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1、Since the new speed limits ______，the number of accidents in the area has fallen strikingly．
A．were introduced B．introduced
C．have been introduced D．have introduced
2、Intelligence doesn’t __________ mean success. You need to work hard as well.
A.honestly B.necessarily C.formally D.simply
3、The teacher’s ________ explanation left the students no confusion over that abstract theory.
A.explicit B.enormous C.enthusiastic D.elegant
4、They met for the first time, but they talked happily as if they______ good friends for a long time.
A. have been B. were C. are D. had been
5、People are very adaptable, and we quickly ______ a new life circumstance — for better or worse — and consider it normal.
A. adjust to B. lie in C. stay with D. rely on
6、— Let’s go and have a good drink tonight.
— ________ Have you got the first prize in the competition?
A． Thanks a lot． B． What for?
C． Yes, I’d like to． D． Why not?
考点：词组／短语
7、This discovery helped researchers conclude that these two drugs, when ___ together, could lead to heart disease.
A.taken B.taking C.to take D.having taken
8、The use of an alcohol breath test by the police greatly reduces the ____of drivers causing traffic accidents．
A. possibility B. pressure
C. preference D. Production
9、Just be patient．You _____ expect the world to change so soon．
A． can’t
B． may not
C． needn’t
D． didn’t
10、A selfie stick is_____ enables users to position their smartphones to get better photo angles
A．that B．how C．what D．who
11、--- How did he lose much weight?
--- _____ eating less, he walked ten miles every day.
A. In terms of B. In spite of
C. With regard to D. Apart from
12、He invented a new game_______ children, but it never really________.
A. intended for; caught on B. intended to; counted on
C. for; caught up on D. intended to; caught on
13、How did it come about ________ a quiet person should appear so wild today?
A. whether B. that C. if D. what
14、_______, the idea of having to work under a woman defeated him．
A．Wanting the job very much
B．Although wanting the job badly
C．Though he wanted the job very much
D．He wanted the job badly
考点：状语从句
15、How shocked he __________ the news that the terrorists attacked Paris, leaving 129 dead and hundreds injured.
A. was heard B. heard C. was to hear D. would hear
16、Some experts think, ______ genes, intelligence also depends on an adequate diet, a good education and a nice home environment.
A．instead of
B．except of
C．apart from
D．rather than
17、We gave out a cheer when the little cottage came ______view.
A．from
B．in
C．before
D．into
18、______ food you’ve cooked! Thank you for your treat.
A.How a nice B.What a nice C.How nice D.What nice
19、The speaker mentioned many examples people lived through hard times and succeeded at last．
A. which B. whose C. when D. Where
20、Don’t waste words on him. He is so ______ that you can’t expect him to change his mind.
A. stubborn B. merciful C. modest D. sincere
21、No one dances like you. Your mom knows it. Your friends know it. Even computers know it. Now, before you get too excited, keep in mind that it doesn’t mean you’re a particularly good dancer. Only that the way you throw your arms in the air is entirely unique.
In fact, according to a recent study, the scientists, from a research center in Finland, discovered a computer could magically identify your moves to whatever type of music. “We actually weren’t looking for this result, as we set out to study something completely different,” lead study author Emily Carlson explained in the interview. “Our original idea was to see if we could use machine learning to identify which type of music our participants (参与者) were dancing to, based on their movements.”
Unexpectedly, they built dance-recognition software. Thus, you may say, they moonwalked into the discovery.
For their study, the researchers asked 73 participants to dance to various types of music—while computer software tried to determine what kind of music they were listening to. Was it Blues? Jazz? or Metal? It turned out the computer wasn’t so good at telling styles of music. It made the right guess only about one in three times. But it did surprise the researchers with its impressive ability in another aspect: it knew exactly who was dancing 94% of the time.
In their introduction to the paper, the authors suggested that, “One of the most significant features of music is its tendency to make us move. The majority of people respond to hearing music with some kind of movement, from simply clapping to a beat to making complex (复杂的) dance movements.”
Of course, we don’t dance the same way to every song. That would be, well awkward. As the authors note, dance moves are changed according to the volume (音量) of the bass drum (低音鼓). Not only that but “the presence of kick drum uniquely related to the speed of head movements.” That’s a very technical way of suggesting that we dance to the music we’re given. The thing is, at the heart of the dance are movements—and whether they’re gentle taps or all out booty-shaking, they could function as identifiable biometric data (生物特征资料).
“It seems as though a person’s dance movements are a kind of fingerprint,” study co-author Pasi Saari noted in the paper. “Each person has a unique movement signature that stays the same no matter what kind of music is playing.”
【1】What was the original idea of the research?
A．To discover music features.
B．To recognize the dancer.
C．To identify the type of music.
D．To tell dancers’ response.
【2】The underlined words “moonwalked into” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ________.
A．firmly supported
B．seriously reported
C．unexpectedly made
D．unreasonably questioned
【3】According to Paragraph 6, ________.
A．dancing technique is decided by the given music
B．the volume of drums may be determined by dance moves
C．drum players’ head movements change the speed of playing
D．dance movements could function as identifiable biometric data
【4】Which might be the best title for the passage?
A．Is It Necessary to Carry Out Such Research?
B．The Way We Dance Is Kind of like a Fingerprint
C．The Tendency of Music to Make Us Move Is Complex
D．Why Do People Dance in the Same Way to Different Music?
22、After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Benjamin Blume began to attend Sam Houston State University, USA but he felt there was something missing. That all changed when Blume attended a study program abroad. With the help of the staff at the Office of International Programs and the Veterans Resource Center (退伍老兵资源中心), he was able to take seven study trips abroad, visiting 19 countries in just three years.
Blume’s first stop was Leipzig, Germany for a German language program in the summer of 2018. Later that summer, Blume visited Australia as part of the stars and galaxy (星系) course. “There was a major eclipse (日食) in Australia that summer and it was an amazing thing to see,” Blume said. “We also visited Wyoming after leaving Australia for the same course to see the sky.”
In the fall of 2018, Blume took off again, this time visiting Bern, Switzerland for a business course. Blume returned for the 2019 spring term before his next adventure that summer in Tokyo for a month long economics trip. “Tokyo was quite the experience and like nothing I had seen before,” Blume said. “I had never experienced so much culture and history as I did there.”
Blume went from Tokyo back to Germany, this time visiting Aachen for an economics program. After returning to the U. S. and staying for a month, Blume travelled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for a three week marketing program. Finally, Blume took his seventh and last study abroad trip to Auckland, New Zealand. “New Zealand was probably my favorite place to visit because the landscape is so diverse,” Blume added. “One day we hiked a glacier, which I had never done. I also got to see where The Habbit films were made.”
【1】Which countries did Benjamin Blume visit in the summer of 2018?
A．Germany and Australia.
B．Germany and Switzerland.
C．New Zealand and Australia.
D．New Zealand and Switzerland.
【2】What did Blume do in Auckland, New Zealand?
A．He saw a major eclipse.
B．He hiked several glaciers.
C．He attended a language program.
D．he visited where The Habit films were made.
【3】What is the right time order for the following events?
a. Blume visited Aachen for an economics trip.
b. Blume visited Tokyo for a month-long economics trip.
c. Blume visited Bern, Switzerland for a business course.
d. Blume visited Dubai for a three-week marketing program.
e. Blume visited Australia as part of the stars and galaxy course.
A．e-a-c-d-b
B．e-c-b-a-d
C．c-b-e-a-d
D．c-d-a-c-e
【4】Why did Blume return to America in the spring of 2019?
A．For an interview.
B．For his adventure.
C．For his study.
D．For a party.
23、 Strawberry (草莓) fields dotted with hunched-over workers picking and packaging, then pushing the delicate red fruit to waiting trucks — it is a typical winter scene embedded in the patchwork of homes and farms that make up eastern Hillsborough County.
That scene is changing, though, as the labor pool shrinks and technology comes knocking. Wish Farms owner Gary Wishnatzki and his engineer partner Bob Pitzer are banking on technology.
As strawberry season wrapped up in February, their driverless strawberry-picking machine drove into the fields for some test runs. The results were impressive and enlightening（有启迪作用的）, Wishnatzki said.
For some three years now, farmers have been forced to abandon millions of dollars worth of strawberries in fields, mostly in Hillsborough and Manatee counties, because they lacked laborers, industry experts say. The problem has been just as serious in California, Arizona and other farm communities.
The reasons for the shrinking worker pool are numerous. Migrant（移民）workers who have picked the fields for years are aging. Young adults in migrant families already in the United States are getting better educations and have more choices these days, including the construction industry, which again is on the upswing. Stricter security is allowing fewer undocumented workers to cross the border from Mexico. And Mexicans are having much smaller families now — just over two children per family, compared with 7.3 per family in 1960, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released in 2012.
And since Mexico’s economy bounced back faster than that of the U.S., more Mexicans have been able to find work closer to home, according to the study.
“We came up with a concept we perceive as a necessity,” Wishnatzki said. “The labor pool has been shrinking for over 10 years now. It has been pretty harmful.” So in 2012, he and Pitzer formed their partnership, Harvest CROO Robotics, to develop a mechanical picker.
The Harvest CROO design has multiple picking heads that will move across a field, picking 25 acres over a three-day period, the typical time for picking fruit as it ripens. It has a “vision system” to distinguish between red and green strawberries and is able to get under the leaves to find and pick the ripe berries.
Picking strawberries is nothing like using a combine on a corn field, coming through and thrashing down the plants. Strawberries are delicate and ripen in various intervals, which Harvest CROO is taking into account in developing its machine.
A strawberry-picking machine will never completely replace the need for human labor in the fields, Wishnatzki said, but if the machines can supplement（补充）labor enough to keep the industry profitable, he and Pitzer will have met their goal.
【1】Which of the following describes the typical winter scene of eastern Hillsborough County?
A. Farmers work hard on a corn field.
B. Workers pick and package strawberries.
C. Scientists test machines in strawberry fields.
D. Farmers operate strawberry-picking machines.
【2】The mechanical picker is introduced due to ______.
A. the labor shortage
B. the market demand
C. the aging of the local population
D. the new concept of farming
【3】Which of the following statements about Mexicans is true according to the passage?
A. Mexicans like to find jobs far away from home.
B. There are more Mexican laborers than needed in Arizona.
C. Security regulations now make it easier to employ Mexicans.
D. Young people from migrant Mexican families now have access to more career choices.
【4】 The “vision system” is designed to ______.
A. take pictures
B. locate leaves
C. find the ripe berries
D. help the color-blind
【5】The goal of developing the strawberry-picking machine is to ______.
A. get rid of human labor
B. help farmers make money
C. show the power of robots
D. compete with the corn industry
24、Optional evening workshops will be held at small restaurants or other meeting places near the conference hotel. Meals and other costs are not included but are also optional. Locations will be announced at the conference site. Workshops are very loosely organized and most represent discussions that have been held at Society for Economic Botany (SEB) meetings over a series of years.
Workshop 1: Student Network
Date: Wednesday evening, Feb. 5th
Chairs: Hugo de Boer and Arika Virapongse
Sponsor: Society for Economic Botany
Description: Student members of the SEB hold a networking mixer each year in order to meet each other and to become familiar with a variety of educational programs and faculty advisors(大学指导老师). Faculty members who are part of training programs are encouraged to join the mixer to meet and talk with students.
Workshop 2: Botanical Film Making
Date : Wednesday evening, Feb. 5th
Chair : David Strauch
Sponsor : University of Hawaii
Description : Digital film making is a particularly useful tool of linking cultural information to recognizable plants. This workshop is aimed towards increasing the quality of material recorded by giving participants greater control over the medium. We will cover technical aspects (e.g. camera settings, audio), technical aspects (framing, lighting, focus), and some ways of presenting the material. Experienced filmmakers are encouraged to attend, and participants are welcome to bring their own camera equipment.
Workshop 3: Collections for Botany
— Collections Development and Management
Date: Friday evening, Feb. 7th
Chair: Jan Salick
Sponsor: Society for Economic Botany
Description: SEB is a network of researchers who have been developing standards for the development of collections of artifacts, plant samples and related materials. Participants discuss successes, problems, and funding sources for solving management issues.
【1】One of the purposes of a networking mixer held each year is to ________.
A. provide students with greater control over the media
B. help the students to be familiar with educational programs
C. help the students to deal with most of the environment issues
D. link cultural information to recognizable plants
【2】Which of the following is true according to the poster?
A. Evening workshops will be held at small restaurants with meals included.
B. Faculty advisers can join the mixer without training experience.
C. Workshops have nothing to do with the discussions held at SEB meetings.
D. Participants have more than one option on Feb. 5th than another night.
【3】You are a college student, interested in plants and good at taking TV pictures. Which of the Evening Workshops is most suitable for you?
A. Collections for Botany. B. Botanical Film Making.
C. Student Network. D. Society for Economic Botany.
25、 The morning was dark and cold. Stars twinkled down from the sky and a half _______was still hanging there. “Varrow, wake up,” Gramps whispered,_______me gently, “It’s sea turtle time.” I rubbed my eyes and_______my way in the dark, dizzy and woozy. Then, the repeated “sea turtle time”_______me completely.
Gramps and I_______our heavy waterproof boots over our pajamas and threw rain jackets on our shoulders_______. I pushed the front door open and ran out onto the_______, Gramps not far behind. There, I held my_______. Thousands of baby sea turtles were_______out on the endless stretch of sand and racing to the ocean. We took in the amazing scene________. But Gramps and I weren’t there just to watch. We had a________.
________, we made our way through the mess of broken shells and the little lovely sea turtles to________those that needed help. Soon enough, I________one. A baby turtle was flipped (翻转) on its back,________to roll over no matter how hard it kicked its legs. Reaching my hand down, I gently picked the fragile baby up and flipped it over and got it right back to its________to the ocean. “Nice job, Varrow.” Gramps patted me on the shoulder, his eyes twinkling and his mouth stretching into a smile. I felt a rush of pride and became even more________because of Gramps’ compliment for the next few hours. By 7:00, the last sea turtles had crawled into the water and we finally sat down on the soft sand,________. We couldn't be more satisfied with our hard work.
As the sun rose from the horizon, golden beams of sunlight stretching ever outwards onto the deep________. The colourful world woke up. What a________for those in their deep sleep! They missed the amazing natural gifts right under their nose.
【1】A.sun B.moon C.ray D.shadow
【2】A.waving B.moving C.shaking D.observing
【3】A.felt B.pushed C.changed D.made
【4】A.covered B.awoke C.struck D.surrounded
【5】A.relied on B.gave away C.pulled on D.kicked off
【6】A.hurriedly B.formally C.awkwardly D.unwillingly
【7】A.board B.boat C.square D.beach
【8】A.attention B.breath C.strength D.records
【9】A.hatching B.breaking C.sleeping D.sliding
【10】A.in response B.in detail C.in horror D.in wonder
【11】A.mission B.rest C.curiosity D.secret
【12】A.Hopefully B.Luckily C.Carefully D.Confidently
【13】A.dig out B.take away C.pass by D.search for
【14】A.realised B.released C.stopped D.spotted
【15】A.uncertain B.unable C.struggling D.managing
【16】A.shell B.desire C.journey D.space
【17】A.comfortable B.independent C.touched D.motivated
【18】A.exhausted B.curious C.defeated D.astonished
【19】A.red B.blue C.island D.ground
【20】A.surprise B.relief C.pity D.passion
26、请阅读下面文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
More than 100，000 volunteers in 132 cities spent a weekend picking up plastic and other waste across the country, in a joint worldwide effort to clean up the planet.
To celebrate the 10th World Cleanup Day on Sept 15，some 700 nonprofit NGOs (nongovernmental originations) and social groups held activities aimed at cleaning up the environment and tackling the waste crisis throughout China, mobilizing an estimated 1 millionplus people.
From snowcapped mountains to vast oceans, people united in taking action to remove waste from the environment to raise awareness of the severity of the crisis.
“Where there is a will, every day can be and should be ‘Cleanup Day’， says Ma Yongjian, a volunteer from Beijing who recently did “plogging”—jogging while picking up trash—with his friends in Yudong Park in the northwest of the city.
“We must change the way of living we are used to, to reduce waste from its source，” says Joe Harvey, a British national and promoter of “zero waste” lifestyles in China. He and his girlfriend Carrie Yu created The Bulk House, a brand that provides zerowaste solutions for daily living. They are urging people to reduce or eliminate the use of plastic and singleuse disposables, such as plastic utensils，bags and beverage bottles.
Sounding a note of caution, Mao Da, a specialist in environmental history at Beijing Normal University, says: “In recent years, the massive consumption and materialistic craze have worsened the waste situation as trash has been produced at a faster pace and in greater quantities.”
（写作内容）
1. 以约30个词概括文章大意；
2. 以约120个词就“世界清理日”这个主题发表你的看法，内容要包括如下要点:
(1) 你对于“世界清理日”及类似活动有哪些看法？
(2) 你觉得要采取哪些措施来保持环境整洁？
（写作要求）
1. 可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接照抄原文；2. 标题自定。
（评分标准） 概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯。
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