1、We don’t accept the responsibility but we will refund the money as a ______ of goodwill.
A.posture B.gesture C.state D.rank
2、—I'm afraid we need to hurry. Our teacher will come to meet us in a minute.
—________. He called and said he would be late.
A.There you go again B.Don't risk your neck
C.Take your time D.Save your breath
3、Cats ________ be quite friendly towards humans, but they live mysterious lives of their own.
A.need B.must C.shall D.can
4、Great changes ______ in China in the past 20 years.
A.took place B.have taken place
C.were taken place D.have been taken place
5、_______ do you think will get the first prize in the English Competition?
A.who B.whom C.whose D.whoever
6、In boxing, players should wear gloves and mouth guards ________ anything dangerous happens.
A.in vain B.in a word C.in debt D.in case
7、In my father’s study there are _____ books about how to keep fit.
A.a great many B.large amounts of
C.a great deal of D.a large amount of
8、The heavy rain may ______ the landslide last night.
A.accounts for B.accounted for
C.have accounted for D.accounting for
9、There, a big memorial has been built ____ him, who devoted himself to the poor.
A.in praise of B.in charge of C.in favor of D.in memory of
10、—How was your vacation in the small town?
—Pretty good. In the evenings we ________ beer with the locals in the open air.
A. have enjoyed B. enjoyed C. had enjoyed D. enjoy
11、How did he manage to______ the three children? I couldn’t believe my eyes.
A.bring out B.bring down C.bring up D.bring about
12、His mistake was ________ youth and inexperience
A．because
B．as
C．as a result
D．due to
13、We are interested in the weather because it _____ us so directly --- what we wear, what we do, and even how we feel.
A.confuses B.guides C.affects D.effects
14、—What’s your understanding of success,Robert?
—In my view,success is________preparation and chances meet.
A.how B.why C.what D.where
15、The moving scene remind me _____my childhood when we set _____the fireworks on the spring festival.
A. to, off B. of, on
C. of,off D. to,down
16、— How about putting some pictures into the report?
— ______ A picture is worth a thousand words.
A.I don’t think so. B.Why not?
C.Thank you. D.No matter.
17、________ English, he knows little but he is very interested in it.
A．As for
B．In some way
C．Considering
D．According to
18、How hard the athletes work now will ________ how they perform in the Olympics.
A.determine B.analyze C.monitor D.educate
19、An ancient calculating device — the abacus will be _________, as the computer is becoming increasingly popular.
A.on the way out B.in use C.out of the way D.in the way
20、Teenagers spend too much time on computer games.What’s worse, some of them can’t ____________ their studies.
A.get on B.concentrate on C.insist on D.hold on
21、She has great pressure at work recently and that may ________ her abnormal behavior.
A.account for B.call for C.stand for D.exchange for
22、—May I smoke here?
—If you _______, choose a seat in the smoking section.
A.must B.should C.may D.can
23、— When will the professor come and give the lecture on the spirits of contracts?
— Not until our program ________ by our school.
A. approves B. will be approved C. is to approve D. has been approved
24、It sounds _______ the situation is unlikely to improve.
A.as if B.how C.as D.so that
25、He was about to tell me the secret _______ someone patted me on the shoulder.
A.that B.which
C.when D.until
26、Delicious Food Movies to Inspire Your Cooking at Home
Chef
R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 30 May 2014 (USA)
A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his separated family.
Director: Jon Favreau
Writer: Jon Favreau
Stars: Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson
Eat Pray Love
PG- 13 | 2h 13min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 13 August 2010 (USA)
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to “find herself”.
Director: Ryan Murphy
Writers: Ryan Murphy (screenplay), Jennifer Salt (screenplay) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins
Chocolate
PG- 13 | 2h 1min | Drama, Romance | 19 January 2001 (USA)
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality(道德) of the community.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writers: Joanne Harris (novel), Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay)
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina
The Hundred-Foot Journey
PG | 2h 2min | Comedy, Drama | 8 August 2014 (USA)
The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory’ s Michelin-starred eatery.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writers: Steven Knight (screenplay by), Richard C. Morais (novel)
Stars: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal
【1】If you are interested in biography you can see ________.
A．Eat Pray Love
B．Chocolate
C．Chef
D．The Hundred-Foot Journey
【2】What is the best option for Juliette’s fans?
A．Chocolate.
B．The Hundred-Foot Journey.
C．Chef.
D．Eat Pray Love.
【3】What is the theme of Chef?
A．Painful divorce.
B．Family reunion.
C．Community morality.
D．Food standard.
【4】Lasse Hallström’s movie is released on ________.
A．13 August 2010
B．30 May 2014
C．16 January 2001
D．8 August 2014
27、People eat more when they are glued to the television, and the more entertaining the program is, the more they eat, according to a new research.
It seems that distracted(分心的)brains do not notice what the mouth is doing, said Dr. Alan Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.
Hirsch explored the impact of smell, taste and eating behaviors while watching TV by measuring potato chip consumption. Forty-five volunteers ate as many chips as they wanted every six minutes while they watched monologues by late-night talk show hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno. They were still given chips to eat when the television was off. Hirsch found people ate an average of 44 percent more chips while watching Letterman and 42 percent more while viewing Leno, than when they did not watch TV.
If you concentrate on how the food tastes, you'll eat less because you'll feel full faster, "Hirsch said in an interview at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Toronto. So if that's the case, let's look at the opposite. What if you're distracted? If you're distracted, in theory, then you'd eat more."
Through his research at the foundation, Hirsch has helped people overcome the loss of sense of smell and sense of taste. which typically results in weight gain because the brain does not know when it should stop eating.
The ventromedial nucleus(腹内侧核)in the hypothalamus( 下 丘脑)， where the so-called satiety(饱腹感)center is located. tells the body whether it is hungry or full. It is inhibited or tricked, the result can be changes in eating patterns, he said.
People who cook spaghetti all day don't feel like eating spaghetti at the end of the day, "said Hirsch," By being exposed to a smell all day long it's tricking the hypothalamus."
Volunteers were asked to concentrate on the sensory characteristics of the food such as taste and smell. Researchers say these sensory clues, in addition to inner body changes. mark satiety.
But when distracted. a person does not pay attention to either the body's sensations of feeling full, or to the sensory characteristics of the food.
Many studies have linked being fat to watching television and that link is likely due to inactivity, Hirsch said. But perhaps entertaining shows are also contributing.
"If you want to lose weight, turn off the television or watch something boring," he said.
【1】When Hirsch conducted the research, he______
A．evaluated the degree of the volunteers' loss of taste.
B．measured the amount of the chips the volunteers ate.
C．analyzed the volunteers' preference on TV programs.
D．counted the minutes the volunteers spent on TV programs.
【2】According to the research, when will you feel full faster?.
A．When we are distracted.
B．When we focus on how the food tastes.
C．When we are watching entertaining programs.
D．When the brain doesn't know when it should stop eating.
【3】Why does the author mention "People who cooks paghetti all day don't feel like eating it at the end of the day"?
A．It tells us that eating spaghetti is inhabited.
B．It indicates that spaghetti doesn't taste good at the end of the day.
C．It tells us that people who cook spaghetti don' like eating spaghetti.
D．It shows that smell is "telling" the hypothalamus that the body is full.
【4】What is the main purpose of the article?
A．To prove that being fat is linked to inactivity.
B．To reveal the relationship between TV programs and eating behaviors.
C．to explain why watching television makes people eat more and gain weight.
D．To find how sensory characteristics of the food affects people's feelings of eating.
28、I was putting on my boots just now in what the novelists call “a brown study.” There was no urgent reason for putting on my boots. I was not going out, and my slippers were much more comfortable. But something had to be done. I wanted a subject for an article. Now if you are accustomed to writing articles for a living, you will know that sometimes the difficulty is not writing the article, but choosing a subject. It is not poverty you suffer from, but an embarrassment of riches.
But what has this to do with putting on my boots? It is a reasonable question and I will tell you. For an hour I had paced my room in my slippers in search of a subject. I had looked out of the window over the sunlit valley, and watched the smoke of a distant train disappearing towards the west. I had sharpened every pencil I had on me with great care. But the more I sharpened my pencils, the more anxious I grew about the theme for an article.
It was at this moment that I remembered my boots. The act of bending my body changed the current of the blood. You saw things in a new light. So I fetched my boots and sat down to put them on.
The thing worked like a charm. For in my preoccupied condition I picked up my right boot first. Then mechanically I put it down and seized the left boot. And then the fact flashed on me that all my life I had been putting on my left boot first. If you had asked me five minutes before which boot I put on first, I should have said that there was no first about it; yet now I found I was in a habit so fixed that the attempt to put on my right boot first affected me. The thing couldn’t be done. And then came into my mind that fascinating book of Samuel Butler’s on Life and Habit. Yes, certainly, here was a subject that would “go.” I took out a pencil, seized some writing paper, and sat down to write on “The Force of Habit.”
【1】By “It is not poverty you suffer from, but an embarrassment of riches.” in paragraph 1, the author means _____.
A．some subjects are too complicated or embarrassing to write on
B．poverty is no longer a problem nowadays, but embarrassment is
C．poor people don’t encounter as many embarrassments as the rich
D．there’re so many subjects that it’s hard to decide which to choose
【2】Why did the author sharpen his pencils with great care?
A．To help himself promote thinking.
B．To draw what he saw out of the window.
C．To write his article more smoothly.
D．To relieve himself of anxiety about writing.
【3】Putting on the boots helped the author _____.
A．get rid of his fixed habit
B．lower his blood pressure
C．see things from a new angle
D．free his preoccupied mind
【4】The passage is mainly about the author’s _____.
A．personal attitude towards habits
B．daily routines as a professional writer
C．writing process of a special article
D．decision making on the theme for an article
29、Should we allow modern buildings to be built next to older buildings in a historic area of a city? In order to answer this question, we must first examine whether people really want to preserve the historic feel of an area. Not all historical buildings are attractive. However, there may be other reasons—for example, economic reasons—why they should be preserved. So, let's assume that historical buildings are both attractive and important to the majority of people. What should we do then if a new building is needed?
In my view, new architectural styles can exist perfectly well alongside an older style. Indeed, there are many examples in my own home town of Tours where modern designs have been placed very successfully next to old buildings. As long as the building in question is pleasing and does not dominate（影响）its surroundings too much, it often improves attractiveness of the area.
It is true that there are examples of new buildings which have spoilt（破坏）the area they are in, but the same can be said of some old buildings too. Yet people still speak against new buildings in historic areas. I think this is simply because people are naturally conservative and do not like change.
Although we have to respect people's feelings as fellow users of the buildings, I believe that it is the duty of the architect and planner to move things forward. If we always reproduced what was there before, we would all still be living in caves. Thus, I would argue against copying previous architectural styles and choose something fresh and different, though that might be the more risky choice.
【1】What does the author say about historical buildings in the first paragraph?
A．Some of them are not attractive.
B．Most of them are too expensive to preserve.
C．They are more pleasing than modern buildings.
D．They have nothing to do with the historic feel of an area.
【2】Which of the following is true according to the author?
A．We should reproduce the same old buildings.
B．Buildings should no dominate their surroundings.
C．Some old buildings have spoilt the area they are in.
D．No one understands why people speak against new buildings.
【3】By "move things forward" in the last paragraph, the author probably means " "
A．destroy old buildings
B．put things in a difference place
C．choose new architectural styles
D．respect people's feeling for historical buildings
【4】What is the main purpose of the passage?
A．To explain why people dislike change
B．To warn that we could end up living in caves.
C．To admit how new buildings have ruined their surroundings.
D．To argue that modern buildings can be built in historic areas.
30、 During my second year in high school, I got sick and missed a few days. When I ________, I was greeted with two essays due (到期), three days of math and history homework, plus several tests. ______ I went home from school that day extremely tired, I had to stay up really late to finish them all.
The next day at school, I got a rude awakening: I'd totally forgotten to prepare for the ______ on Romeo and Juliet, which I'd take ______ my lunch hour! Worse still, I had ______ the in-class discussion and all the notes. When lunch came, I went to the English room to face my certain doom (厄运). All I could do was trying to ______ on the questions I didn't know.
As it turned out, I didn't know the majority of the questions. I was just about to give ______ when my pencil accidentally fell and broke. Standing by the blackboard, sharpening my pencil, I ______ down and there in full view lay the answer sheet for the test! What good fortune! I can kiss good-bye to all my ______ of failing the test! My heart started beating, and my brain ______, Yes/ Read over the answers –quickly! This was quickly followed by another voice, No! You'll get caught! My mind turned back and forth, Yes! No! Yes! No! ...This went on for ten of the ______seconds in my entire life.
Finally, I decided to finish the test on my own, without ______! I was satisfied with my decision but pretty ______ I had failed the test.
The next day when I walked into the English room, my great joy of having been an ______ soul changed into a wave of doom as I saw my test paper lying face down on my desk. I knew what was waiting for me. I stared at it a few seconds before I got the ______ to turn it over.
You can only imagine my ______ when I learned that I had passed the test! I have never in my whole life been so happy to see my ______, a C-.
My mom says the victories that ______ the most courage are won within. Now I know ______ what she means. Now not only can my conscience (良心) rest easy, but I don't have to worry about getting caught and meeting a sad ______ like Romeo and Juliet.
【1】A.arrived B.returned C.appeared D.finished
【2】A.If B.Because C.Until D.Although
【3】A.lecture B.essay C.play D.test
【4】A.by B.upon C.during D.toward
【5】A.missed B.carried C.lost D.dropped
【6】A.depend B.agree C.guess D.improve
【7】A.in B.off C.out D.away
【8】A.wrote B.settled C.calmed D.looked
【9】A.boredom B.worries C.loneliness D.tiredness
【10】A.whispered B.warned C.persuaded D.informed
【11】A.coldest B.saddest C.longest D.fastest
【12】A.suffering B.checking C.cheating D.thinking
【13】A.certain B.regretful C.annoyed D.relieved
【14】A.open B.honest C.optimistic D.energetic
【15】A.wisdom B.encouragement C.suggestion D.courage
【16】A.anxiety B.shock C.fear D.appreciation
【17】A.paper B.credit C.rate D.grade
【18】A.take B.put C.find D.gain
【19】A.gradually B.exactly C.willingly D.seemingly
【20】A.film B.fact C.ending D.love
31、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.
Chinese medical expert have warned that antibiotics （抗生素）are “ 【1】 overused” in hospitals, which may cause serious side-effects for the health of an entire generation.
According to the ministry, 70 percent of Chinese inpatients have received antibiotics, while the maximum number set by the World Health Organization is 30 percent. About 97 percent of 【2】 patients used antibiotics but research showed that a large number of them could avoid the need if hospitals conducted proper sanitation（公共卫生）measures.
Particularly, antibiotics are overused in the 【3】 of children. Nearly one third of the daily 10,000 outpatients at the Beijing children’s Hospital take intravenous drips（静脉输液）that largely contain antibiotics.
“Some doctors might lack proper training on how to 【4】antibiotics in a more precise way and avoid 【5】risks. Some simply want to play it safe,” said Zhu Zhenggang, president of Shanghai-based Ruijin Hospital.
The ministry 【6】 a nationwide campaign over the past six months to 【7】 the use of antibiotics. Vice Health Minister Ma Xiaowei admitted that the government faces great challenges as many public hospitals have 【8】 supervision on prescription（处方）safety under heavy pressure from patients.
Insiders also noted that the overuse of antibiotics was partly 【9】by profit-seeking pharmacy （制药）firms.
About 60 percent of the newly 【10】 medicines by the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) last year were antibiotics. According to the SFDA, the country reported 690,000 cases of adverse drug reactions caused by abuse of medicine, including 600 deaths in 2010.
32、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的概要。
Coronaviruses (冠状病毒) are a large group of viruses that are common among animals. In rare cases, they are what scientists call zoonotic, meaning they can be passed from animals to humans.
The viruses can make people sick, usually with a upper respiratory tract (呼吸道) illness, similar to a common cold. Coronavirus symptoms (症状) include a runny nose, cough, sore throat, possibly a headache and maybe a fever, which can last for a couple of days. For those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there’s a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness.
There are a handful of human coronaviruses that are known to be deadly. Middle East respiratory syndrome, also known as the MERS virus, was first reported in the Middle East in 2012 and also causes respiratory problems, but those symptoms are much more severe. Three to four out of every 10 patients infected with MERS died. Severe acute respiratory syndrome, also known as SARS, is the other coronavirus that can cause more severe symptoms. Depending on the patient’s age, the death rate with SARS ranged from 0-50% of the cases. The novel coronavirus is currently thought to be more mild than SARS and MERS and takes longer to develop symptoms.
There is no vaccine (疫苗) to protect against this family of viruses, at least not yet. You may be able to reduce your risk of infection by avoiding people who are sick. Try to avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Wash your hands often with soap and water and for at least 20 seconds. Awareness is key. If you are sick and have reason to believe it may be the novel coronavirus, you should let a health care provider know and seek treatment early.