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1、英语试题（考试时间：120分钟试卷满分：150分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例：How much is the shirt? 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A
2、Bright Side did some research on many places throughout the world where you can buy a house for 1 dollar or for free!Roubaix, FranceIf you like France, Roubaix located in the north of France is just for you. The local authorities want it to be populated and attractive. You can buy a small house in t
3、he industrial district for just $1. The buyer is supposed to live in this house for 3 years.Buffalo. USABuffalo offers whoever qualifies to buy a house for $1. All you need is to be a lawful citizen of the city and invest amount of money into its decoration. Doing this, the authorities are hoping to
4、 make the city beautiful again without spending money.Liverpool, Great BritainIn Liverpool, most of houses were abandoned (遗弃）by the working class during the years of unemployment. The government is trying to sell the houses for just $1. If you want to buy such a house, it has to be your first deal
5、on buying property（房产）.Candela, ItalyIf you still have any doubts about spending $1 on a house, you should know: the government will pay you some money, if you move to Candela. In order to be paid, you need to become a permanent（永久的）citizen and have an income of $7500 per year. If moving alone, you
6、will get $800, and if you are going with your family, the pay can be four times as much as only one person.For more information of other cities, please Click Here.21. Why do the authorities of Buffalo provide a house for people with 1$?A. To improve the lives of poor people. B. To make the city attr
7、active at no cost.C. To solve the problems of employment. D. To attract people to the industrial areas.22. What is required to buy a house for 1 dollar in Liverpool?A. You need to be an unemployed citizen. B. You should live in the house for 3 years.C. It must be your first house purchase. D. You ha
8、ve to repair and decorate the house.23. How much money can you get if moving to Candela with a whole family?A. $3200B. $9600C. $800D. $7500 BA bicycle may be seen by most people as just another vehicle(交通工具), but for many Londoners, cycling is a way of life. According to an official UK government su
9、rvey in 2017, about 570,000 bike journeys are made every day in London. In fact, almost half of the vehicles that pass over London Bridge each day are bikes.London introduced a public bike-sharing system in 2010. “There can be no doubt that our trusty bicycles have changed the way people get around
10、our great city,” Johnson told The Guardian in 2015.In London, bikes are used for more than just taking short trips to and from the subway. No matter where you want to go in the city, taking a bike is usually the quickest and easiest choice.And its not just shared bikes that the government is encoura
11、ging people to ride. In many companies across the UK, the UK governments Cycle to Work scheme(骑行倡议) allows employees to buy a brand new bike without having to pay any tax(税). This means that its common to see many people cycling to and from work, and some employers even provide workplace showers and
12、 lockers(储物柜) for their workers. More importantly, a cycle-friendly boss may let you off for being late if you rode a bike to work.Not only is it great for the environment and our body, cycling is also good for the mind. According to National Geographic Magazine, “Bike riding can improve peoples hap
13、piness.”24. How does the author show the popularity of cycling in London?A. By making comparisons. B. By giving examples.C. By using numbers. D. By using famous sayings.25. Whats Johnsons attitude toward the bike-sharing system in London?A. Supportive. B. Doubtful. C. Disappointed. D. Uninterested.2
14、6. What can employees get from the government under the “Cycle to Work” scheme?A. Free bike-sharing services. B. A tax-free bike.C. Shorter working hours. D. Workplace showers and lockers.27. Whats the article mainly about?A. Cycling as a healthy way of life. B. Londons public bike-sharing system.C.
15、 Why Londoners are encouraged to ride bikes. D. How cycling has become popular in London.CThe Nobel Prize in Literature, which has been awarded annually almost every year since 1901, netted（净赚）the winning author 747,000 pounds ($915,000), a medal and certificate, and the legal duty to deliver a lecture in Sweden at some future date. The winner was selected, as usual, by the Swedish Academy, which also picked a second laureate（获奖者）this year to make up for the fact that no prize was presented in 2018 because of a scandal（丑闻）. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 was awarded to
