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1、Close the door of fear behind you, and you ______ the door of faith open before you.
A. have seen B. will see C. are seeing D. saw
2、Some pills many people take to achieve or maintain their desired weight will lower their life expectancy_____ they contain something harmful．
A．so that B．in that C．even if D．as if
3、Due to the heavy traffic, he failed to ________ himself at the party on time.
A. present B. occur
C. qualify D. regard
4、----How long have you been in this office?
----Just a few minutes．I_____ here together with my cousin。
A．have walked B．had walked
C．have been walking D．walked
5、28. With credit cards ________ available, it is more frequent to see consumers pay for their purchases or bills by card instead of by cash.
A. occasionally B. merely
C. relevantly D. abundantly
6、You need to get them ____ that you want to see the plan _____ out next month.
A．understand; carried
B．to understand; carrying
C．understand; carrying
D．to understand; carried
7、 The purpose of a class is to teach you to think creatively and not to follow your teacher_________.
A. willingly B. blindly
C. carefully D. closely
8、China’s public dancers, often ____ as Tiaowu Dama, have found themselves at the center of a public debate in recent months.
A. referred to B. having referred to
C. referring to D. being referred to
9、To be honest, I am not the person deserving the honor; it should be given to _____ we think has made the greatest contribution.
A．who
B．whom
C．whoever
D．whomever
10、—Chinese women's volleyball team proves that with hardships ______great success.
—Absolutely! Opportunities favor the prepared mind.
A.comes B.is coming C.will come D.are coming
11、As a new spokesman, he often thinks of how he can react more appropriately on such ____.
A.occasions B.occupations C.operations D.options
12、________ himself with routine tasks, he had no time to accompany his children.
A.Occupying B.Occupied
C.Being occupied D.To be occupied
13、Many writers are devoted to creating a world,_____ readers find familiar and distant at the same time.
A.the one B.that C.it D.one
14、During the rush hour they were in the heavy traffic．
A．held on B．held up
C．held down D．held out
15、--What do you think we should do after dinner?
-- Why don’t we get beer at the Karaoke bar don the street? It is kind of fun to hear all the birds singing.
A. a; 不填 B. a; a
C. the; a D. a; the
16、 It’s recommended that our plan _____ until it was tested again.
A. put off B. be put off
C. should put off D. would be put off
17、The film－The Orphan of Zhao Family，directed by Chen Kaige, was ________from a folk drama dating back to China’ s Yuan Dynasty about 800 years ago.
A. attached B. adapted C. adopted D. arranged
18、The mixture of his improved self-confidence and never-ending efforts is ________ lies behind his rapid progress in his study.
A. what B. that C. where D. which
19、-Jack has passed his driving test.
-________. He can’t even drive straight.
A．It couldn’t be better
B．It’s none of my business
C．I couldn’t agree more
D．You can’t be serious
20、Many people, who are tired of the fast and competitive urban life, have a tendency to long for the old way of ______ life.
A. industrial B. rural C. personal D. optional
21、The 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his "compassionate insight of the effects of colonialism (殖民主义) and the fate of the refugee (难民)".
Gurnah is a Tanzanian writer who writes in English and lives and works in the United Kingdom. He was born in Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous island off the east African coast. Zanzibar underwent a revolution in 1964 in which citizens of Arab origin were persecuted (迫害). Gurnah was forced to flee the country when he was 18. He began to write in English as a 21-year-old refugee in England. He has written numerous works that pose questions around ideas of belonging, colonialism, displacement, memory and migration.
He is one of the most important contemporary postcolonial novelists writing in Britain today and is the first black African writer to win the prize since Wole Soyinka in 1986. Gurnah is also the first Tanzanian writer to win.
Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee, said that the Gurnah's novels abandon stereotypical descriptions and turn our eyes to a culturally diverse East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world.
Gurnah, who was in the kitchen when he was informed of his win, said that he believed it was a wind-up.
"I thought it was a prank (恶作剧)," he said. "These things are usually floated for weeks in advance, or sometimes months beforehand, about who are the runners, so it was not something that was in my mind at all. I was just thinking, I wonder who'll get it?"
"I am honored to be awarded this prize and to join the writers who have been superior to me on this list. It is overwhelming and I am so proud."
His longtime editor, Alexandra Pringle at Bloomsburg, said Gurnah's win was "most deserved" for a writer who has not previously received due recognition.
【1】Why is Gurnah awarded the Nobel Prize in literature?
A．He has rich experience of life.
B．He is a productive author.
C．He has gained popularity among readers.
D．He explores the suffering caused by war and colonialism.
【2】What do we know about Gurnah?
A．He lives in Zanzibar.
B．He is the first to win the Nobel Prize.
C．He used to be a refugee.
D．He adopts Arabic as his literary language.
【3】What was Gurnah's first reaction to his award?
A．Surprised.
B．Honored.
C．Delighted.
D．Proud.
【4】What did Alexandra Pringle think of Gurnah's win?
A．It depended on luck.
B．It was an overdue recognition.
C．It made East Africa known.
D．It was an unfair decision.
22、Loneliness generally visits all of us at one time or another in our lives and we wonder how to cure loneliness. Loneliness is an intense feeling of being deserted or abandoned by everyone. 【1】. Fortunately, it is possible to ease your loneliness or even get rid of the feelings of loneliness altogether.
Keep busy. If you are lonely, don’t keep thinking about it. Get up and get out! 【2】. Don’t worry if you don’t know any of them; sometimes being around other people can help brighten your spirits. Other simple things you can do to keep busy are to join a club, take some classes, volunteer at a non-profit organization, or take up a hobby that requires mental concentration. 【3】.
Help other lonely people. 【4】. They suffer a lot from being lonely and don’t know how to cope with their loneliness. If you look for those people and strive to help cure their loneliness, in the end you will also be helping yourself to cure your own loneliness.
See it for what it is. You will need to start to view loneliness as a choice and not as a defined way of life. 【5】. Try being happy for a change and you will see the difference a smile will make. Just as feelings of loneliness breed more feelings of loneliness, feeling of happiness can bring about more feelings of happiness.
A．Commit yourself to some cause or charity
B．Go somewhere where there are a lot of people
C．There are a lot of people out there like yourself
D．Not everyone is willing to admit that he’s lonely
E．If left untreated, loneliness can lead to many problems
F．The point is to find something that interests you and run with it
G．This means you choose to be lonely when you don’t really have to be
23、My Favorite Money Saving Tips
One of the things that many folks want to do is better money habits. I’m pretty good about my saving, and fairly responsible in my spending. So as many of you all probably want to “save more money” or “spend less money”, I wanted to share my saving tips with you.
Manage your debt. 【1】 If you have credit card debt, pay this down before you start doing any other savings. If you have several cards with debt, try the laddering technique. Start by paying down your debt on the highest interest card you have. Once that balance is at zero, go to the next highest percent card and so on.
【2】 Life can throw at you unexpected expenses that can easily add up quickly. One of your main savings goals should be to build an emergency fund. You should have ready-to-go-in liquid cash, 6-9 months of living expenses for a rainy day. 【3】 But don’t invest the money. Make sure you can access this money in an absolute emergency.
Spend your cash. Seems crazy but it’s true! This is especially helpful to those who tend to be impulsive (冲动的) shoppers. Figure out your monthly budget, and divide it by 4. Add this amount to your wallet each week and only spend the cash. 【4】 Studies have shown that you are less likely to break large bills or to spend less cash when you have to physically pull the cash out.
Keep your extra cash in a high yield savings account. Though it’s rare to find a bank that provides a large interest rate on savings, right now you can get 0.5% and 0.1 to 0.25% on checking. 【5】
A．Get an emergency fund.
B．Avoid unnecessary expenses.
C．Don’t touch the credit cards.
D．You must make this a priority.
E．But remember to check it from time to time.
F．It’s a great way to add a little extra income to your money.
G．This amount should be kept in your high-yield savings account.
24、Using the power of artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have revealed new insights into the creation and destruction of mass extinction. Contrary to conventional knowledge, their study suggests that larger extinctions are not always a form of “creative destruction” that allows new organisms to radiate (向周围辐射出去) and evolve. Instead, it suggests that mass extinction is rarely associated with new species of radiation.
Dr. Hoyal Cuthill, the lead study author from the University of Essex in the UK and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, said in a statement, “Some of the most challenging things to understand the history of life are the vast timelines involved and the number of species. New machine learning applications can help us understand the information in human-readable form. This means that we can, so to speak, hold the evolution of half a billion years in the palm of our hand and gain new insights from what we see.”
They concluded that mass extinction and later radiation were not connected as previously thought. Within 5 percent of the most significant periods of disruption (中断), AI detected “big five mass extinctions, seven more mass extinctions, two mass extinction-radiation events and 15 mass radiations. Most importantly, it discovers that massive radiation and extinction rarely occurred with each other, changing the view that greater extinction leads to a kind of deep cycle-like species radiation of nature. It appears that larger extinctions are certainly not the engine of evolutionary radiation. Take the Cambrian Explosion for example and it was about 41 million years ago when a large group of animals first appeared on the first fossil record and the dawn of a high mobile animal equipped with modern physical features.
This new study found that a handful of other notable explosions of biodiversity, including the Cambrian Explosion, usually occurred at a time when they were largely isolated (孤立的) from extinction. Dr. Nicholas Guttenberg, a study co-author from the Tokyo Institute of Technology explained, “Ecosystems are dynamic and you don’t need anything to exist to allow something new to appear.”
【1】What’s the function of the first paragraph?
A．To analyze the cause of creative destruction.
B．To tell us the result of the new study.
C．To explain the power of artificial intelligence
D．To present the conventional idea of mass extinction.
【2】What do Dr. Hoyal Cuthill’s words imply?
A．New AI machines learn applications better.
B．It’s difficult to understand the history of life.
C．New species appear before mass extinction.
D．AI contributes a lot to the study of evolution.
【3】Why is the Cambrian Explosion mentioned in the text?
A．To provide knowledge of history.
B．To highlight the importance of AI.
C．To support the new study.
D．To prove the previous view is right.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A．A new understanding of mass extinction.
B．The processes of biological evolution.
C．Animal species with modern physical features
D．The relationship between mass extinction and radiation
25、At 5 pm I stopped at the market to pick up a few essentials: cream for coffee, eggs for breakfast and pills for my terrible ________.
Having been________all day, I was tired out and did not want to shop with crowds of other tired shoppers. But I told myself it was my ________ stop before going home to put my feet up and watch my husband make dinner. So I gritted my teeth, took a deep ________ and entered the market. That’s when I saw her, a baby ________ in a shopping cart, who looked around 7 months old, with blond hair and large blue eyes. We ________each other. Then I did what I always do with children: I gave her my best smile. That’s a habit I ________long ago when I became a mother. It started with my first child, in that ________, life-changing moment when he was ________ upon my chest and I watched him turn his tiny face up to find me.
At times, over the years, my smile would ________ into a look of fear or worry or anger. But it never left my face for long. It always came back, even on ________occasion. It happened that same way with my second and third child.
And now, after all these years, I can’t resist ________ at children. I’ve learned that all children, young and old, need someone to smile at them. Not just their parents and grandparents, but their teachers and coaches, family and friends. And, yes, even ________at the market in a rush to get home.
The baby and I smiled at each other. That got a smile ________ from every shopper I passed. I waved goodbye and she blew me a kiss.
I was still smiling when I got home and realized I’d forgotten to get the ________. I didn’t need it, though. My headache was gone.
【1】
A．toothache
B．stomachache
C．headache
D．backache
【2】
A．puzzling
B．rushing
C．amazing
D．experiencing
【3】
A．latest
B．least
C．last
D．farthest
【4】
A．sigh
B．respect
C．relief
D．breath
【5】
A．sitting
B．jumping
C．lying
D．sleeping
【6】
A．smiled at
B．stared at
C．glared at
D．laughed at
【7】
A．formed
B．informed
C．represented
D．escaped
【8】
A．unusual
B．unfortunate
C．unforgettable
D．uncomfortable
【9】
A．commented
B．laid
C．replaced
D．insisted
【10】
A．indicate
B．update
C．fade
D．persuade
【11】
A．hopeful
B．skillful
C．peaceful
D．painful
【12】
A．smiling
B．satisfying
C．crying
D．approving
【13】
A．schoolmates
B．strangers
C．teenagers
D．headmasters
【14】
A．in charge
B．in turn
C．in surprise
D．in return
【15】
A．medicine
B．cream
C．coffee
D．eggs
26、Directions: Read the following three passages. 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.
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“Books will soon disappear in schools,” Thomas Edison announced in 1913: they would, he believed, soon be replaced by silent films. Each new wave of information technology - radio, television, computers - has led to similar predictions.
Like teachers, digital educational technology comes in many forms, from wonderful to awful. But, used properly, it now deserves more prominence (重要性) in schools - especially in poor countries where human teachers are often ignorant, absent or both.
According to a recent World Bank study of seven sub - Saharan African countries, half of nine - year - olds cannot read a simple word and three - quarters cannot read a simple sentence. The reason is terrible. The same study found that only 7% of teachers had the minimum knowledge needed to teach reading and writing effectively. When classrooms were inspected to see whether a teacher was present, half the time the answer was no. As for the absence of teachers, if expensive teachers do not turn up to class, government would, surely, fire them? Easier said than done. Poor governments often lack the money to check on teachers in distant villages.
Several recent studies suggested - tech can help. It seems to bring about bigger improvements in poor countries than in rich ones. Some of the scarce resources being spent on teachers could therefore be better spent on ed - tech. That does not mean dumping computers on schools in the hope that children will understand how to use them. Instead, it means providing schools with software that children can use with minimal help from an adult, that sends teachers prompts about what they are supposed to be teaching and that allows the authorities to check on whether the teacher is in the classroom.
Technology is no cure - all. Good traditional teachers are not outdated, and are never likely to be. And authorities need to hold teachers to account. But ed - tech can help greatly - by monitoring pupils and teachers alike, assisting the best teachers and, most important, making up for the failings of the worst.
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