1、She asked the young man to be brief and _______ as she had little time to spare.
A．at best
B．in place
C．to the point
D．on the spot
2、One of the best ways for people to keep fit is to______ healthy eating habits.
A.grow B.develop C.increase D.raise
3、The trade imbalance is likely to rise again in 2017._______ a new policy will be required soon.
A. Hence B. For
C. Though D. As
4、Mark ______ have hurried. After driving at top speed, he arrived half an hour early.
A．needn’t
B．wouldn’t
C．mustn’t
D．couldn’t
5、______ Long had been riding horses for many years, the hardship and uncertainty of the task pushed him to his limit.
A．Although
B．Unless
C．Once
D．If
6、—Is it all right if I leave a bit earlier?
——_________ . I can finish the report on my own.
A．Sure thing
B．Help yourself
C．Forget it
D．That depends
7、—Will you take my previous experience into________ when you fix my salary?
—You bet. We always do for senior-level positions.
A．mind
B．thought
C．reference
D．account
8、Present at the historic meeting ________ many an official on Nov 7, of course President Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou ________.
A. was; included B. was; including
C. were; included D. has been; included
9、New York is the fashion capital of the world, says a new study on Feb 4. 2014 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM), Pairs ____ second, with Shanghai ______10th while Hongkong 20th.
A. coming, ranks B. come, ranked C. comes, ranking D. coming, ranking
10、The ______ difference between Sam and me was the fact that I took life seriously.
A.official B.potential C.essential D.confidential
11、---- I’ve had a bad cough recently.
----Me too. I’ve never experienced ______ of air pollution in cities before.
A. an acute problem B. a more acute problem
C. a most acute problem D. the most acute problem
12、______ such a problem before, we handled the situation very well this time.
A. Deal with B. Dealing with
C. To deal with D. Having dealt with
13、--- Silly me! I forget what my luggage looks like.
--- What do you think of_____over there?
A. the one B. it C. that D. this
14、A recent study, while showing a generally positive attitude toward the new industry, also suggests a widespread concern _________ it may be “running out of control”.
A.that B.when C.while D.if
15、You are supposed to leave your child ________ his homework alone.
A. do B. to do
C. being done D. done
16、A lot of suggestions were put forward at the meeting, but ______ was practical.
A. nothing B. none
C. neither D. no one
17、Some experts think, _____ genes, intelligence also depend on an adequate diet, a good education and a nice home environment.
A．instead of
B．apart from
C．except for
D．far from
18、Dragon Boat Festival is held ________ Qu Yuan, a well-known poet in ancient China.
A．in honor of
B．in search of
C．in the hope of
D．in the face of
19、Their flight ______ due to bad weather. They would like to know when the flight will take off.
A. had been delayed B. was delayed
C. has been delayed D. will be delayed
20、Going out is __________good means of relaxation. Would you like to go to______ park with me in the afternoon?
A. the ;the B. the; a C. a; the D. /；a
21、 Connie Monroe clicks a button, turns her wrist and watches as her neighborhood floods. The reed-covered shorelines are first to go. Then, the baseball fields at Fleming Park. By the time seawater reaches the senior center, it has covered streets, flooding more than a dozen complexes that she can see.
Monroe moves her head up and down, side to side, taking in the simulated (模拟的) view. This is what could happen to Turner Station, a historic African American community, as sea levels rise.
“Everything’s underwater. The school is underwater. Our house is underwater,” Monroe says. A frown (皱眉) forms below the virtual reality headset. “Is the water really supposed to get that high?”
Climate change presents many challenges to coastal communities, but one of the most worrisome problems is: how do you show people — and convince them — of a possible future?
“It’s one thing to hear or read the news that sea levels could rise as high as 7 feet in Maryland by the end of the century under worst-case situations, but it’s another to imagine what that will look like in your own backyard,” says Jackie Specht, the coastal science program manager. “And if it’s hard to imagine, it’s hard to face and prioritize.”
Communicating the realness and immediacy of the climate threat is important to climate researchers and those aiming to prevent its causes. But it’s also paramount to communities faced with coming changes that are already unavoidable.
Climate projects need public support and input. That’s why Monroe and other residents at this recent community meeting are being directed to sit in metal chairs, put on virtual reality headsets and watch their homes flood.
Virtual reality is an immersive (沉浸式的) experience that can trick the human brain into thinking it’s real. But tricking people is not the goal of the sea level rise simulation being used at Turner Station, says Juliano Calil, one of the program’s developers.
The goal, he says, “is to help folks visualize the impacts of climate change and the solutions, and also discuss the trade-off between them.”
【1】What would you see in Turner Station as sea levels rise?
A.Shorelines covered by reeds. B.Baseball fields used as parks.
C.Streets blocked with bricks. D.Buildings drowned in water.
【2】What does Jackie Specht suggest in Paragraph 5?
A.People are relatively safer in their backyards.
B.People don’t feel on the scene through the news.
C.The severity of disaster is beyond imagination.
D.The sea level is bound to rise 7 feet in Maryland.
【3】Why is the virtual reality experience provided in the community meeting?
A.To prove climate threat. B.To seek public backing.
C.To help scientific research. D.To introduce VR technology.
【4】Which of the following best explains the underlined words “the trade-off” in the last paragraph?
A.The balance. B.The conflict.
C.The business. D.The similarity.
22、A computer programme can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than human experts, some researchers said. They hoped what they developed could prove a breakthrough in the fight against the global killer.
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, with more than 2 million new diagnoses last year alone. Regular screening is vital in detecting the earliest signs of the disease in patients who show no obvious symptoms.
In Britain, women over 50 are advised to get an examination of a breast every three years, the results of which are analyzed by two independent experts. But interpreting the scans leaves room for error, and a small percentage of all mammograms(乳房X光检查) either return a false positive—misdiagnosing a healthy patient as having cancer—or false negative—missing the disease as it spreads.
Now researchers at Google Health have trained an artificial intelligence model to detect cancer in breast scans from thousands of women in Britain and the United States. The images had already been reviewed by doctors in real life but unlike in a clinical setting, the machine had no patient history to inform its diagnoses. The team found that their AI model could predict breast cancer from the scans with a similar accuracy level to expert radiographers.
Further, the AI showed a reduction in the proportion of cases where cancer was incorrectly identified—5.7 percent in the US and 1.2 percent in Britain, respectively. It also reduced the percentage of missed diagnoses by 9.4 percent among US patients and by 2.7 percent in Britain.
“The earlier you identify a breast cancer, the better it is for the patient,” Dominic King, UK lead at Google Health, told AFP. “We think about this technology in a way that supports and enables an expert, or a patient ultimately, to get the best outcome from whatever diagnostics they’ve had.”
【1】What’s the text mainly about?
A．Regular screening. is important for women who are over 50.
B．AI is more powerful than experts in diagnosing breast cancer.
C．Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women.
D．The earlier you identify a breast cancer the better the result is.
【2】What is of great importance in discovering breast cancer at an early stage?
A．Daily scanning.
B．Human experts.
C．Regular screening.
D．A computer program.
【3】What can we infer about breast cancer from the third paragraph?
A．It may be connected with age.
B．It can be cured in most cases.
C．The patients tend to be negative.
D．It is frequently misdiagnosed.
【4】What’s Dominic King’s attitude toward the new technology?
A．Skeptical.
B．Favorable.
C．Cautious.
D．Indifferent.
23、Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. "Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting creatures," William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the everchanging 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative meaning.
So it seems contradictory to talk about habits in the same context as innovation （创新）. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.
Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try, the more creative we become.
But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.
"The first thing needed for innovation is attraction to wonder, "says Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind. "But we are taught instead to 'decide', just as our president calls himself "the Decider'.” She adds, however, that "to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities."
“All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware, “she says. Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the ability to approach challenges in tour primary ways: analytically, procedurally, collaboratively （合作地）and innovatively. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that ability, preserving only those ways of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.
The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us use our innovative and collaborative ways of thought "This breaks the major rule in the American belief system-that anyone can do anything, " explains M. J. Ryan, author of the 2006 book This Year I Will... and Ms. Markova's business partner. “That's a lie that we have preserved, and it fosters commonness. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence." This is where developing new habits comes in.
【1】William Wordsworth's words are mentioned in the first paragraph to ________
A．give the definition of habits
B．explain how habits are formed
C．highlight the nature and influence of habits
D．indicate the benefits of having habits
【2】Brain researchers have discovered that ________.
A．the forming of new habits can be guided
B．the development of habits can be predicted
C．the regulation of old habits can be transformed
D．the track of new habits can be created unconsciously
【3】Which of the following statements most probably agrees with Dawna Markova's view?
A．Decision makes no sense in choices.
B．Curiosity makes creative minds active.
C．Creative ideas are born of a relaxing mind.
D．Innovators always stick with only one possibility.
【4】What is Ryan's attitude towards standardized testing?
A．Positive.
B．Indifferent.
C．Short-sighted.
D．Critical.
【5】The purpose of the author writing this article is to persuade us.
A．to give up our traditional habits deliberately
B．to create and develop new habits consciously
C．to resist the application of standardized testing
D．to believe that old habits conflict with new habits
24、 In today's world, technology is a part of daily life. In order to keep civilization hand in hand with technological advances, and to understand the connected future they will have, children in schools have to be taught technical skills. But how can teachers integrate (使……融入)technology into their classroom? Here are a couple of ways.
Teach acceptance of connected learning. In the information age, it's only right to teach kids how to jump at connected learning. 【1】For example, a tablet PC could be used in art class to draw pictures or even signs for the school.
Use a video chat system to teleconference. The idea of pen pals can be strengthened by video chat systems. 【2】 In this situation, children will learn how to share experiences and build new relationships from a distance. Teleconferencing is a great way to teach children about teleconferencing etiquette (礼仪). 【3】
Develop a class wiki or blog. In order to help get your students active in class lessons, you can use a blog or wiki to make them comment on lessons, topics and current events. Students should also be allowed to create new posts about news or their thoughts. 【4】
Create a podcast (播客) for your class. Technology is always about being seen.【5】It can also be used to be heard. With a classroom podcast, you can read passages from a textbook or a novel or schedule discussions on a certain topic that's in line with your curriculum. This will teach broadcasting skills, speaking skills and critical thinking skills.
A.This is a great way to improve creative writing.
B.You can also upload videos to a private channel.
C.However, it's wrong to think it's only about being seen.
D.This will show them how to solve complex math problems.
E.This includes using technology as a tool or a way to learn new concepts.
F.For example, you can teach children when it's alright to connect and how to act when on camera.
G.These systems can also be used to connect with students from other classrooms that are far away.
25、 If you have strong arms and feet, patience and a good temper, you might_______a good waiter. You must start, _______not in the restaurant, but in the kitchen, helping the chef, to learn how each dish is _______.
From this first step, you may enter the restaurant_______a “commis” (厨助). But you won’t be_______to serve the customers yet. They will only let you do the bottomed jobs,_______the tables and carrying the plates. But all the time you must watch and learn with_______.
Later you may become “chef de rang” (a waiter in charge of a number of tables). You may even become a head waiter_______if you have the right sort of personality and you are not_______of hard work.
When Carlo Bianchi first arrived in London, he spoke only two words of English — “please” and “Hello”. He__________to get a job helping in the kitchen of a restaurant, and he spent what little__________time he had learning English. He was a good worker and soon they__________him a job in the restaurant as a waiter.
Every night, Carlo__________ to go home exhausted, but never too__________to study the language for half an hour before going to sleep. And no matter how tired or ill he felt, he always wore a__________for his customers. They liked him, and people came and asked to be__________by Carlo.
Now, twenty-five years later, Carlo is in__________of six restaurants, and he__________to open a seventh shortly. So friends, in this world success never comes overnight. Start from the__________and make progress step by step with enough patience and__________chances will fall upon you.
【1】A.make B.create C.replace D.choose
【2】A.otherwise B.therefore C.thus D.however
【3】A.commented B.tasted C.prepared D.chosen
【4】A.as B.for C.with D.to
【5】A.forced B.allowed C.banned D.urged
【6】A.moving B.laying C.pushing D.pulling
【7】A.curiosity B.kindness C.patience D.interest
【8】A.simply B.specially C.exactly D.eventually
【9】A.afraid B.ashamed C.fond D.typical
【10】A.managed B.attempted C.predicted D.expected
【11】A.tight B.useful C.spare D.busy
【12】A.threw B.found C.sent D.donated
【13】A.used B.promised C.regretted D.remembered
【14】A.depressed B.excited C.worried D.tired
【15】A.smile B.face C.color D.surprise
【16】A.served B.approved C.praised D.treated
【17】A.favor B.need C.possession D.support
【18】A.hesitates B.schedules C.hurries D.fails
【19】A.easiest B.slowest C.simplest D.lowest
【20】A.in all B.in time C.in a word D.above all
26、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Chris来信询问你校劳动课 ( labor course) 开展情况。请给他回信，内容包括:
1. 课程开设情况;
2. 课程内容 (参加社区服务，公益活动等);
3. 课后感悟。
注意:
1.字数80词左右;
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。