1、People's ________ for bicycles may reflect public dissatisfaction with bus service.
A. insistence B. preference
C. confidence D. reference
2、Lisa had to have her car repaired in a garage because it _______ seriously .
A．damaged
B．had been damaged
C．was being damaged
D．had damaged
3、The population has reduced ______ because of the war.
A．dramatically
B．objectively
C．urgently
D．steadily
4、He wants to find a more ________ job to support his family during the financial crisis.
A．fundamental
B．consistent
C．stable
D．exceptional
5、We must work hard to a good knowledge of English.
A. take B. acquire
C. catch D. hold
6、If we’re lucky, AI might think we’re valuable enough to keep around. ________, it might wipe us all out.
A．If so
B．If not
C．If possible
D．If necessary
7、_______ the warning message, more deaths would have been caused in the village in the earthquake.
A．But that
B．Instead of
C．But for
D．Except for
8、Tim was happy to take on all the housework ________ his wife went out to work.
A.while B.until C.before D.since
9、 Fully _ in looking after three children at home, she no longer has time to enjoy the various activities in the club.
A. devoted B. prepared
C. acknowledged D. occupied
10、The old photo brings to my mind the happy high school days ________ we spent together.
A．which
B．who
C．when
D．what
11、 It’s important for the figures _________ regularly.
A. to be updated B. to have been updated
C. to update D. to have updated
12、He was ________ the edge of success when the unexpected accident happened.
A．at
B．in
C．from
D．on
13、 you paid for the taxi fare, please let me pay for our dinner.
A.Until B.Since C.Unless D.Although
14、He held on ________ the rock to stop himself slipping.
A．of
B．with
C．at
D．to
15、Japanese companies have been producing plenty of ________ products that go beyond people’s imagination.
A．innovative
B．reproductive
C．parallel
D．visible
16、A farm worker, who stayed up all night, claimed _______ a figure cutting corn in the moonlight.
A.having seen B.to see C.seeing D.to have seen
17、The proposal Father made this morning did sound feasible ______________ every member of the family ______________ one-third of his or her income in case of emergency．
A.which, set aside B.that, set aside
C.which, sets aside D.that, sets aside
18、________ to change his plans, Mark Twain worked as a pilot on a steamboat, ________ passengers up and down the Mississippi.
A．Forced; taking
B．To force; took
C．Forced; taken
D．Forcing; taking
19、It was such a beautiful expression of being the change-a celebration of self-responsibility that rarely is ________ in young people’s lives today.
A. polished B. portrayed
C. progressed D. proposed
20、________ for old men to read newspapers, but it is also a great way to improve their minds.
A．Not only for pleasure is it
B．Not only it is for pleasure
C．Not only is it for pleasure
D．It is not only for pleasure
21、The house rent is expensive. I’ve got about half the space I had three years ago and I’m paying _______ before.
A. as three times much as B. as much three times as
C. much as three times as D. three times as much as
22、Don't take______for granted that others around will help you when you are in trouble.
A. it B. that
C. one D. those
23、According to the picture, ______, you can go there.
A．when you want to have a rest
B．when you want to buy something
C．when you want something to drink
24、—I am going to stay in Beijing for two days.
—______!
A．Thanks
B．It’s my pleasure
C．Have fun
D．With pleasure
25、Is all this healthy food supposed to increase my happiness ________ ?
A．parcel
B．quotient
C．faucet
D．lottery
26、You may have come across the picture that has a number drawn on the floor with two people standing on either side of it. One person sees a 6, and the other sees a 9. They are both right, but they are wrong in the eyes of the other person. This is perspective (角度). 【1】 Instead, what we usually have are two different perspectives on one thing.
You may not realize how important your perspective on life is because we often feel that as long as other people’s opinions and decisions do not affect us, ours should not affect them. However, the fact is that our perspective on life does affect the people around us. 【2】 We can end up having two adults who refuse to agree and separate after a heated argument, destroying the chances of building a relationship. We can also end up having two adults who change positions and perspectives to see that this can either be a 6 or a 9, depending on where they stand. 【3】 And all they have to do is view things from a different perspective.
Having a good perspective on life gives you an advantage. First of all, you are a lot more open to seeing from other people’s perspectives, thus making it easy for you to create meaningful relationships. 【4】 If you live a life where you are constantly showing thankfulness and being happy, then you have lived a satisfying life.
The moment your perspective on life comes into play, always remember that the other person’s perspective matters as well. 【5】 A lot of quarrels, battles, and wars could be avoided if people saw things from another person s perspective.
A．Let’s go back to the 6 and 9 example we begin with.
B．Try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.
C．In life, few things are absolutely right or wrong.
D．Your perspective determines how other people deal with you.
E．Change your perspective so that you can see the most growth in your mind.
F．It also gives you a lot more reasons to be grateful and happy.
G．This can graduate into handshakes and the start of a friendship.
27、For those who study the development of intelligence（智力）in the animal world, self-awareness is an important measurement. An animal that is aware（意识）of itself has a high level of intelligence.
Awareness can be tested by studying whether the animal recognizes itself in the mirror, that is, its own reflected image（反射出的影像）.Many animals fail this exercise bitterly, paying very little attention to the reflected image. Only humans, and some intelligent animals like apes and dolphins, have shown to recognize that the image in the mirror is of themselves.
Now another animal has joined the club. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that an Asian elephant has passed the mirror self-reflection test.
“We thought that elephants were the next important animal,” said Dinana Reiss of the Wildlife Conservation Society, an author of the study with Joshua M.Plotnik and Fans B.M. de Waal of Emory University. With their large brains, Reiss said, elephants “seemed like cousins to apes and dolphins.”
The researchers tested Happy, Maxine and Patty, three elephants at the Bronx Zoo.They put an 8-foot-square mirror on a wall of the animals’ play area (out of the sight of zoo visitors) and recorded what happened with cameras, including one built in the mirror.
The elephants used their long noses to find what was behind it, and to examine parts of their bodies.
Of the three, Happy then passed the test, in which a clear mark was painted on one side of her face. She could tell the mark was there by looking in the mirror, and she used the mirror to touch the mark with her long nose.
Diana Reiss said, "We knew elephants were intelligent, but now we can talk about their intelligence in a better way."
【1】What can mirror tests tell us about animals?
A. Whether they have self-awareness.
B. Whether they have large brains.
C. Whether they enjoy outdoor exercises.
D. Whether they enjoy playing with mirrors.
【2】Why does the author mention apes and dolphins in the text?
A. They are most familiar to readers.
B. They are big favorites with zoo visitors.
C. They are already known to be intelligent.
D. They are included in the study by Reiss.
【3】What made Happy different from Maxine and Patty?
A. She used her nose to search behind the mirror.
B. She painted a mark on her own face.
C. She recognized her own image in the mirror.
D. She found the hidden camera.
28、 People living in New York City are fearful after facing the worst of COVID-19 health crisis（危机）. This fear is bringing about a sudden increase in home sales and rentals around the small towns and wooded hills to the city’s north.
Anil and Joyce Lilly won’t be staying in their Bronx apartment much longer. They just bought a house north of New York in the Hudson Valley. It takes about an hour to reach from the city.
“We were more elbow rooms. We were locked into the apartment for three months, three full months,” Joyce Lilly explained their move to Washingtonville, New York. “I feel like I’m getting out of prison and I want to run as far away as possible. ”
House sellers describe an active market recently, with many house hunters able to work from home. Steven Domber said plenty of the home buyers are coming from Manhattan, in the heart of the city. Many of them are experiencing “cabin fever （幽居病）, which is wanting to get out of an apartment and having some land if there’s a lock down again,” he said. House agents say sales and rental activities are far above normal. Domber said his June sales were up about 30 percent compared to the same month last year. Home builder Chuck said he took eight orders in one month, compared to his usual one and a half each month.
But New York City is in no danger of losing a lot of people any time soon. The movement looks more like a trickle （细流） in a city of 8.3 million. With new homes in the area running from under $200, 000 to more than $l million, it is an escape many people cannot afford. But the increase in sales and long-term rentals suggests many New Yorkers see the city as less livable.
【1】Why did Anil and Joyce Lilly buy a house in the Hudson Valley?
A.To get rid of COVID-19.
B.To work from home.
C.To change their living environment.
D.To get away from Washingtonville.
【2】How is the sales and rental market recently according to the text?
A.Strange. B.Busy. C.Normal. D.Complex.
【3】What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.The effect of the movement is limited,
B.Everything will recover in no time.
C.It’s dangerous to remain in the city.
D.It’s easy to afford a new home.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A.Fear Affecting People’s Health
B.House Agents Happy with Orders
C.New Yorkers Crazy about Selling Land
D.New Yorkers Leaving City for More Living Space
29、Author Norman Mailer published an essay in which he declared the graffiti(涂鸦) of the New York subway to be "The Great Art of the 70s". But what happened to the artists and why is there no subway graffiti any more?
"It started with someone just writing their name — someone saw that, and added on to it," recalls New York graffiti artist Nicer, born Hector Nazario. "Letters going in front of letters, coming back through a letter, behind a letter, going across a letter... the subways became our playground," adds Riff170.
New York in 1974 was a city in crisis. The Mayor, Abe Beame, slashed the city's budget in a bid to stave off bankruptcy(破产), which meant laying off school teachers, police officers and subway staff.
"They were taking the money from the schools, there was a lot of corruption here, in this community, and so they took the after-school programmes away, and there was no outlets for this. So the outlet became our city," says Bronx-born designer Eric Orr.
"It was like an explosion. The graffiti explosion. All of a sudden it took over the whole city. I don't know what happened, but overnight in the early 70s it was from no graffiti to all graffiti," says another former artist, Flint Gennari.
Eric Felisbret, author and former graffiti artist, says graffiti culture was in a way a product of the civil rights movement. "It was never political," he says, "but many people were brought up with that, and to express yourself by breaking the law became a natural process for them."
The graffiti pioneers came from all races, however. "There were writers that were African American, Latino - Puerto Rico, Dominican, Cuban - Jewish, Asian, and it became one unit — one family," says another graffiti pioneer, Roberto Gualtieri.
Prof Gregory Snyder, sociologist and author of Graffiti Lives, says: "For lots of people, graffiti is ugly, vandalistic, and I'm not denying that. It's vandalism... now, oftentimes it's very clever vandalism. It can be written on a dumpster, like a garbage bin, and if someone's attempting to make a garbage bin look a little prettier maybe that's not the worst thing in the world." Although Mailer was not alone in welcoming the flowering of creativity, the authorities hated it, as did many passengers.
So when Mayor Ed Koch took office, he was determined to clean up the city and set about targeting graffiti.
"I remember in 1982 he brought everyone out to a train yard and there was a single train painted white," says former New York Daily News reporter Salvatore Arena. Trains were taken out of service and cleaned as soon as graffiti was spotted. Carriages were protected at night and the city agreed to ban the sale of spray cans.
If in 1984 80% of subway carriages contained graffiti by May 1989 the network was graffiti-free. “Graffiti has gone through an evolution, and it will continue to evolve. It’s now socially accepted in places where 20-30 years ago that would have been impossible. It’s now showcased(展示) in certain museums —and let’s say in another 30 years from now it may be hanging in the White House,” says Nicer.
Nowadays painted graffiti is largely gone from the New York subway trains themselves and is seen instead on the walls and tunnels of the city. It has been replaced by scratchiti(刮擦艺术) created onto carriage windows using keys, knives. Unlike the vivid images of 40 years ago, these ghostly patterns are somehow easy to ignore. After all, graffiti has faded quietly into the background.
【1】What caused the graffiti’s sudden appearance in New York in the 1970s?
A. The worse economy in New York then.
B. It is a product of the civil rights movement.
C. The support and encouragement of the Mayor.
D. Publishment of Norman Mailer’s essay on graffiti.
【2】In the 1970s, New York’s graffiti artists ________.
A. could only do graffiti on trains
B. organized a political movement
C. often left their own names on their works
D. realized they were actually against the laws
【3】What’s Gregory Snyder’s attitude towards graffiti?
A. Negative.
B. Critical.
C. Objective.
D. Approving.
【4】The main reason why Mayor Ed Koch took measures to stop graffiti may be that ________.
A. all passengers were against graffiti
B. it wasn’t the art that Ed Koch was fond of
C. it became out of date because of scratchiti
D. it didn’t benefit most subway passengers
【5】What is the last but one paragraph mainly about?
A. Graffiti evolution makes New York subways graffiti-free.
B. Graffiti has evolved and is widely accepted in some places.
C. It took 5 years to clean 80% of the graffiti in New York city.
D. Graffiti will sure appear on the walls of the White House.
30、 A young man applied for a job as a farmhand. When the farmer asked for his________ , he said, “I can sleep________the wind blows.”
This________the farmer. But he liked the young man, and________him.
A few days later, the farmer and his wife were________in the night by a violent storm. They quickly began to _____things out to see if all was safe from damage. They found that the doors of the farmhouse had been safely________ ,and a good supply of wood had been set next to the fireplace. The young man slept________.
The farmer and his wife then inspected their________carefully. They found that the farm tools had been placed in the storage room, safe from the bad weather. The tractor had been moved into the________. The barn was properly locked. Even the animals were________. All was well. The farmer then understood the________of the young man’s words, “I can sleep when the wind blows.”
_____the farmhand did his work loyally and faithfully when the sky was clear, he had _______the storm in case it broke. So when the wind blew, there was no need for him to be afraid. He could sleep________.
【1】A.requirements B.professions C.qualifications D.occupations
【2】A.when B.after C.before D.because
【3】A.pleased B.annoyed C.interested D.puzzled
【4】A.rejected B.instructed C.appreciated D.employed
【5】A.astonished B.awakened C.frightened D.shocked
【6】A.check B.make C.try D.bring
【7】A.knocked B.answered C.fastened D.moved
【8】A.badly B.eventually C.soundly D.directly
【9】A.tools B.property C.tractor D.animals
【10】A.kitchen B.garage C.storage room D.sitting room
【11】A.calm B.active C.positive D.happy
【12】A.intention B.account C.theory D.meaning
【13】A.Because B.Although C.Until D.Once
【14】A.headed for B.prepared for C.drove away D.went after
【15】A.in pain B.in vain C.in peace D.in fear
31、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.
Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and asks his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me 【1】 you see. “
“I see millions of stars. “ replies Watson.
“And what do you deduce from that?”
Watson thinks 【2】 (careful) for some time. “Well, according to the studies on astronomy, it tells me that there are potentially billions of planets. According to the scientific measurement of time, I deduce the time is probably a quarter past three. According to the current atmosphere, I forecast that we 【3】 (have) a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you, Holmes?”
Holmes is silent for a minute. “Watson,” he says, “someone 【4】 (steal) our tent!”
32、假定你是李华，是某国际高中的学生会主席。学生会计划下周五举办主题为“My life with the internet”的英语演讲比赛,请你准备一则英文通知,刊登在校英文报上。
要点包括: 1.活动目的; 2.比赛信息:时间、地点等; 3.鼓励学生积极参加。
注意: 1.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯:
2.词数80左右。
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The Student Union
April 22，2021