The English test will be removed from China’s college entrance exam by 2020, according to details of exam and admission reform revealed by the Ministry of Education. The national college exam, known as the “Gaokao” has been used to evaluate Chinese students for three decades. The Ministry of Education has worked out a plan for reforming exams and enrollment. The Ministry will solicit(征求) public opinions before its release. Instead, tests will be held several times a year to allow students to choose when and how often they sit the exam so as to ease study pressure and change China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system.

The plan and suggestion for its implementation(实施) will be announced in the first half of next year. It will be piloted in selected provinces and cities and promoted nationwide from 2017. A new exam and admission system will be established by 2020, according to the education ministry.

The decision has aroused a heated discussion among Shanghai educators and parents who doubted the reform would reduce the burden of learning English or if the substitute test could reflect a student’s English skills and help students learn English better.

“The reform shows China is learning from the West to give students more test-taking chances. But more chances might become more of a burden since Chinese students are likely to repeat the test until they get the highest score,” said Cai Jigang, a professor at Fudan University’s College of Foreign Languages and Literature and chairman of the Shanghai Advisory Committee for College English Teaching at Tertiary level.

Yu Lizhong, chancellor of New York University Shanghai, where classes are in English and students are required to have a high standard of English, said the most important aspect of the reform lay in what to test and how to test.

“As far as I see, the reform doesn’t mean English is no longer important for Chinese students after it will be excluded from the college entrance exam,” Yu said. “In a way, English is even more important than before since the test would only serve as reference, while every college and university, even every major, can have different requirements of a student’s English skills under a diverse evaluation system.”

Yu said some students will have their study pressure reduced if the major they choose doesn’t need excellent English while others still need to study hard if they want to be among the best students.

The education ministry said the reform would not affect students attending the college entrance exam over the next three years.

1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. English will become less and less important in the stage of compulsory education.

B. It has been 30 years since English became one subject of national college entrance exam.

C. China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system is unacceptable at all.

D. The system that tests are held several times does more good than once-in-a-lifetime exam system.

2.According to the passage, Shanghai educators and parents argue that________.

A. the new exam and admission system will make no difference.

B. English shouldn’t be removed from China’s college entrance exam.

C. the reform may accomplish the very opposite.

D. Western educational system does not apply to China.

3.What does the passage try to express in the underlined sentence?

A. Students needn’t lay a good foundation during the period of high school.

B. Whether students should study English hard may depend on their major.

C. Students can constantly struggle for perfection only in their major.

D. English must be close to full mark.

4.What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To advise students not to devote themselves to English.

B. To call on Education Department to remove English from “Gaokao”.

C. To support the act of Ministry of Education

D. To encourage students to do as they have planned.

People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behavior are formed. It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.

Social scientists are of course extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behavior. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The controversy is often conveniently referred to as “nature and nurture”．

Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme，this theory states that our behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能)．

Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. A behaviorist, B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. The behaviorists' view of the human being is quite mechanistic. They state that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (刺激) as the basis of their behavior.

Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching. In the US，for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically lower in status than whites. Behaviorists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.

Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes and that the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.

1.This passage is mainly concerned with ________.

A. relation between personality and behavior

B. relation between behavior and environment

C. different accounts of patterns of human behavior

D. different theories of the formation of human behavior

2.The underlined word “proponents” in Paragraph 2 means ________.

A. creators B. advisors C. advocates D. judges

3.In Paragraph 5, the author mainly writes about ________.

A. the considerable influence of the two theories

B. differences between the blacks and whites

C. racial discrimination in the United States

D. different responds to intelligence tests

4.What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A. To call our attention to the changes of human behavior.

B. To urge scientists to do more research in social science.

C. To give us a detailed explanation of human behavior.

D. To present an argument in the field of social science.

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

1. I have a very busy life with no time ___________ feeling sorry for myself. (sit)

我的生活很充实，没有时间闲坐着顾影自怜。

2.By ______________ on her face, Claire knew that her friend thought she was having an affair with the handsome gentleman. (surprise)

从她脸上的惊奇神色来看，克莱尔知道她的朋友认为她和那个潇洒的绅士有风流韵事。

3. ___________________ that her husband would be sentenced into jail for breaking the laws. (occur)

她从没想到过她丈夫会因违法而被判入狱。

4.Global warming has become a serious problem, __________________________ more attention. (pay)

全球变暖已经成为一件严肃的问题，对此我们应该给予更多关注。

5.The doctor recommended that the patient ___________________________ in a clinic right now. (operate)

医生建议马上在诊所给病人动手术。

6.Every possible means ____________________ but the medicine still doesn’t achieve the desired effect. (try).

尝试了每一种可能的方法但这种药仍未达到预期效果。

7.My parents lent me the money. Otherwise, I _____________ the journey. (abandon)

我父母借钱给我了。否则，我就会放弃这次旅行了。

8.Recently she __________________________ her studies that she has no time to take up the hobby. (occupy)

最近她学习很忙，以至于她没有时间从事她的爱好。

9.Having been blamed for several times, she seems _________________________ her mistakes. (aware)

被责备了好几次，她似乎已经意识到自己的错误了。

10.In fact, it is the mental addiction rather than the physical effects ___________________ to quit smoking. (make)

事实上，让戒烟困难的不是生理上的影响而是精神上的依赖。

请根据以下提示，结合你生活中的一个事例，用英语写一篇短文。

Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

注意：①无须写标题；

②除诗歌外，文体不限；

③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；

④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；

⑤词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。

Make a reservation in advance, _______ you would risk having to wait for a table.
A. therefore B. otherwise C. instead D. somehow

After the earthquake, the first thing the local government did was to provide ____________ for the homeless families.

A. accommodation B. occupation C. equipment D. furniture

The movie The Pursuit of Happiness is _______from the true story of Chris Gardner．

A．adopted B．adjusted C．adapted D. addicted

Many Chinese universities provide scholarships for students ______ financial aid.

A. in favor ofB. in honor of C. in face of D. in need of

Usually a child’s behavior is a ________ of his family environment.

A. recognition B. reflection C. return D. record

Affected by the earthquake happening in March, seven springs____________.

A. dried up B. dried out C. dried off D. dried away