1、--- I heard that our project will be put off.
--- Really? I suppose it is such bad news most of us will feel upset about.
A.that B.which C.as D.what
2、 _______ a lot of hard work and a touch of luck play a part, perseverance is the key to success.
A．However
B．When
C．Whether
D．While
3、Tom’s mother kept telling him that he should work harder, but ______didn’t help．
A．he
B．which
C．it
D．one
4、—I hear that Amy is trying to lose weight by taking weight-loss pills.
—In my opinion, looking good is important, but , staying healthy is far more important.
A.after all B.in all C.at all D.above all
5、She fell asleep while she ________ newspapers.
A. was about to read B. was reading C. had read D. was to read
6、According to the rules of the company, those who ________ the great loss of money will be fired.
A．are aware of
B．are qualified for
C．are concerned about
D．are responsible for
7、In the zoo，the number of visitors is tightly to avoid putting stress on the animals.
A. limited B. encouraged
C. expected D. intended
8、____ the driving test, Kim was unwilling to face his disappointed wife.
A. Not having passed B. Having not passed
C. Not passing D. Not passed
9、The more they ________ his background, the more distrust they had in him.
A．told off
B．probed into
C．crossed out
D．gave their all to
10、—I have been considering cancelling (取消) the project because it seems hard to go farther.
—But it’s too early to ______ now. There’s still much hope.
A．pave the way
B．throw in the towel
C．pop up
D．max out
11、—I wonder what makes you a successful manager.
—I ________ as a waiter for five years， which contributes a lot to my today’s work.
A．serve B．have served
C．had served D．served
12、—Will Bob help me look after my pet dog when I'm away.
—Of course. He won't________ your request. He loves animals a lot.
A．put down
B．write down.
C．turn down
D．take down
13、_________ with heavy loads of teaching _________ he later became an easy target of the flu．
A．So tired was the teacher； that
B．The teacher was so tired； which
C．Tired as the teacher； that
D．Such was the tired teacher； which
14、Only after the driver was sent to hospital ________ how seriously he was hurt in the accident.
A．we knew
B．we had known
C．had we known
D．did we know
15、Lily’s drawing may not be excellent, ______ I know she has done her best.
A. so B. although
C. before D. as
16、The engineer is reported the longest bridge of the country.
A.having designed B.have designed C.to have designed D.to design
17、It was in Germany ______ he received his first education.
A．that
B．where
C．which
D．when
18、________ some teenagers don't realize is ________ difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs.
A. What; that B. That; what
C. What; how D. That; how
19、The school advisers help you talk through your problems but they don’t give you any direct ______.
A．solution
B．target
C．measure
D．function
20、 It is reported that the number of tourists visiting Hong Kong this year is smaller than ________of last year.
A. it B. that C. one D. those
21、Java’s Cafe is a fundamental extension of the Rochester experience, opening its arms to comfort coffee, tea, and dessert lovers alike. For the typical UR students, the Java’s on Gibbs St. has become a place of solace during stressful testing times, and on more heartwarming occasions, a social hub.
Slowly approaching its thirties, Java’s has enjoyed a good reputation in its local. In 1978, Java Joe created a coffee farm in Hawaii. With great dedication to his craft, the great master of coffee beans made his way to Rochester then. In 1992, Joe decided to start selling coffee at the Public Market and opened up a store on Gibbs St. with the help of Michael Calabrese. This location, next to the Eastman School of Music, is the first of many shops Java Joe opened. As a lover of the blues, Joe enthusiastically decorated this flagship store with artistic and musical influence.
After Gibbs location, Joe planted Java Joe’s where he was first starting out—in the Public Market. Later, Java Joe’s moved to a nearby building, and received a name change—Java’s at the Market Coffee Roasters. This building served as a place where those who visited would often catch a glimpse of Joe skillfully roasting his coffee beans in the dancing flames and cultivating his drinks with care. However, in 1997 he licensed “Java Joe’s” to Calabrese, who then renamed the Gibbs Cafe to what we know today—Java’s Café.
Joe remained in the Public Market location until he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Joe died of lung cancer at 68. The influence he had poured into his business is well-known and highly regarded. He has won many awards in his life.
The next time you head down to Gibbs St. for your morning cup, keep in mind the extraordinary story of how that cup came to be, all thanks to Java Joe.
【1】What does the underlined word “solace” in paragraph 1 probably mean?
A．Tension.
B．Anxiety.
C．Safety.
D．Relief.
【2】What is true about Java’s Café on Gibbs St.?
A．The name of the shop keeps unchanged up to now.
B．It was popular with the locals and students as well.
C．Java Joe had the ownership of the shop in 1997.
D．It is the flagship store and has won several awards.
【3】What is special about Java’s at the Market Coffee Roasters?
A．Joe’s specially-made coffee beans.
B．Its super-quality coffee and service.
C．Joe’s demonstration of coffee-making skills.
D．Its attraction to the music school students.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A．The popularity of Java’s Cafe.
B．The development of the coffee industry.
C．The contribution Joe made to Rochester.
D．The founder and development of Java’s Cafe.
22、In all of the Jurassic Park movies, dinosaurs (恐龙) are the stars of the show. The way the dinosaurs look and move is amazing — they seem so real. But dinosaurs haven’t lived on our planet for the last 65 million years. So how do filmmakers bring them to life? They ask paleontologists (古生物学家) for help.
Paleontologist Tyler Lyson has been interested in dinosaurs since he was a child. He grew up in the countryside in the western United States and found his first dinosaur fossil (化石) when he was only six years old. Lyson says the best way to learn about dinosaurs is to look at fossils. Fossils and footprints help scientists understand how dinosaurs looked, moved, and lived.
Filmmakers use fossils and other research from paleontologists to build dinosaurs for their movies. But they also have to imagine. The dinosaur builders have to decide what color the dinosaurs are, what patterns (图案) the dinosaurs have, how long their tails are...
Another very important thing that helps bring dinosaurs to life is the computer. After dinosaur builders make dinosaur models, they put pictures of them into a computer, and then use CGI — computer-generated imagery (计算机生成影像) to make them move. Filmmakers have used CGI for all the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies.
Paleontologists still have a lot of questions about dinosaurs. What did they sound like? How did they look for food? What did they eat? The answers to these questions will help filmmakers create even more realistic dinosaurs than ever before.
【1】What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A．The Jurassic Park movies.
B．Paleontologists.
C．The last 65 million years.
D．Dinosaurs.
【2】What does Lyson think is the best way to learn about dinosaurs?
A．Reading books.
B．Looking at fossils.
C．Watching movies.
D．Going to the countryside.
【3】What’s Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A．Why CGI is popular.
B．Why filmmakers build dinosaurs.
C．How dinosaur models are brought to life.
D．What questions paleontologists still have.
【4】What can we know from the passage?
A．Lyson’s interesting dinosaurs started young.
B．Some paleontologists also make dinosaur movies.
C．Dinosaurs appeared on our planet 65 million years ago.
D．Paleontologists already know what dinosaurs sounded like.
23、 One of the executives gathered at the Aspen Institute for a day-long leadership workshop using the works of Shakespeare was discussing the role of Brutus in the death of Julius Caesar. “Brutus was not an honourable man,” he said. “He was a traitor (叛徒). And he murdered someone in cold blood.” The agreement was that Brutus had acted with cruelty when other options were available to him. He made a bad decision, they said — at least as it was presented by Shakespeare — to take the lead in murdering Julius Caesar. And though one of the executives acknowledged that Brutus had the good of the republic in mind, Caesar was nevertheless his superior. “You have to understand,” the executives said, “our policy is to obey the chain of command.”
During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare’s wisdom for profitable ends. None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman, well-known former advisers to the White House, who started up a training company called “Movers and Shakespeares”. They are amateur Shakespeare scholars and Shakespeare lovers, and they have combined their passion and their high-level contacts into a management training business. They conduct between 30 and 40 workshops annually, dealing with half a dozen different plays, mostly for corporations, but also for government agencies.
The workshops all take the same form, focusing on a single play as a kind of case study, and using individual scenes as specific lessons. In Julius Caesar, for example, Cassius’s sly provocation (狡诈的挑唆) of Brutus to take up arms against Caesar was the basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organizing.
Although neither of the Adelmans is academically trained in literature, the programs contain plenty of Shakespeare tradition and background. Their workshop on Henry V, for example, includes a helpful explanation of Henry’s winning strategy at the Battle of Agincourt. But they do come to the text with a few biases (偏向): their reading of Henry V minimizes his misuse of power. Instead, they emphasize the story of the youth who seizes opportunity and becomes a masterful leader. And at the workshop on Caesar, Mr. Adelmans had little good to say about Brutus, saying “the noblest Roman of them all” couldn’t make his mind up about things.
Many of the participants pointed to very specific elements in the play that they felt to be related. Caesar’s pride, which led to his murder, and Brutus’s mistakes in leading the traitors after the murder, they said, raise vital questions for anyone serving in a business when and how do you resist the boss?
【1】According to paragraph 1, what did all the executives think of Brutus?
A．Cruel.
B．Superior.
C．Honourable.
D．Rude.
【2】According to the passage, the Adelmans set up “Movers and Shakespeares” to ________.
A．help executives to understand Shakespeare’s plays better
B．give advice on leadership by analyzing Shakespeare’s plays
C．provide case studies of Shakespeare’s plays in literature workshops
D．guide government agencies to follow the characters in Shakespeare’s plays
【3】Why do the Adelmans conduct a workshop on Henry V?
A．To highlight the importance of catching opportunities.
B．To encourage masterful leaders to plan strategies to win.
C．To illustrate the harm of prejudices in management.
D．To warn executives against power misuse.
【4】It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A．the Adelmans’ program proves biased as the roles of characters are maximized
B．executives feel bored with too many specific elements of Shakespeare’s plays
C．the Adelmans will make more profits if they are professional scholars
D．Shakespeare has played an important role in the management field
24、 If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis: if our lives were ever in balance-parents happy, kids taken care of, work working-then our overriding thought would be to shout “Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.
Yet work is not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life-just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love.
We have interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients. Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does.
Think of your life’s many different activities as threads. Some are black and some are white. But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance. These activities contain all the tell-tale signs of love: before you do them, you find yourself looking forward to them; while you’re doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself in flow; and after you’ve done them, you feel energetic. These are your red threads, and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout.
The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column “Love”. And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write down what you were doing in the column “Loathe”. By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your “Love” column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up.
Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best.
【1】What is the author’s attitude towards work-life balance?
A.Doubtful. B.Disapproving.
C.Supportive. D.Neutral.
【2】The author uses three anesthesiologists as examples to ________.
A.prove people benefit from work
B.indicate doctors take pride in their work
C.show people gain joy from different situations
D.imply doctors reduce the pressure of work successfully
【3】“Red threads” in Paragraph 4 refer to the activities that ________.
A.arouse your passion B.satisfy your desires
C.improve your motivation D.require your efforts
【4】Which of the following does the author probably agree with?
A.Red threads are necessary for a balanced life.
B.Recording activities helps create positive feeling.
C.Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance.
D.Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work.
25、As a junior student in middle school, I hadn’t seen my primary school for nearly two years. The ____ of this childhood paradise (天堂) had begun to fade (淡化). As I ____ my primary school, I remembered the past times and missed my teachers very much, ____ asked my father to drive me to ____ my old school.
After circling around several street comers, we arrived. I ____ jumped from the car and ran towards the huge, black ____.Standing beside the gate, I could clearly remember a (an) ____ girl with a thin body and a pink schoolbag running through the gate and ____ with her friends. The girl was me then. Entering the gate I felt ____ was the same the red classroom buildings, and the playgrounds covered with ____ green grass. I stood on the playground where I’d once ____ with nose bleeding (流鼻血).My PE teacher supported me up and wiped my ____ with a clean towel.
I heard the ring of the school ____. Children ran from the classrooms and ran onto the playground, laughing and talking. Some played sports. ____ others played games. ____ had the bell rung again when everyone entered the classroom, leaving me standing ____. I looked around, and my mind was filled with the____ memories of the past.
I walked along the school road which ____ me back to the school gate. With a heavy heart, I climbed back into the ____ “This is the place that helped me grow.” I said to myself. I was really thankful for the teachers as I said “goodbye” to the place that ____ so much to me. I knew I would visit it for a second time, third time and more.
【1】A. imagination B. information C. dreams D. memories
【2】A. looked back to B. though badly of C. looked forward to D. highly of
【3】A. yet B. so C. but D. or
【4】A. find B. check C. visit D. watch
【5】A. gently B. heavily C. slowly D. quickly
【6】A. building B. gate C. hall D. library
【7】A. fat B. lonely C. small D. shy
【8】A. laughing B. quarrelling C. discussing D. dancing
【9】A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything
【10】A. wet B. weak C. lively D. short
【11】A. come up B. fallen down C. got out D. walked around
【12】A. nose B. face C. mouth D. head
【13】A. clock B. equipment C. piano D. bell
【14】A. when B. as C. while D. until
【15】A. Partly B. Hardly C. Fairly D. Suddenly
【16】A. alone B. ahead C. aside D. still
【17】A. unpleasant B. reasonable C. necessary D. wonderful
【18】A. pointed B. led C. showed D. put
【19】A. bus B. plane C. car D. train
【20】A. meant B. told C. added D. cared
26、近期你校将举办英语演讲比赛，请你以Be an excellent worker为题，写一篇参赛稿。内容包括：
1.劳动的意义；
2.提出倡议。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.题目已为你写好。
Be an excellent worker
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