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1、When faced with a big challenge ________ potential failure seems to hide at every corner, maybe you've heard this advice before: “Be more confident.”
A. where B. whose C. which D. of which
2、You can use this room for your club activities tomorrow ______ you keep it tidy and clean.
A. for fear that B. in case
C. on condition that D. even if
3、Sixty decades on, the presenter (Queen Elizabeth II) has evolved somewhat, as has the technology she described. Back then, who _____ that people would one day be watching this on laptops and mobile phones, as some of you are today?
A. must have imagined B. may have imagined
C. would have imagined D. should have imagined
4、 John told me he’d like to go hiking with me, his voice _______joy.
A. was heavy with B. heavy with
C. was full of D. full with
5、_____ its role in social education, the Palace Museum is quitting its admission fee for special groups on certain
dates.
A. Fulfill B. Having fulfilled
C. To fulfill D. Fulfilled
6、An unhappy childhood may have some negative effects on a person's character；however，they are not always _____.
A. available B. practical C. permanent D. beneficial
7、Even though the way Lin Daiyu expresses her feelings may be ________ to a modern audience, it is rooted in her character and makes who she is.
A. allergic B. foreign
C. sensitive D. fundamental
8、一Excuse me, can I use your computer to type a report?
一You________ have my computer if you take good care of it.
A．shall
B．might
C．should
D．need
9、The exhibition, sponsored by the local government, will illustrate ________ life evolved from water.
A. whose B. what C. how D. where
10、Excuse me, Madam. Ellen, a journalist from the Daily Mail all day. Could you speak to him now?
A．was phoned
B．has been phoned
C．is phoning
D．has been phoning
11、________ everyone has left the party, we need to start cleaning.
A．Before
B．Whenever
C．Now that
D．In case
12、Many coral reefs in warm water areas would not be dying out ______ for the pollution accumulated over the previous years.
A.if it is not B.were it not C.had it not been D.if they were not
13、Jenny has got________ it takes to be a good actress. In other words, she has the potential to become famous.
A.what B.when C.that D.how
14、Publishers don't see e-books as a threat to written books. ______________, they see them as an opportunity to draw in a new generation of readers.
A.Therefore. B.Anyway
C.Instead D.Besides
15、1 have one regret about the time I spent in high school: I _______ more advanced classes that are really helpful in college.
A．couldn't have taken
B．should have taken
C．needn't have taken
D．must have taken
16、Our school has recently obtained the latest multimedia equipment, __________ students to learn efficiently under special circumstances.
A.allowing B.being allowed C.having allowed D.allowed
17、Consumers' support and encouragement is a _______ stream of motivation for self-improvement of the company.
A．casual
B．smooth
C．current
D．steady
18、—I wonder if I could possibly use your car for tonight?
—____. I’m not using it anyhow.
A.Sure, go ahead. B.I don’t know C.Yes, indeed D.I don’t care
19、In our class, when the bell rang and the teacher closed his book, it was a __________ for everyone to stand up.
A．signal
B．chance
C．mark
D．measure
20、—Helen is going to Manchester for further education next month.
—I’m ______ because I have to stay at home and work.
A. green with envy B. white as a sheet
C. tickled pink D. black and blue
21、What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.
“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.
In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multitrillion-dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be “meaningfully uncontrollable” in many parts of the world.
The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue, Crow maintained, and are, to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.
“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable. … We are part of the problem.”
Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.
Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”
Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.
Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”
During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school’s distance-learning program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.
He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.
【1】The fourth wave of change in America’s higher education refers to _______.
A. public colleges
B. land-grant schools
C. research universities
D. initial higher education
【2】Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share?
A. People enjoy a quality life.
B. People live longer and longer.
C. The freedom to move around.
D. An environment that is sustainable.
【3】Which is an initiative adopted by Crow at Arizona State University?
A. Restructuring the teachers College.
B. Launching the School of Life Sciences.
C. Ignoring the linkages between disciplines.
D. Enrolling more students from poor families.
【4】Which one is similar to the underlined word “architect” in meaning?
A. The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.
B. If you want to refurnish the house, consult the architect.
C. Deng Xiaoping is one of the architects of the PRC.
D. Tom is considered one of the best landscape architect here.
【5】With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ______.
A. enroll 40% of its students online
B. keep costs down without a loss of quality
C. provide an even greater number of courses
D. attract the most gifted students all over the world
22、CHARITY HONORS SON’S MEMORY
Nonprofit providing gifts to 18 to 39-year-olds is raising memory
By PAM KRAOEN
RAMONA, Calif. — Before he died from cancer at age 29, Silas River Bennett spent his final months taking photographs of the world around him, emailing friends, buying Christmas gifts for his sisters and encouraging his family to give to the needy. “What was important to him was to have a sense of himself outside of cancer,” said his mom, Lorranie Kerz of Ramona.
Bennett went to the hospital in fall 2007 with severe back pains. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to his bones. Doctors believed the cancer was environmentally caused, perhaps by exposure to some poisonous gas in the basement where he lived or poisons in the paints he used as a painter.
Kerz said her son was a man with a great sense of humor and a very creative mind. He had an “electric intellect” who loved debating, watching “Jeopardy!” — a game show on TV and telling stories with his photographs. After Bennett died in May 2008, Kerz wanted to honor the creative spirit and generosity of her son, whose nickname was “Sy”. The result was Sy’s Fund, a Romona-based all-volunteer national nonprofit that has fulfilled the wishes of more than 250 people aged 18 to 39 who are battling cancer. Sy’s Fund provides them with small gifts — such as laptops, cameras, guitar lessons, or printers — to lift their spirits and refocus their energies in a positive direction.
The group raises money through three fundraisers each year, such as golf tournaments and 5K races. This year, because of the COVID-19, they’re trying a virtual fundraiser for the first time. After registering online, participants must download the “Let’s Roam” app to their phones to donate. For those who want to apply for a wish grant, visit sysfund.org. The organization is also seeking more volunteer members. For details, email Kerz at lorraine@sysfund.org.
【1】Why did Kerz found Sy’s Fund?
A．To honour his son.
B．To get rid of cancer.
C．To make his son famous.
D．To gain more profit.
【2】What can we learn about Sy?
A．His cancer was caused by poisonous paints.
B．He spent his final months preparing for the fund.
C．He was energetic and lived a short but colorful life.
D．He died more than one year after he was diagnosed with cancer.
【3】How does Sy’s fund help the needy?
A．By seeking more volunteers to tell stories.
B．By downloading some apps to the phones.
C．By providing cancer patients with small gifts.
D．By selling some things to cancer patients at a low price.
【4】Where is this text most likely from?
A．A newspaper.
B．A guidebook.
C．An announcement.
D．A diary.
23、 Like many of us, Brittney Woodrum had a lot of plans for 2020. The University of Denver graduate student was going to travel the world and continue her work for the various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) she'd been working for before graduate school. However, when a serious infectious disease started, Woodrum began to accept that her travel plans would have to be put on hold. But what she couldn't accept was staying at home and “waiting this thing out.”
So, the Kentucky native began to look for an organization she could partner with to get the most out of her newly flexible schedule. She quickly found and committed to Shelterbox — a mostly volunteer-run organization that provides emergency shelter and tools for displaced families around the world — recognized internationally by the green box which physically holds the relief products. She joined as an ambassadress and learned that participating in physically challenging projects with the bluish-green box was central to the organization's mission.
As a hiker and lover of the outdoors, the 27-year-old decided she was going to climb all 58 of Colorado's 14,000 feet mountains with the goal of raising awareness and funding for families around the world who have lost their homes and are now facing the threat of the disease. 78 days and nearly 600 miles of hiking later, Woodrum raised $85,000 from friends, family and strangers around the world.
Woodrum said because the project came together so quickly, she didn't think she would raise more than $ 5,000. Word seemed to spread very quickly and a lot of people were equally moved by Shelterbox's mission and what I was doing," she said. "I have a large amount of gratitude to everyone who came out to support me both virtually and physically.”
The journey was not easy. “There were a lot of variables (可变因素) involved, from the weather to my health and well-being.” She said, “I am so relieved that everything went better than expected.”
【1】What can we learn about Shelterbox?
A．Its goal is to rebuild homes for the homeless.
B．It is an official disaster relief organization.
C．It often sets a tight schedule for its ambassadors.
D．Its ambassadors should carry green boxes for tasks.
【2】Which of the following can best describe Woodrum?
A．Reliable and intelligent.
B．Generous and flexible.
C．Adventurous and sympathetic.
D．Creative and determined.
【3】How did Woodrum feel about the result of her project?
A．Confident
B．Unexpected
C．Unsatisfied.
D．Ambitious.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A．Hard Journey to Raise Money
B．New Plan of Brittney Woodrum
C．Shelterbox Stands by Poor Families
D．Student Climbs Mountains for Charity
24、After winning the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, China has been striving to hold a high-tech Winter Games. Now, as the games are approaching, the viewers can learn how innovative technologies are being used, especially in the construction of venues.
For example, how the National Aquatics Center, also known as the “Water Cube”, was turned into the “Ice Cube”. The main change is to turn the four-lane swimming pool into a curling rink (冰场). According to Xinhua, the “transformation” will be completed by using a quick-disassembly (快速拆除的) system. Simply put, the water will be drained (抽干) from the pool and then a convertible (可移动的) frame will be built and put inside. The frame is made up of 2,600 H-shape steel columns and has a height of three meters and a length of two meters, China News Service reported.
Another major technology applied can be seen at the National Speed Skating Oval (NSSO) , known as the “Ice Ribbon”. Traditionally, freon, which harms the ozone layer, was used in the ice-making process. But NSSO adopts an environmentally friendly technology, which uses carbon dioxide to make ice.
For another new venue, the National Sliding Center, the design team was confronted with a tricky problem. The center features a 1.9m sliding track. The center is located on the southern slope of Xiaohaituo Mountain in Yanqing. The sunlight in the southern slope is stronger than that in the northern slope. What’s more the Yanqing competition zone has complex terrain (地形) and strong wind,” Li Bo, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, told CGTN. “Wind resistance is the key to the construction of buildings,” Li added.
So they studied the wind filed date in the zone, analyzed the sun’s height in different seasons, and used computer models to simulate (模拟) and determine the awning (遮阳篷) coverage on the track. Finally, the team developed a system combining the terrain and awning to reduce the impact of solar radiation.
【1】What’s the meaning of the underlined word “striving” in paragraph 1______?
A．fighting bravely
B．criticizing severely
C．working hard
D．thinking highly
【2】What can learn about the frame used to transform the “Water Cube” into the “Ice Cube”.
A．It is as long as three meters.
B．It is in the shape of letter A.
C．It can be taken apart easily.
D．It can turn water into ice automatically.
【3】What is the benefit of the technology used to build the National Sliding Center?
A．It can cut carbon emissions significantly.
B．It can absorb harmful chemicals freon releases.
C．It helps athletes quickly familiarize themselves with the complex terrain.
D．It can reduce the impact of strong wind and solar radiation.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A．A comparison of some Beijing Winter Olympic venues.
B．Technologies used to build the Beijing Winter Olympic venues.
C．China’s mission of holding the Beijing Winter Olympics.
D．The difficulties of venue transformation for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
25、My grandpa Ken is 86 and has been faithfully married to my grandma for 60 years. But now his memory is_________ and he’s really starting to slow down.
Yesterday, he asked me to take him to the ________ because he wanted to get out of the house. I was ________ he asked because he shouldn’t be driving by himself. It would also ________ grandma to have the ________ to herself for a while, not having to worry about grandpa for a few hours.
I watched him, cane (拐杖) in hand, taking the tiniest ________ all around searching through the shelves. I had no idea what he was ________; but, as I observed each item he put in the cart, I noticed a striking ________. They were some of my grandma’s ________ things.
He got the type of soda she liked. He ________ picked out a bag of seedless grapes she had talked about several days ago. He even ________ her a small lemon pie! And then, ________ filled my eyes as I watched him hobble (蹒跚) over to the fresh ________ and pick her the bouquet that had the most purple, her favorite color.
On our way home, he ________ we stop and grab a sandwich to take home for grandma’s lunch. May we all take a lesson from grandpa Ken. Never stop ________ for our loved ones.
【1】
A．changing
B．improving
C．slipping
D．opening
【2】
A．bakery
B．supermarket
C．park
D．restaurant
【3】
A．grateful
B．nervous
C．honored
D．annoyed
【4】
A．require
B．inspire
C．remind
D．benefit
【5】
A．kitchen
B．garden
C．house
D．neighborhood
【6】
A．glances
B．steps
C．tools
D．bags
【7】
A．after
B．beyond
C．against
D．through
【8】
A．idea
B．proof
C．sense
D．feature
【9】
A．everyday
B．valuable
C．specific
D．favorite
【10】
A．quickly
B．carefully
C．curiously
D．randomly
【11】
A．baked
B．chose
C．ordered
D．wrapped
【12】
A．tears
B．doubts
C．surprises
D．joys
【13】
A．vegetables
B．bread
C．flowers
D．seafood
【14】
A．desired
B．commanded
C．advocated
D．insisted
【15】
A．caring
B．longing
C．waiting
D．standing
26、上周日，你校组织了成人礼（coming-of-age ceremony）植树活动，同学们种下了一片“成人林”。请你为学校报社写一篇短文，介绍这次活动。内容包括：
1.植树过程；
2.个人感受。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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