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1、 A new monetary policy will take effect next month.
Really good news, especially for those companies that _______ with money.
A. have struggled B. struggled C. have been struggling D. had struggled
2、The Spring Festival is the most joyful time of the year, but it can also be ______ . With all the traveling, visiting relatives, and gift-buying, the holiday can become a tense time for many families.
A. beneficial B. optional
C. commercial D. stressful
3、 It is reported that as well as the inquiry in London, there is a(n) __________ investigation going on in New York into the cause of the disaster.
A. parallel B. awesome
C. sensible D. genuine
4、As soon as I got to the airport, I realized I ________ my ID card at home.
A. had left B. has left
C. would leave D. will leave
5、Students surf the internet _______ more information about the university they are dreamt of.
A. found B. finding
C. having found D. to find
6、 It’s illegal for a public official to ask people for gifts or money ________ favors to them.
A. in preference to B. in place of
C. in agreement with D. in exchange for
7、It’s a pity you were late，otherwise you ______the film star Rain from Korea．
A． would have seen B． must have seen
C． may have seen D． can have seen
考点：虚拟语气情态动词
8、Shortly after the earthquake, many people hurried to the hospital to __________their blood.
A. donate B. share C. exchange D. promote
9、The driver stopped his car so _____ that he was hit by the cab right behind him．
A． impolitely B． violently
C． abruptly D． cautiously
10、Though it is the first time they have met, they talked as if they ________ friends for many years.
A. are B. were
C. had been D. have been
11、According to the job advertisement, _____ will be given to the candidates with working experience.
A. presentation B. profession
C. preference D. protection
12、Last night's TV news said that by then the death of the missing people yet.
A.isn't proved B.haven't been proved
C.had not been proved D.wasn’t proved
13、No sooner ____________ these words than the warden hit him on the head with the soup spoon.
A.had the boy spoken B.has the boy spoken
C.did the boy speak D.was the boy speaking
14、When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about ________ but finding food.
A．everything B．anything
C．nothing D．something
15、Many parents in China always _______ too much importance to words, ordering their children to do this or that.
A. attach B. add C. link D. apply
16、The cause of the accident may have been the engine .
A.inconvenience B.fault C.failure D.disorder
17、--I think we are lost. I’ve no idea where we are.
--I wish we __________the map with us.
A. bring B. would bring
C. have brought D. had brought
18、A public health campaign _____ the number of heart disease deaths by 80 percent over the past three decades．
A．had reduced B．had been reduced
C．has reduced D．has been reduced
19、No one hates arguments more than Martin—he becomes miserable whenever they occur. ________, in his household, disputes are abundant.
A. Generally B. Actually
C. Unfortunately D. Roughly
20、—Hi, Lucy. I hear you failed the driving test last week.
—Bad luck! When I wanted to stop my car, the brake work.
A. mustn't B. won't C. shan't D. wouldn't
21、Do you want to improve the way you study? Do you feel nervous before a test? Many students say that a lack of concentration is their biggest problem. It seriously affects their ability to study, so do their test results. If so, use these tips to help you.
Study Techniques
You should always study in the same place. You shouldn’t sit in a position that you use for another purpose. For example, when you sit on a sofa to study, your brain will think it is time to relax. Don’t watch TV while you are studying. Experts warn that your concentration may be reduced by 50 percent if you attempt to study in this way. Always try to have a white wall in front of you, so there is nothing to distract (make less concentrated) you. Before sitting down to study, gather together all the equipment you need. Apart from your textbooks, pens, pencils and knives, make sure you have a dictionary. If your study desk or table is needed when you are not studying, store all your equipment in a box beside it.
Your eyes will become tired if you try to read a text which is on a flat surface. Position your book at an angle of 30 degrees.
Be realistic and don’t try to complete too much in one study period. Finish one thing before beginning another. If you need a break, get up and walk around for a few minutes, but try not to telephone a friend or have something to eat.
Test-taking Skills
All your hard work will be for nothing if you are too nervous to take your test. Getting plenty of rest is very important. This means: do not study all night before your test! It is a better idea to have a long-term study plan. Try to make a timetable for your study which lasts for a few months.
Exercise is a great way to reduce pressure. Doing some form of exercise every day will also improve your concentration. Eat healthy food, too.
When you arrive in the examination room, find your seat and sit down. Breathe slowly and deeply. Check the time on the clock during the test, but not too often. Above all, take no notice of everyone else and give the test paper your undivided attention.
【1】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Check the time during the exam at a certain time.
B. Your concentration will improve if you study and watch TV at the same time.
C. You should study in a different place every day, so you don’t get bored.
D. Staying up all night and studying is tiring, but you will learn a lot using this method.
【2】What does the underlined word “it” refer to?
A. Your textbook. B. Your study desk or table.
C. Your dictionary. D. The equipment you need.
【3】 What can be inferred from the passage?
A. You shouldn’t look at everyone else during the test.
B. You’ll concentrate more if there is nothing to distract you.
C. You will have enough energy to deal with your study and exams by eating healthy diet.
D. If you feel tired during study, you can walk around for a few minutes.
22、Visitor Oyster cards are electronic smart cards that come fully charged with credit. Whether you’re making a one-off trip to London or you’re a regular visitor, using an Oyster travel smart card is the easiest way to travel around the city’s public transport network. Simply touch the card on the yellow card reader at the doors when you start and end your journey.
Advantages of a Visitor Oyster Card
A Visitor Oyster card is one of the cheapest ways to pay for single journeys on the bus, Tube, DLR, tram, London Overground and most National Rail services in London:
● Save time—your card is ready to use as soon as you arrive in London.
● It’s more than 50% cheaper than buying a paper travel card or single tickets with cash.
● There is a daily price cap—once you have reached this limit, you won’t pay any more.
● Enjoy special offers and promotions at leading London restaurants, shops and entertainment venues—plus discounts on the Emirates Air Line cable car and Thames Clippers river buses.
Buy a Visitor Oyster card
Buy a Visitor Oyster card before you visit London and get it delivered to your home address. A card costs￡3 (non-refundable) plus postage. Order online and arrive with your Oyster in hand! You can also buy a Visitor Oyster card from Gatwick Express ticket offices at Gatwick Airport Station and on board Eurostar trains travelling to London.
Add Credit to Your Visitor Oyster Card
You can choose how much credit to add to your card. If you are visiting London for two days, you can start with ￡20 credit. If you run out of credit, add credit at the following locations:
● Touch screen ticket machines in Tube, DLR, London Overground and some National Rail stations.
● Around 4,000 Oyster Ticket Stops found in newsagents and small shops across London.
● TFL Visitor and Travel Information Centers.
● Tube and London Overground station ticket offices.
● Emirates Air Line terminals.
【1】When can you use your Visitor Oyster Card?
A. After you become a regular visitor.
B. Once you arrive in London.
C. Only when you end your journey.
D. Before you leave home.
【2】What can we learn about the Visitor Oyster card?
A. It can reach you before your journey to London.
B. It requires you to pay as much as the daily price cap.
C. It can provide you a 50% discount at a London shop.
D. It can be delivered to your home address free of charge.
【3】 Where can you add credit to your Visitor Oyster card?
A. On the Internet.
B. On Eurostar trains.
C. At a Tube station ticket office.
D. At Gatwick Express ticket offices.
23、Forget Cyclists, Pedestrians are Real Danger
We are having a debate about this topic. Here are some letters from our readers.
Yes, many cyclists behave dangerously. Many drivers are disrespectful of cyclists But pedestrians are probably the worse offenders.
People of all ages happily walk along the pavement with eyes and hands glued to the mobile phone, quite unaware of what is going on around them. They may even do the same thing while crossing a road at a pedestrian crossing or elsewhere. The rest of us have to evade (避让) them or just stand still to wait for the unavoidable collision.
The real problem is that some pedestrians seem to be, at least for the moment, in worlds of their own that are, to them, much more important than the welfare of others.
——Michael Horan
I loved the letter from Bob Brooks about cyclists (Viewpoints, May 29). I am afraid they seem to think they own the roads.
I was walking across Altrincharn Road one morning when a cyclist went round me and on being asked what he was doing he shouted at me.
The government built a cycle lane on the road but it is hardly used.
The police do nothing. What a laugh they are!
The cyclists should all have to be made to use the cycle lanes and wear helmets, fluorescent (发荧光的)jacket and tights at night and in the morning. They should pay some sort of tax and be fined for not wearing them.
——Carol Harvey
Cyclists jump on and off pavements (which are meant for pedestrians), ride at speed along the pavements, and think they have a special right to go through traffic lights when they are on red.
I was almost knocked down recently by a cyclist riding on the pavement when there was a cycle lane right next to him.
Other road users, including horse riders, manage to obey the rules so why not cyclists?
It’s about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be traced and there might be an opportunity to claim.
——JML
Write to Viewpoints of the newspaper.
【1】Michael Horan wrote the letter mainly to show that ________.
A.drivers should be polite to cyclists
B.road accidents can actually be avoided
C.some pedestrians are a threat to road safety
D.walking while using phones hum one’s eyes
【2】Carol Harvey suggests that cyclists should ________.
A.be provided with enough roads
B.be asked to ride on their own lanes
C.be made to pay less tax for cycling
D.be fined for laughing at policemen
【3】The underline word “they” in the third letter refers to ________.
A.accidents B.vehicles
C.pedestrians D.cyclists
【4】The three letters present viewpoints on ________.
A.real sources of road danger
B.ways to improve road facilities
C.measures to punish road offences
D.increased awareness of road rules
24、According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading aloud was a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Readers were “listeners attentive to a reading voice,” and “the text addressed to the ear as much as to the eye.” The significance of reading aloud continued well into the nineteenth century.
Using Charles Dickens’s nineteenth century as a point of departure, it would be useful to look at the familial and social uses of reading aloud and reflect on the functional change of the practice. Dickens habitually read his work to a domestic audience or friends. In his later years he also read to a broader public crowd. Chapters of reading aloud also abound in Dickens’s own literary works. More importantly, he took into consideration the Victorian practice when composing his prose, so much so that his writing is meant to be heard, not only read on the page.
Performing a literary text orally in a Victorian family is well documented. Apart from promoting a pleasant family relationship, reading aloud was also a means of protecting young people from the danger of solitary（孤独的）reading. Reading aloud was a tool for parental guidance. By means of reading aloud, parents could also introduce literature to their children, and as such the practice combined leisure and more serious purposes such as religious cultivation in the youths. Within the family, it was commonplace for the father to read aloud. Dickens read to his children: one of his surviving and often-reprinted photographs features him posing on a chair, reading to his two daughters.
Reading aloud in the nineteenth century was as much a class phenomenon as a family affair, which points to a widespread belief that Victorian readership primarily meant a middle-class readership. Those who fell outside this group tended to be overlooked by Victorian publishers. Despite this, Dickens, with his publishers Chapman and Hall, managed to distribute literary reading materials to people from different social classes by reducing the price of novels. This was also made possible with the technological and mechanical advances in printing and the spread of railway networks at the time.
Since the literacy level of this section of the population was still low before school attendance was made compulsory in 1870 by the Education Act a considerable number of people from lower classes would listen to recitals of texts. Dickens’s readers, who were from such social backgrounds, might have heard Dickens in this manner. Several biographers of Dickens also draw attention to the fact that it was typical for his texts to be read aloud in Victorian England, and thus literacy was not an obstacle for reading Dickens. Reading was no longer a chiefly closeted form of entertainment practiced by the middle class at home.
A working class home was in many ways not convenient for reading: there were too many distractions, the lighting was bad, and the home was also often half a workhouse. As a result, the Victorians from the non-middle classes tended to find relaxation outside the home such as in parks and squares, which were ideal places for the public to go while away their limited leisure time. Reading aloud, in particular public reading, to some extent blurred the distinctions between classes. The Victorian middle class defined its identity through differences with other classes. Dickens’s popularity among readers from the non-middle classes contributed to the creation of a new class of readers who read through listening.
Different readers of Dickens were not reading solitarily and “jealously,” to use Walter Benjamin’s term. Instead, they often enjoyed a more communal experience, an experience that is generally lacking in today’s world. Modern audiobooks can be considered a contemporary version of the practice. However, while the twentieth and twentieth-first-century trend for individuals to listen to audiobooks keeps some characteristics of traditional reading aloud—such as “listeners attentive to a reading voice” and the ear being the focus—it is a far more solitary activity.
【1】What does the author want to convey in Paragraph 1?
A．The history of reading aloud.
B．The significance of reading aloud.
C．The development of reading practice.
D．The roles of readers in reading practice.
【2】How did the practice of reading aloud influence Dickens’s works?
A．He started to write for a broader public crowd.
B．He included more readable contents in his novels.
C．Scenes of reading aloud became common in his works.
D．His works were intended to be both heard and read.
【3】How many benefits did reading aloud bring to a Victorian family?
A．2.
B．3.
C．4.
D．5.
【4】Where could a London steel worker possibly have gone to for reading?
A．Working place.
B．His/her own house.
C．Nearby bookstores.
D．Trafalgar Square.
【5】What change did reading aloud bring to Victorian society?
A．Different classes started to appreciate and read literary works together.
B．People from lower social classes became accepted as middle-class.
C．The differences between classes grew less significant than before..
D．A non-class society in which everyone could read started to form.
【6】What is likely to be discussed after the last paragraph?
A．New reading trends for individuals.
B．The harm of modern audiobooks.
C．The material for modern reading.
D．Reading aloud in contemporary societies.
25、The teenage years of an individual is marked by evaluating one's values,experiencing a shift in outlooks,and a tendency to act rebellious. It can also be a time when someone becomes extremely____ to negative influences,and is drawn towards dangerous situations. On the other hand,for parents, the period of their children's adolescence means regularly worrying about their safety and formation as a citizen. Thus, a method of _____teenagers' security is needed, and curfews(宵禁)are often seen as such a measure，since they have proved their ______the same time, certain peculiarities exist about establishing curfews for children.
The issue of teenage curfews is widely debated in the United States, where this method is still rather _____, and in European democracies, where this measure is yet not so widely used .The first and foremost reason for establishing curfews is children's security. ____curfews require teenagers under 17 years to stay out of streets starting from 11p.m.or midnight. This is believed to protect them from crimes committed after nightfall,as well as from breaking the law, and there exists serious evidence _____this belief. For example, when New Orleans enabled a dusk-til-dawn curfew in 1994, the rates of juvenile crime were reported to fall more than 20 percent.Even more impressive _______were recorded in Dallas, which reported a 30-percent decrease in violent juvenile crime,and a 21-percent decrease in the overall rates of crimes committed by young people (The New York Times).
On the other hand, curfews can be seen as a preventive measure that rob young people of their rights,____ their freedom. This opinion is _____ supported by the fact that curfew violations(违规) and the respective charges are among the most often committed juvenile crimes in the United States. _______, there were reports claiming that police arrested more non-white teenagers for curfew violations.All this can cause a teenager to believe they have crossed a psychological line dividing them as criminals; thus,such teenagers may start to see themselves as outlaws, which can _____ committing more serious crimes than a curfew offense.
What is important for a parent to remember when establishing a curfew for their children is that a teenager's misjudged view of certain______may cause them to misbehave in some other way; this is proved by research conducted by the University of Minnesota, according to which teens tend to protest against what they see as _______. Considering this,parents should ______the authoritarian style of establishing curfews; instead, they should have a conversation with their teenager that would be aimed at finding ideal conditions for a curfew that would ______both sides.
【1】
A．opposed
B．subjected
C．related
D．restricted
【2】
A．improving
B．restoring
C．ensuring
D．expanding
【3】
A．principle
B．reference
C．approach
D．efficiency
【4】
A．popular
B．absent
C．practical
D．accessible
【5】
A．Typical
B．Evident
C．Critical
D．Specific
【6】
A．in place of
B．in honor of
C．in case of
D．in favor of
【7】
A．results
B．events
C．patterns
D．links
【8】
A．protecting
B．acknowledging
C．limiting
D．liberating
【9】
A．officially
B．logically
C．particularly
D．physically
【10】
A．By contrast
B．In addition
C．In conclusion
D．In general
【11】
A．take charge of
B．contribute to
C．result from
D．deal with
【12】
A．rules
B．charges
C．crimes
D．relations
【13】
A．impolite
B．unrealistic
C．inadequate
D．unfair
【14】
A．adopt
B．allow
C．avoid
D．address
【15】
A．satisfy
B．spare
C．surround
D．settle
26、Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
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