-What life_______be like without cell phones？

-I cannot imagine it！

A． may B． can C． will D． would

In the last few years the popularity of eBooks has exploded．The advantages are clear：You can carry as many hooks with you as you want．You can simply download ever7 book you like and instantly start reading instead of having to wait for the book to arrive by mail．

However，one thing hadn't changed．If you wanted to rent a book you were still forced to use hardcopy books．Until now that is．Amazon．com recently announced the start of a new program where you can rent eBooks．

Where to rent eBooks？

As mentioned before，Amazon．com is the first and currently the only retailer (零售商) that has a program in place for renting eBooks．Luckily，Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world and their eBook assortment (分类) is massive．They are also the producer of the Kindle，the most popular eReader，which means you can be sure that the eBooks you rent will work．

You can currently only rent eTextbooks．But this is likely to change as soon as the word gets out that you can save money by renting eBooks．

Why rent eBooks at Amazon？

~ Save money：Save up t0 80% of the normal price of the eBook．

~ Decide how long you rent：From 30 days t0 360 days，you decide how long you want it．You can extend the time by as little as a day．Or simply buy the eBook if you want to keep it after all．

~ Use any device：If you rent an eBook from Amazon，you can read it on your PC，Mac，iPad，iPhone，Android device，Windows Phone 7．Blackberry．or Kindle．

~ Keep your notes：Do you like to keep annotations (注释) and highlights in your eBooks？Don't worry．You can always revisit your notes and highlights through Amazon．com．

How to rent eBooks？

Simply search for the eBook you want to rent on Amazon．com and select the "Rent eBooks" option．After that，a new page will open where you can select how long you’d like to rent the eBook．You can read eBooks for a period of 30 t0 360 days．

You decide how long you need the eBook．1f you later find out you need it for longer．you can simply extend the time．Or buy it for the normal price whenever you want．

Once you've chosen the Lime you want to rent the eBook，you simply go to checkout．Or you can use the "Rent now" button．

1.According to the passage，_________

A． eBooks will be changed into other types by Amazon．com

B． eBooks will replace hardcover hooks in the next few years

C． readers get a discount of at least 20% of the normal price

D． readers are able to rent eBooks only at Amazon．com now

2.To rent an eBook online，which of the following goes last？

A． open a new page

B． select the "Rent eBooks" option

C． choose a rental date

D． press "Rent now" button

3.The main purpose of the passage is to_________．

A． inform and explain

B． discuss and assess

C． compare and evaluate

D． describe and argue

The Purpose of Boredom Being bored can encourage people's creativity-partly to escape the horrible，frustrated．And meaningless feeling of boredom-recent studies find．It could even be true at work．

Psychologists at the University of Central Lancashire had participants copy numbers out of the telephone book for 15 minutes，while others went straight into a standard creativity task．

Both groups were asked to come up with as many different uses as they could for a plastic cup．The group that felt more bored came up with more uses．

Dr．Sandi Mann，one of the study's authors said．" Boredom at work has always been seen as something to he removed．hut perhaps we should be welcoming it in order to encourage our creativity．What we want LO do next is to see what the practical implications of this finding are．Do people who are bored at work become more creative in other areas of their work-or do they go home and write novels？"

In a later study，Dr．Sandi Mann found that creativity was reduced when people were still bored but didn't have the chance to daydream．

While we tend to think of boredom as something；that certainly leads to trouble-drinking，gambling．and antisocial behavior，this research suggests different possibilities．

More than anything，the feeling of boredom is a 8trong signal that we are stuck in some kind of rut and we need to seek out new goals．In the study above，this research led participants to new ideas．

Usually people will do anything to avoid being bored．as it's such an aversive experience．But creative people，like writers，sometimes talk about seeking out boredom．

Here is the comedy writer Graham Linehan talking about boredom Lo The Cuardian．"I have to use all these programs that cut off the Internet，force me to be bored，because being bored is an essential part of writing，and the Internet has made it very hard to be bored．The creative process requires a period of boredom ，of being stuck．That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block，but it's actually just part of a long process．"

So，when you start to feel bored ，instead of g7ancing at your smartphone．，try being bored for a bit．Who knows what creative thought might come of it？

1.From the study of Dr．Sandi Mann，we can learn that________．

A． boring tasks make people creative

B． daydreaming may increase creativity

C． plastic cups can be used very creatively

D． copying numbers might be very interesting

2.The underlined word "aversive" in Paragraph 8 probably means________

A． common B． unpleasant

C． unusual D． personal

3.According to Craham Linehan________．

A． glancing at a smartphone is a solution．

B． he is forced to feel bored by the Internet

C． the boredom period is a block for writers

D． being stuck for a period benefits him a lot

4.What is the author's attitude towards boredom？

A． Critical B． Cautious

C． Positive D． Unclear

请你给外籍教师David Hill写一封信，内容包括：

1．你班计划于11月14日（星期五）下午4：00-5：30举行一场英语演讲比赛

2．邀请他担任评委，并请他于当天下午3：45到达306教室；

3．期待他能应邀前来，并为占用他的休息时间表达歉意。

注意：1．词数不少于50；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．开头和结尾已给出，不计人总词数。

Dear Mr．Hill’

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Kind Regards

Anthony

假设你是红星中学高三（1）班的学生李华，请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，为校刊“英语园地”写一篇短文，记述你和同学们今年为老师庆祝教师节的过程。

注意：1．词数不少于60；

2．短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。

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If you can’t trust your friend to have a relationship with another person you consider a friend, it’s a clear ______ of a problem in your friendships.”

A. disappearance B. symbol

C. symptom D. settlement

Busy with their business, they had no time to ______ their wedding, so they had it organized by a company.

A. accelerate B. arrange

C. approve D. acknowledge

The Spring Festival is the most joyful time of the year, but it can also be ______ . With all the traveling, visiting relatives, and gift-buying, the holiday can become a tense time for many families.

A. beneficial B. optional

C. commercial D. stressful

The electronic red-packet has been so ______ that AliPay and Tencent Wechat compete against each other openly and secretly since the beginning of this year.

A. popular B. convenient

C. favorable D. arbitrary

In my class, there was a really weak-looking guy. I don’t know if his name was Vit or Wit. I will him as Wit in this story of mine. He was a pale, thin guy. Not only his build looked weak, the way he was also weak. He walked slowly but he tried to stay off of everyone’s way. The friends in my class, Jean and Ingrid, would him. Truth to be told,

I them as well. We did things like taking his stuff, like his pens and pencils, and them somewhere in the school.

Wit was also really of insects, even butterfly. Jean, Ingrid, and I often put beetle on his clothes and he would run around, trying to it off. There were many beetles in the school so that was the insect we used to scare him with. Other insects such as butterfly were hard to so we pretty much gave up on it. We would often take the when Wit was off-guard and put the insects on him. it was on him, he would run around or jump about. He was too scared to it and pull it off.

Suddenly one day, we were by the school. When I walked into the room, Wit’s mother, as well as Ingrid’s mother, Jean’s father, and mine were in the room silently. Wit’s mother said that Wit went home and the sandbag shouting “Jean!!! Ingrid!!! Archer!!!” every day. I wanted to laugh but didn’t with all the she was putting on us .She asked many things, including things I had no idea about such as “Who put Wit’s bag in the girl toilet?” Apparently, it was Jean who did it. Jean seemed to have bullied Wit quite a lot and got quite a(n) from Wit’s and her own mother.

I think it should have been quite guilty for to see us scolded by the parents. However , we decided to stop bullying Wit and be friendly to him.

1.A. briefly B. abruptly C. actually D. constantly

2.A. think of B. focus on C. laugh at D. refer to

3.A. acted B. operated C. attacked D. responded

4.A. get close to B. look up to C. get tired of D. make fun of

5.A. betrayed B. joined C. teased D. rejected

6.A. hid B. distributed C. threw D. preserved

7.A. fond B. scared C. cautious D. ashamed

8.A. see B. set C. shake D. take

9.A. only B. acute C. main D. rare

10.A. find B. recognize C. raise D. capture

11.A. chance B. risk C. trouble D. order

12.A. While B. Though C. Once D. Unless

13.A. attach B. touch C. sniff D. defend

14.A. picked out B. called in C. spied on D. kicked off

15.A. staring B. sighing C. sitting D. weeping

16.A. carried B. threw C. filled D. hit

17.A. nearly B. hardly C. merely D. approximately

18.A. burden B. pressure C. duty D. doubt

19.A. forgiving B. understanding C. praising D. scolding

20.A. Ingrid B. Jean C. Wit D. Mother