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1、—Excuse me, sir. Is the swimming pool open all day?
— ________. Only from 6.30p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
A．Sorry, I’m afraid not
B．That’s right
C．Sorry, I’m not sure
D．Yes, of course
2、It was a pure ________that she was born on her father’s birthday.
A．chance
B．accident
C．consequence
D．coincidence
3、To keep healthy, Professor Johnson ______ cycling as a regular form of exercise after he retired.
A. carried out B. caught on C. took up D. made for
4、It was not until she got home________ Jennifer realized she had lost her keys.
A．when
B．that
C．where
D．/
5、In the back of our classroom stand some book shelves with various classics and magazines on them, making reading materials more __________ to the students.
A. systematic B. effective C. practical D. accessible
6、The students didn`t find much______ about the topic on the website.
A. report B. article
C. information D. progress
7、There came a point in his life____ he had to think about seriously about his future.
A. what B. that
C. when D. which
8、The research ________ in the past five years has revolutionized our understanding of the ancient monument.
A．underachieved
B．underestimated
C．undertaken
D．underwent
9、When you phoned me last night, I _______ in the park. I’m sorry I missed your call then.
A．have run
B．had run
C．would run
D．was running
10、If only I_____ my watch!
A．hadn't lost
B．haven't lost
C．didn't lost
D．don't lose
11、---The film we saw last week is simply fantastic.
---____.I think it’s just average, nothing special.
A. I can’t agree with you more
B. With all due respect
C. I beg to differ
D. As predicted
12、They won the game, _____ they didn’t really deserve the victory.
A.if B.though C.before D.since
13、 They won't buy new clothes because they money to buy a color TV set.
A. save B. are saving
C. has saved D. were saving
14、In art criticism, you must assume the artist has a secret message ________within the work.
A．to hide
B．hiding
C．hidden
D．hide
15、Looking back on the three-year life in the mountain village, Thomas ________ it as a milestone in his personal development.
A．declares
B．assumes
C．values
D．confirms
16、–There is a story here in the paper about a 110-year-old man.
--My goodness! I can’t imagine ______that old. .
A. to be B. to have been
C. being D. having been
17、You will not be able to build self-respect if you are always trying to ________ others with appearance.
A.follow B.direct C.impress D.adapt
18、The maker refers to people who start their own small business devoted to ______and selling self-made products.
A. creating B. managing
C. sharing D. adapting
19、The building of an ecological civilization has entered a critical period, _________that requires more quality products to meet people’s demand.
A.it B.that C.one D.the one
20、Education has always been a hot topic among parents ______ it is directly related to the future of their children.
A. as B. in case
C. unless D. even though
21、 Have you ever noticed how much the number twelve is used? A ruler that is a foot long has twelve inches. A yardstick(尺码) has three times twelves inches, or thirty-six inches.
On a canlender you will see twelve months in each year. A clock face is numbered from one to twelve for the hours. The time span from noon to midnight is twelve hours; from midnight to noon there are twelve more hours. Each day is two times twelve, or twenty-four hours long.
We buy eggs by the dozen, which means twelve at once. Sometimes we buy other things by the dozen. The stores sell different things by the dozen. In a store you may have seen a dozen pencils held together by a paper wrapping or a dozen oranges in a sack. Stores also buy things in lots of twelve dozens, or by the gross（罗，12 打） . One gross consists of twelve dozens, or one hundred and forty-four items.
【1】An outside cover is a _______.
A. bag B. sack C. number D. wrapping
【2】_______ means a space of time.
A. Span B. Gross C. Room D. Canlender
【3】A foot-long ruler has _______ inches.
A. six B. twelve C. twenty-four D. thirty-six
22、 Sea otters (海獭) are pretty small compared to other marine mammals (哺乳动物).which means that, despite their fur coats, they tend to lose het quickly, and need lots of energy to keep up their body temperature.
"So they need to eat 25 percent of their body weight each day," says Sarah McKay Strobel, a sensory ecologist at UC Santa Cruz. "But in order to eat that much food, that means sea otters need to find all that food. " She studied the otter's senses, to solve the mystery of how they're such efficient food catchers. Vision isn't reliable, she says- it's pretty dark and muddy underwater, and crabs and other smaller animals tend to hide. Hearing is also tough for otters, in the noisy underwater environment. And sniffing's no good either. "When they're underwater they're holding their breath."
What's left is touch. So Strobel measured the sensitivity of the otters' paws and whiskers (须). She blindfolded an otter named Selka, then presented it with plastic plates carved with tiny grooves (沟槽). Selka's job was to select the plate with two-millimerter grooves, which she'd been trained to associate with tasty food, instead of plates with differently sized grooves.
Tums out, Selka could tell just a quarter millimeter difference in the grooves' with with her paws - above and below water - and hall a millimeter difference with her whiskers. "The fact that she was able to perform so well while moving extremely quickly I think is really interesting and suggests that sea otters have very quick decision-making abilities and very quick sensory processing abilities, which makes sense when you think about the type of lifestyle they lead and how quickly they need to find food."
For the record, humans can feel the difference too, but it takes us 30 times longer, which might make sense. After all, we live in environments where touch is less important in a hunt than sight and sound.
【1】Why do sea otters eat much food?
A.To swim faster. B.To stay warm.
C.To keep their fur thick. D.To satisfy their good appetite.
【2】What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A.An introduction to Selka. B.The use of plastic plates.
C.An experiment on Selka. D.The function of otters' touch.
【3】What did Strobel find about sea otters' senses?
A.Hearing is useless. B.Touch is the most elective.
C.They have no vision. D.Their smell works very well.
【4】What can we learn from the text?
A.Sea otters have enough food to eat.
B.Humans are more sensitive than sea otters.
C.Sea otters respond very quickly in hunting.
D.Sea otters' whiskers work better than paws.
23、Honesty is the best policy, as the English saying goes. Unfortunately, honesty often leaves us when no one is watching, British psychologists reported last week.
Researchers at UK’s Newcastle University set up an experiment in their psychology department’s coffee room.
They set a kettle, with tea, coffee and milk on the counter and hung up a sign listing the price for drinks. People helping themselves to a cup of tea were supposed to put a few cents in the box nearby.
The scientists hung a poster above the money box, and changed each week between pictures of gazing eyes and pictures of flowers. The researchers found that staff paid 2.76 times more for their drinks when the image of the eyes was hung.
“We were shocked by the size of the effect,” said Gilbert Roberts, one of the researchers.
Eyes are known to be a powerful perceptual (知觉的) signal for humans, scientists say.
“Even though the eyes were not real, they still seemed to make people behave more honestly,” said Melissa Bateson, a behavioral biologist and leader of the study.
Researchers believe the effect throws light on our evolutionary past. It may arise from behavioral characteristics that developed when early humans formed social groups to strengthen their chances of survival. For social groups to work, individuals had to co-operate, rather than act selfishly. “There’s an argument that if nobody is watching us, it is in our interests to behave selfishly. But when we’re being watched we should behave better. So people see us as co-operative and behave the same way towards us,” Bateson said.
The new finding indicates that people have a striking response to eyes. That might be because eyes and faces send a strong biological signal we have evolved to respond to, Bateson said.
The finding could be put to practical use. For example, images of eyes could ensure ticket sales on public transport and improve surveillance(监视) systems to deter anti-social behavior.
【1】In the experiment, a poster was hung above the money box to ________．
A. give a harmonious atmosphere
B. remind people the drinks were not free
C. prove the actual effect of different pictures
D. see how honest people are in different situations
【2】From the result of the experiment, we can conclude that ________．
A. people might pay more for the drinks at the image of gazing eyes
B. people may be dishonest when no one is watching them
C. no one would pay for the drink unless they are told to
D. just a image of flowers is not enough to remind people to pay for a drink
【3】What is the best title for the passage?
A. You're being watched!
B. Pay for your drink, please!
C. Mind your behavior in public!
D. Look out for electronic surveillance equipment!
【4】Which of the following English proverbs can be best used at the beginning of the passage?
A. Once a thief, always a thief
B. Lies have short legs
C. Honest is the best policy
D. An honest look covers many faults
24、I Online shopping started not so long ago. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990. The first online bank opened in 1994. In 1995, Amazon started operating and is not one of the largest online shopping malls. Then in 1996, eBay started its online shopping site.
By sitting at home you can now buy anything from knives to cars. The worry you may have about traveling and parking can be avoided while you shop online. With online shopping, you need not worry about the weather. Online shops have no holidays, closing times or any other problem. You can shop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Some online shops also keep customers' opinions about each product, so you can easily find out what other customers think about the product before buying it.
When you go for real-world shopping, you can actually touch and feel it, but in online shopping you can only see the pictures. Also if you are shopping online, you have to be careful with your credit cards.
The first step in online shopping is to search for what you want to buy. Once you find the required product, put it in a “shopping cart” and continue shopping. After you have got enough in your “shopping cart”, check out the product. You can add or take out the products in your shopping cart. The next step is to log in using a username and a password. Enter the address where you want the product to be sent. Some sites even ask for your email, phone numbers, etc.
Then wait for the confirmation of your order. You can also cancel the order if needed. Online shopping is a different experience and you can make shopping online easy when you get used to it.
【1】I When shopping online, you can .
A. park your car where you want to
B. buy anything wherever you go
C. touch anything you want to buy
D. know what others think of the product
【2】The second paragraph mainly tells us .
A. people can do online shopping at their own homes
B. the things people can buy in online shops
C. the advantages people can have through online shopping
D. people can know different opinions of customers
【3】From the text, we can know that .
A. once customers put the products in their “shopping carts”, they can't change them
B. customers should be careful with their credit cards when shopping online
C. customers must give their e-mails as well as their phone numbers
D. people can know different opinions of all customers
【4】If you want to buy a cup online, what is the right order of the following things you can do?_________
a. Put the cup into your “shopping cart”.
b. Wait for the confirmation of the order.
c. Search for a right cup.
d. Enter the address.
A.dcba B.cadb C.cabd D.dcab
25、I stare at the row of jars filled with my parents’ homemade tomato sauce. Every time I _________: “Should I really use one?”
I have been saving these jars like _________. No matter how hard I try to find alternatives, nothing _________ . Store-bought sauce? It just doesn’t taste right, not like home.
On a weekend of every September, my parents would take the tomatoes _________— locally to the garage, where they were cleaned and boiled. Afterwards, whole tomatoes were _________ through my father’s homemade machine: a food processor used to _________ the sauce from the skins. We flld some _________ with sauce and seasoning (调味品), _________ them tightly to keep out the air. They would then be lined up and ready to use.
My parents would make more than just sauce every _________. I loved it when they would season the pork sausages and __________ hand-tied them, while I would poke (截) them all over.
These traditions were hard to __________ when my father was diagnosed with cancer in 2019. I have sweet memories of the days when he made the __________. They were beautiful but short-lived moments. My father died soon after.
I can’t keep these jars forever. But every time I go to reach for one, __________ stops me. My mother, ever __________, was visiting us recently and just stared at them, saying, “You should use these or they will go to waste.”
What will it feel like to use that last jar? It would __________ an era. Who knows? Maybe it’s time to bring new traditions to life.
【1】
A．say
B．wonder
C．suspect
D．guess
【2】
A．friends
B．antiques
C．treasures
D．containers
【3】
A．compares
B．counts
C．differs
D．happens
【4】
A．grabbed
B．begged
C．displayed
D．collected
【5】
A．laid
B．passed
C．wrapped
D．pressed
【6】
A．make
B．break
C．separate
D．save
【7】
A．jars
B．bags
C．boxes
D．cases
【8】
A．holding
B．moving
C．closing
D．leaving
【9】
A．weekend
B．fall
C．holiday
D．attempt
【10】
A．slowly
B．gently
C．expertly
D．deliberately
【11】
A．control
B．maintain
C．complete
D．stay
【12】
A．joy
B．meal
C．machine
D．sauce
【13】
A．something
B．someone
C．willpower
D．self-knowledge
【14】
A．impatient
B．critical
C．mean
D．practical
【15】
A．put an end to
B．run into
C．start off
D．open up
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