1、—Did you have a good trip yesterday?
—We got up late, and the first train had left, we had to take a taxi.
A. on top of; so B. as a result; then
C. what was worse; however D. because; therefore
2、Drink a glass of milk before you go to bed, and you may just ________ a sound sleep.
A. keep up with B. put up with
C. end up with D. catch up with
3、Have ________ on him. He is only a child. ( )
A. mercy B. pity C. kindness D. courage
4、The digital age enables us to find people _____ share our interests, such as collecting model cars or playing instruments.
A.which B.who C.when D.where
5、Tom looks tired because he ________ the house since 9 am.
A．has been cleaning
B．cleaned
C．has been cleaned
D．cleans
6、In this case, the best ________ is to send a quick, light-hearted apology to explain your awkwardness.
A．solution
B．application
C．imagination
D．consideration
7、Sir, could you please take your seat? The plane .
A．takes off
B．has taken off
C．is taking off
D．took off
8、He felt ________ when hearing that he had been admitted into the school badminton team. Which answer is WRONG?
A. cheerful B. delightful
C. on cloud nine D. Excited
9、It's not easy for Tom to find a job, who has been in prison for many years. So he is still out of work.
A. 不填; a B. the; a
C. 不填; 不填 D. the; 不填
10、The poor man, ________, ran out of the dark cave.
A．tiring and frightened
B．tired and frightened
C．tired and frightening
D．tiring and frightening
11、– Mum, how did it ____ that you cooked the dish so salty?
-- Er, I myself haven’t tasted it yet .
A. came out B. came about
C. came across D. came up
12、It is believed that traveling to Yangzhou in __ __ March is __ __ enjoyable experience.
A. /; the B. the; an
C. 不填; an D. the; the
13、Through ______, many people win success out of what seems to be certain failure.
A．property
B．perspective
C．perseverance
D．procedure
14、His ________ in the test was not good enough.
A．perform
B．performer
C．performs
D．performance
15、—Why does she always ask you for help?
—There is no one else________, is there?
A．to who to turn
B．for her to turn
C．for whom to turn
D．she can turn to
16、________ anxiety, COVID-19 has also brought opportunities to some industries and changes to our lifestyles.
A．Due to
B．In spite of
C．Apart from
D．According to
17、Due to widespread ______ of 5G technology, more remote surgical operations are likely to be carried out across long distances.
A．occupation
B．application
C．qualification
D．composition
18、All the people on the list must be told to attend the meeting; you must make sure that no one is _______．
A. left out B. set aside C. cut off D. kept away
19、Those who can achieve high grades in class tend to be weak in handling some practical problems, ________ is often the case.
A. which B. as C. it D. That
20、Peter, as well as his assistant,_________a chemical experiment yesterday, but I wonder whether he has finished it.
A.performed B.was performing C.had performed D.were performing
21、There is a very instructive incident involving the life of Alexander the Great, King of Greek. Alexander, after conquering many kingdoms, was returning home. On the way, he fell ill and it took him to his death bed. With death staring him in his face, Alexander realized his conquests, his great army, his sharp sword and all his wealth were of no consequence. So, he lay helplessly waiting to breathe his last. He called his generals and said, “I will depart from this world soon, and I have three wishes. Please carry them out without fail.”
“My first desire is that,” said Alexander, “My physicians alone must carry my coffin.” After a pause, he continued, “Secondly, I desire that when my coffin is being carried to the grave, the path leading to the graveyard be spread with gold, silver and precious stones which I have collected.” The king continued, “My third and last wish is that both my hands should be kept hanging out of my coffin.” Alexander’s favourite general kissed his hand and pressed it to his heart. “Oh, King, we assure you that your wishes will all be fulfilled. But tell us why do you make such strange wishes?”
Alexander took a deep breath and said, “I would like the world to know of the three lessons I have just learnt. I want my physicians to carry my coffin because people should realize that no doctor can really cure any bodies. They are powerless and cannot save a person from the clutches of death. So let people not take life for granted.”
“The second wish of spreading gold, silver and other riches on the way to the graveyard is to tell people that not even a bit of gold will come with me. I spent all my life earning riches but cannot take anything with me. Let people realize that it is just a waste of time to chase wealth.”
“And about my third wish of having my hands hanging out of the coffin, I wish people to know that I came empty-handed into this world and empty-handed out of this world.” With these words, the King closed his eyes. Soon he let death conquer him and breathed his last.
【1】The first paragraph suggests that Alexander ________.
A. wanted to leave the world as he came empty-handed
B. realized that what he got in his life was nothing to him at all
C. was spending a lot time conquering many kingdoms and had earned a great amount of wealth
D. regarded his conquests, his great army, his sharp sword and all his wealth as the most important things
【2】The underlined word “clutches” in Paragraph 3 means “________”.
A. sentence B. attention C. control D. shadow
【3】The author intends to ________.
A. tell us the story of Alexander
B. stress the power of Alexander the Great
C. persuade people to realized what Alexander said
D. introduce readers to the instructive lessons of Alexander
【4】What would be the best title of the passage?
A. The Death of Alexander
B. The Greed of Alexander
C. Three wishes of Alexander
D. The Life of Alexander
22、 Microsoft announced this week that its facial-recognition system is now more accurate in identifying people of color, touting (吹嘘）its progress at tackling one of the technology’s biggest biases (偏见).
But critics, citing Microsoft’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, quickly seized on how that improved technology might be used. The agency contracts with Microsoft for cloud-computing tools that the tech giant says is largely limited to office work but can also include face recognition.
Columbia University professor Alondra Nelson tweeted, “We must stop confusing ‘inclusion’ in more ‘diverse’ surveillance (监管）systems with justice and equality.”
Facial-recognition systems more often misidentify people of color because of a long-running data problem： The massive sets of facial images they train on skew heavily toward white men. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study this year of the face-recognition systems designed by Microsoft, IBM and the China-based Face++ found that facial-recognition systems consistently giving the wrong gender for famous women of color including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama and Shirley Chisholm, the first black female member of Congress.
The companies have responded in recent months by pouring many more photos into the mix, hoping to train the systems to better tell the differences among more than just white faces. IBM said Wednesday it used 1 million facial images, taken from the photo-sharing site Flickr, to build the “world’s largest facial data-set” which it will release publicly for other companies to use.
IBM and Microsoft say that allowed its systems to recognize gender and skin tone with much more precision. Microsoft said its improved system reduced the error rates for darker-skinned men and women by “up to 20 times,” and reduced error rates for all women by nine times.
Those improvements were heralded（宣布）by some for taking aim at the prejudices in a rapidly spreading technology, including potentially reducing the kinds of false positives that could lead police officers misidentify a criminal suspect.
But others suggested that the technology's increasing accuracy could also make it more marketable. The system should be accurate, “but that’s just the beginning, not the end, of their ethical obligation,” said David Robinson, managing director of the think tank Upturn.
At the center of that debate is Microsoft, whose multimillion-dollar contracts with ICE came under fire amid the agency’s separation of migrant parents and children at the Mexican border.
In an open letter to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella urging the company to cancel that contract, Microsoft workers pointed to a company blog post in January that said Azure Government would help ICE “accelerate recognition and identification.” “We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits,” the letter said.
A Microsoft spokesman, pointing to a statement last week from Nadella, said the company’s “current cloud engagement” with ICE supports relatively anodyne（温和的）office work such as “mail, calendar, massaging and document management workloads.” The company said in a statement that its facial-recognition improvements are “part of our going work to address the industry-wide and societal issues on bias.”
Criticism of face recognition will probably expand as the technology finds its way into more arenas, including airports, stores and schools. The Orlando police department said this week that it would not renew its use of Amazon. com’s Rekognition system.
Companies ”have to acknowledge their moral involvement in the downstream use of their technology,”
Robinson said. “The impulse is that they’re going to put a product out there and wash their hands of the consequences. That’s unacceptable.”
【1】What is “one of the technology’s biggest biases” in Paragraph 1?
A.Class bias. B.Regional difference.
C.Professional prejudice. D.Racial discrimination.
【2】What can we know about the improvement of facial-recognition technology?
A.Justice and equality have been truly achieved.
B.It is due to the expansion of the photo database.
C.It has already solved all the social issues on biases.
D.The separation of immigrant parents from their children can be avoided.
【3】What is the focus of the face-recognition debate?
A.Data problems. B.The market value.
C.The application field. D.A moral issue
【4】What is David Robinson's attitude towards facial-recognition technology?
A.Skeptical. B.Approval.
C.Optimistic. D.Neutral.
【5】We can infer from the last paragraph that Robinson thinks _____.
A.companies had better hide from responsibilities
B.companies deny problems with its technical process
C.companies should not launch new products on impulse
D.companies should be responsible for the new product and the consequences
【6】Which can be the suitable title for the passage?
A.The wide use of Microsoft system B.Fears of facial-recognition technology
C.The improvement of Microsoft system D.Failure of recognizing black women
23、When newspapers and radios report the damage caused by a hurricane (飓风)called Hazel,girls named Hazel are probably played a joke on by others.To keep out of trouble,the Weather Bureau says,“Any resemblance(相似)between hurricane names and the names of particular girls is only accidental.”
Some women became angry because hurricanes are given their names,but many other women are proud to see their names make headlines.They don’t even care that they are the names of destructive storms.Because more women seem to like it than dislike it,the Weather Bureau has decided to continue using girls’ names for hurricanes.
In some ways a hurricane is like a person.After it is born,it grows and develops,then becomes old and dies.Each hurricane has a character of its own.Each follows its own way through the world,and people remember it long after it has gone.So it is natural to give hurricanes names,and to talk about them almost as if they were alive.
【1】What happens to the girls named Hazel when hurricane Hazel is reported?
A．They suffer from hurricanes.
B．The Weather Bureau looks for them.
C．Others often make fun of them.
D．They can’t find boyfriends.
【2】The underlined word “They” in the second paragraph refers to _______.
A．the reporters
B．the headlines
C．some women who become angry
D．some women who are proud
【3】Public opinions make the Weather Bureau ______.
A．stop naming hurricanes after women
B．go on naming hurricanes after women
C．name hurricanes after men
D．look for a new method to name hurricanes
【4】According to the passage,which is more reasonable?
A．Some women feel unhappy because hurricanes are given their names.
B．All the hurricanes are caused by women.
C．Many women want to be reported by TV and newspapers.
D．A hurricane grows and develops in the same way as a person.
24、Today with the urge for gender and racial equality.people are constantly debating on most subjects when it comes to either of these topics.One of the most debated topics is“Should sports teams be coed(男女都参加的)?” 【1】
First of all, the athletic differences between men and women would aid the teams.【2】 But according to the researchers at the University of British Columbia women have higher endurance and stamina(毅力) than men of similar age and athletic ability.The mixture of extra stamina from women and the natural strength from men makes a good mixture making the team stronger.
【3】With sports being co-ed,kids would learn to get along with each other. The reason kids of opposite genders don’t really play with each other is that “Because you’re a girl” or “Because you’re a boy”【4】For example, that would be unprofessional if your boss was of the opposite gender and your reason for not listening or for not cooperating was“Because you’re a girl or boy”.
Finally, being co-ed in sports teams increases the chances of women getting into college with a sports scholarship. The reasoning behind this is that the male part of sports has more attention on it, so men are more noticed. 【5】This means more scholarship opportunities has come for women.
A．Getting into a college is hard for girls.
B．I personally believe sports should be co-ed.
C．That idea could get them in trouble in the future.
D．Surprisingly, co-ed sports lead to more heated discussions.
E．Besides，kids will build relationships faster with the opposite gender.
F．With teams coed,women probably have more attention put on them.
G．Some people are against co-ed sports, for they think the athletic differences exist.
25、On my way back home I was stopped at a traffic light by some people who asked for help. A woman ________ to give way to an ambulance, but drove her car over stony obstacles （阻碍）that ________ the bike line from the street, and had her car ________ as a result. She couldn’t move the car in any direction without ________ it. A couple of people tried to lift the car back but the obstacles were too ________. Seeing that they couldn’t do much about it, they ________ and the woman in the car tried to call for some ________.
While watching the other people leave, I ________ the woman would be on her own and I imagined how ________ that would be if I were in her shoes. After some talking, she ________ me to sit inside her car. She called for help and was ________ that it would take about 45 minutes for someone to get there.
I tried to comfort the woman who seemed to feel ________ about causing others trouble. But ________ it wasn’t too much trouble since they could ________ pass, and also there wasn’t anything she could do about it anyway. We laughed and joked that all we ________ was some tea for our chat.
Finally ________ came and helped her back on the street. She thanked me and ________ my phone number so she could return the ________, but I told her it was okay. She seemed to feel much ________ when we said our goodbyes. I believe that not having to face a difficult ________ alone can make a lot of a difference.
【1】A. disliked B. determined C. tried D. preferred
【2】A. protected B. separated C. ruined D. decorated
【3】A. trapped B. lost C. repaired D. stopped
【4】A. changing B. throwing C. moving D. damaging
【5】A. high B. hard C. broad D. distant
【6】A. bargained B. escaped C. apologized D. left
【7】A. service B. tip C. survey D. request
【8】A. admitted B. realized C. confirmed D. doubted
【9】A. fancy B. unfair C. painful D. useless
【10】A. commanded B. invited C. encouraged D. forced
【11】A. warned B. told C. promised D. reminded
【12】A. amazed B. frightened C. puzzled D. worried
【13】A. exactly B. finally C. actually D. sincerely
【14】A. ever B. even C. still D. never
【15】A. needed B. ignored C. deserved D. selected
【16】A. transport B. dusk C. luck D. help
【17】A. cared about B. turned to C. asked for D. stared at
【18】A. kindness B. item C. fare D. guidance
【19】A. worse B. better C. calmer D. braver
【20】A. disadvantage B. disaster C. danger D. situation
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。
Brodie and his father lived in a caravan (宿营拖车) ever since his mother died and they lost their house. Now they worked for Miss Martha in the garden.
Brodie’s father had been a famous violin player. Brodie loved to watch how his father made the bow dance and glide (滑动) across the strings. When he turned 12, his father taught him how to play the instrument properly. Brodie was a fast learner and soon he could play the violin almost as well as his dad.
One day, Miss Samson, Brodie’s teacher, asked if anyone could play the violin. A talent scout (星探) was coming to school. He was looking for someone to play in the musical Mr Spy.
Hollie Larson’s hand went up fast. “I can play the violin,” she said. “I play in competitions.” Brodie kept quiet, but his friend Cam said, “Brodie has a violin and he can play it too.”
Brodie slid down in his seat. There was no way he would be good enough to play for an audience. He wasn’t going to make a fool of himself. Hollie Larson was good at everything.
“Bring your instruments tomorrow for a trial run,” the teacher said. “And oh, if you are selected, the pay is good!”
Brodie’s father let him take the violin. “But do take good care of it, Brodie,” he said.
Hollie Larson offered to play first. She was good, really good. Brodie suddenly felt embarrassed. There was no way he could play after her. But Miss Samson’s voice was demanding. “Brodie,” she said. “Your turn!”
Brodie felt his face get hot as he pulled out the violin. But the minute the bow touched the strings, Brodie was transported to a different world. He was back in Martha’s garden listening to his father. The room, was silent as Brodie walked back to his seat. And then came the applause, everyone clapping, except Hollie Larson.
Since the talent scout would come the next morning, Brodie decided to put the violin case on a high shelf in the classroom that night. It was the safest place, he thought. But, he was wrong!
注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右。
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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The next morning when he arrived, he found the case had fallen.
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Suddenly, Hollie Larson walked toward him, holding out her violin—“Use mine,” she said.
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