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1、— I hear you won the prize in the English Contest last week.
— That was the second time that I ______ the prize.
A. have got B. got C. get D. had got
2、A new study suggests that yelling at children may have consequences that go beyond of beating them.
A. ones B. these C. those D. that
3、— Now that you like the computer so much, why not buy one?
— Well, I can’t afford ______ computer at present.
A. that expensive a B. a such cheap
C. a so cheap D. that an expensive
4、He had unraveled the truths behind important questions, but his studies had taken him to a point beyond which he could not seem to go. He had tried__________ to establish a relationship with an alchemist. But the alchemists were strange people, who thought only about themselves,and almost always refused to help him.
A. in vain B. in a flash
C. in return D. in possession
5、Early to bed and early to rise ______ a man healthy.
A．is made
B．are made
C．make
D．makes
6、—Tony, we are moving this weekend.
—___! Wish you happiness in your new flat.
A.Go ahead B.Congratulations C.Made it D.Definitely
7、Hurry up﹗The train ______. You know it ______ at 9:00 am.
A. leaves; leaves B. leaves; is leaving
C. is leaving; leaves D. is leaving; is leaving
8、All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, which suggests that work and play do not ______ but promote each other.
A. condemn B. convert
C. contradict D. confirm
9、______ is well known to us all is ______ Jeremy Shu-How Lin has become one of the most popular NBA players.
A. It; that B. As; that
C. What; what D. What; that
10、Jenny _______ have kept her word. I wonder why she changed her mind.
A.must B.should C.need D.would
11、The increasing use of foreign words could lead to ______ the good qualities of traditional Chinese.
A．people forgetting
B．people forgot
C．forgetting people
D．people forget
12、Parents should guide their children, not direct them. Observe _______ your child’s talent and
interests lie, and then encourage them in close directions.
A. what B. where C. when D. that
13、Her grandma, ______ help she couldn’t have achieved so much, has passed away.
A．whose
B．of whose
C．with whom
D．without whose
14、I borrow the book Sherlock Holmes from the library last week, ______ my classmates recommended to me.
A.who B.which
C.when D.Where
15、The two villages are divided by a river and there is a(n) __bridge over the river.
A. small old stone B. old small stone
C. stone small old D. small stone old
16、In today’s modern world, their ideas about living simply and being at ease with nature may take us a step closer to ________ personal well-being and fulfillment.
A．attaining
B．missing
C．reaching
D．performing
17、People were ________—and then, later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan again.
A．in shock
B．in surprise
C．in ruins
18、College graduates are caught in an annoying situation between a lack of jobs if they leave and a ________ on higher education if they stay.
A. compromise B. squeeze C. burden D. passion
19、Good ways of doing things mean saving time, and ________ it is important for us to find them.
A．otherwise
B．however
C．besides
D．therefore
20、Mike very hard. When I saw him at eleven last night, he was still studying in his room.
A．has studied
B．studies
C．studied
D．will study
21、Food Taboos Around the World
●Jamaican Taboos
When it comes to raising children，there are some definite food-related taboos（禁忌）Jamaican people believe in. It is believed that if children eat chicken before they learn to speak, they will never talk. Eating half an egg will make the child grow into a thief and drinking milk from a baby bottle will turn them into an alcoholic.
●Nigerian Taboos
Much like the Jamaican taboos, many Nigerians’ taboos revolve around children. While they don’t believe children who eat eggs will turn into thieves, they have particularly strong feelings about coconut milk. Another widely held belief is that children who drink this type of milk will become unintelligent.
●Russian Taboos
Old world traditions are very much alive in Russia when it comes to traditional dating. If you are hoping to court a lady at a restaurant, do not expect to go Dutch. If you are the one who arranges the date, you are expected to pay for everything, as most Russian women won’t even bring their wallets on a formal date.
●Chinese Taboos
If you travel to China, minding your chopsticks is important. After finishing a meal at a restaurant, do not leave your chopsticks sticking up in the left-over rice at the bottom of your bowl. That practice is employed when families offer a meal to their ancestors’ ghosts at family shrines（神龛）but Chinese believe doing so in a restaurant would bother the owner with a terrible curse. For more global food taboos, click here and check out the full list.
【1】What is least recommended for 2-year-olds in Nigeria?
A．Half an egg.
B．Chicken.
C．Coconut milk.
D．Bottled milk.
【2】Which country stresses the placement of eating tools as part of its food taboos?
A．Jamaica.
B．Nigeria.
C．Russia.
D．China.
【3】Where is the text most likely from?
A．A food brochure.
B．A travel website.
C．A geography textbook.
D．An academic journal.
22、When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫无掩饰的).
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.
In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated (复杂的).
My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.
I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband come home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.
Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don’t think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this what satisfied her.
We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we’ve got to have. We’re so self-conscious about our “right” to it that it’s making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.
Happiness isn’t about what happens to—it’s about how we see what happens to us. It’s the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have , but enjoying what we do possess.
【1】As people grow older, they ____.
A．feel it harder to experience happiness
B．associate their happiness less with others
C．will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness
D．tend to believe responsibility means happiness
【2】What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 5 and 6?
A．She cares little about her own health.
B．She enjoys the freedom of traveling.
C．She is easily pleased by things in daily life.
D．She prefers getting pleasure from housework.
【3】What can be inferred from Paragraph 7?
A．Psychologists think satisfying work is key to happiness.
B．Psychologists’ opinion is well proved by Grandma’s case.
C．Grandma often found time for social gatherings.
D．Grandma’s happiness came from modest expectations of life.
【4】People who equal happiness with wealth and success ______.
A．consider pressure something blocking their way
B．stress their right to happiness too much
C．are at a loss to make correct choices
D．are more likely to be happy
【5】What can be concluded from the passage?
A．Happiness lies between the positive and the negative
B．Each man is the master of his own fate.
C．Success leads to happiness.
D．Happy is he who is content.
23、It’s time to put down the phone and look away from Instagram (一款照片分享应用程序): Researchers found that people who look at pictures of food are less likely to enjoy the next meal they eat.
Ryan Elder and Jeff Larson of Brigham Young University asked 232 people to look at photos of food and rate them. The researchers divided the participants into two groups-one group looked at 60 photos of desserts, while the other examined 60 photos of sally foods. Participants (参加者) ranked each photo based on how attractive the food looked. Afterward both groups enjoyed a snack of salted peanuts. The group that looked at pictures of salty foods liked the peanuts less than the group who looked at desserts, even though no one saw photos of peanuts.
“If you want to enjoy your meal, avoid looking at too many pictures of food,” Larson said. “Even I felt a little sick to my stomach during the study after looking at all the sweet pictures we had.”
The researchers believe that food doesn’t taste as good after viewing all those photos because looking at many photos makes people feel as if they have already experienced the sensation (感觉) of eating. Whatever someone eats after looking at photos doesn’t seem as good as what she saw.
“In a way, you’re becoming tired of that taste without even eating the food,” said Elder. “It’s sensory boredom-you’ve kind of moved on. You don’t want that taste experience anymore.”
But there is some good news: People need to look at a lot of food photos to experience sensory boredom. So if you want to enjoy your next brunch, play it safe and stay away from your foodie friend’s photo albums.
【1】What did the researchers do in the experiment?
A．They showed peanut pictures to participants.
B．They chose 232 participants who enjoy eating.
C．They reminded participants to avoid sweet food.
D．They asked participants to eat some salted peanuts.
【2】What happened to the participants in the salty group?
A．They were afraid of rating food pictures.
B．They found salted peanuts less enjoyable.
C．They enjoyed their meals a lot more.
D．They compared their food with others’.
【3】which of the following shows “sensory boredom”?
A．You lose your sense of taste when you feel extremely tired.
B．You are bored with your meal after taking pictures of food.
C．You find food less delicious after seeing many food pictures.
D．You eat more than before when the food tastes delicious.
【4】What is the best title for the passage?
A．How we can stay away from Instagram.
B．What causes people to enjoy salty foods.
C．Why Instagram is reducing your appetite.
D．Which food tastes less delicious.
24、 When Oliver Sacks, 82, died on Aug 30 at his home in New York City, the world was saddened by the loss of a brilliant neurologist(神经学者) and a truly beautiful mind.
London-born Sacks was most famous for his writing. A Forbes obituary(讣告) calls him “one of the greatest writers of science of the past 50 years. Maybe the greatest.”
In his best-selling 1985 book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks described a man who could not tell the difference between his wife’s face and his hat, because his brain had difficulty telling what he saw.
In 2006, Discover magazine ranked it among the 25 greatest science books of all time, declaring, “Lots of neuroscientists now looking into the mysteries of the human brain cite this book as their greatest inspiration.”
His 1973 book, Awakenings, is about a group of patients who were frozen in a decades-long sleep until Sacks tried a new treatment. The book led to a 1990 movie in which Sacks was acted by Robin Williams. It was nominated(提名) for three Academy Awards.
Another book, An Anthropologist on Mars, published in 1995, described cases like that of a painter who lost his color vision in a car accident but found new creative power in black-and-white images. Sacks also wrote the story of a 50-year-old man who suddenly regained sight after nearly a lifetime of blindness. The experience was a disaster. The man’s brain could not make sense of the visual world. After a full and rich life as a blind person, he became “a very disabled and miserable(悲惨的) sighted man,” Sacks wrote. “When he went blind again, he was rather glad of it.”
Despite the drama and unusual stories, Sacks’ books were not meant to be freak shows. “Oliver Sacks humanizes illness... he writes of body and mind, and from every one of his case studies there shows a feeling of respect for the patient and for the illness,” Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, said in 2001.
When Sacks received the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing in 2002, the citation(荣誉状) declared, “Sacks presses us to follow him into unknown areas of human experience–and forces us to realize, once there, that we are facing only ourselves.”
【1】The following statements are wrong EXCEPT _____.
A.The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was ranked among the 25 greatest science books
B.Anthropologist on Mars led to a movie in which Sacks was acted by Robin Williams
C.In Awakenings, Sacks recorded a man who regained sight after a lifetime blindness
D.Awakenings is often cited by neuroscientists to prove the mystery of human brain
【2】Why was Sacks called one of the greatest writers of science over the past 50 years?
A.He was born in London and most famous for his writing.
B.He was a brilliant neurologist and had a truly beautiful mind.
C.He received the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing in 2002.
D.He wrote a series of books, the influence of which was great.
【3】The underlined word “freak” in Para. 7 can be replaced by _____.
A.pure B.common C.unusual D.attractive
【4】The passage is mainly about _____.
A.the awards Oliver Sacks’ won
B.the life experiences of Oliver Sacks
C.the influence of Oliver Sacks’ works
D.the reasons why Oliver Sacks’ succeeded
25、 My phone rang and it was a number I didn’t recognize. When I _______ it, I heard my son’s _______ voice on the other end saying, "Mama, I got on the wrong _______ ." This was his first year in the middle school. I knew my little boy was very _______. After all, it was only his second time to _______ home. Since he normally had football classes, I would met him.
The phone wasn’t hung up, I could hear my _______ was speaking with the bus driver. I could feel his frustration (挫败). The tone of his _______ when he told the bus driver "I’m so sorry" was _______ . Then on the other end of the line, I _______ a calming response. The woman driver said, "Oh, honey, you don’t have to ________. It’s my job to get you home ________. And this is what I’m going to do. ” I’m grateful, ________ she was comforting (安慰) my son. I couldn’t help but think of the many other responses he could have ________. She told me not to worry. We appointed (约定) a place and then she went out of her way to comfort him.
When I arrived at the location we ________ on, the woman driver came over with my son and explained how she noticed he felt terrible and ________. My son had even asked her if he messed everything up. She tried her best to make him ________
Every day, I pray that there are people in our ________ and in the right places to watch over my ________ when I’m not there. And today it did happen. This ________ truly showed the love in her behaviors and care for my son. I won’t let her behaviors go unnoticed, so this story will be ________ with everyone on the Internet.
【1】A.gathered B.gained C.answered D.accepted
【2】A.attractive B.rare C.funny D.upset
【3】A.train B.bus C.subway D.board
【4】A.humorous B.nervous C.curious D.bored
【5】A.drive B.dash C.run D.ride
【6】A.son B.daughter C.friend D.husband
【7】A.singing B.voice C.surprise D.cry
【8】A.fake B.amusing C.considerate D.worrying
【9】A.heard B.predicted C.realized D.designed
【10】A.perform B.apologize C.wander D.struggle
【11】A.silently B.directly C.safely D.gradually
【12】A.meaning B.expressing C.requesting D.knowing
【13】A.received B.confirmed C.reminded D.regretted
【14】A.relied B.moved C.agreed D.insisted
【15】A.homeless B.false C.anxious D.confused
【16】A.keep calm B.get crazy C.get up D.keep silent
【17】A.grasses B.bushes C.houses D.paths
【18】A.drivers B.children C.partners D.musicians
【19】A.actress B.detective C.woman D.teacher
【20】A.shared B.admired C.argued D.mixed
26、假如你是李华，想邀请外教彼得参加端午节活动。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1.活动时间、地点、内容；
2.节日来历。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.邮件首尾已为你写好。
参考词汇：端午节the Dragon Boat Festival 农历五月the fifth lunar month
Dear Peter,
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