根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How Can I Fight Laziness?

Lazy people will never gain anything in life. However, laziness can be defeated once a few changes have been made in your mind.

1. Many people lack sleep constantly, since they stay up too late and get up too early to prepare for work. These people have little motivation once they arrive home. Laziness works hand in hand with a lack of motivation and a tendency to put off things. By adjusting your sleep schedule to provide a few more hours of meaningful rest, you can fight laziness throughout the day.

Another way to fight laziness is to change your mind from passive to active. Some people treat their lives as if they were pushed from task to task. Others take a more positive approach, viewing each task as a challenge they must overcome alone. 2.

Some people fight laziness by removing the temptations(诱惑) that surround them. A television in the living room may provide entertainment, but watching too much TV often contributes to laziness. 3. Complete a few tasks and reward yourself with what you enjoy, such as a good dinner or a film.

Laziness can also be a lasting problem at home. Couples and children may all have different energy levels, but laziness can be spread if not dealt with immediately. 4. Be the first to collect and wash dishes after a meal. Others in the home may eventually follow your example and perform their own task. It is difficult to practice laziness when you are surrounded by motivated（积极的） people.

5. Enough exercise and a balanced diet can help you to develop a healthy lifestyle, thus enabling you to have more energy and help lift your spirits.

A. Knowing how to fight laziness is important.

B. To fight family laziness, set an example.

C. Finally, taking exercise regularly can help you fight laziness.

D. One way to fight laziness is to get enough sleep.

E. Create a reward system for yourself, just as parents do for a child.

F. Laziness appears when you no longer feel in charge of your own mind.

G. With strong determination, you will be able to achieve your goal.

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Once upon a time a teacher and his student lay down under a big tree near the big grass area．Then ________ the student asked the teacher，“Teacher，I’m puzzled．How do we ________ our soul mate(知己)?Could you please ________ me?”

________ for a few seconds，the teacher then answered，“Well，it’s a pretty hard and easy question．” The teacher ________ ，“Look that way．There is a lot of ________ ．Why don’t you walk there? But please don’t walk ________ ．On your way，try to find a blade(叶片)of beautiful grass and ________ it and then give it to me．But just one”.

The student said OK and then he walked straight ________ to the grassy field．A few minutes later，the student came back ________ ．When the teacher asked the ________ , the student said，“On my journey，I found quite a ________ beautiful blades of grass，but I ________ that I would find a better one，so I didn’t pick it． ________ I didn’t realize that I was at the ________ of the field，and I hadn’t picked any because you told me not to go back，so I didn’t go back.” Hearing this, the teacher said，“That’s ________ will happen in real life”.

What is the ________ of this story? In the story，grass is the people around you；the beautiful blade grass is the people that ________ you and the grassy field is time．In looking for your soul mate，please don’t always ________ and hope that there will be a better one．By doing that，you’ll ________ your lifetime．Remember “Time Never Goes Back．”

1.A. personally B. absolutely C. suddenly D. immediately

2.A. discover B. treat C. search D. find

3.A. ask B. help C. beg D. order

4.A. Silent B. Still C. Quiet D. Calm

5.A. repeated B. waved C. charged D. continued

6.A. grass B. earth C. field D. leaves

7.A. straight B. forwards C. backwards D. directly

8.A. observe B. pick C. arrest D. solve

9.A. up B. back C. ahead D. along

10.A. green-hand B. empty-handed C. single-hand D. second-hand

11.A. evidence B. shape C. reason D. purpose

12.A. little B. few C. much D. many

13.A. thought B. doubted C. admitted D. attached

14.A. And B. Although C. While D. But

15.A. end B. center C. bottom D. top

16.A. how B. why C. when D. what

17.A. result B. content C. limit D. message

18.A. attract B. hate C. form D. upset

19.A. forgive B. compare C. appreciate D. complain

20.A. run B. inspect C. waste D. save

短文改错

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一篇作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，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11处起）不记分。

My brother Tom was very selfish when he was a little boy. He didn't want share things with other people. For an example，when he bought a chocolate cake，he put them in a secret place where I could not find . Then he eats it all by himself. He never helped others. He said he was busy. In fact，a game of tennis making him very busy. He didn't care if something he did made people angrily. For instance，in a cold night he played strong and loudly music till 4 o'clock in the morning. But he is difference now. He often helps Grandma with housework，mom with cooking and his classmates with their lessons.

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Dear March - Come in -

How glad I am -

I hoped for you before ...

Who knocks? That April –共和国广告广告

Lock the Door -

I will not be pursued -

He stayed away a year to call -

When I am occupied -

But trifles(琐事) look so trivial(不重要的) -

As soon as you have come ...

This lovely poem was written by Emily Dickinson, who is considered a major American poet, though she was not accorded (符合) this honor until well after her death.

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended school for only one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few. She lived in almost complete isolation(隔离) from the outside world.

She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barren Browning, as well as John Keats. Though she was dissuaded (劝阻) from reading the poetry of her contemporary Walt Whitman by rumors of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice.

While Dickinson was extremely prolific (多产的) as a poet, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. Upon her death, Dickinson's family discovered forty hand-bound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems. Her younger sister began to share the enormous body of work that Emily left behind.

Emily's odd punctuation, capitalization(大写), and formatting(格式) did not meet with standard publishing "approval" for earlier editions. There is a whimsical (古怪的) nature to many other poems, as the subject of death was the most frequent theme.

1. In the poem, the poetess was speaking to ______.

A. a little girl B. a long-lost family member

C. a nice season D. a cute animal

2.What is a feature of Emily Dickinson's poems?

A. They do not pay attention to rhymes.

B. They resemble those of Walt Whitman.

C. They have a strange format.

D. They reflect her personal and social life.

3.According to the text, Emily Dickinson _______.

A. was completely homeschooled and had a talent for writing poems

B. was greatly influenced by four of her contemporary poets

C. is regarded as a leading poet in American literature

D. published a large number of poems during her lifetime

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A. 15 minutes. B. 30 minutes.

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2.What is special about the battery?

A. It is built in an iPhone.

B. It is the smallest of its kind.

C. It can also be used as a charger.

D. It keeps power for about 30 days.

3.Who mentions the transporting of the battery?

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Envy seems to be bad-but it doesn't have to be. Researchers are finding that, if approached the right way, there can actually be an advantage.

Psychologists classify envy in two ways: negative and positive. With positive envy, you are motivated by another person's success and struggle to follow it. With negative envy, you want to cut the advantaged person down so you look better by comparison. Let's say you feel sufferings of envy after your rival(对手) at another firm gets promoted. Negative envy might drive you to destroy his success, but positive envy would inspire you to work harder and get promoted, too.

Studies show positive envy can be a great motivator(动力). In a 2011 study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers in the Netherlands conducted a series of experiments with more than 200 university students. Researchers found that when they caused feelings of positive envy----as opposed to admiration or negative envy----in the students, it drove them to want to study more and perform better on a test measuring creativity and intelligence. While admiration may feel better, the researchers found, it doesn't motivate performance like the pain and frustration of envy.

“Those painful sufferings of envy are there for an evolutionary(进化的) reason,” says Texas Christian University researcher Sarah E. Hill, “warning us that someone has something of importance to us.” Building on this theory, Dr. Hill and others conducted a series of experiments, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, to test whether envy improves attention and memory----the tools needed to copy a rival's steps to success. In one experiment, half of the participants were asked to recall past feelings of envy; the other half weren't. The two groups were then shown mock(模拟的) interviews of imaginary peers. The group filled with envy paid closer attention and better recalled details about the interview subjects. In other words, envy made them more astute（机敏的）. Not only can envy motivate us to reach for higher goals, it may even give us the cognitive push to get there.

1.What’s the bad effect of negative envy?

A. It makes you lose heart and gets discouraged.

B. It has you feel motivated.

C. It makes you harm or hurt others on purpose.

D. It reminds you to struggle to follow your dreams.

2.What’s the benefit of positive envy?

A. It inspires you to find a possible rival to try to defeat them.

B. It encourages you to work harder with a positive attitude.

C. It won’t hurt your opponents in the same firm.

D. It won’t destroy your success at another firm.

3.Compared to admiration, positive envy can__________.

A. make you feel worse in all sides

B. be more likely to get you to admire others

C. make you feel the pain in your performance

D. be more likely to get you inspired to get success

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Envy seems to be bad.

B. Keep your envy in secret.

C. Make full use of positive envy.

D. Forget about your envy now.

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，选出可以填入空白的最佳选项。

Our planet isn't in very good shape right now. The air is . The ocean is polluted. The problem we’re facing is really . It may seem like there’s so much we need to do, to make things right. And that’s the . We don’t need to do more. we need to do less.

Let’s take a look at some of the we can use the power of LESS to save the planet.

Driving less, walking more. Not only will you be saving the environment, you’ll be saving your________ as well.

Wanting less, appreciating more. Instead of wanting a big home you can’t afford, maybe you should live in a smaller home in a ________ expensive area.

Talking less, listening more. We usually spend most of our time ________ . And actually you would be ________ how much people never really hear each other at all. Think about how your life can be improved by ________ people better.

Spend more ________ being mindful. We often ________ a lot of time trying to do too many things ________ . We try to print a report and ________ on the phone at the same time. Doing this we run the ________ of printing the wrong pages and saying the wrong thing.

Buy less things. The more things we ________ , the more resources we take from the planet. The more we buy, the larger that ________ becomes. Buying new things isn’t really a bad thing. ________ is our desire to buy the newest and greatest each year or every few months that is dangerous. After all, that ________ thing has to go somewhere. And it’s probably in the landfill somewhere.

How can you use the ________ of LESS to help save the planet? I would love to hear your ideas.

1.A. clean B. blue C. dirty D. fresh

2.A. perfect B. simple C. ridiculous D. untrue

3.A. problem B. manner C. measure D. hope

4.A. Specially B. Clearly C. Luckily D. Actually

5.A. suggestions B. ways C. plans D. tasks

6.A. wish B. mind C. thought D. heart

7.A. less B. much C. more D. little

8.A. listening B. talking C. reading D. writing

9.A. excited B. pleased C. amazed D. annoyed

10.A. treating B. thanking C. teaching D. understanding

11.A. money B. effort C. time D. energy

12.A. waste B. spend C. save D. spare

13.A. at once B. at last C. at least D. at all

14.A. tell B. scream C. talk D. hold

15.A. risk B. chance C. luck D. means

16.A. sell B. find C. know D. buy

17.A. debt B. resource C. energy D. doubt

18.A. This B. That C. It D. Such

19.A. new B. expensive C. useful D. old

20.A. ability B. power C. value D. help

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

1. video of several renowned singers performing the same song, A-mei’s Listen to the Sea, appeared on Weibo’s hot post rankings soon after South Korean artist The One 2. (deliver) his version on the stage at Hunan TV’s I’m a Singer on March 6.

Now we can thank Sing My Song for 3. (offer) music fans more choices to add to their playlists.

There have been many singing competitions 4. Super Girl started the craze(热潮) in 2005. Among them is The Voice of China, 5. aims to find the singer with the 6. (strong) vocal abilities. I’m a Singer provides a platform for veterans（老兵） to rediscover their passion for music and challenge 7. . Super Girl and Super Boy are intended to find the next super idol for the show business. The 8. (win) don’t need to be the best singer but their personality must be 9. (difference) from others, that is to say, they must have a distinct personality.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the UK’s ITV has created a British version of Sing My Song, 10. (mark) the first time a Chinese format talent show has been exported abroad.

单词拼写

1.I missed a good o__________ (机会) to give my opinion on it.

2.He will never decide to a__________ (抛弃，遗弃) the search for truth.

3.You should __________ (道歉) to her because you’ve hurt her feelings.

4.People should be very __________(小心的，谨慎的) about believing this statement.

5.He __________ (后悔) that he had been careless.

6.Don’t worry. Please sit down and __________ (放松).

7.This kind of paper __________ (吸收) ink well.

8.He had the __________ (勇气) to sail around the world in a yacht.

9.__________ (不管，不顾) the traffic jam, he arrived there on time.

10.His play was __________ (完美的) in every way.