1、All preparations _______ in advance before attendants arrive, the board chairman is confident the annual conference will be a success.
A. had been made B. made C. having made D. to be made
2、In 2010 Linda went to Scotland for the first time _____ she finished her college at the University of St Andrews.
A. where B. which
C. when D. that
3、QQ, _________ you can chat with your friends, makes communication easy.
A.as B.which C.that D.where
4、Walking after supper is of________ to your health.
A．benefit
B．benefits
C．beneficial
D．beneficially
5、Tom was over there. His red clothes stood out clearly ________ the snow.
A．behind
B．for
C．against
D．beyond
6、He didn’t make clear when and where the sports meet would be held.
A．this
B．it
C．that
D．one
7、The old have to change their wrong attitude_______ the health now.
A．with
B．from
C．towards
D．in
8、By the end of last week we ___________ 200 pictures from the spaceship.
A. receiving
B. received
C. have received
D. had received
9、Jenny said she was _____ by the programme in the TV, so she turned it off.
A.disgusted B.attracted C.disgusting D.attracting
10、It's ______ great surprise when I heard ______ news about the accident.
A. the; a B. a; the
C. a; 不填 D. the; the
11、The drunken driver was required to apologize ________ the people present at the meeting ________ what he had done.
A．to；for B．with；about C．for；by D．at；with
12、We offer an excellent education to our students. ________, we expect students to work hard.
A. In all B. At best
C. In return D. After all
13、He ________ his father on the farm the whole afternoon last Saturday.
A．helps
B．would help
C．was helping
D．has helped
14、Wonderful Friends, a show on Hunan TV, is about _________people get along with animals．
A. how B. what C. why D. who
15、 It is said the factory is now __________ large as what it was.
A. twice as B. as twice C. twice much D. much twice
16、A few days after the interview, I received an email ________ me the job.
A．offered
B．offering
C．being offered
D．offers
17、I shall ________ the loss of my laptop computer in the newspaper, with a reward for the finder.
A．inform
B．advertise
C．announce
D．publish
18、Mimosa, 15 cm in height, is a sensitive small plant, which will close when ______.
A.touching B.touched C.is touched D.to be touched
19、Tom took ________ place of our headteacher in ________ first few days of the last term.
A．the; the
B．/; a
C．/; the
D．the; a
20、Only when________the door of the house________that he had left the key in the office.
A．did he arrive at; did he realize
B．he arrived at; did he realize
C．did he arrive at; he realized
D．he arrived at; he realized
21、With the pandemic, we have entered another year. For a long time without the opportunity to release the mood, people unavoidably feel irritable and depressed. How to solve these negative emotions and psychological pressure? 【1】.
Get outside during daylight hours. It may be cold out, but getting outside is still important for your mental health. Having fewer hours of daylight can have a negative impact on your mood. You can simply sit and watch the sunrise or walk around your neighborhood. 【2】, just make an effort to make it a daily habit.
Connect with others if you’re feeling lonely. The pandemic has completely upended the way we socialize, and millions of people are living with feelings of isolation. 【3】, but try to challenge yourself to send three emails a week to someone you haven’t heard from in a while, or call a different loved one each week to check in and see how they are doing. Not only will you brighten your own day, but you'll brighten someone else’s.
【4】. Too often we are stressed by the little things, daily trouble, making storms in teacups. We need to take a deep breath and ask ourselves if whatever is troubling us really matters in the big picture. If not, let it go.
Try a stress release. 【5】. As such, a helpful tool is to let them out and release them. The key here is to put pen to paper and start writing. You may want to write down things that are stressing you out and why they are stressing you out. Doing so allows us to begin to separate our stress from being a part of us, and thereby putting some distance between us and our stress.
A．Whatever you do
B．However bad you feel.
C．Practice the “STOP” skill
D．Remember the big picture
E．Experts offer some suggestions
F．Stress is a result of reflective thoughts
G．It can be a little awkward to reconnect with people
22、Differences in land usage, building height, tree cover, rooftop color, and even how orderly the streets are all have an effect on temperature. Taken together, these factors can result in hyper-localized differences in the heat felt throughout a city, which in turn can have a big effect on who's most threatened by heatwaves. That is why citizen scientists are starting to map the urban heat island effect.
Later this month, a team of researchers and about 20 volunteers will spread out across Washington D.C. and Baltimore to take the cities’ temperatures. Equipped with instruments that record temperature data every second, they’ll drive or bike the same route three times to create a snapshot(快照) of how temperatures vary throughout the day. Those snapshots will then be collected to produce detailed maps of heat differences.
“If similar research conducted in Richmond, Virginia last July is any guide, those differences can be quite large. Temperatures in more industrial parts of Richmond reached 102°F (38.9°C) on the same day that a nearby shade-filled park topped out at 87°F (30.6°C)”, said Jeremy Hoffman, a researcher with the Science Museum of Virginia.
Based on the data collected throughout Richmond last year, project member Vivek Shandas at Portland State University and his colleagues were able to produce maps of urban heat across the city as well as heat vulnerability(脆弱性), which takes socioeconomic differences into account. Those maps are now being used to inform a citywide master plan update and a climate resilience(复原) plan.
Shandas and Hoffman plan to produce similar maps from this month's campaigns in D.C. and Baltimore. Finally, the two are hoping to scale up this effort even further. Shandas said he wish to create an off-the-shelf set of guidelines that any city can use to launch its own heat island campaign and generate citywide temperature maps.
Hoffman sees this as a way to help people to relate climate change to their own lives, and then actually do something about it. "The volunteers serve as a feedback mechanism to spread the findings," he said. "We can do heat island assessments using satellites, but we want a team of volunteers measuring temperatures in their neighborhoods to gain a better understanding of where they live."
【1】The heat differences throughout the city result from the following factors except ________.
A. height of buildings B. usage of land
C. layout of streets D. social economy
【2】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. In Richmond, the difference of temperature between industrial parts and the nearby park can reach 15°C on the same day.
B. The maps of heat differences across Richmond make little contributions to the city plans.
C. The researchers will appoint volunteers to take the temperatures in
D. C. and Baltimore to cut down the expense.
【3】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “off-the-shelf” in paragraph 5?
A. superb B. available
C. tough D. random
23、Architects have long had the feeling that the places we live in can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. But now scientists are giving this feeling an empirical (经验的，实证的) basis. They are discovering how to design spaces that promote creativity, keep people focused and lead to relaxation.
Researches show that aspects of the physical environment can influence creativity. In 2007, Joan Meyers-Levy at the University of Minnesota, reported that the height of a room’s ceiling affects how people think. Her research indicates that higher ceilings encourage people to think more freely, which may lead them to make more abstract connections. Low ceilings, on the other hand, may inspire a more detailed outlook.
In additions to ceiling height, the view afforded by a building may influence an occupant’s ability to concentrate. Nancy Wells and her colleagues at Cornell University found in their study that kids who experienced the greatest increase in greenness as a result of a family move made the most gains on a standard test of attention.
Using nature to improve focus of attention ought to pay off academically, and it seems to, according to a study led by C. Kenneth Tanner, head of the School Design & Planning Laboratory at the University of Georgia. Tanner and his team found that students in classrooms with unblocked views of at least 50 feet outside the window had higher scores on tests of vocabulary, language arts and maths than did students whose classrooms primarily overlooked roads and parking lots.
Recent study on room lighting design suggests than dim (暗淡的) light helps people to loosen up. If that is true generally, keeping the light low during dinner or at parties could increase relaxation. Researchers of Harvard Medical School also discovered that furniture with rounded edges could help visitors relax.
So far scientists have focused mainly on public buildings. “We have a very limited number of studies, so we’re almost looking at the problem through a straw (吸管),” architect David Allison says. “How do you take answers to very specific questions and make broad, generalized use of them? That’s what we’re all struggling with.”
【1】What does Joan Meyers-Levy focus on in her research?
A. Light. B. Ceilings.
C. Windows. D. Furniture.
【2】The passage tells us that ___________.
A. the shape of furniture may affect people’s feelings
B. lower ceilings may help improve students’ creativity
C. children in a dim classroom may improve their grades
D students in rooms with unblocked views may feel relaxed
【3】The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that __________.
A. the problem is not approached step by step
B. the researches so far have faults in themselves
C. the problem is too difficult for researchers to detect
D research in this area is not enough to make generalized patterns
24、The regular use of text messages and e-mails can lower the IQ more than twice as much as smoking marijuana (大麻). That is the statement of researchers who have found that tapping away on a mobile phone or computer keyboard or checking for electronic messages temporarily knocks up to 10 points off the user’s IQ. This rate of decline in intelligence compared unfavorably with the four-point drop in IQ associated with smoking marijuana, according to British researchers, who have described the phenomenon of improved stupidity as “infomania”. The research conducted by Hewlett Packard, the technology company, has concluded that it is mainly a problem for adult workers, especially men.
It is concluded that too much use of modern technology can damage a person’s mind. It can cause a constant distraction of “always on” technology when employees should be concentrating on what they are paid to do. Infomania means that they lose concentration as their minds remain fixed in an almost permanent state of readiness to react to technology instead of focusing on the task in hand. The report also added that, in a long term, the brain will be considerably shaped by what we do to it and by the experience of daily life. At a microcellular(微蜂窝，微孔的) level, the complex networks of nerve cells that make up parts of the brain actually change in response to certain experiences.
Too much use of modern technology can be damaging not only to a person’s mind, but to their social relationship. 1100 adults were interviewed during the research. More than 62 percent of them admitted that they were addicted to checking their e-mails and text messages so often that they scrutinized work-related ones even when at home or on holiday. Half said that they always responded immediately to an e-mail and will even interrupt a meeting to do so. It is concluded that infomania is increasing stress and anxiety and affecting one’s characteristics. Nine out of ten thought that colleagues who answered e-mails or messages during a face-to-face meeting were extremely rude.
The effects on IQ were studied by Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at University of London. “This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,” he said. “We have found that infomania will damage a worker’s performance by reducing their mental sharpness and changing their social life. Companies should encourage a more balanced and appropriate way of working.”
【1】We can learn from the passage that “infomania” ______.
A. has a positive influence on one’s IQ
B. results in the change of part of the brain
C. lies in the problem of lack of concentration
D. is caused by too much use of modern technology
【2】The research mentioned in the passage is most probably about ______.
A. the important function of advanced technology
B. the damage to one’s brain done by unhealthy habits
C. the relevance between IQ and use of modern technology
D. the relationship between intelligence and working effectiveness
【3】The underlined word “scrutinized” probably means “______”.
A. examined carefully B. copied patiently
C. corrected quickly D. admitted freely
【4】Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
CP: Central Point P: Point Sp: Sub-point(次要点) C: Conclusion |
25、Most essays are made up of a beginning, a middle and an end．The beginning arouses the reader’s interest to his attention to the subject of the essay or the necessary background information. The middle gives us clear and logical of the facts and ideas the writer intends to put forth. The end winds up the essay with a forceful statement to influence the reader’s impression and shows consequences of the argument.
To the writer the beginning is often the hardest part of an essay, because he has to decide from what point to , and in what direction to go. The end is important because it often gives the reader the deepest impression. It should be short, forceful and thought-provoking. No ideas should be introduced in a concluding paragraph.
Sometimes it is good to the concluding paragraph to the introduction. If, for instance, a question is raised in the beginning, an answer should be given in the end．
【1】A．support B．secure C．change D．follow
【2】A．provides B．proves C．confirms D．directs
【3】A．indication B．direction C．expectation D．presentation
【4】A．final B．good C．deep D．unique
【5】A．state B．deliver C．start D．practice
【6】A．ordinary B．general C．important D．new
【7】A．spread B．link C．lead D．contact
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。
When Susan and her husband told their 12-year-old son Andy their family were visiting New Delhi, a dreamlike place for children, his little face was shining with wild joy. He had long been looking forward to exploring the imaginative kingdom, especially a stone forest, where there were various stones in different colors and sizes.
The two-day trip was very tight — first met their old friends the Millers and then met Andy’s expectation. When they reached their house, it was already 3 pm. Miller and his wife were happy to meet them after a long time. They sat in the drawing room and chatted about old times. Andy soon got bored with adult conversation and went out to play with the host’s children — Eric and Daisy — both of whom were around Andy’s age.
But Andy’s appetite(欲望) seemed never to be satisfied. As his name Andy conveyed, he was courageous and adventurous. Andy was impatient to inspect the route to the stone forest ahead so as to be a tour guide for his parents the next day! He forgot the grand dinner the Millers prepared for the evening.
At dinner time Eric and Daisy came running back, both excited about the special dinner, but Andy wasn’t with them. Alarmed, Miller asked them about Andy, but between the tense(令人紧张的) questions and nervous voices they became frightened, unable to convey anything. From little information they were able to explain, they guessed that the children had been riding their bikes in the neighbourhood lanes(小巷). At some point, Andy must have fallen behind, unable to keep pace, taken a wrong turn and lost his way.
Frightened, they all ran out in search of Andy. At the same time, Susan’s mind raced with all sorts of horrible situations — a part of the road was dug up for some construction work; what if Andy had fallen in? How far had he wandered? How alone and scared he must be in a strange town!
注意:续写词数应为150左右。
Paragraph 1:
Actually, Andy was enjoying himself in the stone forest.
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Paragraph 2:
On the way back, Andy heard his mum’s calling.
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