joy. They are both cats again next time around, only a lot bigger and smoother. I clearly saw them both lie by my feet just as they do right now.” —Felicity from Manchester, UK. The regular buyers of Anne’s products include heads of industry, politicians, and celebrities of all kinds. She is a world famous psychic and author of three books Instant Intuition, The Future is Yours, and Cosmic Energy.
More than a billion people in the world believe in the truth of meditation, through which we’ll gain a greater understanding of our pets and ourselves. Prepare for the experience as the results are astonishing.
46. If we want to use the app of Future Life Pets, what kind of language should we know? A. English B. Chinese C. French D. Japanese 47. We can learn from the passage that the Future Life Pets app______. A. helps us to get along better with our pets B. is helpful for us to relax and fall asleep easily C. gives us a chance to travel with Anne Jirsch D. helps us discover our future lifetime with our pets 48. The tall horse that Mike saw in his meditation is ______.
A. a dead dog B. his pet dog C. his pet horse D. a true horse
49. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. A. Anne’s fame will help to sell the app B. only school students show interest in the app C. the app aims to help sell Anne’s books
D. the app has a close relation with Anne’s three books
C
The largest outbreak of the deadly disease Ebola(埃博拉) was caused by an infected bat biting a toddler, say a group of international researchers.
The 17-strong team of European and African tropical disease researchers, ecologists and anthropologists have spent three weeks investigating the outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria. The researchers captured the bats and other creatures near the village of Meliandoua in remote eastern Guinea, where the disease began in December 2013. The boy was bitten and passed the infection on to his mother and both died within a week. The disease was then spread far and wide by the people who came to the funeral. Most of the previous outbreaks have been caused by meat from dead infected animals collected by hunters who then sell it on. Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in rural West Africa.
The team, led by epidemiologist(流行病学家) Herr Leendertz, a disease ecologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, are expected to publish their results in a major journal soon.
Herr Leendertz’s team believe that an infected straw-colored fruit bat brought the disease to Guinea. The mammals are known to travel long distances and usually settle in
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forests near cities. Herr Leendertz said, “ The evidence is not 100 percent and we can only say that it is possible. They can travel far in one night. I don't think an individual bat or colony(群体) migrated all the way from Congo or Gabon to West Africa. These big colonies are connected. There is a possibility for the virus to mix between colonies. The bats share the same fruit. It is likely not to have even been one species of bat. The virus may jump from one species to another.\
If the bat theory is confirmed, the locals would try to destroy the colonies, which, Herr Leendertz says, would be an ecological disaster, because bats pollinate(传授花粉) plants and kill insects. And bat hunts would also only increase human contact with potentially infected animals.
50. What’s the purpose of the 17-strong team?
A. To look into the outbreak of Ebola. B. To help the people who suffer from Ebola. C. To help cure the infected boy of Ebola.
D. To make a study of the bats including fruit bats. 51. In Herr Leendertz’s opinion, ______.
A. people can do nothing to prevent the disease
B. the disease Ebola may jump from one species to another C. the result of the research should be published immediately
D. the straw-colored fruit bats usually settle in forests in the rural areas 52. If the bat theory is confirmed, ______.
A. the disease Ebola will be controlled B. all the fruit bats in Africa would be killed C. plants would not be pollinated in the future D. the ecosystem in Africa might lose its balance 53. What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. A toddler was bitten by a bat and died. B. The disease Ebola is incurable at present.
C. An infected bat caused the outbreak of Ebola. D. The deadly disease Ebola broke out in Guinea. 54. This passage can probably be classified as ______.
A. a science fiction B. a news report C. a lecture essay D. an auto-biography
D
The city of Vienna has always been popular for its famous physicians. Around the year 1482 one such well-known physician was Dr. Paul Urssenbeck. His fame came from his ability to predict with certainty whether a patient would recover his or her health or would die. He thus became known as the doctor of death.
In his earlier years, he followed the trade of a poor but honest weaver in the town of Deckendorf near Straudigen in Bavaria. It was a time of famine(饥荒), and he, his wife,
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and their eleven children were in great need. Then a twelfth child was born, and they could find no one to serve as its godparent. As a last chance, the poor weaver walked to a nearby village and asked an old friend to serve as godfather, but met only rejection. Disappointed and frustrated, the poor man made his way back to his family. While walking sorrowfully through the dense forest toward his home, he said, “If only I could die.” Suddenly a tall figure dressed in a dark cloak(斗篷) appeared before him, saying, “You called me. I am Death. What can I do for you?” As much as the man had previously wanted to die, he now wanted to live. “I am seeking a godfather for my youngest child. But I cannot find anyone who will serve as his godparent,” answered the weaver sadly. “I will accept this responsibility,” said Death. And thus it happened.
Following the baptism(洗礼), the mysterious godfather took the father aside and said, “Since I own neither gold nor silver to give to your child as a baptism present, I will make you into the most famous doctor of all times. Whenever you are called to a sick person, I—invisible to others—will seat myself either to the head or to the feet of the patient. If I am seated at the head, then this will show you that hope for recovery exists. If I am seated at the feet, then the patient will die.” Through this gift, the weaver was able to cure many illnesses, for he knew whether the patient who had sought his treatment would be helped by medications, or whether he would die. Soon the previously poor weaver became a wealthy and respected physician. However, his increased wealth made him ever-more greedy. One day, a very wealthy man fell seriously ill, but when Dr. Urssenbeck was called in, and he saw that Death was already seated at the patient’s feet. Upon hearing the diagnosis, the relatives could not be comforted, and they offered the physician a fortune if he could heal the man. Then Urssenbeck resorted to trickery. He quickly had the patient’s bed turned around, so that Death was now seated at his head. Thus the man was rescued from Death, and he regained his health. On the physician’s way home, Death suddenly appeared before him. “You unfortunate one, why have you deceived me? In return for the life that you have given back to the rich man, you yourself must now die.” Death spoke with a threatening voice, and disappeared.
Dr. Urssenbeck suddenly found himself in a large room where thousands of candles were burning. Death said to him, “Each of these candles represents someone’s life. This tiny stump that is about to go out is yours.” Terrified, Dr. Urssenbeck reached for a taller candle, wanting to take some wax(蜡) from it to fill his stump, but in doing so he touched his own candle, and it went out, and he fell to the floor dead. That evening his body was found in a valley. He was buried in the graveyard of Saint Stephen’s Cathedral. 55. Why did Death make the weaver a famous doctor? A. Because he wanted to play a trick on him.
B. Because he didn’t have any baptism gift for his child. C. Because he wanted to give him something as a reward. D. Because he wanted to show his sympathy to the weaver.
56. What does the underlined phrase “resort to” mean in paragraph 4? A. to ask someone for help B. to visit a place of interest C. to consult information in the dictionary
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D. to make use of something bad to achieve something 57. Choose the right time order of the following events in the story. a. Dr. Urssenbeck became more and more greedy for wealth. b. Dr. Urssenbeck died and was buried.
c. Death made the weaver the most famous doctor in Vienna.
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d. The poor weaver wanted to find a godfather for his 12 child. e. Dr. Urssenbeck resorted to trickery to heal the patient.
A. dceab B. cdaeb C. dcaeb D. cadeb 58. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The weaver had a dozen children altogether.
B. A new-born baby had to receive baptism after he/she was born.
C. The weaver’s old friend refused to be the godfather of his child. D. If Death seated himself at the head, the patient could never be saved. 59. Which of the following CANNOT be used to describe Dr.Urssenbeck?
A. Grateful B. Greedy C. Dishonest D. Unfaithful 60. What’s the best title of this passage?
A. Dr. Urssenbeck, the Physician of Death B. The Death Game C. A Famous Physician in Vienna D. A Poor Weaver 第二节 下面文章中有5个段落需要添加小标题（第61～65题）。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出适合各段落的小标题，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A. Openness to the world
B. The grace of trusting in strangers C. Star in your own movie D. Often change your course E. Learn how to make decisions F. A new best friend (or love) Nearly everyone likes traveling. Sometimes we will travel with our friends or families, but sometimes we will travel alone. Different ways for traveling will give you different feelings. Here are five benefits you can gain by traveling alone. 61. ______
For me, traveling alone was one crash course(速成班) in making decisions–-just keep on rolling the dice(骰子) and see what comes up. Stop the research. Stop the analysis paralysis. Just keep choosing and living. In travel, everything is as it is, and there’s always another day to change course and choose again. A lot more happens in life when you stop worrying about what to do and just go. 62. ______ The sense of risk and reward is what draws me to traveling alone. Traveling with a friend can be an adventure too, but the adventure quotient(指数) is usually higher when you are alone. You’re more vulnerable(脆弱) in the sense that you have to seek out company and
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help. Hey, just because I’m traveling alone doesn’t mean I can’t ask a hunky Carioca volleyball player to put sunscreen on the hard-to-reach places. That’s the advantage of traveling alone, isn’t it? Openness to adventure. 63. ______
Traveling alone also teaches you to trust your fellow men and women. They are the ones who help you out when you are in need. I will never forget the man who stopped a long-distance bus for me in Colombia so he could go buy me Coke and toilet paper (I confessed to him that I had “digestive” issues right before we got on the bus). Then he invited me to his family’s home for lunch, and I still get emails from the family saying they will never forget me. 64. ______
When you travel alone, the trip is completely yours. You are the star of your own movie. All the mistakes are yours to make, the accidental discoveries to enjoy, and the insights to savor. The recollection of the trip is entirely personal and private. 65. ______
In a whole year of travel, I made a new best friend who I know will be a friend for life. We will be at each other’s weddings if we get married, we coach each other through our post-(or newly)-travel lives, and we hope to meet up for other adventures in Africa, Asia, and to dance tango in Buenos Aires. Our friendship is pure gold and we have both helped each other grow in countless ways. That openness to a new friend might not have been there if I had already been traveling with someone else. And who knows? You might meet the love of your life.
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第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 短文改错 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
下面短文中共有10处语言错误，请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写上该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\\）划掉。
修改：在错词下划一横线，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；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Do you often talk with your parents? A recently survey shows that nearly half of the high school students doesn’t like to talk with their parents. 43.3% of them have trouble communicate with their parents. What was worse, 82.8% of them don’t want to share their secrets their parents. Actually, it is important for us to communicate with our parents
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