1、________, I managed to get through the game and the pain was worth it in the end.
A．Hopefully
B．Normally
C．Thankfully
D．Conveniently
2、— How come she fell over?
— I didn’t push her________, it was an accident.
A．deliberately
B．desperately
C．deadly
D．deeply
3、_________ she can be annoying at times, I like her.
A. In case B. As if
C. In spite of D. Even though
4、The managing director took the _________ for the accident, although it was not really his fault.
A.guilt B.blame C.charge D.account
5、________ the heavy rain, the sports meeting will be put off till next Wednesday.
A．As to
B．Regardless of
C．Instead of
D．Due to
6、__________ the housing price, several measures have been adopted in the last two years.
A．Lowering
B．Having lowered
C．To lower
D．To have lowered
7、You can’t imagine such a well-behaved gentleman _______be so rude to a lady.
A. might B. need C. should D. would
8、Joe is a good basketball player ______ being short and stout.
A. due to B. despite
C. considering D. concerning
9、By nine o’clock, all the Olympic torch bearers _________ the top of Mount Qomolangma, _______appeared a rare rainbow soon.
A. reached; which B. reached; on which
C. had reached; which D. had reached; above which
10、She lived in two rooms over a teashop, ________ was convenient, since she could send for cakes if she had visitors.
A．where
B．in which
C．which
D．that
11、Su Song was an eleventh century monk ________ very little is known.
A.which B.whom C.about whom D.for which
12、He will get a job more easily ________ he makes his computer skills better.
A.if B.before C.while D.though
13、The birds that will spend the whole winter here have been digging holes in the snow _______ from the cold weather.
A. to shelter B. sheltered
C. having sheltered D. sheltering
14、Sarah pretended to be cheerful,_________ nothing about the argument.
A. said B. to say C. saying D. to be saying
15、The movie Wolf Warrior II ________ positive reviews since it was released.
A. receives B. has received
C. received D. had received
16、Despite the rise in technology-based learning tools, the school chose to maintain ______teaching methods, emphasizing the value of face-to-face interaction in the classroom.
A．identical
B．substantial
C．botanical
D．conventional
17、The little boy appeared at my classroom door in the second week of school this fall an hour after school had started, without an adult him to the class.
A. accompanying B. distributing
C. attracting D. recommending
18、There is a mountain _____the top is always covered with snow.
A．of that
B．of which
C．of it
D．that
19、As I looked at the memorial, I thought about __________ terrible life was for the Jews then and _________ they were to fight the Nazis.
A.how; how B.what a; how C.what; how D.how; what
20、Nowadays many teenagers often take their parents’ love for granted. Seldom________ what they should do in return.
A．do they think
B．they think
C．did they think
D．think they
21、
A．TV designers
B．hearing specialists
C．people with hearing difficulty
D．wearers of digital hearing aids
【2】According to the advertisement, TV VOICE PRO AIR enables the wearer to ________.
A．enjoy TV even over 35 feet from his/her house
B．listen to TV clearly at whatever volume
C．improve his/her hearing ability in daily life
D．watch more TV programs
【3】What can be learned about TV VOICE PRO AIR from the advertisement?
A．You need to place a special order for it if you have severe hearing loss.
B．You need to pay $50 for its shipping if you buy it in 2021.
C．You can get a discount as long as you use Gift Voucher Code.
D．You can get your money back within 30 days if dissatisfied with it.
22、Accompanied by the background sounds of Chinese traditional instruments, Yuanxi — China Daily’s digital employee — introduced the 9,000-year-old stone carvings (岩画) from the Helan Mountains in Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Oct 14.
The meeting between the virtual human and Chinese traditional culture is quite interesting,” an internet user commented on Sina Weibo.
With the rise of the metaverse (元宇宙), virtual humans have become a growing phenomenon in China. According to a research report by QbitAI, it is estimated that the overall market size of China’s virtual humans will reach 270 billion yuan by 2030.
Though they are not real, these virtual beings share similar identities with us and serve in different fields of our daily lives, including education, broadcasting, and business. For example, in June 2021, Hua Zhibing, a virtual human who can write poetry, was officially registered as a student at Tsinghua University. Throughout the 2022 Winter Olympics, China’s first AI sign language presenter served hearing-impaired (有听力障碍的) audiences 24/7.
Due to their perfect image and interesting setups, some virtual humans even get a large number of fans and become idols in real life. Luo Tianyi is one of them. As a virtual singer, Luo has over 5 million followers on Sina Weibo. When she held a concert in Shanghai in 2018, more than 10,000 fans waved glow sticks and cheered for her. Gao Yu, a fan of Luo, told Economic Information Daily that “just like chasing human idols, Luo’s fans also hold birthday parties for her and buy the products she promotes.”
While the future of virtual humans seems promising, problems also lurk (隐藏着) underneath. As the novelty wears off, some followers are getting tired of virtual humans’ never-changing expressions. “No matter how lifelike these virtual influencers look, they’re still not real people. It’s a little scary,” Gigi You, 23, from Guangdong, told Insider. Studies also showed that their “perfect” face and “perfect” life which humans are unable to achieve can also trigger (引发) anxiety and depression in individuals.
Generally speaking, virtual humans are often seen as the gateway to the metaverse and have demonstrated financial potential, but there’s still a lot of room for development, reported Xinhua.
【1】What can we learn about Yuanxi?
A．She is the first digital employee in China.
B．She played Chinese traditional instruments.
C．She covered stories about stone carvings.
D．She was designed to promote Chinese traditional culture.
【2】Why is Hua Zhibing mentioned?
A．To show the popularity of virtual humans.
B．To illustrate the similarities of virtual humans.
C．To describe the characteristics of virtual humans.
D．To explain the importance of virtual humans in our lives.
【3】What does Gigi You think of virtual idols?
A．They lose appeal quickly.
B．They are too good to be true.
C．They can make people anxious.
D．They are never as real as humans.
23、 Now, at ten, Selah Schneiter has become the youngest person ever to climb the 3,000-foot-high Nose route of El Capitan, topping out above Yosemite Valley. Selah was unaware she was breaking a record at the time.
“El Cap was the mountain my wife Joy and I first climbed together,” Mike, Selah’s father, said. “We fell in love while climbing the route over four days.” After the couple married, they returned there to climb. They took Selah on her first trip to Yosemite when she was only two months old.
First asked if she’d try the Nose, she declined. Then, she began to think about it more, and last year she felt that she was able to make it to the Nose. However, accomplishing the seemingly impossible climb requires more than simply deciding to go for it. Over the winter, Mike and Selah prepared for “the big one”.
When it came time to climb, Selah and Mike were joined by Mark Regier, a long-time family friend who had been part of the El Cap team when Mike and Joy met. He was also the chief witness of their wedding. Doing such a climb with a ten-year-old, Regier considered it seriously. “Being a father myself, I must look after her well,” he said. At first he doublechecked everything she did, but after a while he was sure Selah knew what she was doing. Then they set off.
When it came to the exposure, Selah showed fortitude. “It wasn’t that frightening,” she said. “Although when it got really exposed it can be a little scary.” She admitted to getting nervous under The Great Roof, but she calmed herself and was comfortable being so high.
Eventually, she and her companions completed the 5-day climb successfully.
【1】What can we know about Mike?
A.He encouraged Selah to set a record.
B.He’s had a long history with Yosemite.
C.He helped Selah decide to climb El Cap.
D.He came across Joy at Regier’s wedding.
【2】How did Mark Regier feel at first about Selah’s climbing the Nose?
A.Amused. B.Confident.
C.Cautious. D.Encouraged.
【3】What does the underlined word “fortitude” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A.Scare. B.Relaxation.
C.Pride. D.Courage.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A.Small Climber, Big Outcome
B.Selah Was a True Climber at Ten
C.Selah Schneiter, a Born Climber
D.Life Means Enjoying Climbing
24、Written in the first chapter of the book Pride and Prejudice is an extraordinary sentence of which even a person who has had only a brief look upon the book will not fail to receive a deep impression — It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. In terms of Sherlock Holmes, we’d better alter the sentence into “It is a fact universally accepted by readers throughout the world that an excellent book in possession of our famous detective Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly a masterpiece of all times.” Perhaps this is one of the most obvious explanations for the unrivaled popularity of “Holmes series” in the field of detective stories. Overwhelmed by the recommendations provided by my friends, I decided to take a look on this Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son originally published by Oxford University Press.
As a whole, this book is about a case concerning the Duke’s missing son. Arthur, the Duke’s son, was found out in a certain morning to have disappeared, accompanied with which was also the disappearance of the German teacher. The school master Dr. Huxtable then turned to the famous detective of the time Sherlock Holmes for help. Realizing how tough and important the case is, Holmes immediately made up his mind to accept the case and followed Dr. Huxtable back to Mackleton by train. Having formed a rough idea about the whole matter, Holmes probed into the case immediately and had a careful investigation of the entire area shortly after the arrival, during the process of which he discovered the body of the German teacher Heidegger. Finally, primarily due to his prominent ability as a detective, he managed to unravel the mystery.
Having once started reading this fiction, I was completely immersed in the mysterious story. At the beginning, unlike other detective stories, this story first delineates the client’s strange behavior at length to indicate the severity of the incident in order to attract the readers to continue reading it. As is known to all, vivid depiction is essential to detective stories as it makes the story more authentic and attractive. Therefore, trying to present a “real world” to his readership, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the original “Holmes series”, has skillfully arranged the plots of the whole story from the perspective of Dr. Watson, a friend of Homes’. In this way, he elaborately (精心)depicted every scene and character in the book. Apart from the special start, the ending of the whole story, being dramatic but reasonable, is certainly an outstanding one. After all, except the author himself, who knows that the Duke’s seemingly ordinary secretary is in fact the Duke’s bastard(私生子)? In addition, who knows that the Duke actually has already been acquainted with the whole thing before Holmes solves this complicated problem? Yet, surprising as it is, this ending seems so natural that it fits all the plots of the story perfectly well. Closing my eyes, I can even “see” the story happening just like watching a film.
As far as I am concerned, nothing is more admirable and surprising in the hero Sherlock Homes than his profound knowledge which has certainly assisted him a lot when he was studying the case. Take the bicycle tyres for instance, Holmes is capable of recognizing 42 different varieties of bicycle tyres. Except for his illimitable knowledge, Holmes also specializes in arranging the facts in order and then finding the fact leading him to a great discovery or even the truth itself. In this case, after getting rid of unrelated facts, Sherlock Homes eventually grasped the clue and discovered the amazing fact.
Needless to say, as a world-renowned masterpiece, Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son has attracted and is still charming numerous readers from all corners of the world and people from all walks of life. The “Holmes series” has already set up a standard against which all the following detective fictions are measured. Sherlock Holmes, beyond all doubt, has been a name firmly rooted in people’s memories. Although Dr. Watson’s closing The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes in 1927 was a great pity to the readers, the discontinuance of the entire “Holmes series” may have actually added to the legendary stature of Sherlock Holmes.
【1】Why does the author mention the book Pride and Prejudice?
A. To show his/her impression on it.
B. To change a sentence in it to evaluate the Holmes series.
C. To quote a sentence to directly illustrate its impressiveness.
D. To state the reason why he/she began reading Sherlock Holmes and the Duck’s son.
【2】Many factors contribute to the author’s positive attitude toward the book EXCEPT that __________.
A. the detailed description of a client’s strange behavior arouses the readers’ interest
B. the plots are well laid out and all scenes and characters are artfully presented
C. the book is even adapted into a film and the author really enjoys watching it
D. its ending is so surprising that it makes the author deeply impressed
【3】What kind of a person is Sherlock Holmes according to the passage?
A. Knowledgeable. B. Arbitrary.
C. Mysterious. D. Courageous.
【4】How is the passage organized?
(p=paragraph)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
【5】What’s the passage mainly about?
A. It mainly introduces the plots of the book Sherlock Holmes and the Duck’s son.
B. It’s mainly about the author’s attitude towards Sherlock Holmes.
C. It’s mainly about the thoughts of the author after reading Sherlock Holmes and the Duck’s son.
D. It’s mainly a comparison between the book Pride and Prejudice and the Holmes series.
25、The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two ______ systems on the whole.
The ______ of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated by rivers. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River _____ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own _____. Then in Dang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture _____ went overseas to Japan, _____ into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same ______.
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was ______ on the Mesopotamian Plain ---- the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known ______ the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also ______ waters. When the colonists(殖民者) of England _____ in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't _______ from the European one a lot.
At the same time, the difference of the language systems _______ the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system, for example, the one I’m using to write this paper.
Other factors like human race difference counts as well. But what’s more, ______ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no _____ with the other.
【1】A. connected B. separate C. ancient D. remote
【2】A. preservation B. development C. resource D. origin
【3】A. if B. until C. while D. as
【4】A. styles B. habits C. ways D. means
【5】A. hurriedly B. gradually C. unfortunately D. suddenly
【6】A. made B. emerged C. mixed D. applied
【7】A. culture B. nation C. influence D. system
【8】A. brought up B. brought out C. brought about D. brought along
【9】A. after B. as C. for D. of
【10】A. crossed B. drunk C. swam D. plunged
【11】A. touched down B. put down C. got down D. settled down
【12】A. evolve B. judge C. distinguish D. rise
【13】A. adds to B. results to C. turns to D. takes to
【14】A. as to B. as for C. as a result of D. in spite of
【15】A. impact B. difference C. connection D. familiarity
26、阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When a tornado(龙卷风) touched down in a small town nearby,many families were left completed ruined. Afterward all the local newspapers carried many human-interest stories featuring some of the families who suffered the hardest.
One Sunday, a particular picture especially touched me. A young woman stood in front of an entirely shattered(破碎的) mobile home, a depressed expression on her face. A young boy, seven or eight years old, stood at her side, eyes downward. Clutching(紧握) at her skirt was a tiny girl who stared into the camera, eyes wide with confusion and fear.
The article that went with the picture gave the clothing sizes of each family member. With growing interest, I noticed that their sizes closely matched ours. This would be a good opportunity to teach my children to help those less fortunate than themselves. I stuck the picture of the young family on our refrigerator, explaining their difficulty to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and to three-year-old Meghan.
“These poor people now have nothing,” I said. “We’ll share what we have with them. I brought three large boxes down from the room upstairs and placed them on the living room floor. Meghan watched seriously, as the boys and I filled one of the boxes with canned goods and foods.
While I sorted through our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and donate some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys piled up old toys and games.
Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, much-loved rag doll hugged tightly to her chest. She came to the box that held the toys, pressed her round little face into Lucy's flat, painted-on-face, gave her a final kiss, then laid her gently on top of the other toys.
“Oh, Honey,” I said.” You don’t have to give Lucy. You love her so much.”
Meghan nodded seriously, eyes filled with held-back tears. "Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe she’ll make that other little girl happy,too.”
Paragraph. 1:
The boys had watched,open-mouthed,as their baby sister placed her favorite doll in the box.
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Paragraph. 2:
I looked my children for a long moment.
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