读了《西游记》(Journey to the West)后，想了解中国人眼中的“龙”，请你回一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 想象中的动物；
2. 古代中国人的图腾(totem)；
3. 中国人自称为“龙的传人”(descendants of the dragon)。
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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