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1、Social and cultural activities for senior citizens ______ over the past several years.
A. conducted B. were conducted
C. have conducted D. have been conducted
2、The Nintendo Switch released a game in 1995, and over the past two years, a new system______ its player a chance to play the game better.
A.gives B.has given
C.would have given D.given
3、It is known that water is not an endless resource, ________ can it be made once more, so we should save and protect it.
A．so
B．as
C．thus
D．nor
4、The government agrees that it will provide medicine injections emergencies to children experiencing severe allergic reactions.
A.in salute to B.in case of
C.in care for D.in return for
5、Today, the increasing number of genderqueer and trans people, along with the increasingly________ nature of gender presentation and more general discussion about it further complicates the idea.
A.flexible B.rigid C.various D.general
6、Hardly ______ when I regretted saying it.
A. had the word come out B. did the word come out
C. the word had come out D. the word came out
7、In the lecture, the professor told his students about how to write an _________ of a graduate paper, expressing the main argument.
A. account B. application C. address D. abstract
8、______ we’ll do is to leave a note for Mum to tell her we won’t be back till late.
A．That
B．Which
C．What
D．How
9、________ well in the coming Art Festival, the children have been practicing dancing every afternoon in the past two weeks.
A．Performing
B．Having performed
C．To perform
D．Performed
10、______, a small advertisement held my attention, which read “Easy job．Good wages．No experience necessary．”
A．Looking through the newspaper
B．While I was looking through the newspaper
C．To look through the newspaper
D．I was looking through the newspaper
11、Being a popular actor or model, a so-called glamorous job, can be a quite hard life, with a lot of travelling ________ heavy schedules.
A.on account of B.on behalf of C.in regard to D.in relation to
12、There’s no way of knowing why one man makes an important discovery __________ another man, also intelligent, fails.
A.while B.when C.where D.why
13、The cost of living in big cities ________ steadily for many years，and it has led some youths to drop out of the big city race.
A. is climbing B. is being climbed
C. has been climbing D. has been climbed
14、Nowadays, more and more young ladies, figures most are fine enough, are going on a diet.
A. who B. whose
C. of whose D. of whom
15、---Shall we go and see the museum?
---No, ________.
A．don’t mention it
B．not at all
C．never mind
D．it’s not worth it
16、You'd better check the train schedule______ .we have to take a train to Chengdu.
A. even if B. as if
C. incase D. as long as
17、It is reported that China will not buy the Euro debt until some thorough research ______.
A. has been done B. will have been done
C. will be done D. had been done
18、 Good news never goes beyond the gate, ______ bad news spreads far and wide.
A. when B. as C. while D. before
19、______ unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that the latter is due to the former.
A. Where B. Before C. Until D. Unless
20、What was it ______ brought you two together? Was it your love of music?
A.as B.who C.that D.which
21、 Glamping, or “glamourous camping”, lets you combine the luxury of a fancy hotel stay with the close-to-nature air of a camping holiday. Here's a list of some of the most famous glamping spots in the UK for you to choose from!
Glamping 1:
Cadland pop-up rooms, Hampshire
This collection of bell tents aims to bring a Hamptons hotel air to the south coast this summer. A few steps away from an undisturbed beach on the Solent, there will also be a bar and restaurant; deliveries can also be made to your tent.
From ₤499 for three nights, thepopuphotel.com
Glamping 2：
Camp Katur, Yorkshire
Enjoy a spot of stargazing in the North Yorkshire countryside. Glamping here caters for all tastes and family sizes, some sleeping up to 18 people. From May, Katur should have an outdoor pub and restaurant up and running.
From ₤220 for two nights, campkatur.com
Glamping 3:
Roarsome Adventures, Cornwall
Two transformed American school buses will be taking up residence on Mesmear Farm in Cornwall or the summer. The farm has animals to feed and eggs to collect.
From ₤300 for three nights, dinoskiwear.com/adventures
Glamping 4:
Ten Acres Vineyard, Devon
This one, on a south-facing slope with Dartmoor in the distance, was first planted in 2008. A cellar-door shop means you won't go thirsty—it sells its own apple juice, wine and camping accessories.
From ₤550 for two nights,tenacres.vineyardcamping.co.uk
【1】What is special about Cadland pop-up rooms, Hampshire?
A．You can have takeout food in your tent.
B．You can make deliveries to a restaurant.
C．Glamping here has the largest capacity of family size.
D．Glamping here enables you to breathe close-to-nature air.
【2】Which Glamping is the cheapest per night?
A．Glamping 1.
B．Glamping 2.
C．Glamping 3.
D．Glamping 4.
【3】What can we learn about Ten Acres Vineyard, Devon?
A．We can watch hens laying eggs.
B．Enough drinks can satisfy your thirst.
C．We can eat in an outdoor pub and restaurant.
D．Two school buses will transport you to glamping.
22、Storytelling is an ancient art form that has been used to hand down legends, tales and factual stories. Perhaps the first thing that springs to mind when you think of storytelling is the fantasy land that took shape in your mind while Mom or Dad told you stories about princes, castles and monsters, with a unique voice for each character.
Storytelling does not just take place at bedtime or round a campfire, however. It can take some other forms, either via the books we read or the films we watch. But they usually have some elements in common: rather than a list of dry facts, stories have plots and they introduce characters. We respond to stories, particularly when there is emotional detail.
And unlike what we suppose, storytelling is not just a form of entertainment, but a form of learning as well. Long before reading and writing became widely spread and available, oral storytelling had already been a form that the wisdom and knowledge of the people were passed down from elders to children. A good story engages our curiosity, emotions and imagination.
Storytelling helps with learning also because stories are easy to remember. Research has found that learning obtained from a well-told story is remembered more accurately, and for far longer, than from facts and figures.
And above all, stories have a transformative power to allow us to see the world in a different way than we do if we just encounter it on our own. Stories are an entry point to understanding a different experience of the world.
This aspect of storytelling-presenting a different perspective of the world—is important when it comes to connecting with each other. It gives us an opportunity to learn from another person’s experience and it can shape, strengthen or challenge our opinions and values. So, when someone tells us their own personal story, we catch a glimpse (瞥见) of a view of the world that may be slightly or significantly different from our own. When we see the world as they see it, or walk in their shoes, the experience can inspire empathy (共情；同理心) with them.
【1】What occurs to us the moment we think of “storytelling”?
A．A child's imaginary world.
B．Voices of Mom or Dad.
C．An ancient art form.
D．Factual stories.
【2】What are the common elements in all forms of storytelling according to the author?
A．Form and style.
B．Facts and figures.
C．Emotional and physical details.
D．A series of events and characters.
【3】Why does storytelling work better than mere statement of facts in promoting learning?
A．It carries more wisdom and knowledge.
B．It is more widely available to young learners.
C．It satisfies our imagination and releases our emotions.
D．It makes what is learned more precise and longer lasting.
【4】How can other people’s personal stories probably benefit us?
A．By offering us more opportunities to know people.
B．By helping us stay connected with the contemporary world.
C．By allowing us to understand the world the way they see it.
D．By enabling us to tell reality from imagination.
【5】What makes the best title for the passage?
A．The History of Storytelling
B．The Power of Storytelling
C．The Forms of Storytelling
D．The Art of Storytelling
23、Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, in the US, have developed a piece of software that can read minds. The project, supported by Facebook, hopes to help people who, because of medical conditions, are unable to communicate with others.
Until now, technologies that have helped speech-impaired (语言障碍) people communicate have been too slow to allow a natural conversation. People find these things upsetting to use. This new way uses brain signals to change a person’s thoughts into text. When we want to speak, the brain sends signals to make the lips, jaw and tongue move in the right way to make an understandable sound. By discovering these brain signals, the new software is able to predict what a person want to say quickly enough to hold a conversation.
The brain-reading software was tested on three volunteers who could all speak like healthy people. They were being treated for epilepsy (癫痫). As part of their treatment for epilepsy, each patient had electrodes(电极) placed on to their brain. Edward Chang, whole d the study, used these electrodes to record the signals in the patients’ brains while they listened to a list of questions and answered them.
Chang and his team then built a computer program that learned to match the patients’ brain signals to the words the patients heard and the words the patients spoke. For the questions, the software matched the correct words 76%of the time. For the answers, it matched the correct words 61%of the time.
Now, the mind-reading software works only for the limited set of sentences on which it was trained. Scientists hope that this early system will help them develop a more powerful one that could understand thoughts in real time to give people their voices back. Chang said, “We as scientists should try our best to help people to bring that most important and basic human ability back.”
【1】What is the disadvantage of previous technologies?
A．They couldn’t read people’s minds correctly.
B．They couldn’t make communication understandable.
C．They couldn’t serve the purpose of natural conversation.
D．They couldn’t let medical conditions change for the better.
【2】How does the software help people?
A．By changing people’s mind into text.
B．By sending signals to their lips.
C．By organizing conversations for them.
D．By training them how to speak.
【3】What can we know about the mind-reading software according to the last paragraph?
A．It has been used on a wide scale.
B．It has restored the basic human ability.
C．It still has plenty of room for improvement.
D．It has enhanced human real-time conversation.
【4】What is the attitude of the author towards the mind-reading software?
A．Favorable.
B．Objective.
C．Intolerant.
D．Doubtful.
24、Growing up, I always heard people say work hard pays. I never really understood these words until I reached the age where my parents stopped giving me my monthly allowance and asked me to look for a job.
New Year is a season of good news for merrymakers and entrepreneurial (企业家的) characters. My childhood friend was one of the latter. Mike and I were two sides of the same coin. I was an introvert and a bookworm, while Mike was outgoing and a merrymaker. His added advantage over me was that he came from a family of entrepreneurs. Therefore, while I saw the festive season as another time to enjoy, he saw it as a perfect time to make money. Ironically, I needed this side of him, given my present predicament (困境).
Mike was not of the “work hard pays” school of thought but the “work smart” school. When I told him about my predicament, he saw a business partner. He confided ( 吐 露 ) in me about his business idea — making and selling festive decorations. Having noticed my disbelieving look, he told me he had researched and realized that only one shop sold festive decorations with exorbitant ( 过 高 的 ) price, which meant that there was room for competition. However, I reminded him starting a business, let alone competing with an established enterprise, required capital. He told me, “Not really. All we had to do was make some decorations ourselves.” Upon that, we made some special designs and hit the ground running.
News about our selling decorations spread like wildfire. Mike’s decision to publish brochures advertising our products was a genius marketing trick. Within three days, we had sold about 50 sets of decorations, and as they say, the rest is history.
My parents’ decision to stop my monthly allowance served to teach me the value of work. However, it was my entrepreneurial adventure with Mike that taught me that working smart is better than working hard.
【1】What was the author’s present predicament?
A．Weak reading skills.
B．Lack of financial support.
C．Poor communication ability.
D．Awful relationship with parents.
【2】What do the underlined words “hit the ground running” in paragraph 3 mean?
A．Set off immediately.
B．Collected money eagerly.
C．Imagined the future merrily.
D．Started the business successfully.
【3】What is Mike’s marketing strategy?
A．Advertising their products widely.
B．Doing research in advance.
C．Designing delicate decorations.
D．Making decorations on their own.
【4】What can we learn from the author’s story?
A．Smart work outweighs hard work.
B．Wisdom comes from hard work.
C．Working hard pays off.
D．Working smart starts with working hard.
25、 Dick and Rick Hoyt began their extraordinary father-son racing team more than four decades ago, when Rick, then, a high school student in a wheelchair, _______his father to push him in a 5-mile run, benefiting a classmate who had been paralyzed (瘫痪) in an accident.
Mr. Hoyt was nearing 40 and, _______, was no longer the athlete he had been in his youth. But he_______to race with son, having no sign of the thousands of miles they would_______together, letting alone the national _______ they would gather along the way.
Born with a_______cerebral palsy (脑瘫), Rick was unable to move his arms or legs. Even he could not_______. But he could_______with the aid of a computer that enabled him to tap out words with his head. After that first race, Rick declared to his father that when they were running, it felt as though his_______disappeared. Over the next 40 years, Rick and Dick would________in more than 1,000 races around the country, including 72 marathons. Team Hoyt, as the father-son partners were called, drove an active shift in the________of people with disabilities, one whose________reached far beyond their community.
“Team Hoyt________what it means to be an athlete, fully showing________, passion, and love,” the Athletic Association said in the________. “The pair's bond and presence has become synonymous (同义的) with the Marathon.”
A．forced
B．asked
C．promised
D．followed
A．anyhow
B．whatever
C．however
D．otherwise
A．refused
B．agreed
C．allowed
D．planned
A．push
B．walk
C．cycle
D．cover
A．discussion
B．curiosity
C．attention
D．theme
A．slight
B．mild
C．fierce
D．severe
A．read
B．speak
C．look
D．listen
A．communicate
B．cooperate
C．interview
D．learn
A．fear
B．honor
C．disability
D．embarrassment
A．travel
B．wander
C．relax
D．compete
A．treatment
B．desire
C．concern
D．need
A．actions
B．influences
C．words
D．thoughts
A．spreads
B．advertises
C．reflects
D．announces
A．elegance
B．strength
C．achievement
D．determination
A．statement
B．instruction
C．negotiation
D．appointment
26、假如你是李华，最近发现你所住的小区内增设了旧物捐赠箱（a donation box)，居民可以把自己的旧衣物、飞起的书报等投放期中。请你给本校英文报投稿，内容包括：
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