A. ① A. Our luck.

B. ② B. Our desire

C. ③ C. Our ability.

D. ④ D. Our identity.

69. What is to blame if we fail to create infinities?

70. Who is the book The fault in our stars mainly intended for? A. Patients with terminal diseases. B. Kids wishing for a bright future. C. Adults recalling their golden days.

D. Teenagers with some life experience. 第四部分 任务型阅读（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的 单词。

注意：请将答案写在答题卡相应题号的横线上，每个空格只填一个单词。 Everything we do involves risk. In our professional lives, trying to avoid risk is itself a risk: work too cautiously, and we risk missing the chance to grow and shine, and our careers may suffer for it.

We cannot avoid risk yet we often avoid thinking about it. That is a shame, because if we think strategically about risk, we can use it to increase our chances of coming through difficult situations with our goals intact. Rather than pretending risk doesn?t exist, why not learn to manage it to our own benefit?

The first step: Acknowledge the risks your projects face. Start by writing a list of the things that can go wrong. That may sound gloomy, but it?s essential. Your list need to be very thorough, and probably never can be. But try to identify common risks-like the departure of a key colleague for a new job or the failure of a new technique upon which your project depends. The types of risks you identify will depend on the specifics of your work.

Once you have a list of risks, evaluate each one in two scales: ? Likelihood. Force yourself to honestly assess how likely each risk is. ? Impact. Then think about how much damage could occur under each situation.

Now it?s time to draft a second, more-detailed list. Go back through your initial list and consider how you might make each potential negative outcome less likely to occur, and also how you might minimize the damage to your project if one does happen. In

project-management term, this step is known as risk mitigation. A mitigation is anything that makes a risk less likely to spoil your overall goal.

Once you have drafted your list of mitigations, the final step is to go down that list and think about which ones are “worth it”. Look at all the information you?ve gathered about your risks and mitigations, and make a call about what it makes sense to do. You probably

have more intuition in this area than you realize, because most of us instinctively do risk-mitigation calculations in the nonwork areas of our lives. For instance, every time you decide whether or not to buy a guarantee on a new electronic toy, you?re doing this calculation in your head.

You have probably been intuitively doing some sort of risk analysis in your work life, too. Moving to a more explicit analysis (but one that is more qualitative than

quantitative-unless you like to play with numbers) can encourage you to acknowledge when you?re making overly optimistic assumptions. And this gives you a better chance to make plans that will withstand the failure of at least a couple of those assumptions.

Bringing your risk analysis out from the field of intuition can also help you overcome a tendency to overly ignore risk. It is easier to go ahead and take a big risk when you know that you have mitigations in place and a backup plan if things go wrong.

Thinking about risk can be a big scary, but really, ignoring risk is the riskiest behavior of all.

Don’t Avoid Risk-Manage It

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??Risk is 71. Introduction

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whatever we do.

??Risk is beneficial to us if we cope with it in a 72. ??Admit the risks and make a list of 73. While evaluating them, make 74. likelihood and impact.

??Consider how to avoid the negative outcome to the greatest

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of risk

79. 80. are that you will make more realistic up to failure.

assumptions. Meanwhile, a backup plan will be made for you to

and prevent your project from being 76. should it happen.

your effort by analyzing all the available

??Take advantage of your intuition to decide which risks 77.

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Libraries have always been at the heart of the communities they serve. They are accessible and safe spaces，providing access to huge resources of information and knowledge.

Libraries have played an important role in helping generations of immigrants，young people， job seekers and readers to learn，stay connected and get ahead in life. Offering access to books， newspaper and，later，computers，they opened up a world of knowledge and ideas for millions of people. The public library transcends national and cultural boundarie — no matter where you are in the world，they are an essential part of creating and maintaining an educated and literate population.

But today，public libraries are at a turning point. The way we access and consume information has changed dramatically in the 21st century，and this presents major challenges and opportunities for public library systems across the world.

The advent of new technologies has changed some of our reading habits. But our need for shared，community-centred spaces to find information and connect with others is unlikely to change anytime soon.

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1．用约 30 个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；

2．结合上述信息，简要分析公共图书馆仍受欢迎的主要原因；

3．就公共图书馆如何与时俱进，应对新挑战提出你的建议（不少于两点）。 【写作要求】

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【评分标准】 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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第一部分 听力（略）

第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 35 分）

第一节 单项填空（共 15 小题：每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）

请认真阅读下面各题，从所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该 项涂黑。

21. They all sat together at table, laughing and stories after many years? separation.

A. circulating B. swapping 【答案】B

【解析】此题考查动词辨析。分析句意：“他们都坐在桌子旁，有说有笑地

分开多年各自的故

C. spreading

D. plotting

事”。circulate 是（使）循环、流通、流传；swap 交换、用……替换；spread 传播、展开、伸开；plot 密谋、暗中策划、以图表画出。根据句意选 swap 交换，“交换故事”，根据句意引申为“讲述故事”。 句意：他们都坐在桌子旁，有说有笑地讲述着分开多年各自的故事。 【点评】本题难度适中。掌握动词的意思即可解出题目。

22. The movie Coco wraps two themes --- pursuing dreams, and how we remember loved ones ---

in a colorful, culturally specific package.

A. contemporary 【答案】 D

【解析】此题考查形容词辨析。分析各个选项的意思：contemporary 当代的、现代的；religious 宗 教的、虔诚的；historical 历史的、历史上的；universal 普遍的、一般的、通用的、宇宙的。由“pursuing dreams, and how we remember loved ones”可知 universal 符合题意，即普遍存在的主题。句意：电影 《寻梦环游记》在色彩斑斓的文化包裹下，囊括了两个普遍存在的主题——追寻梦想与如何记住至 亲至爱。

【点评】本题难度较低，需要区分各个形容词的意义。

B. religious C. historical D. universal

23. --- Father always instructs me to do kind acts and bring more joy into the world around us.

--- That?s great. Small can often create huge blessings.

A. gestures B. impacts C. schemes D. concepts 【答案】 A

【解析】此题考查名词辨析。gesture 手势、姿势、举止动作；impact 影响；scheme 计划、体系、阴