1、Working on this paper is my first step towards becoming a journalist, so this has been ________ for me.
A．a success
B．succeed
C．success
D．is successful
2、—Is that the small town you often refer to?
—Right, just the one________you know I used to work for years.
A．that
B．which
C．where
D．what
3、This is ______ my parents are worrying about.
A. why B. that C. what D. how
4、Generally, good educational background with moral values_________your future success.
A.determines B.determine C.has determined D.have determined
5、（题文）Facing the global financial crisis, the Chinese government has taken many measures ________ people's life to deal with it.
A. related B. related to
C. relating D. relating to
6、—What a surprise to see you cooking! You never did that before.
— that I’m grown-up, I want to help my parents do something.
A. Considering B. Considered
C. To consider D. Being considered
7、Cathy doesn’t feel like ______ her job. She’s already got a very good one.
A.change B.changing C.changed D.to change
8、I’m going to visit the factory__________your brother worked a few years ago.
A．that
B．which
C．in which
D．from which
9、—Alvin，are you coming with us?
—I'd love to，but something unexpected ________.
A．has come up
B．was coming up
C．had come up
D．would come up
10、_____ in charge of two classes made Mrs．Li, head of Senior Grade 3, extremely tired．
A. Leaving B. Left
C. Being left D. Having left
11、After five hours’ drive, they reached _______ they thought was the place they had been dreaming of.
A．that
B．where
C．which
D．what
12、—Have you informed your dad of the suggestions given by the expert?
— Of course. ____ I came home.
A. So long as B. If only
C. Any time D. The moment
13、—She was thrilled to get a ticket for Taylor Swift's solo concert.
—She earned it the hard way, for she ________ carefully over the past 3 months.
A.had budgeted B.had been budge
C.would budget D.has been budgeting
14、The story conveys a strong message, _________ that will hopefully touch all who read it.
A. it B. that C. those D. one
15、Please mind your ________ in public.
A．behavior
B．reflection
C．creativity
D．sculpture
16、________, the girl couldn’t get the door open.
A. Try might as she B. Try as she might
C. Might as she try D. Try although she might
17、---Why didn’t you attend the assembly this morning?
---But I anything about that.
A.didn’t tell B.haven’t told C.hadn’t been told D.haven’t been told
18、If this dictionary is not yours，______can it be？
A．what else
B．who else
C．which else's
D．who else's
19、She and her best friend felt sad when they heard I__________ for New York the next day
A.had left. B.was leaving. C.left. D.has left.
20、Fred is second to none in math in our class，but ______，he hardly passed the final math exam.
A. as a matter of fact B. as usual
C. right away D. believe it or not
21、 Does your local high school have a student newspaper? Only 1 in 8 of New York’s public high schools has student newspapers – and many of those are published just a few times a year. A few more are online, which can leave out poorer schools.
Rebecca Dwarka, an 18-year-old senior who works for her student paper said, “Facebook is the new way of finding out what happened. Nobody wants to actually sit down and read a whole article about it. This makes a ‘whole article’ sound a little like a long sentence in lonely places.”
I am not nostalgic(怀旧的) about high school student newspapers and never worked for mine. I put out what was then called a personal magazine with a group of friends because we wanted to write about peace, war and rock and roll without school officials warning us not to make jokes about the local officials.
School newspapers are in decline because students now find out what happened on social networking websites. This is a little discouraging because it proves that for millions of Americans, journalism is becoming a do-it-yourself thing. Every citizen can be a reporter.
When something happens, we look for social media messages. Facebook posts and Tweets have become the means by which citizens and reporters can prove, deny (否认), pass on stories and express opinions without the press’ challenging, researching or slowing the message.
But truly good journalism is a craft, not just a blog post. It requires seeing something carefully and it uses an eye for details to help prove a larger view. And even journalism that gives an opinion tries to be fair. If school newspapers begin to disappear, I hope there are other ways for students to learn that.
【1】What can we infer from Rebecca’s words?
A.Students like reading detailed articles.
B.Facebook is the quickest way of spreading news.
C.School newspapers are becoming unpopular.
D.Long sentences are becoming popular in lonely places.
【2】What does the underlined word “decline” in paragraph 4 mean?
A.Fall. B.Popularity
C.Increase D.Failure
【3】What should good journalism do according to the author?
A.Ignore some details.
B.Spread a message quickly.
C.Act as blog posts in modern times.
D.Give an opinion in a fair way.
【4】Which opinion does the writer intend to express in this passage?
A.Social media is becoming more and more important.
B.Everyone can become a reporter at present.
C.Social networking brings about new journalism.
D.High school newspapers shouldn’t be replaced by social media.
22、Survivor bias (偏见，偏差), occurs when you tend to assess successful outcomes and disregard failures. This sampling bias paints a more promising or even misleading picture of reality.
Survivor bias is a sneaky problem that tends to slip into analyses unnoticed. For starters, it feels natural to emphasize success, whether it’s entrepreneurs, or survivors of a medical condition. We focus on and share these stories more than the failures.
Think about the famous college dropouts who became highly successful, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates. These successful examples might make you think a college degree isn’t beneficial. However, that’s survivor bias at work! These famous individuals are at the forefront of media reports. You hear more about them because they are extraordinary. You’re not considering the millions of other college dropouts that aren’t rich and famous. You need to assess their outcomes as well.
Survivor bias has even occurred in medical studies about severe diseases. Younger, healthier, and more fit patients tend to survive a disease’s initial diagnosis more frequently. Hence, they are more likely to join medical studies. On the contrary, older, weaker patients are less likely to survive long enough to participate in studies. Consequently, these studies overestimate successful disease outcomes because they are less likely to include those who die shortly after diagnosis.
Undeniably, successful cases are usually more visible and easier to contact than unsuccessful cases. However, focusing on the high-performing successes and disregarding other cases introduces survivor bias. After all, you’re leaving out a significant part of the picture as it’s harder to collect data from the less successful members of a population. Incomplete data can affect your decision-making process. Put simply, survivor bias produces an inaccurate sample, causing you to jump to incorrect conclusions.
To minimize the impact of survivor bias, you should find ways to draw a representative sample from the population, not just a few of successful samples. That process might call for more expense and effort, but you’ll get better results.
【1】What writing technique is used in Paragraphs 3 and 4?
A．Making comparisons.
B．Giving examples.
C．Describing facts.
D．Analyzing data.
【2】What may occur if you have a survivor bias?
A．You will take all factors into account before making a final analysis.
B．You will overestimate the failure rate so you may quit your project.
C．You will only have partial data and reach an incorrect conclusion.
D．You will be more likely to survive in unfavorable circumstances.
【3】What can we infer from the passage?
A．People tend to lose sight of the overall statistics.
B．People are unwilling to read unsuccessful stories.
C．Doctors don’t have enough expense to collect abundant samples.
D．The media should be responsible for kids’ dropping out of school.
【4】What does the author suggest readers do to avoid survivor bias?
A．Leave out the famous historic cases.
B．Collect a wide enough range of samples.
C．Focus on those most mentioned examples.
D．Select some successful and inspiring tales.
23、 Peter Damon produces about 30 paintings a year and sells them for between $250 and $1,500. That’s not enough to make ends meet, but it has made him whole again. He lost both arms in an accident.
“Having this skill that even normal people find difficult was something that really helped me and made me feel like I fit in more in the world,” Damon said. He was a worker in a car factory. One day when he was working, there was a gas explosion (爆炸), killing one worker and injuring him.
“I lost my right arm above the elbow, about three inches above the elbow, and my left about six inches below,” he explained.
“How am I going to make a living and take care of my family? I had always worked with my hands,” he said.
Then with a simple little drawing, a new future opened up for him.
“I thought it was wonderful in a way,” Damon said. “Something was telling me to focus on this and everything will be alright.” Damon doesn’t have a perfect prosthetic arm (假肢)—juts a hook (钩子), which he finds works best.
He and his wife Jen run True Grit Art Gallery in Middleboro, Massachusetts, where he shows the works of local artists. With his disability check from the government, he can afford to be an artist. He is a man doing what he wants with his life, and doesn’t look at his situation as a hard time.
“I don’t see it that way,” Damon said. “Suffering an injury like this has a way of making you focus on what’s important in life.”
He believes his best work is still ahead of him. But with his pictures of simple American scenes, Damon has already produced his best work.
【1】How did Damon lose his arms?
A.A gas explosion injured his arms.
B.He was attacked when he was driving a car.
C.His arms were tapped by a worker by accident.
D.He was knocked down by a car when he was working.
【2】What do we know about Peter Damon when he started taking up painting from the text?
A.His hope for life was brought back.
B.He felt a lot of pressure at the beginning.
C.He didn’t earn enough to support his family.
D.His painting were so expensive that few people wanted to buy them.
【3】What is Damon’s attitude towards his suffering?
A.Negative. B.Optimistic. C.Pitiful. D.Uncertain.
【4】What is the main idea of the passage?
A.Winners do what losers don’t want to do.
B.It is never too late to mend.
C.Never put off until tonorow what you can do today.
D.God closes a door and another will open for you.
24、Welcome to one of the largest collections of footwear in the world that will make you green with envy. Here at the Footwear Museum you can see exhibits from all over the world. You can find out about shoes worn by everyone from the Ancient Egyptians to pop stars.
Room 1
The celebrity footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum. Started in the 1950s there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! Most visitors find the celebrities' choice of footwear extremely interesting.
Room 2
Most of our visitors are amazed-and shocked-by the collection of "special purpose" shoes on exhibition here at the Museum of Footwear. For example, there are Chinese shoes made of silk that were worn by women to tie their feet firmly to prevent them from growing too much!
Room 3
As well as shoes and boots the museum also exhibits shoe-shaped objects. The variety is unbelievable. For example, there is a metal lamp that resembles a pair of shoes, and Greek wine bottles that look like legs!
The Footwear Library
People come from all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library Designers and researchers come here to look up information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear.
【1】All exhibits in each room .
A．belong to the same social class
B．have the same shape
C．are made of the same material
D．share the same theme
【2】Which of the following is true according to the text?
A．Researchers come to the Footwear Library for data
B．Room 2 is the most visited place in the museum.
C．Room 3 has a richer variety of exhibits than the other two.
D．The oldest exhibits in Room l were made in the 1950s
【3】The purpose of the text is to get more people to _____________.
A．do research
B．visit the museum
C．design shoes
D．follow celebrities
25、When in college, I liked natural world, but didn't love it. And the more I looked at what was _________ —an exploding world population, exploding levels of resource consumption, etc. --the_________ I became.
Then, I decided to _________ and something funny happened. It's a long _________, but basically I became a birdwatcher. At first I did this not without significant _________, because anything that _________ real passion is uncool. But little by little, I developed this _________first for the new species discovered and then, magically, I could _________ my heart overflow with love whenever I looked at a bird, any bird. That's where a (n) _________ mixture surfaced —my anger about the __________ was only increased when I learned more about the__________ that birds face; however, as I engaged in bird conservation, it became surprisingly __________ a live with that anger.
I guess my love for birds forced me to face a less self-centered part of myself that I’d never even known __________. It was a self that I had to either __________ or reject. My anger actually is rooted in the__________ that we're alive for a while but will die before long. Once again, I can either __________ this fact or, by way of __________, embrace it. .
When we stay in our room shrugging our shoulders, the problems outside are incredibly__________.But when we go out and put ourselves __________ real people, or even just real animals, there's a very real chance that some love might __________.
【1】
A．right
B．wrong
C．elegant
D．delicate
【2】
A．happier
B．angrier
C．sadder
D．thirstier
【3】
A．change
B．go
C．develop
D．remove
【4】
A．way
B．effect
C．case
D．story
【5】
A．importance
B．preference
C．guidance
D．resistance
【6】
A．tolerates
B．declares
C．betrays
D．indicates
【7】
A．passion
B．definition
C．reality
D．significance
【8】
A．sense
B．watch
C．hear
D．touch
【9】
A．ambitious
B．familiar
C．curious
D．entire
【10】
A．birds
B．heart
C．species
D．planet
【11】
A．traps
B．controls
C．enemies
D．threats
【12】
A．harder
B．easier
C．worse
D．better
【13】
A．moved
B．faded
C．existed
D．panicked
【14】
A．deny
B．rescue
C．polish
D．accept
【15】
A．cycle
B．mistake
C．fact
D．failure
【16】
A．run from
B．run for
C．run into
D．run after
【17】
A．life
B．death
C．love
D．anger
【18】
A．obvious
B．fearsome
C．simple
D．delightful
【19】
A．in exchange for
B．in relation to
C．in control of
D．in agreement with
【20】
A．occur
B．hurt
C．skip
D．disappear
26、假定你是李华。最近,你校将举办一场《红楼梦》(A Dream in Red Mansions)读书交流会。你得知国际交换生James对此书很感兴趣。请你给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括:
1.邀请他参加；
2.告知活动时间、地点等；
3.介绍活动内容：交流阅读该经典名著的体会。
注意:1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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