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1、 —I’m sorry I’m late. I got in the traffic on my way here. —It’s OK, we’ve just started．
A．filled up B．held up
C．brought up D．taken up
2、It was a remarkable ________ that John should turn up here just when we needed him.
A. convenience B. coincidence
C. characteristic D. contribution
3、Modern science has found that _______ one is using chopsticks, over 30 joints and over 50 muscles are used, which is a favorable stimulation to the brain.
A. since B. although C. unless D. while
4、I would rather _______ than go out at the weekend.
A. keep quiet B. kept quiet C. stay at home D. you stay at home.
5、At the meeting place of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River _____, one of the ten largest cities in China.
A. Chongqing lies B. lies Chongqing
C. does lie Chongqing D. does Chongqing lie
6、Readers can ______quite well without knowing the exact meaning of each word.
A.get over B.get in C.get along D.get through
7、—— We could make it from here to Florida if we drove all night.
—— ___________! It’s a three-day drive.
A. Be serious B. Dear me
C. It’s up to you. D. It’s no big deal
8、He asked me to give him a lift ________ I could make an explanation about the crowded space in my car．It was so hard to refuse him!
A. until B. while C. before D. when
9、The airport ________ next year will help promote tourism in this area.
A．being completed
B．completed
C．having been completed
D．to be completed
10、He _____ have completed his work; otherwise, he wouldn’t be enjoying himself by the seaside.
A. should B. must C. wouldn’t D. can’t
11、________online courses can produce good results remains to be seen．
A. That B. Whether
C. Who D. Where
12、He doesn't eat fish, but_____ that he'll eat just about anything,
A.other than B.rather than C.more than D.less than
13、I live next door to a couple ________children often make a lot of noise.
A. whose B. why
C. where D. which
14、---Why was it ______ you were so angry？
---Because we failed to take part in the basketball match.
A. which B. that C. how D. when
15、Africa is a very _____ continent， with each country， or even each part of a country having its own unique culture．
A． diverse B． abstract C． remote D． vacant
16、The meaning of the word “nice” changed a few times ________ it finally came to include the sense “pleasant.”
A．before
B．after
C．since
D．while
17、“Made in China 2025” aims to transform China from a product-making factory into a product-making power, ______________ driven by innovation and emphasizes quality over quantity.
A. the one that B. one that C. one D. the one
18、Self-driving is an area ________ China and the rest of the world are ________.
A.where; on the same starting line B.where; in the same started line
C.which; in the same starting line D.in which; on the same started line
19、—May I help you?
—_______, but I’m just looking now.
A. Go ahead B. Thanks
C. Please yourself D. Wait a minute
20、Wherever you prefer to work after graduation, _______ close contacts with your family members.
A. keeping B. keep C. to keep D. kept
21、On a cold morning in May, I received a fascinating email from a high school friend. inviting me to a 10-day all-female surfing adventure in Portugal. The offer was irresistible, and I instantly knew my answer was yes.
The trip seemed simple enough. Ten women, ranging from 30 to 45 years old, all strangers, will gather on the Portuguese coast to embrace the challenge of surfing the Atlantic waves.
As a travel enthusiast, I quickly sought permission from my boss for this once-in-a- lifetime journey.
Through my 33 years, I’ve observed a common adult tendency: we often limit ourselves to refining skills we already possess. There’s a certain pride in improving our expertise, becoming increasingly knowledgeable in our chosen fields, yet unintentionally, this focus often leaves other skills undeveloped and leads to neglecting other areas of potential growth.
Two days later, I arrived in Ericeira, a charming surf town, where I met my surfing group. Despite our different personalities and backgrounds, we were all united in a persistent desire to challenge ourselves, learn, tackle and grow.
The shores at Ericeira, where the beginners learn to surf, are shallow and covered with slippery rocks. They make for softer waves but are difficult to navigate (驾驭).
Guided by our amazing coaches, together, we faced the waves. Sometimes, it poured with rain, and the waves crashed around us, but we were still out there. And with every slip and fall, words of encouragement filled the air.
Honestly, I probably spent most of my days frozen to the bone, but that didn’t matter because a new level of genuine joy and personal achievement had been unlocked.
Learning a new skill taught me the humbleness that can come from doing badly at something new, and the pride that develops when you finally manage to grasp something you’ve been working on.
While surfing might not be my calling, trying it out inspired me to take more risks in life, to step outside of my comfort zone and to never stop believing in myself. You never know what you’re capable of if you don’t go out there and try.
【1】What motivated the author to join the surf trip to Portugal?
A．The opportunity to improve existing skills.
B．The need to reconnect with a high school friend.
C．The chance to undertake work duties in Portugal.
D．The desire to embrace a challenge and learn a new skill.
【2】What is the author’s view on adults focusing on mastering one field?
A．It narrows one’s abilities.
B．It is essential for career success.
C．It disrupts one’s work-life balance.
D．It develops creativity and exploration.
【3】Which of the following words best describe the author’s surfing experience?
A．Tough but rewarding.
B．Boring and uneventful.
C．Difficult and frustrating.
D．Relaxing but unpredictable.
【4】What can be inferred about the author?
A．She used to lack confidence in herself.
B．She became more willing to take risks.
C．She went on to become an expert surfer.
D．She discovered the surfing was her true calling.
【5】What wisdom did the author gain from the experience with surfing?
A．The value of pushing your limits and trying new things.
B．The need to seek professional training in all new skills.
C．The benefit of traveling with unknown companions.
D．The importance of being an expert in one field.
22、Children who spend more time reading with their parents have a greater chance of becoming better readers than those who don’t. With help from their parents, children can learn techniques to improve their reading skills.
“A lot of parents think after their child learns to read, they should stop reading to them,” Donna George said. “They are sadly mistaken.”
George offers her services to parents at the Title I Learning Centers. She said reading aloud to children may be the most valuable thing parents can do. “It is better for children to hear things at a high level than where they are,” George said. “Parents are their child’s first teacher.” Parents help their children build listening, phonics, comprehension and vocabulary skills when they read aloud to them.
Before parents can identify reading problems, they should escape the enemy—television and limit the time their children spend watching television. George suggested not allowing kids to have a TV in their bedrooms, setting a schedule of when kids can watch or keeping a list of how many programs children watch. Louise Jones said that while her 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son enjoy reading, the television sometimes becomes a distraction. So she tries to build the situation by suggesting books the entire family will enjoy reading together, like the Harry Potter series.
Parents who do not read themselves should not count on their children being enthusiastic about it. If parents would read to their children at least 15 minutes every day, children would not have so many problems in school. It is the parents’ job to help build that desire in their children, and of course to know what kind of books to read is also important.
【1】According to George, reading aloud to children ______.
A. helps them correct mistakes
B. is helpful to their reading
C. is parents’ first duty to their children
D. can get children out of television’s attraction
【2】The underlined word “distraction” (in Paragraph4) means something that can _____.
A. improve children’s reading skills
B. help children form the right habit of reading
C. make children interested in reading
D. stop children concentrating on reading
【3】What is important according to the fourth paragraph?
A. Reading skills. B. Reading speed.
C. Reading materials. D. Reading environment.
【4】The best title for the passage would be ______.
A. Children Spend More Time Reading with Parents
B. Parents Are Their Child’s First Teacher
C. How Parents Make Their Child a Better Reader
D. How to Improve Children’s Reading Ability
23、“Selfie” may have been named Oxford Dictionary’s word of 2013. In effect，so widely known has the selfie become that in the past 12 months，its frequency in the English language has increased by 17000 percent，said Oxford dictionaries. However，its popularity has just earned it another honour-being voted the most annoying and overused term of the past 12 months. But I’d like to offer that maybe it isn’t so bad.
According to the Oxford online dictionary, selfie is a photo that one takes of oneself， often from a smart phone，and send them to a social media website. Women and men alike decorate their Facebook and Twitter accounts with these pictures，sometimes with exaggerated facial expressions，such as large smiles or puckered lips(噘嘴).
Let’s think about it. Someone takes about 10 selfies each time they do，and they only end up posting one or two of those. They pick the one that they feel makes them look the best. Isn’t that beautiful? In that one picture，somebody has given himself or herself confidence. Self-image is vital. In today’s society，we are so crazy about being perfect. But perhaps，with that one selfie，we feel as if we fit that need. We feel handsome，beautiful，confident，smart，happy，and content. For that moment，everything bad or terrible that has ever happened to us seemed to have been erased，for that smile or that pucker is what gives us the determination to love ourselves.
A spoken-word poem I saw lately set me thinking：If I ask you what you love，the answers will most likely roll of your tongue. You love to read. You love to write. You love birds，music…your mom，your brother，your sister，your daughter，your best friend，your dog. How long do you think you could go on and on before you said，“I love myself.”?
The poem hit me like a ton of bricks. I’ve struggled with confidence all of my life. And I still do. And in no way am I saying that taking a selfie is a gateway to that confidence. However，the selfie does deserve some credit for allowing individuals to express themselves. Just as Pamela Rutledge put it，“There are many more photographs available now of real people than models.”
【1】According to the writer, we live in a society where ________.
A. selfie leads to success
B. a good image decides one’s status
C. one’s poor performance can be erased
D. being perfect is highly valued
【2】The spoken-word poem mentioned in the 4th paragraph implies ________.
A. our pleasure to enjoy beauty
B. our need to love people around us
C. our tendency to ignore ourselves
D. our real love to share with others
【3】What does the underlined word “credit” in the last paragraph mean?
A. praise B. grade C. trust D. fame
【4】In the writer’s opinion, selfie ________.
A. brings about people’s sense of confidence
B. is merely popular among teenagers
C. tells the true meaning of life
D. is an annoying phenomenon on the Internet
24、The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history that has so far killed almost 1000 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in West Africa has caused fear around the world.
The outbreak is unprecedented（空前的）both in infection numbers and in geographic scope. Officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) said earlier this month the outbreak “is moving faster than our efforts to control it”, reported CNN. So far, the battle against the virus doesn’t appear to be slowing down.
The Ebola virus is terrifying no matter where it strikes: It’s a disease with no cure that causes headaches and fever, severe diarrhea(腹泻), vomiting and bleeding and has been known to kill up to 90 percent of its victims.
It is understandable for people to be panicked, but those living outside Africa shouldn’t be particularly concerned about contracting the virus, says a Washington Post article.
This is because transmission of Ebola requires direct contact with an infected person’s blood, vomit or other bodily fluids during the period that he or she is contagious(接触传染的). It is something that is extremely unlikely for anyone but healthcare workers. The virus is not spread by coughing or sneezing.
Media outlets in the US and the UK are using terrifying headlines, wrongly claiming that people infected with the virus have traveled to their countries.
James Ball at The Guardian says the Ebola outbreak in Africa is tragic, but it is important to keep a sense of proportion. Other infectious diseases, including common influenza, are far, far deadlier.
【1】What does the author say about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa?
A. It has caused thousands of African deaths.
B. Its spreading speed is beyond people's imagination.
C. It has already traveled to the US and the UK.
D. The fight against it is slowing down.
【2】The Ebola virus is terrifying because ________.
A. it cannot be cured at the moment
B. it is easily infected
C. it spreads faster than any other infectious disease
D. it has caused more deaths than other infectious diseases
【3】The underlined phrase in the last paragraph means
A. keep a secret B. stay calm
C. keep silent D. stay away from it
【4】What is the author's attitude towards people's panic?
A. Objective. B. Supportive. C. Doubtful. D. Understandable.
25、There are Methuselahs（年岁极高的人）among us. These aged wonders of the natural world do not stalk the earth but glide through Arctic waters. Scientists surveying Greenland sharks，previously thought to live up to 200 years，found that they have far_________lifespans. One specimen was calculated to be_________ 400 years old，born more than a century before the U.S.was founded.
The discovery，reported last week in the journal Science is a record for vertebrate（脊椎动物）and potentially gives help to those_________the secrets of longevity. Anti-ageing enthusiasts insist that life is merely the absence of the processes that lead to death，and that human lifespan could be_________ dramatically.Their philosophy is to treat ageing as a disease：treat the disease and life need not end.
Sharks and rays usually_________ their ages through the calcium deposits laid down each year in hard structures such as fins，but Greenland sharks，the largest fish in northern waters，have no such_________ .Instead，researchers，presented with 28 females caught accidentally in fishing nets，looked to sharks' eye lenses.Tissues formed in the lens at birth remain unchanged；its radiocarbon（a radioactive isotope of carbon）content can be_________to the known levels of radiocarbon in the marine environment stretching back 500 years. In effect，a shark's eye lens contains a radiocarbon time-stamp of its birth.
An international team，led by academics at the University of Copenhagen，showed that the largest sharks--one stretched to 5m--were generally the oldest，with one_________ at about 392 years old.The females are estimated to reach sexual maturity at 156.Their eyes also_________ a sobering window on human history：the lenses of the youngest fishes contained a “bomb pulse”，a distinctive radiocarbon signature__________nuclear weapons testing.
The study intones，rightly，that we should guard these centenarians（百岁老人）of the deep；their leisurely__________ of maturity and reproduction has obvious consequences for conservation. But it also shows there are potentially many longer-lived species than__________，raising questions anew about whether there really is any natural bar to humans living for centuries. After all，life expectancy has been rising for decades__________we conquer the challenges--malnutrition，disease，war，mishap---that hasten our passing.Three centuries ago，a person would be hard pushed to__________ 40；some scientists think those born today stand a fighting__________of reaching 150.
【1】
A．shorter
B．longer
C．smaller
D．bigger
【2】
A．rarely
B．barely
C．constantly
D．nearly
【3】
A．paying attention to
B．searching for
C．dedicating to
D．reaching for
【4】
A．expanded
B．stretched
C．extended
D．kept
【5】
A．conceal
B．reveal
C．exhibit
D．illustrate
【6】
A．structures
B．parts
C．vessels
D．functions
【7】
A．exposed
B．matched
C．opposed
D．related
【8】
A．calculated
B．valued
C．dated
D．evaluated
【9】
A．give
B．show
C．build
D．provide
【10】
A．resulting from
B．resulting in
C．leading to
D．relying on
【11】
A．rate
B．ratio
C．pace
D．chance
【12】
A．humans
B．animals
C．species
D．organisms
【13】
A．for
B．although
C．after
D．as
【14】
A．reach
B．arrive
C．get
D．experience
【15】
A．goal
B．dream
C．chance
D．aim
26、假设你是李华，你和外国朋友Tom约好这个周五晚上去体育馆看足球赛，但你因故不能 赴约 请根据以下要点用英语给他写一封电子邮件：
1.表示歉意；2.解释原因；3.另约时间
注意：1. 词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
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