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1、This dictionary, which I bought yesterday, has been highly______by my professor.
A.acknowledged B.appealed C.recommended D.commanded
2、 I would appreciate ______, to be frank, if the goods could be delivered as soon as possible.
A.you B.this C.it D.myself
3、It is proposed that a study plan ____ as soon as possible.
A. is made B. is to be made C. be made D. had been made
4、The Smiths bought a new car, which was the________of their neighbours.
A.envy B.admire C.respect D.proud
5、_______ the rising costs of many products, fares in this city __________ unchanged.
A.Though; remained B.Despite; remained
C.Despite; was left D.Though; was remained
6、The secretary and manager ____very busy now.
A.is B.are C.was D.were
7、—Shall I check it now?
—_______. I’ll ask Vicky to check it when she leaves.
A．Don’t bother
B．Hurry up
C．Sounds good
D．It depends
8、_______ is known to us all that the old scientist, for _______ life was hard in the past, still works hard in his eighties.
A．As; whose
B．It; whose
C．As; whom
D．It; whom
9、Last week we had some great speeches. The headmaster together with some other teachers to attend it, too.
A. were invited B. has invited
C. was invited D. Invited
10、Fully _______ in looking after three small children, she cannot speak to you at the moment.
A.occupied B.being occupied C.occupying D.being occupying
11、The Louvre Pyramid in Paris is___________ a Chinese-American architect considered as the greatest challenge and greatest accomplishment”.
A.which B.whether C.that D.what
12、The Summer Palace, which we visited last summer, is one of Beijing's main tourist _____.
A.attractions B.dominations C.motivations D.conditions
13、________ to speak, I’ll start making preparations tomorrow.
A．To have been invited
B．To be invited
C．Having been invited
D．Having invited
14、I was so familiar with her that I recognized her voice _______ picking up the phone.
A.the moment B.on C.before D.though
15、They don't allow ______ here．That is to say，we are not allowed _____ here．
A.to smoke； to smoke B.smoking； smoking
C.to smoke； smoking D.smoking； to smoke
16、You’ll recognize me when you get out of the station. I______ jeans and a white T-shirt.
A．will be wearing
B．had worn
C．was wearing
D．have worn
17、Rather than ___ on a crowded bus, he always prefers _____ a bicycle.
A．ride; to ride
B．riding; ride
C．ride; ride
D．to ride; riding
18、Nowadays students go to key universities just for a formal ________，which may help them hunt for a good job in the future.
A．conservation
B．preparation
C．graduation
D．qualification
19、He was a friendly and _____ man, who gave freely to the poor.
A.rigid B.generous C.shallow D.competent
20、The local shops have been marked in on this map so that people can choose a house in a ______ area.
A.ambitious B.suitable C.beneficial D.absent
21、While we may not be born with a natural talent, we can ______ for it with hard work.
A.break up B.take up C.bring up D.make up
22、—What do you think of the talent show last night, Jessica?
—Well, it was so boring that some people ________ during the show.
A. dropped by B. dropped off C. dropped behind D. dropped in
23、Some people with similar experiences find it easy to to his troubles.
A.refer B.reply C.relate D.resemble
24、As the news report _______ it, China’s effective measures had led to positive results in reducing the novel corona virus （新冠病毒）outbreak nationally.
A.put B.quit C.read D.shut
25、Not only ,but he himself was badly beaten up.
A.was everything he had robbed of
B.everything he had was robbed of
C.had everything he been robbed of
D.was he robbed of everything he had
26、Before I turned 10, I lost my parents. My siblings left Hyderabad after relatives adopted them, but I insisted on staying back to continue my education. I lived alone in a room that a family member allowed me to use rent-free. To support myself, I began to deliver newspapers.
I would be up every morning by 5 a.m. and walk five kilometers to the newspaper office. By 6 a.m., I would collect 50 copies of Manzil (Urdu Daily)—the bundle must have weighed over 5 kilograms. My beat spanned 3 kilometers. After distributing the copies, I would rush home—another 3 kilometers —quickly cat and be off to high school.
One wintry morning in 1945,I got home after my deliveries to find a boy of my age at my doorstep. He introduced himself as Afzal and said his father wanted to see me.
I was greeted at the door by Afzal's mother, Naseem. She served tea and snacks as Afzal's father, Mr Kader, joined us. She gently asked me about my daily routine. I told her about my morning job.
Later, as I was about to leave after thanking them, Mr Kader asked me to wait. Later, Mr Kader emerged again, wheeling a new bicycle. "This is for you!" he said.
It took a few seconds for the love to sink in. It felt warm, like home. I didn't realize tears were rolling down my face.
Mr Kader said. Your newspaper editor is a friend of mine. He gave me your address. so I knew you lived close by. Then Afzal told us more about you."
I bowed, gratefully, shook hands with Afzal and left. This time I did not have to walk—I had the bicycle.
The bicycle saved my life for many years thereafter and taught me a lifelong lesson: Help should always be need-based. Never try to feed a person who is dying of thirst.
【1】Why did Afzal's father want to meet the author?
A．He wanted to help the author.
B．The author's parents used to be his friends.
C．He wanted to know more about the author.
D．The author reminded him of his own childhood.
【2】How did the author feel after Afzal's father offered him the bicycle?
A．Satisfied.
B．Interested.
C．Touched.
D．Confused.
【3】To the author, the bicycle was .
A．a gift from his parents
B．a childhood toy
C．something that made him proud
D．something that he needed most
【4】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A．The author lived alone in his own house after he lost his parents.
B．The author worked hard to support himself by delivering newspapers.
C．The author didn't cry although he felt touched by Mr Kader.
D．The author didn't want to accept the help from Mr Kader.
【5】What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A．Sometimes helping others can hurt your relationships.
B．Try your best to help others even if you cannot.
C．Know what the person needs when giving help.
D．It's difficult to find out what a person really wants.
27、 The human sense of smell is closely associated with our emotions. We use our limbic system — the part of the brain which is thought to control emotion — to connect our sense of smell to our feelings. Before people even recognize a smell, the deepest parts of the brain have already been stimulated (激发) and an emotional response has been triggered.
Research has shown that humans can react emotionally to smells that we can barely even notice. In one study at a major university in Chicago, three smells were given to thirty-one volunteers. The smells were of different concentrations, and some were so low that they were hardly detectable to the human nose. The different smells used were: a pleasant lemon scent (气味), a neutral anisole (中性苯甲醚), or an unpleasantly sweaty smelling acid. First, the volunteers were asked to press a button to show whether they had smelled anything or not. Then they were shown a picture of a face, which they had to rate for its likeability using a six-point marking system.
The results of the study showed that when people knew they had been exposed to a smell, it did not influence the way they judged the likeability of the faces. However, when they believed they had not smelled anything, but had actually been exposed to one of the scents, the ratings of face likeability changed. Exposure to very low concentrations of acid, so low that they were undetectable, tended to produce a negative response to a face. By comparison, after smelling lemon scent but again detecting no smell, participants rated faces as generally likeable. These findings support other research into sense perception (感觉), whether it is smell, sight, or hearing, which shows that subliminal (潜意识的) sensory information does affect our perceptions.
【1】Which word can best replace “triggered” in Paragraph 1?
A.Stopped. B.Changed.
C.Controlled. D.Started.
【2】What is the purpose of paragraph 2?
A.To discuss how smells are connected to emotions.
B.To explain why the research is important.
C.To describe how the study was done.
D.To report the results of the study.
【3】What conclusion does the author come to?
A.Pleasant and unpleasant smells have the same effect on people.
B.This study’s results agree with those of previous studies.
C.Other senses aren’t connected to perception the way smell is.
D.Scents have almost no influence on people’s emotions.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Effects of scents on emotions
B.What influences how we feel?
C.Our sensitive sense of smell
D.Techniques and senses
28、Trees are commonly cut down for wood and paper. 【1】. The unique chemical process that trees and plants use to turn light energy from the sun into oxygen is known as photosynthesis (光合作用).
【2】
The production of oxygen is a result of photosynthesis, but it is not the main purpose of this process. 【3】. Plants create their own food through photosynthesis. During this process, a plant’s roots absorb water from the ground, and its leaves take in light energy and carbon dioxide. The plant uses these elements to make fats and proteins that are then used to maintain the plant’s life.
The process of photosynthesis
The first step in photosynthesis is using the sun’s energy. During this process, chlorophyll (叶绿素) absorbs the light energy of the sun. The energy from the sun then acts upon the water absorbed by the roots of the plant. Carbon dioxide sent into the atmosphere by animals and humans is then absorbed by the plant’s leaves and paired with the hydrogen to produce sugar. The sugar is turned into plant food. 【4】.
Threats to tree photosynthesis
【5】. Today, only about 30 percent of Earth’s land is covered in trees. This is contributing to global warming since trees are necessary to consume the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Experts believe planting trees is vital in order to ensure the preservation of the delicate balance that enables photosynthesis.
A．The purposes of photosynthesis
B．The advantages of photosynthesis
C．In fact, oxygen is simply a by product
D．It is also responsible for giving plants their green color
E．During this process, extra oxygen is produced and released
F．The trees that change carbon dioxide into oxygen are disappearing rapidly
G．But the greatest value of trees comes from their ability to turn the sun’s energy into chemical energy
29、Philadelphia's Magic Gardens makes up a folk art center, gallery space, and a nonprofit organization showcasing the works of mosaicist（镶嵌设计师）Isaiah Zagar.
Zagar devoted himself to beautifying the South Street neighborhood in the late 1960s, when he moved to the area with his wife Julia. The couple helped the area by purchasing and repairing some old buildings, often adding colorful mosaics on both their private and public walls. The first such project was Julia's still-busy folk art store, the Eyes Gallery at 402 South Street.
Zagar started working on the Magic Gardens in 1994 in the deserted parking lot near his studio. He spent the next fourteen years sculpting multi-layered walls and decorating the 3, 000 square foot space. The installation（装置艺术），primarily consisting of found objects and contributions from the community, finally covers half a city block with countless patterns and colors. It shows Zagar's many artistic influences, as well as the events and experiences of his life.
In 2002，the owner of the once-unused parking lot decided to sell the land in response to rising South Street property values. Unwilling to witness the destruction of Zagar's neighborhood art environment, the community rushed to support the artist. His creation, newly titled Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, turned into a nonprofit organization with the intention of preserving and promoting Zagar's works at the site of the Magic Gardens and throughout the South Street region.
The Magic Gardens is now a permanent art institution that is open to visitors throughout the year. Trained guides are available to lead tours of the Magic Gardens and Zagar's surrounding public wall paintings. In addition, it offers monthly mosaic workshops led by Zagar himself, and regularly hosts concerts, dance performances, and other public events.
【1】How did Zagar help the South Street neighborhood?
A．He moved to the area with his family.
B．He worked to improve its surroundings.
C．He opened a folk art store with his wife.
D．He managed to buy all the old buildings.
【2】What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us?
A．Great achievements of Zagar.
B．Special skills of installing art.
C．Location of the Magic Gardens
D．Early history of the Magic Gardens.
【3】What do the local residents think of Zagar's works?
A．They harm environment.
B．They can bring in profits.
C．They should be removed.
D．They are precious treasures.
【4】What can tourists do in Philadelphia's Magic Gardens?
A．Paint the walls on the spot.
B．Put on music performances.
C．Enjoy some Zagar's works.
D．Attend some dance courses.
30、According to Greek legend, in ancient Athens a man noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing childish games with some little boys. He laughed and made fun of Aesop, asking him why he wasted his time in such ______ games.
Aesop responded by ______ a bow, loosening its string, and placing it on the ground. Then he said to the critical man, “Now, ______ the riddle (迷), if you can. Tell us what the unstrung bow means.”
The man looked at it for several minutes but had no idea about what ______ Aesop was trying to make. Aesop ______, “If you keep a bow always bent, it will break finally; but if you let it go loose, it will be more ______ for use when you want it.”
So it is with us. Our minds and bodies are like the ______. When often under the ______ of everyday life, we can finally break. We need to loosen up; we need time to take the pressure off and relax.
Former baseball pitcher (投球手) Dutch Leonard might have put it a little differently. He once said that the ______ of great pitching is not speed or the ability to throw curves (曲线球). It’s the “change of pace”. Even the ______ batter (击球手) will soon learn how to hit a pitcher who continually throws the same kind of pitch. But it’s ______ to hit a pitcher who changes the pace of pitching. That ______ of pace gives a pitcher an advantage over the other pitchers.
A change of pace also gives us a(n) ______ in life. Taking time to watch the clouds, enjoy a breeze, take a walk, read just slowdown is ______ if we are to be our best later. And a regular day of rest is as important as regular sleep. It’s a ______ of taking the pressure off.
To be your best, make sure you change your pace. It may just be the change you need.
【1】
A．wise
B．bright
C．foolish
D．false
【2】
A．picking up
B．throwing away
C．making up
D．putting down
【3】
A．make
B．answer
C．follow
D．ask
【4】
A．point
B．legend
C．idea
D．plan
【5】
A．answered
B．replied
C．explained
D．called
【6】
A．possible
B．careful
C．hopeful
D．fit
【7】
A．string
B．bow
C．riddle
D．activity
【8】
A．routine
B．control
C．pressure
D．pain
【9】
A．secret
B．solution
C．ability
D．method
【10】
A．great
B．successful
C．average
D．smart
【11】
A．easy
B．hard
C．likely
D．usual
【12】
A．kind
B．game
C．change
D．speed
【13】
A．advantage
B．road
C．bottom
D．centre
【14】
A．convenient
B．necessary
C．acceptable
D．reasonable
【15】
A．trick
B．result
C．beginning
D．way
31、 The coronavirus pandemic and the threat of a national lockdown have caused some people to buy essential supplies _________ until there’s _________ on grocery store shelves for anyone else. Not only is it _________ and inconsiderate, it also affects the age group that is most sensitive to the virus: the elderly. But there are plenty of people who’ve been helping the elderly with their _________, and also by offering them _________.
Helena Ellis _________ a Facebook post, saying that she saw an old man standing with an empty cart staring at empty shelves of bread. _________, she gave him one of the last two _________ that she had taken. She _________ other people to help out the elderly and spare them something that people could do __________. “In a time of madness and __________, please don’t forget those aged people,” Ellis wrote.
Liam Elkind, junior at Yale University enlisted (征募) over 1,300 volunteers to help deliver food and medicine to seniors. __________ themselves Invisible Hands, the group offers the elderly the __________ of filling out a delivery request form and having their shopping done.
Jayde Powell, another college student, __________ started a network of Shopping Angels to deliver groceries to the elderly in her area. “We’re doing this to try and __________ to people who are completely alone in this situation,” Powell told CNN.
Tonka, a __________ dog, is used to visiting his senior friends to give some “feel-good” at the nursing home in Texas. But when the nursing home __________ all visitors in an effort to protect its __________ from the spread of coronavirus, Tonka’s owner, Courtney Leigh, decided to __________ Tonka’s visits, just from outside the nursing home’s windows, holding a sign that __________ “We Miss You.”
【1】A.in vain B.in demand C.in panic D.in surprise
【2】A.a little B.nothing C.something D.a few
【3】A.necessary B.careless C.selfish D.critical
【4】A.family B.company C.shopping D.health
【5】A.respect B.comfort C.mercy D.passion
【6】A.put on B.put up C.put off D.put in
【7】A.Heartbroken B.Undoubted C.Desperate D.Hopeless
【8】A.carts B.hotdog packs C.shelves D.shopping lists
【9】A.inquired B.ordered C.urged D.appealed
【10】A.without B.within C.with D.out
【11】A.wars B.conflicts C.disorder D.ruins
【12】A.Called B.Calling C.To call D.Being called
【13】A.choice B.privilege C.promise D.challenge
【14】A.uniquely B.similarly C.finally D.surprisingly
【15】A.find out B.look out C.call out D.reach out
【16】A.guide B.therapy C.detection D.rescue
【17】A.turned off B.turned out C.turned down D.turned in
【18】A.guests B.residents C.immigrants D.families
【19】A.postpone B.pause C.continue D.deliver
【20】A.writes B.says C.prints D.speaks
32、Online deception is now so commonplace that criminal gangs are using it as part of a wider range of activities to make money out of the public. “There’s been a rapid normalisation of online as people see how _____ it can be. You see the industry adjusting to fight against that,” says Downey, security lead at payment company Braintree.
This was made _____ in May this year when there was an unparalleled attack on thousands of computer systems around the world, after a worm, named WannaCry, attacked computers in more than 150 countries, with payments of $300-$600 to restore access. There were an estimated 45,000 attacks across the UK, Russia, Ukraine, India, China, Italy, Egypt and beyond, with major companies _____.
One of the reasons these attacks spread so ______ is that businesses and consumers don’t update their software on a regular basis. Downey _____ it to a situation in which a car is left in a garage and a thief tries all of the doors to see if one has been left unlocked: “People don’t realize they are leaving that proverbial car unlocked because they don’t understand the nature of these _____attacks.”
At the heart of the problem is the ___of organized crime. “Criminals can also be an expert at business. They don’t want just one trick to bring in all of their income; it may be _____, they may have a slow month and then they’ll have a cashflow problem,” says Downey.
Hacks and the threat of information theft have led to a(n)_____ of e-commerce among some of the population, says Downey. To fight that unease, simple measures need to be adopted by retailers(零售商) in order to maintain the public’s trust.______, this can be achieved by ensuring they create a trustworthy environment for consumers, such as by serving websites through SSL, which establishes a secure and connection between the ______ and business.
But for both businesses and consumers, one simple thing remains ______: those who can keep both their security up to date and their passwords secure will be ahead of the crowd, says Downey. “You will then be far ahead of the curve of the average business or consumer.”
So don’t use variations of one password on lots of _____. If criminals hack a database with your log-in permit, they will then be able to ____ your passwords on other accounts. Make sure your passwords have lots of characters and include numbers, symbols and capital letters.______ obvious dictionary words, and importantly make each of your passwords completely different.
【1】
A．boring
B．profitable
C．dangerous
D．surprising
【2】
A．evident
B．mysterious
C．peculiar
D．infectious
【3】
A．updated
B．transformed
C．established
D．infected
【4】
A．moderately
B．easily
C．cautiously
D．gradually
【5】
A．compares
B．implies
C．devotes
D．limits
【6】
A．personal
B．targeted
C．random
D．surprising
【7】
A．variety
B．timing
C．punishment
D．detection
【8】
A．thrown away
B．take in
C．shut down
D．carried out
【9】
A．exhaustion
B．result
C．disappearance
D．mistrust
【10】
A．For example
B．By comparison
C．What’s more
D．In summary
【11】
A．hacker
B．customer
C．retailer
D．website
【12】
A．unchanged
B．varying
C．unpredictable
D．avoidable
【13】
A．curves
B．characters
C．dictionaries
D．accounts
【14】
A．record
B．suspend
C．crack
D．ruin
【15】
A．Investigate
B．Consult
C．Avoid
D．Guarantee
33、 It was a cold winter. The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow, just________any November day. His________, when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it________.One morning, I walked slowly________and was surprised to see a snow remover clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman clearing my walk. I dropped to my knees and crawled back upstairs,________those good people would not see me. I was_________ . My first thought was, how would I ever________them? I didn’t have the________to brush my hair,________clear someone’s walk.
Before Jon’s death, I felt proud that I________asked for favors. I identified myself by my autonomous ability and________.So who was I if I was no longer capable? How could I________myself if I just sat on the couch every day and watched the snow fall?
Learning to receive the love and________from others wasn’t easy. Friends cooked for me and I cried. Finally, my friend Kathy said, “Mary, cooking for you isn’t a________for me; it makes me feel good to be able to do something for you.”
Over and over, I heard________words from the people who supported me during those________days. One wise man told me, “You aren’t doing nothing because being fully open to your________may be the hardest work you will ever do.”
I am not the person I________was, but in many ways I have changed for the________.I’ve been surprised to learn that there is incredible freedom coming from________one’s worst fear and walking away whole. I believe there is strength, for sure, in accepting a dark period of our life.
【1】A.on B.in C.for D.like
【2】A.footprint B.soul C.roof D.body
【3】A.dry up B.pile up C.take up D.sweep up
【4】A.upstairs B.indoors C.downstairs D.outdoors
【5】A.for B.yet C.and D.so
【6】A.alarmed B.ashamed C.annoyed D.disappointed
【7】A.reflect B.reward C.award D.conduct
【8】A.absence B.psychology C.spirit D.strength
【9】A.let alone B.leave alone C.sit around D.stand alone
【10】A.frequently B.hardly C.gradually D.annually
【11】A.independence B.concept C.security D.qualification
【12】A.achieve B.respect C.praise D.promote
【13】A.distribution B.privilege C.contribution D.support
【14】A.bonus B.dimension C.business D.burden
【15】A.sensitive B.voluntary C.vivd D.similar
【16】A.junior B.remote C.blue D.absurd
【17】A.pause B.dignity C.pain D.access
【18】A.still B.never C.even D.once
【19】A.better B.less C.more D.worse
【20】A.scanning B.dragging C.facing D.fleeing
34、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.
The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.
It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.
Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often 【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.
Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.
35、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.
I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.
For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.
At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.
The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”
36、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
My daughter
(A story told by a father, a famous actor)
My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.
I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.
We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.
I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.
We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.
I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.
We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.
37、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.
Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.
The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.
If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【7】 of all resources.
And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.
38、孩子在家里是否应该做家务是一个有争议的问题。请以“Should Children Do House-work?”为题写一篇短文投给校英语报，内容包括：
1.表明自己的观点；
2.阐述理由。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Should Children Do Housework?
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39、近年微博(micro-blog)在中国越来越流行。假设你是校报记者，请根据下列提示为校报写一篇介绍微博的英语短文，词数 120 左右。
内容要点如下:
1. 方便交流，分享心情，释放压力；
2. 泄漏隐私，浪费时间；
3. 个人观点或建议。
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40、假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Jerry在来信中提到对中国的唐诗很感兴趣，想让你给他介绍一位你最喜欢的唐代诗人。你决定向他介绍诗人李白，信的内容主要包括：
1. 诗人的基本情况；
2. 诗人的代表作品；
3. 你喜欢他的原因。
注意：1. 字数100词左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已经为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Jerry,
How are you?
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Yours,
Li Hua
41、假如你是李华，一周前在某实体商店买了一件运动衫，洗了之后，严重掉色，并且缩水。去店铺和店员交涉，店员态度恶劣。请就此事给该店总经理写一封投诉邮件。内容包括：
1.投诉原因。
2.你的要求。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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