1、Mrs. Taylor has __________ 8-year-old daughter who has __________ gift for painting -- she has won two national prizes.
A. a; a B. an; the C. an; a D. the; a
2、-- Do you think you could manage it?
--_____. This is my first time to do it alone.
A．Of course B．Trust me
C．No way D．Not exactly
3、It took the ambulance about ten minutes to get to the __________ of the accident and the injured were sent to the hospital very quickly.
A. scene B. scenery
C. picture D. view
4、We went to the cinema________ the rain.
A．instead of
B．except for
C．in spite of
D．besides
5、— How do you like the sone Chengdu sung by Zhao Lei?
— Oh, I have never enjoyed a one before.
A．worst
B．best
C．worse
D．better
6、I’m sorry to hurt you, but I didn’t do it ________.
A．on purpose
B．in common
C．on occasion
D．on the purpose
7、The Twins Days Festival, _______ began in 1975, is the largest annual gathering of twins.
A. that B. which
C. who D. when
8、I remember ________ the door before I left the office, but I’ m not sure about the lights.
A．locking
B．to locking
C．have locked
D．to have locked
9、________ the right kind of training, these teenage soccer players may one day become the international stars.
A．Giving
B．Having given
C．To give
D．Given
10、She worked hard and at last _______ the test.
A．past
B．passed
C．pass
D．was past
11、__________ by his boss, he had to give in to pressure and agreed to do some extra work.
A．Not to be fired
B．To be fired
C．Not being fired
D．Not fired
12、We students should work hard at school, because what we are learning today later in our life.
A. will be paid B. was being paid
C. has been paid D. was paid
13、The actress, ______ for her wonderful acting skill, will be interviewed by Mongo TV next week.
A．to know
B．knowing
C．being known
D．known
14、To my delight, I from hundreds of applicants to attend the opening ceremony.
A. was chosen B. was being chosen
C. would choose D. had chosen
15、Was it in 1969 _____ the American astronaut succeeded ____ landing on the moon?
A.when; on B.that; on C.when; in D.that; in
16、There seemed to be a of five years in her job history which she was unwilling to explain.
A.gap B.goal C.guide D.garment
17、Paul has ________ friends except me, and sometimes he feels lonely.
A．many
B．some
C．more
D．few
18、During the Chinese New year's holidays, one tradition the Chinese enjoy is stuffing and ________ jiaozi, their favorite food, to be served with their New Year's Eve meal.
A．packing
B．wrapping
C．shaping
D．covering
19、 — Lucy looks so upset. She ______ the driving test.
— It is the second time that she has failed in the test.
A. can’t pass B. mustn’t pass
C. can’t have passed D. mustn’t have passed
20、 The businessperson wanted to sell his goods fast: ______, he chose his partner with great care.
A. and B. otherwise C. however D. therefore
21、A native plant of China, bamboo mainly grows in regions south of the Yangtze River. In traditional Chinese culture bamboo is a symbol of moral honesty, loyalty, flexibility and modesty, making it a frequent theme of Chinese poetry and paintings.
The bamboo forest creates unique prospect (风景) around Anji, a county in Zhejiang Province. As the Kingdom of Bamboo, the city is the filming location of the Oscar-winning movie Crouching Tiger; Hidden Dragon. The bamboo scenery along with other bamboo-related attractions, including a bamboo museum, has created unique tourism resources.
Bamboo is not only pretty and elegant and Xie Zhiguang, a 48-year-old local bamboo dealer for over 10 years explained that it is used for much more than just as an alternative to wood. It is the main food for giant pandas, and bamboo shoots are regularly consumed by humans. Also, the stem of the plant can be made into various products including chopsticks furniture, tissue and paper.
What makes all the functions even more valuable is the speed at which bamboo grows. “During peak times, bamboo can grow one meter a day and over 20 meters within weeks,” he said “It takes years to grow wood, while the growth cycle of bamboo is much shorter”This advantage allows farmers to make money faster by growing bamboo than by growing wood. In the battle against extreme poverty in China bamboo has played a supporting role.
The county introduced processing factories for bamboo shoots and developed a series of products. Bamboo weaving techniques, some of which are listed as intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产), also contributed to poverty reduction. A number of bamboo-weaving skill training centers were set up in poor areas to teach rural people, especially women, to transform bamboo into delicate items. With such items going to domestic and overseas markets, the bamboo weaving business has even become the mainstay industry for some of these regions.
“Bamboo is a sustainable green resource,” said Wang Jingxin, a professor at Zhejiang University “Such measures will help to speed up China’s economy and ecology.”
【1】Why do poets and painters often use bamboo as the theme of their works?
A．Its various functions.
B．Its particular habitats.
C．Its commercial value.
D．Its symbolic meaning.
【2】What does Xie Zhiguang say about bamboo?
A．Bamboo has a wide range of uses.
B．Bamboo can end the world poverty.
C．Bamboo has the fastest growth speed.
D．Bamboo can contribute to the environment.
【3】What can be the best title of the passage?
A．The use of bamboo.
B．The functions of bamboo.
C．The symbol meaning of bamboo.
D．A green resource and various use of bamboo.
【4】What is the attitude of Wang Jingxin towards bamboo industry?
A．Intolerant.
B．Doubtful.
C．Favorable.
D．Unclear.
22、In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopted and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic－and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No,3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo — a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college fulltime. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside, it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
【1】Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?
A. She wanted to study by herself. B. She fell in love and got married.
C. She suffered from a serious illness. D. She decided to look after her grandma.
【2】What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?
A. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.
B. She wanted to remain a full time housewife.
C. She was busy yet happy with her family life.
D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.
【3】What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. Failure is the mother of success. B. Little by little, one goes far.
C. Every coin has two sides. D. Well begun, half done.
【4】Which of the following can best describe the author?
A. Ambitious and sensitive. B. Honest and responsible.
C. Caring and determined. D. Innocent and single-minded.
23、 Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some common beliefs. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations (方程式) quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts (断言) formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who is very good at some form of school discipline is 'intelligent'. Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the professional certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment.
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to solve a particular problem you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B.D. — Nervous Break Down.
'Intelligent' people do not have N.B.D.s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to actually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid abandoning themselves to depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have N.B.D.s. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
【1】According to the author, the notion of intelligence measured in terms of one's ability to read, write and compute _____________.
A.will help remove intellectual prejudice B.is a widely held but wrong concept
C.will contribute to one’s self-fulfillment D.is the root of all mental suffering
【2】It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree _____________.
A.does not mean that one is highly intelligent
B.may make one mentally sick and physically weak
C.does not indicate one's ability to write professional documents
D.may result in one's inability to solve complex real-life problems
【3】The author thinks that an intelligent person knows _____________.
A.how to accept some common beliefs
B.how to persuade others to compromise
C.how to find the best way to achieve success in life
D.how to avoid depression and make his life worthwhile
【4】According to the last paragraph, which statement is TRUE?
A.Difficulties are part of everyone's life.
B.Depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in life.
C.Everybody should learn to avoid challenging circumstances.
D.Good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence.
24、“I THIRST”
Each day water-related diseases kill 3,900 of the world’s children.
Across the world, 1.1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. More than 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation (卫生设备).
The combination proves deadly. Each year, diseases related to inadequate water and sanitation kill between 2 and 5 million people and cause an estimated 80 percent of all sicknesses in the developing world. Safe drinking water is a precondition for health and the fight against child death rate, inequality between men and women, and poverty.
Consider these facts:
* The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is 6 kilometres.
* Only 58 percent of children in sub-Sharan Africa are drinking safe water, and only 37 percent of children in South Asia have access to even a basic toilet.
* Each year in India alone, 73 million working days are lost to water-borne diseases.
Here are three ways you can help:
1) Write Congress
Current U.S. foreign aid for drinking water and sanitation budgets only one dollar per year per American citizen. Few members of Congress have ever received a letter from voters about clean drinking water abroad.
2) Sponsor a project with a faith-based organization
Many U.S. religious groups already sponsor water and sanitation projects, working with partner organizations can make safe water a reality for thousands of people.
3) Support nonprofit water organizations
Numerous U.S. based nonprofits work skillfully abroad in community led projects related to drinking water and sanitation. Like the sample of non-profits noted as follows, some organizations are large, others small-scale, some operate world-wide, others are devoted to certain areas in Africa, Asia, Latin America. Support them generously.
【1】The three facts presented in the passage are used to illustrate that ______.
A. poverty can result in water-borne diseases
B. people have no access to clean drinking water
C. women’s rights are denied in some developing countries
D. safe drinking water should be a primary concern
【2】The intended readers of the passage are _______.
A. Americans B. overseas sponsors
C. Congressmen D. U.S. based water organizations
【3】The main purpose of the passage is to call on people to ______.
A. get rid of water-related diseases in developing countries
B. donate money to people short of water through religious groups
C. fight against the worldwide water shortage and sanitation problem
D. take joint action in support of some nonprofit water organizations
25、 She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. I watched ______ as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just ________ their heads and into the net. The boys always _____ to stop her ______ no one could. I noticed that she ______ practice shooting over and over again, sometimes until dark.
One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked directly in my eyes and without a moment of _____ she said, “I want to go to ______. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship by playing basketball. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the ______ . My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t ______ .”
I watched her growing up. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head _____ in her arms. I walked to her and quietly asked what was wrong. “Oh, ______ .” came a soft reply. “I am just too _____ .” The coach told her that at 5’5” she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team— _____ offered a scholarship—so she should stop dreaming about college. She was _____ and I felt my own throat tighten as I _____ her disappointment. A moment later, she _____ her head from her hands and told me that her father said those ____ were wrong. They just did not understand the _____ of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to live her dream, nothing could stop her except one thing — her own _____ . He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
Eventually, she succeeded. She was indeed offered a scholarship and got the college education that she had dreamed of and worked ____ for all those years.
It’s true: If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.
【1】A.in anxiety B.in wonder C.in doubt D.in sympathy
【2】A.above B.through C.on D.over
【3】A.appealed B.managed C.failed D.competed
【4】A.but B.moreover C.however D.nevertheless
【5】A.could B.would C.might D.should
【6】A.silence B.hesitation C.sadness D.sympathy
【7】A.college B.team C.match D.tournament
【8】A.capable B.skillful C.best D.fortunate
【9】A.count B.do C.work D.help
【10】A.burying B.to be buried C.buried D.to bury
【11】A.anything B.something C.nothing D.everything
【12】A.short B.thin C.weak D.small
【13】A.much more B.much less C.much better D.much worse
【14】A.ashamed B.heartbroken C.confused D.terrified
【15】A.witnessed B.recognized C.sensed D.analyzed
【16】A.lifted B.nodded C.shook D.bowed
【17】A.players B.words C.statements D.coaches
【18】A.energy B.power C.force D.strength
【19】A.desire B.attitude C.character D.conscience
【20】A.at B.in C.towards D.on
26、假定你是李华，你校英文报社将举办主题为自然灾害的征文活动。请你给美国朋友Bruce Alpert写一封邮件，邀请他参加。内容包括：
1. 说明缘由；
2. 请他介绍美国的自然灾害并谈谈影响，应对措施等；
3.告知征文截稿日期。
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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