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120分。考试时间120分钟。
选择题部分 (共80分)
第一部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分30分)
第一节:单项填空(共20小题;每小题0.5分,满分10分)
从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. —
—_______ But have been working on my graduation paper.
A. Of course not.
B. Why bother?
C. How dare I?
D. I hope so.
2. —We had _______ really wet November this year.
—I can’t remember _______ autumn when it rained so much.
A. a; 不填
B.不填;
C. the; an
D. a; an
3. Having been treated in the hospital for as long as six months, the man injured in the car crash is now back _______ his feet.
A. at
B. in
C. on
D. to
4. The city has changed a lot these years. George _______ well not find his way to the house where he lived a decade ago.
A. can
B. may
C. should
D. must
5. You must _______ your strength for the tennis final, which will be even tougher.
A. grasp
B. reserve
C. appoint
D. schedule
6. Evidence came up _______ specific speech sounds are recognized by babies as young as 6 months old.
A. what
B. which
C. that
D. how
7. Smartphones have _______ our lives. Most of us can’t go much longer than 10 minutes before we check our phones.
A. turned over
B. taken over
C. got over
D. looked over
8. The assistant explained there were several doubtful points in the scheme he _______ difficult to understand.
A. was finding
B. would find
C. had found
D. has found
9. Life doesn’t count for much ______ you are willing to do your small part to leave our children a better world.
A. unless
B. when
C. though
D. if
10. Peace is _______ the absence of war. It also means kindness and harmony.
A. or rather
B. more than
C. at best
D. far from
11. —Does this job ______ you, Bob?
—Not really. I prefer one with better pay and longer holidays.
A. respond to
B. contribute to
C. appeal to
D. subscribe to
12. Though Tom’s excuse for being absent was as good as _______ other, I don’t believe it was a fact.
A. one
B. each
C. every
D. any
13. The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often _______ the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
A. merely
B. apparently
C. normally
D. uniquely
14. —Will Mr. Smith come here on time?
—We cannot guarantee the _______ arrival of trains in foggy weather.
A. punctual
B. eventual
C. actual
D. natural
15. China has already reached the point where it cannot further develop the economy without making structural _______.
A. judgments
B. arrangements
C. adjustments
D. agreements
16. When you choose cooking oil in the supermarket in China, you may notice that some brands are _______ as “GM-free”, which means non-transgenic(非转基因).
A. labeled
B. considered
C. required
D. qualified
17. —Have you heard that Lisa was offered a job by a big company.
—Sure, she got the job _______ her considerable experience and she deserved it.
A. in favor of
B. in need of
C. on behalf of
D. on account of
18. Our car ______ engine trouble, we stopped for the night at a road side rest area.
A. developed
B. being developed
C. having developed
D. develops
19. The meeting provides the staff with a broad platform, ________ cooperation is most stressed in improving the management of a company.
A. which
B. as
C. where
D. whose
20. —Why can’t you give me another chance?.
—________, but I don’t think you are good at management.
A. No offence
B. No worries
C. No need
D. No wonder
第二节:完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
The “challenges” of family holidays are well-known. It’s
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enough getting on with your husband, wife or kids at home, so how can you
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yourself while travelling with them? Susan M. Shaw, expert on leisure(休闲) at the University of Waterloo in Canada, thinks the term “family leisure” is full of
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. “Research suggests that such
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do not always live up to the leisure ideal,” she writes, darkly.
Family holidays probably don’t add much to the sum of human
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. However, as one of my friends likes to
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, people don’t have children for happiness. Research has shown that
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are less happy than childless people.
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, says my friend, having children is best understood as a biological urge. You have them not for the present but for the
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, so that your genes will continue to exist when you are gone. And
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, you go on family holidays not for the present but for the future.
Thus, the aim of the holiday, much of the time, is to stock up on
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: to leave all family members with
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of happiness that they can look back on after the family doesn’t exist. Much of what we remember of our families comes from
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. On holiday, the family exists more clearly than at any other time: all together for once,
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work, school or friends. On holiday, you are much closer to your
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. Holiday photographs make that feeling of closeness
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. In fact, the photographs themselves are perhaps the main
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of the holiday: that’s where the memories get laid down.
A family holiday is for memories. Once you’ve grasped that, you will not
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it. I vividly remember, about 30 years ago,
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from an Italian vacation to our handsome brick house.
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we opened the front gate, my mother said, “That’s the best part of a holiday: coming home.” At the time I didn’t know what she meant.
21. A. happy B. hard C. fortunate D. strange
22. A. enjoy B. teach C. blame D. hurt
23. A. fun B. luck C. questions D. problems
24. A. relationships B. terms C. definitions D. activities
25. A. population B. wealth C. happiness D. kindness
26. A. argue B. complain C. guess D. predict
27. A. teachers B. parents C. husbands D. wives
28. A. Still B. Thus C. Rather D. Indeed
29. A. dream B. joy C. future D. health
30. A. difficultly B. similarly C. sadly D. quickly
31. A. memories B. imaginations C. information D. impression
32. A. details B. photographs C. description D. evaluation
33. A. customs B. language C. holidays D. behavior
34. A. except B. against C. despite D. without
35. A. family B. friends C. home D. cameras
36. A. possible B. positive C. better D. stronger
37. A. function B. reason C. aim D. advantage
38. A. learn from B. suffer from C. seek for D. care for
39. A. vacation B. meeting C. performance D. training
40. A. Because B. Before C. If D. As
第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分)
第一节：阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Gavin Joseph, a teenager with Asperger’s Syndrome, was beaten up by a group of people for just being different. Asperger’s Syndrome is a developmental disorder that affects a person’s ability to socialize. But instead of putting them into prison for what they did to him, Gavin offered them a chance to become more tolerant and understanding.
On Thursday night, some kids were talking about how “it’s weird(怪异的)” that he is always by himself, attending events alone and watching people, and it was “creepy” that he wanted to be friends with people he didn’t know.
On Friday night, another kid that overheard that conversation decided to take matters into his own hands and become judge and jury, and this is the result of that. He didn’t ask questions, didn’t get to know Gavin, never met him, and didn’t give him a chance to leave. He was called to meet someone, surrounded by people he didn’t know, choked, punched(用拳猛击, and left lying on the pavement so he would “learn his lesson”.
Gavin emerged from the attack with a concussion(脑震荡), a fractured nose, a bruised esophagus(食道) and some damage to his eye, but thankfully, none of the injuries resulted in permanent damage.
But here’s the truly amazing part — Gavin refused to press charges against the people who did this to him. Instead of wanting to see them punished, he wants to see them educated. Gavin asked that his attackers do community service that is disability-related. According to his mother, Gavin also asked “that they watch a 20 min video statement he taped while their families were present so they could see the damage they did and hear the event from his perspective.”
“If you are reading this, I hope you talk to your teens,” his mother wrote. “Tell them about disabilities you can’t see, teach them to be tolerant of people that are different, teach them that if they continuously see someone alone that maybe it is not their choice to be alone, remind them to ask questions first and get to know one another.”
41. Gavin is always alone because he
.
A. enjoys being alone
B. is always upsetting
C. suffers from a disease
D. doesn’t like his schoolmates
42. Which can best replace the underlined word “creepy” in Paragraph 2?
A. Fun.
B. Strange.
C. Natural.
D. Inspiring.
43. Why was Gavin beaten by a group of people?
A. He hurt some kids before.
B. He is different from normal people.
C. He refused to make friends with a kid.
D. He didn’t take school lessons seriously.
44. How did Gavin react to his injuries?
A. He thought back bravely.
B. He was too scared to react.
C. He decided to turn to court for help.
D. He didn’t take school lessons seriously.
45. We can conclude that Gavin’s way of reacting was
.
A. interesting
B. praiseworthy
C. disappointing
D. unreasonable
B
Empathy(同情) is a quality that is essential to most people’s lives and yet the modern world makes it easy to lose sight of the feelings of others. But almost everyone can learn to develop this crucial personality trait(品质), says Roman Krznaric. Roman Krznaric used to regularly walk past a homeless man around the corner from where he lived in Oxford and took almost no notice of him. One day he stopped to speak to him.
It turned out his name was Alan Human and he had a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. They afterwards developed a friendship based on their common interest in Aristotle's ethics (伦理学).
This unexpected meeting taught Roman that having conversations with strangers opens up our empathic minds. We can not only meet amazing people but also challenge the prejudices that we have about others based on their appearance, accents or backgrounds.
Furthermore, it’s about recovering the curiosity everyone had as children. Respect the advice of oral historian Studs Terkel, who always spoke to people on the bus, “Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer(探究者).”
The world’s first Empathy Museum, which is starting in the UK in late 2015 and will then be travelling to Australia and other countries. Amongst the unusual exhibitions will be a human library, where instead of borrowing a book you borrow a person for conversation?maybe an unhappy investment banker or a gay father. In other words, the kind of people you may not get to meet in everyday life.
As the psychologist and inventor of emotional intelligence Daniel Goleman puts it, without empathy a person is “emotionally tone deaf”. It's clear that with a little effort nearly everyone can put more of their empathic potential to use. So try putting on your empathy shoes and make an adventure of looking at the world through the eyes of others.
46. Why did Roman and Alan become good friends?
A. They helped each other.
B. They felt pity for each other.
C. They shared the same interest.
D. They had to depend on each other.
47. What should adults learn from children?
A. Never judge by appearances.
B. Be curious about others.
C. Never talk to strangers.
D. Always be polite.
48. According to Paragraph 5, a human library you can
.
A. act as a librarian
B. borrow your favorite books
C. meet ordinary people in life
D. expect a talk with someone special
49. Which of the following is TRUE according to Daniel Goleman?
A. Emotional intelligence cannot be improved.
B. Most people don’t have empathy for others.
C. It is important to develop empathy for others.
D. Deaf people have little emotional intelligence.
C
Major League Baseball (MLB) was thrown a problem that was hard to deal with this week, as word spread that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Department of Justice are investigating the St. Louis Cardinals. Employees of the team may have hacked(非法侵入) into the computer database of the Houston Astros. If the investigation proves that the Cardinals did do the act, it will be considered not only unsportsmanlike but also illegal.
In a statement, the MLB said it is “aware of and has fully cooperated with the federal investigation into the illegal breach of the Houston Astros’ baseball operations database.” The organization added, “Once the investigative process has been completed by federal law enforcement officials, we will judge the next steps and will make decisions immediately.” The investigation began after the Astros’ internal trade talks were posted anonymously(匿名地) on the Internet last year. People wanted to know who was responsible for making the private information public.
The two major-league teams had been competitors for a long time, but things became even worse when the Astros hired Jeff Luhnow as their general manager in 2011. Luhnow had previously worked for the Cardinals as head of their player development department. Investigators think the Cardinals may have been able to get inside the Astros’ database using Luhnow’s old passwords from when he was working for the St. Louis team.
This is the first known case of a professional sports team hacking another team’s network, but some cybersecurity(网络安全) experts say other teams may have done it before without getting caught. Craig Newman, chairman of the privacy and data security practice of the New York law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, told the Associated Press that it would be “irresponsible” to assume this is the first incident of hacking in the world of professional sports.
50. What happened to the Cardinals according to Paragraph 1?
A. It was in cooperation with MLB.
B. It was in need of the FBI’s help.
C. It was under investigation.
D. It was under construction.
51. Which event led to the investigation into the incident of hacking?
A. The Astros’ website went down suddenly.
B. The Astros’ private information was uncovered.
C. Newman commented on the Cardinals’ trade talks.
D. The Cardinals’ private information was uncovered.
52. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Jeff Luhnow betrayed his team on purpose.
B. Jeff Luhnow’s old information may have been used.
C. Jeff Luhnow had been a general manager before 2011.
D. Jeff Luhnow was not allowed to use the Astros’ database .
53. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph probably refers to ____________.
A. hacking other teams’ network
B. stealing money from a competitor
C. offering a competitor useful information
D. providing untrue information for other teams
54. Where does this passage probably come from?
A. A sports report.
B. A finance report
C. A computer textbook.
D. A newspaper advertisement.
D
In high school I had the good fortune of having creative friends. We’d do crazy things like dance in the hallways and make strange movies. We’d be loud and silly in busy places where others could see, and there I learned a surprising lesson: when you behave strangely on purpose, others feel more embarrassed than you do. They don’t know how to respond, so they leave you alone.
As an adult I find this upsetting. I know when something interesting is happening people will pretend to be indifferent(冷漠的), even if in their hearts they’re interested in what’s going on.
If some talented person magically appeared in your home or office, and began performing a passionate(充满热情的) private concert for you, you’d be moved. It’s rare these days to see someone performing a craft live and in person. Yet these musicians performing on the street, putting their full energy out into the world for anyone’s pleasure, gained no reaction. People walked past without a glance, staring at their own shoes, as if they were surrounded by long dead sidewalks.
It’s strange how we can spend hours a day behind electric screens of various shapes and sizes, bored by how unreal much of it is, yet walk right past living musicians without a glance. We treat amazing things as if they weren’t there.
As I stood listening, I soon felt strange. Why am I the only one here? Even though I knew it was right to stay and listen, it felt strange because I was alone. Had there been a crowd around any of the musicians, more people would have stopped to join, simply because they could do it without feeling strange. But standing alone, I felt I was doing something wrong. It’s sad, but I’m no longer that crazy kid in high school, running through the hallways. Now I’m more like the others, worried more about standing out than enjoying the world.
I call this the challenge of indifference. As we grow up we’re taught self-control, how to focus ourselves, and how to tune out things that are “wrong” or “juvenile” or “wastes of time.” We become indifferent to the whims(突发奇想) of the child mind, trading it in for suits and resumes—the tools of success in the adult world.
The challenge as an adult, once you’ve found your way and settled down, is to undo indifference. We all have that voice in our heads that whispers, “This is cool” or “This is different” or even “Wait—what is this? Let’s see,” but it’s pounded into submission(被驯服) by the rational adult voice we’ve used to get the external things we want so dearly.
I know many people who are fundamentally frustrated with their lives and have been for some time. And they’re surprised they feel this way—after all, they’re successful at work. They expected that fact to be enough to make them happy forever, as that’s the mythical bargain. But we’re never told that success often demands indifference to the wonders of the real, or the magic of the ridiculous.
My life was changed by films like Fight Club and American Beauty, because they show how empty a successful life can be. They expose how we create our own emptiness(空虚) which can only be filled from the inside out, not with expensive material things. It starts by rediscovering what we overlook, including people living their passions, like street musicians, chefs, or craftsmen, people who are not indifferent. They are fully present, and give us a chance to join them in the moment, but only if we stop to listen.
55. Why were the author and his friends not teased in high school?
A. Other students were busy studying then.
B. Other students didn’t think it was worth remarking.
C. Other students were too embarrassed to respond.
D. Other students were amazed by the creative behavior.
56. What does the author find distressing as an adult?
A. People hide their feelings on interesting things.
B. People are only interested in their own business.
C. People are not moved by things they choose to experience.
D. People don’t find fun in interesting things as they used to.
57. What made the author feel strange when he was listening to the street music in Post Alley?
A. His addiction to music.
B. The bad performance.
C. Being the only listener there.
D. Passers-by’s ignorance.
58. According to the passage, as we enter the adult world, ____________.
A. our focus in life changes
B. there’re fewer ways to enjoy ourselves
C. we have to learn to behave ourselves
D. we meet more challenges in our life
59. What does the underlined sentence in the last but one paragraph suggest?
A. Many people blamed their life’s frustration on failure at work.
B. Many people wrongly believed a successful career promises a happy life.
C. Many people were not content with the imbalance between life and work.
D. Many people were surprised to find they could not achieve happiness from work.
60. The author wrote the passage to _________.
A. remember her late husband
B. express her deep love for basketball
C. bring back happy memories in high school
D. remember an ordinary but respectable old friend
第二节：下面文章中有5个段落需要添加首句(第61~65题)。请从以下选项(A、B、C、D、E和F)中选出符合各段落的首句。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A. Be a realistic optimist.
B. Be clear about your goals and actions.
C. Know exactly how far you have left to go.
D. Catch the moment to act on your goals.
E. Focus on what you will do, not what you won’t do.
F. Focus on getting better, rather than being good.
Decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do. Here are several things successful people do unlike we ordinary people.
When you set yourself a goal, try to be as clear as possible. “Lose 5 pounds” is a better goal than “lose some weight”, because it gives you a clear idea of what success looks like. Knowing exactly what you want to achieve keeps you positive until you get there. Also, think about the actions that need to be taken to reach your goal.
Given how busy most of us are, it’s not surprising that we miss opportunities to act on a goal just because we fail to notice them. To catch the moment, decide when and where to take your each action at first. Studies show that this kind of planning will help you grasp the opportunity when it appears, increasing your chances of success by about 300%.
Achieving any goal also requires honesty and regular watch of your progress — if not by others, then by you yourself. If you don’t know how well you are doing, you can’t change your behavior or your plans if necessary. Check your progress frequently — weekly, or even daily, depending on the goal.
When you are setting a goal, you should have lots of positive thinking about how likely you are to achieve it. Believing
to succeed also helps you keep you positive all the time. But whatever you do, don’t underestimate(低估) how difficult it will be to reach your goal. Most goals worth achieving require time, planning, effort, and persistence (坚持). Many of us believe that our intelligence, our personality, and our physical aptitudes are fixed — that no matter what we do, we won’t improve. Fortunately, decades of research suggest that you can change will allow you to make better choices, and reach your fullest potential. People whose goals are about getting better, rather than being good can appreciate the journey as much as the destination.
非选择题部分(共40分)
第三部分:写作(共两节,满分40分)
第一节：短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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。
Fatness is one of the serious problems which has a bad effect on our health . At present, the situation with
teenagers is even worse. These days, a discussion was being carried out in our class as to if the students with
weight problem should lose their weight. Some students think fatness does harmful to our health, because it is necessary to be on diet and take suitable exercise to prevent it. Those who are overweight should take measure to lose weight to be healthy. But others have a different opinion. They say lose weight will be bad for teenagers during their growth.
In my opinion, we middle school students should not pay too much attention on our weight. But if we are getting too fat, wee should take less exercise and not eat junk food.
第二节：书面表达(满分30分)
2016年除夕之际，全国多地禁止燃放烟花爆竹。虽然有明文规定，但除夕之夜爆竹烟花燃放依旧如故。对于该不该禁止燃放烟花爆竹，民众主要存在两种看法。请以＂Fireworks–to be forbidden or not＂为题，结合表格内容用英语写一篇100—120个词的英语短文。（开头已给出，不计入总词数。）
观点一：支持 1. 污染空气 2. 引发火灾
观点一：反对 1. 庆祝新年的传统习俗 3. 不是环境恶化的主要因素
你的观点 园艺工（gardener） 陈述1–2个原因
注意：短文中不得以任何形式透露地区、学校、同学姓名等真实信息。否则，按考试作弊行为认定。
Fireworks–to be forbidden or not
When the Spring Festival of 2016 was around the corner, bans on fireworks frequently came out. Some citizens think _______________________________________________________________________________________
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