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1、Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will give up the name “royal” ____ they withdraw from official duties and embrace new lives, the couple confirmed on Friday.
A.unless B.while C.as D.although
2、There are no ______ proposals to reduce the road accidents. We are still seeking inspiration.
A. contradictory B. concrete
C. confidential D. controversial
3、--How do you usually go to work？
--I usually drive，but if it is fine，I ______ by bike．
A．will go B．would go
C．have gone D．had gone
4、—What is the matter with our school network?
—I don’t know. My computer ________ to the Internet in our office for a few days.
A．hasn’t linked
B．doesn’t link
C．wasn’t linked
D．hasn’t been linked
5、Once you’ve ________ the items you ordered, put this record in your file.
A. checked in B. checked off
C. checked out D. checked with
6、Every year, __________ makes the most beautiful kite will win a prize in the Kite Festival.
A.whoever B.whomever C.no matter who D.no matter whom
7、Zhurong is the god of fire in ancient Chinese mythology,________echoes with the Chinese name of the red planet, Huoxing.
A．which
B．that
C．when
D．where
8、-- Did Jim come?
-- I don’t know. He _______ while I was out.
A．might have come
B．might come
C．must have come
D．should have come
9、See things in a negative light and you will find faults everywhere and problems where there are really _______.
A.none B.no one C.something D.nothing
10、________ the concert to raise money for hunger relief and to make the public aware of the problem, Geldof invited many famous musicians to take part in it.
A. Intended B. Intending C. Having intended D. To intend
11、—How can you know so much about the incident?
—It took place only 50 yards from ______ I was standing.
A.which B.that C.where D.what
12、Their ship was blown off course by strong wind, and they arrived in ________is known as Greenland by chance.
A.where B.when C.what D.which
13、—Peter, you delivered a wonderful speech today.
—Thanks, but I think I ______ more attention to my stage manners during that time.
A. must pay B. should pay
C. must have paid D. should have paid
14、Nantong has become one of the most_____cities in the Yangtze River Delta through innovation.
A.dynamic B.conservative C.primitive D.ethnic
15、These remarkable findings suggest the elephants have ________ a memory capacity to make distinctions between human voices.
A. built up B. packed up C. brought up D. took up
16、In the past few years, we’ve seen works by Chinese sci-fi writers winning international ______.
A．conclusion
B．standard
C．potential
D．recognition
17、The hero’s touching story ________ online has drawn thousands of “likes” and hundreds of comments from the public.
A．posting
B．to post
C．posted
D．to be posted
18、Although _____ by the opposite team, the players were not discouraged but practiced harder.
A. beating B. beaten
C. having beaten D. being beaten
19、—What’s up? You look worried.
—Well, I ______ on the problem for 5 hours but I haven’t got a single clue.
A. have worked B. worked
C. will work D. have been working
20、After the bridge has been widened, the traffic is now flowing________.
A．quickly
B．smoothly
C．cautiously
D．accurately
21、The elusive profound mystery of happiness could be as simple as remembering the good times and forgetting the regrets, a new university study reported yesterday. For people who look at the past through rose-tinted glasses are happier than those who focus on negative past experience and regrets, according to a new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
The study is conducive to the explanation of why personality has such a strong influence on a person’s happiness. The findings suggest that people with certain personality traits are happier than others because of the way they think about their past, present and future. The study examined how people’s ratings on the “Big Five” personality traits relate to their approach to time and life satisfaction.
The “Big Five” model assesses how extroverted, open, responsible, agreeable, and neurotic a person is, and rates individuals as high or low on each personality trait rather than assigning them a personality type. “We found that the first four kind of people are happier with their lives because they tend to hold a bright view of the past and are less likely to have negative thoughts and regrets. People high on the neurotic scale essentially have the exact opposite view of the past and are less happier as a result,” said Ryan Howell, assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State University, who authored the study with SF State College senior Jiawei Zhang. “This is good news because though it may be difficult to change your personality, you may be able to change your view of time and boost your happiness,” Howell said.
The authors suggest that enjoying happy memories or reframing painful past experience in a positive light could be effective ways for individuals to increase their life satisfaction.
“Personality traits influence how people look at the past, present and future and it is these different perspectives on time that drive a person’s happiness,” Howell added.
【1】The underlined phrase “through rose-tinted glasses” in Para. 1 probably means “______”.
A．in a neurotic way
B．in a pessimistic way
C．in an optimistic way
D．in a disappointing way
【2】According to the passage, ______ may well improve your happiness.
A．forgetting memories
B．changing your personality
C．remembering painful past experience
D．viewing painful past memories positively
【3】What kind of people are likely to be unhappier?
A．Highly extraverted.
B．Very agreeable.
C．Rather neurotic.
D．Quite open.
【4】What is the best title for the passage?
A．Personality Traits
B．Secret of Happiness
C．Past Experience Leads to Unhappiness
D．Never Let Regrets Affect Your Happiness
22、When I was young, a friend and I came up with a “big” plan to make reading easy. The idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each. “Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages?
Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks”. The end result is more than one sentence, but not by much. Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café” is broken into 11 screens of information; Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” fills 13.
Blinkist has been around since 2012. It calls its summaries “15-minute discoveries” to indicate how long it takes to read a Blinkist summary. “Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.”
But I think a book is something we ought to live with, rather than speed through and categorize. It offers an experience as real as any other. The point of reading a book is not accumulating information, or at least not that alone. The most essential aspect is the communication between writer and reader. The idea behind Blinkist, however, is the opposite: Reading can be, should be, measured by the efficient uptake (吸收) of key ideas.
No, no, no. What’s best about reading books is its inefficiency. When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can. Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.
【1】What does the underlined part “the joke was on us” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A．We were actually joking.
B．We were laughed at by others.
C．We were underestimating’ ourselves.
D．We were just embarrassing ourselves.
【2】What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．What Blinkist is.
B．Why Blinkist is popular.
C．How to use Blinkist.
D．Where you can use Blinkist.
【3】What is an ideal pattern of reading according to the author?
A．Obtaining key ideas efficiently.
B．Further confirming our beliefs.
C．Accumulating information quickly.
D．Deeply involving ourselves in books.
【4】What is the author’s attitude to Blinkist?
A．Positive.
B．Negative
C．Uncaring.
D．Tolerant.
23、A plant swap is the perfect way to thin out some additional plants you have, while acquiring some brand-new ones to enjoy at the same time. Not only will you swap plants, but you’ll trade information about plant care. 【1】Here are some suggestions on how to organize a plant swap.
The first step is trying to calculate interest from your friends or neighbours in your community. Talk to those who garden and like plants to see if they would be interested in participating. 【2】 The more people you have, the more fun it will be.
【3】 Each visitor is asked to bring a pest free, healthy plant, or two or three for trade. They can be potted or bare root. All swapped items must be labeled (标记) with the crop type and the variety name. The visitor may additionally bring care directions for the plant.
Prepare a place to host. A backyard is the ideal, casual area. Set up tables for every one of the plants and add some easy decoration to them. 【4】 Once you have the location ready, you can talk to the visitors about selecting the best date and time for the event.
Enjoy the swap. When all visitors arrive, let them arrange their plants on the tables and socialize. Participants will certainly have new plants to appreciate and get rid of old ones they really do not have an area for. 【5】. It’s a precious chance for them to share their understanding about the various plants as well as exchange their experience relevant to gardening!
A．Promote the event.
B．Set the rules of a plant swap.
C．They will benefit a lot from the process.
D．More importantly, it helps you connect with others.
E．Adding a plant to your home can do much for the environment.
F．You can also post on social media to measure the crowd’s interest.
G．That way, your guests can place the plants or containers that they bring.
24、 Many diseases and medical conditions are caused by things out of our control. Doctors urge us to eat healthy foods, get exercise, stop smoking and limit our alcohol intake. 【1】 And it is free and easy. Smile!
When we smile, the brain wiring gets altered. The chemicals that are released are more positive. Smiling is a first step in fighting physical and emotional stress and its sometimes harmful effects on human health.
The main cause of heart attacks and strokes are blockages in blood vessels (血管).【2】The most common reason for these blockages is a build-up of fatty deposits on the inner walls of the arteries (大动脉). When we feel stressed or under pressure, our body releases many natural hormones (荷尔家) including adrenaline and cortisol. When we are stressed for a long period, these stress hormones are ever-present in our bodies. And that, medical researchers warn, may lead to health problems.
【3】 However, they claim that when people are stressed for long periods of time, they may not make the best decisions about what to eat. They may overeat, smoke or drink too much alcohol. They may not get enough exercise or sleep. And all of these can lead to health problems.
Dr. Choctkalingam says a smile may be one way to help. He tells his patients to smile 20 times an hour. To some, that might seem like a lot of smiling. Or some might even feel foolish . . . smiling for seemingly no reason. 【4】 It is not invasive (侵入的) like a surgical operation. It is free and it has no bad side effects.
“Once we smile, we are relaxed. This relaxation directly lowers blood pressure, improves sugar levels in the blood. 【5】 .”
And it just may provide a little extra protection to everyone^ heart health.
A.But a smile does not involve drugs.
B.But there is something else we can do.
C.Experts say we can control and even prevent them.
D.These prevent blood from flowing to the heart or the brain.
E.And they are the number one cause of death around the world.
F.If we are smiling, we are breaking that link between stress and health.
G.Researchers say the link between stress and heart disease is still unclear.
25、 President Obama’s second Inaugural Address used soaring language to stress America’s commitment to the dream of equality of opportunity: ‘We are true to our belief that a little girl born into _______ knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American’.
The gap between ideal and reality could hardly be _______ . Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country. Study after study has _______ the myth that America is a land of opportunity. A way of looking at equality of opportunity is to as to what extent the life chances of a child are _______ the education and income of his parents. Is it just as likely that a child of poor or poorly educated parents gets a good education and rises to the middle class as someone born to middle-class parents with college degrees? Even in a more democratic society. the answer would be no.
How do we explain this? Some of it has to do with discrimination （歧视）. Latinos and African-Americans still get paid less than whites, and women still get paid less than men, _______ they recently surpassed （超越）men in the number of advanced degrees they obtain. Discrimination, however, is only a small part of the _______. Probably the most important reason for _______ of equality of opportunity is education. After World WarⅡ, we made a major effort to _______ higher education to Americans across the country. But then we changed, in several ways. While racial segregation（种族隔离）decreased, economic segregation increased. After 1980, the poor grew poorer, the middle stagnated（停滞不前）, and the top did better and better. A result was a widening gap in educational performance – the _______ gap between rich and poor kids born in 2001 was 30 to 40 percent larger than it was for those born 25 years earlier, a Stanford sociologist found. Of course, there are other forces ______ . Children in rich families get more exposure to reading. Their families can afford enriching experiences like music lessons and summer camp. They get better nutrition and health care, which enhance their learning, directly and indirectly.
Now Americans are coming to realize that without extensive policy changes, their long cherished belief is only a myth. It is unreasonable that a rich country like the United States has made _______ to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle. There are many _______ ways of providing chances for more to receive higher education, from Australia’s income-contingent loan program to the near-free system of universities in Europe. A more educated population produces greater innovation, and a booming economy. Those benefits are why we’ve long been ______ to free public education through 12th grade. But while a 12th-grade education might have been enough a century ago, it isn’t today. Yet we haven’t _______ our system to contemporary realities.
The steps I’ve outlined are not just affordable but necessary. Even more important, though, is that we cannot afford to let our country drift farther from _______ that the vast majority of Americans share. We will never fully succeed in achieving Mr. Obama’s vision of a poor girl’s having exactly the same opportunities as a wealthy girl. But we could do much, much better, and must not rest until we do.
A．prejudice
B．inferior
C．poverty
D．minority
A．narrower
B．wider
C．severer
D．closer
A．conducted
B．concluded
C．excluded
D．exposed
A．distinct from
B．feasible by
C．superior to
D．dependent on
A．even though
B．as though
C．only if
D．as if
A．photograph
B．picture
C．atmosphere
D．condition
A．lack
B．leak
C．explosion
D．extinction
A．exhibit
B．explore
C．extend
D．exploit
A．contribution
B．satisfaction
C．achievement
D．ambition
A．at play
B．under control
C．in use
D．on show
A．devotion
B．familiarity
C．application
D．access
A．imaginative
B．alternative
C．sensitive
D．productive
A．admitted
B．permitted
C．devoted
D．limited
A．abandoned
B．adjusted
C．altered
D．applied
A．memories
B．glory
C．reality
D．ideals
26、书面表达
假如你是胜利中学高三（1）班李华，下面四幅图描述了近期你看到骑公共自行车“绿色出行”的宣传后所采取的行动。请根据图片的先后顺序，为校刊“英语园地”写一篇短文。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节使行文连贯；
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