health and educating their players. According to Stijin Vandenbroucke, head of medicine and sports science at West Ham United, oral health is an area where many athletes have greater problems than the general population and there are clear benefits of oral disease prevention for athletes and clubs.
32. What does the passage tell us about professional footballers teeth? A. Nearly 4 out of 10 players in the UK suffer from toothaches. B. They have been invested a great deal by individual players. C. Many players' poor teeth bother their career and daily life. D. British footballers teeth are examined regularly.
33. What mainly results in professional footballers' poor teeth? A. Experiencing too much training. B. Eating food with too much sugar.
C. Breathing in lots of air during exercise.
D. Having little education of oral disease prevention. 34. These findings are worrying clubs because____.
A. footballers aren’t willing to give up sugary or acidic food B. they've spent much on their players' oral disease prevention C. footballers have more serious tooth problems than the public D. players' oral disease may lead to bad performance in games 35. This passage is most probably taken from____. A. a dentist's diary B. a sports newspaper C. a medicine magazine D. a science report 第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
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。
Some people describe American society as a salad bowl while others think of it as a melting pot.
In a bowl of salad, all the ingredients are mixed together. 36 Together,
however, the ingredients make up a unity. All the ingredients of a salad contribute to the finished product. They may be covered with the same dressing（调味酱）,but the green vegetables, tomatoes and cooked corn can all be seen for what they are.
From this point of view, America is very much like a salad bowl where individual ethnic groups mix together, yet maintain their cultural uniqueness. People may work
together during the day at similar jobs and in the same companies, but at night they may return to their ethnic groups where their own individual culture directs their way of life. 37 Each ethnic group has its own special customs, Language, food and traditions to protect and defend. This idea of the salad bowl is referred to as cultural diversity; that is,
American society is a collection of various cultures living together in harmony within one country.
38 Here, society is like one large pot of soup. All cultural aspects are mixed
together, sacrificing their original identity and keeping a bit of what they were to become a
new reality. The longer the soup is cooked, the better the taste and the more likely it will
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be for the mixture to dissolve. In this sense, America can surely be seen as a melting pot where people from all over the world come to live and work together forming one nation. There are dozens of shared symbols. 39 In such a culture, symbols like the flag and the nation-s official song serve to break down the walls which separate ethnic groups. Whether a salad bowl or a melting pot, America can be best described as a mixture of both. 40
A. Both are correct depending on one-s point of view. B. They never lose their shapes, colors or tastes.
C. This is why there is so much diversity within America.
D, In other words, America is a nation where there is unity in diversity. E. Thus, one needs to abandon one's culture to be considered \
F. They serve to develop the various ethnic groups to create a new American culture.
G. The other theory, which is also used to describe American society, is the melting pot. 第三节 完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
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，选出可填人空白处的 最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was eight, I had to cross a crime-filled neighborhood to school. Nobody got involved when there was a__41 ,not even if a killing was happening directly across from our 42 :\！\！ Stay 43 I Keep your voice down!\
Usually,1 would see other girls that I knew, and I would catch up and we would 45 together.
Along this route was an old grey house with a 46 . It never caught my attention 47 a kind and lovely elderly lady 48 us with a musical voice and a smile. \in
my apple tree!\
what the 49 was called. My friends and l would, 50 ,look for the old lady to see if she was 51 .She had taken this little yard and made it a small paradise of flower beds: s0 52 that she probably had lived there for many years. She enjoyed our frequent visits and told us all kinds of things about birds and nature. We 53 to love her. But one day, we didn't 54 her. Though we looked, there was never a 55 0f her: her garden began to look 56 and the greyness of the house seemed to take over the colorful mood. One of us 57 to open the gate and knocked at the door, but the dear old woman would never greet us again. It was to be my first experience with death, though I didn’t know it then, a death to my childhood 58 ．
Every time I 59 a bird, especially a Cedar Waxwing,I think of her. Every time I face a hardship, I remember her grace and dignity. Her 60 in the old house made it beautiful.
41. A. gathering B. celebration C. murder D. crime 42. A. school B. house C. neighborhood D. town 43. A. awake B. low C. asleep D. active
44. A. reply B. shout C. announce D. whisper 45. A. walk B. play C .fight D. study 46. A. view B. pond C .yard D. mystery
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47. A. until B. when C. because D. where
48. A. begged B. treated C. ordered D. greeted 49. A. fruit B. tree C. bird D .flower
50. A. once a year B. every school day C. occasionally D. rarely 51. A. gardening B. smiling C .reading D. watchlng 52. A. old-fashioned B .established C .tidy D. large 53. A. agreed B. expected C. tried D. grew 54. A. visit B. miss C. see D. love 55. A. sign B .story C. memory D .photo 56. A. fresh B. wild C. dirty D .green
57. A. promised B. planned C .threatened 0.dared
58. A. pleasure B. innocence C. independence D. friendship 59. A. admire B .draw C. keep D. catch
60. A. death B. Labor C. presence D. interest
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注意事项：用0.5毫米黑色笔迹的签字笔将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 第三部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分50分） 第一节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
As is known to us. the year 2016 has one extra day in it- February 29th. This is because it's 61 we call \e year has 366 days in 62 instead of 365.
It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn’t 63 (legal) recognized. There is a well-known tradition in the UK 64 (associate) with 29th February, introduced many centuries ago. Women are allowed to break with
tradition and propose(求婚)to their boyfriends on this day. This all started back in the 65 (five) century, when a famous Irish saint made a 66 (complain) that women had to wait too long for men to propose. According to the legend, Saint Patrick said any female dreaming of a proposal could ask her boyfriend to marry her on this additional day in February. This so-called tradition was 67 (write)in law in the thirteenth century. Scotland passed a law allowing women to propose to men in a leap year. It was said that if the men refused, they had to pay a fine!
Now in 2016, there are calls 68 29th February to become a public holiday. Some people believe that it should be an 69 (office) day off, because no one gets 70 (many) payments for working an extra day in a leap year. For the moment though, the British still have to go to work on this day.
第二节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中 共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
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2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last Friday,1 was standing near a subway exit, tried to call a taxi. But no luck. Then I thought of the taxi-booking app my friend has recommended and I booked a taxi through my cell-phone. Soon it came, and l stepped in, feeling pretty proudly of my
high-tech way and satisfied with the convenience brought by the app. So later,1 was upset to find that the driver was busy looking his cell-phone to get the next order. It was just then when I began to worry about my safety. What’s bad, the driver’s informations might be unreliable. How can we passengers' legal rights be protecting if something bad happens? So be careful when you use the taxi-booking app the next time. 第三节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是王华，目前正在英国做交换生。你的英国朋友Debbie送了你一张Ceilidh Dance舞会票。现在，请给她写封邮件致谢，并询问有关情况（箭头所指内容）。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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