第I卷
第一部分
阅读理解
（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A 难度：★★
Would you use an app to find new friends? Bumble adds a new button that lets women look for girl pals. You can now swipe (滑动) your way to a best friend forever after dating app Bumble announced it has released a function that allows users to look for friends as well as lovers. The app previously enabled women to approach men — but not the other way around — for potential dates but has now added a similar function for finding new friends.
Bumble’s founder, Whitney Wolfe, has extended the app’s dating function to allow users to adopt the “friend mode”, meaning you can swipe right on pictures of anyone you’d like to be girl pals with. Bumble was designed to appeal to women in response to Tinder which its creators believe is full of bad guys. The app instead allows women to message men first and its creators claim its female-friendly approach makes it safer and users will never receive unwanted messages. Wolfe said the move is a response to a demand for a platonic (纯精神友谊的) dating function from users. “We have an incredible user base, and so many of them were using this app to find friends. And they’ve been requesting such a feature: I’m in a relationship, but I love Bumble. I still want to be able to use it.”
Finding friends works the same way as finding a date on the app. Users can swipe right on the people they are interested in and if there’s a match, the two can start chatting. If no message is exchanged within 24 hours, the connection disappears from both users’ messages. However, some people have criticized the fact that the app only allows users to “friend match” with members of the same sex.
1. From the first paragraph, we can know ____.
A. it is difficult to find friends by using the app
B. the new function will make no difference to women
C. men couldn’t use the app to contact women in the past
D. the app used to forbid its users to find friends or lovers
2. With the help of the app, if you want to make friends, you can ____.
A. make a phone call to the person
B. swipe right on the person’s picture
C. meet the person face to face directly
D. get to know the person’s name at once
3. What can we infer from the passage?
A. It’s easier to find a friend than to find a date.
B. Bumble is not suitable for married women.
C. Only a few people are using the app at present.
D. Not all users are satisfied with Bumble’s new function.
B 难度：★★★
A new startup called The Winston Club is offering travelers the opportunity to book hotel rooms at half of their cost. Obviously, there’s a disadvantage — they have to be willing to share the room with complete strangers.
Byron Shannon, the founder of the club, thought there should be an easy way for people to connect when they’d like a low-cost way to get the comfort and convenience of a hotel, so the club was set up to provide a safe, reliable and economical solution.
Byron came up with the idea after he was out of town for two days. He set out to look for a cheap hotel, but in vain. He didn’t want to spend $150 or $200 on a hotel room. Frustrated, he wondered why there wasn’t a way for him to share the cost of a room with someone else at one of the nice hotels nearby.
Later, Byron met with a friend who worked at a hotel, talked about his idea, and came up with the idea of getting random strangers together to share the cost of expensive hotel rooms. He eventually worked out the details, and launched the service along America’s West Coast — like Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland.
Safety is naturally a top concern, but Byron assures everyone that his screening (筛选) procedure is quite strict. All the members must show five forms of verification (证实) — the phone number and professional email, one verified social media account and credit card at booking, and one photo ID at check-in. Members must pre-approve pairings before the reservation (预订) is complete.
Rather than staying with a stranger, people are sharing a space with someone who has been screened and is responsible for his actions. However, the concept is not for everybody. Winston appeals to the growing number of consumers who are comfortable and familiar with the sharing economy and operate on a self-funded travel budget.
The company is currently accepting membership applications online. Several people have signed up, mostly between the ages of 20 and 35.
4. The Winston Club was started with the purpose of ____.
A. encouraging travelers to live in nice hotels
B. helping travelers book hotels worldwide easily
C. letting travelers who want to spend less but enjoy nice hotels’ comfort connect
D. offering travelers more chances to connect strangers during their travel
5. Where can members get the service from the club?
A. In New York.
B. In Portland.
C. In Houston.
D. In Washington D.C.
6. Before members of the club share a hotel room with strangers, they should ____.
A. share more responsibilities than rights
B. know how to share a space with others
C. pass a strict screening procedure
D. have online communication with each other
7. What can we know about the Winston Club?
A. It has attracted a certain kind of travelers.
B. Business travelers are not allowed to apply for the club’s membership.
C. It was Byron’s friend who came up with the idea of starting it up.
D. Its founder had the experience of sharing the cost of a room with strangers.
C 难度：★★★★
Women in particular care about how people feel about their weight and shape of their bodies. According to surveys, four out of five American women are dissatisfied with how they look. Weight control is a hot topic in every magazine for women.
“It’s not fair!” complained Janelle. “How come I suffer like this when my sister Carol at work eats exactly what she wants and never gains weight?” Like Janelle, do you limit yourself to lettuce for days or even months only to find yourself racing for that chocolate cake just when you swore (发誓) you’d never touch the stuff again? You’re not alone.
Dieting is a common reaction to society’s obsession with being thin. Yet more than half of American women are overweight. Conflict about what and how much to eat suppresses (抑制) the normal body responses to hunger and satisfaction.
Ann went on and off diets regularly. She even tried diet pills. Still she kept losing and gaining those same 15 pounds above her goal weight. Each morning, before weighing-in, she denied herself even a drop of water. She supported herself with one hand on the bathroom counter to keep the numbers on the scale (秤盘) from going up. Ann said, “I’ll never attract Mr. Right unless I can get down to goal weight and slim my stomach!”
Ann was a veteran of the diet wars. She failed each time because when faced with a shortage of calories the body naturally reacts by preserving fat. Metabolism (新陈代谢) slows down so it becomes more difficult to lose weight. When the strict routine is broken, the weight is regained in fat.
Certainly the diet industry is booming as never before despite the high failure rates of diets. Each year, the diet industry earns between 40 and 60 billion dollars, including diet centers, diet drugs, weight-loss books and magazines. Every year over 50% of Americans go on a diet. Two-thirds of dieters regain the weight within a year, and 97% have gained it back in five years. A third of dieters develop serious eating disorders.
The solution? Don’t diet. Instead, look at what you really are hungry for. A new job, partner, place to live? What are your dreams? And what steps do you need to take to get it? It’s your heart that’s hungry — not your body!
8. According to Janelle and her story, ____.
A. one must eat less to lose his weight
B. people at work can easily lose weight
C. eating vegetables surely leads us to lose weight
D. one is not definitely to gain weight without diet control
9. To satisfy her goal of weight loss, Ann ____.
A. even hardly drinks water every day
B. even did something to cheat herself
C. has been keeping on diets all the time
D. keeps doing exercise every day
10. To solve the problem, the best way is ____.
A. to lose your weight by working hard
B. not to have so many dreams or desires
C. to take part in more activities of diet centers
D. to turn your attention to other good life goals
11. What might be the best title for this passage?
A. Are you dieting again?
B. Dieting fever in America.
C. Why is it hard to lose weight?
D. How to lose weight effectively.
D 难度：★★★
Some sea creatures can find their way through thousands of miles of seemingly featureless oceans. Even more impressive is the route that they take. “Well, we’ve known for a long time that sharks are able to make long-distance travels, and in some cases those travels occur along very straight paths.” Scripps Institution of Oceanography biologist Andy Nosal said, “And this has always begged the question: how exactly do they know where they’re going?”
Nosal and his team suspected that the navigational (航行的) secret of some sharks might be their sense of smell. They use their keen noses to find food, of course. And other fish, like salmon, are known to use smell to navigate. To see if his idea was right, Nosal chose some adult female sharks in their preferred environment, waist-deep water off the San Diego coast. And he blocked the sense of smell in half of the sharks by putting cotton balls in their nostrils (鼻孔). Nosal and his crew dropped the sharks about six miles away at a spot in the open ocean. The researchers then tracked the sharks as they tried to swim back home.
Four hours later, the sharks that could smell were two-thirds of the way back home and had swum in very straight paths. But the ones with blocked noses took erratic routes and only made it about half as far. Nosal thinks they all eventually got back home. 揂nd we know that because even though they didn抰 get as close to shore and even though their paths were more winding (e.蜿蜒的), their movements were still towards the shore. On average, they still finished closer to the shore than when they started.” And those cotton balls eventually break down, returning the sharks to normal. The experiment is the first to show that sharks can indeed sniff their way back home. For Nosal, the next question is: If sharks navigate by smell, what exactly is it they’re smelling that leads them by the nose?
12. According to the passage, sharks can find their way through ____.
A. taste
B. sound
C. light
D. smell
13. How did Nosal and his team prove their idea?
A. By doing an experiment.
B. By making a questionnaire.
C. By analyzing data.
D. By watching sharks’ habitat.
14. What does the underlined word “erratic” mean?
A. Direct.
B. Round.
C. Irregular.
D. Rough.
15. What can be concluded from the last paragraph?
A. As a matter of fact, sharks usually swim in a fixed path.
B. Nosal will probably find out more about sharks’ smell next.
C. Sharks with their noses blocked will never swim back home.
D. Two-thirds of sharks will not lose their way while swimming.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
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。
Simple ways to seek out happiness in everyday life
Get outside. It has been scientifically proven that being outdoors helps relieve feelings of sadness and depression.
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Sit for a while and pay close attention to your surroundings. I guarantee you’ll soon be reminded of the beauty of life.
Forgive and forget.
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We抳e all been hurt before, some worse than others, but no matter the situation, you will always be better off leaving it in the past. If not for their saker（为了他们）, forgive them for your own.
Reach out to loved ones. Tell your friends and family that you love them. Life is incredibly precious and we never know when our time on Earth is going to end.
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Let your loved ones know that you care, even if it’s been a while.
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This is truly necessary to your well being, not just physically, but mentally, as well. You should be getting at least 7 hours of sleep a night, if not more. If you find yourself catching less shut eye, make a conscious effort to turn off all electronics an hour before bed so you have some time to relax.
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It doesn’t have to be something luxurious. It truly is the little things that mean the most in life — such as smiling at a passerby, complimenting someone on a feature or clothes, or even holding the door open for the person behind you. Making someone smile will make you happy in return.
A. Get a good night’s rest.
B. Take a walk in a park or along a hill road.
C. You have no excuse not to take care of yourself.
D. Make it a goal to make someone smile every day.
E. Holding hate serves absolutely no purpose in your life.
F. Send your loved ones a text message and ask them how they’re doing.
G. You are on the road to success as long as you are learning from your mistakes.
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Thomas Dambo, an artist from Denmark, is using his sculpting skills to help thousands of urban birds worldwide. Driven by the belief that humans should live with other species in
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, he uses reused wood to
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houses for birds wherever he goes. Over the last seven years he has built more than 3500 birdhouses.
Dambo’s birdhouses are creative and
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, combining wonderful design with reused wood and other junk materials that he regularly collects. Through his
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, he wants to show that everyone can create something beautiful from
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, and he also hopes to
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others to waste less of the world’s resources.
Dambo
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his own creations as colorful, positive, childish, and fun. He also makes birdhouses that easily
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city environments and give them a sense of security (安全), so birds can feel
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in them. Some of his past projects
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a collection of birdhouses made of broken skateboards. He also sculpted 600 birdhouses for a festival, and later
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them away to people, only demanding that they hang them up, take
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of them and then send him pictures.
Dambo is working with a large Danish company on a project that uses their
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wood for birdhouse production. In this way, he hopes to
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more people and just basically teach more people about recycling and the
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that taking care of the world brings — humans can live peacefully with other species. He dreams of having a big recycle factory someday,
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people could just bring him their waste to work with.
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birdhouses, Dambo has built several other structures from recycled wood, but his main focus now is creating abundant housing structures for birds. People always doubt
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birds use the houses. Dambo tells them the
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that birds move into the houses if there are birds in the area. Dambo is so passionate about birdhouses that he’s
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built a large red one for himself!
21. A. hearts
B. space
C. cities
D. peace
22. A. make
B. paint
C. design
D. protect
23. A. strange
B. unique
C. typical
D. perfect
24. A. options
B. aims
C. projects
D. views
25. A. imagination
B. experience
C. food
D. trash
26. A. inspire
B. allow
C. inform
D. help
27. A. believes
B. provides
C. describes
D. completes
28. A. adapt
B. fit into
C. better
D. deal with
29. A. happy
B. sleepy
C. warm
D. safe
30. A. adopted
B. proved
C. included
D. covered
31. A. took
B. gave
C. threw
D. drove
32. A. photos
B. suggestions
C. notes
D. advantages
33. A. common
B. rare
C. waste
D. expensive
34. A. force
B. blame
C. educate
D. involve
35. A. risks
B. benefits
C. chances
D. methods
36. A. so
B. though
C. while
D. if
37. A. In spite of
B. Other than
C. Instead of
D. Apart from
38. A. why
B. since
C. whether
D. how
39. A. idea
B. fact
C. story
D. difference
40. A. also
B. never
C. frequently
D. hardly
第Ⅱ卷
第二节 语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
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。
Robert, a great golf player, once won a tournament. After 41.______ (receive) the check, he walked alone to his car in the parking lot and 42.______ (approach) by a young woman.
She congratulated him 43.______ his victory and then told him that her child was seriously ill and near 44.______ (die). She did not know how she could pay the doctor’s bills. Touched by 45.______ (she) story, Robert gave the check to the woman.
The next week he 46.______ (have) lunch in a restaurant when a Professional Golf Association official came to his table. “The guard in the parking lot told me you met a young woman there 47.______ you won that tournament.” Robert nodded. “Well,” said the official, “I have a piece of bad news for you. She’s a cheater. She has no sick baby and she’s not even 48.______ (marry). She cheated you, my friend.”
?You mean there is no baby 49.______ is dying?” said Robert.
?That’s right,” said the official.
?That’s the 50.______ (good) news I’ve heard all this week.” Robert said.
41. _______________
42. _______________
43. _______________
44. _______________
45. _______________
46. _______________
47. _______________
48. _______________
49. _______________
50. _______________
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。短文中有10处错误，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。
Some people are making attempts to hunt wild animals for big profits, which results a sharp decrease in the number of animals. It is often read in the newspaper reports, wild life is threatening with extinction. So it’s quite necessarily to raise people’s awareness of animals protection. To start with, a national campaign should be launched, thus give animals a good living environment. What’s the more, the government should pass some laws to forbid any hunt for rare animals. And we don’t expect anything harm to wild life to happen again. If everyone was involved in the protection of wild life, I’m sure we will be friends of animals or live in harmony with them.
第二节 书面表达 （满分25分）
假设你所在学校举办英语周活动，你的班级要办一期以Family Life为主题的英语板报。请你用英语写一篇短文，记叙发生在你与父母之间的一件难忘的事，与同学分享。要求：词数100左右。
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