1、Hardly had I finished the work on time ________ the bell rang.
A．while
B．when
C．as
D．during
2、—Did you like your trip to Xi' an during the Summer vacation?
—____．It was too hot and there was too much traffic．
A．Not a little
B．Don' t mention it
C．Not really
D．'Not exactly
3、—Here________ someone ________. Let's see who it is.
—It might be John according to the figure, but I'm not sure.
A．is coming; running
B．comes; running
C．comes; is running
D．is coming; is running
4、I’ve ordered some pizza, so we _______ worry about cooking when we get home tired.
A．can’t
B．dare not
C．needn’t
D．may not
5、 The order came that the medical supplies _____ to Beijing for the Sars soon.
A. would be sent B. should send C. be sent D. must be sent
6、Smell the flowers before you go to sleep, and you may just ________sweet dreams.
A．keep up with
B．put up with
C．end up with
D．catch up with
7、It was a pity that the great writer died ______ his work unfinished.
A．for
B．with
C．from
D．of
8、You will never be successful _____ you are fully devoted to you work.
A. because B. unless C. if D. when
9、---Excuse me, is this the right way to the bank?
--- It __________be but I’m not sure.
A. will
B. must
C. might
D. shall
10、There’s evidence ________recovering alcoholics who have been given the opportunity to plant, grow, and even sell their produce, have managed to stop their addictive habits.
A．which
B．that
C．about which
D．in which
11、The headmaster decided to put ________ glass on top of the wall to prevent the boys ________ over it .
A．breaking ; climbing
B．broken ; climbing
C．broken ; to climb
D．breaking ; to climb
12、"The thirst for knowledge is the strongest __________ there is a barrier," says the president of the ltalian Union of the Blind．
A．which
B．where
C．since
D．unless
13、----Just a moment. I haven’t finished packing my suitcase.
----_______.It’s high time we left for the airport.
A. Go ahead B. Take it easy
C. Hurry up D. That's fine
14、This exhibition is to _____ the traditional images and show that there are no limits to what you are capable of.
A．hand down
B．break down
C．calm down
D．lay down
15、As far as I know, Han Gan’s talent and years of hard work ______ his success.
A．are due to
B．contribute to
C．are used to
D．apologize to
16、Each party _______ respect the articles of this contract, or a double-sized financial punishment is a must.
A. will B. could C. shall D. should
17、She glanced at my legs. ‘Although you might want to wear... something a bit less ____________.’
A.revealing B.temporary
C.complicated D.inadequate
18、Young readers often find the novels of Dickens than Thackeray's.
A.far more exciting B.even much exciting
C.so more exciting D.a lot much exciting
19、The law requires equal treatment for all, ________ race, religion or sex.
A．nothing more than
B．regardless of
C．as much as
D．not once
20、The students ________ don’t exercise much or ________ diet is rich in fat will gain weight.
A．that…whom
B．who…whose
C．who…which
D．whose…that
21、Our Annual Cultural Events
A Night in Rio
We are proud to bring the energy and enthusiasm of Brazilian Carnival to Charlotte with A Night in Rio! Get a taste of Carnival through dancing, live music, authentic food, drinks and marketplace. Put on your green and yellow, and join us for the unforgettable experience of Brazilian Carnival!
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2019
Location: Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte
Time: 7 PM
TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLY AT THE DOOR
Ritmo&Sabor
We are thrilled to bring the annual celebration Ritmo&Sabor Festival! Featuring dance performances and FREE dance lessons and delicious, authentic Latin cuisine, this festival will be a fantastic celebration for the entire family to enjoy! Food and beer will be available for purchase. Come out to enjoy a great summer evening of Ritmo&Sabor!
Date: Saturday July 2, 2019
Location: International & Cultural Center, Charlotte
Time: 5-11 PM
FREE ADMISSION
Las Américas
Join us in the annual celebration LAS AMÉRICAS! We display our history and identity of Latin America through musical performances, story-telling and poetry. Enjoy yourself with local artists, shop your way through a market of arts and crafts and join in some of the finest Latin American cuisine.
Date: August 18, 2019
Location: Midwood International & Culture Center, Charlotte
Time: 2-7 PM
Admission is FREE.
Latin American Festival
Festival Latinoamericano returns for its 28th year, with musical artists and dance performances, a diverse authentic selection of Latin American food, visual artists, and a street festival environment with activities for the whole family.
Location: Symphony Park at South Park Mall, Charlotte
Date: Saturday Sept. 29 (1-8pm)
Admission: $10; Children aged 8 & under are free.
【1】What does Ritmo&Sabor mainly provide?
A.Music and visual art. B.Food and beer.
C.Dance and poetry. D.Dance and food.
【2】Which event requires a ticket for a seven-year-old child?
A.Las Américas. B.Ritmo&Sabor.
C.A Night in Rio. D.Latin American Festival.
【3】The event in _________ is held in the first quarter of the year.
A.Neighborhood Theatre B.International & Cultural Center
C.Midwood International & Culture Center D.Symphony Park at South Park Mall
22、 Debates over the benefits of recycling started in 1996 when a writer called John Tierney said “recycling is garbage”. According to him, “Recycling programs offer mainly short-term benefits to a few related groups while diverting money from real social and environmental problems. It doubles energy consumption and pollution while costing taxpayers more money than dealing with old garbage. Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America.”
Environmental groups were quick to respond to Tierney by issuing reports detailing the benefits of recycling and showing how municipal (市政的) recycling programs reduce pollution and the use of resources while decreasing the amount of garbage and the need for landfill space — all for less, not more, than the cost of regular garbage collection and disposal(处置).
But in 2002, New York City, an early municipal recycling pioneer, found that its much-praised recycling program was losing money, so it eliminated glass and plastic recycling. According to the Mayor, the benefits of recycling plastic and glass were outweighed by the price—-recycling cost twice as much as disposal. Meanwhile, low demand for the materials meant that much of it was ending up in landfills anyway. NYC closed its last landfill and brought in a more efficient system, with more famous service providers than it had used previously.
The lessons learned by New York are applicable everywhere. Some early recycling programs waste resources and lead to new trash. But the situation has improved as cities have gained experience. If managed correctly, recycling programs should cost cities and taxpayers less than garbage disposal for any given amount of material. Even though the benefits of recycling over disposal are various, individuals should keep in mind that it better serves the environment to reduce and reuse materials before recycling even becomes an option.
【1】John Tierney thought that recycling ___________.
A.is a waste of money
B.leads to a lack of employers
C.is beneficial to the environment
D.will become popular in the future
【2】What’s the meaning of the underlined word “eliminated” in Paragraph 3?
A.Required. B.Forgot.
C.Encouraged. D.Cancelled.
【3】What does the last paragraph imply?
A.We should make recycling an option.
B.Public recycling programs are in a bad situation.
C.We should develop the awareness of resource saving.
D.Cost-saving should be considered first in recycling work.
【4】What can be the best title for this passage?
A.The harm of recycling
B.Is recycling really beneficial?
C.The recycling work in New York City
D.Is environmental protection making progress?
23、 In Central America, sea turtle eggs are a popular cuisine dish. The eggs are hugely and secretly harvested onto tables, leaving the sea turtles listed as threatened. Yet we simply do not have the ability to continuously guard large beaches. Scientist Kim Williams was thinking hard when she had an “aha” moment: How about placing a fake(假的) egg containing a GPS tracker.
That’s how the special eggs come in. To build them:Williams and colleagues used a 3D printer. Then:they fixed in the smallest GPS tracking devices. As mother turtles laid their eggs under cover of night, the researchers slipped a single spy egg into each nest. Once they are covered in sand from the real ones: “it’s very difficult to tell the difference,” says Williams.
Of the 101 spy eggs, 25 were taken away while six of them were quickly discovered and left on the beach. The team received tracking data with the farthest egg travelling 137 kilometers inland and stopping at a local supermarket. The spy egg sent its final signal the next day from a personal house, suggesting that the research team had tracked the eggs all the way. The researchers stress that the tracker is not a way to catch local thieves: many of whom are living in poverty(贫穷), but rather a tool to better understand how the deal goes.
Still stopping stealing is not as simple as handing the tracking data over to the police. Across Central America, trade in sea turtle eggs can be legally ambiguous. In Costa Rica:for example, it is illegal to steal and sell sea turtle eggs but buying them is not a crime. It is not black and white. Meanwhile, local support is in need above all. “It but not tracking with eggs, is the real meat and potatoes of conservation,” says Williams.
【1】What is the major threat to the existence of sea turtles?
A.Unsafe GPS trackers. B.Unguarded Sea Beaches.
C.The popular dishes of sea turtles. D.The overhunt of turtle eggs.
【2】How does Williams explain her study in paragraph 2?
A.By listing scientific data. B.By making a comparison.
C.By clarifying the process. D.By using an expert’s words.
【3】The researchers tracked so many spy eggs to________.
A.test the GPS trackers
B.catch the egg thieves
C.look into the whole deal of turtle eggs
D.learn about the current situation of sea turtles
【4】Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A.Spy Eggs Save Endangered Sea Turtles
B.Sea Turtles Draw International Concern
C.GPS Trackers Improve Tracking Accuracy
D.Central America Need Wildlife Protection
24、 Fading beauty
She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last for ever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa.
The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre Museum(卢浮宫博物馆) where it is housed.
“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said. Visitors have noticed changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy. Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current chemical state(化学状态).
Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile. “It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University. “It’s because direct vision (视觉) is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows. Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.”[
However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile. Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis I in 1519.
In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat. He said he planned to return it to Italy. The painting was sent back to France two years later.
During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.
Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell.
【1】What does the writer mean by “time is catching up with the Mona Lisa”?
A.The painting woman is not so beautiful any more.
B.Ageing is something that affects us all.
C.The painting needs repairing.
D. At such an old age, she is no longer popular.
【2】What makes the repair work difficult?
A.The wooden panel is thin and old.
B.No one knows exactly what materials were used to create the painting and how it might respond to treatment.
C.The health of the painting is suffering.
D.Experts can’t agree on how to carry out repairs.
【3】What makes her so mysterious according to Professor Livingston?
A.The materials the Italian artist used. B.The way she smiles.
C.The way Da Vinci painted the smile. D.It plays a trick upon the human eyes
25、I have just finished my 23rd year of teaching at universities. And there have been several ______ in the way students approach their classes. The most noticeable is that when I started teaching, students took notes in notebooks, but now every desk has a laptop on it when I give a lecture.
There seem to be a lot of obvious ______ of taking notes on a computer. For one it is easy to save the notes in a place where you can ______ them later. For another, you will be able to read your notes late especially if your handwriting is poor.
Before we go out and encourage every student to bring a laptop to class, ______ , it is worth checking out a study by Pam Mueller and Danny Oppenheimer. They compared college students' ______ in tests following exposure to material. The students were assigned either to take notes by hand or using a laptop.
In the first study, students took notes while watching a lecture. Then, they engaged in other activities for about 30 minutes. Finally, they were given a quiz about the lecture. The quiz contained factual questions as well as conceptual questions that required some ______ of the subject matter Students did about equally well on the factual question ______ how they took notes. However, the students did much ______ on the conceptual questions when they took notes by hand than when they took them using the laptop.
The experiments ______ the content of people's notes to the lecture and found that when people typed their notes on a laptop, they were much more likely to ______ what people said directly rather than writing their impressions of it. That is, people writing out their notes had to think more ______ about the content of what they heard than those people who were just typing.
Then, in the second study, the experiments told people using the laptops to take good notes rather than just taking down what they heard. Even when people were given these ______ , they still had a greater tendency to type what they heard than people who were taking notes by hand. As before, the people who used the laptops did more poorly on a test of ______ knowledge than those who took notes by hand.
So there is real value in having to ______ the material in the process of taking notes. It is because handwriting is slow and ______ that people have to think more clearly about what they want to write down rather than copying down what is being said.
【1】
A．challenges
B．changes
C．problems
D．projects
【2】
A．approaches
B．benefits
C．influences
D．guidelines
【3】
A．find
B．give
C．take
D．use
【4】
A．additionally
B．finally
C．otherwise
D．though
【5】
A．confidence
B．competition
C．expectation
D．performance
【6】
A．description
B．experience
C．understanding
D．memorization
【7】
A．owing to
B．regardless of
C．in the form of
D．in relation to
【8】
A．better
B．faster
C．more poorly
D．more slowly
【9】
A．offered
B．devoted
C．led
D．compared
【10】
A．copy
B．remember
C．summarize
D．grasp
【11】
A．cheerfully
B．positively
C．deeply
D．quickly
【12】
A．functions
B．foundations
C．instructions
D．restrictions
【13】
A．detailed
B．experimental
C．established
D．conceptual
【14】
A．come across
B．think about
C．put away
D．take down
【15】
A．effortful
B．quiet
C．steady
D．casual
26、It’s hard to talk to dads sometimes. The roles we often expect our fathers to play—protector, provider—can make them seem impenetrable(不可理解的). That’s how it was with my dad. He came to Canada at the age of ten and settled in an immigrant community. He was never much of a talker. He rarely drank, so we didn’t get to see him loosen up after a few beers. He didn’t tell stories about himself at the dinner table or when we went for walks in the park. He was a private person and seemed to want to stay that way.
Bringing up the many questions I had about life before I was born-his early hopes and dreams, loves and heartbreaks—let alone sharing my own feelings, felt like too much for us to handle. I didn’t want to threaten the integrity(完整)of his hard shell. I had gotten used to it, and it made me feel secure.
But when my relationship and career took a hit a year ago at the same time, things had to change. I was facing serious questions about my own nature, and I wanted to know that he had faced them, too. I needed to know how he had found his way, because I felt like I had lost mine.
In a severe moment of desperation, it occurred to me that sending an email might be the key. An email can be crafted(精心制作)slowly and carefully. I could speak at a comfortable distance and give him room to adjust. He’d be up in his office—a comfortable place filled with bookshelves, dusty CD-ROMs and piles of old newspapers. I’d be at my desk in an apartment 20 minutes away.
So I wrote to him. I told him about my regrets and fears, and I asked him to answer, if he felt like it, and to share something about himself, something that would give me much-needed perspective on my life, especially on relationship and career.
Para 1: Two weeks later, his response showed up in my email box.
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Para 2: I closed the email and started to cry.
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