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1、In order to stand out among all the trainees, you need to sharpen your skills you feel strong and confident.
A. that B. where
C. when D. what
2、If you have your kid _____ so badly, he may not get along well with others．
A．to behave B．behaves
C．Behaving D．behaved
3、The book I have chosen is Fu Lei’s Family Letters _____ Fu Lei shared his views about art and life.
A.that B.whose C.where D.who
4、By pretending to be ill, the candidate tried to run away from _______ issues, which always aroused too much debate.
A． confidential B． controversial
C． contemporary D． contradictory
5、People spend half their time dreaming of getting rich, and the rest of their time thinking about all the things they ________ if they got rich.
A. will do B. did C. do D. would do
6、You’d better tell your mother not to make a call while driving because her car __ missed a cyclist when she was on the way to work the other day.
A. closely B. merely
C. narrowly D. hardly
7、According to the rule, a free gift will be given to ________ completes the questionnaire.
A.whatever B.whoever C.whichever D.whomever
8、As teenagers, sometimes we do need our parents’ guidance, especially______ social experiences．
A． by way of B． as a result of
C． in place of D． in terms of
9、New born babies are good sleepers. The amount of their sleep is________that of adults.
A．several times larger than
B．a few times the size of
C．as several times as
D．a few times deeper than
10、The rainforest is an amazing place, ________ with plants and animals that aren’t found anywhere else in the world.
A. filling B. filled
C. being filled D. to fill
11、During his speech, the professor always ______ that happiness is achieved through hard work.
A. underlined B. sharpened
C. switched D. refreshed
12、My dream began to ______ the quality of reality.
A．take back
B．take on
C．take over
D．take up
13、Due to widespread ______ of 5G technology, more remote surgical operations are likely to be carried out across long distances.
A．occupation
B．application
C．qualification
D．composition
14、______ from Milan Trenc's novel, the film Night at the Museum brings to life a world where dinosaurs wander the earth.
A．Adapted
B．Adopting
C．Attracted
D．Abusing
15、— Who are making so much noise in the garden now?
— _____ the naughty children.
A. It is B. They are C. That is D. There are
16、The number of children losing both parents to Aids ______ also expected to rise.
A. was B. is C. are D. were
17、People are very adaptable, and we quickly ______ a new life circumstance — for better or worse — and consider it normal.
A. adjust to B. lie in C. stay with D. rely on
18、None of the things I ordered ______. They’re three weeks late.
A. have arrived B. arrived
C. had arrived D. arrive
19、Countries such as Britain and Denmark which did not ________joining a single currency were allowed to exit.
A．fancy
B．subscribe
C．grasp
D．ignore
20、 boy with glasses has bad cold today.
A．The; / B．The; a C．A; the
21、Lights Out at Bedtime
There are plenty of good reasons to power up a personal desktop or laptop computer in the evening — writing e-mails， chatting on social networks or making purchases over the Internet， for instance． But various studies indicate that people who stare at a PC’s bright monitor shortly before going to bed probably sleep less soundly than they would otherwise because the light seriously affects their natural wake-sleep cycle．"They haven't proved it though，" says Dieter Kunz， the team's director at Charite's Psychiatric Clinic in St.Hedwig's Hospital in Berlin.
Similarly， exposure to just 10 minutes of normal bathroom lighting is enough to free the sleep hormone melatonin， which regulates people's natural wake-sleep cycle and makes them sleepy at nightfall．
Ten years ago， a team of British and American researchers detected a photo-pigment（光敏色素） in the human eye that signals to the body whether it is day or night， summer or winter． The photo-pigment is especially sensitive to blue light．
"The blue light more or less tells the body， ‘It's daytime， be awake，’" Kunz says． Monitors have a mostly cold white light content and scientists suspect the photo-pigment may react similarly to it． So the longer people look into the bright light， the more awake they become — and then sleep poorly．
A lot of people have difficulty "switching off" in the evening． About half of the women in Germany and a quarter of the men sleep poorly.
Environmental factors are only one of the possible causes． Job stress as well as personal and health concerns are also the main reasons for their sleep problems．
In addition， electronic objects' standby lights and indicator lamps can be annoying in the dark and affect sleep．"Sound scientific evidence is still lacking on this matter，" Kunz notes.
According to Kunz, those who cannot go without their computer in the evening should turn down the blue content if possible and lower the brightness somewhat．"But nobody does that because, after all, you want to concentrate while working at the computer and the light helps the brain."
【1】The passage is mainly about ________.
A．natural wake-up cycles
B．the effect of light on sleep
C．personal and health concerns
D．functions of computer monitors
【2】The underlined word “which” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.
A．normal bathroom lighting
B．10-minute exposure to lighting
C．the release process of a chemical
D．a chemical affecting one’s sleep cycle
【3】We can learn from the passage that ________.
A．the blue light has a calming effect
B．the photo-pigment tells people day or night
C．women in Germany use computers more often than men
D．it has been proved that standby lights affect people’s sleep
22、Directions：Complete the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentences can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
What do Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Dijokovic and Andy Murray have in common? Sure, they’re all tennis champions but each has also struggled with serious injury.
Future stars of the sport may soon get help from a technology used in Hollywood—motion capture technology. 【1】 According to scientists from Britain’s Coventry University, it is now being used to help tennis players avoid injury.
The researchers use a new type of motion capture technology sensor and their own software. 【2】 The resulting data can help players avoid injury and, more importantly, it can help improve training.
Players wear a special suit containing 17 sensors. The sensors can capture detailed data and transmit it to a computer. The information is used to create a 3D moving figure of the player. Their bones, joints and muscles, as well as the movement of the ball and racquet can all be seen on the screen.
【3】 It can record far more detail than the naked eye can pick up. The programme can also analyze the data. It gives coaches and doctors a wide range of information about the player. For example, the speed of the racquet, the weight placed on muscles and joints, and the movement the player goes through as they hit a ball.
With this information, coaches get a far greater understanding of what goes on inside the player’s body. They can know how the game affects the players’s body and how their movement impacts on their game. 【4】 They can also record how the changes affect their game, as well as show them how to avoid injury.
The motion capture technology also enables the coaches to quantitatively compare the movement of different players, so that players can learn from others. Players can also store a record of their action in the event of（倘若发生）injury or a decline in performance.
The team has already started using the equipment with coaches at Edgbaston Priory Tennis Club in Birmingham.
A. Thirteen-year-old player Joe Hart didn’t notice them while playing.
B. Thus, they can encourage the player to make adjustments in specific areas.
C. This technology has been commonly used in Hollywood movies to add special effects to moving characters.
D. That technology might particularly have benefited Andy Murray.
E. The unique combination gives all round 3D detail for the first time about how players play tennis.
F. The process is all done through BoB, a computer program developed by the university.
23、In 2002, Huang Hui, a researcher of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, went diving near Xisha. In addition to getting an irremovable suntan (晒黑), she was left with memories of a beautiful experience with clear water and abundant colorful corals (珊瑚). However, much of the breathtaking scenery of this reef has disappeared due to climate change and human activities. All of these factors led to the decline of the coral reef in the near shore waters. “We started to cultivate corals near the Xisha Islands in 2010, and restored more than 200,000 square meters of coral reefs,” Huang said.
In 2004, when Huang was attending the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, she found herself the only representative from the Chinese mainland. She said she felt sad but she made up her mind to strengthen communication with other countries to improve China’s level and status in coral research. She visited top coral research institutes in the US and Australia, establishing long-term cooperation with some of the world’s top coral researchers. By far, Huang has worked on coral research and protection for 22 years. Now, China is in a leading position in terms of technology and coral planting scale.
Huang believes that people’s consciousness of coral protection matters most to the sustainable development of the coral reefs. “I want to call on more people to love nature and look at the ocean in awe,” Huang said.
Partly due to her efforts, Hainan Province released a law in 2017 banning reef exploitation (开发), trading and damaging.
Huang works as a consultant for customs and frontier police on coral protection and promotes coral protection in her local schools. Huang also provides online free training for divers to teach them proper behavior in the sea to protect coral reefs.
“A group of ‘folk scientists’ have also been trained with the hope that more people can gain awareness of the significance of coral reef protection and know how to protect them,” said Huang.
“I am 50, and when I become 60, I hope that not only a coral island will be built but a sustainable development pattern will also be created,” said Huang. “The ideal state is that the coral island should be able to support fishermen and preserve the ecosystem,” she added.
【1】What impressed Huang most when going diving near Xisha in 2002?
A．A permanent sunburn on her skin.
B．A large quantity of colorful corals.
C．A sweet memory of her childhood.
D．The sudden disappearance of corals.
【2】What does Paragraph 2 mainly focus on?
A．China’s advances in coral protection.
B．Huang’s devotion to coral protection.
C．Huang’s concern over coral protection.
D．People’s ignorance of coral protection.
【3】What is the key to protecting corals according to Huang Hui?
A．Introduction of advanced technology.
B．Tough laws banning reef exploitation.
C．Public awareness of coral protection.
D．Communication with foreign countries.
【4】What is the best title for this passage?
A．Corals in South China Sea are in danger.
B．Scientist plants corals to save ecosystem.
C．China is taking the lead in planting corals.
D．Measures are to be taken to protect corals.
24、
Good news for giant panda lovers: The cute and cuddly creature has just been brought back from the brink of extinction.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable” as the union released its updated Red List on Sept 4 at Hawaii.
The downgrade came after IUCN data suggested that there were 1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China in 2014 — their population has grown by 17 percent in the decade leading up to 2014.
Chinese conservation efforts, including forest protection and reforestation, are considered to be the driving force behind the animal’s resurgence.
“It’s all about restoring the habitats,” Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List, told the BBC.
The number of panda reserves in China has also jumped to 67, from 13 in 1992. Nearly two-thirds of all wild pandas live in these reserves, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
“Just by restoring the panda’s habitat, that’s given them back their space and made food available to them,” Hilton-Taylor said.
A loss of habitats, on the contrary, was what caused the number of pandas to drop to just over 1,200 in the 1980s, Hilton-Taylor added.
Apart from giant pandas, the Tibetan Antelope has also moved from “endangered” to “near threatened”. According to a statement from IUCN, the animal’s numbers dwindled severely — dropping from around 1 million to an estimated 65,000-72,500 in the 1980s and early 1990s — due to commercial poaching. Rigorous(严格的) protection has since been enforced to protect the beasts and the population is now likely to be between 100,000 and 150,000.
Despite the improved statuses, wild animals like the giant panda and the Tibetan Antelope still face great challenges. The IUCN warned, for example, that ongoing threats from climate change could eliminate more than 35 percent of the panda’s bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, which would reverse the species recent gains.
【1】What does the underlined word in pagagraph 1 mean?
A. dangerous and threatened. B. safe and sound.
C. weak and easily hurt. D. normal and common.
【2】Which of the following can account for pandas’ living improvement?
A. Better climate. B. More built reserves.
C. Well restored habitats. D. Aroused public awareness.
【3】The passage is written in order to ________.
A. convince B. inform C. argue D advocate
【4】What does the last paragraph imply?
A. The climate will influence the threatened species.
B. We humans still have a long way to go to protect the endangered species.
C. Pandas will go extinct for lack of abundant food.
D. Habitats for giant pandas will decrease sharply.
25、Hugely ambitious in scope, The Lord of the Rings occupies an uncomfortable position in 20th century literature. This book of J.R.R.Tolkien’s poses a challenge to modern literature and its defenders. (Tolkien on his _______: “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, ridiculous, or annoying; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently _________.”) Yet The Lord of the Rings has enjoyed massive and enduring popularity. It would seem that Tolkien’s work supplied something that was _________ among the formal innovations of 20th century fiction, something for which readers were hungry. But what was it, and why was it important?
It seems that the key point lies in Tolkien’s wholehearted rejection of modernity and modernism. This is what so powerfully _________ some readers, and just as powerfully drives away others. In his book J.R.R.Tolkien: Author of the Century, T.A. Shippey expands on this idea by arguing that Tolkien saw his story of Middle-earth not as fiction or invention, but as the _________ of something genuine that had become buried beneath the fairy tale and nursery rhythm.
“However fanciful Tolkien’s creation of Middle earth was,” Shippey writes, “he did not think that he was entirely _________. He was ‘reconstructing’, he was harmonizing conflicts in his source-texts, sometimes he was supplying entirely new concepts, but he was also reaching back to an imaginative world which he believed had once really _________, at least in a collective imagination.”
The book is also deeply grounded in Tolkien’s linguistic expertise （语言专长） —he _________ whole languages for his characters. Sometimes he became so absorbed in the creation of languages, in fact, that he _________ the story itself for months or years at a time, believing he could not continue until some inconsistency（不一致）in his invented world had been resolved. But Tolkien’s great intellect and knowledge is not the source of his ____________; without his storytelling gift, The Lord of the Rings would be little more than a curiosity. And this gift seems to originate straight from his ____________ to break from classical and traditional forms.
Tolkien himself often spoke of his work as something ‘found’ or ‘discovered’, something whose existence was ____________ of him. It’s wise to be careful with this sort of interpretation, but it seems ____________ that he believed his work to be something given, something revealed, which contained a kind of truth beyond measure. ____________, his details have the weight of reality, and because of this his great sweep of story feels real as well; you might say that his ____________ castles are built with a certain amount of genuine stone.
【1】
A．books
B．critics
C．readers
D．ambitions
【2】
A．dislike
B．challenge
C．review
D．prefer
【3】
A．common
B．possible
C．missing
D．funny
【4】
A．annoys
B．influences
C．attracts
D．concerns
【5】
A．recovery
B．designing
C．analysis
D．questioning
【6】
A．taking it down
B．making it up
C．turning it down
D．looking it up
【7】
A．remained
B．struck
C．moved
D．existed
【8】
A．spoke
B．invented
C．neglected
D．recalled
【9】
A．put aside
B．set up
C．look into
D．get along
【10】
A．style
B．tension
C．success
D．tradition
【11】
A．decision
B．request
C．struggle
D．refusal
【12】
A．representative
B．independent
C．conscious
D．thoughtful
【13】
A．clear
B．weird
C．unfair
D．pitiful
【14】
A．As a result
B．On the contrary
C．Even so
D．What’s worse
【15】
A．ancient
B．broken
C．imaginary
D．foreign
26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Ignoring Your Biggest Regrets
Regrets, people often feel, are to be avoided. Mistakes may be unavoidable, but they should be kept to a minimum. And when they do occur, the best course of action is to ignore them as inevitable steps on our journey. That seems logical, at least until you consider that one of the criteria for mental illness is an inability to feel regret. As author Kathryn Schulz argues, “If you want to be fully functional, and fully human, and fully humane, I think you need to learn to live not without regret, but with it.” Counterintuitively, she and other experts argue feeling regret is essential for living your best life. No one is saying, of course, that getting trapped in your past mistakes is a good idea. But neither is a “no regrets and never look back” mentality.
Regret forces us to engage in a reflective analysis to understand why we thought or acted the way we did and makes us try things differently in the future. If you keep telling yourself “no regrets,” then learning isn’t going to happen. Besides, hiding from regret doesn’t make it hurt less. Action does. Action, recent research shows, is the best way to make regret hurt less. So if you’re troubled by your failure to travel when you were young, science suggests you consciously plan an adventurous trip now that you’re older and wiser. Upset about a broken friendship? Act to try to repair it.
Acknowledging our mistakes, rather than ignoring them, reminds us that we are valuable and worthy despite our faults. That sort of acceptance is the basis both of real self-confidence and of true kindness. As Schulz sums up in her talk: “Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly. It reminds us we know we can do better.”
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