1、—Will you join us in the discussion?
—Well, I won’t join you unless Wang Lin ________ too.
A. will be asked B. is asked
C. asked D. be asked
2、Talking about the future, I prefer________ a businessman ________be an official.
A.being; to B.to be; to C.to be; rather than D.being; more than
3、My brother didn’t attend the party because he ________．
A．had not been invited
B．had not invited
C．has not been invited
D．has not invited
4、Contrary to popular belief, moderate exercise actually decreases your ________; most people don’t want to eat a lot after exercise.
A．process
B．motivation
C．appetite
D．contributor
5、Elizabeth Barrett Browning, _____ was remembered for her love poems, published her first work in 1818 when she was at the age of twelve.
A. which B. who
C. that D. whom
6、On hearing the sad news, she ________ tears.
A．burst into
B．broke out
C．cried out
D．wept
7、By the time the course ends, we ______ a lot about each other.
A．will learn
B．have learned
C．had learned
D．will have learned
8、She was worried about her son’s physical and ________ developments
A．metal
B．final
C．mental
D．mathematics.
9、You have no idea what I have had to _____ during the last few months.
A. put through B. go through
C. read through D. look through
10、If you are _______ a food or drink, you can remove it from your diet.
A．cautious about
B．allergic to
C．satisfied with
D．fond of
11、Tom had to have his car repaired in a garage because it ______seriously.
A. damaged B. was being damaged
C. had damaged D. had been damaged
12、The actress, ______ for her wonderful acting skill, will be interviewed by Mongo TV next week.
A．to know
B．knowing
C．being known
D．known
13、This is the second time we ________ this question in a test.
A．saw
B．see
C．will see
D．have seen
14、In Singapore, people who litter or dirty the streets are most likely .
A.to fine B.fined
C.to be fined D.being fined
15、With many articles _______, he won’t have time to go shopping this morning.
A．to write
B．written
C．writing
D．wrote
16、It's surprising that you should have been fooled by such a simple ______.
A．trial B．trick
C．treat D．trip
17、It’s dangerous to have the fire _______ at home all night long．
A．to burn B．burn
C．burned D．burning
18、Don’t bother ________ the talented performer, because the activity was cancelled.
A．invited
B．to inviting
C．having invited
D．to invite
19、Being a docile son, I didn’t argue with my parents when I was in elementary school and all I had to do was ____ my room _____ every time at their suggestions.
A.to keep…being tidy B.to keep…to be tidy
C.keep…to be tidy D.keep…tidy
20、---Do these paintings ________ you?
--- No, not really. They don’t ________ to me at all.
A. interest to you; make any sense
B. appeal for you; attract
C. appeal to; make sense
D. interest; attract
21、 We should never give up when we're challenged. The following three actresses have set a good example to us.
Sarah Jessica Parker
When Parker was little, she had to take up singing and dancing to help feed her big family.
Despite hard times, Parker's mom encouraged her children's interest in the arts. When Parker was 11 years old, the family took a trip to New York City, so Parker could audition (试演) for a Broadway play. The trip was a success — she and her brother were both cast, and then the family moved to
New York. Parker continued to work hard and land roles, eventually becoming the title character of a famous TV show.
Emily Blunt
Before Blunt was nominated (提名) for Golden Globes and landing leading roles on the stage and big screen, she could hardly hold a conversation with her classmates: Between ages 7 and 14, Emily had a major stutter (口吃). But that all changed when one of her junior high teachers encouraged her to try out for the school play, which she thought was a totally unappealing(无吸引力的) thing at first due to the fact that she had such a hard time communicating. The teacher suggested she try accents and character voices to help get the words out and it worked. By the end of her teens, Blunt had overcome her stutter and went on to achieve the successful career she has now.
Shania Twain
Twain's career actually began more out of necessity than raw ambition. Her mom and stepfather often couldn't make enough to get by, so Twain started singing in bars to make extra money when she was just eight years old. She recalls her mother waking her up at all hours to get up and perform. Sadly, when she was 21, her mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident on the highway.
Twain put her career on hold to step in and take care of her younger brothers. Only when her youngest brother graduated from high school did she feel it was OK to head down to Nashville to pursue her career.
【1】Why did Parker's family go to New York City when she was 11 ?
A. a TV show was waiting for Parker
B. Parker planned to learn the arts there
C. Parker's family wanted to travel there
D. Parker could try out for a play there
【2】What was her first reaction when Blunt was advised to try out for the school play?
A. Excited. B. Uninterested. C. Angry. D. Touched.
【3】In order to ________, Twain stopped pursuing her career at 21.
A. she wanted to finish her education
B. she experienced a car accident
C. she decided to look after her brothers
D. she wanted to take a break
【4】What did Parker and Twain have in common when they were young?
A. They helped support their family. B. They had uncaring parents.
C. They wanted to become famous. D. They had an unhappy childhood.
22、British chemist David Evans has become an overnight celebrity on Chinese social media. His chemistry experiments have attracted over 2 million followers in just a few months. Evans is a chemistry professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He always wears a white lab coat, a pair of safety goggles (护目镜), and smiles often. Some web users say he looks just like the “grandpa of KFC”.
Evans has posted videos of various experiments. His most popular experiments have attracted millions of hits on video-sharing apps. Excited children’s cheers and shouts can be heard in his videos. “I hope my experiments can arouse people’s interest in science,” he says.
Evans has been interested in China since childhood. He first visited the Chinese mainland in 1987 to attend a chemistry conference in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He quit his job in the United Kingdom and moved to Beijing in 1996. Many of his friends thought he was crazy. But Evans says they just saw China’s challenges but not its potential.
Since 2011, Evans has turned to the Internet to popularize science. He learned that short-video apps are also popular in small cities and rural areas. And he realized this enables him to reach more students, who lack opportunities to perform fun experiments. But even a one-minute video requires a considerable amount of work. Still, he thinks it’s worth it to fulfil his responsibility to popularize science.
His experiments always fill schools’ lecture halls with laughter. Some viewers call him “a Harry Potter-like magician”, but he disagrees. “A magician never tells the secrets behind his tricks, but a scientist always gives an explanation.” He sees himself as a teacher. He performs experiments to spread knowledge, inspire thinking, remove misunderstandings and show that science can create change. Evans says he looks forward to more “chemical reactions” with China.
【1】David Evans is popular on Chinese social media in that ________.
A．he is from Britain and is a famous chemist
B．his online videos of experiments have gone viral
C．netizens have found that he is the “grandpa of KFC”
D．he has succeeded in doing various experiments
【2】What is true of Evens?
A．He went to China when he was a boy.
B．He held a chemistry meeting in 1987 in Britain.
C．He hated UK and left the country for China.
D．He saw China’s potential before moving to China.
【3】Why doesn’t Evans agree with the nickname “a Harry Potter-like magician”?
A．He thinks he is a common teacher.
B．He thinks he explains the secrets of an experiment.
C．He thinks that he never plays a trick on his students.
D．He thinks that he does his experiments in public.
23、Living with your parents has its benefits at least when it comes to raising your kids― their grandkids. Two new studies add to the evidence that grandmothers can enhance the survival of grandchildren. That is, unless grandma's too old or lives too far away.
Humans are unusual in that the females live long past the age at which they stop having babies. Patrick Bergeron, professor of biology at Bishop's University in Quebec, said that most of the organisms will reproduce up to their very last moment. This increase is often explained by the so-called "grandmother effect". He thinks there could still be a benefit for women who stop having babies to increase their genetic footprint by helping their daughters to raise larger families.
To explore the "grandmother effect" hypothesis （假设），Bergeron and his colleagues examined nearly 200 years' worth of French-Canadian population records from the 17th and 18th centuries. "At the time, life was tough. In some years, a third o£ the kids were not even making it to one year of age.” But the researchers found that having a grandmother still alive was a definite plus."Families with grandmothers alive were larger by about two and the survival of these grandchildren to age 15 was much improved."
This beneficial effect was only seen when the matriarchs （女家长）lived nearby. That role is tougher for them to fulfills as they get older in poor health, which brings us to the second study. The researchers found that the benefits associated with having a grandmother on hand depended on her age. Once manna hit 75, the grandchild survival benefit disappeared. This was almost certainly due to some form of indirect resource competition, though, rather than wickedness （邪恶）on the part of co- resident grandmothers.
So a healthy grandma helps make for a healthy grandchild. If ',over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house" isn't too long a trip.
【1】What's the second paragraph mainly about?
A．Differences between animals and human beings.
B．Disadvantages of living with grandmas
C．Grandmothers' influence on the kids.
D．What's called“grandmother effect”.
【2】How does the writer describe about the French-Canadian population more than three hundred years ago?
A．By voicing opinions.
B．By providing facts.
C．By giving examples.
D．By telling stories.
【3】What can we infer from the second study?
A．Society should be concerned about the old women.
B．Grandmothers over 75 years old are unwilling to help.
C．Some grandmothers may occupy kids' relative recourses.
D．Some grandmothers are getting wicked after they are old.
【4】Which of the following can be the most helpful grandmother according to the passage?
A．A healthy one living nearby. ,
B．A healthy one living abroad.
C．An old one living in a nursing home.
D．A knowledgeable one living together.
24、For the last five years, Saroyan Matthew Lee has pricked his fingertips at least once a day to test a drop of blood. If the amount of glucose, a simple sugar, is too high, he must get a shot of insulin (胰岛素) to lower it. These daily finger pricks are “really lifestyle-hampering and invasive,” Matthew says. So he developed an alternative - a wearable patch. It turns yellow when glucose levels are too high.
The body normally makes insulin to even out blood-sugar levels. But having type 1 diabetes, Matthew cannot make this hormone. That’s important because highly elevated blood sugar can put someone’s life in danger. After seeing younger kids struggle to interpret their blood-sugar levels, he thought a color-changing device might be easier to understand. “As a diabetic,” he explains, “What I recognize is that the precise blood glucose number is not really important to us.” Instead, he notes, people with disease must simple know when throughout the day they will need a shot of insulin.
The body releases chemicals through many routes. The new single-use patch works by detecting glucose in one of them: sweat. Past research shows that you can estimate blood-sugar levels based on how much glucose sweat has.
Two sheets of hydrogel- a jingly, water-based gel- make up Matthew’s small patch. It’s only 1 centimeter (about 0.4 inch) square. The layer closest to the skin contains a chemical that reacts with glucose. This interaction produces a second chemical called hydrogen peroxide. The more sugar there is, the more hydrogen peroxide will be made. Hydrogen peroxide triggers a reaction in the patch’s upper layer. It causes a protein called papain - to react with a color-changing chemical. The more glucose in sweat, the yellower the patch will become.
Matthew’s patch is painless and easy to understand. And it shouldn’t be very costly. Material costs of his patch are just one-fifth as much as those of existing glucose-measuring devices, because current gadgets require electrical components but Matthew’s patch relies on far less expensive chemicals.
【1】What do we know about Matthew?
A．He has the ability to make insulin regularly.
B．He considers it harmless to prick his fingertips.
C．He invents a convenient device to test blood sugar.
D．He thinks it vital to know the blood sugar level accurately.
【2】What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A．The patch functions on the basis of three reactions.
B．Papain reacts in the second layer, causing hydrogen peroxide.
C．A color-changing chemical is located in the layer closest to the skin.
D．The patch relies on detecting glucose in various chemicals released by body.
【3】Which is the advantage of Matthew’s patch?
A．It is more economical.
B．It uses less electricity.
C．It can be used for several times.
D．It shows the exact blood sugar number.
【4】Which is the best title for the text?
A．A Novel Way to Treat Diabetes.
B．Painless Patch to Test Blood Sugar.
C．A New Device to Stabilize Blood Sugar.
D．A Chain of Insulin-Producing Reactions.
25、Unearthing the Importance of the Life-Sized Terracotta Warriors
The unexpected unearthing of the Terracotta Army is renowned as one of the world’s greatest archaeological events. Discovered in northwestern China and dating back to its first dynasty, the ceramic(陶制的)figures have shed light on the country’s ancient artistic practices and age-old burial traditions.
In addition to offering a glimpse into Imperial China’s distinctive approach to_______art, the sculptures are also celebrated for their scale ---both______each individual sculpture’s height and the group as a whole.
Here, we present the history of the Terracotta Army, including its creation in the third century BCE and its_______in the 1970s.
History
In 246 BCE, Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, took________the empire at just thirteen years old. As ruler of the first Imperial Empire, he is credited with several accomplishments, including standardized scripts and coins, the construction of the Great Wall, and the_______of the state.
To celebrate his triumphs and_______his life, he ordered the construction of a necropolis(陵寝)in Xi’an. He filled his necropolis with precious possessions as well as thousands of specially-made terracotta soldiers to _______ him in the afterlife. Though 7,000 laborers devoted decades to constructing the over-the-top necropolis, the_______ was left unfinished when Qin died in 210 BCE.
Historians theorize that the heads and bodies of the warriors were made through________ production. This means that each individual part, such as the arms and legs, were made independently of one another to speed up manufacturing. Then, after being________in the kiln, a large furnace for burning, baking and drying, these various parts became one figure.
Discovery
For centuries, Qin Shi Huang’s massive necropolis remained undetected. However, in 1974, workers stumbled upon a large_______ of a terracotta warrior while digging a well. Inspired by this surprising find, archaeologists began to explore the area, resulting in the discovery of thousands of similar soldiers in four pits.
Designed with an impressive level of detail, each figure is a one-of-a-kind work of art. The life-sized sculptures are______in height according to military ranking --- some as tall as Yao Ming, while some as short as 1.77 meters, with their uniforms, hairstyles, and even facial shapes and expressions following suit. Though they appear the same shade of grey, the figures would have originally been______painted, highlighting their lifelike features and drawing attention to their eye-catching artisanship.
________the 8,000 soldiers themselves, 130 ceramic chariots and 670 horses were also found in the necropolis._______, clay figures of dancers, acrobats, and musicians were also unearthed, though these vivid figures are greatly outnumbered by the stoic army.
【1】A.funerary B.fancy C.unique D.routine
【2】A.in relation to B.on behalf of C.in terms of D.in case of
【3】A.discovery B.routine C.description D.origin
【4】A.part B.effect C.over D.power
【5】A.organization B.unification C.exploration D.inspiration
【6】A.admire B.reflect C.decorate D.memorize
【7】A.defend B.preserve C.energize D.challenge
【8】A.position B.destination C.site D.facility
【9】A.self-disciplined B.assembly-lined C.cutting-edge D.well-off
【10】A.transported B.dismissed C.fired D.improved
【11】A.sculpture B.status C.knot D.packaging
【12】A.amazing B.different C.selective D.senior
【13】A.historically B.equally C.currently D.realistically
【14】A.In addition to B.Other than C.In response to D.with regard to
【15】A.Typically B.Actually C.Similarly D.Contrarily
26、假定你是李华，想邀请外教Henry一起参观中国剪纸(paper-cutting)艺术展。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1. 展览时间、地点;
2. 展览内容。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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