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1、－You know, people have different opinions about the construction of the project.
－We welcome any comments from them, favorable or _______.
A. so B. otherwise
C. else D. rather
2、________ has greater potential than flammable ice being mined from underneath the South China Sea when it comes to a global energy revolution.
A. nothing B. neither
C. no one D. none
3、Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will build a 200-million-euro factory in France________potential challenges and obstacles.
A.owing to B.regardless of C.apart from D.instead of
4、Watch out for injuries while exercising. Always stop you begin to feel any pain.
A. in order that B. even if
C. ever since D. as soon as
5、My brother’s plans are very ______; he wants to master English, French and Spanish before he is 10.
A. arbitrary B. aggressive C. ambitious D. abundant
6、The course normally attracts 200 students per year, ______ up to half will be from overseas.
A. of whom B. for whom C. with which D. in which
7、Many white collars went back to second and third-tier cities only ______that housing prices there are also jumping, traffic jams increasing and the air becoming dirty.
A. to have found B. found C. to find D. finding
8、－That must have been a terrible experience.
－Yeah. I________ in the damaged car, unable to move.
A. was stuck B. have been stuck
C. am stuck D. had been stuck
9、— Many drugs have been forbidden recently.
— Actually. But the scientists say that before a new drug ___ on humans, plenty of studies___.
A. can be tested; are needed
B. can test; are needed
C. can be tested; need
D. can test; need
10、Mr. Smith was having a meeting at that time, otherwise he ______________ over to help us.
A.might have come B.would come
C.had come D.were to come
11、Don’ t worry. A number of efforts are being made ______ the whole system operating normally.
A. being kept B. kept
C. keeping D. to keep
12、All I can do is________ a tricycle and make money for the students.
A．ride.
B．to ride
C．riding
D．rode
13、—Have you checked all the relief________ to the people in the disaster area?
—Yes, several times. But I'll check it once more.
A．sent
B．sending
C．to send
D．to be sent
14、I______ about what you’ve said and I’ve decided to take your advice.
A.thought B.was thinking C.have been thinking D.had thought
15、Single women were allowed to take part in their own competition in ancient Olympic Games, at a separate festival _______ Hera, the wife of the Greek god Zeus.
A．in favor of
B．in honor of
C．in charge of
D．in search of
16、The newly-built subway is always crowded with passengers going home from market, most of them _____ heavy bags and baskets full of fruit and vegetables.
A. carried B. to be carried
C. to carry D. carrying
17、The students have decided on a final date by which everyone reading the books assigned by their professor.
A. finishes B. finished
C. have finished D. will have finished
18、When faced with a big challenge ________ potential failure seems to hide at every corner, maybe you've heard this advice before: “Be more confident.”
A. where B. whose C. which D. of which
19、You may not agree, but my____ opinion is that this program is not suitable for children.
A.unique B.personal C.optimistic D.generous
20、________ back in his chair, the man began to tell us his adventures in the forests.
A. Sit B. Sitting C. To sit D. Sat
21、A YOUNG girl raises her hand in class to answer the teacher’s question. She proudly gives the correct answer when her classmates start to giggle . Among them, she hears somebody call her a “know-it-all” and sees another roll his eyes. She doesn’t dare to speak up again because confident women are often called“ “bossy”.
Despite decades of advances, it seems that women continue to face prejudice when it comes to holding a position of power.
Laila Farah, an associate professor at DePaul University in Chicago in the US, said the reason for this stereotype lies in history.
“This is an old phenomenon which reflects the fact that many people think females don’t have the same brain capability compared to the male brain,” Farah said.
What’s more, the prejudice is so deep in our society that it has become hard to ignore. “Gender bias is found in the media, schools, the workplace-basically everywhere,” Farah said. “It is learned in infancy and goes from toys chosen to assuming females aren’t good at math.”
Another reason for confident women being called bossy is that “some people aren’t used to women being confident enough to speak their minds”, said high school junior Jessica Bella from Illinois. Embarrassing women by calling them “bossy” has caused some of them to tone down their confidence.
In a study done by the Girls Leadership Institute, a program that helps girls develop strong leadership skills, many girls said the biggest thing holding them back from participating in class was being judged.
“Sometimes, I know I have the right answer in class, but I don’t raise my hand because I don’t want to be annoying, ” said high school junior Emily Grigg from Illinois.
Still, some women have bravely stood up against this stereotype.
“If women in leadership positions are considered to be bossy, then I like to do all I can to prove that wrong. We all have an equal opportunity to present our knowledge no matter how that may come across, ”said Christina Jakubas, an English teacher from Illinois.
Maybe what we need to do is turn being bossy into something empowering for women. After all, bossy people get the job done.
【1】Why does the author write about the experience of a girl raising her hand in class?
A．prove that confident women tend to be bossy
B．explain why bossy women are unpopular in groups
C．explore what stops women from being themselves
D．show how women should fight against gender bias
【2】What do the underlined words ”this stereotype“ in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．Females failing to do as well as males in math.
B．Gender bias becoming hard to ignore in society.
C．Women who hold a position of power facing prejudice.
D．Females not having the same brain capabilities as males.
【3】Which of the following would the author probably agree with according to the article?
A．Confident women tend to possess strong leadership skills.
B．Bossy women usually get their jobs done better than men.
C．Females in leadership positions should try to avoid being bossy,
D．Females should ignore negative comments and bravely speak their minds
【4】In which part of the magazine can we read the passage?
A．Health
B．Society
C．Politics
D．Entertainment
22、Teenagers are the most dangerous drivers on the road, and car crashes are the leading cause of death among teens. But there’s one simple way to keep kids safe: Don’t give teens a car they consider their own.
Teenagers who reported that they were the main person driving a vehicle, rather than sharing it with other family members, were more than twice as likely to be involved in a crash. One in four drivers with primary access to a car had had an accident while driving in the past year, compared with 1 in 10 for shared access. That means 25 percent of the kids driving their “own” cars had at least one accident last year! The teens with their own car also were more likely to use a cell phone while driving (78 percent, compared with 55 percent) and to speed (70 percent vs 54 percent). These figures come from a survey of 2167 teenagers by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. It is said to be the first to look at whether having primary access to a car affects safety for teenage drivers.
What makes driving a family car safer? Maybe it’s as simple as knowing that it’s the family’s car. I’m sure the realization that it wasn’t “my” car made me more sorry-and more careful.
Many parents are excited when their teenager is finally driving, and many teens need to drive themselves to school or work. As a result, it’s easy for parents to think that a new driver needs a car. Indeed, the researchers found that 70 percent of the teenagers said that they had their “own” car. This is dangerous, and parents should consider delaying giving a child a car at least until the teenager has been driving for a year.
Children who have strict parents were 50 percent less likely to have had a crash in the past year, compared with parents whose style is permissive. The advice: Don’t be afraid to set rules for safe driving behavior, and take the keys if those rules aren’t followed. In fact, making your teenager say, “Mom, can I have the car keys?” may be one of the simplest and best ways to keep your child safe.
【1】The percentage of teenagers who speed while driving a family car is _________.
A．54%
B．70%
C．55%
D．78%
【2】What are many parents excited at?
A．Their teenager finding a job.
B．Their teenager making friends.
C．Their teenager getting a driving license.
D．Their teenager buying their own car.
【3】How does the author make his point trustworthy in the text?
A．By using some examples.
B．By offering some figures.
C．By reasoning and concluding.
D．By analyzing causes and effects.
【4】What is the best title for the passage?
A．Teenagers: the most dangerous drivers
B．Keep teens safe-not giving them a car
C．Teens driving alone worry parents
D．Family shared cars can avoid car crashes
23、 Years of exposure to Americans has, at last, convinced me of something about their food culture. I now think they’re correct in one of life’s great dilemmas: when eating at a restaurant, it is really fine to politely send your food back if it is not what you ordered, or covered in cheese when you asked for no cheese, etc.
Of course, the idea makes me feel anxious; the British fear of making a scene is planted in my soul. But what persuaded me, in the end, was realizing how self-centered that fear actually is. Are you really such a big deal that your no-cheese request will embarrass your fellow diners, ruin the waiter's day, and send waves of shock through the kitchen? Face it: you're not. Instead, you're in the situation of what might be termed “egocentric reticence (以自我为中心的沉默).”
Egocentric reticence raised its head again the other day in a study about gratitude, which found that people underestimate how much delight a thank-you note can bring. The psychologists Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley had people send grateful messages to someone who'd made a difference to their lives. Again and again, they found, senders assumed their words would lead to less happiness and more awkwardness than they really did, and that recipients would judge their letter-writing competence cruelly, too. Even in the seemingly selfless context of expressing gratitude, senders couldn’t help giving too much weight to their own perspective. So if you stop yourself from sending someone a thank-you note because you're worried you'll make them feel awkward or annoyed, you are letting egocentrism prevent an action that would have made both of you happier.
The most acute form of egocentric reticence, surely, is extreme shyness. “Shyness is just egotism out of its depth,” famous actress Penelope Keith once told an interviewer. The quote was later regarded as a line the writer Sadie Stein credits with curing her own shyness. “For some reason, the clear cruelty of that quote was what I needed, ” Stein wrote. “OK, I thought... No one is looking at you.”
【1】Before contacting Americans, the author thought sending restaurant food back was ________.
A．certainly a customer's right
B．fine to do just in some cultures
C．acceptable but not worthy sometimes
D．embarrassing and would cause trouble
【2】If someone is in a situation of egocentric reticence, he might ________.
A．hesitate to do something due to self-centered reasons
B．keep sending waves of shock to others
C．be ignorant of other people's feelings
D．do something extremely embarrassing
【3】What did the study about gratitude find?
A．People may regard sending grateful messages unimportant.
B．It's common for Americans to send a thank-you letter.
C．It's important to thank others after being helped.
D．People often take a thank-you note for granted.
【4】What does Sadie Stein's story tell us?
A．We sometimes need shyness to behave well.
B．We should pay no attention to other people's thoughts.
C．We can overcome our shyness by removing our egotism.
D．We should avoid being exposed to other people's focus.
24、 Throughout history it has been the individualists, like Henry Ford and Rosa Parks, who have led nations, formed common groups, and made the greatest influence. However, people, such as the author, Michael Walzer, of Multiculturalism and Individualism, condemn the independent person as an unreliable and empty creature. This criticism of the socially unlimited human is the fearful reaction to the power that these individuals can possess. Nevertheless, strong individuals form the foundation of the world progress in technological and social fields because of their willingness to question and create.
Individualists have always been more involved with technological advances than the communitarian (社群主义者). It has been the person, unstopped by other people’s familiar opinion that has given the most creative and helpful of inventions. A brief look into history reveals names such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and, more recently, Bill Gates who have improved and contributed to the comfort of humanity. These individuals were often criticized for their self-interest work, but when the products of their imagination changed the lives of humans around the world the dissatisfied voices quieted.
Individualists are more socially persuasive than the faceless members of self-interest groups. History disclosed the fact that it is the individual that empowers the people. I ask you, what are ten important interest groups that had a positive influence on America in the nineteenth century? This is a difficult question. However, if the words interest groups are replaced with individuals, the answer would be relatively easy. Michael Walzer claims that individuals are just trash floating aimlessly away from every creative center. But, it is the strange individualists who have the power to create the groups and the fact is that every group is a product of individualists. So by arguing for wiping out individualistic thought a group is actually cutting their own lifeline.
Individualists are the largest and most important contributors to society. The fear of change doesn’t change that fact. Society has always condemned the different, strange, and unusual person when in actuality that person is the source for the advancement of society itself.
【1】What attitude does Michael Walzer have to individualists in his book?
A.Optimistic. B.Objective. C.Negative. D.Positive.
【2】Why are Bill Gates and Edison more creative according to the author?
A.They don’t follow the traditional ideas.
B.They are more constructive to the society.
C.They are more likely to stick to old ideas.
D.They dislike the main stream society.
【3】What can be inferred from paragraph 3?
A.Individualists make the majority of groups.
B.Most group members are usually creative.
C.The life of a group lies with individualists.
D.Individualists should be removed from groups.
【4】What’s the purpose of the passage?
A.To call on people to contribute to the society
B.To stress the importance of individualists
C.To criticize the individualists
D.To tell the difference between individualists and groups
25、 At the age of 4, the little Ulmer was stung by a bee. Less than a week later, she was stung by another bee, which ______ her naturally being deathly ______ of bees. However, this did not last too long. Soon, she began to do research on bees. As a part of it, she ______ that bees were not only on the ______ of extinction but were also ______ for the environment and ecosystem.
At roughly the same time, Ulmer’s great grandmother Helen ______ the family her 1940’s cookbook from a far city. One of the recipes inside was that for her so-called “famous” flaxseed lemonade recipe. This got Ulmer ______: How could she combine her grandmother’s recipe and ______ the bees at the same time? Her ______: a lemonade stand that doesn’t just take advantage of the bees ______, but helps them too.
Soon after coming to this ______, Ulmer asked her parents if she could ______ her own lemonade stand. Her parents ______, and she soon started selling her own lemonade, operating as “Bee Sweet Lemonade”. But Ulmer made one great ______ to her great grandmother’s lemonade recipe, using sugar instead of honey. Soon after, a local pizza shop asked Ulmer to ______ them with lemonade. This gave Ulmer the ______ of starting bottling her lemonade, ______ just selling it outside her house. She began offering her lemonade to nearby stores, many of which began to ______ her lemonade.
Now the teenage CEO Ulmer becomes the bee ambassador and she has been ______ to White House as a special guest to meet the president for her fight against the ______ of facing the world’s critically important honey bee population.
A．added to
B．turned into
C．resulted in
D．counted for
A．tired
B．sure
C．fond
D．afraid
A．discovered
B．predicted
C．explained
D．suggested
A．stage
B．journey
C．edge
D．middle
A．possible
B．necessary
C．obvious
D．complex
A．copied
B．bought
C．sought
D．sent
A．thinking
B．doubting
C．expecting
D．believing
A．feed
B．attract
C．save
D．drive
A．wish
B．result
C．suggestion
D．answer
A．naturally
B．fully
C．carefully
D．gradually
A．situation
B．description
C．introduction
D．conclusion
A．organize
B．develop
C．establish
D．promote
A．agreed
B．promised
C．insisted
D．confirmed
A．decision
B．support
C．change
D．praise
A．help
B．inspire
C．supply
D．invest
A．idea
B．plan
C．belief
D．purpose
A．let alone
B．in spite of
C．regardless of
D．rather than
A．deliver
B．advertise
C．sell
D．design
A．persuaded
B．invited
C．allowed
D．chosen
A．threat
B．competition
C．reality
D．trend
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When my daughters reached the third and fourth grades, I sometimes allowed them to walk to and from school alone if the weather permitted. One warm spring day, a little dog followed them home after school. It had short legs and long lovely ears. It was the cutest dog I had ever seen and the girls begged me to keep it.
The dog was about twelve weeks old. It had no collar(项圈) or identifying marks of any sort. I didn’t know what to do. I thought about posting an advertisement but I really didn’t want to. It would break the kids’ hearts if someone should show up. Besides, its owners should have watched it more closely.
By the end of the week the dog was part of our family. It was very intelligent and good with the girls. The following week something told me to check the lost—and—found section in the local paper. One particular advertisement jumped out at me and my heart beat with fear for what I read. Someone was begging for the return of a lost dog in the neighborhood of our grade school. They sounded extremely eager. My hand shook, couldn’t bring myself to pick up the paper.
Instead, I pretended I hadn’t seen the advertisement. I quickly put paper away in the drawer and continued with my dusting. I never said a word about it to the kids or my husband.
By now we had named the dog. It looked like a Molly, so that was what we called it. It followed the girls everywhere they went. When they went outside, it was one step behind them. When they did the housework, it was there to lend a hand.
There was only one problem with this seemingly perfect picture: my conscience(良心)was bothering me. I knew in my heart I had to call that number in the paper and see if our Molly was the dog they were desperately seeking. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done.
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
With mixed feelings, I finally picked up the phone.
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I asked the woman to come in and she quickly bent over and hugged Molly tightly.
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