Daniel Defoe (about 1660—1731) was an important novelist in the English literature. When he was young, he served as a soldier and had been to Spain, Italy, France and Germany. At the same time, he went in for politics. He cared much about the development of capitalism(资本主义). He had written a lot of articles against it and he was put into prison twice for that. It was not until that he was nearly sixty that he began to write the famous novel “Robinson Crusoe”, which was published in May, 1709. It spread so rapidly that the story was known to every household very soon.

“Robinson Crusoe” can be divided into three parts. The first part is about Crusoe’s three voyages, the second part about his hunting, hiding in caves farming and his hard struggles against nature on a small island, the third about the things which happened after his return from the island. The second part is the body of the novel, in which Robinson’s characters are clearly shown. Defoe wrote his novel in a simple style and his language is easy to understand. His novel writing set a milestone of the modern English novel. In his later part of life, He was in poor health and lived very poorly. He died on April 24, 1731.

1.Deniel Defoe was _______ and the writer of _______.

A. an Englishman, “A Tale of Two Cities”

B. an American, “A Million Pound Note”

C. a French, “The Lost Necklace”

D. an English, “Robinson Crusoe”

2.How old was he when he began to write his famous novel Robinson Crusoe?

A. He was in his sixties.

B. He was in his fifties.

C. He was over 60.

D. He was sixty.

3.Robinson Crusoe can be divided into ______ parts and the first is about _______.

A. three, his journeys by sea

B. three, his characters

C. two, his lonely life

D. four, his fame

4.“Every household” in this passage means ________.

A. all members of a family

B. all people

C. every building

D. persons living in the same house

5.What was Defoe’s contribution(贡献) to the English literature?

A. He wrote a very interesting story.

B. He made people happy while reading his story.

C. He set a milestone of the modern English novel.

D. He was active in politics and was against capitalism.

Growing up, I wanted to be just like my mom. She was kind. People always seemed to feel comfortable in her presence. For years, she was a volunteer in our community. I loved going to the local nursing home with her where she taught a ceramic class.

On one summer day, Mama told me to get changed and meet her at the car.

I had planned to spend the day at the lake with friends. Why did she have to ruin everything? I imagined the cool lake water. Irritated使烦燥，I climbed into the car and slammed the door shut. We sat in silence. I was too upset to make conversation.

“Tasha, would you like to know where we are going?” Mama asked calmly.

“No,” I said.

“We are going to volunteer at a children’s shelter today. I have been there before and I think it would benefit you,” she explained.

When we reached the shelter, Mama rang the doorbell. Moments later, we were greeted by a woman. She led us to the front room where all of the children were playing. I noticed a baby whose body was scarred with iron marks. I was told it was because she wouldn’t stop crying. The majority of the children had noticeable physical scars. Others hid their emotional wounds.

As I took in my surroundings, I felt a gentle tug猛拉，牵引on my shirt. I looked down to see a little girl looking up at me. “Hi. You want to play dolls with me?” she asked. I looked over at Mama for reinforcement. She smiled and nodded. I turned back and said, “Sure.” Her tiny hand reached up and held mine, as if to comfort me.

My mom taught me a valuable lesson that summer. I returned to the shelter with her several times. During those visits, some of the children shared their troubled pasts with me and I learned to be grateful for what I had. Today as I try to instill (逐渐灌输) these values in my own child, I reflect back to that experience. It was a time that I will never forget.

1.The author admired her mom for ________.

A. her kindness to others

B. her excellent teaching

C. her quality of honesty

D. her positive attitude to life

2.According to Paragraph 3, when she was asked to go out with her mom, the author was ________.

A. excited B. angry

C. surprisedD. worried

3.From the passage we learn most children in the shelter ________.

A. were often punished by staff

B. weren’t allowed to go outside

C. were once treated badly

D. all suffered from mental illness

4.The underlined word “reinforcement” in the passage is closest in meaning to “________”.

A. truthB. help

C. comfortD. support

5.What lesson did the author learn from her experience?

A. To value what you take for granted.

B. To play with children is fun.

C. To love others is to love yourself.

D. To do as what your parents do.

TOKYO, Japan (AP) – Japan is very serious about robotics (机器人技术). If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea. Fortunately, researchers at the University of Tokyo are exploring just that. In a show this week, a humanoid（有人类特点的）with camera eyes made by Kawada Industries Inc. poured tea from a bottle into a cup. Then another robot on wheels delivered the cup of tea in an experimental room that has sensors embedded in the floor and sofa as well as cameras on the ceiling, to simulate（模仿）life with robot technology.

“A human being may be faster, but you’d have to say ‘Thank you,’” said University of Tokyo professor Tomomasa Sato. “That’s the best part about a robot. You don’t have to feel bad about asking it to do things.”

Sato believes Japan, a rapidly aging society where more than a fifth of the population is 65 or older, will lead the world in designing robots to care for the elderly, sick and bedridden（卧床不起的）.

Already, monitoring technologies, such as sensors that automatically turn on lights when people enter a room, are becoming widespread in Japan.

The walking, child–size Asimo from Honda Motor Co. greets people at showrooms. NEC Corp. has developed a smaller companion robot–on–wheels called Papero. A seal robot available since 2004 can entertain the elderly and others in need of fuzzy companionship.

Sato says his experimental room is raising awareness about privacy questions that may arise when electronic devices（设备）monitor a person’s movements down to the smallest detail.

On the bright side, the tea – pouring humanoid has been programmed to do the dishes.

1.What is the best title of this passage?

A. “Thank You” Will Never Be Needed in Japan

B. Monitoring Technologies Are Widespread in Japan

C. Robot Is Designed to Care for the Elderly.

D. Robot Technologies Are Widespread in Japanese Daily Life.

2.The underlined word “embedded” in the first paragraph probably means .

A. fixed B. established

C. settled D. rooted

3.According to Professor Sato, .

A. the robot serves tea much faster than a human being

B. the robot does anything like human beings

C. tea – serving robot helps to form laziness of the aging society

D. tea – serving robot doesn’t need any reward for the service

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. A robot can imitate people to complete complicated tasks.

B. A robot has been programmed to clean the dishes.

C. All the problems in the aging society can be solved by robots.

D. The number of aging people is increasing rapidly in Japan.

5.We can infer from the passage that .

A. people are afraid of being monitored by robots.

B. the technology of robots has been highlighted in Japan.

C. robots can completely take the place of human beings.

D. people’s privacy should be strictly protected

Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don’t keep them, since they’re not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.

So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.

Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.

The store’s own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.

The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions（获得物） have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.

Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.

1. Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______.

A. they are forgetful

B. they are in a hurry

C. there is no lost and found office in many airports

D. the owners of some luggage can’t be identified

2. The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that ______.

A. they have to find the owners

B. they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose

C. some bags are expensive

D. they have to keep the bags as long as possible

3.The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______.

A. there's a large variety of goods.

B. all the things there are very cheap.

C. visitors may purchase something undervalued.

D. Visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.

4.What can we infer from the passage?

A. A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage.

B. The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small.

C. The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use.

D. People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store.

5.What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America.

B. To introduce an attractive place to tourists.

C. To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage.

D. To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage.

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先，请阅读以下杂志的封面信息及简介：

请阅读以下人员信息，然后匹配人员与相关杂志：

1.Mr. Jones likes military history very much. He knows well a lot of battles in World War Two. Now he wishes to know even more. He wants to learn about some other battles that happened in different parts of the world, so he wants to get a magazine to help him.

2.Mr. Spencer has a very big family and they have different interests, so he wishes to subscribe a magazine that can satisfy all of his family members' needs. For example, he is interested in politics and events, his wife cares about movies while his sons and daughters love music and fashion.

3.Mrs. Baker is trying to subscribe a magazine for her son, aged 10, and her daughter, aged 8. She needs one that includes fun facts about human body and animals, stories, and illustrations designed to spark her children's interest, educating while also entertaining.

4.Mrs. Bates has a full-time job while she has to take care of her family. Sometimes she finds it really difficult for her to get meals ready for them after she gets back from work. Now she needs to find a magazine that could help her prepare some quick and easy food for her family.

5.Mr. Barrow runs a small pub in downtown areas and every day he gets quite a lot of customers who come for beers. To offer better service to his customers, he wishes to know more about beer like new trends in beer. So he wants to find a magazine to do that.

1.乡村的生活十分无聊，我不久就感到厌烦了。

The life in the country was so boring that I soon got _________ _________ _________ it

2.如果只是把佛罗里达看作是旅游胜地，那你就错了。

It's a mistake to think ofFlorida only_________ _________ _________its tourist attractions.

3.在地震中受损的房子需要修理。

Some buildings damaged in the earthquake are still _______ _________ _________ repair.

4.在政府的帮组下，农民们开始着手改变这个局面。

With the help of the government, the peasants ________ _______ _______ the situation.

5.我们队在比赛中输了的消息令我们很沮丧。

We ________ ________ ________ by the news that our team was defeated in the game.

假如你叫李华，现正在美国加利福尼亚州上大学，你的一个朋友刘英写信向你了解美国加利福尼亚州的情况，请根据以下内容提示给他回信简介加利福尼亚州。

＊加利福尼亚州： California；太平洋：the Pacific；印第安人：Indians

【写作内容】

请根据以上内容给朋友写回信，内容包括：

1、加里福尼亚的地理方面的信息;

2、人口及其语言方面的信息;

3、信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入句子数。

【写作要求】

只能用5个句子表达全部内容。

【评分标准】

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。

Dear Liu Ying,

Your letter reached me yesterday. You would like me to tell you something about California, so now I am writing to you.

If you want to know more, you may go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California/History. Best wishes to you.

Yours ever,

Li Hua

Despite the promising publishing industry in China today, many Chinese people spend little time reading. Some of them read just to kill time or prepare for the tests rather than enjoy the reading itself.

As far as I am concerned , Chinese people don’t read as much as they used to for the following reasons. For one thing, people have too much going on in their mind as China is now experiencing great changes, so it has become difficult for them to enjoy reading quietly; for another, with heavy work load, people in China only read when they need something for practical use or something relaxing to keep them away from working pressure.

Personally, reading is of great significance in life. It not only provides a source of satisfaction and pleasure, but also serves as a means to seek information and to acquire, develop and apply knowledge. Besides, people can read to enhance language proficiency and to broaden life experience as well.

I myself have improved English a lot through reading. At the beginning, I thought it difficult to read English novels but gradually, my language proficiency was enhanced before I realized it. Personally, it will make a great difference by reading.

【写作内容】

以约30个词概括上文的主要内容.

然后以约120个词就“阅读的意义”这一话题发表你的看法，并包括以下要点：

你认为现在中国人不如以前喜欢阅读的原因是什么？

你觉得阅读重要吗？为什么？

以你或他人的经历举例论证你的观点。

【写作要求】

1. 在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

Some scientists say that animals in the oceans are increasingly threatened by noise pollution caused by human beings.

The noise that affects sea creatures comes from a number of human activities. It is caused mainly by industrial underwater explosions, ocean drilling, and ship engines. Such noises are added to natural sounds. These sounds include the breaking of ice fields, underwater earthquakes, and sounds made by animals themselves.

Decibels (分贝) measured in water are different from those measured on land. A noise of one hundred and twenty decibels on land causes pain to human ears. In water, a decibel level of one hundred and ninety－five would have the same effect.

Some scientists have suggested setting a noise limit of one hundred and twenty decibels in the oceans. They have observed that noises at that level can frighten and confuse whales(鲸鱼).

A team of American and Canadian scientists discovered that louder noises can seriously injure some animals.

The research team found that powerful underwater explosions were causing whales in the area to lose their hearing. This seriously affected the whales' ability to exchange information and find their way. Some of the whales even died. The explosions had caused their ears to bleed and become infected.

Many researchers whose work depends on ocean sounds are against a limit of one hundred and twenty decibels. They say such a limit would mean an end to important industrial and scientific research.

Scientists do not know how much and what kinds of noises are harmful to ocean animals. However, many scientists don't think that noise is a greater danger than they believed. They want to prevent noises from harming creatures in the ocean.

1.According to the passage, natural sounds include all of the following EXCEPT________.

A．sounds made by animals themselves

B．ocean drilling

C．underwater earthquakes

D．the breaking of ice fields

2.Which of the following is true of whales？

A．They won't be confused by noises.

B．They are deaf to noises.

C．Their ability to reproduce will be lowered by high?level noises.

D．Their hearing will be damaged by high?level noises.

3.According to the passage, what will scientists most probably do in the future?

A．They will work hard to reduce ocean noise pollution.

B．They will protect sea animals from harmful noises.

C．They will try to set a limit of 120 decibels.

D．They will study the effect of ocean noise pollution.

Have you ever thought of joining a book club and buying new books through the post？Here at the International Book Club，we already have many members buying books from us by mail.

Immediate benefits：

?As a special offer，you may choose any reduced?price books from our new members’ book list，to the value of $6 in total (plus postage and packing)．By doing this，you will save pounds on the publishers’ prices.

?Tick the box on your form to order a free watch.

?If you reply within seven days，we will send you another free gift carefully chosen from our book list by our staff

?Order a DVD from the many on offer in our list，at half the recommended retail price.

When you’ve joined：

As a member，you’ll enjoy savings of between 30% and 50% off the publisher’s price on every book you buy，and what’s more，they’ll come straight to your door.Your free club magazine arrives once a month，to keep you up to date with the latest best?sellers.This means that every year we offer over 1,000 books to choose from.On the Internet，you can find all our titles for the year on our exclusive members’ website.

Being a member：

All we are asking you to do while you are a member is to choose four books during your first year.After that，you can decide on the number of books you wish to take.

In each of our monthly club magazines，our experienced staff choose a Club Choice book—a work of fiction or a reference title which they feel is particularly worth buying，and which is offered at an extra?special price.However，if you do not want this book，just say so in the space provided on the form.We will always send the book if we do not receive this.

So，return your application form today，but hurry—it’s not every day we can make you an offer like this.To apply to become a member，all you need to do is simply fill in the enclosed form and return it in the postage?paid envelope supplied.

Before you know it，your books will be with you.Please don’t send any money now，as we will send you your bill with the books.And remember，you have up to a fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered.You should then either return the books or send your payment.

1.Which of the following doesn’t belong to the benefits of being a club member?

A．Get four books for free in the first year.

B．Order a free watch.

C．Get a gift for nothing.

D．Order a DVD at a low price.

2.Every month the club provides a free club magazine in order to________.

A．let readers know the number of books to be sold

B．keep readers well informed of recent best?selling books

C．make readers know the club’s development

D．attract more and more readers to join the club

3.If a book is worth $100，how much will a member probably save if he buys one?

A．$20.B．$40.

C．$60.D．$70.

4.What should you do if you want to join the book club?

A．Just fill in a form with personal information and send the club an email.

B．Ask other club members to recommend you to the club.

C．Fill in an application form with needed information and return it to the club.

D．Apply for a membership card.