A little boy selling magazines for school walked up to a house that people hardly visited. The house was very old and the owner hardly ever came out. When he did come out he would not say hello to neighbors or passers by but simply just glare(瞪眼看)at them.

The boy knocked on the door and waited, sweating from fear of the old man. The boy's parents told him to stay away from the house. A lot of the other neighborhood children were told the same from their parents.

As he was ready to walk away, the door slowly opened. " What do you want?" the old man said. The little boy was very afraid but he had a quota(份额) to meet for school with selling the magazines.

"Uh, sir, I uh am selling these magazines and uh I was wondering if you would like to buy one." The old man just stared at the boy. The boy could see inside the old man's house and saw that he had dog figurines(小狗雕像) on the wall. "Do you collect dogs?" the little boy asked. "Yes, I have many collections in my house. They are my family here. They are all I have." The boy then felt sorry for the man, as it seemed that he was a very lonely soul. "Well, I do have a magazine here for collectors. It is perfect for you. I also have one about dogs since you like dogs so much." The old man was ready to close the door on the boy and said, "No boy, I don't need any magazines of any kind, now goodbye."

The little boy was sad that he was not going to make his quota with the sale. He was also sad for the old man being so alone in the big house that he owned. The boy went home and then had an idea. He had a little dog figurine that he got some years ago from an aunt. The figurine did not mean nearly as much to him since he had a real live dog and a large family.

Paragraph 1: The boy headed back down to the old man's house with the figurine.

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Paragraph 2: From that day on something changed inside the old man.

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The child went missing on January 22. He was playing with friends at his grandmother’s house in the southern state of North Carolina. When the other children returned home but Casey did not, the family searched the area for almost an hour before calling the police. Police formed a search and rescue team to look for the young boy in the nearby woods. But two days went by and still — no Casey.

Then on January 24, someone called the police saying he heard a child crying in the woods. Police followed up on the information and found Casey at about 9 ：30 that night. They pulled him out of some briar. He was in good health. Casey told the rescuers that he had hung out with a black bear for two days, a bear he called his "friend".

Sheriff Chip Hughes spoke with reporters from several news agencies. He said Casey did not say how he was able to survive in the woods for three days in the cold, rainy weather. However, the sheriff said, “ He did say he had a friend in the woods that was a bear that was with him. ”

Hundreds of people helped in the search and rescue efforts, including some 600 volunteers, federal police and members of the military. Officer Hughes told reporters that at no point did he think Casey had been kidnapped.

His mother Brittany Hathaway talked with reporters from a local news agency and thanked everyone who joined the search for her son. “ We just want to tell everybody that we’re very thankful that you took the time out to search for Casey and prayed for him, and he's good, ” said his mother. “ He is good, he is up and talking. He’s already asked to watch Netflix. So, he's good …"

【1】When did Casey get lost?

A.On January 24.

B.After a 911 call.

C.Before his playmates came.

D.After he left his grandmother's house.

【2】What can we know about the boy?

A.He survived with the help of a bear.

B.The rescuers rescued him from a bear.

C.Someone offered key information to find him.

D.He was eventually found by officer Hughes.

【3】Why did the mother say that in the last paragraph?

A.To report the detailed situation.

B.To show her gratitude and relief.

C.To invite everyone to watch her child.

D.To appreciate searchers and the bear.

【4】Where is this text most likely from?

A.A news report.B.A guidebook.

C.A diary.D.An advertisement

A.why; thatB.that; why

C.Because; whichD.of which; that

上海电视台外语频道打算开办一档面向中学生观众的英语节目，新聘任了来自英国的John 作为节目编辑助理。现在，John就节目内容向广大中学生征求意见。

假如你是学生李华，请你给John写信谈谈你对该节目的设想。信的内容包括:

1. 节目的名称和内容；

2. 开办这档节目的理由和预期的效果。

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1. 课程的开设目的；

2. 教师简介；

3. 报名时间、地点和方式。

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：中国书法Chinese calligraphy；交换生exchange students

Dear John,

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Yours,

Li Hua

A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America. More than half（53 percent）have breakfast alone and nearly half（46 percent）have lunch by themselves. Only at dinnertime are we eating together anymore, 74 percent, according to statistics from the report.

“I prefer to go out and be out. Alone, but together, you know? “Bechtel said, looking up from her book. Bechtel, who works in downtown West Palm Beach, has lunch with coworkers sometimes, but like many of us, too often works through lunch at her desk. A lunchtime escape allows her to keep a boss from tapping her on the shoulder. She returns to work feeling energized. “I prefer to go out and be out . Today I just wanted some time to myself.” she said.

Andrew Mazoleny, a local videographer, is finishing his lunch at the bar. He likes that he can sit and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper. “It’s a chance for self-reflection(自我反思). You return to work energetic and with a plan.” said he.

That freedom to choose is one reason more people like to eat alone. There was a time when people may have felt uncomfortable about asking for a table for one, but those days are over. Now, we have our smartphones to keep us company at the table. “It doesn’t feel as alone as it may have before all the advances in technology,” said Laurie Demerit, whose company provided the statistics(数据)for the report.

【1】What are the statistics in Paragraph 2 about?

A.Food variety.B.Eating habits.

C.Table manners.D.Restaurant service.

【2】Why does Bechtel prefer to go out for lunch?

A.To meet with her coworkers.

B.To catch up with her work.

C.To have some time on her own.

D.To collect data for her report.

【3】What is the text mainly about?

A.The advantage of wireless technology.

B.The importance of self-reflection.

C.The stress from working overtime.

D.The popularity of having meals alone.

By the time Danny realized this, he and his friends were already halfway up Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid. Not wanting to miss a moment, he told his friends to wait while he skied back down to fetch the phone. Danny was an adult and an experienced skier, so they had no reason to doubt his return.

However, it wasn’t until it began to get dark that his friends finally realized something may have gone wrong. They called the police, who began a ground search in no time. Before long, his family and friends came down to help as well. But Danny was nowhere to be found.

What the rescue teams didn’t know at the time was that, by the time the alarm went out, Danny wasn’t even in Lake Placid anymore. He’d taken a wrong turn on his way back to the car, falling down and becoming knocked out. It was dusk by the time he woke up, not knowing where he was.

Danny struggled his way to the road. He flagged down a truck in the hope of securing a ride off the mountain. The truck stopped and he climbed into the warm cab. After telling the trucker where he was going, he fell into a heavy sleep. When the trucker finally informed him that they had arrived, it had been midnight, when his family and friends were still searching the cold wilderness for any sign of him.

Danny often reflects on what might have happened if he hadn’t been found by that trucker. To this day, Danny Filippidis doesn’t know the trucker’s name. He doubts whether he could even point him out if he saw him on the street and the police have been unable to track the man down as well.

【1】Why did Danny ski back to fetch his phone?

A.To surf the Net.B.To avoid it being stolen.

C.To make a call.D.To shoot some photos.

【2】What happened to Danny on his way down the mountain?

A.He got stuck in a rock.B.He fell down the mountain.

C.He met with a snowstorm.D.He crashed into a truck.

【3】What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.Danny was grateful to the trucker.B.Danny was extremely forgetful.

C.The authorities took no action at all.D.The trucker was hard to recognize.

A. infections B. factors C. particularly D. separate E. seriously F. passive

G. mixtures H. significantly I. present J. negative K. exposed

Air pollution triggers (引发)more heart attacks than using cocaine and poses as high a risk of sparking a heart attack as alcohol, coffee and physical exertion, scientists said on Thursday. Anger, marijuana (大麻)use and chest or respiratory (与呼吸有关的) 【1】 can also trigger heart attacks to different extents, the researchers said, but air pollution, 【2】 in heavy traffic, is the major cause.

The findings, published in The Lancet journal, suggest population-wide 【3】 like polluted air should be taken more 【4】 when looking at heart risks, and should be put into context besides higher but relatively rarer risks like drug use. Tim Nawrot of Hasselt University in Belgium, who led the study, said he hoped his findings would also encourage doctors to think more often about population level risks.

Nawrot’s team combined data from thirty-six 【5】 studies and calculated the relative risk posed by a series of heart attack triggers and their population-attributable fraction (PAF)—in other words the proportion of total heart attacks estimated to have been caused by each trigger. “Of the triggers for heart attack studied, cocaine is the most likely to trigger an event in an individual, but traffic has the greatest population effect as more people are 【6】 to it,” the researchers wrote. “PAFs give a measure of how much disease would be avoided if the risk was no longer 【7】. ”

A report published late last year found that air pollution in many major cities in Asia exceeds the WHO’s air quality guidelines and that poisonous 【8】 of pollutants result in more than 530,000 earlier deaths a year. While 【9】 smoking was not included in this study, Nawrot said the effects of secondhand smoke were likely to be similar to that of outdoor air pollution, and noted previous research found that bans on smoking in public places have 【10】 reduced heart attack rates.

Hearing these stories, I'm _________ about the place — other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.

However, I soon __________ that much has changed since the days of disturbing reports of __________ among tons of rubbish. I find a __________ mountain, with toilets at camps and along the paths. The environmental challenges are __________ but the efforts made by the Tanzania National Park Authority seem to be __________.

The best of a Kilimanjaro __________, in my opinion, isn’t reaching the top. Mountains are _______ as spiritual places by many cultures. This view is especially evident on Kilimanjaro as _________ go through five ecosystems (生态系统) within a few kilometers. At the base is a rainforest. It ends suddenly at 3, 000 meters, _________ lands of low growing plants. Further up, the weather __________ — low clouds envelope the mountainsides, which are covered with thick grass. I counted twelve shades of green from where I stand. Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert : gravel (砾石), stones and rocks. _________ you climb into an arctic-like zone with permanent(永久的) snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.

Does Kilimanjaro deserve(值得) its reputation as a crowded mountain with lines of tourists _______ the atmosphere of peace? I found the opposite to be true.

【1】A.keepB.mixC.connectD.bring

【2】A.storiesB.buildingsC.crowdsD.reporters

【3】A.silentB.doubtfulC.seriousD.crazy

【4】A.discoverB.argueC.decideD.admit

【5】A.equipmentB.grassC.campsD.stones

【6】A.cleanB.quietC.tallD.faraway

【7】A.newB.specialC.significantD.necessary

【8】A.fading awayB.spreading outC.carrying onD.paying off

【9】A.atmosphereB.experienceC.experimentD.sight

【10】A.seenB.observedC.exploredD.studied

【11】A.scientistsB.climbersC.localsD.officials

【12】A.holding on toB.going back toC.setting out toD.giving way to

【13】A.changesB.clearsC.improvesD.permits

【14】A.ObviouslyB.EasilyC.AbsolutelyD.Finally

【15】A.keepingB.ruiningC.replacingD.creating

【1】这是他第一次回老家过年，是吗？ (time)

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【2】这款国产电器一经问世便销售火爆。(sell)

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【3】我认为有些错误在所难免，关键是我们要从中吸取教训。(impossible)

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【4】为了营造舒适的就餐环境，许多餐厅不允许抽烟，这对广大顾客来说是一大福音。(forbid)

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