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1、If the traffic so heavy, I could have been back by 6 o’clock.
A. hadn’t been B. wasn’t
C. couldn’t be D. hasn’t been
2、Our losses are incredibly small, viewed ________ what has been accomplished.
A.in the case of B.in the interest of
C.in the event of D.in the light of
3、Many e-commerce platforms play a great role in promoting employment, ________services from stock support to interest-free loans
A.offering B.to offer C.offered D.having offered
4、If you are trying to _________a new skill, please concentrate on gaining some practical experience.
A.recommend B.assess C.acquire D.convince
5、There was a long wait at the reception desk, ______ everyone was checking in.
A．why
B．which
C．whom
D．where
6、The thief_____ the papers all over the room while he was searching.
A.abandoned B.vanished C.scattered D.deserted
7、His eyes locked with mine，and I guessed he _____ the decision right then whether or not to simply tell me the truth.
A.made B.would make C.was making D.had made
8、--- I wonder ________ Mary has changed so much.
--- She has been suffering a serious disease.
A. why B. what C. when D. where
9、Reading a large number of books ________ make us wiser.
A.should B.can C.need D.must
10、The employee might have been dismissed by the employer last month,______ ?
A. hasn't he B. didn't he C. wasn't he D. mightn't he
11、Arriving too early to a dinner party could appear slightly rude if the host ________ their preparations.
A.completes B.is completing C.completed D.has completed
12、This newspaper has a daily ______ of more than one million in this city and if s common to see passengers read a copy in the subway.
A.circulation B.association C.contribution D.accumulation
13、________ the opportunity to speak at the graduation ceremony made me overjoyed.
A. Offering B. Offered
C. To offer D. Being offered
14、We can gain valuable wisdom from mistakes which __________ to prevent them from
happening again.
A. should be avoided B. might be avoided
C. must have been avoided D. could have been avoided
15、 --- Mum, have you seen my mobile phone?
---______ you bought last week? I’m afraid I haven’t seen it.
A．That B．It
C．The one D．One
16、— I’m sure Tom will win the first prize in the final.
— I can’t agree more. He ______ for it for months.
A．is preparing
B．had been preparing
C．was preparing
D．has been preparing
17、Eventually the two sides reached an agreement ___ could not be taken the place of.
A. whose the details B. the details of whose
C. whose details D. of which details
18、---I will leave you two alone. I am sure you two must have a lot to________.
---Yes. It is two years since we last got together.
A．catch up
B．take in
C．bring out
D．give away
19、Peter had been puzzled over the problem for over an hour___________ all at once the solution flashed across his mind.
A.when B.while C.then D.as
20、I insisted______ to see a doctor，but he insisted nothing _____wrong with him
A．on him to go；should be
B．he went；be
C．he go；was
D．he should to；is
21、The board game is Glagolitic Abbey. The players choose a role, solve the murder of a man, find the treasure hidden by a king and then escape with it. To do all that, players must work out the clues (线索) written in Glagolitic, a language used in some European countries from about 800 to 1400, but also one that have nearly died out from the earth.
The purpose of the game is simple: to translate such games into at-risk languages and provide them to people around the world. “If you want to save a language, you have to start with ordinary people, and if you want to involve them, you need fun games,” Brooke, the inventor said.
Brooke is the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project. Six years ago, finding himself without enough money to buy Christmas gifts for friends, he decided to carve everyone signs to hang outside the front door. He found that he enjoyed doing it and that the receivers liked the unusual gifts.
Those first woodcarvings were name signs in English; next, Brooke moved on to Chinese. Later, he searched for other languages. Brooke was surprised to find a huge number of tongues he’d never heard of, and also learned that many are disappearing. “It’s heartbreaking to think that such beautiful languages will never be available for next generations,” he said. Quickly, Brooke’s hobby grew to mission (使命). He went from just documenting to a “more activist” role. Endangered Alphabets thus was born and became a nonprofit organization.
In half a dozen years, Brooke has carved hundreds of sings, had probably 70 exhibitions, given lectures on the project, and built connections with language-saving organizations worldwide. Combining games with saving languages has the potential to take Brooke’s efforts to a more visible level. One company has expressed strong interest in sponsoring and publishing these playing cards in various languages.
【1】What do we know about the board game?
A．The clues are in modern languages.
B．Players are rewarded with treasures.
C．It is very popular in European countries.
D．It aims to involve people to save languages.
【2】What inspired Brooke to set up the Endangered Alphabets Project?
A．His childhood hobby.
B．His poor financial situation.
C．His personal experience.
D．His friends’ encouragement.
【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．Brooke has made a fortune by the game.
B．Some dying languages have been brought back.
C．His board games may enjoy a promising future.
D．Brooke leads some language-saving organizations.
22、 Calories are a way of keeping track of the body's energy budget. A healthy balance occurs when we put in about as much energy as we lose. If we consistently put more energy into our bodies than we bum, the excess will gradually be stored as fat in our cells, and well gain weight. If we bum off more energy than we replenish, well lose weight. But how many calories do we actually need? Calorie is just the unit we use to measure the energy we take in or bum.
Calories are used in three ways: about 10% enables digestion, about 20% fuels physical activity, and the biggest part, around 70%, supports the basic functions of our organs. That third usage corresponds to your basal metabolic rate (基础代谢率), a number of calories you would need to survive if you weren't eating or moving around.
According to the official guidelines, average person requires each day 2000 calories for women and 2500 for men. Those estimates are based on factors like average weight, physical activity and muscle mass. So does that mean everyone should take in around 2000 calories? Not necessarily. If you're doing an energy consuming activity, like cycling the Tour de France, your body could use up to 9000 calories per day Pregnancy requires slightly more calories than usual, and elderly people typically have a slower metabolic rate, energy is burned more gradually, so less is needed.
And one thing you should also know. The calorie counts on nutrition labels measure how much energy the food contains, not how much energy you can actually get out of it, Fibrous (纤维的) foods like celery and whole wheat take more energy to digest, so you'd actually absorb less energy from 100 calorie serving of celery than a 100 calorie serving of potato chips. Not to mention the fact that some foods offer nutrients like protein and vitamins, while others provide far less nutritional value. Eating too many of those foods could leave you overweight and malnourished. And even with the exact same food, different people might not get the same number of calories.
So a calorie is a useful energy measure, but to work out exactly how many of them each of us requires, we need to factor in things like exercise, food type, and our body's ability to process energy.
【1】What is Calorie according to the passage?
A．A unit of measurement to the energy people get or consume.
B．The food people eat and digest.
C．The unit for people to count weight.
D．The way people to measure nutrition.
【2】One can lose weight, if________.
A．less food is eaten than before
B．doing exercise every day
C．more energy is fueled than taken in
D．one keeps energy balanced
【3】Which fact is true according to the passage?
A．The excess of calories will gradually turn into cells.
B．Most of the calories will help people with digestion.
C．When staying still no calorie will be needed.
D．The biggest amount of energy will go to support body organs.
【4】The author may agree that________.
A．potato chips are hard to digest
B．the food with more fibers can help keeping slim
C．the foods with protein and vitamins could leave you overweight and malnourished
D．old people's energy is gradually burning fast
【5】The best title of this passage should be?
A．Calories and Diet
B．Many Factors Contribute to Calorie Count
C．The Relevancy between Calorie Burning and Age
D．Different People, Different Calorie Burning Rate
23、 Yunqing was 27 when he took the first photo while his daughter Hua Hua was just a one-year-old. At first, he didn't have any plans to make this into a tradition. But all of that changed when he actually saw the first photo and absolutely loved it.
“I didn't have any thought of doing the same thing again but when I got the photo back, I liked it so much that when we went back the next year I repeated it.”he explained.
“After that, it became sort of the family tradition and we did it every year for 40 years with only one break in 1998 when my daughter did not join us for the family holiday and was abroad,” Yunqing pointed out that there was a small gap in the photos.
Things changed quite a lot over the years. His daughter grew up into a beautiful woman and started a family of her own and that meant Yunqing became a grandpa. Hua Hua's first daughter was born in 2008 while her second daughter came into this world in 2012.
“When I started, I never guessed that I'd still be doing this when I was in my 60s and my daughter is now no longer alone, she is a mother-of-two,” he said, adding that he was pleasantly surprised by the positive reactions to the family photos online, even though he didn't expect to continue the tradition forever.
According to Lenore, an expert, traditions help families understand who they are. “We are the family that always sings this particular song, makes this particular food, gathers for this particular event, or even honors our elders－dead or alive－in this particular way. Just as religions have special holidays, activities, do’s and don'ts, so do families and they serve a similar purpose: defining and binding a group by what they share.”
【1】How many photos did Yunqing take with his daughter?
A．40.
B．39.
C．60.
D．21.
【2】What did Yunqing think of the tradition?
A．He would go on taking photos.
B．He would teach others to go on it.
C．He would never put the photos online.
D．He didn’t expect to take photos with his daughter for so many years.
【3】What is Lenore's attitude to the action?
A．Opposed.
B．Doubtful.
C．Supportive.
D．Disappointed.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A．Yunqing's Story
B．Why Family Tradition is So Important
C．How to Keep a Tradition for Forty Years
D．Dad and Daughter: The Same Photo Location, Different Years
24、Living through a pandemic (全球流行病) is tiring, but with fewer activities and events happening all year, you’d think it would be a perfect excuse to start putting sleep first. 【1】 So why do you find yourself putting off your bedtime?
This refusal to shut your eyes when you know you should is an actual psychological phenomenon called “revenge bedtime procrastination (报复性睡前拖延症)”. 【2】 As the boundaries between work and home life become less clear right now, revenge bedtime procrastination seems like a way to take back part of your day for low-demand activities, like mindlessly watching Instagram stories or videos on Netflix.
We live in this instant satisfaction culture, Abhinav Singh, a sleep physician from Indiana, says and you expect to fall asleep the second your head hits the pillow. But sleep is a process. 【3】 “I have a four-step routine: shower, journal, read, breathe,” says Dr. Singh. Creating a similar routine for yourself “gives you time to wind down and start to slow your brain down a bit”, he adds.
【4】 Reserve your bed for sleep only, making it a sacred place your brain immediately associates with rest. The more time you spend in bed awake, the less likely you’ll be able to fall asleep when you want to.
Even the awareness of what you’re doing—and how harmful it can be long-term—can help. 【5】
A．But that’s not the case.
B．Your sleep environment is also important.
C．Putting off our bedtime isn’t as harmless as it sounds.
D．The pillow and sheet are important for you to fall asleep.
E．So instead of resisting your bedtime, prepare for it ahead.
F．The more you know about sleep, the more important you will treat it.
G．People suffering it refuse to sleep early to regain some sense of freedom.
25、Our family broke tradition this year and experienced a tropical holiday, travelling around Costa Rica for four weeks.
Costa Rica had caught my eye mainly because of its ________. It was an attractive thought to introduce the children to its natural environment. Then we ________ after careful preparation. I had very high ________ of this adventure. It seemed as if we had landed on another ________. The sights, sounds and smells were undoubtedly wonderful. The beaches were the most beautiful I had ever seen, and the people were ________ and welcoming. Not a day ________ when we didn’t see a new species of wildlife.
On arriving there, we had lunch at a beach bar where there was a local ________ being played. The children watched and when it became ________, they started to play. Later, they were ________ by a group of Costa Ricans who had been watching and cheering them on. It was a brilliant ________ and what I had hoped for in terms of mixing with a different culture.
The next stop was the Playa Tortuga project. What an extraordinary experience we had there: beds with no sheets, no furniture and no air conditioner. ________, it turned out to be the best part of the whole trip. There we were tasked with weighing the baby turtles and then ________ them from preying birds. The emotion is deeply impressed on my mind, and I hope that it will ________ with the children forever.
We spent New Year’s Eve at the reserve and were very ________ invited to the owner’s house with many volunteers. The evening was spent with people from all over the world.
The next day was a tearful farewell to the reserve. The things the children have seen and done are ________ and more influential that anything they could ever learn in a classroom.
【1】
A．importance
B．position
C．wildlife
D．weather
【2】
A．came out
B．set off
C．gave in
D．woke up
【3】
A．ideas
B．demands
C．decisions
D．expectations
【4】
A．planet
B．island
C．country
D．continent
【5】
A．rude
B．smart
C．skillful
D．friendly
【6】
A．rose up
B．went by
C．stood out
D．turned off
【7】
A．game
B．opera
C．movie
D．football
【8】
A．unforgettable
B．convenient
C．available
D．smooth
【9】
A．joined
B．hosted
C．pushed
D．dragged
【10】
A．night
B．evening
C．morning
D．afternoon
【11】
A．Still
B．However
C．Moreover
D．Therefore
【12】
A．freeing
B．killing
C．pouring
D．catching
【13】
A．fade
B．remain
C．spread
D．disappear
【14】
A．kindly
B．curiously
C．violently
D．unwillingly
【15】
A．common
B．popular
C．invaluable
D．unreasonable
26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Taking It to Extremes
Regular exercise benefits people extensively, from weight control to lengthened life. Exercise sets up a chain reaction that is generally positive for the human body, preventing and controlling some health problems. However, endurance sports, requiring the sustained efforts for long periods of time, reveal a darker side of exercise.
A common endurance sport is marathon. Running 26.2 miles is an achievement, but it’s ultimately harmful. In one study, about 75% of marathon runners suffered from kidney injury after finishing the race. Similarly, cross-country skiing offers excellent cardiovascular benefits when performing at a leisurely pace. Yet cross-country skiing alters the structure of the heart, making it more easily damaged to an arrhythmia, a condition where the heart beats irregularly. When it came to the participants’ hearts, competitive success in cross-country skiing doesn’t always translate into better health. The most extreme endurance races, such as Ironman Triathlons, provide more discouraging data.
Endurance athletes face another serious problem: they may drink much water while competing. Proper hydration while exercising is key to health and performance. But, too much of a good thing can be dangerous. Reportedly, over 10% of the participants in the triathlon suffered from hyponatremia, occurring when the level of sodium (钠) in the blood becomes dangerously low, often when the sodium concentration is too low with water. Evidently, extreme endurance sports can transform the basic necessity of drinking water into a potential source of harm.
Does running help a person live longer? A study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings concluded that running distances of 0.1 to 19.9 miles a week, at six to seven miles per hour, was linked to a lower risk of death. However, running distances and speeds beyond this was not tied to higher rates of survival. This finding demonstrates no exercise is better for one’s health than excessive exercise in endurance sports.
Certainly, none of this means that exercise in moderation is harmful, but it shows that the benefits of exercise level off, and even reverse, when a person exercises too much. Endurance sports may continue to be a popular pursuit for those seeking a challenge, but for those eager for better health, a little can work.
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