Knowing your subject helps you ______.
A. shorten your preparation time
B. find out who likes your presentation best
C. make better answers when asked questions about the subject
D. keep a clear head and have clear points
If asked for more advice besides what has been mentioned in the text, you may suggest ______.
A. eye contact with the audience B. various tone and body language
C. proper clothes D. more practice
Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. How to teach others to speak
B. How to prepare for a perfect speech
C. How to be a good speechmaker
D. How to improve your speaking skills
D
As we all know, sunshine is important to vegetables, but not all vegetables need lots of sunshine. Mark Hoffman and his wife, Guia, own a bed-and-breakfast guesthouse in rural Kempton, Illinois. They often serve their guests produce fresh from the garden.
The Hoffmans have been growing food and flowers for twenty-five years. For almost ten of those years, Mr. Hoffman has been experimenting and working with shade plantings. He says visitors to his website — greenhousebed.com — often ask how to plant in shade spaces. He said, “The bottom line here is that most plants will produce more in full sun. But if you do not have full sun, there are other options.”
For example, he grows tomatoes near oak trees. Oak trees can produce a lot of shade. But Mr. Hoffman says his tomato plants grow as long as they get five hours a day of direct sunshine, especially morning sun. Not only does this go against the traditional advice that tomatoes need six, eight, even twelve hours a day of full sun, it also shows how plants and trees roots can share nutrients and water. Mr. Hoffman also planted asparagus (芦笋around a tree at its drip line (滴水线), the area below the outer limit of the branches. So when it rains, all the rain drips down right on the asparagus.
The Hoffmans’ website includes a list of vegetables, flowers and herbs that have produced acceptably for them in partial shade. Mr. Hoffman says plants with wider leaves seem to do better in shady environments. He also found that his potatoes did better in partial shade than in full sun.
Moving them out of the sun helped control an insect problem with leaf hoppers. Mr. Hoffman does not use pesticides (农药). Instead, he planted the potatoes at the drip line, especially on the east side of the tree. The potatoes get morning sun, but they are shaded during the hottest part of the day. Leaf hoppers dislike shade, and the hottest part of the day is when they do the worst of their damage.
Time of day, brightness of the sun, shadows from trees, walls and buildings, these all influence how much sunlight falls or does not fall on plants.
What can we infer from the second paragraph?
A. Sun can affect the production of some plants.
B. Food growing in the shade contains more nutrients.
C. Food and flowers produce more in the shade.
D. Food growing in the shade is the best choice for most plants.
By using asparagus as an example, the author wants to explain that ______.
A. asparagus prefers to grow in the shade
B. how leaves gain sunshine under the tree
C. vegetables grow better in partial shade
D. how plants and tree roots share water
The underlined words “leaf hoppers” in Para. 5 may be a kind of ______.
What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?
A. To present a kind of eco-friendly lifestyle.
B. To show vegetables can be planted in the shade.
C. To recommend an approach to managing a website.
D. To introduce Mark Hoffman and his family.
第二节(共5小题; 每小题2分，满分10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。
feeling: we have a lot of work to do but a momentary feeling of laziness. 36 This is either because we lack the inspiration or are not encouraged enough to start working.
37 It often leads to the worsening of one’s relationship at work and affects work performance, which can result into job loss and extra stress. How to overcome laziness? Here are some tips for overcoming it.
Simple things first. An effective trick that helps you fight laziness effectively is to start with the simple things first. 38 38
Make a to-do list. 39 A to-do list can help us to realize that it often looks like more work than it actually is. When you create your to-do list, make sure to arrange the tasks from the easiest one to the more difficult one.
Remove distractions. Distractions are often the source for our laziness. We are often attracted by the distractions (TV, internet, etc.) as we perform our tasks. 40 Make sure that once you have started with one of your tasks, you will not get distracted from it by any means.
Remember, everything you manage to overcome laziness, reward yourself.
Regard a task as an exercise.
Whatever it is that distracts you, remove it!
That will slowly but surely break your inner resistance.
Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation with a pile of work.
We do not feel energized and just don’t want to do particular activities.
It is important that you focus your mind on the benefits, not on the difficulties.
Though often seen as a forgivable weakness, laziness can have a number of negative
effects on a person.
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1.5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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Even as I write this story, I am still smiling. The past few weeks have been rather 41 , but when a large number of Smile Cards arrived in my 42 the other day, having traveled all the way from the United States to my home in the Northerlands, I knew things were about to 43 .
I 44 where to leave the cards as I went to bed that night: the train, benches at the station, at work, libraries, mailboxes, the gym — the possibilities 45 endless.
I woke up, went to work, and afterwards, I went 46 to the shop to buy some candy bars, planning to leave them as anonymous (匿名的) 4 for people on the train. However, 48 my early morning train, my train home was extremely crowded. An elderly man must have seen me searching for a place to 49 a Smile Card, because he asked me if I was looking for something.
Right then I 50 that my first Smile Card would not be anonymous. With a big smile and cheeks 51 with excitement, I told him that I 52 what I was looking for, 53 him the candy bar and Smile Card I had in my hands. He had only just finished reading the card 54 I arrived at my stop, but he was still smiling and 55 his candy as I waved at him from the 56 .
57 having worked a full day, I almost bounced (跳) home. Before I entered my apartment, I delivered a few more Smile Cards and candy bars to people’s mailboxes. I added an 58 candy bar for a neighbor who I knew was in a difficult financial 59 , but who I saw working hard every day to get the very best for her young son. I figured that they both 60 a tasty little treat.
A. tough B. simple C. pleasant D. common
A. office B. room C. mailbox D. hands
A. turn away B. turn around C. turn up D. turn down
A. plotted B. asked C. concerned D. required
A. came B. had C. occurred D. felt
A. slowly B. smoothly C. freely D. straight
A. surprise B. gifts C. notice D. intention
A. unsure B. unusual C. unlike D. unlucky
A. drop B. give C. leave D. hide
A. wondered B. decided C. doubted D. suggested
A. content B. faced C. satisfied D. filled
A. found B. invented C. forgot D. remembered
A. transporting B. posting C. sending D. handing
A. since B. once C. until D. when
A. reading B. enjoying C. buying D. carrying
A. entrance B. office C. platform D. bench
A. Because of B. In spite of C. Instead of D. In terms of
A. affordable B. available C. extra D. excellent
A. situation B. company C. staff D. state
A. deserved B. rewarded C. won D. admired
第II卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must be able to understand the language when we hear 61 spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves, correctly, with confidence and 62 hesitation. 63 , we must be able to read the language and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to compose(组成)sentences that are grammatically correct. We must know 64 to arrange sentences in paragraphs so as to write a good letter or composition.
There is no easy way to succeed in language learning. 65 good memory is of great help, but it is not enough 66 (simple) to memorize rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and their 67 (meaning). We learn words not by ourselves, 68 in sentences. We must learn by using the language. If we are satisfied with only a few rules we 69 (memorize) so far, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of advice for those who 70 (be) studying a new language. Practice is very important. We must practice speaking and writing the language whenever we can.
第四部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧)，并在下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线\划掉。
修改：在错词下一横线，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;
只允许修改10处，多者从第11处不计分。
：书面表达(满分25分)
假如你是李华，要放寒假了，请给你的美国笔友Tom写一封电子邮件，邀请他来中国，主要内容包括：
邀请Tom来吉林市旅游(赏雾凇......)
邀请Tom与你的家人共度春节(看春晚......)
注意：1. 词数：100左右;
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
How is everything going now? ____________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
听力：1—5 CC ABA 6—10 BCACA 11—15 BBACA 16—20 BABBC
阅读理解：(每小题2分，共20小题，满分40分)
B. 细节理解题。由第一段倒数第二行可知。
A. 细节理解题。由第二段可知。
B. 细节理解题。A、C、D均与原文信息不符。
D. 写作意图题。由最后一段可知。
D. 细节理解题。由可知。
. 细节理解题。由第段
A. 细节理解题。
C. 推理判断题。由第一段最后一句可知。
C. 细节理解题。由第二段可知。
B. 细节理解题。由第五、六、七段可知 A、C、D项文中都有涉及。
C. 主旨大意题。由全文内容可知。
