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1、Here are still some spaces which are________for cellular phones, such as aeroplanes and churches.
A．on display
B．beyond words
C．in place
D．off limits
2、________ in his lessons, he knew nothing about the outside world.
A．Burying
B．Buried
C．Being buried
D．Being burying
3、Absolute poverty has fallen steadily since the industrial revolution, which is ________ yesterday’s luxuries have become today’s necessities.
A．what
B．why
C．that
D．where
4、Mum’s “Little Bank” was used for sudden________, such as the time when Christine broke her arm and had to be taken to a doctor.
A．emergencies
B．proposals
C．functions
D．individuality
5、Not much impressed ________ the performance, half the audience left before it was over.
A. on B. in C. by D. at
6、I’m sorry to say that we have ________.
A. made few progress B. made very little progress
C. made no progresses D. made a small progress
7、—We are a long way from an invention like “a time machine” at the moment. But who knows?
—________
A．Never say never.
B．Go for it!
C．Great minds think alike.
D．Are you kidding?
8、________ their inexperience, they’ve done a very good job.
A．Given
B．Giving
C．To give
D．Being given
9、We ________ the national flag when the sun ________ in the east every morning.
A. raise; raises B. rise; rises
C. raise; rises D. rise; raise
10、— Did he break my glass________? — No. Quite by accident.
A. on purpose B. with purpose
C. for purpose D. at purpose
11、In front of the famous big trees ________ a family, ________ the parents treat their child like a friend.
A. stays; whose B. are; of which C. settle; where D. lives; where
12、When making a speech, it is important to __________ one’s message__________ to the audience.
A. get; away B. get; out
C. get; across D. get; down
13、(2014·福建) For those with family members far away, the personal computer and the phone are important in staying ________.
A．connected
B．connecting
C．to connect
D．to be connected
14、I have told you the truth. I keep repeating it?
A. Can B. Must C. May D. Will
15、Having experienced all kinds of hardships, he________ reached his destination.
A．unfortunately
B．eventually
C．generally
D．purposefully
16、You can hardly imagine the difficulty the woman had ________ her children.
A.brought up B.to bring up
C.bringing up D.to have brought
17、If you want to catch the first bus you’d better for the bus station immediately.
A.set up B.set about C.set down D.set off
18、Manners and rules are to a society what clothing is to the ______. Without manners a society would be in a pitiable state.
A．senior
B．individual
C．companion
D．adulthood
19、_____________him a hand and he will be out of trouble as soon as possible.
A．Giving
B．To give
C．Given
D．Give
20、---Did Jack take the doctor’s advice that he _____ in bed for a couple of days?
---If only he _______.
A．lies; does
B．lay; did
C．lie; did
D．lie; had
21、Figures show that 6 to 10 percent of Internet users become _______ and waste a lot of time.
A. addicted B. frequent C. physical D. sensitive
22、______ with other contestants sitting on the stage, Angela appeared calm and confident in the quiz show.
A.Compared B.Comparing
C.To compare D.Having compared
23、There is a woman ________ herself Mrs. Clare over there. She wants to see you.
A．calling
B．calls
C．called
D．call
24、 Is honesty the best policy? We that it is when we are little.
A．will teach
B．teach
C．are taught
D．will be taught
25、The situation is so urgent that we must __________ an effective way to solve the problem right now.
A. let out B. pick out
C. figure out D. put out
26、The Los Angeles Zoo has many public programs that aim to teach the public about animals and natural protection.
Safari shuttle(旅游电车)
While you’re here, take the Safari shuttle for a quick trip from one end of the Zoo to the other. All day long, seven days a week (from 10 am to 5 pm), the Safari Shuttle picks up passengers, circles the Zoo, and returns to the main flamingo (火烈鸟) exhibit near the front entrance. You can get on and off the shuttle as often as you like.
Food
Safari Café (at the Zoo entrance) offers Starbucks coffee, fresh-baked cookies, and ice cream. Gorilla Grill is the spot for grilled (烤的) food, kids’ meals, refreshments (点心), and ice cream. La Casita serves a variety of Mexican food and refreshments. Silverback’s Café offers sandwiches, salads, bread bowls, cold beer, and refreshments.
Hour
The Zoo is open from 10 am to 5 pm every day of the year except Christmas Day. Special summer long hours are until 6 pm from July 1 to September 7. Please remember, the Zoo starts putting animals in for the night at 4 pm during regular hour, and at 5 pm during summer hours.
Admission Prices
Adults (aged 13 and above): $9
Seniors (aged 62 and above): $6
Children (aged 2 to 12): $ 4
Children (aged 2 to 12): $4
Children (under 2): free
Items Not Allowed on Zoo Grounds
Alcohol, Glass bottles, Pets, Bicycles, Skateboards, and In-line skate (滚轴溜冰鞋).
If you are planning a picnic while visiting the Zoo, please do not bring any glass items or other things that are easy to break. Also for the safety of the animals, no plastic bags are allowed within the Zoo.
【1】Where can you eat some Mexican food?
A．Safari Cafe.
B．La Casita.
C．Gorilla Grill.
D．Silverback's cafe.
【2】How much does it cost if a couple with their six-year-old twins visit the Los Angeles Zoo?
A．$12.
B．$18.
C．$22.
D．$26.
【3】What can people do when visiting the Los Angeles Zoo?
A．Take their pets along.
B．Ride a bike through the Zoo.
C．Have a picnic on the Zoo ground.
D．Take food with plastic bags.
27、Maybe you live in places where English is not the main language. When you speak, your speech might be slower than you would like. This is because your mind is still translating things from your first language into English，which can also sound unnatural.【1】 It is not very difficult, but it does take conscious effort and practice.
Think in single words
Charles Thomas has taught English to Union members, children and teenagers for over 10 years. He tells his students to name the things that they see around them, wherever they are.
【2】
Think in sentences
For example, if you are sitting in a park, you can tell yourself things like, 'It' s such a beautiful day" and 'People are playing sports with their friends." 【3】
Think in conversation
This is a great way to practice what you might say in a real conversation. For example, let' s say the imaginary person asks you a question like, 'What did you think of the talk show last night?"【4】 Imagine the conversation and practice it in your head. You can do this out loud or in silence.
【5】
'When you're doing it every day, over and over again, little by little, that's the key. Because when you make things a habit, it just pops up into your mind without thinking and then, before you know it, really, you're thinking in English, ' Thomas says.
A．Practice it daily.
B．How would you answer?
C．Speak English with a native speaker.
D．As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
E．Start with nouns and then add in verbs, he suggests.
F．Once this becomes easy, move on to more difficult sentences.
G．The good news is that thinking in English will bring you closer to fluency!
28、In a recent study of 19-month-olds, University of Chicago doctoral student Lauren Howard found that children who heard various languages in their neighborhoods were more receptive to people who spoke languages other than their parents ‘language.
“We measured imitation. At this age, that’s how they show us their willingness to learn, ”explained Howard. The lead author of the report titled Neighborhood Linguistic Diversity Predicts Infants' Social Learning. The experiments tested how well the babies could learn new tasks from a non- English speaker.
The study, which included 82 children from the Chicago and Washington areas, was in the November issue of Cognition.
“Babies are not only affected by parents and caregivers--- previous studies proved that --but also by people they hear at the store or on the bus, "Howard said. “Incidental exposure matters.”
The study indicates that kids in diverse communities may grow up to have open minds. Good news for families living in such neighborhoods--- but can other families do something to increase children's cultural exposure？
Cultural diversity can be within reach, even in unlikely areas. Although she grew up in not very diverse"， Julie, 23， said she picked up much knowledge about other languages and cultures from the many students her family hosted through the AFS-USA international student exchange program.
“It’s the little differences that make you more understanding and less judgmental, ”Julie said “Yuilya from Kazakhstan, for example, was very disciplined because she couldn't go to college unless her grades were good. Matias from Paraguay wasn't used to being on time because his culture is more laid-back. ”
For families unable to host a student for a whole year, AFS-USA offers other volunteer opportunities, such as being “welcome families ”to ease students ’ transitions（过渡）.
But there are countless ways to expose kids to other countries, said Lucas, author of “Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be at Home in the World.”
Just a few of her tips: Take the kids to foreign films. Try exotic restaurants. Put a world map on the wall. Help your children’s teachers make global classrooms. Encourage the kids to invite friends of other cultures for dinner. “They’ll thank you later, "Lucas said.
【1】What does Howard stress by saying "Incidental exposure matters"？
A．Babies are also influenced by people outside their home
B．Parents fail to realize the importance of incidental learning
C．Parents and caregivers have more influence on babies
D．Babies learn little knowledge at the store or on the bus.
【2】How was Julie exposed to different cultures？
A．She frequently volunteered in some welcome families
B．She lived in neighborhoods with various language learn
C．She was a member of the AFS-USA program
D．She learned from the foreign students living in her home
【3】Which might be Julie's attitude to Matias's lateness？
A．Curious
B．Happy
C．Tolerant
D．anger
【4】What are Lucas's tips mainly about？
A．How to improve children’s behavior
B．How to teach children foreign languages
C．How to better communicate with children.
D．How to help children seek diversity
29、All around the world, shoppers flock to Wal-Mart to buy everything. In Texas, they come for another reason: to see the wind turbine（涡轮机）, which supplies 5% of the store’s electricity. It along with other facilities, such as exterior walls coated with heat-reflective paint, makes this Wal-Mart a green giant.
The laws of economics suggest that Wal-Mart, with 5, 200 stores worldwide, influences everything including the price of all kinds of goods. It throws its weight behind environmental responsibility, and the impact could be amazing. “One little change in product packaging could save 1, 500 trees,” says Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott．“If everybody saves 1, 500 trees or 50 barrels of oil, at the end of the day you have made a huge difference.”
Scott wants Wal-Mart to do its part too. He has promised to cut the existing greenhouse-gas emissions（排放）over the next few years and promised to construct new stores that are more efficient. He wants Wal-Mart’s fleet of more than 7, 000 trucks to get twice as many miles per gallon by 2015. Factories that show Wal-Mart they’re cutting air pollution will get preferential treatment in the supply chain. Wal-Mart says it’s working with consumer-product manufacturers to reduce their packaging and will reward them if they do so.
Some people may doubt it is a bid to attract attention from Wal-Mart’s controversial labor and health-insurance practices. But it’s not just window dressing, because Wal-Mart sees profits in going green. Scott says, “___________________________We don’t go where we don’t think there’s a great interest in change.”
Like Bill Gates, who started his charitable foundation, Scott happens to be promoting Wal-Mart’s image at a time when his company’s reputation is declining. He acknowledges that he launched the plan partly to shield （保护）Wal-Mart from bad press about its contribution to global warming. “By doing what we’re doing today, we avoid the headline risks that are going to come for people who did not do anything,” he says. “At some point businesses will be held responsible for the action they take.” Meanwhile, should Wal-Mart succeed at shrinking its environmental footprint and lowering prices for green products, both the planet and the company will profit.
【1】We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Lee Scott is Wal-Mart’s CEO
B. there are 5, 200 stores in the world
C. Wal-Mart has a great influence on the world market
D. Wal-Mart has more than 7, 000 trucks all over the world
【2】What does the underlined sentence “This is a business philosophy, not a social philosophy.” mean in the fourth paragraph?
A. Wal-Mart predicts huge profits in its green activity.
B. Wal-Mart’s green activity is just window dressing.
C. Wal-Mart aims to solve its health-insurance practices.
D. Wal-Mart doesn’t have any social responsibility at all.
【3】What will Wal-Mart probably do in the future?
A. Reduce air pollution in its present stores.
B. Give favorable treatment to its consumers.
C. Ask the factories to reduce their packaging.
D. Demand the fleet of trucks to use more fuel than before.
【4】What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Provide the background of the green plan.
B. Stress the purpose of Wal-Mart’s green plan.
C. Present the risk that Wal-Mart is facing nowadays.
D. Analyze the similarity between Bill Gates and Scott.
30、Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi. One time, I was called at midnight to ______someone up. When I arrived, the building was completely dark except for one light in a window.
I walked to the door and ____. After a long wait, the door opened. A small woman in her 80s stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.
"Would you carry my ________ out to the car?" she said. I took it and gave her my arm. We walked _____to the street. She thanked me for my _________ constantly. "It's nothing," I told her. "I try to ____ my passengers how I want my mother treated."
When we got into the taxi, she gave me an address. Then she asked me to drive her ________ the downtown. "It’s not the shortest way," I answered. "I'm in no hurry and I'm on my way to a ______." she said, her eyes shinning with tears.
" I don't have any family left,"she continued."The doctor says I don't have very long."
I quietly ______ the meter (记表器)."What road do you want me to take? " I asked. For hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived. Sometimes she asked me to just _______down while she sat staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
As the ______ was coming up, she suddenly said, "I'm tired. Let's go now." We drove in silence to the hospice(临终安养院), and later we arrived. When we ______up，two nurses were waiting for us. They helped her into a wheelchair.
"How much do I owe you?" she asked me, reaching for her________.
"Nothing,"I said. Without thinking, I leaned down (俯下身来) and gave her a hug. She also hugged me _______.
"You gave an old woman a little ________of joy," she said. "Thank you."
I squeezed her hand (紧紧地握着她的手) and then walked back to my ______. For the rest of that day, I could ______ talk. I believe I have never done anything more _______ in my life. We usually think that our lives are ______ by great moments. But I now realize that great moments catch us by surprise, because they often seem quite ______. It is a taxi ride I’ll never forget.
【1】
A．set
B．gives
C．pick
D．find
【2】
A．beat
B．knocked
C．rest
D．hit
【3】
A．suitcase
B．bag
C．pack
D．package
【4】
A．slowly
B．quickly
C．hurriedly
D．excitedly
【5】
A．generosity
B．personality
C．kindness
D．responsibility
【6】
A．consider
B．treat
C．convince
D．cure
【7】
A．across
B．along
C．through
D．up
【8】
A．hospital
B．home
C．station
D．hospice
【9】
A．turn on
B．turn up
C．turn over
D．turn off
【10】
A．break
B．slow
C．pace
D．look
【11】
A．sun
B．moon
C．star
D．light
【12】
A．take
B．bring
C．pull
D．make
【13】
A．clothes
B．pocket
C．purse
D．phone
【14】
A．tightly
B．suddenly
C．extremely
D．actually
【15】
A．occasion
B．while
C．moment
D．time
【16】
A．house
B．taxi
C．direction
D．work
【17】
A．freely
B．hardly
C．fluently
D．frequently
【18】
A．worthless
B．valueless
C．meaningful
D．precious
【19】
A．defined
B．viewed
C．attracted
D．limited
【20】
A．big
B．small
C．little
D．huge
31、阅读下面短文，请将上下文及所给出的单词第一个字母，写出空缺处的单词。每空只写一词。
It was a rainy Christmas Eve when we set out to send some Christmas gifts to John, my daughter’s classmate. John’s family was too p【1】to afford his school supplies. My daughter told me the other kids at school made f【2】of him because he d【3】in shabby clothes. She asked permission f【4】me to share her stationery with John and I did m【5】than that. I decided to buy some daily n【6】for John’s family.
John’s home looked terribly empty to us. It was not ready at all for Christmas. As soon as we a【7】, we went straight into their kitchen and p【8】 down our gifts on the kitchen table. John and his brothers looked overwhelmed with joy. His younger brother reached over and hugged my daughter, saying that she m【9】be an angel. We were all m【10】to tears by his words.
32、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写词数应为80左右。
Wind whistled round the corner of the house, thunder rolled and rain beat against the windows — not a night to be outside but rather to sit by the fire. Thanks to the solid walls and roof overhead, I could imagine Dr. Frankenstein's frightening creation wandering on such a night. I was alone, my husband away and the nearest neighbor a quarter miles down the road. Alone, that is, except for Lassie, a hairy, black and white dog, who sat with her head on my lap, her intelligent, brown eyes gazing up at me as if to say, don't worry, we'll be all right.
Through the years she was with us, she proved time and time again to be a superb judge of character. We never knew if it was a result of her sense of smell or sound-but, whatever it was, she definitely possessed a talent we humans lacked. On first meeting she would either wag the tip of her tail a couple of times to indicate that the visitor was acceptable, or slightly curl her top lip, exposing her sharp teeth which told you to be alert. Always accurate, her gift was never more obvious than on this night.
The doorbell rang. I decided not to answer it. It rang again, much longer this time. Whoever was there was not going away. Still I hesitated. On the fourth ring, with Lassie by my side, I finally answered the door. My heart beat fast and my mouth went dry, for there, stood the monster himself. A twisted body under a heavy overcoat, one shoulder bumped higher than the other and his head leaned slightly forward and to one side.
“May I use your phone?” The voice came from somewhere back in his throat and, although the request was polite, his tone was rude.
Reaching in his pocket and producing a piece of paper, he handed it to me. I refused to take it. Believing he might try and force his way in, I looked at Lassie to see if she was ready to defend the home.
Surprisingly, she sat by my side, the tip of her tail wagging.
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