25. How many Christmas gifts did Pepper get last year? A. Four.

B. Three.

C. Two.

D. One.

26. What does the underlined phrase “the longest-lasting gift” in the last paragraph refer to? A. The friendship with the dog. B. The holiday spent with family. C. The Christmas present for the dog.

D. The life lesson the author learned from Pepper.

27. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. The Power of Love B. Celebrating Christmas

C. The Importance of Helping Others

D. Enjoying the Happiness of Making Friends

C

An Indian movie about two sisters has become a huge hit in China. The Hindi language film, called Dangal, has earned almost $170 million in China since its release there on May 5.

Much has been written about why Dangal has enjoyed such big success in China. Some people say one reason is that the films’s star and producer, Aamir Khan. He is famous in India’s Bollywood film industry. Two of his earlier films were also big hits in China.

Khan’s popularity was clear after he got more than 600,000 followers on the Chinese social media service Sina Weibo within two months of joining. But he is not the only reason that the film strongly connects with audience across China. Media has pointed out how it shows similarities between parental systems in China and India.

Dangal is based on the true story of a man who enjoyed the sport of wrestling（摔跤）. He competed as a wrestler, but never could achieve his lifelong dream: winning a gold medal. As a father, he wanted his son to win the medal. But his wife only gives birth to daughters. So he finally decides to train them to be world-class wrestlers.

The movie is more serious than most Bollywood productions, which tell happy love stories and include colorful music and dance performances.

Edward Chan is a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He says the strict way of parenting in the film is something people in China can easily relate to. “I think the father role described by the movie in India is quite similar to the culture, especially the traditional culture in China.”

The Chinese government-supported Global Times newspaper pointed that movie critics（评论家）in China did not like Dangal. Most of them agree with the fact that the father in the film was forceful in pushing

his daughters to become wrestlers. But the film Dangal is really aimed to educated children to work for their dreams.

28. What’s the main reason for the father teaching his daughters to wrestle? A. He loved them very much. B. He wanted to punish them. C. Few women took this sport.

D. He wanted them to realize his goal. 29. What do most Chinese movie critics agree? A. The truth of the whole story was doubtful.

B. The father’s behavior in the film Dangal was cruel. C. Indian films often have a bad influence on Chinese parents. D. The film Dangal was against the Indian traditional culture. 30. What can we learn from the text?

A. Most films from Bollywood are serious. B. Daughters perform worse inn sport than sons.

C. Indian parents’ roles are similar to those in China in some way. D. The films produced by Aamir Khan is not popular with Chinese. 31. What does the author think of Dangal? A. It’s unsuccessful. C. It’s educational.

B. It’s unknown. D. It’s relaxing.

D

Traffic Light Reading is one of students’ favorites! And it’s so simple. Here’s what to do: Take three pens in different colors, most suitably red, orange and green. But it’s not too important as long as teachers and students are both clear on the colour code they’re going to use.

Students read a text, not worrying too much about how they understand. Teachers can ask them to re-read when students are paying attention to vocabulary. Start by underlining the words that they understand completely (including names, numbers etc) in green.

Then students re-read the text and underline the words that look familiar—they maybe know them but aren’t too sure about them. You guessed it: in orange.

Finally, students read the text a third time underlining the words they clearly don’t understand in red. Sometimes, teachers might want to set students a limit for how many red words they underline, telling them only to underline the words that they believe are seriously blocking their understanding of the text as a whole. Generally, however, students are pleasantly surprised by how few words are red and how many

are green. Seeing their ability laid out in a visual way really helps to increase confidence.

Once the whole text is underlined, teachers can give students a limit of 5, 10 or 15 words, depending on the length of the text, and tell them they’re only allowed to look these words up in a dictionary. This helps them to recognize words that are actually getting in the way of their understanding of the text and words that they don’t know but actually don’t impact their whole understanding of the text.

This is a useful activity that can be done with a printed text, in a Google Doc, on RealtimeBoard, or set as a homework task for some independent study. 32. What do we know about Traffic Light Reading? A. It’s difficult. C. It’s easy.

B. It’s expensive. D. It’s useless.

33. If a student uses orange to underline a word, it means that he ________. A. is not certain about its meaning B. has actually understood it C. doesn’t know it at all D. has never met with it

34. What does the underlined word “impact” in Paragraph 5 mean? A. Increase. C. Influence.

B. Solve.

D. Use.

35. In the author’s opinion, Traffic Light Reading ________. A. needs more eyes than mind

B. trains students’ ability to learn C. makes the students study long hours D. encourages the students to speak bravely 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出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Winter is a really fun time of the year—it’s great to have snowball fights and build snowmen. 36 When it’s cold outside and you’re not prepared, you can feel uncomfortable. Lucky for you, learning how to stay safe is not difficult.

● 37 Wearing thick clothes is the best way to stay warm in the cold. Depending on where you live and how cold it is, some kids may need more clothes, some less.

●Take that hat. You maybe wear a large overcoat and ready to go, but are you forgetting something? 38 You’ll stay much warmer with a hat than without one—tons of body heat escapes right from your head.

●Drink up. Sounds like advice for hot weather, not cold weather, right? 39 When you’re outside

in the cold and breathing hard, your body loses a lot of water through your breath. And the best way to get that water back is to drink up!

●Take it easy. Sometimes if you’re out having fun, it’s easy to forget to pay attention to your body. But if your body temperature drops even 4 or 5 degrees while you’re outside, it can make you feel terrible, 4 And if you ever feel weak, those are signs that you have to take it easy indoors for a while.

A. Love those clothes. B. Have a snowball fight. C. Pull a hat onto your head.

D. That’s why you need to be careful with your body’s signals. E. Well, the truth is that it’s good advice for both kinds of weather. F. But you have to know how to be safe while you’re out having fun. G. You can stay outside as long as possible to fully enjoy your snow days. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45） 第一节（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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Yesterday, I posted a photo of a pile of cross stitch kits（十字绣）on my blog. To my 41 , many readers say I do well in them. I couldn’t use them all, 42 finally I decided to 43 the rest to ladies in my neighbourhood who like to 44 a project with their own hands.

I 45 them all up into a box and decided to start with the lady who 46 a pub. She’s perfectly 47 and she served me with a cup of coffee. I took her out to my car and showed her the 48 . I was holding it in my arms beside my car 49 another car pulled up next to us with two other 50 in it. Within moments I was pushed against the 51 behind the weight of three elderly ladies and I had to 52 my way to pick up the empty box. The three ladies had taken every single item in that box with 53 expressions on their faces and lots of thanks. One of the ladies has a son who is a firefighter. She decided to give some cross stitch kits to the 54 station. Her decision did make me 55 . I had in my mind a wonderful picture of all these 56 and strong firemen sitting around all working on their cute cross stitch Christmas stockings while they 57 for fire alarms to be called in.

Finally, 58 and laughter all went around, and then I e-mailed another 59 , who often visits me and also likes cross stitch kits. She promised to send me her extra cross stitch kits, too. I just know kindness will finally 60 on to others. 41. A. mind 42. A. or

B. Joy

C. sadness

C. so

D. goal

D. because

B. but