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1、We are all looking forward ______ the Great Wall during the National Day.
A. to visiting B. to visit
C. for visiting D. for a visit to
2、A healthy life is frequently thought to be ______ with the open countryside and home-grown food.
A．assigned
B．associated
C．blessed
D．related
3、The air pollution is so terrible. It will be worse ____ we do something to protect the environment.
A. if B. when
C. unless D. since
4、It is the developed countries ________ use the most energy in the world.
A．which
B．where
C．when
D．that
5、I didn’t see Fred in the library this morning. He_____have borrowed that book.
A．mustn’t
B．shouldn’t
C．couldn’t
D．needn’t
6、His sister asked him _______ the TV but she _______.
A. turn up; turned down B. turn down; was turned down
C. to turn up; turned down D. to turn down; was turned down
7、The student________ in the games on the MP4 during class didn’t notice his teacher behind him.
A．absorbing
B．to absorb
C．absorbed
D．be absorbed
8、 ______ to smoking for a considerably long time, he has much difficulty quitting it.
A. Having been addicted B. Being addicted
C. To have been addicted D. Having addicted
9、It is spring now. The flowers sweet in the botanic garden attract the visitors to the beauty of nature.
A. to smell B. smelling
C. smelt D. to be smelt
10、She stood up and looked forward ________ what was going on outside.
A．seeing
B．see
C．to seeing
D．saw
11、If you tell him that it’ll make him a lot of money, he’s sure to ______ the idea.
A. appeal to B. make way for
C. fall for D. put forward
12、It was that we all went out for a walk.
A. so beautiful day B. such beautiful a day
C. such a beautiful weather D. so beautiful a night
13、As a mother of two young boys, she knows the difficulties of keeping kids ________.
A. to entertain B. entertaining
C. entertained D. entertain
14、According to the World Bank, China accounts _____ about 30％of total global fertilizer consumption.
A.of B.for C.into D.on
15、At last, the woman stopped crying. ________ she calmed down slowly.
A．In one word
B．In word
C．In other words
D．In her own word
16、________ the examination score is the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is driven to memorize mechanically rather than________ creatively.
A．Though; to think
B．As; thinking
C．Though; thinking
D．As; to think
17、They found _____ impossible to finish so much work in such a short time.
A．that
B．is it
C．it
D．this
18、After graduation from high school we will reach a point ________ we have to decide which university to attend.
A. that B. what C. which D. where
19、The bell _______ the end of the period rang, interrupting our heated discussion.
A. to indicate B. indicating
C. indicates D. indicated
20、Rent usually ________ up in the summer, when college graduates are moving out of their dormitories and seeking for new places to move in.
A. will go B. goes
C. has gone D. went
21、 You can pay a fortune to travel around the world. Or you can pay nothing at all. Here are some places you’ll never regret visiting that won’t cost you a penny.
The British Museum, London (U. K.) You need to go there to see the Egyptian mummies, the ancient Greek marbles and so many other treasures. It’s open every day, and unlike most other attractions in England that cost an arm and a leg, it’s completely free. |
National Mall, Washington D. C. (U. S. A.) You can walk a pathway from the Lincoln Memorial to the severe Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the Washington Monument with other sights in between. Do you know you can go up in the elevator to the top of the Washington Monument? Tickets are free, but pay a small fee to reserve them in advance to avoid being disappointed. |
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris (France) This great treasure of the world simply can’t be missed. The great stained-glass rose window alone is worth the visit. Admission is free every day, but you’re welcome to leave a donation. There are also free tours a few times each week. You’ll pay extra for tours of the bell tower or the crypt. Tips: The Cathedral was greatly damaged by a massive fire in April 2019. Please visit notredamedeparis. fr/en/ for more information about future visits. |
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin and Mayo (Ireland) Want to see bog bodies, gold ornaments, Viking artifacts and learn about rural Irish life? All four branches of this museum are free to visit, including museums devoted to archaeology, natural history, decorative arts and history and country life. The museum of country life in Turlough Park, Mayo, is devoted to Irish rural traditions, while the natural history museum is especially famous for its collection of insects. |
【1】What does the author imply about most attractions in England?
A.They are a little dangerous. B.The prices are often too high.
C.Their exhibits are from abroad. D.They are all on free admission.
【2】Where do you need to pay for a reservation?
A.The Lincoln Memorial. B.The Notre Dame Cathedral.
C.The top of the Washington Monument. D.The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
【3】What can visitors do at the National Museum of Ireland?
A.Collect as many special insects as they want to.
B.Get more information about the local rural customs.
C.Get to know the story about its survival from the big fire.
D.See the Egyptian mummies and the ancient Greek marbles.
22、Bit by bit, the sand dust that fills the sky is dying down. The blue sky and the burning sun once again hang over the desert.
He is on the road, driving his beat-up yellow cab. The sides of the road are littered with damaged vehicles. Masses of smoke in the distance tell him that a war is being dragged on throughout his country.
It’s a fine day despite the choking heat. Not a breath of wind is blowing.
A group of vehicles are traveling towards him, carrying many passengers. The scene reminds him of the market days in this country when crowds of trucks transport folks to the markets; the only difference is, this time, they are not trucks, but tanks, carrying foreigners, guns in hand. He stares at them. They stare back. So they pass by one another.
“The damned war!” he whispers bitterly. Two days ago, a bomb fell on the market in front of his house, destroying nearly everything in sight. He survived by luck. He decided then and there that he would give up this cab business. This will be his final run. After this, he will leave this place together with his wife and children.
“Shala and my children, we’ll soon meet each other again, after I’m done here.” He turns his head to take a glance at a photo of his wife and children. The glass on the frame is broken, but their smiles in the picture do not fail to provide him with the only comfort that he has.
Shortly he arrives at a checkpoint. Tanks sit by the side of the road, the sight of which sends a marked coldness through his backbone. A bunch of soldiers armed to the teeth stand by. A foreign soldier signals him to stop. He calms himself down and pulls over. During the past few days, nearly no civilian（平民）vehicles come out of the capital city, his car being the only one on roads.
A few foreign soldiers come up to him, one, two, three, four, five. The leader bends over to have a look at the old car, then at him. “Where do you come from and where are you going?” With a smile on his face, he answers with a broken speech in the tongue that the soldier can understand, “Sir, I come from the capital. I’m leaving that place because it is a very dangerous place to be, with the war and everything.”
While talking, he hands a cigarette over to the soldier, then lights it up for him.
“When will the war end?” he asks.
“It won’t take long. We’ll soon give all of you in the capital the true freedom.” The soldier breathes a deep mouthful. He seems to have spotted the photo in the car, “The cigarette is not bad at all. Are those your wife and kids? I have two of my own, roughly the same age.”
“Oh, yes, they are mine and they are constantly on my mind. They left the city a bit earlier, and I’m on my way to be reunited with them. Perhaps I’m never coming back. Driving a cab around during war times is too dangerous. I’m giving up the business.” He looks at the soldier, still smiling.
“After we overthrow your dictator(独裁者), you won’t have that to worry about. You can come back and pick up your life again.” The soldier is leaning on the door of the car. It is perhaps the first time in many days that he has seen a happy face among the local people. It cheers him up.
“Maybe, but I have to go to see my family. If you would pay us a visit, my wife will prepare a good meal for all of you. Come with me. This is going to be my last business run and I won’t even charge you.”
“Can’t make it. We’re on duty. Give our regards to your wife and kids.” The soldier is a bit excited, thinking maybe quite some locals have open arms for them after all. “Oh, yes, I almost forgot. The south is battle-infected. Where is your family?”
Still smiling, he picks up the broken picture frame, presses a kiss on the photo, then turns around, staring into the eyes of that soldier, not quite himself from excitement, and the other foreign soldiers holding guns. Words drop out of his lips slowly but firmly:
“Paradise.”
Perhaps the last thing he sees is the confused, fearful, twisted expression on the face of that soldier, and the cigarette end dropping from his fingers.
Then he pushes the button.
【1】What is this passage mainly about?
A. A cruel war going on in the country.
B. A brave defender of the country.
C. A cab driver’s last business run.
D. A moving talk between a civilian and a soldier.
【2】According to the passage, the man’s wife ______.
A. has already been killed by the bomb
B. must be the only comfort to the man
C. is really good at cooking local food
D. has managed to escape to another city
【3】 Why does the man keep smiling while talking to the soldier?
A. To show his kindness.
B. To satisfy the soldier.
C. To hide his true feeling.
D. To express his happiness.
【4】The underlined sentence “Come with me, this is going to be my last business run and I won’t even charge you” suggests that the man ______.
A. treats the soldier as his friend
B. wants to quit his cab business
C. offers a free ride to the soldier
D. intends to kill the soldier
【5】Which of the following may best describe the feeling of the locals about the foreign soldiers?
A. Fear. B. Hate. C. Disappointment. D. Unconcern.
23、In 1900, an American engineer called John Elfreth Watkins made a number of predictions about what the world would be like in 2000. So what did Watkins get right and wrong 100 years later?
1. Digital color photography
“Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there is a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Photographs will reproduce all of nature's colors.”
Watkins did not, of course, use the word "digital" or describe precisely how digital cameras and computers would work, but he accurately predicted how people would come to use new photographic technology. When Watkins was making his predictions, it took a week for a picture of something happening in China to make its way into Western papers.
2. Mobile phones
“Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.”
International phone calls were unheard-of in Watkins's day. It was another 15 years before the first call was made, by Alexander Bell even from one coast of the US to the other.
The idea of wireless telephony was truly revolutionary.
3. Pre-prepared meals
“Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today.”
The popularity of ready meals in supermarkets and takeaway shops suggests that Watkins was right although he supposed that the meals would be delivered on plates which would be returned to the cooking establishments to be washed.
4. Hothouse vegetables
“Winter will be turned into summer and night into day by the farmer with electric wires under the soil and large gardens under glass.”
Large gardens under glass were already a reality, but he was correct to predict the use of electricity. Although colored lights and electric currents did not take off, they were probably experimented with.
【1】In 1900, Watkins predicted accurately _______.
A．a war would break out in China one century later
B．photos would reach the other side of the earth via the Internet
C．how digital cameras and computers would work
D．people would use new photographic technology
【2】What can we infer from the passage?
A．Ready-cooked meals were popular 100 years ago.
B．Watkins predicted plates would be washed before they were returned.
C．Watkins would carry out experiments to test his predictions.
D．Large gardens under glass had been put in use 100 years ago.
【3】What will most probably be discussed in the next part of the passage?
A．Some wrong predictions from Watkins.
B．Some predictions for the next century.
C．Great changes that took place in the 20th century.
D．Comments on Watkins ' s predictions from all walks of life.
24、If our kids don’t fall, they don’t learn to get up. I still remember the day in high school that my mom forgot to pick me up from school. I’m the oldest of four children, and no doubt she’d had a long day with the other kids and it’d slipped her mind. After waiting at school for an hour, I walked the three miles home, and when I got to my house, I shut our front door with anger, stormed into the kitchen and screamed in my mom’s face that she’d forgotten me.
Later that night, my dad told me I no longer had a ride to school the next day. I figured my mom would still take me, but when the morning came, she refused. It was midterm, and as a straight-A student ready to start college applications, being late wasn’t an option (选择). In my mind, missing these tests would have been the end of my academic career. I begged my mom. I told her she was ruining my future and everything I’d worked for. But she held her ground, and that day, I walked to school. And I missed my tests.
My mom didn’t rescue me from failure. She let me suffer from it. She let me figure it out. She let me learn. Now, as a mom myself, I’ve realized that I want my kids to experience failure because failure is how we grow, learn and think outside of ourselves. It’s how we self-educate to learn what’s right and respectable, and what’s not. It’s how we become responsible and enthusiastic. Falling down makes us better because we learn how to get up.
【1】What is one of the reasons that the author got angry that day?
A．She was tired.
B．She failed in a test.
C．She was late for school.
D．She had to walk home by herself.
【2】How does the author feel about her childhood experience?
A．Terrible.
B．Meaningful.
C．Embarrassing.
D．Colorful.
【3】The underlined phrase “held her ground” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.
A．gave in to me
B．said yes to me
C．stayed in the place
D．kept to her idea
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A．My Way of Growing
B．The Value of Failure
C．My Love for Mother
D．Failure in My Life
25、I was raised in Birmingham. I can clearly recall a summer day in 1954 when my father took me for a trip to the seaside by _________.
As we _________ , the weather was sunny and we were all in good _________. Unfortunately, as we rode along a quiet coastal road, the clouds set in, and it got _________ and started to rain.
Even with our raincoats on, my father and I were wet through. As we drove _________ a humpback bridge(弓形桥), the wet, shiny road ahead turned out to be a deep lake of water. We fell right into it and the engine of the motorcycle stopped _________. We had no idea where we were, fields surrounding us and no house in _________.
Luckily, not long after, a car _________ alongside us. The lady in it _________ down the window, asking what she and her husband could do to __________. Hearing our explanation, this lovely __________ offered to give us a lift to the nearest train station.
Having driven on for about 30 minutes yet with no __________ of a station, they announced to drive us __________. My father __________, saying it was at least two hours away, but they insisted. We were delivered to our door. As we shook hands to __________ them and bade farewell(告别), I thought about what good people they were.
【1】
A．train
B．motorcycle
C．bus
D．car
【2】
A．put off
B．left off
C．headed off
D．set off
【3】
A．spirits
B．position
C．health
D．shape
【4】
A．brighter
B．darker
C．colder
D．warmer
【5】
A．into
B．across
C．below
D．off
【6】
A．safely
B．fast
C．dead
D．successfully
【7】
A．mind
B．need
C．time
D．sight
【8】
A．sped up
B．ran off
C．pulled up
D．took off
【9】
A．rolled
B．put
C．knocked
D．took
【10】
A．leave
B．escape
C．help
D．survive
【11】
A．conductor
B．adviser
C．team
D．couple
【12】
A．sign
B．idea
C．way
D．image
【13】
A．ahead
B．away
C．nearby
D．home
【14】
A．agreed
B．rejected
C．allowed
D．promised
【15】
A．greet
B．declare
C．thank
D．leave
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