1、2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil，which attracted the whole planet，________on the 12 th of June．
A． fell B． set
C． lay D． happened
2、Billy Crystal hosted the Academy Awards again this year, and his talks always ________ the expectation of most audience.
A. put up with B. end up with
C. live up to D. add up to
3、— Jim ________ what I said annoying though he didn’t say anything.
— So you mean you will have to apologize to him?
A.must find B.might find C.should have found D.must have found
4、Only_______ stand-up comedians have become famous as television and film actors later on in life._______ person is Billy Crystal.
A. a few; Such one B. few; Such a
C. a few; One such D. some; A such
5、We’ll have a picnic in the Summer Palace this Sunday ________ it rains or it’s very cold.
A. since B. if C. until D. unless
6、The hotel has been in bad condition these days, thus making complaints from customers seem to be an everyday ________.
A.outline B.occupation C.occurrence D.organ
7、Washington, a state in the United States, was named _________ one of the greatest American presidents.
A．in honour of
B．instead of
C．in favour of
D．by means of
8、The boys were about to go out to play football suddenly it began to rain.
A. when B. as C. while D. then
9、---How about the competition last week?
---Oh, it was not my day. I got the last place.
--- ________. Don’t lose heart, good luck for you next time.
A. What a shame! B. So what ?
C. Sorry to hear that. D. Don’t be afraid.
10、—What are you planning to do this summer holiday?
—Well, I am not so sure now. I ________go to the countryside to visit my grandparents.
A．might
B．need
C．can
D．must
11、—Could you tell me when ________ ?
—At 10:25, in ten minutes.
A．the bus will leave
B．will the bus leave
C．the bus has left
D．the bus had left
12、It be the vocabulary that caused you the problem in the exercise because you know a lot of words.
A．may
B．couldn’t
C．should
D．needn’t
13、With food and drink _________ , the prisoner had to walk out of the cave where he was hiding. which is wrong?
A. used up B. run out
C. running out D. run out of
14、Roger _______painting for a while, but soon lost interest.
A. took out B. took in
C. took up D. took off
15、The house, ________ was destroyed in the terrible fire, has been repaired.
A．whose roof
B．which roof
C．its roof
D．the roof
16、The talk failed because no one could a solution accepted by both sides.
A．make up with
B．put up with
C．keep up with
D．come up with
17、Once you _____ drugs, it’s hard to manage to get rid of them.
A．get through
B．get off
C．get into
D．get down
18、When the boss came in, the workers pretended ______ hard on their machines.
A. to work B. to be working
C. to have worked D. working
19、With the teachers helping him patiently, the boy has made progress _______.
A．instantly
B．intimately
C．steadily
D．literally
20、No matter how much money you have, it can not
________ a healthy body.
A. defeat B. win
C. compare D. match
21、Blowing bubbles is fun! The best thing about bubbles is that it's easy to make your own bubble solution (溶液). You can make as much as you want and blow as many bubbles as you'd like. If you add a “secret” ingredient (配料), you’ll get bigger and stronger bubbles! Do just as follows:
Measure 6 cups of water into one container, then pour 1 cup of dish soap into the water and slowly stir it until the soap is mixed in. Try not to let bubbles form while you stir.
Measure 1 tablespoon of glycerin (甘油) or 1/4 cup of corn syrup (玉米淀粉) and add it to the container. Stir the solution until it is mixed together.
You can use the solution right away, but to make even better bubbles, put the lid on the container and let your super bubble solution sit overnight. The soap mixture on the outside of a bubble is actually made of three very thin layers: soap, water, and another layer of soap. A bubble pops when the water that is trapped between the layers of soap evaporates (蒸发). The glycerin or corn syrup mixes with the soap to make it thicker. The thicker skin of the bubbles keeps the water from evaporating as quickly, so they last longer. It also makes them stronger, so you can blow bigger bubbles.
Dip a bubble wand or straw into the mixture, slowly pull it out, wait a few seconds, and then blow. If you don't have a ready-made “bubble wand”, you can make your own by cutting off the end of the bulb of a plastic pipet. Dip the cut end in solution and blow through the narrow end. You can also make a loop out of thin wire or pipe cleaner. Just twist a round end on your wire to blow the bubbles through. You can even make it heart-shaped, square or use other shapes if you're clever enough to bend it well.
【1】For what purpose is the text is written?
A．To argue.
B．To advertise.
C．To entertain.
D．To instruct.
【2】What does the secret in making bigger and stronger bubbles lies in?
A．The soap.
B．The corn syrup.
C．The water.
D．The straw.
【3】What can you use a bubble wand to do?
A．Blow bubbles.
B．Mix the solution.
C．Measure soap.
D．Shape wires.
【4】What can we infer from paragraph 4?
A．More soap, more bubbles.
B．Less water, better bubbles.
C．Thicker layers, bigger bubbles.
D．Stronger skin, bigger bubbles.
22、Hold your smartphone, smile at the front camera, and click! You get a selfie. There is no doubt that this photo is yours. But if a monkey takes a selfie, does the camera owner have the right to decide how to use it?
Recently, this question has caused a problem between Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, and British wildlife photographer David J. Slater.
In 2011, Slater was visiting a park in Indonesia when a macaque(猕猴) got hold of one of his cameras. “They were quite naughty, jumping all over my equipment,” Slater told The Telegraph, “and it looked like they were already posing for the camera when one hit the button.” The result was hundreds of monkey selfies. The best of images was a female macaque grinning toothily into the lens.
This week, the grinning monkey selfie returned to the news when Wikimedia refused Slater’s request to take the photos down from Wikimedia Commons, a website that is run by the organization and offers free images. 5
According to Wikimedia, anyone who downloads the monkey selfie, or any of the millions of images on the site, can “copy and use any works here freely as long as they follow what the author says.” The question that arose here was whether Slater, who had not held the camera, set up the shot, or pressed the shutter(快门) button, could be considered the photographer of the monkey selfie. Wikimedia’s position on this was clear: as the work of a non-human animal, this photo has no human author who owns the copyright.”
Only authors of creative works, like a piece of writing or a song, own copyrights. In terms of photos, US copyright law says whoever pushes the button on the camera owns the copyright to the image produced, which means that if tourists ask you to take a photo of them, and you happen to hit the shutter button at the exact moment that Justin Bieber, a Canadian singer, made faces behind them. You, as the photographer, would have the photo’s copyright and sell it. The tourists, who own the camera on which the photo was taken and asked you to take the photo don’t get the right to use it without you allowing them to. All this has been complicated by the appearance of surveillance cameras(监控摄像头), smart phones, and large-scale photography projects for which assistants often press the shutter button to produce works whose copyrights belong to their boss.
Slater seems to be thinking along these lines. He says that buying the cameras, spending thousands of pounds to transport himself to Indonesia, and allowing the monkeys to “steal” his cameras makes him the author of the image, regardless of who pushed the button. “In law, if I have an assistant then I still own the copyright,” he told the “Today” Show. “I believe in this case, the monkey was my assistant.”
If that seems unfair, think about this. If a person left her laptop in a café, and a poet picked it up, opened up a word-processing program, and typed out a poem which turned out to be the best poem of this generation, could she ask for much more than her laptop back?
【1】Why did Wikidmedia refuse to take down the monkey selfie?
A. According to Wikidmedia, David J. Slater is not the author and thus has no copyright of the selfie.
B. Wikidmedia believes any human owns the copyright of the monkey copyright.
C. It aims to make profits by posting the selfie on the site.
D. Wikidmedia had got Slater’s permission in advance.
【2】Why is Justin Bieber mentioned in Paragraph 6?
A. To raise an example of exception against the US copyright law
B. To prove that the owner of the camera has the copyright
C. To explain what the US copyright between different parties
D. To reveal the argument of the copyright between different parties.
【3】What is the author’s attitude towards Slater’s claim according to the last paragraph?
A. supportive
B. doubtful
C. approving
D. indifferent
【4】What is the best title for the article?
A. Wikidmedia’s position on copyrights
B. Who owns the copyright of a Monkey Selfie?
C. A female macaque grinning toothily
D. On the copyrights of selfies
23、 Cats certainly know the sound of their food can being opened, but do they know their own name? Cats might be skilled in knowing how to always land on their feet, keep themselves clean, and strategically knock things off the counter, but do they know their own names?
“While cats might not always understand what exactly we’re saying. They definitely can learn to associate sounds with good or bad outcomes,” says Mikel Delgado Cat Behavior Expert with Rover. “When you talk to your cat,they probably respond most to your tone of voice. People tend to talk to their pets in higher-pitched voices which are good at getting their attention.”
Cats can also recognize noises that indicate food or attention is coming. They associate those sounds with a positive experience, so they learn to recognize what they mean.
Delgado adds, “Over time, our pets do learn to associate their name with certain things-like attention, or food. You can help your cat learn their name faster by not using lots of different nicknames, which might be confusing to your pet and they may not always realize tat you are speaking to them, “Your cat is more likely to respond to their human's voice versus a stranger’s voice.” says Delgado.
You can train a cat to respond to words the same way dogs do. In order to train,Delgado says you first need to identify what motivates your cat, like a particular treat or toy. Then start with something simple such as sit.
“Over time, your cat makes the connections between their behavior, your response or the sound, and the treat,” says Delgado. “Then when they want a treat, you might notice that they offer the behavior you trained-such as sitting or rolling over-which is why it’s a good idea not to train your cat to do annoying things.”
【1】What do the underlined words mean in paragraph 1?
A．Stand straight.
B．Escape safely.
C．Find home.
D．Make friends.
【2】What’s the best title of the text?
A．Do Cats Know Their Name?
B．Do Cats Know Their Owner?
C．Can Cats Be Trained Liked Dogs?
D．Can Cats Recognize Noises?
【3】Which of the following statements will Delgado agree with?
A．Cats tend to prefer the voice of strangers.
B．Nicknames will help your cat recognize you.
C．Cats actually respond to people’s tone of voice.
D．Cats can predict what will happen by sounds.
【4】In which section of a newspaper can we read this text?
A．Entertainment.
B．Health.
C．Education.
D．Science.
24、Ramadan is one of the most important festivals for Muslims. The name of the festival comes from the Arabic month‘in which it is celebrated. Ramadan is celebrated in countries all over the world, especially in Africa and the Middle East. The time for celebrating Ramadan varies each year. People celebrate it in the ninth month of the Arabic lunar calendar. During Ramadan, people must not eat during the day: from when the sun comes up to when the sun goes down, people celebrating Ramadan will not eat or smoke. When the sun has gone down, however, the celebration begins. People often stay up all night eating singing and dancing.
In late spring, many people around the world celebrate Easter. The festival is a celebration of spring and it is also a religious holiday. It is the time for Easter bunnies and egg hunts, and of course for eating lots of delicious foods. Easter is celebrated in late March or early April but the exact dates are different form year to year. People celebrate Easter in different ways: in some countries, the Easter Bunny—a big rabbit—will visit and children will go on egg hunts, looking for eggs and candy that have been hidden by their parents. In other countries, Easter is a time for children to dress up like witches and go from door to door asking for candy—much like Halloween in the US. The Easter Bunny and the Easter Egg are popular symbols of the festival.
【1】Ramadan and Easter are .
A. festivals celebrated in Asia and Africa
B. festivals celebrated by people all over the world
C. two names of the year
D. the only festivals that people like to celebrate during the day.
【2】During Ramadan, people do not during Easter.
A. eat
B. sing
C. talk
D. sleep
【3】In some countries, children will go on during the day.
A. picnics
B. egg hurts
C. trips
D. fighting
【4】The two main popular symbols of Easter are the and the .
A. Easter Man, Easter egg
B. Easter Bunny, Easter tree
C. Easter Man, Easter tree
D. Easter Bunny, Easter egg
25、 To this day, I remember my mum’s letters. It all ______ in December 1941. Every night she wrote to my brother Johnny, who had been ______ that summer. We had not heard from him since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Mum claimed that there was a direct ______ from the brain to the written word that was just as strong as the light God has granted us. She trusted that this light would ______ Johnny. I don’t know if she said that to ______ her mind or all of ours. But I do know that it helped us ______ together, and one day a letter from Jonny really did arrive. Johnny was alive on an island.
I had always been amused by the fact that mum ______ her letters, “Cecilia Capuzzi”, and I ______ her about why she didn’t just write “Mum”. I hadn’t been aware that she ______ thought of herself as Cecilia Capuzzi. Not as Mum. I began seeing her in a new light, this small _____ yet strong woman. We often sat recalling the days when our family was filled with laughter of four boys. They had all moved away from home to work, enrolled in the ______, or got married. All except me. Around next spring mum had got two more sons to ______. Little by little, the rumour about mum’s letters ______. One day a small woman knocked at our door. She opened her bag and ______ a pile of airmail letters, begging mum to read them from her son who was a soldier in Europe. Mum read the letters one by one. The woman’s eyes ______ with tears. A few days later the woman returned with a friend, then another one and yet another one—they all needed letters. Mum had become the _______ in our town.
“All people in this world are here with one particular ______,” Mum said. “______, mine is to write letters.” She tried to explain why it ______ her so much. “A letter_______ people like nothing else. It can make them cry, it can make them laugh and it makes the world seem very small. My dear, a letter is life itself!”
【1】A. gathered B. disappeared C. started D. happened
【2】A. called B. drafted C. arrested D. trained
【3】A. link B. signal C. route D. result
【4】A. warm B. guide C. tell D. find
【5】A. focus B. calm C. broaden D. strengthen
【6】A. swing B. struggle C. stick D. settle
【7】A. began B. answered C. signed D. sealed
【8】A. teased B. persuaded C. reminded D. informed
【9】A. never B. seldom C. ever D. always
【10】A. liberal B. delicate C. reliable D. uneducated
【11】A. university B. service C. course D. army
【12】A. cater to B. relate to C. write to D. subscribe to
【13】A. circulated B. arose C. faded D. ceased
【14】A. set out B. pulled out C. put out D. turned out
【15】A. sprang up B. welled up C. looked up D. turned up
【16】A. writer B. editor C. assistant D. correspondent
【17】A. order B. ambition C. letter D. purpose
【18】A. Apparently B. Gradually C. Initially D. Eventually
【19】A. pushed B. challenged C. absorbed D. relaxed
【20】A. unites B. draws C. cheers D. associates
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