Section A Directions:In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and three choices A, B and C, taken from the dialogue. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. A. When is it taking place? B. Is Alan attending? C. That'll be interesting. Alice: We're having a meeting tomorrow. Can you make it? Kevin: 1 Alice: We're planning at 10 o'clock. Is that OK? Kevin: Yes, that'll be fine. Alice: We're going to go over last quarter's sales figures. Kevin: Good. I have some input I'd like to make. Alice: Frank is also going to make some suggestions on improving the bottom line. Kevin: 2 He's got keen insights. Alice: Yes, he's going to outline some new sales strategies. Kevin: 3 Alice: No, he's flying to San Francisco and won't be able to make it. Kevin: Oh well, maybe he'll phone in.
A. I'll drop by there on my way to class today. B. I thought you liked the apartment. C. I've decided to look for a new place. Roger: Hello. Ann: Hello Roger? This is Ann. Roger: Oh hi, Ann. How have you been? How's your new apartment working out? Ann: Well, that's what I'm calling about. You see, 4 Roger: Oh, what's the problem with your place now? 5 Ann: Oh, I do, but it's a little far from campus, and the commute is just killing me. Do you think you could help? I thought you might know more about the housing situation near the school. Roger: Well, I know there's an apartment complex around the corner that seems to have a few vacancies. 6 Ann: Hey, thanks a lot. Roger: No problem.
Section B Directions:In this section there is one incomplete interview which has four blanks and four choices A, B, C and D, taken from the interview. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. A. Thanks, Rachel. B. That's what we did. C. we were all talking about some TV shows. D. it's a real honor to have you here. Maddow: Joining us now for the interview is Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, former senator, former first lady. Secretary Clinton, 1 Thank you for being here. Clinton: It's great to be here with you. 2 Maddow: What does a person do after 11 hours of testimony? You're the only human being I know of on Earth that has done 11 straight hours. What did you do after that? Clinton: Well, I had my whole team come over to my house and we sat around eating Indian food and drinking wine and beer. 3 It was great. Maddow: And was it like, "Let's just talk about TV, let's not talk about what just happened?" Clinton: Yes. Yes, 4 It was great just to have that chance to thank them because they did a terrific job, you know, kind of being there behind me and getting me ready.
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary Directions:In this part there are ten sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
1. The specially developed skin paint will wear off in 2-4 days, but can be removed instantly with alcohol.
Section A Directions:In this section, there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One Under the right circumstances, choosing to spend time alone can be a huge psychological blessing. In the 1980s, the Italian journalist and author Tiziano Terzani, after many years of reporting across Asia, holed himself up in a cabin in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. "For a month I had no one to talk to except my dog Baoli," he wrote in his book A Fortune Teller Told Me. Terzani passed the time with books, observing nature, "listening to the winds in the trees, watching butterflies, enjoying silence." For the first time in a long while he felt free from the unending anxieties of daily life: "At last I had time to have time." Terzani's embrace of isolation was relatively unusual: Humans have long considered solitude an inconvenience, something to avoid, a punishment, a realm of loners. Science has often associated it with negative outcomes. Freud, who linked solitude with anxiety, noted that, "in children the first fears relating to situations are those of darkness and solitude." John Cacioppo, a modern social neuro-scientist who has extensively studied loneliness—what he calls "chronic perceived isolation"—contends that, beyond damaging our thinking powers, isolation can even harm our physical health. But increasingly scientists are approaching solitude as something that, when pursued by choice, can prove a therapy. This is especially true in times of personal disorder, when the instinct is often for people to reach outside of themselves for support. "When people are experiencing crisis it's not always just about you. It's about how you are in society," explains Jack Fong, a sociologist at California State Polytechnic University who has studied solitude. In other words, when people remove themselves from the social context of their lives, they are better able to see how they're shaped by that context. Thomas Merton, a monk and writer who spent years alone, held a similar notion. "We cannot see things in perspective until we cease to hug them to our breast," he writes in Thoughts in Solitude. "People can go for a walk or listen to music and feel that they are deeply in touch with themselves."
2. The word "solitude" (Para. 2) is closest in meaning to ______.
A.growing anxious
B.feeling empty
C.being helpless
D.staying alone
A B C D
D
[解析] 第二段第一句“...Humans have long considered solitude an inconvenience, ...”。 词汇题。题目问的是第二段的“solitude”和哪个词的意思最接近?第二段开头说坦尚尼的“接受孤独”不同寻常，然后用冒号开始解释，表示后面提到的都是一般人们对孤独的看法，因此“solitude”应该是“isolation”(独处，孤独)的近义词。A项“变得焦虑”，B项“感觉空虚”，C项“感到无助”，D项“一个人呆着”。综合考虑，D项符合题意，故选D。
3. The opinions of Freud and Cacioppo are cited to show that ______.
A.children tend to fear darkness and solitude
B.solitude pursued by choice can be a therapy
C.chronic isolation can harm interpersonal relations
D.solitude has long been linked with negative outcomes
A B C D
D
[解析] 第二段第三句“Freud, who linked solitude with anxiety...”和第二段第四句“John Cacioppo, ...contends that, beyond damaging our thinking powers, isolation can even harm our physical health. ”。 综合分析题。题目问的是引用弗洛伊德和卡乔波的话是为了说明什么?第二段第三句弗洛伊德将孤独和焦虑联系在一起；第四句中卡乔波认为孤独不仅会伤害我们的思考能力，甚至还会损害我们的生理健康。这些都是孤独的负面结果，正如本段第二句说的“科学常把孤独和负面的结果联系在一起”。综上所述，只有D正确，故选D。
4. According to Jack Fong, the sense of personal crisis may be influenced by ______.
A.an isolated lifestyle
B.mental disorder
C.low self-esteem
D.social context
A B C D
D
[解析] 第三段最后一句“When people are experiencing crisis it's not always just about you: It's about how you are in society...”。 细节题。题目问的是根据杰克·方，个人危机感可能受到什么的影响?第三段最后一句里杰克·方提到当人们有危机感时，这不是你一个人的事情：这还涉及到你在社会中的表现。这说明个人危机感和社会环境有关系，D项“社会环境”正确，故选D。
5. The main idea of the passage is that ______.
A.solitude should be avoided at all costs
B.anxieties of daily life may cause personal crisis
C.choosing to spend time alone can be a blessing
D.seeking support is useless for tackling personal crisis
A B C D
C
[解析] 第一段第一句“Under the right circumstances, choosing to spend time alone can be a huge psychological blessing. ”。 主旨题。题目问的是文章的大意是什么?全文从坦尚尼的例子说明独处对人有好处，然后说了传统科学界认为孤独会带来负面的影响，随后介绍了较新的观点认为孤独可以作为一种疗法，最后又回归开头认为孤独能让人和自身进行深入的对话。由此可见，文章认为孤独是一种对人有好处的事物。A项“应极力避免孤独”；B项“日常生活中的焦虑可能会导致个人危机感”；C项“选择独处一段时光是一种福佑”；D项“寻求帮助对解决个人危机没有用处”。浏览四个选项，只有C项最符合文义，故选C。
Passage Two Science is finally beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered second-class citizens. As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate (lesser) food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friends die. Pigs respond meaningfully to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O's. Then the team switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs ventured only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not-inconsiderable feat of reasoning. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, cetaceans (鲸目动物) too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social companions. Long-term studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a perspective shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedures in laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks. Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chicken, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of "food animals" bring an ethical revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will the breadth of our ethics start to catch up with the breadth of our science? Animal activists are already there, of course, committed to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who we eat?
1. According to Annie Potts, hens' choice of a later and better reward indicates their ability of ______.
A.social interaction
B.facial recognition
C.logical reasoning
D.mutual learning
A B C D
C
[解析] 第二段第二句“When given problems to solve, they reason: ...”。 细节题。题目问的是根据安妮·波茨，母鸡选择稍后更好的奖励表明它们具有什么能力?第二段第二句“当被要求解决问题时，它们会进行推理”，说明母鸡具有逻辑推理的能力。故选C。
2. The expression "not-inconsiderable feat" (Para. 3) shows what pigs can do is ______.
A.extraordinary
B.weird
C.unique
D.understandable
A B C D
A
[解析] 第三段最后一句“...a not-inconsiderable feat of reasoning. ”。 词汇题。题目问的是第三段中的“not-inconsiderable feat，”表明猪能做的这些事是怎样的?feat在这里是“成就”的意思，inconsiderable“不足取的，不值得考虑的”，前面加上否定词not，意思就变成了“相当大的，重要的”。A项“非凡的”；B项“奇怪的”；C项“独特的”；D项“可理解的”。A项意思最接近，故选A。
3. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A.The similarities between mammals and humans.
B.The necessity of long-term studies on mammals.
C.A change of public attitude to the treatment of mammals.
Passage Three Almost eight decades ago, the American educator Abraham Flexner published an article entitled The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge. In it, he argued that the most powerful intellectual and technological breakthroughs usually emerged from research that initially appeared "useless", without much relevance to real life. As a result, it was vital, Flexner said, that these "useless" efforts should be supported, even if they did not produce an immediate payback, because otherwise the next wave of innovation simply would not occur. "Curiosity, which may or may not produce something useful, is probably the outstanding characteristic of modem thinking," he declared. In 1929, Flexner persuaded a wealthy American family, the Bambergers, to use some of their donations to fund the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton to support exactly this kind of "undirected" research. And it paid off: brilliant Jewish scientists fleeing from Nazi Germany, such as Albert Einstein, gathered at the IAS to explore undirected ideas. And while some of these, such as Einstein's own work developing his earlier theory of relativity, did not initially seem valuable, many eventually produced powerful applications (though after many decades). "Without Einstein's theory, our GPS tracking devices would be inaccurate by about seven miles," writes Robbert Dijkgraaf, the current director of the IAS, in the foreword to a newly released reprint of Flexner's article. Concepts such as quantum mechanics (量子力学) or superconductivity also seemed fairly useless at first—but yielded huge dividends at a later date. The reason why the IAS is re-releasing Flexner's article now is that scientists such as Dijkgraaf fear this core principle is increasingly under threat. The Trump administration has released a projected budget that threatens to reduce funding for the arts, science and educational groups. Many Republicans believe that research is better financed by business or philanthropists (慈善家) than by government. But one striking fact about the past century is how much American innovation originated in federal projects; Silicon Valley would never have boomed were it not for the fact that state funding enabled the development of the World Wide Web, for example.
2. According to Abraham Flexner, what is an important feature of modem thinking?
A.Curiosity.
B.Application.
C.Devotion.
D.Passion.
A B C D
A
[解析] 第二段最后一句“'Curiosity, ..., is probably the outstanding characteristic of modern thinking,' he declared. ”。 细节题。题目问的是根据亚伯拉罕·弗莱克斯纳，现代思考一个重要特征是什么?根据定位句“好奇心，…是现代思考突出的特征”可知，答案是“Curiosity”。B项“应用”；C项“贡献”；D项“热情”。综上所述，A最合适，故选A。
3. The "undirected" research (Para. 3) refers to research ______.
A.not funded by government agencies
B.without any practical purpose in mind
C.with indefinite experimental methods
D.supported by non-profit organizations
A B C D
B
[解析] 第三段“...to support exactly this kind of 'undirected' research. ”。 推理题。题目问的是第三段中的“undirected”研究指的是什么样的研究?弗莱克斯纳认为“无用”的知识虽然不能即时产生回报，但是在以后可能会产生巨大的利益，因此他劝说邦贝热一家来进行资助，由此可知，“undirected”和useless在含义上有所关联。A项“不由政府机构资助的”；B项“脑海中没有实际目标的”；C项“没有实际实验方法的”；D项“由非盈利组织支持的”。B项最符合，故选B。
4. Examples of initially "useless" research include all of the following EXCEPT ______.
5. Flexner's article was reprinted because ______.
A.businesses in Silicon Valley wish to put pressure on the government
B.Democrats believe that government funding should go to small businesses
C.Republicans argue that scientific research should be financed by businesses
D.some scientists worry that government will cut its funding for basic research
A B C D
D
[解析] 第六段第一句“The reason why the IAS is re-releasing Flexner's article now is that scientist such as Dijkgraaf fear this core principle is increasingly under threat. ”。 细节题。题目问的是弗莱克斯纳的文章进行重版的原因是什么?根据定位句，重新出版弗莱克斯纳的文章是因为像迪卡格阿夫这样的科学家担心这一核心规律正日益受到威胁。这里的“核心规律”指的是第二段中“支持这些‘无用的’努力是非常重要的，即使它们不能产生即时的回报，因为不支持的话，下一波创新浪潮将不会发生。”A项“硅谷的企业希望对政府施加压力”；B项“共和党人相信政府应资助小企业”；C项“民主党人认为科研应由企业资助”；D项“一些科学家担心政府会削减对基础研究的资助”。综合比较，D项最符合句意，故选D。
Passage Four In 1902, Georges Méliès made and released a movie called A Trip to the Moon. In this movie, the spaceship was a small capsule, shaped like a bullet, that was loaded into a giant cannon and aimed at the moon. This movie was based on a book that came out many years earlier by an author named Jules Verne. One of the fans of the book was a Russian man, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The book made him think. Could one really shoot people out of a cannon and have them get safely to the moon? He decided one couldn't, but it got him thinking of other ways one could get people to the moon. He spent his life considering this problem and came up with many solutions. Some of Tsiolkovsky's solutions gave scientists in America and Russia ideas when they began to think about space travel. They also thought about airplanes they and other people had made, and even big bombs that could fly themselves very long distances. Many scientists spent years working together to solve the problem. They drew and discussed different designs until they agreed on the ones that were the best. Then, they built small models of those designs, and tested and tested them until they felt ready to build even bigger models. They made full-scale rockets, which they launched without any people inside, to test for safety. Often the rockets weren't safe, and they exploded fight there on the launch pad, or shot off in crazy directions like a balloon that you blow up and release without tying it first. After many, many tests, they started to send small animals into space. Only after a long time did they ever put a person inside a rocket and shoot him into space. Even after they began sending people into space, scientists were still trying to improve the shape of the rockets. The design changed many times, and eventually ended up looking like a half-rocket and half-airplane. The machine called space shuttle was used for many years. Now, the government lets private companies try their own designs for spaceships, and they have come up with many different, crazy-looking machines.
1. In the movie A Trip to the Moon, the spaceship was sent to the moon ______.
A.in a capsule
B.in a bullet
C.by a cannon
D.by a gun
A B C D
C
[解析] 第一段第二句“In this movie, the spaceship was a small capsule, shaped like a bullet, that was loaded into a giant, cannon and aimed at the moon.”。 细节题。题目问的是在电影《月球旅行记》中，太空船是通过什么被送入太空的?根据定位句，电影中太空船被装在大炮里瞄准月球。C项“通过大炮”符合句意，故选C。
2. The movie was based on a book written by ______.
A.Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
B.an unknown author
C.Georges Méliès
D.Jules Verne
A B C D
D
[解析] 第二段第一句“This movie was based on a book that came out many years earlier by an author named Jules Verne. ”。 细节题。题目问的是这部电影是以谁的小说为蓝本的?根据定位句“这部电影是根据多年前一位名叫儒勒·凡尔纳的作者的小说改编的”，说明是凡尔纳写的书。和D项相符，故选D。
3. Before the invention of a spaceship, possible solutions of space travel included all of the following EXCEPT ______.
5. The word "shoot" (Para. 4) is closest in meaning to ______.
A.send with great force
B.break into many pieces
C.fix a problem
D.attack with a weapon
A B C D
A
[解析] 第四段最后一句“Only after a long time did they ever put a person inside a rocket and shoot him into space. ”。 词汇题。题目问的是第四段的“shoot”和哪个词意思最接近?根据定位句“在很久之后，科学家才让人进入火箭并把他发射到太空中去。”可知，这里的shoot是发射的意思。A项“大力发送出去”；B项“碎成很多片”；C项“修正一个问题”；D项“用武器攻击”。A项意思最为接近，故选A。
Section B Directions:In this section, you are required to read one quoted blog and the comments on it. The blog and comments are followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. In 2003, I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves, which they would then casually toss overboard when done. That was OK, because the leaves decayed and the fish ate them all. But in the past decade, he said, plastic wrap had rapidly replaced banana leaves, so the beach was edged with a crust of plastic. This is a worldwide problem—we can't point the finger at Thai fishermen. The UK alone produces more than 170m tons of waste every year, much of it food packaging. Now we live in an absurd age where a packet of cookies can have seven layers of wrapping. While it has revolut-ionised the way we store and consume food, there is now so much of it that landfills (垃圾填埋场) can't cope. Some of it is poisonous, and some of it never degrades. It can take 450 years for some types of plastic bottle to break down. Indeed, as Rachelle Strauss of the UK's Zero Waste Week says, we never actually throw anything "away"—it's really just put somewhere else. It's easy to despair at the scale of handling the plastic wrap, but it isn't beyond humanity to solve it—look at how the world took action on CFCs (含氯氟烃): there are signs that the hole in the ozone layer is now closing. Food packaging ought to be a doddle. Comment 1: While as an individual I can do my best to avoid excessive packaging, it is really only government regulation that can force corporations to change their practices. Comment 2: I never understand why supermarket chains insist on covering products such as bananas and cucumbers in plastic wrap. Why? They have their own packaging—the skin or peel! Comment 3: I love packaging—if it's well designed of course. It helps us be more hygienic and practical. The solution to these packaging necessities is clearly to encourage the use of bio-degradable packaging. Comment 4: Before, everything we threw out was bio-degradable and now it's not. Guess it's hard to change that behavior overnight.
1. What is the author's view on the plastic problem in Thailand?
A.The problem is not unique to Thailand.
B.There is no point overreacting to the problem.
C.It is important to raise people's awareness.
D.The government should be held responsible.
A B C D
A
[解析] 第二段第一句“This is a worldwide problem—we can't point the finger at Thai fishermen. ”。 细节题。题目问的是关于泰国的塑料问题，作者的观点如何?根据定位句“这是一个世界性的问题——我们不能光指责泰国渔民。”说明这不是泰国独有的问题，而是一个世界普遍的问题。A项“这不是泰国独有的问题”符合题意，故选A。
2. "A packet of cookies" is mentioned in Paragraph 2 to ______.
A.illustrate the problem of excessive packaging
B.introduce the revolutionary way of packaging
C.review the gradual development of packaging
D.emphasize the necessity of food packaging
A B C D
A
[解析] 第二段第三句“Now we live in an absurd age where a packet of cookies can have seven layers of wrapping. ”。 细节题。题目问的是第二段提到“一包饼干”的目的是什么?根据定位句“现在我们生活在一个连一袋饼干都需要七层包装的荒谬时代。”可知，作者认为一包饼干有七层包装是一件非常荒谬的事情，由此表达了对过度包装的不满。A项“说明了过度包装的问题”符合题意，故选A。
3. The word "doddle" (Para. 3) probably means "something ______"
A.no longer useful
B.extremely difficult
C.beyond imagination
D.easily accomplished
A B C D
D
[解析] 第三段最后一句“Food packaging ought to be a doddle. ”。 词汇题。题目问的是第三段中的“doddle”的意思是什么?根据定位句“食品包装也应该是一个doddle”可知，后面提到的臭氧层空洞的问题和前文提过的某个问题类似。前面几句提到虽然塑料包装问题严重，但并没有超过人的应对范围，并以造成臭氧空洞的CFCs为例，说空洞正在闭合，表示我们已经在逐渐消除这个问题了。这表明和臭氧空洞问题一样，塑料包装问题虽然可怕，但还是可以被解决的。A项“不再有用的”；B项“极困难的”；C项“超出想象的”；D项“轻松解决的”，综合考虑发现D项最接近，故选D。
4. Which of the comments is positive about packaging?
Part Ⅳ Cloze Directions:In this part, there is a passage with ten blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. How many people can live on the face of the earth? No one knows the answer. It depends on how much food people can grow 1 destroying the environment. More people now exist than ever before, and the population 2 growing. Every 15 seconds, about 100 babies are born. Before the end of this century, the earth may 3 10 billion people! To feed everyone, farmers must grow more food. They are trying to do so. World food production has gradually 4 over the years. In some parts of the world, 5 , the population is growing faster than the food supply. Some experts fear the world will not be able to produce enough food for a 6 that never stops increasing. To grow more crops on the same 7 of land, farmers use fertilizers and pesticides (杀虫剂). Some plant new kinds of grains that produce more food. These things help— 8 they don't provide perfect solutions. The chemicals in fertilizers and pesticides can pollute water supplies. The new seeds developed by scientists have reached the 9 of what they can produce. When hungry people can get no more out of 10 field, they clear trees from hills and forests for new farmland, and in doing so they expose the soil. Then rain and floods may strip the topsoil from fields. This process is called erosion. Each year erosion steals billions of tons of topsoil from farmers.
Part Ⅴ Text Completion Directions:In this part, there are three incomplete texts with 20 questions. Above each text there are three or four items to be completed. First, use the choices provided in the box to complete the items. Second, use the completed items to fill in the blanks of the text. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Text One A. helps B. while C. messages D. closely Phrases: A. you watched 1 eating it B. send nerve 2 to your brain C. our noses and our brain are very 3 connected D. 4 us remember things For years, scientists have been studying the special powers of smells. It seems that 5 . When you smell something, the odor goes up your nose to the smelling zones. From here, sense cells 6 telling it what you smelled. More than our other four senses, our sense of smell changes our mood and 7 . If you were told to think about popcorn, you'd probably recall its smell. And then you might remember the movie 8 . Our sense of smell also makes us aware of danger—like the smell of smoke.
Text Two A. give presentations B. new innovations C. uploaded Phrases: A. how to help poor people with all sorts of 1 B. all the speeches are 2 to their website C. 3 on a variety of topics TED is a set of conferences, held in various cities around the world every year. With various speakers—also from various parts of the globe— 4 , for everyone to see. TED conferences invite speakers to 5 . The different speakers are usually experts in their field and talk about new ideas and recent developments that are important to their work. The speakers are often also well known, with people such as Microsoft giant Bill Gates and world-renowned chimpanzee expert, Jane Goodall, having given talks. There are many talks on environmentalism, for example, and on international development, aid work, and 6 . While the talks cover a wide variety of topics, all speakers have a strict time limit—each presentation must last no longer than 18 minutes.
[解析] invite sb. to do sth. ，这里需要一个动词原形的不定式短语，只有C符合，故选C。
6.
A。
[解析] 根据前面几个词语或短语，可知这里是说TED演讲的主题，只有A符合题意，故选A。
Text Three A. to use B. finding C. the way Phrases: A. good at 1 information B. 2 their brains work C. 3 their imagination The time spent with technology doesn't just give kids new ways of doing things, it changes 4 . For example, an article says that while video games may condition the brain to pay attention to multiple stimuli, they can lead to distraction and decreased memory. Children who always use search engines may become very 5 —but not very good at remembering it. In addition, the article said, children who use too much technology may not have enough opportunities 6 or to read and think deeply about the material.
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B。
[解析] be good at doing sth. 意为“擅长做某事”，介词at后面需要使用现在分词。finding符合题意，故选B。
[解析] 第一句前半句有词组“new ways of doing things”，所以后半句在结构上需要类似，表示做某事的方式。B项“大脑工作的方式”符合句意，故选B。
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A。
[解析] 根据but not后的词组“good at remembering”可知，前面也需要类似的结构来做对照。A项“good at finding information”符合句意，故选A。
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C。
[解析] or后面是不定式短语“to read”，表示前面的部分也应在结构上对应，C项“to use their imagination”符合句意，故选C。
Paper Two
Part Ⅵ Translation Directions:Translate the following passage into Chinese. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
1. When it comes to personal finance, we are all looking for ways to save more money. Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses that we imagine can be cut out to save us loads of cash or, at the very least, spent better elsewhere. One of the things you have surely considered is using public transportation rather than your own vehicle. It would be easy to assume that public transportation is cheaper, because bus fare is far less expensive than gas, but those are not the only costs to consider. Take a step back to your high school economics class and try to remember the lesson about opportunity costs. These, as you might recall if you were awake for that class, are the things you give up when you choose one option over other options. Although they are not measured in dollars and cents, they still have to be considered whenever you make a financial decision.
Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses that we imagine can be cut out to save us loads of cash or, at the very least, spent better elsewhere. 这是一个复合句。主句是Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses，后面的that引导一个定语从句用来对expenses进行修饰；at the very least为插入语用来强调。household budge“家庭预算”；expense“花费”。 2．These, as you might recall if you were awake for that class, are the things you give up when you choose one option over other options. 这是一个复合句。句子主干是时间状语从句These are the things you give up when you choose one option over other options；as引导的分句为插入成分，用来强调“如果你在高中经济课上没有睡着的话”。recall“回想”；give up“放弃”；option“选择”。
Part Ⅶ Writing
1. Directions:Write a composition in no less than 150 words on the topic: What makes happy couples happy? You could write according to the hints given below. Write your composition on the Answer Sheet. Happy couples know what is essential to maintain a happy relationship. For instance, daily habits are extremely helpful in making their relationship work.
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What Makes Happy Couples Happy?
We all crave for a happy relationship when we meet our soul mate, but many people don't know how to maintain it. In fact, happy couples know what is essential to maintain a happy relationship. In my opinion, three things are worth mentioning. The first is the understanding and respect of each other. Everyone is an individual with his/her own ideas. If one cannot understand and respect the other's idea, there will be a lot of problems in their relationship. The second one is the daily habits. Common daily habits are like lubricant in life. The couples should form some common habits and cultivate them so as to find common interests and pleasure in life. Last but not the least, values. Similar ideas towards world, life and values are very important. If the couple cannot find common words in these aspects, they won't be happy forever. I hope you can be happy with your partner by following my suggestions since it is not easy to be a happy couple.
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