1、The company has changed some of its working practices ________ complaints and criticism from the customers．
A. in respect to B. in response to
C. in return for D. in exchange for
2、________ to Anne’s birthday party, Mr Brown is now searching shop after shop for a nice present for her.
A．Having invited
B．Having been invited
C．Have been invited
D．Being invited
3、We talked about the things and persons_________we remembered in the school.
A．which
B．that
C．who
D．whom
4、Usually newborn babies can ______ between a man’s and a woman’s voice.
A.squeeze B.trap C.inspect D.discriminate
5、—Mr. Li is badly ill in hospital.
— ________.
A. It doesn't matter. B. Really?
C. I’m sorry to hear that. D. Not at all
6、Middle School attached to Shanghai Normal university, Minhang campus will reach its _________ of over 700 students this September.
A．target
B．struggle
C．balance
D．contact
7、Kate will never forget the years ________ she lived with her home-stay family in China.
A．that
B．which
C．where
D．when
8、______ food you’ve cooked! Thank you for your treat.
A.How a nice B.What a nice C.How nice D.What nice
9、It is reported that______ people die of lung cancer each year.
A．three thousands
B．thousands of
C．thousand of
D．three thousands of
10、—Yan Jiashuo, a ________ girl, has won the prize of International Master of Memory.
—Wow, she's great, isn't she?
A.ten-year-old B.ten-years-old C.ten year old D.ten years old
11、I know you are very _______ ice cream, but you will be too fat if you eat too much.
A. tired of B. fond of
C. full of D. afraid of
12、（题文）In general，the that a student spends for housing should be held to one-fifth the total ________for living expenses．
A. acceptable B. available
C. advisable D. applicable
13、It was ______ of you not to give others a ride in your new car.
A. jealous B. unfair
C. greedy D. mean
14、You can't imagine ___ when I get a cell phone for my birthday .
A.how I was excited B.how excited I was
C.how excited was I D.I was how excited
15、A good neighbour is also one who likes to ________ in small ways.
A．make out
B．put out
C．help out
D．look out
16、When Lionel Messi ran into the stadium, he was met with hundreds of thousands of fans ______ his name.
A．to call
B．being called
C．calling
D．call
17、—The woman biologist had stayed in Africa studying wild animals for 13 years before she returned.
—Oh dear! She ________ a lot of difficulties!
A．may go through
B．must have gone through
C．should have gone through
D．might go through
18、My friend offered to pay my plane fare, which was very of him.
A.mean B.general C.gentle D.generous
19、Susan made _____clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself.
A. that B. this C. it D. her
20、The meeting you _____ last month was of great significance for your future.
A.attended B.took part C.joined D.joined in
21、The Best Free Tourist Attractions
Alaska: Anchorage Market and Festival
While Anchorage isn’t the capital of Alaska, it is the state’s largest and most populated city. The Anchorage Market and Festival is open and free of charge on weekends. Anchorage is also at the beginning of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, where walks and hikes can last between two hours and a half day. It’s free, of course.
Arkansas: Walmart Museum
In the northwest corner of Arkansas is Bentonville, which gave birth to a supermarket you may have heard of. It’s Walmart, which is currently one of the biggest companies in the world. Admission is free to the Walmart Museum. And just outside town is the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which is also free.
Colorado: United States Air Force Academy
Driving around and taking in the great natural beauty of Colorado is free. If you know some kids who might be interested in becoming a future police officer, then head to the United States Air Force Academy just outside Colorado Springs where free tours are offered daily. These are the cheapest months of the year to visit all 50 states.
Connecticut: Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut was the first place in the U. S to offer pizza by the slice to hungry customers, including students of a college called Yale University. While in New Haven, you can go on a tour of the campus, free of charge, every day of the week. This state has the alma mater of both President Bushes, Bill and Hillary Clinton, journalist Bob Woodward, and Sarnuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the Morse code to name a few.
【1】What may especially attract visitors in Bentonville?
A．Buying things at a low price.
B．Visiting Walmart Museum for free.
C．Buying works from the art museum
D．Going to its downtown quickly.
【2】What should a boy visit if he wants to become a policeman?
A．Anchorage Market and Festival.
B．Walmart Museum.
C．United States Air Force Academy.
D．Yale University.
【3】What is unique about New Haven?
A．Its free visit.
B．Its historical development
C．Its social relations.
D．Its successful education.
22、 The dream of the flying car could come down to earth soon as several start-ups like Chinese EHANG and Uber are developing so-called “passenger drones(无人机)”—self-flying drones big enough to ferry individual commuters around town—which could shrink commute(上下班往返) times from hours to minutes.
At first glance, human-carrying drones sound no more realistic than flying cars. Until recently inventors had never been able to marry automobiles and aircraft in a practical way. Yet a few companies have kept at it: Woburn, for example, has since 2006 been developing Transition, a “roadable aircraft” that resembles a small airplane that can fold its wings and drive on roads. A personal flying car in every garage has proved to be a tough sell, however, as there are serious safety concerns about asking the average commuter to train for a pilot’s license and take to the skies.
Passenger drones, by contrast, would operate autonomously and leave the “roadable” part behind in favor of larger versions of aircraft that already exist. Passenger drone designs favor “distributed electric propulsion(推进),” meaning instead of one large rotor powered by a large engine they have multiple propellers each powered by its own, smaller motor. This sacrifices lifting power and flight performance in exchange for mechanical simplicity and lighter weight—factors that could make them cheaper to operate. Quieter electric power would make the noise tolerable to city residents, although it remains to be seen how much weight such a vehicle could lift, and for how long.
With any of these vehicles, safety is the biggest concern and extends to both the aircraft and the automated systems flying them. Advanced artificial intelligence is needed to fly large numbers of autonomous aircraft without crashing them into one another or, say, the local news channel’s traffic helicopter. Carrying people from points A to B seems simple enough, but even the best AI struggles with surprises: What, for example, would a drone do if a landing area suddenly became unavailable? asks Sanjiv Singh, a Carnegie Mellon University robotics researcher. Instead of leaping to fully automated passenger drones, he suggests first testing the necessary AI in unmanned cargo(货物)runs, and adopting a “mixed mode” approach in early passenger services where pilots are assisted by AI co-pilots.
Technical challenges aside, start-ups promoting the technology will have to find a way to convince the public to give their drones a whirl, something that requires a much bigger leap of faith than getting into the backseat of a self-driving car. Passenger drone makers are “obviously still in the incubation(孵化) stages of technology development and improving the basics,” says Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the American Helicopter Society International. “But 20 or 30 years from now life may be a little like The Jetsons where you take advantage of the third dimension and have much more mobility, especially in urban close quarters where ground transportation is gridlocked.”
The passenger drone progress may follow a sloping takeoff rather than vertical leap. Carnegie Mellon’s Singh sees a long road ahead filled with lots of testing, analysis, regulation and efforts to win the public’s trust before the technology becomes a viable transportation option. “There is the danger of someone moving too fast and then having a problem that sets the industry back for some time,” he says.
【1】Personal flying cars have failed to gain popularity among households mainly because ______.
A.people don’t have the courage to take the cars to the air.
B.people are unwilling to train for a pilot’s license.
C.people worry that they may not be qualified to fly the cars safely.
D.it is practically impossible to combine cars and aircraft together.
【2】Which of the following is NOT an advantage of passenger drones?
A.It can lift more weight. B.It is lighter in weight.
C.It makes less noise. D.It is simpler in mechanical design.
【3】What is Hirschberg’s attitude towards passenger drones?
A.disapproving B.neutral
C.skeptical D.cautiously optimistic
【4】We can learn from the passage that ______.
A.artificial intelligence can easily tackle the problems occurring in air traffic.
B.human pilots in autonomous aircraft will endanger the safety of passengers.
C.the passenger drone industry will make major breakthroughs in the near future.
D.the public’s distrust may hinder the development of passenger drones.
23、Once upon a time, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything on the land —— animals and plants.
One day while walking through the woods, the old man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He took it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and cut the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then came out easily.
But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, or they would be smaller. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled （枯萎）wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and hurry did not understand was that the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening was nature’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any difficulties, it would cripple (无能) us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly.
【1】The old man cut the cocoon in order to ____.
A. kill the butterfly
B. play with the butterfly
C. make the butterfly come out easily
D. have the butterfly
【2】The reason why the butterfly could not fly is that _____.
A. the old man broke its wings
B. it was too small
C. newly born butterflies can’t fly
D. it came out of its cocoon without enough struggle
【3】What can we know from the passage?
A. That old man was fond of everything except the butterfly.
B. It was the old man that stopped the butterfly flying.
C. The old man realized his mistake.
D. It’s not hard for the butterfly to come out of the cocoon.
【4】What does the author want to tell us by writing the passage?
A .We should help others.
B. Without others' help we can still succeed.
C. Struggles in our life can make us stronger.
D. Butterflies can fly without people’s help.
24、 Mark Twain left school when he was twelve. He had little school education. In spite of this, he became the most famous writer of his time. He made millions of dollars by writing. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but he is better known all over the world as Mark Twain, his penname.
Mark Twain was born in 1835 and he was not a healthy baby. In fact, he was not expected to live through the first winter. But with his mother’s care, he managed to survive. As a boy, he caused much trouble for his parents. He used to play jokes on all his friends and neighbors. He didn’t like to go to school, and he often ran away from home. He always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi(密西西比河). He was nearly drowned nine times.
After his father’s death, Mark Twain began to work for a printer, who only provided him with food and clothing. Then, he worked as a printer, a river-boat pilot and later joined the army. But shortly after that he became a miner. During this period, he started to write short stories. Afterwards he became a full time writer.
In 1870, Mark Twain got married. In the years that followed he wrote many books including Tom Sawyer in 1876, and Huckleberry Finn in 1884, which made him famous, and brought him great fortune.
Unfortunately, Mark Twain got into debts in bad investments(投资) and he had to write large numbers of stories to pay these debts. In 1904, his wife died, and then three of his children passed away.
At the age of 70, his hair was completely white. He bought many white suits and neckties. He wore nothing but white from head to foot until his death on April 21, 1910.
【1】In his childhood, Mark Twain, ________.
A. learned a lot at school
B. he often went swimming with other boys
C. his mother often worried about his safety
D. he often played games with other boys
【2】Which of the following shows the right order about Mark Twain?
a. He became a miner. b. He worked as a printer.
c. He got into debts. d. His father died.
e. He became a full-time writer. F. He joined the army.
A. a—d—b—c—e—f B. d—b—f—a—e—c
C. d—a—f—e—b—c D. c—b—d—f—e—a
【3】In order to make a living, Mark Twain _______.
A. first worked as a printer
B. did many kinds of work
C. wrote stories in the beginning
D. joined the army after he worked in a mine
【4】From the passage we can see that Mark Twain _______.
A. had a happy childhood
B. was a good boy and always did what he was asked
C. was very naughty when he was young
D. lived a pleasant life
25、Ida Nelson was going to sleep when she heard the noise of a small airplane circling the nearby airport. It was already 11:30 p.m. in a small village of Alaska, and, as she told a local newspaper, “When a plane flies over that _________ you know there is something _________ .”
Nelson rushed to the window and saw the _________: The airport’s runway lights were out. She pulled on some clothes, _________ into her ATV(地形车), and drove it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to _________ the lights with his hands.
“_________, if you push the button 10 or 15 times, the lights will just light up,” Nelson said. But not this time. Meanwhile, she _________ the plane was a medevac(医疗直升机) which had a(n) _________ mission---to transport a seriously ill local girl to the nearest _________ 280 miles away.
Nelson had a __________. Driving her ATV to the end of the runway, she shone her headlights for the plane to __________. Great idea, but it wasn’t __________. More light was needed, so a neighbor __________ nearly every home in the village.
Within 20 rminutes, 20 vehicles arrived, many of the drivers still in __________. Following the pilot’ __________, the cars lined up on one side of the runway. __________ by the headlights, the plane finally landed safely. The young __________ was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane __________ took off again.
In a world filled with uncertainty, the little community’s __________ action was a big deal. However, for Nelson, as she said, coming together “is just kind of a __________ deal.”
【1】
A．late
B．low
C．slowly
D．smoothly
【2】
A．wrong
B．mysterious
C．unrecognizable
D．impressive
【3】
A．influence
B．consequence
C．factor
D．problem
【4】
A．looked
B．jumped
C．broke
D．ran
【5】
A．put up
B．look for
C．turn on
D．hold onto
【6】
A．Usually
B．Fortunately
C．Particularly
D．Obviously
【7】
A．remembered
B．admitted
C．learned
D．announced
【8】
A．fixed
B．urgent
C．improper
D．last
【9】
A．school
B．village
C．hospital
D．airport
【10】
A．target
B．comment
C．desire
D．plan
【11】
A．run
B．circle
C．climb
D．follow
【12】
A．appropriate
B．legal
C．sufficient
D．important
【13】
A．warned
B．reminded
C．comforted
D．called
【14】
A．nightclothes
B．raincoats
C．uniforms
D．costumes
【15】
A．preparations
B．directions
C．predictions
D．regulations
【16】
A．Guided
B．Forced
C．Controlled
D．Powered
【17】
A．pilot
B．patient
C．neighbor
D．driver
【18】
A．quietly
B．suddenly
C．immediately
D．constantly
【19】
A．strange
B．positive
C．loyal
D．exciting
【20】
A．fair
B．great
C．tough
D．normal
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。
Almost all of my holidays were spent with my grandpa. My grandpa was a retired army officer and the years in the army had made him a very tough person, which helped him a lot in fighting with cancer for a long time. Silver and golden stars on his shoulders and medals on his chest in grandma’s old photo albums reflected the marks of his distinguished service and numerous adventures. Grandpa had fine qualities and was a real personality. He was strict with his family, me included, as well as himself.
In our ancestral house there was a big pond as was common in bygone Bengali homes with lots of trees and bushes. Both my grandparents were fond of our so-called garden. One morning our new neighbor saw my grandpa planting two trees on both sides of our main gate, which still stand tall today. Across the street our new neighbor also got the same kind of tree and planted the trees exactly on both sides of his gate too.
My grandpa didn’t often give enough amount of water to his plants and didn’t always give his full attention to them, while our neighbor gave a lot of water to his plants and looked after them too well. My grandpa’s plants were simple but looked good. But our neighbor’s plants were much fuller and greener.
Normally, during April and May, we have short but violent thunderstorms called “Kalboishakhi”. One late evening during a Kalboishakhi we had showers with strong winds, which continued right throughout that night. Next morning along with my grandparents I came out to inspect the damage to our garden. I saw our neighbor was there in his garden too, but looked upset as his plants were uprooted. But, our plants were not damaged and were standing firm on the ground.
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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
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Seeing this, our neighbor was surprised and curious.
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Grandpa’s explanations not only convinced the neighbor, but made me realize something.
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