【正文】 注意 : 1. 每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞； 2. 只允許修改 10 處，多者 (從第 11 處起 )不計分。 Could Organizing Your Home Change Your Life? Marie Kondo is an expert on anizing and cleaning. She is considered an expert on clearing away unused or unnecessary things, better known as clutter. Actually, she did write a book on the issue, which is called “The LifeChanging Magic of Tidying Up”. 16 It has sold more than 2 million copies. Marie Kondo says people can improve their lives by changing the way they think about all their stuff everything from books, documents and photographs to clothing and personal mementoes. “ 17 ” And this is pretty good.” Ms. Kondo writes. This is not the first time an anizing expert has written a book on clutter. Other books suggest wonderful things will happen when you anize your home. One book says that if you throw out 50 things from your home, you will actually find your life. 18 . And still others promise a better job, more money and a perfect family if you simply anize the things that fill your life. 19 . She told the Business Insider website that some of her clients have lost weight. “Your selfperception is improved by living in a clean and neat room,” she said. “This can change lifestyles and, in turn, appearances.” Marie Kondo teaches a method of anizing she calls KonMari. It is more of an event or ceremony. This is the part that followers say makes it more lasting. Ms. Kondo says KonMari creates a different relationship between you and your possessions. If the object meant something to you or served you well, you thank it for its service before throwing or giving it away. In her book, Ms. Kondo suggests that you touch the item and ask one simple question: Does it bring me joy? 20 . A. Her book is a bestseller around the world B. Marie Kondo makes some of the same claims C. On the contrary, Marie Kondo disagrees with it. D. Unnecessary things just take up too much space in your home. E. If it doesn’t, you give it away so that it may give joy to someone else. F. Another book says that if you make clutter disappear, you will also lose weight. G. When you put your house in order, you put your affairs and your past in order too. 第二部分 英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)；滿分 55分） 第一節(jié) 完形填空 (共 20小題；每小題 ，滿分 30 分 ) 閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項 (A,B,C和 D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。ll finish this season before he retires. B. He39。s always sad when greatness decides to hang it up 39。 A Here is a letter from the Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant on The Players39。re all sad. This era of Lakers basketball has been one of the most fun, exciting prosperous eras we could imagine. We39。ll see another one like him.” ——Shane Battier, of the Miami Heat “Hard to believe kobe bryant is finally going to hang it up. One of the NBA39。s contributions to American society. 5. How did Franklin begin developing his own political thinking? A. By persuading the 13 American states to unite. B. By discussing ideas with political activists in Britain. C. By fighting against British rule in America. D. By writing articles for his own newspaper. 6. What can be inferred about Franklin from the article? A. His most important contribution was in science. B. He was the leader of the “founding fathers”. C. He came from a very wealthy family. D. He was successful in many different areas. 7. What is the correct order for the following events from Franklin’s life? a. He started a newspaper business. b. He carried out the kite experience on electricity. c. He worked for his brother in a printing pany. d. He was appointed the Ambassador to France. e. He helped write the Declaration of Independence. f. He visited England to discuss independence. A. c, a, b, f, e, d B. e, c, a, b, f, d C. a, c, f, b, d, e D. f, d, a, b, c, e C Tiny monitoring devices have bee an increasingly mon way for scientists to study elusive animals that are difficult to track on a daytoday basis. However, now it seems that smart. Seals have caught on to the trick and are using it to their advantage to catch fish! To find out if that is true, a team of researchers from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland selected a group often young grey seals that had neither encountered the ocean nor been exposed to any kind of acoustic（聲音的） tags. The researchers then placed the seals one at a time, inside a pool that contained 20 foraging boxes, only two of which housed fish — one with tags and the other without. Each seal was allowed to explore the boxes twenty separate times. In order to ensure that mammal was not depending on its memory, the fish were moved to different boxes each time. At first, there was no difference in the amount of time it took the seals to discover the tagged and untagged fish. However, after they had been in the pool a few times, they started locating the tagged fish much faster. To confirm that this indeed was the case, there searchers conducted a second experiment using two boxes — one with pieces of fish and the other with just acoustic tags. Sure enough, the seals were all attracted to the one that was sending out