1、— What’s Tom like?
— He is ________ honest student; ________, all of us like him very much.
A．a; honest
B．an; to be honest
C．a; honestly
D．an; honest
2、Peter loves his daughter, but perhaps he ________ her too much.
A．occupies
B．polishes
C．prohibits
D．shelters
3、Yesterday, Jack and I were walking down the street when we saw an old man ______ off his bike.
A.fall B.to fall C.be falling D.fallen
4、—The relation between the actor and his girlfriend has been worsening.
—I know. It has got to they have to get separated.
A. where B. how C. which D. what
5、Determination is a kind of quality---and that is __________ it takes to do anything well.
A. that B. which
C. why D. what
6、It is the custom for people to bow to one another in Japan. When Fred visited that country he bowed too, even though he felt ________ doing it.
A. innocent B. awkward C. elegant D. stressful
7、Jane was refused by the company that she _______.
A. applied for
B. applied to
C. was applied for
D. was applied to
8、The dog may be a good companion for the old. _______, the need to take it for walks may be a disadvantage.
A．Besides.
B．However
C．Therefore
D．Instead.
9、The school ________ Kevin teaches is a famous one, ________ was set up 100 years ago.
A．where; that
B．that; which
C．in which; which
D．whose; where
10、He wants to have his eyes ________ tomorrow morning.
A．examined
B．examining
C．being examined
D．having examined
11、We ______the difficulty together, but why didn’t you call me?
A. should face B. might face
C. must have faced D. might have faced
12、Only by increasing the number of doctors by 50 percent properly in this hospital.
A．can be the patients treated
B．can the patients be treated
C．the patients can be treated
D．treated can be the patients
13、It was silly of him to his notes during that important test， and as a result， he got punished.
A. stick to B. keep to
C. refer to D. point to
14、According to the rules, students ______ get grades not lower than 85% in any subject in order to get the scholarship.
A. will B. shall C. may D. would
15、Rather than _____ nothing at all all day long, Mrs. White prefers _____ some voluntary work in a local hospital,
A.to doing; do B.to do; to do C.do ; to do D.doing; to do
16、The description is pretty ______, so the police can’t figure out the portrait of the criminal.
A．vague
B．accurate
C．particular
D．vain
17、Never ask a lady about her age. Such a personal question is very likely to ____________ her.
A.offend B.adore C.pursue
18、Although the news reports focused on the relationship between Williams and Woods, one minor detail________ my attention. Which one is NOT correct?
A．caught
B．aroused
C．brought
D．attracted
19、My mother told us an interesting story last night. 划线成分是________
A．表语
B．直接宾语
C．间接宾语
D．宾补
20、Life is like an ocean; only _______ strong-willed can reach the other shore.
A.a B.the C./ D.that
21、Jae-Yeol Tae recalls the time he broke into a cold sweat after noticing a long line behind him as he struggled to order a hamburger on a local fast-food restaurant’s self-order kiosk (自助服务终端). “I kept reading the instructions on the kiosk, but they were difficult to follow,” Tae, 78, said.
The South Korean senior is not the only one who has felt powerless and at the mercy of such self-serve digital kiosk machines. Adults aged 65 and older have taken part in the senior digital education program at Seoul-based Seocho Joongang Senior Welfare Center to learn how to use the devices in this modem digital age.
Seocho District’s senior community center has been providing digital education classes and resources for willing seniors over the past two years. Since September 2019, more than 1500 senior citizens have learned how to use digital machines and devices like self-serve kiosks through the program.
After two years of suffering from the pandemic (流行病), a large number of restaurants and stores have adopted self-service electronic kiosks as alternatives to keep personnel costs down while continuing to keep their businesses running. The size of the domestic kiosk market is expected to grow 5.7% annually by 2023, according to the report from Shinhan Investment Corporation.
Digital education for senior citizens has become a necessity as South Korea continues to speed up its digitization according to the nation’s pandemic regulations. At the start of 2022, Seoul introduced the “cash-free bus” plan asking 418 buses to only accept transportation cards or mobile tickets. The project offers passengers instant mobile tickets by scanning QR codes (二维码) at bus stations, but it makes public transportation more complicated for less tech-savvy senior citizens who typically carry around cash only.
Seocho District’s senior community center is not the only one promoting digital education for older adults. The Seoul Metropolitan Government also recently announced that it will invest over $1.68 million to further expand education resources necessary for senior support.
【1】What does the author intend to do in the first paragraph?
A．Offer background information.
B．Introduce a topic for discussion.
C．Present a common natural phenomenon.
D．Make a prediction about future trends.
【2】Why are kiosks adopted as alternatives in some businesses recently?
A．To cut down costs.
B．To attract customers.
C．To avoid physical touch.
D．To speed up digitalization.
【3】What can we infer about “tech-savvy citizens”?
A．They often carry around cash only.
B．They adapt to the digital world easily.
C．They think digital education unnecessary.
D．They will find public transport inaccessible.
【4】What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Senior Citizens Go Digital in Korea
B．Korea Moves Toward Touch-free Culture
C．Senior Citizens Face Greater Challenges Now
D．Pandemic Speeds up Digital Education in Korea
22、SHEFFIELD
LINCOLN COLLEGE OF ENGLISH
Classes for foreign students at all levels
3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year course
Open all year
Small class (maximum 12 students)
Library, language laboratory and listening center
Accommodation(膳食供应) with selected families
25 minutes from London
Course fees for English for one year are ￡1, 380 with reduction 减少for shorter periods
of study.
【1】Lincoln College of English _______.
A. is at the centre of London
B. lies far away from London
C. takes in foreign students, from beginners to the advanced
D. accepts students only at the beginning of the year
【2】While you stay there, _______ will take care of you.
A. the school where you study
B. the family you have chosen
C. your classmates
D. your own parents
【3】If you go there for a one-term course, you will pay _______ for it.
A.￡1, 380 B. over ￡1, 380
C. much less than ￡1, 380 D. nothing
23、I expect the travel of the future to become less physical, more mental. Through the use of technology, you’ll be able to let your brain experience the sensations of a new place without actual going there. Robots and computer simulation（模仿）will enable you to visit remote exotic places without ever leaving home---the wreckage of the Titanic, the Galapagos Island, even the moon.
As an oceanographer, I’ve spent decades developing robots to explore the depths, and now we’re putting that technology to use in our JASON Project, a cooperative effort between industry, science, and educators that’s designed to be a world classroom for children. In auditoriums throughout the country, we bring kids together and transmit back to them on large screens our live explorations of far-flung areas of the globe. Not only are the kids observers, but they truly participate. They have the sensation of really being at the site with us---through the “eyes”, “ears”, and motions of the robot.
This year we’re taking the project to the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos are an exceedingly fragile environment, so fragile that only 60,000 people are allowed to visit them each year. But with JASON we will be able to let some 300,000 children experience those unique islands.
I believe advances in robot technology will one day be the key to an entirely new kind of travel. In the next 10 or 15 years I foresee people having rooms in their houses that will be able to simulate other environments. I like to call these rooms “home domes”---miniature theatres with wrap-around screens and sophisticated equipment that can reproduce the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of a desert, or a forest, or a meadow in high mountains.
Today, much of the world’s population never travels more than 50 or 60 miles from home. And even a person with abundant wealth and time can see only a fraction of the earth’s sights. But this new era of travel will cost so much less in both time and money that many more people will be exposed to a lot more of the globe. And simulated travel will help protect our planet. You can’t take large groups of tourists trooping up to look at Dian Fossey’s gorillas. But a small robot can get very close to a silverback and send the sights, sounds, and smells back to a million people.
I like to use this analogy（类比）to compare traditional travel with future travel: riding a horse is wonderful, but I don’t need to ride one to work anymore. That’s how I feel about traditional travel. Sometimes I still might want to hop on a plane and see a place firsthand, but sometimes I may simply want to walk into my home dome and take the trip from there.
【1】Which statement best expresses the main idea of this article?
A. Protecting fragile environments like the Galapagos Islands.
B. Building home domes to meet people’s desire of travelling
C. Traveling globally without even leaving home in the future.
D. Owning rooms called “home domes” to be put into reality.
【2】According to the article, simulated travel _______.
A. is a piece of equipment made for traveling
B. provides virtual access to actual traveling
C. has a negative effect on future environment
D. will be available in around fifty years’ time
【3】Which question is NOT answered in the article?
A. Why is the “home dome” designed and produced?
B. When might a “home dome” be available to us?
C. What will be like in a “home dome” in future?
D. How much does a “home dome” probably cost?
24、Shortages of flu vaccine are nothing new in America, but this year’s is a whopper. Until last week, it appeared that 100 million Americans would have access to flu shots this fall. Then British authorities, concerned about quality-control problems at a production plant in Liverpool, bailed all further shipments by the Chiron Corp. Overnight, the U.S. vaccine supply dwindled by nearly half and federal health officials found themselves making an unusual appeal. Instead of pleading with us all to get vaccinated, they’re now urging most healthy people between the ages of 2 and 64 not to. “This re-emphasizes the fragility of our vaccine supply,” says Dr. Martin Myers of the National Network for Immunization Information, “and the lack of redundancy in our system.”
Why is such a basic health service so easily knocked out? Mainly because private companies have had little incentive to pursue it. To create a single dose of flu vaccine, a manufacture has to grow live virus in a 2-week-old fertilized chicken egg, then crack the egg, harvest the virus and extract the proteins used to provoke an immune response. Profit margins are narrow, demand is changeable and, because each year’s flu virus is different, any leftover vaccine goes to waste. As a result the United States now has only two major suppliers (Chiron and Aventis Pasteur) and when one of them runs into trouble, there isn’t much the other can do about it. “A vaccine maker can’t just call up and order 40 million more fertilized eggs,” says Manon Cox, of Connecticut-based Protein Sciences Corp. “There’s a whole industry that’s scheduled to produce a certain number of eggs at a certain time.”
Sleeker technologies are now in the works, and experts are hoping that this year’s complete failure will speed the pace of innovation. The main challenge is to shift production from eggs into cell cultures—a medium already used to make most other vaccines. Flu vaccines are harder than most to produce this way, but several biotech companies are now pursuing this strategy, and one culture-based product (Solvay Pharmaceuticals’ Invivac) has been cleared for marketing in Europe.
For America, the immediate challenge is to make the most of a limited supply. The government estimates that 95 million people still qualify for shots under the voluntary restrictions announced last week. That’s nearly twice the number of doses that clinics will have on hand, but only 60 million Americans seek out shots in a normal year. In fact, many experts are hoping the shortage will serve as an awareness campaign — encouraging the people who really need a flu shot to get one.
【1】Shortage of flu vaccine show that ________.
A．America relies too much on foreign suppliers
B．the demand of flu vaccines is high this year
C．quality problem is a serious problem in flu vaccine production
D．the supply of flu vaccines is rather weak and America has no back-up measures to make it up
【2】Private companies have little interest in producing flu vaccines because of ________.
A．complicated process, high cost, low profit and high risk
B．shortages of fertilized chicken eggs
C．difficulty in growing live virus
D．fast changing of flu virus
【3】From the last paragraph we can infer that ________.
A．the government hopes to solve the problem by way of volunteer restrictions
B．more than 47 million Americans who are qualified to get flu vaccine shots cannot get hem this year
C．America has to deal with a limited supply of flu vaccines this year
D．normally only a small percentage of American population gets flu vaccine shots each year
【4】According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A．All Americans are persuaded not to get vaccinated this year.
B．The big problem in innovating flu vaccine producing technique is how to grow virus in a new way.
C．More flu vaccines cannot be produced in a short time because private companies refuse to produce more.
D．Flu vaccines are easier than most vaccines to produce through cell cultures.
25、From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students' Union. I always ________ my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. So I dreamed of being a leader. Years flew by, and soon I was able to ________ the elections, praying I would win. But the reality struck that I hadn't had a(n) ________—I was’ t pretty. Girls across the school ________ knew me. I just did not have what it ________ to win a school election. I was ________. As I cried in my room that evening, I suddenly took a deep breath and decided I wouldn't stop ________. I decided that I would join in elections ________ in my final year at school— and I would win.
I recognized that my ________ had a lot of things in their favor. What were the ________ that would work in my favor? I had good grades, and I was friendly and helpful. And my biggest ________ was the faith I had. I would not allow my ________ appearance to hold me back from putting my best foot forward. That evening, I ________ my election plans a whole year in advance.
I realized that girls would have to get to know me and recognize that I had the ________ to represent them. I loved making friends and I liked being helpful, so I decided that perhaps I could use these qualities to work to my ________. In order to learn how to present a great election speech I also attended a course on effective public speaking.
The day after the election, when the principal announced that I won the third highest number of votes, the students cheered. That joy on the faces of all my friends showed me that my victory was also theirs.
【1】
A．remembered
B．admired
C．praised
D．believed
【2】
A．come up with
B．participate in
C．begin with
D．rise to
【3】
A．chance
B．education
C．challenge
D．improvement
【4】
A．highly
B．equally
C．hardly
D．closely
【5】
A．provided
B．educated
C．meant
D．took
【6】
A．concerned
B．frustrated
C．confused
D．surprised
【7】
A．developing
B．winning
C．learning
D．dreaming
【8】
A．again
B．really
C．simply
D．nearly
【9】
A．colleagues
B．enemies
C．schoolmates
D．competitors
【10】
A．points
B．cases
C．methods
D．examples
【11】
A．problem
B．aim
C．strength
D．worry
【12】
A．plain
B．young
C．beautiful
D．special
【13】
A．announced
B．discussed
C．began
D．shared
【14】
A．recommend
B．confidence
C．respect
D．ability
【15】
A．habit
B．advantage
C．speech
D．focus
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Ali and his younger sister, Zahra, lived with their parents in a poor neighborhood. Their mother was very sick and their father was struggling to find a job, and they had only a little money with which to buy food.
One day, Ali took Zahra's shoes to a shoe repairman to be fixed（修理）, but he lost them on the way home. He was afraid that his parents would be angry and disappointed, so he begged his sister to keep it secret. Zahra agreed and the two decided to share Ali's running shoes. Zahra's school hours were in the morning, so she would wear them first. After school, she would rush back and give them to Ali.
Ali heard about a long distance race that was held for the boys in the city. When he learned that the third prize was a new pair of shoes, he decided to take part. He ran home excitedly and promised his sister that he would win her the new shoes.
注意：(1)所续写短文的词数应为100左右；
(2)续写的开头已给出，但不计入总词数
The day of race arrived. Ali had a strong start, but halfway through the race he began to get tired and his legs began to ache.(痛)
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