16．　　Acts of kindness, big or small, are everywhere if we care to look for them. On December 23, 2017, a man put a video on Weibo, not (1)       it would become popular.
　　(2)       the video was only seven seconds long, it was watched more than 19 million times in just two days. It showed a young man's (3)       act on a subway train and he soon became an online star. In the video, the young man is (4)      with a mobile phone in his hands. On the phone screen, there's a message in large font (字体). "Please wake me up if you need my (5)      ."
　　Plenty of web users were deeply moved by the young man's act and (6)       him for his kindness. Chutian Metropolis Daily offered to interview the young man, but he politely (7)       the invitation. He said he just did what he felt he should do. On Weibo, he wrote he would easily fall asleep when he had (8)       to do on the subway train. He was (9)       that others might need the seat. So he (10)       the idea of making a message on his phone screen.
　　Kindness needs to be passed on. Let's work together and make such positive energy (正能量) spread further.

17．Top Three movies in December

Notes: spoof 讽刺 foil 挫败
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18．　　All kinds of people come in to have their shoes shined. Most folks are friendly and pleasant. But this man in the black coat was different. The moment I laid my eyes on him. I felt I had seen him somewhere. Yet I was sure I had never met him.
　　"How much do you make a week, boy? "he asked me. I felt he was laughing at me.
　　Before I could answer, he began telling me how much money he made when he was my age. He kept giving a sharp look around every now and then. All the time I kept wondering where I'd seen his face. Suddenly I knew. I'd seen his picture in the post office many times. He was the big robber wanted by the police in three states!
　　"You know." he was saying, " it's imagination that people lack. You' ll never get anywhere as a shoeshine boy."
　　I kept brushing away on his shoes as fast as I could. The sooner I finished, the better. He said, "When I was sixteen, I had made ﹩2, 500 of my own."
　　That's when something shocked me. Was it ﹩2, 500 or ﹩5, 000 or ﹩25, 500?I wasn't sure. I knew a big reward was offered for him.
　　But what could I do about it?Hit him with a can of shoe polish? A man of his size could grind (碾碎) me into the floor. If only someone would come in!
　　He kept talking away. "Along with imagination, it takes courage. The courage to take a chance. Start something on a shoestring."
　　Suddenly I saw Officer Dailey coming across the street. Then, real fast, I began tightening the man's shoestrings.
　　The policeman was at the window when I cried out, "Officer Dailey, help!This man's a robber."
　　"Shut up," the man shouted angrily. He started to Jump off the stand. But he didn't go the way he planned. He fell flat on his face and knocked himself out cold.
　　"That was pretty clever of you," the officer said. "You'll get a reward of ﹩7, 500 for him."
　　"Well, it really wasn't my idea," I said. "It was his. He told me if you had courage and imagination you could start something big on a shoestring. I saw you coming, so I tied his shoelaces together."
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19．　　From the Forbidden City to the Great Wall, ancient Chinese people have always been praised for their building skills and wisdom. And their great skills have been passed down to modern Chinese people. We can see them in recent buildings, such as Bird's Nest, in Beijing, and the Shanghai Tower.
　　Recently, China has created even more proof (证据) of its great building skills. On Oct 23, 2018, President Xi Jinping announced the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge(HZMB)at an opening ceremony in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.
　　The HZMB, which is located at the waters of the Lingdingyang of Pearl River Estuary, is a huge sea crossing, linking (连接)the Hong Kong SAR, Zhuhai city and the Macao SAR.
　　As the world's longest sea-based project, the 55-kilometre bridge is the result of five years of research and another nine years of building. It has been named as one of the "seven wonders of the modern world" by the Guardian.
　　The project is made up of a 22. 9-kilometer-long main bridge, a 6. 7-kilometer-long tunnel and an artificial island off the bridge. It is designed with a service life of 120 years.
　　Meanwhile, the Y-shaped bridge could reduce travel time from Hong Kong to Zhuhai and Macao from four hours to about 45 minutes.
　　The bridge will not only be a transport link, It will be a social, economic, cultural, and tourism connection among the three areas.
　　It will bring people in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong within a "one-hour living circle", which is expected to attract more visitors to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
　　Indeed, "the HZMB is one of the most important elements of the development of the Bay Area," said Jason Ni Mengcheng, an assistant professor (教授) at City University of Hong Kong.
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20．　　"Don' t tell anyone". (1)      But it can be hard to keep a secret. We often can't help telling others, even if we regret it later.
　　According to Asim Shah, keeping a secret may well" become a burden". This is because people often want to share it with someone. (2)      People who secrets are told to can suffer from unhappiness, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.
　　But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all?Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. (3)      A sense of distrust (不信任) can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. " Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone", according to Shah.
　　He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out(4)      . A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress (压力), and make them talk about the secret.
　　Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you'd better put yourself in their position. (5)      Shah also recommended ( 推荐) that if you accidentally give up someone's secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn't so secret anymore.
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21．阅读短文, 从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空, 使短文通顺、意思完整. 每空限填一词, 每词限用一次. 方框中有两个词是多余的.

　　Recycling is now part of our life, and we learned to do it when we were just little kids. However, the practice of recycling has (1)       around for thousands of years. People at different (2)      did recycling for different reasons. For example, early Romans recycled bronze coins into statues to get good prices (3)      selling them.
　　During World War II, (4)       became popular and important because there were(5)      resources for people to use. And some people said that recycling might lead to a great chance of winning World War II. However, after Gary Dean Anderson(6)       the sign of recycling in the late 1960s, people started to recycle for being green. Now recycling is one of the(7)      ways to protect the earth. It is good for both nature and human beings.
　　For example, paper recycling can save trees, recycling bottles and(8)       can help to fix the problem of landfills(垃圾填埋地). Also, it even gives people(9)       chances to have a job because it takes a lot of work after people do the simple recycling. So, to love our nature and(10)      more, we should try our best to do recycling.

22．A: Hey, Emily, how's it going?
B: (1)      . You know what? I've made some progress in English, and I got an "A" in the last exam.
A: Wow, good for you! Your efforts finally paid off. (2)      ?
B: Well, I just listened to the teacher carefully in class. Besides, reading English newspapers and
novels helped me a lot.
A: No wonder grammar is just a piece of cake for you now.
B: Anyhow, I still have a long way to go. By the way. I called you at nine o'clock last night, but
you didn't answer. (3)      ?
A: Oh, terribly sorry. I was watching the movie Amazing China. (4)      ?
B: Yes, I have. Amazing China really shows us how amazing China is! All the Chinese people are proud of our country.
A: I can't agree more. I'd like to watch more movies like that after the big exam in June. But now
I have to go all out for the exam.
B: You are right. Study comes first. Good luck, my friend.
A: (5)      . The same to you!

23．" The harder you work, the luckier you get" 是一句英语名言. 请以此为题写一篇80词左右的短文.
要求如下:
1. 简述你对这句名言的理解.
2. 用一个具体事例加以说明.
3. 文章中不得出现真实姓名、校名等信息.
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