1、Mum, I was wondering if you could lend me a few dollars until I on Friday.
A．get paid
B．got paid
C．have paid
D．had been paid
2、There was a huge bang as if someone ________ a rocket outside.
A．exploded
B．have exploded
C．had exploded
D．did explode
3、— Can I pay the bill by check?
— Sorry, sir. According to the rules of our hotel, the payment ______ be made in cash.
A. shall B. need
C. will D. can
4、The government has taken some measures to solve the shortage of electricity, but it will be some time_________ the situation improves.
A. since B. when
C. unless D. before
5、These two kinds of cell phones differ ________ shape, but they are similar ________ each other in some functions.
A.from; with B.in; to C.in; with D.from; to
6、Tom was crazy about music, pop music________.
A．in the end
B．in particular
C．on end
D．on purpose
7、Even if there is no scientific proof secondhand smoke causes cancer, there is no reason why nonsmokers should be forced to take this risk.
A．which
B．that
C．when
D．where
8、I’m _________that many readers are impressed with your writings because they are wonderful.
A．confident
B．confused
C．terrified
D．eager
9、Not only ______ Europe, but they also share a great many manners and customs.
A．two visitors come from
B．had two visitors come from
C．two visitors have come from
D．do two visitors come from
10、Students should take an active part in ________ after-class activities.
A．various
B．variety
C．vary
D．varieties
11、When asked how to be a good manager in the interview, the ________ described good personal characteristics as the necessity to manage a group and get a job well done..
A. applicant B. clerk
C. employee D. bachelor
12、Not until ________, ________ the camp site.
A．the sun went down; they reached
B．did the sun go down; they reached
C．the sun went down; did they reach
D．did the sun go down; did they reach
13、One reason for her preference for this school is___________, as she put it, it can provide for her future development.
A.what B.which
C.that D.it
14、It’s the first time that the computer _______ since I bought it.
A．has been checked
B．will be checked
C．had been checked
D．is checking
15、The simple restaurant was________ he usually had the same meal of sausages, eggs and coffee.
A．that
B．which
C．where
D．what
16、Good parents turn every meal into a special occasion they can use to discipline their kids.
A．which
B．where
C．who
D．when
17、China is widely known for its ancient civilization ________ has continued all the way through into modern times.
A.why B.where C.when D.which
18、—Yesterday, I read White Night by Higashino Keigo. Such a good book!
—________. No one can match Higashino Keigo in artistic talent.
A. You said it B. You don’t say
C. You can’t be serious D. You set me up
19、You should explore your talents so as to find out ____ your real interests lie.
A. what B. which C. where D. that
20、E-mail, as well as telephones, an important part in daily communication.
A. is playing B. have played
C. was playing D. play
21、Scrolling through Instagram can quickly convince you that everyone’s life is more interesting than yours. During a particularly adventurous week on Instagram Stories recently, I saw water skiing in Maui, hiking in Yosemite and swimming with wild pigs in Bermuda. I started Googling flights to new places. Then I ordered pho, Vietnam’s national dish, from the same Vietnamese place I eat at every week and returned to the same old routine and…felt bad about not trying somewhere new.
Evolutionarily, human brains tend to find newfangled experiences more exciting and attention-grabbing than repeat experiences. They can’t process all the stimuli(刺激) around us, so we evolved to pay attention to new, flashy and potentially dangerous things more intently than familiar things, which we’ve seen enough to know they’re not dangerous. What’s more, words like ‘repetition’ and ‘repetitiveness’ tend to be associated with more negative emotions.
However, recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests we ought to reconsider how we digest those feelings of monotony(单调). Some previous research has painted a negative picture of repeat experiences, saying that doing the same thing twice can feel less valuable. But Ed O’Brien, a professor of behavioral science, wondered whether people actually underestimate how positively they react to repeat experiences.
To test this theory, Mr.O’Brien and his team exposed all participants to the same stimulus once in full(various stimuli were tested, including museum visits, movies and video games). Next, after dividing them into two groups, the first group of participants were asked to imagine repeating the experience, while the second actually did repeat the experience. Counter to previous research, Mr.O’Brien found that across the board, repeat experiences were far more enjoyable than participants predicted. In other words: You’re far more likely to enjoy something the second time around than you think.
“Brand-new experiences are definitely great for enjoyment,” said Mr.O’Brien. “And our studies don’t go against this idea. In many cases, the brand-new option is better. But, what our studies emphasize is that repeat options also might have high hedonic(快乐的) value and might also come with lower costs to acquire than a purely new option.”
【1】What did the author think of her own life?
A．It included many exciting things.
B．It depended heavily on social media.
C．It was highly adventurous.
D．It was boringly repetitive.
【2】How do our brains usually respond to stimuli from familiar things?
A．They may pay little attention to them.
B．They may process them first.
C．They may feel uncertain of them.
D．They may consider them as positive things.
【3】What is the meaning of the underlined word in paragraph 2?
A．fictional
B．fascinating.
C．novel.
D．significant.
【4】What did the second group of participants do during the experiment?
A．They experienced the same stimuli twice.
B．They imagined their old experiences twice.
C．They repeated similar activities many times.
D．They predicted the first group’s experiences.
22、 Zhang Yaping, a 32-year-old woman, was awarded a poverty-alleviation ( 扶贫) prize by the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development earlier this year. Despite difficulty walking, she overcame poverty through her own effort and helped many people around her.
Born in Gansu province, in 1988, Zhang contracted polio (小儿麻痹症) at a young age, which affected her ability to walk. When she was a junior high school student, a traffic accident caused permanent injury to her father's leg. Zhang had to drop out of school to take care of her father and for several years, continued learning by herself. She was admitted into a secondary technical school in 2009.
After graduation, she decided to work in her hometown. “My brother and sister were quite young, and my mother couldn't take care of both of them as well as my disabled father, so I could not go far,” says Zhang.
She tried her hand at various jobs, but found it difficult because of her leg ailment. She then decided to grow crops in a large scale, inspired by other villagers.
“At the beginning, I didn't have enough money or labor, so I went to villagers' homes every day trying to persuade them to join me, as well as exploring every means to collect money.” says Zhang.
Although she enjoyed a good start to her farming career, it wasn't long before a landslide caused by heavy rain and an earthquake in 2017 resulted in heavy damage to her cooperative. “The loss just robbed me of my confidence to continue. However, it occurred to me that it was I who encouraged other villagers to join the cooperative. If I gave up, I would be lacking in my responsibilities to them,” recalled Zhang. Finally, Zhang Yaping found her resolve and restarted her business with the help of local government. The cooperative gradually developed into a large-scale operation, which has benefited 206 households. They bid farewell to poverty and led a prosperous life.
“In the future, I want to expand the scale of the cooperative, form my own brand, promote deep processing of our products and apply more technology in raising our livestock. Although I walk slowly and take longer to get where I am going, I believe that someday I will overtake many others,” says Zhang.
【1】What did Zhang Yaping do after graduation?
A.She helped cure her father of the injuries. B.She shared responsibilities of her mother.
C.She lent a large amount of money to others. D.She found a good job in a large co-operation.
【2】What is the main factor that helped Zhang realize her dream?
A.Large-scale operation. B.Villagers' inspiration.
C.Government support. D.Parents' encouragement.
【3】Which of the following best describes Zhang Yaping?
A.Selfless and intelligent. B.Independent and practical.
C.Hard-working and purposeful. D.Responsible and cooperative.
【4】What is the purpose of the text?
A.To state an idea out of poverty. B.To recommend farming ways.
C.To introduce a successful woman. D.To assess the poverty-alleviation situation.
23、Want to add some hours to your day? Ok, you probably can't change the fabric of time. But a new study suggests that the way you feel about your goal can change your concept of time and that some simple strategies could make you feel less rushed.
In a series of experiments, Jordan Etkin, a professor of marketing at Duke, and her co-authors, Loannis Evangelidis and Jennifer Aaker, looked at what happens when people see their goals as conflicting with one another. In one, they asked some participants to list two of their goals that they felt were in conflict, and others simply to list two of their goals. Those who were forced to think about conflicting aims felt more time pressure than those who weren't. In another experiment, the researchers gave participants a similar prompt regarding goal conflict, but this time measured their anxiety levels as well as their attitudes toward time. They found that participants who thought about conflicting goals had more anxiety than those who didn't, and that this, in turn, led to feelings of being short on time.
"Stress and anxiety and time pressure are closely linked concepts," D. Etkin explained. "When we feel more stress and anxiety in relation to our personal goals, that manifests as a sense of having less time."
Technological advances that allow people to do lots of things at once may increase the fe'eling of goal conflict, she said."I think the easier it is for us to try to deal with a lot of these things at the same time," She said"the more opportunity there is for us to feel this conflict between our goals."She isn't the first to suggest that actual busyness isn't the only thing that can make us feel busy At the Atlantic, Derek Thompson wrote that "as a country, we're working less than we did in the 1960s and 1980s." He offered a number of possible reasons some Americans still feel so overworked, including "the fluidness ffl±) of work and leisure." As he put it:"The idea that work begins and ends at the office is wrong. On the one hand, flexibility is nice, On the other, mixing work and leisure together creates an always-on expectation that makes it hard for white-collar workers to escape the shadow of work responsibilities."
And Brigid Schulte writes in her 2014 book Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time that some researchers believe "time has no sharp edges. What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time, they have found, is how we feel about it.Our concept of time is indeed,our reality.”
Fortunately, Dr. Etkin and her team did find ways of making us feel better about time—or, at least, of reducing the negative influence of goal conflict. When participants performed a breathing exercise that reduced their anxiety, the impact of such conflict on their perception of time was less pronounced. Reframing anxiety as excitement (by reading the phrase "I am excited!" aloud several times) had a similar effect.
Breathing and reframing may not solve everyone's time problems—Ms. Schulte writes that some Americans are indeed working more than they used to. She cites the work of the sociologists Michael Hout and Caroline Hanley, who have "found that working parents combined put in 13 more hours a week on the job in 2000 than they did in 1970. That's 676 hours of additionally paid work a year for a family. And that's on top of all the unpaid hours spent caring for children and keeping the house together." Sometimes, we may feel short on time because we actually are. However, Dr. Etkin believes her findings suggest we may "have the ability to influence our experience of time more than we think we do."
"We're all going to have times in our lives when our goals seem to be in more conflict than others," she said. But with techniques like the ones her team tested, "we really can help ourselves feel like we have more time."
【1】What makes people feel rushed today?
A.Goal conflict. B. High pressure.
C.Too much expectation. D. Lack of exercise.
【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Most people are having less work to do nowadays.
B. People under a lot of stress have a better sense of time.
C. Technological advances allow people to feel less stressed.
D. The flexibility of work increases white-collar workers' pressure.
【3】The underlined sentence "Our concept of time is, indeed, our reality." means_______
A.we should make full use of time
B.we value time more than the way we live
C.we can feel better about time if we want to
D.we don't have the time to enjoy life in reality
24、April 2018, Manchester
My dearest daughter,
As I looked across at you sitting on the sofa watching The X Factor, I noticed that you are no longer a child, and that having just celebrated your 14th birthday, you are now a young woman starting a journey into becoming an adult woman. As I looked at you, I remembered myself at 14, and the vastly different places we are beginning this journey from.
Your identity as a mixed-race young woman, with an English father and a Pakistani mother, has already influenced how you place yourself in this world. Until now, you are unaware of the personal struggles that I took at the age of 25 to marry. How it felt when my mother refused to come to my wedding. The sharp criticisms of the Asian community that such marriages do not work out and always end in divorce. The confidence I had to grow, as we chose to live in a multicultural community, as I refused to be shamed into living in the leafier white suburbs.
Then, at the age of 30, I became your mum with all the joys and struggles this brought, as I refused the Asian traditions for a new baby's arrival. From your birth, your life could not have been more different from mine. I was brought up on a council estate, within a tight-knit extended Muslim family, through which poverty, racism and neglect were woven. I was never given the freedoms or the opportunity to experience new things. Now, as I hear you play your piano, I am grateful that you have these opportunities.
So many doors were closed to me as a young person, and as I fought for small steps of freedom, I soon learned that it was better to do what I wanted without the knowledge of my parents, and so deceit and deception(欺骗) became woven into my life too. The pressures to obey, to be a "good Muslim" girl and to keep the family honour were choking. Behind closed doors at home, the neglect and abuse took place. It was hidden; I felt the shame, lived with the fear and suffered alongside my sister and two younger brothers. Oh, the power we thought our parents had over us! I was convinced that one day my father would indeed beat us so hard that leaving us for dead, he would, as his threats said, bury us in the large back garden and tell the school he had taken us back to Pakistan for good. My sister and I longed for a different blue sky to live under.
As a daughter of immigrant parents, I carried their hopes of a better education for their children my own veins(血管) pulsing with the hard-work ethic(道德) and need to be grateful for the opportunity of a free education. And it was education that provided me with the strength to find my own blue sky. I fought to leave home to go to university at the age of 18, and never returned to live with my parents again.
Now as you explore your mixed-race heritage, which I hope we have supported you to do with visits to Pakistan and ensuring you go to multi-cultural schools, I want you to take the very best of all that is Asian with you as you become a woman.
The struggles of identity and belonging will come but I hope that we have given you a strong foundation from which to explore these struggles. All the opportunities and freedoms that I only dreamed of as a young woman, I have offered you. I have chosen a different path of loving you as my daughter, with an unconditional love that many consider "western".
I want you to know that although your journey has been vastly different. I am excited as I watch you standing on the threshold of becoming a woman for all the adventures and possibilities the future holds for you.
May you fly your blue sky with grace, confidence and hope as you find your place in this beautiful and crazy world.
Loving you now and always.
Mommy
【1】Mommy's mother refused to attend her wedding probably because _____.
A. she married against the wishes of her family
B. she refused traditional Asian wedding ceremony
C. she would leave the family to settle in the white suburbs
D. she would bring shame to the multicultural community
【2】By "your life could not have been more different from mine." Mommy means ______.
A. her childhood was no different from her daughter's
B. her parents treated her the way she does her daughter
C. her daughter experienced the same traditions at birth with her
D. her daughter can enjoy the opportunities which she didn’t
【3】What can be inferred from Mommy's Muslim family life?
A. She behaved like a good Muslim girl. B. She fought against her Muslim identity.
C. She suffered much abuse in the family. D. She was forced to drop out of school.
【4】Mommy sends her daughter to multi-cultural schools to _____.
A. provide her daughter with more opportunities and freedoms
B. increase her daughter's exposure to different cultures
C. encourage her daughter to grow up to be a better woman
D. ensure her daughter more opportunities to visit Pakistan
【5】Mommy writes the letter mainly to _____.
A. uncover the sufferings she had as a teenage girl
B. criticize the social prejudice in her community
C. emphasize the importance of family support
D. encourage her daughter to try to achieve her dream
25、I used to live selfishly, I should admit. But one moment changed me.
I was on my lunch break and had _________the office to get something to eat . On the way, I _________a busker(街头艺人)，with a hat in front of him. I had some _________ in my pocket, but I would not give them to him, thinking to myself he would _________ use the money to feed his addiction(上瘾) to drugs or alcohol. He _________ like that type-young and foolish. _________ what was I going to spend the money on? Only to feed my addiction to Coca-Cola or chocolate! I then _________ I had no right to place myself above _________ just because he was busking.
I _________ and dropped all the coins into his __________, and he smiled at me, I watched for a while. As __________ as it sounds, I expected something more to come from that moment—a feeling of __________ or satisfaction, for example. But nothing happened. __________ , I walked off. “It proved to be a waste of __________ ,”I thought.
On my way home at the end of the __________, I saw the busker again and he was __________ . I watched him pick up the hat and walk __________ a cafe counter. There he poured the __________ contents into a tin collecting __________ an earthquake fund-raising(募捐) event. He was busking for charity(慈善)！
Now I donate any __________ I have to charity tins and enjoy the feeling of giving.
【1】
A．prepared
B．searched
C．left
D．cleaned
【2】
A．saw
B．fooled
C．led
D．chose
【3】
A．tin
B．drugs
C．chocolates
D．coins
【4】
A．rather
B．still
C．almost
D．only
【5】
A．sounded
B．smelt
C．acted
D．looked
【6】
A．Therefor
B．But
C．Though
D．For
【7】
A．expected
B．guessed
C．made
D．realized
【8】
A．him
B．them
C．it
D．all
【9】
A．stopped
B．arrived
C．waited
D．followed
【10】
A．pocket
B．place
C．hands
D．hat
【11】
A．stupid
B．special
C．selfish
D．unbelievable
【12】
A．love
B．hate
C．happiness
D．sadness
【13】
A．Disappointedly
B．Unfortunately
C．Accidentally
D．Comfortably
【14】
A．space
B．money
C．words
D．effort
【15】
A．break
B．event
C．moment
D．day
【16】
A．walking around
B．passing by
C．packing up
D．running off
【17】
A．behind
B．to
C．around
D．in
【18】
A．actual
B．entire
C．real
D．basic
【19】
A．on
B．with
C．by
D．for
【20】
A．energy
B．change
C．work
D．time
26、假设你是李津，与你以前的外籍教师 Mrs. Green 一直保持联系。近日来，Mrs. Green 得知你校将在下周举办文化节和科技节，她来信询问你校该活动安排，请根据以下提示给 她回复一封邮件。
（1） 介绍你校文化节（如中国传统文化活动及文化展示，如春节等 ）；
（2） 介绍你校科技节（如科技活动及其成果展示，如智能机器人竞赛等 ）；
（3） 活动的意义并希望她有机会来你校参加活动。
注意：
（1） 词数不少于 100；
（2） 可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；
（3） 开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：Culture Festival 文化节 Science and Technology Festival 科技节
Dear Mrs. Green,
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Yours,
Li Jin