1、______ patient when you argue with someone who is not so reasonable.
A. Be B. Being
C. To be D. Having been
2、The little girl _______ go to the cinema rather than _______ at home alone that night.
A. prefered; stay B. prefers to; to stay
C. prefered to; stay D. prefers to; stay
3、The ____ in the government economy are beginning to show.
A.breaks B.cracks C.burst D.court
4、On New Year’s Eve, a big fire swept through a top nightclub in Bangkok，__________ at least 60 people, most of__________ were foreigners.
A. having killed; them B. killed; who C. killing; them D. killing; whom
5、The film was made________those brave doctors who went to the front.
A．in spite of
B．in case of
C．in memory of
D．in place of
6、Our friends will be here in half an hour. ________ we’ll have some tea.
A．Up to now
B．All at once
C．In the meanwhile
D．Now and then
7、_________ my nervousness, I finally worked up my courage to give the speech before the public.
A.In case of B.As opposed to C.In spite of D.In consequence of
8、It remains whether he will be fit enough to play in the finals.
A.seeing B.seen C.to see D.to be seen
9、–Mummy, the toy advertised on TV is really fantastic. Will you buy me one?
--OK. You __________ have one if you behave well.
A. might B. must
C. could D. shall
10、Jane won't join us for dinner tonight and .
A.neither won't Tom B.Tom won't either C.Tom will too D.so will Tom
11、Small kindness,if______，can make a big difference to shape a better world.
A.exchanged B.simplified C.multiplied D.advertised
12、I’ll be out for some time. _________ anything important happens, call me up immediately.
A.As if B.Regardless of C.In case D.Now that
13、It was so noisy outside that we ____________ hear what they were talking about.
A. mustn't B. didn't have to
C. ought not to D. couldn't
14、I took my driving license with me on holiday, ________ I wanted to hire a car.
A. in case B. even if
C. ever since D. if only
15、The last half of the 20th century _______ the dramatic change in the means of paying.
A．has witnessed
B．was witnessed
C．witnessed
D．is witnessed
16、The number of firms selling computers in this region ________ since January 2012.
A．are dropping
B．is dropping
C．have dropped
D．has dropped
17、________ the danger of drunk driving, the driver decided not to drive any more after drinking.
A．Aware for
B．Aware of
C．Aware about
D．Being aware that
18、The boy was caught ______, which embarrassed his parents a lot.
A.cheating B.to cheat C.by cheating D.from cheating
19、Put on your coat, ________you will catch a cold.
A．so
B．but
C．and
D．or
20、And when he saw the mists rising from the river and the soft clouds ________ the mountain tops, he was reduced to tears.
A．to surround
B．being surrounded
C．surrounded
D．surrounding
21、If something that you’re doing doesn’t challenge you, then it doesn’t change you. We all need some normal stress in our lives, after all. 【1】 So challenge the following limits:
1. Figure out what you’re scared of and do it continuously.
If you’re a salesman, and you’re scared of talking to people personally or over the phone now, instead of being scared and thinking you’ll fail, spend at least five minutes a day to pick up the phone and make a call. 【2】 But don’t stop on the first try! Eventually, you can look at fear in the eye and say, “Go on. I’m not scared!”
2. Take a class for a hobby you’ve been wanting to develop.
Make sure this hobby is not linked to your career; you have to relax and relieve your stress while performing this. 【3】 Apart from helping you challenge yourself, taking a class for your hobby may also give you extra income.
3. Set aside at least nine minutes a day for physical exercise.
【4】 A simple 9-minute run around your neighborhood can do wonders for yourself. Exercise can not only help you keep your regular weight, but also make you feel better about yourself.
4. Travel and allow yourself to be interested in new people.
Don’t just limit yourself to your fellow travelers—try to connect with the service staff. You never know what kind of people they’re going to be. Get out of your house or go online right now to book your class. 【5】
A．Someone may hang up on you.
B．You should do it continuously.
C．You don’t need to go to the gym.
D．Running in the gym may be a better choice.
E．Start to travel now and learn to challenge yourself.
F．Take a class for a hobby you’ve been wanting to develop.
G．You can never see any improvement if you stick to your comfort zone.
22、 Cool Butterfly Effect: Insect Equipment Could Inspire Heat-Radiating Tech
Devising better cooling materials has become a pressing issue as the climate warms, and some scientists are turning to nature for ideas. Small creatures with low body mass, such as insects, have to deal with the fact that they warm up much faster than large mammals. When butterflies land on tree branches in the sun, for example, their relatively large wings can overheat within seconds.
【1】 Researchers have now uncovered these colorful insects' built-in cooling mechanisms.
Heat is generated by the vibration of molecules. The more molecules a material can expose on its surface, the more heat it can release in a process called radiative cooling. Those made of folded layers shaped like waves, for example, cool off much faster than solid objects because they have more exposed surface area. 【2】 The wings themselves are complex systems that contain both living and nonliving structures, covered by various types of scales made of chitin—a rigid substance that is also found in some fungi(真菌). The researchers found that the scales covering these structures have different shapes that radiate heat in different ways. 【3】
The scientists' work is 'remarkable', says Aaswath Raman, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. '【4】 Butterfly wings are extremely light, and the microstructures involved are extremely small and thin. So this discovery can inspire ways of getting rid of heat in very lightweight systems. '
【5】 It might work in a variety of colors. Many conventional buildings tend to be white because that it does not absorb heat. But painting too many things white does not look pleasing, says Qiaoqiang Gan, a photonics scientist. 'We still need a colorful world, ' Gan says, noting how vivid butterflies are in nature. 'Butterfly wings give us an example that colorful structures can also result in cooling. '
A.So they have evolved sophisticated ways to cool themselves.
B.We can make these microstructures into our own artificial processes.
C.It turns out that parts of butterflies' wings exploit a similar principle.
D.To decipher how these complex systems work, the team studied several types of butterflies
E.Such structures release warmth very efficiently, protecting the organs from overheating.
F.Along with its light weight, a butterfly-inspired cooling material might have another advantage.
G.Although far from a commercial application, such resulting material could eventually be used for purposes such as painting buildings.
23、 Open data-sharers are still in the minority in many fields. Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, because other scientists might be able to make advances not foreseen by the data's producers, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labours online (see Nature 461, 160-163; 2009). When Wolkovich, for instance, went hunting for the data from the 50 studies in her meta-analysis, only 8 data sets were available online, and many of the researchers whom she e-mailed refused to share their work. Forced to extract data from tables or figures in publications, Wolkovich's team could conduct only limited analyses
Some communities have agreed to share online - geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository, and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects - but these remain the exception, not the rule. Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data and the contextual information called metadata; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.
But the barriers are disappearing in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public. Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report Science as an Open Enterprise that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as private preserve. Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before. To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.
Although exhortations to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic. Researchers who share get plenty of personal benefits, including more connections with colleagues, improved visibility and increased citations. The most successful sharers - those whose data are downloaded and cited the most often - get noticed, and their work gets used. For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times. Co-author Amy Zanne, a biologist at George Washington University in Washington DC, thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of' timber. "I would much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions," she says "It's important to allow readers and reviewers to see exactly how you arrive at your results. Publishing data and code allows your science to be reproducible ".
【1】What do many researchers generally accept?
A.It is imperative to protest scientist' patents
B.Repositories are essential to scientific research
C.Open data sharing is most important to medical science
D.Open data sharing is conducive to scientific advancement
【2】What is the attitude of most researchers towards making their own data public?
A.Opposed
B.Ambiguous
C.Liberal
D.Neutral
【3】According to the passage, what might hinder open data sharing？
A.The fear of massive copying
B.The lack of a research culture
C.The belief that research is private intellectual property
D.The concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it
【4】Dryad serves as an example to show how open data sharing ___
A.is becoming increasingly popular
B.benefits sharers and users alike
C.makes researchers successful
D.saves both money and labor
24、 You may ride on your bicycle in a rush to get to school every morning. You may fight to get a bit of space on a bus or on the subway. You may also watch taxis crawl their way through traffic jams.
No matter where you are, all big cities around the world have traffic jams these days. Although they all have their problems, many cities also have a type of transport that has become a cultural icon (文化标识).
In London, to avoid the traffic above ground, people use the “underground”, also called the “Tube”. The city has the oldest and most complicated underground railway system in the world and it is the pride of many Londoners. With 12 lines and 275 stations across the city, the Tube is normally the quickest and easiest way of getting around London. In London, you are never far from a Tube station.
New York is famous for its Yellow cabs. They serve as a quick and easy way of getting across Manhattan, where the subway doesn’t take you everywhere. Stopping a cab is easy, just stick out your arm like what you do in any city. But, with over 12,000 yellow cabs in the Big Apple, they also cause traffic jams.
Since 1873 when the first cable car started public service, the slow and noisy vehicle has been a symbol of San Francisco. Although once damaged by a serious earthquake and challenged by cars, it is never caught in traffic jams and provides better views than the subway.
But there are no such symbols in Los Angeles. If you visit you’d better rent a car. The city’s public transportation is terrible. It can take hours to get across town by bus. The subway covers just a small part of the city centre. The light rail line only runs between the Long Beach hotel area and the city centre. That’s why Angelenos love their private cars more than any other people in the world.
【1】How will you travel if you have a chance to London and want to avoid the traffic jam?
A.Riding a vehicle. B.Taking a taxi.
C.Taking the subway. D.Renting a car.
【2】Which type of transportation has become a cultural icon of the Big Apple?
A.Noisy vehicles. B.Cable cars.
C.The subway. D.Yellow cabs.
【3】Which of the following is not the reason why people in Los Angeles like their private cars?
A.The public transportation is terrible.
B.It is not expensive to take a private car.
C.The underground railway covers a small part of the city center.
D.People have to spend hours getting across Los Angeles by bus.
【4】The passage is mainly about ________.
A.how different the big cities are
B.how to avoid the traffic jams in big cities
C.why London has the oldest and most complicated subway
D.why people call New York the Big Apple
25、It began a year ago, around Christmas.
While driving around the corner of our townhouse sports center, I always noticed an old man sitting by his front yard. He was usually smoking or drinking and looked unhappy.
One day, while I was driving past him with my daughter, I decided to ________ at him with a lot of excitement. At the beginning, when he noticed me waving at him, he looked a bit shocked. Then, I saw his ________ go up and he waved back.
“________ did you wave at him?” my ________ asked.
I told her that it was just an act of kindness that didn’t ________ anything, and it gave both him and me a sense of ________. She reacted by saying that she felt shy about waving to a stranger, ________ next time she would try it as well.
Lucky for us, we lived close to the old man, so we ________ him rather often. Whenever we drove by, both of us ________ wave at him and, pretty soon, the old man started waving at ________ who passed by his house.
One day, my daughter’s friend came to visit and she told my daughter that she saw this ________ old man near our home who waved at her very excitedly. She mentioned that she waved back at him, ________ she didn’t know him, and that it felt really ________.
Upon hearing this, my daughter told her friend the story of how all the waving ________.
Her friend said, “Tell your mom that’s really ________!”
Other friends made ________ comments, and this response taught my daughter just how much an act of kindness can be very natural and effortless, if you really want to ________ it. It ________ us how giving happiness did good to both the giver and the receiver.
Moved by all these good effects, we’re planning to give our elder waving neighbor a thank-you card, to express our ________ for the warmth that he communicated through his enthusiastic (热情的) waves. And to thank him for sharing this simple joy ________ all who pass by his house.
【1】
A．look
B．laugh
C．shout
D．wave
【2】
A．leg
B．hand
C．foot
D．head
【3】
A．When
B．How
C．Why
D．Where
【4】
A．son
B．daughter
C．neighbor
D．friend
【5】
A．cost
B．bring
C．break
D．hide
【6】
A．anger
B．sadness
C．joy
D．pride
【7】
A．or
B．but
C．so
D．for
【8】
A．saw
B．asked
C．thanked
D．visited
【9】
A．might
B．could
C．would
D．should
【10】
A．anything
B．something
C．someone
D．everyone
【11】
A．strange
B．boring
C．relaxing
D．peaceful
【12】
A．now that
B．so long as
C．as if
D．even though
【13】
A．important
B．dangerous
C．good
D．safe
【14】
A．began
B．succeeded
C．remained
D．lasted
【15】
A．different
B．cool
C．easy
D．true
【16】
A．no
B．bad
C．similar
D．different
【17】
A．do
B．get
C．follow
D．keep
【18】
A．made
B．controlled
C．reminded
D．showed
【19】
A．opinions
B．thanks
C．stresses
D．willingness
【20】
A．to
B．in
C．upon
D．with
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。
Different sports filled my days in my youth. I dreamed or a big win some day, with a big trophy (奖杯). I was skillful and fast, or so I thought. However, I soon learned my skills seemed quite weak because the bigger, stronger boys seemed to occupy every corner of the playground. Once I was in the 100-yard hurdles, the only recognition I received for my performance was two bloody knees.
In college, I took a swim competition, dreaming of the glory! It turned out I achieved nothing. As an older adult, I still maintained an active lifestyle. In 2010 I signed up for a stair-climbing challenge to raise money for fighting against lung cancer. My father had died of the same disease, so this was a meaningful cause for me. Then, in 2019,the organization offered an even more challenging climb option: the vertical (垂直的) mile. So I would have three hours to climb up and down twenty-eight floors fifteen times, plus three more.
I trained hard. When the challenge started. I felt confident. But soon my legs started feeling heavy. What was worse, I began experiencing leg cramps (抽筋). My progress slowed dramatically and I quickly fell behind. When came down after finishing lap 14, it was past the time limit, so my big win had escaped once again.
Soon after the climb, I struggled to experience the sense of self-satisfaction. And I had, after all, set a goal for myself to prove what I was made of, what I had inside me. And what I had inside me was, “Nice try, but you didn’t make it.” So, a year later, at age 62 and after numerous workouts, I was back. Like last year, I was well ahead after an hour and I again started feeling some discomfort in my legs. I heard myself cry out loud, “Oh, no not again!” I finally stopped and sat down on the stairs, feeling quite depressed and wondering if my dream was over. A few climbers stopped to offer help. I was touched, but embarrassed to accept. Except for one climber. An angel climber, really.
Jessica, who I happened to know, was a salesman’s friend when I bought new running shoes at his store. And without that connection, she might have climbed past me as I sat on those steps, my legs shaking. But all those things did happen, and Jessica stopped to help.
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。
When she saw I was cramping, she offered me some sports drinks containing electrolytes (电解质).
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The cramps in my legs finally started to go away.
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