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1、When the sports hero _______at our party, he was welcomed with open arms.
A. turned up B. left off
C. moved on D. got away
2、Mary is the girl _______parents are working in China.
A．who
B．whose
C．that
D．which
3、It’s always a good idea to have a second key somewhere ______ you lose the first one.
A. in case B. now that C. even though D. as long as
4、The Dragon Boat Festival ______ in our country for centuries.
A．has been celebrated
B．is being celebrated
C．is celebrated
D．has celebrated
5、All the guest at the party were dancing and singing happily __________ the electricity was cut off.
A. until
B. while
C. when
D. because
6、You should be _________ for every word you have said in court.
A．responsible
B．thankful
C．known
D．confident
7、China is now taking powerful measures to resist US actions that ________ in its internal affairs and harm its interests.
A.participate B.dive C.interfere D.engage
8、I’m surprised at his good of Chinese poems in the final test.
A.message B.information C.knowledge
9、At that time, although my grandparents ________ little money, they ________ many changes in my father’s life.
A．brought in; brought back
B．brought out; brought up
C．brought down; brought up
D．brought in; brought about
10、I was surprised by her words， which made me recognize___silly mistakes I had made.
A．what
B．that
C．how
D．which
11、The past decades have witnessed China's many scientific achievements ______ the development of Shenwei supercomputers is a typical example
A.to which B.for which C.in which D.of which
12、More than one doctor _____ involved in the rescue that took place after the earthquake．
A．was B．is C．were D．are
13、—Why is Mike so angry?
—I asked a(n) _____ question. I didn’t mean to hurt his feelings.
A. skilful B. unanswerable
C. academic D. innocent
14、---I have been worried about the possible danger of driving on a railway line.
---Don’t be afraid; God will us.
A. watch over B. turn over
C. go over D. look over
15、Watch out! The car you .
A. will hit B. hits C. hit D. is going to hit
16、More than 300 years ago, an apple hit Newton on the head when he wad reading under a tree, ________ he got inspiration.
A．which
B．from which
C．on which
D．to which
17、This is __________ that we all enjoy reading it.
A．a book so interesting
B．a such interesting book
C．so an interesting book
D．such an interesting book
18、---Can you see the building clearly in the foggy day?
--- It makes no _______to me whether it’s foggy or not, for I’m blind.
A．sense
B．mistake
C．difference
D．meaning
19、With the camera still ________ to my eye, I turned and froze. With water ________ off its thick, brown hair, the bear stared back at me.
A．held; falling
B．held; fallen
C．holding; falling
D．holding; fallen
20、I would rather at home to the cinema.
A. watch TV, than go B. to watch TV, than go
C. watch TV, than going D. to watch TV, than going
21、IQ is set at around 20 years old and later effort will not improve it much, recent research finds. The complexity of people’s jobs, higher education, socializing and reading all probably have little effect on cognitive (认知的) ability.
Naturally, these activities have many other benefits, but little influence on IQ However, education is particularly important at an early age when the brain is still developing. By early adulthood, though, most people’s IQ has settled down.
While some studies have suggested that cognitive activities in later life can improve IQ, Professor William Kremen, the study’s first author, thinks otherwise, “The findings suggest that the impact of education, occupational complexity and participation in cognitive activities on later life cognitive function likely reflects the opposite. In other words, they are largely the results of young adult intellectual (智力的) capacity.”
The study included 1,009 men now in their 50s and 60s whose IQ was assessed when they were around 20-years-old. They were given tests of abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and memory, along with other cognitive measures.
The results showed that most of the difference between the men’s IQs in mid-life was explained by the difference between them at around 20-years-old. In comparison, the complexity of the job they had, the intellectual activities they engaged in, and their education in the meantime hardly had any effect on their IQ. Brain scans also showed that IQ at age 20 was associated with the surface area of the cerebral cortex, which is the brain’s gray matter, the part that performs the higher functions of thinking, perceiving and language.
Most of the benefits of education for IQ likely happen before young adulthood, said Professor Kremen. “Our findings suggest we should look at this from a lifetime perspective. Improving cognitive reserve and reducing later life cognitive decline may really need to begin with more access to quality childhood and adolescent education.”
【1】What does Kremen’s study mainly focus on?
A．Who has high IQ.
B．When is IQ fixed.
C．What determines IQ.
D．How is IQ improved.
【2】Why are the men in the study given the tests?
A．To evaluate their IQ in mid-life.
B．To improve their cognitive abilities.
C．To introduce cognitive measures to them.
D．To find out reasons for their IQ differences.
【3】What does Kremen suggest people do?
A．Get engaged in complex jobs.
B．Keep on learming for a lifetime.
C．Have a high-quality adolescent education.
D．Join in as many cognitive activities as possible.
22、 Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet from overheating: move it to a cooler spot. All you have to do is send a few comets in the direction of Earth, and its orbit (轨道) will be changed. Our world will then be sent into a safer, colder part of the solar system.
This idea for improving our climate comes from a group of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) engineers and American astronomers. They say their plan could add another six billion years to the useful lifetime of our planet—effectively doubling its working life.
The plan, put forward by Dr. Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams, needs carefully directing a comet of asteroid(小行星) so that it passes close by our planet and sends some of its gravitational energy to Earth.
“Earth's orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun,” Laughlin said.
Engineers would then direct their comet So that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn. The comet would pick up energy from one of these giant planets. Later its orbit would bring it back to Earth, and the process would be repeated.
In the short term, the plan provides an ideal way to global warming, although the team was actually concerned with a much greater danger. The sun is certain to heat up in about a billion years and so “seriously compromise” our biosphere(生物圈)—by cooking us.
That's why the group decided to try to save Earth.
The plan has one or two worrying aspects, however. For a start, space engineers would have to be very careful about how they directed their asteroid or comet towards Earth. The smallest miscalculation(误算) in orbit could fire it straight at Earth—with deadly results.
There is also the question of the Moon. As the scientific American magazine points out, if Earth was pushed out of its current position it is “most likely that the Moon would be stripped away from Earth,” it states. This would change our planet's climate.
【1】If the plan is successful, Earth will have a working life of ________ years.
A．24 billion
B．6 billion
C．18 billion
D．12 billion
【2】What makes the scientists plan to save Earth?
A．A few comets are moving to the direction of Earth.
B．Earth's working life is coming to an end soon.
C．Earth will become too hot for mankind to keep alive.
D．The moon is moving farther and farther away from Earth.
【3】What does the underlined word “compromise” in Paragraph 6 mean?
A．Provide
B．Endanger
C．Share
D．Benefit
【4】Which of the following best shows how the plan would work?
A．
B．
C．
D．
【5】What serious problems might the plan cause according to the passage?
A．Earth might be moved too far away and man might be frozen to death.
B．Earth's working life might be greatly shortened.
C．The comet might hit Jupiter or Saturn and never return to Earth
D．The comet might hit Earth and man might lose the moon.
23、 It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious(明显的) to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don't worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn't really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King's famous speech---"I have a Dream", you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don't remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.
People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流). They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker's ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker's attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don't worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
【1】The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ______.
A.be smarter than you B.notice your mistakes
C.do better than you D.know what you are talking about
【2】You don't remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ______.
A.your attention is on the content
B.you don't fully understand the speech
C.you don't know what the speaker plans to say
D.you find the way of speech-making more important
【3】It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.giving a speech is like giving a performance
B.one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
C.the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
D.the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be.
【4】What would be the best title for the passage?
A.How to Be a Perfect Speaker B.How to Make a Perfect Speech
C.Don't Expect a Perfect Speech D.Don't Expect Mistakes in a Speech
24、Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate from the bottom of your heart, for he was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When asked how he was able to do so, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”
There was no doubt that Jerry was unique because he had several followers who were greatly touched by his attitude from restaurant. Being a natural motivator, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation whenever he or she was having a bad day.
Curious about his style, I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I can't believe it! You can't be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choice today. You choose to be in a good mood or in a bad mood,’ choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. I choose the positive side of life.”
“Yeah, right, but it’s not that easy,” I said, “Yes, it is,” Jerry answered. “Life is all about choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life.”
I thought about what Jerry said. Soon after I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought of him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up by three armed robbers, who then shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the local hospital. After 18 hours of operation and weeks of medical care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments (碎片) of the bullets still in his body.
I met Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars (伤疤)?” I refuse to see his scars, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered I have two choice: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I choose to live.”
“Weren't you scared?” I asked, Jerry continued, “When I was wheeled into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He's a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked. Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me, said Jerry. She asked if I was allergic (过敏) to anything. ‘Yes.’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and shouted, ‘Bullets!’. Over their laughter I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.’”
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his experienced doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude, I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
【1】By saying “If I were any better, I would be twins” (Paragraphs 1&7 ), Jerry means that ________.
A．he felt depressed in life
B．he was satisfied with his life
C．he regretted not having a twin brother
D．he tried to live as good a life as his twin brother
【2】According to Paragraph 3, what did the writer think of Jerry's positive thinking style at first?
A．he accepted it and tried to copy it.
B．he was jealous of and even hated it.
C．he supported it and thought about it carefully.
D．he found it hard to believe it and tried to understand it.
【3】Why did Jerry think he needed to take action in hospital?
A．He was in danger and had to do as he was told to.
B．He couldn't deal with the rudeness of the big nurse.
C．The medical people were not skilled enough to save him.
D．He had to encourage the doctors and nurses for the operation.
【4】Which of the following messages is conveyed in this passage?
A．Great minds think alike.
B．Attitude decides everything.
C．Many hands make light work.
D．Action speaks louder than words.
25、It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport train station; she jumped into her Honda Odyssey and began the 20-minute drive home to her husband and seven-year-old son. She’d just returned from visiting her mother and had traveled the route many times before. She practically _______ on autopilot: a left onto Station Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then—wham! Out of nowhere a car T-boned Esposito’s minivan, _______ her to move backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She _______ in the minivan, bruised (撞伤) but mostly just knocked out by the _________ and the airbags.
As it happened, Pete DiPinto was getting ready for _______. He’d just closed his book and was getting under the covers when he heard the sound of metal on metal and breaking glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window. A volunteer_______and retired teacher, DiPinto, 64, never _______to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still dressed in his pajamas (睡衣), ran out the door. “Any firefighter would have done what I did,” he told Newsday. “We’re always on_______.”
The first car he came upon, 2,000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had _______Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was OK, he looked around and __________Esposito’s minivan positioned on the railroad tracks. And then he heard a terrible sound: the bells signaling an oncoming __________.
“The gates were starting to come down,” he told Newsday. “I see the headlight of the train.” DiPinto ran quickly to Esposito’s minivan and knocked on the driver’s side window. She __________ looked at him, her eyes unfocused. “I don’t know where I am,” she said. She seemed unhurt. “Honey, you’re on the railroad __________,” DiPinto shouted. “We have to get you off right now!” He pulled hard on the __________, but the door was crashed in and __________. The heavy diesel train, traveling at 65 miles per hour, was moving fast toward them. DiPinto ran to the passenger side and threw open the __________. “Please, don’t let her be __________,” he thought. He pushed aside the deflating (瘪了的) airbags, grabbed Esposito’s arms, and__________her toward him across the passenger seat until he could help her out and quickly get her to ____________ behind a signal box a few feet away. Within six seconds, he estimated, the train crashed into the minivan. “It was like a Hollywood movie,” DiPinto told reporters the next day.
But this one had a twist. “Last night,” South Country Ambulance chief Greg Miglino told CBS New York, “the__________ arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck.”
【1】
A．drove
B．walked
C．rode
D．hiked
【2】
A．allowing
B．forcing
C．ordering
D．reminding
【3】
A．sat
B．stood
C．hid
D．waited
【4】
A．action
B．noise
C．impact
D．bomb
【5】
A．class
B．work
C．dinner
D．bed
【6】
A．doctor
B．driver
C．firefighter
D．engineer
【7】
A．stopped
B．troubled
C．intended
D．wanted
【8】
A．duty
B．time
C．target
D．schedule
【9】
A．warned
B．caught
C．hit
D．followed
【10】
A．observed
B．spotted
C．realized
D．predicted
【11】
A．train
B．truck
C．car
D．ambulance
【12】
A．yet
B．just
C．still
D．even
【13】
A．yards
B．stations
C．bridges
D．tracks
【14】
A．belt
B．key
C．bell
D．handle
【15】
A．unlocked
B．jammed
C．open
D．gone
【16】
A．bag
B．door
C．book
D．box
【17】
A．scared
B．ignored
C．trapped
D．defeated
【18】
A．carried
B．rushed
C．guided
D．pulled
【19】
A．return
B．work
C．safety
D．life
【20】
A．police
B．actor
C．reporter
D．hero
26、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Tom来信询问你最喜欢的运动项目。请你根据以下提示，通过电子邮件向他介绍你最喜欢的运动。
1．何时开始喜欢此项运动；
2．现在练习的情况；
3．给你带来的益处。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯；
3．信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,
Nice to receive your e-mail. I'd like to tell you about my favorite sport,______________________________
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Yours，
Li Hu
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