1、 ---What a mistake!
---Yes. I ______ his doing it another way, but without success.
A. was suggesting B. will suggest
C. would suggest D. had suggested
2、Be sure to return __________ you are done!
A. shortly B. immediately
C. constantly D. momentarily
3、— Do you think I should apply for the job?
— __________you’ve got such an opportunity, you might as well take advantage of it. As long as you make an effort, the __________are you’ll be employed.
A. Since; chances
B. While; conditions
C. Even if; effects
D. Now that; consequences
4、Some African-Americans living in inner city Atlanta said while Obama is a role model, his life appeared so far removed from their own struggles it was difficult to see how they could use it to spur their own success.
A．because
B．if
C．that
D．until
5、Your car is less than a year old, so it is still under ______.
A．boundary
B．tailor
C．guarantee
D．arrangement
6、I was really lucky. Not many people could have a escape.
A. funny B. impossible
C. narrow D. slight
7、China's image is improving steadily, with more countries ________ its role in international affairs.
A．recognizing
B．recognized
C．being recognized
D．been recognized
8、—You didn’t wait for Mr. Smith last night, did you?
—No, but we ______. He didn’t return home at all.
A. needn’t have waited
B. couldn’t have waited
C. didn’t need to
D. should wait
9、— Hi, Jack, would you like to join us in the sightseeing this weekend?
—Thank you, but I regret ______ you that I can’t, for I’m going to visit my grandparents.
A. to tell B. having told
C. telling D. to be telling
10、Mary kept her__________ to visit the lonely old man every week.
A.choice B.chance C.advice D.promise
11、______ a child star can be a bad thing as well as a gift.
A.Being B.To be C.Been D.Having been
12、The pen ________ well.
A．is written
B．writes
C．was written
D．writing
13、When a basketball game is held, there is always an interval ______ players can have a break.
A. which B. when C. what D. that
14、The little boy sat _____ to his father, and listened ____ with great interest
A. close; close B. closely; close
C. close; closely D. closely; closely
15、I suggested the person______to be put into prison.
A.refers B.referring C.referred D.refer
16、—________ is your younger brother?
—He is five years old.
A．How often
B．How much
C．How old
D．How long
17、Seeing that e﹣commerce is an industry that ________ large amounts of money, she is considering breaking into the field.
A. takes in B. takes on
C. takes up D. takes down
18、— How often do you refer to a dictionary when you are reading an English novel?
— Well, it depends. ____ it actually affects my understanding ____ look the word up.
A. Only if; will I B. Only if; I will
C. Unless; will I D. Unless; I will
19、Recently many senior officials including Zhou Yongkang have been charged with ______ the power recently.
A. amusing B. adopting C. abusing D. amazing
20、Sorry, I didn't do that________ purpose.
A．on
B．for
C．with
D．about
21、You can’t imagine the difficulty I have ________ my girlfriend’s mood.
A．lifting
B．lifted
C．lift
D．to lift
22、When the supermarket was opened for business, it was ________ customers, who were deeply impressed by its cleanliness, excellent service and good quality.
A．mixed with
B．concerned with
C．packed with
D．scrambled with
23、—My deskmate accused me breaking her glasses.
—Oh,you had the right to defend yourself her accusation.
A.of;against B.for;from
C.of;for D.for;against
24、The Lei family________ many admirable Qing-dynasty-architectures, varying from grand buildings to public works.
A．give away
B．take up
C．pass on
D．leave behind
25、I cannot hear the professor clearly as there is too much noise ________ I am sitting.
A．before
B．until
C．unless
D．where
26、I am Henry Jekyll. I was born in the 1800s. I inherited(继承) a large fortune, a healthy body and an excellent mind. I was naturally hard-working and soon I was very successful in my job. So the outside world saw a serious, hard-working, successful doctor. Behind this quiet character, however, was a wild, fun-loving, irresponsible young man. Both of them were me. They lived together in the same body.
“Was it possible,” I wondered, “to find a drug that could give each side of my character its own separate face and body?”
After much thought and careful study I believed I had found the answer. I had read many scientific books and spent many hours in my laboratory, searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug. At last I got everything ready.
Late one night, I mixed everything together and prepared my drug. I watched the smoke rising from the liquid as its color changed from red to purple and at last to green. Then, bravely, I drank every bitter drop.I felt a violent sickness in my stomach and a terrible pain in all my bones. The room seemed to turn round and round and I trembled with fear. Then the fear and pain disappeared and a strange, sweet feeling took its place. Wild thoughts danced through my mind—the wild passions of an evil and cruel stranger. But inside myself I felt younger, lighter, more carefree than ever before. “If this is pure evil,” I thought, “I like it.”
I stood there, enjoying these strange new thoughts and passions and suddenly realized that I was shorter. So I decided to go to my bedroom in my new body and take a look at myself in the mirror there. As I came into my room, I saw Edward Hyde for the first time.
At that time, the good side of my character was stronger than the evil side. Henry Jekyll had his faults, but he was mostly a good, kind man. I believe that is the reason why Edward Hyde was so much smaller than Henry Jekyll. But that was not the only difference between the two men. Henry Jekyll had a kind, open, honest face. But pure evil stared out of Edward Hyde’s eyes. I felt no dislike, however. Indeed, I welcomed him. Edward Hyde was me, young and strong and full of life.
【1】In others’ eyes, the writer was ______.
A．wild and successful
B．fun-loving and responsible
C．quiet and irresponsible
D．serious and hard-working
【2】The writer wanted to find a drug to ______.
A．discover the right mixture of chemicals
B．create separate bodies for both sides
C．observe the change of the chemicals
D．make himself smaller but stronger
【3】From the passage we can learn that the writer ______.
A．felt quite delighted right after taking the drug
B．preferred kind Henry to pure evil Edward
C．was very sick of the shorter Edward Hyde
D．was satisfied with both of his bodies
27、Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some form---football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with surprise. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as others, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kinds which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities
A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty. But it is not unusual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they perhaps climb with more skill and less waste of efforts, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.
【1】Mountaineering is a sport, not a game because______
A. there is not certain rule for climbers to follow
B. it is too dangerous for climbers
C. it can’t bring people joy and leisure
D. it has man-made rules
【2】According to the writer, the only enemy of mountaineer should be______
A. temperature B. nature
C. climate D. patience
【3】The underlined word “passion” in Paragraph 2 could be replaced by______
A. enthusiasm B. taste
C. gift D. strength
28、The secret of success
The recipe for succeeding in any given field is hardly a mystery: good ideas, hard work, discipline, imagination, perseverance and maybe a little luck. Oh, and let’s not forget failure which Dashun Wang and his colleagues at Northwestern University call “the essential prerequisite (先决条件) for success” in a new paper.
But not every failure leads to success, he adds. And what eventually separates the winners from the losers, the research shows, certainly is not persistence. One of the more interesting findings in the paper, published last October in Nature, is that the people who eventually succeeded and the people who eventually failed tried basically the same number of times to achieve their goals.
It turns out that trying again and again only works if you learn from your previous failures. The idea is to work smart, not hard. “You have to figure out what worked and what didn’t, and then focus on what needs to be improved instead of struggling around and changing everything,” says Wang. “The people who failed didn’t necessarily work less than those who succeeded. They could actually have worked more: it’s just that they made more unnecessary changes.”
As they explored “the mechanisms governing the dynamics of failure” and built their model. Wang’s team identified what they describe as previously unknown statistical signatures that separate successful groups from unsuccessful groups, making it possible to predict their final outcomes.
One such key indicator (besides keeping the stuff that works and focusing on what doesn’t) is the time between consecutive (连续的) failed attempts, which should decrease steadily. In other words, the faster you fail, the better your chances of success, and the more time between attempts, the more likely you are to fail again. “If someone has applied for a grant and they are three failures in,” Wang says, “if we just look at the timing between the failures, we will be able to predict whether they will eventually succeed or not.”
Working with such large-scale data, Wang and his colleagues were able to identify a critical point that was common to each of the hundreds of thousands of undertakings they had analyzed, a fork in the road where one path leads to a development region and one leads to a stagnation region.
“This diverging pattern of performance increases with each new attempt,” says Wang. Although in some cases it is apparent which region a person is in as early as the second attempt.
Wang points out that the existence of the tipping point cuts against the traditional explanations for failure or success, such as luck or a person’s work habits. “What we’re showing here is that even in the absence of such differences, you can still have very different outcomes,” he says. What matters is how people fail, how they respond to failure and where those failures lead.
【1】It can be learned from Paragraph 2 that ________.
A．winners are more persistent than losers
B．failure is not important for success at all
C．more trying doesn’t necessarily breed success
D．winners and losers differ in how many times they tried
【2】Wang and his colleagues believe that ________.
A．no one can obtain success without failure
B．the performance pattern is hard to identify
C．failure can sometimes help predict success
D．the critical point had been discovered by chance
【3】The underlined phrase “a stagnation region” in Paragraph 6 refers to a region ________.
A．in its elementary stage
B．without progress
C．unknown to outsiders
D．beyond recognition
【4】What is the conclusion of Wang’s research?
A．Winners try less than losers but gain more.
B．Perseverance is the utmost secret to success.
C．Working smart can turn failures into future successes.
D．Luck and work habits make little difference to the result.
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After 10 years of teaching the piano, David Smith has made his first CD! Come and meet him this weekend. Special presents for the first 50 people.
Time: Sat. 7:00p.m. Call Marsha at 873-2059.
【1】________ needs a cleaner.
A．Mrs. Johnson
B．Marsha and Nathan
C．Nathan
D．Marsha
【2】In the fitness camp, you can________.
A．clean the house
B．make a CD
C．lose weight
D．meet David Smith
【3】If you're the tenth to come to________, you can get a special present.
A．the cleaning center
B．Next Fashion Store
C．the fitness camp
D．Next Wave Music Store
30、In this poster, you can see a tall man with light-green skin, a big square head and metal bolts (螺钉) on his head. Even I can tell you he can't speak more than a few simple words. Is the classic image of Frankenstein's monster familiar _______ you?
It was a summer of 1816, a group of young _______ were on holiday near a lake in Switzerland. The sky was usually clear and bright in summer in the beautiful country. _______, now it was raining and dark clouds _______ the sky. So the disappointed group had to spend most their time _______ in their cabin (木屋). To _______ themselves, the most famous of the writers, Lord Byron, suggested that a competition _______. They would see who was able to create the most frightening story in a limited time. It was at that time _______ Mary Shelley, who was merely 19, had the idea of a (an) _______ monster made from human body parts. Two years passed and her first novel Frankenstein ________.
But Frankenstein is a far cry ________ other horror novels. Although the monster is scary and violent, he also has understandable human ________, to love and to be loved. The novel explores the reasons for his actions. He becomes cruel and violent because he has been treated cruelly and violently. The novel ________ us to think from other people’s perspectives(角度) and reflect on the effects of our actions. Since its publication, the novel has been well received. Personally, I like it very much. ________ its abstract story, the ________ it talks about are simple and universal.
【1】
A．with
B．on
C．to
D．about
【2】
A．writers
B．actors
C．scientists
D．singers
【3】
A．Otherwise
B．Therefore
C．However
D．Besides
【4】
A．collected
B．gathered
C．full
D．blocked
【5】
A．trapping
B．being trapped
C．trap
D．trapped
【6】
A．entertain
B．behave
C．generate
D．escape
【7】
A．held
B．holding
C．being held
D．be held
【8】
A．when
B．that
C．which
D．who
【9】
A．ugly
B．delicate
C．splendid
D．handsome
【10】
A．published
B．was existed
C．released
D．came out
【11】
A．from
B．with
C．in
D．to
【12】
A．virtues
B．concepts
C．features
D．emotions
【13】
A．lets
B．allows
C．gets
D．forces
【14】
A．As though
B．In spite of
C．Despite of
D．Due to
【15】
A．characters
B．problems
C．experiments
D．masterpieces
31、根据课文内容填空。
Just like spoken language, body language【1】from culture to culture. The crucial thing is using body language in a way that is【2】to the culture you are in. For example, making eye contact—looking into someone’s eyes—in some countries is a way to【3】interest. In other countries, by contrast, eye contact is not always 【4】of. For example, in many Middle Eastern countries, men and women are not socially permitted to make eye contact. In Japan, it may【5】respect to look down when talking to an older person.
32、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
Mama and I spend mornings cleaning up the dirt that blows into our house. Mama says all the dust is due to the drought, not only here in the Oklahoma panhandle(狭长地带) but all over the Great Plains.
The dirt sifts into everything. It covers our clothes. We have to wash the dishes before each meal. It also slips into the automobiles horn (喇叭). Although Papa has fixed it, he fears the dust from the road will ruin the motor, So, we have to walk to school.
On the way to school, my sister, Faye, and I wear kerchiefs over our mouths so we don' t breathe in the dirt On days when the air is so bad that they close the school, we stay home and help Mama put sheets over the windows. But the dirt always finds a way in .
Last Sunday, there was no dirt in the air, only bright spring sunshine and a clear blue sky. After church, Papa headed out to the field to check on the cattle while Mama started dinner. Faye and I played in the yard. The temperature suddenly dropped-it felt good. The heat had been building since dawn.
Then Mama shouted from the house, “Iris, you and Faye get inside. Be quick!”
I looked to the west and saw a huge black cloud of dust, like thick smoke pouring out from a chimney. All the birds flew away. “Faye, go with Mama!” I shouted, “I’ll warn Papa.”
Faye raced, toward the house. The storm hit so fast, I barely saw her climb the porch steps. Fine sand heaved against my face and in an instant the day turned into night. I stumbled over our bicycles left carelessly in the yard. I screamed for Papa, hoping my voice would lead him back.
The dirt and sand stung my skin like a thousand bees. I needed to get to shelter. Covering my face with one hand, I felt my way toward the automobile and I opened the door. Dirt flew in with me as I pulled the door closed. Papa was still out there! I needed to help him find the automobile. Worried as I was, I managed to calm myself down.
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
I was figuring out what to do when I caught sight of the switch for the front lights and the horn.
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Paragraph 2:
Suddenly Papa’s face appeared at the window.
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