1、Parents are under a(n) to educate their children.
A. responsibility B. duty
C. liability D. obligation
2、 We lost our way in that small village, otherwise we ________more places of interest yesterday.
A.visited B.had visited
C.would visit D.would have visited
3、Research universities have to keep up with the latest computer and scientific hardware ________ prices.
A．in terms of
B．in addition to
C．regardless of
D．on account of
4、It is proposed that a study plan ____ as soon as possible.
A. is made B. is to be made C. be made D. had been made
5、—I got sick and tired of hotels and hotel food after the trip to Mexico.
—I can imagine. _________.
A.All’s well that ends well B.Every cloud has a silver lining
C.Honesty is the best policy D.East or west, home is the best
6、-Did you meet with your head teacher in the concert last night？
-Yes. It was in the interval___________ we met.
A.what B.that C.where D.when
7、His account of events does not _____ with hers.
A.correspond B.compare C.circulate D.convey
8、With these words ________ in their ears, Allied soldiers prepared for ________ would become known as D-Day.
A．ring ,which
B．ring, what
C．ringing, what
D．ringing, which
9、He is________ know the result of the examination and even can't eat or sleep well for that.
A.leading to B.dying to C.addicted to D.accustomed to
10、The information of this kind is to you on the Internet.
A.supplied B.available C.used D.obtained
11、Kathy _________ a lot of Spanish by playing with the native boys and girls.
A.picked up B.took up
C.made up D.turned up
12、Is it the driver or the passerby ________is________for the accident?
A．whom; to blame
B．who; to be blamed
C．that; to be blamed
D．that; to blame
13、I feel both excited and nervous to speak before such a large audience, so I spent a lot of time _______ my lecture.
A.promoting B.releasing C.refreshing D.polishing
14、______ a wrong bus, the travelers found themselves in a small remote village at last.
A. Having taken B. To take
C. Taken D. Took
15、In many countries in the world, breakfast is a snack ______ a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is a full meal.
A. less than B. more than
C. other than D. rather than
16、_______ to smoking, he gradually developed lung cancer and died young.
A.Abandon B.Abandoning C.Abandoned D.To abandon
17、He gave a lame excuse for ______ which made him very embarrassed.
A.been absence B.being absent C.to be absent D.absent
18、Those who continuously acquire new knowledge that they can ________ their work are more likely to succeed.
A.contribute to B.correspond to C.subscribe to D.apply to
19、While we may not be born with a natural talent, we can ______ for it with hard work.
A.break up B.take up C.bring up D.make up
20、__________these messages always seem important at the time, most people can’t really remember them the next day.
A.Because B.Unless C.While D.Since
21、–Is football John’s favourite sport?
--Yes. __________ football, baseball is his greatest love.
A. Near to B. Except
C. Beside D. Next to
22、________ to the electronic games that he wasted a lot of precious time.
A. So he was addicted B. So was he addicted
C. So addicted was he D. So addicted he was
23、As days go on，I think that Beijing will become ________ the whole world pay close attention to.
A.where B.what C.which D.that
24、It’s not doing the things we like, but liking the things we have to do______ makes life happy.
A. that B. which
C. what D. who
25、Search engines search the Internet based on the key words you type in, and choose such web pages for you ________ contain the words you ask for.
A.where B.who C.which D.as
26、St Kilda is a tiny archipelage (群岛) of the North Atlantic Ocean. The islands are among the most spectacular, but the greatest fascination is that, for over a thousand years, people lived there and possessed a sense of community. Cut off from the mainland, the islanders had a distinct way of living their lives, mainly eating the seabirds that returned to breed on the rocks.
Isolation also had a big effect upon St Kildans’ attitudes and ideas. The people sacrificed themselves year in and year out, in a constant battle to secure a livelihood. In such harsh conditions, life was only possible because the whole community worked together.
In the 19th century St Kilda was subject to pressures from the outside world. Education, religion and tourism all attempted to throw the St Kildans’ way of life into doubt. In the early 20th century, the strength of the community became weakened as contact with the rest of Britain increased. When disease cut their numbers, and wind and sea made it difficult to get adequate food, the St Kildans were forced to turn to the mainland for assistance.
In 1930, the St Kildans finally agreed to abandon their homes. They settled on the Scottish mainland, not realizing it meant throwing themselves into the 20 century. As adults, they had to accept those values most Scots believe in. For instance, the islanders found difficult to base their existence upon money. They had never lived in a world where they bought goods and services from each other.
The islanders showed themselves indifferent to the jobs they were given on the mainland. The labours asked of them were unskilled compared with the spectacular skills they had once performed in order to kill seabirds. Moreover, killing birds had once provided the community with food to survive. On the mainland, however, the tasks they were asked to perform did not provide them immediately with what was needed to keep them fed and warm.
The history of the St Kildans after the evacuation (撤离), of their inability and lack of resolution to fit into urban society, makes sad reading. When they were resettled on the mainland, the St Kildans were forced to live in a society whose values were unacceptable and incomprehensible to the majority of them. For many, the move was a tragedy.
【1】According to Paragraph 3, the following factors lead to St Kildans seeking help from outside EXCEPT ________.
A．unbearable wind
B．insufficient food supply
C．contact with Britain
D．worsening health
【2】After the St Kildans inhabited Scotland, they ________.
A．soon learned how to buy goods and services from others
B．had trouble adapting to the value of dominant society
C．exhibited willingness to carry out their given jobs
D．had the opportunity to show their skills of killing seabirds
【3】Which of the following is NOT about how people used to live on St Kilda?
A．The major source of food was found locally.
B．It was essential for people to help each other.
C．Very few people had visited mainland Scotland.
D．Money played an insignificant role in life.
【4】What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A．The role of money in modern communities.
B．How a community adapted to a different form of life.
C．The destruction of an old-fashioned community.
D．How a small community fight against opposite conditions.
27、 A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high rains, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I'd had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. "You from New Orleans?" she asked. I said I was, "No charge." She said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage (抵押贷款) on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We'd began to accept that we'd have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He'd read some pieces I'd written about our sufferings for state, the online magazine and wanted to give us ("no conditions attached") a new house across the lake from New Orleans. It sounded a good to her return, but I replied, thinking him for his exceptional generosity, then we to go back. Then the University of Florida offered to let him house to me. While he want to England on his one year, paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet's offer to James Kemdedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It's almost worth losing you wordy possessions to be reminded that people really when given had a channel.
【1】What do we know about James Kemnedy?
A.He was a writer of an online magazine.
B.He offered the author a new house free of charge.
C.He was a poet at the University of Florida.
D.He learned about the author's sufferings.
【2】It can be inferred from the text that__________.
A.houses were difficult to find in the hurricane stricken area
B.rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster
C.the author's family was in financial difficulty
D.the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank
【3】Which would be the best title for the text?
A.Terrible Hurricane Katrina but comfortable life on our own.
B.The Importance of Helping Others in reward.
C.Life and study free of rent in Florida, feeling grateful.
D.Hurricane Is Heartless While Strangers Are Kind.
28、 Translaty is a simple yet life-changing invention that helps you to overcome any difficulties caused by foreign languages, whether you’re in a business meeting with an international customer or relaxing somewhere on a Spanish beach. This pocket-size device is able to instantly recognize and translate over 40 different languages, making intercultural communication completely effortless!
It was invented to make your life easier as simply as possible—although it’s created using the latest technologies, you are not required to have any special knowledge to use this device.
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【1】What do we know about Translaty?
A.It is of little benefit to businessmen.
B.It provides materials for language courses.
C.It assists people in improving language skills.
D.It helps remove language barriers in communication.
【2】We can learn from the text that __________.
A.using Translaty requires special knowledge
B.Translaty offers one-way translations
C.it is convenient to carry Translaty
D.Translaty has been sold out now
【3】Where is the text most likely from?
A.A magazine. B.A textbook.
C.A guidebook. D.A website.
29、Can You Trust Your Brain?
Your brain lies to you a lot. We’re sorry to have to tell you this but it’s true. Even when your brain is doing important and difficult stuff, you’re not aware of most of what’s going on.
Your brain doesn’t intend to lie to you, of course. For the most part, it’s doing a great job, working hard to help you survive and achieve your goals in a complicated world. Because you often have to react quickly to emergencies and opportunities, your brain usually tries to get a simple answer in a hurry rather than a prefect answer that takes time to work out. But as the world is not simple, this means that your brain has to take shortcuts and make a lot of assumptions. 【1】
The problem start when the brain takes in information from the world through the senses. Even if you are sitting quietly in a room, your brain receives far more information than it can hold on to or than you need to decide how to act. You may be aware of the detailed pattern of colours in the rug, the photographs on the wall and the sounds of birds outside. 【2】 Usually these things aren’t important so we don’t often notice how much information we lose.
When people look at complicated pictures, they can identify differences if the images remain still. But if the image moves quickly, then they have a lot more trouble. 【3】 To test this, psychologists have tried more interesting ways of getting people to fail to notice things. In one of our favorites, a researcher approaches someone on the street and asks for directions. While the person is replying, workmen carry a large door between the two people, blocking their view of each other. Behind the cover of the door, the person who asked for directions is replaced by another researcher who carries on the conversation as if nothing had happened. Even when the second person looks very different from the first, the person giving the directions has only about a fifty per cent chance of noticing the change. 【4】
A.Your brain’s lies are in your best interest—most of the time—but they also lead to predictable mistakes.
B.This is because we imagine that we remember more details than we really can.
C.The experiments illustrate that you perceive only a little bit of what’s going on in the world.
D.Your brain selectively processes details that are important for you to notice.
E.Your brain perceives many other aspects of the scene initially but quickly forgets them.
F.This happens because our visual memory isn’t very good.
30、Sitting in my school cafeteria, I looked around, slowly taking in everything. Student after student passed my _________ carrying that day’s lunch, but if you looked deeper, there was more to _________. There was more than just the uniform they were wearing, or the way they had styled their hair. There was a lot more hidden under the _________.
Catching the eye of a girl in my grade sitting at a nearby table, I waved _________. She smiled weakly and then continued to pick at the spaghetti in front of her. If I hadn’t _________ recently that her mother was dying of leukemia, I would have never _________ anything was wrong and I may not have been as _________ and sympathetic, either. It suddenly _________ me that we judge others too quickly without knowing the whole story.
I have an incurable lung disease. No one at our school knows—I don’t show any noticeable _________ except for a few coughs. I go about my day like any other kid, __________ with the realization that I have a __________ and terrifying future.
Before that day when I decided to __________ the world with a new perspective, I __________ myself almost every day. I thought only about myself and my heavy __________. But I’ve now realized no one is __________—we just need to accept the way we are.
【1】
A．order
B．room
C．table
D．cafeteria
【2】
A．imagine
B．compare
C．observe
D．exchange
【3】
A．uniform
B．rules
C．circumstances
D．surface
【4】
A．politely
B．wildly
C．coldly
D．impatiently
【5】
A．found
B．noticed
C．heard
D．decided
【6】
A．remembered
B．suspected
C．predicted
D．regretted
【7】
A．willing
B．outstanding
C．understanding
D．demanding
【8】
A．escaped
B．satisfied
C．hit
D．attracted
【9】
A．diseases
B．symptoms
C．complaints
D．weaknesses
【10】
A．but
B．and
C．or
D．so
【11】
A．bright
B．real
C．serious
D．dark
【12】
A．tolerate
B．create
C．change
D．view
【13】
A．forgave
B．pitied
C．challenged
D．encouraged
【14】
A．debt
B．reward
C．burden
D．schedule
【15】
A．changeable
B．perfect
C．unique
D．different
31、Monroe took the full-time job as an English teacher in Wuhan to get her teaching certificate. She never ______that an outbreak of coronavirus would turn all her plans ________.
When the epidemic first ________, my supervisor and I got lots of food and other necessities in ________ and weren’t too focused on work she told the Global Times on Sunday.
Although the US ________ to have its citizens evacuated （撤离）from the city, Monroe decided to stay in Wuhan________she felt living alone in her apartment in the city was more ________ than on a plane with a lot of people.
Since the lockdown of Wuhan, Monroe has been _________videos about her ________ in the city on TikTok （抖音）as well as producing ________ including audio recordings, video clips, and other anecdotes for her students every day.
Additionally, she also shared her experience ________ on TikTok .In the video, Monroe can be seen wearing gloves and a hazmat suit as she delivers big bags of vegetables, eggs, fish to residents who ________ them online since most residents are not ________ to go out of their homes ________ some sort of permission. She explained that the service is a type of "no contact" ________. and that she was very ________ to help the community.
“I felt ________ to be out of the apartment and interacting with people. Even though 1 can’t speak Chinese yet! I could still empathize with these people,” she said.
Monroe said a lot of people have also followed her TikTok account to stay ________ on her life. The videos have ________ many Chinese netizens （网民）,with many expressing their thanks in the comment section.
“________ does not have a border. Thank you, our foreign friend. We care about you and hope you can protect yourself,” one Chinese netizen wrote.
【1】
A．accepted
B．expected
C．1 earned
D．pretended
【2】
A．upward
B．away
C．upside down
D．back and forth
【3】
A．broke out
B．set off
C．occurred
D．took place
【4】
A．debt
B．charge
C．surprise
D．panic
【5】
A．forced
B．forbade
C．arranged
D．disagreed
【6】
A．as
B．though
C．while
D．if
【7】
A．lonely
B．interesting
C．annoying
D．secure
【8】
A．watching
B．sharing
C．recording
D．selling
【9】
A．life
B．work
C．hobbies
D．family
【10】
A．entertainment
B．lessons
C．speeches
D．classes
【11】
A．modelling
B．travelling
C．volunteering
D．performing
【12】
A．appointed
B．hired
C．requested
D．ordered
【13】
A．prepared
B．occupied
C．limited
D．allowed
【14】
A．in
B．for
C．without
D．from
【15】
A．donation
B．distribution
C．reputation
D．contribution
【16】
A．delighted
B．amazed
C．shocked
D．terrified
【17】
A．terrible
B．nice
C．ashamed
D．sympathetic
【18】
A．updated
B．escaped
C．inspired
D．repeated
【19】
A．reflected
B．witnessed
C．frightened
D．touched
【20】
A．Challenge
B．Warmth
C．Love
D．Communication
32、 In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The _________ is that countries around the world have growing mountains of _________ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.
How did we _________ a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to _________ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. _________ modern manufacturing and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and _________.
Another cause is our _________ of disposable（一次性的）products. As _________ people, we are always looking for _________ to save time and make our lives easier. Companies __________ thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and tissues, to name a few.
Our appetite（胃口）for new products also __________ to the problem. We are __________ buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that __________ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we __________ useful possessions to make room for new ones.
All around the world, we can see the __________ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To __________ the amount of rubbish and to protect the __________, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. __________, this is not enough to solve our problem.
Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions __________ throwing them away. We also need to rethink cur attitudes about __________. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best ways to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.
【1】A.key B.problem C.project D.reason
【2】A.debt B.gifts C.products D.rubbish
【3】A.become B.change C.face D.observe
【4】A.control B.hide C.replace D.withdraw
【5】A.As to B.Except C.Regardless of D.Thanks to
【6】A.cheap B.funny C.powerful D.safe
【7】A.division B.lack C.love D.prevention
【8】A.brave B.busy C.kind D.sensitive
【9】A.friends B.jobs C.places D.ways
【10】A.donate B.preserve C.produce D.receive
【11】A.adapts B.contributes C.responds D.returns
【12】A.ashamed for B.addicted to C.tired of D.worried about
【13】A.higher B.larger C.newer D.stronger
【14】A.hold onto B.pay for C.pick up D.throw away
【15】A.advantages B.consequences C.functions D.purposes
【16】A.decrease B.measure C.record D.show
【17】A.brands B.consumers C.environment D.technology
【18】A.However B.Meanwhile C.Otherwise D.Therefore
【19】A.in favor of B.instead of C.or rather D.other than
【20】A.advertising B.collecting C.repairing D.spending
33、 Hunter Shamatt lost his wallet while he was on a flight from Omaha to attend his sister's wedding in Las Vegas earlier this month. Upon realizing that his wallet was ___, he contacted the airline to see if anyone had turned it in ——but ___ . Since the wallet contained his ID, a signed paycheck, $ 60 in cash, etc, he___ the worst.
Two days after the flight, however, Hunter was ___to receive a package in the mail from an anonymous (匿名的) __. Inside was his wallet — along with a(n) ___$ 40 in cash. And there was a letter inside saying “I added your cash up to an even $ 100 so you could ___the return of your wallet"..
Hunter's mother, Jeannie, posted a photo of the___ to social media in hopes that they would be able to __ the sender signed “T. E". The sender was later ___as Todd Brown, a father — of — five who was___ at the chance to "have a little fun" with helping out a hard-working stranger.
“I saw he was just a kid, 20 years old. He had a paycheck in there, so I ____ , "Well, he's doing his best to make ends meet. ' But I was 20 once, and that's a lot of money for a(n) __，” Brown told Yahoo Lifestyle. “Hunter was very __. He told me he must repay student loans within two days so the __ was right," Brown added, “They____it was gone forever. So when Hunter opened it, he just started ____，“No way! No way!?
Brown says that he often tries to do good things without any ___ ； that's why he didn't sign his full name on the letter, but Jeannie later insisted on ___him on social media. Jeannie wrote on Facebook, “This story is more about rebuilding __ in people than anything."
【1】A.stolen B.lost C.exchanged D.hidden
【2】A.effectively B.desperately C.fruitlessly D.aimlessly
【3】A.predicted B.imagined C.doubted D.feared
【4】A.anxious B.amused C.shocked D.frightened
【5】A.sender B.friend C.author D.reader
【6】A.additional B.missing C.remaining D.accurate
【7】A.complain B.undertake C.celebrate D.doubt
【8】A.book B.package C.wallet D.letter
【9】A.take up B.track down C.recognize D.remember
【10】A.known B.considered C.identified D.introduced
【11】A.reluctant B.delighted C.determined D.curious
【12】A.noticed B.replied C.doubted D.figured
【13】A.adult B.parent C.kid D.student
【14】A.stressful B.thankful C.thoughtful D.regretful
【15】A.behavior B.number C.timing D.paycheck
【16】A.remembered B.assumed C.admitted D.imagined
【17】A.whispering B.laughing C.saying D.screaming
【18】A.recognition B.awareness C.consideration D.reward
【19】A.praising B.questioning C.disturbing D.surprising
【20】A.ambition B.faith C.appreciation D.strength
34、按照课文内容填空
At the time they were created, the Impressionist paintings were【1】, but today they are accepted as the beginning of【2】we call “modern art’. This is because the Impressionists 【3】artists to look at their environment in new ways. There are scores of modern art styles, but 【4】the Impressionists, many of these painting styles might not exist. On the one hand, some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter doesn’t 【5】to paint objects as we see them with our eyes, 【6】instead concentrates on certain qualities of the object, 【7】color, line and shape to represent them. On the【8】hand, some paintings of modern art are so 【9】 that they look photographs. These styles are so different. Who can【10】what painting styles there will be in the future?
35、A: Excuse me, do you know where the chemistry lab is?
B: Yes. It’s just on the fifth floor of this b【1】.
A: How often do you do c【2】experiments there?
B: Twice a week.
A: Can you go there without a t【3】?
B: No. That’s not allowed.
A: What does the teacher often tell you to do when you are doing an e【4】?
B: He often tells us to look c【5】and follow the i【6】.
A: What will you do when you finish the experiment?
B: We must put e【7】back in the cupboards and wash our hands.
A: Right. It is very i【8】to keep the lab clean.
B: Yes, safe as well. We must turn off the e【9】before l【10】the lab.
36、
Rapidly advancing technology and its impact on education has been a subject of debate. How can schools equip students with the skills they need to succeed in a challenging job market?
Since technology is driving these changes, there is a theory that governments should keep focusing on STEM subjects. These are often referred to as “hard skills,” which are 【1】 in primary school and right through to university level. In the meantime, ‘soft skills’ are being 【2】.
This is a mistake. Much evidence suggests that soft skills are far more 【3】 to graduates in the long term. Research from Harvard University on the global job market has shown that STEM- related careers grew strongly between 1989 and 2000 but have slowed down since. In contrast, jobs in the creative industries----the sector probably most 【4】 with the need for soft skills---are growing rapidly. Soft skills are, in fact, increasingly in demand in the workplace: Google cites creativity, leadership 【5】 and communication skills as top requirements for both potential and current employees.
So why are soft skills so highly 【6】 for?
With the rapid evolution of technology, a focus on hard skills leaves students 【7】 to change, as these often have a short shelf life. According to research by World Economic Forum, more than one in four adults reports a mismatch between their skills and those needed for their job role. If soft skills are taught well, these skills should enable students to adapt to change more easily and progress further in their 【8】 career.
Of course, technical skills are important. But without the curriculum placing equal--- if not greater --- 【9】 on soft skills, our education systems are missing a huge trick. Hard skills may help a student get a job in a particular industry, but soft skills will help them disrupt it, achieving a wider 【10】 in their chosen field.
37、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.
The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.
It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.
Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often 【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.
Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.
38、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。
That night, after a couple of restless hours, Dora woke up suddenly at midnight. She went to her bathroom. Stepping on the carpet she noticed it was damp. Looking out, she found that muddy water was inching up the wood-paneled walls! She ran to her father’s bedside. “Daddy, Daddy,” she cried, shaking him violently. “Wake up. There’s water in the house!”
Barefoot and wearing only shorts, Dykstra walked to the entrance and opened the door. What he saw shook him wide-awake. Duchess, their dog, was standing just outside the door, her feet in six inches of water. That meant the roadway, their only means of escape, was flooded. He hid his anxiety. They climbed up the ladder-like stairs to a loft (阁楼) above the living room. From there they could hear the water filling the room below, creeping (缓慢地行进) toward them. Suddenly the whole house trembled as if struck by an earthquake. The next instant they found themselves floating, and the wooden house being swept along the river! Terrified that the cabin would sink and take them down with it, Dykstra decided that they would have to get out. Wrapping his arms tightly round his daughter, he plunged (猛冲) into the icy water.
The house was behind them now, chasing them through the darkness. Before he could get out of its path, the house – pushed by the tremendous (巨大的) power of the water – pinned him at the trunk. His ribs (肋骨) were crushed. His left leg was broken. He lost consciousness. Then the house shifted, releasing him. Dora found herself drifting downstream, her unconscious father beside her. “Don’t die, Daddy!” she cried. “Please!”
Perhaps it was the cry of the little girl that stirred Dykstra to consciousness. In the pale moonlight, Dykstra spotted an island formed by some rubbish that had got caught in some treetops. Fighting against the current and his pain, he swam toward it. Dora climbed onto the small pile of timbers (木材) and pulled her father, who was fighting for breath, from the rushing water onto the timbers. Now, Dora realized, it was up to her to help him.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150词左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Just then she was astonished to see a figure appear out of nowhere.
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Suddenly a voice from somewhere on the distant hillside broke the darkness.
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39、假设你是李华，Harry是你的美国笔友。在来信中谈到他学校的图书馆。你常常去你校的图书馆。于是你回信向他介绍这个图书馆。内容包括：
1. 图书馆的建筑简介（如：面积、层高、位置等）
2. 藏书册数及图书种类。
3. 服务项目：图书的借阅；教师及学生阅览室。
注意：
1. 信的开头已为你写好；
2. 词数100左右。
3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Harry,
How are things going with you? Talking about libraries, I would like to introduce to you about our school library. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best wishes,
Yours,
Li Hua
40、假如你是李华，暑假已过半，但同学们在假期里的拖延症状似乎更加严重，为了让大家学习效率更高，改掉拖拉的坏习惯， 请以学生会的名义，给全校学生写一封英文倡议书。
要点如下：1. 倡议的原因和目的；2. 倡议的具体内容；3. 发出倡议。
注意：1. 词数80左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇： procrastinator 拖延症
Dear schoolmates,
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The Students' Union
41、假定你是李华，暑假在伦敦学习，得知当地举办的中国文化艺术节招募志愿者。请给组委会写一封邮件，表达你想成为志愿者的意愿。
注意: 1.词数100左右。 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。