1、—Did Tom tell you to water the flowers?
—He did. And ________.
A．so I did
B．so did I
C．so I do
D．so do I
2、Which of the following sentences is correct?
A.If you start to feel nervous or stressful, do not reach for a cigarette.
B.Don’t choose a day that you know it is going to be stressful, such as the day of an exam.
C.It is only when the disease has progressed to AIDS that a person begins to look sick.
D.Anyone who has sex with a person infected with HV/AIDS risks to get the virus.
3、Some diseases ________ quickly from one person to another.
A.move B.catch C.spread D.expand
4、Come a little bit closer________you could get a better view.
A．in case
B．because of
C．by means of
D．so that
5、The reason why they are respected lies in the fact that they ________ their time and hearts to charity, apart from doing what they’re good at.
A．devote
B．grant
C．add
D．distribute
6、LinaBell, the Disney’s new pink fox character________recently to Duffy & Friends toyline at Shanghai Disneyland, has gone viral among Chinese consumers, with netizens________its meet-and-greets videos in Disney resort.
A．was introduced … spread
B．introduced … spreading
C．having been introduced … spreading
D．introducing … to spread
7、Peter received an email just now_________he got the first prize in the English competition.
A．read
B．reads
C．reading
D．to read
8、You should take ______of this opportunity and try to get the post.
A．care
B．charge
C．place
D．advantage
9、Some of the texts have too many new words and expressions _______ are hard for me.
A. which B. who
C. where D. what
10、—We must act now.
—I think so，time________.
A．was running out
B．has run out
C．is running out
D．has been running out
11、—What do you think of John?
—He by many, yet I think of him.
A.is highly thought of; well B.is highly thought of; little
C.is thought of highly; little D.is thinking highly of; nothing
12、Harry telephoned to the airport to_________ whether Flight 24 for San Francisco is departing on time.
A. prove B. ensure C. confirm D. identify
13、All right, I won't keep you any longer since you________ leaving.
A．focus on
B．bank on
C．insist on
D．live on
14、Neither ________ the rescue workers nor the person who was injured in the place where the accident happened, which was really odd and caught attention of the media.
A.there were B.was there C.there being D.were there
15、---I like staying at home, watching TV or surfing the Internet all day on Sundays.
---That’s _______I don’t agree. I think you’d better go out for a walk.
A.where B.how C.when D.what
16、Except for working hard, we should give more attention to proper exercise and enough sleep. ________, health always comes first.
A．For instance
B．So far
C．In general
D．After all
17、In China, “mythical creatures” is used to describe troublesome schoolchildren ________ behaviors drive their parents crazy.
A．whose
B．when
C．who
D．of whom
18、I’d rather have a quiet cup of coffee at home than ________ in the noisy office.
A．to sit
B．sit
C．sitting
D．sat
19、Choosing the right computer depends on _____ you want to use it for.
A. how B. who
C. what D. that
20、When are you going to return my novel? Don’t worry. You ____ have your book soon, I promise.
A．shall
B．should
C．may
D．must
21、 Nicholas Muchemi is a coffee and tea farmer in the Kenyan village of Kaganda. When he saw the people in his village struggling to plan their long and winding roads, he took it upon himself to make a shortcut. He used his own tools to carve out a new quarter-mile stretch (路段) of road in the area.
Before Machemi started his labor of love, the villagers were forced to take a much longer route around the steep hills. However, now the children use new “Muchemi Road” to get to school. The mothers travel shorter distances to get to the nearby market, and the neighbors can easily hike to the church.
Every day for several long summer weeks, Muchemi would finish his daily farm work and spend each of his evenings building the road.
Once it was finished, Muchemi said that he was not expecting to receive anything in return, but the neighbors were quick to shower him with appreciation. Not only that, the government thanked the brave and generous farmer by giving him a new cow and a roof for his house. They have also promised to maintain(维修) the road in his honor.When he was asked about why he did it，Muchemi simply said, “ I was born with the ability to do this. I also love what I do and I like helping my community (社区). I’m an adult and I should do what I can to help people and solve their problems.”
“ I feel overjoyed that I could do something to make other people happy!” he concluded with a big smile.
【1】How do the local people benefit from “Muchemi Road”?
A．They can get to the nearest market.
B．Their journey is safer and longer.
C．They travel more conveniently.
D．They needn’t build the winding road.
【2】What does the author think of Nicholas Muchemi?
A．Generous and rich.
B．Hard-working and smart.
C．Brave and kind.
D．Creative and confident.
【3】What does the underlined word “that” in the fourth paragraph refer to?
A．Being thankful to Muchemi.
B．Muchemi’s building the road.
C．The prize given to Muchemi in return.
D．Repairing the road.
【4】What is Nicholas Muchemi?
A．A waiter.
B．A road mender.
C．A designer.
D．A coffee grower.
22、Learning English doesn’t always mean sitting in the classroom and studying boring grammar. In fact, there are a number of ways to improve your understanding of the language.【1】So if you’ re keen to improve your English then consider some of these handy tips to get you on your way.
Watch television and films in English. There are good TV shows and films in English, and you can learn English while watching them.【2】
Read English books or newspapers. Reading is a great way of practising your English in your spare time. If you’re a beginner, pick up a children’s book whose language can be easier than an adult book.【3】 Not only can you improve your English, but you’ll learn about local and national goings-on. And it can be handy when you communicate with native speakers.
【4】If you just spend your time outside of the classroom with people from your own country, you’ll miss a big chance to practise English. If you try to make friends with other English speakers, you’ll be forced into speaking the English language. If you have difficulty finding English speakers, at least try and spend time with people from other countries. In this way, you will still have to speak English.
Make notes of new vocabulary.【5】 Whenever you have free time, you can practise what you’ve learned. You can even do this on your phone so that you needn’t take a notebook with you.
A．Learn to speak English actively.
B．Many of them can actually be fun.
C．Newspapers are also worth reading.
D．Surround you with English speakers.
E．As you travel home or fall asleep, you can listen to it.
F．Whenever you learn a new word, make sure you make a note of it.
G．You can also listen to English radio stations and find plenty of listening materials on the Internet.
23、Tetraplegic paticnts (those who can’t move their upper or lower body) are prisoners of their own bodies. Now a robot arm is to help them interact with their world.This research was completed by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Professor Aude Billard and Jose del R. Millan worked together to create a computer program that can control a robot using electrical signals from a patient’s brain.
First, the user wears an EEG cap to have their electrical signals inside their brain scanned(扫 描)effectively, which are then interpreted by the machine-learning algorithm (算法).The computer then sends signals to the robot arm to determine how it moves. As the robot arm performs a motion,the algorithm is looking to get feedback from the user when it makes a mistake: perhaps it moved too fast, or too violently. The end goal is that the robot can learn the right movements for a task in a given context. For example, you might want the arm to use a bit of force to throw a paper ball, but you might want it to be gentler when putting glass bottles.
In the team’s research, they trained the robot arm to pick up a glass. The arm would move towards the glass and the user’s brain would decide if they felt it was too close or too far away. The process is repeated until the robot understands the optimal route for the individual’s preference - not too close to be a risk but not so far away to waste movement.
“Training an algorithm to read brain waves in a consistent fashion was the most challenging part, because the brain is not only focused on the hand but also processing many other things,” said Millan. “This means our algorithm will never be 100 % accurate.”
The researchers hope to eventually use their algorithm to control wheelchairs, which would allow people in wheelchairs to have greater control over their movements, speeds and general safety. However, this does require contirtency.over time frour the algorithm.
【1】Which paragraph mentions the working process?
A．Paragraph 1.
B．Paragraph 2.
C．Paragraph 3.
D．Paragraph 4.
【2】What does the underlined word “optimal” in paragraph 3 mean?
A．Indirect.
B．Best.
C．Regular.
D．Alternative.
【3】How can the accuracy of reading brain waves be improved?
A．By controlling people’s brain.
B．By ensuring general safety.
C．By processing other information.
D．By gaining data continuously.
【4】What could be the best title of the text?
A．This robot arm can read your mind.
B．Robot arms control your movement.
C．Algorithm finds cure for the disabled.
D．Machine-learning algorithm can train robots.
24、 For some years the big drugmakers have been worrying about an approaching "patent cliff"—a fall in sales as the patents on their most popular pills expire or are struck down by legal challenges, with few new potential blockbusters to take their place. This week the patent on the best-selling drug in history expired—Lipitor, an anti-cholesterol pill which earned Pfizer nearly $11 billion in revenues last year.In all, pill like Lipitor with a combined $170 billion in annual sales will go off-patent by the end of 2015.
What is supposed to happen now is that lots of copycat firms rush in with "generic" (ie, chemically identical) versions of Lipitor at perhaps one-fifth of its price.Patients and health-care payers should reap the benefit.Pfizer's revenues should suffer. The same story will be repeated many times, as other best-selling drugs march over the patent cliff
But generics makers may face delays getting their cheaper versions to market.Ranbaxy, a Japanese-owned drugmaker, struggled to get regulators' approval for its generic version of Lipitor, and only won it on the day the patent expired.More importantly, research-based drug firms are using a variety of tactics to make the patent cliff slope more gently. Jon Leibowitz, chairman of America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC), is concerned by drugmakers filing additional patents on their products to put off the day when their protection expires.
Another tactic(策略) is "pay-for-delay", in which a drugmaker facing a legal challenge to its patent pays its would-be competitor to put off introducing its cheaper copy. In the year to October the FTC identified what it believes to be 28 such settlements. American and European regulators are looking into these deals. However, legal challenges against them have been delayed, and a bill to ban them is stuck in Congress.
To encourage generics makers to challenge patents on drugs, and introduce cheaper copies,
an American law passed in 1984 says that the first one to do so will get a 180-day exclusivity period,in which no other generics maker can sell versions of the drug in question, as Ranbaxy supposedly won with Lipitor.
However, Pfizer is exploiting a loophole(空子) in the 1984 law, which lets it appoint a second, authorised copycat—in this case, Watson, another American firm.According to BernsteinResearch, under the deal between the two drugmakers Pfizer will receive about 70% of Watson's revenues from its approved copy of Lipitor.More unusual, Pfizer has cut the price of its original version, and will keep marketing it vigorously. So Ranbaxy faces not one, but two competitors.
All this may raise Pfizer's sales by nearly $500m in the last half of 2015 compared with what they would otherwise have been, says Tim Anderson of BernsteinResearch, with revenues then falling after the 180 days are over. Others fear that Pfizer's tactics , if copied, will make the 180-day exclusivity period worth far less, and thus discourage generic firms from challenging patents in the first place.
【1】The underlined word “blockbusters” in Paragraph 1 refers to “_______’
A. pills that sell very well
B. new patents to appear
C. drugmakers to compete with Pfizer
D. challenges which Pfizer has to face
【2】What is the tactic mentioned in Paragraph 4?
A. Legal challenges against expired patents have been paid for putting off the cheaper copy.
B. Bills to prohibit generic makers have been stuck in Congress.
C. Drugmakers try to spend money delaying filing additional patents on popular pills
D. Patent-holders give possible competitors money to prevent more losses.
【3】Pfizer exploit a loophole in the 1984 law mainly by ________.
A.marketing Lipitor more actively
B. making the price of Lipitor go up
C. cooperating with Watson to beat Ranbaxy
D. encouraging Watson to produce cheaper copies
【4】 How many tactics are adopted by patent-holders in the passage?
A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five
【5】Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
A. Drugmakers’ struggle
B. Generic makers’ dilemma
C. Laws concerning patent protection
D. Popular pills of Pfizer
25、A cinema-goer who suffered a heart attack while watching the latest Bond movie was saved by fellow film fans who performed CPR on him. The film’s title? No Time to Die.
81-year-old Malcolm Clarke had been revisiting childhood haunts(常去之处) in and around Chesterfield where he grew up as a_________for his birthdays. Then he had gone to_________the new Bond film with his wife on Saturday night to make the latest_________more impressive.
_________, Malcolm had a sudden heart attack at the Odeon cinema in Sheffield, South Yorkshire while watching the new film._________of the audience, believed to have included a doctor and a nurse,_________came to Malcolm’s_________and helped keep him alive. Thankfully, their_________were successful and the ambulance soon_________and took Malcolm to Northern General Hospital. And now Malcolm is in a(n)__________condition.
Malcolm’s son-in-law, Andrew Wileman, said, “Four__________people among the audience worked on him for about 15 minutes because he had__________consciousness(意识). The ‘rescue team’,__________two ladies and two gentlemen, just__________shortly after they did the good deed. There is no__________that they saved Malcolm’s life in the cinema.”
“The consultant at the hospital said the quick CPR had saved his life in the__________before the ambulance got there. He would have__________, but he was lucky,” Andrew added.
Andrew said he was “completely unconscious” while the kind people__________to save his life using the on-site defibrillator(除颤器) in the cinema.
The family has been reunited with three of the four__________and they were__________to meet the fourth to say thanks.
【1】
A．guide
B．deadline
C．wish
D．treat
【2】
A．adjust
B．see
C．make
D．advertise
【3】
A．movement
B．assessment
C．celebration
D．sightseeing
【4】
A．However
B．Therefore
C．Besides
D．Instead
【5】
A．Competitors
B．Supporters
C．Members
D．Assistants
【6】
A．gradually
B．illegally
C．casually
D．instantly
【7】
A．gift
B．comment
C．aid
D．speed
【8】
A．appointments
B．ceremonies
C．explanations
D．efforts
【9】
A．arrived
B．dropped
C．escaped
D．exploded
【10】
A．unfamiliar
B．good
C．severe
D．unknown
【11】
A．helpful
B．modest
C．greedy
D．curious
【12】
A．gained
B．lost
C．learnt
D．noticed
【13】
A．breaking away from
B．turning down
C．catching up with
D．consisting of
【14】
A．remained
B．united
C．left
D．changed
【15】
A．possibility
B．doubt
C．description
D．conclusion
【16】
A．cinema
B．shop
C．school
D．hospital
【17】
A．died
B．hidden
C．apologized
D．recovered
【18】
A．disappeared
B．worked
C．refused
D．hesitated
【19】
A．suspects
B．attackers
C．lifesavers
D．passers-by
【20】
A．guilty
B．unwilling
C．cautious
D．eager
26、为了帮助学生了解更多的电脑知识，学校邀请了浙江大学计算机系(the Computer Department)的陈教授来校作讲座。假如你是校学生会主席李华，请根据所给提示，代表学生会用英语写一则通知，要点包括:
1. 主讲人；
2. 讲座时间和地点；
3. 参加对象；
4. 注意事项。
注意:1.词数80左右，标题和结尾已为你写好
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
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