The following are some tips for becoming a successful businessman by Michael Bloomberg. They are based on his experience of building a company from the ground up, leading New York City as mayor（市長(zhǎng)）, and so on.

Take Risks

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

In 1981, at the age of 39, I lost my job. The next day I took a big risk and began my own company. In 2001, when I was debating whether to run for mayor, most people advised me not to do it. But one person said, “If you can imagine yourself giving a concession（敗選）speech, then why not go for it?” That was the best advice I received, and I followed it.

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail— and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

Make your own luck

Luck plays a part in success. The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Whatever you choose to do, even if it’s not the job of your dreams, always work hard at it. Be the first person at work in the morning and the last to leave at night. Hard work creates chances.

Never stop learning

The most powerful word in English language is “why”. There is nothing so powerful

as an open, inquiring mind（探究精神）. Whatever field you choose for starting a business — be a lifelong student.

Give back

You are responsible for your success and failure, but you only succeed if you share the reward with others.

My first donation was a $ 5 check to my alma mater （母校） . And while the checks（支票）may be bigger today, they come with the same spirit.

You don’t have to be wealthy to give back. You can give back by giving your time and talents.

1.In this passage, Michael Bloomberg is the name of a .

A. newspaper B. place C. company D. person

2.What did the writer do at the age of 59?

A. Lost his job. B. Ran for mayor.

C. Built a company. D. Became a teacher.

3.From the passage, we can infer that the writer .

A. is a young mayor B. seldom cares about others

C. is lucky all the time D. is a hard-working man

4.Which of the following isn’t mentioned in the tips?

A. Failure is the mother of success.

B. It’s never too old to learn.

C. Money is everything.

D. Luck comes from hard work.

5.In which of the following columns（欄目）can you find the article?

A. Family Life B. Interesting Stories

C. Experience Sharing D. Adventures

Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The program works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember the number of your credit card when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.

The eye-recognition（眼睛識(shí)別）program has already been tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.

Eye-recognition is a course of recognizing iris（虹膜）, which includes the following steps. First, a kind of machine needs to collect different examples of one’s iris from his eyes and store them. Second, when this person goes to the bank to take out money, this machine will have iris feature extraction（采集）. Then, this machine will compare the examples kept in it with iris feature extraction. Once the examples and the feature extraction are the same, this person will be identified, and he will take out the money from the bank successfully.

However, scientists are also working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your finger.

Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don’t change as you get older, and don’t get dirty like hands or fingers, and even twins have different eyes. So the eye-recognition program can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. However, some other programs may only be 51% correct now. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of

eye-recognition.

In the future your computer will be looking you in the eye. So smile!

1.The program has been tested in shops and banks in .

A. America and China B. Spain and Japan

C. Britain and Turkey D. Italy and German

2.According to the steps in Paragraph 3, which picture shows how the eye recognition happens?

3.According to Paragraph 4, for now, machines can identify people by .

A. fingers and smell B. face and voice

C. voice and finger D. hand and face

4.What does Paragraph 4 also talk about?

A. Other kinds of systems to identify people.

B. Some special things of other programmes.

C. The places where other programmes are tested.

D. Some old machines used to identify people.

5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. All the eye-recognition programs can be up to 94% correct.

B. In Britain, 91% of people said that they liked the idea of eye recognition.

C. Everyone’s eyes are different, even twins have different eyes.

D. Some other programs used to be 51% correct.

閱讀短文及文后選項(xiàng)，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

March 20th is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations, more than half of the world's major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.

The Yellow River, the world's fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth.

1.Its source（源頭）on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is drying up. In most of the past 35 years, it didn't reach the sea.

The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 km, is the longest river in the world.2.Now it is down to 2 billion m³ or so. Australia's Murray River reaches the sea only every other year. One fifth of America's Rio Grande has no water, either.

3.

Mostly it’s damming（筑壩）and global warming that make rivers dry.4.Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world’s rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world's fresh water from running to the sea.

5.Warmer weather takes water away. The glacier（冰川）are becoming smaller. The source of the Yellow River is drying up because of it. Global warming has had certain effects on water sources. Droughts （干旱） happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.

寫作

第一節(jié)單詞拼寫

根據(jù)下列句子意思及所給單詞的首字母寫出所缺單詞。在填寫答卷時(shí)，要求寫出完整單詞。（每空只寫一詞）

1.I feel a little hot. Would you m opening the window?

2.Keep quiet please. Don’t make any n in the library.

3.Can you give me a hand, please? The bookshelf is too h for me to move by myself.

4.This kind of flower is very common in our city, and we can see it e .

5.When a comes, the leaves turn yellow and soon fall.

6.There’s a m over there. Let’s go and buy some fruit and meat.

第二節(jié) 完成句子

根據(jù)所給的漢語內(nèi)容，用英語完成下列句子。(每空只寫一詞)

1.這個(gè)會(huì)議很重要，持續(xù)了三天。

The meeting was very important. It three days.

2.多么好的消息��！Lucy 取得了在英國學(xué)習(xí)的機(jī)會(huì)。

news! Lucy got a chance to study in England.

3.我想知道你昨晚什么時(shí)候到家。

I wonder home last night.

4.為了提高口語，他們用 Twitter 與美國朋友聊天。

They useTwitterto chat with American friends improve their spoken English.

5.世界衛(wèi)生組織（WHO）是在 1948 年成立的。

World Health Organization in 1948.

6.除非你多做運(yùn)動(dòng)，否則你會(huì)變得更胖。

You will get fatter you more exercise.

7.你真有禮貌，把座位主動(dòng)提供給老人。

It’s so polite your seat to the old.

你校將接待來自加拿大的一個(gè)學(xué)生交流團(tuán)，請(qǐng)你根據(jù)以下提示內(nèi)容寫一篇短文，向外國朋友介紹天河的文化中心——花城廣場(chǎng)的四個(gè)主要文化設(shè)施以及相關(guān)特色。

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Guangzhou. It’s my great honor to introduce our Tianhe Culture Center, Huacheng Square.

Huacheng Square is really a good place to visit. I hope you can visit it one day.

Once upon a time,there was a king,Something was wrong with his eyes.He_________all the doctors in his country and tried every treatment they suggested,but his eyes continued to hurt,In desperation(走投無路),the king sent for________old wise man,who lived on top of the________mountain in the country.The wise man asked the king some questions and checked his eyes with a strange machine.

At last he smiled and said,“You’d better not see other colors_________green.You must only see green instead of any other color.I will come to see you again in a month to see______you are doing it.”The king immediately asked his men________all the boxes of green paint they could find.Then he directed them to paint green everything he could see.

When the wise man retumed a month later,the king’s man______and greeted him with boxes of green paint. They painted him from head to foot before he______to see the king.When the wise man leamed why he had been painted green,he laughed loudly and said:“If you had put on a pair of

_____With green lenses(鏡片),you could save all the money that was used to paint everything green. ”

No one________paint all the world green,but you can see a green world by changing your glasses.The only way to change the world is to change your attitude(態(tài)度).By changing your attitude,you can change the world.

1.A. sees B. will see C. saw D. has seen

2.A. a B. an C. the D. /

3.A. higher B. highest C. heavier D. heaviest

4.A. except B. besides C. with D. through

5.A. why B. what C. where D. how

6.A. buy B. to buy C. bought D. buys

7.A. ended up B. put up C. took off D. ran out

8.A. allowed B. was allowed C. allows D. is allowed

9.A. sock B. socks C. glass D. glasses

10.A. may B. must C. can D. should

“That man next door,”my father shouted angrily.“His_____got into my garden again last night. Clearly he doesn’t want to stop them,so I have to build a fence.Will you help me______it,Beth?”I’ve always liked helping him,but this fence idea didn’t sound good to me.

“Couldn’t we just talk to Mr.Wilkin about_____rabbits?”Ireplied.“It’s been one thing or another with that man since we moved here,and now it’s these rabbits.A fence is the best solution(解決辦法).”Then he went out,but I didn’t follow him.Instead,I decided to talk with Mr.Wilkin first.Mr.Wilkin was_____outside with a white rabbit on his leg.

“Hello,I’m Beth,I live next door.”“Oh,yes.”Mr.Wilkin replied.“Come to meet my rabbit.Would you like to hold it?”Mr. Wilkin_______.“Sure,”I replied,I held it against my chest, feeling its heart beating next to mine.“It seems that your father is starting a new______”Mr.Wilkin said.“Yes,he’s building a fence to stop your rabbits getting into his garden.”“Oh,I’m______about that.”Mr.Wilkin apologized(道歉).“I try so hard to keep them in at night.But the rabbits_____to get out,I can’t run after them with my weak legs.”

“I don’t want my dad to build the fence,”I said.“Putting up a fence is like building a border(邊界)to separate us from everybody.”

Then suddenly an idea hit me.We could build a rabbit cage between the yards.I said goodbye to Mr.Wilkin,thinking about how gueat it would be to have no borders separating us from our_____.I hope we would______have a border.

1.A. sons B. daughters C. rabbits D. dogs

2.A. get B. build C. keep D. control

3.A. he B. him C. his D. himself

4.A. standing B. sleeping C. running D. sitting

5.A. asked B. answered C. wondered D. hoped

6.A. yard B. garden C. house D. project

7.A. sad B. sorry C. worried D. nervous

8.A. want B. fail C. manage D. have

9.A. enemies B. strangers C. families D. neighhours

10.A. never B. ever C. always D. usually

Usually people with better education are able to get better jobs,In other words,they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t.It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs.But it isn’t true.

Some people may think that a person spends the best years of his life to get education only to make a living.This was probably one of reasons of education.In fact,if education is just a way of making a living,people don’t need to spend so much time in school. If people just want to make a living,they can get a short-time education.Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone.Even language and math need not be taught in detail(詳細(xì)地),either.It is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write,but also to develop his other abilities.It can make him a wise man and enjoy the achievements of humans.Education is to make a man lead to a better life.Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music,read good books,watch plays and,most of all,take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education,but certainly not the most important one.

1.The writer thinks people with little education usually have more chances to get jobs.

2.People needn’t learn much in school if they only want to make a living from the passage.

3.It is expected that educated people will be able to have a better life in the world.

4.The most important reason for education is to make a good living.

5.The passage mainly tells us that people can get education in a short time.

February4,2017 must be an important day for Yao Ming.His No.11 jersey(球衣)was officially retired(退休)on that day.It means no players in Houston Rockets will wear the number in any future basketball competition.Retiring a jersey is a special way to praise a player’s performance.It has been a great honor for Yao Ming,one of the China’s best-known athletes.

Yao Ming,who was born in Shanghai in 1980,started playing for Shanghai Sharks as a teenager.In2002,Yao was chosen to play for Houston Rockets of the NBA.So he went to the United States and made his career(事業(yè))take off until he retired in 2011. He was chosen to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times. After the retirement,Yao Ming was also elected(選舉)to the Hall of Fame.

Dary1 Morey.the Rocket general manager,thinks highly of Yao Ming.“Yao had a sense of humor, a great attitude and sense of responsibility.I hope we can continue his culture in the NBA.”

In 2011,the foot and leg disease made him put an end to his basketball career.When Yao decided to end his career as a basketball player,he said,“I’ve been thinking about my future over and over again.It’s miserable that I can’t go on playing basketball ,but one door is closing and another is opening.”

Yao was right.Life is full of surprises.He was chosen an the chairman of Chinese Basketball Association(CBA).We all believe Yao Ming will make greater achievement in the future.

1.Which of the following is True about Dary1 Morey?

A. He is Yao Ming’s coach in the Rocket.

B. He speaks highly of Yao Ming.

C. He plays basketball with Yao Ming in the NBA,too.

D. He is a big fan of NBA.

2.The underlined world“miserable”means .

A. wonderful B. peaceful C. painful D. thankful

3.Yao Ming retired at the age of .

A. 29 B. 31 C. 33 D. 35