1、He felt a sense of relief _______ he got his medical examination report.
A.as long as B.so that C.the moment D.as if
2、Most students are making great efforts to study on line _____ their eyes suffer a lot after long hours' focus on the computer or phone.
A.in case B.even if C.now that D.so that
3、—May I help you, Madam?
—How terrible! The things in my shop ________ frequently these days.
A.have stolen B.are being stolen C.had stolen D.was stolen
4、 To prevent the disease from spreading, all the infected（感染的）chicks were buried _______.
A. alive B. lively C. live D. living
5、Sam________some knowledge of the computer just by watching others working on it.
A．brought up B．looked up C．picked up D．set up
6、What they cannot say is _____ when and where the next earthquake will strike.
A.appropriately B.anxiously C.arbitrary D.precisely
7、The newly-published dictionary will be of great help to foreigners ________ Chinese.
A．learn
B．learnt
C．learning
D．having learnt
8、It is said that pandas ________ in our country year after year.
A．are being disappeared
B．are disappearing
C．will be disappeared
D．will disappear
9、At the evening party the host said ________ was able to solve the riddle could get a nice present as a reward.
A．whoever
B．who
C．no matter who
D．whomever
10、We’ve advanced a number of new technological innovations helpful in opening additional markets for our products in the future.
A.we believe are helpful B.that we believe they are helpful
C.as we believe are D.which we believe
11、We do not permit _______ in the office.
A. others smoking B. to smoke C. smoked D. smoking
12、New version of Paris climate agreement ___________, the whole world has seen a promising future of lower planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
A. releasing B. released
C. has released D. has been released
13、The injured from the shock in the traffic accident are lying in the hospital at the moment．
A．suffering
B．suffered
C．suffer
D．to suffer
14、 In some languages, 100 words make up half of all words _______in daily conversations.
A．using
B．to use
C．having used
D．used
15、______ he referred to in his article was unknown to the general reader.
A．That
B．What
C．Whether
D．Where
16、The eco-friendly water bottles are easy to ______, which causes no harm to the environment.
A.break down B.burn out C.burst out D.put down
17、Currently, almost 50 percent of jobs, including journalism, ________ with technology that can operate automatically.
A．has been replacing
B．is being replaced
C．have been replacing
D．are being replaced
18、Mark has many friends online, but he still feels lonely and ________ from others.
A．deadly
B．isolated
C．dissatisfied
D．positive
19、Mr. Johnson, please give me a chance, I promise I’ll give you a wonderful surprise.
A. then B. or C. and D. when
20、The exciting moment those little boys had been looking forward to ____ at last.
A．coming
B．came
C．to come
D．come
21、Weather reports often mention high or low pressure systems headed toward a city or town. If you’re in the path of one of these systems, expect a change in weather conditions. High and low pressure systems operate using similar principles, but the effects they produce differ significantly.
View a weather map, and you may see distinct regions that represent different air masses. An air mass is a region of air that has about the same humidity(湿度)and temperature throughout. When an air mass remains over a location for a while, it decides the characteristics of the region. Air masses can be cold or warm and they may contain wet or dry air. All air masses have the ability to move away from their source region into other locations.
Meteorologists(气象学家)call the boundary between two air masses a front. A cold front’s motion through a warm front is a low-pressure system. If a cold air mass replaces a warm air mass, you have a cold front. Air in the cold air mass is often drier than air in front of it. As the air masses meet, the wind u- sually changes direction and rain or thunderstorms often occur.
A warm front is associated with a high-pressure system and occurs when a warm air mass replaces a colder air mass. A high-pressure system often brings clear, calm weather. Warm fronts travel slowly and are weaker than cold fronts.
Cold fronts move faster than warm fronts because a cold front contains denser air. Cold fronts also of- ten travel from west to east while warm fronts move from north to south. As a warm front approaches, temperatures may rise as warmer air flows in from a warm air mass. However, when the cold front hits, temperatures can drop precipitously within a short time.
【1】How is the temperature of a region under a certain air mass?
A．Unusual.
B．Stable.
C．Diverse.
D．Changeable.
【2】What happens when two air masses meet?
A．A clear sky appears.
B．A heavy snow is formed.
C．The air becomes drier.
D．The wind changes directions.
【3】What does the underlined word “precipitously” in the last paragraph mean?
A．Sharply.
B．Slowly.
C．Hardly.
D．Smoothly.
【4】What is the best title for the passage?
A．The Formation of Air Masses
B．The New Findings of Meteorologists
C．The Effects of Air Mass and Fronts on Weather
D．The Methods for Accurate Weather Forecasts
22、Carola’s parotia, one of the fascinating and unique birds of paradise that live on the island of New Guinea, begins his dance. This male bird is attempting to impress a row of females watching him from a branch above.
It seems that the more extreme the male’s costume and colors, the better his chance of attracting a mate. While some birds of paradise perform alone, others, like Goldie’s birds of paradise, often perform together, creating an eye-catching performance that female birds find impossible to resist.
These brilliantly colored birds of paradise have evolved (进化) over millions of years from ancient birds whose feathers were dark and boring in comparison. It seems to be a contradiction that such extreme feathers and colors could have been favored by the process of evolution. After all, these same brightly colored feathers also make them much more noticeable to predators and slow the birds down. The forest of New Guinea is a perfect environment for birds. In fact, sexual selection has been the driving force in evolution of birds of paradise. Over millions of years, they have slowly undergone changes in their color, feathers and other talents. Characteristics that made one bird more attractive than another were passed on and enhanced over time. The usual rules of survival aren’t as important here as the rules of successful mating.
In the past, demand for the birds’ beautiful feather resulted in a huge amount of hunting. In the early 1900s, 80,000 shins a year were exported from New Guinea for European ladies’ hat. However, surprisingly few birds die for these costumes nowadays. Local people are still permitted so hunt birds of paradise for traditional uses. However, hunters usually target older male birds, leaving younger males to continue breeding (繁殖).
There are more serious threats to the birds’ welfare like illegal markets, the large-scale industrial logging, oil prospecting and mining presenting dangers to the birds’ habitats. Meanwhile, human populations continue to grow. Land is owned by different local families whose leaders disagree about which areas should be protected.
【1】Which type of bird dances in a group?
A．Male Carola’s parotia.
B．Female Carola’s parotia.
C．Male Goldie’s bird of paradise.
D．Female Goldie’s bird of paradise.
【2】The underlined word “predators” in Paragraph 3 is closest to “________” in meaning.
A．partners
B．killers
C．surroundings
D．observers
【3】What is the key factor that contributes to the evolution of the birds of paradise?
A．Pleasant environment.
B．Attack of enemies.
C．Competing for survival.
D．Choosing a mate.
【4】What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?
A．The birds’ habitats are threatened.
B．Older female birds are preferred by hunters.
C．Local people are forbidden to hunt the birds.
D．A demand for feather hats leads to the huge death of the birds.
23、Sam Allred suffers from a rare and incurable kidney (肾脏) disease. One day, when his sister was playing a song repeatedly, Sam sang along. His sister thought it was funny so she recorded it and posted the video online. The video — and Sam — became a hit. Only 8 years old at the time, he couldn’t have expected the response.
“(The television show) The Doctors called and wanted me on their show so they paid for me to go to California,” says Sam, now 13, “and we got to stay in a hotel where all the movie stars stayed.”
During that visit to California, Angie Allred, Sam’s mother, had an idea about Sam writing a children’s book. Together, she and Sam wrote Opening Hearts, which tells Sam’s experience of living with a chronic (慢性的) illness.
“I wrote the book to teach people to be kinder to people,” Sam says.
Moreover, Sam wanted to send pillows to sick children staying in hospitals around the country to make their stay more comfortable, an idea that came from a time when he was in the hospital.
“A few kind boys came in with pillows and they gave me one and it meant a lot to me that someone cared about kids in the hospital,” says Sam.
Angie thought of starting a nonprofit organization to provide a way for people to contribute money to realize Sam’s ideas. She named the nonprofit Kindness for Kids.
Since then, Sam has taken pillows to children staying at Providence Hospital in Anchorage.
Sam’s father, Scott Allred, owns a small business that contracts (承包) shipping services with FedEx Ground. He asked the company for help.
“FedEx Ground learned about Sam’s pillow project,” says Erin Truxal, manager of public relations for FedEx Ground. “We thought, ‘What a perfect way for us to get involved.’”
The company provided shipping services for Sam to ship about 5,000 pillows to hospitals.
Sam wants to send more pillows to all of the children’s hospitals in every state. His goal is simple: “Kids in the hospital as happy as they were before they got sick,” he says.
【1】We can learn from the text that Sam Allred _____.
A. was a healthy boy
B. was popular at an early age
C. sang the song with his sister
D. worked in his father’s company
【2】 Opening Hearts is a book that _____.
A. is a best seller
B. is about Sam’s sister
C. was published when Sam was 13
D. was written by Sam and his mother
【3】What is FedEx Ground’s attitude towards Sam’s career?
A. Doubtful. B. Surprised.
C. Approving. D. Uninterested.
【4】Which of the following can best describe Sam Allred?
A. Optimistic and warm-hearted.
B. Honest and responsible.
C. Unusual and confident.
D. Friendly and brave.
24、By now you’ve probably heard about the “you’re not special” speech, when English teacher David McCullough told graduating seniors at Wellesley High School: “Do not get the idea you’re anything special, because you’re not.” Mothers and fathers present at the ceremony — and a whole lot of other parents across the Internet — took issue with McCullough’s ego-puncturing words. But lost in the uproar was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they’re particularly talented or accomplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their self-esteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything from math to music to sports. In fact, it’s not just privileged high-school students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average.
Such inflated self-judgments have been found in study after study, and it’s often exactly when we’re least competent at a given task that we rate our performance most generously. In a 2006 study published in the journal Medical Education, for example, medical students who scored the lowest on an essay test were the most charitable in their self-evaluations, while high-scoring students judged themselves much more strictly. Poor students, the authors note, “lack insight” into their own inadequacy. Why should this be? Another study, led by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, offers an enlightening explanation. People who are incompetent, he writes with coauthor Justin Kruger, suffer from a “dual burden”: they’re not good at what they do, and their very incapability prevents them from recognizing how bad they are.
In Dunning and Kruger’s study, subjects scoring at the bottom of the heap on tests of logic, grammar and humor “extremely overestimated” their talents. What these individuals lacked (in addition to clear logic, proper grammar and a sense of humor) was “metacognitive skill”: the capacity to monitor how well they’re performing. In the absence of that capacity, the subjects arrived at an overly hopeful view of their own abilities. There’s a paradox here, the authors note: “The skills that lead to competence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that domain.” In other words, to get better at judging how well we’re doing at an activity, we have to get better at the activity itself.
There are a couple of ways out of this double bind. First, we can learn to make honest comparisons with others. Train yourself to recognize excellence, even when you yourself don’t possess it, and compare what you can do against what truly excellent individuals are able to accomplish. Second, seek out feedback that is frequent, accurate and specific. Find a critic who will tell you not only how poorly you’re doing, but just what it is that you’re doing wrong. As Dunning and Kruger note, success indicates to us that everything went right, but failure is more ambiguous: any number of things could have gone wrong. Use this external feedback to figure out exactly where and when you screwed up.
If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children — they won’t need parents, or a commencement (毕业典礼) speaker, to tell them that they’re special. They’ll already know that they are, or have a plan to get that way.
【1】Which can be the best title of this passage?
A．Special or Not? Teach Kids To Figure It Out
B．Let’s Admit That We Are Not That Special
C．Tips On Making Ourselves More Special
D．Tell The Truth: Kids Overestimate their Talents
【2】The author thinks the real problem is that ______.
A．we don't know whether our young people are talented or not
B．young people don't know how to assess their abilities realistically
C．no requirement is set up for young people to get better
D．we always tend to consider ourselves to be privileged
【3】Which is NOT mentioned about poor students according to the passage?
A．They usually give themselves high scores in self-evaluations.
B．They tend to be unable to know exactly how bad they are.
C．They are intelligently inadequate in tests and exams.
D．They lack the capacity to monitor how well they are performing.
【4】We can infer from the passage that those high-scoring students ______.
A．know how to cultivate clear logic and proper grammar
B．tend to underestimate their performance because they know their limits
C．tend to regard themselves as competent due to their strict self-judgement
D．tend to be very competent in judging their performance in their high-scoring fields.
25、Culture shock is a complex topic, but I’m a simple man with simple perspective. So my experience of foreign culture boils down to (归结为) three basic stages: anger, acceptance and appreciation.
When I _______ my life in China, I was often filled with frustration and anger over the way things were. Things were seen as clearly “_______” and I rejected the view of there being other ways of doing things. Afterwards I came to _______ different ways of doing things _______ still saw my own ways as superior.
My views were still heavily colored by preferences and I often accepted situations I felt _______ by simply coining the phrase “That’s China”, _______ China was a backward country that simply didn’t do things correctly. Finally, _______, I came to understand and appreciate the new culture and ways of doing things, sometimes using them as effectively as the _______
For example, fish is never _______ with the head in my country, thus my feelings went from “Ugh! I can’t eat this! The fish is ________ at me saying, ‘You’re a cruel man.’ Take this off the table.” to “I’ll let my friends enjoy it, but I’ll just stick with the other ________.” and to “Would anyone mind if I eat the eyeball?”
It is not the same with every westerner, and some take longer than others to go through the three stages. It all depends on how ________ you are and how tightly you________ to your own culture. It took a little over a year of living in China ________ I finally appreciated the new culture. Now, I’m more ________ in China than in my own country.
【1】
A．ended
B．began
C．continued
D．enjoyed
【2】
A．wrong
B．right
C．wise
D．smooth
【3】
A．find
B．use
C．accept
D．refuse
【4】
A．or
B．but
C．while
D．so
【5】
A．necessary
B．important
C．nervous
D．stupid
【6】
A．mentioning
B．saying
C．meaning
D．referring
【7】
A．therefore
B．however
C．besides
D．thus
【8】
A．locals
B．foreigners
C．researchers
D．citizens
【9】
A．bought
B．sold
C．served
D．separated
【10】
A．glancing
B．laughing
C．shouting
D．staring
【11】
A．fishes
B．vegetables
C．dishes
D．soups
【12】
A．adaptable
B．considerable
C．dependable
D．enjoyable
【13】
A．get
B．hold
C．catch
D．insist
【14】
A．since
B．as
C．before
D．when
【15】
A．anxious
B．welcomed
C．comfortable
D．miserable
26、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Helen正在进行一项关于各国中学生课外阅读情况的调查。她给你发了一封电子邮件，想了解相关情况。请你根据以下提示，给她回信。
(1)你校学生课外阅读的现状；
(2)原因分析；
(3)你的看法。
注意：
(1)词数100左右；
(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
(3)开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Helen,
I’m very glad to receive your email. Now I would like to tell you something about the extracurricular reading in our school.
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Best wishes!
Yours
Li Hua