第1 卷

第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15 小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项(A. B. C和D) 中，选出最佳选项。

A

The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge

Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge! The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity?Challenge. The challenge invites , even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create?artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue,? Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honor at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in celebration and brunch will be served.Between March 10th and March 15h, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at :http:// cambridgesciencefestival.org.1. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?A. School students.??????????? ?B. Cambridge locals.C. CSF winners.????????????? ? D. MIT artists.2. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?A. On February 8th.?????? B. On March 10th.C. On March 15th ?????? D. On April 21st.3. What type of writing is this text?A .An exhibition guide.??????? ?B. An art show review.C. An announcement.?????????? D. An official report.

B

Passenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.?Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群)so large that they? the sky for?hours. It was calculated that when it population reached its highest point ,they were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.??? Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were?most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands,?Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.?? By the closing decades of the 19th century ,the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had?been damaged by American’s need for wood, which scattered (驱散) the flocks and forced the birds to?go farther north, where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks?were gone, never to be seen again.?? In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then,?no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wi pigeon in the United?States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time , a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on?September 1, 1914.4. In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons____.?? A. were the biggest bird in the world B. lived mainly in the south of America C. did great harm to the natural environment D. were the largest bird population in the US. 5. The underlined word “ undoing” probably refers to the pigeons’ ____. A. escape???????? B. ruin???? C. liberation???? D. evolution6. What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons? A. To seek pleasure.?????? B. To save other birds. C. To make money.??????? D. To protect crops.7. What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan? A. It was ignored by the public.?????? B.? It was declared too late. C. It was unfair.??????????????? D. It was strict.

C

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D

Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.

However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

12. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.

A. the reasons for success B. the meaning of success

C. the standards of success D. the importance of success

13. In Paragraph 2, the underlined word that refers to ______.

A. being good at something B. setting a practical goal

C. putting in more time D. succeeding in life

14. Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.

A. work makes one feel pain B. one tends to enjoy his work

C. one gives up his work easily D. it takes a lot of time to succeed

15. What is the main theme of the passage?

A. Having a goal is vital to success.

B. Being good is different from being great.

C. One cannot succeed without time and practice.

D. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.

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入能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

_? 16? _ One of the best things you can possibly do is to start you own club． It’s great fun especially if you are the sort of person who feels there’s never anything to do during the school holidays．

The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club．? _17 _ Pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless．

Next you need some friends to be in your club with you．?? 18? _ All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same thing as you．

?? 19?? You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That’ll keep you busy for ages．

At your first meeting you should make up a rule book． And the first rule should be no grown-ups or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!

Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards． These are very important and again you can speed a lot of time making them．??? 20???? ?Why not leave some space for a photo of yourself? That will make the membership car