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1、With his finger ______ to the ______ window, the teacher asked: “Who did that?”
A. pointing; broken B. pointed; broken
C. pointing; breaking D. pointed; breaking
2、_____ you may meet, you should face the challenge bravely.
A.However a serious problem B.What a serious problem
C.However serious a problem D.What serious a problem
3、This is one of the best novels that____appeared this year.
A.have been B.has C.had been D.have
4、When deeply ______ in work, he always forgets all about eating or sleeping.
A.absorbing B.trapping C.absorbed D.trapped
5、The Amish, who live a simple farming life, ________ cars because they like having tight communities where everyone lives close together.
A.construct B.convey C.reserve D.reject
6、________ from heart trouble for years, Professor White has to take some medicine with him wherever he goes.
A．Suffered
B．Suffering
C．Having suffered
D．Being suffered
7、The thief_____ the papers all over the room while he was searching.
A．abandoned
B．disappeared
C．scattered
D．deserted
8、To keep their innovation _______ the times, Internet-based companies are sparing no efforts in digging into more core technologies.
A．in tune with
B．in touch with
C．in exchange for
D．in reward for
9、Time should be made good use________our lessons well.
A．of learning
B．to learn
C．to learning
D．of to learn
10、The park was ___ with lawns, trees, fountains and a big lake in the center.
A. laid off B. laid out
C. laid down D. laid aside
11、In modern times, people have to learn to ________ all kinds of pressure although they are leading a comfortable life.
A.take notice of B.live with C.lock up D.live up to
12、—Why do the researchers sometimes have to climb so high?
—As far as I know, _____________on the top of the mountain is a certain wild plant said to have some medical value.
A.grown B.growing C.being grown D.having grown
13、 The education program ________combining brain work with manual labor is being widely spread throughout the country.
A．to aim at B．aims at
C．having aimed at D．aimed at
14、In the dark forests __________, some large enough to hold several English towns.
A.are standing many lakes B.lie many lakes
C.many lakes lie D.many lakes stand
15、________ to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I ________ not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
A.If it were left … would B.Should it leave … must
C.Would it be left … should D.Was it left … would
16、Allowing changes in the way of marriage and family life, in some seniors’ view, is a significant _______ from tradition.
A．departure
B．protection
C．relief
D．adaptation
17、It’s not what we do once in a while ______ shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
A.which B.that C.how D.when
18、Tsinghua University _________ the No. 1 spot in the Times Higher Education’s Asia University Rankings 2019, becoming the first university on the Chinese mainland to top the list.
A.countered B.claimed C.commanded D.competed
19、______ he referred to in his article was unknown to the general reader.
A．That
B．What
C．Whether
D．Where
20、Much to the couple's comfort，their income is now double ________ it was five years ago.
A.that B.if C.which D.what
21、All of us were________to hear that Lily, our company's most valued clerk, should say she would leave the company.
A.alarming B.alarmed C.terrified D.satisfied
22、His second book ___________ next month is believed to be a hit.
A.having been published B.to publish C.to be published D.published
23、I would appreciate____________ if you could help me out when I am in trouble.
A．that
B．one
C．it
D．this
24、In a typhoon，winds ________ a speed greater than 120kilometers per hour.
A．assume
B．accomplish
C．attain
D．assemble
25、Although this ____ sound like a simple task, great care is needed.
A．must
B．may
C．shall
D．should
26、 If you’re looking for joyful, open-ended experiences with math that develop curiosity and pattern-finding for your kids, the following website activities may be helpful.
Which One Doesn't Belong by Mary Bourassa is inspired by Christopher Danielson” book of the same name. The concept is simple： there are four numbers, shapes, or graphs, and you have to find a reason each one is the odd （不合规律的）one out. If the numbers are 9, 16. 25, and 43, you could say 9 is the odd one out because it has only one digit« 16 is the odd one out because it’s an even number, 25 is the odd one out because it does not end in a multiple of three, or 43 is the odd one out because it is not a square.
●MathArtChallenge by Annie Perk ins is an open-ended way to explore math by creating patterns. Perkins is sharing daily prompt （提示词to inspire mathematical play everything from geometry constructions to toilet paper roll polyhedral（多面体）and other participants are sharing their creations on social media.
●Bookzoom pa by Paula Krieg, has a wealth of paper-folding activities that engage with mathematics. Krieg recently mailed me a beautiful example of one of the more challenging crafts she's written about on her blog。. You might want to try some of her simpler crafts first, like pentagons and stars.
●Big Lock-Down Math-Off by Aperiodical is a version of the summer math communication competition they have run for the past couple of years. Participants submit write-ups of favorite bits of math, and readers can vote on their favorites. I believe submissions are still open if you want to take part in it.
【1】How does the author explain the way Which One Doesn't Belong works?
A.By giving an example. B.By providing statistics.
C.By making comparisons. D.By introducing research findings.
【2】What can one learn following Annie Perkins?
A.To write articles. B.To create patterns.
C.To do paper folding. D.To find the odd one out.
【3】In which activity can one participate in a competition?
A.Which One Doesn't Belong. B.MathArtChallenge,
C.Book zoom pa. D.Big Lock-Down Math-Off.
27、 Earlier this month a study showed that bees can teach themselves to play football. They can learn by watching and, rather than copy what they have seen,change it to make it better. Bees also have a clever trick for helping their friends find lunch. New research shows that bees leave smelly little footprints on flowers that help them know what flowers they and their family members have recently visited.
The discovery was made by scientists from University of Bristol who report these smelly footprints help bees distinguish between their own scent(气味)，the scent of a relative and the scent of a stranger. And by using this ability ,bees can improve their success at finding good sources of a food and avoid flowers that have already been visited and mined of nutrients.
The Bristol team performed three separate experiments with bumblebees（大黄蜂）in which they were repeatedly exposed to rewarding and unrewarding flowers at the same time that had footprints from different bees attached to them. Each flower type either carried scent -marks from bumblebees of differing relatedness or were unmarked. The marks were either the bee's own marks, sisters from their nest ，or strangers from another nest.
The study shows that not only can bumblebees tell the marks of their own nest mates from strangers，but they can also discriminate between the smell of their own footprints and those of their nest mate sisters，which could help them to remember which flowers they have visited recently. But it doesn't explain how they use that in the wild. They may detect the footprints of their friends and keep moving on，since that flower may be tapped out. Or they may smell a bit of familiar foot smell and dive in，seeing it as a marker that nectar（花蜜）is present.
【1】What can we infer about bees in Paragraph1?
A. They are smart learners. B. They have strong family ties.
C. They enjoy smelly footprints. D. They like playing tricks on others.
【2】What does “this ability ”in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Finding good sources of food. B. Following other bees' footprints.
C. Telling the smells of footprints apart. D. Recognizing different types of flowers.
【3】What can we learn from the findings of the experiments?
A. It's easier for Bumblebees to recognize their friends.
B. It's unclear how bumblebees use their ability in the wild.
C. Bumblebees' memory can be significantly improved.
D. Bumblebees' footprints can give them a sense of identity.
【4】What is the main idea of the text?
A. Different flowers attract different bees.
B. Bees have a new trick of surviving in the wild.
C. Bumblebees may smell footprints to keep track of food.
D. Bumblebees can give off unique scents to attract others.
28、 Residents(居民) in the poorest areas in the U.S. face a life expectancy(平均寿命) up to decade shorter than those in the wealthiest areas, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Researchers from East Tennessee State University wanted to better understand how socioeconomic status was associated with health outcomes. To find out, they divided the country’s 3,141 areas into 50 new “states” (with 2 percent of the areas in each) based on household income rather than on geography.
The researchers broke down the data by county（郡，县） since they found state-level data may hide some “effect of socioeconomic differences on both the best-off and worst-off counties.” They then examined health data from the wealthiest and poorest “states” (top and bottom 2 percent) to see how residents differed on factors like smoking, clinical care and excessive(过多的) drinking. Researchers found that there was nearly a 10-year gap in the life expectancy of men with an average of 79.3 years in the wealthy counties compared to 69.8 years in the poorest. For women, the difference was slightly less：83 years in the wealthiest counties and 76 years in the poorest.
The study authors were cautious that while they found a connection between socioeconomic status and health outcomes, they did not analyze cause and effect. But they suggest that the data shows how policy makers should not just focus on state-wide initiatives (主动性) but more targeted efforts to help those most at risk. “With limited resources, methods of knowing the poorest areas exactly can be quite significant in the equal distribution (分配)of resources and programs to those communities that are in the greatest need,’’ the study authors wrote.
【1】How did Researchers divide the areas?
A.By social status B.By income
C.By health D.By living places
【2】Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?
A.The women difference is less than the man in life expectancy.
B.The wealthiest “state” like hiding their wealth.
C.Most health data is unbelievable.
D.Most poorest “state” smoke and drink a lot.
【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.The researchers think their study is perfect.
B.People still don’t know the cause of life expectancy.
C.The government should learn something from the study.
D.The American resources distribution is not fair at all.
【4】What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Ways to have a long life expectancy
B.Great income differences in the USA
C.The health problem in the USA
D.Men in richest 10 years longer in poorest
29、 Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.
What to Expect
The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week. You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.
Meal Plans Available
*Continental Breakfast
*Breakfast and Dinner
*Breakfast, Packed Lunch and Dinner
It's important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal, bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinner usually consists of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee.
Friends
If you wish to invite a friend over to visit, you must first ask your host's permission. You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.
Self-catering Accommodation in Private Homes
Accommodation on a room-only basis includes a shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the long-stay student. However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practise English at home quite as much.
【1】Which of the following will be provided by the host?
A. Room cleaning. B. Medical care.
C. Physical training. D. Free accommodation.
【2】What does Continental Breakfast include?
A. Cheese and cold meat. B. Fruit and coffee.
C. Fruit juice and bread. D. Dessert and tea.
【3】What's the advantage of self-catering accommodation for students?
A. To practice English. B. To be independent.
C. To make more friends. D. To enjoy warm family atmosphere.
30、On Thursday morning, two teenage boys were rescued by a drone (无人机) in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the machine.
The ______, aged 15-17, got into difficulties about 700 feet off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). A passerby saw them ______ in dangerous waves. Lifesavers ______ sent the drone to drop a lifeboat, and the pair made their way safely to the ______.
The drone, known as “Little Pipper”, was actually not ______ to be saving anyone just yet---lifeguards were being trained to ______ the machine. When a call came about the swimmers ______, the drone happened to be nearby.
Jai Sheridan was the lifeguard who ______ the drone. He described the experience as ______. “The Little Ripper ______ proved itself today. It is a highly efficient (高效的) piece of lifesaving equipment. I was ______ the drone when the alarm was raised. I directed it towards the swimmers, and dropped the ______. With its support they made their way to safety. They were ______, but not hurt. The teens were rescued in just 70 seconds with the drone---while a lifeguard would have taken up to six minutes to ______ the rescue.”
John Barilaro, an official of the state, ______ the rescue as historic. “It was the world’s ______ rescue by the unmanned aircraft”, he said. “Never before has a drone been used to ______ swimmers like this.”
Last December, the NSW state government ______ some “Little Ripper” drones for 247,000 pounds. ______ some are designed to spot sharks, others are ______ with lifeboats, alarms and loudspeakers. “It was money well spent,” said John Barilaro.
【1】
A．swimmers
B．pilots
C．visitors
D．rescuers
【2】
A．playing
B．surfing
C．struggling
D．training
【3】
A．finally
B．secretly
C．immediately
D．gratefully
【4】
A．island
B．ship
C．hospital
D．shore
【5】
A．advised
B．supposed
C．allowed
D．guided
【6】
A．operate
B．repair
C．work
D．power
【7】
A．in charge
B．in place
C．in action
D．in trouble
【8】
A．flew
B．brought
C．checked
D．designed
【9】
A．funny
B．useful
C．amazing
D．important
【10】
A．necessarily
B．basically
C．probably
D．certainly
【11】
A．studying
B．piloting
C．boarding
D．inspecting
【12】
A．lifebelt
B．lifeline
C．lifeguard
D．lifeboat
【13】
A．sick
B．tired
C．excited
D．surprised
【14】
A．record
B．complete
C．experience
D．report
【15】
A．thanked
B．greeted
C．imagined
D．praised
【16】
A．latest
B．best
C．first
D．quickest
【17】
A．rescue
B．warn
C．protect
D．reward
【18】
A．offered
B．bought
C．booked
D．made
【19】
A．Since
B．Unless
C．While
D．Before
【20】
A．equipped
B．connected
C．covered
D．filled
31、 All passengers boarded (登机)，and the fight would be on time. I went up to the gate (登机口)to get the papers from the gate staff and_______an adult passenger sitting there crying, which was very_______，So I asked the gate staff what was up and they told me that the passenger was not_________to board due to a problem of his ticket. His last name in the ticket was_________wrongly by a letter but he had_________it before.
After my asking, the man said that his father was just in the _______and he needed to take this flight to hopefully see him before he___________Unfortunately, there was nothing the gate staff could do about it. They told him to buy a new ticket._________，the fight was to leave ten minutes later and it was_________for him to do so, He told me he would be really__________if he wouldn't be able to say his final goodbye to his dad. Seeing a grown man crying sadly, I was sure that he was telling the ________
I________ for a while and then thought of________I could do to help him. As a member of staff I have a________----- I can issue (发) tickets through an online system to my family or__________Then, I provided a staff ticket for this passenger. I passed the ticket to him__________his kmnowing what I'd done. He was so__________ and it was all that I wanted to see. I just hoped that he wouldn't________any of his father's last words. Later, the gate staff told me they would help me keep the________as we can use the staff tickets only for people we know.
I was so poud that day ________ I did something meaningful for a person in need.
【1】A.noticed B.greeted C.rescued D.encouraged
【2】A.funny B.common C.unusual D.dangerous
【3】A.forced B.allowed C.advised D.persuaded
【4】A.read B.spelled C.understood D.remmembered
【5】A.found B.recorded C.imagined D.ignored
【6】A.airport B.office C.school D.hospital
【7】A.gave up B.came back C.passed away D.settled down
【8】A.Instead B.However C.Otherwise D.Therefore
【9】A.special B.strange C.impossible D.unbelievable
【10】A.regretful B.confused C.anxious D.hopeless
【11】A.lie B.truth C.joke D.story
【12】A.checked B.guessed C.predicted D.considered
【13】A.nothing B.anything C.something D.everything
【14】A.goal B.duty C.task D.right
【15】A.friends B.pets C.customers D.passengers
【16】A.for B.after C.since D.without
【17】A.calm B.brave C.pleased D.curious
【18】A.miss B.repeat C.forget D.mind
【19】A.rule B.secret C.promise D.appointment
【20】A.because B.before C.until D.unless
32、 As a banker, Chip Paillex had never planted so much until he moved to rural Pittstown, New Jersey, seven years ago. ______by farms, he quickly became interested in growing and rented a 30-by-30-foot land. One weekend, he ______tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant—enough to feed his family for the summer.
He ended up with so much ______that he couldn’t give it away. Thus he founded a local food ______, and by the time he delivered his last______, he had ______120 pounds of fresh vegetables.
The following year, with a handful of ______from his church and a memorable name “America’s Grow-a-Row”, Paillex planted,______,and harvested 2,500 pounds of vegetables, all of which he donated to food banks. Later he had more volunteers, rented more land and donated more vegetables.
Paillex also ______ local school kids. On a ______Friday morning in May, 40 third and fifth graders trooped onto a freshly plowed field, each ______with a spade. Squatting or kneeling in teams of two , they loosened the dirt, then carefully______the plants .Several rows later, they eagerly lined up to seed corn under a hot mid-morning sun. Nobody ______.
“The ______makes kids know there are people ______, says Paillex, “and it plants the seed for giving back. When they become tomorrow’s ______, it will be much more possible for them to ______ their coworkers and employees to get ______ in something like this.
“Paillex makes people want to ______,” says Colleen Duerr, a mother of two who has signed on as an ______“Grow-a-Row” member. “And families love this. Pallex has given us a way to raise our kids with a giving heart.”
【1】A. Trapped B. Occupied C. Prevented D. Surrounded
【2】A. put aside B. planted out C. wrapped up D. got in
【3】A. advice B. produce C. cost D. equipment
【4】A. bank B. market C. shop D. room
【5】A. crop B. fruit C. harvest D. grain
【6】A. donated B. sold C. found D. stored
【7】A. neighbors B. employees C. volunteers D. tourists
【8】A. delivered B. stored C. bought D. tended
【9】A. refuses B. welcomes C. chooses D. pushes
【10】A. cloudless B. snowy C. foggy D. rainy
【11】A. compared B. combined C. filled D. armed
【12】A. cooked B. counted C. positioned D. pulled
【13】A. laughed B. complained C. worked D. competed
【14】A. programme B. example C. lesson D. thought
【15】A. at war B. in anger C. on business D. in need
【16】A. farmers B. workers C. leaders D. owners
【17】A. force B. encourage C. beg D. wait
【18】A. locked B. moved C. involved D. turned
【19】A. grow B. relax C. settle D. help
【20】A. unpaid B. unexpected C. unseen D. unknown
33、 If you’ve ridden any New York subway, chances are good that you’ve watched your cellphone clock tick while seated on an unmoving, delayed train. You wouldn’t wish to have such a _________ feeling of being stuck on public transportation anymore. No one knows the feeling as _________ as Jerich Marco Alcantara does particularly when he had _________ in his life to celebrate. He _________ his graduation ceremony at Hunter College’s Brookdale campus due to a delay.
There were two _________ ceremonies that day, but Alcantara specifically wanted to _________ the early ceremony, because students were only _________ two tickets for friends and family at the latter event. He wanted all of his family and friends in attendance.
Stuck on the train in full baccalaureate gown (学士服), Alcantara still got to experience a formal _________, sort of. Some friends and strangers improvised (即兴创作) a ceremony on the subway. _________ a cellphone, a friend presented Alcantara with a “diploma”; __________ somebody else on the train played Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day. Another passenger __________ the ceremony and posted the video to Facebook.
________ he wasn’t able to attend the full ceremony, in a way this will end up being a more memorable __________ for Alcantara down the road. He will be able to point to his __________ and not just think of the hard work it took to earn it, but the __________ missing his real graduation ceremony created.
Moments like these help us get a little more __________ of our fellow man during a __________time. Although these aren’t all strangers, it’s still wonderful to see people __________ to make sure someone feels the proper __________, or at least their big achievement should be __________. Though Alcantara missed his official graduation ceremony, he said his subway experience meant a lot.
【1】A.rising B.sinking C.spinning D.floating
【2】A.vividly B.casually C.plainly D.fiercely
【3】A.milestones B.promotions C.festivals D.parties
【4】A.spoiled B.quitted C.overlooked D.missed
【5】A.separate B.continuous C.relevant D.contradictory
【6】A.join B.make C.abandon D.ignore
【7】A.appointed B.allocated C.approved D.accumulated
【8】A.assembly B.situation C.occasion D.meeting
【9】A.Via B.On C.In D.From
【10】A.instead B.afterwards C.therefore D.meanwhile
【11】A.filmed B.took C.interviewed D.reported
【12】A.Since B.As C.Although D.When
【13】A.exploration B.moment C.impression D.stage
【14】A.video B.ticket C.diploma D.cellphone
【15】A.pain B.inconvenience C.excitement D.memory
【16】A.convinced B.tired C.reliant D.faithful
【17】A.messy B.extreme C.acute D.disorganized
【18】A.get together B.gather together C.put together D.band together
【19】A.acquisition B.cooperation C.recognition D.evaluation
【20】A.welcomed B.applauded C.calculated D.encouraged
34、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.
The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.
It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.
Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often 【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.
Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.
35、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
My daughter
(A story told by a father, a famous actor)
My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.
I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.
We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.
I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.
We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.
I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.
We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.
36、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.
I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.
For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.
At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.
The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”
37、按照课文内容填空
At the time they were created, the Impressionist paintings were【1】, but today they are accepted as the beginning of【2】we call “modern art’. This is because the Impressionists 【3】artists to look at their environment in new ways. There are scores of modern art styles, but 【4】the Impressionists, many of these painting styles might not exist. On the one hand, some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter doesn’t 【5】to paint objects as we see them with our eyes, 【6】instead concentrates on certain qualities of the object, 【7】color, line and shape to represent them. On the【8】hand, some paintings of modern art are so 【9】 that they look photographs. These styles are so different. Who can【10】what painting styles there will be in the future?
38、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
While 1 was sitting in the living room, the days that I spent with my mom crowded in on me. We had a very Tom and Jerry relationship. She was a strict trainer; I was naughty. She would ask me to buy groceries, and I wouldn't come right home because I'd be using the change from the milk and bread to play video games at the supermarket. I loved video games. I was a master at Street Fighter. I could go forever on a single play. I'd drop a coin in, time would fly, and the next thing 1 knew there'd be a woman standing behind me with a belt. It was a race. I'd take off out the door and through the dusty streets of Eden Park, climbing over walls. It was a normal thing in our neighborhood:
Everyone knew: The child would come through like a bat out of hell, and his mom would be right there behind him. She could go fast in high heels, but if she really wanted to come after me, she'd kick her shoes off while still going at top speed. She'd do this strange move with her ankles and the heels would go flying and she wouldn't even miss a step. When 1 was little she always caught me, but as I got older I got faster. So it was not easy for her to catch me.
Paragraph 1: When speed failed her, she used her wisdom.
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Paragraph 2: If given a chance, I would let my mom run in front of me.
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39、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When Jayce Crowder was in kindergarten, he began noticing that he looked different from his classmates. They had two hands. But he had only one.
It started when one boy teased him. Jayce was in a bad mood. He’d return home in Des Moines, Iowa, with questions: Why am I different? Why me? Why? “He actually told us that he was mad at looking so different from others,” said his mother, Cortney Lewis. “That really hurt him.” Lewis admitted she didn’t know what to do at that point. How could she provide answers to her son’s questions when she had never found those answers herself ?
A few weeks later, Lewis came home from her job and turned on the TV to a news story about Trashaun Willis, an eighth-grader from Washington middle school, Iowa. The boy, then 14, had become an Internet star after posting videos of his slam dunk (扣篮), and, like Jayce, he was missing most of his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in to see Trashaun on TV, too.
He was shocked, staring at one dunk after another. He was shocked, staring at one dunk after another.
“Cool,” Jayce remembered thinking with excitement. “ I saw him dunking on TV.”
Willis’ story blew up last winter. The Des Moines Register wrote about him. NBC Nightly News flew to Iowa to interview him. Just recently, Sports Illustrated named him one of its Sports Kid of the Year finalists.
At the time, it seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be an inspiring moment for Jayce—he’d see a shining role model with a seemingly similar born disability. And had it stayed just that, Lewis would have been happy. But little did she know that a family friend had already reached out to the Des Moines Register, asking the newspaper to help set up a meeting with Trashaun to encourage Jayce and build his confidence. A few days later, the good news that Trashaun accepted the invitation to meet Jayce came.
注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:
Finally, the boys met at Washington Middle School on a Saturday afternoon several months later.
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Paragraph 2:
After the meeting, Jayce learned to accept his disability.
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40、假定你是李华，为了帮助参加“一带一路”交流项目的来华留学生更好的了解中国的传统文化,你所在的学校决定周末组织留学生参观附近一处瓷器小镇。请给你的朋友Paul写一封邮件邀请他参加，内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.体验项目；
3相关事宜。
注意：1.词数：100词左右.2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：一带一路One Belt One Road 瓷器：china
Dear Paul.
How is everything going here in China?
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41、假定你叫李华，你的英国朋友Tom 想体验中国的高铁 (high-speed railway)，于是请你帮他预订从重庆到成都的高铁票。请根据以下提示回一封邮件：
要点包括：1. 对他的到来表示欢迎；
2. 简单介绍中国的高铁；
3. 请对方提前将护照信息发至你的电子邮箱；
4. 当他到重庆时，凭护照在火车站取票。
注意事项：1. 词数100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom，
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Yours
Li Hua
邮箱： 