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1、You have been repeatedly told the rules, so there ______ be any difficulty finishing the task.
A. needn’t B. wouldn’t C. mustn’t D. shouldn’t
2、Henry, it’s your turn. Please ____ the story where we left off before our coffee break.
A.make up B.take up C.bring up D.set up
3、The ancient historic site is extremely expensive to________, but the local government spends some money repairing it every three years.
A．preserve
B．deserve
C．appreciate
D．celebrate
4、All of a sudden, the thief walking behind a young and beautiful woman ________ her handbag, ________ into the crowd.
A．seizing；rushing
B．seizing；rushed
C．seized；rushing
D．seized；rushed
5、Yao Ming, the first man to become the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft without playing in college, was honored Friday night as the Houston Rockets ________ his No. 11 jersey.
A. abandoned B. preserved
C. granted D. retired
6、My friend came around for a cup of tea and we________ having a big meal together.
A．put up
B．ended up
C．took up
D．brought up
7、We are hoping for support from Mr. Webster, without _____ support we can’t make it.
A. which B. whose C. what D. that
8、Look at this year's sales figures________ last year's；they're much better.
A．between
B．from
C．with
D．against
9、—Peter, you delivered a wonderful speech today.
—Thanks, but I think I ______ more attention to my stage manners during that time.
A. must pay B. should pay
C. must have paid D. should have paid
10、The overall consumption scale is expected to reach 201 billion yuan this year, meaning an increase of 18.5 percent over ________ of 2018.
A.that B.it C.the one D.those
11、I’m sorry you have been waiting so long, but it will still be some time ________ you can get your passport.
A．since
B．till
C．after
D．before
12、________ being famous might sound like a dream come true, today’s star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine.
A. If B. Since C. Until D. Although
13、________in a mass parade at Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square on the National Day were more than 100,000 people from all walks of life to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China.
A.Having involved B.Involving C.Involved D.Being involved
14、The hero’s touching story ________ online has drawn thousands of “likes” and hundreds of comments from the public.
A．posting
B．to post
C．posted
D．to be posted
15、It was when she first arrived in China _____ she developed a passion for paper-cutting.
A. where B. that
C. how D. why
16、Mr.White works with a chemical import-export company,but he________for this industrial exhibition, since he is on leave.
A.has worked B.works C.has been working D.is working
17、Sales director is a position________ communication ability is just as important as sales.
A．which
B．where
C．when
D．why
18、The plan for Xiongan New Area ______ officially on April 1, 2017.
A. announced B. was announced C. announces D. is announced
19、The free trade port needs to______ the possibility of sharpening the competitive edge of the island worldwide.
A.exploit B.explode C.explore D.export
20、This car is important to our family. We would repair it at our expense _______ it break down within the first year.
A. could B. would
C. might D. should
21、 Last year, Americans spent over $30 billion at retail (零售) stores in the month of December alone. Aside from purchasing holiday gifts, most people regularly buy presents for other occasions throughout the year, including weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and baby showers. This frequent experience of gift-giving can create ambivalent feelings in gift-givers. Many believe that gift-giving offers a powerful means to build stronger bonds with intended receivers. At the same time, many worry that their purchases will disappoint rather than delight the intended receivers.
Anthropologists (人类学家) describe gift-giving as a positive social process, serving various political, religious, and psychological functions. Economists, however, offer a less favorable view. They think that gift-giving represents an objective waste of resources. People buy gifts that receivers would not choose to buy on their own, or at least not spend as much money to purchase. Givers are likely to spend $100 to purchase a gift that receivers would spend only $80 to buy themselves.
What is surprising is that gift-givers have considerable experience acting as both gift-givers and gift-receivers, but still tend to overspend each time they set out to purchase a meaningful gift. In the present research, psychologists find a unique explanation for this overspending problem — gift-givers equate (等同) how much they spend with how much receivers will appreciate the gift. Although a link between gift price and feelings of appreciation might seem relevant to gift-givers, such an assumption may be unfounded. Indeed, we find that gift-receivers will be less willing to base their feelings of appreciation on the gift price than givers assume.
The thoughts of gift-givers and gift-receivers being unable to account for the other party’s perspective (立场) seems puzzling because people slip in and out of these roles every day. Yet, despite the extensive experience that people have as both givers and receivers, they often struggle to transfer information gained from one role and apply it in another.
【1】What does the underlined word “ambivalent” in Paragraph1 probably mean?
A．Concerned.
B．Positive.
C．Unrealistic.
D．Conflicting.
【2】What do the economists think of gift-giving?
A．It strengthens the bonds between people.
B．It is economically beneficial to the receiver.
C．It is actually a process of wasting resources.
D．It increases the financial burden to the giver.
【3】What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A．Personal preferences are the least to be considered.
B．Gift-givers tend to link the gift cost to gift-receivers’ appreciation.
C．More gift-receiving experience helps prevent overspending.
D．The assumption made by gift-givers turned out to be correct.
【4】According to the author, the different thoughts between the gift-givers and receivers are caused by _________.
A．a trend of overspending
B．an inability to change perspectives
C．a growing opposition to gift-giving
D．a misunderstanding of gift-receivers’ tastes
22、During the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, misinformation has fueled the spread of fear. Some people might fail to tell facts from rumors (谣言)，so improving the public’s health knowledge is a vital step to help people take the right protective measures and avoid unnecessary panic.
As the battle against the epidemic continues, some people may feel panic to some extent because they are not aware that there are effective prevention and protection measures they can take. So it is urgent that people’s public health awareness should be raised. The education authorities should strengthen science popularization, especially among teenagers. For example.primary and middle schools should emphasize scientific education, and they could invite medical professionals to teach students about the scientific protection measures they should adopt.
Governmental departments can carry out projects to popularize health knowledge and encourage people to participate in the improvement of the public scientific literacy, including in different townships, districts and communities.
Relevant science and technology institutions also have the responsibility to innovate measures and set up systems to carry out a health-awareness campaign to make more people aware of the benefits of scientific prevention and protection measures.
Since the improvement of public scientific literacy is of great significance and concern, medic and healthcare departments should learn the lessons of this epidemic and continue to build well-established and professional teams, particularly grassroots units that are devoted to promoting the public health literacy should be formed.
Science and healthcare institutions should pool their resources to meet the public’s knowledge needs. They should establish ways to spread the public’s health knowledge, diversify the channels for spreading scientific public health knowledge, and hatch effective policies to upgrade facilities to deal with emergencies, so as to ensure that it can swiftly respond to a public health emergency and provide authoritative information on the situation and the appropriate response.
Keeping the public informed of scientific public health knowledge in a timely manner will help prevent public panic and contribute to the prevention of public health crises.
【1】Paragraph 2 mainly tells us that ______.
A．the battle against the COVID-19 continues
B．different persons have different awareness of protection.
C．people’s public protection awareness remains to be raised
D．the COVID-19 spreads faster in schools than in any other places
【2】What can be inferred from the text?
A．Grassroots units have sprung up.
B．Adequate health knowledge can ease panic.
C．Improving scientific literacy is an easy task.
D．Effective policies alone may prevent the disease.
【3】Which measure is NOT mentioned in popularizing health knowledge?
A．Innovating measures and setting up systems.
B．Building well-established, professional teams.
C．Diversifying the ways to spread health knowledge.
D．Stopping schooling for two or three months.
【4】Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A．People’s Health Knowledge Requires an Increase
B．Schools Should Emphasize Scientific Education
C．Don’t Panic When the COVID-19 Breaks Out
D．Take Some Appropriate Protective Measures
23、The next time your brain refuses to recall a simple fact or name, be thankful. That could be a sign that your brain is getting rid of unnecessary information so that it can operate more efficiently, and help you make better decisions.
The researchers say there are numerous neurobiological(神经生物学的)studies conducted on how the brain stores information, a process called persistence (暂留). However, scientists also assumed that our occasional inability to recall facts was due to a are an the brain. In 2013, scientists discovered that as new neurons combine with the hippocampus(海马区)----a region of the brain that plays a significant role in learning and remembering---they overwrite old memories, making them harder to access. There is also evidence that the brain weakens or removes connections between neurons, in which memories are encoded.
The scientists have a theory on why the brain spends so much energy erasing memories. They say what the brain decides to forget is determined by our daily life. An example is that our brains remember phone numbers according to the need. Instead of storing this irrelevant information that our phones can store for us, our brains are freed up to store the memories that actually do matter for us. They also believe that memorizing too much detail could prevent us from making good decisions.
So the next time you are unable to recall a seemingly important fact, don’t be hard on yourself. Just throw it to your brain’s “rubbish can” to make room for information that can contribute to making you smarter! Remember, even Albert Einstein was absent-minded!
【1】What can we know from the first two paragraphs?
A. Persistence is not a process to store information
B. Once information is stored in the brain, it will last forever
C. Learning and memorizing take place in the hippocampus
D. New neurons will strengthen old memories
【2】The brain has to erase memories to __________.
A. recall important information
B. store more important information
C. store detail
D. remember phone numbers
【3】If some unimportant information is stored, it will be _________.
A. combined with the hippocampus
B. processed and memorized permanently
C. stored and decoded immediately
D. removed and forgotten soon
【4】What is the best title of the passage?
A. Scientists encourage us to forget things
B. The way our brains memorize and encode
C. Forgetting things may make you smarter
D. Why was Albert Einstein absent-minded?
24、 Essentially, everyone has two ages: a chronological(按时间计算的) age, how old the calendar says you are, and a biological age, basically the age at which your body functions as it compares to average fitness or health levels.
“Chronological age isn’t how old we really are. It’s merely a number,” said Professor David Sinclair at Harvard University. “It is biological age that determines our health and ultimately our lifespan(寿命). We all age biologically at different rates according to our genes, what we eat, how much we exercise, and what environment we live in. Biological age is the number of candles we really should be blowing out. In the future, with advances in our ability to control biological age, we may have even fewer candles on our birthday cake than the previous one.”
To calculate biological age, Professor Levine at Yale University identified nine bio-markers that seemed to be the most influential on lifespan by a simple blood test. The numbers of those markers, such as blood sugar and immune measures, can be put into the computer, and the algorithm (算法) does the rest.
Perhaps what’s most important here is that these measures can be changed. Doctors can take this information and help patients make changes to lifestyle, and hopefully take steps to improve their biological conditions. “I think the most exciting thing about this research is that these things aren’t set in stone,” Levine said. “People can be given the information earlier and take steps to improve their health before it’s too late.”
Levine even entered her own numbers into the algorithm. She was surprised by the results. “I always considered myself a very healthy person. I’m physically active; I eat what I consider a fairly healthy diet. But I did not find my results to be as good as I had hoped they would be. It was a wake-up call,” she said.
Levine is working with a group to provide access to the algorithm online so that anyone can calculate their biological age, identify potential risks and take steps to improve their own health in the long run. “No one wants to live an extremely long life with a lot of chronic diseases,” Levine said. “By delaying the development of mental and physical functioning problems, people can still be engaged in society in their senior years. That is the ideal we should be pursuing.”
【1】Biological age depends on __________.
A.what the calendar says about our age
B.when we start to take outdoor exercise
C.whether we can adapt ourselves to the environment
D.how well our body works compared with our peers’
【2】What does the author mean by saying the underlined part in Paragraph 2?
A.We are chronologically older than last year.
B.We might be less happy than the previous year.
C.We don’t have to celebrate our birthday every year.
D.We may be biologically younger than the year before.
【3】What does the author want to tell us by Levine’s example in Paragraph 5?
A.It is necessary to change our diet regularly.
B.The test results may give us wrong information.
C.Waking up early in the morning is good for our fitness.
D.The algorithm can reveal our potential health problems.
【4】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Bio-markers Can Make Us Younger
B.Chronological Age and Biological Age
C.Old People can Still be Engaged in Society
D.Biological Age can Lag behind or Exceed Chronological Age
25、 Psychologists like Stephen Reicher from the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. suspect that crowds have a positive impact on the health of the individuals within them. Actually, what their research shows is that crowds are _________ to society. They help form our sense of who we are, they help form our relations to others — they even help determine our _________ well-being.
Reicher and his colleagues came to the largest Hindu festival, the Kumbh, to test the idea that crowds are beneficial and to confirm the healthful effects of the festival on its participants. Before the start of festival, his researchers went out into the Indian countryside to question a group of _________ attenders about their mental and physical health. They also questioned people who didn’t plan to attend. The researchers _________ to question both groups a month after the festival had ended. Those who stayed in their villages reported no real change over the period of the study. Those who attended it, on the other hand, reported a 10 percent _________ in their health, including less pain, less anxiety and higher energy levels. What’s more, the good effects lasted long afterward.
Why should belonging to a crowd improve your health? The psychologists think _________ identity is the cause. “You think in terms of ‘we’ rather than ‘I’,” explains a colleague of Reicher’s. This way of thinking _________ human relationships. Members of the crowd support one another, competition becomes cooperation, and people are able to achieve their goals in a way they wouldn’t be able to _________.
Unfortunately, in spite of the mutual support so _________ elsewhere at the Kumbh, 36 people died in a stampede (踩踏) at the train station there after the festival. Somehow the crowd had lost its ____________. Reicher wrote that one possible cause was that the people no longer formed a psychological crowd. They no longer saw those around them as fellows, but rather as ____________ for seats on a train.
____________, before this tragedy, Reicher had interviewed a villager who was asked to describe the feeling in the crowd at the station. “People think they are more powerful than you, they can push you around,” she said. She was then asked to describe the feeling in the Kumbh: “People ____________ you. They treat you in a polite manner.” The stampede was an example of what can happen when the psychological cooperation of a crowd ____________.
Incidents such as the stampede are rare at the festival, and this one is unlikely to discourage people from attending the event in the future. The police will undoubtedly learn from this experience and make the station safer. But in crowds as large as those at the festival, individuals must put their ____________ in the power of psychological cooperation. In other words, “Love thy (your) neighbor.” One day, it could even save your life.
【1】A.appealing B.special C.critical D.instructive
【2】A.financial B.physical C.developmental D.judgmental
【3】A.average B.prosperous C.representative D.prospective
【4】A.turned B.returned C.refused D.hesitated
【5】A.improvement B.mystery C.understanding D.sign
【6】A.particular B.unique C.shared D.personal
【7】A.settles B.alters C.handles D.maintain
【8】A.just B.late C.alone D.further
【9】A.evident B.secure C.regular D.feasible
【10】A.equality B.status C.spirit D.harmony
【11】A.occupants B.participants C.competitors D.candidates
【12】A.Inevitably B.Likewise C.Unfortunately D.Strangely
【13】A.are cautious about B.are jealous of C.are suspicious of D.are concerned about
【14】A.pops up B.breaks down C.goes on D.takes off
【15】A.foundation B.interest C.faith D.personality
26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
It was August, the peak season for tourism. Olav Hylland, the owner of a local restaurant, was expecting as many as 500 tourists to visit and eat there. With a joyful heart, he jumped into a van, which he had just bought to transport cargo for his restaurant, and set off.
Leaving his home, he turned onto the main road with a tunnel 300 meters ahead. The 11.4 kilometer tunnel was the only way to access the local scenic spot, where his restaurant was located. Two years earlier a truck caught fire inside it and the tunnel's closure for repairs was a disastrous blow to Olav's business. The road to his restaurant was blocked and the stream of tourists halted. Although it was difficult, he managed to keep their staff on.
“And today will be a perfect day.” Olav thought.
Inside the tunnel everything went normal. But when he was near the end, Olav spotted an unusual light 50 meters ahead. Then he saw something burning.
Horrified, he stopped dead in his tracks. A tour bus was on fire! At the back where the engine was, dozens of tourists were stumbling towards him, getting away from the flames." They're going the wrong way." Olav thought, knowing the tunnel exit was just 500 meters ahead round a bend ahead of him. Then he realized the bus was now burning so fiercely that it was impossible for them to get around it.
As a former volunteer firefighter, Olav first had to raise the alarm. Grabbing his cell phone, he entered the codes with shaking hands. “A bus is on fire! Close the tunnel gates!” Both gates were shut to avoid the entry of more vehicles, but the thick smoke was pouring out of the bus in his direction under the influence of the strong wind. In no time it would black out the tunnel, choking and blinding anyone inside it.
There was no way the poor tourists could outrun the toxic fumes.
Every minute counted.
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1
Immediately, Olav turned the van round, jumped out and opened the sliding doors to the empty cargo space.
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Paragraph 2
After a 20 minutes' desperate drive, finally there they arrived — the exit of the tunnel!
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