1、Miss Green often said “God helps those who help themselves”, intending to _______ on us the significance of being independent.
A.base B.impress
C.focus D.rely
2、When I got off the crowded bus, I found my pocket _____ and the disk in it with the important documents gone.
A. stolen B. missing
C. lost D. picked
3、I’ve worked with children before, so I know what ______ in my new job.
A. to expect B. to be expected
C. expected D. expecting
4、Some parents argue that it is their job to get their kids _____ in community service.
A.to involve B.involved C.involving D.involve
5、Everyone in this organization knows that I ______ it — I joined it last month.
A．refer to
B．lead to
C．agree to
D．belong to
6、I’ve learned that your company has ____ vacant position for a secretary. I’m calling to apply for ____ job.
A. a; the B. a; a C. /; a D. /; the
7、We went to Mountain Tai last weekend, _____ , not surprisingly, was crowded with visitors.
A.that B.which C.where D.when
8、It’s already 10:00, I wonder how it _______ that she was two hours late on such a short trip.
A.came over B.came out C.came about D.came up
9、The book was written in 1946, ____ the education system has witnessed great changes.
A.when B.during which C.since then D.since when
10、I have forgotten______ you put the dictionary.
A. that it was there B. where was it that
C. that where it was D. where it was that
11、Tom could do nothing but______to his mother that he was wrong.
A. admitting B. admits
C. admit D. to admit
12、As many as five courses are provided，and you are free to choose________suits you best.
A．whatever
B．whichever
C．whenever
D．wherever
13、The plan will extend protection to a significant number of areas that ________ previously unprotected.
A．were
B．has been
C．was
D．had been
14、If I were in ________ position of the mayor, I wouldn’t allow ________ factory like this standing in the center of the town.
A．a; the
B．the; /
C．the ; a
D．/ ; the
15、The number of the children who_______ the iPads______ growing all the time.
A. own, are B. owns, is
C. own, is D. owns, are
16、Bruno still wished that he could go back home to Berlin, although the memories of that place were beginning to ________.
A. appear B. show C. fail D. fade
17、The government has not yet ________ the seriousness of the crisis.
A.mastered B.seized C.grasped D.acquired
18、Sinking in the cheers of people, David walked off the stage, tears dropping he could stop them．
A．after B．when C．until D．before
19、The train began to move _________ I reached the platform.
A.the immediate B.direct C.the minutes D.instantly
20、As they were walking around, they noticed a man _______ against a tree.
A. sit B. to sit C. sitting D. Sat
21、Miss Baugh taught seventh-grade social studies. She was the kind of teacher that perhaps everyone has had at least once: scary. In class, she always taught us to take school seriously. She had been teaching for a long time and I was as afraid of her as anyone, including the boys who were typically naughty in the back row.
But I also had a life outside of school and had just discovered cheap objects for pranks. One such prop had two parts: an ink bottle painted to look as though it had overturned, and a piece of shiny black metal shaped like a pool.
Of all the people I could have tricked, unexpectedly I chose Miss Baugh. At the beginning of the class, I opened her book and placed the props on one of the pages. Then I waited for the fun. When Miss Baugh saw the bottle and the spilled ink, she let out a little cry and looked for something to wipe up the ink with. The trick had succeeded beyond my expectations. But then I suddenly knew I had no control over what would happen next. When Miss Baugh tried to remove the ink with a paper towel, she discovered it was just a piece of black metal. She picked it up, her eyes sweeping the classroom with a deadly gaze. Then came the question: “Who did this?”
After some hesitation, I raised my hand. Miss Baugh fixed me with a stare that terrified me, and my classmates. And then, most unexpectedly, she laughed. “Well, it certainly fooled me!” she said. She returned the props to me, and for a few seconds a sweet little aged lady appeared right where Miss Baugh stood.
We got back to having a class. But something had changed for me. I began to realize that, if someone like Miss Baugh had a warm heart beneath that crusty surface, then other crusty people would probably do, too. That may have been the most valuable lesson I learned.
【1】Which words best describe Miss Baugh according to paragraph 1?
A．Serious and experienced.
B．Easy-going and selfless.
C．Naughty and demanding.
D．Scary and narrow-minded.
【2】What does the underlined word “pranks” probably mean in paragraph 2?
A．Bets.
B．Experiments.
C．Tricks.
D．Strategies.
【3】What can we learn from paragraph 4?
A．Miss Baugh’s stare wasn’t as terrifying as before.
B．The author was given away and finally raised his hand.
C．Miss Baugh burst into laughter and gave the props back.
D．A little aged lady entered the classroom to give a lecture.
【4】What valuable lesson did the author learn?
A．Crusty people can be easily changed.
B．Crusty people may be friendly to others.
C．Crusty people are difficult to get along with.
D．Crusty people are sensitive to others’ feelings.
22、Scientists say only enlarging the world’s nature reserves to help protect plants and animals may be useless.The main reason is that levels of human activity are rising in and around the nature reserves.In fact,recognizing spaces as protected areas is not reducing human activity there.
The researchers have found that a lack of money to pay for land conservation (保护) is affecting conservation efforts. And it is a lack of communication between people who live in protected natural areas and outsiders. About 17 percent of the world is within protected areas, including the national parks, nature reserves and wilderness. Protected areas are important for supporting environments with many different kinds of plants and animals.
The researchers have also found increasing human activity in most protected areas in every country. However, they say that human activity appears to be more of a problem in nations with fewer roads and poorer living standards on the Human Development Index (指数).The index uses information about length of life, education and earnings to grade countries on human development.
Across the northern Australia,protected areas often prove effective in slowing human activity when compared with unprotected areas.But in South America,Southeast Asia and African countries,pressure from human activity inside protected areas is higher.
Experts say governments need to provide fund support to help protected areas. Simply recognizing a place as a protected area can’t be the beginning and the end of the conservation effort.Working with local people to take efforts is also important. If they are not partners in the protected areas, then wildlife conservation is much more difficult.
【1】What’s the Human Development Index used to do?
A．Record more roads in the world.
B．Improve education in all countries.
C．Grade countries on human development.
D．Lead more people to make money.
【2】What do experts advise governments to do for protected areas?
A．Enlarge protected areas.
B．Offer extra money and work with locals.
C．Attract more people to travel there.
D．Allow local people to farm there.
【3】Which is the best title for the text?
A．People May Cause Harm to Plants and Animals
B．Local People Should Focus on the Natural Environment
C．Nature Reserves in the World Should Be Increased
D．Nature Reserves May Not Protect Wildlife Safely
23、In 1838, Charles Darwin faced a problem. Nearing his 30th birthday, he was trying to decide whether to marry. To help make his decision, Darwin made a list of the expected pluses and minuses of marrying.
Darwin is struggling with what I call a wild problem — a fork in the road of life where knowing which path is the right one isn’t obvious. How should we go ahead then, especially if we want to make a rational decision?
As we will see, the cost-benefit list that Darwin constructed is less helpful. He managed to come up with more minuses than pluses. His list — especially of pluses is the list made by who has never been married and has no access to the upside of the inner life of a married man. With many wild problems, the downside is easily imagined, while the upside is hidden from us. That’s one reason wild problems are so hard to tackle with the standard tools of rationality.
Less than a year later, Darwin married and had seven surviving children. Somehow, he managed to become one of the greatest scientists of all time and forever changed our understanding of who we human beings are. What’s the lesson to be learned from his decision-making process?
Life is more than accumulating pleasure or avoid pain. Humans want purpose. We want meaning. We want to belong to something larger than ourselves. The decisions we make in the face of wild problems don’t lead to good days and bad days. They define us. They determine who we are, who we might aspire to become, who we might come to be.
Learn from Darwin. Spend less time trying to figure out the best path to get to where we want to go and spend more time thinking about where we want to go in the first place.
【1】How did Darwin decide whether to marry at first?
A．He made a rational decision.
B．He was struggling with a wild problem.
C．He constructed a list of costs and benefits.
D．He came up with more pluses than minuses.
【2】What is the author’s attitude towards the standard tools of rationality?
A．Critical.
B．Impartial.
C．Unconcerned.
D．Approval.
【3】What does the underlined word “aspire” mean in Paragraph 5?
A．pretend
B．manage
C．need
D．dream
【4】What can be learned from Darwin’s lesson?
A．Life has more pleasure than pain.
B．It is crucial to figure out our purpose.
C．Life is about good days and bad days.
D．How to best tackle problems defines us.
24、An American research company shows that $248.7 billion online sales are expected by 2014. It seems as if we can’t get enough of spending money through countless online clicks today. Following are some of the incredible things that you can buy online!
1) Parents
51-year-old Michael Amatrudo from Connecticut put a posting on Craig list in 2009 to sell his elderly parents, asking for $155 in return.
2) Chewing Gum
Bidding for Britney Spears’ chewing gum reached $14,000 in 2004. The pop star’s half-eaten sandwich also went for over $500.
3) Kidney Stone
Star Trek actor William Shatner sold his kidney stone for $20,000 when he put it up for sale online to see how much a piece of him was worth. He ended up giving the money to charity.
4) An Imaginary Friend
This imaginary guy went (or might still be going) by the name of Jon Malipieman and was sold on eBay for $3,000 by a man who claimed:
“My imaginary friend Jon Malipieman is getting too old for me now. I am now 27 and I feel I am growing out of him. He is very friendly. Along with him, I will send you what he likes and dislikes, his favorite things to do and his personal self portrait.”
5) Souls
The website demonical.com is probably the creepiest site I have ever visited. You can sell your own soul or buy the souls of people such as Fidel Castro and Woody Allen (both selling for $950). Bill Gate, whoever that is, has his soul for sale at $1,300 while Michael Jacobsen’s soul is being sold for $3000.
6) A Rock That Looks Like Meat
The screen shot from eBay tells us that people are bidding over $1 million for this “naturally formed bbq pork rock”. Absolute madness.
【1】What is the author’s purpose for writing the passage?
A. To introduce some unbelievable things online.
B. To call on customers to resist the products.
C. To attract readers to visit the related websites.
D. To encourage readers to buy the things online.
【2】Which is probably sold at the highest price according to the passage?
A. Chewing Gum. B. Kidney Stone.
C. An Imaginary Friend. D. A Rock That Looks Like Meat.
【3】According to the text, _____ is most likely to have starred in a film.
A. Britney Spears B. William Shatner
C. Jon Malipieman D. Fidel Castro
【4】What can be inferred from the text?
A. Michael Amatrudo charged a high price for selling his elderly parents.
B. William Shatner sold the kidney stone so as to donate the money to charity.
C. Jon Malipieman was sold because he was not wanted any longer.
D. The soul of Michael Jacobsen is worth more than that of Woody Allen.
25、 My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse(松鸡). It's ____for a grouse to have any contact(接触) with people. In fact, they're hard to spot(发现，认出), ____ they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching(接近，靠近).
This grouse came into our lives in____. Tom was working out in the field when he____ her walking around at the edge of the field. She was_____unafraid and seemed to be ____about what he was doing. Tom saw the ____ bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew ____of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.
One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom____ he didn't see her and kept working to see what she would do next. Apparently(显然), she didn't like to be ____. She'd run up and peck (啄) at Tom's hands, then _____off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the ____ and left.
As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to ____ more and more often. _____Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom's leg and stay long enough for me to get a _____of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt _____not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by. When hunting season opened, we put a _____at the end of our driveway asking ____ not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, _____warned people not to shoot her. ____，hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.
【1】A.interesting B.reasonable C.impossible D.unusual
【2】A.though B.because C.unless D.until
【3】A.spring B.summer C.autumn D.winter
【4】A.got B.kept C.noticed D.imagined
【5】A.naturally B.certainly C.normally D.surprisingly
【6】A.crazy B.curious C.concerned D.cautious
【7】A.shy B.awkward C.friendly D.elegant
【8】A.careful B.tired C.fond D.sick
【9】A.supposed B.realized C.hoped D.pretended
【10】A.ignored B.observed C.amazed D.disturbed
【11】A.put B.back C.set D.take
【12】A.game B.work C.place D.man
【13】A.give up B.come out C.turn over D.fly by
【14】A.Finally B.Suddenly C.Constantly D.Presently
【15】A.chance B.dream C.picture D.sense
【16】A.comfortable B.guilty C.anxious D.familiar
【17】A.lantern(灯笼) B.sign C.gun D.loudspeaker
【18】A.drivers B.farmers C.hunters D.tourists
【19】A.just B.yet C.thus D.also
【20】A.In fact B.For long C.All in all D.By the way
26、你校的手语俱乐部刚刚成立，现就如何开展活动向大家征求建议。请你写出你的想法并发给俱乐部。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：Students' Sign Language Club