There are two faces of nature. One is good while the is bad. It all depends on
you look at it. I believe that nature is man’s friend and we should treat it with a great deal of respect.
trip to the mountains on the weekend will give a glimpse
how beautiful nature is and can be.
Unfortunately, due to our busy lives, many of us take this beauty for granted. We keep spoiling our environment instead of protecting . Because of the harm
was caused by humans, nature has turned on (attacked suddenly) us.
a result, storms and landslides are taking place more than ever before. If we don’t take the time to protect our environment, nature will no longer be our friend,
our biggest enemy.
短文写作 (满分30分)
请根据以下提示，结合你生活中的一个事例，用英语写一篇短文。
Time and tide wait for no man. Therefore, we should cherish and arrange our time properly to make our dreams come true.
注意：1、无须写标题；除诗歌之外，文体不限；
2、内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；
3、文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
4、词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总字数。
完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上。 Though tomorrow would be the first day for little Jenny to attend school, with ______________________, she felt a little excited instead of anxiety. (accompany)
尽管明天是小珍妮第一天上学，但是有妈妈陪她去，她感到有点兴奋而不是焦虑。Mr. Johnson owns a big corporation, _________________________, his son, junior Johnson will take charge of the daily management. (absence)
约翰逊先生拥有一家大公司，在他不在期间，他的儿子小约翰逊将主管公司的日常管理。Oh, my God! It’s typical of you ________________________. Can’t you be careful for just once? (keep)
哦，天啊！让别人等是你一贯的风格。你就不能准时一次吗？He is a little sensitive and dislikes _____________. So do not say anything improper in his front. (make)
他有点敏感，并讨厌被取笑。所以不要在他面前说任何不恰当的话。As far as I’m concerned, it was Tom, together with you ______________________ the accident. (blame)
在我看来，是Tom和你一起应为这个事故负责。To a large extent, the education a person received in his family ____________________________ to his overall development as school education. (difference)
在很大程度上，一个人受到的家庭教育对其综合发展产生的影响同学校教育一样大。______________________________ a new circumstance, totally different from her previous living environment, is extremely hard for a girl in her age. (accustom)
习惯于一个完全不同于她以前的生活环境的新环境，对她这个年龄的女孩来说是很难的。___________________________ a very significant guest, Tom set off early to the airport. (arrange)
被安排去接一个很重要的客户，Tom很早就出发去机场了。—Why are you looking so upset?
—My father turned down my propose. Never before __________________ my any suggestion. (oppose)
—你为什么看起来如此沮丧？—我父亲拒绝了我的提议。他以前从未反对过我的任何建议。A new system has been designed to limit the usage of the Internet in this school, so it’s strange that the students _______________________________ it. (access)
这个学校设计了一个新体系来提高网速。因此，很奇怪，这里的学生竟然能自由的使用网络。
Topic: “Enjoy Worldwide privileges with BOC cards” 5% cash rebate(折扣) from UnionPay credit card issued by Bank of China
Time: April 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015
Customer: Personal credit cards with card number starting with “62” and with the UnionPay logo on the card
Details：
Payments with business cards, corporate cards or transactions（交易）through third-party platform (PAYPAL, Alipay and the internet banking payment and Kuai payment supported by Alipay) are not eligible（合格的）for the promotion.
The promotion is applicable to online shopping payments to appointed business partners only, and all the transactions need to be completed via UnionPay online. Amazon (U.S.) personal credit cards with card number starting with “62” and with the UnionPay logo on the card are eligible for the promotion.
As the promotion has no pre-defined upper limit on the number of transactions, all transactions meeting the criteria above will enjoy the cash rebate. The value of eligible transactions will be the settlement amount in RMB according to the UnionPay system.
All single transactions of RMB 500 or more with payment made by UnionPay credit card issued by Bank of China (card number starting with ‘62’) via UnionPay online platform will enjoy a 5% cash rebate, capped at RMB 100 per card per month.
Cardholders will receive the cash rebate within 90 calendar days after every promotion period. If the cardholder has any questions on the amount of rebate, please contact Bank of China Credit Card Customer Care Hotline（4006695566）within 30 calendar days since receiving the rebate; if no question is raised within 30 calendar days, the bank with deem the client agreeable to the amount of rebate. The date of cash rebate arriving in client’s account could be later than the date described above due to force majeure that is not unforeseeable.
Only transactions made with specified credit cards to appointed business partners will be eligible for the cash rebate promotion; in case of refund, no cash rebate will be made. At the same time, Bank of China reserve the right to recall any unqualified cash rebate already made.
Cardholders will need to ensure no late payment, card freeze or other abnormal occasions during the promotion period, otherwise the cardholder will not be eligible for the promotion.
Income tax associated with the cash rebate will be taken care of by the cardholder. Cardholders hold the responsibility to declare the income and settle the tax payment.Which of the following cards can get the cash rebate?
How much rebate can I get from a 500 dollars payment?
| A．About 5RMB | B．About 25 RMB |
| C．About 100 RMB | D．About 125 RMB |
In which of the following payment can we get the cash rebate?
| A．$60 for a sweater on Amazon. |
| B．$100 for a souvenir bought in the duty-free shop of LAX. |
| C．$200 for a child safety seat on Amazon. |
| D．$80 for a bottle of wine from a shop in Paris. |
We can learn from the passage that ___________.
| A．The cash rebate will arrive in our account within 30 calendar days. |
| B．We can’t get the cash rebate unless we pay the income tax associated. |
| C．Both the customers and Amazon(U.S.) will benefit from this promotion. |
| D．Any transactions of RMB 500 or more can get the cash rebate. |
I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics, it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement—jobs, research papers, awards—was viewed through the lens of gender (性别) politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an argument on left brain versus (相对于) right brain, or nature versus nurture (培育), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations: I don’t talk about that anymore. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Still, I don’t tell them “war” stories. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.Why doesn’t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?
| A．She feels unhappy working in male-dominated fields. |
| B．She is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination. |
| C．She is not good at telling stories of the kind. |
| D．She finds space research more important |
From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would owe the author’s failures to _____.
| A．the very fact that she is a woman |
| B．her involvement in gender politics |
| C．her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist |
| D．the burden she bears in a male-dominated society |
Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class?
| A．Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues. |
| B．Her students’ performance has brought back her confidence. |
| C．Her female students can do just as well as male students. |
| D．More female students are pursuing science than before. |
What does the image the author presents to her students suggest?
| A．Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation. |
| B．Women have more barriers on their way to academic success. |
| C．Women can balance a career in science and having a family. |
| D．Women now have fewer problems pursuing a science career. |
The simple exercise of sitting down and standing up again without holding onto anything, could suggest how long you have to live. This is the belief of a group of physicians, who came up with the ‘sitting-rising test’ to measure their patients’ flexibility and strength. They developed a scoring system for the test and found that people who scored three points or less out of 10, were more than five times as likely to die within six years, as those who scored more than eight points.
Claudio Gil Araujo, of Gama Filho University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was among the doctors who originally developed the sitting rising test (SRT) to quickly assess the flexibility of athletes, but he now uses it to persuade his patients that they need to stay active to maintain their muscle and balance, and live longer, Discover Magazine reported.
As we age, our muscles tend to become weaker and a loss of balance means we are increasingly likely to fall. Current ways to test frailty can be time-consuming, impractical and inaccurate for small doctors’ surgeries, but experts are keen to keep older people moving. Dr Araujo says that anyone can take the SRT because no equipment is needed.
In a study, published in the European Journal of Cardiology, the researchers described how 2002 adults aged between 51 and 80 took the SRT at Clinimex Exercise Medicine Clinic in Rio. They found that patients who scored fewer than eight points out of 10 on the test, were twice as likely to die within the next six years, compared with people with more perfect scores.
One point was deducted each time a person used their hand or knee for support to either sit down or stand up, while half a point was deducted for losing their balance. The experts found that people who scored three points or fewer, were more than five times as likely to die within the same period. They wrote in the study: ‘Musculoskeletal fitness, as assessed by SRT, was a significant predictor of mortality in 51–80-year-old subjects.’ The study found that every point increase in the test, was linked to a 21 per cent decrease in mortality from all causes. However, chartered physio-therapist Sammy Margo said that the exercise may be “quite ambitious” for older people in the UK.The sitting-rising test was first designed ______.
| A．to suggest how long you have to live. |
| B．to assess the flexibility of athletes. |
| C．to measure their patients’ flexibility and strength. |
| D．to persuade his patients that they need to stay active to maintain their muscle and balance. |
What does the underlined word “mortality” probably mean in this passage?
| A．body balance | B．muscle strength |
| C．flexibility | D．length of one’s life |
What would the author most likely to talk about in the following paragraph?
| A．The reason why the test may not be accurate to British older people. |
| B．Another test that is more appropriate in some other cultures. |
| C．The different test results among old men and women. |
| D．The limitation and disadvantage of the sitting-rising test. |
Which part of the newspaper will the article probably come from?
| A．Exercise & sports | B．Education |
| C．Entertainment | D．Health |
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