2017-2018学年河北省阜城中学高二下学期第10次月考英语试题（word版）

2017-2018学年河北省阜城中学高二下学期第10次月考英语试题（word版）

‎2017---2018 学年第二学期第 10 次月考 ‎ 高二英语试题 ‎ 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上 的答案转涂到答题卡上。 ‎ 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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你将有 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。例：How much is the shirt? ‎ A.￡.19.15 B. ￡9.15 C.￡.9.18 ‎ ‎1. What is the man like? ‎ ‎ A. Honest. B. Outgoing . C. Shy. ‎ ‎2.How much should the man pay for the book? ‎ ‎ A. 8 dollars. B. 5 dollars. C. 2 dollars. ‎ 3. Where does the conversation probably take place? ‎ A. In a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. In a supermarket. ‎ 4. Why didn’t the man attend Amanda’s birthday party? ‎ A. He was ill. B. He didn’t want to. C. He had to play basketball. ‎ 5. What is the man doing? ‎ A. He is stopping the car. B. He is having a rest. C. He is driving. 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,并标在试卷的相应位置。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，各个小题将给出 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 至 7 题。 ‎ 6. Where does the woman want to go? ‎ A. The shopping center . B. Her home. C. The bus station. ‎ 7. How will the woman go to her destination? ‎ A. By bus. B. On foot. C. By car. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。 ‎ 8. What are the speakers talking about? ‎ A. How to find a specific magazines. B. When to enter a reading room. ‎ C. Where to keep the old magazines. ‎ 9. What does the man think of the woman? ‎ A. Unkind. B. Generous. C. Helpful. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 ‎ 10. What day is it today? ‎ ‎ A. Thursday. B. Wednesday. C. Friday. ‎ 11. What time do the speakers plan to meet at the cinema? ‎ A. 8:10. B. 8:20. C. 8:30. ‎ ‎12.What’s the relationship between the two speakers? ‎ A. Husband and wife. B. Friends. C. Colleagues. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 ‎ 13. When does the conversation probably take place? ‎ A. Before the meeting. B. During the meeting. C. After the meeting ‎ 14. How did the woman know the man’s opinion? ‎ A. By staring at him blankly. B. By observing his eyes. ‎ ‎ C. By hearing from others. ‎ 15. What do we know about the man? ‎ A. He shows little interest in Todd’s opinion. ‎ B. He knows much about western manners. ‎ C. He can’t follow the presentation well. ‎ 16. What does the woman want the man to do? ‎ A. ‎. Make eye contact properly. B. Mind his speech. C. Avoid using body language. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 ‎ ‎ 17.What is the speaker? ‎ ‎ A. A housewife. B. A sportsman. C. A model and actress. ‎ 18. How did the speaker get her scars? ‎ A. She got hurt in a car accident. B. She got burnt in a cooker explosion. ‎ C. She got caught in a bush fire. ‎ 19. Why does the speaker admire Turia Pitt? ‎ A. She inspires other people. B. She is a good marathon runner. ‎ C. She appears on magazine covers. ‎ 20. What’s the speaker’s opinion about beauty? ‎ A. Scars add to beauty. B. Good look matters most. C. Inner beauty shines. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分） ‎ 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）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 ‎ Lagoon Bar，Iceland ‎ Blue Lagoon in Iceland is truly the place where you can get rid of all troubles. Here the warmth of hot springs gets you close to nature. A wonderful bar is opened among the hot springs. While you’re sitting in the hot water, waitresses bring you a rang of cocktails. ‎ What to order: cocktail “Blue Lagoon” and white wine. ‎ Baobab Tree Bar & Wine Cellar, South Africa ‎ In the hollow (洞) of a huge 6,000-year-old baobab tree you can not only drink a cocktail, but also rest from the heat of Limpopo Province. Once this safe heaven was known only to the Bushmen, but now this ancient tree is the tourist destination for all kinds of tourists. ‎ What to order: anything in a glass. ‎ The Birdsville Hotel and Pub, Australia ‎ ‎ At the edge of the Simpson Desert, among the sand dunes(沙丘), which are the favorite spots for the mice, there is a hotel and a pub. The walls of this bar are decorated with old hats and posters of beer, the oldest of which dates from 1884. Most visitors of this building are the amateurs of racing. They come to this village for the September competition. However, the pub is not empty also on other months: the airstrip (飞机跑道) is located nearby, so those who get off the plane are going to have a glass or two of beer first. ‎ What to order: a pint of beer. ‎ Floyd’s Pelican Bar, Jamaica ‎ ‎ It appears that these huge palm leaves and trunks fell into the ocean long time ago. They floated on the waves and then piled up year by year, sticking out of the ocean. That’s probably how the Pelican Bar, located about a mile from the southwest coast of Jamaica, is built on. Some of its visitors have no room to be fitted inside the bar, and they just drink standing in waist-deep water. ‎ What to order: cocktail “Pelican Perfection”. ‎ ‎21.Which bar will you choose if you want to bathe in the hot spring while drinking a cocktail? ‎ A. Lagoon Bar. B. Baobab Tree Bar & Wine Cellar . ‎ C. The Birdsville Hotel and Pub . D. Floyd’s Pelican Bar. ‎ 22. What can we infer about The Birdsville Hotel and Pub? ‎ A. It was opened in 1884. B. It is the favorite spot for the mice. ‎ C. It is located in the center of the Simpson Desert . ‎ D. It is busy in September every year. ‎ 23. What is Floyd’s Pelican Bar built on? ‎ A. Old hats. B. Sand dunes. C. An ancient baobab tree. D . Palm leaves and trunks. B ‎ ‎ It may sound a very common saying, but they call dogs man’s best friends for a reason, and Otis confirmed that. ‎ ‎ The one-year- old chocolate Labrador loves playing catch and duck hunting with his “dad” Jake Atkins. And that was exactly what the two were doing with another friend at Perry Lake early Monday morning. “We were walking pretty much side-by-side when we both unknowingly sank to knee depth in the mud and we tried to wiggle(扭动) ourselves out and it ended up being waist-deep,” Atkins said. Realizing if they continued to struggle they would only continue to sink, they called 911. ‎ ‎ Otis waited with them, not knowing he would soon be tasked with helping rescue them himself. It turned out that the firefighters couldn’t easily get to them either. “If they’d walked out, they would have sunk too. So when those firefighters turned up , I said just tying the rope onto Otis,” Atkins said. And so they did. The faithful Labrador took not one, not two but three trips out onto the mud, claws sinking, carrying a heavy rope in his mouth to rescue—first their equipment , then Atkins’ friend and then Atkins himself. Otis was crying by the last trip because he was tired, but he refused to leave his loved one’s side until Atkins was safe. ‎ Otis got out of the mud and immediately found some bushes to lay down and take a short sleep. If you’re asking what Otis got as a reward for his bravery, we did too. His dad says his good boy will be getting a steak. ‎ 24. What happened to Atkins and his friend on Monday morning? A. They crashed into each other during the trip. ‎ B. They bravely walked into the knee-deep mud. ‎ C. They were caught for hunting ducks. D. They were trapped in the mud. ‎ 25. How did the dog help save Atkins and his friend? ‎ A. By dragging them out of the mud. B. By leading firefighters to them. ‎ C. By getting a thick rope to them. D. By carrying the equipment to them. ‎ 26. What was the dog doing when Atkins was removed from the mud? ‎ A. Following him to safety. B. Preparing for a reward. ‎ C. Barking at the rescuers. D. Watching him from a distance. ‎ ‎27.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text? A. To prove dogs are man’s best friends. ‎ B. To explain why to be careful in the wild. ‎ C. To show it’s necessary to take a trip with dogs. ‎ D. To tell how to train dogs to help people in need. ‎ ‎ C ‎ ‎ Japan is aging faster than any other nation. By the end of this decade, there will be three retirees for every child under 15 and before long, one in six people will be over 80. Its population will soon be falling by nearly a million people every year and some people predict that , some time in the next century, the last Japanese person will die. Other countries are encouraging immigration to deal with their demographic woes. But not Japan, which is using different ways to reduce pressure put on healthcare and social services. ‎ ‎ The Toto-made toilet, common in Japanese hotels, can push up to help the elderly. Now Toto is working with Daiwa House, Japan’s largest house builder, to equip toilets for retirees. These have medical sensors that measure blood sugar levels, the blood pressure and body fat of the user. The data is emailed to the local GP through a built-in internet device(装置). So make sure you eat your greens and stay regular, or the doctor will be in touch. ‎ The over-75s account for more than a quarter of the deaths in car accidents on Japanese roads. Toyota is working with Professor Kawashima, who developed brain training games for Nintendo, to create intelligent cars that monitor brain activity in the elderly. Other technologies could also work to keep elderly drivers cautious. ‎ Japan has twice as many pets as it has children. But real animals are difficult to look after as their owners’ age. Paro is a furry white baby seal robot which responds to petting by moving its tail and opening and closing its eyes. It shows emotions such as surprise , happiness and anger, and has sold well in nursing homes where it is reported to stimulate (刺激) responses among those with dementia(痴呆). ‎ Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research has developed Riba, a nursing care robot that can lift the elderly out of bed. ‎ 28. What does the underlined phrase “demographic woes” refer to? A. Public finance. B. Population problems. ‎ C. Retirement age. D. Employment difficulties. ‎ 29. What’s the main function (功能) of the toilets for retirees? ‎ ‎ A. Giving them first aid. B. Monitoring their health. ‎ C. Helping them send emails. D. Sending them off the toilet. ‎ 30. What do we know about the seal robot? ‎ ‎ A. It is hard to look after. B. It sells well in nurseries. ‎ C. It is well received in nursing homes. D. It only makes a positive response. ‎ 28. How does Japan improve the healthcare for the elderly? A. By advocating companies work together. ‎ B. By switching to life-long training classes. ‎ C. By correcting medical personnel’s service attitudes. ‎ D. By developing hi-tech products and services. ‎ ‎ D ‎ ‎ You don’t have to be a fan of math to get excited about Pi(“π ”) Day. While the event, which is also Albert Einstein’s birthday, may start with some calculations, it is more than likely to conclude with a slice or two of delicious pie. The holiday is held every March 14, because “π ” is widely recognized as 3.14. ‎ ‎ The tradition of honoring “π ”began at San Francisco’s Exploratorium Museum. On March14, 1988, physicist Larry Shaw convinced his colleagues to mark the day by marching around one of the museum’s circular spaces and consuming fruit pies. The celebration was made official in 2009 when the US House of Representatives set aside March 14 as Pi Day. ‎ ‎ Today, Pi Day is observed in many creative ways. ‎ ‎ Students at the California Institute of Technology in Los Angeles host a pie-eating event, which begins at 1: 59 a. m. and features 26 pies, each of five different flavors of the popular dessert. Though that might seem random, the date (3.14), time(159), number of pies(26), and number of varieties (5) recreate the first nine digits Pi: 3.14159265! ‎ ‎ Students applying for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston eagerly wait for the day every year to find out if they have been accepted. However, instead of sending out the offers at 3:14 p.m., the institution waits till 6:28 p.m.. 6.28 is referred to as Tau, which is Pi multiplied by 2. The number is believed to be much more reliable than Pi by some experts and even has its own celebration on June 28. Since 2017, MIT has also used Pi Day as a fundraiser to support its students, departments and programs. ‎ ‎ The town of Princeton, New Jersey, where Einstein lived from 1935 until his death in 1955, celebrates the occasion with multi-day festivities that end on March 14. Visitors can participate in concerts, shows, as well as pie-eating , pi-recitation, and Einstein-lookalike contests. ‎ 32. Where was Pi Day originally celebrated? ‎ A. In San Francisco. B. In Los Angeles. C. In Boston. D. In Princeton. ‎ 33. When was Pi Day made an official holiday? ‎ A. In 1955 . B. In 2009. C. In 1988. D. In2017. ‎ 34. What does MIT do on Pi Day according to the passage? ‎ A. Conduct a calculating test. B. Organize a march around the campus. ‎ C. Make desserts of different flavors. D. Inform applicants of admission results. ‎ 35. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text? ‎ A. To instruct. B. To introduce. C. To persuade. D. To explain. 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。 ‎ Things to Remember When You’re Having a Bad Day ‎ ‎ Even the hardest days contain lessons that will help you be a better person. Feeling down? ‎ Consider these things to remember when you’re having a bad day. ‎ ‎●No one promised life would be perfect. ‎ ‎____36_____. Don’t base your happiness on meeting every expectation you set for yourself. It is good to be ambitious, but you’ll never perfect. If you expect otherwise, your life will be filled with disappointments. ‎ ‎●_____37_____. ‎ Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Don’t kid yourself into thinking success will come quickly. It isn’t easy to be patient, but anything worth doing requires time. 38 . ‎ ‎ ●Without hard times, you wouldn’t appreciate the good ones. ‎ Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to give up, that is strength. ____39____ . It is hard to find much to smile about when you fail, but how else would you improve yourself? If you look at failures as a part of your growing process, you’ll stay positive and follow your goals for as long as it takes. ‎ ‎●It’s Ok to cry sometimes. ‎ ‎ Do not apologize for crying. Without this feeling, we are only robots. Don’t be afraid of crying. ‎ ‎ ____40______. Instead, it is an acceptable way to let go of your depressed feelings. If you let those feelings build up without release, you’ll have a much harder time dealing with them later. ‎ A. Don’t get sad if you lose. ‎ B. It isn’t a sign of weakness. ‎ C. Success doesn’t happen overnight. ‎ D. It’s not OK to worry now and then. ‎ E. Don’t compare your life with others’. ‎ F. Remember: Rome is not built in a day. ‎ G. If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. ‎ 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分） ‎ 第一节完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1. 5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面的短文，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。 ‎ The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, USA. ‎ ‎“ Police station? A train for Santa Fe collide(碰撞)with a(n) 41 at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please go there at once, with an ambulance too. A man is badly injured,” said a(n) 42 voice of a young woman. ‎ ‎ “Just a minute，we’ll come 43 . Please stay there and wait, ”answered the policeman. Within a minute，a police car and an ambulance 44 . Soon they got to the 45 ， but only to 46 everything was fine. No collision，no 47 man. ‎ ‎ “What a dirty trick!” said the policeman 48 . “We must find out that mischievous(恶作剧的) 49 and. . .” They had not been able to say anything about a 50 when they heard the whistle of a train: the train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden，a truck 51 . It came fast towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly 52 to move on. Right then and there，before the eyes of all the people 53 ， the train collided with the truck heavily and 54 it dozens of meters away. ‎ ‎ When Randolph Bruce，the driver was 55 out of the damaged truck，he was 56 hurt just as the young woman had foretold on the phone. As he was taken to the 57 in time, he was saved at last. ‎ ‎ Later the policemen did 58 they could to find the woman who had telephoned them， but 59 . ‎ ‎ It is 60 that a prophecy(预言)should coincide(巧合)with the fact so exactly. ‎ 41. A. ambulance B. truck C. car D. bus ‎ 42. A. anxious B. sweet C. gentle D. low ‎ 43. A. fast B. ahead C. soon D. later ‎ 44. A. went by B. set off C. got there D. came on ‎ 45. A. telephone B. street C. station D. crossing ‎ 46. A. feel B. find C. have D. tell ‎ 47. A. injured B. trapped C. frightened D. killed ‎ 48. A. happily B. excitedly C. angrily D. disappointedly ‎ 49. A. man B. policeman C. woman D. boy ‎ 50. A. warning B. punishment C. joke D. problem ‎ 51. A. started B. left C. appeared D. passed ‎ 52. A. stopped B. refused C. continued D. began ‎ 53. A. present B. backwards C. excited D. alive ‎ 54. A. damaged B. struck C. attacked D. rolled ‎ 55. A. raised B. forced C. pushed D. helped ‎ 56. A. badly B. clearly C. hardly D. slightly ‎ 57. A. police station B. market C. hospital D. sidewalk ‎ 58. A. that B. which C. however D. whatever ‎ 59. A. delayed B. worked C. stopped D. failed ‎ 60. A. surprised B. surprising C. satisfied D. satisfying ‎ 第 II 卷 注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 ‎ ‎ A sex education book in China for second-grade students 61 _______ are aged eight to nine, has caused a lively debate. ‎ ‎ China has long been considered 62________ conservative (保守的)country where talking about sex is embarrassing, especially among kids. Such closed-minded and backward attitudes have led 63 _______ a lack of sexual knowledge, making kids 64 __________(help) when facing sexual crimes. ‎ ‎ Many people have expressed support for the books as well, 65_________(argue) that such texts can teach kids proper sexual knowledge, allowing them 66____________(defend) themselves against sex crimes. ‎ ‎ In response to public concern over the books, the publisher has released a statement defending the books. “ We hope sexual knowledge, along with other scientific knowledge , can be 67__________(nature) and accurately taught to our kids… Sexual crimes targeting 68___________(child) frequently take place in China , and they remind us of the importance of promoting sexual education among elementary school students,” the announcement read. According to The paper. cn, the publisher spent nine years collecting the text and opinions from both experts 69 ________ parents. The books require teachers to receive professional training before delivering related lectures. Extra materials and resources designed for parents will 70 ____________(publish) soon. ‎ 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，请你修改同桌的以下作文。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。删除：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。 ‎ Dear Li Hua, ‎ I’ve received your letter saying that you’re anxiously about the coming exam. I think it important for you to have a right attitude of exams. They’re only a means of checking what you’re getting along with your studies. Therefore, it is no need to worry too much about the results. You should study hard and make good preparation for them. In this way you can avoid suffer from the pressure of the exams. Besides, you’d better to do some outdoor exercise to keep myself relaxed and then focus on your exams. In addition, have enough sleep can make you energetic and enable you to perform good in the exams. ‎ Wish you success! ‎ ‎ Yours, ‎ ‎ Zhang Mei 第二节书面表达（满分25分） ‎ ‎ 假定你是李华，你的美国笔友 Susan 将于下个月过 18 岁生日，你打算给她寄去一盒中国的茶叶作为礼物。 请你根据以下要点提示给她写一封邮件。 内容包括： ‎ 1. 祝她生日快乐； ‎ 2. 简要介绍茶叶的种类及喝茶的好处。 ‎ 注意：1.词数 100 左右； ‎ ‎2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 ‎ Dear Susan, ‎ ‎ As your birthday is approaching,___________________________________________ ‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎__________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ ‎ Yours, ‎ ‎ Li Hua ‎ ‎2017---2018学年第二学期第10次月考 ‎ 高二英语试题 听力 ‎1---5 CBABC 6---10 BCACB 11----15 BBCBA 16---20 ACBAC 阅读理解 ‎21----23 ADD 24—27 DCAA 28---31 BBCD 32----35 ABDB 36----40 GCFAB ‎ 完形填空 ‎41---45. BACBD 46---50. BACCB 51---55 CBABD 56----60 ACDDB 语法填空 ‎61. who/that 62. a 63. to 64. helpless 65 arguing ‎ ‎66. to defend 67.naturally 68.children 69. and 70. be published 短文改错 ‎71. anxious 72. attitude to /towards 73. checking how 74. there is no need ‎ ‎75. preparations 76. avoid suffering 77. you’d better do 78. keep yourself relaxed ‎79. having enough sleep 80.perform well 写作：‎ One possible version:‎ Dear Susan,‎ As your birthday is approaching, I sincerely wish you a happy birthday. I’d like to send you a can of tea as a birthday gift. I hope you will like it.‎ As is known to us all, Chinese tea has a history of more than 4,000 years. There’re different kinds of tea in China, including green tea, black tea and so on. Drinking tea brings a lot of health benefits. It can make people feel relaxed and prevent diseases. That is why drinking tea is becoming increasingly popular with people around the world.‎ I hope you will enjoy Chinese tea. Happy birthday to you once again!‎ ‎ Yours,‎ ‎ Li Hua ‎ 听力原文 Text 1. ‎ W: David , have you ever sung in public?‎ M: To be honest, I dare not open my mouth before my friends, let alone sing in public.‎ Text 2 ‎ M: The cashier gave me the wrong change. I gave her 10 dollars to pay for a 5-dollar book, and she only gave me 2 dollars back.‎ W: Why didn’t you count the change?‎ Text 3‎ M: Sorry ma’am, can you wait five more minutes? We should have a table soon.‎ W: Five more minutes? But I’ve already waited for half an hour. Forget it!‎ Text 4‎ M: Amanda, I’m terribly sorry I was absent from your birthday party because I was ill.‎ W: I wouldn’t buy it. Someone saw you playing basketball. You just didn’t want to come.‎ M: (Embarrassed)All right. All right. I am sorry.‎ Text 5‎ W: Don’t be absent-minded when you’re behind the wheel. It’s dangerous. ‎ M: It’s because I didn’t sleep well last night.‎ W: You’d better stop the car and have a rest.‎ Text 6‎ M: Hello, Judy. Where are you heading?‎ W: Hi, Tom. I am going home.‎ M: Where do you live? Is it far away?‎ W: No, I live at Fuzhou Road. It is somewhere around the shopping center.‎ M: If you walk home, it will take you at least 25 minutes, I am going that way. Shall I give you a ride? ‎ W: Great ! I am just thinking of taking a bus. Actually, I prefer to walk home from work for better health. But today I am taking a heavy bag, so thank you very much. It couldn’t be better. ‎ M: You’re welcome.‎ Text 7‎ W: Can I help you?‎ M: I want to find an old magazine, but I’m not sure where I can find it.‎ W: How old is it? Is it less than a year old, or older? The magazines less than a year are in the reading room on the second floor. But the older ones are put together and stored on the third floor. ‎ M: Well, I want to find one that is more than a year old. So I need to go to the second floor, right? ‎ W: No, no. You should go to the third floor.‎ M: Oh. Thanks for your help.‎ Text 8‎ W: Hi Simon. It’s Alice.‎ M: Hi there Alice. It’s you! How are things going in your new company?‎ W: Not too bad. Listen ,there is a new film called Wonder at the New State Cinema. I’ve heard it’s really good. Would you like to go to the cinema to see it with me tomorrow? We haven’t met for a while.‎ M: Wow! I know the film and I’ve read some reviews about it. It’s fantastic! But, uh, tomorrow is Thursday. I’m afraid it isn’t good for me. I’m having dinner with my family. It’s my mother’s birthday.‎ W:OK.Can you make it on Friday?‎ M: Err, yeah, Friday sounds fine. What time do you want to meet?‎ W: Well, the film begins at 8:30. Let’s meet at the cinema 10 minutes ahead.‎ M: Fine. See you on Friday.‎ Text 9‎ W: Hi, Chen, do you have a minute to talk?‎ M: Sure, what’s up?‎ W: I noticed something in our meeting just now. As a friend, I think I should tell you about it. It has something to do with manners. I mean, body language, especially eye contact.‎ M: Body language? Amy, can you be more specific? Western manners are new to me.‎ W: You know, besides words, we spend messages with our arms, our gestures and most often with our eyes. ‎ M: So you are saying that you can read my mind through eye contact? ‎ W: Exactly. While Todd was giving his presentation, I could tell you had a different idea.‎ M: Oh, really? I didn’t say anything, but you saw me through. ‎ W: You rolled your eyes and looked away several times while Todd was speaking. By not looking at Todd，you gave me the impression that you were not interested in hearing more. When you lost complete interest in what Todd was saying, You just stared at him blankly.‎ M: You mean while I was looking at Todd, others still could tell I wasn’t listening?‎ W: That’s right. Learning to control the message that your eyes send is the key to respectful communication. ‎ M: I am very sorry for my bad manners. Thanks. I’ve really learned a lot.‎ Text 10‎ I am a model and actress, proud of my scars.‎ In 2012 I got into a really bad burn accident. I put hot soup and vegetables in a cooker. And the cooker exploded. So I got up to third-degree burns. It was a very tough time for me，because it wasn’t until I got burnt that I realized how much of my identity I put in my looks.‎ When it comes to my role models, I admire Turia Pitt most. She is a lady who did this marathon and got caught in a bush fire. And despite her looks on the outside after being burned, she was on all these different magazine covers and inspiring women of all ages. That is awesome.‎ ‎ My attitude towards beauty is that beauty comes from within. If you have a beautiful soul, and you do good things, and you practice good virtues, your beauty will shine. It doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside. ‎