At present, it only makes payments through “AlertPay”. AlertPay is the payment processing solution that we use to pay members. Your AlertPay address is the e-mail address you use to register with AlertPay. You can get a free AlertPay account at http:// alertpay. com.

25. What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

A. To tell an interesting story.         B. To introduce a surprising way to earn money.

C. To solve a puzzling problem.       D. To present an exciting research.

26. You can earn money by ________.

A. chatting online                    B. advertising some products

C. clicking on advertisement           D. choosing green ticks or x’s

27. What can we know from the passage?

A. You’ll earn $0.10 if you click 1 ad.

B. You’ll get many green ticks if you have many websites open.

C. Your AlertPay account is not for free.

D. You can get your payments through AlertPay.

C

The English test will be removed from China’s college entrance exam by 2020, according to the Ministry of Education. The national college entrance exam, known as the “Gaokao” has been used to evaluate Chinese students for three decades. The Ministry of Education has worked out a plan for reforming exams and enrollment. Tests will be held several times a year to allow students to choose when and how often they sit the exam so as to reduce study pressure and change China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system.

The decision has aroused a heated discussion among Shanghai educators and parents who doubted the reform would re¬duce the burden of learning English or if the substitute test could reflect a student’s English skills and help students learn English better.

“ As far as I see, the reform doesn’t mean English is no longer important for Chinese students after it will be excluded from the unified college entrance exam,” Yu said. “In a way, English is even more important than before since the test would only serve as reference, while every college and university, even every major, can have different requirements of a student’s English skills under a diverse evaluation system. ”

Yu said some students will have their study pressure reduced if the major they choose doesn’t need excellent English while others still need to study hard if they want to be among the best students.

The education ministry said the reform would not affect students attending the college entrance exam over the next three years.

28. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. English will become less and less important in the stage of compulsory education.

B. It has been 30 years since English became one subject of national college entrance exam.

C. China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system is unacceptable at all.

D. The system that tests are held several times does more good than once-in-a-lifetime exam system.

29. According to the passage, Shanghai educators and parents argue that _____.

A. the new exam and admission system will make no difference

B. English shouldn’t be removed from China’s college entrance exam

C. the reform may accomplish the very opposite

D. Western educational system does not apply to China

30. What does the passage try to express in the underlined sentence?

A. Students needn’t lay a good foundation during the period of high school.21教育网

B. Whether students should study English hard may depend on their major.

C. Students can constantly strive for perfection only in their major.

D. English must be close to full mark.

31. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To advise students not to devote themselves to English.

B. To call on Education Department to remove English from “Gaokao”.

C. To support the act of Ministry of Education.

D. To encourage students to do as they have planned.

D

As many as 4 out of every 1,000 infants born today have permanent hearing loss. When parents learn that their child has hearing loss, they are faced with many difficult decisions. These decisions can include choosing therapies and schools, as well as finding financial help for hearing aids or cochlear implants (人工耳蜗).

Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world.

Help Me Hear Foundation believes that a child’s first years of development are critical. Being able to hear is vital to human, and Help Me Hear Foundation seeks to provide a positive lasting impression on society through its programs.

Recipients of Help Me Hear Foundation’s benefits receive state-of-the-art hearing devices that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars per child over the course of their lifetime. The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids and cochlear implants, which saves recipients and their families on average over $50,000 on related expenses.

The Foundation tries to be a transparent charity, and wants to be a catalyst for allowing deaf and hearing-impaired children to develop in a typical fashion alongside their peers.

Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website. The website offers helpful information on how hearing aids work, and how hearing aids ease many of the learning and language challenges that hearing-impaired children deal with on a daily basis.

32. Help Me Hear Foundation was probably set up to _____.

A. build schools for deaf children    B. research deaf children’s behavior

C. protect deaf children from being ignored  D. offer real help to poor deaf children

33. We learn from the text that _____.

A. the local government is in charge of the foundation

B. the work of the foundation depends on donations

C. even blind children can turn to the foundation

D. poor deaf African children cannot get help from the foundation

34. For whom is the text most probably written?

A. Poor parents who have deaf children.   B. Doctors who want to improve skills.

C. Students who cannot see the blackboard clearly.

D. Teachers who have deaf children in their class.

35. The author writes the text mainly to _____.

A. tell how to avoid permanent hearing loss  B. explain how hard a life deaf children live

C. introduce Help Me Hear Foundation

D. advise people to give money to Help Me Hear Foundation

第二节  (共5小题;每小题2分, 满分l0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.

Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to stand up and say – problem, I don’t want you in my life.

36    Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children – the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems come in different shapes and colors and feelings.

But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems.

Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help.    37    Talking helps you move on and let go.

Write your problems.    38    When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems. By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life.

Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family… you should still have faith.    39

Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours.    40    Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed.

Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out.

A. But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you.

B. When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, life-threatening problem, how do we try and solve it?

C. Tell yourself: when they can deal with them, why can’t I?

D. Of course, we’ve been fighting problems ever since we were born.

E. We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack.

F. Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with.

G. With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose.

第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节  完形填空(共20小题;每小题l.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, 选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑.

A few years ago, my younger brother and I went to Norfolk, Virginian by plane.  41 , before we took off, we heard the pilot's voice throughout the plane, “Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. We have no  42  on the plane. We have a generator(发电机), and we are going to 43  the engines with it. We will  44  in the air and head to Norfolk, and see what happens. ”

See what happens? We are going to get up in the air, and see what happens? At this point, one woman started crying. “Oh, no! We are going to  45 !” There were sighs of  46 and anxiety quickly spreading throughout the plane, and we hadn't even 47  yet. Thirty minutes passed and we were still  48  there. Then the voice of the pilot came over again,“ Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are  49  , so are we. We only have one engine going right now, and it is working double time. ”

There was crying 50  we had walked in to grave(坟墓). But the pilot told us our one engine was working double time, and his 51  was to get up in the air and see what happens! Then we did. We got up in the air and 52   happened. We arrived in Norfolk and everyone  53  for still being alive.

Although I do sincerely like to have a plan  54  “see what happens”, it really isn’t such a bad life strategy. All too often, I would see people pursuing their goals  55  with inaction just because they don’t have 56   success. Actually, success will never be guaranteed. The  57  thing that you can do is just get up in the air, and see what hap¬pens.

If you are planning to learn a new skill, “get up in the air, and see what happens!” It might not be as 58  as you thought. You might be smarter than you thought, and the result could be very  59  ! So don’t stay there trying nothing just because there is no 60  of guaran¬teed success.

41. A. Hopefully  B. Excitedly  C. Unfortunately  D. Thankfully

42. A. service   B. power   C. water    D. fuel

43. A. shut   B. fix   C. change    D. start

44. A. get up   B. pack up  C. light up   D. speed up