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1、The Bakers intend to buy a house but _____ must be within their power.
A.they B.one C.it D.which
2、The first time I ____ Todd, he ____ to some students at the English corner.
A. had seen; was talked
B. saw; talked
C. had seen; talked
D. saw; was talking
3、—I wonder what makes you a good salesperson．
—I as a waiter for three years，which contributes a lot to my today's work．
A． serve B． have served
C． had served D． served
4、In a speech delivered on Sept 10 last year, President Xi reaffirmed the great importance of education and ________ more respect for teachers and stronger efforts to enhance education.
A.called in B.called at C.called for D.called on
5、--- Why was Professor Zhang unhappy recently?
--- Because the theory he insisted on _____ wrong.
A. proved B. proving
C. being proved D. was proved
6、--- How much water do you have with you since it is a long walk?
--- I’m sorry to say, . I forgot
A. nothing B. no one C. none D. no
7、－Personally，I believe I can do it well on my own．
－________Selfconfidence is the first secret of success．
A．It's up to you． B．Take it easy．
C．Let' s get going． D．I'm with you on that．
8、He always goes to see his grandmother ___________.
A. every other days B. every few day
C. each few days D. every few days
9、 No one is beyond the law, so it is _______ that the young talented university student was sentenced to death for murdering his roommate with poison.
A. avoidable B. surprising
C. reasonable D. astonishing
10、We were excited when hearing that the holiday we had been looking forward to finally ________ .
A．coming
B．had come
C．will come
D．came
11、My key isn’t in my backpack. Where on earth________ I have put it?
A．can
B．would
C．should
D．must
12、It was the first time that he ________ with a host family.
A．lived
B．had lived
C．have lived
D．has lived
13、______ you have set your mind on the goal, you must try your best to achieve it.
A．Though
B．Unless
C．Once
D．While
14、Everyone at table was content with the dishes, feeling that they had never tasted .
A.better B.worse C.tender D.mild
15、They are of _______ height, but I think Mary_______ the job.
A. equally; is equal B. equal; is equal to
C. equal; equals D. equally; is equaled
16、—It’s so hot and uncomfortable here! Why are your windows still closed?
—Oh, I’m not to blame. They ________ open.
A.shan’t B.mustn’t C.won’t D.wouldn’t
17、No visitor would think _________ surprising that the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A．that
B．it
C．this
D．what
18、Believe it or not，your ship isn’t quite sunk，as there are some ways to ________ a new career even if it’s something you’ve never done before．
A． burst into B． get through
C． break into D． comb through
19、 Police have found ________ appears to be the lost ancient statue.
A.which B.where C.how D.what
20、We _____ the sunshine in Sanya now if it were not for the delay of our flight.
A. were enjoying B. would have enjoyed
C. would be enjoying D. will enjoy
21、I was typing papers for new school students when Mama called. We talked about some senseless things for a while before she finally told me about it. “Well, Donner, there’s this class up at the high school this summer,” she said. “They say they can teach me to read and write. I’m trying to decide whether...”
“Of course, you should do it! That would be so wonderful. I’d be so proud of you,” I answered. She was 63 and had survived two alcoholic husbands and was an expert at buying and selling garage sale junk to keep food on her own table and buy Christmas presents for me and my brother’s kids. She used food stamps to buy food and other goods. Mama laughed, seemingly with relief. “Well, you know, I’d about gotten used to being the silliest old lady in town,” she said.
It turned out that her neighbor had found the class for her. The young woman had been doing Mama’s “business” for a while in my absence, helping to allay my guilt (愧疚) over leaving Mississippi. The friend was a little crazy, but Mama liked her.
Three months into the class, Mama left a message on my answering machine: “Donner, I taught a class tonight!” She was almost singing the words. “The teacher let me teach the class!” She soon wrote me a letter in a careful, boxy print I had never seen, instead of the strange way she had long written family names she had memorized.
The next time I flew home to visit, we both laughed like 12-year-olds as she read words from billboards on the way from the airport. Her grammar was getting better. She kept talking about her classes and the other students.
【1】Why did Donner’s mother phone her according to Paragraph 1?
A．To advise Donner to take a course.
B．To show her support for Donner.
C．To tell Donner her decision.
D．To ask Donner for advice.
【2】Which can replace the underlined word “allay” in Paragraph 3?
A．admit
B．forget
C．punish
D．reduce
【3】How did Donner’s mother feel when she left a message for Donner?
A．Astonished.
B．Delighted.
C．Puzzled.
D．Worried.
【4】What does the author want to tell us in the last two paragraphs?
A．What progress Donner’s mother made.
B．The difficulty Donner’s mother had in learning.
C．How Donner’s mother learned to read and write.
D．The effects other students had on Donner’s mother.
22、Mum, it’s me. Hopefully, this Mothering Sunday you will get to hear those three words. I will, of course, try to phone you. I hope we will be able to speak for the allowed 10 minutes. But I suspect many inmates will be using the phone, so if I don’t call and if we don’t speak, then this is what I would have said:
It’s not your fault that I am here. I know that deep in your heart you have questioned whether my current circumstance is somehow your fault, if the reckless stupidity of my past is somehow a failure on your part. It is not. Only one person is to blame, only one person should hurt — me. You have always taught me that when the room goes dark, you can wait for the lights to be switched back on or you can search in the dark and turn the light on yourself. You are my light. You always have been and always will be. There is nobody I admire more, nobody I have strived harder to please in my life, which is why my current failure hurts me so much.
I am so sorry that I will not be there to see you, but I want you to know that now, as always, you are here with me. In my darkest hours, and in the coldest loneliness of my past few months, my mind has so often wandered to the past, to when it was you and me — and I have been able to smile. Yours is the strength that I draw upon.
A parent’s job is to make sure that they pass on the best of themselves to their children. You have done that. It is the inner you in me that will get me throughthis.
I have failed you so epically, but you have never failed me. If I think back to the tears I shed when Dad left, all those years ago, I see you through their misty glaze. You holding me and you telling me we’d be OK, and we will be. We are and always will be the best team.
Childhood heroes such as footballers, actors and rock stars areclichéd. If the job’s done right, a child’s heroes should be their parents — you are mine. The strength you showed after the divorce from Dad to find your biological parents, to go to university and get your teaching qualifications, to begin your life again, is the strength that I draw on now. It is the belief in myself, it is the belief you have in me, that tells me that once I am released I can and will rebuild my life. I will make you proud again. I will make you happy to have me as your son. Yours is the will that gets me through every day.
I don’t believe you can judge a person for the mistakes they make, as we all make them, but you can judge them for what they do afterwards. And after this, when it is all over, you will still have a son with the same hopes and dreams. They have not diminished. If you can dream it, then you have to believe it can happen — right?
So this Mothering Sunday, please think back to that morning in the 80s, the first Mother’s Day without Dad, when a six-year-old me got up early and made breakfast for you. Do you remember it? Could you ever forget? A slice of bread a doorstep thick and a wedge of cheese equally dense. You didn’t have to eat it, but you did, chewing every dry mouthful. I know now why you forced yourself — because it had been made with love. Well, things don’t change this year — this letter is that bread and cheese (it sure has plenty of the cheese!).
I love you so much. I am sorry I have let you down, but you have taught me that we will always pick ourselves up and become better than we were before. Thank you for everything and this year, more than ever:
Happy Mothering Sunday.
Love, your son
【1】According to the passage, what made the author most upset at present?
A. Losing his freedom temporarily.
B. Being unable to phone his mother.
C. Failing to live up to his mother’s expectations.
D. Having no chance to spend the weekend with mother.
【2】What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Mothering Sunday. B. Dark time.
C. His mistake. D. Near future.
【3】What did the author do in the loneliness of his past months？
A. He summed up the causes of the failure in his life.
B. He planned to help his mother find her birth parents.
C. He recalled the fond memories of being with his mother.
D. He prepared himself to go to university for further studies.
【4】Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “clichéd” in Paragraph 6?
A. Ridiculous. B. Liberal.
C. Explicit. D. Common.
【5】Which of the following can best describe the author’s mother?
A. Selfless but stubborn. B. Guilty but determined.
C. Selfish but responsible. D. Caring but envious.
23、The 33-year-old Australian is actually a student in international relations completing his PhD through Griffith University. He came to Beijing for cooperative research at Peking University less than two years ago. Such an academic life was just added color with a chance offered by the cultural exchanges project, “I’m in China”.
Bradley was lucky to win the most “likes” for his photo story about his life in China and became one of 20 winners to visit locations after a global recruitment (招募) by the project this summer. All the winners’ experiences were filmed to produce a reality show, My Chinese Working Day, which will be broadcast by mid-September.
Bradley was chosen to work as a recreational manager for a Chinese wedding. The film crew took the 20 winners to many “amazing sites” and the staff at the resort taught them a lot about how to “show modern Chinese traits (特色) while still keeping traditional customs“”, Bradley said. “I would have to say two things stick out as the most memorable: the helicopter ride and talking with the staff at the hotel about how they organize weddings here in China,” he said. That was Bradley’s first time to be in a helicopter, and he was too absorbed with the view of the beautiful coastline.
“I think it is so important to show other Australians the different sceneries in China. I think so many Australians, when they think about China, they will imagine the historical sites of Beijing and the exciting things to see in Shanghai but have no idea about other beautiful places like Sanya or the many other places people have been taken to in this TV series,” Bradley said
As to the Chinese wedding, the ceremony was quite familiar to Bradley, which he said was “very much like any wedding he had been to back in Australia”. But it was still “interesting to see how Chinese couples balance the desires of a modern wedding while keeping Chinese traditions”.
【1】Why did Bradley come to China?
A．To visit Peking university.
B．To do the cooperative research.
C．To produce a reality show.
D．To attend a wedding party.
【2】What made Bradley chosen from the cultural exchanges project?
A．His appealing photo story.
B．His academic life.
C．His working day.
D．His colorful exchange project.
【3】What can we learn from paragraph 4?
A．Australians don’t know anything about China.
B．Bradley has been to Beijing and Shanghai before.
C．Australians know a variety of beautiful places in China
D．Bradley wants to broaden Australians’ eyes of China
【4】What is the passage mainly about?
A．Bradley’s helicopter.
B．Bradley’s wedding.
C．Bradley in China.
D．Bradley in Sanya.
24、Earthquake in Japan.Donald Trump is accused of planting story about actress’s height after she rejected him. Mexico arrests ex-police chief in case of 43 missing students. Do you really need to know all these things?
Three years ago, I began an experiment. I stopped reading all newspapers and magazines. Televisions and radios were rejected. I deleted the news apps from my iPhone. I didn’t touch a single free newspaper and deliberately looked the other way when someone tried to offer me any such reading material. The first weeks were hard. Very hard! I was constantly afraid of missing something. But after a while, I had a new understanding. The result after three years: clearer thoughts, more valuable ideas, better decisions, and much more time. And the best thing? I haven’t missed anything important.
A dozen reasons exist to give news a wide berth. Here are the top three: First, our brain reacts differently to different types of information. Shocking, people-based, fast-changing details all appeal to us. News producers capitalize on this. The result: Everything complex, abstract, and profound(深刻的) must be systematically singled out, even though such stories are much more relevant to our lives and to our understanding of the world. As a result, we walk around with a misrepresented mental map of the risks and threats we actually face.
Second, news is irrelevant. In the past year, you have probably consumed about ten thousand pieces of news. Be very honest: Name one of them, just one that helped you make a better decision—for your life, your career, or your business—compared with not having this piece of news. No one I have asked has been able to name more than two useful news stories—out of ten thousand. News organizations claim that their information gives you a competitive advantage. Too many fall for this. If news really helped people advance, journalists would be at the top of the income pyramid.
Third, news is a waste of time. An average human being spends half a day each week reading about current affairs. This is a huge loss of productivity. Take the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai. Let’s say a billion people viewed the minute-by-minute updates and listened to the chatter of a few “experts” and “commentators.” Thus our conservative calculation: One billion people multiplied by an hour’s distraction equals one billion hours of work stoppage. News wasted around two thousand lives—ten times more than the attack.
I would predict that turning your back on news will benefit you as much as removing any of the other ninety-eight errors we have covered in the pages of this book. Read long background articles and books. Nothing beats books for understanding the world.
【1】How did the author feel at the beginning of his experiment?
A. He was in constant fear.
B. He enjoyed it very much.
C. He had a better vision about life.
D. He missed his friends and relatives.
【2】What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Refuse to read news.
B. Select newscarefully.
C. Question news.
D. Help circulate news.
【3】In the author’s opinion, news ________.
A. represents a competitive advantage
B. offers a mental map of the world
C. leads to a loss of productivity
D. brings journalists’ income up
【4】What’s the main purpose of writing the passage?
A. To offer tips on choosing news.
B. To advocate giving up reading news.
C. To share experiences on avoiding news.
D. To criticize media’s misleading choice of news.
25、Warning: Don't make big decisions from high elevations
You definitely don't want to have your head in the clouds when making a crucial financial decision. But who could have thought our decisions are literally influenced by altitude?
It seems that what floor you happen to be on matters when pondering something over. If it's a high elevation, like the top floor of an office tower, chances are you'll embrace________a little more than you would on the ground floor, according to researchers from Miami University. The study, published this month in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, suggests you may want a(n) ________ advisor to work from a ground-floor office rather than the penthouse（顶楼）. And it gives new, literal________to the idea that you should stay grounded when making big decisions. "When you increase elevation there is a(n) ________effect on the sense of power," lead author SinaEsteky, PhD, noted in a release. "This heighted feeling of power________more risk-seeking behaviour."
For the study, Esteky's team interviewed people as they were ascending and descending in the glass elevator of a tall building. They found the________of the elevator strongly influenced the level of risk-aversion（风险预防）among participants. They were more likely, ________, to take more gambles on the way to the 75th floor -- but their decision became far more grounded as they neared, well, the ground.
Another experiment________on people who were either on the ground floor or the third floor of a university building. Each group was asked to make 10 decisions of________risk levels. Guess which group made the most risky decisions? What was it about higher elevations that emboldened（赋予勇气）the participants? Researchers theorized it could have something to do with perception that elevation gives people a(n) ________of power and bravery.
Risk seems a lot smaller when seen from above----literally. That idea seemed to hold________in further experiments. What participants were told their decisions were being influenced by elevation, the effect________disappeared. Likewise, "elevation effect" wasn't a factor at all for people confined to cubicles who couldn't see how high up they were.
"The important lesson is that when people become aware of the________impact of elevation, it doesn't happen anymore," Esteky says. "The brain is very sensitive to subtle________factors, but also really good at correcting for such effects, so________can help us be more rational in our decisions."
【1】
A．function
B．risk
C．process
D．sense
【2】
A．crucial
B．social
C．financial
D．economical
【3】
A．emphasis
B．conflict
C．power
D．pressure
【4】
A．intended
B．aware
C．subconscious
D．conscientious
【5】
A．takes on
B．results in
C．lies in
D．heads for
【6】
A．field
B．respect
C．direction
D．period
【7】
A．in general
B．by contrast
C．in conclusion
D．for instance
【8】
A．chased
B．focused
C．hurried
D．ran
【9】
A．increasing
B．rising
C．varying
D．decreasing
【10】
A．sense
B．change
C．difference
D．impression
【11】
A．deliberate
B．delicate
C．real
D．true
【12】
A．fortunately
B．completely
C．mostly
D．barely
【13】
A．potential
B．huge
C．extra
D．eager
【14】
A．temporary
B．past
C．seasonal
D．situational
【15】
A．discipline
B．satisfaction
C．awareness
D．confidence
26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for.
However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world.
The wise man talked to everybody, and the young man had to wait for two hours until it was time for his audience.The Sage listened attentively to the reason for the boy’s visit, but told him that at that moment he did not have the time to explain to him the Secret of Happiness.He suggested that the young man take a stroll around his palace and come back in two hours’ time.
“However, I want to ask you a favor,” he added, handling the boy a teaspoon, in which he poured two drops of oil. “While you walk, carry this spoon and don’t let the oil spill.”
The young man began to climb up and down the palace staircases, always keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. At the end of two hours he returned to the presence of the wise man.
“So,” asked the sage, “did you see the Persian tapestries hanging in my dining room? Did you see the garden that the Master of Gardeners took ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?”
Embarrassed, the young man confessed that he had seen nothing. His only concern was not to spill the drops of oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.
“So, go back and see the wonders of my world,” said the wise man. “You can’t trust a man if you don’t know his house.”
注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
Paragraph 1
Now more at ease, the young man took the spoon and walked around the castle again.
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Paragraph 2
“But where are the two drops of oil I gave you?” asked the wise man.
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