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1、Speaking of non - cash payments, I think that we may try to use money less often instead of replacing it ________ .
A．for good
B．at ease
C．on the whole
D．in vain
2、The government has taken measures to______the high prices of daily goods to keep the market stable．
A．put down B．tear down
C．hand down D．bring down
3、Several melon stalls were below the window and above them _______ with a big clock on top of it.
A. was the telecom tower B. were the telecom tower
C. the telecom tower was D. the telecom tower were
4、If you are invited to any special occasion such as a wedding or a celebration, you will have to be ________ dressed.
A. attractively B. controversially
C. conventionally D. appropriately
5、Teenagers ________ their health because they play computer games too much．
A．have damaged
B．are damaging
C．damaged
D．will damage
6、In your life, sometimes you might end up back_________ you started.
A. which B. when C. where D. who
7、 James left his hometown when he was 16, and he ______ back there since.
A. wouldn’t be B. hasn’t been
C. hadn’t been D. won’t be
8、The pronunciation of the speakers living in London is judged to be more native than ______ of the speakers from Liverpool.
A. it B. that C. one D. those
9、Though the number of Japanese army was _____ that of our Eighth Route Army, they lost the battle in that mountainous village．
A. as large twice as B. twice as large as
C. large as twice as D. as twice large as
10、--You're not angry then?
--__________ .I've never laughed so much in my life.
A. I'm not sure B. I hope so
C. I'd rather not D. Far from it
11、Although he was poor, he was quite ________ to his needy friends.
A．typical
B．generous
C．adequate
D．identical
12、We have no alternative but ________ hard now.
A．work
B．to work
C．worked
D．working
13、______ environmental damage is done，it takes many years for the ecosystem to recover．
A. Even if B. If only
C. As if D. Once
14、Without proper lessons, you could ________a lot of bad habits when practising the piano.
A．set up
B．catch up
C．pick up
D．keep up
15、My aunt is thought very fashionable，for she is always wearing a sweater______ on TV these months．
A. advertising B. having advertised
C. being advertised D. to be advertised
16、An anonymous donor donated a large sum of money to _____ the campaign “saving our planet”.
A.launch B.organize C.sponsor D.plan
17、---I had practiced my spoken English, but still failed in the oral test．
---Don’t be discouraged．_____ and you will surely pass it．
A. Make a bit more effort
B. To make a bit more
C. Making a bit more effort
D. If you make a bit more effort
18、It happens that I am quite familiar with the professor _______ to give us a speech on environmental protection next Monday.
A. inviting B. to be invited
C. being invited D. having invited
19、He ______ writing the paper now. He hadn’t written a single word when I left him ten minutes ago.
A.shouldn’t be B.can’t have finished
C.can’t be D.mustn’t have finished
20、Girl students _________ half of the students in our class this year.
A．put up
B．set up
C．make up
D．pick up
21、 Pioneering research from the University of Portsmouth that aims to find a solution to the global plastic pollution crisis is to share in £15. 9 million of investment from the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
The Solent LEP will use the Government's“Getting Building Fund" allocation to finance the expansion of the University's Centre for Enzyme Innovation (CEI),which takes enzymes(酶） from the natural environment and adapts them in the laboratory to recycle and reuse some of our most polluting plastics. The CEI will receive £1 millon investment from the Solent LEP.
The CEI is one of several projects that have been funded by the Solent LEP,which plays a leading role in determining economic priorities in the region. The projects will benefit the region's economic recovery in the present environment.
The CEI Expansion-Industrial Engagement Hub project will almost double the current size of the CEI and create three new specialist laboratories, to bridge the gap between the current research capabilities and what this technology needs to develop into in order to be adopted by industry.
In addition, the Industrial Engagement Hub will be a space for interaction between researchers and industry collaborators and become a testbed for growing local and national partnerships.
Professor Graham Galbraith,Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth, said:“The CEI is a unique environment for industry and academia to work together to shape, refine,develop and test the new technologies emerging from this ground-breaking research.”
“The funding from the Solent LEP to support the development of the CEI will deliver significant economic and societal benefits and clearly delivers our ambitions for research with impact and sustainability(持续性） as set out in our vision for 2030.”
【1】What's CEI' s experiment?
A.Collecting enzymes. B.Making building material.
C.Removing waste land. D.Recycling materials.
【2】What's CEI' s aim of the project?
A.To get investment for the national program.
B.To help the Solent LEP manage its production.
C.To determine economic priorities in the region.
D.To get a chemical for the reduction of plastic pollution.
【3】What can we know from Professor Graham Galbraith' s words?
A.It is hard to reduce polluting plastics.
B.The LEP funding has short-term benefits.
C.The CEI has connected research and industry.
D.Scientific research must need industries' support.
【4】What's the best title of the text?
A.University Receives Funding for Plastics Recycling
B.What's the Best Way to Get Rid of Polluting Plastics
C.Local and National Partnerships Strengthen the Research
D.Industries' Support is the Key to Reducing Polluting Plastics
22、On September 9, senior Andre Samaraweera qualified as a semifinalist for the National Merit Scholarship. In the spring, Andre will find out if he has qualified for the finalist position. “Seeing my score on the PSAT was by far the most exciting because it felt pleasant to see all my hard work pay off,” Andre said. “I was happy that I could qualify to get a scholarship because of my academic scores.”
The National Merit Scholarship is one awarded to those who do well on the Preliminary SAT or the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation will grant around 7,600 students the scholarship after an intense filtering of about 1.6 million entries.
“The most difficult part of the PSAT was actually having to study,” Andre said. “I had to force myself to actually study, because I knew if I didn’t, I wouldn’t do well and would probably not make as high of a score as I had.”
Andre took the PSAT his junior year and got a 1450/1520 and missed three questions in English and made a perfect score on the math portion.
As a semifinalist he has already passed multiple stages in the selection process and now competes with only around 16,000 students for scholarships.
The first scholarship opportunities are single-payment scholarships worth $2,500; the second scholarship is a corporate sponsored one which is for finalists with career plans the sponsor wishes to encourage. Finally there is the college-sponsored scholarship which is where officials of each sponsor college select winners of their awards from finalists who have been accepted for admission.
“It’s just a PSAT. The real SAT has a lot more impact on my future,” Andre said. “It’s not hard to know everything for the PSAT; the difficulty lies in applying everything perfectly.”
【1】What do we know from the text?
A．Andre got a high score in SAT.
B．Andre won the National Merit Scholarship.
C．16,000 students are granted by the National Merit Scholarship.
D．There are many rounds of competition in the selection process.
【2】What does the underlined word “filtering” mean in paragraph 2?
A．Selecting.
B．Cooperating.
C．Fighting.
D．Matching.
【3】What does Andre imply in the last paragraph?
A．SAT is just a piece of cake.
B．SAT is the real hard nut to crack.
C．SAT plays a more decisive role in his study.
D．He worries little about winning the scholarship.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．Highest Score ever in PSAT
B．The National Merit Scholarship
C．PSAT: a Stepping -Stone to scholarship
D．Student Qualifies to Semifinalist in a Scholarship
23、
A team of students from Stanford University are making efforts to launch a satellite powered exclusively by water into orbit (轨道) around the Mars. The team names itself the Super Lunar Explorers.
These creative students are now attending a competition called the Future Space Challenge, which is held annually by NASA, the American space agency to find more talents in space. The winners will be publicized in about a month. The final three winners will be announced in early 2023. They will get to ride on NASA’s space launch system in early 2024.
The principle behind the competition is simple: to think, design, build and launch “qualified small satellites”. NASA officials required that the satellites must be able to perform “advanced operations near and beyond the moon”. Twenty teams are competing for the championship. But the Super Lunar Explorer satellites are totally different. They use only water to power their spacecraft, which has never been done before.
Such a novel idea for a water-powered satellite came from Peckon Lewis, who works at Stanford University now, who once worked as NASA’s chief technologist. He has always been wondering whether something other than rockets can be used to push spacecraft beyond earth. “A lot of things we send into space these days is with the help of rockets——the only way we get anything into space,” he said, in a Stanford press release. “But if we could try something that has been already there? If we could do that, if we could re-fuel spacecraft while they’re already in space...”
The spacecraft is about 30 centimeters in length, and the two pieces are interconnected. The lower part of the satellite is designed to store water, which will be separated by solar panel into two elements: hydrogen and oxygen. When one combines hydrogen and oxygen with a spark (火花), an explosion was caused. This provides a forward movement, known as thrust.
【1】The Crucial part of the competition “the Future Space Challenge” is ______.
A．to think, design, build and deliver a qualified-small satellite.
B．to launch a satellite to take a watery flight to the moon.
C．to make the satellite perform advanced operations near and beyond the moon.
D．to launch a satellite powered only by water into an orbit around the moon.
【2】It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A．There is a lot of rubbish of rockets and satellites in the orbit these days.
B．The team members of the Super Lunar Explorers are the students of Peckon Lewis.
C．A water-powered satellite will soon be sent into the orbit around the moon.
D．The explosion of the combination of hydrogen and oxygen provides power.
【3】According to the passage which of the following will Peckon Lewis agree with?
A．To ban using rockets for the sake of safety.
B．To design a water-powered vehicle to push spacecraft.
C．To use something already in space as power.
D．To try using water in space to push spacecraft.
【4】What would be the best title of the passage?
A．A Water-Powered Flight to the Moon.
B．A Competition for Water-Powered Satellite.
C．A Design of Water-Powered Space Journey.
D．A Spacecraft Powered by Water.
24、 Morris, a well-known English violinist, had been exhausted from a day of recording at Abbey Road Studios when he exited the Southeastern Railway from London late last month. He was so tired that he didn’t even realize that he had left his beloved violin on the train until the following morning.
The violin is one of the few surviving instruments made by Roman craftsman David Tecchler in 1709. Not only is the violin worth$320,000,but Morris has also been playing the instrument for 15 years.
Feeling panic, Morris contacted the British Transport Police to see if it had been returned; unfortunately, officers checked the footage(录像) and saw that the violin had been picked up by another train passenger. Morris then created social media accounts to beg for the return of his instrument. The footage was shown in the news, and the person responsible for taking the violin was treated as a suspect.
Several days later, Morris received a phone call from someone who recognized the man on the train. Morris was then put in contact with the man who took the violin—and he had apparently been very eager to return the instrument. After promising the man that he wouldn’t be arrested, Morris met him in a parking lot so he could reunite with his beloved instrument.
The man apologized sincerely, saying he wanted to hand it to Morris in person. Morris found the instrument and the contents of its case were still in consummate condition. To his surprise, it was even still in tune(音调准确). Morris was excited and deeply grateful for its return.
“I’m still getting over the shock of its coming back,” Morris admitted in an interview afterwards. Then he played a breathtaking piece of music Amazing Grace on his 310-year-old violin in front of the reporters.
【1】What can we learn about the lost violin?
A.It’s valuable and important. B.It’s a gift from David Tecchler.
C.It’s the only violin Morris owns. D.It’s the oldest violin in the world.
【2】What did Morris do first after he found his violin missing?
A.He spoke to reporters about it. B.He turned to the police for help.
C.He described his situation online. D.He returned to the train to look for it.
【3】What do we know about the man who took the violin away?
A.He knew the violin was unique. B.He got in touch with Morris directly.
C.He was unwilling to return the violin. D.He felt afraid to be punished for his act.
【4】What does the underlined word “consummate” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A.Unusual. B.Poor. C.Perfect. D.General.
25、A nonprofit is making their community more inclusive and accessible, one tool at a time.
Many people living in low-income areas don’t have access to the _________ they need to make even the most _________ home improvements. Most can’t _________ to buy pricey tools themselves, nor can they afford to _________ someone else to repair their homes. That’s where the Chicago Tool Library comes in!
Tessa Vierk and Jim Benton started the tool library in 2019. It _________ exactly like a regular library, except _________ books, people can borrow tools they need for home _________, woodworking, gardening, cooking, camping, sewing, and more. People _________ for a library card, and there’s a pay-what-you-can annual fee with no standard or minimum payments. _________ can borrow as many __________ as they can carry for seven days, and renew them if they need more time.
When the library first __________, they had about 150 members. During the pandemic (流行病) when more people were home, their membership increased __________. They now have over 1,500 members from all over the Chicago area and more than 2,500 tools to choose from. In fact, they’re growing so fast that they’ve had to __________ tool donations. So now they’re searching for a __________ building to hold “twice as many tools”. They haven’t found the __________ expansion space yet, but they’re looking for a place that’s easily __________ from the transit (运输) system to make their __________ available to even more people.
What a __________ idea! It is also putting a new twist (转变) on a(n) __________ concept, all to bring more __________ to their community.
【1】
A．systems
B．materials
C．methods
D．spaces
【2】
A．basic
B．rapid
C．obvious
D．impressive
【3】
A．promise
B．hesitate
C．remember
D．afford
【4】
A．employ
B．force
C．teach
D．persuade
【5】
A．moves
B．changes
C．grows
D．functions
【6】
A．regardless of
B．instead of
C．thanks to
D．according to
【7】
A．games
B．repairs
C．sales
D．furnishings
【8】
A．dress up
B．make up
C．clean up
D．sign up
【9】
A．Members
B．Professionals
C．Volunteers
D．Partners
【10】
A．books
B．clothes
C．tools
D．toys
【11】
A．showed
B．tried
C．started
D．closed
【12】
A．slightly
B．slowly
C．irregularly
D．considerably
【13】
A．turn down
B．ask for
C．find out
D．depend on
【14】
A．cheaper
B．lower
C．larger
D．warmer
【15】
A．empty
B．perfect
C．extra
D．secret
【16】
A．replaceable
B．identifiable
C．predictable
D．accessible
【17】
A．offerings
B．trips
C．reports
D．inventions
【18】
A．ridiculous
B．clear
C．fantastic
D．strange
【19】
A．abstract
B．old
C．similar
D．simple
【20】
A．balance
B．confidence
C．pressure
D．fairness
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
You can always believe patience and perseverance (毅力) are always rewarded whatever you do. This was a lesson Eli learned. Eli is my seven-year-old grandson. I always teach him things I think he should know, and he tries to teach me to play some of the games that I have for him on my iPad. He is very patient and persistent, but so far no success with that. It’s all just foreign to me.
The other day, Eli and his dad came for a visit. I could tell something was bothering him and asked him what was wrong. At first, he just shrugged and said nothing was wrong. But his body language told me a different story.
I asked again—pushing a little. Eli said that he was having a problem. He was trying to learn how to blow bubble-gum bubbles (口香糖泡泡). It seemed like all of his friends could blow bubble-gum bubbles, but he just couldn’t do it. I tried to explain how to do it, but aside from making funny faces and sticking out my tongue, nothing got accomplished. He tried to do what I said. His cheeks puffed out (鼓起). His face got red. He made funny noises. But no bubbles.
Then I had an idea. I asked Eli if he had another piece of gum—and not the ABC kind. He did. He gave it to me. Now, I hadn’t chewed a piece of bubble gum for years. Wow, it’s sweet. And one piece is huge. It filled my entire mouth. I don’t remember a piece of bubble gum being that big. I chewed and chewed and chewed. Finally, that piece of gum became more manageable.
I worked that piece of gum around in my mouth and wrapped it around my tongue, and then I slowly blew a bubble. Nice! I guess it’s like riding a bicycle. Even though I hadn’t tried blowing bubbles with bubble gum for years, I completely remembered how to do it at the first attempt.
After the bubble burst, I began to show Eli how to blow bubbles, but still nothing worked.
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Just when we were both about to give up, he got that knowing kind of look on his face.
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“I blew a bubble.” Eli shouted excitedly.
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