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1、The young man couldn’t afford a new car. _______, he bought a used one.
A．Besides
B．Otherwise
C．Instead
D．Still
2、 In South-East Asia, many farmers cannot afford _____ farm equipment such as tractors, so most of the work is done with human labour.
A. considerate B. conventional
C. confidential D. correctional
3、_____ it is true that a student’s most important goal is to do well in her or his studies, it doesn’t need to be the only goal.
A．As
B．While
C．When
D．Since
4、He was charged ________ the police ________ breaking the law.
A. of, of B. of, with C. by, of D. by, with
5、With more and more farmers moving to cities, an inadequate labor force is ________ becoming a major factor affecting the country's grain output.
A.automatically B.occasionally
C.absolutely D.gradually
6、The educational leaders of Jiangsu province gathered to ______ a comprehensive reform of education.
A.cater for B.send for C.push for D.allow for
7、Steve Jobs is a key figure in the computer world _____ he has had a great influence on modern life and technology.
A. on condition that B. in case
C. in that D. as long as
8、________ sure that all the windows are shut, mainly because it is reported that a heavy rain is on the way.
A．Making
B．To make
C．Having made
D．Make
9、What will you do if the people ______ at the back of the hall have trouble hearing the speech?
A. sitting B. sit
C. sat D. to sit
10、Some hard working students always keep a torch in their dormitories _____ there is a power failure．
A． if B． unless
C． so that D． in case
11、 Those who tend to _____ to their fate are sure not to make any achievements.
A. apply B. subscribe
C. correspond D. submit
12、— GPS is ________ useful invention.
—Of course. It shows that there is ________ underground parking lot under the Moon Park.
A．/; an
B．a; an
C．an; an
D．an; a
13、These days, teachers have been sparing no efforts to create they hope will be the best means to improve the efficiency of online teaching, some students don’t notice or care about, though.
A．that, which
B．what, which
C．which, what
D．what, that
14、It rained continuously for seven days, completely ________ our holiday.
A．ruined
B．to ruin
C．ruining
D．being ruined
15、According to the judgment, all the illegal income go to the state.
A. shall B. may
C. can D. would
16、______ it rain tomorrow, we would have to put off the sports meeting.
A. Were B. Should C. Would D. Could
17、I thought it was just an ________ arrangement of chairs -I didn't realize it was an art exhibit!
A.arbitrary B.accurate C.abrupt D.acute
18、My time is ________, so you can make the meeting at any time.
A. bold B. genuine
C. flexible D. available
19、It is reported that a menu of 678 dishes for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games ______ to meet the different taste needs of athletes.
A．has designed
B．have been designing
C．have designed
D．has been designed
20、The expression “add oil” has enjoyed so much popularity in the past years, ________ was collected into the OED last month.
A.that B.which C.as D.when
21、All Miss Price had been told about the new boy was that he’d spent most of his life in some kind of orphanage, and that the gray-haired “aunt and uncle” with whom he now lived were really foster parents (养父母), paid by the Welfare Department of the City of New York. A less devoted teacher might have pressed for more details, but Miss Price was content with the rough outline. It was enough to fill her with a sense of mission that shone from her eyes, from the first morning he joined the fourth grade.
He arrived early and sat in the back row, his backbone very straight, his ankles crossed precisely under the desk and his hands folded on the center of its top, and while the other children were filling in, he received a long, expressionless stare from each of them.
“We have a new classmate this morning,” Miss Price said, “His name is Vincent Sabella, and he comes from New York City. I know we’ll all do our best to make him feel at home.”
This time they all swung around to stare at once, which caused him to duck his head slightly and shift his weight from one side to the other. Ordinarily, the fact of someone’s coming from New York might have held a certain status, for to most of the children the city was a frightening, adult place that swallowed up their fathers every day. But anyone could see at a glance that Vincent Sabella had nothing to do with it. Even if you could ignore his twisted black hair and gray skin, his clothes would have given him away: ridiculously new pants, ridiculously old sports shoes and a yellow sweatshirt, much too small, with the faded remains of a Mickey Mouse design stamped on its chest.
The girls decided that he wasn’t very nice and turned away, but the boys remained in their inspection, looking him up and down with faint smiles. This was the kind of kid they were accustomed to thinking of as “tough,” the kind whose stare has made all of them uncomfortable at one time or another in unfamiliar neighborhoods; here was a unique chance for revenge.
【1】What can you learn about Miss Price and Vincent from the first two paragraphs?
A．Since nobody had ever seen Vincent’s parents, he now lived all by himself.
B．Miss Price knew Vincent so well that she’d like to focus every bit of attention on him.
C．Miss Price didn’t know much about Vincent, but that didn’t stop her wanting to care about him.
D．Vincent sat in the back row so as not to arouse any unnecessary attention caused by his late arrival.
【2】Why does the author mention “New York” in the third and the fourth paragraphs?
A．To illustrate Vincent’s distant origin.
B．To demonstrate children’s desire to go to see their fathers.
C．To emphasize Vincent’s low social status from his shabby clothes.
D．To state a certain distinction between Vincent and people’s imagination.
【3】Which of the following words can best describe Vincent?
A．Devoted but shy.
B．Nervous and uneasy.
C．Untalkative and tough.
D．Sensitive but unfortunate.
【4】What can you infer from the text about Vincent’s new classmates?
A．They were either unconcerned or unfriendly toward him.
B．They used to consider people like Vincent to be very tough.
C．They barely noticed the new boy sitting in the back of the classroom.
D．They were very curious about the newcomer in a kind and considerate manner.
22、We may not be aware of it, but ordinary family homes in the U.S. and the rest of the world are not energy-efficient.
Most of their energy goes to heating and cooling, and a lot of it is wasted, as warm air and cool air escape through fireplace chimneys and thin or poorly fitting windows and doors. A passive house loses almost none."Imagine a thermos(保温瓶),"said housing developer Brendan O’Neill."You have insulation(隔绝) everywhere, and it’s basically completely sealed. And so the idea is to build a house like a thermos. So the windows are sealed. There’s insulation completely surrounding the building. We make it as sealed as possible."
A 147-square-meter passive house, presented by O’Neill Development Corp. as a demonstration unit just outside Washington, was brought to the site in two boxes. "Once it’s set and put together, it takes about four weeks to complete the outside construction, to put down carpets," O’Neill said. "If everything is set in place, you put a house like this together in about four months.”The total cost of building it was $325,000, or about 17 percent more than constructing an ordinary house. But its utility(公用事业) bill is only around $20 monthly, or one-tenth the amount for the average house of the same size.
While passive houses have been around for a long time, the idea has never taken root in the U.S. There was no driving force to push it.
However, David Peabody, an architect who designs passive houses said, "I think climate change is now becoming a larger issue. And I think building standards are catching on to that. So people are becoming more aware of energy."Peabody said the cost of building passive houses could come down."What really makes sense for truly affordable housing," he said, "is to build multi-storey buildings."
【1】Why aren’t ordinary family homes energy-efficient?
A. Building them wastes much energy.
B. Their energy mainly goes to heating and cooling.
C. Their sealing performance is poor.
D. They have no insulation around at all.
【2】What is the feature of a passive house?
A. There’re no windows or chimneys.
B. There’s little space to place furniture.
C. Its building cost is relatively high.
D. It takes about four weeks to build one.
【3】What’s David Peabody’s attitude to the future of the passive house?
A. Cautious. B. Optimistic. C. Skeptical. D. Concerned.
23、In July 1915, severely tortured by his poor health, James Murray, one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), defined one final word. After his 36 years’ dedication to the dictionary, his hard labour had taken a toll, knowing he would not see the project complete.
The poetic quality of Murray’s final days is one of the many memorable tales in The Dictionary People. Beginning in 1857, the OED was a huge crowdsourcing project - “the Wikipedia of the 19th century” - comprising 3, 000 people. The idea was to create a “descriptive” dictionary that tracked words’ use and meaning over time, unlike its “prescriptive”18th-century predecessor by Samuel Johnson, which told readers how to say and use words. Volunteers read widely, mailing in examples of how “rare, old-fashioned, new, strange” words were used. What is surprising about this fairly random method is that it worked.
The origin story of Sarah Ogilvie’s book is almost as improbable as that of the dictionary itself. Ms Ogilvie, a former scholar who served as an editor for the OED, went into the documents of Oxford University Press and came across an old notebook. It had belonged to Murray and contained the names and details of the dictionary volunteers, most of whom had previously been unknown. The Dictionary People is her work of detective scholarship, bringing the lives behind the names to readers.
Ms Ogilvie’s book is full of intriguing stories. The presentation of the book is unconventional, too, taking its structure from the work it describes. There are 26 alphabetical chapters, each celebrating a group of contributors ( memorably, “K” is for “kleptomaniac” people who desire to steal). This is a clever arrangement, though it sometimes means that broader issues emerge only in pieces.
Essentially, this is a story about ordinary people. It is concrete proof of those who, to cite dictionary-helper George Eliot, “lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs”.
【1】What does the underlined expression “taken a toll” in paragraph 1 mean?
A．Paid off.
B．Proved in vain.
C．Worn out the passion.
D．Had a harmful effect.
【2】What can we learn about the Oxford English Dictionary?
A．It serves as an example of dictionary editing.
B．It provides precise directions for word usage.
C．It is a cooperative work of many volunteers.
D．It was edited with the help of Samuel Johnson.
【3】What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．The story behind Sarah Ogilvie’s book.
B．The detective methods of Sarah Ogilvie.
C．Legends of the early OED editors.
D．Murray’s role in editing the OED.
【4】Where is the text most probably taken from?
A．A review of a book.
B．A biography of an editor.
C．An essay on dictionary editing.
D．An introduction to a dictionary.
24、The last thing Caitlin Hipp would have expected as she prepared to turn 28 years old was to be living at hone with her parents. All she’s ever wanted to do is to become an elementary school teacher. And she’s been working through her teaching certifications for four years after obtaining an education degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, US.
Hipp has racked up $100,000 in student loan debt and isn’t able to earn enough through working as a part-time skating instructor and restaurant server to live anywhere other than home.
The Pew Research Center recently reported that 2014 was a milestone in the evolving living arrangements of young adults in the US. For the first time since 1880, adults aged 18 to 34 became more likely to be living with a parent than to be living on their own. Before 2014, the most common living arrangement for young adults was to be living in their own property as part of a couple.
UBS Financial Services, a Swiss global financial services company, released a report that even suggests one reason for the growing number of young adults still living at home could be that their family doesn’t want them to leave.
The report shows that 74 percent of millennials(千禧一代)get some kind of financial support from their parents after college. It finds that millennials have redefined the ties that combine parents and children. “Millennials see their parents as peers, friends and guiders. Nearly three quarters talked with their parents more than once a week during college. In return, their parents happily provide financial support well into adulthood, helping fund everything for them.”
Stuart Hoffman, chief economist for the PNC Financial Group in the US, said although job growth for millennials since 2014 has improved, which doesn’t necessarily mean that millennials are starting to fly the nest. He said, “There’s no doubt it has held back household formation and purchases on things people spend money on related to household formation and child-rearing,” Hoffman explained. “But they are probably traveling more and eating out more if they don’t have a house expense or marriage. I don’t know if it represents a change in moral values. But it’s much more common for adult children to live in their parent’s homes because it’s becoming part of the culture.”
【1】Why does Caitlin Hipp have to live at home with her parents?
A. Because she can’t afford to live on her own
B. Because she doesn’t want to live anywhere other than home
C. Because she wants to obtain more degrees
D. Because she wants to be an elementary school teacher
【2】What can we learn about young adults aged 18 to 34 before 2014?
A. They didn’t have the freedom to arrange their living
B. They would rather live with their parents than live by themselves
C. They started to fly the nest as more jobs were provided
D. They preferred to live away from their parents
【3】What conclusion can we draw from the report released by the Swiss company?
A. Children living with parents is becoming part of the culture
B. The majority of millennials refuse to get financial help from parents
C. Most millennials are building closer relationship with their parents
D. Young people tend to live at home because of fewer job opportunities
【4】What’s Stuart Hoffman’s attitude towards this trend?
A. Indifferent B. Subjective
C. Objective D. Negative
25、On a hot summer afternoon, Carl, a homeless man, visited the grocery. He was so _______ that he decided to treat himself with the money he _______ in the morning. Carl got himself a pack of _______ bis-cuits. Then he joined the line waiting for his turn to _______.
Suddenly, noises of two people arguing caught his _______. He glanced out of the line to see a(n) _______ man standing by the cashier. The elderly man was counting the _______ with his shaking hands. The cashier lost _______ while waiting for his payment. “Are you going to count those coins one by one? That will take you a century, man!” the cashier _______ at the elderly man and kept tapping on the counter to ________ him to speed up.
“I am a veteran (老兵), Miss. Don’t you think you can speak to me more respectfully?” the old man made an angry ________. Some people in line supported the cashier as they were ________ awaiting for their turns, and no one ________ the elderly veteran.
“I’ll help you, sir. . . ” Carl stepped in to his ________ “$52!” Carl finished counting. “And I have another $50. The total makes it $112, Miss. . . ” the old man said, ________ the coins neatly on her counter in two rows.
“And that’s $4 less!” the cashier shouted again, pointing to the bill.
Finally, Carl spoke up, “You should________to him! He is only old. Here’s your $4!”
He threw two $2 bills against the counter.
Seeing Carl’s ________ , the elderly man had tears in his eyes. Carl also ________ to carry his groceries outside. ________, before they left, Carl returned his things to the shelf because he knew he couldn’t ________ them anymore.
【1】
A．demanding
B．excited
C．starving
D．amazed
【2】
A．donated
B．supplied
C．borrowed
D．begged
【3】
A．inexpensive
B．unforgettable
C．burned
D．dirty
【4】
A．come over
B．check out
C．speak up
D．set off
【5】
A．attention
B．dream
C．action
D．goal
【6】
A．elderly
B．attractive
C．strong
D．strange
【7】
A．bills
B．notes
C．numbers
D．coins
【8】
A．interest
B．belief
C．courage
D．patience
【9】
A．pointed
B．laughed
C．shouted
D．stared
【10】
A．urge
B．expect
C．teach
D．persuade
【11】
A．comment
B．noise
C．choice
D．response
【12】
A．eagerly
B．curiously
C．happily
D．silently
【13】
A．approached
B．helped
C．treated
D．discovered
【14】
A．guidance
B．aid
C．suggestion
D．instruction
【15】
A．allowing
B．collecting
C．piling
D．washing
【16】
A．describe
B．complain
C．apologize
D．explain
【17】
A．honesty
B．sympathy
C．politeness
D．kindness
【18】
A．happened
B．offered
C．attempted
D．returned
【19】
A．Similarly
B．However
C．Gradually
D．Instead
【20】
A．steal
B．control
C．buy
D．hide
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2. 文化知识丰富；
3. 英语表达能力强，
4. 沟通能力强。
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注意：1. 字数100词以上；
2. 参考词汇：使者 ambassador; “全运会” National Games
3. 开头结尾已写好，不计入总词数。
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