A record 6.15 million trips were made by Chinese mainland tourists to overseas destinations during the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, which ended on Thursday, according to the China National Tourism Administration. That is an increase of 7 percent compared with last year’s Spring Festival. About 374,000 trips were organized by travel agencies, a 2.5 percent increase.

The administration also reported growth from individual and high-end (高端的) travelers and said that in addition to top and coastal cities, inland cities—such as those in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region—became important source markets. With many Chinese now traveling abroad for Spring Festival, their choice of destinations has expanded along with their growing interest in foreign cultures and services.

“Chinese tourists are increasingly willing to experience local culture and services, including staying in private homes, appreciating plants and watching monkeys in hot springs,” Li Xuejing, the agency’s marketing manager, said.

A Chinese tourist surnamed Guo, who was vacationing on an island in the Philippines, said: UI now pay more attention to relaxation and enjoyment during the holidays instead of shopping or choosing gifts for relatives.”

Another choice is Britain. Though the devaluation (貨幣貶值) of the pound is a factor, Britain’s rich history and famous education tradition have caught the eye of Chinese.

1.How many trips were made to foreign countries during the Golden Week of this Spring Festival holiday?

A. 6,150,000. B. 2,500,000.

C. 7,000,000. D. 374,000.

2.What can we learn about some inland cities in Guangxi?

A. They’re reported to have become important attractions.

B. They’re famous for all kinds of plants and monkeys.

C. They have the best hot spring in the world.

D. They belong to coastal source markets.

3.What would Miss Guo do on her vacation according to the text?

A. Go shopping for gifts.

B. Study foreign cultures.

C. Relax and enjoy herself.

D. Chat with her relatives.

4.Where does the text probably come from?

A. A guide book. B. A newspaper.

C. A scientific magazine. D. An advertisement.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

Many arguments teenagers have with their parents are about one thing: independence. As you get older, you’ll want to do more stuff on your own, without your mom and dad tagging along with you. The arguments generally start when your parents think you aren’t ready for extra responsibility while you think you are. Arguing with your parents isn’t the best solution at all, but the best solution is gaining trust from your parents. 1.

●Understand that it’s not your parents who do not want you to have independence, they want the best for you and think you’re not ready or you’ll hurt yourself if you have the freedom to do whatever you want. Show your parents you can be sensible. 2.If you can’t get home by 9:30, they’ll never let you out after 10:00.

●Agree with them some “friends time” and some “family time” so that they know you won’t be spending your whole weekend out with your friends. 3.They won’t imagine you getting into trouble if they know how they are.

●4. They won’t feel much worried letting you go off on your own if they know what you’re up to. Call in and tell your parents that you’re OK from time to time. The less they worry about you, the more independence you’ll gain.

●5.If they find out, all that trust will be destroyed and then you'll never get the extra independence you ever wanted.

A. Show your parents how independent you are.

B. Never lie to your parents about where you’re going.

C. Remember to ask for your parents’ help if you need it.

D. Always tell your parents where you are, and who you’re with.

E. Generally speaking, they won’t be worried about increasing your independence.

F. And before you enjoy the “friends time' introduce your friends to your parents.

G. Agree a time you’ll be home with your parents, and always make sure you keep to it.

When I was a teenager, we were the only family in our New York town that didn’t own a car. And having no car was _______ because all my friends’ parents did.

We were poor. Suddenly a moment arrived _______ my life forever. For weeks a new Buick Road Master _______ in the window of the biggest store on Main Street. Now, on the special night, I stayed in the shadows at the edge of the crowd waiting for the winning _______to be drawn.

It had never even entered my mind that we would _______. But the loudspeaker called my father's name! _______ I wormed my way up to the platform, the mayor had presented dad with the _______, and he had driven off amid _______. I ran _______. Mother met me and told me that my father had asked Jim, his boss, if he wanted to buy a ticket. Jim said yes and my dad ________ two tickets in his own name with his own money, ________ 348 for Jim and the winning number was 348 instead of ________ one 349.

“Your father is struggling with a/an ________ problem. But I think if you have character, you have the better part of ________and I know your father will do what is right,” mother said ________. At last we ________ dad’s step on the front porch，I held my ________. He went straight to the ________ in the dining room and dialed Jim’s phone rang for a long time...

________ over the years, I know now we were never ________ than we were at the moment when dad made the telephone call.

1.A. relaxing B. shaming C. worrying D. pleasing

2.A. saving B. improving C. risking D. changing

3.A. had stood B. had been on sale C. had performed D. had been under repair

4.A. team B. guy C. ticket D. boss

5.A. jump B. fail C. strike D. win

6.A. As soon as B. Because C. By the time D. Although

7.A. dollars B. keys C. medals D. tickets

8.A. shouts B. prayers C. noises D. cheers

9.A. home B. downtown C. to my friends D. to the platform

10.A. saved B. bought C. booked D. printed

11.A. calling B. writing C. marking D. bringing

12.A. the other B. another C. the lucky D. other

13.A. embarrassing B. mental C. puzzling D. moral

14.A. wealth B. poverty C. health D. belief

15.A. with anger B. excitedly C. calmly D. with anxiety

16.A. saw B. heard C. followed D. found

17.A. arms B. mouth C. eyes D. breath

18.A. phone B. cup C. ticket D. window

19.A. Looking out B. Looking up C. Looking back D. Looking in

20.A. poorer B. richer C. more foolish D. more clever

閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入1個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

There are many different taboos (禁忌) around the world. A taboo is a social action that is not 1. (allow). Almost every culture in the world has 2. (it) own taboos. When you meet people from different cultures, it is important 3. (understand) what you can and cannot do. If we are not aware 4. these differences, some unusual 5. (thing) might happen. For instance, in China, it 6. (be) rude to put the chopsticks into a bowl of rice straightly as it is often done for the dead. If you visit Nepal, you will find Nepalese often greet each other with the hands pressed together instead of shaking hands, 7. in North America and the UK, people greet one another by 8. (shake) hands. If you will do business with a South American, it seems 9. (impolitely) to be dressed in the light colors. What about Japanese? They dislike the lotus and 10. not give it as a gift to Japanese because they regard it as the mourning flower (喪花). While these different customs might seem strange to you, remember that what you consider normal probably seems just as unusual to others.

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有兩處。每處錯(cuò)誤僅涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧）,并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Susan’s family was terrible poor. One Christmas Eve, Susan’s father saw that Susan had used piece of gold wrapping paper to decorate a shoe-box, where is so precious to their family, and she put it under the Christmas tree. The next morning, Susan takes the box to her dad and said, “This is for you, dad!” But if he opened it, he found it was empty. “Why do you give me an empty boxes? Don’t you know the gold wrapping paper is such expensive to us?” Her dad said angrily. Susan cried, said, “Dad, it isn’t empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all foil.” Hearing of this, the dad felt regretful, he held Susan in his arms but said “Sorry, my dear, I love you!”.

假定你是李華，你的美國筆友Mike來信說，他和幾個(gè)同學(xué)正在學(xué)中國古詩，請(qǐng)你推薦一本有助于學(xué)習(xí)古詩的書籍。請(qǐng)給他寫封郵件，內(nèi)容包括：

1. 書名及作者：Read Poetry Learn History by Wang Chunyong;

2. 推薦理由：適宜外國讀者；學(xué)古詩，了解中國歷史、文化及古代生活；

3. 表達(dá)祝愿。

注意：

1. 詞數(shù)100左右；

2. 可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；

3. 開頭語已為你寫好。

Dear Mike,

I’m glad to know you are learning classical Chinese poetry, and I’d like to recommend a book to you.

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1.How will you get hotel expert advice if you’re busy in the day?

A. Calling. B. Writing letters.

C. Sending E-mails D. Having Live Chat.

2.If you’d like to cook your own food, you can choose to stay at ______.

A. Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel B. Athenaeum Hotel

C. Plaza on the River Club D. The Rubens at the Palace

3.Which of the following two hotels are close to each other?

A. Athenaeum Hotel; Plaza on the River Club.

B. Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel; Plaza on the River Club.

C. Athenaeum Hotel; Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel.

D. The Rubens at the Palace Hotel; Athenaeum Hotel.

Frederick Callison has been posting up outside of a Sacramento Smart & Final grocery store for the past two years and his method of looking for help has finally paid off.

Michael Marteen noticed Callison while shopping with his family on Feb. 24. Used to seeing homeless people ask for food and money, Marteen found it refreshing to see someone making an effort to find work in such difficult situations.

When Marteen approached him, he noticed Callison was sitting on a sleeping bag with several resumes(簡歷)neatly laid out, along with a sign that read“need work and food.”

“When I asked if I could see his resume, he stood right up to hand one to me and then started telling me all about his experience as if it were an interview,”Marteen told TODAY. “I’ve been in situations where I had nothing and had to try extremely hard to get work, and there he was doing that, so I have a lot of respect for him.”

Marteen bought him a bottle of water and some ravioli（餛飩）and then took a picture of his resume to post on Facebook, not knowing if anything would come of it.

Sure enough, someone came across his post and offered Callison a job as a cook at a downtown restaurant called Pizza Rocks.

“He was excited about landing a job and very grateful for the opportunity,” Marteen said. “He was up the night before studying the menu for hours.”

The restaurant gave him clothes to wear and a friend is providing Callison with a place to stay until he can get back on his feet.

“It’s easy to look at someone and not see anything but a homeless man, but after talking to him I realized he’s so much more than that,” Marteen said. “He’s a well spoken, cool and friendly guy who knows what he wants and is going after it.”

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Homeless Callison landed a job.

B. Homeless Callison was helped by Facebook.

C. Homeless Callison dreamed big.

D. Homeless Callison lived a hard life.

2.What makes Callison different from other homeless people?

A. He begged at the same place for two years.

B. He had a sleeping bag with him.

C. He is friendly, cool and well spoken.

D. He was looking for a job while begging.

3.What does the underlined word in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Pitiful. B. Unforgettable.

C. Strange and interesting. D. Unbelievable.

4.What can we infer about Callison after he was offered a job?

A. He was offered clothes by the restaurant.

B. He took his job seriously.

C. He couldn't walk properly.

D. He would soon become rich.

Memphis Meats, a San Francisco startup company trying to create lab-grown meat from animal cells(細(xì)胞), released a video on Tuesday that shows the world’s first cultured meatball getting fried up in a pan.

“We watched how the meatball reacted in the pan, we heard the sizzle, we smelled the meat and it was exactly how you would expect a meatball to smell,” Memphis Meats chief executive Uma Valeti said in the video. “This is the first time a meatball has ever been cooked with beef cells that didn’t need a cow to be killed.”

Memphis Meats grows animal muscle tissue(組織) using stem cells of cows and pigs and feeds them oxygen and nutrients(營養(yǎng)物質(zhì)), according to the Wall Street Journal. While there are no animals killed in making the meats, the firm does use fetal bovine serum(胎牛血清) from unborn cattle's blood to start the process.

So far, the cells grow in extremely thin layers, which is very expensive. Now it costs about $18,000 to produce a pound of Memphis Meats beef--compared to about $4 for store-bought beef.

But the company, founded by three scientists, has been experimenting growing meat from stem cells from cows, pigs, and chickens and says it’ll be selling its animal-free products to high-end customers in three to four years.

The company’s first line of products will include hot dogs, sausages, burgers and meatballs.

Valeti said in the video that his company’s process also produces 90 percent fewer greenhouse gases than traditional agriculture.

“The meat industry knows their products aren’t sustainable（可持續(xù)的）,” Valeti told the Wall Street Journal. “We believe that in 20 years, a majority of meat sold in stores will be cultured.”

It’s too early to say if we’ll all be cooking lab-grown meatballs, chicken wings, and pork chops. But for now, there is a big push to be the first to bring these foods to our plates.

1.What can be the best title for the passage?

A. Lab-grown meat is to hit the market.

B. Lab-grown meat smells as delicious.

C. Lab-grown meat is animal-free.

D. Lab-grown meat will replace traditional meat soon.

2.What’s the biggest disadvantage of the lab-grown meat?

A. It is difficult to grow.

B. It is too expensive.

C. It is difficult to be accepted by customers.

D. It doesn’t have many varieties.

3.What can we know about the lab-grown meat?

A. The layers where it grows are very expensive.

B. Cattle’s blood is needed to feed the cells.

C. Lab-grown meat has nothing to do with animals.

D. The growing process costs a lot.

4.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Lab-grown meat tastes exactly like traditional meat.

B. Traditional meat industry is not sustainable.

C. Lab-grown meat is environmentally friendly.

D. Lab-grown meat is best suitable for frying.

As I went through school, I came to understand that life was about competition. The only thing that mattered was doing better than everyone else. I watched this cycle through the lives of my four older brothers. I watched them win awards time and time again and admired by teachers and adults alike. And I wanted all of that. But then I learned that I couldn’t compete with my brothers or with others for that matter. I didn’t enjoy math and science nearly as much as I enjoyed English literature. My stomach would often hurt thinking about the amount of time I’d have to put in studying and working to get ahead of everyone. Around the seventh grade, I decided that I didn’t care about being a top student anymore. I just wanted to do what brought me joy. I wanted to just read and write for days.

Then I watched my older brothers enter the workplace and not enjoy the career path they had chosen. That made my stomach hurt, too. At the same time, they were making a lot of money and were able to afford expensive cars and go on trips that seemed enjoyable, but I decided that I’d not trade the cars and trips for having a job that brought me joy.

So I did just that. I majored in English in college with a concentration on creative fictions. For the past decade, I’ve had a career in a non-profit organization serving children in need. It has brought me great joy. There’s not a daily drive to compete in the market place and be better than another organization so that we increase our profits. The drive is to serve another person with excellence. And the other unexpected aspects are that while I have never made a lot of money, I have a car and have been fortunate to take some pretty amazing trips for work.

1.What did the writer think of life at early school?

A. Competitive. B. Stressful.

C. Enjoyable. D. Difficult.

2.Why did the writer change his attitude towards competition?

A. He failed competition repeatedly.

B. He wanted to follow his heart.

C. He was afraid of competition.

D. He often had stomachaches.

3.What can we learn about the writer?

A. He makes great contributions to society.

B. He is less successful than his brothers.

C. He doesn’t travel anywhere.

D. He finds great pleasure in his work.

4.The writer may agree that .

A. we should not compete with others

B. we should try to do better than others

C. we should do what we really like

D. we should be devoted to helping others