第一部分 阅读（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，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
A
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226789 or sending an email tolr27682@.cumc.columbia.edu. 1.Which is a possiblesituation where a text message will be sent? A.The temperature will drop slightly tomorrow. B.The campus will be closed during Christmas. C.The main railway system of the city is interrupted. D.A bank robber is being sentenced in the court of the city. 2.Which step comes before the others when teachers register? A.Selecting Campus Alert. B.Entering mobile numbers. C.Clicking \"+\" under \"Phone\". D.Selecting \"Faculty& Staff\". 3.How can users stop receiving text messages? A.By sending an email. B.By texting STOP to 226789. C.By managing information online. D.By making a phone call to 226787.
B
It’s a big change from homeless teen to Yale (耶鲁)medical school student, butperseverancepaid off for Chelesa Fearce of Clayton County, Georgia.
Fearce was a fourth grader when her mom was diagnosed (诊断) with Lymphoma (淋巴瘤).That began a hard time for the family. They had to move in and out of shelters,hotels and even the family car.
“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her high school graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. “I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore. And that helped me get through,” she told WSBTV.
Fearce was determined to be a good role model for her younger sister. She found inspiration in her late grandmother, struggling with deadly diseases, who gave Fearce emotional support. In her junior and senior year, Fearce took both high school and college courses, missing out on the free meals she depended on so she could get to her college classes. Despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night, she not only graduated as valedictorian (毕业生代表) of her 2013 class with a 4.5 grade average, but was also given a ride scholarship—including a meal plan to Spelman College in Atlanta.
After graduation, she worked full time for two years at the National Institutes for Health inBethesda,Maryland,doing research on drugs. Last fall, she entered Yale and set a course to earn both a PhD and medical degree.
4. What does the underlined word “perseverance” in paragraph 1 refer to? A. instant passion. B. continuous efforts. C. great patience. D. selfless ambitions. 5. How did Fearce feel facing the sufferings?
A. Sad and disappointed. B. Stressed and defeated. C. Determined and confident. D. Joyous and contented. 6. What can we know about Fearce’s learning experience? A. Her grandma encouraged her to study medicine. B. Her high school offered her free meals and courses. C. She failed to study late due to frequent power cut. D. She gained remarkable high school achievement. 7. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. From Homeless to Yale B. Meet American’s Top Girl C. Disabled but not Defeated
D. Chelesa Fearce: A Girl of Many Talents
C
While space travel still gets lot of attention, not enough attention has been paid to the exploration of oceans, about which we know much less than the dark side of the moon.
Ninety percent of the ocean floor has not even been recorded and while we have been to the moon, the technology to explore the ocean's floors is still being developed. For example, a permanent partially-underwater sea exploration station, called the Sea Orbiter, is currently in development.
The oceans play a major role in controlling our climate. But we have not learned yet how to use them to cool us off rather than contribute to our overheating. Ocean organisms are said to hold the promise of cures for a wide of the unique eyes of skate (ray fish) led to advances in conquering blindness, the horseshoe crab was important in developing a test for bacterial pollution, and sea urchins helped in the development of test-tube fertilization(人工授精). The toadfish's' ability to regenerate its central nervous system is of much interest to neuroscientists. A
recent Japanese study concluded that the drug Eribulin, which was taken from sea sponges, is effective in fighting with breast, colon, and Urinary cancer.
Given the approaching crisis of water insufficiency, we badly need to improve current methods, of desalinating(淡化) ocean water and make them more efficient and less costly. By 2025, 1.8 billion people are expected to suffer from severe water shortage, with that number jumping to 3. 9 billion by 2050-well over a third of the entire global population.
If the oceansdo not make your heart go beating faster, how about engineering a bacterium that eats carbon dioxide — and thus helps protect the world from overheating — and produces fuel which will allow us to drive our cars and machines, without oil? I cannot find any evidence that people young or old, Americans or citizens of other nations would be less impressed or less inspired with such a breakthrough than with one more set of photos of a faraway galaxy or a whole Milky Way full of stars. 8. What does the author think about the ocean exploration?
A. It is equal to the space exploration. B. It is well developed.
C. It deserves more attention and devotion. D. It is beyond our knowledge. 9. What technology has been developed to make use of the oceans? A. Curing human diseases with ocean organisms. B. Preventing the world getting warmer. C. Mapping the global ocean floor. D. Removing salt from sea water.
10. What does the author imply in the last paragraph? A. The temperature rise will be overcome by a bacterium. B. Solving the existing problems is more significant. C. The space exploration is worth the efforts. D. The ocean exploration is not inspiring. 11. What is the best title of the passage?
A. Oceans, the Last Hope. B. Oceans, the Hidden Treasure. C. Space, the Final Frontier. D. Space, the Faraway Dream.
D
I was in the second year of my Ph. D. program when a colleague asked what I would do if I had an extra hour every day. Without much consideration, I said I would use it to help others. The question kept coming to my mind.
Like many graduate students, I was overwhelmed (难以承受的) with research, teaching, coursework, and some attempt at a personal life. Still, I asked myself, \"Do I really need a 25th hour to help other people-or do I need to make better use of the 24 hours I have?\"
I needed something to help me return to my old self. After that conversation with my colleague, I googled (谷歌搜索) “volunteer opportunities near me”. A local organization that drives people to stores or appointments was looking for volunteers. Having grown up in a rural village where everyone knew oneanother and my grandparents were always close by, I thought serving senior citizens in my new hometown might be just what I needed.
A short time later, I started to volunteer for an organization that provides transportation for senior citizens and people with disabilities. To my surprise, adding this activity to my busy life was just what I needed to calm the confusion I was feeling as a first-generation international graduate student.
I started to volunteer about 3 hours every weekend, the time I otherwise would have wasted oversleeping or scrolling (滚屏) through social media. Sharing stories with my riders was much more rewarding. What they told me about their lives helped me realize that in every corner of the world, humans are connected with the languageof emotions. And seeing how eager my riders were to spend time out and about inspired me to think about how to spend my time, which used to slip away. My previously overwhelming schedule began to feel manageable.
I'm proud of who I have become, and I continue to reflect on how I'm using the most valuable thing in life: my time.
12. Why did the author ask himself the question in Paragraph 1? A. He wanted to return to normal life. B. He was busy but wanted to help others. C. He couldn't bear too much school work. D. He couldn't answer his colleague's question. 13. How did the author find the volunteer job?
A. A colleague recommended it. B. A local organization offered it. C. He got it from his grandparents. D. He got it by surfing on the Internet. 14. What made the author feel his volunteer job was worth doing?
A. Communicating with his riders. B. Improving his language learning. C. Meeting his grandparents often. D. Realizing his previous dream. 15. How did volunteering influence the author?
A. It helped himbecome confident and efficient. B. He found a good way to live a free and quiet life.
C. He realized he had wasted too much time pursuing his Ph. D. D. It inspired him to spare more time to accompany his grandparents. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项
As you get older, you'll meet a wider range of people from different cultures. Culture is an idea that isn't easy to understand. People often use the term to refer to things like food, holidays, clothing and music.____16____Religion, customs, beliefs and values are also part of your culture. So when meeting people from different backgrounds, you can sometimes find that there're huge differences in how you see the world.
____17____For example, when you meet people from a different culture, ask them about their lives. It is one of the best ways to understand the culture. But be polite about it and remember they don't owe you an answer, and might not want to give it—not everyone wants to explain everything about their culture.
Maybe you've recently met someone from a different culture you find interesting.____18____Get to know his/her families and see how their customs and traditions differ from yours. You might be surprised to find how culturally different two people living even in the same town can be!
Read books by and about people who are different from you. Reading memoirs (回忆录), biographies and other nonfiction books is an obvious way to learn about a country or someone's life.____19____Like with books, you can also watch movies to learn more about a culture. What's more, keeping yourself in a different culture through travel is also an amazing way to understand another culture.
____20____So accept and respect the differences between yourself and your friends from different cultures—remember that what is a difference to you is just their normal life! A. Make friends with him/her.
B. But it also goes much deeper than that.
C. Show respect towards people from other cultures. D. You may think you know a lot about a culture or place. E. Differences between us are what makes life so interesting. F. There are many ways to understandother people's cultures.
G. Also don't ignore novels that have been translated from other languages. 第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
As I work in the garden, I take my time. And the garden is____21____me about working with the earth. I recognize that there will be both successes and failuresand there are many factors that____22____them both. The____23____of the seeds can affect the growth of the plants. The____24____can be too hot, too cold, or____25____right. Weeds need to be____26____and thrown away to____27____that the fruits, vegetables, and flowers we have planted grow well.
I take time to stand back and rest, and to____28____the plants. Each plant is____29____and develops in the way that is best for them. Some have large broad leaves to____30____their fruit from the rays of the sun, while other plants are more____31____, their fruit needing the____32____to grow and ripen.
Getting my hands____33____and feeling the sweat on my forehead, as I work under the summer sun, reminds me I am____34____in the ways I wouldn't have remembered sitting on the couch.
I feel attracted to move things around to transplant and to____35____the natural order of how plants grow. The garden teaches me the importance of knowing when to disturb things and when to let them be. The garden's life cycle____36____a pattern that is repeated according to the____37____of nature. Birth, growth, and then death and it teaches me to accept this fact.
Perhaps life is like the____38____, successes and failures, time to be active and time to____39____to let go of what is no longer needed, to cultivate what helps us to grow into our light and power, and to readily____40____life from beginning to end.
21. A. telling B. concerning C. worrying D. teaching 22. A. destroy B. affect C. promote D. exchange 23. A. quality B. color1 C. shape D. weight 24. A. water B. air C. weather D. wind
25. A. approximately B. constantly C. exactly D. occasionally 26. A. pulled B. planted C. guarded D. provided 27. A. make sense B. find out C. work out D. make sure 28. A. tend B. observe C. count D. examine 29. A. beautiful B. average C. amazing D. unique 30. A. prevent B. separate C. shade D. remove 31. A. open B. delicate C. straight D. vivid
32. A. energy B. light C. soil D. space 33. A. empty B. dirty C. broken D. free 34. A. awake B. tired C. alive D. independent 35. A. disturb B. find C. enjoy D. guide
36. A. discovers B. transforms C. draws D. follows 37. A. changes B. reflection C. laws D. development 38. A. plant B. sun C. fruit D. garden 39. A. rest B. quit C. offer D. fight
40. A. expect B. accept C. picture D. receive 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
The Old Man and the Sea, a great novel____41.____(write) by the American author Ernest Hemingway, was published in 1952. The____42.____(succeed) of the book made him well-known and contributed to____43.____honor he received in 1954— the Nobel Prize in Literature .It was Hemingway's last major work of fiction.
The story concerns an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago who____44.____(not catch) a fish for 84 days.____45.____(convince) that he will change his bad luck, Santiago takes his boat far out into the Gulf Stream, where the water is very deep, and hooks a giant marlin fish,____46.____is even longer than his fishing boat.____47.____all his great experience and strength, he struggles with the fish for three days and eventually succeeds in catching it,____48.____his hard work then goes for nothing-- sharks eat the captured fish when he can return to the harbor.
Hemingway is famously interested in ideas of men proving their worth by____49.____(face) and overcoming the challenges of nature. Through the old man's struggle he shows the ability of human spirit bearing hardship and suffering in order_____50._____(obtain) greater success and victory. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.请修改下面的短文。短文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(\\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，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处起)不计分。
Good morning, everyone. Yesterday I received a letter from a elderly gentleman. He told me the other day he see that some student in our school uniform crowded onto a bus without waiting their turns. On the bus they refuse to offer their seats for old people. What was worse, they even said dirty words to each other. I am very much sorry for this. Today’s youth are tomorrow’s old people. Respect the old and caring for the young is a fine tradition of our Chinese. Every one of us have the responsibility to keep it up. I hope that you can learn something from this incident and you will have good manners whether you are inside or outside the school. Thank you. 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你校为来自英国的交流生举办了一场介绍中国传统节日的欢迎宴会，请你代表学校向他们介绍一个你认为最重要的中国传统节日。内容包括：
1.节日庆祝时间和方式； 2.节日象征意义。 注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Good morning, my dear friends. I’m Li Hua.
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Thanks for your listening.
参考答案
1. C 2. D 3. A
4. B 5. C 6. D 7. A
8. C 9. D 10. B 11. B
12. B 13. D 14. A 15. A
16. B 17. F 18. A 19. G 20. E
21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. A 32. B 33. B 34. C 35. A 36. D 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. B
41. written 42. success
43. the 44. has not caught 45. Convinced
46. which 47. With 48. but 49. facing 50. to obtain
51.(1).a→an (2).see→saw
(3).student→students (4).refuse→refused (5).for→to
(6).删除much
(7).Respect→Respecting (8).our→us (9).have→has (10).and后加that
52.略
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