第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
A
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Founded in 1899 as the country's first museum specifically made for children, today BCM is comprehensive, with a permanent collection of 30,000 objects, including musical instruments, masks and dolls. Kids love the interactive World Brooklyn, a small cityscape（城市风光）lined by stores where children can pretend to be working grown-ups.
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Looking for interactive art that welcomes curious minds? Then head to Inside Art, the current show up at CMOM, which lets your little ones climb in and over and all around the exhibits. It's ideas like this that make the 40,000-square-foot so special. Learning about culture, history and science is a pride for kids aged six and under. CMOM also hosts classes—like Gross Biology for kids who are interested in insects-all designed with the latest child-development research in mind.
DiMenna Children's History Museum
The hands-on displays at this kid-focused arm of the New York Historical Society transport children back through 350 years of US history, with a special focus on NYC. Children are encouraged to climb around and interact with exhibits that highlight the lives of kids who grew up to become famous doctors, athletes and political figures! Little New Yorkers can get in on sing-alongs and crafts. Other family programs include cookings classes, games and story hours.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum nurtures（培养）creativity. It offers hands-on experiences like the Block Harbor（plenty of blocks to play with!）, larger-than-life games like Connect Four and Dominoes, and even the opportunity to climb through a human-sized anthill or play firefighter at Ladder 11, so you'll find immersive（沉浸式的）fun around every corner. Don't forget to stop by Green Living Room powered by the wind energy where the kids can learn about ways to reduce our carbon footprint. 1. Which museum provides biology classes for kids?
A. Brooklyn Children's Museum. B. Staten Island Children's Museum.
C. Children's Museum of Manhattan. D. DiMenna Children's History Museum. 2. What can kids do in DiMenna Children's History Museum?
A. Play interesting games with great firefighters. B. Know about famous people's childhood lives. C. Run stores like adults in different small streets. D. Cook delicious local food with foreign athletes. 3. Where can kids learn how to protect the environment? A. At Ladder 11. B. At the Block Harbor.
C In Green Living Room. D. On a human-sized anthill.
B
Recently, I experienced a wonderful lesson in how little things still meana lot. My brother, mother and I live in Hawaii. Our farm is at least a dozen miles from even the most basic of services. Therefore, I take weekly trips to the shop to gel supplies. About a month ago, I finished loading up the car and was about to leave when a piece of paper on the ground caught my eye. I picked it up and read it carefully.Immediately, I was grateful that I had done that___4___
It was a receipt (收据) from the State Motor Vehicle Division, recording the owner's payment of her Vehicle's Registration fees. I put myself in his or her shoes and thought: no one would throw this away. I looked over the receipt for any personal data, perhaps a license plate (车牌) or telephone number, but failed. How could I find the owner in the busy, crowded parking lot? Had it been lying there for a few minutes or a week? So I checked the date, the fees paid and the name of the owner, who must live in our town. I decided that the best and easiest step to take was to put the receipt in an envelope and send it to the owner first the next morning.
By the end of the week, I received a beautiful “thank you” letter from a woman including a handwritten message and a card. In the letter, the woman explained how the wind took her receipt from a pocket in her car's passenger door. She had searched everywhere for quite some time before giving up.
It felt great to know I had helped someone avoid a loss by doing something that seemed little and unimportant.
4. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 1 mean? A. He was lucky to learn the lesson.
B. It was a good idea to do shopping that day. C. He was right to pick up the paper.
D. It turned out the paper belonged to the writer. 5. What information did the writer get from the paper?
A The woman's license plate number. B. The woman's phone number. C. The woman's name. D. The woman's address.
6. How did the woman lose the receipt?
A. She forgot where she had put it. B. A strong wind blew it away. C. It fell onto the floor. D. She left it in the parking lot. 7. What can be the best title for the text?
A. A Lesson I Will Never Forget B. Never Lose Heart or Give up C. Little Things Still Mean a Lot D. Think Carefully Before You Act
C
A wife’s level of education positively influences both her own and her husband’s chances of having a long life, according to a new Swedish study.
In the study, researchers from the Swedish Institute for Social Research inStockholmfound that a woman’s level of education had a stronger connection to the likelihood of her husband dying over education. What’s more, they discovered that a husband’s social class, based on his occupation, had a greater influence on his wife’s longevity(长寿) than her own class.
“Women traditionally take more responsibility for the home than men do, and, as a result, women’s levels of education might be more important for determining lifestyles－for example, in terms of food choices－than those of men,” say Srs. Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander of the Swedish Institute for Social Research inStockholm.
The results show that a husband’s level of education does not influence his longevity, but that men with partners who had quit studying after school were 25 per cent more likely to die early than men living with women holding university degrees. In turn, those married to women with university degrees were 13 percent more likely to die early than those whose wives had post-graduate qualifications.
According to the researchers, a woman with a good education may not marry a man who drinks and smokes too much or who drives carelessly, and men with such habits may not prefer highly educated woman. Drs. Erikson and Torssander also suggest that better-educated women may be more aware of what healthy eating and good health care consist of.
The findings suggest that education has a huge impact on how long and how well people live. It also reflects social factors, since educated individuals usually have better jobs, which allow them to afford healthier diets and
lifestyles, as well as better health care.
8. In this passage the author intends to ________. A. present the results of a study
B. encourage women to get higher education C. analyze the relationship between education and life D. discuss why women usually live longer than men 9. A woman with higher education is likely to ________. A. teach her children well
B. earn more money than her husband C. marry a man without many bad habits
D. choose a husband with a higher degree than hers
10. A wife’s education has more effect on a family than a husband’s because ________. A. women make more sacrifices to their families than men do B. most women have higher degrees than their husbands C. most men marry women with higher degrees
D. women have a leading role in the home life of most families 11. We learn from the passage that ________.
A. a man with a lot of education lives longer than one with little B. educated wives tend to choose healthy lifestyles for their families C. highly-educated women don’t marry uneducated men
D. a man’s longevity depends on not only his wife’s level of education but also his own
D
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us todo things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder. This increase in complexity, often called \"feature creep,\" costs consumers time, but it also costs business money. Product returns in the U.S. cost a hundred billion dollars a year, and a recent study by Elke den Ouden, of Philips Electronics, found that at least half of returned products have nothing wrong with them. Consumers just couldn't figure out how to use them. Companies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior, so why is it that feature creep proves unstoppable?
In part, fieature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell product are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not
necessarily what's best for consumers. The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less usable. And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and anew way to attract customers.
You might think, then, that companies could avoid fieature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want. But that's where the trouble begins, because although consumers find overloaded gadgets（配件）unmanageable,they also find them attractive. It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features there are, the better. It is only once we get the product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity.
It seems strange that we don't expect feature tiredness and thus avoid it. But, as numerous studies have shown, people are not, in general, good at predicting what will make them happy in the future. As a result, we will pay more for more features because we systematically overestimate how often we'll use them. We also overestimate our ability to figure out how a complicated product works.
The fact that buyers want bells and whistles but users want something clear and simple creates an unusual problem for companies. A product that doesn't have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store. But a product with too many features is likely to annoy consumers. 12. What does the first paragraph mainly discuss? A. The benefits brought by the advanced technology. B. The recent study conducted by Elke den Ouden. C. The loss caused by the feature creep of technology. D. Many problems of usability known by the consumers.
13. Which of the following is true according to the second paragraph? A. It is the audience problem that leads to feature creep.
B. What matters to designers and marketers is not good for consumers. C. Feature creep brings blessings to the people in marketing and sales. D. The engineers will not pay attention to the quality of the product 14. What do we know about the buyers in paragraph 4?
A. They are deeply convinced that all the products work in simple way. B. They are fed up with the more and more features of the products. C. They are too confident of their ability to use the complicated products. D. They are quite clear about the products which will make them happy.
15. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Saying No to Feature Creep is No Easy Thing B. Feature-heavy Products in Demand C. The More Features, the Better D. Simplicity Outweighs Complexity
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项
How to Be Smart with Your Money
Money is a major worry for many people. It can be easy to overspend and be left with buyer's regret.____16____But don't worry. Here's a handful of ways that will help you use your money wisely without getting an MBA.
Prioritize your needs.Do you want to pay down debt?____17____Or are you just looking for clothes to be more beautiful? Identify your top priorities. Do not put any money toward non-essential expenses until all of your necessary living costs have been paid.
____18____It can be easy to get in the habit of shopping in the same place repeatedly, but taking time to shop in various places can help you find the best deals. Check in stores and online to look for the best prices for your needs. Look for stores that might be running sales or that specialize in discount.
Use cash instead of cards.For non-necessary expenses such as going out to eat or seeing a movie, set a budget. Withdraw the necessary amount of cash before you go out, and leave your cards at home.____19____
Monitor your spending.Finally, as long as you're not spending more than you bring in, you're on target.____20____You may prefer to check your bank account every day, or you could sign up for a money-monitoring app to help you track your spending. A.Shop online. B. Shop around.
C. Are you saving for the rent?
D. Do you usually use your money smartly?
E. Being smart with money can seem like an impossible task. F. This will make it more difficult to overspend while you are out.
G. Regularly monitor your spending in whatever way that works best for you. 第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
My family and I belonged to (属于)a country club lying across the street from the Long Island Sound. Each summer, the big___21___for us was the pool. I learned how to swim and___22___the swimming team but was never really a good swimmer.___23___,swimming in my younger days was a way to keep___24___,and swimming on a team gave me a sense of belonging. For the next 30 years, most of our summer days were spent around that pool.
In 1973, I was married and had a___25___. What made our little home even more___26___was when I discovered that four___27___away was Rath Park Pool!
Each of my five kids___28___swimming lessons and learned all the different swimming styles. They later joined the swim team, competed in___29___and won prizes. My daughter even became a___30___at the town pool.
Though I'd have liked to have life stand___31___,it doesn't. My children lost interest in swimming and continued their life. But the pool was still four blocks from my home, so I began to___32___swimming again. I got so much out of it that I joined the local pool___33___I could swim year-round. Whenever I swam, I would always come out feeling___34___. And sitting at the bottom of the pool, I could also see through all of the___35___and problems I've had in life!
What has swimming taught me? I've learned that___36___is the key to being a good swimmer. If you are balanced in the___37___you have no resistance (阻力).Working on staying balanced made me___38___the similarities between life in and out of the pool. If you___39___keeping yourself balanced, you will be able to swim right through the stress and problems that life___40___at you!
21. A.attraction B.reserve C.destination D.achievement 22. A.led B.formed C.coached D.joined 23. A.Therefore B.However C.Instead D.Besides 24. A.wise B.outgoing C.cool D.confident 25. A.house B.car C.dream D.home
26. A.alarming B.wonderful C.popular D.familiar 27. A.blocks B.miles C.steps D.kilometers 28. A.took B.expected C.provided D.taught 29. A.teams B.meetings C.clubs D.matches
30. A.gatekeeper B.bodyguard C.lifesaver D.doctor 31. A.quiet B.silent C.still D.calm
32. A.give up B.apply for C.take up D.adapt to 33. A.while B.though C.but D.so
34. A.tired B.relaxed C.stressed D.addicted 35. A.differences B.worries C.joy D.excitement 36. A.balance B.strength C.effort D.honesty 37. A.team B.water C.competition D.trip 38. A.describe B.study C.show D.realize 39. A.refer to B.relate to C.work on D.work out 40. A.throws B.fires C.points D.looks 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
Across the world, people___41.___(expression) their love to tea in many ways. The handmade purple clay teapot (紫砂壶)is one of the most popular____42.____(item) among tea lovers in Asia. But the skill of making that particular teapot faces a lot of challenges in modern times.
Chinese people have been drinking tea for thousands of years. And___43.___(recent), these handmade teapots have become popular. As____44.____old saying goes, \"A thing____45.____(value) if it is rare.”
Tea sets(茶具)have been a key part of Chinese culture. Gao Dezhi, 99,___46.___(make) purple clay teapots since he was 3 years old. This kind of skill has been passed down from generation to generation or taught to those who are____47.____(interest) in the craft. Gao said that his son and daughter don't care about such skills. They already earn a lot of money by___48.___(work) in other jobs. People cannot make such things if they have no interest in learning the skill, he said.
In
order
to
protect
skills___49.___disappearing,
local
people
have
built
a
special
museum____50.____masters can show their craft. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.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仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
We are in the last year of high school. It's time for us to have clear future career plan. Since my childhood, I had been dreaming of becoming a doctor. When known Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize, I was great inspired by her to learn medicine. Especially this year, the spirit of doctors has hardened our determination to study medicine to save people's lives. It is their wisdom and efforts which have saved tens of thousand of people. Difficult though it is to make my dream to come true, something will stop me achieving it. I will concentrate on my study to get ready to my future major in college. 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是李华，你的英国同学David十分热爱中国文化。请写一封电子邮件邀请David一同参加江南琴社主办的一场古琴音乐会，内容包括：
1.时间：星期天下午3点 2.地点：人民大剧院
3.演凑家、曲目：邓丽珠，《流水》 注意：
1.词数100左右：
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：江南琴社Jiangnan Guqin Society；《流水》Flowing Water
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参考答案
1. C 2. B 3. C
4. C 5. C 6. B 7. C
8. D 9. B 10. A 11. C
12. C 13. C 14. C 15. A
16. E 17. C 18. B 19. F 20. G
21. A 22. D 23. B 24. C 25. D 26. B 27. A 28. A 29. D 30. C 31. C 32.
C 33. D 34. B 35. B 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. C 40. A
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42. items 43. recently 44. an 45. is valued 46. has been making 47. interested 48. working 49. against/from 50. where
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(7). thousandg thousands (8). 去掉come前的to (9). somethingg nothing (10). tog for 52.略
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