1、I ______the paper before my lawyer explained the details to me.
A. signed B. had signed
C. signs D. has signed
2、To be honest, the world owes a lot to Nelson Mandela for his _______ support of racial equality and human rights.
A. consistent B. contemporary
C. particular D. potential
3、
He worked in a car factory for four years，______ he founded his own company in his hometown．
A．after which B．after when
C．after that D．after it
4、This doesn’t mean Guillermo gave up his hard-working personality or his drive to be successful.
A. desire B. ability
C. need D. quality
5、 in thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him.
A. Losing B. Having lost
C. Lost D. To lose
6、The man didn’t know ______ the thief broke into the house and stole all his valuable things.
A.it was when that B.when it was that C.that it was when
7、He ______ busy yesterday, or he ______ you with your experiment.
A. was; had helped B. was, would have helped
C. had been; would have D. were; would have helped
8、—Do you have any time? I’ve got something to tell you.
—OK, ________ you keep your story short.
A. now that B. as long as
C. even if D. in case
9、____ the help of the teacher, the student who wasn’t good at math ____ the difficult problem quickly.
A. Under; worked out B. With; worked
C. Under; solved D. With; solved
10、—The machine is working again！
—Yes, it broke down yesterday, but it___________.
A.has been fixed B.is being fixed
C.had been fixed D.would be fixed
11、The man was sentenced to prison for five years because he had _____ some national secrets to the enemy.
A.given in B.given away C.given out D.given off
12、Since 1978, the amount of money ______ to buy books has fallen by 17%.
A．typical
B．convenient
C．available
D．ideal
13、--What do you think we should do after dinner?
-- Why don’t we get beer at the Karaoke bar don the street? It is kind of fun to hear all the birds singing.
A. a; 不填 B. a; a
C. the; a D. a; the
14、Why do you stand and watch the thief ______ away, with your arms ______ ?
A．running; folded
B．run; folded
C．to run; folding
D．running; folding
15、We won’t start the work until all the preparations ___________.
A．are being made
B．will be made
C．have been made
D．had been made
16、Nowadays more and more students are working directly on the Internet where different types of course are supplied.
What is the sentence elements(句子成分)of the underlined words?
A．adverbial 状语
B．complement 补语
C．attributive 定语
D．appositive 同位语
17、 The virtues of thrift（节俭）and hard work is vital for everyone, __________is often the case in any society.
A、as B、that
C、when D、where
18、With new technological tools at our fingertips, new art forms, such as digital paintings and videos, have been created, making the line between art and technology less ________.
A．available
B．distinct
C．complicated
D．practical
19、Never form the habit of smoking, because it ________ health.
A．is harm for
B．does harm to
C．is harmful for
D．does harmful to
20、My secretary told me just now that she ________ typing the letters by the time I went back, which I do have some doubt about. You know, she is not that efficient a girl.
A. would finish B. had finished
C. would have finished D. will finish
21、A boy was dying of terminal leukemia (白血病). His mother took his hand and asked, “Bopsy, did you ever think about what you wanted to be when you grew up?”
“Mommy, I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.”
Later that day she went to the fire department, where she met Fireman Bob. She explained her son’s final wish and asked if it might be possible to give her six-year-old son a ride around the block on a fire engine. Fireman Bob said, “Look, we can do better than that. We’ll make him an honorary fireman for the whole day. He can come down to the fire station, eat with us, go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards! And, we’ll get a real fire uniform made for him.”
Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Bopsy, dressed him in his fire uniform and escorted (护送) him from his hospital bed to the waiting hook and ladder truck. Bopsy was in heaven. Having his dream come true, with all the love and attention that was lavished (慷慨给予) upon him, Bopsy lived three months longer than any doctor thought possible.
One night all of his vital signs began to drop and the head nurse called the fire chief and asked if it would be possible to send a fireman in uniform to the hospital to be with Bopsy as he made his transition. The chief replied, “We can do better than that. We’ll be there in five minutes. Will you please do me a favor? When you hear the sirens (警报器) screaming and see the lights flashing, will you announce over the PA system that it’s just the fire department coming to see one of its finest members one more time? And will you open the window to his room?”
About five minutes later a hook and ladder truck arrived at the hospital, extended its ladder up to Bopsy’s third floor open window and 14 firemen and two fire-women climbed up the ladder into Bopsy’s room. They hugged him and held him and told him how much they loved him. With his dying breath, Bopsy looked up at the fire chief and said, “Chief, am I really a fireman now?”
With those words, Bopsy smiled and closed his eyes for the last time.
【1】Why did Bopsy’s mother go to the fire department?
A．Her son wanted to get a fire uniform.
B．Her son wanted to ride on a fire engine.
C．She wanted her son to become a real fireman.
D．She wanted to help her son to realize his dream.
【2】What did Fireman Bob probably mean by saying “the whole nine yards” in the third paragraph?
A．The fire engine was nine yards long.
B．The whole journey that day was very upsetting.
C．Bopsy could experience everything as a fireman.
D．All the sirens of the fire engines would scream that day.
【3】Why did the head nurse want a fireman in uniform to be sent to the hospital?
A．Because Bopsy begged her to do so.
B．Because Bopsy saw the firemen as his family members.
C．Because she wanted Bopsy to be approved as a real fireman.
D．Because she wanted to do something for Bopsy before he died.
【4】Which of the following statements best shows the theme of the passage?
A．Where there is a will, there is a way.
B．Sometimes there are miracles because of love.
C．Great things may be done by painstaking efforts.
D．A mother understands what a child does not say.
22、 Mammals (哺乳动物) tend to get huge when they invade the ocean. Why? Most of the explanations for this trend treat the ocean as a kind of release. The water partly frees mammals from gravity, allowing them to evolve heavy bodies. But to William Gearty from Stanford University, the ocean makes mammals so big not because it relieves them of limits, but because it sets new ones.
"To deal with the constant loss of heat as you get into the water, the easiest way is to get bigger." he explains, "As bodies balloon, volume increases faster than surface area does, so you produce more heat in your body but lose comparatively less of it from your skin."
But there is a limit because larger bodies also demand more fuel, and there's only so much food that an animal can reasonably get. Therefore, the need to stay warm sets a floor for the body size, while the need to eat sets a ceiling. And the gap between them, Gearty found, is surprisingly narrow. "The minimum size of oceanic mammals is thousands of times larger than the minimum for mammals on land, but the maximum size is only 25 times larger," says Gearty.
These trends suggest that the water places strict size limits. Oceanic mammals must be just the right size-big, yes, but not too big and not too small.
And as always in biology, there are exceptions. Whales go way beyond the size limit. Nick Pyenson from the Smithsonian Institution thinks he knows why. Around 3 million years ago, a combination of changes to glaciers (冰川), winds, and currents created a large increase of nutrients in coastal waters, which then fed lots of shrimps and small fish-potential prey (猎物) for whales.
But these bonanzas weren't evenly distributed. Instead, they were concentrated in particular places far apart from each other-all-you-can-eat buffets separated by food deserts. And that Pyenson says, is why the giant whales evolved. They are adapted to hunt down concentrated prey. Their huge size allows them to survive for a long distance without encountering any food. And they evolved a special technique of feeding. The existence of concentrated prey, and the evolution of a technique for capturing them, allowed whales to break the size ceiling. That's why they transformed from big animals into the biggest animals that ever existed.
【1】William Gearty's explanation differ from traditional ones because he believes _________.
A．bigness helps mammals to survive in the water
B．the ocean puts size limits on oceanic mammals
C．oceanic mammals are larger than mammals on land
D．gravity prevents mammals from evolving heavy bodies
【2】We can learn from the passage that _________.
A．the sea mammals have to get as big as they can to hunt for food
B．the need to stay warm decides the size ceiling of oceanic mammals
C．the maximum size of an oceanic mammal depends on its food supply
D．the smallest mammals in the ocean are 25 times as big as those on land
【3】The underlined word "bonanzas" in the last paragraph probably refers to _________.
A．buffets and deserts
B．shrimps and small fish
C．glaciers and currents
D．nutrients and waters
【4】What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To emphasize the importance of big size for the whale.
B．To introduce how whales evolve to survive in the ocean.
C．To explain what influences the sizes of oceanic mammals.
D．To appeal for more scientific studies on oceanic mammals.
23、The Advertising Department of The Bangkok Post is looking for highly motivated advertising sales executives （销售主管） to sell advertising to prime targets in its wide range of promotional publications （宣传性出版物）. As part of our sales team, your primary responsibility will be to meet established and agreed sales targets. You will also need to know how to find potential new customers. In addition, you will be required to follow up your sales by sending copy and artwork and getting customer approval.
Qualifications:
Male/Female, aged 23-35 yrs.
Bachelor's degree in any related fields
Experience of selling print and online advertising or similar fields is preferred
Proactive and good interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to work well under pressure
Good command of written and spoken English
Computer skills
If this sounds like a challenge you'd like to consider seriously, then send an application letter together with your resume, details of your expected salary, and a recent photograph to:
Advertising Department
Bangkok Post Public Company Limited
136 Bangkok Post Building, Sunthorn Kosa Road, Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110
Email: display@bangkokpost.co.th
【1】The work duty of an advertising sales executive does not involve _______ .
A．meeting sales targets
B．sending application letters
C．selling advertising
D．looking for new customers
【2】Who is the most suitable for the job?
A．A Chinese, 27, with a high school certificate.
B．An Indian, 38, with a good command of English.
C．A Japanese, 30, with rich experience of advertising.
D．A Thai, 23, a college student majoring in advertising.
【3】Where will you probably find this article?
A．In a travel brochure.
B．In an advertising textbook.
C．In a market report.
D．In a local newspaper.
24、It was Mother’s Day morning last year and I was doing my shopping at our local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were leaving, we found that only minutes earlier an elderly woman had fallen over at the entrance and had hit her head on the concrete. Her husband was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock.
Walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very upset about what had happened to the couple. He said to me, “Mum, it’s not much fun falling over in front of everyone.”
At the front of the supermarket a charity(慈善) group had set up a stand selling cooked sausages and flowers to raise funds. Tenyson suggested that we should buy the lady a flower. “It will make her feel better,” he said. I was amazed that he’d come up with such a sweet idea. So we went over to the flower seller and asked her if we could buy a flower for the lady to cheer her up. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful gesture.”
By now paramedics（救援人员）had arrived, and were attending the injured woman. As we walked up to her, my son became______ by all the blood and medical equipment. He said he was just too scared to go up to her.
Instead I gave the flower to the woman’s husband and told him, “ My son was very upset for your wife and wanted to give her this flower to make her feel better.”
At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you so much, you have a wonderful son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”
The man then bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. Though badly hurt and shaken, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little smile.
【1】What dose the author intend to tell us?
A．One can never be too careful.
B．Actions speak louder than words.
C．Love begins with a little smile.
D．A small act of kindness brings a great joy.
【2】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．The elderly woman was knocked down by Tenyson.
B．Tenyson’s idea of buying a flower gained his mother’s support.
C．Tenyson’s care for the elderly woman puzzled the flower seller.
D．The elderly woman was moved to tears by Tenyson’s gesture.
【3】The underlined word “intimidated” in the fourth paragraph probably means “___________”.
A．astonished
B．struck
C．frightened
D．excited
【4】What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Flower Power
B．Mother’s Day
C．An Accidental Injury
D．An Embarrassing Moment
25、 I can still remember it as if it were yesterday. I was a college freshman and had ________ up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first ________ of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a ________. It wouldn’t ________ to spend a few minutes napping before class, I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my ________ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the ________. My young professor was looking back at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had ________ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said still ________. “I am glad to see everyone is ________. Now let’s get started.”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the ________ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the ________ discussion he led. With knowledge and ________ he made the material come ________. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he ________ with were contagious (有感染力的). I ________ the classroom not only wide awake, but a little ________ and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not ________ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, and do it with ________. What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Let your love fill your work. Don’t sleepwalk your way through ________. Wake up! Life is too ________ not to live it well.
A．took
B．divided
C．stayed
D．put
A．class
B．test
C．task
D．major
A．platform
B．pillow
C．carpet
D．wall
A．lose
B．help
C．last
D．hurt
A．heart
B．mind.
C．thought
D．head
A．trouble
B．noise
C．failure
D．incident
A．angrily
B．carelessly
C．intentionally
D．accidentally
A．smiling
B．talking
C．complaining
D．shouting
A．active
B．curious
C．present
D．awake
A．sound
B．shock
C．interruption
D．blow
A．fascinating
B．convincing
C．puzzling
D．encouraging
A．gesture
B．sense
C．humor
D．design
A．strange
B．natural
C．handy
D．alive
A．taught
B．spread
C．combined
D．started
A．decorated
B．filled
C．left
D．entered
A．clearer
B．smarter
C．quieter
D．stronger
A．discussing
B．speaking
C．cheating
D．sleeping
A．joy
B．speed
C．aim
D．determination
A．work
B．life
C．journey
D．college
A．hard
B．complex
C．short
D．simple
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I drove to Yosemite Valley, California, for the first time in years. This was the first time I’d traveled to the valley by myself. I connected with my friends and found out about Facelift, a project started by a rock climber, Ken Yager. The goal was to spend a week volunteering to clean up trash in Yosemite Valley.
Thankfully, Yosemite Valley only has one or two roads, so it was impossible for me to stay lost for long. I pulled into Yellow Pine, the campground set aside for volunteers at the event.
I felt shy and insecure as a new comer. When I found the Group camp area, I saw eight event coordinators (协调者) I’d been talking with recently but had never met. These were outdoor people. I found a campsite, parked, got out, and walked over and introduced myself. They were nice.
The week turned into a wonderful learning experience. Meeting new people was a bonus. A few became forever friends. But the nights were really hard! I was alone in my tent in the thick, black forest. There were absolutely no lights. I rarely slept. A ranger (护林员) warned us about recent bear activity in our campground. A mother bear and her cub had been spotted wandering around during the day. The ranger explained that bears with cubs are especially dangerous. Great information, I thought. What should I do with it? I knew, my fear doubled.
Each night, I wrapped the band of my headlamp around my wrist so I could instantly turn on its bright light. I placed a couple of metal pots by my sleeping bag to make noise if I heard anything. I lay awake most of the night staring at the tent door to see if it moved.
The week flew by. I enjoyed every part of it, except for the sleepless nights. My daughter Leah joined me on the last day. We would drive together back home.
注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Leah asked how I did camping alone for the first time.
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After I finished, Leah gave me a funny look.
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