1、In summer, food will go bad if__________in room temperature.
A.leaving B.left C.should be left D.having left
2、With children, if you say “no”, you have to mean_______.
A. that B. this
C. it D. one
3、----Would you please explain to me why TFBOYS is so popular?
----I’m sorry but that’s __________ I’m puzzled.
A. what B. why C. which D. where
4、How I wish every family ___________a large house with a garden with beautiful flowers ______ in it!
A. has; to grow B. had; growing
C. will have; growing D. had had; grew
5、In all regions, women live longer than men. However, social, cultural and economic factors can the natural advantage of women compared to men.
A．challenge
B．guarantee
C．confirm
D．affect
6、_____ full preparations, we decided to put off the meeting till next week.
A．We did not make
B．Having not made
C．We had not made
D．Not having made
7、It’s too bad that my computer has got a new virus. If only I ________ that programme!
A. didn’t run B. haven’t run
C. hadn’t run D. wouldn’t run
8、That was the first time I ______ there and I was impressed by the friendly people very much.
A. go B. was going C. had gone D. have gone
9、I felt ________ at the sight of the ________ snake.
A．frightening; frightened
B．frightened; frightening
C．frightened; frightened
D．frightening ; frightening
10、—I want you both to be on your best ______ at Grandad’s.
—OK, we will, Mum.
A．opportunity
B．struggle
C．behavior
D．purpose
11、English is _____________countries' language.
A.English-speak B.English-speaking
C.speak-English D.speaking-English
12、________with two job offers, for instance, we may wonder exactly what it is we’re choosing between.
A．Having presented
B．Presented
C．To present
D．Presenting
13、--- Silly me! I forget what my luggage looks like.
--- What do you think of_____over there?
A. the one B. it C. that D. this
14、--Did you give him the book?
--Yes,I gave it to him ____I saw him.
A. subtly B. convincingly
C. optimistically D. directly
15、One's _______ of literature largely depends on one's level of art.
A.assumption B.application C.appreciation D.advocation
16、Stand over there_______you’ll be able to see it better.
A．or
B．and
C．but
D．while
17、Toyota Motor Corp, ________ have lost about a fifth of their value since last January, is taking steps to deal with its safety problems.
A．the shares which
B．whose shares
C．who the shares
D．of shares which
18、Some plants are very ____ to light; they prefer the shade.
A. sensible B. available
C. adjustable D. sensitive
19、一Excuse me，sir．This is a non-smoking train．
一Oh，sorry．I____ know that．
A. haven’t known B. hadn’t know
C. didn’t know D. don’t know
20、Don't put your bicycle______ the window. The glass can be easily broken.
A. against B. with C. beyond D. for
21、A team of engineers at Harvard University is trying to create the first robotic fly. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its small wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“The difficulty with a project is that we have none of its components(部件) and so we have to develop them all by ourselves,” said Robert Wood, a Harvard engineering professor.
They created a series of systems to start and make the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependences(相互依赖) on every component. Each of the components has to perform well, and then has to be matched well to each other,” said Wood.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small off-board(外接的) power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform information-gathering work at rescue sites(营救现场), in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-size. Yet, the power, sensing and computer technologies on board could have much wider use. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead, he said. So there are a lot on technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us to go on.”
【1】What is the typical feature of the robotic fly?
A．It’s automatic.
B．It’s quite powerful.
C．It’s controllable.
D．It’s very small.
【2】We can infer from the passage that the robotic flyer can________.
A．help do farm work
B．gather information in the battle
C．fly at a very high speed
D．answer many scientific questions
【3】What is Wood’s idea about the robotic fly according to the last paragraph?
A．It has wide practical uses.
B．It is highly questionable.
C．It gives scientists interest in flying machines.
D．It points to a new direction in studying biology.
【4】What can be the best title for the passage?
A．Harvard’s Study in the Field of Insects
B．Robotic Fly—a Copy of Real Life Insect
C．An Interesting insect—Robotic Fly
D．A big discovery in Engineering Science
22、When having a meal, a European usually holds the knife in the right hand, and the fork in the left. He uses the knife and fork with his both hands. He keeps his knife and fork in his hands until he finishes eating.
But an American, on the opposite, may use just one hand whenever possible and keep the other hand on his lap. He uses the fork in his right hand to pick up fried potatoes. When he has to cut his meat, he changes his fork to the left hand and cuts it. Then he puts down the knife and changes his fork to his right hand to pick up the sliced meat. Then, perhaps, he will suddenly think of his coffee or orange. So he has to put down his fork in order to drink his coffee or orange. Now you can see, an American is busy all the time at the dinner table. By the way, Europeans usually have their coffee after meals, but many Americans prefer to have coffee during the meal.
If you are present at a formal dinner, you might be confused to find so many forks, knives and spoons put before you. You might be at a loss to know what to do with them. Don’t worry. The rule is simple. You just use them in the order in which they lie, beginning from outside towards the plate. The small fork on the outside on the left is for salad. The spoon on the outside on the right is for soup. There is another little knife, called a butter spreader, on a bread-and-butter plate on the left. As the bread is passed, each guest helps himself and puts his pieces on the small plate. Next to the soup there will probably be the blunt(钝的) knife for fish, which is smaller and blunter than other knives.
【1】When do Europeans usually drink their coffee?
A．Before meals.
B．After meals.
C．While they are having their meals.
D．They never drink coffee when they eat.
【2】The right way to use the forks, knives and spoons is ________.
A．to use whichever you like when necessary
B．to use them from the outside to the inside
C．to use them from the inside to the outside
D．to use them from the middle to both sides
【3】The butter spreader is________.
A．a fork
B．a spoon
C．a knife
D．a plate
【4】The spoon on the outside on the right is for________.
A．soup
B．salad
C．butter
D．chicken
【5】The best title for this passage is________.
A．Eating Habit in America
B．Eating Habit in Europe
C．How to use Forks, Knives and Spoons
D．Dining Customs of the West
23、Even before my father left us, my mother had to go back to work to support our family. Once I came out of the kitchen, complaining, “Mom, I can’t peel potatoes. I have only one hand.” Mom never looked up from sewing. “You get yourself into that kitchen and peel those potatoes,” she told me. “And don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”
In the second grade, our teacher lined up my class on the playground and had each of us race across the monkey bars, swinging(荡秋千) from one high steel rod to the next. When it was my turn, I shook my head. Some kids behind me laughed, and I went home crying.
That night I told Mom about it. She hugged me, and I saw her “we’ll see about that” look. The next afternoon, she took me back to school. At the deserted playground, Mom looked carefully at the bars.
“Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She stood by as I struggled to lift myself with my right hand until I could hold the bar with my other elbow(肘). Day after day we practiced, and she praised me for every rung(横档) I reached. I’ll never forget the next time, crossing the rungs, I looked down at the kids who were standing with their mouths open.
One night, after a dance at my new junior high, I lay in bed sobbing. I could hear Mom come into my room. “Mom,” I said, weeping, “none of the boys would dance with me.”
For a long time, I didn’t hear anything. Then she said, “Oh, honey, someday you’ll be beating those boys off with a bat.” Her voice was faint. I peeked out from my covers to see tears running down her cheeks. Then I knew how much she suffered on my behalf. She just never let me see her tears.
【1】Which can be used to describe Mom’s attitude when she made the child peel potatoes?
A. Cruel. B. Favorable.
C. Strict. D. Sympathetic.
【2】From the passage, we know monkey bars can help a child train ______.
A. the strength and skill to hang and sway
B. the speed of one’s hand movement
C. the skill to throw and catch things
D. the bodily skill to rotate round a bar
【3】What does the underlined sentence “I saw her ‘we’ll see about that’ look” imply?
A. Mom believed every aim could be achieved if you stuck to it.
B. The race across monkey bars was not difficult enough for a child to give up.
C. Mom was determined to prove she herself was better than the teacher.
D. What the child had said brought Mom great attraction and curiosity.
【4】When the author looked down at the kids, they were standing with their mouths open because _______.
A. they felt sorry for what they had done before
B. they were afraid the author might fall off and get hurt
C. they felt amused to see what the author would do on the bars
D. they were astonished to find the author’s progress
24、I’ve often wondered how exactly sleep, or lack of it, can have such an awful effect on our bodies and, guess what, how much we sleep switches good genes(基因) on and had genes off.
In the first half of 2013, the Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey found a direct link between hours spent sleeping and genes. Every cell in our bodies carries genetic instructions in our DNA that act as a kind of operating handbook. However, each cell only “reads” the part of this handbook it needs at any given moment.
Can sleep affect how a gene reads instructions? It’s a question asked by Professor Derk-Jan Dijk at the University of Surrey. He set up an experiment and asked his volunteers to spend a week sleeping around seven and a half hours to eight hours a night and the next sleeping six and a half to seven hours.
Blood samples were taken each week to compare which genes in blood cells were being used during the long and short nights. The results were rather surprising. Several hundred genes changed in the amount they were being used, including some that are linked to heart disease, cancer, and Type 2 diabetes. Genes to do with cell repair and replacement were used much less.
Sleep restriction(six and a half to seven hours a night) changed 380 genes. Of these, 220 genes were down regulated (their power was increased). Those affected included body-clock genes which are linked to diabetes(糖尿病). One of the most downgraded genes is that which has a role in controlling insulin(胰岛素) and is linked to diabetes and insomnia(失眠). The most upgraded gene is linked to heart disease.
So changing sleep by tiny amounts can upgrade or downgrade genes that can influence our health and the diseases we suffer from when we sleep too little.
The important message is that getting close to eight hours of sleep a night can make a dramatic difference to our health in just a few days through the way it looks after our genes.
【1】What kind of relation is directly discussed in the passage?
A. Sleeping hours and changes of genes.
B. Sleeping hours and diseases.
C. Changes of genes and diseases.
D. Genes and health.
【2】What can we learn about Professor Derk-Jan Kijk’s experiment?
A. The experiment was carried out to find the answer to how genes affect sleep.
B. The experiment took a period of more than two weeks to reach a conclusion.
C. His volunteers were divided into two groups with two different sleeping patterns.
D. Blood samples of the volunteers were checked afterwards to decide how many genes changed in sleeping.
【3】Which of the following may be concluded from the passage?
A. The experiment was performed at the University of Surrey in early 2013.
B. Body-clock genes are associated with heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes.
C. Sleep restrictions may contribute to disease like diabetes, insomnia, and heart disease.
D. 7.5－8 hours’ sleep pattern makes little difference compared with 6.5－7 hours’ sleep pattern.
【4】Which of the following can be inferred from the findings of the sleep research?
A. When there is a sleep restriction, genes to do with cell repair and replacement function less.
B. In a sleep, several hundred genes change in the amount. The more changes, the worse results.
C. When genes are up regulated, they do good to health; when genes are down regulated , they do harm to health.
D. Eight hours of sleep a day can be beneficial to our health in that it looks after our genes.
25、Snowboarding in the Mountains
I will never forget the experience of seeing a part of Canada and snowboarding in the mountains.
I got a little emotional on the ________ from Montreal to our first stop in Vancouver. Although I have to ________ that I watched a movie while we flew over the prairies(大草原), I did occasionally ________ out of the window to see what was what! ________ most of the mountains in Alberta and B.C. were covered in clouds so I had to ________ our drive from Kelowna to Revelstoke to see those mountains!
I ________ I'd entered into Lord of the Rings territory(领地) as we took a lift to get to the top of Mt. Mackenzie in Revelstoke. Before snowboarding I learned not to ________ coffee in the morning, which only added shaking to my ________ during the first few descents(滑雪下坡) of the day. Snowboarding in powder is quite ________ from riding the icy slopes(斜坡) in Quebec. At least when you ________ down several meters, it's like falling on pillows! My main ________, however, was getting stuck in the few ________ sections of the mountain, though a few ________ skiers gave me a ride by letting me grab their ski poles and ________ me to the next drop.
Even though we could ________ really ski the top half of the mountain, it was still at least twice the size of the mountain we usually ________! Our phone pictures don't do justice to these mountains, ________ we have our own ________. When my husband and I asked each other what was our favorite ________ of the trip, other than spending time with each other, it was ________ the view.
【1】A. train B. ship C. plane D. car
【2】A. admit B. pretend C. recall D. regret
【3】A. go B. look C. walk D. stare
【4】A. Luckily B. Particularly C. Possibly D. Unfortunately
【5】A. end with B. pick up C. wait for D. start from
【6】A. felt B. dreamt C. imagined D. agreed
【7】A. sell B. drink C. cook D. store
【8】A. nervousness B. confidence C. excitement D. delight
【9】A. absent B. tired C. safe D. different
【10】A. fall B. slip C. ski D. look
【11】A. task B. issue C. concern D. idea
【12】A. ugly B. rough C. steep D. flat
【13】A. helpful B. young C. aged D. single
【14】A. throwing B. dragging C. lifting D. deserting
【15】A. even B. almost C. only D. yet
【16】A. stay B. visit C. climb D. ski
【17】A. and B. so C. for D. but
【18】A. memories B. advantages C. feelings D. tips
【19】A. mountain B. part C. place D. friend
【20】A. hardly B. normally C. certainly D. strangely
26、假定你是高一学生李华，你的美国朋友Jim即将升入高中，想给他一些学习建议。请你给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1. 与老师交流，征求老师意见；
2. 上课积极参与讨论，专心听讲，做好笔记；
3. 课后积极完成作业，巩固知识。
注意：1.词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：高中生senior student
Dear Jim，
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua