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1、－Mary, how did your Math test go?
－I had thought I _________, but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class.
A. should have failed B. couldn’t have failed
C. might have failed D. shouldn’t have failed
2、The girl has a great interest in sports and ___ badminton classes twice a week over the past 2 years.
A. takes B. took
C. is taking D. has been taking
3、Once you _____ drugs, it’s hard to manage to get rid of them.
A．get through
B．get off
C．get into
D．get down
4、Our teachers ________ themselves heart and soul into their work of bringing up a new generation.
A. employ B. dedicate
C. throw D. devote
5、Regular reflecting is______ good habit. If so, you will make ______ great progress in your study.
A. /; a B. a; a C. the; a D. a; /
6、He had little idea that it was getting so late， ?
A．didn’t he B．wasn’t it
C．did he D．was it
7、A long road tests a horse’s strength and a long-term task ________ a man’s heart.
A. proves B. will prove C. is proving D. has proved
8、He _______after a few day’s treatment in hospital．
A．picked up B．made up C．took up D．looked up
9、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。
The English speech contest is one of my memorable experiences.
A.memorized B.unforgettable C.memory D.outstanding
10、--Joey founded his company at the age of 25. That's quite___________
-Yes, he will be ______ for sure.
A.something; nobody B.everything; nobody
C.something; somebody D.anything; somebody
11、—Where is he exactly?
—I don’t know, but I saw him _______ an experiment in the lab when I passed by.
A. to conduct B. conducted
C. conducting D. conduct
12、Can you tell me ______ that the 29th Olympic Games will take place?
A. it is when B. when is it C. when is D. when it is
13、— Alan seems a lot taller than when I last saw him．
— He ________．He’s grown a foot since you saw him in Shanghai．
A． is B． will be
C． has been D． Was
14、A bank is a place __________ they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when
it begins to rain.
A.when B.where C.that D.there
15、My time is ________, so you can make the meeting at any time.
A. bold B. genuine
C. flexible D. available
16、He was giving his collection _____________ for free.
A. up B. away
C. off D. back
17、Almost 90% of the most popular video games contain violence, and much of ________ is extremely violent.
A. which B. it C. them D. those
18、Almost every day we come across situations ____________ we have to make decisons one way or another.
A.that B.where C.what D.which
19、All the money ________， the young man had no choice but to start hunting for a job.
A. has been spent B. had been spent
C. having spent D. having been spent
20、Volunteering gives you a chance _______ lives，including your own．
A．change B．changing
C．changed D．to change
21、Is gun play good or bad for children? For many years I emphasized its harmlessness. When concerned parents expressed doubt about letting their children have toy guns, because they didn’t want to encourage them in the slightest degree to become criminals, I would explain how little connection there was. In the course of growing up, children have a natural tendency to bring their aggressiveness more and more under control if their parents encourage this. One- to two-year-olds, when they are angry with another child, may bite the child’s arm without hesitation. But by 3 or 4 they have already learned that aggression is not right. However, they may pretend to shoot their mother or father, but smiling to assure them that the gun and the aggressive behaviour aren’t to be taken seriously.
In the 6- to 12-year-old period, children will play an earnest game of war, but it has lots of rules. There may be arguments, but real fights are relatively rare. At this age children don’t shoot at their mother or father, even in fun. It’s not that the parents have turned stricter; the children’s own conscience has. In adolescence aggressive feelings become much stronger, but well brought-up children can turn them into athletics and other competition or into kidding their friends.
In other words, I’d explain that playing at war is a natural step in the disciplining of the aggression of young children; that a cautious parent doesn’t really need to worry about producing a criminal.
But nowadays I’d give parents much more encouragement to guide their child away from violence. A number of incidents have convinced me of the importance of this.
One of the first things that made me change my mind, several years ago, was an observation that an experienced nursery school teacher told me about. Her children were hitting each other much more than previously, without reason. When she talked to them, they would protest, “But that’s what the Three Stooges do.” (This was a children’s TV program full of violence which immediately became very popular.)
What further shocked me into reconsidering my view was the assassination(暗杀）of the former President, and the fact that some schoolchildren cheered about this. (I didn’t so much blame the children as I blamed the kind of parents who will say about a President they dislike, “I’d shoot him if I got the chance!”）
These incidents made me think of other evidences that Americans often tolerate lawlessness and violence. We were hard on the Indians and the later waves of immigrants. At times we denied justice to groups with different religions or political views. And now a great percentage of our adult as well as our child population has been endlessly fascinated with dramas of Western violence and with cruel crime stories, in movies and on television. This doesn’t necessarily mean that we Americans on the average have more aggressiveness inside us than the people of other nations. I think rather that the aggressiveness we have is less controlled, from childhood on.
To me it seems very clear that in order to have a more stable and civilized national life we must bring up the next generation of Americans with a greater respect for law and for other people’s rights than in the past. There are many ways in which we could and should teach these attitudes. One simple opportunity we could seize in the first half of childhood is to show our disapproval of lawlessness and violence in television programs and in children’s gun play.
I also believe that the survival of the world now depends on a much greater awareness of the need to avoid war and to actively seek peaceful agreements. There are enough nuclear arms to completely destroy all civilization. This terrifying situation demands a much greater stability and self-control on the part of national leaders and citizens than they have ever shown in the past. We owe it to our children to prepare them deliberately for this awesome responsibility.
【1】The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refers to______.
A. controlling their aggressiveness
B. playing with toy guns
C. aggressive behavior
D. the course of growing up
【2】Based on the author’s view about the relationship between children’s aggressiveness and their age, which of the following is true?
A. A 2-year old boy knows that it is not correct to behave aggressively.
B. The older children become, the less aggressive they will be.
C. 6- to 12-year-olds enjoy war games but develop them into argument and serious fights.
D. Adolescents’ aggressiveness is often displayed in the form of competition.
【3】What conclusion does the author intend to draw from the story told by the nursery school teacher?
A. Watching violence can lower a child’s standard of behaviour.
B. Violent TV programs should be banned in nursery schools.
C. Children are generally lawless or violent nowadays. I
D. It is acceptable to let children have toy guns
【4】What does Paragraph 7 mainly talk about?
A. Examples showing that Americans are more aggressive than other nations.
B. Evidences proving that America has a long history of lawlessness and violence.
C. The idea that children are less able to put their aggressiveness under control.
D. More reasons why the author changed his view on the main issue of the article.
【5】What is a must if people intend to enjoy stability and civilized national life?
A. To show disapproval of gun play in television programs.
B. To make people aware that there are already enough nuclear arms.
C. To elect national leaders with greater stability and self-control.
D. To bring up children who show more respect for the law and others’ rights.
【6】Which of the following serves best as the title of the article?
A. How Does Age Influence Aggressiveness?
B. Are American Children Becoming More Aggressive?
C. Should Children Play With Guns?
D. What Should Parents Teach Their Children
22、Owls(猫头鹰) are some of the world’s greatest hunters. From head to feet, owls’ bodies are built to hunt. Scientists are studying all the things that make owls such great hunters.
Most owls hunt at night. The birds have excellent hearing, which helps them find their next meal in the dark.
Owls have one ear that is larger and set higher than the other. When an owl hears a sound, it listens closely. Is the sound lounder in its right ear or left ear? Does the upper or lower ear detect the sound first? The information helps the owl find the location of its prey without ever seeing it.
Owls don’t depend just on their hearing to hunt. After a sound draws an owl’s attention, it zeroes in with sight.
Many birds have eyes on either side of their heads. But an owl’s eyes face forward, like a person’s. Images from each eye combine to form a 3-D picture, similar to how we see. That helps owls better judge a prey’s size, distance, and speed.
An owl’s eyes are so large that they can gather lots of light. That helps the owl see better when hunting at night. An owl’s eyes are also fixed in their sockets(眼窝). It can’t roll them like we can. Instead, an owl keeps prey in its sight by turning its head.
Owls can move their beads nearly upside down and turn them 270 degrees around. Their necks have 14 vertebrae(椎骨). That’s twice as many neck bones as a person has.
The blood vessels(血管) thread through holes in an owl’s vertebrae. The researchers found that these holes are very large so that the extra space provides an air cushion that protects the vessels.
Detecting prey is only the first step for owls. Next they must catch their meals. An owl can fly inches over your head and you can’t hear anything. The secret to owls’ silent flight is their feathers. Fine “hairs” cover the surface of an owl’s wing feathers. And the feathers’ edges have soft barbs(羽支). Together, they make the sound of air rushing over the owl’s wings quieter and less clear.
【1】 While hunting at night, owls first get a prey’s information by .
A. seeing the shape B. hearing the sound
C. detecting the smell D. feeling the air move
【2】According to text, an owl’s eyes .
A. are small but sharp
B. can function like a person’s
C. are on either side of its head
D. can tell how fast a prey is moving
【3】The shortcoming of an owl’s fixed eyes can be made up by its .
A. large head B. strong legs
C. body size D. flexible neck
【4】What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A. How owls find their prey.
B. Why owls can fly noiselessly.
C. The advantages of owls’ hearing
D. The secret of owls’ high-speed flight.
23、It is commonly believed that all over the world, boys and girls attend a mixed school, where they study together. But boys' schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and music.
Always boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they had to correspond to(和…相符) the "boy code" of hiding their emotions to be a "real man".
Surprisingly, the findings of the study go against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.
George Carl, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being failed by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls. He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.
The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when girls do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.
But in single-sex schools teachers can adjust lessons to boys' learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study's author, Abigail James, of the University of Virginia.
Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with "boy-focused" approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them. Because boys generally have more acute vision, learn best through touch, and are physically more active, they need to be given "hands-on" lessons where they are allowed to walk around. "Boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine(女性的) and prefer the modern genre (类型) in which violence and sexism are major themes," James wrote.
Single-sex education also made it less likely that boys would feel that they had to be "masterful and in charge" in relationships. "In mixed schools, boys feel forced to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means," the study reported.
【1】The writer argues that a single-sex school would ________.
A. encourage boys to express their emotions more freely
B. help boys to be more competitive in schools.
C. force boys to he their emotions to be "real men".
D. naturally strengthen boys’ traditional image of a man.
【2】Traditionally, in a mixed school boys ________.
A. behave more responsibly
B. perform relatively better
C. grow up more healthily
D. receive a better education
【3】In Abigail James’ opinion, one of the advantages of single-sex schools is ________.
A. boys can choose to learn whatever they are interested in
B. boys can focus on their lessons without being distracted
C. teaching can be adjusted to suiting the characteristics of boys
D. teaching can be designed to promote boys' team spirit
【4】The underlined word “acute” in paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. lovely B. serious C. sharp D. dull
24、often teach about happiness and what has become clear is this：There are some qualities always unhappy people have．Here are some of them．
Happy people know life can be hard and tend to live through hard times．They take responsibility for how they got themselves into a mess，and focus on getting themselves out of it as soon as possible．Unhappy people see themselves as victims of life and stay stuck in the“look what happened to me” attitude instead of finding a way through and out to the other side．
Most happy people believe in the good in people instead of thinking everyone is out to get them．Generally open and friendly towards people they meet，happy people foster(培养)a sense of community around themselves and meet new people with all open heart．Unhappy people are distrustful of most people they meet and don’t think strangers can be trusted．Unfortunately，this behavior slowly closes all chances of meeting new friends．
Unhappy people believe someone else’s good fortune steals from their own．They believe there’s not enough goodness to go around and always compare others’against theirs．This leads to jealousy(嫉妒)．Happy people know that others’good luck and circumstance are just signs of what they also can achieve if they try hard enough．They believe in unlimited possibilities and don’t get stuck in thinking one person’s good fortune limits their possible outcome in life．
There’s only so much space between the two ears．Unhappy people fill that space with constant worry and fear．Happy people experience fear and worry too，but make an important difference between feeling it and living with it．When fear or worry crosses a happy person’s mind，they’ll ask themselves if there’s an action they can take to prevent their fear or worry from happening and they take it．If not，they realize they’re spinning in fear and they lay it down．
【1】Paragraph 2 mainly shows that unhappy people tend to _______________．
A．focus on what they really want
B．get worried about what will happen
C．stay focused on the past misfortunes
D．find a way to live through hard times
【2】According to paragraph 3 and 4，unhappy people ______________．
A．like making some new friends
B．hate seeing others with good fortune
C．are more likely to be cheated by strangers
D．believe they can get good luck by working hard
【3】What is implied about happy people?
A．They don’t think life is hard．
B．They hardly ever fear anything．
C．They try to get out of their fear or worries．
D．They don’t believe in every people they meet．
【4】How is the text mainly developed?
A．By making comparisons．
B．By giving examples．
C．By showing detailed data．
D．By proving some theories．
25、Last week, my 8-year-old daughter was listening to Nimo’s song Empty Hands. Suddenly, she put forward, “how about we_______ heart-shaped cards with beautiful messages and hang them on everyone’s mailboxes around the_______?” And her two little brothers also got super excited about the idea and their project was_______ off.
Every day they made a few cards—they cut the cards into shape of hearts, wrote kind messages and wishes and then_______ them. They wrote a lot of_______ like—“Thank you for your kindness;We are all together; Love over fear; Gratitude (感激) over_______” and many more…
Within a week, they had around 50 cards ready to be_______. Every afternoon, the kids were super excited to work for a few hours. One day_______ we were working on the cards, my daughter_______ her head by surprise, “it makes me very happy and energetic when I do this.” She said very________.
Finally, on Friday, July 10th, kids________ the neighborhood on their bicycles and hung the hearts on everyone’s mailboxes. Their excitement and kindness were just so________ for everyone. They didn’t know how people were going to________ but they were just super happy doing it. They had finished distributing (分发) cards________ the end of the day. And they said they would do it again.
Beautiful souls (灵魂) with so much________ in them.
【1】
A．form
B．apply
C．make
D．describe
【2】
A．neighborhood
B．stadium
C．downtown
D．apartment
【3】
A．put
B．kicked
C．taken
D．set
【4】
A．operated
B．addicted
C．spread
D．decorated
【5】
A．suggestions
B．messages
C．news
D．information
【6】
A．hearing
B．suffering
C．destroying
D．spreading
【7】
A．arranged
B．demanded
C．damaged
D．delivered
【8】
A．since
B．once
C．while
D．before
【9】
A．nodded
B．shook
C．raised
D．hung
【10】
A．softly
B．excitedly
C．crazily
D．anxiously
【11】
A．went around
B．turned around
C．went up
D．turned up
【12】
A．unique
B．mild
C．fluent
D．warm
【13】
A．behave
B．refer
C．react
D．imagine
【14】
A．at
B．by
C．to
D．until
【15】
A．advance
B．effort
C．love
D．praise
26、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。
I have taught Spanish to thousands of students over my 36 years at Walpole High School in Walpole, Massachusetts. My students have ranged from the most academically gifted to the academically at-risk. There is one young man, however, who in the course of his high school career surpassed everyone’s expectations. His name is Vincent Lee.
Vincent entered my classroom as a nervous freshman on his first day of high school. He was enrolled in our Spanish course, a transition course for students who underperformed in Spanish I. In fact, Vincent had not had a lot of success in Spanish in middle school. His eighth grade teacher had described him as that “sad, introverted (内向的) boy in the last row who always kept his head down.”
Vincent often went to class unprepared and couldn’t see the point of learning another language. And yet there were other reasons to explain this lack of motivation. Vincent was dealing with a lot of turmoil (混乱) in his life: the recent divorce of his parents, moving from a house to an apartment and much greater responsibility at home for helping his mom take care of his younger twin brothers.
From the very start of my course, I sensed an attitude that separated Vincent from his peers. He entered class each day, took his seat quietly and took out what he needed for the lesson. At first, he was somewhat shy about answering questions in Spanish, but as the course progressed, I was able to engage him in conversations about his family, his interests and his passions.
With time going by, Vincent became more willing to volunteer and even ask me questions. He seemed fascinated by the fact that my parents were from Costa Rica and that I was fluent in both English and Spanish. When he once asked how long it takes to become fluent in another language, I explained that it takes many years and that the first sign that a person has adopted the language as his own is when one dreams in that language.
注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；
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。
Clearly, Vincent was beginning to view himself as a real student.
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By the end of the year, Vincent had achieved a high level of proficiency.
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