1、________ from space, the earth, with water________ 70% of its surface, looks like a blue ball.
A．Seen; covered
B．Seen; covering
C．Seeing; covering
D．Seeing; covered
2、Decorating the Christmas tree took us more than an hour just because the decorations were not exactly _________we remembered putting them.
A．where
B．what
C．that
D．whether
3、It’s the first time that a Nobel Prize in chemistry 2020 ______ to a female group-Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna.
A.was awarded B.has been awarded C.is awarded D.had awarded
4、Americans eat ________ vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.
A. more than twice B. as twice as many
C. twice as many as D. more than twice as many
5、Having battled with their _______ over whether to offer help to an aged man or woman who has fallen over, most people choose to help.
A. compromise B. contradiction
C. conscience D. competence
6、Listening to loud music at rock concerts _________ caused hearing loss in some teenagers.
A. is B. are C. has D. Was
7、The growing speed of a plant is influenced by a number of factors, _____ are beyond our control.
A．most of them
B．most of which
C．most of what
D．most of that
8、After goats in particular had been brought to the island, the Pinta Island tortoise population _______. Eventually, only one remained.
A．declined
B．competed
C．introduced
D．indicated
9、— Fancy meeting you here! Are you a librarian?
— Not really. I________my volunteer effort until the new term begins.
A.will just contribute B.have just contributed C.just contribute D.am just contributing
10、Marathon is intended to put the athletes to a challenging test of and willpower.
A.insistence B.endurance C.preservation D.bravery
11、Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to ________ anything of average quality.
A．figure out
B．turn down
C．settle for
D．leave behind
12、In order to enhance market competitiveness, we welcome any comments from consumers, favourable or _______.
A. rather B. regardless
C. otherwise D. though
13、The girl is very particular ________ her clothes.
A．about
B．for
C．on
D．at
14、He could hardly walk without a stick,______?
A．could he
B．couldn't he
C．can't he
D．can he
15、—Look! Who's ________________ boy under the tree?
—Oh, He is my brother, Jim. He is ________________ honest boy.
A.that, a B.the, the C.the, a D.the, an
16、It’s ________ fun to walk________ dog after a whole day’s work.
A．a; a
B．a; the
C．the; the
D．/; the
17、Whenever we had troubles, the teacher ________ to help us without hesitation.
A．comes
B．would come
C．had come
D．is coming
18、As you go through this book, you _______ that each of the millions of people who lived through World War II had a different experience.
A．will find
B．found
C．have found
D．would find
19、If you live in the country or have ever visited there, ____ are that you have heard birds singing to welcome the new day.
A.thinks B.facts C.chances D.possibilities
20、The thief ________by the police a moment ago still couldn’t tell the truth.
A．is questioned
B．questioned
C．questioning
D．questions
21、Each year more than 6 million dogs and cats end up in animal shelters, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day was designed to raise awareness about organizations’ work with homeless animals. Their main mission is to find homes for pets and reunite lost ones with their human families, but they need a lot of volunteer help.
“Not everyone has to have an animal in order to care about animals,” said Debra Duel of the Humane Rescue Alliance in Washington. One way to help is to become a short-term foster (收养) family. Fostering frees up space in busy shelters. Adoptable pets get more personal attention once fostered in a loving home than in crowded shelter environments. “Fostering is great for people who can’t have a permanent pet,” Duel said. Fostering also helps people learn more about pet care before offering a forever home.
Victoria, now 12, has taken care of 49 animals since 2018. “Every animal is an individual,” Victoria said. “Each requires different work. Puppies or kittens require more time and training than older dogs and cats,” she said. “Even small animals like guinea pigs are more work than people think.”
If you really can’t foster, consider donating time, money and supplies to a shelter. Kindergartners at Browne Academy in Fairfax County did just that. They, in a partnership with the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, raised several hundred dollars by drawing pictures of family pets that sold for S1 each. They also made cat toys and pillows. Their efforts helped improve the animals’ stay at the shelter, and they helped reduce adoption fees for people who can’t afford them.
Hopefully all those efforts will lead to fewer animals waiting for their forever homes.
【1】A short-term foster family can help to _________.
A．encourage more people to love pets
B．bring benefits to people without a pet
C．reduce overcrowding in animal shelters
D．advocate sheltering and caring for animals
【2】What do Victoria’s words imply?
A．Older pets are more suitable for adoption.
B．Animals should have been equally trained.
C．Small animals need less care and attention.
D．People should think twice before fostering pets.
【3】What is paragraph 4 mainly about?
A．Children’s role in charity events.
B．A great need for animal adoption.
C．Problems animal shelters are faced with.
D．Another way to help animals in shelters.
22、 In 2010, a terrible earthquake occurred in China’s Qinghai province, causing tremendous damages. With the aid of the central government and people throughout the nation, the rescue and recovery lifted the survivors further and further from hell.
But there was still much room for improvement. Qinghai taught me to create light when there seems to be none to be found—literally.
I started working on the highland region by installing solar panels in an isolated school without electricity. We also provided metric tons of clothes, computer labs, libraries food, medicine, coal and even yaks. Indeed, when first arrived in China, never imagined I’d’ end up buying, riding, milking and getting kicked by yaks-let alone harvesting their waste for fuel. Even there, on the “planet’s third pole”, Chinas’ poverty alleviation miracle means that the Qinghai I’ve returned to recently is different place than I first saw in 2011. Since the government has brought unthinkably rapid development, we’ve shifted toward providing surgeries for nomadic children and university scholarships for nomads.
One surgery was for girl with a severe cleft palate. She’d lived in such a remote area that she was amazed when she first rode an escalator in Beijing. She was shocked by the “stairs that move themselves”. A friend paid to fly her home after the surgery. She was amazed because she didn’t know that planes flew above the clouds. She felt like an angel. And I, too, felt closer to heaven.
My book, Closer to Heaven, published in English and Chinese by China Intercontinental Press, is the highlight of my life’s mission to contribute to and tell the story of China’s poverty alleviation miracle from the front lines.
These journeys have been adventures. They’ve brought me from the darkness of the quake zone toward the light, from the United States to the “roof of the world” and closer to heaven. And they’ve been firsthand exploration of how China, in turn, has lifted so many people from the hell that is poverty and closer to heaven, as it exists on this Earth.
【1】What does Paragraph 2 tell us?
A．Electric breakdowns happened all the time.
B．In some remote areas, the sun actually never rises.
C．In some places, people had no access to electricity.
D．People suffered from power failure from time to time.
【2】Why did the author feel closer to heaven?
A．He flew above the clouds.
B．He wrote Closer to Heaven.
C．He lived on the planet’s third pole.
D．He was happy to bring happiness to others.
【3】What is the book Closer to Heaven like?
A．A science fiction, picturing China’s future high-tech development.
B．An adventure book, recording China’s tough battle against poverty.
C．A travel brochure, describing China’s breathtaking tourist attractions.
D．A personal diary, telling about the author’s lifelong experiences in the USA.
【4】What can be learned from the text?
A．The author has never been to western China before.
B．Little has been done to improve people’s well-being.
C．The girl had an unforgettable experience during the Beijing trip.
D．The author has done little voluntary work while staying in China.
23、Left-handed people make up around 12% of the global population. One really interesting fact that I picked up was from a scientist who believed that left-handed people tended to be more independent as a result of having to adapt to a world that is largely built for right-handed individuals.【1】!
More likely to have allergies and sleep disorders
A study found that left-handed people were 11 times more likely to suffer from allergies than right-handed folk.【2】.
Left-handed people use the right side of the brain the most
【3】, meaning that the right side controls the left side of the body and the other way around. Hence there is a well-known saying “only left-handed people are in their right minds”. The right-hand side of the brain is thought to control the left side of the body and tasks to do with the arts and creativity.
Are left-handed people smarter?
【4】! One 2007 study “Effect of handedness on intelligence level of students”shows that lefties are more likely to have higher IQ. However,another 2010 study “The relationship between hand preference, hand performance, and general cognitive ability” suggests the exact opposite!
【5】
Experiments showed that when given two tasks to complete simultaneously (同时), lefties performed best. This is because right-handed people tend to solve problems by breaking them down into parts and analyzing each piece one at a time. While left-handed people tend to look at the problem as a whole and use pattern-matching to try and solve it.
A．Better at multi-tasking
B．Smarter than the right-handed
C．As we know, the brain is cross-wired
D．This one varies depending on how dated your source is
E．Here are a few more fascinating left-handed people facts
F．Mixed-handed children are more likely to experience language issues
G．And lefties were two and a half times more likely to suffer from sleep disorders
24、Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders
Intelligence makes for better leaders—from undergraduates to managers to presidents—according to multiple studies. It certainly makes sense that handling a market shift or anything alike require intelligence. But new research on leadership suggests that, at a certain point, having a higher IQ stops helping and starts hurting.
Although previous research has shown that groups with smarter leaders perform better by objective measures, some studies have suggested that followers might subjectively view leaders with extremely high intellect as less effective. Decades ago, Dean Simonton, a psychologist from the University of California, Davis, proposed that brilliant leaders' words may simply go over people's heads, their solutions could be more complicated to carry out and followers might find it harder to relate to them. Now Simonton and two colleagues have finally tested that idea, publishing their results in the July 2017 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
The researchers looked at 379 male and female business leaders in 30 countries across fields including banking, retail and technology. The managers took IQ tests and each was rated (定级) on leadership style and effectiveness by an average of eight co-workers. IQ positively correlated(和…正相关) with ratings of leader effectiveness, strategy formation, vision and several other characteristics—up to a point. The ratings peaked at an IQ of around 120, which is higher than roughly 80 percent of office workers. Beyond that, the ratings declined. The researchers suggest the "ideal" IQ could be higher or lower in various fields, to 140 or 100, depending on whether technical or social skills are more valued in a given work culture.
"It's an interesting and thoughtful paper," says Paul Sackett, a management professor at University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the research."To me, the right interpretation of the work would be that it highlights a need to understand what high-IQ leaders do that leads to lower understanding by followers," he says. "The wrong interpretation would be, ‘Don't hire high-IQ leaders."
The study's lead author, John Antonakis, a psychologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, suggests leaders should use their intelligence to use creative language that will persuade and inspire others—the way former U.S. President Barack Obama did. "I think the only way a smart person can signal their intelligence properly and still connect with the people," Antonakis says, "is to speak in charming ways."
【1】According to the first paragraph, we know that _______.
A. leaders with high IQ do not have effective leadership
B. effective business depends on the intelligence of leaders
C. leaders with higher IQ may do harm to group effectiveness
D. the higher IQ leaders have, the stronger leadership they possess
【2】According to Simonton, managers with an IQ of about ________ are probably the most effective.
A. 80
B. 100
C. 120
D. 140
【3】What is Paul Sackett's attitude towards hiring high-IQ leaders?
A. Unconcerned.
B. Positive.
C. Doubtful.
D. Unclear.
【4】Barack Obama is mentioned in the last paragraph to ________.
A. encourage us to learn more about leadership
B. explain how intelligent people achieve success
C. show creativity is more important than intelligence
D. emphasize the importance of using intelligence properly
25、It was raining hard. The bus I took finally reached the bus stop near my school. I got off the bus hurriedly but to find that I couldn't ______ from the rain because I left my umbrella behind at home.
Though my school was just on the opposite side of the road, I would ______ get all wet. There was no ______ that the rain would stop and I couldn't wait. I was about to run across the road when an old woman appeared and asked me to ______ an umbrella with her. I gladly accepted the ______ .
We walked side by side ______ because she walked with a small limp. I soon found that she started to get wet because she tried to protect my schoolbag from being wet. I politely asked her to ______ herself more. "If it hadn't been for the schoolbag, I would have run without a(n) ______ ." said I. She laughed and said, "You will be ______ in such a heavy rain. No need to worry! I'm glad to help." I thanked her when we finally came to our ______ .
As I walked into school, I ______ and saw her ______ in the heavy rain with great difficulty. Just at that moment, I thought of my grandmother in heaven, who used to walk me to school in such ______ weather was deeply ______ by what the old woman did. She could devote her time and care to a complete stranger! It was just because of these kind people that our world was becoming more and more beautiful! I ______ that I would do whatever I can to help those in need in future!
【1】
A．avoid
B．escape
C．shelter
D．separate
【2】
A．yet
B．still
C．though
D．too
【3】
A．sign
B．meaning
C．plan
D．reason
【4】
A．rent
B．exchange
C．hold
D．share
【5】
A．application
B．invitation
C．offer
D．contribution
【6】
A．quickly
B．slowly
C．quietly
D．finally
【7】
A．arrange
B．conduct
C．accept
D．cover
【8】
A．umbrella
B．partner
C．solution
D．threat
【9】
A．bored
B．injured
C．anxious
D．sick
【10】
A．home
B．company
C．shop
D．destination
【11】
A．turned up
B．turned down
C．turned around
D．turned over
【12】
A．walking
B．running
C．jogging
D．jumping
【13】
A．terrible
B．strange
C．difficult
D．unique
【14】
A．excited
B．shocked
C．affected
D．honored
【15】
A．demanded
B．promised
C．scheduled
D．preferred
26、请阅读下面文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章
On March 30, 2020, the Ministry of Education announced that the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, would be held on July 7 and 8, which is usually held on June 7 and 8.
WangHui, director of the ministry’s Department of College Students Affairs, said the postponement is mainly to ensure the fairness of the exam. As senior high school students have been taking online courses during the epidemic(流行病), many rural students who lack internet access might feel disadvantaged, so the delay is to ensure they will have more time to prepare for the exam at school, he said.
This is the first time in 17 years that China has adjusted the date of the college entrance examination.
According to the announcement, standard Chinese language and mathematics tests will be on July 7, which are mandatory exams for all students.
On the morning of July 8, students would either take the test for social sciences (history, political science and geography) or natural sciences (physics, chemistry and biology), depending on their high-school subjects. Foreign language shall be the final subject .
Further arrangements will be announced to the public later.
The examination postponement could be regarded as an adjustment due to the coronavirus oufbreak, said Li Jiasheng, a senior high school teacher at Beijing No.4 High School, the Paper reported.
“It gives us more time to make up for the suspension of class due to the outbreak.”he added.
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