1、Taking_________ from the heat under some trees, we enjoyed our picnic lunch as well as the fantastic view below.
A．rescue B. advantage C. shelter D. reward
2、It’s on the festival occasions ______ the family get together _____ he misses his late father.
A. where; that B. which; when
C. when; that D. that; when
3、Not until they left school _________ how much their teachers loved them and helped them.
A. they realized B. did they realize
C. they would realize D. had they realized
4、Tommy, ________ your doctor’s advice or your cold will get worse.
A.follow B.following C.followed D.follows
5、Kathy ________ a lot of Chinese when she was working in Beijing during the summer vacation.
A. took up B. picked up C. brought up D. turned up
6、There is a mountain ________ the top is always covered with snow.
A. of that B. of which C. whose D. that
7、The experience of my trip to Tibet not only ________ a new culture, but it also made me have a new look on my lifestyle .
A．looked forward to
B．paid attention to
C．threw new light on
D．took advantage of
8、 When he realized the police had spotted him, the man ____ the exit as quickly as possible.
A. made off B. made for
C. made out D. made up
9、_______ from the top of the mountain, the scenery was really fascinating.
A．Seeing
B．Saw
C．Having seen
D．Seen
10、— Have you heard that Space X sent a Tesla car into space?
— Yes. __________ they have achieved is amazing.
A．Where
B．What
C．That
D．How
11、I cannot play guitar like I used to as my fingers have gone sense from ________ of practice.
A. need B. want
C. fall D. lack
12、— No one answered when I phoned this morning. Where were you?
— I for teeth in the dental clinic.
A．was being treated
B．have been treated
C．was treated
D．treated
13、Our English teacher as well as we students _____ not _____ Chinese in the English Corner.
A. are; allowed to speak B. is; allowed speaking
C. is; allowed to speak D. are; allowed speaking
14、After school , we went to the reading room to do some reading, only______ that it________.
A. to tell , was decorating B. telling, was decorated
C. to be told, was being decorated D. being told, was being decorated
15、— How do you find your trip to Sanya during the three-day New Year Holiday ?
—________ I can’t speak too highly of it.
A. Oh, wonderful indeed!
B. It’s awful!
C. Don’t mention it.
D. You said it.
16、--- Excuse me, but I do need your advice on my project.
--- Sorry, I have only had time to ____ your report.
A. look around B. go through
C. get over D. dip into
17、My mother’s health ______ under the pressure of a big project and she had to see the doctor.
A.broke up B.broke away C.broke out D.broke down
18、 The manager put up a notice to keep the staff ________of what to do this week．
A. inform B. informing
C. informed D. to inform
19、The ______ of spicy, salty, sweet and sour flavours makes Gong Bao Chicken hard to resist.
A．decoration
B．construction
C．competition
D．combination
20、Please remember to leave your room keys at reception when you check ________.
A．in
B．out
C．off
D．on
21、Education has always been a hot topic among parents as it is directly related to the. future of their children. 【1】 Many of them try to offer their children the best environment.
Competition between parents over children’s education may start from the kind of animated series children watch. For some parents, watching foreign animated shows is better than watching domestic ones. 【2】 However, this does not mean those watching foreign shows are superior to those watching domestic ones.
Domestic shows have their own advantages. They can help children learn traditional Chinese culture and history. 【3】 This show was based on one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. By watching this show, children can learn more about the history of the Tang Dynasty and the development of Buddhist culture in China. Foreign shows can open a window for children to gain a better understanding of the outside world. So children ought to be encouraged to watch both as long as the content of the show is beneficial.
【4】 For example, children should be encouraged to read both folk tales from China and foreign countries. However, once parents hold views of superiority, the views can more or less leave an influence on their children. Innocent children, influenced by their parents, slowly hold the views hat watching foreign shows is superior to watching domestic shows. 【5】 Once it is formed in children’s minds, parents’ education can’t be regarded as successful.
A．Take Journey to the West for example.
B．This can also be applied to other things.
C．A case in point can help understand this.
D．It’s by no means an easy task to form a sense of superiority.
E．Such a sense of superiority may make them look down upon others.
F．By watching the former, children can learn English at the same time.
G．How to educate children can be a sweet but painstaking task for parents.
22、Throughout history, music spread through common experiences among people of different cultures. In today’s technologically advanced society, however, people spread music online, sometimes without an artist’s permission. This can lead to many problems, and music companies are now cracking down on this practice. Sharing music online without permission is theft.
Sharing music online prevents recording companies from making money from their efforts. They say that online file sharing has resulted in a huge drop in profits and sales over the past 10 years. People who find music for free online are not charged for CDs or every MP3 download. To truly understand the impact of music piracy on creators, one must understand how many people are involved in the recording process. For the sale of each album, profits must be shared between all parties: musicians, sound engineers, music producers, managers, advertisers, and the company selling the product. Many people believe sharing music only affects the recording artist, but the reality is that sharing hurts business for all companies involved. Therefore, the sharing of music files is just as damaging as stealing a CD from Target.
There are many people who don’t see the harm in sharing music files online and even think they have the right to do it. One online blogger states that he originally paid for an entire CD and that he “should be able to do with the material whatever he wants”. While he may have legally paid for the music, he does not have the right to provide it to the world at no cost. Most music is copyrighted. No one can legally hand out free copies without permission, which means people like the blogger are thieves.
Although we do not spread today’s music the same way we did historically, there’s no doubt that people around the world love to share music. However, Internet piracy could prevent musicians from wanting to continue producing albums for fear of theft. Therefore, if people want to continue listening to their favorite artists, they need to buy their music so that artists will make enough profit to continue their music careers.
【1】How is the text organized?
A．Topic—Argument—Explanation
B．Opinion—Discussion—Description
C．Main idea—Comparison—Supporting statements
D．Introduction—Supporting statements—Conclusion
【2】What does the underlined phrase “cracking down on” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A．Bringing up carefully.
B．Speaking highly of.
C．Dealing seriously with.
D．Destroying completely.
【3】We can learn from the text that .
A．artists are taking action to protect their rights
B．sharing music files online affects a lot of people.
C．online music sharing increases sales of music CDs.
D．a person who has bought a CD has the right to share it online.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A．Music Piracy is Theft
B．Is Sharing Music Right?
C．What is Music Piracy?
D．Music Piracy is Good for Music Lovers
23、5 of the Best O. Henry Short Stories Everyone Should Read
Below, we select and introduce five of O. Henry’s very best short stories. Many of them are only five pages long in the average paperback reprint of his stories, so can be read in no more than ten minutes. What are you waiting for?
‘The Gift of the Magi’.
This is surely O. Henry’s best-known story of all. Published in 1906, it’s about a husband and wife, Jim and Della, buying Christmas presents for each other, without much money to spend on them. The two of them have a special possession they prize above all others: Jim has a gold watch that’s been handed down through the generations, and Della has her long, thick hair.
How will Della be able to raise the money to buy Jim a gold chain for his watch? We won’t say any more...
‘Mammon and the Archer’.
A retired soap manufacturer named Anthony Rockwall worships ‘Mammon’, i.e., money above everything else. The ‘Archer’ of the story’s title is Cupid, the god of love. Rockwall tells his son Richard that money can buy him anything in life, but Richard points out that the girl he loves is leaving in a few days’ time and he hasn’t managed to win her hand. He takes a ring with him, which his mother left to him in her will, with the intention of asking his sweetheart to marry him but he drops the ring and... well, we won’t say more, but let’s just say that once again, O. Henry’s gift for twist endings turns things around...
The story is a curious counterpoint to ‘The Gift of the Magi’, in which a married couple uses their last few dollars to buy each other a Christmas present. Here, there is a suggestion that money can buy you time, after all.
‘The Duplicity of Hargraves’.
First published in 1902, this story is about the elderly Major Pendleton Talbot and his spinster daughter Lydia. After the pair move to Washington D.C. from the American South, they meet Henry Hopkins Hargraves, a vaudeville actor.
However, the impecunious Major and his daughter are shocked, when they go to see a show, to find Hargraves impersonating the Major in front of the audience. Then a man claiming to be one of the Major’s former slaves from the antebellum era turns up and offers to help the pair out of hardship...
‘The Sleuths’.
A man searching for his missing sister in New York realizes the official police detective can’t help him. Only one man can: the famous private consulting detective Shamrock Jolnes. As the narrator informs us: “The famous sleuth’s thin, intellectual face, piercing eyes, and rate per word are too well known to need description.” Sound familiar?
‘After Twenty Years’.
This 1906 story is a tale of a reunion. Two men who grew up together in New York City agree to meet up, twenty years later, in the restaurant where they last bid each other farewell two decades ago in order to seek their fortunes. However, one of the men, Bob, has become a hardened criminal and the other man, Jimmy, has become — well, let’s not give too much away, other than to say the reunion does not exactly go according to plan.
【1】Which of the following serves as a counterpart of the story in The Gift of the Magi?
A．The Duplicity of Hargraves.
B．The Sleuths.
C．Mammon and the Archer.
D．After Twenty years.
【2】If someone is fond of detective stories, which book would you recommend to him?
A．The Duplicity of Hargraves.
B．The Gift of the Magi.
C．Mammon and the Archer.
D．The Sleuths.
【3】The main purpose of the passage is to _______.
A．introduce the authors
B．provide special offers
C．expand reader’s horizons
D．recommend the books
24、Dogs have an amazing sense of smell thanks to 300million smell receptors in their noses, compared to only five million in the human nose. Medical dogs are trained by smelling samples of people already diagnosed with cancer and those of people without the disease so they can learn to tell the difference.
Dr Claire Guest began training her dog Daisy to smell out the killer disease in urine(小便) and breath samples（样品） when she was young. So far Daisy has found cancer in 551 patients, of which 93 per cent were accurate. And she discovered Dr Guest’s breast cancer before it was diagnosed– the first time she has discovered the disease actually growing in someone’s body, rather than by smelling a sample.
Dr Guest, 50, chief executive of charity Medical Detection Dogs, said: “She pushed against my body with her nose repeatedly – I pushed her away, but she pushed against me again, clearly upset. She pushed me so hard that it hurt me. “Her behaviour was totally out of character – she was normally such a happy dog ... I felt the tender area where she’d pushed me, and over the next few days I discovered the tiniest lump(肿块).
“If it wasn’t for Daisy it would have gone hidden for much longer and could have been more serious,” Dr Guest added. “My own pet labrador saved my life.”
Animal rescue charity Blue Cross presented Daisy with a medal for her achievements. She faced tough competition, including JJ, a bomb detection dog who has saved soldiers’ lives in Afghanistan.
Steve Goody, the charity’s deputy chief executive, said: “Cancer affects the lives of thousands of people and Daisy has made a huge contribution to the diagnosis and early treatment of cancers – she’s a very deserving medal recipient.”
Daisy is now helping to train a team of 12 dogs at Medical Detection Dogs and is a ‘senior consultant’ for the UK’s first ever trial using dogs to discover breast cancer.
【1】Why was Daisy awarded a medal?
A. Because she can help discover cancer early.
B. Because she can smell the urine and breath samples.
C. Because she has saved many people’s lives by barking.
D. Because she has saved many soldiers’ lives in Afghanistan.
【2】Which of the following words is closest in meaning to “recipient” in the last paragraph ________but one?
A. contributor B. ancestor C. helper D. receiver
【3】 How did Daisy discover Dr Guest’s cancer?
A. By smelling the urine sample.
B. By smelling the breath sample.
C. By smelling the hidden cancer.
D. By pushing Dr Guest hard.
【4】 From the text we can infer that __________.
A. Cancer is easy to cure.
B. Daisy and JJ competed hardly for the medal.
C. Daisy is training other dogs to discover breast cancer.
D. Dogs’ special sense of discovering cancer is highly valued.
25、Life Rolls On
I was about nine the first time I got on a board. When I was twelve, I began to compete in surfing, _______ number one in Pacific Surf Series. Fortune favored me _______ ever since.
Then came the day _______ my life changed. As I surfed, the wave _______ me in my back so fast that I had no time to respond. My whole body went numb — unable to _______. Unsurprisingly, I was diagnosed paralyzed (瘫痪的).
Bad as it was, I felt proud of myself by _______ the will to live. Instead of being afraid, I realized how _______ I had been the first seventeen years of my life, feeling blessed by God.
That fall, I returned to school and ended up _______ on time. Shortly after that, I was even _______ by a University where I lived my life to the fullest from going out on water-skiing to playing wheelchair tennis. The __________ of my life came nearly four years after the accident. I ultimately got back in the __________ that I had missed so much — on a surfboard. Despite the challenges, I __________ my abilities, so I make my own path, my own decisions.
I know I’ll never realize my dream of being the world’s __________ surfer, but I still have so many else to __________. Life rolls on, __________ continue to roll on and I’m rolling in and surfing right along with it all.
【1】
A．attaining
B．gaining
C．ranking
D．defeating
【2】
A．concisely
B．incredibly
C．solely
D．randomly
【3】
A．when
B．which
C．after
D．since
【4】
A．hugged
B．swallowed
C．dragged
D．hit
【5】
A．say
B．run
C．jump
D．move
【6】
A．abandoning
B．maintaining
C．suspecting
D．testing
【7】
A．confused
B．disappointed
C．fortunate
D．excited
【8】
A．recovering
B．training
C．surfing
D．graduating
【9】
A．admitted
B．rejected
C．praised
D．hired
【10】
A．highlight
B．crossroad
C．twilight
D．passion
【11】
A．club
B．school
C．water
D．pool
【12】
A．trust
B．doubt
C．change
D．lose
【13】
A．privileged
B．professional
C．diligent
D．amateur
【14】
A．do
B．achieve
C．attend
D．finish
【15】
A．competitions
B．tasks
C．journeys
D．waves
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。续写的词数应为150左右。
A few weeks before Thanksgiving one year, my husband and I decided to invite a guest over for the holiday. I called a senior centre and they suggested Ilse. She was a stubborn 78-year-old lady, who favoured sequinned(亮片的) T-shirts.
On Thanksgiving, within minutes of arriving, Ilse welcomed the glass of wine my husband offered with a wide smile. By the end of the evening, we felt as if we were old friends. The more time I spent with Ilse, the more she became like a surrogate (替代的) grandma. So when her only son Ralph died, I realized she was too upset to be left alone and helped her hire a caregiver. For me, she was like a family and I was the only one left in her tribe.
Each time I stopped by her apartment, Ilse seemed more disconnected than the time before. Late one afternoon, when I called her, I was unable to understand what she was saying. I drove her to the emergency room, where the doctor confirmed she had suffered a mild stroke. During the next few days, I dropped by her apartment, but she was no longer the energetic, stubborn Ilse I knew. At the end of the week, I received an early-morning phone call from her caregiver. “Please come over now,” the woman said, her voice matter-of-fact. “She’s passed away.” When I arrived, I saw Ilse lying on her bed, motionless, her eyes closed. I sat on the edge of the bed, too shocked to cry.
Paragraph 1:
The morning after Ilse’s death, I read through her will and saw my name.
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Paragraph 2:
I donated the money to a cause she cared about deeply: children.
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