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1、I set the alarm clock, as a result, I got up earlier and reached the airport with minutes to _____.
A.spare B.catch C.leave D.make
2、----- Try not to work yourself too hard. Take it easy.
----- Thanks._______
A. So what? B. No way.
C. What for ? D. You too.
3、The government began to make regulations and controls in late November, which have pressed down some prices, ________ slight relief to consumers.
A．bringing
B．to bring
C．brought
D．to have brought
4、I didn’t see Fred in the library this morning. He_____have borrowed that book.
A．mustn’t
B．shouldn’t
C．couldn’t
D．needn’t
5、A survey indicates the _____ of men to women in the population has changed in recent years.
A. proportion B. proposal C. promotion D. Property
6、Do not talk about such things ________ you do not understand.
A.that B.which C.as D.where
7、________ New York live many blacks. (choose the wrong answer)
A. In east B. In eastern
C. In the east of D. In the eastern part of
8、— Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?
— I____ in Xinjiang for one year, volunteering services as a doctor.
A. have stayed B. stay C. stayed D. am staying
9、It________ to look after these naughty grandchildren of mine for a whole day.
A．put me down
B．drives me out
C．wears me out
D．pulls me through
10、The development of students is influenced by a number of factors, ________ are beyond our control.
A.some of them B.some of which C.some of what D.some of that
11、These young people are not suitable for such a simple job in an office, ________ they are adventurous and creative in nature.
A. except that B. in that C. as though D. in case
12、Jane was so ______ for the news of her lost child that she was almost driven ______.
A. proper; madly B. thirsty; mad
C. sad; madly D. curious; mad
13、When the engine would not start, the mechanic inspected all the parts to find what was at ______.
A．wrong
B．trouble
C．fault
D．difficulty
14、—Have you ever visited the Opera House?
—Yes. When I was in Sydney, I ________ it twice.
A．had visited
B．visited
C．have visited
D．would visit
15、--- Do you know what they are whispering about? They look mysterious．
--- ________．None of our business．
A. I am all ears
B. Don’t be a fly on the wall
C. Let the cat out of the bag
D. The wall has ears．
16、 Where was ________ the first meeting of the Chinese Communist Party was held?
A. the place that B. it that
C. that D. what
17、---Have you played baseball before? We need one more player.
---________. I like ball games, so I believe it will be interesting to learn baseball.
A．Sometimes
B．Not really
C．Never mind
D．That’s cool
18、Students ____ remain in their seats until all the papers have been collected according to the regulation.
A.would B.shall C.will D.could
19、We must apply what we have learned to our work because in no case ______ from practice.
A. should theory separate B. theory should be separated
C. theory should separate D. should theory be separated
20、If it’s a friend or a relative, always use hand-written letters ______ typing because they represent your sincerity.
A．in contradiction to
B．in preference to
C．in response to
D．in regard to
21、Top lists are lecturing people on everything from"100 books to read ".Aren't you just tired of being told what to do with your time?
Now you have a list to end all lists!
Take a look at the following two examples from the list of "101 things not to do":
Swim with Dolphins（海豚）?
Swimming with dolphins is one of the world’s most profitable tourist activities.However, every dolphin will welcome having their busy, tiring day interrupted by tourists screaming pushing around them in the water.Worse yet, when dolphins get too near to the boats loaded tourists, they could get caught up in ropes and killed by propellers(螺旋桨).
Here’s a little secret.Dolphins look like smiling at you, but actually they’re just opening mouths.
Go to See the Mona Lisa?
There must be something about the mysterious(神秘的) smile.The 6 million people who visit the lady in the Louvre every year can’t all be wrong after all.But they can be quite annoying standing in front of you, holding up their cameras to prevent you from seeing anything.In fact, it is hard for you to see the painting clearly because you have to stay away from it for security reasons.After queuing for hours, many tourists can remain in front of the painting only for 15 seconds most.
If the mysterious lady in the picture knew her fate, she wouldn’t just be smiling, she laughing.
So, still long to see the Mona Lisa? If you want to find out more about the list, read 101 Tings NOT to Do Before You Die.Visit www.not2dobeforeidie.co.uk and buy the book at a 20% discount.
【1】According to the passage, swimming with dolphins________.
A.is the world’s most popular tourist activity
B.gives fun to both tourists and dolphins
C.will make tourists busy and tired
D.can cause danger to dolphins
【2】what does the author think about going to see the Mona Lisa?
A.It is wrong to go and see the mysterious smile.
B.It is not as satisfying as expected.
C.Fifteen seconds in front of the painting is enough.
D.Queuing for hours is worthwhile.
【3】The list of “101 things not to do” is made most probably because its author_______.
A.thinks it boring to do the things suggested by other lists
B.believes other lists are not humorous enough
C.intends to persuade people to read more lists
D.wants to provide a list different from other lists
【4】What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To advertise a book
B.To introduce a website
C.To comment on popular lists
D.To recommend tourist activities.
22、Do you check your work emails when you're on holiday? Do you call your colleagues to ask what's happening in the office even on a day of? I do. I'm addicted to work. When I see no signal on my mobile phone or no wi-fi by the beach, I get anxious.
Technology fuels our need to stay connected all the time. 【1】 However, they also make it more difficult for us to relax and recharge our batteries. Actually, not all employers want us to be connected all the time. German car maker Daimler, for example, has offered to automatically delete emails sent to employees while they're on holiday.
The sender of the email receives a message asking them to get in touch with another employee who's on duty, or to re-send the message at a later date. 【2】 No, says the company spokesman Oliver Wihofszki. According to him, the response is basically 99% positive because everybody says, “That's a real nice thing. I would love to have that, too.”
Dr. Christine Grant is an occupational psychologist at Coventry University in Britain. She's been studying workers' inability to relax when off duty. She says, “In my research I found a number of people who were burnt out. 【3】”
Employers and employees alike are realizing that you're more productive if you get the work-life balance right. 【4】 He was worried about spending too much time on his smartphone, so he created an app to monitor his usage. The app warns him if he goes beyond a certain limit.
Perhaps we should all take some time out to consider whether we're addicted to work, or addicted to technology, or both. 【5】
A．Is it a positive response?
B．Does the sender get offended (冒犯)?
C．It's good to switch off once in a while.
D．Portable devices allow us to work from home.
E．People are occupied with work even when they are on holiday.
F．An American app developer has been working hard on just that.
G．They were traveling with technology all the time whatever time zone they were in.
23、Charles Dickens is often thought of as one of the greatest British writers. February 7 marked the 200th anniversary of his birthday. Yet for many, his language is old-fashioned and his stories often improbable. So why do so many people know and read Dickens today?
One reason is the British government’s insistence that every child studies a Dickens novel at school. Alongside William Shakespeare, Dickens is on every English literature school reading list.
His stories, though often long by today’s standards, are great moral tales. They are filled with colorful characters.
Earlier this month, a ceremony was held in Portsmouth, where Dickens was born. Prince Charles said at the ceremony, “Dickens used his creative genius to campaign passionately for social justice… His characterization (人物刻画) is as fresh today as on the day it was written.”
His books stand out from many other writers because of his insight into human nature. Dickens, like Shakespeare, tells us truths about human behavior. They are as true in the 21st century as they were to his readers in the 19th century.
Readers have returned to Dickens’ books again and again over the years to see what he has to say about their own times.
No surprise then that it was Dickens whom Britons turned to during the economic crisis in the last couple of years. Dickens helped them make sense of a world that was rapidly falling apart. The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time. A dark story about greed and money, it was the perfect illustration of bad times.
As long as Dickens’s novels have something to say to modern audiences, it seems likely that he will remain one of Britain’s best-loved writers.
【1】In the article, the author intends to tell us ______.
A. why Dickens’ novels still appeal to readers in modern times
B. that Dickens’ works are no longer popular among young people
C. why the British government puts Dickens on school reading lists
D. that Dickens and Shakespeare’s works are required for study at school
【2】In Britain, people still read Dickens because of ______.
a) romance in his books
b) moral value in his books
c) his colorful characters
d) his insight into human nature
e) government education requirement
f) his prediction of the current economic crisis
A. abdf B. bcde C. bdef D. abed
【3】We can infer from the article that ______.
A. it’s better to read Dickens in time of difficulty
B. Dickens was a great social observer of his time
C. human nature seems worse during bad times
D. Dickens’s novels are short and easy to read
【4】Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Little Dorrit is one of Dickens’ best-known novels.
B. Dickens’ novels are of greater value during economic crisis.
C. Dickens’ works have gained more popularity than Shakespeare’s
D. Dickens’ novels are still of realistic significance to today’s world.
24、More than a score of Australian rare mammals have been killed by wild cats. These predators, which arrived with European settlers, still threaten native wildlife — and are too plentiful on the mainland to eliminate, as has been achieved on some small islands which were previously filled with them. But Alexandra Ross of the University of New South Wales thinks she has come up with a different way to deal with the problem. As she writes in a paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology, she is giving feline (猫科的) — awareness lessons to wild animals involved in re-introduction programs, in order to try to make them cat-conscious.
Many Australian mammals, though not actually extinct, are restricted to fragments of cat-free habitat. This will, however, put the forced migrants back in the sights of the cats that caused the problem in the first place. Training the migrants while they are in captivity, using stuffed models and the sorts of sounds made by cats, has proved expensive and ineffective. Ms Ross therefore wondered whether putting them in large natural enclosures with a scattering of predators might serve as a form of training camp to prepare them for introduction into their new, cat-ridden homes.
She tested this idea on a type of bandicoot (袋狸) that superficially resembles a rabbit. She and her colleagues raised two hundred bandicoots in a huge enclosure that also contained five wild cats. As a control, she raised a nearly identical population in a similar enclosure without the cats. She left the animals to get on with life for two years, which, given that bandicoots breed four times a year and live for around eight years, was a considerable period for them. After some predation (扑食) and probably some learning, she abstracted 21 bandicoots from each enclosure, attached radio transmitters to them and released them into a third enclosure that had ten hungry cats in it. She then monitored what happened next. The outcome was that the training worked. Over the subsequent 40 days, ten of the untrained animals were eaten by cats, but only four of the trained ones. One particular behavioral difference she noticed was that bandicoots brought up in a predator-free environment were much more likely to sleep alone than were those brought up around cats. And when cats are around, sleeping alone is dangerous. How well bandicoots that have undergone this extreme training will survive in the wild remains to be seen. But Ms Ross has at least provided reason for hope.
【1】What can be learned from the first paragraph?
A．The feline-awareness lessons have proved ineffective.
B．There are too many wild cats to be killed in Australia.
C．Different ways have been tried to hunt and kill wildlife.
D．Native wildlife has been threatened by a growing population of wild cats.
【2】The forced migrants in the second paragraph refer to ________.
A．Australian mammals restricted to certain areas
B．The wild cats tracking down the mammals
C．Wild animals involved in the program
D．The predators captured by the animal trainers
【3】Which of the following is TRUE about the first two enclosures?
A．They were both closely monitored.
B．They had 200 bandicoots in total.
C．They had similar natural environment.
D．They both had wild cats in them.
【4】What was the finding of Ms Ross’ research project?
A．Untrained bandicoots failed to identify cats.
B．Training bandicoots prepared them to fight cats.
C．Sleeping alone in the wild was dangerous.
D．Bandicoots could be trained to avoid predators.
25、 When you walk on the streets of cities like New York and Washington, D.C., it’s hard to miss the sculptures. Many mark parks and neighborhoods. Historic figures often can be seen standing upright. Or they can be seen sitting on their horses, stoically striking a pose. More often than not, these statues have another thing in common. It’s their _______. The majority of public statues in the United States are of men.
Of the estimated 5,193 public statues depicting historic figures on display throughout the U.S., only 394 are of _______. This is according to a story written in 2011 by The Washington Post’s Cari Shane. Compounding this number, none of the 44 memorials maintained by the National Parks Service, like the Lincoln Memorial or the Jefferson Memorial, specifically _______ women.
A group is looking to change this _______. The group is called Where Are The Women? Recently, it successfully campaigned to have statues of women’s rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton added to New York’s Central Park. The park, _______, had no statues of non-fictional women on its grounds.
The _______ of women’s representation poses a problem. Leaving their stories out from public art _______ the significant roles that women have played in history.
Currently, few of the statues that do show women on city streets are _______ historic figures. Instead, women often appear as archetypes. They are symbols of abstract concepts. Or they are nameless figures in a memorial.
One campaign isn’t enough to solve ongoing issues of gender discrimination and _______ in the U.S.. But by pressing to honor real women from history, cities can restore them to a story that has __________ them for so long. After all, as it stands now, only five public statues of historic women remain in New York City. The statues are of Joan of Arc, Golda Meir, Gertrude Stein, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman.
【1】A.style B.material C.size D.gender
【2】A.men B.women C.leaders D.politician
【3】A.contributes to B.devotes to C.focuses on D.depends on
【4】A.ratio B.unfairness C.prejudice D.reality
【5】A.particularly B.notoriously C.deliberately D.exclusively
【6】A.existence B.ignorance C.lack D.absence
【7】A.hides away B.takes away C.puts away D.clear away
【8】A.modeled on B.based on C.developed from D.derived from
【9】A.poverty B.bias C.inequality D.gap
【10】A.shadowed B.faked C.concealed D.ignored
26、假定你是校学生会主席李华，你打算在寒假组织一批志愿者到养老院做志愿服务。请以Volunteer Activity at a Nursing Home为题，给二十一世纪报写一篇英文稿件。内容包括：
1. 活动时间和地点；
2. 活动内容：打扫房间、清理冰雪、读报纸、帮助老人使用手机的微信等功能。
3. 你的感想。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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