安徽省宣城市郎溪县郎溪中学2019-2020学年高二第二学期月考英语试卷

安徽省宣城市郎溪县郎溪中学2019-2020学年高二第二学期月考英语试卷

英语试题卷 ‎ ‎ 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30分） ‎ 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）‎ 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。‎ ‎1. What is the man buying?‎ A. A scarf. B. A jacket. C. A suit.‎ ‎2. What would the man like?‎ A. Coca-Cola. B. Lemon soda. C. Orange juice.‎ ‎3. Why will the street be decorated?‎ A. To celebrate a festival.‎ B. To make the city beautiful.‎ C. To welcome some famous players.‎ ‎4. Where does the conversation take place?‎ A. On a boat. B. On a train. C. On a plane.‎ ‎5. What does the woman mean?‎ A. She hates murder and war.‎ B. People are becoming worse.‎ C. She’s optimistic about people.‎ 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）‎ 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。‎ 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。‎ ‎6. Where are the speakers heading?‎ A. To New York. B. To Mexico City. C. To Arizona.‎ ‎7. What will the speakers do next?‎ A. Find some help. B. Go to a drugstore. C. Get something to eat.‎ ‎ 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题 ‎8. What will the woman probably do?‎ A. Buy a new watch. B. Give the watch away. C. Take the man’s advice.‎ ‎9. What does the man say about his watch?‎ A. He doesn’t bother to set it right. ‎ B. He spent a lot of money on it. ‎ C. He got it from a family member. ‎ ‎ 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。‎ ‎10. Where does the man want Bill to go after high school?‎ A. To a large school. B. To a private university. C. To a college in another state. ‎ ‎11. Why is the woman worried?‎ A. She might not be able to see Bill often.‎ B. Bill cannot take care of himself. ‎ C. The man is too strict with Bill.‎ ‎12. Who will make the final decision?‎ A. The man. B. The woman. C. Bill himself.‎ ‎ 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。‎ ‎13. What is the relationship between the speakers?‎ A. Neighbors. B. Roommates. C. Host and guest.‎ ‎14. What did the woman see the cat do?‎ A. Tear the morning paper. B. Run past her quickly. C. Get behind the bookcase.‎ ‎15. Where is the cat hiding?‎ A. In the bedroom. B. In the living room. C. In the laundry room.‎ ‎16. What does the man suggest about the cat?‎ A. She never tries to go outside. ‎ B. She is afraid of the outside world.‎ C. She never comes back by herself. ‎ ‎ 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。‎ ‎17. Who is the speaker probably talking to?‎ A. Office employees. B. College students. C. Company presidents.‎ ‎18. When did the speaker get his first paid job?‎ A. At 18. B. At 21. C. At 35.‎ ‎19. How does the speaker feel about his life?‎ A. He’s embarrassed. B. He’s regretful. C. He’s proud.‎ ‎20. What’s the speech mainly about?‎ A. How to do well in school. ‎ B. How to work with computers. ‎ C. How to achieve career success.‎ 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）（共 15 小题；每小题2分，满分 30分）‎ 第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ A Lake Forest High School Clubs Environmental Club ‎ Club members are provided opportunities to realize their goals of environmental service. The majority of projects are studentinitiated. Last year’s activities included: the LFHS Courtyard Garden upkeep, Bike to School Day with free cocoa and snacks, an “eat local”100mile dinner, recycling solutions for LFHS, beach cleanup through the Great Lakes Alliance, and Earth Week celebrations.‎ Meetings: First Friday of the month in Room 5 at 7：00 a.m.‎ Advisor: Ms Mary Beth Nawor, mnawor@lfschools.net Peer Tutoring Students volunteer to help fellow students in improving their academic and organizational skills. Students tutor LFHS and middle school students on an individually scheduled basis. LFHS tutors must have proficiency(精通) in the academic area in which they wish to tutor, but middle school tutors only need general academic proficiency.‎ Meetings: All tutoring is done on an individually scheduled basis.‎ Advisor: Ms Kathy O’Hara, kohara@lfschools.net Young Idea Young Idea is LFHS’s art and literary magazine. Students of all ages who love writing and art are encouraged to become part of the staff of this awardwinning magazine. Young Idea encourages all students to submit art and literature works to the magazine, whether they are a part of the staff or not. From September to February, Young Idea meets on Thursdays after school in the Public Room to discuss the pieces that have been submitted to the magazine and provide feedback for the authors.‎ Meetings: See above explanation.‎ Advisor: Ms Debbie Zare, dzare@lfschools.net Scout Buddies Scout Buddies is a friendship club which helps build friendship among individuals with and without disabilities. Club members participate in a variety of social activities both within the school and in the community. Activities include organizing holiday parties in the school, bowling, going to the movies, and eating out in local restaurants.‎ Meetings: Monthly meeting dates vary, but in Room 134.‎ Advisor: Ms Donna Lovitsch, dlovitsch@lfschools.net ‎21. Which club provides help for students poor in study?‎ A. Environmental Club. B. Peer Tutoring.‎ C. Young Idea. D. Scout Buddies.‎ ‎22. When is the staff of Young Idea most likely to meet? ‎ A. 6：30 p．m., August 11, Thursday B. 7：00 p．m., September 23, Friday C. 7：30 a．m., November 17, Thursday D. 6：00 p．m., January 5, Thursday ‎23. What is the requirement for students to join a certain club?‎ A. They are required to have a bike to join Environmental Club.‎ B. They need to be academically proficient to join Peer Tutoring.‎ C. They need to win a literary award to join Young Idea.‎ D. They need to be athletic to join Scout Buddies.‎ B When you start working on something but don’t finish it, thoughts of the unfinished work continue to jump into your mind even when you’ve moved on to other things. Psychologists refer to this psychological phenomenon as the Zeigarnik effect. The effect was first observed by a Russian psychologist named Bluma Zeigarnik. While ‎ sitting in a busy restaurant in Vienna, she noted the waiters had better memories of unpaid orders. Once the bill was paid, however, the waiters had difficulty remembering the exact details of the orders. ‎ In one of her studies, participants were asked to complete simple tasks such as putting together puzzles, or solving math problems. Half of the participants were interrupted halfway through these tasks. After an hour-long delay, Zeigarnik asked the participants to give an account of what they’d been working on. She discovered that those who had their work interrupted were twice as likely to remember what they had been doing as those who had actually completed the tasks. ‎ We can use this effect to our advantage. For example, if you’re struggling to memorize something important, momentary interruptions might actually work to your advantage. Rather than simply remember the information over and over again, review it several times and then take a break. While you’re focusing on other things, you’ll find yourself mentally returning to the information you were studying. ‎ We often put off tasks until the last moment, only completing them in a rush at the last possible moment. Unfortunately, this tendency can lead to heavy stress and even poor performance. One way to overcome this is to put the Zeigarnik effect to work. Start by taking the first step, no matter how small. Once you’ve begun，but not finished your work, you’ll find yourself thinking of the task until, at last, you finish it. You might not finish it all at once, but each small step you take puts you closer to your final goal. ‎ ‎24. What does the Zeigarnik effect refer to ?‎ A. Waiters tend to have good memories. ‎ B. Once interrupted, one will forget things easily.‎ C. Most people can’t focus on one thing for a long time. ‎ D. People remember unfinished tasks better than completed ones. ‎ ‎25. What were all the participants required to do in the study?‎ A. Describe their tasks. B. Express their feelings.‎ C. Test their intelligence. D. Design simple activities.‎ ‎26. How should we study according to the Zeigarnik effect?‎ A. Repeat over and over again. B. Divide up our study session.‎ C. Focus on several tasks at a time. D. Have enough rest before studying.‎ ‎27. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?‎ A. How to get rid of heavy stress. ‎ B. Why we should set a final goal. ‎ C. How to break the habit of delaying work. ‎ D. Why we always complete tasks in a rush. ‎ C With Chinese consumers hit by quarantine （隔离期）and travel restrictions as well as just cautious about going out to the shops due to the coronavirus epidemic（流行病），companies in China are experimenting with new tricks to make sales.‎ Oil giant Sinopec - keen to get customers back in their cars and help farmers due to roadblocks - launched a new project last month called "zerotouch" vegetable ‎ sales at its 6,000 gas stations in 147 Chinese cities. Consumers place and pay for orders on the app and when they drive up, gas station employees put the vegetables into their car trunk, eliminating any need for human-to-human contact.‎ ‎"The coronavirus outbreak has made it difficult for people to shop as before," said Li Hong， vice president of Sinopec's convenience store sales division. "Travel demand has been falling, but demand for food is pretty rigid." ‎ Mengniu Dairy, China's dairy producer, is racing to add more vending machines to the 10,000 it currently has, saying the epidemic has driven unexpectedly strong demand for the sales channel. Its system allows customers to order products like ‘milk and yoghurt online which can then be picked up from their local vending machine "The virus outbreak has decreased consumption for dairy products as people are unwilling to go to the supermarket," said Meng Fanjie; head of the company's Communist Party committee. Luckin Coffee, a competitive rival to Starbucks, now also offers the sanitizer (消毒） products （e.g. hand soap） besides coffee. Liu Xingliang, an independent retail analyst, said, however, that Luckin's strategy would have only a modest impact. “At best some users will place an order when they buy coffee, but nobody is deliberately choosing the Luckin app just to buy sanitizer” 28. According to the passage, why did some companies adopt new selling methods?‎ A. Citizens were not allowed to go out. ‎ B. The demand for travel and food declined sharply. ‎ C． The coronavirus epidemic changed people's way of life. ‎ D. Companies desired to grasp the chance to defeat their competitors ‎29. What does the underlined word "eliminating" in Paragraph 2 most probably refer to?‎ A. meeting B. removing C. decreasing D. limiting ‎30. What can we infer from Liu Xingliang’s words?‎ A. Luckin's strategy will work well on its sales .‎ B. People need the sanitizer badly and will place an order for it.‎ C. The sanitizer is rather popular among Luckin Coffee’s customers.‎ D. The sanitizer won’t have an important impact on people’s order.‎ ‎ 31.The passage is written mainly to . ‎ A. illustrate the difficulty caused by the coronavirus epidemic B. explain the changes made by some companies in the epidemic C. describe the challenges some companies met during the epidemic D. reveal the intelligence people showed in the coronavirus epidemic D People may set an alarm on the phone or clock that sounds like this: beep beep beep. That hard, unpleasant sound may be making it harder to shake off the sleepy feeling in the morning known as grogginess. So, is there a better way to wake up? A recent study says yes. The answer is music .‎ The study, carried out by researchers in Australia, involved 50 people. The researchers found that people who wake up to musical alarms reported feeling more awake and alert. Stuart McFarlane, a lead writer of the study stated, "We are very ‎ surprised by these findings as one might expect a harsh beeping sound to be more successful at waking up a person.”‎ Sleep inertia is another term for grogginess. It means a person has a heavy feeling when waking up, and has trouble getting moving again after sleeping. McFarlane said people need to better understand sleep inertia's harmful effects on human performance later in the day.‎ Not everyone will experience the full effect. But for those who do, "care should be taken" when performing duties that require a top performance within this period, he said. This includes "dangerous tasks like driving or riding our bikes" shortly after waking up. The same is true for people who work in dangerous situations shortly after they wake, including firefighters and pilots. ‎ So, what makes musical alarms better for waking up? The researchers think the music may be more successful in reducing sleep inertia because it has several tones, compared to the single tone of a "beeping" alarm. McFarlane said that the changes over time between the music tones may help increase a person's attention when waking from sleep.‎ And is there a kind of music that is best to wake up to? There may be, McFarlane said. "We could suggest alarm sounds that are tune full and easy to hum or sing along with. The current sounds I have been using include “Close to me' by the Cure and 'Borderline' by Madonna."‎ No matter how you wake up, experts say, the amount of sleep you get also matters a lot.‎ ‎32.Which of the following might be the best title for the text?‎ A. What is grogginess? B. Why are musical alarms better?‎ C. Which music is the best? D. How can we overcome grogginess?‎ ‎33.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?‎ A. Sleep inertia is another cause for grogginess.‎ B. How long a person sleeps is of great importance.‎ C. The 'beeping' alarm is not effective mainly because of its noisy tone.‎ D. It is dangerous for everyone to drive or ride bicycles shortly after waking up.‎ ‎34. The paragraph following this passage is likely to focus on ‎ A. examples of good musical alarms B. more findings of the application of music C. explanations about why music is more helpful D. suggestions on how to sleep well and feel fresh each morning.‎ ‎35. In which section of a magazine may you find the passage? ‎ A. Health. B. Fiction. C. Technology. D. Entertainment 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入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为 多余选项。‎ There are hundreds of publishers across the world and millions of books get printed every year. Moreover, a book can be printed by several publishers.36 ‎ ‎ To overcome the problem of identifying books, publishers have come up with a unique numbering system. For instance, if 50,000 copies of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are printed by a publisher at one time (called an edition), all of them are identified by one number code. 37 Your address begins with your house number, street, locality, state and ends with a statement of the country where you live. An ISBN book number achieves a similar aim of identifying and tracing a book. ‎ If you pick up any book, turn it around, you will see a number which looks something like this : ISBN 90-70002-34-5. This is called the ISBN number. ISBN stands for International Standard Book Numbering. 38 The ISBN number is divided into four groups that are separated by a space or a hyphen.‎ The first part of the ISBN identifies the country and is called the Group Identifier. 39 The second part is called the Publisher Prefix. The Publisher Prefix is used to identify the publisher of the book. The publisher prefix may contain up to seven digits.‎ The third part identifies the title and the edition of the book and so is called the Title Identifier, which may consist of up to six digits. 40 _Since you can have the same book from the same publisher but with different editions, the Title Identifier helps to differentiate between them.‎ The fourth and the final part is called the Check digit, a single digit (from 0 to 9) used to check whether the given ISBN number is correct or wrong. If an ISBN number is incorrect, this means that the book is a version printed illegally. ‎ A. It may consist of up to five digits.‎ B. So what can the ISBN number do for you? ‎ C. This makes the task of identifying a book very difficult.‎ D It is a numbering system that is used to describe the book,‎ E. Book publishers often come out with newer and updated versions of earlier books F. The number code is your home address that can only be shared by your parents and other families.‎ G The ISBN numbering system helps book stores and book publishers to handle categorize to handle, categorize, store and identify books easily.‎ 第三部分 语篇填空 第一节完形填空（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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白 处的最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。‎ When it comes to parenting his three children, the Microsoft mogul, Bill Gates admits his wife has done more than her share of raising the kids. "My wife does 80%, Gates told a 41_ of Harvard students. He said they have been quite deliberate about the model they've used to 42 their children.‎ The couple followed a 1970s "Love and Logic" parenting model. The idea of their philosophy is 43 the idea that using emotional control, essentially minimizing 44 reactions like shouting or scolding kids.‎ ‎"One of the greatest 45 of applying Love and Logic is that it helps us learn how to keep a tighter leash（缰绳）on our emotions and on our 46 ," co-founder Charles Fay wrote in a blog post about his model.‎ ‎47 controlling hot-blooded parent tempers, the love and logic model also 48 the importance of not leaning into rewards for kids, 49 instead demonstrating unconditional love and 50 kids for who they are, not 51 they do （or don't） achieve, like a poor test score or a bad grade. ‎ ‎"Many successful people52 with grades as children.” Fay wrote. "What's most important is that children 53 good character, curiosity, and problem-solving skills."‎ Gates says it wasn't the only way he 54 boundaries for his children while they were 55 . None of his kids owned a cell phone 56 they were 14 years old. The children also attended church 57 with their parents. ‎ ‎"We want to strike a balance 58 they have the freedom to do anything, but not a lot of money _59 on them so they could go out and do 60 ,"Gates once told TED.‎ ‎41. A. set B. series C. crowd D. kind ‎42. A. have B. raise C. possess D. produce ‎43. A. held on B. moved on C. carried on D. centered on ‎44. A. emotional B. physical C. typical D. traditional ‎45. A. suggestions B. preparations C. benefits D. resources ‎46. A. hands B. heads C. ears D. tongues ‎47. A. Apart from. B. Because of C. As well as D. But for ‎48. A. criticizes B. stresses C. attracts D. reminds ‎49. A. and B. so C. yet D. but ‎50. A. imagining B. persuading C. admiring D. proving ‎51. A. that B. what C. why D. when ‎52. A. struggled B. protected C. improved D. challenged ‎53. A. inspire B. allow . C. develop D. influence ‎54. A. shared B. motivated C. connected D. set ‎55. A. depending on B. growing up C. turning up D. working out ‎56. A. until B. after C. once D. when ‎57. A. bravely B. nervously C. simply D. regularly ‎58. A. how B. where C. that D. which ‎59. A. adjusted B. presented C. showered D. expanded ‎60. A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything 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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。‎ ‎ If the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) is a guideline to save the planet, garbage-sorting is where the efforts start.‎ ‎ Since May 1, Beijing 61 (start) to carry out mandatory（强制性的） garbage-sorting in new efforts to better protect the environment. Under the new regulation, residents are required to classify household waste 62 four categories: kitchen, recyclable, dangerous and other waste. People who fail to sort their garbage properly can 63 (fine) from 50 to 200 yuan, reported Xinhua. According to CGTN, online guidelines have been launched in order to instruct residents 64 (practice) better waste management, 65 is well received by most citizens. And creative minds have even found some better solutions. Thus, there have appeared a series of positive 66 (phenomenon). Wei Li, a residential community 67 (direct) in the Haidian district, said her community had explored 68 (benefit) ways of reusing kitchen waste as fertilizer for the residents’ rooftop garden. “It’s a must to have a legal guarantee to promote garbage-sorting,” Liu Jianguo, a professor from Tsinghua University, 69 (tell ) China Daily last week. Aside from China, many countries like Germany, Spain and Britain, also ask people to sort waste into specific categories in 70 (they) own communities. In Japan, there is a fixed time for the disposal(处置) of each kind of garbage and littering.‎ 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。‎ ‎ Last Friday, the English class was going on while our English teacher suddenly slip and fell ‎ off the stage, which shocked all the students.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Without hesitate, I, under the help of Tom and Mary, carried her on my back to the clinic. ‎ All the another classmates waited anxiously in the classroom. It turned out that her right leg ‎ broken and she had to stay in the hospital. After school, we all went to see her. She told me ‎ the injury was not severe, but we hoped she would recover soon!‎ ‎ ‎ Three days later, we were surprised to see that she was back in a wheelchair. We were joy and ‎ deeply moved, clapping and cheering for a long time.‎ 第二节 书面表达（满分 25 分）‎ 假定你是李华，你在新型冠状病毒肆虐期间在网上买到了假的口罩，请你写一封信向消费者协会投诉。内容包括：‎ 买到的口罩只有 1 层（标准的有 3 层）；‎ 询问客服并没有得到回应；‎ 希望消费者协会介入。‎ 注意：1. 词数 100 左右。2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ 参考词汇：Consumer's association 消费者协会 Corona Virus Disease 2019（COVID-19） 新型冠状病毒肺炎 Face mask 口罩 layer层 fake n. adj. 假的：冒牌货，赝品 ‎ Dear sir or madam,‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Yours,‎ Liua 英语试题答案 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）‎ ‎ 1-5 ABCAC 6-10 BAACC 11-15 ACBBA 16-20 BABCC 阅读理解 21. BDB DABC CBDB BBDA CFDAE 完型填空 41. CBDAC DABDC BACDB ADBCA ‎ 语法填空 61. has started 62. into 63. be fined 64. to practice 65. which ‎ ‎ 66.phenomena 67. director 68. beneficial 69. told 70. their ‎ 第一节：短文改错（共10小题; 每小题1分, 满分10分） ‎ ‎71. while改为when 72. slip改为slipped 73. hesitate改为hesitation ‎ ‎74. under改为with 75. others改为other 76. leg 和broken 之间加was ‎77. in the hospital删去the 78. me改为us 79. but 改为and ‎ ‎80. joy改为joyful 或joyous 第二节 书面表达（满分 25 分）‎ ONE POSSIBLE VERSION Dear sir or madam,‎ I'm sorry to bother you, but I have to ask you for help. The reason why I’m writing to you to complain about a face mask business.‎ Last month, I have bought some face masks from Internet to protect myself from COVID-19.But when I receive the express delivery, I found that the mask they gave me was only one layer, but the standard mask should have three layers. I immediately found out that I had bought a fake. When I realized that I had bought a fake, I contacted customer service right away. But as I thought, I didn't get any response. As a consumer, I think my legitimate rights and interests have been violated. I hope to get the help of your consumer association and let these illegal businesses get severe punishment.‎ It is high time that we put an end to the thing. Only in this way can we crack down on those lawbreakers who sell fake goods. I hope you will pay attention to it as soon as possible. Please contact me if you want to know more details. Best wishes！‎ Yours,‎ Li Hua 附录：录音原文 Text 1‎ W: I love the color of this one which can be fit for your new modern jacket. ‎ M: Yes, I like the style of this scarf. (1) I think it would be suitable for more situations than my old one. ‎ Text 2‎ W: Let me get you a soft drink. What would you like to have, Coca-Cola, orange juice, or lemon soda?‎ M: It makes no difference, actually. But I guess I’d like to have the last one if you don’t mind. (2)‎ Text 3 ‎ W: Mary says that both sides of the street will be decorated with colored flags and flowers to welcome some famous athletes. Is that true?‎ M: Yes. (3) This is the first time our city has had so many famous players at the same time. ‎ W: Then we will have a really exciting weekend!‎ Text 4‎ W: I am afraid I am a bit seasick. I feel dizzy, just like I felt on my flight to London last month. ‎ M: Close your eyes and relax. You will be all right as soon as we reach the shore. (4)‎ Text 5‎ M: The newspaper is full of murder, death and war. Do you still believe people are basically good?‎ W: Of course. Newspapers hardly ever cover stories about peace. (5) It isn’t news. ‎ Text 6‎ M: What is our flight number again? (6) I don’t see it on the board. ‎ W: It’s AA791, New York to Mexico City. (6) Maybe we’re too early. ‎ M: I told you we left our house too soon. We could have stopped and gotten something to eat. ‎ W: I didn’t know how long it would take at the drugstore. Besides, there are restaurants here. ‎ M: Well, we might as well find the customer service desk and check that our flight is not delayed. (7)‎ W: Good idea. (7) Then we have to exchange some money. How long did you say the flight was? M: Around five hours. It’s about the same time it takes to fly from New York to the state of Arizona. ‎ Text 7‎ M: My watch always gains 10 minutes a day. ‎ W: That’s funny. My watch always loses 10 minutes a day. ‎ M: No kidding!‎ W: I’m serious. Every morning, I set my watch by the radio, but it still loses 10 minutes. ‎ M: Do you know what you can do? (8)‎ W: Throw it away and buy a new one? (8)‎ M: No, you don’t need to. You only need to put your watch 10 minutes ahead every day. ‎ W: Hmm. So, you put your watch 10 minutes behind every day?‎ M: Yeah. That’s exactly what I do. ‎ W: Why bother? If you just buy a new watch, it won’t cost much. (8)‎ M: Oh, no way. This was a birthday gift from my grandma. (9) She passed away last year, and all I have to remember her by is this watch. It’s very valuable to me. ‎ W: Well, I can definitely understand your situation. But I just can’t put up with mine anymore---(8)‎ Text 8‎ W: Bill will graduate from high school soon. What do you think he is going to do?‎ M: I think he should go to college. But I haven’t decided where he should go yet. In my opinion, I want him to go to a small university, where the classes wouldn’t be so large. ‎ W: I think he ought to go to a public school where the students are more serious about studying. ‎ M: Yes, I agree with you. And I suggest that he go to college in another state, (10) where he can gain some knowledge and also broaden his views. ‎ W: But it will be too far for him to come home on weekends. I will only see him during summer and winter vacations. I will miss him. (11)‎ M: He is old enough to depend on himself. You cannot take care of him forever. It’s time for him to be independent. ‎ W: OK. But the most important thing is where Bill wants to go. (12) What we discussed is just a suggestion. Bill should make the final decision by himself. (12)‎ M: That’s right. (12) We can talk to him about this after he comes home. ‎ Text 9‎ W: Lenny, I’m not sure how to say this, but here it goes: I lost your cat this morning. ‎ M: What?!‎ W: I’m sorry. I don’t know how it happened. She was in her usual place under the bed. When I opened the front door to get the morning paper, I saw her run past me really quickly. (14) I tried to close the door in time, but she must have gotten out. ‎ M: Diane, she’s a house cat. She’s not supposed to go outside, ever! She could get lost and never find her way back. Or worse, she could get hit by a car!‎ W: I feel like a terrible roommate, Lenny. (13) I wish there were something I could do to fix this. ‎ M: Wait ---You’ve looked everywhere for her?‎ W: Yes ---under the sofa, in the dirty clothes, behind the bookcase---‎ M: Did you check back under the bed where she was? (15)‎ W: Hmm, I guess I didn’t think to look there. I just assumed that she had---‎ M: Look who I found!‎ W: Oh, my! I can’t believe it! I thought she had gone out of the front door, but I guess I didn’t actually see her make it outside. ‎ M: Sometimes she starts to head out there, but she changes her mind at the last second. Then she just goes back to her safe place! (15) The outside world can be a scary place for her! (16)‎ Text 10 ‎ ‎ Hello, everyone. Thanks for having me here. It’s exciting to be back at the place where my career started. (17) I’m not ashamed to tell you that I worked here as an unpaid student assistant when I was in college. Now I’m the president of a major computer company. How did I get so far? Because of my education and because I never gave up on my dreams. I had little money or education when I came to the United States as a child. I was eight years old, and I barely spoke English. But I loved learning, and I wanted to do something important with my life. I worked hard to learn English. I read as much as I could at school and at home. When I graduated high school at 18, I got a scholarship to university. I decided to study the exciting, growing field of computer technology. In college, I heard about a student assistant position at this computer company. I worked here every summer for no pay. I answered phones, delivered mail, and filed documents. But I watched and learned all I could. After college graduation at age 21, I got a job at another great company. (18) I worked hard and finally became the president at 35 years old. Because I always kept learning and stayed focused on my dreams, I achieved great things. (19) And you can too! ‎