1、The trousers are______，but Tom does not care a bit.
A．too a little small
B．a little too small
C．a too little small
D．a small too little
2、The greatest discovery of our generation is _____ a human being can change his life by changing his attitudes.
A．that
B．which
C．what
D．how
3、Eight months ought to be enough for you to finish this paper, ____________?
A. oughtn’t they B. didn’t they
C. shouldn’t it D. shouldn’t they
4、Her mother is a warm-hearted old lady.______.
A．So my mother is
B．So is my mother
C．Is my mother so
D．my mother so is
5、_______ for a large number of young people, the new product is bound to make a hit.
A．Designing
B．To design
C．Having designed
D．Designed
6、The manager demanded that the workers the task ahead of schedule.
A.accomplishing B.accomplished C.accomplish D.to accomplish
7、As she more and more experience on the stage, the comedian’s confidence built up gradually.
A. abused B. accompanied C. accumulated D. accelerated
8、Time passed quickly and three months went by _______ we knew it.
A．until
B．till
C．before
D．when
9、 The Spring Festival didn’t turn out as exciting, ______was beyond our expectation.
A. as B. which C. what D. that
10、Before a solution to gender violence is found, South Africa women have been ______ to save themselves by standing up for their own rights.
A. urged B. threatened
C. criticized D. dismissed
11、If you ______ succeed, apply yourself to the job after finding the proper ______ to doing it.
A. are to; approach B. are about to; way
C. are to; method D. are going to; means
12、— What do you think of Peter?
— He ______ be really difficult to get along with even though he’s a nice person in general.
A. shall B. should
C. must D. can
13、If you ______ it to the airport on time, you had better set off immediately.
A.make B.will make C.are to make D.are making
14、Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree ______ they can be controlled.
A．on which
B．by which
C．to which
D．from which
15、It was at the beginning ______ he made the decision ______ we should send more firefighters there.
A．that; that
B．when; which
C．there; what
D．where; what
16、There are some differences between American and British English, but do you know _____the differences came into being?
A.that B.what C.which D.how
17、All those scientific and technological ________ make our life increasingly more convenient and comfortable.
A．traditions
B．advances
C．exchanges
D．challenges
18、The airport ________ next year will help promote tourism in this area.
A．being completed
B．completed
C．having been completed
D．to be completed
19、The water supply ________ suddenly, which ________ the accident.
A．was cut off; contributed to
B．was cut off; due to
C．was cut out; due to
D．was cut out; was contributed to
20、Parents should take seriously their children’s requests for sunglasses ______ eye protection is necessary in sunny weather.
A. because of B. though
C. because D. unless
21、After living in Michigan all my life, I can't help but say that there are so many things to do here and so many places to visit. Just have a careful look at the following ones.
Sleeping Bear Dunes
If you want to be more adventurous this summer, make a trip here. Spending your clay climbing the mountains of sand isn't only a work out, but a perfect way to challenge your courage. Making it to the water might takes a little while, but the view at the encl is completely worth it.
Grand Haven
I'm a little prejudiced, because this is where I was born and grew up. Besides staying at the beach all clay9 visitors can walk the streets of downtown, which is right next to the water, watch the musical fountain at night, or even go boating. Near Holland and Muskegon, Grand Haven is not a place that you will be bored this summer.
Mackinaw Island
It's one of the most beautiful places to spend your time this summer. Take a weekend trip to the island where there are no cars. Take time to go biking around the Island, go hiking in the allowed places, and visit historical landmarks to make your trip more unforgettable.
The Upper Peninsula
There are so many beautiful places in the UP that it takes you a week just to cover the places you should visit. The Pictured Rocks on Lake Superior is a beautiful site. St. Ignace borders the straits of Mackinac and is featured with lighthouse, hiking and fishing. The Tahquamenon Falls State Park is the second largest of the Michigan's State Parks and is featured with waterfalls that you won't be able to stop staring at this summer.
【1】Where is the author's hometown?
A．In the Upper Peninsula.
B．In Sleeping Bear Dunes.
C．In Grand Haven.
D．In Mackinaw Island.
【2】In which place can visitors have a good view of waterfalls?
A．St. Ignace.
B．Pictured Rocks.
C．Muskegon.
D．Tahquamenon Falls State Park.
【3】What can we infer about the four places from the text?
A．They have some beautiful beaches.
B．They deserve to be visited this summer.
C．They offer some delicious food to visitors.
D．They provide adventurous activities for visitors.
22、Think about the last time you did something that you found difficult. Was it working out a puzzle or working hard on your math homework? Can you remember the expression you had on your face? Most people will press their lips together and frown when they are doing something they find difficult. This is normally seen as a sign of effort. Now we’ve found that it can also say more than that.
A recent study at the University of Portsmouth in England suggests that the human expression of effort and frustration is our way of asking others for help. Scientists at the university gave children and chimps an impossible puzzle to work out. When the children couldn’t work out the puzzle, their faces expressed determination and effort. The chimps did not. Humans and chimps, however, have many facial expressions that share the same meaning. A human smile is the same as a chimp showing its teeth in happiness. Scientists believe that over time, humans have evolved (进化) to use this facial expression to ask for help. We have also learned to respond to it by offering help.
According to Dr Albert Mehrabian, a well-known professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), only 7% of human communication happens through words and 55% is through body language. Therefore, understanding expressions is second nature to human beings.
With this in mind, next time you see a person with a frustrated expression, listen to your heart and stop to lend them a hand.
【1】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A．The occasion.
B．The facial expression.
C．The puzzle.
D．A sign of effort.
【2】What do people express through the facial expression of effort or frustration according to the recent study?
A．They need others’ help.
B．They can do things themselves.
C．They will give up.
D．They want to be alone.
【3】What do we know about the chimps in the study?
A．They had no difficulty working out the puzzle.
B．They smiled as they worked out the puzzle.
C．Their faces didn’t show determination or effort.
D．They used other expressions to ask for help.
【4】What does Dr Albert Mehrabian say about human communication?
A．It happens more through body language.
B．It doesn’t have to use any word at all.
C．Facial expression hides true feelings.
D．Spoken language is more powerful.
23、Eugene O' Neill, who was born in 1888, in New York, was a leading American drama writer and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. His father was a successful touring actor. Because of that, Eugene spent his early childhood in hotels, on trains, and backstage. Although later in his life he grew to hate his father for not giving him security in his early years and a loving and comfortable family, he had the theater in his blood
As a student. O'Neill went to boarding schools but spent the summers in a moderate house his family owned. He left Princeton University in 1907, only about one year after he entered it, to start what he later called his real education in "life experience". At the age of 24, he was hired as a reporter and poetry column writer for the Net London Telegraph, where he worked for only a few months.
O'Neill didn't cut a figure in playwriting until the summer of 1916, when he was in a peaceful village of Provincetown. Massachusetts, where some young writers and artists had founded an experimental theater Before that, he had written awkward melodramas（情节剧）that were hardly accepted by the mainstream of American theater. While O'Neill was only one of those whose plays were produced by the theater, he led the group to success because of his contribution within the next few years. Between 1916 and 1920, the theater produced all of O'Neill's one-act sea plays. By the time his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, was produced on Broadway on February 2, 1920, at the Morosco Theater, the young playwright already had a small reputation.
Theater critics spoke highly of Beyond the Horizon for its tragic realism. The play brought O'Neill more public attention, as well as his first Pulitzer Prize, apart from which he won another three for Amna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. Over the next two decades. O'Neill continued to gain reputation nationally and globally. He became the most widely translated and produced dramatist after Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw.
【1】What might inspire O'Neill's passion for theater?
A．His father's career.
B．The support of his family.
C．Hotel rooms he had lived in
D．Stories he had heard on trains.
【2】Why did O'Neill drop out of Princeton University?
A．He didn't want to study in a boarding school.
B．He wanted to receive real education from life.
C．He got a job from the Nee London Telegraph
D．He was unsatisfied with the quality of university education.
【3】What does the underlined phrase "cut a figure" in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A．Show interest.
B．Hold a degree.
C．Attract attention.
D．Receive an award.
【4】What can we learn about O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon?
A．It enhanced his reputation in the field of theater
B．It drew theater critics' attention to tragic realism,
C．It inspired him to compose another three dramas.
D．It made him the most widely translated and produced dramatist
24、I like watching butterflies. Sometimes I think I’m the only girl who notices these quiet but beautiful things. But if it hadn’t been for a crowded restaurant, I wouldn’t have ever noticed Valeri.
Valeri was a new student. She walked to class with her books against her chest and her head down. She talked only when the teacher asked her a question. After a month at our school, she hadn’t made any friend.
One day at lunch, most tables being full, I had nowhere to sit. Valeri sat alone, book in hand. I walked over to her, “Is that a good book?” Valeri gave a small nod and went back to reading. “What’s it about?” I asked. After seconds of silence, she looked at me, her eyes shining, “Well, it’s about a dragon! This boy, Eragon, finds this dragon egg when he goes playing one day. He thinks it’s a rock! The egg hatches（孵化）and Eragon hides the dragon from his cousin and uncle until it gets too big .”
Two weeks later, I was sitting in the auditorium（礼堂）enjoying the talent show. Then a shy girl walked on stage. I recognized her immediately. Valeri held a violin in one hand and a bow in the other. She started to play. The notes formed a soft, sweet tune. The auditorium fell completely silent until we realized the music was finished. I smiled to myself. Valeri wasn’t just “a quiet girl”. She knew about wonderful books and could play the violin like nothing I’d ever heard. Like a butterfly, she was beautiful and amazing when you looked closely.
【1】The author went to sit beside Valeri because _______.
A. Valeri invited her to sit there
B. Valeri’s book drew her attention
C. no more empty seats were left
D. she wanted to make friends with Valeri
【2】In the book Valeri was reading, _______raised the dragon.
A. Eragon’ father B. Eragon
C. Eragon’s cousin D. Eragon’s uncle
【3】Butterflies are mentioned in the text to show _______.
A. the beauty of butterflies
B. the author’s interest
C. the character of Valeri
D. the qualities of friends
【4】Which of the following words can best describe Valeri?
A. Quiet and talented.
B. Friendly and active.
C. Careful and talkative.
D. Kind and enthusiastic.
25、 Hundreds of people have formed impression of you through that little device(装置) on your desk. And they’ve never actually_________you. Everything they know about you___________through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. _________they feel they can know you_________from the sound of your voice. That’s how powerful the_________is. Powerful, yes, but not always _______. For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom I’d never met_________, got me rock—bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really_________me. I sometimes wished to_________another agent.
One morning, I had to__________an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Rani’s office__________. The woman sitting at the desk, __________my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a__________smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the________immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” I thought.
Rushing out__________I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, what’s your name ? ” “I’m Rani, ”she said. I turned around and saw a ________woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me safe trip. I was__________! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so__________.
Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Rani’s__________—her warm smile, her nods, her ‘I’m here for you’________—were all silent signals that didn’t travel through wires.
【1】A.accepted B.noticed C.met D.heard
【2】A.ran B.moved C.came D.developed
【3】A.Yet B.Thus C.Then D.Indeed
【4】A.rather B.just C.also D.already
【5】A.telephone B.voice C.connection D.impression
【6】A.direct B.useful C.accurate D.easy
【7】A.by myself B.in person C.in public D.on purpose
【8】A.interested B.annoyed C.discouraged D.confused
【9】A.promote B.train C.know D.find
【10】A.arrange B.postpone C.book D.confirm
【11】A.for the first time B.at any time C.from time to time D.in good time
【12】A.expecting B.testing C.seeing D.avoiding
【13】A.comforting B.shy C.familiar D.forced
【14】A.bill B.form C.ticket D.list
【15】A.hopefully B.disappointedly C.gratefully D.regretfully
【16】A.careful B.serious C.nervous D.pleasant
【17】A.amused B.worried C.speechless D.helpless
【18】A.calm B.nice C.proud D.clever
【19】A.forgiveness B.eagerness C.friendliness D.skillfulness
【20】A.explanation B.attitude C.concept D.behavior
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。
Allen was playing in his room. He heard a familiar chirping and rustling from the cage in the bedroom corner. It was his beloved Blue Finch, named Mary. The boy had cared for the bird since he was six, a gift from his mother for graduating from kindergarten and entering primary school. Now, at 12 years old, Allen had just recently celebrated his primary school graduation and was about to take another step in his life journey toward junior high school. For the past six years, Mary was his constant companion and closest friend.
As he grew up, Allen found it difficult to make friends or be close to others. Having had to move around many times and transfer schools due to his father’s work in the military, Allen never felt like he truly belonged in any one place. He always knew it wouldn’t be long before he would have to move yet again. The stress and pressure of a constantly mobile life also led to strain and pressure at home, leading to loud arguments and fights between his mother and father which he could hear from behind closed doors.
But, throughout all of this. Allen’s closest friend and companion-the true source of stability in his life — was Mary, his finch. But Mary was more than just a simple, calm pet: whenever Allen felt sad, the bird would always be singing and chirping, almost as if she sensed how he felt and wanted to lift his spirits. And when Allen fed the bird, Mary always moved across her branch to rest against his finger, never failing to bring a smile to Allen’s face. Yet, one summer day after Allen had come home after a walk at the park he found the window of his bedroom open and the door of Mary’s cage open-the-bird was gone. Suddenly, Allen realized that he must have left the cage open after cleaning it and forgot about the window being open on such a hot day. Upset, Allen fell down to the floor sobbing.
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Upon hearing the noise, Allen’s mother rushed upstairs and asked what had happened.
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Filled with anticipation, Allen and his mother went outside to look for Mary.
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