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1、Jack has been working hard these days．It's obvious that there is ________he is eager for but didn't mention to us．
A．anything B．something
C．nothing D．everything
2、I was deeply moved by the film and I cried and cried. I just couldn’t help ________.
A. that B. one C. it D. this
3、Hong Kong residents say they can no longer ________ the ongoing Occupy Central protests which greatly influenced their daily life and local business, and ask the protestors to withdraw from the streets.
A. keep up with B. catch up with
C. put up with D. come up with
4、Lots of campaigns have occurred in China to defend the Nansha Islands recently. What is your ________ of the situation?
A. intention B. assessment C. attitude D. appointment
5、The match was cancelled because most of the members ________ a match without a standard court.
A. objected to have B. were objected to have
C. objected to having D. were objected to having
6、The well of the village extended hundreds of feet in _______ .
A．deep
B．deeply
C．deepen
D．depth
7、On Nov.l1, Alibaba sold more than 90 billion yuan ____________goods on its e-commerce platforms Taobao.com and TMall, making headlines all over the world.
A. worth of B. sum of C. value for D. profit for
8、For some reason, Maya civilization largely disappeared later, ________ us ________ our own past, present and future.
A．to leave; thinking about
B．leaving; thinking about
C．left; to think about
D．to leave; thought about
9、—Will you attend the meeting this afternoon？
—But I ________ told anything about it．
A. haven't been B. am not
C. wasn't D. won’t be
10、George Bush, the former US president, has taken up oil painting since he left the White House, revealing that painting _______ his relaxed lifestyle．
A．allowed for B．consisted in
C．stuck to D．contributed to
11、A ________ teacher is very strict and will point out your mistakes directly so that you know clearly how to improve yourself.
A．reserved
B．vulnerable
C．esteemed
D．demanding
12、— Wow，you won first in the story-telling competition. Fantastic!
— ______ !
A. Give me five B. Congratulations
C. That’s all right D. Forget it
13、How long do you think the car factory launches a new model?
A.will it be until B.it will be before
C.will it be when D.it will be that
14、—I think the amusement park is really a good place for entertainment.
— . I haven’t had so much fun for a long time.
A．By no means
B．That really matters
C．Out of the question
D．You can say that again
15、The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we ____ them.
A. make of B. make from
C. make up D. make into
16、—Did you attend the meeting for the experiment project yesterday?
—Yes, but I don’t think I ____ because my director was there.
A．need to have
B．need to
C．needed to
D．need have
17、Out of the train_______, well-dressed and waving to the crowd．
A．a tall man stepped B．was stepping a tall man
C．did a tall man step D．stepped a tall man
18、Tea is the main evening meal, traditionally eaten at 5 o'clock in the evening, ________ the diners are not drinking tea.
A. even if B. in case C. as though D. so that
19、Learning another language is like stepping out of a door, ______I can look back and see more clearly my own language.
A.By which B.through which C.which D.on which
20、Faced with a bill for $10,000, _____．
A．Smith has taken an extra job
B．the boss has given Smith an extra job
C．an extra job has been taken
D．an extra job has been given to Smith
21、 My favorite novel is Albert Camus's The Plague （鼠疫）. It was published in 1947, after Word War II.
On the surface, it's a story about an Algerian coastal town threatened by a mysterious plague. But the symbolic idea works on the concrete presentation of a metaphysical （形而 上学的）problem, which is the cruel fact of suffering. Like the plague, it's just a thing that happens in the world whether we want it to or not. Camus's novel asks if we can think of suffering not as an individual burden but as a shared experience — and maybe turn it into something positive.
The key is to recognize the universality of suffering. A plague is an extraordinary event and the horror it results in is extraordinary, too. But suffering is anything but extraordinary. Every day you leave the house, something terrible could happen. The same is true for all. All of us arc subject to forces over which we have no control.
A pandemic （大流行病）forces us to think about our responsibilities to the people around us. The hero of The Plague is a committed doctor named Rieux. From the very beginning, Rieux devotes himself to resisting the plague that united its victims. Each character in the story is defined （刻画）by what they do when the plague comes. No one escapes it, but those who reduce the suffering of others are the most fulfilled. The only villains are those who cannot see beyond themselves. The plague, for these people, is either an excuse to flee or an opportunity to make profits. Because they can't see that their condition is shared, a spirit of unity is completely foreign to them. And that blindness makes community impossible.
At the very end of The Plague, Camus stated his philosophy that the struggle against suffering is never over for good. The plague will return, and so will everything else that upsets humans. But the point of the book is that a shared struggle is what makes community possible in the first place.
A pandemic, terrible though it is, highlights our mutual interdependence in a way that only tragedy can. The beauty of The Plague is that it asks the reader to map the lessons of the pandemic onto everyday life. The principles that drive the hero, Rieux, are the same principles that make every society worthwhile —understanding, love and unity.
If we learn these lessons, in a moment of crisis, we'll all be better off on the other side of it.
【1】What is the symbolic idea of The Plague?
A.An individual burden. B.A positive experience.
C.A universal suffering. D.An extraordinary event.
【2】What does the underlined word mean?
A.The blind. B.Businessmen. C.Foreign victims. D.Wrongdoers.
【3】What is the purpose of this text?
A.To introduce a book. B.To solve a social problem.
C.To remember a writer. D.To express an opinion.
22、 Sucking blood is a risky business. At least for the female mosquitoes that need these nutrients to nurture their developing eggs. Not only do these bugs have to find a suitable blood donor, but once they've had their fill, they have to be able to escape undetected—to avoid the big swat. How they finesse this stealthy departure has just been revealed in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Feasting(饱餐) on an unsuspecting mammal can double a mosquito's body mass. So how does a fully loaded female heave that added bulk off the skin of her host without triggering its pressure sensors and bringing on that fateful slap? To find out, Florian Muijres of Wageningen University in The Netherlands and his colleagues used cameras that record 13,500 frames per second to capture the takeoff maneuvers of 63 blood-fed malarial mosquitoes.
What they discovered is, when it comes to a soft yet speedy getaway...for female skeeters, the wing's the thing. With a wingbeat frequency of about 600 beats per second...the insects are able to lift themselves lightly off their host. That approach is the opposite of the one favored by most other winged things, says Muijres.
"When most flying animals when they take off, like birds or a fly for, example, they first use their legs to push off very hard, and then when they are in the air, then they start beating their wings and generate aerodynamic lift(气动升力) to be able to fly away. Mosquito does it the other way around. It first starts beating its wings and through the aerodynamic forces these wings generate, their body is being lifted off from the substrate. And then they do gently also push down with their long legs to be able to further power their liftoff. But these forces that are being generated by the legs are relatively small."
In fact, the faint flutter of a mosquito's wings produces less than one third of the force exerted by similar-sized but much less subtle fruit flies as they shove off in search of another banana. And even on a full stomach, these bloodsuckers are stunningly fast, says Muijres. "So takeoff phase takes only about 30 milliseconds, which is 10 times faster than how fast we can blink our eye." And they're gone before we know what hit us. And before we can hit them.
【1】What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.How mosquitoes get nutrients for their developing eggs.
B.How mosquitoes can find their suitable blood donors
C.How mosquitoes escape undetected after sucking blood.
D.How the female mosquitoes find their perfect partners.
【2】What plays the most important part in helping mosquitoes escape?
A.Their legs B.Their ears C.Their mouths D.Their wings
【3】Mosquitoes’ takeoff approach is different from that of most other winged insects in that________.
A.mosquitoes are lighter than them
B.mosquitoes are keen on sucking blood
C.mosquitoes take off first with wings and then legs
D.mosquitoes take off through the aerodynamic forces
【4】From what Muijres said, we know that mosquitoes’ escape speed is _________.
A.extremely fast B.equal to that of our blink
C.faster than that of fruit flies D.greatly affected by their full stomach
23、We all have a to-do list. Like you, mine seems to be growing every day instead of becoming shorter. But now I am going to cover three areas and tell you what not to do.
【1】
You're never going to finish everything on your to-do list. 【2】 You should think about the Pareto principle. 20% of your tasks will produce 80% of your results. Concentrate on them. There are other important tasks that will need to be done but they don’t necessarily need to be done by you. Let’s say you take up consulting work at $150 per hour but you have some bookkeeping to do. 【3】 Why not pay someone $55 per hour to do your bookkeeping so you can earn $150 per hour?
Don’t leave each day to chance.
Does your day fly by without you even realizing where the hours are gone? Have you considered creating a morning or an evening ritual (惯例)? There may be a different solution for you but I am particularly protective of my mornings—I wake up early, exercise and write. Others who keep a journal at the end of the day may plan out their next day. 【4】 It’s important to structure your day as this will help you get more done to achieve your goals.
Keep it simple! This will help you organize your tasks in order of priority (优先), and you won’t feel overwhelmed looking ahead at tasks for tomorrow, next week, or next month. Be realistic about what you can accomplish in 24 hours.
Don’t allow others to steal your time.
【5】 Stop answering every random call or accepting a meeting request that doesn’t have a specific schedule. Actively guard your time and stop the timewasters from eating into your productivity. When you do this，people will both respect you more and value your time more.
A．Don’t try to do everything.
B．Either of these might work for you.
C．There’s always something added to it.
D．This work is worth maybe $55 per hour.
E．Don’t waste your time looking back on what you’ve lost.
F．Your time is valuable and you should treat it as much.
G．Finishing my to-do list has become one of my most important tasks.
24、 When Amanda Wanklin and Michael Biggs fell in love, they didn't realize the challenges they might face as a biracial couple. Amanda says, 'At first we only knew that we wanted together. ' They settled down in Birmingham, England, eager to start a family. On July 3, 2006, the black and white couple got their “one in a million' miracle: Amanda gave birth to fraternal twin (异卵双胞胎) girls with completely different skin colors, and the greatly amazed parents gave their daughters intertwined names: one would be Millie Marcia Madge Biggs, the other Marcia Millie Madge Biggs.
From a young age the girls had similar features but very different color schemes. Marcia had light brown hair and fair skin like her English-born white mother, while Millie had black hair and brown skin like her black father, who is of Jamaican descent. 'We never worried about it; we just accepted it，' Michael says.
'When they were first born, ' Amanda recalls, 'people would look at my one daughter and then look at my other daughter. Then I'd get asked the question: 'Are they twins? ''
'Yes. '
'But one's white and one's black. '
According to Amanda, people who commented on the girls weren't openly discriminatory (歧视的) or judgmental—just very curious, and then as time went on, people just saw the beauty in them.
The twins know what racism is. 'Racism is where somebody judges you by your color and not by your true self, ' Millie says.
Michael, the father, says he’s faced inequality at times throughout his life because of the color of his skin. ' But it's a different time now, ' he says. Neither he nor Amanda has ever witnessed racist behavior toward their twin girls.
'When people see us, they think that we're just best friends, ' Marcia says. 'When they learn that we're twins, they're kind of shocked because one's black and one's white. ' But when the twins are asked about their differences, they mention something else entirely. 'Millie likes things that are girlie. She likes pink and all of that, ' Marcia says. ' I don't like the color pink; I'm a tomboy. People should know about us by our true selves, not by our colors. After all, people are made how they are. '
【1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.Amanda and Michael are of the same race.
B.Amanda and Michael were not happy about the birth of their twins.
C.The possibility of twins with different skin colors is small.
D.It was easy for Amanda and Michael to start a family of their own.
【2】According to the passage which of the following is NOT true?
A.Sometimes Michael is unequally treated because of his race.
B.The twin girls see their skin colors as their major difference.
C.People are curious but friendly to the twin girls.
D.People who are racists judge a person by his appearance.
【3】How does Marcia react to the people who ask questions about their differences?
A.She never answers them.
B.She is upset about their questions.
C.She answers with their different characters.
D.She tells them about colors.
【4】What is the author’s attitude towards racism?
A.Opposed. B.Supportive.
C.Indifferent. D.Tolerant.
25、This is the story of two lovers, who finally got married. Both of them were romantic at first, _____ on the walk of life, problems, quarrels, profession came into their life.
One day, she finally decided "I want to break up". "Why?" he asked.
"I am _____." she answered.
He kept silent the whole night, seemingly in deep _____. finally he asked, "What can I do to _____ your mind?"
Looking into his eyes she said, "Answer my question. If you can ______ my heart, I will change my mind. Let's say, I want a flower _____ on the face of a mountain cliff (悬崖), we both are sure that picking the flower will cause your _____. will you do it for me?"
He said, "I will give you my _____ tomorrow."
She woke up the next morning, found him gone, and saw a piece of paper on her bed, which _____"My dear, I would not pick that flower for you, the _____ are …"
"When you use the computer you always _____ the software, and you cry in front of the screen. I have to save my fingers so that I can help to restore the _____ . You always leave the house keys behind, thus I have to save my _____ to rush home to open the door for you. You love traveling but always lose your way in a (n) _____ city. I have to save my eyes to show you the way. You always ______ at the computer, and that will do nothing good for your eyes. I have to save my eyes ____ when we grow old, I can help to clip your nails and help to remove those ______ white hairs."
"Thus, my dear, unless I am sure that there is someone who loves you ______I do … I could not pick that flower yet, and die …"
That's life, and ____. flowers, and romantic moments are only used and appear on the ______ of the relationship. Under all this, the pillar of true love stands.
【1】A.and B.but C.or D.so
【2】A.lonely B.shamed C.worried D.tired
【3】A.space B.shade C.thought D.impression
【4】A.speak B.blow C.change D.keep
【5】A.represent B.expand C.convince D.admit
【6】A.falling B.growing C.living D.waiting
【7】A.attention B.death C.interest D.satisfaction
【8】A.answer B.agreement C.announcement D.judgment
【9】A.goes B.informs C.prints D.writes
【10】A.meanings B.reasons C.messages D.purposes
【11】A.turn up B.put up C.mess up D.use up
【12】A.structures B.balance C.programs D.position
【13】A.dollars B.patience C.energy D.legs
【14】A.ancient B.modern C.new D.underground
【15】A.shout B.jump C.stare D.knock
【16】A.as if B.so that C.now that D.in case
【17】A.enjoyable B.annoying C.dusty D.amusing
【18】A.less than B.more than C.rather than D.other than
【19】A.determination B.progress C.love D.power
【20】A.principle B.way C.surface D.nature
26、假如你是李华，你的笔友是美国明尼苏达州明尼唐卡中学的学生Tom，你将代表你们学校将招募他们学校的一批学生到中国进行游学活动。请用英语给他写一封邀请信，信的内容如下：
1．写信的目的
2．准备的一些游学活动：
（1）参加天安门公众演讲；
（2）专访清华北大学子；
（3）去游览长城；
（4）进行一些城市任务。
3．游学活动结束后到你家做客，进一步体验中国的生活方式。
4．希望通过游学活动增进对中国的了解
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．参考词汇：游学活动the study tour 招募recruit;
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