1、The white paint was cracked and peeling away from itself in ________ most unpleasant manner unlike the paintwork in the house in Berlin.
A. a B. the C. / D. any
2、--- Each of the students, working hard at their lessons, ______ the book.
--- So have I.
A. is reading B. has read
C. reading D. reads
3、A completely new situation will ______ when the examination system comes into existence.
A. rise B. arise C. arouse D. Raise
4、His vivid descriptions of country life quickly became popular, which established his _____________as one of America's greatest writers.
A.trust B.contact C.reputation D.theory
5、Her ambition is to become__________ Li Na.
A.as a great tennis player as
B.as great a tennis player as
C.a as great tennis player as
D.as great as a tennis player
6、Eat _______ cake you like and leave the other for _______ comes late.
A. any; who B. whichever; who
C. whatever; whoever D. either; whoever
7、_______the virtual world of RealCine, the headsets even have small openings _______ smells to match the environment.
A．Adding to; give out B．Added to; give off
C．To be added to; giving off D．To add to; giving out
8、The more one is the English-speaking environment, the better he or she will learn the language.
A.exploded to B.experienced in C.caught on D.exposed to
9、To improve the quality of our products, we asked for suggestions ________ had used the products.
A. whoever B. who C. whichever D. which
10、If we ___________the flight yesterday, we would be enjoying our holiday on the beach
A. had caught B. caught
C. have caught D. would catch
11、We were required not to ______ any important details before they were made public.
A.try out B.make out C.let out D.break out
12、Since the school in Britain starts around 9:00 a.m. and ends about 3:30 p.m., means I could get up an hour later than usual.
A. this B. what
C. as D. which
13、---Do you know the girl over there?
---Yes, she is Mary, ______ sister I shared a room with when I was in Junior High.
A.that B.of which C.whose D.which
14、Support groups providing _____for people to resist the cravings are available in Darwin and Arlington, with a new group expected to start in Slithered next month.
A．pond
B．backup
C．basement
D．furniture
15、— How is that, Blair?
— I wonder ______ it takes to be a good teacher beyond patience and a great knowledge of students.
A. how is it that B. how it is that
C. what it is that D. what is it that
16、I can never forget the day ________ we worked together and the day ________ we spent together.
A．when; which
B．which; when
C．what; that
D．on which; when
17、I had to catch my flight. That was ________ I left Tom’s party so early yesterday.
A. what B. how C. why D. when
18、You were rude to your classmate, ________ you should make an apology.
A．whom
B．for which
C．for whom
D．which
19、Because he has been out of ________ work for months, the young man now depends on his parents for ________ living.
A．不填; a
B．the; a
C．不填; 不填
D．the; 不填
20、Lynn ________ Florence by plane which ________ at 8:30 next morning.
A．is leaving for; will leave
B．is leaving for; leaves
C．will leave for; will leave
D．leaves for; leaves
21、On average, people spend half an hour of their day standing in lines. And the population of the USA stands in lines for 37 billion hours a year. Can you believe this? Scientists were shocked by this number too, so they came up with some tricks that may help you to minimize the time you waste standing in line at the supermarket. 【1】
Get behind a shopper who has a full cart.
You probably think that this doesn't make any sense. 【2】 Dan Meyer, Chief Academic Officer, found out that if you get behind a person who has 100 items in their cart you will spend 6 minutes standing in line. If you get in a line with 4 people who each have 20 items, it will take nearly 7 minutes. 【3】
Lines on the left move faster.
As most people are right-handed they tend to veer to the right. That's why you had better get in a line to your left.
【4】
According to research, a cashier who doesn't see the whole line serves customers slower.
Check what the customers ahead of you are buying.
You need to do this because ringing up items in solid packaging and glass containers doesn't take much time. It takes more time to scan a barcode sticker（条形贴码）on paper and plastic bags, 【5】 So the person who only has a bottle of milk and soda in their cart will be served faster than a customer with a bag of frozen vegetables.
A．However, researchers prove that this is actually true.
B．Here we'd like to share these tips with you.
C．as sometimes a cashier has to enter it by hand.
D．Don’t pick a line that snakes around a corner.
E．especially if the cashier is an experienced woman .
F．This means that the line with people who have full carts moves faster.
G．Be careful not to pick a straight line.
22、Stop those negative thoughts! When it comes to brain power, it appears your thoughts matter. That was the eye-opening conclusion of a study published in the journal Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
For this study, scientists carefully measured the cognitive(认知)function of 292 middle-aged to older people over a four-year period. The cognitive assessments included measures of memory, attention and language.
The study subjects(实验对象)had their thinking patterns regularly monitored by responding to a series of questions over two of the four years. The thought-pattem questionnaires were designed to identify repetitive negative thinking (RNT for short). RNT includes often thinking about negative past events as well as future sources of anxiety.
About a third of the study subjects had PET scans(正电子发射计算机断层扫描)of their brains tomeasure levels of the abnormal brain protcins, tau and amyloid. Tau and amyloid build up in people affected with Alzheimer’s disease.
The findings? Study subjects with greater RNT-these repetitive negative thought patterns-exhibited a clear decrease in cognitive function and memory over the four-year period. What’s more, they had more tau and amyloid built up in their brains. It is well-documented that our thoughts have powerful, direct effects on our bodies, so these results aren’t surprising.
Thankfully, studies show that we can change our thought patterns through mental-training practices, with meditation(冥想)documented to be one of the very best.
As someone who often got trapped in negative memories of the remote past, I can speak personally to the remarkable power of meditation to relieve this destructive thinking pattern, and I encourage everyone to explore this practice. I meditate every day and gratefully achieve that goal about 90% of the time.
Feel free to share this post with friends and loved ones because one of the greatest gifts we can give is the gift of better health. Enjoy!
【1】How is the subjects’ RNT determined?
A．By measuring their blood level.
B．By analyzing their questionnaires.
C．By monitoring their behaviors.
D．By examining their signs of diseases.
【2】What would be the influence of RNT?
A．Forgetting the negative past.
B．Changeable thinking patterns.
C．Worse body shape.
D．Poorer brain function.
【3】What is a recommended solution to RNT?
A．Having brain scanned regularly.
B．Buiding up our strength.
C．Changing our study pattern.
D．Practicing mental training.
【4】What is the author’s attitude towards meditation?
A．Favorable.
B．Doubtful.
C．Reserved.
D．Unclear.
23、Studying for exams doesn’t necessarily have to be hopeless. While it might take a certain level of organization and dedication, there are some easy steps helping you to spend the exam season!
【1】 Where you choose to study can affect your concentration levels. If you prefer a quiet atmosphere, head to the quiet study areas in your school library. On the other hand, if you need something to concentrate, then choose open study spaces.
Set daily goals. A set of achievable goals will keep you motivated, and they will help you stay on track with your study plan.【2】 After each study session, tick off your daily tasks and set new goals for the next day.
Teach your friends. By going over your exam material with others, you’ll be able to keep knowledge more effectively, and recall information better. 【3】Essentially, you’ll be teaching yourself by teaching others!
Learn in your learning style. Everyone has different ways of learning. Actually, there are several distinct styles with which people usually process information, including aurally, verbally, visually and physically. 【4】
Make a study agreement with friends. If you lack the motivation to study on your own, you could agree to walk to the library with a friend in the mornings, organize revision parties or meet up for study breaks. 【5】 But knowing that others are going through the same thing will keep your head in the game.
A．Create a study plan.
B．Find the ideal learning environment.
C．It’s easy to feel alone during the exam season.
D．It doesn’t even matter if they aren’t in step with you.
E．There are plenty of tried and tested methods you could use.
F．So figure out what your preferred method of learning is and use it!
G．Besides, you will feel a sense of achievement at the end of each day.
24、 Most of us marry creativity to our concept of self either we're "creative" or we aren't, without much of a middle ground. "I'm just not a creative person!" a frustrated student might say in art class, while another might blame her talent at painting for her difficulties in math, giving a comment such as, "I'm very right-brained."
Dr. Pillay, a tech entrepreneur and an assistant professor at Harvard University, has been challenging these ideas. He believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to ignore the traditional advice that urges you to "believe in yourself." In fact, you should do the opposite: Believe you are someone else.
Dr. Pillay points to a 2016 study demonstrating the impact of stereotypes on one's behavior; The authors. educational psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into three groups, instructing the members of one to think of themselves as "romantic poets" and the members of another to imagine they were "serious librarians" (the third group was the control). The researchers then presented all the participants with ten ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up with as many different uses as possible for each one. Those who were asked to imagine themselves as romantic poets came up with the widest range of ideas, whereas those in the serious-librarian group had the fewest. Meanwhile, the researchers found only small differences in students' creativity levels across academic majors.
These results suggest that creativity is not a fixed individual characteristic but a "malleable product of context and perspective, as long as he or she feels like a creative person. Dr. Pillay argues that, besides identifying yourself as creative, taking the bold, creative step of imagining you are somebody else is even more powerful. So, wish you were more creative? Just pretend!
【1】According to the passage， who is more likely to unlock his creative potential?
A.An art major who always believes in himself.
B.A math major who has excellent academic performance
C.A physics major who likes to imagine himself as a poet.
D.A history major who works as a librarian on weekends.
【2】What does the Study conducted by Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar focus on?
A.The creativity of the college students.
B.The stereotypes of the college students.
C.The impact of stereotypes on one's behavior
D.The influence of creativity on one's behavior.
【3】The underlined word in the last paragraph probably means__________?
A.stable B.sustainable C.predicable D.changeable
【4】Dr Pillay may agree with the statement that__________.
A.there is no doubt that we are either creative or not
B.a student who doesn't do well in art class is not creative
C.right brain determines whether a person is creative or not
D.if we pretend to be creative， then we might be really creative
25、Reaching your goals will always require a lot of hard work and focus, but random opportunity also plays a part in getting you where you want to be. However, you need to keep your life ________ with friends, family, and activities that you enjoy in order to be open to these strange, coincidental ________.
The last month my ________ has been on reconnecting with old ________ and colleague. So this past week when we ________ to Indian Springs, California, for the tennis tournament there, I planned a dinner with Hal Morris, a talented speaker who had ________ worked for my company, and his family. The ________ thing was, we ________ staying with some other wonderful people we hadn’t expected to see.
At the ________ itself, we ran into a(n) ________ friends from Utah, Dr. Lynn Rassmussen and his wife. ________ my wife got a ________ from her best friend, Susie, saying with her husband, they were driving down to California. What a big ________ it was to find out we’d all be in California ________. We got together and had the most ________ time.
As we left California, I was thinking how we were able to ________ time with so many great people, and more than half of it hadn’t even been ________. I had started focusing on ________ friends around us and here it was happening more and more on its own. If you focus on what you want and ________ yourself up to opportunities, unexpected things will happen to support and ________ your goals not to mention enriching your life with many pleasurable experiences.
【1】
A．faced
B．filled
C．equipped
D．dotted
【2】
A．lessons
B．regrets
C．challenges
D．chances
【3】
A．focus
B．qualification
C．job
D．demand
【4】
A．students
B．relatives
C．friends
D．teachers
【5】
A．headed
B．exposed
C．returned
D．approached
【6】
A．slightly
B．apparently
C．eventually
D．previously
【7】
A．traditional
B．confusing
C．funny
D．usual
【8】
A．joined up
B．ended up
C．gave in
D．broke in
【9】
A．exhibition
B．presentation
C．tournament
D．consumption
【10】
A．bachelor
B．merchant
C．acquaintance
D．couple
【11】
A．Still
B．Then
C．Lastly
D．Thus
【12】
A．call
B．warning
C．reminder
D．talk
【13】
A．surprise
B．gift
C．pride
D．welcome
【14】
A．in a flash
B．at the same time
C．by and by
D．from then on
【15】
A．confidential
B．temporary
C．forgettable
D．wonderful
【16】
A．waste
B．spare
C．spend
D．take
【17】
A．created
B．predicted
C．mentioned
D．expected
【18】
A．seating
B．finding
C．gathering
D．missing
【19】
A．open
B．help
C．take
D．enjoy
【20】
A．witness
B．advance
C．keep
D．control
26、请根据以下表格内容，以A Big Forest Fire 为题，写一篇英文简讯。
写作内容：
起火时间 | 2007年4月初 |
地点 | 中国东北部 |
起火原因 | 一青年工人吸烟 |
持续时间 | 约一个月 |
参加救灾人员 | 数千名解放军战士与当地群众 |
死亡人员 | 约200人 |
经济损失 | 至少一千万元 |
影响 | 全国震惊 |
［写作要求］：
1. 内容包括以上所有要点，书写工整，必须要有题目，全文词数100词左右；
2. 不能逐句翻译，可以对信息进行整合并用合适的连词连接
2. 参考词汇：东北 northeast 当地的 local 经济损失 economic losses
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________