1、---Did you ______ the concert yesterday evening?
---Sorry, I didn't have enough time. I really regret ______ my homework earlier.
A. attend; not to finish B. attend; not having finished
C. join; not finishing D. take part in; having not finished
2、 It’s important for the figures _________ regularly.
A. to be updated B. to have been updated
C. to update D. to have updated
3、—Is Lucy knocking at the door?
—No. It ______ be Lucy. She is in France now.
A．mustn’t
B．can’t
C．needn’t
D．shouldn’t
4、I’d rather have a quiet cup of coffee at home than ________ in the noisy office.
A．to sit
B．sit
C．sitting
D．sat
5、Which one of the following sentences is grammatically incorrect?
A．The girl imagined her future college life to be challenging yet enlightening.
B．He is surprised to find that the man should be alive after being buried for hours.
C．With many problems to deal with, he went back to the office and started working.
D．There was no soup served for lunch or there was no vegetable served for dinner.
6、—He is so delighted to make friends with Johnson.
—Oh, I see. That’s _______ they have much in common.
A. where B. how C. what D. because
7、—I was going to skate on Sunday, but I can’t go now.
—________.
A.What a pity B.No matter
C.I don’t mind D.Let’s make it at 7:30
8、Microblog provides a fun and easy way to keep up with the news and _______ thoughts with friends online.
A．explain
B．conclude
C．express
D．exchange
9、A gunman,who was later found dead, walked into an Oregon high school with a rifle and shot a(n) student to death on Tuesday.
A.bitter
B.confident
C.unusual
D.innocent
10、The father as well as his three kids ________ skating on the cold river every Sunday afternoon in winter.
A. goes B. go C. is going D. are going
11、A number of scientists ________ that the number of wild animals ________ getting smaller and smaller.
A．say; are
B．say ; is
C．says; have been
D．says; were
12、Perhaps the meal you said was “delicious” will be served ________ you visit.
A．every time
B．all the time
C．for the first time
D．in the time
13、Although he is poor, you shouldn’t look down upon him. He is so and friendly.
A. foolish B. wild
C. rich D. honest
14、--- ________ has the 2018 World Cup been on?
---For about two weeks.
A．How soon
B．How far
C．How long
15、________ the meeting room, he found all the parents already________ there.
A.To enter; sitting B.Entering; to seat C.Entered; seat D.Entering; seated
16、It is amazing to learn that our human beings tend to some knowledge when we are exactly relaxing ourselves，such as diving，swimming and so on.
A.take up B.take on
C.pick up D.pull through
17、—How time flies! Since the College Entrance Examinations are approaching, we have to seize every minute.
—Exactly. As the saying goes, ________.
A. time will tell B. time and chance reveal all secrets
C. time tries truth D. time lost cannot be won again
18、It is generally believed that communication skills are becoming ______ it takes to be a good doctor.
A. whether B. that C. how D. What
19、The umbrella is a poor ______ from heavy rain.
A.raft B.beard C.fiction D.shelter
20、Universal ______ to education is the ability of all people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, ethnicity, background or physical disabilities.
A．application
B．access
C．admission
D．attempt
21、Andrew Bastawrous was 12 when he found out he could barely see. He was then socially awkward, failing at school and terrible at ball games.
Glasses turned his life around, yet even as a child he was aware of how lucky he was. Bastawrous grew up in the UK, but his family would visit poor parts of Egypt, where his parents were from. “Nobody there wore glasses, but I knew some people needed them,” he says. “It felt incredibly unfair. At 16, I decided I wasn’t going to feel guilty about it any more.” He determined there and then to become an eye surgeon, and he did.
In 2012, he and his wife moved with their one-year-old son to a small town 5 hours’ drive from Nairobi. They had limited electricity and running water. For 18 months, every time Bastawrous and his team set up their “mobile” eye clinic in yet another new location, they had to drag heavy, fragile hospital equipment cross-country. There was another problem, as one local doctor described it, “We don’t even have enough doctors and now you also want eye surgeons? That’s probably a pipe dream.”
All this convinced Bastawrous that something fundamental was needed. So he started exploring ways to replace his clinic with a single, convenient device: a smartphone. He co-developed an app-based visual test that gathers as much information as the classic one, using similar principles. The critical difference is that almost anyone can carry it out after just a few minutes of training. Bastawrous co-founded a charitable company to develop and apply the technology more widely. His team also developed technologies that enabled a smartphone camera to take hospital-grade images of the back of the eye.
That’s a pretty good start, but Bastawrous has his sights set sky high. “I feel we’re at a tipping point now where this enormous problem will become a historical thing. That’s when I’ll sleep easy,” he says.
【1】What drove Bastawrous to become an eye surgeon?
A．His personal misfortune.
B．His burning sense of injustice.
C．His ambition to turn his life around.
D．His guilt about leaving his home country.
【2】What can we infer about Bastawrous’s first 18 months in Africa?
A．It’s hard and problematic.
B．It’s challenging but fruitful.
C．It’s adventurous and unrealistic.
D．It’s fundamental but innovative.
【3】Bastawrous’s innovation can be described as ________
A．cheap and convenient treatments for patients.
B．a virtual and complete change from a classic test.
C．a smart and popularised application of technology.
D．fast and effective trainings of medical professionals.
【4】What do Bastawrous’s words in the last paragraph show?
A．His modest attitude to his past achievements.
B．His optimistic views on the cure for blindness.
C．His strong belief in the effects of future technology.
D．His firm determination to carry on his challenging career.
22、Your emotion helps you make sense of the world. At the core of an emotion is a subjective experience of the valence of it — what emotion scientists call “affect” (情感). Generally speaking, affect is what we are most focused on. Do you have chocolate cake in front of you? That’s good! Do you see a spider on the table! That’s bad!
Your affective reactions tell you which experiences are desirable, and which aren’t, but the total emotional experience includes all you do and think. You can learn a lot by observing and describing them. You can also learn a lot by appreciating their secret life.
The problem is: the affective features of emotions tend to dominate. Our subjective valence of emotion is almost all we can see. When emotions are only about what is pleasant or unpleasant in subjective experience right now, the more important features of emotion disappear.
If you can slow down and expand; if you stop running or clinging (沉浸其中) and adopt a sense of curiosity, emotions become more subtle and different. When fear comes up, don’t walk away so that fear dissipates. Instead, stay. Allow yourself to feel the nervousness, the sweating, and everything else that comes along with it. It is one of the hardest things to do in life, but it’s also one of the most rewarding. If you run, you are telling basic parts of your brain, “I guess this threat really was real. I better stay away from it.” You are training yourself to fear, regardless of that situation. If you cling, you are saying, “Escape from this emotion is a threat”, and since it is not a happy experience, happiness slips through your hands like sand.
Note that you can not fool yourself. Just allow the full emotion. You will never enter into their secret life until you stop running or clinging. To control your life, you need to actively train your emotions to be your ally (同盟). Observe. Describe. Appreciate. Do that and you may find you have allies for healthy living that were there all along.
【1】Why does the author mention “chocolate cake” and “spider” in paragraph 1?
A．To explain the complex response of emotions.
B．To show the subjective experience of emotions.
C．To indicate the goodness and badness of the world.
D．To emphasize the significance of emotions in life.
【2】What is the consequence if you just focus on your present feelings?
A．The present feelings are less obvious.
B．The subjective emotions are less powerful.
C．The overall picture of emotions is easier to ignore.
D．The observation and description of emotions are easier.
【3】What does the underlined word “dissipates” in Paragraph 4 probably refer to?
A．Deepens.
B．Spreads.
C．Disappears.
D．Sticks.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A．The secret of emotions.
B．The subjective experience.
C．The importance of allies in life.
D．Magical functions of emotions.
23、 Dr Almeida left school at 16 with little formal education but got a job as a laboratory technician in histopathology ( 组织病理学 ) at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Later she moved to London to further her career and in 1954 married Enriques Almeida, an artist.
The couple and their young daughter moved to Toronto in Canada and it was at the Ontario Cancer Institute that Dr Almeida developed her outstanding skills with an electron microscope.
She pioneered a method which better visualized ( 成像 ) viruses by using antibodies to gather them. Her talents were recognized in the UK and she was invited to work at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London.
On her return, she began to cooperate with Dr David Tyrrell. Dr Tyrrell and his team were able to grow quite a few common cold-associated viruses. One sample, known as B814, was discovered in 1960. They found that they were able to transmit ( 传染 ) common cold symptoms to volunteers but they were unable to grow it in routine cell culture ( 细胞培养 ). However, volunteer studies showed its growth in organ cultures ( 器官培养 ). Dr Tyrrell wondered if it could be seen by an electron microscope. They sent samples to Almeida who found that they were like flu viruses but not exactly the same. She identified what became known as the first human coronavirus ( 冠状病毒 ).
Dr Almeida had actually seen particles ( 微粒 ) like this before while investigating viruses in mice and chickens. However, when she sent her paper about this discovery to a medical journal, it was rejected. It was two years later that the first photographs of the virus she had seen were published in Journal of General Virology. It was named coronavirus because of the crown surrounding it on the viral image.
【1】Why did Dr Almeida return to work in the UK ?
A.Because her family did not like Toronto.
B.Because the UK appreciated her talents.
C.Because she bettered an electron microscope.
D.Because she was the first one to visualize viruses.
【2】What can we know about B814?
A.It could be grown in routine cell culture.
B.It was unable to develop in organ cultures.
C.It’s exactly the same with influenza viruses.
D.It was identified as the first human coronavirus.
【3】What can we connect with the name “coronavirus”?
A.Its viral image.
B.Its deadly power.
C.It original sample.
D.Its first appearance.
24、 From the loss of wildlife to rising sea levels, we’re all well aware of the problems that climate change could cause.
But while it may seem like such issues won’t affect most of us directly, it looks like future generations could grow up without something that many of us now take for granted: chocolate.
According to an essay published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, changes to the climate in the regions that produce cacao – the plant from which chocolate is produced – may mean that it will soon become extinct.
Most of the world’s cacao grows in countries close to the equator(赤道), with over half of it growing in the African nations of Ghana and Ivory Coast.
It’s predicted that by 2050, climate change will have accelerated the rate at which temperatures in these countries rise, making it extremely difficult for cacao to grow there.
The problem doesn’t lie in increased heat, however, but in lower humidity (湿度), as it’s believed that rainfall will stay at the same level if the temperature rises.
“In other words, as higher temperatures squeeze more water out of soil and plants, it’s unlikely that rainfall will increase enough to offset the moisture(水分) loss,” Michon Scott, the essay’s author, wrote.
To help fight this problem, researchers from Berkeley University in the US are working on changing the DNA of cacao plants to allow them to survive in dryer conditions by using geneediting technology, according to US News.
In the meantime, US company Mars, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of chocolate products, announced in January that it would spend $1 billion (6.33 billion yuan) to help reduce the effects of climate change.
“This is a world issue, and it requires everyone to work together,” Mars spokesperson Barry Parkin told Business Insider.
The message here is that if we all do our part, we may be able to prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change. Or if we’re unlucky, chocolate will become a thing of the past.
【1】What could make it hard for cacao to grow around the equator in the future?
A.the higher temperatures there
B.the higher humidity there
C.the increase in rainfall there
D.the moisture loss in the soil there
【2】What did Barry Parkin suggest?
A.No man is an island.
B.Every little bit counts.
C.United we stand; divided we fall.
D.Wish for the best; prepare for the worst.
【3】What can we learn from the passage?
A.UC Berkeley is trying to find a substitute for cacao.
B.Cacao can only be found in most African countries.
C.Climate changes can be controlled if we are lucky.
D.Mars will financially support the fight against climate changes.
【4】What is the passage mainly about?
A.The origin of chocolate.
B.The future of chocolate.
C.The history of chocolate.
D.The ingredients of chocolate.
25、 My aunt came to my home with her six-year-old daughter Alice this morning. While my aunt was talking with my mom at home, my cousin felt a bit ______. So I suggested that I go out with her. My aunt happily ______. So we went to the park near my home together. There we bought two ______ and started flying them. While we were doing that, Alice couldn’t help ______. She jumped up and down and I knew she was ______ having great fun. And I must ______ that I haven’t enjoyed myself like that for a long time.
Later, we sat down on a bench, looking at the gardens. As we were ______ there, Alice looked up at me and said, “What a ______ day today!” I smiled at her and agreed. I then started ______ what we had done that day. We did something quite ______, yet we were very happy.
Many people wait for their “best days”. But I think today is our ______ day. That’s a lesson I ______ today. As adults, we often make plans ______ in order to have a great day. Some people think that they can have a nice day through spending a lot of ______. I think we should be more like ______. They don’t think about money or what will happen tomorrow. They ______ live in the moment and enjoy the moment!
We often hear the expression that we should live in the ______. How do we do that? We’re not doing such a ______ job. Remember today is important as we are exchanging (交换) a day of our ______ for it. Yesterday is a history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a ______. That’s why it is called present. So seize (把握) the day!
A．tired
B．hungry
C．bored
D．sleepy
A．explained
B．agreed
C．called
D．followed
A．birds
B．presents
C．planes
D．kites
A．crying
B．laughing
C．complaining
D．running
A．truly
B．willingly
C．faithfully
D．hopefully
A．admit
B．suggest
C．dream
D．wonder
A．eating
B．jumping
C．walking
D．sitting
A．cold
B．warm
C．great
D．long
A．aiming at
B．looking for
C．thinking about
D．dreaming about
A．common
B．strange
C．brave
D．interesting
A．memorable
B．perfect
C．important
D．special
A．needed
B．taught
C．gave
D．learned
A．quickly
B．sadly
C．worriedly
D．carefully
A．energy
B．money
C．time
D．experience
A．children
B．teachers
C．relatives
D．parents
A．really
B．entirely
C．frequently
D．finally
A．morning
B．past
C．present
D．future
A．difficult
B．professional
C．new
D．good
A．mood
B．home
C．life
D．family
A．reason
B．gift
C．book
D．tool
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。
An Act of Neighborliness
The skies were dark. A strong wind was blowing hard, cutting my face like a sharp knife. Rain fell in big drops and thunder and lightning flashed across the skies. I shook with cold and fear as I walked home, through the streams of muddy water. Some people were rushing by, completely wet in the heavy rain.
Along the way, I saw some schoolchildren holding their heavy schoolbags tightly and rushing home, I also saw that some road repair work had been abandoned by workers. Obviously, the workers had left in a hurry because of the storm. There were few signs and it was hard to see what was on the road. There were pieces of wood and metal and it looked like a hole had been dug and hurriedly covered with boards.
I moved on but suddenly stopped as I heard some sounds. It sounded like children crying. I quickly turned back and went back to the place from where the sounds came. I was frightened! To my sadness, I found that a small child had fallen into the hole on the road. The boards had moved away with the force of the rushing water. I could hardly see the child as it was dark all around me. I told he that I was going to look for help. I knew the neighbors well, and they all shared a sense of neighborliness, willing to give a hand.
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Actually, I was not sure of what to do or where to go but decided to go to the nearest house for help.
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The parents of the child who just arrived from work were totally shocked to hear of what had happened.
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