1、Fater is very strict _______ us children.
A．to
B．at
C．in
D．with
2、Look out！Don’t get too close to the house ________ roof is under repair．
A．which B．whose
C．what D．that
3、The English language is the grammar and vocabulary.
A. made up into B. made up of
C. made up for D. made up from
4、He found his new job challenging. (判断句子结构类型)
A．S+V
B．S+V+O
C．S+V+IO+DC
D．S+V+O+C
5、On one of the baby’s upward “flights”, I snapped ________, ten years later, remains my favorite picture of father and daughter.
A．which
B．that
C．it
D．what
6、He would never forget the time they first met. It was five years ago he was introduced to the whole class as a new student. Since then the good time they spent together have always stayed in his heart.
A.when, when, / B.that, that, /
C.that, when, when D.when, that, when
7、Children find it ________ to sit still for very long.
A．difficultlies
B．difficulty
C．difficulting
D．difficult
8、However, at times this balance in nature is ______, resulting in a number of unforeseen effects.
A. troubled B. disturbed C. confused D. Puzzled
9、The first thing I have to do now is to cook the dinner.
A. which B. that
C. who D. whose
10、All those scientific and technological ________ make our life increasingly more convenient and comfortable.
A．traditions
B．advances
C．exchanges
D．challenges
11、Holding the class conference is a good way for students to share (分享) information and ________ ideas.
A．design
B．exchange
C．impress
D．explore
12、I am not ______ up late.
A．accustomed staying
B．accustomed to staying
C．used to stay
D．addicted to stay
13、I heard about it ________ from my neighbor.
A．take over
B．apart from
C．in memory of
D．at first hand
14、—How do you find the health club?
—I would rather I ______ it. I feel its management is going from bad to worse.
A.haven’t joined B.hadn’t joined
C.didn’t join D.had joined
15、He decided to find out ________ was the last one to leave the company.
A．what
B．which
C．that
D．who
16、Everything was placed exactly ______ he wanted it for the graduation ceremony.
A．while
B．when
C．where
D．though
17、 you have all finished reading the story, let’s hear your opinions on the main characters.
A. Since B. While C. For D. Unless
18、He got up late and hurried to his office, _________the breakfast untouched.
A.leaving B.having left C.left D.to leave
19、Whenever I ________ difficulties, my parents always encourage me to ________ my dreams.
A．was stuck by, stick with
B．got stuck by, stick to
C．was stuck in, stick with
D．got stuck in, stick to
20、-- Do you agree friends you spend time with will change your life in one way or another?
-- Couldn't agree more. Hopefully our students can show great ________ in their choices of friends.
A. accommodation B. discrimination
C. reputation D. distinction
21、Some polyglots, who can speak quite a few languages, may seem especially talented. Zhao Yuanren, a Chinese-American linguist (语言学家), could speak seven languages and more than 30 dialects (方言). England’s Queen Elizabeth I could speak about 10 languages. A famous Italian named Guiseppe Mezzofanti was reported to have been able to communicate in 30 to 40 languages. Polyglots are indeed amazing, but American teenager Tim Doner is living proof (证据) that anyone can try to be one.
As a child, Tim studied French and Latin at school, but he found it difficult to be interested in just words and grammar rules. When he was 13, Tim started listening to Hebrew rap music. One day, he looked up the words in a dictionary and realized he could put them together to make sentences! By then, he had fallen in love with learning languages. He started looking for people who spoke Hebrew so he could practise, and then, he decided to sign up for a summer Arabic class. One evening, just for fun, he posted a video of himself speaking Arabic and another of him speaking Hebrew. Hebrew and Arabic speakers wrote nice comments (评论) on his videos and gave him advice. Tim loved it. He could actually communicate with people! After that, Tim started looking for new languages to learn and posting more videos of himself speaking new languages, including Chinese. Tim also began to use many other methods to make learning fun.
Tim wishes everyone would learn more than one language and not just as a school subject. “Knowing a language is a lot more than knowing a couple of words out of a dictionary,” Tim says.
Languages are for communicating with people, learning about their culture, and understanding how different people think. “Open up your mind to the fact that language represents (代表) a cultural world view,” says Tim, “You can translate words easily, but you can’t quite translate meaning.” Or, as Nelson Mandela said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
【1】What is the function of paragraph 1?
A．Introducing the topic.
B．Comparing different languages.
C．Talking about some famous people.
D．Raising problems that will be solved later.
【2】How did Tim Doner first become interested in learning languages?
A．By creating Hebrew rap music.
B．By signing up for a winter Arabic class.
C．By posting various videos of himself speaking old languages.
D．By succeeding in making sentences with words in Hebrew rap.
【3】What are languages used for to Tim?
A．Opening up your mind to translating words.
B．Representing an unclear world view of culture.
C．Communicating, learning about culture, and understanding different thoughts.
D．Knowing a couple of words out of a dictionary and translating them into Chinese.
【4】What can be inferred from Nelson Mandela’s words?
A．Speaking native languages can bring speakers closer.
B．The effect of going to heart can be the same as that of going to head.
C．Talking to a man in his language can be of great benefit to translating words.
D．Talking to a man in a language he understands is most helpful to communication.
22、Last week, my younger brother visited me for five days, To ensure I could spend as much time with him as possible, I worked extra hard during the weekend before he arrived.
It amazed me how much I could accomplish when I had a strong motivation to be efficient During the week, I put in a couple of hours in the mornings to handle pressing issues and then spent the afternoons and evenings going out with him. Once again, I was surprised to realize just how much free time was available to me if I consciously chose to be more effective while working. This made me think of Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
I realized then that I'd given myself more time than necessary for work, and as a result, I ended up spending lot of toe procrastinating （拖延）and entertaining myself online.
How might things change for me, I wondered, it I chose to commit to more social and recreational （休闲娱乐）activities, made them priorities(优先事项）and was motivated to finish work quicker?
I realize not everyone has flexibility in their work schedules, but 1 believe we could all create more time for ourselves if we were motivated to cut out the choices that don't match our strongest desires and intentions. Maybe It's zoning out in front of the TV or searching the web. If there's one thing that's consumed my time the most, it's researching how I actually want to spend it.
I believe what English musician John Lennon said is true: Time that you enjoyed wasting was not wasted. I don't think there's anything wrong with using technology if We've consciously chosen to do it.
However, we owe it to ourselves to get out in the world and explore different possibilities -to be playful curious, engaged and just to be.
Perhaps it would be easier to do that if we asked ourselves: How can I be more effective? Can I minimize what I am currently doing? How can I start using the time I've created in a way that will excite and inspire me?
【1】How did the author feel when she finished her work in advance?
A．Guilty.
B．Exhausted.
C．Stressed.
D．Surprised.
【2】What does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A．The change in her work efficiency.
B．Ways of dealing with pressing issues.
C．Her working motivation to be different
D．The time spent with her younger brother.
【3】What does the author advise us to do to make more time for ourselves?
A．Commit to more personal activities.
B．Get your priorities right with your work.
C．Create a tight work schedule for ourselves.
D．Ddn’t waste time on technology for any reason.
【4】What is the author's main purpose in writing this article?
A．To explain what Parkinson's Law is.
B．To reflect on better time management.
C．To introduce how to balance work and life.
D．To show the importance of accompanying family members.
【5】Which of the following is best title for the text?
A．Creating More Time.
B．Living Life to the Fullest
C．Skills for Doing Work Effectively
D．Relationship Influences Work Performance
23、What is volunteer travel?
Volunteer travel involves taking a trip where all or part of the purpose of the trip is to participate in an arranged service opportunity helping others. Typically, the volunteer activity takes place in a foreign country, but some opportunities can involve national or regional projects. 【1】
Charitable interests often go far beyond national boundaries. People in developed countries become interested in the struggles of people in less developed countries. 【2】 Volunteer travel is a way to combine a visit to a new location with meaningful work that has a direct impact on communities in other parts of the world.
【3】 Historically, church groups made up a large part of this market. Once a year a religious organization or church would organize a trip to another country. 【4】 For example, it would be to help build a school in an impoverished(贫困的)area, or dig wells so a village would have clean water, or engage in hundreds of other projects that would impact those less fortunate. As international travel became easier and the Internet made communication between countries much easier, the interest in volunteer travel increased.
【5】 Volunteering in other countries has become as accessible as browsing a website and signing up. Instead of traveling with a group that is organized at the volunteers home base, the volunteer may join a group that gathers at the worksite from all over the world. This sort of volunteer travel is sometimes referred to as voluntourism or vacanteerism.
A．The primary purpose of the trip was very specific.
B．This type of travel has been an option for many years.
C．Educational institutions also made volunteer travel an option.
D．Sometimes, donating money is not enough to satisfy the need to help.
E．The Internet has helped make community service in general more popular.
F．These trips are usually arranged by church organizations, human interest groups or non-profits.
G．A new trend is that for-profit tour operators arrange group travel around volunteer opportunities.
24、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Singapore is a small, flat, marshy island that has been developed to become the most important port and business center in Southeast Asia and one of the ten wealthiest countries in the world in terms of gross national product per capita.
Singapore has a population of 3.5 million people and a high density of more than 500 people per square kilometer. The superior infrastructure—especially the excellent port and international airport—has made Singapore the import and transshipment center for the region. 【1】 These functions are complemented by a large variety of maritime service activities, including banking, insurance, communications, and consulting.
Singapore has diversified its service sector to include a wider range of financial, communications, and management activities and has attracted the regional headquarters of many multinational corporations. 【2】 This diversification, as well as high consumption levels in the domestic market, allowed Singapore to cope with the 1983 oil crisis and 1997 Asian financial crisis somewhat more easily than did other countries in the region.
Singapore has a population of diverse ethnicity and religion, but it is dominated (77 percent) by overseas Chinese, descendants of immigrants who moved to Singapore in the colonial period and followed the religions of Buddhism and Taoism. Other groups include Malays (about 15 percent) and Indians (about 7 percent, mainly Hindu). 【3】 The promotion is especially among the highly educated in order to reduce labor shortages and ensure a workforce to support the older population. Colonial Singapore was residentially segregated, with the British living next to the government buildings on the east shore of the Singapore River, Chinatown on the west riverbank, and Indian and Malay neighborhoods farther toward the east.
The government has made serious attempts to foster harmony between ethnic groups and to create a sense of national identity by designating four official languages (Mandarin Chinese, English, Malay, and Indian Tamil). 【4】 They also enforce Singapore’s image of a clean and crime-free environment through very strict rules against litter and graffiti, media censorship, and licensing of satellite dishes and street entertainers.
A. And tourism has also become a significant industry.
B. Singapore is more a city of tourism than one characterized by heavy industry.
C. It is one of the world’s largest oil refining centers, where crude oil is unloaded and refined before shipment to the rest of Asia.
D. They promote an Asian identity through schools and national military service that emphasize hard work, community consensus, and respect for authority.
E. The city is now characterized by dozens of tall office buildings, housing complexes, new towns and new industrial parks.
F. Fertility rates are low in Singapore, and the government has tried to promote more births.
25、 Last summer, Steller pulled off the freeway on her way to work in Minneapolis. She stopped at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She ________ down her window.
“Hey!” she shouted. “I’m driving around giving ________ haircuts. If I go and grab my ________, do you want one right now?”
The man looked to be in his 60s. He was heavyset, and ________ a few teeth. He laughed, and then paused, “________, I was really hoping to get a haircut.”
“I’ll be right back,” Steller said.
She drove off, went to the salon she owns, and ________ a red chair into her car.
Quickly she ________ back. Then she cut the man’s curly graying hair. The man told her about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Minnesota to be closer to his adult children, and how he still talks to his mom every day.
After Steller was done, the man looked in a mirror and ________, “I look good!” he said. “I’ll have to remember to put my artificial teeth in next time.”
To date, Steller has given about 30 such haircuts to people around the city. These clients are all living down and out, so she is clearly aware of the ________ of her cleanup job.
In fact, for Steller, it’s more than a haircut. It is not only a gateway to show value and ________, but also to get to know people. She wants to ________ relationships.
Steller knows that a haircut can ________ a life because one changed hers: As a teen, she suffered from a disease called ulcerative colitis, which was so ________ that her hair thinned severely. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional haircut.
Sitting down and having somebody look at her made Steller feel that she was a ________ and not just an illness, which helped her feel ________ and less alone.
After that, Steller decided to have her own salon so she could help the people ________ the feeling she’d had that day. Not long after finishing hairdressing school in 2009, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, ________ out to people on the streets. Steller listens to people’s stories of ________, suffering, and struggle to get back on their feet. She believes even if she can’t ________ their problems, maybe she can help them feel less alone for a moment. The attention ________ works.
And it all began with a belief in simple acts of kindness, such as a free haircut.
【1】A.took B.rolled C.knocked D.tore
【2】A.quick B.modern C.free D.luxurious
【3】A.chair B.table C.knife D.glove
【4】A.growing B.showing C.pressing D.missing
【5】A.Actually B.Curiously C.Occasionally D.Particularly
【6】A.turned B.loaded C.fastened D.restored
【7】A.ran B.walked C.cycled D.drove
【8】A.recognized B.wept C.smiled D.guessed
【9】A.power B.profit C.reward D.technique
【10】A.wealth B.pride C.innocence D.respect
【11】A.judge B.build C.break D.clarify
【12】A.make B.ruin C.change D.extend
【13】A.serious B.regular C.natural D.obvious
【14】A.student B.pioneer C.advisor D.person
【15】A.commented on B.cared about C.laughed at D.convinced of
【16】A.feel B.describe C.remark D.transfer
【17】A.showing B.reaching C.speaking D.pointing
【18】A.anger B.envy C.loss D.shock
【19】A.find B.list C.treat D.fix
【20】A.rarely B.accurately C.apparently D.secretly
26、假定你是李华，你在网站上看到一则新闻报道：美国华裔女生Cassandra因突出的写作水平收到了美国八所常春藤高校（Ivy League universities）的录取通知书。请用英语给Cassandra写一封信，向她叙述你在英语写作中的困难，请教提高写作水平的方法，并向她询问出国留学可能面临的挑战。
注意：1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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