1.If you enjoy a place near the sea or river, you won’t travel to ______.

A. Bangkok B. Soll C. Hawaii

2.You should take the following things EXCEPT ______ before you travel to Chiang Mai.

A. coats B. sunglasses C. Thai Baht

3.What information does the writer give about every place he mentions?

A. food and weather

B. weather and hotel

C. hotel and shopping

When you have a different opinion with your friend, what should you do? One of the ways is to talk to your friend and tell him or her how you’re feeling. It’s always important to share your feelings with your friend.

Of course, sometimes friends do drift apart. As we grow older, our interests change and sometimes this means that a friendship may not be as close as it once was. This also means that you , too, may find a different group of friends to spend time with.

Then what should you do to keep friends? One helpful thing is to be sure you let others know you like them. Smile, talk to them, listen with interest and praise them for the things you like about them. People naturally like to make friends with the people who understand and enjoy them.

It’s also important to remember that you should always be yourself. Sometimes when you focus on “keeping friends”, you might begin to do things or act in some ways that aren’t normally part of your personality. Moreover, if your friend is unfriendly to you, that doesn’t mean you should become hurtful to other people. If keeping a friendship means you have to become someone who you aren’t, that friendship isn’t worth keeping.

1.When you have a different opinion with your friends, you should _____.

A. keep quiet and have a good rest

B. tell how you’re feeling to them

C. keep away from them for days

2.When the writer says “friends do drift apart” in the second paragraph, he wants to express _____.

A. people remain friends for a lifetime

B. the friendship is closer and closer

C. the friendship is not as close as before

3.Which of the following is good for keeping friends?

A. Praise and enjoy your friends.

B. Never understand the weakness of friends.

C. Say something that does harm to your friends.

4.The last paragraph tells us that ______.

A. it’s important to always agree with our friends

B. people shouldn’t lose themselves to keep friends

C. we are encouraged to be hurtful to unfriendly people

5.The passage is mainly about _____.

A. feelings B. education C. Friendship

Recycling is a way to take trash and turn it into new products. There are a number of different recycling processes that allow materials to be used more than once.

All kinds of materials can be recycled. Some of the most common processes in use today involve（牵涉） recycling plastic, glass, metals, paper, electronics and so on. Items made of these materials include soda cans, plastic boxes, newspapers, old computers, and cardboard boxes.

There are many steps in recycling. It isn’t actually a simple process and is different for each type of material. For example, paper starts its recycling process by being mixed with water and other chemicals to break it down. This process finally turns the paper into a pulp(纸浆). Then remove the plastics and other useless materials from the pulp. After that, it gets cleaned. Now the pulp is ready to be made into new paper.

However, computers and batteries（电池） are usually recycled in order to remove harmful chemicals as well as to find again some valuable materials such as gold.

In general, we should follow different steps in the recycling process. These steps are:

·Collecting recyclable materials, like cans and plastic bottles.

·Processing(加工) the old materials and making new items.

·Buying items made from recycled materials.

1.What is recycling?

A. It makes your heart and body strong.

B. It is to reuse anything that can be used again.

C. It means keeping the land , air and water clean.

2.Paragraph 2 mainly tells us _____.

A. recycling is very easy

B. recycling process is different

C. what materials can be recycled

3.Which shows the recycling process of paper correctly?

a. cleaning it

b. removing useless materials

c. being mixed with water and other chemicals

d. turning the paper into a pulp

A. c-d-b-a B. b-a-d-c C. c-a -b-d

4.Batteries shouldn’t be thrown into the fields because ______.

A. the chemicals in them are harmful to the fields

B. some of the batteries are very expensive

C. the batteries are good for the plants in the fields

5.According to the passage, the first step of recycling is ______.

A. throwing cans and plastic bottles away

B. collecting recyclable materials

C. buying items made from recycled materials

We often praise the world of science.

It explains the world and makes our lives easier with technology. One of the most exciting fields in science is artificial intelligence (人工智能，AI). This is an area where scientists are working on creating machines that think like humans.

However, one of the most famous scientists has a very dark warning for us about this type of technology.

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” said Professor Stephen Hawking to the BBC.

Hawking is a well-known British physicist and author of bestselling science book A Brief History of Time. This warning came after commenting（评论）the technology he uses to speak with. As Hawking has got a serious disease called ALS, he needs an AI computer to communicate. The computer learns how Hawking thinks and suggests the words he may want to use next.

This is a basic type of AI, which is very useful, yet Hawking fears the possibility of creating technology that can match or surpass human intelligence. And it’s easy to imagine how terrible things may be. Many TV shows and films show big, killer machines that are far cleverer than us. “Humans, who are limited（限制） by slow biological evolution (进化), couldn’t compete,” said Hawking.

But not every scientist is pessimistic (悲观的) about AI technology. “I believe we will be in control of the technology for a long time,” said Rollo Carpenter, creator of Cleverbot in the UK, which is a software program that remembers past conversations. “The advantages of it to solve many of the world problems will be realized.” In what direction do you think AI is heading? Should we be hopeful or fearful?

1.Which of the following is TRUE about AI?

A. It makes our lives easier.

B. The technology is not very popular now.

C. Scientists haven’t controlled the technology.

2.The writer took Hawking as an example to ______.

A. explain how AI has helped us

B. show AI has already become part of our life

C. suggest that AI might become dangerous for humans

3.What does the underlined word “surpass” mean in the passage?

A. 象征 B.促进 C. 超越

4.We can know from the last paragraph that _________.

A. Rollo agrees with Hawking

B. Rollo is a British creator

C. Rollo invented Cleverbot in the US

5.Which of the following can be a suitable title for this article?

A. AI: a friend or an enemy

B. The future of human beings

C. The fight between humans and AI

Getting recognization（认可）from National Geographic, a famous US magazine, is the dream for many photographers. A lucky Chinese teenage photographer has made this dream come true just after his 14th birthday last year.

With his work Qiangtoucao (Weed on the Wall), Gong Zijie, a student from Changsha, Hunan, won the 2014 International Photography Contest for Kids in China’s competition last year. It was hosted by National Geographic Kids. Gong got the first place in the Wild Vacation part. His photo shows the shadow (影子) of a weed (野草) on the Palace Museum’s red walls. In world-famous photographer Li Shaobai’s words, “The picture is silent, but it’s also powerful.” How did Gong make it? “I just saw the weed and found it lonely and helpless,” said Gong.

Gong learned photography from his father, a photographer working for Hunan TV. Since the age of 4, he has been following his father to learn to take pictures.

Gong is a patient photographer. When he views something valuable, he can spend hours waiting for the perfect time for the picture. Compared with beautiful sights, the young photographer is paying more attention to social topic. In Gong’s pictures of Liuyang River, hundreds of dead fish show us the deadly results of pollution. He has made up his mind to document polluted rivers at least once every year to focus more people’s eyes on the environment.

“Now photography is not only a hobby, but also a duty for me,” said Gong.

1.Where did Gong Zijie take the photo named “Qiangtoucao”?

2.How did Li Shaobai like Gong’s photo in the passage?

3.What is Gong’s father?

4.How long has Gong learned photography?

5.Did Gong decide to document polluted rivers only once a year?

情景交际 （共5小题，计10分）

通读下面的对话，然后根据上下文补全对话内容。

A: Jack, you look worried. 1._________________?

B: We’re going to have an English exam next week.

A: 2.__________________?

B: I haven’t prepared anything for it. I really don’t know how to learn English. 3.________________?

A: Of course. First, you should try to memorize the words by yourself. Second, you should speak English as much

as you can. Third, 4. ___________________. I’m reading an excellent one.

B: Good ideas! Then, what English novel are you reading?

A: The Old Man and The Sea.

B: 5.________________?

A: Hemingway, my favorite American writer.

书面表达（10分）

每个人的成长都是一种蜕变的过程，从幼稚走向成熟，从逆境走向成功。请你以“I have changed a lot”为题写一篇英语短文，谈谈你在成长过程中所经历的一次变化。要求如下：

1、内容包括：1）变化前后分别是什么样子的？

2）促成你转变的主要原因是什么？

3）你为变化而付出了怎样的努力？

2、文中不得出现真实的人名或校名。

3、字数为60-80词左右。

—— Who made a phone call to you just now, David?

—— I don’t know, but it was a girl’s .

A. sound B. voice C. answer D. number

—— What do you think of Mr. Black?.

—— He’s very kind and he always others his help.

A. offers B. receives

C. provides D. shares

——How do you like the dishes, Nick ?

——Oh, sorry, I them.

A. don’t eat B. wasn’t eating

C. haven’t eaten D. hadn’t eaten