64. Sophia found out about Make-A-Wish because her best friend had   .

A. benefited from it     B. volunteered to help it

C. dreamed about it     D. told the author about it

65. According to Sophia,  Make-A-Wish        .

A. is an international charity

B. was understood by nobody at first

C. raises money for very poor families

D. started by drawing the interest of the public

66. What is said about Chris in Paragraph3?

A. He has been a policeman since he was seven.

B. He gave people the idea of starting Make-A-Wish

C. He wanted people to help make his dream come true.

D. He was the first child Make-A-Wish helped after it had been set up.

67. Which of the following is true about Make-A-Wish volunteers?

A. They are important for making wishes come true.

B. They try to help children get over their illnesses.

C. They visit sick children to make them feel special.

D. They provide what is necessary to make Make-A-Wish popular.

D

“People are ruder today because they are rushed and more ‘time poor’ than ever before,” says Patsy Rowe, “ Manners have fallen off the radar(雷达).” Due to our strong attraction to electronic equipment it is a wonder more people don’t wake up each morning and greet the singing birds with a complaint(抱怨)about the noise. Here are some examples of rudeness.

Some people prefer to do almost everything over the internet. To them, dealing with an actual human is like an evolutionary step backward. It feels very slow because humans don,t work at 4G speeds. When you have dinner with friends, you will often notice someone paying more attention to his mobile phone. We have programmed ourselves to think that every new message brings life-changing news, so taking calls and checking our texts are more important than talking to the people we are with. What is worse, some people even tend to send anonymous(匿名的) rude messages by email.

However, rudeness is never acceptable, Don,t assume it is OK to be rude if the person you,re in touch with won,t recognize you. If you have something awful to say, have the courage to face the person and say it, write a letter or email and sign it, or forget it. Upsetting people with unsigned messages is cruel and disgusting.

We shouldn′t blame technology for our shortcomings.Technology is here to help us,but we should not allow it to take over our lives. An important step ia acknowledging our shortcomings.People spend a lot of time pointing out bad manners but it would be even more help if we′d publicly acknowledge good manners when we see them.

68.What can be infend from the underlined sentence in Paragraph I?

A.People can tell good from bad behavior.

B.Radar is able tu obserbe human behabior.

C. People care little about their behabior.

D. Radar can be used to predict human behabior.

69.Some people are less willing to deal with humans because

A.they are becoming less patient

B.they are growing too independent

C.they have to handle many important messages

D.they have to follow an evolutionary step backward.

70.The author thinks sending unsigned awful messages is

A.Ridiculous B.disgusting C.acceptable D.reasonable

71.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.We should applaud good behabior.

B.Technology can neber be blamed

C.We should keep pointing out mistakes.

D.Technology will take over lives one day.

E

Argentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place.Around 1870,it was experiencing an economic(经济的)boom,and the captital,Buenos Aires,attracted many people.Farmers,as well as a flood of foreifners from Spain and Italy,came to Buenos Aires seeking jobs.These jobs didn′t pay well,and the people felt lonely and disappointed with their new lefe in the city.As the unhappy newcomers mixed together in the poor parts of the city,the dance known an the tango(探戈舞)came into being

At the beginning the tango was a dance of the lower classes.It was danced in the bars and stheets.At that time there many fewer women the men,so if a man didn′t want to be left out,his only choice was tu dance with another man so that he could attract the attention of the few available women.Gradually,the dance spread into the upper clases of Argentinean society and became more respectable.

In Europe at this time,stong interest in dance fom aroune the world was beginning

The interest in international dance was especially ecedent in Paris.Every kind of dance fom ballet(芭蕾舞)to belly dancing coule be found on the stages of the Paris theaters of the Paris theaters.After tango dances from Argentina arrive in Europe,they began to draw the inrerest of the public an they perpormed their exiting dangce in cafes,Though not eceryone approved of the new dance,saying it was a little too shocking,the dance did find enough supporters to make it popular.

The popularity(流行)Of the tango continued tu trow in many other parts of the world.Aoldiers who teturned to the United States from Worle War I brought the tango to North America,It reached Japan in 1926,and in 2003 the Argentinean embassy in Seoul hired a local lango dancer to act an a kind of dance ambassador,and promote tango dancing throughout South Korea.

72.The origin of the tango is associated with

A Belly dances B.American soldiers

C.Spanish city D.the captital of Argentina

73.Whith of the following is true about the tango?

A.It was cteated by foreigners from Spain and Italy.

B.People of the upper classes loved the tango most

C.It was often danced by two male in the beginning

D.A dancer in Seoul became the Argentinean ambassador.

74.Before World War I,the tango spread to

A.America   B.Japan

C.France    D.South Korea

75What can be the best title for the text?

A.How to Dance the Tango      B.The History of the Tango

C.How to Promote the Tango    D.The Modern Tango Boom

第四部分  写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节 任务型读写(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

Aristotle once wrote that “happiness is a state of activity”. In other words, whether you,re

Seeking life-long satisfaction or a few moments of good cheer, you,ve got to move forward. We,ve interviewed the experts and found five steps to take toward a sunny mood(心情)：

Over a 30-year period, University of Illinois researchers asked nearly 120,000 people how income, education, political participation, volunteer activities and close relationships affexted their happiness. Reported Newsweek,s Sharon Begley on the findings, “The highest levels of happiness are found with the most stable and satisfying relationships.”

Singing aloud, talking to a stranger, raising your hand: all may increase a feeling of happiness, according to a study from Wake Forest University. Participants(参与者)followed the development of their moods for two weeks and reported feeling happier when they were more outgoing and less happy when reserved or withdrawn.

The editors of forbes. Com gave $5 or $20 to 46 strangers by chance. Half the group was told to spend the money on themselves, while the other half was told to spend it on others. Those who,d whaed the wealth felt much happier at the end of the day than those who,d spent it on themselves. There was no difference in happiness between those who spent $5 or $20, suggesting that it,s not how much money you spend, but how you spend it, that inspires the spirit.

Studies from the Positive Psychology Center showed that discouraged people who wrote down three good things that happened to them each day for six months reported an improved attitude.

Drinking water really can help keep you cheerful. A small 2012 study from the University of Connecticut suggested that even slight dehydration(脱水) affected the moods of its female participants.

第二节 书面表达(满分25分)

假设你校英语社团举办以“讲求文明，从我做起”为主题的征文活动，请你以“On the Way to School”为题，写一篇英语短文。

内容主要包括：

1.遵守交通法规;

2.注意举止文明。

注意：1.词数120左右;

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;

3.短文中不能出现与本人相关的信息;

4.短文的题目已为你拟好，不计入总词数

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