1、Do you know anyone with a mental or physical ?
A. desire B. draft C. diagram D. disability
2、A good story does not necessarily have to have a happy ending, but the reader must not be left ____________.
A．unsatisfied
B．unsatisfying
C．to be unsatisfying
D．being unsatisfied
3、Small acts of kindness can make a big difference, if they by people with love.
A.will remember B.are remembered C.remembered
4、________, there are 1,000 visitors to the exhibition a day.
A．At average
B．For average
C．On average
D．In average
5、We’ve enjoyed having you on board and look forward ________you again in the near future.
A．to see
B．to seeing
C．at seeing
D．on seeing
6、---How much orange juice do you want?
---I want 、please.
A.a half bottle of B.half a bottle C.a bottle of half D.a bottle half of
7、Let’s say that hospitals are losing money. ___________, if people are healthy, don’t think of it as losing money; think of it as saving lives.
A．For another
B．As a result
C．In other words
D．On the other hand
8、Some tourists’ visiting Tian’anmen Square during the holiday left a ________ of litter everywhere they went.
A. trail B. dot C. chain D. track
9、He prefers to watch TV rather than read because he often idiomatic expressions that he can’t understand when he reads English novels.
A. comes across B. goes over
C. takes in D. gets through
10、Patience is a good virtue and that’s ______ it takes to do anything well.
A.where B.which C.what D.how
11、With the level of haze ______ greatly, many people work to ______ public awareness of environment protection.
A. rises; raise B. rising; raise
C. raising; rise D. raises; rise
12、Nowadays students go to key universities just for a formal ________，which may help them hunt for a good job in the future.
A．conservation
B．preparation
C．graduation
D．qualification
13、---Mark, I failed in the exam again, I’m so upset.
---Don’t worry, I think the first thing ________ is ________ your weak points.
A．to do, find out
B．being done, to find out
C．to do, to hold on
D．being done, hold on
14、Far from _______ consumers high prices, many of these services are free (users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data.）
A.to charge B.charging C.to have charged D.charge
15、______ what had happened, they knew I would struggle and simply wanted to help because it was the right thing to do.
A. Hearing B. To have heard C. Having heard D. Heard
16、After years of wondering how the idle rich got even richer, we cracked the millionaire’s code, ______ secret is simple: Don’t spend a penny if you don’t have to.
A. which B. that C. whose D. what
17、When I wanted to show myself up at the party, the song I ________ so many times suddenly became difficult.
A.am practicing B.had practiced C.will be practicing D.have practiced
18、Just be patient．You _____ expect the world to change so soon．
A. can’t B. may not
C. needn’t D. didn’t
19、We meet ______ to discuss the progress of the project.
A．obviously
B．regularly
C．eventually
D．actually
20、It is reported that a great many houses_______at present in the disaster area.
A．are being built
B．were built
C．has built
D．is being built
21、Scientists have made an amazing discovery: large quantities of species of frog and salamander (火蜥蜴) glow under certain types of light.
Jennifer Lamb and Matthew Davis, at St Cloud State University in Minnesota, in the US, studied 32 different species of amphibians(两栖动物), mostly frogs and salamanders. Lamb and Davis shone blue torchlight on a frog that they were studying and were surprised to see it glow green. They wondered how many others would do the same, so they went to an aquarium(水族馆) in Chicago, US, and shone lights on all the amphibians.
They found that most of the animals lit up green, an effect that showed more clearly when seen through a yellow filter(指示灯). The team say their results have surprised them and they don’t yet know why the amphibians glow like this, but plan to do more research. This glow-in-the-dark ability is known as biofluorescence(生物荧光), and many animals, such as chameleons(变色龙), jellyfish (水母), sharks and sea turtles, can do it. Scorpions (蝎子) glow a bright blue under ultraviolet light (a type of light that causes sunburn).
Biofluorescence is caused by substances(物质) in the body that can absorb one colour of light and then give it out as a different colour. Usually animals absorb blue light and give off green, red or orange light. The bright green might warn off predators(捕食性动物) or help animals like the amphibians signal to each other, or it might even identify individuals, a bit like a call or smell that others can recognise.
“There is still a lot out there that we don’t know, ” Lamb told The New York Times newspaper. “This opens up a whole window into the possibility that organisms can see fluorescence(荧光) – their world may look a lot different from ours.”
【1】What do the underlined words “the same” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A．Shining blue light on a salamander.
B．Studying the effect of green light.
C．Observing different amphibians.
D．Absorbing blue light and glowing green.
【2】What leads to biofluorescence?
A．Special needs to signal to one another.
B．Certain matter in the animal’s body.
C．Colors existing in the animal’s body.
D．The glow-in-the-dark ability.
【3】What’s Jennifer Lamb’s attitude towards the discovery?
A．Doubtful.
B．Confused.
C．Positive.
D．Worried.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．Differences between Frog and Salamander
B．Biofluorescence and its Functions
C．Frogs Glow Green in Blue Light
D．Nothing Is Impossible
22、Give a little sunshine!
The Council on Aging (COA) runs a telephone friendship project called the Sunshine Call Program, matching over-60s with a friendly volunteer for a daily chat over the phone. The aim is simple-to help ease the loneliness and repair social networks.
Sheila, 77, a retired teacher, lived alone. She has been receiving calls from Rianne, a volunteer, for over two months. “Talking to Rianne is something I really look forward to—a breath of fresh air. We talk about everything—theatre, her work, books we’ve read…Listening to someone else’s life enriches you and gives you something positive to focus on.” “At the beginning, I had no expectation of how the phone calls would go, but it’s wonderful that it’s led to a genuine friendship. Rianne helps me a lot …” |
Are you ready to add a little sunshine to a senior’s life?
The Sunshine Call Program initially links a volunteer with an isolated (独居的) senior for a daily call. When comfortable, the volunteer introduces a second senior to the call. Then another, until there are four seniors to one volunteer on what is essentially a conference call. Without having to leave the house, you will help the seniors meet and make new friends. They will then exchange phone numbers to chat on their own and reduce their isolation.
What are the volunteer qualifications?
Volunteers must have access to the Internet and be willing to be trained on the use of a chat app. COA will provide all supplies required to make the calls. Besides, volunteers must agree to participate in monthly meetings with other volunteers and guest speakers. All volunteers must be willing to provide a recent Criminal Record Check, the cost of which will be borne by COA. And the most important volunteer qualification is a sense of caring and a desire to help seniors in the community!
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【1】Why does the passage mention Sheila’s experience?
A．To show her loneliness
B．To share a sweet memory.
C．To stress the value of CoA
D．To praise Rianne’s kindness.
【2】One of the responsibilities of volunteers is
A．making weekly calls to seniors
B．visiting seniors during holidays
C．introducing new friends to seniors
D．teaching seniors to use smart phones
【3】If you want to be a volunteer, what are you required to do?
A．Learn the use of a chat app.
B．Prepare a computer by yourself.
C．Offer a letter of recommendation.
D．Have relevant working experience.
【4】What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To inform the readers of COA.
B．To invite seniors to sign up for COA
C．To introduce volunteer work in COA.
D．To advertise for new volunteers for COA.
23、Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table, reading his book. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to copy him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa, I try to read the book just like you, but I don’t understand it, and I forget what I understand as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the book do?”
The grandpa quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, “Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.”
The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandpa laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little faster next time,” and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned. Out of breath, he told his grandpa that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, so he went to get a bucket instead. The grandpa said, “I don’t want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You’re just not trying hard enough.” The boy again dipped the basket into the river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandpa the basket was empty again. Out of breath, he said, “Grandpa, it’s useless!”
“So, you think it is useless?” the grandpa said, “Look at the basket.”
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean.
“Grandson, that’s what happens when you read the book. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you’ll be changed, inside and out.”
【1】What puzzled the grandson most was _________.
A．why he forgot what he read soon
B．whether it was useful to read books
C．what kind of book he could understand
D．how he could read books like his grandpa
【2】Why did Grandpa ask his grandson to fetch a basket of water?
A．To get him to realize the use of reading books.
B．To punish him for not reading carefully.
C．To clean the dirty basket in the river.
D．To train him to run faster.
【3】What lesson can we learn from the story?
A．The old are always wiser than the young.
B．It is foolish to carry water with a basket.
C．You can’t expect to remember all you read.
D．Reading books can change a person gradually.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A．Grandpa and Grandson
B．Carrying Water in a Basket
C．Baskets and Books
D．Reading for Total Changing
24、 Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect whose tall structures left a mark on skylines and imaginations around the world and in the process reshaped architecture for the modern age.
She was not an average designer. She liberated architectural geometry( 几何), giving it a whole new expressive identity. Geometry became, in her hands, a vehicle for unprecedented and eye-popping new spaces. Her buildings elevated uncertainty to an art, conveyed in the odd ways.
Her work implying mobility, speed, freedom and uncertainty spoke to a worldview widely shared by a younger generation. “I am not European, I don’t do conventional work and I am a woman,’’ Strikingly Ms. Hadid never allowed herself on her work to be categorized by her background or her gender. And she was one of a kind, a path breaker. In 2004, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s Nobel.
Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad on October 31, 1950. Then in 1972, she arrived at the architectural association in London, a center for experimental design. Her teachers included Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas. “They aroused my ambition,” she would recall, “and taught me to trust even my strangest instincts.” By the 1980s she had established her own practice in London. And she began to draw attention with an unrealized plan in 1982—1983 for the Peak Club.
Her partner, Patrick Schumacher, played an instrumental and collaborative role in her career. Mr. Schumacher coined the term parametric(参数的) design to include the computer-based approach that helped the firm’s most weird concepts become reality. Ms. Hadid called what resulted in an organic language of architecture, based on these new tools, which allow us to combine highly complex forms into a fluid(流线的) and complete whole.
Her sources were nature, history or whatever she sought useful. When her Rosenthal Center, a relatively modest project, opened in 2003, Herbert Muschamp, the architecture critic declared it “the most important American building to be completed since the end of the cold war”.
“She was bigger than life, a force of nature,” as Amale Andraos, the dean of Columbia University’s architecture school, put it, “she was a pioneer.”
She was. For women, for what cities can desire to build and for the art of architecture.
【1】What features the structures designed by Zaha Hadid?
A.Free architectural geometry. B.Conventional design.
C.Odd imagination. D.Colorful patterns.
【2】According to Paragraphs 3 and 4, which of the following statement is TRUE?
A.Zaha Hadid taught herself to trust instincts.
B.The plan for the Peak Club hasn’t been carried out.
C.The architect’s gender influenced her work dramatically.
D.Zaha Hadid was the first architect to win the Pritzker Prize.
【3】How did the computer-based approach make a difference to Zaha Hadid’s work?
A.It contributes to realizing the strange ideas.
B.It simplifies the complex structure as a whole.
C.It provides new tools to translate the language.
D.It serves as an instrument to interpret the concepts.
【4】The purpose of the passage is to____.
A.present Zaha Hadid’s life experience
B.praise Zaha Hadid’s inspiration and diligence
C.compare Zaha Hadid’s works in different times
D.show Zaha Hadid’s great contributions to architecture
25、 A group of doves (鸽子) flew long distances but did not get anything to eat. All of them were now completely ________.
A young dove asked the King Dove, “Please allow us to take a ________.” The king replied, “Have courage, my dear. We shall surely get something to eat very soon.”
The young dove started waving his ________ with force and soon left everyone behind. After some time, he turned back and spoke to the others, “I see lots of ________ down there.”
Hearing this, all the doves started rushing towards the grains under a tree. ________ the King Dove said, “There is something wrong. It may be a trap.” But the doves were very ________, and the grains were too inviting. Without giving a thought to the king’s ________, they flew down and started eating the grains. After having a big ________, they tried to fly away only to find that they were caught in a net. Then the King Dove said, “All of you must try to fly with the ________ at the same time and in the same direction, all of you.”
Just then they saw a ________ approaching towards them. The King Dove said, “Now all of you, fly together”.
So all the doves flew away together with the net. The hunter couldn’t believe what he had just seen.
【1】A.excited B.pleased C.tired D.surprised
【2】A.rest B.walk C.chance D.step
【3】A.wings B.claws C.feet D.hands
【4】A.corn B.rice C.peas D.grains
【5】A.Sadly B.Gladly C.Suddenly D.Gradually
【6】A.angry B.hungry C.thirsty D.sleepy
【7】A.kidding B.warning C.lying D.cheating
【8】A.party B.dream C.break D.meal
【9】A.net B.grains C.hunter D.leader
【10】A.dog B.farmer C.hunter D.cat
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。续写的词数应为150左右。
Little Andy was a 10-year-old kid. He had a younger brother named Johnny. Andy was the elder one, but unfortunately he was the troublemaker rather than his brother Johnny. Besides, he often put Johnny in trouble in front of their parents by lying to them so as not to carry responsibility for his actions. However, they trusted Johnny and believed him more than they believed Andy because they knew the two kids well.
Andy tried to make friends in school, but they quickly discovered how he was used to lying and how he loved to play tricks on others. Moreover, Andy always put others in trouble, which was really annoying to them. As a result, people around him stopped believing him and gradually stayed out of his way.
One day, when their parents were out of the house, Andy and Johnny were watching TV. After a while, Andy found Johnny asleep on the sofa. So Andy went to the kitchen and wanted to play a trick on Johnny. He used flour to make some easy bombs and hung them on the door trim line so that when Johnny went to the kitchen and tried to open the door the bombs would fall on him. Then Andy went to the bathroom quietly to color the soap with paints so that if Johnny washed his hands, his hands would be colored. Suddenly, their parents came back and they found that Johnny was sleeping. Their father was going to the kitchen to wash his hands, and their mother was going to the kitchen to prepare food for them. Andy tried to stop them but failed. Soon Johnny was awakened by screams. He looked at his parents and didn't know what had taken place. Their parents both had colored hands and came out of the kitchen covered with flour.
Paragraph 1:
They were extremely angry and asked who did that.
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Paragraph 2:
They thought up a good idea to make Andy pay for what he had done and get rid of his bad habits.
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