四、阅读理解 (共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

阅读下面三篇材料，根据内容，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳选项。

(A)

Do you feel tired sometimes? Nowadays, stress is everywhere in our daily life. Not just men, women and young people also suffer from stress.

There are many causes, such as: death, marriage, money, moving house, changing jobs, ending relationships.

So how do you know if you suffer from stress? Do the Stress Test and find out!

Stress Test

Do you …? Yes No

1. often sleep badly?

2. get headaches a lot?

3. find it difficult to relax?

4. need alcohol (酒精) or cigarettes to keep calm?

5. usually hide your feeling?

6. find it difficult to put your heart into something?

7. take sleeping pills?

8. get angry when things go wrong?

If you have more than two “Yes” among these questions, you are suffering from stress. So what can you do about it?

Doing yoga (瑜伽), chewing gum and playing with worry beads (念珠) are all common ways of relieving (减轻) stress. However, doctors now say that there are simpler ways. They say that people should laugh and smile more often. When you laugh and smile, your body relaxes. They also say that people—and especially men—ought to cry more often, because cry ing is the natural way of relieving stress.

41.  From the passage, we can know that    ▲   .

A. many soc ial problems can cause stress

B. young people suffer more from stress than the old

C. doing yoga is the most useful way to relieve stress

D. if all the answers are yes, you are suffering from stress

42.  You may suffer from stress if you    ▲   .

A. never depend on alcohol or cigarettes B. can sleep without sleeping pills

C. often communicate with anyone else D. easily get angry when things go wrong

43.  Which of the following is NOT a way to relieve stress?

A. Doing yoga.      B. Taking sleeping pills.

C. Laughing and crying.   D. Playing with worry beads.

(B)

A new product – the Apple Watch – into the market. Last year, the watch was firstly introduced by Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. The price of the watch is from $349 to $1,099, depending on its size and whether it is a sports or regular one.

Apple engineers and designers have put in a lot of thought and hard work into creating this "small screen" on your wrist(手腕).  The "sensor(传感器)" on the screen not only finds your finger, but also knows the difference between when you are tapping(轻触), and when you are pressing hard er.

The watch also has “haptic feedback(触觉反馈)”. You can s end personal messages to your friend —such as drawing a star or a special sign with your fingers, or tapping the watch, say 3 times, and your friend will receive those taps on their wrist.

Besides telling the time, the watch will use 'Bluetooth' to connect with your iPhone and show calls or text messages that come in.

According to Tim Cook, the watch may open up a whole new area of applications(应用) that we had never thought of. Some car f actories like BMW have developed an app that allows its car owners to open their cars with the watch. A 'Hotels' app may allow you to open the door to your hotel room without worrying about losing the smart-card. And finally, even at the airport—passengers may be able to simply wave their wrist to check into their flight.

The biggest use of the watch, however, is as your personal fitness coach. The watch can show your pulse (heartbeat) using a sensor at the bottom of the watch. It also has the same sensor as your iPhone, so it knows when you are moving, and also how much you are walking or running. It will remind you if you have been sitting for too long without taking exercise.

44.  We can learn from the passage that the Apple Watch    ▲   .

A. is designed by Tim Cook

B. was brought into the market last week

C. sells at different prices for different colors

D. can show your pulse and knows when you are moving.

45.  With apple watch, you can    ▲   .

A. develop your own personal app

B. connect your iPhone with your iPad

C. receive personal messages from your friends’ iPhone

D. send personal messages to your friends’ apple watches

46. Many businesses help push for the uses of apple watch EXCEPT    ▲   .

A. hospitals B. hotels  C. airlines   D. car factories

(C)

Too many people want others to be their friends, but they don’t give friendship back. That is why some friendships don’t last very long. To have a friend, you must learn to treat your friend the way you want your friend to treat you. Learning to be a good friend means learning three rules: be honest; be generous; be understanding.

Honesty is where a good friendship starts. Friends must be able to trust each other. If you don’t tell the truth, people usually find out. If a friend finds out that you haven’t been honest, you may lose your friend’s trust. Good friends always speak and act honestly.

Generosity means sharing an d sharing makes a friendship grow. You don’t have to give your lunch money or your clothes, your hobbies or your interests. Naturally you will want to share your ideas and feelings. These can be very useful to a f riend. They tell your friend what is important to you. By sharing them, you help your friend know you better.

Sooner or later everyone needs understanding and help with a problem. Something may go wrong at school. Talking about the problem can make it easier to solve. Turning to a friend can be a first step in solving the problem. So to be a friend you must listen and understand. You must try to put yourself in your friend’s place so you can understand the problem better.

No two friendships look the same exactly. But all true friendships have three things in common. If you plan to keep your friendships, you must practice honesty, generosity and understanding.

47.  Some friendships don’t last very long because    ▲   .

A. they don’t know friendship is something serious

B. there are too many people who want to make friends

C. those who give others friendships receive friendships from ot hers

D. those who never give others friendships receive no friendship from others

48.  According to the passage, honesty is    ▲   .

A. something to share          B. the base (基础) of a friendship

C. as important as money       D. more important than anything else

49.  What does the word “them” refer to in the third paragraph?

A. your ideas and feelings.      B. your hobbies and interests.

C. your lunch money.          D. your clothes.

50.  The best title of this passage is    ▲   .

A. How to Be a Friend                 B. Honesty Is the Best Habit

C. Three Important Points in Life        D. A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed

五、词汇运用 (共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

A) 根据句意，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空，每空一词。

51.  Your idea is very   ▲   (value).  I think it’s of great help to me.

52.   Mary is a cheerful girl and she has fewer   ▲   (worry) than her classmates.

53.  Tom was punished by his parents because of his   ▲   (careless).

54.  Some children in other parts of the world still live in fear of   ▲   (they) lives.

55.  September 3rd, 2015 was a(n)   ▲   (usual) day. We held a military parade(阅兵式) to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the world anti fascist war.

B) 根据句意及汉语提示，写出各单词的正确形式，每空一词。

56.  Perhaps no one has known the   ▲  (原因) of this kind of disease so far.

57.  Alice is full of energy and does not mind doing   ▲   (额外的) work for you.

58.  Our English teacher gives us a great deal of   ▲   (建议) on how to remember words.

59.  President Xi said the   ▲   (友谊) between China and the UK would have a bright future.

60.  It’s reported that the teachers of Hengshui High School are   ▲  (严格的) in English handwriting than in many other schools.

C) 用所给动词的正确形式填空，词数不限。

61.  Boys and girls, you should pay attention to   ▲   (pronounce) this word correctly.

62.  The young player   ▲   (remain) there for several years if the NBA takes notice of him.

63.   The boy asked his father if the earth   ▲   (move) around the sun in surprise.

64.   I   ▲   (force) to take a taxi to my office because the last bus left ten minutes ago.

65.  You can’t imagine how much difficulty the company had   ▲    (offer) the graduates more jobs.

六、短文填空 (共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

根据短文内容及首字母提示写出所缺单词, 并将完整单词写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。

As we celebrate the Year of the Sheep, some of you may have heard some superstitions(迷信) about this animal sign.

It is said that people born in the Year of the Sheep have a difficult life. That’s because sheep are gentle and k  66  . Therefore, many Chinese people would try to avoid getting married or giving birth d  67   the Year of the Sheep. But is this all really true?

Of course, it doesn’t make sense, a  68   to Wang Juan, a folklore expert, in ancient China, yang was c  69   to good luck and happiness. In the book Shuowenjiezi(《说文解字》)–the first Chinese d  70   to explain characters—the writer Xu Shen from Eastern Han dynasty said that “yang” means “xiang”. And now many Chinese characters with “yang”a  71   mean something good, for example, “xian” and “mei”.

Today many famous people who were b  72   in the Year of the Sheep live very good lives,

i  73   US Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.

What kind of life you will have depends on many things, including how hard you study now and the career you want when you g  74  up. In fact, animal signs are of little i  75  . The really important thing for you is to develop a good personality along with your own skills.

七、任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to answer what things have an effect on people’s emotions (情感). How you feel is controlled by many things. Your emotions can be affected by your personality, the actions of others and the events around you. Perhaps you don’t know your emotions can be influenced by the weather as well.

People often say they feel good when the sun is shining and sad when it is cloudy. In fact, sunlight makes us feel good. When sunlight hits our skins, our bodies produce a vitamin. Vitamins are chemical substances (化学物质) which we all need to stay healthy. Sunlight helps our bodies produce vitamin D. Vitamin D helps our bodies make a special chemical substance. This special chemical substance affects our brains(大脑) and makes us feel happy. For example, there are long, dark winters of little sunlight in Sweden and Norway, so many people in these countries often feel sad. Without much sunlight, their bodies produce less vitamin D. Without enough vitamin D, their bodies make less of this special chemical substance which makes them feel good. To help the people in these countries feel better, special “ sunrooms” with artificial(人造的) lights have been built. People can go there and get “sunlight” for an hour or two!

The weather can  also affect people’s emotions in other ways. Hot weather can make people angry because people feel uncomfortable when it is hot. In the same way, rain can make people angry because being wet can be unpleasant. As you can see, the weather can have an effect on the chemical substances which control our brains. Through these ways, the weather can influence our emotions. Sadly , while the weather can change us, we can hardly change the weather.

The   76   influences people’s emotions

What influen ces people’s emotions? Your   77  , the actions of others, the events   78

you and the weather

79  are our emotions influenced by the weather ? ▲   80

Our bodies produce a chemical substance when sunlight hits our skins. Then it makes us feel   81  .

▲ Hot weather

It can make people feel uncomfortable when it is hot.

▲   82  weather

Being wet can be so unpleasant that we feel angry.

83   The weather can influence our emotions   84   it

influences the chemical substances that control our brains.

The weather can change us, but we can do   85   to change the weather.