Brooke Martin’s golden retriever(金毛猎犬) Kayla hated being left alone or separated. She would howl, pace, and chew on things. Brooke learned that other people had the same problem with their pets. She wondered: ―What if you could talk to your dog if you were gone?

Working with her father in their garage, the 16-year-old came up with several ideas. Finally, she invented a device that allowed pet owners to video chat with their pets! She calls the device iCPooch. ―The dog doesn’t have to answer the call,explains Brooke. ―It comes up immediately on the screen on their end. It’s a two-way audio and video—you can see and hear each other.With a click of a button you can even send the dog a treat!

Her invention has earned her a spot competing against nine other finalists in a young scientist competition for middle-school students. These finalists, selected based on their short video presentations, are working with mentors over the summer before heading to the final competition in St. Paul, Minn.

After Martin’s video put her among the 10 finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, she was paired with Delony Langer-Anderson, a product development scientist in 3M’s consumer health care division. ―I just lead her down the product development path,Langer-Anderson told Live Science. This path includes guidance on how to test the potential product, which combines a video chat device that answers immediately on the dog’s end with a dog treat device the owner can remotely activate.

One thing I have thought about a lot is, what happens if while the device is on the floor, what if your dog knocks it over, or scratches the screen? Martin said. She and Langer-Anderson discussed this, and Martin is now testing materials at a local dog shelter by taping them to the dog house floors to see how well they withstand sharp teeth and claws.

The finalists create models they can test, with the guidance from a mentor. Their projects include a fuel cell that transforms cut grass into electricity and an app that rewards drivers for not texting or calling. Langer-Anderson tries to help the students work through the scientific method, testing their hypothesis, in a determined way, ―so the kids don’t get buried in data.she said.

1.Which of the following would be the best title of the text?

A.“iCPooch” wins in a young scientist competition.

B. A 16-year-old girl invents a device for dog hunger.

C. A man-made device lets people chat with their pets.

D. A kid-invented device calm dogs’ separation anxiety.

2.“iCPooch”calms pet dogs by ________.

A. allowing video chat

B. making dogs sleep

C. answering the call

D. giving them food

3.What is the probable meaning of the underlined word “mentor”

A. competitor B. assistant C. instructor D. companion

4.What do the inventions of the finalists have in common?

A. They are all new inventions dealing with pets.

B. They are possible solutions to everyday problems.

C. They cope with the problems related to computers.

D. They are all accomplished through individual work.

Nowadays，people everywhere seem to find less and less time available to them, and more and more things to achieve. It’s quite common to find people running around like headless chickens meeting deadlines that they create. One doesn’t have to live this way, in stress and struggle. 1.

Breathing – I can’t stress enough the importance of learning how to breathe properly, and not only when you’re stressed, but at all times that you can. Learning how to breathe properly at all times is essential. You should try to deepen and lengthen your breath to lower the stress level and promote relaxation.2.

Relaxing – We often think that just going to the gym and working out is the right way to go to relax ourselves.3. A good hard workout is good from time to time, but you are still running at full steam ahead and not giving yourself time to relax. So lighting some fragrant candles, taking a slow hot bath or a shower, or meditating for even 10 minutes will do wonders to help you relax your mind and get out of the stress zone.

Let it all out –4.So calling or meeting up with a person who can listen and empathize with us, is often a great way to relax. It’s important that we don’t go into victim mode and get too negative. When we let out our frustrations, it should be done in a positive manner, and with lightheartedness, even joking about the stress we’re under.

5.– Probably one of the most difficult skills at first to master, but in the end one of the most rewarding to learn in our fast-paced society is the attitude of gratitude. We can do some gratitude list making right on the spot to get out of our heads and away from all that we wished we had but don’t, and to be thankful for all that we do have. I swear learning how to do this will relax you in a way that will change your life for the better.

Hopefully this article helped you to find an answer to your question about how to relax your mind from stress. Try these techniques and let us know, what works best for you.

A. Be thankful to your friends.

B. Be grateful for what you have.

C. But this pace doesn’t do much for our mind or stress levels.

D. You can either lie down on the floor or sit comfortably to relax yourself.

E. In this article we will present a few tips on how to relax your mind from stress.

F. In addition, deeper breathes help to get rid of harmful substances in your lungs.

G. Sometimes we need to just let out our frustrations and worries to a close friend.

完形填空。阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

That night we lay on the floor in the room and I listened to the silk-worms eating. The silk-worms .on shelves of mulberry (桑树)leaves and all night you could hear them eating and a dropping sound in the leaves. I myself didn’t want to because I had been living for a long time with the that if I ever shut my eyes in the dark and let myself go, my would go out of my body. I had been that way for a long time, since I was sleepless at night and felt it go out of me and go off and then .I tried never to think about it, but it had started to go since, in the nights, just at the of going off to sleep, and I could only stop it by a very great . So while now I am fairly sure that it would not really have gone out, yet then, that summer, I was unwilling to make the .

I had different ways of myself while I lay awake. I would think of a trout(鳟鱼) stream I had fished along when I was a boy; and fish its whole length very in my mind; fishing under all the logs, all the turns of the , the deep holes and the clear shallow stretches, sometimes .trout and sometimes losing them. I would stop fishing at noon to eat my lunch; sometimes on a log the stream; sometimes on a high bank under a tree; and I always ate my lunch very slowly and the stream below me while I ate. Often I ran out of bait(诱饵) because I would take ten .with me in a tobacco tin when I started. When I had used them all I had to find worms and sometime it was very difficult digging in the bank of the stream the cedar trees kept out the sun and there was no grass but only the wet earth and often I could find no worms. Always I found some kind of bait, but one time in the swamp I could find no bait at all and had to one of the trout I had caught and used him for bait.

1.A. lived B. fed C. moved D. carried

2.A. eat B. sleep C. talk D. leave

3.A. purpose B. imagination C. knowledge D. excuse

4.A. soul B. idea C. sense D. temper

5.A. even B. yet C. still D. ever

6.A. come back B. come up C. get away D. get off

7.A. risk B. moment C. sight D. request

8.A. intention B. regret C. effort D. focus

9.A. achievement B. encouragement C. entertainment D. experiment

10.A. occupying B. devoting C. concerning D. equipping

11.A. casually B. aimlessly C. painfully D. carefully

12.A. root B. bank C. jungle D. coast

13.A. spotting B. approaching C. killing D. catching

14.A. beyond B. over C. through D. beneath

15.A. watched B. conducted C. crossed D. measured

16.A. weeds B. worms C. insects D. leaves

17.A. better B. larger C. more D. heavier

18.A. when B. how C. why D. where

19.A. bare B. pure C. holy D. vivid

20.A. cut up B. cut down C. cut off D. cut in

昨天我校邀请知名校友李先生为高三学生作报告，请你根据以下要点为我校英文期刊Shoots写一篇100字左右的报道：

1. 校友回忆在我校学习的经历；

2. 校友的成功及对母校的感激；

3. 自己听报告后的感想。

注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加情节，以使行文连贯； 3. 开头语已为你写好。

Yesterday we invited Mr. Li，a famous scholar and schoolmate of our school，to give a speech to us Senior 3 students

--- What do you think of the new manager of your department?

--- Oh, he is ______ manager who’s pleasant to work with. I mean, it is ______ pleasure to work with him.

A. the; \ B. a; a C. a; the D. \; a

Was it on the train “ Harmony” ______ John met with his girl friend?

A. that B. when C. which D. where

At the meeting, the old man ______some good advice and all the people there agreed with them.

A. came about B. came up

C. came out D. came up with

Hurry up! The train ______. You know it ______ at 8:30 am.

A. leaves; leaves B. is leaving; leaves

C. leaves; is leaving D. is leaving; is leaving

I don't know _______.

A. how can I finish my homework on time

B. how I could finish my homework on time

C. I can how finish my homework on time

D. how I can finish my homework on time

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________ why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________ to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was ________ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely ________ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） ________ . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n） ________ .

We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we ________ the social ladder（梯子）And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on ________ we are than what we do!

1.A. window B. garage C. door D. yard

2.A. park B. stop C. check D. repair

3.A. knew B. understood C. asked D. wondered

4.A. for B. out of C. without D. from

5.A. business B. national C. personal D. public

6.A. wasteful B. useful C. wonderful D. careful

7.A. appeared B. happened C. expected D. intended

8.A. broken B. closed C. shut D. open

9.A. once B. before C. when D. until

10.A. driver B. engineer C. father D. son

11.A. experience B. earning C. life D. position

12.A. stay up B. wake up C. take up D. warm up

13.A. family B. company C. team D. whole

14.A. build B. climb C. stand D. lay

15.A. who B. what C. which D. where