People thank their parents with two days：Mother’sDay，on the second Sunday in May，and Father’s Day，on the third Sunday in June．These days are to show love for parents．Theyraise their children and educate them to be good people．They give them love and care． The two days are celebrated(庆祝)in many different ways．On Mother’s Day，people wear carnations．Wearing a red onemeans having a living mother．while a white one showsthat the mother is dead．It’s also a day when peoplewhose parents are dead visit the cemetery．On these daysfamilies get together at homes as well as in restaurants．They often have outdoor barbecues(烧烤聚会)forFather’s Day．These are days of fun and good feelings．Another tradition(传统)is to give cards andgifts．Children make them in school．Many people make their own presents．Theseare more valued(宝贵的)than those bought in shops．It’s not the value of the gift that is important，but the love for the’parents．Card shops，florists，candy makers，phone companies and other shops do lots of business during theseholidays． Which is not a reason forchildren to show love for parents？（）

第1题

Thank you very much for your help.（)

A. It's my duty

B. It's my pleasure

C. I'm serving the people

D. It has no trouble

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第2题

？？？？？？W: Star Restaurant. 1 ？H: Yes.I’d like to book a table for dinner this evening.W

？？？？？？W: Star Restaurant. 1 ？

H: Yes.I’d like to book a table for dinner this evening.

W: 2 , please？

H: My name is Henry James.

W: 3 ？

H: Four people, Can we have a table by the window, please？

W: No problem, sir. 4 ？

H: We’ll arrive at 7:30.

W: All right, sir, I’ve taken everything down.

H: Thank you very much.

W: 5 .

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

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第3题

When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. B

efore they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.

“We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”

I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ‘VACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacations’. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ‘VACANCIES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCIES’, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!

We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word ‘DIVERSION’ means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word ‘DIVERSION’ on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold.

English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more coffee, I said ‘Thank you’ in French. I meant that I would like some more, However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that ‘Thank you’ in French means ‘No, thank you.’

11. My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______.

A. learning English

B. finding places to stay in England

C. driving their car on English roads

D. going to England by car

12. I suggested that they stay at bed and breakfast houses because ______.

A. they would be able to practise their English

B. it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels

C. it would be convenient for them to have dinner

D. there would be no problem about finding accommodation there

13. “NO VACANCIES” in English means ______.

A. no free rooms

B. free rooms

C. not away on holiday

D. holidays

14. If you see a road sign that says ‘Diversion’, you will ______.

A. fall into a hole

B. have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself

C. find that the road is blocked by crowds of people

D. have to take a different road

15. When someone offered me more coffee and I said ‘Thank you’ in French, I ______.

A didn’t really want any more coffee

B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away

C. really wanted some more coffee

D. wanted to express my politeness

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第4题

Read the following paragraphs to identify the sentence which is not related to its top

ic.Write the number of the unrelated sentences on the Answer Sheet.(10 points)

Paragraph 1

My name is Brandon and I began Humans of New York in the summer of 2010.I thought it would be really cool to create a catalogue of New York City’s people, so I set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and put their photos on a map.(1) I worked for several months with this goal in mind.(2) But along the way, I started collecting quotes and short stories from the people I met.Taken together, these pictures and captions became the subject of a blog.(3) Blogs are popular with all age groups.(4) With over eight million followers on social media, HONY now provides a worldwide audience with daily looks into the lives of strangers in New York City.It has also become a #1 NYT bestselling book.

Paragraph 2

Learning a second language can provide a deeper understanding of a foreign culture.Social habits that may not make sense to most outsiders might start to make more sense after a few vocabulary lessons.For example, I always wondered why my Dutch cousins rarely said “you’re welcome” after I said “thank you”.(1) My cousin can speak English but sometimes makes mistakes.(2) At first, I thought he was being rude, but when I learned more about his language, I realized that they don’t use “you’re welcome” the same way we do: in response to “thank you”.(3) They actually say something that translates to “If you please” when they offer you something.(4) This is one of the first things I learned about Dutch culture when I started to learn their language and it gave me a different perspective on the roles of host and guest since in Dutch the onus to be polite is on the host, and not the guest as it seems to be in English.

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第5题

Thank You, Volunteers!By the end of each year, we'd try to show our appreciation to thos

Thank You, Volunteers!

By the end of each year, we'd try to show our appreciation to those volunteers who have helped to make life more beautiful. Therefore, it’s in December that we tend to think of a way in which we could show our thanks to them. Here are some posts online to thank those who have volunteered to offer all kinds of help.

Potlucks for Staff and Volunteers

(1) I like to hold potlucks at the office and invite volunteers to make them feel like part of the team. The volunteers are asked to bring with them a big appetite. (Posted on 29 December, 2018 by Nazia Anderson)

Giving Cards to Volunteers

This year I sent out thank-you cards to the volunteers. It’s a great way to show our thanks toward the end of the year, and (2) this makes our volunteers know we’re grateful to them for what they’ve done in the busy year. (Posted on 1 December, 2018 by Traci Lato)

Hats Off to Volunteers

Our library volunteers received various baskets of goodies, boxes of chocolates, flowers and plants, etc. The staff wore hats all week and tipped them toward the volunteers as we saw them. The volunteers here seemed to appreciate the silent effort to recognize them. (Posted on 20 December, 2018 by Aimee Hepler)

Afternoon at the Movies

During National Volunteer Week we recognized our volunteers by taking them to the movies. (3) We had our recognition awards program before the movie started, followed by a 15-minute coffee break. The volunteers had a bag of popcorn and a drink waiting for them. They also had their choice of 2 movies. It was very well received and we will do it again next year. (Posted on 23 December, 2018 by Linda Bacon)

Pat on the Back

Here’s a very inexpensive idea that should work for any type of organization. I simply draw around my hand on a piece of paper, print “Here’s a pat on the back for You, Mr. / Ms. for all the hard work and effort you’ve made here”, then copy it onto colored paper. The teens at our community help me cut them out. (Posted on 20 December, 2018 by Wu Qing)

(1)、What is the main idea of this passage？

A、Different ways to show thanks to volunteers.

B、We should to be volunteers.

C、Volunteers are important for us.

(2)、Why is it in December that we tend to think of a way to thank volunteers？

A、Because it is by the end of a year.

B、Because it is the beginning of the year.

C、Because it is important in a year.

(3)、Why does Nazia hold potlucks at the office and invite volunteers？

A、To fulfill her wish to be a volunteer

B、To show thanks to them and make them feel like part of the team.

C、To organise an activity to show the importance of the volunteers.

(4)、What is the purpose for Traci to send out thank-you cards to the volunteers？

A、She wants to tell the people how important the volunteers are.

B、She wants to show her ability to make cards

C、She wants to make the volunteers know people are grateful to them for what they’ve done in the busy year.

(5)、Why does Linda want to do her award program again next year？

A、Because it is fresh and interesting.

B、Because she likes.

C、Because it seems to be well received.

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第6题

C A woman:heads into apopular New York City coffee shop on a cold: winter rooming. Just ah

C

A woman:heads into apopular New York City coffee shop on a cold: winter rooming. Just ahead of her, a man drops a few papers. The woman pauses to help gather them. A clerk ata busy store thanks a customer who has just bought something. "Enjoy" the young woman says, smiling widely. "Have a nice day." She sounds like she really means it. These arethe common situations we may see every: day.

However, in her best-selling book Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss argues that common good manners such as saying "Excuse me" almost no longer exist. There are certainly plenty who would agree with her. According to one recent study, 70 percent of the U.S. adults (成A.)said people are ruder now than they were 20 years ago.

Is it really true？ We decided to find out if good manners are really hard to see. In this politeness study, reporters were sent to many cities in the world. They performed three experiments: "door tests" (would anyone hold the door open for them？); "paper drops" (who would help them gather a pile of "accidentally" dropped papers？); and "service tests" (which salesclerks would thank them for a purchase [购物]？)

In New York, 60 tests (20 of each type)were done. Along the way, the reporters met all types of people: men and women of different races, ages, professions (职业), and income levels. And guess what？ In the end, four out of every five :people they met passed their: politeness test making New York the most polite city in the study.

44, What does Lynne Truss argue in Talk to the Hand？.

A. People are not as polite as they used to.

B. "Excuse me" is not welcome nowadays.

C. Of all the adults in the US 70% are rude,

D. People don't care about manners any more.

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第7题

听力原文：On June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the I

听力原文： On June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offer as follows:

We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were taught all your sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, they were totally good for nothing.

We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it, and to show our grateful sense of it. If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know and make men of them.

(33)

A．The educational values of the Indians.

B．The colleges of the northern provinces.

C．The talk between the Indians and the officials.

D．The problems of the Americans in the mid-eighteenth century.

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第8题

Thank you for your interest in Caliber Cassette （盒式录音带 ) library. This letter tells y

ou about our service. With it we are sending you an application form, so that you can join if you would like to try it. Caliber library aims to provide the pleasure of reading to anyone who cannot read ordinary print books because of sight problems. We currently have over 7,000 books available for reading for pleasure, including l，000 specially for children. A11 0ur books are recorded cover-to-cover on ordinary cassettes and can be played on any cassette player. They are sent and returned by post, free of charge.

When we receive your application, we will send you a hook and an information Tape.They will explain how to use the service. The easy way to use Caliber library is to tell us what sorts of books you like. and we will keep you supplied with books we think you will enjoy. Or you can send us a list of books you would like to read, and we will then send you books from this list whenever possible. In that case you will need to use our website, or buy one or more of our catalogues (目录 ).

According to the first paragraph, the library sends the application form. to the readers so that they can_____.

A.read ordinary books

B.order cassette players

C.buy Caliber cassettes

D.use the library service

Caliber library provides service mainly for people who suffer from________A.hearing difficulties

B.mental illnesses

C.sight problems

D.Heart troubles

The service of sending and returning books by post is_____.A.not available to children

B.paid by the users

C.free of charge

D.not provided

The easyway to usethe library service is to______ .A.inform the library your name and address

B.Tellthe library the sorts of books you like

C.buy the catalogues of the library

D.askthe library to buy the books

The main purpose of this letter is to _______.A.introduce the library' s service to readers

B.recommend new books to the readers

C.send a few catalogues to readers

D.express thanks to the readers

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

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第9题

Text 2The real heroine of the novel stands at one remove to the narrative. On the face of

it, readers are more likely to empathize with, and be curious about, the mysterious and resourceful slave, Sarah, who forms one point of an emotional triangle. Sarah is the property of Manon, and came with her to a failing Louisiana sugar plantation on her marriage to the good-for-nothing, bullying owner. But Manon’s husband is soon struck by Sarah, and the proof lies in their idiot small son, Walter.

However, the reader is forced to see things through Manon’s eyes, not Sarah’s, and her consciousness is not a comfortable place to be. Never a please or a thank you passes her lips when talking to slaves, though manners is the order of the day in white society. Manon is enormously attracted by inter-racial marriage (for the place and time—the early 19th century—such a concern would not be unusual, but in her case it seems pathological). Walter, with “his father’s curly red hair and green eyes, his mother’s golden skin, her full, pushing-forward lips”, is the object of her especial hatred, but she chatters on about all the “dreadful mixed-blooded”, the objectionable “yellow” people.

Beyond Manon’s polarized vision, we glimpse “free negros” and the emerging black middle-class. To Manon’s disgust, such people actually have self-respect. In New Orleans buying shoes, Manon is taken aback by the shopkeeper’s lack of desired respect. Mixed race prostitutes acquired the affections of male planters by giving them something mysterious their wives cannot often What that might be, and why wives can’t offer it too, are questions Manon can’t even ask, let alone answer.

The first third of the book explores the uneasy and unsustainable peace between Manon, Sarah and the man always called just “my husband” or “he”. Against the background of violent slave revolts and equally savage revenges, it’s clear the peace cannot last. It’s part of the subtlety of this book that as the story develops and the inevitable explosion occurs, our view of all the characters swiftly changes. Sarah turns out to deserve all the suspicion Manon directs at her; at the point of death Manon’s husband displays an admirable toughness and courage; and Manon herself wins the reader’s reluctant admiration for her bravery, her endurance, and her total lack of self-pity.

Perhaps the cruelest aspect of this society is the way it breaks down and distorts family affections. A slave’s baby is usually sold soon after birth; Sarah’s would-be husband, if he wants her, must buy her; and Manon herself, after all, is only the property of her husband.

第26题：Which of the following reflects Manon’s attitude towards colored people？

［A］ Sympathetic.

［B］ Suspicious.

［C］ Concerned.

［D］ Disgusted.

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第10题

Not long ago my wife sent me to the nearest market to buy something, I went there dire

ctly, and (54)a pound of sugar. Then I returned home and(55) my wife the paper bag in which there was one pound of sugar. I said to her, “Here is the(56) you want.” My wife looked into the bag, and then looked at me in a(57)way, saying very slowly, “I told you to get me a bottle of milk”. I was so(58 )my absent-mindedness that I paid(59) to my family doctor, who was both learned and kind.“Your problem,” He said, “is a(60)one and it should not(61) you at all. If you know you’re absent-minded, you’re quite all right. It’s nothing to worry about. But if you don’t know you’re absent-minded, you’re surely in(62 )“Many(63)people are absent-minded,” the doctor told me. “(64),Thomas Edison was standing(65)one day to pay taxes when he arrived(66)window, that is to say, it was his(67)to pay his money, he found that he(68)his own(69). He(70)the man next in the line and asked,” Can you tell me who I am？ The man told him.I felt(71)and got up to leave. “Thank you, doctor,” I said, “How much should I pay you？” “Ten dollars for the(72).” “But, doctor, I didn’t have a check-up.” The doctor looked much puzzled. “Oh, yes,” he said, “it was that(73)before you. How absent-minded I am too!”

54. A.sold

B.ordered

C.bought

D.borrowed

55. A.handed

B.put

C.paid

D.borrowed

56. A.milk

B.sugar

C.vegetable

D.book

57. A.friendly

B.kind

C.open

D.strange

58. A.worried about

B.fond of

C.interested in

D.proud of

59. A.some money

B.taxes

C.a visit

D.great attention

60. A.difficult

B.good

C.bad

D.simple

61. A.excite

B.worry

C.interest

D.pay

62. A.need

B.future

C.trouble

D.fact

63. A.famous

B.ordinary

C.sick

D.honest

64. A.In fact

B.For example

C.At once

D.Long, long ago

65. A.among people

B.in passengers

C.in a queue

D.between two

66. A.to

B.in

C.on

D.at

67. A.moment

B.duty

C.turn

D.time

68. A.had remembered

B.had forgotten

C.thought of

D.lost

69. A.telephone number

B.name

C.address

D.age

70. A.turned to

B.looked at

C.listened to

D.passed on

71. A.even worse

B.more worried

C.much better

D.more excited

72. A.check-up

B.talk

C.medicine

D.time

73. A.me

B.your wife

C.patient

D.scientist

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第11题

Passage Five When Frand Dale look over as publisher of Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner，the o

Passage Five

When Frand Dale look over as publisher of Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner，the organization had just ended a ten-year strike. There was much bitterness and as he told us.“Everybody that I found there had lost their curiosity，they’d lost their cutting edge，there was no interest，they just hung on ... I had a real problem.”His very first task was to introduce himself to everybody，to thank them for their loyalty to that point，and to allow them to express their concerns and frustrations. To questions like“What makes you think you can make this thing go？”he responded，“I don’t know yet，but in thirty days I’ll come back to you and let you know what I’ve found.”He recruited a task force of the best people from throughout the Hearst Corporation to do a crash study，and in thirty days he had a written report on what needed to be done，which he shared with the staff. He had taken the all-important first steps to establish mutual trust，without which leadership would not have been possible.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together. The accumulation of trust is a measure of the legitimacy of leadership. It cannot be demanded or purchased；it must be earned. Trust is the basic ingredient of all organizations，the lubrication that maintains the organization and it is as mysterious and difficult a concept as leadership—and as important.

One thing we can say for sure about trust is that if trust is to be generated，there must be predictability，the capacity to predict another’s behavior. Another way of putting it is to say that organizations without trust would resemble the ambiguous nightmare of Kafka’s The Castle，where nothing can be certain and nobody can be relied on or be held responsible. The ability to predict outcomes with a high probability of success generates and maintains trust.

51. What was Frand Dale’s problem when he became the publisher of Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner？

A. He had lost interest in his publishing career.

B. He found it hard to introduce himself to everyone.

C. Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner was in extreme difficulty.

D. Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner was on a ten-year strike.

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