computers and smart phones. These days I can send an e-mail around the world in a second. My daughter’s smart phone has a hundred apps and a dozen social media accounts. She stores all of her information in a mysterious place known as “the cloud”, where she can take it out at any time. It seems that we are more connected in this world than ever before.

38 Few take the time to talk face to face. Instead of looking into the eyes of our loved ones, we stare at our screens. It seems as if the most connected generations are also the loneliest.

Don’t let technology take our time and ruin our life. Make the time to meet, to pray and to communicate with each other. Take a walk on the beach with a friend. Have a long conversation with the phones off and the hearts on. 39 Remember that we are here to love each other, help each other and make this world a better place. 40 But when it can’t, turn it off.

A. That was a long time ago. B. Connect offline well as online.

C. Smart phones have both advantages and disadvantages. D. We should communicate with each other with phones off. E. When your technology can help to do these things, then use it.

F. However, what bothers me is that we rarely associate with each other nowadays. G. When she left the room, I slowly walked over to the phone and stared at it for a while. 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

I never expected to go to the University of Michigan. I grew up in a small Midwest town where college wasn’t 41 by any means. Many students entered the workplace 42 out of high school. For a long time, that’s where I thought I would 43 .

At some point during my senior year, I started 44 everywhere, just because I wanted to see 45 I would get. I had the required grades and the ACT (American College Testing) 46 , but I came from a town of nowhere. So you can imagine the 47 of emotions I had when I received a big envelope in the mail with the word “ 48 ” written across the top.

Now that the opportunity was open to me, I decided to go. I had received 49 aid and scholarships, which I think was a 50 factor (因素) in the decision. But my parents didn’t see 51 college as an opportunity for me to build on my 52 . And it seemed that no matter how much work I 53 , it would just be considered a waste of 54 . I often felt I was lacking 55 . I did the application all by myself. After moving to college, I did two jobs and paid for my 56 and bills.

Looking back on it now, I feel that it wasn’t 57 to be self-reliant. But in the long run, I 58 the lack of support I had at such a key point in my life which taught me to be 59 and responsible in hard times, to go beyond 60 and to try things I never thought I would ever be able to try. I believe that’s what college is all about.

41. A. expected afforded 42. A. straight 43. A. work up up

44. A. delivering 45. A. when

B. applying B. whether

C. registering C. how C. scores

D. competing

D. where D.

B. randomly B. put up

C. late

D. happily

D. pick

B. envied

C. admired

D.

C. end up

46. A. qualifications certificates 47. A. anxiety 48. A. Wishes Congratulations 49. A. financial 50. A. boring

B. diplomas

B. relief

C. calmness

C. Cheers

D. conflict

D.

B. Regards

B. spiritual

C. academic

D. parents D. promising

B. driving

C. discouraging C. dropping C. potential

51. A. adjusting 52. A. moral confidence 53. A. get in 54. A. space

B. attending

D. managing

D.

B. survival

B. take in B. money

C. put in

D. persist in

D. time

C. resource

55. A. support concern 56. A. feasts 57. A. hard 58. A. ignore

B. courage C. motivation D.

B. necessities

B. right

C. seminars

C. easy

D. majors

D. awkward

B. appreciate

C. support

D. disapprove

D.

59. A. independent considerate 60. A. recognition expectation

B. easy-going C. honest

B. description C. control D.

第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China’s icebreaker Xue Long will set sail from Shanghai to the Antarctic. Its captain Zhu Bing said that the icebreaker would first travel to the to-be-built new station before 61 (make) a short stop at Zhongshan station. One of its main tasks is to build another research station in the Antarctic.

Once 62 (complete), the new station would be the country’s third year-round station in the Antarctic and the first to be lying 63 the border of the Pacific Ocean. 64 other two stations, the Great Wall Station and the Zhongshan Station, 65 (build) in the 1980s. “This time around, we will build a 206-square-meter temporary base, which includes rooms for workers and a platform for large engineering 66 (machine), to improve future construction work,” said Zhang Tijun of the Polar Research Institute of China, 67 is the assistant leader of the expedition.

Sun Bo, the deputy director of the Institute of China, was 68 (confidence) to say that the construction of the station, which will 69 (definite) meet international criteria for environmental 70 (protect), will be finished as early as 2022.

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Smart phones are widely used among my classmates. They get the phones as presents from parents, friends and relatives. Though advising not to bring phones to school, many students insist that phones are helpful to their study. As far as I concerned, the disadvantages of using phones are more obviously than advantages. Smart phones had so many functions which will distract our attentions. It is clear to us that phones have a negative effect to our study. In addition, using phones will do harm to our health and brain, according to the scientific survey. For the sake of your study and health, let's stop to using smart phones at school.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是李华，你的美国笔友David对中国传统文化非常感兴趣，最近他发电子邮件说想来你所在的城市体验一下过春节。请你用英语给他回复。内容包括： 1. 表示欢迎；

2. 介绍你们是怎么过春节的； 3. 告知你的打算并征求他的意见。 注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。 Hi David,

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