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1、—How impressive John’s painting is!
—Actually, it was 2 years after he retired _____ he started to learn drawing.
A．before
B．since
C．until
D．that
2、— Let’s go swimming this afternoon, shall we?
— Good idea. Nothing is more ________ than swimming in such a hot day.
A.friendly B.enjoyable C.hopeful D.difficult
3、When reading a novel, be sure to consider the political and cultural context ________ the novel is created.
A.why B.that C.which D.where
4、Can it be ______ in a fast-changing world we don’t know what to teach our children today?
A.which B.that C.why D.since
5、As teachers we shouldn’t accept the argument given by some people _______ standardized tests restrict educators too much and take the joy out of teaching.
A. where B. what
C. how D. that
6、Do you still remember how many years ago_________ we first met on campus?
A. was it that B. it was that
C. was it when D. it was when
7、The manager is now in need of a capable assistant that he can ________ to take care of problems in his absence.
A.count on B.count in C.count up D.count out
8、Ted couldn’t remember the exact date of the storm, but he knew it was Sunday because everybody was at church.
A. /, the B. a, /
C. /, a D. the, /
9、—We didn’t find Ju Xiaopeng attending the English Class online.
—No one ________ him about ________ a lecture even on Saturday.
A.told; there to be B.had told; there to be
C.told; there was D.had told; there being
10、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
11、 by a large number of towering complexes，the community attract many people who adore convenient life.
A.Having surrounded B.Being surrounded
C.Surrounded D.Surrounding
12、---- I was reading A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin yesterday, but I couldn’t understand it.
---- ______. It is classical literature, so take your time to enjoy it.
A. Don’t fly off the handle
B. You got me there
C. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
D. More haste, less speed
13、Since the middle of the last year, the bike-sharing market _____in Beijing.
A. boomed B. was booming C. will boom D. has boomed
14、Bob works so hard at his lessons that he ________ wastes time playing computer games.
A.always B.often C.sometimes D.never
15、—I was told that you had your stomach examined last week?
—Yes. But I hope that I shall never again have to ________ such unpleasant experience.
A. undergo B. undertake C. undercharge D. underline
16、The wooden tower that _________ will be open to tourists soon, and the work is almost finished.
A．is being restored
B．is restored
C．is restoring
D．restores
17、Try to buy less______unnecessary shopping could become another source of pressure to the environment.
A.though B.unless C.because D.before
18、--- Why didn’t you help the little boy?
--- Oh, he had struggled to his feet ______ I could run over and offered any help.
A. before B. after
C. when D. since
19、Don’t forget to send ______ attended the conference a follow-up email.
A. however B. whatever
C. whoever D. wherever
20、Hard work，along with dedicated revolutionary spirit is the fundamental guarantee of success，which is ________ we should learn from the pioneers participating in the Long March.
A. that B. what
C. where D. how
21、For 20 years, two brothers living in the dirty neighborhood of Wazirabad in India’s capital, Delhi, have been treating wounded black kites (鸢) that fall from the city’s skies.
Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad rescue birds of prey—mostly injured by paper kite strings—and carry them to a basement garage at home. Here, they begin nursing them to health: cleaning and bandaging wounds, fixing wings and broken bones.
Small miracles happen in the basement. Here lives are saved, a living is made and there’s some happiness too. “You don’t care for things because they share the same country, religion or politics,” say the brothers. “Life itself is relationship. That’s why we can’t abandon the birds.”
The brothers talk about how a neighborhood bird hospital refused to treat the first kite they rescued because it was a “non-vegetarian bird”. At that time, they, were teenage bodybuilders and that’s how they “came to know about flesh and muscles”. They figured out ways to bandage the kites. They became passionate about birds. “We’d lie on the ground, watching the elegant flights in the sky,” they say. “The head would spin. Have you ever felt dizzy looking into the sky?”
The street outside the brothers’ home becomes a smelly pool of sewage water which comes into the basement during the rainy season. Pigs wander in a muddy channel. Air quality reaches dangerous peaks. Yet there’s life and. hope. Monkeys climb playfully over some electric wires that hang unsteadily over narrow streets. An airplane in the sky is reflected in a pool of quiet water.
When the weather clears, skies are filled with paper kites. And then the birds begin dropping, and the brothers are back at their job. Sometimes the birds fall after bumping against buildings in the smog or getting entangled (缠住) in overhead wires. At one point, there were more than 100 wounded birds in the basement. The brothers once swam across the river to rescue a bird with a broken wing.
【1】Why do the brothers treat wounded kites?
A．They do it for political reasons.
B．They like to see miracles happen.
C．They are deeply religious people.
D．They view kites as family member
【2】Why did the hospital refuse to treat the wounded kite?
A．Kites are not protected birds.
B．Kites keep their heads spinning.
C．Kites threaten other creatures.
D．Kites are harmful to the environment.
【3】How does the author develop the fifth paragraph?
A．By listing some data.
B．By making an analysis.
C．By telling a sad story.
D．By making comparisons.
【4】What might be the most suitable title for the text ?
A．Indian Kites Are in Danger of Extinction
B．Paper Kites Are Posing a Threat to Indian Birds
C．Two Brothers Are Saving Birds Dropping from the Sky
D．Huge Numbers of Kites Are Flying over the City of Delhi
22、Quicker and faster 3-D printers have allowed not just amazing objects to be created, but have started to affect how doctors treat patients.
We’ve put together a list of some of the most amazing medical breakthroughs made possible with 3-D printing.
Life-Saving Airway
In 2013, doctors created a new airway for kaiba Gionfriddo, a boy born with an airway that kept collapsing (萎陷). To save his life doctors printed tiny tubes to join together in different shapes and sizes until one finally worked for Kaiba. It was placed in Kaiba’s bronchus (支气管) so that it no longer collapsed. Even more remarkably, once the plant was placed it could stay there. It’s designed to eventually be absorbed into the body.
New “Bionic” Hands
One of the most remarkable ways 3-D printing is now being used is as a way to create prosthetics (假肢). A boy born without an arm named Alex was able to get a new“bionic”hand thanks to it. Last year a college student spent 8 weeks coming up with a special prosthetic design that only cost a few hundred dollars in materials. He said he wanted to create a prosthetic far cheaper than other choices that can run tens of thousands of dollars.
A practice Heart
In Seattle, doctors have been able to use 3-D printing technology to“practice”risky operations so that they will face fewer surprises in the operating room. Kami Sutton was born with her heart“in the wrong place”. For a recent operation her doctor was able to take many scans of Sutton’ s heart and print out a model. “Kami’s heart is truly one-of-a-kind,”Dr. Stephan Seslar, a heart disease specialist said. “Operating on her without understanding the structure of her heart better could be very dangerous.”
A New Skull
A U.K. man was able to have part of his skull rebuilt thanks to a 3-D printer. Stephen Power broke his cheek bones in a crash. To help Power his doctors instead created 3-D bones all carefully printed in the shape of his face. “This is really the first time we’ve taken it to this stage, where everything has been planned and modeled in advance — and worked sweetly,”said Adrian Sugar, a doctor.
【1】What is special about the 3-D printed airway?
A．It uses high-tech materials.
B．It varies in shapes and sizes.
C．It can be absorbed by the body.
D．It can prevent any disease in the airway.
【2】What is the advantage of the new“bionic”hand?
A．Its price. B．Its effects.
C．Its materials. D．Its shape design.
【3】How can 3-D printing technology help doctors in the operating room?
A．It helps them get better scans.
B．It guarantees the success of operations.
C．It enables them to practice and learn more.
D．It helps them to deal with patents, anxiety.
【4】What does Adrian Sugar think of the new skull printed by 3-D technology?
A．He has doubts about it.
B．He thinks highly of it.
C．It needs to be better planned.
D．It functions well but needs improving.
23、What do you do when you have a problem? Do you go to an expert, ask your friends to come up with an idea? Or would you ask a crowd of strangers for a solution? It may sound strange, but it has spurred more than a few successful innovations. That’s the thinking behind a “challenge prize”.
Challenge prizes come in many shapes and sizes but the basic concept remains the same. Rather than consulting and paying an expert to innovate a solution, you offer the prize up to anyone who believes they can solve it and present the first to do so with a prize. Many would argue, “Who is better qualified than an expert?” But actually, not using one seems to result in a great deal of thinking outside of the box.
Some argue that formal education can kill creativity because it sometimes only teaches a single solution to a problem or single method to achieve a task. In the same way, some suggest that experts can suffer from tunnel vision. “If we launch an XPRIZE and it’s just the ‘experts’ that come out and compete, they’re usually the ones that will tell us it can’t be done.” says Marcus Shingles, former CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation.
There are other advantages too. “You’re not asking people to use a particular solution set on how to solve that problem. So you get this tremendous amount of diversity.” adds Shingles. What’s more, the crowd can also throw up issues that may have been overlooked.
However, there are dangers connected to blue-sky thinking. “You don’t want to be creating a challenge prize which pushes people to solve a problem where there is no demand,” says Tris Dyson, executive director of challenge prizes. And of course, there are those who invest their personal time and money only to see no return at all: someone else claims the prize, or they find that the reward does not match the resources they invested.
【1】What might be the best title of the article?
A．The secret of Challenge prize
B．Challenge prize: everyone can be an expert.
C．The pros and cons of challenge prize.
D．Challenge prize helps solve problems.
【2】Which of the following is not an advantage of challenge prize mentioned in the article?
A．It promotes diversified thoughts and opinions.
B．It helps solve neglected issues.
C．It gathers public wisdom.
D．It pushes the boundary of traditional thinking.
【3】What does “blue-sky thinking” in the last paragraph refer to?
A．Optimistic and positive thinking patterns.
B．Thinking in unconventional ways.
C．Diversified thinking with boundary.
D．Innovative thinking without demand.
【4】What’s the author’s attitude towards challenge prize?
A．Objective.
B．Supportive.
C．Indifferent.
D．Skeptical.
24、 The idea of progress started to flower in the 17th century. At that time, many wise thinkers believed that man liberated by reason would rise to ever greater heights of achievement. The many expressions of human nature would be the engines of progress: language, business, science, and moral sensibility. Unfortunately, most of those engines have failed to bring the desired human progress.
The modern age has belonged to material progress and its main source has been science. Science gives huge power to change the world. But can people be trusted to use it always for good? Think of biotechnology and information technology. And it is not just that scientific progress does not deliver the emotional goods. People also fear that mankind is failing to manage science properly. The forests are disappearing; the ice is melting; privacy is leaking; life is becoming a depressing march in an ugly world.
The point is not that science is harmful, but that scientific progress needs to be mapped tidily onto human progress. That relies on moral sensibility in its widest sense. This liberal force offers hope for a better future. The very idea of moral sensibility probably sounds out-of-date. But researchers find that people desire a sense of moral purpose which would give life dignity. People want to determine how the world works, not always to be determined by it. Moral sensibility is why people will suffer for their beliefs, and why acts of noble self-sacrifice are so powerful.
It is admitted that our moral ideals will never be realized completely. But sometimes, however imperfectly, we can make progress. Human dignity requires the love of ideals for their own sake, but nothing requires that the love be returned. Human progress is neither guaranteed nor is it hopeless. Instead, it is up to us.
【1】What do we know about human progress according to Paragraph 1?
A．A lot of great thinkers were greatly liberated by the idea of progress.
B．People began to think about human progress in the 17th century.
C．Thinkers in the 17th century held a belief about human progress.
D．It was language that failed to convey human progress.
【2】Which of the following is why science fails to bring the desired human progress?
A．Science gives much power to change and takes over the world.
B．Scientific progress does not transmit people's feelings.
C．People are unable to make full use of biotechnology and information technology.
D．Scientific progress requires reasonable management in contact with moral sensibility.
【3】What's the function of moral sensibility from the author's opinion?
A．It gives people desire for dignified life.
B．It can make people work hard for the future.
C．It urges people to build a sense of self-sacrifice
D．People are able to use it to determine themselves.
【4】Why does the author write the passage?
A．To list the reasons of the idea of progress.
B．To highlight the importance of the liberal force in human progress.
C．To criticize people's focus on material progress in human development.
D．To express anxiety about our future life.
25、I have always thought of myself as a writer. When I was two, I loved to sit on the front steps and quietly _________ passers-by and then when I learned to read, _________ turned into an obsession (痴迷). It was a short _________ from loving to see words _________ arranged on a page to wanting to _________ them myself. At seven, I _________ my first “book”, Lost at Sea.
Having read a lot about history, I _________ people and events from the past were more fascinating than people and events in the _________. Learning about times gone by, and the individuals who _________ them, of course, requires __________ for information. When I __________ to do that, I found another obsession: research.
From about age twelve, whenever I read a novel I __________, I would go to the library to find out everything I could about the author’s life. I looked in old newspapers, magazines, and biographies — whatever I could find to try to discover the character of the person who had produced the work that had moved me. Through it all, it was biographies that __________ me most fiercely. It provided a / an __________ into the world of the author in general.
By the end of high school, I could have written a good book about conflicts among authors. __________, I never made the move to write anything based upon the research that I was __________ just for fun. My literary research stayed at the __________ level until 1997 when I wrote my real first __________ , Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.
The creation of the book __________ from what I had learned about biography and the ways of family life during all my __________ research projects.
【1】
A．observe
B．demand
C．bear
D．enjoy
【2】
A．teaching
B．listening
C．traveling
D．reading
【3】
A．break
B．trip
C．visit
D．note
【4】
A．suddenly
B．secretly
C．attractively
D．hardly
【5】
A．memorize
B．speak
C．prove
D．arrange
【6】
A．recited
B．wrote
C．recorded
D．emailed
【7】
A．discovered
B．recommended
C．recalled
D．mentioned
【8】
A．world
B．distance
C．present
D．way
【9】
A．gave up on
B．lived in
C．looked up to
D．hunted for
【10】
A．begging
B．preparing
C．applying
D．digging
【11】
A．started
B．pretended
C．hoped
D．failed
【12】
A．created
B．admired
C．translated
D．adapted
【13】
A．appealed to
B．related to
C．belonged to
D．occurred to
【14】
A．experience
B．solution
C．window
D．question
【15】
A．Therefore
B．Otherwise
C．However
D．Moreover
【16】
A．doing
B．publishing
C．spreading
D．reviewing
【17】
A．high
B．professional
C．suitable
D．amateur
【18】
A．play
B．book
C．list
D．comedy
【19】
A．kept
B．recovered
C．heard
D．benefited
【20】
A．energy-saving
B．money-consuming
C．self-driven
D．short-sighted
26、假设你是李津，在互联网上看到英国高中生David登的一则启事：他通过媒体了解到中国改革开放四十年的巨大变化，对中国非常感兴趣，希望能结识一位中国朋友，以便了解中国的语言、文化。请你给David发一封电子邮件，主要内容包括：
（1）你怎样得知David的愿望；
（2）你愿意成为他的朋友；
（3）你打算如何帮助他；
（4）你盼望他的回复。
注意：（1）电子邮件的格式已为你写好，不计入总词数；（2）词数：不少于100词。
Dear David,
I’ve learned ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Jin
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