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1、——I can’t find my purse anywhere.
——You have lost it while shopping.
A．may
B．can
C．should
D．would
2、Some people would rather ride bikes as bike ridding has______ of the trouble of taking buses.
A. nothing B. none C. some D. neither
3、_____ he realized it was too late to return home.
A. No sooner it grew dark than
B. Hardly did it grow dark when
C. It was not until dark that
D. It was until dark that
4、________ the danger of drunk driving, the driver decided not to drive any more after drinking.
A．Aware for
B．Aware of
C．Aware about
D．Being aware that
5、In this age of information, the functions of libraries within society are changing ________ and rapidly.
A．originally
B．cautiously
C．slightly
D．fundamentally
6、_________ has recently been done to provide more buses, a shortage of public vehicles remains a serious problem.
A.That B.What C.In spite of what D.Though what
7、When I the past and think how much time has been wasted, my heart bleeds.
A. look back on B. look forward to
C. look out of D. look away from
8、So far millions of pounds’ worth of damage ______ by a storm which swept across the north of England last night.
A.has been caused B.had been caused
C.will be caused D.will have been caused
9、I don’t know whether you happen ________ it, but I am going to study in the UK for a year.
A. hear B. to hear
C. to be heard D. to have heard
10、What you can do is give them an environment where their positive will expand.
A. demands B. emotions
C. attitudes D. qualities
11、The famous magician, as well as his assistants, _________ to perform at the China’s Got Talent in 2015.
A．were invited
B．was invited
C．have been invited
D．has been invited
12、He stood there, his eyes ______.
A.fixing on the blackboard B.fixed on the blackboard
C.fix on the blackboard D.to fix on the blackboard
13、The party we had been looking forward to ____ to be a great disappointment．
A．turned up B．turned out
C．turning up D．turning out
14、The news that he referred ________ us disappointed.
A.to made B.to making C.to make D.to have made
15、I like the cartoon ______has a happy ending and makes me________ .
A.which; to laugh B.that; to laugh C.what; laugh D.that; laugh
16、Laura decided that ________ she might face, she would make sacrifice to make the children happy.
A．however a serious challenge
B．what a serious challenge
C．however serious a challenge
D．what serious a challenge
17、He was about to set off________it rained.
A．the moment
B．when
C．while
D．as
18、How about a trip to the beach？ I will ask Tom to go with us.
A.You have my word! B.Sorry，I'm occupied.
C.Rather! D.Are you kidding？
19、You'll find taxis waiting at the bus station ________ you can hire to reach your host family.
A．which
B．where
C．when
D．as
20、_______ I explained on the phone, your request will not be satisfied because it doesn’t conform to (符合) our rules.
A. When B. After C. As D. Since
21、Welcome to the Sydney Opera House
Ticket Info and Guided Tours
Visitors can enjoy the Sydney Opera House foyer for free, but for a more insightful visit, you'll need to book a tour.
There are several different ways to experience the Sydney Opera House, and multiple tours are available including back-stage passes and walking tours.
Tour Type Adult （AUD $ ） Child
Guided Walking Tour $ 42 $ 22
Guided Walking Tour + Dinner $ 73 $ 52
Guided Walking Tour + Tasting Plate $ 82.20 $ 64. 80
Backstage Tour $ 175 $ 175
Opening Hours and the Best Time to Visit
The Sydney Opera House is open year-round with the following opening hours：
● Monday—Saturday ： 9am—8 ： 30pm
●Sunday： 9am—5pm
As for the best time of day, it's recommended to book the earliest Sydney Opera House tour of the day to beat the crowds. To enjoy sunny weather with fewer crowds, try visiting in the shoulder season (October, November, February, or March )
Points of Interest
●The Steps
Before entering the Opera House, take a picture of the building from the steps outside.
●The Sails
Step beneath the sails on a guided tour and enjoy harbor front views.
●The Concert Hall
The Concert Hall is the largest venue with seats for more than 2000 people. It features contemporary live music shows and highly -regarded orchestral (管弦乐的)performances. It is also here that you will find the world's largest mechanical tracker-action pipe organ.
● Opera Bar
After your tour, head to the Opera Bar for a bite to eat or drink in the sun.
● Badu Gili
Badu Gili, which is ‘water light’ in the language of the Gadigal people-takes place most evenings after sunset at 9pm, 9：30pm, and 10pm. The seven-minute display is free to view.
【1】How much will a guided walking tour for two adults cost?
A．$ 64.
B．$ 84.
C．$ 128,
D．$ 168.
【2】Which of the following is the best time to visit the Opera House?
A．9：30 am, a Monday in February.
B．10：00 am, a Sunday in December.
C．5：00 pm, a Friday in September.
D．6：00 pm, a Saturday in March.
【3】What is Badu Gili?
A．A local language.
B．A pipe organ.
C．A light show.
D．A dinning area.
22、 Margaret Mead,the most famous anthropologist(人类学家）in the world,was born in the USA in 1901,the oldest of five children.Her father was a professor of finance and her mother was a sociologist.After studying psychology as an undergraduate,Mead began a PhD in the relatively new field of anthropology.Mead was particularly interested in primitive communities because she believed that such isolated cultures could serve as"laboratories"that would reveal ways of living that the modern world had forgotten about but needed to remember.
Having travelled to Samon,a few tiny volcanic,tropical islands in the center of the Pacific Ocean,Mead gradually got interested in gender roles and discovered that modern societies are far more strict in this area than primitive ones.For example,Americans tend to think of men as productive,sensible,and aggressive,while women are often told they're more light-hearted, peaceful,and nurturing.But in her 1935 book,Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies,
Mead studied tribes in Papua New Guinea and recorded that in the Arapesh tribe,both men and women were peaceful and nurturing,while among the Mundugurnor tribe, men and women were both ruthless and aggressive.
Mead's striking conclusion is that it isn't gender that makes women curl their hair or listen to people's feelings,or race that makes some nations regularly attack their neighbors.Rather,it's the social expectations and norms that have laid the groundwork for each individual's psychological makeup."We must recognize,"she reminded her readers,"that beneath the superficial(表面上的）classifications of sex and race,the same potentialities always exist,occurring again generation after generation,only to perish because society has no place for them."
She is regarded as one of the most influential social scientists of the last century.People around the world mourned the death of Margaret Mead in 1978.A year later,the president of the United States,Jimmy Carter,honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.
【1】What can we learn about Mead from the text?
A.She was influenced by her mother to be an anthropologist.
B.She majored in psychology and anthropology as an undergraduate.
C.She believed isolated cultures could expose forgotten ways of living to the modern world.
D.She discovered modern societies are less strict in gender roles than primitive ones.
【2】It can be inferred from Mead's study in tribes that
A.the world is filled with separate cultures.
B.no gender characteristics are ever simply"human nature".
C.knowing another culture will help us reflect on our own.
D.social standards are responsible for individual's development.
【3】What does the underlined word"them"in the third paragraph refer to?
A.Shared potential among humans.
B.Classifications of gender and race.
C.Social expectations and norms.
D.Individual's psychological makeups.
【4】What's the passage mainly about?
A.The difference between men and women.
B.The recommendation of Mead's book.
C.The introduction about a great anthropologist.
D.The groundwork for each individual's makeup.
23、Self-driving cars raise fears over "weaponisation"
Autonomous vehicles are in danger of being turned into "weapons", leading governments around the world to block cars operated by foreign companies, the head of Baidu's self-driving car programme has warned.
Qi Lu, chief operating officer at the Chinese internet group, said security concerns could become a problem for global car-makers and technology companies, including the US and China.
"It has nothing to do with any particular government -- has to do with the very nature of autonomy," he said on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show last week. "You have an object that is capable of moving by itself. By definition, it is a weapon."
Increasingly, self-driving technology is seen as advancing faster than regulators can keep up with. Regional and national governments are struggling with the issue of when to allow autonomous cars on to their roads and under what conditions.
Multinational companies will have a "high bar" to meet local policy requirements for autonomous driving," Mr. Lu said. "The days of building a vehicle in one place and it runs everywhere are over. Because a vehicle that can more by itself by definition it is a weapon."
Baidu is investing heavily in Apollo, its open-source autonomous car software, as it looks to shift away from its core business of internet advertising into artificial intelligence. At CES, it unveiled Apollo 2.0, which offers improved security, alongside a new $200m fund to invest in south-east Asian efforts to improve autonomous driving.
Mr. Lu, who joined Baidu from Microsoft a year ago, said autonomous vehicles should reduce fatalities on the road, whether caused accidentally or intentionally as an act of terrorism. Pointing to incidents in London and Charlottesville where cars were used intentionally to run down pedestrians, he said: "In the future, these cars won't move if they see a human in front of them -- it doesn't matter who controls the car."
Despite the "overwhelming benefits" of autonomous driving. Mr. Lu said it would not happen without a "log of dialogue" between companies, regulators and politicians. "How we ensure safety, in my view, is going to be journey," he said.
Mr. Lu also said the open nature of Apollo, to which any company can contribute new software coding, would help Baidu navigate regulatory challenges.
"Apollo is created by Baidu but not owned by Baidu," he said. "We fundamentally believe that an open system that cultivates an environment where the best of breed can participate is better than one single company that does it alone."
【1】Which of the following is banned by governments all over the world?
A．Self-driving cars used as offensive weapons.
B．Vehicles that are capable of moving by itself.
C．Undocumented self-driving car programme.
D．Autonomous cars owned by foreign companies.
【2】Baidu's chief operating officer Qi Lu believes ________.
A．self-driving cars can be seen as weapons because they are autonomous
B．some government have strong hostility towards self-driving technology.
C．autonomous technology is advancing faster than regulators can understand.
D．customers can only buy and drive self-driving cars from domestic brands.
【3】What is Apollo according to the article?
A．Baidu's artificial intelligence project
B．Baidu's electric self-driving car.
C．Baidu's autonomous car software.
D．Baidu's core business of the future.
【4】According to Mr. Lu, which feature enables autonomous cars to reduce fatalities on the road?
A．They can change direction in accordance with the operator
B．They can avoid any obstacle ahead of them.
C．They can give priority to cars rather than pedestrians.
D．They can stop automatically when detecting a living creature.
24、 Johnny Smith was a good math student at a high school. He loved his computer. He came home early every day, then he worked with it till midnight. But Johnny was not a good English student, not good at all. He got an F in his English class.
One day after school Johnny joined his computer to the computer in his high school office. The school office computer had the grades of all the students: the math grades, the science grades, the grades in arts and music, and the grades in English. He found his English grade. An F! Johnny changed his English grade from an F to A. Johnny' parents looked at his report card. They were very happy. "An A in English!" said Johnny's Dad. "You're a very clever boy, Johnny." Johnny is a hacker.
Hackers know how to take information from other computers and put new information in. Using a modem, they join their computers to other computers secretly. School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers. So are the police, for some people even take money from bank computer account and put it into their own ones. And they never have to leave home to do it! They are called hackers.
【1】Johnny changed his English grade with the computer in _______.
A. the classroom B. the school office
C. a bank near his house D. his own house
【2】When Johnny's parents saw the report, they were happy because _______.
A. Johnny was good at math
B. Johnny loved computers
C. Johnny could join one computer to another
D. they thought Johnny was not poor in English any longer
【3】Who are worried about hackers in the story?
A. Johnny's parents. B. School headmasters, teachers and the police.
C. The police. D. School headmasters and teachers.
【4】The last paragraph is about _______.
A. Johnny B. computers
C. hackers D. model
25、Skillswise Delivery（递送）Services
Christmas Job Opportunities（机会）
Aged between 16 and 65 years?Need some money for Christmas?
Are you available to work at short notice?
Can you work early in the morning or late at night?We are looking for careful and patient people to help to sort and deliver parcels in the Reading area from late November until the end of December.
Pay for weekdays,including Saturdays and Sundays,will be:
Ages 16 to 17—￡4.80 per hour.
Age 18 and over—￡6.10 per hour.
So if you have good communication skills and are able to work as part of a team,we would like to hear from you.
To get an application form（申请表）please write to:
Elaine Grey,Personnel Officer,Skillswise Delivery Services,Windsor Road.
Reading,RG5 4BR
Tel:0118 932 814 (24 hr.answer phone)
Closing date: 10th November
【1】Skillswise Delivery Services is looking for people who .
A. are young adults B. live in the Reading area
C. have good qualities and certain skills D. can work full-time
【2】If you're 16 and work 8 hours on Sunday,you'll get .
A. ￡48.80 B. ￡19.20
C. ￡24.40 D. ￡38.40
【3】To get the Christmas job,you must .
A. phone Elaine Grey
B. fill in a form
C. get an application form before late November
D. go to the office of Skillswise Delivery Services
【4】What should he do if a teen,Tom wants to get this job?
A. He must hand in his form before 10th October.
B. He must be sixteen years old or older.
C. He must work at noon.
D. He must call 0118 932 824.
26、阅读下面材料，根据具体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。
It was my birthday that day, and my grandfather gave me a gift—a piggy bank. It had an opening through which one could put money in, but the opening was not big enough to reach in and get the money out. The only way to get the money was to break the piggy hank open. My grandfather explained that was the whole idea. And he added. “The piggy bank would help save your money so that, at the end of the year, you might have enough for that bike you dreamed about.” He asked if I would put some of the money he gave me into the piggy bank. I agreed immediately and promised sincerely, “I wouldn’t break it open until I could afford my dream bike.”
Whenever my grandfather gave me some pocket money, he would say, “This is for spending. But you can save some and put it in the piggy bank if you want to save it up.” When he gave me larger amounts, it was clear for me to save the extra money in the piggy bank. For some time, this worked fine. I loved shaking the piggy hank and hearing the sound of the coins. As it became heavier, I grew more excited, dreaming about buying my new bike, and all the adventures I could have on it.
Whenever I wanted to take some money from the piggy bank to buy delicious ice-creams or beautiful presents. I would imagine riding my bike on the street, and thinking of that, my thoughts about buying those things went away. So for almost three years. I had only put money into the piggy hank without taking any out. I thought I wouldn’t break my piggy hank for anything. Bat one day something unexpected happened. I saw a piece of news on the television that a serious earthquake had happened in a nearby province. As many houses were destroyed, a lot of children became homeless. Seeing their shabby clothes and crying faces. I was sleepless that night. Staring at my piggy bank. I was thinking about what I could do with it.
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The next morning. I took out my piggy bank and shook it.
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Hearing the noise. my grandfather came over.
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