Last month, we explored some wonderful places in two cities in Poland: the capital and largest city of Warsaw and the historic city of Krakow. Since Poland has more 【1】 (offer), we will take a closer look at one of the country’s most interesting cities and give an 【2】 (introduce) to it.

Located on the Baltic Sea coast and the mouth of the Vistula River, Gdansk functions 【3】 a major port city. It is known to many as the amber capital of the world. Amber, a kind of fossilized tree sap(汁液), 【4】 (preserve) in the extremely cold waters of the Baltic Sea, with pieces 【5】 (frequent) washed up along its shores. Along with the city’s natural resources, the architecture in Gdansk exposes its diverse history of being ruled by a few foreign 【6】 (country). Gdansk is also famous for one of the largest trade shows and fairs in the world. 【7】 (last) three weeks in August, this event attracts millions of visitors every year and offers the Polish national dishes made with 【8】 (vary) meats and vegetables.

The best time to visit Poland is during the summer months, 【9】 last from June through August. Winters are quite cold, but that is 【10】 benefit if skiing, ice skating, sledding or other winter sports are your passion(酷愛(ài)的事物).

Mercury was created billions of years ago, when big rocks ran into each other. After these accidents, the planet was frequently visited by meteorites (流星) for several hundred million years. There were also many volcanic eruptions. As the planet cooled, the thin, rocky outside shell reduced in diameter(直徑) by about 3 kilometers.

The Caloris Basin is one of the largest craters on Mercury. This big crater is 1, 300 kilometers wide and was formed when a large rock, about 100 kilometers across, knocked into the surface. Beethoven, another large crater, is 643 kilometers across.

The cliffs on Mercury are up to 2 kilometers high and hundreds of kilometers long. The cliffs were formed when the thin surface fell apart, as volcanic activity slowed down and Mercury became cooler.

One Mercury day lasts about 59 Earth days. Mercury takes about 88 Earth days to have a complete year, instead of the 365 days that we have on the Earth. Mercury speeds around the sun so that there are three Mercury days every two Mercury years! Mercury has a strange relationship with the Earth. Every 117 days, when Mercury is closest to the Earth, it always has the same side facing us.

Mariner 10 is the only spacecraft to visit Mercury. It made three visits to Mercury in, the 1970s, taking photos of many cliffs and craters. Although the first three visits answered many questions, they have raised others.

【1】What is the surface of Mercury like?

A.It’s generally flat.B.It’s hot everywhere.

C.It’s bright everywhere.D.It’s cold in some parts.

【2】Why did Mercury’s diameter get smaller?

A.A drop in temperature changed its size.

B.A great many meteorites ran into it.

C.It got out of shape as time passed.

D.Lots of surface rocks fell off.

【3】What do we know about Mercury?

A.One Mercury day lasts about 88 Earth days.

B.It turns around the sun faster than the Earth.

C.Six Mercury days are two Mercury years.

D.It has more cliffs than large craters.

【4】What happened after Mariner 10’s three visits to Mercury?

A.Another spacecraft visited Mercury.

B.New cliffs and craters were formed.

C.New signs of volcanic activity appeared.

D.Lots of new puzzles needed to be solved.

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刪除：把多余的詞用斜線(＼)劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下畫(huà)一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2. 只允許修改 10 處，多者(從第 11 處起)不計(jì)分。

The other day, I was as usually walking Toby when suddenly the dog ran up to the little boy. It kept jump up, trying to get a bite of the hamburger the boy holding. It happens so fast that all I could do was shout, “Stop, Toby!” But it was too later, Toby had taken a bite from the boy’s hamburger. I felt very guilty. It was my fault which Toby wasn’t under control. So I apologized sincerely to the frightening boy and his angry mother. Through this incident I realized that I had to train his dog to behave in itself.

A New Model

In one New York school district, there is no “gym” class. 【2】They include dance, self- defense and rock climbing. They include mountain biking, in-line skating, and boating.

“We want our kids…, to be active for life,” said Ron Whitcomb. He manages the physical education, or PE, program for the Victor, New York, school district.

A US law passed in 2015 increased the importance of health and fitness in education. It also gave more funding(資金) to PE programs.

Whitcomb’s program started before that law passed. 【3】Connecticut, Vermont and Michigan are all planning to improve PE’s place in their schools.

Outside the Gym

Tracy Krause teaches PE in Washington State. For a few years, she has taken students fly-fishing and rock climbing. 【4】It combines PE, English, and science into one program. “We want kids to leave with a plan for the future,” Krause said. “I think the same needs to be true about their health.”

Lifelong Skills

In Washington, D. C, all second-graders learn to ride bikes. Fourth- and seventh-graders learn parkour(跑酷). Parkour teaches students to jump, climb and roll in the fastest way they can. Sixth- graders learn how to read a compass. High schoolers swim. 【5】

Teachers hope to keep students liking, not hating, PE. That means finding sports or activities they enjoy.

A.They are also cutting back on team sports.

B.It means more bike riding and outdoor hikes.

C.Other schools are now following his program.

D.Instead there is a list of different fitness classes.

E.The school district’s goal is to teach lifelong skills.

F.She is part of her school’s “Outdoor Academy” program.

G.Kids who are not as athletic sometimes hate playing team sports.

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2. 展覽內(nèi)容；

3. 參觀時(shí)的注意事項(xiàng)。

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

2.可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

參考詞匯：藝術(shù)作品展覽會(huì) art exhibition

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The fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral de Paris has raised questions about the condition of thousands of other cathedrals and historic 【1】 (structure) across Europe. It also raises questions about whether European government are doing enough 【2】 (keep) up and care for such buildings.

Tibor Navracsics, the European Union’s top cultural official, told The Associated Press that “we are so used to our outstanding cultural heritage in Europe that we tend to forget that it 【3】 (need) constant care and attention.” Some people say the fire was a wake-up call, not just for Europe,【4】 for the whole world.

Large fires have long robbed humanity 【5】 knowledge, art and treasures. In 2015, the German engineering company Siemens 【6】 (find) that Scotland had about ten damaging fires a year, while England lost at least a dozen listed buildings a year. In Germany, seventy historic buildings have been 【7】 (heavy) damaged since 2000.

Experts say that 【8】 is needed is continuous attention and maintenance. Some say world-famous monuments like Notre-Dame are the 【9】 (drive) force behind tourism and should get more respect. Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, who heads the heritage group Europa Nostra, noted the 【10】 (important) of such respect. “Cultural heritage is a gold mine. You cannot exploit it and then just leave the mine and go to another one.” She said.

Dr. Gidi Stein heard the story and felt forced to do something. “It was like killing someone with a spelling error. He just clicked on the wrong button,” Stein said. “One would have thought there’d be some kind of spell-checker to prevent these terrible things from happening. But apparently this is not the case.”

Several things were immediately obvious to the 54-year-old Stein, who had previously studied computer science. “If you look at this problem from a bird’s eye view, there were so many places down the line where this decision could have been stopped — from the physician to the pharmacy (藥房) even to the mother. All of them had all the relevant information to have a judgment call that this was just the wrong drug for the wrong patient.” For Stein, it represented a systemic failure.

Stein compared this with credit cards. “If you use your credit card in the daily routine over time, a pattern of how we use our cards comes out: the grocery store, the gas station in our local town. If your credit card would appear tomorrow in Zimbabwe, it would be unusual. The credit card company would call you and say, ‘Hey, was that you?’”

But nothing like that existed in the field of prescription drugs. So Stein set up a company called MedAware. He came up with a machine learning outlier detection (異常檢測(cè)值) system. In other words, he trained the computers to realize if a doctor accidentally prescribed the wrong medicine.

The system is already used in hospitals and doctor’s offices. To date, MedAware has used their technology to help nearly six million patients in the United States and Israel.

【1】What led to the boy’s death?

A.The doctor’s carelessness.B.The drawback of the computer.

C.The doctor’s poor medical skill.D.The incomplete health care system.

【2】What does Stein feel about this medical accident?

A.Angry.B.Frightened.

C.Embarrassed.D.Regretful.

【3】What can MedAware’s technology do?

A.Help doctor choose right medicine.B.Reminds patients to take medicine.

C.Introduce new drugs to doctors.D.Check the prescription.

【4】Where is this text most likely from?

A.A diary.B.A guidebook.

C.A magazine.D.A science fiction.

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刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下面劃一橫線，并在橫線下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改僅限一詞。

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Last month, I took part in a volunteer activity in a village. We start off by bus at 9 o’clock. After three-hour bus ride, we saw the village surrounded by hills. It was very difficult to drive on the rocky road, but we got off the bus and walked there. The villagers standing by the road welcomed us warm. Cooked with those vegetables grow by the villagers, the lunch was tasted delicious. After lunch, we played game with the village children. Then they visited an old man living alone on the hillside. We sang a few songs, what made him really happy. I think when doing volunteer work, you help others and you gain happiness for return.

Last year, the most common New Year’s resolution was fitness-related. A study showed that approximately 50 million Americans swore to increase activities and lose weight. 【1】, success was hard to achieve. Two months later, only 37 percent of people in their 20s and 16 percent over age 50 had kept to their new fitness habit.

【2】, the benefits of such a change are clear. There is no question that exercise plays a role in the prevention and treatment of many diseases. Weekly exercise routines have been shown to reduce rates of depression and anxiety, lessen risk of heart attacks and strokes, and reduce the high rates of diabetes.

【3】. It’s suggested that 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity exercise like swimming, or 75 minutes per week of intense exercise, like jogging, should be the minimum amount exercise needed to achieve maximum medical benefit if you stick to it.

Often, the best way to increase your exercise is to involve movement in your everyday life. On average, urban citizen who go to work by bike or public transportation are fitter than suburban citizens who drive to work. 【4】. They are good ways to increase the amount of your movement every day.

Whether you determine to work out at your local gym three times a week, take 10,000 steps a day or give your dog an extra walk every day, what matters most is not your commitment to exercise but your sticking to it. 【5】.

A.While behavior change is tough

B.Although they had good intentions

C.However hard they try to make up their mind

D.There is always one type of exercise that you are fond of

E.Besides, taking the stairs instead of the elevator also helps

F.So commit to something you love and keep to your fitness habit

G.The best form of exercise is the type that someone will consistently perform