D. send mail together with the boy
2. Why
does Mike Crenshaw like the last stop of his day? _____
A. It is where he lives.
B. It is where he is paid.
C. He wants to be with Carter.
D. He can finish his work by then.
3. What is the best title for the text?
_____
A. A letter carrier is praised for helping a
kid.
B. A mailman makes a little boy’s dream come
true.
C. Every letter carrier has stops he looks
forward to.
D. The importance of letter carriers cannot be
ignored.
B
Although environmental problems have existed for centuries, some
people still care little about our environment. Problems like ice
melting, electronic waste are lighting up news programs and
becoming part of an ongoing dialogue about the environment.
As a
teenager, what do you think all the problems mean for your future
and for the future of the planet? For our October 2016 writing
contest, we want you to really consider what you think about
environmental problems.
Use these questions to help focus your essay
● What environmental problem do you think should cause the greatest
alarm and action?
● Do you think that you have a personal responsibility to help
solve
environmental
problems or do you feel helpless against the struggle?
● What do you think could help a specific environmental
problem?
Don’t try to
answer all these questions. Use one of them to make a personal
essay.
The title of the essay
When you hand in your essay, title it as: Environmental Problems:
_______.
Include the phrase “Environmental Problems” as the beginning of
your essay title, but then make the rest of your story title
unique. Examples:
● Environmental Problems: Trashy Behavior and the Plastic
Bottle
● Environmental Problems: We Can’t Exist If We Refuse to
Change
Rules:
(1) This is a non-fiction essay contest.
(2) Essays are 500 words or less.
(3) Essays must be your original work.
The deadline:
Midnight Oct. 30, 2016
Results:
The winner will be posted on our writing contest website or on Teen
Trend Report after Nov. 26, 2016.
4. What is the text mainly about? _____
A. How to write an essay.
B. How to protect our planet.
C. October 2016 writing contest.
D. Some environmental problems.
5. Which
of the following essays will be accepted? _____
A. A 300-word essay taken from the
newspaper.
B. A 400-word essay on air pollution.
C. A 500-word essay full of imagination.
D. A 600-word essay on plastic bottles.
6. How can one know the result of the contest? _____
A. By sending an email.
B. By visiting the website.
C. By calling the organizer.
D. By reading a scientific report.
C
Since 2008, hunters
have illegally killed more than 3000 rhinos in South Africa. The
International Union for Conservation of Nature warns that rhinos
may die out by 2026. People who hunt and kill illegally are called
poachers. The most effective way to watch for and prevent illegal
hunting is from the air. However, piloted flights are too costly.
Fortunately, some Spanish college students have invented a drone
(无人机) that can observe more places than a plane.
Arnau Garcia is an aeronautical (航空学的) engineering student at the
Polytechnic Institute of Catalonia, in Spain. He says observers
from the air have trouble finding poachers when they hide under the
trees. Mr. Garcia and other students have worked with the drone
manufacturer HEMAV to help find the hidden poachers. They make it
by using the thermal camera, which is especially sensitive to body
heat. Even when the poachers keep still, it can also keep track of
them.
The drone can fly in the wind up to 55 kilometers per hour. It has
an autopilot system, so it memorizes the flight path. The drone
also has a microphone, a video camera and a GPS system. These
permit it to report accurately where a picture is taken. After each
flight, the drone can bring back detailed information about where
rhinos are found, the conditions of water and plants in the area,
and the positions of suspected poachers.
Experts say the drone can fly as far as 70 kilometers from the
base. It means that it could quickly observe large areas for
poachers. However, the same search operation would take days for
human observers. Thanks to the drone, many poachers have been
caught and the number of rhinos is on the increase. In addition,
HEMAV has received an increasing number of orders for the drone.
Even South African national park officials attempt to fill the air
with drones.
7. What do we know about the drone? _____
A. It may get lost easily in the air.
B. It can’t work in the windy days.
C. It can offer detailed information.
D. It is useless when the poacher stays
still.
8. What’s the best title for the text? _____
A. How to make the drone work well
B. A new way to stop illegal hunting
C. The living conditions of rhinos are
worrying
D. The drone helps save rhinos in South
Africa
D
Dust on furniture may be bad news for waistlines (腰围). But it’s far
too early to add dusting to a weight-loss plan. Dietary fats and
other materials that make up indoor dust can send a signal to human
fat cells, telling them to grow. That process, in turn, might slow
the body’s rate of burning energy. Such changes could add to any
weight problems a person might have.
“We don’t
know what that means to long-term health and certain diseases yet,”
says Heather Stapleton, one of the study’s authors. But she notes
that her team’s findings also raise a question of whether
pollutants in dust might play some role in the growing, global
problem of obesity (肥胖).
Stapleton
and her colleagues collected dust from homes and offices. Studies
found that some materials in the dust could turn on a protein (蛋白质)
called PPAR-gamma 1. It’s found in many human tissues. Turning this
protein on can cause fat cells to grow. Researchers think this
protein may be involved in obesity. But a second study now finds
evidence that certain fats are mostly to blame. Cooking oils may
send out some of these fats into the air, where they eventually
find their way into house dust. Or, the authors say, the fats might
enter house dust as part of the hair or skin cells shed (脱落) by
people or pets.
“While the
findings are amazing,” says Mitchell Lazar, another study author,
“these findings need to be taken as very limited.” Indeed, he adds
several cautions about how the findings should be understood. “For
one thing, people eat these fats in foods all of the time. That is
likely to be a lot more than would be consumed from indoor dust,”
he said.
9. What do we know about PPAR-gamma 1? _____
A. It comes from dust.
B. It leads to weight gain.
C. It can help get rid of dust.
D. It only appears in human bodies.
10. What’s the best title for the text?
_____
A. Can house dust make us fat?
B. Why is it important to clean?
C. Anything to do to deal with dust?
D. What is the best way to lose weight?
Ⅱ七选五（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。
Not all
children want to listen to their parents. However, parents have
been around for at least two decades or so longer than their
kids.
11 Here are four ways in which
they might be right.
12 People should want to grow
and change with time in a good way. People who hang around with
those who are not as smart as they are will stagnate (停滞). So try
to surround yourself with people who are worth learning from.
The more you
learn, the less you really know. People tend to believe that they
are right about everything before they’ve really learned anything
about the world.
13 This is largely due to
contrast: people will realize how ignorant (无知) they were in the
past after they’ve learned certain things, making them realize how
much theyve left to learn.
Growing up
too fast is truly bad.
14 However, these are the years
when you are going to be more protected from the cruel realities of
adulthood. You should try to appreciate this aspect of this life
stage without being concerned with pushing your development too
hard.
It is better to try and fail than fail to try. Children have to
learn that failure is part of
life. 15
However, the sting (刺痛) of failure disappears gradually, and the
regret about missed opportunities is going to sting far more for
many adults. So don’t stop going for certain goals because of a
fear of failure.
Parents are wiser than you think.
It’s hard enough for adults to accept.
Being around people who don’t challenge you is a bad idea.
Your childhood years may not be the best years of your life.
They have some life experience, and it makes sense to listen to
them.
People who bring out the best in others will reach their personal
best.
G. By the time they have, they’ll realize how
complicated (复杂) the world can be.
Ⅲ
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。
My
father was a highly educated, intelligent gentleman. He could
debate or discuss for hours on almost any topic and hold
your
16 in the process. I thought
there was nothing he
wasn’t
17 to do.
A few days before my younger brother’s 7th birthday, Dad planned to
assemble（装配）a
new
18 as a special birthday
surprise. After nearly an hour
of
19 the instructions, Dad was
still unable to
20 the new bike together. Later
he
21 the paper of
instructions,
22 up his tool box, and decided
to take the bike back to the local toy store and pay
extra
23 to have it correctly
assembled there.
24 an idea came to him, as he
called out to Lovett, the quiet little man who cut our
grassland.
Lovett, have you ever assembled a boys bicycle?
As Lovett walked towards the bike, Dad handed him
the 25 .
Lovett handed it back to him, saying, No, thanks. I cant read. When
you cant read, you have to
26 . Less than 15 minutes later, the new bicycle
was
27 assembled, with
no
28 parts remaining. Dad shook
Lovetts hand, patted him on the back, thanked him, and hid the
bike.
On the night after my brother received his shiny new gift, Dad
announced at the family dinner table what had happened several days
earlier. He took great
29 in telling it over and over
again he used it as an example of
thinking.
He did not refer to illiteracy（文盲）, but strongly taught us to use
our 30 . The
joke was on my father,
31 he was able to turn it into
a learning tool, and I liked him even more after that incident. I
also gained a new
32 for Lovett. To me he
had
33 been the old yard man who
didnt
34 much, but after that day, he
seemed to smile
35 , even walk taller. Its amazing what a real
nod of approval can do to lift people up.
16. A. belief
B. breath C. view
D. attention
17. A. willing
B. able
C. lucky
D.
capable
18. A. bicycle
B. toy
C. computer
D. boat
19. A. reviewing
B. reading
C. examining
D. searching
20. A. bring
B. get
C. work
D. put
21. A. looked through
B. folded up
C. turned to
D. devoted to
22. A. brought
B. added
C. picked
D. set
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