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1、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。
The book is so costly that I can’t afford it.
A.valuable B.special C.expensive D.popular
2、---- Mary, I’m going to Paris for a couple of days?
---- _____. I wish I could get away for a while.
A. Forget it. B. I really envy you
C. Go ahead D. I can’t agree more
3、The young couple, who returned my lost wallet, left ______I could ask for their names．
A．while B．before C．after D．since
4、Not until recently _______the development of tourist-related activities in the rural areas.
A. they had encouraged B. had they encouraged
C. did they encourage D. they encouraged
5、Yangzhou, ________ the amazing gardens capture the hearts of visitors, has been modernizing its transportation.
A.whose B.which C.of which D.of whom
6、---Do you think we can get there on time?
--- Yes, ______ the car doesn’t break down.
A.even if B.in case C.so long as D.only if
7、Today, I shall spend in the workaday world, amid the haunts of men ________ the business of life.
A．going in for
B．going through
C．going against
D．going about
8、I ______ a letter once a week to my family when I was in my first college year.
A. write B. was writing
C. have written D. wrote
9、______ she has earned her PhD, she wants to find a job with higher pay.
A. As if B. Now that
C. Even though D. In case
10、He tried to go away without being noticed by the teacher, but luck ________ him.
A. went with B. went against
C. went along D. went over
11、—Excuse me, Tom. How many miles is five kilometers?
—Sorry. _______
A. It all depends. B. You know.
C. Let me see. D. You’ve got me there.
12、–Why？This is simply a common bike!
–_____ sir．It’s our special offer today．
A． Don’t mention it
B． Let me see
C． So it is
D． Neither do I
13、Even more widespread _______ the copying of music and the pirating of software, especially with the development of new computer programs.
A. is B. does C. are D. do
14、We are going to spend the Spring Festival in Canada this year, ______live my grandparents and some relatives．
A． where B． which C． who D． that
15、Being able to speak another language fluently is a great ___ when you are looking for a job.
A.assistance B.chance C.advantage D.importance
16、My friends thought they had made things very smooth for me, but I felt that there was still much to with.
A. wrestle B. compromise
C. associate D. stress
17、Please fetch the bunch of purple flowers and put it here, for purple flowers look more beautiful _____ a light yellow wall.
A. at B. in C. under D. against
18、The two passengers occupying seats were reported from taking trains for 180 days.
A.to be banned B.to have been banned
C.being banned D.having been banned
19、Books can be treasured possessions, but there is also something special about a copy that arrives in your hands ________through those of others.
A．having passed
B．passing
C．to pass
D．passed
20、The new school will be ________ the old one.
A．as big as twice
B．twice as big as
C．as bigger as twice
D．twice as bigger as
21、Now some businesses are using Artificial Intelligence as a shortcut to writing materials for them in hopes of saving time and effort. Sure, computers are great at capturing(捕捉) information and recognizing trending searches, but translating that information into an organized piece of writing designed specifically for you? Not so much.
Your job as a business owner is to connect with your customers. To show them you “see” them, understand them, and you can deliver. You want to reach your clients not just by showing calculated content that shows you are relevant. The job of AI is to skim the surface and bring you back keywords and phrases that are, well, robotic. However, through the complexities of human thought and emotion, human content writers far surpass AI in choosing just the right words that can touch and attract other humans.
People who use AI to generate their writing materials might think it will save them time, but the opposite ends up being true. We’re all been in situations where we take a shortcut to save time, and it ends up creating more work. The same goes for using AI for writing. For example, it captures a lot of the top-ranking content for you to slap onto your blog, but you then have to go back and figure out how to transform that forced content into your business’s voice, style and tone. It’s like someone giving you a pair of pants. Yay! Pants! But they are not your size or color, so you spend even more time mending them and trying to talk yourself into liking them than the time you would have spent just getting the pants for yourself.
AI has had much more success in fields such as manufacturing and technology. For now, there isn’t any AI writer software sophisticated (水平高的) and creative enough to sound just like a human.
But humans do have limitations and AI writers can work with writers as an aid. You can imagine AI that could do your research for writing a white paper, or fact check for you. These types of tools could be incredible time-saving tools for writers in the future.
【1】Which of the following is closest to the underlined words “surpass” in paragraph 2?
A．Overlook.
B．Overmatch.
C．Satisfy.
D．Replace.
【2】How does the author present his opinion in Paragraph 3?
A．By listing figures.
B．By giving an example.
C．By analyzing causes.
D．By making predictions.
【3】What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?
A．The limitation of AI writing.
B．The debates about AI writing.
C．The expectation of AI writing.
D．A theoretical basis behind AI writing.
【4】Which of the following can be a suitable title for the text?
A．What Are Artificial Intelligence writers?
B．Why is AI Applied to Content Writing?
C．How Does an AI Content Writer Work?
D．Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Real Writers?
22、John was waiting for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. Thirteen months ago, in a Florida library he took a book off the shelf and found himself attracted by the notes in the margin (页边). The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind.
In front of the book, he discovered the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort, he located her address. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. During the next year and one month, the two grew to know each other through the mail. A romance was developing. John requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like. Later they scheduled their first meeting - 7:00 p.m. at Grand Central Station in New York.
“You’ll recognize me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my coat.” So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for the girl with the red rose.
A young woman in a green suit was coming towards him, her figure long and slim and her eyes were blue as flowers. Almost uncontrollably he made one step closer to her, and just at this moment he saw Hollis Maynell - a woman well past 40. The girl was walking quickly away. He felt as though he was at a loss, so eager was his desire to follow her, and yet so deep was his longing for the woman whose spirit had truly accompanied him and upheld his own.
He did not hesitate. He squared his shoulders and said, “I’m John, and you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?”
The woman smiled, “I don’t know what this is about, son,” she answered, “but the young lady in the green suit begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should tell you she is waiting for you in the restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”
It’s not difficult to admire wisdom. The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.
【1】What happened to John thirteen months ago?
A．He was touched by a girl’s notes in a book.
B．He was waiting for a girl outside a library.
C．He happened to read a thoughtful and insightful book.
D．He made acquaintance with Miss Hollis Maynell.
【2】Which of the following is true about Hollis Maynell?
A．She was just the lady John was going to meet.
B．She was a middle-aged woman who was unattractive.
C．She happened to pass by the Grand Central Station.
D．She was required to wear a rose on her coat.
【3】If John hadn’t walked up to the lady wearing a red rose, he would _______.
A．have had the dinner with a beautiful lady instead
B．have failed to meet the girl he fell in love with
C．have found that he was fooled by Miss Maynell
D．have followed the young woman in a green suit
【4】In writing the passage, the author intends to _______.
A．tell us a romantic story between two young persons
B．show one’s spirit matters more than his appearance
C．show that one’s response to unattractive shows his heart
D．how a thoughtful soul and insightful mind can be reflected
23、More than 140 sign languages are used today, primarily by deaf communities around the world. Like spoken languages, each sign language has its own grammar, vocabulary and other special features. For example, American Sign Language is unintelligible（无法了解的）to British Sign language. In fact, American Sign language has more in common with French Sign Language, largely because French educators played a key role in helping get deaf schools founded in the United States during the 19th century.
There haven’t been a lot of comparisons of sign languages. University of Texas, Austin linguist Justin Powers and his colleagues aim to address that information gap. In order to study the question of sign language evolution, they first collected a database of manual alphabets from dozens of different sign languages around the world. So a manual alpha-bet is kind of a subsystem within a sign language that is used to represent a written language. And there’s a hand shape that corresponds to each letter.
To uncover relationships between the alphabets% the researchers used the same methods that biologists use to figure out relationships between different species, based on their DNA. The methods grouped sign languages in this study into five main European lineages（谱系）. And those were Austrian origin, British origin, French origin, Spanish and Swedish. Power says manual alphabets from Austria, France and Spain could date back to one-handed manual alphabets from 16th- and 17th-century Spain. But each of those lineages evolved independently of each other.
The study also confirmed the French origins of American Sign Language and those of other countries, including Mexico, Brazil and the Netherlands. Surprisingly, the Austrian manual alphabet influenced sign languages as far away as Russia. But while this lineage has largely died out, remains of it live on in Icelandic Sign language today.
Power says future research comparing the vocabularies of different sign languages could provide even more clues about how they’ve changed over time. Understanding how sign languages evolve would tell us a lot about the way that language, in general, evolves.
【1】What can we know about American Sign Language?
A．It was created by French educators.
B．It is less related to French Sign language.
C．It was further developed before the 19th century.
D．It has little in common with British Sign Language.
【2】What is special about a manual alphabet?
A．Every letter means a hand gesture.
B．It is used to replace the written language.
C．Every letter is the same as the normal alphabet.
D．It is used together with the shape of mouth.
【3】What does the author think of the effect of the Austrian manual alphabet?
A．Worrying.
B．Astonishing.
C．Moving.
D．Disappointing.
【4】What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?
A．The changes of different sign languages.
B．The evolution of different sign languages.
C．The meaning of researching sign languages.
D．The vocabulary of different sign languages.
24、It was an afternoon in August. I was just short of turning eighteen. I stood in front of a six story high, red brick building. It was to be my new home for the next several years. I was a bit scared, unsettled and thrilled at the same time. I had two suitcases and a bag with me. In them were packed all of my clothes, towels, sheets, alarm clock and everything else I thought I would need. I carried them upstairs and then threw them on my bed. I looked around the room wondering what life had in store for me.
It was another afternoon in August. I was just short of turning forty two. My daughter was eighteen and we were standing in front of the same building. I smiled as I helped her carry her things up to her room but I also noticed that my wife and I were making more than one trip. All of the students not just my daughter seemed to have so much more stuff than I did all those years ago. Yet, it didn’t seem to make things any better for them. In fact, they looked more stressed than I remembered being on my first day there. At that moment, I wondered what life had in store for my daughter.
Last night I had a dream that I have had many times before. I was back in that same room with my belongings piled on my bed searching for my course book and wondering what classes I would take. I often wondered what this dream meant but when I woke up this morning it became crystal clear to me. We are sometimes teachers in the life, but we are always students in it. We are here taking the most important class ever. We are here to learn to love ourselves. We are here to learn to love everyone as ourselves. And it takes a lifetime. The stuff we carry with us through this life doesn’t matter at all either. It is the stuff we carry inside of us when we leave this life that really counts.
【1】What do the author and her daughter had in common?
A．They were admitted into the same college.
B．They brought equally heavy stuff to the dormitory.
C．They had a shared accommodation with their friends.
D．They both wondered what life would be like in the future.
【2】What can we infer about the dream from the last paragraph?
A．The author used to be a teacher.
B．The dream implied something mysterious .
C．The love of everyone really matters.
D．The inside of us is more important.
【3】Which of the following best describes the author as a father?
A．Generous.
B．Diligent.
C．Caring.
D．Demanding.
【4】How does the author develop the passage?
A．By making comparisons
B．By analyzing causes.
C．By describing processes.
D．By presenting an argument.
25、I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter, Emily. ___to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to earn extra money. By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49. I said, “You __ have your pick from my bicycle __.” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right. All my girls’ bikes were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would __ choose.
As Christmas __ near, Emily and I went bike shopping. As we left one store, she __ a Salvation Army(基督教慈善组织) volunteer standing next to a big pot. “Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked. “Sorry, em, I’m out of change.” I said.
Throughout December, Emily continued to___ hard. Then one day, she made a __ announcement. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said hesitantly. “I’m going to give it to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $58 to a volunteer who was really very __ .
___by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute __ of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children. __ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow(发光).Should I contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn’t __ the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later __ the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very __, sir. Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we’re __ away one chance to win a girls’ mountain bike.”
Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the __ ? I like to think it was God’s way of ___a little girl for a sacrifice __ her years---- while giving her dad a lesson in the ___
【1】
A．Promised
B．Amazed
C．Organized
D．Determined
【2】
A．need
B．should
C．can
D．must
【3】
A．contribution
B．collection
C．shop
D．club
【4】
A．likely
B．seldom
C．slightly
D．merely
【5】
A．went
B．became
C．drew
D．pulled
【6】
A．observed
B．sensed
C．noticed
D．watched
【7】
A．study
B．try
C．work
D．listen
【8】
A．surprising
B．disappointing
C．formal
D．public
【9】
A．agreeable
B．thankful
C．hopeful
D．pitiful
【10】
A．Shocked
B．Moved
C．Persuaded
D．Demanded
【11】
A．some
B．one
C．two
D．any
【12】
A．While
B．Because
C．As
D．Though
【13】
A．express
B．describe
C．shake
D．explain
【14】
A．delivered
B．returned
C．chose
D．shared
【15】
A．sweet
B．healthy
C．fair
D．happy
【16】
A．giving
B．putting
C．storing
D．signing
【17】
A．present
B．winner
C．harvest
D．chance
【18】
A．greeting
B．rewarding
C．sheltering
D．praising
【19】
A．under
B．beyond
C．before
D．within
【20】
A．project
B．process
C．struggle
D．communication
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