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1、Kenny still remembers the class discussion________the teacher asked students to share what they wanted to be when they grew up.
A．why
B．which
C．that
D．where
2、Self-confidence is a kind of quality and that is it takes to do everything well.
A．why
B．that
C．what
D．which
3、--- It is ridiculous for people to only focus on the ring that didn’t light up during the opening ceremony in the winter Olympics in Sochi.
--I can’t agree more. we should concentrate our attention the highlights are in the Games.
A. what B. when C. where D. how
4、After the meal, the managers went back to the meeting room to ________ their discussion.
A.put off B.carry on C.look up D.take down
5、Social and cultural activities for senior citizens ______ over the past several years.
A. conducted B. were conducted
C. have conducted D. have been conducted
6、— Frank, you need to refresh yourself with a cup of coffee.
—Yeah, I went to bed very late last night, ________, early this morning.
A．rather than
B．what’s more
C．or rather
D．what’s worse
7、— Jim ________ what I said annoying though he didn’t say anything.
— So you mean you will have to apologize to him?
A.must find B.might find C.should have found D.must have found
8、Taking years________, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a record of all of our efforts to overcome the most difficult engineering challenges.
A．completing
B．having been completed
C．to complete
D．completed
9、Stephen Hawking believes that the earth is unlikely to be the only
planet _______ life has developed gradually.
A. that B. where C. which D. whose
10、When you have finished the report, believe it or not, I ______ for about 3 hours.
A.will be waiting B.waited C.will have waited D.have waited
11、Conservationists __________on setting aside natural reserves for the wild species they are trying to protect during the past decade.
A.focused B.focus C.have focused D.had focused
12、-- Did Jim come?
-- I don’t know. He _______ while I was out.
A．might have come
B．might come
C．must have come
D．should have come
13、You can’t imagine how excited we were ________ that our schoolmates had won the first place in National Robot Competition.
A.learning B.having learned
C.to be learning D.to learn
14、The beauty of a tournament like the World Cup is ________ it can be wildly unpredictable.
A．whether
B．how
C．that
D．why
15、Do you still remember how many years ago_________ we first met on campus?
A. was it that B. it was that
C. was it when D. it was when
16、Working hard is not a __________ of great success, but it is among the essential requirements.
A. sign B. signal
C. guarantee D. mark
17、Some parents are just too protective.They want to ________ their kids from every kind of danger，real or imagined.
A.spot B.dismiss
C.distinguish D.shelter
18、— How is the result, doctor?
— Well, your health is _____ good, but you still have a few minor problems.
A.normally B.generally C.gradually D.frequently
19、In order to make full use of the energy, many water power stations are built ______ there are big waterfalls.
A．unless
B．so that
C．where
D．whether
20、－I _______ in the same position too long. My legs have fallen asleep.
－Shake it a little before you get up.
A. will sit B. have sat
C. am sitting D. have been stting
21、Biological age might help determine your quality of life as you get older, since your cells and organs have ages varying from your regular age. Many aging-research scientists believe that knowing your biological age could help you postpone or avoid age-related illnesses, and better predict an individual’s lifespan (寿命). Other scientists argue that there’s no standard way to measure biological age. At the center of the debate are hopes that people can extend their lives by changing their behaviors.
Since everybody’s genes (基因) are different, tracking your biological age could help determine your most helpful habits and customize them. People also can attempt to lower their biological age through ways of effectively managing stress.
Dr. Sinclair at Harvard is developing a biological-age test based on chemical changes on DNA. He plans to launch it with a new company called Tally Health. Though criticized by other scientists for hyping the results of some of his findings for his business, he says that he doesn’t overstate his research findings.
Inside Tracker, a personalized-nutrition company founded by scientists, calculates biological age by having users take blood tests and analyzing the samples for marks of diseases. Those who test as older than their years get recommendations to adjust diet, exercise and medicine.
Many other health startups are offering testing that claims to calculate biological age, sometimes with little scientific backing, and designing medicine aimed at boosting youthfulness.
Stephen Robert tested himself earlier this year with an at-home blood test as an effort to improve his health at age 51. “I drink and smoke,” he says, so he expected his biological age to be a lot older than his calendar age. He says he was shocked when test results reported his biological age was 24.
Gordan Lauc, professor of biochemistry and chief scientific officer of GlycanAge, says the results make sense given Mr. Robert’s genetics—longevity runs in his family and lifestyle, which is likely less stressful.
【1】What can people do after knowing their biological ages?
A．Improve their calendar ages to prevent diseases.
B．Determine ways to effectively manage stress.
C．Get personalized-nutrition plan to improve health.
D．Lengthen their lives by changing their conduct.
【2】Why did some scientists criticize Dr. Sinclair?
A．He overstated his findings to make a profit.
B．His scientific research was far from mature.
C．His company let out people’s biological age.
D．Biological-age test did harm to people’s health.
【3】What accounts for Stephen’s young biological age according to Gordan?
A．He manages stress in life successfully.
B．He had good nutrition at his childhood.
C．His family has a long-life tradition.
D．He has improved his biological life.
【4】Which of the following can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Understand Your Calendar Life and Stay Healthy
B．Meet Your Biological Age and Extend Your Life
C．Improve Your Biological Age with Good Habits
D．Employ Biological Technology to Start Business
22、A college degree is helpful for many practical reasons, ranging from your increased competitiveness to the increased likeliness that you’ll be promoted within your job. However, people think little of the degree of personal growth that they’ll experience as they’re working through their degrees. A college education requires students to overcome all types of difficulties and prepares themselves not only for the workplace, but for dealing with many of life’s challenges.
Time management and organization, for example, are just two examples of the skills that you’re likely to get the hang of during your time in college. Both are needed to successfully deal with the many courses you will take and the tasks before you. Tests, exams, and home-work dates can all become confusing when you’re dealing with multiple classes. Good organization can help you manage all of your responsibilities, and it’s a skill that will be useful once you have your degree. Not only is it useful in the workplace,but it can help you manage your personal responsibilities at home as well. Even simple tasks like bill payments are made easier when you can properly track what is due and when.
Of course, on a larger level, the sort of personal development you’ll experience will large-ly be related to overcoming difficulties. College requires that you overcome one challenge after another, ranging from learning courses to passing tests or completing projects. You’ll need to be not only intelligent but disciplined in order to complete your schooling. These traits(特质)are often developed slowly throughout college. As you learn how to better respond to stress and difficulties, you’ll slowly find that you’re better able to deal with difficulties in a number of situations.
【1】What benefit is ignored about working through a college degree?
A．More job opportunities.
B．More chances of promotion.
C．Stronger competitiveness.
D．Greater personal growth.
【2】What does the underlined phrase“get the hang of”in paragraph 2 mean?
A．Track down.
B．Pick up.
C．Hang out.
D．Get off.
【3】What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A．Earning a degree is a must to gain personal development.
B．Personal growth can only be acquired by earning a degree.
C．College life is accompanied with challenges and difficulties.
D．Traits of intelligence and discipline are developed fast in college.
【4】Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Benefits of Earning a College Degree
B．Practical Ways to Achieve a College Degree
C．Reasons Why You Need to Earn a College Degree
D．Earning a College Degree Helps with Personal Growth
23、 The FRIENDS Experience
Tel. :(312)327-2300
Time: Sept. 1, 12:00 am — Sept. 30, 9:00 pm
The FRIENDS Experience offers fans a fully immersive (身临其境的) experience surrounding the popular television show including 12 nostalgia (怀旧) — packed rooms and activations allowing fans to explore the show's history, recreate favorite moments and learn behind-the-scenes information. A portion of each ticket sale will be donated to My Block, My Hood, My City.
Bottleneck Management Hosts Hops for Hope
Tel. :(312)546-6177
Time: Dec. 1,12:00 am — Dec. 31, 12:00 am
Bottleneck Management’s Chicagoland restaurants offer Hops for Hope this December. Throughout the month, Bottleneck restaurants will donate $1 of every Bottlenectar beer sold to the Lynn Sage Foundation. To match the donation, Goose Island will also donate $1 for every Bottlenectar beer sold Chicago Lights Virtual Marathon.
Tel. :（312）436-6055
Time: Oct. 1, 12:00 am — Oct, 31, 12:00 an
Sign up to support Chicago Lights by voluntarily walking, running, or biking any distance you choose — 26.2 miles, more, or less— between October 1— 31 as your own personal "marathon". The event aims to raise awareness and funds for the organization’s youth development and social service programming, working to help participants build the skills they need to overcome economic and social barriers and achieve their ambitions. Participants will also create personal fundraising pages to share with friends, family and supporters and ask them to fund as they complete their marathon.
Collaborative Día de los Muertos Celebration
Tel. :(312)6304037
Time: Nov. 1, 4: 00 pm-6:00 pm
The Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA) and McAninch Arts Center (MAC) team up with the Immigrant Solidarity DuPage to celebrate the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Guests will be greeted with live music by Chicago’s own Mariachi Monumental De México and directed to where they can drop off their non-perishable (不易变质的) food items. Everyone donating a non-perishable food item will receive tasty candy treats.
【1】Which event lasts the shortest time?
A．The FRIENDS Experience
B．Bottleneck Management Hosts Hops for Hope.
C．Chicago Lights Virtual Marathon.
D．Collaborative Día de los Muertos Celebration.
【2】Which will sports fans probably call for further information?
A．(312)327-2300
B．(312)546-6177.
C．(312)436-6055.
D．(312)630-4037.
【3】What do the four events have in common?
A．They call on people to learn about classical works.
B．They appeal to people for contributions to charities.
C．They encourage more people to build up their body.
D．They raise people’s awareness of protecting the environment.
24、 Some people may think that students who study abroad have more time for relaxation and less homework. But as a matter of fact, Grade 12 students in Canada are just as busy and pressured as students in China. In Canada, students have to pay equal attention to all the tests and assignments, as every little evaluation will directly affect their final grades.
To ease some of the stress from the important courses, like mathematics and English, students will often choose one or two fun courses in the last year of high school. Those classes can give students a fairly excellent final grade.
Take me as an example-the classes I am attending this semester include advanced functions, graphic design and history. All of them are really important to me, which means I have to pay more attention to them.
In order to get enough elective credits to grade, I chose a relatively easy course, nutrition and health. This course is aimed at helping students develop a healthy lifestyle and diet. The biggest highlight of this course is that students can experience cooking and baking, which I believe is the reason why there 're a large number of students on the waiting list Usually, there are one or two food labs every month. Teachers always let students decide what they want to cook or bake. Students are divided into four groups with six people, and teachers are given the recipe beforehand.
After attending this class for more than three months, I believe it's not as easy as others think it is because it's an interdisciplinary(跨学科) course that requires basic knowledge of science, humanity and even culinary.
Despite these kinds of courses not being as demanding as others, we can still learn a lot from them. Some people might think they're “mark-boosting(促进分数的)” courses that don't need to be taken seriously. But I consider them to be a unique way to ease the tension or other schoolwork.
【1】Why do Grade 12 students in Canada take fun elective courses?
A.To pass the free time. B.To put theory into practice.
C.To adopt a healthy lifestyle. D.To get relief from schoolwork.
【2】It can be learned from paragraph 4 that Canadian elective classes are ____.
A.easy but boring B.diverse but stressful
C.practical and beneficial D.interesting and inspiring
【3】Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A.School Life in Canada B.Canada's Elective Classes
C.Educational System in Canada D.Tips for Choosing Elective Classes
25、When was the last time someone unexpectedly did something nice for you? Not someone you knew, but a total_________? It's happened to me a few times, but two instances really_________.
A few years ago, I was dining in a restaurant with a friend who kept talking about himself,_________not aware of the fact that I was sitting there in misery. It wasn't my friend's talks that made me_________. I was recovering from a_________heart, and just sitting down to dinner_________me of my last relationship. I could have burst into tears right there at the_________.
When we picked up the_________, the waitress said, "Your meal was already paid for." My friend and I didn't have a（n）_________how it happened. Then I remembered a man coming in out of the______________of my eye. He was dressed in mostly white, sat down at the bar, had a beer, and______________for maybe ten minutes. The waitress said, "Yes, the gentleman in white paid for you." It______________that an angel was saying, "I see you, honey. It's going to be okay."
Just last year, I was running a half-marathon. With just one mile to______________, I was out of gas. I______________I couldn't move another inch. Out of______________, a stranger came up to me and said, "What's your name, sweetie? Jennifer? Okay ,Jennifer, let's go! Come on! The race is______________. You can do it!" And he ran with me until I picked up my ____________. I found him at the finish line to thank him for the encouragement only to learn he wasn't______________supposed to be in the race that day,
I still______________my head when I think of these momentary______________that came to me at my point of need.
Do you have any experiences like these?
【1】
A．friend
B．acquaintance
C．stranger
D．relative
【2】
A．stand out
B．fade away
C．differ in
D．pass down
【3】
A．gradually
B．completely
C．immediately
D．cautiously
【4】
A．faint
B．lose
C．fall
D．suffer
【5】
A．cheerful
B．broken
C．thankful
D．failed
【6】
A．recalled
B．informed
C．reminded
D．warned
【7】
A．counter
B．table
C．window
D．entrance.
【8】
A．bill
B．menu
C．journal
D．souvenir
【9】
A．thought
B．clue
C．sense
D．belief
【10】
A．view
B．side
C．border
D．corner
【11】
A．discussed
B．stayed
C．quarreled
D．settled
【12】
A．happened
B．occurred
C．proved
D．appeared
【13】
A．go
B．leave
C．remain
D．spare
【14】
A．supposed
B．imagined
C．thought
D．announced
【15】
A．somewhere
B．everywhere
C．anywhere
D．nowhere
【16】
A．closing
B．approaching
C．starting
D．coming
【17】
A．wallet
B．towel
C．pace
D．rate
【18】
A．even
B．still
C．ever
D．never
【19】
A．nod
B．drop
C．shake
D．raise
【20】
A．memories
B．figures
C．heroes
D．angels
26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Blowing a Few Tops
Ever stopped to consider the upside of volcanic eruptions? It’s not all death, destruction and hot liquid rock—scientists have a plan to cool the planet by simulating one such eruption.
Solar geoengineering involves simulating a volcano by spraying aerosols(气溶胶) into the atmosphere. When they combine with oxygen, droplets of sulfuric acid (硫酸) form. These droplets reflect sunlight away from Earth, cooling the planet. All good in theory, but the consequences are largely unknown and a few could be disastrous. In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers led by Anthony Jones, a climate scientist from the University of Exeter, found that using this technology in the Northern Hemisphere could reduce the number of tropical winds hitting the U.S. and Caribbean. But there's an annoying exchange: more winds in the Southern Hemisphere and a drought across the Sahel region of Africa. That’s because the entire climate system is linked—disrupting one region will invariably affect another. How would a nation react if another was causing its weather to get much worse? Would that be an act of war?
There is, however, a case for using solar geoengineering on a global scale. Jones says it could be used to “take the edge off” the temperature increases scientists are predicting. It could be used while the world searches for more effective strategies.
The study also highlights a far bigger problem with solar geoengineering: its complete lack of regulation. “There’s nothing that could stop one country just doing it,” Jones says. “You only need about 100 aircraft with three flights per day. It would cost $1 billion to $10 billion per year.” He adds, “It’s deeply disturbing that we have this technology that could have such a massive influence on the climate, yet there’s just no regulation to stop countries or even organizations from doing it.”
Jones cautions that there is much about the climate system we do not understand, as well as far more work that will need to be done before solar geoengineering is considered safe—or too dangerous to even discuss.
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