1、We don't need air conditioning,_______.
A．nor can we afford it
B．and nor we can afford it
C．neither can afford it
D．and we can neither afford it
2、Yesterday he sold out all his stamps at ________ he thought was a reasonable price.
A．that
B．which
C．what
D．how
3、________colorful charts and graphs, he loaded a new software to help him.
A. Create B. Created
C. Creating D. To create
4、In fact, some accounts suggest that ________ Newton was certainly inspired by a falling apple, there is no proof that it hit him on ________ head.
A．while; the
B．because; the
C．since; his
D．although; his
5、Before stood a terrible man;the little girl could do nothing .
A. she;but cry B. her;but cry
C. she;but to cry D. her;but crying
6、It was a pure ______ that Julia and I toured the University of Oxford on the same day.
A．registration
B．coincidence
C．achievement
D．complexity
7、Once ________above 100 centigrade, water can become vapour.
A．heating
B．heated
C．to heat
D．to be heated
8、Nowadays, many chefs take _____ from old recipe collection and recreate dishes to suit young appetite.
A．purpose
B．potential
C．virtue
D．inspiration
9、We can no longer ________ to consider water an almost free resource that we can use as much as we like.
A.permit B.afford C.expect D.offer
10、I ______ a letter once a week to my family when I was in my first college year.
A. write B. was writing
C. have written D. wrote
11、Synthetic biology, to design and construct new biological parts, devices and systems, is changing many aspects of our life.
A.intended B.intending C.to intend D.having intended
12、We do not permit _______ in the office, so we do not permit him _______ here.
A.to smoke, to smoke B.smoking, to smoke
C.smoking, smoking D.to smoke, smoking
13、They are building the bridge in ______ with another company.
A．construction
B．comparison
C．contrast
D．association
14、Although Jed disagreed with Amy sometimes, he also ____________ strict parenting.
A.protested B.favored C.portrayed
15、I work in a business ______________ almost everyone is waiting for a great chance.
A．how
B．which
C．where
D．that
16、The state has ________ the plan of building the new school, so work on it can begin immediately.
A．concluded
B．cancelled
C．remarked
D．approved
17、—Do you know when Professor Zhong Nanshan was born？
—Yes, he was born 1936.
A．with
B．from
C．on
D．in
18、— ___ have you been in Beijing?
— For five years.
A. How many B. How soon C. How long
19、He was presented with a TV set in________ for his services.
A.award B.reward
C.prize D.result
20、People sit uncomfortably on plastic chairs, reading old magazines, ________ _have been read hundreds of times previously.
A．all of them
B．all of which
C．each of them
D．each of which
21、 One supermarket chain in Finland has come up with a way to reduce food waste. All 900 S-Market stores throughout the country knock 60 percent off already-reduced meat and fish at 9 o’clock each evening in an effort to move it off shelves before expiring (过期) at midnight.
It’s part of a two-year campaign to reduce food waste that company managers decide to call “happy hour” in the hope of drawing in regulars.
It makes customers get super-cheap food, retailers (零售商) don’t have to pay for disposal (and earn more than if they donated the food), and it eases the burden on the planet.
Reducing food waste is not often enough seen as an effective solution to the climate crisis. Energy, for example, receives more focus than food, and yet food is something that individuals can and should solve on a personal level. A recent UN report stated that a shocking one-third of food produced for human consumption never gets eaten. This equals 1.3 billion tons of food worth $ 680 billion. From the report：
“Causes of food loss and waste differ greatly between developed and developing countries, as well as between regions. Reducing this loss and waste would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve food security.”
Supermarkets are well positioned to make a difference when it comes to food waste, but they have to be willing to accept some financial losses. Reducing prices on nearly-expired food is an excellent place to start, as is doing away with bulk discounts, e. g. two for the price of one, which encourages over-buying.
Individuals have a responsibility, too, to eat more of what they buy. Take a moment to look at the contents of your refrigerator and pantry (食品储藏室) before shopping and work with what you have, in order of how soon items will expire. Don’t be influenced by in-the-moment desires that are unlikely to get used in their entirety. Consider mentioning the S-Market initiative (新方案) to your local grocery store, in hopes that it, too, will consider carrying a happy hour of sorts out.
【1】What does S-Market’s act result in?
A．Greater recognition.
B．A win-win-win situation.
C．More financial profit.
D．More new customers.
【2】What can we know about food waste?
A．People are fully aware of the problem.
B．Solving it is an effective way to fight climate crisis.
C．People need to quickly find out the reason for food waste.
D．There's more food waste in developed countries than in developing countries.
【3】In the last paragraph, the author advises readers to_______.
A．buy with care
B．join their local grocery stores’ campaign
C．come up with new ways to solve food waste
D．make sure there’s enough space for food in the fridge
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A．It Is Everyone’s Responsibility to Solve Food Waste
B．Food Waste Hasn’t Been Taken Seriously Enough
C．Finnish Supermarkets Use “Happy Hour” to Fight Food Waste
D．Finnish Supermarkets Sell Nearly-expired Food Uniquely
22、 For Angelo and his sister Felana, it’s the beginning of another school day. They finish their homework, and then walk the few hundred meters from home to school.
Few children in the world look forward to this journey as much as they do. For them, this is a new life. They had nowhere to go before. Now, they have a proper house and go to school—the dream has come true.
In 1989, seventy percent of Malagasy’s people lived below the poverty line because of a war. Madagascar is one of the world’s poorest countries. Fifteen years ago, Father Pedro set up Akamasoa. It is a community of people who work together to help the poor. It has become the biggest humanitarian (人道主义的) project on the island. They’ve built 3,500 houses for 17,000 people.
Angelo’s mother says, “I had built a house with my husband in Tana before we lived in the city but it was destroyed by a big wind and my husband died, I couldn’t afford to send my children to school any more and the house rent in Tana was too high. Then, I was told to see Father Pedro. Thanks to him, today, my children eat at the canteen. We have a house, and I’m working I don’t earn much but we can live now.”
While Angelo shows off to the rest of the class, the fire is lit and lunch is being prepared. It’s Mama Jory’s job in Akamason to make sure that all the children are fed at lunchtime. Jory, the Akamasoa head cook, says, “We feed 7,000 children almost every day. The only day when we don’t cook is Sunday. They don’t eat beans all the time. On Mondays, they get rice, too and green vegetables on Tuesdays and when we have enough money, we cook meat, usually on the weekends.”
【1】What do we know about Father Pedro from paragraph 3?
A. He forced the people to work together.
B. He managed to fight against his enemies.
C. He tried to help the poor people live a happier.
D. He set up an educational organization for the kids.
【2】Why did Angelo’s family move from Tana to the city?
A. She hated the education system in Tana.
B. Her husband had to be treated in the city.
C. She was ordered to the city by Father Pedro.
D. She hadn’t enough money to support her family in Tana.
【3】When can Jory prepare meat for those children?
A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday.
C. On Saturday. D. On Sunday.
【4】What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Angelo is the head cook in Akamasoa at present.
B. The children have rice for lunch on Mondays.
C. Jory cooks beans for the children every day.
D. Seven thousand people work in Akamasoa.
23、 Wearable sensors (传感器) could one day interpret the gestures in sign language and translate them into English，providing a hightech solution to communication problems between deaf people and those who don't understand sign language.
Engineers at Texas A & M University are developing a wearable device that can sense movement and muscle activity in a person's arms. The device works by figuring out the gestures a person is making by using two sets of sensors：one that responds to the motion of the wrist and the other to the muscular movements in the arm. A program then wirelessly receives this information and changes the data into the English translation. “Most of the technology was based on visionbased or camerabased solutions,” said study lead researcher Roozbeh Jafari，an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A & M University.
These existing designs, Jafari said，are not enough，because often when someone is talking with sign language，he or she is using hand gestures combined with specific finger movements.“I thought maybe we should look into combining motion sensors and muscle activation，”Jafari told Live Science. “And the idea here was to build a wearable device.”
The researchers have built a system that can recognize words that people use most commonly in their daily conversations. Jafari said that once the team starts expanding the program，the engineers will include more words that are less frequently used，in order to build up a more substantial vocabulary.
One drawback of it is that the system has to be “trained ” to respond to each individual that wears the device，Jafari said. This training process involves asking the user to repeat or do each hand gesture a couple of times，which can take up to 30 minutes to complete.
【1】How does the new device work?
A.By figuring out gestures from fingers.
B.By connecting the wrist and the fingers.
C.By linking the arm and the fingers.
D.By collecting information from the wrist and the arm.
【2】The researchers eventually decided on a wearable device to ________.
A.make it easier to monitor the gestures when people are talking
B.make the translation process faster
C.compete with existing designs
D.make it userfriendly
【3】We can replace the underlined word in Paragraph 4 by “ ________ ”.
A.necessary B.influential
C.extensive D.essential
【4】What can we infer from the text?
A.The device has greatly increased in sales.
B.The device still requires much improvement.
C.We should work out of 30 minutes.
D.We should be trained to respond quickly.
24、They Consider Rats Lifesavers
When people hear the word “rat”, they may think of dirty animals that spread diseases. And if you are an English learner, you may also connect the word rat with bad expressions. For example, calling someone a rat is a big insult (侮辱) and “rat race” describes a joyless, hurried way of living.
【1】
However, the rat trainers at the nonprofit organization, APOPO, see these animals very differently. 【2】
Based in Tanzania, APOPO trains a kind of rats to find landmines (地雷). And the rats with their extraordinary sense of smell are very good at the job. APOPO calls their animal team Hero Rats.
Ellie Cutright is an APOPO trainer from Charleston, South Carolina. The researcher shared her very high opinions of rats in a discussion with VOA. 【3】 “Everybody should know that these rats aren’t stupid. They’re not terrible animals. They're really intelligent and they can be trained to do some amazing things.”
Human beings have used metal-searching devices to do this work for years. But rats — it turns out — do it better. And they also cost less money.
【4】 “When the rats are working in the field and they find a landmine, they scratch (挠) on the ground and that’s how we know. We place a little marker there, and then we can go safely to remove those landmines and get rid of them.” Once trained, the rats can work in minefields in Tanzania and other countries around the world.
【5】 However, they still do not weigh enough to cause a landmine to explode. Cutright praises the impact of their work. “I think the work that APOPO does is really important in kind of spreading the word that rats are not just a pest. They really are heroes and they show us every day that they are worthy of that name.”
A．So, rats generally are not beloved animals either in life or in the English language.
B．Worldwide there are 110 million hidden landmines left over from wars.
C．A rat is an animal that looks like a large mouse with a long tail.
D．She wants everyone to know how useful these animals are.
E．This kind of rats are large compared to other kinds of rats.
F．Cutright explains how the search process (过程) works.
G．They consider rats “lifesavers”
25、On my way home from work every evening, there would be a homeless middle-aged man standing by the walkway. He was always ________, smiling, and sometimes almost dancing.
Every day after work. I would remember to gather some coins. If I saw him, I'd give him' the coins. A feeling of joy would come over me every time I saw him, as he looked to feel joyful. Sometimes we would ask each other about our day. His ________ would be the same, "I'm fine. Have a bright day. "
It ________ me that even in his situation of being homeless, he was so cheerful. He ________ me of how lucky I was, a single mother of four kids, with a good job to provide for them.
Then one day I was called into my boss's office and was told that I was fired (解雇) due to the weak economy (经济). A feeling of ________ filled my mind immediately, and for the rest of that day all I could think about was "how am I going to ________ my family, and how am I going to pay rent?"
That day I was very sad. I ________ forgot to prepare some coins for the homeless man as usual. As I waited for the red light to turn, he walked over with a big smile and asked, "How is everything going?" I told him I lost my job and felt really bad. "OK, I will give you a dollar today. Tomorrow will be another day, "said the man.
I was deeply ________ and burst into tears. I wanted to hug him! That day what the man handed me was more than a dollar bill. He taught me a ________ lesson. Whatever material things are taken from you, no one can take away your ________ to be joyful. Tomorrow will be a bright day and full of hope.
【1】
A．happy
B．shy
C．nervous
D．careful
【2】
A．task
B．answer
C．reason
D．demand
【3】
A．satisfied
B．frightened
C．disappointed
D．amazed
【4】
A．talked
B．advised
C．reminded
D．warned
【5】
A．worry
B．surprise
C．excitement
D．tiredness
【6】
A．miss
B．support
C．trust
D．check
【7】
A．still
B．once
C．even
D．always
【8】
A．moved
B．hurt
C．lost
D．relaxed
【9】
A．terrible
B．valuable
C．hard
D．strange
【10】
A．cost
B．view
C．stress
D．choice
26、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Eric最近发邮件询问你的职业规划(career planning)，请用英语给他回复，内容包括:
1.理想的职业及原因；
2.职业规划。
注意:1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Eric,
There are various kinds of careers in the world.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua