1、When and where we’ll hold the meeting ________ not been decided yet.
A. has B. is C. have D. are
2、 —How could you __________in such an awkward situation?
—Well, on arriving at the airport, I was surrounded by a crowd of journalists. Fortunately, my assistant helped me out.
A. be involving B. involving yourself
C. involve D. get involved
3、She decided to adopt a different __________ to the problem.
A.advice B.aspect C.ambition D.approach
4、_________on Oct. 1st 2021, the film Changjinhu soon became a great hit.
A．Releasing
B．Released
C．Being released
D．To release
5、People firmly believe it is _____ to die for national independence on the road of freedom than being slaves of life.
A.worth B.worthless C.worthwhile D.worthy
6、At first________, it looked like a simple accident, but later the police became suspicious.
A．look
B．view
C．sight
D．scene
7、With his homework ________, he went to see a film with his friend.
A．to finish
B．finishes
C．finished
D．finishing
8、As soon as the invention was finished, Sissa Ben gave it to the king, who was glad and asked him ________ he would like to have in return.
A．that
B．what
C．whether
D．how
9、It was too noisy outside. Not until ________ at the top of my voice ________ his head.
A．I shouted; did he turn
B．I shouted; had he turned
C．did I shout; did he turn
D．had I shouted; he turned
10、________ the program, they have to stay there for another two weeks.
A. Not completing B. Not completed
C. Not having completed D. Having not completed
11、They observed that two of the teams seemed __________ significant progress.
A. making B. to make
C. to have made D. having made
12、Given the serious damage and substantial losses caused by the recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck southern Turkey, just 50 miles from the Syrian border, more financial support from international society _________.
A．remaining to be raised
B．remains to be raised
C．remaining to raise
D．remains to raise
13、Is there a certain cure ___ lung cancer yet?
A. of B. for C. at D. about
14、It makes no difference to me ________ you go today or tomorrow.
A．whether
B．if
C．that
D．when
15、Mary finally ________ Bruce as her life-long companion.
A. received B. accepted
C. made D. honoured
16、 As we know, language is one of the significant means for mankind to thoughts and feelings.
A. drive B. convey C. deliver D. transport
17、The company has changed some of its working practices ________ complaints and criticism from the customers.
A. in favor of B. in response to C. in memory of D. in spite of
18、Forty percent of the land in the village ________ and the majority of the villagers____ to safe places.
A．has flooded; have moved
B．have flooded; has moved
C．has been flooded; have moved
D．have been flooded; have moved
19、You can’t imagine what great trouble they will have _________ the problem _________at the moment.
A．to solve... discussed
B．solved... to be discussed
C．unless solving... discussed
D．solving... being discussed
20、Once made out, the plan must be carried out ___ any difficulty.
A.instead of B.in need of C.because of D.regardless of
21、He runs very fast ________ he ________ a professional athlete.
A.even though; is B.even if; were C.as if; were D.as like; is
22、_______________, standing just on the other side of the automatic doors.
A.I make my way across the ICU B.I stormed out
C.Teddy zoomed down the stairs D.She did my makeup
23、The dog suddenly started barking as if aware __________ the stranger’s approach.
A.at B.to C.of D.with
24、Frightened by the bullets ________, the fellow hid his head in the bushes, ________.
A．whistled in; leaving his body exposed
B．was whistled by; and left his body being exposed
C．whistling by; leaving his body exposed
D．whistled into; left his body being exposed
25、Recent research findings have ________ the origin of our universe, which has puzzled the scientific world.
A. cast light on B. given rise to
C. seized control of D. kept company with
26、It’s midnight already, but the lights in Shi Guang’s dormitory are still on. He and three other students are sitting back to back. They’re all wearing earphones and staring at a computer screen, talking to each other only in words like “charge” or “retreat”. Chen Jiasheng, 22, a senior majoring in electrical engineering and automation at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, is a gaming team leader. “ Online gaming is not just about gaming, it’s a community in which we communicate with each other using our avatars(化身),” said Chen. For university students like Chen, online gaming has become more than a fashion – it’s part of life and a way of socializing.
A 2012 research report on online gamers in China released by 17173.com, the country’s leading game information portal, supports this concept. According to the report, university students aged between 19 and 25 make up 58 percent of online gamers, and the proportion is rising every year. “Many of my friends spend more time hanging out in online gaming worlds than in reality,” said Wang Jiaming, 21, a junior law major at China University of Political Sciences and Law. “Personally I feel more powerful in virtual worlds than in real life. I’m more confident.”
According to Zhang Quan, 20, a student in the second year economics major at Renmin University of China, one of the distinguishing features of online games compared with offline games is the gaming experience. Offline games test a gamer’s skill at using a keyboard to beat rivals. “Online games are technically more accessible as you don’t have to master these skills,” said Zhang.
But most online games are based on avatars controlled by another human – they are unavoidably more tricky and unpredictable by a computer. “On the surface we are playing games, but actually it’s real people we are dealing with,” added Zhang. “The only difference is that in these games we communicate with each other in different settings, like wars, magic battles and fantasy worlds.”
By engaging in this interactive gaming experience, gamers become team players and promote their social skills. Chen has even made friends by playing in a team with strangers online. “We coordinated our movements and cooperated with each other to win a battle in the cyberspace. The game was virtual but the brotherhood was real. Most of us are good friends in real life,” said Chen.
【1】According to the passage, which statement of the following is true?
A. Online gaming is the only world where the young communicate with each other by using their avatars.
B. Online gaming is important to those aged between 19 and 25.
C. Online gaming has a bad effect on health as university students usually stay up playing.
D. An increasing number of university students play online games.
【2】The passage is mostly about ______.
A. some interviews to young people about online gaming.
B. positive effects from online gaming on university students.
C. learning how to co-work with their mates for online gamers
D. the differences between online games and offline ones.
【3】The underlined word can be best replaced by ______.
A. competitors B. strangers C. teammates D. partners.
【4】Which can be the best title of this passage?
A. Online gaming B. Beyond a virtual reality
C. Virtual cooperation D. Real interaction
27、
Fun Day
To celebrate the Year of the dog
Organised by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High School
Date: 2 February 2018
Time: 10 am—5 pm
Place: Kwun Tong Playground
Fee: $20 (buy three get one free)
Programmes:drama, lion dance, magic show and ballet performance
Highlights:1) enter the lucky draw to win a digital camera
2) learn to make festival food
Join us on the Fun Day!
All are welcome!
Free Soft Drinks
Note:
● Tickets are available at the General Office of Lam Tin Youth Center
● For those who would like to be a volunteer, please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before the activity.
Fun Day
To celebrate the Year of the dog
Organised by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High School
Date: 2 February 2018
Time: 10 am—5 pm
Place: Kwun Tong Playground
Fee: $20 (buy three get one free)
Programmes:drama, lion dance, magic show and ballet performance
Highlights:1) enter the lucky draw to win a digital camera
2) learn to make festival food
Join us on the Fun Day!
All are welcome!
Free Soft Drinks
Note:
● Tickets are available at the General Office of Lam Tin Youth Center
● For those who would like to be a volunteer, please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before the activity.
【1】What you have just read is a ________.
A. note B. report
C. schedule D. poster
【2】What is going to take place on 2 February 2018?
A. A big event to welcome a Chinese new year.
B. A social gathering to raise money for wildlife.
C. A party for close friends to meet and have fun.
D. A meeting of Kwun Tong High School students.
【3】How much do you have to pay in total if four of you go together?
A. $20. B. $40.
C. $60. D. $80.
【4】Which of the following statements is true?
A. Tickets are sold in Kwun Tong High School.
B. It’s unnecessary to take soft drinks with you.
C. Free digital cameras are provided for everybody.
D. Festival food will be served without extra charge.
28、根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The Effects of a Warmer World Are Visible in Animals’ Bodies
For humans, adapting to climate change will mostly be a matter of technology. More air conditioning, better-designed houses and bigger flood defences may help mitigate the effects of a warm world. 【1】 In a paper published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, a team led by Sara
Ryding, a phd candidate at Deakin University, in Australia, shows that is already happening. Climate change is already altering the bodies of many animal species, giving them bigger beaks, limbs and ears. In some species of Australian parrot, for instance, beak size has increased by between 4 % and 10 % since 1871.
All that dovetails (吻合)nicely with evolutionary theory. “Allen’s rule”, named for Joel Asaph Allen, who suggested it in 1877, holds that warm-blooded-animals in hot places tend to have larger appendages (附属物) than those in less hot regions.【2】 For example, Fennec foxes, which are native to the Sahara desert, have strikingly large ears, especially compared with their Arctic cousins.
Ms Ryding examined museum specimens, comparing their bodies to those of their modern counterparts. She is not the first researcher to take that approach. 【3】 All sorts of other factors, from changes in prey to the evolving reproductive preferences of males or females, might possibly have been driving the changes. Her team combined data from different species in different places.Since they have little in common apart from living on a warming planet, she says, climate change is the most reasonable explanation.
【4】 Researchers have already seen changes in the geographical range of many species, from insects to fish. Another evolutionary rule-of-thumb, Bergmann’s rule, holds that animals in hotter places tend to have smaller bodies, another way to boost the ratio between surface area and volume. Other animals may alter their behaviour as well as their bodies, such as by seeking shelter at hot times of the day.
Studying a broader range of animals will help firm up exactly what is happening. Much of Ms Ryding’s data concern birds, with less information available for other taxa (类群). But it seems clear that the world of the future is not just going to be hotter than humans are used to.【5】
A．And there are other ways to adapt, too.
B．The animals living in it will look different, too.
C．Larger wings are heavier, and bigger legs cost more energy to grow.
D．Animals will have to rely on changing their bodies or their behaviour.
E．But it is hard to prove that climate change was the cause of an anatomical (结构上的) change.
F．Since any evolutionary adaptation comes with trade-offs, it is unclear how far the process might go.
G．Such adaptations boost an animal's surface area relative to its body volume, helping it to shed excess heat.
29、 The streets of Seville, Spain, are lined with over 48,000 attractive orange trees, producing over 16,500 tons of fruit every winter. Though that gives Seville the honor of being Europe's top orange-producing city, the fruit is too sour to be consumed fresh. Some of the produce is used to make jam, but most ends up in landfills. However, that may change soon thanks to an inventive idea to use the oranges to produce clean energy.
The pilot program is being launched by the local government and parks department in cooperation with Emasesa, Seville's water supply division. Juice obtained from 38.6 tons of oranges will be left to ferment （发酵）in an existing biogas facility. The gas released from the fermented liquid will be collected and used to drive a generator to produce clean power. The officials estimate the test run will generate about 1,500 kWh of energy — enough to run one of Emasesa's water purification plants. They say, "It's not just about saving money. The oranges are a problem for the city, and we're producing added value from waste.”
If successful, by 2023, the city hopes to recycle all the oranges and add the electricity generated back to its power system. In trial runs, 1000 kilos of oranges produced 50 kWh of clean energy — enough to satisfy the daily electricity needs of five homes.
“Emasesa is now a role model in Spain for sustainability and the fight against climate change," Espadas Cejas, mayor of Seville, said in the press conference announcing the pilot program. "This project will help us reach our targets for reducing emissions （排放）,energy self-sufficiency, and the circular economy"
The latest attempt is among the many initiatives being carried out across Spain to achieve the country's goal of switching its electricity system to renewable sources by 2050 — and if everything goes according to plan, folly decarbonizing its economy shortly after that.
【1】How are oranges on Seville's street trees mostly treated?
A．Be thrown away as garbage.
B．Be made into jam.
C．Be brought to market.
D．Be consumed fresh.
【2】What is the officials' attitude to the program mentioned?
A．Critical.
B．Conservative.
C．Positive.
D．Concerned.
【3】What can we infer from the text?
A．Seville's orange trees will be replaced.
B．Emasesa sets an example in saving water.
C．Emasesa's residents are using clean energy.
D．Spain is determined to develop alternative energy.
【4】What's the purpose of this text?
A．To draw attention to urban waste.
B．To promote research into orange juice.
C．To show a trend towards sustainable energy.
D．To introduce an innovative electricity-making project.
30、I was getting more excited as we got off the train at beautiful Grand Central Station. After a tour at the Museum of Modern Art, we ________ Radio City Music Hall and the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. In one of the ________ in the area, I found a tiny boxed set of Peter Rabbit books, perfect for my ________. Was there anything like Christmas in New York? Having experienced an exciting and tiring tour, we called a ________ back to Grand Central Station.
On the way home I realized that my handbag was gone — lost or ________, I had no idea. All the magic of this special day ________. I glumly (闷闷不乐地) pictured a jam-packed Department of Motor Vehicles and all the phone calls that I’d have to make to get my ________ cards replaced with new ones. And I’d never ________ all those precious photos of my daughters.
The days slipped by while I got rides to college and ________ going to the DMV (车管所) at such a busy time of year. Then I got an unexpected ________, a box with the return address of Radio City Music Hall. ________, I opened it and shouted in a joyful ________.
There was my old handbag, with everything ________ good inside — license, cards and photos — and one thing that hadn’t been there ________, a handwritten note, saying, “I found this handbag lying under the seat of my taxi by ________. Merry Christmas!”
【1】
A．reached
B．entered
C．visited
D．noticed
【2】
A．shops
B．factories
C．schools
D．hospitals
【3】
A．sons
B．daughters
C．cousins
D．parents
【4】
A．taxi
B．car
C．carriage
D．bus
【5】
A．covered
B．hidden
C．forgotten
D．stolen
【6】
A．arrived
B．disappeared
C．worked
D．disturbed
【7】
A．dirty
B．useful
C．old
D．small
【8】
A．shown
B．encountered
C．packed
D．replaced
【9】
A．put off
B．brought about
C．relied on
D．came round
【10】
A．fax
B．document
C．reward
D．delivery
【11】
A．Disappointed
B．Shocked
C．Confused
D．Frightened
【12】
A．voice
B．word
C．speed
D．moment
【13】
A．gradually
B．completely
C．frequently
D．originally
【14】
A．though
B．yet
C．ever
D．before
【15】
A．comparison
B．accident
C．design
D．nature
31、短文填空
In January, eight gorillas (大猩猩) at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, in California, became the first great apes to test positive (阳性的) for COVID-19. “There was an immediate concern,” said Nadine Lamberski, the chief 【1】 (保护) and wildlife health officer at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. “We want to 【2】 (尽我们的职责) and take all measures to make sure that won’t happen again.”
So Lamberski made a decision. In February, she gave nine other great apes an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Those nine became the first zoo animals in the United States to get the vaccine. Since then, the vaccine has been shipped out to zoo animals in 27 states. Lamberski got the COVID-19 vaccine from Zoetis, a company that makes medications for animals. Now the company reports that its vaccine is safe for other animals, too. It’s 【3】 (incredible) wonderful news for animals and those who care about them.
So far, Zoetis has donated its vaccine to nearly 70 zoos in the U.S. According to Lamberski, zoos are requesting the vaccine because their animals 【4】 (受到……的威胁) getting the virus from visitors and caretakers. “Animals in zoos are exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of people a day,” Lamberski said.
32、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
“It’s not looking too good, darling, I think you’d better pack a few things and go to your mother’s place. And you’d better take Rosie and Monty with you.”
Putting down the phone, Sara sighed. Tomorrow was her husband Tony’s birthday. She had planned to cook him a nice meal and then surprise him with the new mountain bike she’d bought for him. If she went to her mother’s house, Tony wouldn’t get his present for days.
However, her mother’s house was the best place to be right now. Being on higher land, it would be safe from the floods. It had been raining heavily for almost two weeks and the river near Sara and Tony’s house was rising higher and higher all the time. Tony and others from the village had spent the last two days putting sandbags along the side of the river to stop it from overflowing. Now they feared that their hard work had been useless and soon the whole valley would be flooded.
Sara dressed baby James in warm clothes and collected the things she would need for him over the next few days. She put the lead on the dog and went in search of Monty, the cat. It took her a long time, but eventually she found him safe and warm under the covers on her bed. She placed him in his cat basket and took him into the kitchen where James and the dog, Rosie, were waiting.
Just as she was reaching for the car keys, Sarah heard a sound like the noise bath water makes when you pull out the plug. She looked at the backdoor, water was flowing in underneath. Turning around, she saw dirty brown water fountaining out of the drain and filling the sink. Realizing that they were trapped by the flood and it became impossible for her to drive out, quickly she put James into her backpack and pulled onto her back. Calling to Rosie, she picked up the cat basket and ran to the front of the house and out into the front garden, where the car was parked.
注意:
1.所续写的短文的词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:
The water was already up to her knees, and Rosie was swimming beside her.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Paragraph 2:
Sara, together with James, Rosie and Monty, was hungry and frightened on the roof of the house when a boat appeared in the distance.
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