【题目】In June 2016, Huffington Post and Mail Online reported that three-year-old Victoria Wilcher, who had suffered facial scarring, had been kicked out of a KFC because she was frightening customers. Later, KFC announced that no evidence had been found to support the story. This phenomenon is largely a product of the increasing pressure in newsrooms that care more about traffic figures.

Brooke Binkowski, an editor, says that, during her career, she has seen a shift towards less editorial oversight in newsrooms. “Clickbait is king, so newsrooms will uncritically print something unreal. Not all newsrooms are like this, but a lot of them are.”

Asked what the driving factor was, a journalist said, “You’ve an editor breathing down your neck and you have to meet your targets. And there are some young journalists on the market who are inexperienced and who will not do those checks. So much news that is reported online happens online. There is no need to get out and knock on someone’s door. You just sit at your desk and do it.”

Another journalist says, “There is definitely pressure to churn out (粗制滥造) stories in order to get clicks, because they equal money. At my former employer in particular, the pressure was on due to the limited resources. That made the environment quite horrible to work in.”

In a February 2017 report for Digital Journalism, Craig Silverman wrote, “Today the bar for what is worth giving attention to seems to be much lower. Within minutes or hours, a badly sourced report can be changed into a story that is repeated by dozens of news websites, resulting in tens of thousands of shares. Once a certain critical mass is reached, repetition has a powerful effect on belief. The rumor(传闻) becomes true for readers simply by virtue of its ubiquity.”

And, despite the direction that some newsrooms seem to be heading in, a critical eye is becoming more, not less important, according to the New York Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan. “Reporters and editors have to be more careful than ever before. It’s extremely important to question and to use every verification(验证) method available before publication.” Yet those working in newsrooms talk of doubtful stories being tolerated because, in the words of some senior editors, “a click is a click, regardless of the advantage of a story”. And, “if the story does turn out to be false, it’s simply a chance for another bite at the cherry.”

Verification and fact-checking are regularly falling victim to the pressure to bring in the numbers, and if the only result of being caught out is another chance to bring in the clicks, that looks unlikely to change.

【1】According to Brooke Binkowski, newsrooms produce false news because _____.

A. clicks matter a lot B. resources are limited

C. budgets are inadequate D. journalists lack experience

【2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A. Lies can’t sell without an atom of truth.

B. Rumors are like a flame blown by the wind.

C. You can hear rumors, but you can’t know them.

D. A lie, repeated often enough, will end up as truth.

【3】What’s Margaret Sullivan’s attitude towards false news online?

A. Negative. B. Supportive.

C. Skeptical. D. Neutral.

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A. Consequences of false stories. B. Causes of online false news.

C. Incompetence of journalists. D. A craze to get clicks.

【题目】根据句意,将所缺单词补充完整,首字母已给出。

（1）----Be quiet please. The boy is s___________.

----Oh, sorry. We won't shout from now on.

（2）----What date is it today?

----It's the s_______ of August. We can enjoy Olympics in six days.

（3）----Look! I have a new skirt today.

----How cute you look! Your skirt is more beautiful than m__________.

（4）---What do you know about Yao Ming?

----He is one of the tallest basketball p_________ in the world.

（5）----I can't learn English well.

----You don't read enough. You should do m_________ reading.

（6）----Was he born in S___________?

----Yes. It's the ninth month of the year. And he likes autumn a lot.

（7）---Sue's father is a policeman. How a ____________ her mother?

----She is a nurse. She works in that hospital.

（8）----Tom is so glad today. He is talking with others h__________ all the time.

----He must have something great. Let's go and ask about it.

（9）----What are you going to do this Sunday?

----I am going s________ with my friends. It must be fun to walk in shopping malls.

（10）----I am very t_________. I can't walk any more.

----Let me help you.

【题目】用所给动词的适当形式填空：

（1）Jim is good at P.E. He gets up early and __________ (do) some sports every morning.

（2）----_________ Timmy __________(visit) his friends next Sunday? ----Yes, he is.

（3）Millie __________(go) the park by herself and had a good time there.

（4）The workers at the repair shop say our car needs ___________(mend).

（5）I have no homework this afternoon. How about _________(fly) kites in the park?

（6）Many students are in the room now. They ___________(watch) Kungfu Panda on TV.

【题目】Used ______, the battery can last 72 hours.

A. artificially B. properly

C. scarcely D. instantly

【题目】Scientists have made a major ________ in the treatment of cancer.

A. barrier B. breakthrough

C. companion D. concern

【题目】根据例子把字变成词，再把词变成句子，再把句子变成漂亮的句子。

讲 最（zuì）

讲话

我大声讲话。 。

我笑着大声讲话。 。

【题目】根据要求改变句子：10%

（1）They are chicks. （对划线部分提问）

What _______ _______?

（2）Is this a playground? （肯定句）

________ ________ a playground.

（3）This is a bee. （对划线部分提问）

_______ ________ ?

（4）Is that our classroom? （否定回答）

_______，________ isn’t.

（5）It is black and red. （对划线部分提问）

________ _______ is it?

【题目】根据中文意思完成下列句子，每空一词：

（1）这个图标的意思是“不要喧哗”。

The sign __________"Don't make _________."

（2）你最喜欢哪种水果，苹果、桔子还是香蕉?

What fruit do you like ________, apples, oranges __________ bananas?

（3）Sandy 游泳比你慢吗?

__________ Sandy swim ________ than you?

（4）沿着珠江路走，在第三个路口向右拐。

Walk __________Zhujiang Road and _________ the third turning on the right.

（5）Jim上周五花了一个小时开车去公司。

It _______ Jim an hour to _________ to his company last Friday.

（6）每天做眼保健操对你的眼睛是有好处的。

____________ eye exercises is good for your ____________.

（7）你父母昨天这时候正在做什么?

What __________ your ________ doing this time yesterday?

【题目】判断下列句子是否和录音内容相符（用T表示相符，F表示不相符）：10%

（1）It’s rainy.

（2）The boat is white and blue.

（3）The ball is yellow.

（4）The kite is orange and green.

（5）They see many flowers.

【题目】The design of everyday _________such as cups and tables is based on both practical and aesthetic values.

A. issues B. regulations

C. fountains D. objects