【正文】 C. Reading improves your intelligence D. Reading makes you a leader tomorrow 31. What is the benefit of knowing more words? A. You will get used to referring to the dictionary when meeting with new words. B. You will have less difficulty expressing your opinions. C. Vocabulary will improve your creativity. D. You can pass your exams with ease. D Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to bee more mon in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot pany Jibo. While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like panions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user. The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn’t just deliver general answers to questions。 Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to stand up and say – problem, I don’t want you in my life. 36 Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children – the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems e in different shapes and colors and feelings. But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems. Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help. 37 Talking helps you move on and let go. Write your problems. 38 When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems. By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life. Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, jobs… you should still have faith. 39 Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours. 40 Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed. Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out. A. But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you. B. When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, lifethreatening problem, how do we try and solve it? C. Tell yourself: when they can deal with their problems, why can’t I? D. Of course, we’ve been fighting problems ever since we were born. E. We can often overe the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack. F. Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with. G. With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose. 第三部分 英語知識(shí)運(yùn)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分 45 分） 第一節(jié) 完型填空（共 20 小題； 每小題 1． 5 分，滿分 30 分） 閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng) (A、 B、 C 和 D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 When I was a kid, Mom used to cook food for us. One night in particular after 61 (spend) a long hard day at work, Mom placed a plate of jam and 62 (extreme) burnt bread in front of my dad. I was waiting 63 (see) if anyone noticed it. But while eating his bread, Dad just asked me 64 was my day at school. I don’t remember what I told him that night, 65 I do remember I heard Mom apologizing to Dad for burning the bread. And I’ll never fet what he said, ―Honey, I love burnt bread.‖ Later that night, I 66 (go) to kiss Daddy good night and asked him if he really liked his bread burnt. He gave me 67 big hug and said， ―your mom put in a long hard day at work today, really 68 (tire). And besides, burnt bread never hurts anyone but cold words do!‖ The lesson 69 I’ve learned over the years is that learning to accept others’ fault is one of the most important keys 70 creating a healthy, growing and lasting relationship. 第四部分 寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分 35 分） 第一節(jié) 短文改錯(cuò)（共 10 小題；每小題 1 分，滿分 10 分） 假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。 增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（ ∧ ），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。 修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。 10 處，多者（從第 11 處起）不計(jì)分。請(qǐng)你根據(jù)以下提示 ,給他寫封郵件。 （ 2） 詞數(shù) 10