water.
To help the cranes stay at the farm, Zhou, together with many bird-lovers, launched an online crowd-funding campaign on WeChat in March last year. They collected 2.1 million yuan from 100 donors, including overseas Chinese from the United States and Canada. “We rented 498 mu (33 hectares) of lotus root fields and bought 75,000 kg of lotus root for the birds,” Zhou said. “We also strengthened the farmland, built new roads and a water control system.”
Before the cranes arrived in November, bird-lovers managed to build the country’s first privately funded white crane protection zone that combines the functions of scientific research, education and photography. “The white crane protection zone did not spend a single penny of the government’s, but it effectively protects the habitat,” said Dai, adding that the government should give more policy and financial support to the crane protectors.
For Zhou, funding is still the biggest problem. They have only 180,000 yuan left in their coffers（金库）, far from enough to pay the rent and buy lotus root for next winter. “We are see-king more funding,” Zhou said. “We must keep this habitat, so humans and cranes can interact closely.”
32. What is the author’s main purpose of writing the 2nd paragraph? A. To explain to us why lotus roots are cranes’ best-loved food.
B. To remind us that cranes are a danger to farmers’ harvest of lotus roots. C. To tell us why the local farmers planned to plant rice to replace lotus roots. D. To warn us that the white cranes always cause damage to farmers’ lotus roots. 33. The functions of the protection zone cover the following fields except for ________.
A. ticket sales B. educating people C. scientific research D. taking photographs
34. What does the third paragraph mostly focus on?
A. The support from overseas Chinese to help white cranes.
B. The efforts made by bird-lovers to help the cranes. C. The main source of the funds collected by bird-lovers. D. The reasons for launching online crowd-funding campaign. 35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. Challenges Facing Lovers of White Cranes B. White Cranes-an Endangered Bird Species
C. White Cranes Seen as a Threat to Farmers’ Lotus Roots D. Chinese Bird-Lovers Protect White Cranes through Crowd-Funding 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Five Ways to Make People Like You
●Be a good listener.
Encourage others to talk about themselves. The easiest way to become a good conversationalist（健谈的人）is to become a good listener. To be a good listener, we must actually care about what people have to say. 36 Instead, they just want someone who will listen to them.
●Smile.
37 Smiles are free to give and have an amazing ability to make others feel wonderful. Smile in everything that you do.
●Remember a person’s name.
To any person, his/her name is the sweetest and most important sound in any language. 38 People love their names so much that they will often donate large amounts of money just to have a building named after them. We can make people feel extremely valued and important by remembering their names.
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You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them than by making them interested in you in two years. The only way to make quality, lasting friendships is to learn to be genuinely interested in them and their interests.
●Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely.
The golden rule is to treat other people how we would like to be treated. 40
People will talk to us for hours if we allow them to talk about themselves. If we can make people feel important in a sincere and appreciative way, then we will win all the friends we could ever dream of. A. Become genuinely interested in other people. B. Share your interests with other people around you. C. We love to feel important and so does everyone else.
D. Many times people don't want an entertaining conversation partner.
E. You should make other people feel confident whenever and wherever possible. F. Happiness does not depend on outside circumstances, but rather on inward attitudes. G. The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world. 第三部分
英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I always hid my thumbs unnaturally in my fists because of their strange shape. 41 speaking, my thumbs do 42 more like a big toe instead of a thumb. From an early age, my thumbs earned the nickname “toe thumbs”.
Then, while in high school, I worked as a(n) 43 in a grocery store. One day, I was 44 a sweet little old lady. As I counted her change back to her, she suddenly 45 my hands and said in a 46 Polish accent, “You are Polish! Look at those beautiful Polish thumbs! They 47 mine!” She raised her hands and showed me her thumbs which, although 48 and wrinkled, looked exactly like mine! She held my hands again and said. “Be proud of those thumbs and the 49 of your heritage（遗产）that comes with them!”
I’ll never forget that 30-second 50 with a stranger. It forever changed my view of a part of me I was once 51 by and now embrace. Tonight, while my 52 Samuel and I were eating dinner together, he looked down at my hand 53 on the table next to his and said, “Mommy! Our thumbs match!” I 54 and answered, “Yes they do, my son! Those are 55 Polish thumbs you have! Be proud of them!
Maybe son boy or girl who will have the 56 thumbs to match yours and mine too!”
I no longer hide my thumbs in my fists and I 57 that my child will carry on a piece of our heritage. I pray my son 58 hides his thumbs like I did. I hope he’ll be proud of their “strangeness” and the history 59 them. He carries on a(n) 60 part of me. For me, that will always be beautiful! 41. A. Honestly
B. Relatively
C. Theoretically
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cleaner
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pulled
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disabled 49. A. tradition privilege
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B. feel
B. assistant
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B. match
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B. history B. contact B. envied B. daughter
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