三、信息还原(10分)
Imagine you are studying English, and then you feel the need to check your phone. 1. ____This process (过程), when repeated many times, could reduce your ability to learn new materials. It is what you might call a bad habit.
2. ____Wendy is an expert on habits. She says that repeatedly checking the phones is a bad habit. She offers some ideas on how people can cut back on mobile phone use.
One suggestion is to wear a watch. 3. ____Another suggestion is to increase (增加) the number of steps you need to use your phone. “Silence it. Turn it off... Turn on Flying Mode,” she says. 4. ____For example, you can put your phone inside your schoolbag.
You can also ask your family to watch you and remind you when you check the phone.
Today, we discussed ideas for reducing your mobile phone use. 5. ____Habit changes take time. But with planning, repetition and insistence (坚持), you can do it.
A. You can also use these ideas to break other bad habits.
B. Today we will discuss how you can break this kind of bad habit.
C. Depending too much on your mobile phones causes health problems.
D. Maybe you are learning new words and expressions on your phone.
E. You return to your study, and look again at your phone a short time later.
F. This will give you no excuse (借口) for looking at the phone — checking the time.
G. She adds that you can move your phone to a place that is more difficult to reach.

四、词汇检测(12分)
1. My mum has (承诺) to take me to the museum next weekend.
2. I had a terrible (关系) with my mother until I became a mother myself.
3. The problem was solved with little (困难).
4. The young boy decided to (发现) the truth by himself.
5. You can see many (古代的) buildings in the city of Pingyao.
6. We were free last Sunday, so Mum (建议) climbing the hill.
7. From Deng Qingming, we can see that success (需要) years of hard work.
8. I don't want to make wrong (决定) and regret them later.
9. Judy is worried because she doesn't know she can get the offer from Alibaba or not.
10. Blue is a calm colour. It can bring to our mind and body.
11. For most people in the poor areas, hunger is a part of life.
12. I think she may need some help she is a new comer here.

五、从方框中选择适当的单词或短语,在横线上填入其正确形式。每个单词或短语仅用一次(5分)
see as a result surprise however look like
What colour is a tennis ball? Ask your classmates, and their answers may make you feel 1. .
A survey was made on 30 000 people. 52% said tennis balls were green while 42% said yellow. Why do people hold different views?
When we first see an object in natural light, our brains recognize(识
别) its true colour. Even if the object is 2. in different kinds of light later, our brains can still tell its true colour. For example, we know that China's flag is red. When we see it during sunset or under purple light, we still know that it is red, even if it 3. a different colour.
4. , the colour of a tennis ball appears a mixture of yellow and green. When our brains try to tell what colour the ball is, some people ignore (忽略) green. So they see it as yellow. Others ignore yellow. 5. , they see it as green.

六、短文填空(10分)
There were two carpenters (木匠). 1. of them were good at their jobs. The king decided to hold a 2. (compete) to find out which one was better. The carpenters were 3. (give) three days to carve (雕刻) a wooden mouse. The one who carved the more lifelike mouse would win.
The first carpenter carved a very lifelike mouse. The second carpenter's mouse, however, looked quite ugly. 4. fact, it hardly 5. (look) like a mouse at all. The king agreed that the first carpenter was the winner.
The second carpenter said the result was unfair (不公平的). “We should ask cats. Cats can recognize (识别) mice much 6. (good) than humans.”
The king agreed to catch some cats and 7. (bring) them to watch the carpenters' mice. Surprisingly, all of the cats liked the second carpenter's mouse.
The king asked, “How did you make the cat like your mouse?” “If you look 8. (close), you can see that I carved a mouse with a fish bone in 9. (it) hand! The cats don't care how real it looks, 10. how good it might taste.”