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1、As I opened my eyes, in ______ direction I looked, I could see smiling, peaceful, calm and content faces.
A. whatever B. however C. whichever D. wherever
2、—Do you have ______ ready for the spring outing?
—No, I still have to buy some fruit.
A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing
3、We are still dealing with problems _______ errors made in the past.
A.resulted from B.resulted in C.resulting from D.resulting in
4、— Henry was forced to leave for the invalid visa.
— He__________the period of time
A.should have extended B.must have extended
C.may have extended D.would have extended
5、Take the note as a reminder ______ you forgot to buy some sweets for the kids while shopping there.
A. how B. that
C. in case D. even if
6、—I have no idea what made the students so excited and crazy.
—______ it have been their team’s victory in the finals?
A. Must B. Could
C. Would D. Should
7、—I hope to take the computer course.
—Good idea. __________ more about it, visit this website.
A. To find out B. Finding out
C. To be finding out D. Having found out
8、You________so slowly. I just needed a few seconds to get used to your voice.
A．shouldn’t speak
B．couldn’t have spoken
C．don’t have to
D．needn’t have spoken
9、After ________seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager's office.
A. that B. it C. what D. there
10、Without your help, I _____such a breakthrough in this project.
A. hadn't made B. didn't make
C. won't have made D. wouldn't have made
11、You will find as you read this book that you just can’t keep some of these stories to ________. You will want to share them with a friend.
A. itself B. yourself C. himself D. themselves
12、You could get into a situation_________you have to decide immediately.
A.what B.which C.where D.that
13、We should learn to accept the good with gratitude to God.______，we should also learn to accept the bad without complaint.
A.Meanwhile B.However C.Therefore D.Moreover
14、--I feel so upset. I’m afraid I’ll be fired for the terrible economic crisis.
--________!Things are not so bad as they seem.
A．Go ahead
B．Good luck
C．No problem
D．Cheer up
15、We ______ be careful with the words we say when we are angry.
A. may B. can C. might D. should
16、The newly-built subway is always crowded with passengers going home from market, most of them _____ heavy bags and baskets full of fruit and vegetables.
A. carried B. to be carried
C. to carry D. carrying
17、He would have been willing to accompany me________him how important it was to me.
A.if I have told B.had I told C.should I tell D.if I could tell
18、Women are so accustomed to decades of ______ and to ______ histories of women whose contributions went unnoticed that they assume these conditions still exist today.
A. being ignored,be heard B. ignoring,be heard
C. ignored,hearing D. being ignored,hearing
19、Reading a large number of books ________ make us wiser.
A.should B.can C.need D.must
20、It will be a great help if you go to the store and get what we need for dinner.________I'll set the table.
A．As a result
B．In the meanwhile
C．On the whole
D．As a matter of fact
21、There are some things money can’t buy. Education, however, does not appear to be among them—at least as measured by performance on international exams. A new study by Harvard University offers strong evidence that the wealth of a country affects exam results just as much as the wealth of a pupil’s household does. On average, pupils in wealthy countries obtain vastly higher test scores than those in developing ones.
Evaluating test scores around the world is harder than it sounds. Although pupils in the rich world mostly take one of a few big international exams, many developing countries rely on regional tests, making apples-to-apples comparisons impossible.
Researchers organized an exam in 2016 for 2,314 children in India, which included both questions from the leading tests and ones taken from smaller exams. Using answers from the same pupils on the same day to questions from different tests, they built a statistical model they called a “Rosetta Stone”. It can translate scores from a range of exams—such as one used only in west Africa—into an equal mark on other common international tests.
They then used these equations（等式）to estimate how pupils in 80 different countries would fare on the benchmark（基准）Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Their data show that the wealth of a student’s country and family have similar impacts on test scores—meaning that big gaps in GDP per person matter more than small ones in household income do. For example, pupils from families that are very poor by rich-world standards—those earning $5,000 a year—are expected to score around 500 out of 1,000 on the TIMSS in America, and 560 in Japan. In contrast, those whose parents make $10,000 a year in an upper-middle income country can only get the equivalent（等价物）of a 475.
The influence of parental earnings is not constant. Rich people tend to educate their children privately in places where wealth is concentrated, such as Brazil. However, in countries with relatively flat income distributions, like Croatia, pupils from different social classes are more likely to attend the same schools. This could reduce the impact of family wealth on test scores.
【1】Why is it hard to evaluate the exam scores on a global level?
A．Because the types of exams vary with countries.
B．Because many rich countries refuse regional tests.
C．Because the wealth of a country affects exam results.
D．Because no international exam is available to poor areas.
【2】Why did the researchers establish a “Rosetta Stone”?
A．To integrate different exams into a common one.
B．To evaluate different exams with distinct approaches.
C．To fix the standard of the exams in different countries.
D．To turn scores of different exams into an equivalent mark.
【3】What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?
A．Poor students tend to be academically superior to rich ones.
B．Students from rich families will definitely get higher grades.
C．The influence of family income on students is related to circumstances.
D．People with high social status are more likely to educate their children privately.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A．Education is something money can’t buy.
B．The wealth of a country matters for education.
C．Family income plays an important role in education.
D．A statistical model helps to evaluate the exam scores.
22、 School will be back in session by midAugust. The good news, kids and parents？There’s still time to enjoy yourself. From sports to movies, here’s a selection of familyfriendly activities we found, including some deals to make it easier on the wallet.
Free Golfing for Kids
Tired of your kids being in the house all summer？Get them outside, physically active and possibly interested in a new sport. Kids 5 to 15 can leave their electronic devices and onto the golf course with one free bucket of range balls and free golfing with one paid adult. 7:00 am－6:30 pm daily through Aug. 31. Plantation Palms Golf Club, 23253 Plantation Blvd. , Land O’Lakes. (813) 9967122. plantationpalms. net.
Family Movies in Historic Theatres
Families can experience a bit of Tampa Bay history as they watch movies in two renovated(翻新的) area landmarks(地标).
As part of the summer Hollywood Classic Series, Tampa Theatre invites you to 1939’s The Wizard of Oz(Aug. 26). (You can remind the kids that Tampa Theatre is old enough to have showed The Wizard of Oz on its first run.) $10. 711 N Franklin St. , Tampa. (813)2748982. tampatheatre. org.
Together with Ruth Eckerd Hall’s 201819 Broadway Season, the historic Capitol Theatre presents movie versions of the Broadway musicals. Next up is The Lion King(Aug.11). $5. Upgrade to $9 for unlimited fountain drinks and popcorn. 3pm 405 Cleveland St., Clearwater. (727) 7917400. rutheckerdhall. com.
Summer Series
Curtis Hixon Park has turned into a 12, 000squarefoot play wonderland focused on fitness and adventures. Free. Rotating(循环的) daily activities include live animals and animal education by Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park(Aug. 6), kids fitness classes by the YMCA(Aug.11), kidfriendly recipes by Salt Block Catering(Aug. 7) and craft activities by the Hillsborough County Library(Aug. 8). Curtis Hixon Park, 600 N Ashley Drive, Tampa. (262) 9399908. tampasdowntown. com.
【1】Which number should you call if you want to go golfing?
A.(262)9399908. B.(727)7917400.
C.(813)2748982. D.(813)9967122.
【2】What do Tampa Theatre and Capitol Theatre have in common?
A.They have been rebuilt many times.
B.They were built about eighty years ago.
C.They are famous in the Tampa Bay area.
D.They have turned into a play wonderland.
【3】Where can you learn something about animals?
A.At the YMCA. B.At Lowry Park.
C.At Salt Block Catering. D.At the Hillsborough County Library.
23、 Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human,” with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance(不满,不平). But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food readily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan’s and Dr. de Waals study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behaviour became markedly different.
In the world of capuchins, grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to accept the slice of cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber(without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to induce resentment(愤恨)in a female capuchin.
The researchers suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species. Such cooperation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation(愤慨), it seems, are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
【1】In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by ________.
A. making a comparison B. justifying an assumption
C. making a conclusion D. explaining a phenomenon
【2】The statement “it is all too monkey” (Last line, Paragraph I) implies that ________.
A. resenting unfairness is also monkeys nature
B. monkeys are also outraged by slack rivals
C. monkeys, like humans, tend to be jealous of each other
D. no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions
【3】Dr. Brosnan and Dr. de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys ________.
A. prefer grapes to cucumbers
B. will not be co-operative if feeling cheated
C. can be taught to exchange things
D. are unhappy when separated from others
【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions.
B. Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild.
C. Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
D. Human indignation evolved from an uncertain source.
24、 A new study has shown how computers and robots powered by artificial intelligence can read human eye movements to “read” human personalities.
The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul. And if that is true, computers and robots powered by complex artificial intelligence algorithms(算法) may soon have the ability to peer into your soul. That is the result of a new study on the connection between eye movements and personality, conducted by neuroscience researchers based at the University of South Australia and Published in the scientific Journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
“Eye movements during an everyday task predict aspects of our personality,” wrote the researchers, led by University of South Australia neuroscientist Tobias Loetscher, whose team follows 42 study subjects around the university campus recording their eye movements, then determines their personality traits(特点) with “well-established questionnaires” for determining personality type, according to a summary of the study published by the site Science Daily.
The researchers fed the data into their Al algorithms and found that computers running the algorithms were able to record human eye movements and immediately determine a person's major personality traits, such as “neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, as well as perceptual(感知的) curiosity”, the scientists wrote.
“The new findings could improve the way human beings interact with their computers and other high-tech devices, even robots, allowing for more natural and realistic social interactions with machines,” Loetscher said.
“People are always looking for improved, personalized services. Today’s robots and computers are not socially aware so they cannot adapt to non-verbal information,” Loetscher said in a statement quoted by Indian Express. This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals.”
The study revealed previously undiscovered relations between specific personality characteristics and specific eye movement tendencies, according to a summary in Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper.
【1】What do the underlined words “peer into” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Stare at. B. Understand.
C. Search for. D. Concern about.
【2】How did the researchers conduct the research?
A. It was carried out in a lab.
B. 42 subjects’ eye movements were recorded.
C. The students’ daily movements were tracked.
D. Its subjects’ personalities were determined by computer.
【3】What can we know according to Tobias Loetscher?
A. Robots and computers are socially conscious.
B. People care less about improved, personalized services.
C. Today’s robots and computers can accustom to non-verbal information.
D. The discovery will improve the interaction between human beings and machines.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Human Personality Traits
B. What Human Eye Movements Are
C. Tell Personalities by Eye Movements.
D. How Humans and Machines Can Interact
25、Life works in mysterious ways. I had fallen on_________times right after I gave birth to my little girl. I was a single mom, working full-time;_________, I couldn’t afford all the bills. My job couldn’t pay enough for my daughter's extra $ 800 per month daycare fee. I was on a long waiting list for_________, which didn’t come soon enough. I didn’t have any help from my relatives for they also bore the_________of bringing up their families and some of them_________made ends meet.
I ended up having to_________my house, no longer able to afford rent. I_________my job so I could accompany and raise my daughter. I stayed with friends for a few months. I had met a kind lady Mary through a friend who_________to let me stay in her house. I_________her offer because it was stable and safe. We knew and liked each other and finally she became one of my__________, too. She encouraged, supported and__________us for six months.
In those six months I found government housing so I could__________there free with my daughter. Plenty of people__________government housing. But Mary heard it becoming__________so I immediately applied. Then I lived there for four years and it__________me so much! It was people’s__________that made a huge difference in our life and helped get me back on __________. Today my daughter is six years old. I return to__________and we have our own house. Actually we have more than enough.
My daughter makes me smile every day and we are so__________now. I don’t know where I would have ended up without them. They were angels to us and I’m__________forever.
【1】
A．valueless
B．happy
C．tough
D．peaceful
【2】
A．or rather
B．even so
C．at leisure
D．for example
【3】
A．aid
B．relaxation
C．scholarship
D．patience
【4】
A．inspection
B．dignity
C．fruit
D．load
【5】
A．surely
B．thankfully
C．hardly
D．confusedly
【6】
A．leave
B．sell
C．decorate
D．furnish
【7】
A．changed
B．quit
C．searched
D．got
【8】
A．refused
B．hesitated
C．offered
D．learned
【9】
A．imagined
B．accepted
C．missed
D．doubted
【10】
A．applicants
B．bosses
C．colleagues
D．friends
【11】
A．controlled
B．accommodated
C．employed
D．observed
【12】
A．resign
B．entertain
C．stay
D．exercise
【13】
A．waited for
B．turned down
C．built
D．dealt with
【14】
A．old
B．warm
C．rare
D．available
【15】
A．discouraged
B．hit
C．helped
D．taught
【16】
A．curiosity
B．creation
C．limitation
D．kindness
【17】
A．duty
B．track
C．board
D．purpose
【18】
A．work
B．health
C．chance
D．power
【19】
A．distinguished
B．shocked
C．convinced
D．delighted
【20】
A．grateful
B．sensitive
C．confident
D．aware
26、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。
Ezri and Oliver were so keen to climb the mountain that they begged to join their dad Brandon for another hike. Just after 8 a. m. on a beautiful Sunday morning, they set off. Brandon’s backpack held his phone, Clif bars (能量棒), packets of apple sauce, apples, water bottles and fishing gear.
Brandon had planned a varied route up the mountain. The winding upward slope was fun and uneventful. Near the top, thick snow blanketed the path. Excitedly, the kids raced across the hard surface. They shared the second-last Clif bar and rested for an hour. Brandon looked around. His phone showed 1:30 p. m. and no signals.
When the kids started down, Brandon said, “You guys really want to find those fishing lakes, don’t you?”
“Oh, yes!” Ezri said. So they took an unfamiliar route down the other side of the mountain.
By the time Brandon realized the path had become an animal trail alongside a stream, it made sense to keep following it. The stream sang to them, and they kept following it down. Mid afternoon, when the sun disappeared behind heavy gray clouds, they suddenly felt lost, cold and hungry. For half an hour they cautiously moved downward until they reached a steep cliff (悬崖) edge. The stream became a noisy, six-metre waterfall. Mist enveloped them as the water raced over a huge rock.
Brandon cursed (咒骂) himself for taking an unknown route down. They held hands and inched down until Oliver slid on a loose rock and all three went flying.
Brandon wiped blood from his forehead and gathered his senses. Was anyone hurt? Oliver, crying and shivering, seemed okay. Ezri was weeping, but she too appeared uninjured. Brandon himself didn’t feel anything worse than the wound on his forehead. The backpack was stuck in the rocks six meters away. He saw no use trying to find it back. The air was cold and getting colder. They were wet and tired.
注意：
1．所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
To save the kids, Brandon realized he had to look for a way out alone.
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A helicopter with the father and many volunteers set off immediately.
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