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1、–-Why are you so crazy about music?
–- Because I can always find in music _____ peace that is missing in _____ world full of challenges.
A. the; a B. the;/
C. /; a D. /; the
2、You probably have noticed that people express similar ideas in different ways, _______ the situation they are in.
A. bringing about B. depending on
C. getting into D. leading to
3、Jack, I’m sorry to trouble you, ______ could I ask you a question?
A．so
B．or
C．and
D．but
4、—Do you know why the teacher asks for me?
—He wants you to ________ your absence last night.
A．account for
B．call for
C．send for
D．reach for
5、My father did buy the CD, ________ he actually doesn’t appreciate the music in it at all.
A. so B. because C. while D. or
6、--- I went to the ticket office, but the tickets had been sold out already.
--- You could have yourself an unnecessary trip by phoning in advance.
A. prevented B. made
C. enjoyed D. spared
7、Meeting my dear teachers and fellow students after so many years was indeed a warm occasion, ______ I’d strike into my heart forever.
A. that B. one C. when D. what
8、She was ________ by birth but is now of French citizenship.
A. Germany B. German
C. Germanman D. Germanly
9、The pollution is likely to reach its peak on Monday, and some parts ________ heavy air pollution, the environmental watchdog told the newspaper.
A. see B. will see C. would see D. saw
10、Prince William took a visit to the Forbidden City on Feb. 28, ______ emperors once lived.
A. which B. whose C. where D. when
11、Our plan is nothing but a concept by now, so ________.
A. great minds think alike
B. make hay while the sun shines
C. the early bird catches the worm
D. don't count your chickens until they are hatched
12、 Because Rosa her big brother so much, she tries to imitate the way he walks and talks.
A. looks up to B. looks down on
C. looks out for D. looks forward to
13、 to work on Saturdays, the employees are offered a higher salary.
A. Expecting B. Expected
C. To be expected D. Having expected
14、______ to so many advertisements, we can’t help but ______ what we don’t really need.
A．Exposed, buy
B．Being exposed, to buy
C．Exposing, buying
D．To expose, bought
15、-- Could I speak to Mr Smith, please?
---______. I’ll go and ask him to answer the call
A. Please hang on B. Please ring off
C. Please hang up D. speaking
16、Susan's voice still remained calm ______ she was getting annoyed．
A．even if B．as long as
C．as if D．now that
17、He managed to reach the summit of his career, but it was at the ______ of his health.
A. consumption B. credit
C. exhaustion D. expense
18、I got to talk to him. I just couldn’t________ what he was talking about just now.
A．work out
B．turn out
C．figure out
D．cross out
19、You sent us an email informing us your date of arrival and we ________ your visit ever since.
A．expected
B．are expecting
C．have been expecting
D．had expected
20、—Was it still there _______ you were away to answer the phone?
—There is no doubt about it.
A． that B． which C． where D． while
21、In the struggle to survive the ever hotter deserts of California, there are winners and losers. Among the losers are desert birds, whose populations have fallen under the heat stress of climate change. As it turns out, the winners are small burrowing (挖洞) mammals, including kangaroo rats and white-tailed squirrels, which can hide from the sun underground. Researchers note that the mammal populations form a striking contrast to the extremely bad condition of birds.
The mammal community is relatively stable compared to the bird community. Birds have a higher evaporative (蒸发的) heat loss. Birds are more exposed to the effects of warming, so they have higher energy costs to maintain their body temperature, while mammals are able to reduce their body temperature by using burrows during the day, contributing to the stability of their community.
Temperatures have risen by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit on average across the area studied, but the heat impacts birds and small mammals differently. As part of the study, scientists modeled each species’ body temperature and cooling needs under different desert conditions. To calculate that, they measured the conductivity (传导性) of the animals’ fur or feathers, and used information on their heat reducing behavior, such as evaporative cooling or living underground. The models show that in the fight against climate change, there is not a level playing field for furred and feathered desert dwellers. Cooling costs or the resources needed to maintain stable body temperature are about 3.3 times higher for birds than those for small mammals, the study reports. Rising temperatures resulting from climate change increase cooling costs by 58% for birds; but only 17% for mammals.
Mammals have shown this remarkable stability. It’s really quite interesting that, in the same region, with the same level of climate change, these two very similar species have responded very differently to the changes taking place. Insights into the status of different species can help scientists take steps to protect them, such as increasing fire prevention in high desert areas, managing water use to preserve natural springs, and enhancing water sources in those’ areas. The study also demonstrates that climate change is already reshaping the California deserts.
【1】What is vital to mammals’ survival in the desert?
A．Their less exposure to sunlight.
B．Their underground social life.
C．Their loss of daily activity.
D．Their extreme need of water.
【2】What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A．The concerns about global warming.
B．The ways of reducing body temperatures.
C．The reasons for the community stability.
D．The causes of the varying energy loss.
【3】What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A．Temperature rises affect living things differently.
B．Underground animals have higher cooling costs.
C．Living things react differently to climate change.
D．Climate change is a great threat to animals’ survival.
【4】What is the author’s purpose in writing the last paragraph?
A．To explore some similar cases.
B．To advocate protecting mammals..
C．To warn readers of climate change.
D．To reveal the significance of the study.
22、Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless," he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first he went hiking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgwhy’s School of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about Ridgway's cold-water exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, then decided that this would be his future.
In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition (探险) towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite (冻疮), ran into a polar bear land pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled (雪橇) up and over rocky ice.
Saunders has become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.
Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometre journey that has never been completed on skis.
【1】What change happened to Saunders after he was 15 years old?
A．He joined a sports team.
B．He began to build up his body.
C．He became good at most sports.
D．He made friends with a runner.
【2】The underlined word "exploits" (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to ______.
A．journeys
B．researches
C．adventures
D．operations
【3】Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Saunders?
a. He ran his first marathon.
b. He skied alone in the North Pole.
c. He rode his bike in a forest.
d. He planned an adventure to the South Pole.
A．acdb
B．cdab
C．acbd
D．cabd
【4】What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders?
A．He is a success in sports.
B．He is the best British skier.
C．He is Ridgway’s favorite student.
D．He is a good-instructor at school.
23、Growing up on a farm, I learned from my parents about the large bees we called mangangava. But in college when I gave a presentation about those bees, I didn’t mention their familiar name; instead I used formal terms when describing their adaptations for pollinating (授粉). I was afraid of being judged for expressing my personal knowledge in a science class. But when the instructor pressed me to tell the class whether I’d seen the bees myself and what I called them, my views and my whole career path began to change. I realized my background was valuable, and that my calling was to help educate others like me.
My parents worked on a small farm and I often helped out when I was not in school. They had a close relationship with nature, something they learned from my grandparents and passed down to me. This was why I became interested in biology.
In college, I joined a series of labs to gain research experience, but my interest in pursuing a career as a scientist began to wane after I realized my research was not helping poor people like my parents. As a black student from a rural community, I also felt out of place in most classes. The feeling of not belonging circled in my head. I sometimes thought about giving up.
My instructor’s request that I share my knowledge of the mangangava bee changed my view. She saw that tapping into my personal experiences would help me grasp the scientific concepts. No other professor bad shown that kind of sensitivity, which helped me realize I did have a place in higher education and that I didn’t need to hide who I truly am.
I’m now a master’s student in education, working on a project that explores the connect ion between science and traditional knowledge. I don’t think I’d be here if I hadn’t crossed paths with my instructor. We ne ed more educators and scientists like her people who can serve as role models and know that the best way to nurture new scientists is to allow students to be themselves.
【1】What did the author initially think of his background when in college?
A．It was of little use for his college studies.
B．It motivated him to carry on his research.
C．It gave him an advantage over others.
D．It was something he wanted to hide.
【2】What does the underlined word “wane” in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A．remain
B．advance
C．fade
D．rise
【3】What should a good educator do according to the author?
A．Value students’ personal knowledge and views.
B．Inspire students to work as hard as he or she does.
C．Treat students from different backgrounds equally.
D．Be equipped with rich knowledge of a certain field.
【4】What is the main idea of this passage?
A．The family is one of the nature’s masterpieces.
B．Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
C．A good teacher is better than ten thousand books.
D．Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
24、Five years ago, French navy officer Jérôme Chardon was listening to a radio program about the journey of the bar-tailed godwit, a bird that migrates 14,000 kilometers between New Zealand and Alaska. Chardon understood how treacherous the journey would be, as heavy storms frequently hit Pacific island communities. Yet, somehow, bar-tailed godwits routinely pass through the area uninjured. Chardon wondered whether learning how birds traveled could help coastal communities avoid natural disasters.
This past January, a team from France’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) began experiments designed to test Chardon’s idea. Researchers with a project led by Frédéric Jiguet from NMNH equipped 56 birds of five species with cutting edge animal tracking technology. The team members were ferried to remote islands in French Polynesia, where they attached tags (标签) using tracking technology. These tags sent the birds’ locations to the International Space Station, which bounced the data back to scientists on Earth who could then follow the birds—waiting to see how the birds responded to natural disasters.
The project is focusing on birds’ ability to hear infrasound, the low-frequency sound humans cannot hear but that the researchers believe is the most likely signal birds would use to sense storms and tsunamis (海啸). In a 2014 study, scientists tracking a kind of golden-winged birds in the central and southeastern America found that the birds flew up to 1,500 kilometers to escape from an outbreak of tornadoes (龙卷风) that killed 35 people. The birds fled at least 24 hours before any extreme weather hit, leaving the scientists to believe that they had heard the storm system from more than 400 kilometers away.
The team plans on tagging hundreds more birds across the Pacific to prepare for a potential tsunami. “I think if there’s one wave that spreads across islands, we can get data from different species at different locations,” says Jiguet. “That will say it s worth continuing to tag and to develop local systems to better analyze this. There are chances that we will develop a bird-based tsunami early warning system.”
【1】Which of the following best explains the word “treacherous” underlined in paragraph 1?
A．Strange.
B．Boring.
C．Frequent.
D．Dangerous.
【2】What is the function of the tags?
A．Tracking natural disasters.
B．Distinguishing bird species.
C．Guiding researchers to islands.
D．Reporting the birds’ locations.
【3】Why is the 2014 study mentioned in paragraph 3?
A．To prove an assumption.
B．To clarify a concept.
C．To present a new topic.
D．To make comparisons.
【4】What might be the best title for the text?
A．How Can Birds Avoid Natural Disasters?
B．Can Birds Warn Us of Natural Disasters?
C．How Does a Warning System Function?
D．Can Birds Play a Role in Human Research?
25、Just after I came to Turkey, I was fortunate to meet George and his lovely wife Laura. As I was fairly new to Turkey, they helped me out with ________ such as bus routes and restaurant recommendations, all very important for a ________ returnee.
One day I happened to discover that George’s balcony was ________ with mother cats and kittens(小猫) . I was totally blown away. When living in Turkey, I found animal ________ was among the hardest to bear. It was ________ for street animals to be poisoned, beaten and kicked or have stones thrown at them. ________ such a safe corner for mother cats and kittens filled my day with ________ .
Like many retirees, George and Laura were living on a ________. As pet food is generally very expensive in Turkey, they ________ their house guests a diet of bread, fish and whatever meat was going ________ in the butcher’s. Soon their balcony became a ________ for expectant mother cats to safely ________ their kittens, which, in a sense, could keep them ________of killers, severe weather and cruelty.
Laura also ________ neighboring Turkish children to meet the young cats in the hope of re-educating the new generation, which might ________improve the lives of street animals. Their obvious ________in helping to feed and play with the small life was ________ a joy to watch. While I know that no one can ________ all the street animals, they have absolutely made a huge ________ for the precious little life in their care.
Teaching children to be ________animals today is our only hope for a nicer world tomorrow.
【1】
A．machines
B．possessions
C．suggestions
D．updates
【2】
A．committed
B．hard-working
C．secure
D．green
【3】
A．content
B．alive
C．popular
D．involved
【4】
A．behavior
B．experiment
C．welfare
D．kingdom
【5】
A．vital
B．common
C．strange
D．necessary
【6】
A．Building up
B．Dreaming about
C．Figuring out
D．Running across
【7】
A．sunshine
B．justice
C．eagerness
D．admiration
【8】
A．diet
B．budget
C．carriage
D．farm
【9】
A．showed
B．ordered
C．fed
D．sold
【10】
A．cheap
B．wild
C．priceless
D．sour
【11】
A．museum
B．project
C．hobby
D．shelter
【12】
A．raise
B．deliver
C．guide
D．observe
【13】
A．proud
B．aware
C．free
D．careful
【14】
A．invited
B．employed
C．assigned
D．forced
【15】
A．at once
B．by chance
C．in turn
D．on earth
【16】
A．pleasure
B．role
C．trust
D．experience
【17】
A．nearly
B．merely
C．hardly
D．certainly
【18】
A．know
B．save
C．cure
D．entertain
【19】
A．difference
B．impression
C．deal
D．promise
【20】
A．sensitive to
B．curious about
C．particular about
D．nice to
26、下周四下午你校将组织一次英语角活动,主题是“The Most Important Invention”,请用英语写一篇发言稿,内容如下;
1.你认为最重要的发明是手机；
2.阐明你的理由。
注意:1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯；
3.开头已为你写好,不计入总词数。
It is known that there are a lot of inventions in history.
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