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1、— The final examination is around the corner. I couldn't go out and play football with you.
— Come on. . All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
A.Be all ears B.It’s a piece of cake
C.Don’t be a wet blanket D.Don’t pull my leg
2、To ____ telling lies he asked his friends to help him cheat his parents.
A.get down to B.get across C.get away with D.get over
3、_______ is known to all, grammar is not a set of dead rules.
A.That B.Which C.As D.It
4、The reason ________ he didn’t come to school on time is ________ he had to take care of his sick brother at home.
A．That; because
B．that; that
C．why; because
D．why; that
5、My advice is that you should think about ________ you know anyone who fits your target audience.
A.which B.what C.that D.whether
6、Such tourists ________ have visited Shanghai all think that a visit to Shanghai cannot be complete without a stroll along the Bund.
A.who B.that
C.as D.whoever
7、Shelly had prepared carefully for her biology examination so that she could be sure of passing it at her first ________.
A．intention
B．attempt
C．purpose
D．desire
8、______ is generally accepted, economic growth is determined by the smooth development of production.
A. What B. That C. It D.As
9、At the station ______ a teacher and two students on their way to the city.
A.were B.was C.is D.sits
10、In the US, not all universities are created ______ , and only some can truly pass as Ivy League (常青藤联盟), including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and so on.
A.equal B.professional C.global D.historical
11、Harry is feeling uncomfortable. He ________ too much at the party last night.
A．has to drink
B．must have drunk
C．could be drunk
D．needs to drink
12、He ________ the painting all the time, wondering where he had seen it.
A.glimpsed at B.glared at C.glanced at D.stared at
13、_______ the size of the whole earth, the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.
A．Comparing with
B．When compared with
C．To compare with
D．Being compared with
14、We saw a new play at the theatre, ______________ we had supper at a restaurant.
A. after which B. which after C. then which D. and that after
15、The number of road accidents and the deaths _____ those accidents _____ over the past years.
A.resulting in; has increased B.resulting in; have increased
C.resulting from; has increased D.resulting from; have increased
16、To learn English well, we should find chances to hear English ______ as much as we can.
A.speak B.speaking C.spoken D.to speak
17、I asked her in English __________ she was, and she told me _________ she was an actress.
A.who, that B.who, / C.what, that D.how, /
18、The government has released the policy “One belt, One road', ________ for the further economic growth.
A.intended B.intending C.to intend D.to be intended
19、—They have done a good job.
— _______ and ________.
A.So they have done； so do you
B.So they have； so have you
C.So have they； so you have
D.So it is with them； so it is with you
20、________in the street, I came across an old friend of mine.
A．To walk
B．Walked
C．Walking
D．Having walked
21、We can guess when the play takes place, telling by the colorful ______ on the stage.
A．scenery
B．sight
C．scene
D．view
22、Rafael Nadal is a tennis champion equipped with a big heart, to win and resolution to defeat all his opponents.
A.persuasion B.determination C.fascination D.accumulation
23、We all think the book is well worth ________.
A.reading B.read C.to be read D.to read
24、Mr. Zhao, who as a teacher for 8 years, is now a lawyer.
A．works
B．had worked
C．is working
D．worked
25、The man opened his eyes, only ________ himself left alone in the room.
A. finding B. found C. to find D. having found
26、My color television has given me nothing but a headache. I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of a lot of clothes that wouldn’t fit. I let a salesclerk fool me into buying a discontinued model. I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid. The set worked so beautifully when I first got it home that I would keep it on until stations signed off for the night. Fortunately, I didn’t got any channels showing all-night movies or I would never have gotten to bed.
Then I started developing a problem with the set that involved static (静电) noise. For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds. Gradually, this noise began to appear during a show, and to get rid of it. I had to change to another channel and then change it back. Sometimes this technique would not work, and I had to pick up the set and shake it to remove the sound. I actually began to build up my arm muscles (肌肉) shaking my set.
When neither of these methods removed the static noise, I would sit helplessly and wait for the noise to go away. At last I ended up hitting the set with my fist, and it stopped working altogether. My trip to the repair shop cost me $62, and the set is working well now, but I keep expecting more trouble.
【1】Why did the author say he was fooled into buying the TV set?
A．He got an older model than he had expected.
B．He couldn’t return it when it was broken.
C．He could have bought it at a lower price.
D．He failed to find any movie shows on it.
【2】Which of the following can best replace the phrase “signed off” in Paragraph 1?
A．ended all their programs
B．provided fewer channels
C．changed to commercials
D．showed all-night movies
【3】How did the author finally get his TV set working again?
A．By shaking and hitting it.
B．By turning it on and off.
C．By switching channels.
D．By having it repaired.
【4】How does the author sound when telling the story?
A．Curious
B．Anxious
C．Cautious
D．Humorous
27、 As US firm launched (发行) a “smart lock” that can let you into your home using a mobile phone and you don't even need to take the phone out of your pocket to open the door. The August lock costs $249 and can even be set to automatically let in friends or workmen.
August was created by technology entrepreneur (企业家)Jason Johnson and industrial designer Yves Behar, and the product will finally go on sale in Apple Stores this week. It is made of "durable anodized aluminum" and can be started and managed using a mobile app and online, It is connected to the existing door lock and is battery operated.
To open the lock, anyone with a code can approach the door, enable their phones blueboth and press the relevant (相关的))address from the app. The lock takes a few seconds to scan and confirm the visitors' identity. Once the identity is confirmed, the circle of red dots on the front of the device turns green and the August lock twists (转动)to open the door.
The makers claim that it takes just 10 minutes to install. To allow keyless access to friends, family and other visitors, the homeowner must send them an invitation. This can be done using existing contacts from the homeowner's phone's address book, but other persons must have the August app to receive the unique code of the lock from the homeowner.
When someone enters the house, the homeowner is sent a push notice. Another notice is sent when the person leaves. This means homeowners can keep track of how long cleaners or builders spend in the house and every visitor's details and visiting information is stored on a Log.
【1】Who are not allowed to enter the house with the August lock?
A.Relatives B.Friends C.Workmen. D.Strangers
【2】How do visitors get the code to open the door from the homeowner?
A.By receiving a call B.By the August app
C.By the address book. D.By asking the entrepreneur.
【3】How many notices will the homeowner receive during someone's entire visit?
A.Two B.One C.Three D.Four
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A.How to Invite a Friend
B.August-the Best Lock
C.August--a Smart Lock
D.How to Unlock a House
28、 Are you preparing for a standardized English exam? Do you find the listening section particularly challenging?
The world of standardized examinations to assess candidates’ abilities in the English language has grown rapidly, especially in the last 30 years. Most of these exams include a listening paper, in which a number of micro-skills are tested, such as listening for detailed information, understanding an author’s attitude and more. Despite the different types of exams out there, they all share many things. We can call them “skills”, as they can be applied while taking the listening test.
You need to exercise your skills to make “educated guesses” although you won’t ever have super powers. Most standardized tests give you some time to read ahead. You must use this time wisely, as this is crucial to predicting as much as possible a number of things. You should quickly ask yourself: What is their relationship? Where are they? Why are they talking? What are their tones?
By doing this, you will be able to set the situation and expect specific vocabulary which might be used in the coming listening materials. All this can be done very quickly. If the passage contains gaps that you must fill out, you should try to predict the type of word or expression (noun, adjective, verb, etc.). Do not try to read everything in detail; only focus on the key words. With practice, you will be able to predict with a certain level of precision. Even if you find it difficult, trying to make a prediction will always help you concentrate on the task, thus making it a lot more manageable and understandable.
Becoming a successful candidate takes time and practice. Unless you have had enough practice in English, you won’t probably be able to get your desired score. Keep in mind that most standardized exams are more about skills than knowledge.
【1】The underlined term “educated guesses” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced with _____.
A.efforts to achieve high scores B.quick decisions about the choice
C.better options using the same words D.predictions with a certain level of precision
【2】What should be stressed more in a standardized listening test according to the passage?
A.Skills. B.Vocabulary. C.Scores. D.Knowledge.
【3】Who do you think the passage is intended for?
A.Teachers. B.Managers. C.Speakers. D.Candidates.
29、Traffic Management
Traffic lights are key tools for regulating traffic now.They are not, however, perfect.Drivers exchange the traffic jams that would happen at unmanaged crossings for a pattern of stop-go movement that can still be annoying, and which burns more fuel than a smooth passage would.
Creating such a smooth passage means adjusting a vehicle's speed so that it always arrives at the lights when they are green.That is theoretically possible, but practically hard.Roadside signs wired to traffic lights can help get the message across a couple hundred metres from a crossing, but such signs are expensive, and are not widespread.Margaret Martonosi and Emmanouil Koukoumidis at Princeton University, and Li-Shiuan Peh at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, however, have an idea that could make the process cheaper and more effective.Instead of a hardwired network of signs, they propose to use mobile-phone applications.The driver must load the team's software, named SignalGuru, into his phone and then put it on a special thing attached to the inside of his car's windscreen, with the camera lens （镜头） pointing forward.SignalGuru is designed to detect traffic lights and track their status as red, yellow or green.It broadcasts this information to other phones in the area that are fitted with the same software, and — if there are enough of them, the phones thus each know the status of most of the lights around town.Using this information, SignalGuru is able to calculate the traffic-light schedule for the area and suggest the speed at which a driver should travel in order to avoid red lights.
Tests in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where five drivers were asked to follow the same route for three hours, and in Singapore, where eight drivers were asked to follow one of two routes for 30 minutes, revealed that SignalGuru was capable of predicting traffic-light activity with an accuracy of 98.2% and 96.3% respectively, in the two cities.This was particularly impressive because in Cambridge the lights shifted, roughly half-way through the test, from their unbusy schedule to their afternoon-traffic schedule, while in Singapore lights are adaptive, using detectors fixed under the road to determine how much traffic is present and thus when a signal should change.In neither case was SignalGuru fooled.
Fuel consumption fell, too —by about 20%.SignalGuru thus reduces both annoyance and fuel use, and makes going back and forth to work a slightly less horrible experience.
【1】Roadside signs wired to traffic lights are not the best way to create a smooth passage because____________.
A．they are too costly and not widely used
B．they are expensive and easily break
C．they are complex and confusing to drivers
D．they are theoretically possible but practically useless
【2】SignalGuru is an application used on____________..
A．a camera
B．a computer
C．a mobile phone
D．a GPS system in one's car
【3】With the information it collects and processes, SignalGuru is able to____________..
A．help drivers avoid traffic accidents
B．allow drivers to adjust their speed
C．change the traffic lights in advance
D．send information to all cell phones
【4】The tests in Cambridge and Singapore were impressive because SignalGuru____________..
A．proved to be unreliable
B．operated at a high speed
C．understood drivers' schedules
D．functioned rather stably
30、 I played a badminton game against my cousin Charlie last week. It was one of the most ____ and tiring games I’ve ever had. When Charlie first phoned and ______ we play, I laughed quietly, figuring on an easy victory. After all, Charlie’s idea of ______ has always been nothing more ____ than lifting a fork to his mouth. As long as I can remember, Charlie’s been the least physically fit member in the family, and ______ proud of himself. His big stomach has always ballooned out between his T-shirt and trousers. Although the family often ______ about that, Charlie refused to buy a larger T-shirt or to lose weight. So when Charlie ______ for our game not only with the bottom of his shirt gathered inside his trousers but also with a stomach you could hardly ______, I was so surprised that I was ______. My cousin must have made an effort to get himself into shape. As a result, at the point in our game when I predicted the score to be about 21 to 5 in my favor, it was ______ 7 to 9 —and Charlie was ______. Suddenly, Charlie slipped and fell. I thought he would lose his temper as he used to, but he ______ his tears and kept playing! To make matters worse, it seemed that he could ______ my mind and predict what I would do next. Little by little, my patience ______.
I was about to give up when suddenly there was a ______ failure, which gave me time to calm down. When everything was back to normal, we ______ to play like two mad men. When the score was 18-18, I finally ______ my confidence. In the end, I survived in the game, but it was only a ________victory. After the game, both of us were lying flat on our backs, too tired to ______. In a way, I think we both won: I the game, but cousin Charlie my ______.
【1】A.regular B.hopeless C.encouraging D.surprising
【2】A.suggested B.declared C.persuaded D.mentioned
【3】A.joy B.preparation C.exercise D.fitness
【4】A.time-saving B.effort-making C.suitable D.comfortable
【5】A.reasonably B.personally C.strangely D.eagerly
【6】A.joked B.forgot C.quarreled D.cared
【7】A.left B.sent C.returned D.arrived
【8】A.notice B.measure C.admire D.believe
【9】A.nervous B.speechless C.careless D.sceptical
【10】A.then B.naturally C.instead D.mistakenly
【11】A.waiting B.leading C.coming D.counting
【12】A.break out B.put up C.burst into D.held back
【13】A.read B.see C.understand D.watch
【14】A.settled down B.used up C.gave out D.break down
【15】A.strength B.power C.force D.energy
【16】A.decided B.stopped C.pretended D.continued
【17】A.lost B.gained C.controlled D.took
【18】A.narrow B.terrible C.tough D.simple
【19】A.sleep B.play C.move D.start
【20】A.support B.favor C.friendship D.respect
31、Directions: Complete the following paragraphs by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
Note that there is one word more than you need.
A Bad Idea
Think you can walk, dive, take phone calls, e-mail and listen to music at the same time? Well, New York's new law says you can't. And you'll be 【1】 $S100 if you do it on a New York City street.
The law went into force last month, following research and a(n) 【2】number of accidents that involved people using electronic gadgets when crossing the street.
Who's to【3】 ? Scientists say that our multitasking abilities are limited.
"We are under the impression that our brain can do more than it often can," says Rene Marois, a neuroscientist in Tennessee. “But a major limitation is the inability to【4】on two things at once".
The young people are often considered the great multitaskers. However, an Oxford University research suggests this idea is open to question. A group of 18-to 21-year-olds and a group of 35-to 39-year-olds were given 90 seconds to translate【5】into numbers, using a simple code. The younger group did 10 percent better when not interrupted. But when both groups were interrupted by a phone call or a(n) 【6】message, the older group matched the younger group in speed and 【7】.
It is difficult to measure the productivity【8】by multitaskers. But it is probably a lot. Jonathan Spire, chief analyst at Basex. a business-research firm, estimates the cost of interruptions to the American economy at nearly $650 billion a year.
The【9】is based on surveys with office workers. The surveys conclude that 28 percent of the workers' time was spent on interruptions and【10】time before they returned to their main tasks.
32、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写词数应为150词左右。
We went to Darjelling during the summer holidays and booked a cottage(农舍) for our stay. Our cook Gopi came with us because we could not do without home-cooked meals.
Usually all the shopping was done by our home help Bharat, who went to our holiday destination with us. However, one early evening, my mother decided to do all the vegetable shopping by herself. She believed that Bharat did not wait to check the really fresh items and instead, bought some things in a hurry. As a result, the vegetables he brought back were not fresh.
After getting ready, she took her favorite purse with quite an amount of money, thinking she could go to other shops too after finishing at the vegetable market. My mother asked Bharat to get a rickshaw for her and on reaching the market, she asked the rickshaw wallah ( 人力车车夫) to wait for her. She took a coolie (小工) and did her shopping happily, choosing some of the freshest green vegetables available there. At last, her shopping was done. She returned to the rickshaw and sat on it while the coolie put all the things my mother had bought onto the rickshaw.
On reaching home, Bharat took all the packets of vegetables inside and my mother quickly paid the rickshaw wallah and got off, forgetting to collect her purse from the seat of the rickshaw. The rickshaw wallah left soon after saying goodbye to my mother. All of us greeted my mother and asked her about her evening of shopping with much delight.
Then we began to help my mother prepare our dinner. My father came to help cut the meat; I helped wash the vegetables; we were talking and laughing. When dinner was ready, it was late in the evening, almost 9 p.m.
Paragraph 1:
Then my mom realized her purse was missing.
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Paragraph 2:
We were just about to begin eating when the door belling rang.
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