C. He wanted to check how well he did his job. D. He wanted the lady to pay more money.
52. What can we learn from the story?
A. The boy really needed a new job. B. The boy accepted the new job which the man offered.
C. The boy found the truth in a clever way D. The boy didn’t want to work for the lady anymore.
C
The Spring Festival couplets（对联）are one of the most common and important customs to celebrate the
Chinese New Year. They are often used to decorate doors and walls to express hope and happiness for the coming new year.
English language couplets have become a new and popular way among Chinese young people to celebrate the
Spring Festival. On China’s biggest consumer online shopping platform Taobao, there are dozens of shops selling
several kinds of couplets in English. A typical one reads “eat well, sleep well, have fun day by day” and “study
good, work good, make money more and more”.
Yu Runrun, who owns a Beijing shop, expects to sell about 600 sets of English couplets during the holiday
season. “I began to sell English couplets four years ago. Most of our buyers are young people who want to look
cool and are willing to pay more for fashionable things,” Yu said, adding that some send the couplets to foreign
friends as gifts. A set of English couplets in his shop costs about $4, almost double the price of the Chinese couplets.
Mo Hao, who teaches English, bought two sets of such couplets from Taobao, one for himself and the other
for his friend, Benjamin Wolken, who is from the United States. “It is very special and actually quite good-looking,
which will certainly stand out,” Mo said.
Wolken said, “I would consider buying the couplets for myself, or even make my own set in English, so I can
talk more with the people around me to learn Chinese culture and language.” He added, “I like being a part of the
Chinese community, so I enjoy being a part of the traditions.”
The key to selling more English couplets is that they should be written with really simple words, so that
people can easily understand the meaning, said Yu, the shopkeeper.
“Grammar is not important and ‘Chinglish’ is also acceptable. If the sentence is grammatically incorrect,
people will like it even more, just like the well-known and popular Chinglish saying ‘Good good study, day day 6
up’,” he said.
After all, the Spring Festival should be a happy get-together, he added.
53. Which of the following is the best to match with “Great peace, great wealth, and great luck” in a couplet?
A. A good year and a nice view follow the spring. B. New year, new joy, and new century.
C. The new spring comes with the shining glow. D. Best wishes for the new year to come.
54. If you want to sell more English couplets, remember to __________.
A. be at good prices B. writer with easy words C. keep as short as you can D. be humorous and meaningful 55. From the passage we can know that __________.
A. Yu Runrun is good at English B. Mo Hao made English couplets by himself C. Wolken likes Chinese culture very much D. couplets should be correct in grammar
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56. The best title of the passage is __________.
A. An Old Spring Festival Tradition in China B. How to Make the English Couplets
C. The Culture of the Spring Festival Couplets D. Get English Couplets to Have a Good Year
D
Asians are known over the world as being “good at math”. Many people in the West agree with the idea. But is there some truth to it?
Yes, as it turns out, I can say that in daily life, Chinese people do more math than Americans. In fact, one can
even say daily life in China is an ongoing math test. I can think of examples, starting with shopping.
Walk into any department store in Beijing, and there is a sale going on. You will see signs with a single number and the Chinese character “zhe（折）” next to the sale products. Experienced western shoppers may think
that “7 the” must mean 70 percent discount（折扣）. But the Chinese system encourages shoppers to do math to
find their discount, “7 the” means you pay 70 percent, resulting in a 30 percent discount. Some adults in the West
couldn’t do this simple math in their heads, because they left all that behind in elementary school.
Shopping for food was one of the early challenges we met in Beijing. When I was trying to buy milk and
yogurt on the shelf at the local supermarket I saw all the past expired dates on the bottles. I was very angry and
just about to see a manager to bring it to his attention. Later, a friend explained that those were production dates,
not expiration dates, as I had thought. She also showed me where they printed the shelf life of each product. So, to
put it in an American way, production date + shelf life = expiration date. Again, they are encouraging shoppers to do math.
Newcomers to China will no doubt be confused（困惑）about this system, which none of my Chinese friends
seems to think twice about. But a7
s an American, it was all very difficult. I often felt that I had to do math when I
simply wanted to buy something. But now that I’ve been
here a while, I see the wisdom in such a system.
Could it be how Chinese people stay smar t and clear into old age? After all, using your brain with word games and riddles（谜语）are believed to be helpful with some age-related illnesses. It appears that in China,
they’ve included in ordinary daily life a wise system where nobody forgets their early math lessons. Oh, would you like something to drink, coffee or cola?
B: Neither. A cup of water is OK.
A: Here you are. (one minute later) 62 B: Yeah, thank you.
A: So what happened to you? B: Just now I was rid57. When shopping in department stores in Beijing, the writer found that __________.
A. she could get more discount B. she was good at math
C. she could buy things at good prices D. she had to do math to find the discount
58. The underlined word expired in the 4th paragraph probably means “__________”.
A. 变质的 B. 到期的 C. 有害的 D. 无效的 59. According to the passage, which of the following does the writer probably agree with?
A. Americans cannot learn math well.
B. Chinese are born with the ability to learn math well.
C. Doing math every day may add to long life. D. Other countries should follow the examples about math in China.
60. If we put the passage into three parts, which of the following is the best?
（①=Para. 1; ②= Para. 2; ③= Para. 3; ④= Para. 4; …）
A. ①; ②③④⑤; ⑥ B. ①②; ③④; ⑤⑥
V．口语应用。
（每小题 1 分，共 5 分） 阅读下列对话，从方框内 7 个选项中选择 5 个恰当的句子完成此对话，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案 标号涂黑。
A: Hey, you look mad. What’s wrong?
B: I … I just can’t stand that terrible driver. You can’t imagine… he is so… A: 61
ing my bike along the road. A car drove in front of me quickly and suddenly stopped one meter away from me. I had to brake（刹车）hard but then I hit the person on another bike. A: 63
C. ①; ②③; ④⑤⑥
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A. What’s wrong?
B. Please be calm and take it easy. Did anybody get hurt? C. That’s really rude.
B: Luckily, no. But we both fell off our bikes. A: 64
B: No, no. I got angry just because the driver drove off without saying anything. A: 65
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（66，67，68 题每小题 2 分，69 题 3 分，共 9 分） VI．任务型阅读。Bennett didn’t want to be anyone else when she was a little girl. She lives by the words “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
The 16-year-old is the first African-American to win Miss Illinois Teen USA（美国伊利诺伊州妙龄小姐）ih the contest’s 34 year history.
Before the contest, she didn’t know that a black girl had never won.
“I found out the night before the final show, actually. It made me want to fight harder and to win for all the
black girls around, not just for myself,” Bennett said. “I didn’t feel less about my ability to win because no black
girl had done it. It put a drive（动力）in me rather than a doubt.”
Bennett wants other African-American girls to know they can do great things just like her. In fact, her life
experiences prepared her for the big day all along. As a coach at a dance studio, she has the confidence of a talented wise woman.
During the contest, Bennett talked do the judges（评委）and audience about her work teaching kids. That was easy for her, because it’s her everyday life.
“I think a lot of girls go to the contest feeling like they have to make the judges think they’re somebody
they’re not,” Bennett said. “But I went with ‘I’m me; this is who I am.’ I think that’s the thing that set me apart, being genuine（真实的）.”
66. Was Bennett black or white?
___________________________________________________________________________________________ 67. What does Bennett do?
___________________________________________________________________________________________ 68. How did Bennett win the contest?
___________________________________________________________________________________________
69. Do you think confidence is the most important to success? Why or why not? ___________________________________________________________________________________________
（每空 1 分，共 10 分） VII．完成句子。根据所给提示，完成句子。每空一词，含缩略词。
70. Please make a fire to cook the meat.（改为否定句） __________ __________ a fire to cook the meat, please.
D. E. F. now? G. Best wishes to you.
That’s why you are so angry. Are you feeling any better 9
71. I was walking along the street when the UFO arrived.（对画线部分提问） __________ __________ you doing when the UFO arrived?
72. He was late for the meeting because it rained heavily.（改为同义句） The heavy rain __________ him __________ being on time for the meeting.
（完成译句） 73. 这本书不如那本书有趣。
This book isn’t __________ interesting __________ that one.
（完成译句） 74. 天气如此之好，我们都想在外面野餐。
It’s __________ good weather __________ we all want to have a picnic outside.
（每空 2 分，共 16 分） VIII．短文填空。
根据下面短文内容，在短文的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。
Right now, millions of people are digging into their food with two sticks which have passed the test of time,
even when thousands of other tools and products haven’t. But 75 is so special about chopsticks? What can we learn from them? They teach us the importance of:
Slowing down. A common health suggestion is to try to eat 76 chopsticks when you can. Why? Because it slows you down and allows your stomach to tell your brain you’re full before you overeat. Eating with
chopsticks is a slower process, 77 that is not a bad thing. Sometimes we need to slow down and take things
one step at a time so that we have time to think, to realize that we’re actually full and that we don’t 78 to be in a rush.
Practice. Using chopsticks doesn’t come naturally. You have to learn to use them and practice it. In real life,
you can read about all the things you want to do, but it won’t work unless you actually try doing it. So stop
79 others eating join them and give the chopsticks a go.
Being simple. Chopsticks are a living example of being simple. They can come in all kinds of colors and
sizes but in fact they are just two long sticks. It is good to still have something which has only 80
use—simply to eat. It’s good to live a simple life and there is no need to keep developing, improving and fixing things all the time.
Aim（目标明确）. If you’ve ever tried using them, you know that you can’t get what you want by just
haphazardly stabbing（乱戳）at the plate. To be 81 to get what you want, you have to aim for it. There’s no
way you can pick up everything in one go. Know what you want, and just do it. Sometimes, a 10
little bit of focus
makes the 82 between failure and success.
Sometimes it’s nice to enjoy each moment of life as it comes.
（20 分） IX．书面表达。
安全问题一直以来都是大家特别关注的问题，为了进一步增强中学生的安全意识，珍惜自己的生命， 提高自我保护能力，某校开展了以“安全”为主题的英语演讲比赛。请你根据以下要点提示写一篇演讲稿。 开头已给出，不计入总字数。 参考要点：
1．校园安全及注意事项； 2．交通安全及注意事项； 3．其他安全问题及注意事项； 要求：
1．须包含所有写作要点，可适当增加细节以使行文连贯； 2．100 字左右；
3．文中不能出现自己的姓名和所在学校的名称。
Dear students,
As we know, safety is the most important thing in our life. So, ______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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