1、It is you rather than he who _________ deliver a speech in the meeting tonight.
A.Is going to B.are going to C.was going to D.were going to
2、It is time that we ________ a decision on how to approach this problem.
A. make B. made C. to make D. will make
3、They ________ each other for about two years before they got married.
A．fell in love with
B．were in love with
C．had been in love with
D．had fallen in love with
4、The father as well as his three kids ________ skating on the cold river every Sunday afternoon in winter.
A. is going B. go
C. goes D. are going
5、Was it in Tianjin ________ you spent your childhood?
A．when
B．which
C．that
D．why
6、Behind a successful man there is,______, a woman who makes this success possible.
A. more often than not B. hardly ever
C. almost never D. nowhere near
7、The film My People, My country was a great success, ______ huge audiences.
A．attracts
B．attracting
C．attracted
D．to attract
8、The girl the teachers considered ____was caught ______ in the exam, which surprised us very much.
A. to be the best; to cheat
B. to be the best; cheating
C. being the best; cheating
D. as the best student; to cheat
9、— What are you doing this Saturday?
— I’m not sure, but I go to the Rolling Stones concert
A.must B.would
C.should D.might
10、Little Jim admitted ________ his mother’s favorite vase, but his mom did not punish him.
A．to break
B．in breaking
C．breaking
D．break
11、You should put a small ______ of salt in a cake.
A. quality B. sum
C. amount D. number
12、One learns a language by making mistakes and________ them.
A.correct B.correcting C.corrects D.to correct
13、That party has been in ________ for many years and it has showed its ________ in dealing with many important problems.
A.power；energy B.power；strengths
C.force；energy D.force；strengths
14、There were many causes for his failure, but ________, it was because his carelessness and little preparation.
A. as a result B. on the other hand
C. in a nutshell D. on the contrary
15、The seaside here draws a lot of tourists every summer. Warm sunshine and soft sands make ________ it is.
A.what B.which C.how D.where
16、In the hills there is a mysterious dark lake, ________ has never been measured.
A．the depth of it
B．whose depth
C．its depth
D．the depth of whom
17、My advice is that you should think about ________ you know anyone who fits your target audience.
A.which B.what C.that D.whether
18、At the foot of the hill ________ a big lake surrounded by trees.
A.lays B.is laying C.lies D.is lying
19、When the police came, the thief was ____.
A.nowhere to hide B.nowhere to be hiding C.nowhere to be hidden D.nowhere hide
20、The letter I had been looking forward to ______ last Sunday.
A.arriving B.arrive C.arrived D.arrives
21、When we start gazing into the night sky with a telescope, the realization will suddenly come over us _______ we and our world are part of this giant system.
A.as B.where C.that D.whether
22、The boy wanted to ride his bicycle in the street, but his mother told him _______.
A. not to B. not to do
C. not do it D. do not to
23、Some people are wasting food ______ others haven’t enough.
A.because B.although C.while D.since
24、My family used to live in _____ city of Shanghai but now have moved to _____ countryside.
A.a; a B.the; the C.a; the D.the; 不填
25、Last month, an earthquake ____ six on Richter scale (里氏震级) happened in the northern part of Japan.
A.measured B.to measure C.to be measured D.measuring
26、 Many cultures around the world have a grain that is not grown or even known outside its home area. Now, a staple grain native to Ethiopia, teff, is appearing on grocery shelves in America.
Teff has been an important part of the Ethiopian diet for thousands of years. Like rice and wheat, it is a cereal grass. Teff is known for its fine grain and used mainly to make flour. Teff flour is the key ingredient in injera, the large, spongy pancakes that make up a large portion of the Ethiopian diet.
Teff was introduced to the United States by a man named Wayne Carlson, who learned about teff while doing public health work in Africa in the mid-1970s. "I came to know teff because I was eating it all the time and hosted by teff farmers. " he said. In the late 70s, Carlson returned to the U. S. , married and settled in southwest Idaho. Then he came up with an idea to introduce teff grass to his home state. " Geologically, it is very similar to Ethiopia."
Wayne and his wife Elisabeth are not farmers, nor do they want to be. So they convinced actual farmers in Idaho to grow teff on contract for them. The Carlsons milled it themselves.
Wayne went through the Washington, D. C. telephone book and looked for the names that were Ethiopian. And that is how the business slowly grew. Over time, the Teff Company has outgrown four different mills.
Rich Roseberg is a food researcher at Oregon State University. He says teff production has exploded over the past decade in the U. S. He says most teff grown in the U. S. is fed to farm animals. In Idaho, however, where the Carlsons are based, Roseberg believes more of the teff production is for human food. Teff contains lots of calcium, iron, protein and fiber. Roseberg credits Wayne Carlson for being ahead of his time.
【1】How do the Ethiopians mainly use teff?
A.By eating the cereal grass. B.By using the flour made from it.
C.By adding the plant into injera. D.By mixing it with rice and wheat.
【2】According to Wayne, why is it possible for teff to grow well in Idaho?
A.Idaho is located close to Ethiopia.
B.Teff is easy to survive on its own.
C.Idaho has geographic features similar to Ethiopia.
D.Teff was originally introduced to Ethiopia from Idaho.
【3】What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A.Wayne's teff did not sell well at first.
B.Wayne's teff was sold only to Ethiopians.
C.Wayne sent teff to his Ethiopian friends.
D.Wayne lost control of his Teff Company.
【4】What is Rich Roseberg's attitude to Wayne introducing teff into America?
A.Worried. B.Disapproving.
C.Favorable. D.Pessimistic.
27、 Hong Kong is among the cities which have the largest populations in the world, but with night skies around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, it gains a bad reputation(名声) for its light pollution.
A study by Hong Kong University found that brightness levels in the southern Chinese city's popular shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui were 1,200 times greater than the international dark sky standard.
The crowded city of 7 million people, full of residential(住宅的) high-rises, towering office blocks and neon(霓虹灯) advertisements has no laws to control outdoor lightning.
The result is that light pollution is thought to be much worse than in other large cities, including London, Sydney, Tokyo and Shanghai.
“In Hong Kong, you can't go anywhere outdoor in the evening without your eyes being blinded by this really upsetting outdoor lightning,” the light pollution survey's head Jason Pum told AFP.
“The fact that we have all this light in the sky means energy is wasted,” he said, adding that too much artificial lightning also affects nightly wildlife.
Research has suggested that light pollution can cause a number of harmful health problems in humans, including sleeplessness and headaches and can also affect body clocks and hormones(荷尔蒙).
The university's survey, the result of five million measurements taken from points across the city, was released just days before the start of the yearly Earth Hour event, organized by the World Wildlife Fund.
People around the world will be encouraged to turn off the lights for an hour on Saturday night to advertise climate change. Last year, a number of Hong Kong's major buildings along Victoria Harbour went dark to mark Earth Hour.
“Anyway, we should do our best to reduce the amount of lightning and suit it to the benefit of the environment.”
【1】If you walk out at night in Hong Kong, you can see all those things except ______.
A.neon advertisements B.residential buildings
C.a dark sky with many stars D.high office blocks
【2】Which of the following statements about too much lightning is NOT true?
A.Too much lightning means wasting energy. B.It can make the city more beautiful at night.
C.It may have a bad effect on nightly wildlife. D.It can do great harm to human beings' health.
【3】We can know from the passage that__________
A.Earth Hour is simply organized to reduce pollution. B.light pollution is the biggest problem in Hong Kong.
C.light pollution is the primary causes of sleeplessness. D.light pollution in Hong Kong is among world's worst.
【4】What will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph?
A.Ways to reduce light pollution B.Causes of light pollution
C.Worries about light pollution D.Bad effects of light pollution
28、 A friend of mine was in low spirits one day. He usually dealt with this state of mind by avoiding people until the mood passed. But on that day Fred had an important meeting with his boss, so he decided to put on a false front. During the meeting Fred smiled, joked and played the part of a happy, good﹣natured person. To his surprise, he soon discovered he was no longer depressed.
Without realizing it, Fred chanced to find an important new principle of psychological research: acting a part can help us feel the way we want to feel﹣more self﹣assured in a trying situation, more cheerful when things go wrong.
How can you put this principle to work in your own life？There's more involved than simply mimicking a few expressions. You have to be systematic about it. Here's how:
Smile to cheer yourself up.
Relax to reduce anxiety or fear.
Look your best to increase your self﹣confidence.
Keep cool in a crisis.
Using our bodies and actions to change the way we feel can be a useful tool in helping us through life's difficult times. As novelist George Eliot wrote more than a century ago, "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "People who remember that﹣and act upon it﹣can only be richer and happier for the experience.
【1】In Paragraph 1the underlined phrase "to put on a false front" means .
A.to wear a wrong coat B.to show a pretended happy appearance
C.to act a part unsuccessfully D.to put on airs
【2】According to Paragraph 1, Fred before the meeting.
A.had very few spirits B.was in a bad mood
C.had many spirits D.was in a good mood
【3】In the last paragraph, the quotation" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "may show that .
A.actions speak louder than words
B.the more we do, the happier we are
C.our feeling cannot change our behavior
D.actions are very important for us to beat bad moods for good.
29、 Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinesestyle spelling bee (拼写大赛). In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.
Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy (书法) to be one of their primary contributions. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet(字母). The correct character is chosen from a list. The result? It’s possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.
But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write.
In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of sixyearolds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully trying to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?” we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin. “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture,” she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.
【1】What can we learn about the Character Hero?
A. It draws great public attention across the country.
B. It’s the mostviewed TV programs in the world.
C. It means to spread Chinese culture to the world.
D. It’s open to people of all ages and all walks.
【2】Why are Chinese people forgetting how to write the characters?
A. Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often.
B. Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy.
C. Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters.
D. Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology.
【3】According to Shen Bin, being able to write characters by hand is ____________.
A. necessary for adults to survive in China
B. a requirement made by the Education Ministry
C. helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive
D. an ability to be developed only when you are students
30、Kelvin Doe is a child from a very poor district of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city. The area is in such _________ shape that the lights only come up once a week. At the age of 10, he started _________ rubbish dumps (垃圾场) for small electronic parts after school. Then he would spend his time _________ how they work. _________ he was very young and didn’t receive traditional engineering education, this didn’t _________ Doe’s dream of helping solve the local problems in his community.
At the age of 13, after he tired many times, he finally _________ a generator (发电机) using ma-terials he had _________ around the house or from rubbish dumps. From then on, Kelvin Doe became a completely _________ engineer. He then built a radio station by using recycled materials. He repor-ted news and played music under the 49 of_______ DJ Focus and ____________ his friends as workers in the station. “They call me DJ Focus. I am confident. I always ____________ if I focus, I can complete any-thing seeming to be ____________ ,” Doe said in a You Tube video.
He had ____________ been more than 10 miles from his home in Freetown until he attended a national invention competition. There, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ____________ such a smart boy. David Sengeh, a PhD student at MIT, recognized his amazing ____________ right away. “Doe’s story is very ____________. He made a generator because he ____________ it,” Sengeh said. “Doe’s ____________ in the You Tube video have had a big ____________ on me and on millions of people all over the world. In Sierra Leone, other young people suddenly feel they can be ____________ Doe.” Kelvin was later invited to give a talk in 2012 to Harvard Students. “Creativity can be found in places where one does not expect to find it,” said Kelvin during the talk.
【1】
A．attractive
B．simple
C．interesting
D．bad
【2】
A．mistaking
B．designing
C．searching
D．exchanging
【3】
A．studying
B．explaining
C．discussing
D．considering
【4】
A．If
B．Although
C．Once
D．Since
【5】
A．show
B．wake
C．stop
D．mention
【6】
A．refused
B．created
C．repaired
D．mixed
【7】
A．recycled
B．divided
C．stolen
D．borrowed
【8】
A．warm-hearted
B．easy-going
C．hard-working
D．self-taught
【9】
A．protection
B．guidance
C．control
D．name
【10】
A．employed
B．served
C．regarded
D．treated
【11】
A．wish
B．believe
C．predict
D．worry
【12】
A．impossible
B．imperfect
C．unreasonable
D．unfinished
【13】
A．already
B．just
C．never
D．always
【14】
A．discovered
B．educated
C．saved
D．introduced
【15】
A．suggestions
B．practice
C．goals
D．experiences
【16】
A．true
B．encouraging
C．pitiful
D．amusing
【17】
A．sold
B．researched
C．recognized
D．needed
【18】
A．dream
B．advertisements
C．words
D．plan
【19】
A．expectation
B．impression
C．influence
D．pressures
【20】
A．beside
B．against
C．for
D．like
31、根据课文内容填写相应的单词或短语
a. At that time people would 【1】 if food was difficult to find, especially during the cold winter months. Today’s festivals have many 【2】 some are religious, some seasonal, and some for special people or events.
b. His cola was【3】 and cold, and his ice cream was made of milk, cream and delicious fruit. “Nothing could be 【4】” he thought.
c. —And it was the ship that brought you to England.
—Yes. The fact is 【5】 I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand, which 【6】 my appearance. I went to the American embassy to seek help, but…
d. Water had also appeared on other planets like Mars but, 【7】 the earth, it had disappeared later. It was not immediately obvious that water was to be 【8】 to the development of life.
e. Going eastward, you will pass mountains and thousands of lakes and forests, 【9】wide rivers and large cities. Some people have the idea 【10】 you can cross Canada in less than five days, but they forget the fact that Canada is 5500 kilometers from coast to coast.
32、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Have you ever been involved in animal rescue? This is what happened to the Winter the dolphin. Winter was found off the coast of Florida in December of 2005. She was just a few months old, alone, and caught in a crab trap. The ropes from the trap were wrapped tightly around her body.
The fisherman who found her called for help, and the rescue team soon arrived. The ropes had cut off the blood circulation to her tail. She was badly hurt. Her rescuers didn't think she would survive. Hoping for a miracle and racing against time to save her, the rescuers transferred her to the ClearwaterMarine Aquarium in Florida.
The doctors managed to save Winter, but sadly, not her tail. He tail flukes were too damaged and had to be removed so Winter could live.
The little dolphin Winter survived against all odds, but she would never be able to swim normally without a tail. Thankfully the story doesn't end here. Winter was able to swim, but not very well. Because she didn't have a tail. She moved her body in a side-to-side motion like a shark. But doctors at the aquarium were worried that unconventional moment would hurt her spine.
Kevin Carroll heard Winter's story and for thought, he would could help. He is a specialist who designs and provides prostheses for people. If he could help people, why not help a dolphin? He started working with Winter and came up with a solution for the new fluke and tail section
Kevin designed a stretchy sleeve to fit winter's body and protect her skin. Then a tail made of silicone and plastic was made to tightly fit over the sleeve. Now winter can swim like other dolphins. And she is a great inspiration to people who struggle with their own injuries.
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