company. A. C.
B.
D.
72. ____ has made up a special menu for those parents with kids dining out together.
A. McDonald’s B. An American design company C. A Maryland restaurant D. Starbucks
73. A parent may probably order _____ if his child doesn’t mind what to eat. A. Basket of Chicken Tenders B. Grilled Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwich C. Triple Layer PB&J D. Cheese Quesadilla 74. The best title of the second article may be _____.
A. A design company B. Ways to print a logo C. Logos of famous brands D. Less ink less waste
B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）（12分）
The Museum of Failure
History may be written by the winners, but we should not ignore the losers. At least, that’s what the Museum of Failure wants us to believe.
Displaying around 80 examples of failed products, businesses and ideas, the newly opened museum in Helsingborg, Sweden, celebrates modern history’s ___75___ designs. But as well as exhibiting long-forgotten failures, founder Dr. Samuel West is on a task to help us learn from our mistakes.
‘I hope that visitors take home two messages: that success is always __76___ failure, and that they should understand the importance of learning from failure,’said Dr. West. Most of all innovation（创新）projects fail, and learning is the only way to turn failure into success, according to the museum’s website.
‘The purpose of the museum is to show that innovation ___77___ failure,’Dr. West said as he introduced some of the exhibits in a video.‘If you are afraid of failure, then you can’t innovate.’His purpose of starting the museum was to encourage organizations to be better at learning from failures instead of ignoring them and pretending they ___78___ happened. Based on Leo Tolstoy’s‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,’Dr West has created a similar ___79___ for his museum:‘All successful innovations are alike; all failed innovations fail in their own interesting and spectacular（惊人的）way.’
The museum’s items make Dr West more deeply believe that poorly-designed products have little in common with one another. One of the items, ___80___, is a frozen beef lasagne（意式千层面）made by Colgate, a company that makes toothpaste. He described this as a classic case of‘brand extension（品牌扩展）failure.’
A collection of nine objects from the museum is on tour, stopping in Miami, Berlin and Amsterdam and then will visit Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo in 2018 and 2019.
75. A. latest B. worst C. different D. simple 76. A. connected with B. pleased with C. known as D. ready for
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77. A. develops
B. refuses C. discovers D. requires
78. A. really B. always C. never D. actually
79. A. saying B. situation C. chance D. problem
80. A. as a result B. in addition C. for example D. in a word
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）（14分）
The exams were just over and the summer vacation just started. Now Keven was free like a bird. Suddenly the doorbell rang. It was his cousin, Max.‘Hiii!’ screamed Max,‘I have come to stay here for the holidays.’
The next days were a___81___ for Kevin. After breakfast Kevin decided to do a painting. He took out all his art supplies and started painting beautiful scenery. When he nearly finished it, Max entered the room with a Cola bottle. He slipped on some water and spread Cola all over the painting. It was c___82___ destroyed. The next day was even worse. Max put Kevin’s best pair of shoes into the washing machine along with the clothes.
One day Kevin was going through the newspaper when some interesting news caught his a___83___. He read it aloud‘The world famous philatelist（集邮家）Dick Brown’s stamps were stolen last week in his town. Several other stamp robberies also have taken place and police suspect that all the robberies are l___84___.’
Kevin had a nice stamp collection and it was with his friend Allan. He decided to get his stamp album back as he felt it would be much s___85___ with himself. But Kevin couldn’t go, so he decided to spend Max to get his album. Kevin gave Max the address of Allan’s and Max started. Max soon came back with the album and when Kevin checked it he found that it was not his album. It contained valuable stamps. Actually Max had gone to another house by mistake and he had knocked on the door but no one a___86___. He found the door unlocked, so he went in. He found an album which looked like Kevin’s and brought it back.
Kevin doubted that it might be the stolen album probably belonging to Dick Brown. Kevin made c___87___ with the police. A week later, Kevin and Max got reward for finding Dick Brown’s album.
‘I will never be angry at Max,’Kevin thought. D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）（12分）
‘What are you saying? You lost him?’the Chief of Police said angrily.
The young police inspector（警长）in front of her was tired, very tired. He wanted to sit down, but people did not sit down in the chief’s office. They stood and waited, and perhaps the Chief said‘sit down’. Then they sat down, but not before.
So the inspector stood.‘I’m sorry, Chief,’he said.‘We couldn’t find him in the trees. We looked all night, but it was dark and …’
The Chief of Police put her hands on the desk in front of her.
‘You had five men with you, Inspector, and two dogs. And you couldn’t find him!’ The inspector waited, and the Chief of Police looked at him coldly.‘What are you waiting
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for?’She asked,‘Go out and find him! Three months ago, this man—Alex Dinon—killed the President of our country. He is a murderer—a dangerous man. Twenty-four hours ago he escaped from prison and our new President wants him back in prison—today! Now! At once!’ The inspector quickly left the room.
His name was Felix, and he was thirty-three years old. That was young for an inspector, but he was a good policeman. He liked his job, and worked long hours, but he was sometimes afraid of the Chief of Police. Ten minutes later he was back in his office, and Adam came into his room. Adam was twenty-five, and usually worked with Felix on important jobs. ‘What did the Chief say?’Adam asked.
‘Find Dinon quickly.’Felix said,‘So, let’s begin. Have we got photographs of Dinon? And what about his family?’
Adam put some photographs on the desk.‘He’s got a wife and two young children.’he said. ‘Right. I want photographs on television and in all the newspapers. Four men can watch his house and family, day and night—four hours on, and four hours off. Next, I want policemen at all the airports and …’
Telephones rang, and people came and went in the office. Felix and Adam worked on, late into the night.
88. The Chief of Police was angry with Felix, wasn’t she? 89. What were the reasons Felix and his men lost Alex Dinon?
90. Why did the police want to catch Alex Dinon?（Answer in less than 12 words.） 91. How many people were there in Alex Dinon’s family? 92. What would Felix and his men do to catch Alex Dinon?
93. Would you like to be an inspector like Felix? Give your reasons.
Ⅶ. Writing（作文）（共20分）
94. Write at least 60 words on the topic“___ has changed me”（以“_____改变了我”为题，写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格）
成长路上，你曾经遇见过很多人，如一位师长、一个朋友等，你也曾经经历过很多事，如一次比赛、一项活动等，这些人与事或多或少改变了你，让你变成更好的自己。请选择其中某件事或某个人，以“______ has changed me”为题写一篇不少于60字的短文。
（注意：短文中不得出现任何人名、学校及其它相关信息，否则不予评分。
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26-30 DCBBD 31-35 DCDCA 36-40 DBCDD 41-45 BADCB
46-53 BEAD CDEA
54. memories 55. fourth 56. himself 57. various 58. operate 59. recently 60. responsibility 61. dishonest
62. Did, control 63. Why , had 64. be divided 65. so that 66. How exciting 67. if/whether, flew
69-74 CBACBD 75-80 CADCAC
81. awful 82. completely 83. attention 84. liked 85. safer 86. answered 87. contact 88. Yes, she was
89. It was dark at night
90. He is a murder and he escaped from the prison 91. Four
92. They would watch his house and family, and the policeman would be at the airport 93. Any reasonable answer is ok
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