1、He was ______ of the _______ lecture but dared not leave, so he started to read a novel.
A.tired; bored B.tired; boring C.tiring; interested D.tiring; interesting
2、The girl ______ injured in the accident came back safe and sound.
A．who we supposed
B．whom we supposed she was
C．who we supposed was
D．whom we suppose
3、_____ we all know, the Amber Room was missing.
A. As B. It C. Which D. That
4、She decided not to take a picnic with me, ______ made me really disappointed.
A. who B. what C. which D. that
5、Most of the transparent animals are extremely and can be damaged by a simple touch.
A.dynamic B.deliberate C.delicate D.digital
6、Her father stood by the window, his eyes ______ on the heavily-wooded hills in the distance.
A．fixing
B．having fixed
C．to be fixed
D．fixed
7、I _____up my mind what I was going to say in the seminar, but it was cancelled.
A. have made B. had made
C. was making D. would make
8、Wild camping is illegal in England. To avoid ________, the smiths had to get their tent up and packed it away early in the morning.
A．to be caught
B．catching
C．being caught
D．to catch
9、—I’m sure Andrew will win first prize in the final.
— I think so. He________ for it for months.
A．prepared
B．has been preparing
C．prepares
D．had prepared
10、Mr. Green is a warm-hearted man, and he is always willing to ________ others whenever he is needed.
A．make out
B．put out
C．help out
D．look out
11、The girl found the T-shirt sold online was _______that in the supermarket．
A. as half cheap as B. cheap as half as
C. the half price of D. half the price of
12、 ________, 200 students went for the picnic, ____ some from No.2 High School.
A. By total, includes B. In total, included
C. Total, including D. In total, including
13、Our house is on the top of the hill, and in winter the winds ________ be very cold.
A. can B. need C. would D. shall
14、As an amateur artist, who visits galleries at home and abroad on ______ regular basis, he knows well to admire oil painting masterpieces from ______ distance.
A.a…the B.the…a C.the…the D.a…a
15、Many a famous pop star________in the concert tonight, so I'm looking forward to it very much.
A．are to perform
B．is performing
C．was performing
D．were to perform
16、I didn’t feel that this was an __________ time to mention the subject of money.
A.ambiguous B.appropriate C.adequate D.aggressive
17、It is______ of him to set his aim high but do little, so he is always leaving things undone.
A. specific B. typical
c. flexible D. widespread
18、The wounded ____ as well stay at home on such a terrible day.
A. can B. must C. may D. should
19、Jenny narrowly missed the flight oversleeping in the morning.
A.as for B.up to C.due to D.but for
20、I have some problems with my health. Can you give me some ______?
A.advice B.messages C.suggestion D.information
21、A new set of R's are here: Recycle, Reduce and Reuse. These three “Rs”，when used every day, can reduce the amount of waste going into landfills, reduce the litter polluting the land and water, conserve (节约) energy and save your money.
Recycling is one of the easiest ways to save energy, money and time while reducing the amount of garbage going into landfills.
Most communities have roadside pickup service to recycle common household items like glass, steel, aluminum, newspaper and cardboard. By separating out the recyclable items from normal household trash, you can reduce the amount of trash entering a landfill by more than 75 percent.
Recycling one aluminum beverage can saves enough energy to run your television for three hours. Even better, local recyclers or scrapmetal dealers may pay money for your metal recyclables.
It is estimated that the 54 billion cans recycled last year in the US saved 15 million barrels of oil. That is equivalent (相等的) to the US oil consumption for one day. Recycling other household items offers similar savings in money and energy.
Composting food waste will reduce your trash load even more. A basic compost pile built with the help of instructions from numerous resources on the web can be constructed over a weekend, using materials easily obtained from local hardware or home improvement stores. In addition to reducing your waste, this allnatural recycling provides safe, clean and organic fertilizer for your garden, eliminating the need to buy chemicalderived products.
Finally, recycling other household items like computers, televisions and monitors and household chemicals like pesticides (农药) and paints will remove dangerous chemicals like mercury (水银) and lead from the landfills.
If your community doesn't offer recycling programs, contact your local government to get one established.
【1】What's NOT true about recycling in the eyes of the author?
A. It's energyefficient.
B. It's moneysaving.
C. It's timeconsuming.
D. It's environmentallyfriendly.
【2】Recycling________aluminum beverage cans save enough energy to keep your TV on for half a day.
A. three B. four
C. five D. six
【3】What's the possible meaning of the underlined word “composting” in the sixth paragraph?
A. Turning waste into fertilizer.
B. Throwing waste into dustbin.
C. Making waste clean and useful.
D. Finding new land to put the rubbish in.
【4】The passage tells us the way of living a ________life.
A. happy B. rich
C. green D. economical
22、It’s never a real problem for us when the weather gets cold. We can put on more clothes, stay next to a fireplace, turn on the air conditioner or simply travel to a warmer city to spend the winter – people have many different ways of dealing with the cold.
But things are not as easy for plants. Unlike humans, plants can’t move to escape the cold or generate heat ( 发热) to keep themselves warm. So how do they manage to survive the freezing winter?
It turns out that plants have their own strategies （策略） too, said a study published on Dec 22 in the journal Nature.
According to researcher Amy Zanne of George Washington University, US, the cold is a big challenge for plants. Their living tissues （活组织） can be damaged when they freeze. “It’s like a plant’s equivalent to frostbite ( 相当于冻疮),” Zanne told Science Daily. Also, the process of freezing and thawing (解冻) can cause air bubbles （气泡） to form in the plant’s water transport system. “If enough of these air bubbles come together as water thaws they can block the flow of water from the roots to the leaves and kill the plant,” she explained.
To live through cold weather, plants have developed three traits （特性） , according to the study. Some plants, such as oak trees（橡树）, avoid freezing damage by dropping their leaves before the winter chill sets in – effectively shutting off the flow of water between roots and leaves – and growing new leaves and water transport cells when the warm spring returns.
Other plants, pine trees（松树） for example, protect themselves by narrowing their water transport cells, which makes it easier for cells to travel among air bubbles.
The third strategy is also the most extreme – some plants die on the ground in winter and start growing as new plants from seeds when conditions get warmer.
However, the study also found that these smart strategies were developed very slowly – over millions
of years of evolution （ 进化）. This leads scientists to worry that plants may not be able to deal with human-caused climate change, which has only started occurring over the past few decades.
Scientists are hoping that this study can help people find possible ways to save plants from the threat
of climate change.
【1】What is the article mainly about?
A. Why plants are not afraid of the winter chill.
B. The ways that plants survive cold weather.
C. Changes in plants’ water transport system in winter.
D. How plants evolve to keep up with climate change.
【2】According to the article, if a plant freezes in the winter, ______.
A. it produces more living tissues to stay alive
B. its leaves quickly fall out and its roots begin to die
C. lots of air bubbles form in its water transport system
D. its water transport system could be blocked in the spring
【3】What are scientists worried about when it comes to plants according to the article?
A. Plants may not be able to adapt to the increasingly cold climate.
B. Human activities might have a great impact on the pace of plants’ evolution.
C. Plants may not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to human-caused climate change.
D. The strategies plants develop are not good enough to protect them against cold.
23、Removing gender bias
Tailors worked out long ago that men and women have different shapes. Yet this message has failed to enter many other areas of design. Car seat belts, for example, which date back to the 1880s, are often still more suitable for men, who tend to sit farther back than women when driving. And today the most forward-looking tech companies on Earth are still placing old-school bias (偏见；成见) into new products. Consider smart phones. Most are too big to fit comfortably into the average woman’s hand, as are many video-game controllers.
An obvious part of the explanation for their design problem is that men control most of its companies—male-run firms receive 82% of venture-capital (VC) funding. Male bosses may be unaware of the problems women face. They may not flag up obvious areas of concern, or ask the right questions when doing their research for a new product design. And once an idea gets the green light, it will then be handled by product-design and engineering teams, three-quarters of whose members are men. These teams often use data to make decisions, but mixing all users together means they may fail to spot trends based on sex differences. Dependence on historical data, and the lack of data on underrepresented groups, can also create bias in algorithms (算法).
Next comes testing. Naturally, designers test original models on their intended customers, but they may not get feedback from a broad enough group of people. There is also the risk of confirmation bias—designers may listen to what they want to hear, and ignore negative reactions from some groups of users.
Tech’s design bias needs fixing for moral, safety and business reasons. The ethical importance is obvious: it is wrong that women have to make do with a “one-size-fits-men” world, as Caroline Criado Perez, a writer, puts it. As for safety, regulators can tackle that by banning things that are dangerous to women—including seat belts—because they are no! designed properly.
But there is also a powerful business case for avoiding design bias, because huge opportunities are being missed. Women are 50% of the population, and make 70—80% of the world’s consumer-spending decisions.
Change is coming. The first voice-recognition systems struggled to understand female voices, but most now manage just fine. “Femtech” start-up companies, which focus on women’s health and well-being, may raise MYM 1 billion by the end of this year. VC funds and tech firms are hiring more women. Ensuring that products are designed for everyone would lead to happier and safer customers. For the companies that get it right, that means higher profits. What is holding them back?
【1】The underlined part in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A.hits the market B.gets approval
C.becomes successful D.comes into being
【2】What is discussed in Paragraphs 2 and 3?
A.Why tech’s design bias needs to be fixed.
B.How gender bias is affecting tech companies.
C.Where gender bias in product design is rooted.
D.Who is to blame for gender bias in tech companies.
【3】We can learn from the passage that ________.
A.tech companies are unwilling to change
B.design bias may result in missed opportunities
C.male workers benefit more in engineering teams
D.tech companies are poor at making user-friendly products
【4】How does the author feel about the future of bias-free product design?
A.Uncertain. B.Sceptical.
C.Positive. D.Negative.
24、What makes a good scientist?
My name is Clara. I am a climate scientist studying tiny particles in the atmosphere which is a layer of gases that surrounds our planet. I have wondered about what makes a good scientist. 【1】.
Patience
【2】. They have patience for others, patience for themselves and patience when things go wrong. A few years ago, when I worked on a NASA mission, we sent a spacecraft to bring back a sample of an asteroid, which are rocky objects that travel around the sun. The spacecraft reached the asteroid in 2018 and returned with a piece of the asteroid in 2021. Then scientists studied it.
Scientific discoveries do not take place overnight. Many are small and go slowly. Missions often take years to complete. 【3】.
Being Open To Others
A good scientist has an open mind. It can be easy to ignore people you do not agree with. But we should be open to new ideas and ask people what they think. 【4】 . Moreover, we should learn from our mistakes. Success almost never comes quickly or easily. Chances are you’ll stumble many times first, but that’s OK because making mistakes is part of learning.
Curiosity
Good scientists are curious, but we should also be curious in our daily lives. When we are curious about other people, we can care about them. We can become more understanding.
After all, it is easy to be kind. You can do it anywhere, and a kind action can make someone’s day. You don’t know what people are going through unless you find out. So, ask questions about everything. Ask your friends how they’re doing. Ask yourself what makes you feel alive. Above all, make sure to pay attention to the world and the people around you.
【5】. It is our superpower, and also what makes us human.
A．A good scientist has patience
B．Don’t be ashamed of being curious
C．Sometimes being open can be very harmful
D．That is why having patience is so important
E．Ask your workmates to have lunch with you
F．To me, it is the same as what makes a good person
G．We should do this even when we do not agree with them
25、I’d just gotten out of hospital myself. Five days after my mother passed away, a tire of my car blew. I was going 50mph when I completely lost ______: my car crashed head-on into a concrete barrier. I should have been ______ but fortunately I survived. Physically I healed quickly, but the ______ injuries and fear of my own death stayed on. Soon even ______ activities, like driving a car or visiting my doctor, filled me with great fear. Eventually I fell into a state of ______ and stopped seeing friends. I even didn’t want to go anywhere and feel anything.
Then, last February, I was invited by my friends to go ______ in Colorado. My first response was to ______. I didn’t want to get on a plane, fasten sticks on my feet or slide down a mountain. The mere thought of meeting new people ______ me. But I had a sense that this journey might be the brilliant sunlight I ______ needed. I finally agreed.
The first day, I was ______ with Peter, an experienced coach. He sensed my fear, patiently removing it with a smile and jokes. I was absolutely terrified of ______ myself, but his gentle encouragement kept me going. Then he said something that made me nod in recognition, “Jill, fear ______ everything.” Peter was talking about skiing, about how your muscles ______ when you are afraid, often causing you to fall. And it’s particularly true in life as well. When you permit fear to prevent you from doing what you love, life stops. With Peter’s words in mind, I kept practicing.
By the end of the day, I’d improved enough to fly down hills that had scared me, a bright smile on my face and tears in my eyes. Tears were not from the cold but from ______. I’d faced my fears on the mountain, and I knew ______ the rest wouldn’t be far behind.
【1】
A．sense
B．sight
C．memory
D．control
【2】
A．injured
B．relaxed
C．killed
D．frightened
【3】
A．hurtful
B．emotional
C．severe
D．brain
【4】
A．basic
B．special
C．personal
D．meaningful
【5】
A．dullness
B．thrill
C．anxiety
D．embarrassment
【6】
A．climbing
B．skiing
C．hiking
D．camping
【7】
A．escape
B．consider
C．accept
D．refuse
【8】
A．puzzled
B．delighted
C．tired
D．surprised
【9】
A．accurately
B．desperately
C．accidentally
D．finally
【10】
A．paired
B．familiar
C．bored
D．angry
【11】
A．losing
B．changing
C．upsetting
D．hurting
【12】
A．scares
B．stops
C．follows
D．conquers
【13】
A．tense up
B．give up
C．wake up
D．turn up
【14】
A．bitterness
B．toughness
C．gratefulness
D．peacefulness
【15】
A．embracing
B．quitting
C．challenging
D．overcoming
26、假定你是育才中学高一（1）班的学生李华，你的英国笔友Tom刚刚转学到你校，感到一切都很陌生，他在邮件中向你询问如何尽快融入新环境。请你根据以下信息回信。
1. 多跟同学交流沟通；
2. 积极参加学校活动；
3. 向老师寻求帮助。
注意：1 词数100左右；
2 可适当增加细节，以使行文流畅；
3 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua