1、I gratefully ______ financial support from several local businesses.
A. contradict B. recommend
C. distribute D. acknowledge
2、I’m not sure whether I’ll succeed in persuading her to join us. ______, I’ll try my best to make it.
A. In addition B. Anyhow
C. If so D. Therefore
3、Smoking __________ the risk of heart attacks and other health problems.
A. multiplies B. negotiates
C. opposes D. polishes
4、 When you hear a fire alarm, don't rush________， you should keep calm.
A．in surprise B．in need
C．in brief D．in alarm
5、The restaurant ____ us 1000 yuan for the wine which is worth one tenth in a grocery store.
A. accused B. paid C. charged D. asked
6、Tsinghua University _________ the No. 1 spot in the Times Higher Education’s Asia University Rankings 2019, becoming the first university on the Chinese mainland to top the list.
A.countered B.claimed C.commanded D.competed
7、I think ___ just now.
A.it was important what he said B.that important what he said
C.that was important what he said D.it important what he said
8、 Luckily, I ________ before the deal turned bad, which saved me much money.
A．dropped out B．turned out
C．gave out D．got out
9、They advocate the proposal we were opposed ______ rediscussed at the next meeting.
A.to be B.should be C.to was D.was
10、I found it difficult to ___________ getting up so early before, but I did finally managed.
A. be tired of B. be convinced of
C. be accustomed to D. be obsessed with
11、The child was found ______down the streets alone.
A. wandering B. wondering
C. taking D. stepping
12、It is a truth well known to all ______China has become one of the strongest countries in the world.
A.where B.which C.that D.who
13、After checking the patient, the doctor ran out of the room, ____ a deep sigh.
A. let out B. letting out
C. to let out D. to be let out
14、________all the staff, I would like to wish you good grades in the end of the term.
A．In place of
B．On account of
C．On behalf of
D．In honour of
15、The discovery of new evidence led to ______________.
A. the thief having been caught B. the thief to be caught
C. catch the thief D. the thief being caught
16、He was a friendly and _____ man, who gave freely to the poor.
A.rigid B.generous C.shallow D.competent
17、The outbreak of the coronavirus globally has led to over thousands of people_____to hospital for treatment, _____ the world to be in deep sorrow.
A．sending; causing
B．sent； having caused
C．being sent; causing
D．to send; to cause
18、 As a film star she was a success, but as a wife she was ________ failure, so their marriage ended in ________ failure.
A．/; /
B．/; a
C．a; a
D．a; /
19、Governments of some countries see it as their responsibility ________ the amount and kind of risk their citizens are exposed to.
A.controls B.controlled C.has controlled D.to control
20、There is no point _________; it’s too late to mend.
A.arguing B.to argue C.argument D.argued
21、______ to the gift was a note on which he expressed his appreciation for our reception during his stay here.
A.Being attached B.Attached C.Attaching D.Having attached
22、Each application should be ______ by a stamped addressed envelope.
A.stored B.accompanied C.bought D.kept
23、It is a custom _______ hundreds of years.
A.dating back B.dates from C.dated back D.dating from
24、Both men were happy to ________ from contemporary life, seeking a harmonious relationship with nature in the quietness of their lives.
A．dispose
B．withdraw
C．tremble
D．acknowledge
25、My mother looked at me and ________ laughing.
A．made out
B．worked out
C．burst out
D．looked out
26、 It is every kid’s worst nightmare and six-year-old Jaden Hayes has lived it - twice. Firstly, he lost his dad when he was four and then last month his mom died unexpectedly in her sleep.
“I tried and I tried and I tried to get her awake - I couldn't,” said Jaden. Jaden was understandably heartbroken.
But there was another side to his grief. A side he first made public a few weeks ago when he told his aunt, and now guardian, Barbara DiCola, that he was sick and tired of seeing everyone sad all the time. And he had a plan to fix it.
“And that was the beginning of it,” said Barbara. “That’s where the adventure began.”
Jaden asked his aunt Barbara to buy a bunch of little toys and bring him to downtown Savannah, Georgia near where he lives, so he could give them away.
“I’m trying to make people smile,” said Jaden.
Jaden targeted people who weren’t already smiling and then turned their day around. He’d go out on four different occasions now and he was always successful. Even if sometimes he didn’t get exactly the reaction he was hoping for.
It was just so overwhelming to some people that a six-year-old orphan would give away a toy- expecting nothing in return - except a smile.
“I’m counting on it to be 33, 000,” said Jaden. When asked if he thought he could make that goal, he answered, “I think I can.”
【1】Why did Jaden give the toys to other people?
A.Because he wanted to fix the toys.
B.Because he wanted to see more people.
C.Because he wanted to give the toys away.
D.Because he wanted to make people happy.
【2】What can we learn from the passage?
A.Jaden lived with his aunt.
B.Jaden targeted people who were not happy.
C.Jaden got nothing he wanted all the time.
D.Jaden was sick and tired of seeing everyone.
【3】Which of the following words can best describe Jaden?
A.Helpful and impatient. B.Creative and tricky.
C.Optimistic and courageous. D.Ambitious and greedy.
27、 We don't choose our siblings（兄弟姊妹）the way we choose our partners and friends. Of course，we don't choose our parents either，but they usually make that up to us by accompanying us on the way to adulthood. Brothers and sisters are just sort of there. And yet，when it comes to our development，they can be more influential than parents.
Whether these relationships make our life better or worse is a more complicated question. On the upside，positive interactions with siblings during adolescence foster（培养）empathy，prosocial（亲社会的）behavior，and academic achievement. However，when a sibling relationship is bad，it can be really bad. Tense sibling relationships make people more likely to be depressed and anxious in adolescence. Moreover，sibling bullying makes a kid involved in self-harm as a teen and develop mental problems in adulthood.
Whether a person models himself after his siblings or tries to distinguish himself has particularly important consequences. One study found that siblings who felt positive about each other tended to achieve similar education levels while those who spent unequal time with their dad and got unequal parental treatment had different educational fortunes. That difference is changeable. One the one hand，as siblings' relationships with their parents grow more different over time，their relationship with each other may become warmer. On the other hand，following your sibling can be a mistake: teenagers are more likely to be involved in risky behavior if an older sibling did so first.
One way or another，sibling influence is lasting. A study of more than I million Swedes found that one's risk of dying of a heart attack multiplies after a sibling dies of one，due not only to shared DNA but also to the stress of losing such a key figure. The findings make sense: Most of us are different people than we’d have been if our brothers or sisters were never born.
【1】Sibling bullying is mentioned in Paragraph 2 to indicate__________.
A.the complicated situation of sibling relationships
B.the major cause of tense sibling relationships
C.the typical example of the sibling relationships
D.the negative influence of bad sibling relationships
【2】We can conclude from Paragraph 3 that _________
A.sibling relationships play a significant role in one's life
B.enough parental attention ensures higher education levels
C.following older siblings does great harm to teenagers
D.sibling relationships have little to do with their parents
【3】What is the main idea of the passage？
A.Siblings are precious gifts from parents.
B.Sibling relationships are easy to handle.
C.Sibling influence is strong and lasting.
D.Siblings have negative effects on one's life.
28、 Heating and cooling equipment are the biggest users of energy in American homes. And homes are responsible for about one fourth of the nation’s total energy use. But there are surprisingly simple ways to deeply cut energy use，its effect on the environment and its cost. David Peabody and his team at Peabody Architects design passive homes. He says the design of a passive house aims to reduce energy demand to its lowest possible level. Passive houses use no solar，geothermal or wind energy equipment. But they are extremely energy efficient.
Mr Peabody says passive houses cut heating and cooling costs by about 90 percent. But what sets his design apart from other "green homes" is that it looks like any other home. Peabody Architects says it is building the first passive home in the Washington. D.C. area. But it will not he the last. In Arlington. Virginia. Roger Lin and his brother Eric are also building one. Roger Lin of Southern Exposure Homes explains that windows are sealed against leaks and have three layers of glass. The windows are airtight. On a cold winter day，the temperature inside the unfinished home is a comfortable 12 degrees，or 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
David Peabody says you can find passive honks all over the world. DAVID PEABODY：
"North Africa，for example，has a passive house community designing for very hot dry climates.” The first passive design was an apartment building in Darmstadt，Germany. Two physicists helped develop it about 20 years ago. Passive houses use some specialized materials. These include precast concrete panels and insulation(隔热).They also need to have special air treatment systems. Supporters say they cost only about five or eight percent more than traditional homes. But they use 10 percent of the energy for heating and cooling.
【1】Which of the following is the advantage of passive houses?
A.They are extremely energy efficient.
B.They look much like the other houses.
C.They cost much less than traditional houses.
D.They are more comfortable than other houses.
【2】People are building or living in passive homes in the following places EXCEPT
A.Arlington B.Mexico
C.North Africa D.Germany
【3】What can be implied in the passage?
A.Passive homes are specially built for winter use.
B.Passive homes can be found everywhere in the world.
C."Green homes" differ from traditional homes in their appearances.
D.The construction of passive homes takes advantage of high technology.
【4】What is the author’s attitude toward passive homes?
A.Objective. B.Negative.
C.Doubtful. D.Optimistic.
29、When you buy fresh-cut flowers, do you think about where they came from？You might think they were grown somewhere nearby. The reality, though, is that the cut flower trade is increasingly International. Today, thanks to airplanes and high-tech cooling systems, even the most delicate flower be exported and sold thousands of kilometers away from where it was grown.
The Netherlands handles about 60 percent of the world’s cut flowers. And its auction houses（拍卖行）are very large---Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam, is auction house in the sense that Tokyo is a city, or Everest a mountain. About 120 soccer fields would fill its main building. Nineteen million flowers are sold here on an average day.
The Netherlands is also a world leader in developing new flower varieties. Dutch companies and the government invest a great amount of money in flower research. Their scientists look for ways to lengthen a flower’s vase life, to strengthen flowers to prevent them from being damaged while traveling, and also to strengthen the natural fragrance of the flowers.
There are also many other places with a better climate for growing flowers, and the climate of Ecuador is almost perfect. With predictable rainy periods and 12 hours of sunlight each day, Ecuador’s roses are famous for their large heads and long, straight stems（茎）. Every year, Ecuador sells about 500 million flowers to the U.S. alone. The industry has brought employment opportunities and a stronger economy to the country. “My family has TV now. There are radios.” says Yolanda Quishpe, 20, who picked roses for four years.
To others, the increasingly international nature of the flower trade is very bad news. In recent years local growers in the U.S. faced huge competition from international flower companies, and many lost their businesses. Lina Hale, an independent rose grower said her father had predicted the situation in the 1980s. “I see a train coming down the track,” he warned her, “and it’s coming straight towards us.”
【1】What do we know about Aalsmeer?
A．It’s very large.
B．It’s as big as Tokyo.
C．19 million flowers are grown there.
D．60% of the Netherland’s flowers are sold there.
【2】What is one aspect of the Netherlands’ flower research?
A．How to increase flower production.
B．How to avoid climate’s effect on flowers.
C．How to speed up the process of flowering.
D．How to keep flowers fresh during transportation.
【3】What does the author want to show through Yolanda Quishpe’s words?
A．Flowers from Ecuador are beautiful.
B．Ecuador could grow even more flowers.
C．The flower trade in Ecuador benefits the local.
D．Rose-picking is a very popular job in Ecuador.
【4】What Lina Hale’s father said suggested that ______.
A．he was excited to see the train
B．he knew his business would be affected
C．he was sure customers wouldn’t want
D．he thought trains were a new way to deliver flowers
30、John Perry stood up and looked around again. The island had been a good place to find shells. But now how could he make the _______ move out to sea…? If they swam out to sea he could jump in and get to shore _______ they saw him.
He saw the sharks rolling and playing. Their _______ was now gone and they were killing for fun. How could he make them move away?
He drew his knife from his belt. Sharks can _______ blood, he thought. He put the knife against his leg and cut deep into the _______ The blood ran out and he caught it on his white shirt. When the shirt was red and wet he tied some cloth around his leg to _______ the flow of blood. He then tied a long piece of cloth to the shirt, threw it into the water and _______ it with the piece of cloth.
The sharks smelled the blood and came _______ toward the shirt. He ran down the sand reef pulling the shirt and the sharks raced after it. He was _______ them away from shore. Suddenly he dropped the cloth, turned toward the ________ and ran as fast as he could. He jumped in the water and swam.
He was halfway across ________ he turned to look back. A high bony fin (鳍) was ________ through the water toward him. He put his face in the water and kicked and splashed himself ________as fast as he could. The shore was near now.
He lifted his head again to ________ and he saw the shore very near. From behind he left the water rush toward him, almost pushing him, helping him. And then a great gray body hit him and almost rolled him over in the water. He touched the shore with ________ and he pulled himself up the stones. The shark, ________ by the smell of blood and the chase (追逐), went wildly after him. Its great body crashed against ________
The end came quickly and the water was covered with the shark’s blood. The injured shark was eaten up ________ by others as it tried to escape.
Perry slowly struggled ________ his feet.
“So,” he said, “you did not get me.” And he looked down at the sharks still eating ________ they weren’t hungry. He climbed up the stones and walked toward the village.
【1】
A．boats
B．sharks
C．soldiers
D．shells
【2】
A．before
B．after
C．until
D．when
【3】
A．food
B．hunger
C．anger
D．wish
【4】
A．fear
B．taste
C．drink
D．smell
【5】
A．sand
B．shark
C．flesh
D．mat
【6】
A．stop
B．keep
C．join
D．cause
【7】
A．pulled
B．wrapped
C．connected
D．caught
【8】
A．running
B．racing
C．swimming
D．jumping
【9】
A．driving
B．keeping
C．preventing
D．leading
【10】
A．sea
B．shore
C．island
D．sand
【11】
A．before
B．while
C．unless
D．when
【12】
A．going
B．running
C．cutting
D．swimming
【13】
A．forward
B．backward
C．upward
D．downward
【14】
A．cry
B．breathe
C．swim
D．escape
【15】
A．his feet
B．a stick
C．his fingers
D．the shirt
【16】
A．interested
B．frightened
C．disappointed
D．excited
【17】
A．the shore
B．Perry
C．the stones
D．the shells
【18】
A．lively
B．alive
C．dead
D．friendly
【19】
A．on
B．by
C．to
D．with
【20】
A．as though
B．even though
C．as soon as
D．as long as
31、 I believe we can create our own happiness. I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans.
I was sitting in my ______ at a stoplight listening to the radio, thinking how happy and warm I was in it. It was ______ outside, and I thought, “Life is good."
Now, this was a long line．As I ______ , I noticed two people huddled（挤在一起） together at the bus stop. The couple seemed to be doing their best to keep _______To my eyes, they were unhappy and uncomfortable. They looked ______．Their coats looked like they came from a bargain store.
But then I saw their ________Yes, they were huddling, but they were also laughing. They seemed to be sharing a good ______, and suddenly, instead of pitying them, I envied them. I thought, "Huh, what's so funny?" They didn't notice the wind. They weren't looking at my car thinking, "I ______ I had that."
You know ______ a single moment feels like an hour? Well, in that moment, I realized I had ______ things were all bad for them, but they weren't. And I understood we all have the ______to make moments of ______ happen.
Now, maybe that's easy for me to say. I feel lucky to have a house with a roof and a wife who ______ me. I felt this ______ even when I was working at Long John Silver's. In the beginning, it didn’t seem like a promising job. But ______ I had a job．And frankly, it was ______．After two weeks, I knew all I needed to know, and it freed my mind. The job allowed me to ______ about what my life could become.
The first year I worked there, we got robbed. I thought I was going to die．But everything ______ out all right. A lot of people ______ life as a series of miserable tasks, but after that, I didn't.
I believe this is _____ all of us can do: Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of luck. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
【1】A.store B.office C.house D.car
【2】A.bright B.cold C.warm D.dark
【3】A.walked B.returned C.complained D.waited
【4】A.warm B.calm C.close D.active
【5】A.innocent B.helpless C.poor D.strange
【6】A.coats B.faces C.bags D.backs
【7】A.joke B.speech C.offer D.idea
【8】A.regret B.promise C.wish D.hope
【9】A.when B.how C.why D.what
【10】A.worried B.found C.admitted D.assumed
【11】A.power B.temptation C.demand D.chance
【12】A.excitement B.satisfaction C.happiness D.trouble
【13】A.makes up for B.puts up with C.breaks up with D.keeps up with
【14】A.way B.case C.point D.sense
【15】A.at first B.at least C.in fact D.in brief
【16】A.funny B.fine C.precious D.easy
【17】A.come B.care C.bring D.dream
【18】A.proved B.helped C.turned D.got
【19】A.think B.look C.regard D.act
【20】A.anything B.something C.everything D.nothing
32、 People give gifts in almost all societies. Some gifts are expensive, as they may take months to create. Others are of less ______ , such as birthday cards. In some cultures, there are certain rules about gift exchange. In Pakistan, for example, there is a tradition called “taking giving”. It ______ this way：You give the newly-married couple a gift, and they “repay（回报）”you with a gift of higher value. Then you give the couple another gift. This one should be worth the difference between the first two gifts.
Today presidents usually bring gifts when they ______ a foreign leader. Leaders bring gifts to strengthen relationships between ______ .
Gifts can also send special messages. For example, gifts can tell people that we are thinking of them and that we want them to feel_______ . Sometimes a gift makes us remember the giver. The gift keeps the_____ of a special person and a special relationship alive．
There is no doubt about the good side of gift giving. That is why some people don’t ______ the idea that modern gift giving is very wasteful. It is ______ that there is an emotional benefit for people who exchange gifts. That is surely enough of a reason for the tradition to continue.
【1】A.power B.help C.fun D.value
【2】A.works B.stands C.judges D.ends
【3】A.discover B.like C.trust D.visit
【4】A.countries B.cities C.villages D.families
【5】A.lucky B.special C.safe D.strong
【6】A.wealth B.happiness C.memory D.growth
【7】A.turn down B.give up C.think over D.agree with
【8】A.clear B.strange C.popular D.serious
33、阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I believe different people have experienced different adolescence.I must admit I was still an angry __1____ in my first year of college.My ____2__ was that my parents didn't please me at all.
Our finances were __3____， so I chose to go to a (n) ___4___ college and take a bus to classes every day. One day I had a(n) __5____ fight with my father.We both exploded into shouts.I ___6___ out of the house and missed my bus to school.
I rushed all the way to school.As I ___7___ across the campus toward my class, I suddenly realized I didn't have the ___8___ that was due: a thought card.My professor asked us to __9____ an index card with our names and the dates every Tuesday. ___10___ what was on the rest of the card, we could write a thought, a question or something else.
Now, outside the door, ten minutes later, I took an index card. _11_____ to write something on it, I could only think about the ___12___ I'd just had with my dad.I wrote “I am the son of an idiot！”，then ___13___ into the room, and handed it to our professor.
Next day, our professor __14____ the thought cards and I ___15___ he wrote, “What does the ‘son of an idiot’ do with the rest of his life？” The professor's innocentseeming question ___16___ me to the issue: whose problem is it? __17____， my thinking began to shift.I realized that I had created a life ___18___ I was not a central figure!
The __19____ of growth wasn't easy or fast. ____20__ later，from a struggling student, I became a successful student and then a successful teacher.
【1】A.child B.adult C.adolescent D.student
【2】A.temper B.anger C.mood D.pain
【3】A.limited B.special C.practical D.fantastic
【4】A.ordinary B.private C.local D.state
【5】A.serious B.controversial C.unfriendly D.anxious
【6】A.stormed B.wandered C.slipped D.stepped
【7】A.leaped B.walked C.ran D.headed
【8】A.duty B.assignment C.commitment D.material
【9】A.take up B.put down C.hand out D.bring along
【10】A.Due to B.Regardless of C.As for D.Thanks to
【11】A.Concerned B.Desperate C.Excited D.Active
【12】A.issue B.conversation C.dispute D.fight
【13】A.poured B.entered C.dashed D.approached
【14】A.gave back B.checked out C.put away D.passed on
【15】A.explored B.recognized C.discovered D.ignored
【16】A.awoke B.forced C.scared D.adjusted
【17】A.Slowly B.Rapidly C.Generally D.Swiftly
【18】A.what B.in which C.which D.that
【19】A.process B.progress C.period D.challenge
【20】A.Weeks B.Terms C.Months D.Years
34、I have a muscle disease but I don't look any different from other people. Sometimes, I was too weak【1】 go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after an【2】(absent), I felt stupid because I was behind the others.
My life is a lot easier at high school because few fellow students make me【3】(annoy). My ambition is to work for a firm【4】develops computer software when I grow up. Last year I invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me. I have a very busy life with no time to sit around【5】(feel) sorry for myself. As well as going to the movies and football matches with my friends. I spend a lot of time looking after my pets【6】(proper) but I find it worthwhile.
In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and become more【7】 (independence). I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been worth it. If【8】(have) a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having a disability does not mean your life is not satisfying. So don't feel sorry for the disabled or make fun【9】them, and don't ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them encouragement to live【10】rich and full a life as you do.
35、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
My daughter
(A story told by a father, a famous actor)
My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.
I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.
We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.
I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.
We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.
I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.
We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.
36、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but 【1】 number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the 【2】. Recent additions in the United States 【3】 projects at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are 【4】 at the Apple iTunes store.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early 【5】 with its Open Course Ware project, first 【6】 in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These 【7】 from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide 【8】 with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.
Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of 【9】 online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is 【10】 popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.
37、Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.
Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems? Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.
When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet，they appeared to 【2】that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.
While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”，there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to【3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.
“Users are becoming slightly more 【4】what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”
But 【5】no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.
Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to 【6】 their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.
Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!，said that it was “the first step to【7】passwords”. He said it was a(n)【8】that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.
It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or，“tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 133tr3r5”.
“We are, for the most part，predictably【9】when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 【10】, and so do password crackers.
38、假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Tim的生日即将到来，你给他寄了一套关于中国春节的邮票作为生日礼物。请你用英语给他写一封邮件。
要点包括： 1.祝贺生日； 2．介绍邮票内容。
注意：1．词数100左右。
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tim,
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Yours ,
Li Hua
39、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Tom对中国传统文化有浓厚的兴趣。你校将举办一场介绍中国艺术的讲座，请写封邮件邀请他参加，内容包括:
1.时间和地点；
2.讲座内容（介绍中国画、剪纸和京剧）；
3.准备工作（简要了解一下相关知识）。
注意:
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
Here comes a piece of good news.
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If you have any questions,please don’t hesitate to contact me.Looking forward to seeing you!
Yours,
Li Hua
40、假定你是李华，暑假将至，请你按照英语老师的要求，用英文写一份暑期计划。内容包括：
1. 完成暑期作业；
2. 读一本英文小说；
3. 学游泳。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
My Summer Vacation Plan
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41、假定你是李华。上周你阅读了一篇关于机器人的文章，收获颇丰。请你用英语给美国朋友Mendez写封邮件，和他谈谈此事。内容包括：
1. 机器人的作用；
2. 你对机器人的看法。
注意：1. 总词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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