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1、The growth of information available on-line has led to ______ new businesses and opportunities ranging from cloud storage to content delivery.
A．a great deal of
B．a great number of
C．a great amount of
D．a great many of
2、--- Mom, can you give me an extra 200 yuan a month?
--- Son, we have just bought a house, and from now on we need to practise strict .
A. economy B. medicine C. self-control D. patience
3、There was snow everywhere ______ the shapes of things were difficult to identify.
A.so that B.now that
C.for fear that D.on condition that
4、All of ________ are glad to see ________.
A．we, him
B．us, she
C．us, him
D．we, he
5、Nowadays many volunteers are working in areas ______ have dry climates, such as Kenya and Sudan.
A. where B. who C. which D. what
6、Many Internet users make _____ most of the half-price promotion and it is _____ good opportunity for online shopkeepers to get their names known．
A. a; the B. /; the C. the; / D. the; a
7、We will have six-day holiday during the coming APEC meetings traffic on the roads．
A. to ease B. easing
C. ease D. having eased
8、By entering high school, you ________ your journey to a perfect self.
A．give one hint to
B．highlight the importance of
C．set in motion
D．go deeper into
9、All his friends admire his creativity, for he always comes up with many _______ ideas in the discussions.
A. reliable B. specific
C. positive D. original
10、Now most young people like shopping online because they ________ spend a lot of time going from shop to shop.
A．needn't
B．can't
C．mustn't
D．shouldn't
11、How did it come about ________ a quiet person should appear so wild today?
A. whether B. that C. if D. what
12、The chances are______you can make your dream come true if you work hard for it.
A．what
B．which
C．that
D．whether
13、Almost every gym club in Shanghai ________ yoga classes. And there are more than 100 special clubs such as this one.
A. has set up B. is setting up
C. set up D. will set up
14、Sometimes I feet hungry_______ meals, so I eat an apple or a pear.
A.between B.among C.at D.under
15、 He did not regret saying what he did but felt that he____________ it differently.
A. could express B. would express
C. could have expressed D. must have expressed
16、Frank put the medicine into a top drawer to make sure it would not be _______ to the kids.
A. accessible B. flexible
C. available D. agreeable
17、A good listener takes part in the conversation,offering ideas and ______ questions to keep the talk flowing．
A．raising B．understanding
C．copying D．solving
18、Bob checked the equipment thoroughly, only ________ the power was not set.
A. find B. found C. finding D. to find
19、“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
20、— I’m sure Andy will win the first prize in the coming English Speech Contest.
— There is no doubt about it. He ________ for it for months.
A. is preparing B. was preparing
C. has been preparing D. will prepare
21、Studies have shown a direct link between goals and improved performance in both sports and business. Earl Nightingale put it this way, “People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It’s as simple as that.”
Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author of the classic Psycho-Cybernetics, said that human beings have a built-in goal seeking “success mechanism (机制)” that is part of the subconscious (潜意识的) mind. This success mechanism is constantly searching for ways to help us reach our targets and find answers to our problems. According to Maltz, we feel better when our success mechanism keeps going after clear targets. All we have to do to use this mechanism is give it a target.
One important reason goal setters achieve such outstanding results is that they have learned how to focus and concentrate their time, energy and resources (资源) on a single goal, even though it is just for a few hours at a time. One major time management challenge we are facing today is that there are more things available for us to do than anyone could possibly attempt, let alone accomplish, in an entire lifetime. If we are not careful, it is very easy to waste our time on unimportant things.
Most significant accomplishments are accompanied with difficulties, struggles and failures. Thomas Edison failed over one thousand times before he finally discovered a way to make the light bulb work. It is very rare for something important to be accomplished successfully on the very first try. If you want to achieve anything significant, it is likely that you will struggle and fail many times before you finally reach your target. One of the main reasons why people give up so easily in the face of failure is that they lose sight of their “why”. Goals can help you remember your “big why” when you need to pick yourself up and keep going in the face of difficult situations.
【1】What can we learn from Earl Nightingale’s and Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s words?
A．It’s important to succeed in life.
B．It’s extremely easy to achieve aims.
C．It’s greatly significant to set goals.
D．It’s common to make accomplishments.
【2】What’s important in achieving success according to Paragraph 3?
A．Setting a realistic target.
B．Concentrating on your aim.
C．Managing your time properly.
D．Making the most of your resources.
【3】What can we conclude from the last paragraph?
A．Goals can prevent us giving up easily.
B．Goals mean achieving more than others.
C．Goals get rid of doubts about what we do.
D．Goals lead to more difficulties or failures.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A．How to set goals?
B．How can we succeed?
C．Why should we set goals?
D．Why should we keep going?
22、Many of the world’s countries have reached or are approaching zero population growth (ZPG) ．Nearly all such lands are economically well developed．They include much of Europe(including Russia)，the United States，Canada，Japan．and Australia．As the rate of natural increase(RNI)declines，two things happen．First，the population begins to decline if the loss is not balanced by immigration．Second，a country’s population ages because there are fewer births．
Is achieving ZPG good or bad? What happens when a country’s population begins to drop? Many people，after all，believe that population decline is a good thing．But is it good for everyone? Does everyone agree?
An aging population can create many problems．Senior citizens require more health care and medical attention．Rather than paying into retirement programs，they begin to draw from their pensions．In the US，the Social Security program，according to many experts，will be used up by 2018．It will pay out more money than it takes in．Additionally, a great number of jobs go begging in search of people willing or entry level positions that pay low wages．With an able to do them．Many of these jobs are aging population，who will fill them? At the other extreme，some positions require a large number of training and highly specialized skills．Who will fill these positions as retirees leave the workforce?
The answer to the problem of declining and aging population is simple：increased migration．Today many people，particularly those from less developed countries，are migrating in search of employment．Many are willing to take jobs that cannot(or will not) be filled by the domestic population．Others are well educated and highly skilled．Both groups contribute to a country’s economy progress in many ways．Further, they add to the richness of a country’s culture．Of greatest importance，perhaps，is the fact that they have become absolutely necessary to the economy of many lands．As you can see，for many countries and for most immigrants，migration is a win—win situation．
【1】In the writer’s view，which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Not everyone agrees that achieving ZPG is absolutely good．
B．Achieving ZPG is every country’s aim in spite of its side effects．
C．Achieving ZPG is bad for senior citizens．
D．Achieving ZPG is good for employment．
【2】According to the passage，the best way to solve the problem of declining and aging population is ．
A．to improve the health care system
B．to increase RNI
C．to increase employment
D．to increase migration
【3】The underlined words “the domestic population’’ can be replaced by ．
A．people within the country
B．people from developing countries
C．people without a college education
D．people living abroad
【4】The main idea of the last paragraph is .
A．the advantages of increased migration
B．the problem of declining and aging population
C．how to increase migration
D．some ways to enrich a country’s culture
23、A new study finds that our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the music makes us feel. Mozart’s “Flute Concerto No.1 in G Major” is most often associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his “Requiem in D Minor” is linked to bluish gray, the findings revealed.
US researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, enlisted nearly 100 subjects for a study on music and color. With 37 colors, the UC Berkeley study found that people tend to pair faster-paced music in a major key with lighter, more vivid, yellow colors, whereas slower-paced music in a minor key is more likely to be teamed up with darker, grayer, bluer colors.
“Surprisingly, we can predict with 95 percent accuracy how happy or sad the colors people pick will be based on how happy or sad the music is that they are listening to,” said lead author and UC Berkeley vision scientist Stephen Palmer.
In three experiments, the subjects listened to 18 classical music pieces that varied in pace (slow, medium, fast) and in major VS minor keys. In the first experiment, participants were asked to pick five of the 37 colors that best matched the music to which they were listening. Separately, they rated each piece of music on a scale of happy to sad, strong to weak, lively to dull, and calm to angry.
Next, the research team plans to study particiapants in Turkey where traditional music employs a wider range of scales than just major and minor. “We know that in Mexico and the US the responses are very similar,” Palmer said. “But we don’t yet know about China or Turkey.”
【1】What can we know about Mozart’s “Flute Concerto No. 1 G Major”?
A. It is fast in pace.
B. It is slow in pace.
C. It makes us feel upset.
D. It makes us feel optimistic.
【2】What did the US researchers find from the result of the new study?
A. There are colors that do not match any music.
B. People tend to connect happy colors to slow-paced music
C. There is a one-to-one connection between music and color.
D. People nearly do the same in picking colors for different music.
【3】How did the researchers do the research?
A. By making predictions. B. By researching journals.
C. By conducting experiments. D. By studying famous musicians.
【4】According to the text, the research mainly deals with __________
A. how colors or music influence our emotions
B. how emotions affect music-color connections
C. why we have different feelings towards music
D. why we have different feelings towards colors
24、Around the world, honeybee groups are dying in huge numbers: About one-third of nests collapse each year. For bees and the plants they pollinate (授粉) — as well as for beekeepers, farmers, honey lovers and everyone else who appreciates this marvelous social insect — this is a catastrophe.
Honeybee collapse has been particularly worrying because there is no one cause, but rather a thousand little cuts. The main elements include the mixed impact of pesticides (杀虫剂) applied to fields, as well as pesticides applied directly into nets to control bugs, pests and diseases; nutritional shortages caused by vast acreages of single-crop fields that lack diverse flowering plants; and commercial beekeeping itself, which destroys groups by moving most bees around the country multiple times each year to pollinate crops.
The real issue, though, is not the volume of problems, but the interactions among them. Here we find a major lesson from the bees that we ignore at our risk: the concept of synergy (协同作用), where one plus one equals three, or four, or more. A typical honeybee colony contains remains from more than 120 pesticides. Alone, each represents a benign dose (良性剂量). But together they form a poisonous soup of chemicals whose interplay (相互作用) can greatly reduce the effectiveness of bees’ immune systems, making them easier to suffer from diseases.
Observing the death of honeybees should warn us that our own well-being might be similarly threatened, and the widespread collapse of so many groups presents a clear message: We must demand that our regulatory authorities require studies on how exposure to low dosages of combined chemicals may affect human health before approving compounds.
Bees also provide some clues to how we may build a more collaborative relationship with the services that ecosystems can provide. Bees could offer some of the pollination service needed for agriculture. People discovered that crop harvests, and thus profits, are maximized if some cropland are left uncultivated for bees. Meanwhile a variety of wild plants means a healthier, more diverse bee population, which will then move to the planted fields next door in larger and more active numbers.
【1】Which of the following is NOT the cause that leads to bees dying?
A. Lack of nutrition from enough diverse flowering plants.
B. The pests and diseases of the bees.
C. The beekeepers’ destroying without intention
D. The pesticides applied to crops.
【2】By saying “one plus one equals three, or four, or more” in Paragraph 3, the author means that ____.
A. bees united mean they are much more powerful
B. bees united mean they are much more poisonous
C. pesticides mixed mean they are much more poisonous.
D. pesticides mixed mean they are much more effective.
【3】The lesson people can learn from bees dying is that ____________.
A. medicine is as powerful as pesticide
B. our health might be threatened by pesticides
C. we should protect bees by reducing the usage of pesticides
D. medicine may be harmful to us when used together
【4】What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A. Keeping a balance with nature is important
B. More plants mean more and healthier bees.
C. Bees are very important to agriculture.
D. Bees can bring in good higher profits to farmers
25、 Mr. Dawson was an old and mean person with bad temper, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, ___________old Dawson, they said, would_________after them with his ball bullet gun.
One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with her friend Amy. They had to go_______ Dawson’s house on the way to Amy’s house, but as they got_________ Janet saw him sitting on his front porch(门廊), so she_________they cross over to the _______side of the street. Like most of the children, she was_______of the old man because of the stories she’d_________about him. But Amy said Mr. Dawson wouldn’t hurt anyone. Still, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked _______with his usual frown, but when he saw it was Amy, a broad__________changed his entire face as he said, “Hello, Miss Amy. I see you’ve got a little friend with you today.
Amy smiled back and told him Janet was________ overnight and they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson told them that sounded ________, and offered them each a fresh picked__________off his tree. They gladly accepted.
Later Janet asked Amy, “ Everyone says he’s the meanest man in town.__________he is so nice to us? “Amy ________that when she first started walking past his house, he wasn’t very friendly and she was afraid of him,__________she pretended he was__________an invisible smile and so she always smiled back at him. It took a while, but one day he half-smiled back at her. After some more time, he started smiling real smiles and then started__________to her. Just a “hello” at first; then more. She said he always offered her an apple now, and was always very kind.
If we remember what Amy said, pretending that everyone wears an ________smile, we too will find that most people can’t__________our smile after a while.
【1】A.even if B.unless C.so that D.because
【2】A.run B.look C.shoot D.punish
【3】A.into B.on C.by D.through
【4】A.close B.tired C.excited D.afraid
【5】A.demanded B.insisted C.suggested D.begged
【6】A.another B.either C.other D.both
【7】A.proud B.scared C.fond D.sure
【8】A.talked B.complained C.argued D.heard
【9】A.up B.about C.around D.back
【10】A.anger B.light C.smile D.look
【11】A.playing B.staying C.amusing D.picking
【12】A.terrible B.reasonable C.admirable D.fun
【13】A.toy B.apple C.gift D.gun
【14】A.What about B.How about C.What if D.How come
【15】A.explained B.thought C.insisted D.added
【16】A.so B.but C.and D.or
【17】A.forcing B.showing C.taking D.wearing
【18】A.shouting B.smiling C.talking D.replying
【19】A.kind B.friendly C.invisible D.possible
【20】A.accept B.resist C.ignore D.enjoy
26、假设你是张林，你班来自英国的交流学生John因病住院已两周，请你用英文给他写封信，主要内容包括：
1．询问病情，表示关切；
2．介绍班级近期活动，学习等情况；
3．表达祝愿。
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．信的格式已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear John,
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Zhang Lin
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