1、Idioms are an important part of language, and are used in _______ from literature to films and newspapers.
A. anything
B. somewhat
C. everything
D. whatever
2、________ with his sisters, Jerry is even more sensitive to emotional and relationship problems.
A．To compare B．Compare
C．Comparing D．Compared
3、If you want to improve the situation, you must________ a positive attitude towards what's happened.
A．arrange
B．affect
C．adopt
D．adapt
4、I was told that there were about 50 foreign students ________ Chinese in the school, most ________ were from Germany.
A．study; of whom
B．study; of them
C．studying; of them
D．studying; of whom
5、—Why! Where’s my mobile phone? Maybe I left it on the plane.
—My goodness! You things behind.
A.haven’t left B.didn’t leave C.had never left D.never leave
6、Making your new business successful requires luck, patience and ______, so you should work with great attention and effort.
A.regulation B.application C.adaptation D.identification
7、—Look! Everything here is under construction.
—What’s the pretty small house that ________for?
A.is being built B.having been built C.is built D.is building
8、The great scientist is said to be writing a science story about outer space ________ by Science and Technology Press next year.
A.published B.being published
C.to be published D.having been published
9、To resolve the conflict between data and theory, a scientist often has to ________ and approach the problem from different angles.
A．bark up the wrong tree
B．think outside the box
C．break new ground
D．shun the spotlight
10、Don’t worry! I will try my best and won’t let you ________.
A．down
B．off
C．alone
D．out
11、— David, you look sick. What’s wrong with you?
— I have a bad headache and I ______ to see the doctor right now.
A.went B.will go C.am going to D.go
12、I am looking forward to the day _________ my daughter can buy me a big house and some luxurious cars.
A. as B. why
C. when D. where
13、Having too many friends is not always good. Maybe we should ________ a smaller, but closer group of friends.
A. begin with B. stick to C. care for
14、Cars made in China are much cheaper than ________ imported from foreign countries.
A.it B.one C.those D.that
15、Mike, your doctor's advice or your cold will get worse．
A．follows B．following C．followed D．follow
16、— Have you finished your homework?
— Not yet. I _______ it after dinner.
A．do
B．am doing
C．have done
D．will do
17、They were ______ little children that they didn’t know what to do.
A.so B.such C.as D.too
18、China's hot words, like tuhao, dama and yyds, _________in the western media.（媒体）
A．use widely
B．is widely used
C．uses widely
D．are widely used
19、When walking down the street, I came across David, who I _____ for years.
A．didn’t see
B．haven’t seen
C．hadn’t seen
D．wouldn’t see
20、Talk to me about ________ is troubling you.
A.that B.whichever C.whatever D.which
21、Chinese New Year has been welcomed in Britain with its biggest ever program of events and celebrations.
From London's Trafalgar Square to major cities across Britain,tens of thousands of British people have joined Chinese communities to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. In Manchester there was a Dragon Parade(舞龙表演）,led by a very impressive 54-meter long dragon,ending in Chinatown where there was traditional Chinese entertainment, more than 6, 000 lanterns,street food villages and a fireworks show. Celebrations also took place in Liverpool, Birmingham, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Newcastle.
Academic Dr Wu Kegang said that the Chinese New Year event in Britain “is now bigger than ever and it is growing every year”. When Wu arrived in Britain 26 years ago from Guangdong,the first thing he noticed was that Chinese New Year was celebrated mainly in towns and cities with big Chinese communities. “You would go to London Chinatown and join your countrymen to celebrate, or to Chinatowns in places like Liverpool and Manchester for events almost only held for Chinese people, ”Wu recalled.
“Now it is so different, and we are seeing local communities all over the country taking part alongside their own Chinese populations, ” he said. “It is clear to me that the celebrations will continue to grow in Britain. Chinese New Year has earned its place in the calendar of events in Britain,and is here to stay. ”
【1】Where did the Dragon Parade take place?
A．In London.
B．In Liverpool.
C．In Manchester.
D．In Birmingham.
【2】When Dr Wu arrived in Britain 26 years ago, Chinese New Year was________
A．celebrated mainly by Chinese communities
B．celebrated by local communities all over the country
C．only celebrated in London, Liverpool and Manchester
D．celebrated by tens of thousands of British people with Chinese people
【3】How does Dr Wu think Chinese New Year will develop in Britain?
A．It will lose its attraction.
B．It will become a British official holiday.
C．More and more British people will join in the celebrations.
D．It will become the most important one in the calendar of events in Britain.
【4】What does this passage mainly tell us?
A．How Chinese New Year is celebrated in Britain.
B．Where Chinese New Year is celebrated in Britain.
C．Chinese culture is more attractive than British culture.
D．Chinese New Year has become more and more popular in Britain.
22、 How do you kill your time on your way to work? Most of us stare at our cell phones, and refuse to make eye contact with others. We just read, chat with others online or play games online. Or maybe we' re using the time between stops to do our makeup, catch up on emails, or read a few chapters of a book. However, Dina Alfasi takes a very different approach.
Each day she has to travel hours on buses and trains to get to her engineering job at a hospital in Israel . Rather than look at her cell phone in silence, she uses one very special way to have connection with strangers. It is portraits of the people she meets on public transport every day that she is taking. The paintings catch those quiet and personal moments of people readying themselves for the day ahead. Some people lean their head against the window and go to sleep, some stare into space and have a daydream, and others sit quietly to read their documents or books. Each picture catches one tiny moment in people's lives, ripe with potential for your imagination. It is wonderful for her to look at someone's commute （上下班）and make up an entire story about the rest of their daily existence, from the father travelling with a baby to the woman welcoming a change.
“ What inspires me very much are the little moments that happen every day," Dina told My Modern Met. "My work is to tell stories through a single portrait, and it proves that all you need is just to look around and find those magic moments.”
【1】As for people's behaviour on the way to work, what does Paragraph 1 imply?
A．Most of us like to catch early buses.
B．Most of us need to go to work punctually.
C．Most of us tend to concentrate on our mobile phones.
D．Most of us feel frightened to make eye contact with others.
【2】What makes Dina different from others?
A．Sitting quietly to read her books.
B．Keeping chatting with others all the way.
C．Using phones to take photos of every scene attracting her.
D．Drawing people while travelling on buses and trains to work.
【3】What might be the Dina Alfasi's attitude towards watching people's little moments?
A．Sceptical.
B．Enjoyable.
C．Cautious.
D．Tolerant.
【4】What is the main idea of the text?
A．Little moments make Dina special.
B．Cell phone is used to take special portraits.
C．Dina takes portraits of others when commuting.
D．People go to work with different ways to kill time.
23、Knowing that Mrs. Mallard suffered from a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when news of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed.” He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and hurried to send the sad message.
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same. She wept at once, with wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of sadness had spent itself she went away to her room alone.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that held her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver (颤抖的) with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves(屋檐).
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? It was too hard to name. But she felt it, coming out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the smells, the color that filled the air.
Now her chest rose and fell violently. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was trying very hard to beat it back with her will. When she gave up trying a little whispered word escaped her lips. She said it over and over under the breath: “free, free, free!”
She did not stop to ask if it were extreme joy that held her. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, gentle hands folded in death; the face that had never looked at her except with love, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment many years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.
There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers.
And yet she had loved him—sometimes. What did it matter! What could love count for in the face of her realization.
“Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering.
Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole. “Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door—you will make yourself ill.”
“Go away. I am not making myself ill.”
Her fancy was running wild along those days ahead of her, all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shake that life might be long.
She arose after a long time and opened the door to her sister’s begging. She carried herself unknowingly like a goddess of Victory. She held her sister’s waist, and together they walked down the stairs.
Someone was opening the front door with a key. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, calmly carrying his suitcase and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine’s sharp cry; at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills.
【1】What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 7 indicate?
A. Mrs. Mallard decided to fight back when her husband beat her.
B. Mrs. Mallard was trying hard to fight against her heart trouble.
C. Mrs. Mallard was struggling with the guilty feeling of happiness.
D. Mrs. Mallard was extremely sad because of her husband’s death.
【2】What is “that bitter moment” in paragraph 8?
A. The time when she saw her husband’s dead body.
B. The time when she had lived with her husband.
C. The time when she had to live without her husband.
D. The time when she heard of her husband’s death.
【3】What can we infer about Mr. Mallard?
A. He was killed in a railroad disaster.
B. He survived the railroad accident.
C. He was unaware of what was going on.
D. He hurried back to comfort his wife.
【4】What can we learn from paragraph 14 “Her fancy …might be long”?
A. Mrs. Mallard was more afraid of her future life.
B. Mrs. Mallard missed her husband very much.
C. Mrs. Mallard always thought life was hopeful.
D. Mrs. Mallard used to think life was hopeless.
【5】What really killed Mrs. Mallard?
A. The joy of seeing her husband coming back alive.
B. The shock of losing her coming freedom.
C. The fear of seeing the ghost of her husband.
D. The sadness of losing her husband suddenly.
24、This year over twenty-three hundred teenagers from all over the world will spend about ten months in US homes. They will attend US schools, meet US teenagers, and form impressions of the real America. At the same time, about thirteen hundred American teenagers will go to other countries to learn new languages and gain a new understanding of the rest of the world.
Here is a two-way student exchange in action. Fred, nineteen, spent last year in Germany with George’s family. In turn, George’s son Mike spent a year in Fred’s home in America.
Fred, a lively young man, knew little German when he arrived, but after two months’ study the language began to come to him. School was completely different from what he bad expected-much harder. Students rose respectfully when the teacher entered the room. They took fourteen subjects instead of the six that were usual in the United States. There were almost no outside activities.
Family life, too, was different. The father’s word was law, and all activities were around the family rather than the individual. Fred found the food too simple at first. Also, he missed having a car. “Back home, you pick up some friends in a car and go out and have a good time. In Germany, you walk, but you soon learn to like it.”
At the same time, in America, Mike, a friendly German boy, was also forming his idea. “I suppose I don’t think much of American schools,” he said. “It is far too easy by our level. In Germany we do nothing but study. Here we take part in many outside activities. I think that maybe your schools are better in training for activities. There ought to be some middle ground between the two.”
【1】What’s the purpose of the whole exchange program?
A．To have teenagers learn languages.
B．To send students in America to travel in Germany.
C．To let students learn something about other countries.
D．To help teenagers in other countries know the real America.
【2】What is true in American schools?
A．There are a lot of outside activities.
B．Students usually take 14 subjects in all.
C．Students rose respectfully when the teacher entered the room.
D．There is some middle ground between the two teaching buildings.
【3】What did Mike think after experiencing the American school life?
A．German schools trained students to be better citizens.
B．American schools were not as good as German schools.
C．The easy life in American schools was more helpful to students.
D．A better education should include something good from both America and Germany.
【4】What’s Mike’s attitude towards American education?
A．Praise.
B．Support.
C．Ignore.
D．criticize.
25、 Ieoh Ming Pei, one of the best known architects of the 20th century, has died, aged 102. Born in China, Ieoh Ming Pei moved to the United States in 1935 to study_________at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
Pei’s_________around the world include museums, government buildings, hotels, schools and other structures built with stone, steel and glass. One of his best-known and most_________works was built 30 years ago. Pei created a new Louvre’s（卢浮宫）main_________,which handled the enormous number of visitors entering the main Louvre building.
Pei first spent four months_________the museum and French history. He then drew_________for a big 21-meter-tal steel and glass pyramid, with three_________pyramids nearby. It was a very futuristic style of work for the 12th building.
A French newspaper_________Pei’s pyramids as“an annex（附属物）to Disneyland”. An environmental group said they should be_________in a desert. Others__________Pei of ruining one of landmarks. Pei said the Louvre was the most ________job of his career. He__________that he had wanted to create a modern space that would not__________from the traditional part of the museum. He said the glass pyramids were__________on the works of French landscape architect Le Notre. They__________French history. The pyramids__________in the spring of 1989.
Over the years that followed, the structure came to.be__________by most, if not all, of its critics. Pei’s other famous__________include the John F. Kennedy Library in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Dallas City Hall in Texas.
__________Pei officially retired in 1990, he continued to__________projects including museums in Luxembourg, Qatar and his ancestral home of Suzhou.
【1】A.law B.architecture C.medicine D.art
【2】A.stories B.footprints C.designs D.paintings
【3】A.controversial B.valuable C.complex D.fantastic
【4】A.base B.cover C.entrance D.decoration
【5】A.studying B.enjoying C.visiting D.assessing
【6】A.views B.plans C.reports D.ideas
【7】A.stronger B.heavier C.taller D.smaller
【8】A.attributed B.announced C.blamed D.praised
【9】A.spotted B.planted C.recognized D.landed
【10】A.reminded B.accused C.robbed D.informed
【11】A.horrible B.boring C.ordinary D.difficult
【12】A.argued B.suggested C.supposed D.demanded
【13】A.take down B.take off C.take away D.take over
【14】A.fixed B.based C.depended D.modeled
【15】A.honored B.changed C.damaged D.hid
【16】A.closed B.started C.broke D.opened
【17】A.commented B.refused C.loved D.attacked
【18】A.theories B.assignments C.buildings D.pictures
【19】A.Therefore B.AS C.But D.Although
【20】A.work out B.work over C.work off D.work on
26、假定你是李华，你校特邀一名作家作一场关于“如何通过阅读提高中文写作”的讲座。你的留学生好友Peter因病未能参加，请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1. 表达问候；
2. 讲座的主要过程；
3. 你的感受。
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