1、I wish to thank, _____________, all the people who have made this exhibition possible.
A. in particular B. in peace
C. in case D. in place
2、________ the interview, the manager went to his office, followed by the interviewer.
A．Having finished
B．Finished
C．Finishing
D．Being finished
3、The young girls prefer dressing up for a party to _______ by others.
A. be noticed B. being noticed
C. having been noticed D. have been noticed
4、 It was not until she got home____Jennifer realized she had lost her keys.
A. when B. that
C. where D. before
5、Generally speaking, one’s mistakes in front of other people requires great courage.
A.admit B.being admitted C.admitting D.having admitted
6、Tell me your _______ and I will try to tell you what disease you have.
A.health B.illness C.symphony D.symptoms
7、Despite years of ________ from publishers, she persevered in her attempt to establish herself as a writer.
A．endurance
B．rejection
C．blessing
D．companionship
8、________ in the past, at the moment it is a favorite choice for wedding gown.
A．Unpopular as has white been
B．As unpopular white has been
C．As white has been unpopular
D．Unpopular as white has been
9、Unlike traditional gyms, app-backed gyms offer people ________ options to exercise.
A．casual
B．comfortable
C．flexible
D．regular
10、一I think I saw Mr. Smith at yesterday's party.
一He ______ there. He is now on a business trip in Greece. And he left the day before yesterday.
A. mustn't have been B. couldn't have been
C. might not be D. should not be
11、Please remain ___ until the plane has come to a complete stop.
A.to seat B.to be seated C.seating D.seated
12、They talked about the persons and things _______they remembered.
A．which
B．that
C．who
D．whom
13、 In many people’s opinion, that company, though relatively small, is pleasant _______.
A.to deal with B.dealing with
C.to be dealt with D.dealt with
14、Owing to heavy traffic jams, many people would like to choose the train ______ driving.
A. in preference to B. in addition to
C. in answer to D. in relation to
15、 At the sight of the _________ scene, he was almost _________ to death.
A．frightening；frightened
B．frightened；frightened
C．frightening；frightening
D．frightened；frightening
16、He claimed to be American, but his accent ____.
A. gave him away B. turned him up
C. brought him up D. took him away
17、 Can you tell me the way you think of________ the problem?
A．to work out B．working out
C. work out D．to work
18、The police all felt ________ after a whole weekday searching for the lost child in the forest.
A. abandoned B. exhausted
C. frightened D. relaxed
19、He is a man of great integrity and ______ judgement who can always tell right from wrong at the critical moment.
A.delicate B.influential C.sound D.innovative
20、________, as everyone had expected, Lily’s grandpa’s face finally lit up.
A．When seeing Lily pass the exam
B．Having seen Lily pass the exam
C．After he saw Lily pass the exam
D．With Lily’s exam passed
21、Do you often feel nervous when speaking English? 【1】 I’ll tell you some tips for improving your confidence when speaking English.
●Concentrate on the positive, not the negative (消极的). 【2】 Don’t think or say things like “My English is so bad” or “I’ll never be good at English”. Those negative beliefs will make you less confident. Instead, think about your successes and strong points. When you concentrate on positive things, your confidence will improve.
●Understand that most mistakes aren’t so serious. Understand that most mistakes don’t matter very much. If you’re always worrying about mistakes, then you’ll feel nervous about your English. But the truth is that when you’re speaking, most people won’t notice your small mistakes. 【3】
●Stand up straight, make eye contact, smile and breathe. One involves what you do with your body when you’re speaking English, and that is to stand up straight or sit up straight, make eye contact, smile and remember to breathe. 【4】 So when you act confidently with your body by having good posture and making eye contact, and when you relax your face by smiling and breathing, these will make your spoken English more confident and comfortable as well.
●【5】 The more you practice something, not only do you get better, but you also get more confident. If you only speak English once a week for a couple minutes, then it’s going to take a long time to build up your confidence! Look for other opportunities to practice your speaking.
A．Speak louder and slower.
B．Practice as much as possible.
C．What you need to do is to improve your attitude.
D．Your body language has an effect on your confidence.
E．Are you wondering how to speak English confidently?
F．How do you correct your mistakes when writing English?
G．So relax and don’t put so much stress on yourself to be perfect.
22、It can be hard to meet people from another culture. From the beginning, people may send the wrong signal（信号）. Or they may pay no attention to signals from another person who is trying to develop a relationship.
Different cultures emphasize （强调）the importance of relationship building to a greater or lesser degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in “small talk”, usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job. In many European countries--like the UK or France—people find it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafes rather than at the office.
Talk and silence may also be different in some cultures. I once made a speech in Thailand. I had expected my speech to be a success and start a lively discussion; instead there was an uncomfortable silence. The people present just stared at me and smiled. After getting to know their ways better, I realized that they thought I was talking too much. In my own culture, we express meaning mainly through words, but people there sometimes feel too many words are unnecessary.
Even within Northern Europe, cultural differences can cause serious problems. Certainly, English and German cultures share similar values; however, Germans prefer to get down to business more quickly. We think that they are rude. In fact, this is just because one culture starts discussions and makes decisions more quickly.
People from different parts of the world have different values, and sometimes these values are quite against each other. However, if we can understand them better, a multicultural environment（多元文化环境）will offer a wonderful chance for us to learn from each other.
【1】In some countries, eating together at restaurants may make it easier for people to ________.
A.keep each other company B.share the same Culture
C.get to know each other D.develop closer relations
【2】The author mentions his experience in Thailand to show that _________.
A.even talk and silence can be culturally different
B.too many words are of no use
C.people from Thailand are quiet and shy by nature
D.the English prefer to make long speeches
【3】According to the text, how can people from different cultures understand each other better?
A.By sharing different ways of life.
B.By recognizing different values.
C.By accepting different habits.
D.By speaking each other’s languages.
【4】What would be the best title for the text?
A.Multicultural Environment.
B.How to Understand Each Other.
C.Cross-Cultural Differences.
D.How to Build Up a Relationship.
23、Everyone will grow up. You are no exception, which means you are probably going through a lot of changes, all at once. You may find your body is changing. It may even appear as though your entire self is changing. That can be confusing and even scary. 【1】. And it’s good.
Growing up means that you can do more, learn more, and start to make your mark on the world. In order for that to happen, your body produces chemicals called hormones that help both body and mind grow. Hormone levels change constantly, rising and falling. 【2】 But it’s partly to blame for intense emotions, surprising reactions, and mood swings.
Because of the way your brain develops, it is somewhat ruled by emotion now and through your teen years. As a result, growing up can seem like an emotional roller coaster! 【3】
◆Take care of yourself. If you eat right, sleep enough, and get good exercise, your brain will be much more able to deal with the stress.
◆ 【4】 When you feel your moods swinging or you’re upset, or confused, some quiet time will allow you to gather your thoughts and get calmer.
◆Practice relaxing your body and deep breathing when you wake up and when you go to bed. 【5】 Plus, when stuff happens during the day, you’ll be able to calm yourself quickly with a deep breath or two before you react. Your body is changing.
A．Take a time out.
B．Take your mood swings seriously.
C．But the truth is, it happens to every teen.
D．This changing is needed for your body’s development.
E．It will help you fall asleep and start the morning right.
F．Here are a few things you can do to make the ride smoother.
G．Usually, these feelings settle down when you realize what is going on.
24、A ground-based system that uses much stronger signals than GPS can find your location in cities and indoors. It is a new positioning system that could compete with GPS to make sure you never lose your directions again.
Instead of satellites, Locata uses ground-based equipment to send a radio signal over a localized area that is a million times stronger on arrival than GPS. It can work indoors as well as outdoors, and the makers claim that the receivers can be shrunk(缩小) to fit inside a regular cell phone. Even the US armies, which invented GPS technology, signed a file last month agreeing to a test of Locata at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
“This is one of the most important technology developments for the future of the positioning industry,” says Nunzio Gambale, CEO and co-founder of the firm Locata, based in Griffith, Australia.
As for the Locata’s correctness, Christopher Morin of the US Air Force tested it recently at White Sands, and it worked to within 18cm along any axis(轴). Morin said it should be possible to get the exactitude down to 5cm.
The tests were performed in an open desert where GPS also worked beautifully, but its signal was weak—like a car headlight from 20,000 kilometers away—and easily cut off by solid objects(实心的物体). Locata’s signal was far stronger, though not guaranteed to work in a complex urban environment, said David, speaker of the UK’ s General Lighthouse Authorities.
Locata’s technology will face competition in the race to transform indoor navigation. But it could shine in specific areas, Gambale said. Robots with Locata could easily navigate inside buildings without the complex optical(视觉的) systems they need at the moment. And the process that handles correct location data could not only guide you around a mall, railway station or airport, but also take you to the exact shelf in a shop for the product you want. It would be small and cheap enough for smart phones and it should be available within five years—a similar path to the one GPS took on its way towards the world, he said.
【1】The passage is written mainly to ______.
A. encourage people to buy the Locata
B. tell us the disadvantages of the GPS
C. introduce a new positioning system Locata
D. tell us that Locata will replace GPS one day
【2】Which of the following is NOT true about Locata?
A. Without the help of the satellites, Locata can tell you where you are.
B. Locata will be popular with most people even including the US armies.
C. Locata has a better signal than GPS in some bad environments.
D. In five years, Locata will take the place of GPS.
【3】According to the passage, Gambale______.
A. did the experiment at White Sands last month
B. believed the Locata would help to develop smart robots’ creation
C. doubted whether Locata can work in a complex environment or not
D. was worried about the competition the Locata faced
【4】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “exactitude” in Paragraph 4?
A. Accuracy. B. Speed.
C. Determination D. Length
【5】What can we know from the passage?
A. Locata is as small as a cell phone.
B. GPS is the most practical position system at present.
C. Locata will tell you how to get what you want in the future.
D. Locata will enter our lives through the cell phone, just like GPS.
25、Desperate to help his 96-year-old mother to speak her mother tongue again, Keith McDermott made an_________on social media and was met with a flood of kind responses. The old_________, Ray, was moved to tears after talking on the phone with one of the_________respondents in Welsh.
Ray moved to America after meeting her husband when she was only 18, _________waving goodbye to her_________in Wales. She continued to speak Welsh with her mum keeping a little bit of_________. But she lost her_________mum four decades ago and hadn’t spoken Welsh since.
_________suffering from short-term memory loss and sometimes not remembering what she has done_________, Ray’s childhood memories in Wales remain crystal__________. “She wants to__________, but I know,__________her age, such long-distance travel is out of the question,” said Keith. “Once she mentioned: I wish I could speak Welsh again but I__________I never will. It was then that I thought I should make her wish__________.”
So Keith, 70, __________on social media on a group called “New York Welsh” asking for any Welsh speakers that could speak Welsh with his mum. And he was__________, as well as a little shocked, to receive over 30 responses within half an hour. “Speaking with Melisa, her (Ray’s) Welsh was a little rusty. A few more Welsh conversations and I think she’d be__________again,” added Keith.
“When you have a parent in their nineties, you will find you two have something__________: you’re both old, so I am very sympathetic to my mother’s feelings of loneliness and isolation. I’m feeling it myself.” Keith hopes to__________more Welsh phone conversations for his mum and Melisa has promised to send Ray some short stories in Welsh to__________her of her life in Wales.
【1】
A．apology
B．indication
C．appeal
D．assignment
【2】
A．gentleman
B．lady
C．traveler
D．explorer
【3】
A．lonely
B．senior
C．original
D．enthusiastic
【4】
A．thus
B．so
C．and
D．instead
【5】
A．relatives
B．friends
C．life
D．tongue
【6】
A．home
B．hope
C．tension
D．similarity
【7】
A．superb
B．lovely
C．beloved
D．homesick
【8】
A．Due to
B．As for
C．Apart from
D．In spite of
【9】
A．before
B．randomly
C．recently
D．gradually
【10】
A．clear
B．blue
C．faded
D．fragile
【11】
A．talk
B．leave
C．return
D．quit
【12】
A．neglecting
B．given
C．assuming
D．remembering
【13】
A．spot
B．decide
C．suppose
D．promise
【14】
A．launch
B．realize
C．abolish
D．happen
【15】
A．posted
B．searched
C．mentioned
D．linked
【16】
A．puzzled
B．embarrassed
C．touched
D．fascinated
【17】
A．passionate
B．stable
C．casual
D．fluent
【18】
A．in trouble
B．in common
C．in general
D．in vain
【19】
A．set up
B．take up
C．make up
D．bring up
【20】
A．cure
B．remind
C．accuse
D．inform
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。
When Mark was five years old, his parents separated and he stayed with his mother.
As Mark grew up he occasionally (偶尔地) thought of the brief time he shared with his father and longed to see him again one day. However, as he grew into his late teens, thoughts of his father began to fade away.
After he graduated from college, Mark got married and one year later, had a boy. The years passed.
One day when Mark’s son was five years old and as Mark was preparing to shave his face, his son looked up at him and laughed, “Daddy, you look like a clown (小丑) with that cream on your face.”
Mark laughed, looked into the mirror and realized how much his son looked like him at that age. Later, he remembered that his mother said he had told his own father the same thing.
This event started him thinking about his own father a lot and he began asking his mother. It had been a long time since Mark had spoken of his father and his mother told him that it was now over twenty years since she had spoken to him. In addition, all her knowledge of his father stopped when Mark became eighteen.
Mark looked deep into his mother’s eyes and said, “I need to find my father.” His mother then told him that his dad’s relatives had all passed away, and she had no idea where to begin searching for him but added, “Maybe, just maybe, if you contact the United States Embassy in England, they might be able to help you.”
Even though the chances seemed slim, Mark was determined. The very next day, he made an overseas call to the American Embassy.
“U.S. Embassy, how may we help you?”
“Ahh...hi, my name is Mark Sullivan and I am hoping to find my father.”
There was a long pause and the ruffing of some papers,’ and then the man said:
“Is this Mr. Mark Joseph Sullivan?”
“Yes,” Mark answered anxiously.
They checked the birth place and date.
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Mark then overheard the man as he made an excited announcement to his coworkers.
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The following day, Mark received a phone call from his overjoyed father.
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