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1、The Oscars have been around for so long that they serve as an indicator of ________ the Hollywood community values now and in the past.
A. that B. where C. how D. what
2、-- No one ________ be compared with Li Na in playing tennis.
--- Oh, you are really her big fan.
A. can B. need C. must D. might
3、—What did he do in return for free ________ and food offered by the kind couple?
—He helped their son with his lessons.
A．conservation
B．admission
C．accommodation
D．immigration
4、Peter has previous experience, ______ I think he’s the right person for the job.
A. or B. but
C. for D. so
5、______, this cake, you' ll need 2 eggs, 175 g sugar, and 175 g flour.
A．Having made
B．Make
C．To make
D．Making
6、Though it is 5 years________ he retired from his work place, the old professor remains active in the academic circles.
A．when
B．that
C．before
D．since
7、By the end of 2020, as is clearly stated, poverty relief work ________ across the country.
A.will have accomplished B.has been accomplished
C.has accomplished D.will have been accomplished
8、The number of foreign students attending Chinese universities________ steadily since 1997.
A．is rising
B．are rising
C．has been rising
D．have been rising
9、— Why are you so upset, Doctor White?
— The project didn’t _________ as we expected. It was such a waste of time!
A.break out B.run out C.make out D.work out
10、The questionnaire takes ______ ten to fifteen minutes to complete and can be used along with the assessment interview.
A.mainly B.punctually C.approximately D.precisely
11、— Why didn’t you tell him about the meeting?
— He rushed out of the room _____ I could say a word.
A. when B. after C. before D. until
12、Their team is so powerful that we have very________chance to win, but we will try our best.
A．thin
B．light
C．rare
D．slim
13、After college, he was employed in a middle school and there ever since.
A. would worked B. had worked
C. worked D. has worked
14、We climbed up to the top of a hill, we got a good view of the whole forest park.
A. which B. where
C. when D. that
15、The TV Dwelling Narrowness (蜗居) is really fantastic. The show has succeeded in ________ much to the audience, which has contributed to its success.
A. touching on B. diving in C. getting across D. going about
16、FAST, the largest ‘ear’ on Earth, can listen for distant signals in the universe, using technology five times more powerful than ______ was previously available.
A.how B.which C.that D.what
17、— He speaks Chinese very well.
— It’s not surprising. He ___ in Beijing for nine years next week.
A. has been living
B. has lived
C. will have been lived
D. will have been living
18、Mark needs to learn Chinese ________ his company is opening a branch in Tianjin.
A．unless
B．although
C．until
D．since
19、 You may not control all the events______happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
A. which B. when C. that D. as
20、We are pleased to see the suggestion ______ in many schools to help free students from the heavy schoolwork.
A.adopted B.adopting
C.adopt D.to adopt
21、We’ve all been there—watching late-night TV and a commercial comes on for something that looks positively mouthwatering. Maybe it’s yummy pizza, a refreshing beer, or steamed chicken wings. We think “how I wish I could get my hands on that right now” but instead settle for a bowl of instant noodles or some biscuits and cheese.
A Japanese professor wants to change that, and has developed a prototype for a lickable television screen device that can imitate food flavors.
According to a report from Reuters, the device is called Taste the TV (TTTV) and it uses a moving belt of flavor canisters (气雾罐) that spray in combination to imitate the tastes of particular foods. The device works by releasing flavor from 10 canisters onto a sheet of film that is rolled over the TV or tablet screen, which users can lick.
“The goal is to make it possible for people to have the experience of something like eating at a restaurant on the other side of the world, even while staying at home,” Homei Miyashita, a professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, told Reuters, adding that it could be beneficial for people who want to interact with foods from around the world during the pandemic.
According to a demonstration video, researchers mixed various foods and used sensors to “taste” them. The video shows other ways the TTTV could be used. For instance, you could add flavoring to toast, or make one food taste like something else entirely. The canisters can spray different flavors, which mix them together to create the desired taste profile.
Miyashita told Reuters the device could also be helpful for distance learning classes for cooks or chefs, or could be used for tasting games and quizzes.
【1】What is the function of Paragraph 1?
A．To introduce the topic.
B．To draw a conclusion.
C．To strike a comparison.
D．To inform readers of a commercial.
【2】What does the underlined word “prototype” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A．Model.
B．Habit.
C．Method.
D．Style.
【3】What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?
A．The usage of the canister.
B．The origin of its name.
C．The reason for the invention.
D．The working principle of the invention.
【4】What can TTTV be used for?
A．Ordering food.
B．World tours.
C．Fighting hunger.
D．Distant teaching.
22、 We always pay much attention to what we eat, but it turns out the timing of our meals is also important.
Studies have shown that when calories get consumed later at night, the body tends to store them as fat rather than burn them as energy. And some studies done with animals found that food is processed by the body in different ways depending on what time of day it's consumed. This might be because of physical activity, changes in body temperature, biochemical reactions and absorption and digestion of food.
If you're trying to lose weight, you may want to consider eating dinner very early or making a late lunch your last meal of the day.
In a 2018 study, researchers found that meal timing has an effect on human metabolism. They studied a small group of people carrying extra weight and found that those who ate their last meal by mid-afternoon had reduced daily hunger swings and increased fat burning at night.
“Eating only during a much smaller window of time than people are typically used to may help with weight loss, specifically by increasing our body's ability to burn fat and protein,” said Courtney Peterson, Ph. D. “We found that eating between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. followed by an 18-hour daily fast burned more fat and kept appetite levels more even throughout the day, in comparison to eating between 8 a.m. and 12 hours later, which is average for Americans.”
Peterson's research found that eating in a shorter daily window — 8 hours versus 12 hours — and an earlier time both affect metabolism.
Similarly, a 10-week study of “time-restricted feeding” looked at what happened to body fat when people limited their meals to a shorter window of time. Researchers found that people who ate breakfast 90 minutes later than usual and ate dinner 90 minutes earlier than usual lost more than twice as much body fat on average as those in the control group, who ate their meals as they normally would.
Although this study is small, it has provided us with invaluable insight into how slight changes to our meal times can have benefits to our bodies.
【1】What decides the process of food in the body?
A．The amount of food we eat.
B．The way we swallow the food.
C．The type of food we consume.
D．The time when we eat the food.
【2】What is common in the US?
A．Having an early breakfast.
B．Having dinner before 8 p.m.
C．Eating more fat and protein than others.
D．Eating their last meal by mid-afternoon.
【3】What will happen if you shorten the time between breakfast and supper?
A．You will get hungry easily.
B．You will put on more weight.
C．Your metabolism ability will decrease.
D．More of your body fat will get burned.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A．Ways to Lose Weight
B．The Importance of Meals
C．Meal Timing and Weight Loss
D．The Right Time to Lose Weight
23、 Hey, You Looking at Me?
The renowned Spanish magician and magic theorist Juan Tamariz wrote in his classic book that to make an audience feel seen, a performer must extend “imaginary threads from the performer’s eyes to the spectators,” taking care to not break them during the performance.
A new study, published earlier this month, suggests that for spectators to feel that they have eye-to-eye contact with the person onstage, the latter needs not extend imaginary threads from his or her eyes to the eyes of the audience. In fact, we perceive direct eye contact from other people not only when they look us in the eye, but also when they look at any other part of our face.
Shane Rogers, Oliver Guidetti, and their collaborators at Edith Cowan University in Perth, set out to determine whether people experience an ‘eye contact illusion’ during natural conversation, and if so, how strong the misperception might be. They conducted two eye-tracking studies:
In the first experiment, Guidetti engaged in one on one ‘getting acquainted’ conversations with 46 students, with both Guidetti and the student wearing eye-tracking glasses. In one half of the 4-minute conversations, Guidetti looked at the student’s eyes most of the time, and in the other half of the conversations, he looked at the student’s mouth most of the time. The data showed that, whereas mutual face gazing was comparable in the two participant groups, mutual eye contact was much lower. Once the conversation was over, students rated how much eye contact they believed Guidetti had made, and how much they had enjoyed the conversation. Both subject groups produced equivalently high ratings in each measure, indicating that our perception of eye contact during conversation has more to do with mutual face gazing than with actual eye contact.
In the second experiment, 36 pairs of students (all wearing eye-tracking goggles) participated in an ‘eye gaze guessing game,’ where participants alternated the roles of gazer and guesser for 30 experimental trials. In each trial, the gazer looked for about 2 seconds at one of five locations on the guesser’s face: eyes, mouth, nose, forehead, or either ear. Then, the guesser tried to guess the location the gazer had just looked at. The guessers’ accuracy was above chance level, suggesting that people do possess some ability to figure out the location of another person’s gaze when actively watching out for it. However, participants were slanted to guessing ‘eyes’ when unsure.
Based on the combined findings from both experiments, the researchers concluded that, unless people are specifically attending to gaze location, they are not very sensitive to the exact focus of their partner’s gaze upon their face during the course of natural conversation.
The bad news is, your perception of soul-to-soul eye contact with your romantic partner may be all in your head (your soulmate could be looking at your mouth, or even your ear, as they declare their everlasting love). But the good news is, if the act of looking at other people’s eyes makes you anxious, or if you dread speaking in front of an audience, you don’t need to sweat the small stuff. Just look in the general direction of people’s faces and it’ll feel to them like meaningful eye contact. (Feb 22th, 2019, Scientific American)
【1】What does the underlined word slanted probably mean?
A.certain B.likely
C.doubtful D.frustrated
【2】In the first experiment, the participants ________.
A.are trying to get to know each other
B.look at the eyes in half of the conversation
C.misjudge the actual amount of eye contact
D.make more face gazing to reduce embarrassment
【3】We can learn from the experiments that ________.
A.The gazer takes at least ten seconds to finish each trail
B.Eye contact makes participants enjoy conversations more
C.They are conducted to prove the significance of imaginary threads
D.People can be accurate about the exact focus of others5 gaze if focused
【4】Guidetti probably agrees that ________.
A.Soulful declaration of love doesn’t exist
B.Direct eye contact may cause anxiety
C.Mutual face gazing improves conversation quality
D.Eye contact illusion can be applied to real life
24、 They call it the “rule of 150”. An anthropologist(人类学家)called Robin Dunbar made a study of 21 different primitive societies. He found that they all lived in villages of around 150 people. Then he asked people living in modern cities to make a list of all the people they knew well enough to talk to. Each of them made a list of around 150 people. Many of us have left village life behind. But the idea of the village has not left us.
Other studies of businesses and army units have shown that when people are forced into groups of over 150 they become inefficient. There are just too many people around to communicate with effectively. It also seems that when our personal “villages” become too small, people feel lonely. We need other people to help us.
Many people see life as a kind of journey. As they travel they pick up things they need. These are friends, a family and jobs. This is a narrow way of looking at things. It does not explain why people who get good jobs and become rich are often unhappy.
Using the “rule of 150”, we can see things differently. Instead of being a lonely traveler, you are the head of your own village. You are responsible for every part of village life. Getting a good job helps with the “economic development of your village. But you also need to pay attention to the social harmony of your village.
Many people think that happiness is about winning a race. The winner gets a great job, a perfect family and a lot of money. The loser should expect to be unhappy. The “rule of 150” teaches us that happiness comes with getting the right balance of relationship in our lives.
In a competitive society it is easy to judge people according to the kind of job they have or how much money they make. In fact, we are all the boss of our own villages. This is a difficult job. It is worthy of your respect.
【1】What does the figure “150” relate to?
A．The size of a group.
B．The number of groups.
C．The amount of work.
D．The number of primitive societies.
【2】What is the author’s opinion about “seeing life as a kind of journey”?
A．It only refers to rich people.
B．It doesn’t include village life.
C．It can’t cover all possibilities in life.
D．It may bring about unhappiness.
【3】What do you do as the head of your own village?
A．Take a long journey with the other villagers.
B．Compete against others to achieve happiness.
C．Use the “rule of 150” to improve the village life.
D．Deal properly with the people and things around you.
【4】What is the “rule of 150” discussed in the text mainly about?
A．The journey of life.
B．Relationship in one’s life.
C．The way to look at things.
D．The competitive society.
25、 Ralphie was getting bored in his geography class. Mr. Hudson _______map of Europe up on the whiteboard, and asked someone to switch off the lights so they could see it _______. Ralphie popped a paper spitball into a straw and blew it _______the light switch. It missed, and _______in Mr. Hudson’s hair instead.
“Detention(留堂), Ralphie.” said Hudson. “I was only trying to _______the lights!” Ralphie protested. But he heard “See you after school. Don’t be late.”
Math class was _______. Ralphie was pretty good at math, so when Mrs. Addison _______student to solve a problem at the blackboard, Ralphie didn’t _______. He jumped out of his seat and announced in a loud voice, “I volunteer as Tribute!” His friends burst out laughing. Mrs. Addison looked at him sternly(严厉地)over the tops of her _______.
“Silence! Young man.”
“It’s from ‘The Hunger Games ...’” he tried to ________.
“That’s quite enough! Detention. Ralphie. After school. Don’t be late.”
When the bell rang. Ralphie went to see Mr. Hudson first. He was told to sit down. Then he ________one hand and asked to go to the ________. Mr. Hudson nodded.
________in the hallway, Ralphie raced over to Mrs. Addison’s room. He took a seat. Again, he lifted his hand and asked to use the washroom. Mrs. Addison ________, and Ralphie ________back to Mr. Hudson’s room. On the way, he________he did actually need to use the washroom. He went inside, locking the door behind him.
After washing his hands, he found the door lock was stuck. He twisted and shook it. He even threw his body against it like he saw people ________doors in movies. No luck. ________, Ralphie looked around the room for ideas. He took a plunger(疏通管道用的搋子) from the corner to prop the window open. He climbed up on the ________and pulled himself through the washroom window.
Hurriedly he went back to his detentions. ________, no teachers were in.
A．hung
B．projected
C．drew
D．read
A．better
B．higher
C．more
D．heavier
A．on
B．in
C．at
D．with
A．landed
B．flowed
C．fled
D．swallowed
A．turn off
B．turn to
C．turn over
D．turn down
A．away
B．behind
C．over
D．next
A．delayed
B．waited
C．stopped
D．required
A．move
B．smile
C．hesitate
D．interrupt
A．students
B．books
C．glasses
D．eyes
A．answer
B．explain
C．react
D．ignore
A．shook
B．reached
C．pointed
D．raised
A．classroom
B．washroom
C．bedroom
D．mushroom
A．So
B．Since
C．Though
D．Once
A．agreed
B．regretted
C．admitted
D．rejected
A．looked
B．headed
C．rode
D．struggled
A．forced
B．suggested
C．accepted
D．decided
A．getting off
B．getting out
C．breaking down
D．breaking up
A．Delighted
B．Surprised
C．Panicked
D．Excited
A．lamp
B．sink
C．table
D．water
A．Therefore
B．Moreover
C．Meanwhile
D．However
26、为了丰富学生的校园艺术文化生活，你校学生会筹划下个月在学校操场举办一次校园音乐节。假如你是学生会主席，请你用英语写一份通知发布在校园网上，号召同学们积极参与。通知内容包括：
1.活动目的；
2.活动的时间和地点；
3.活动内容及参加人员。
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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