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1、Mr. Smith is supposed to attend the meeting in place of the manager, who has ______ a bad cold.
A. come down with B. come up with
C. come down to D. come up against
2、It was the last time that Liu Xiang the Olympic Games．
A.had taken part in B.had attended
C.has joined in D.has joined
3、The sun began to rise in the sky, _________ the mountain in golden light.
A．bathed
B．bathing
C．to have bathed
D．having bathed
4、Is she the girl who ________ the shocking suggestion at the meeting?
A．put up
B．put down
C．put forward
D．put off
5、The tea-picking opera _____ developed from the tea-growing regions in Jiangxi where the tea pickers would sing songs while working.
A．luckily
B．skillfully
C．originally
D．rapidly
6、The residents approve of the measures _______ so far in our city, _______ to reduce a gradual decrease in house prices.
A．having taken; meant
B．taken; to be meant
C．taken; meant
D．being taken; to mean
7、It was ________ how much time I had wasted.
A．not until did I begin to work that I realized
B．not until I began to work did I realize
C．not until I began to work that I realized
D．not until did I begin to work did I realize that
8、—How do you study English?
—I study English talking with foreign students.
A.by B.on C.at D.up
9、If you frequently headaches, your children may also have the same problem.
A. suffer B. suffer for
C. suffer through D. suffer from
10、Sales director is a position _______ communication ability is just as important as sale skills.
A. which B. that
C. when D. where
11、The engineer ________ my father works is about 50 years old.
A．To whom
B．on which
C．with which
D．with whom
12、She spoke confidently because she wanted to make a good ___ on her employer.
A．influence
B．pressure
C．impression
D．effect
13、–– Fancy meeting you here.
–– _______
A. So you’re going. B. That’s very kind of you.
C. Have a nice time! D. Yes, what a coincidence!
14、I don't think it wise the hard work that they have refused to do.
A.for you to take on B.of you to take on C.for you taking on D.of you taking on
15、If you don't sign up for the game, ______.
A．I don't go, either B．neither will I
C．so will I D．nor do I
16、We are flying at _____ altitude of 6,000 meters and perhaps we will get there at _____ midnight.
A. the; the B. an; the C. an; / D. the; /
17、He decided to adopt a different ___________ to teaching the language in a natural way.
A. method B. means C. way D. approach
18、Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty， countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow.
A. which B. when
C. where D. what
19、_______ great efforts we had made, we failed to carry our plans through.
A. In case of B. In place of
C. In spite of D. In danger of
20、Some schools, including us, will have to make ______ in agreement with the national soccer reform.
A. attachments B. adjustments C. comments D. achievements
21、Throwing a rock into a calm body of water creates a ripple (波纹；波浪般起伏) effect across the calm water, until those ripples reach the edge of the water. It also explains how our actions affect other people. When we show love and kindness to others, the powerful effect of our actions spreads out further. The same goes for dislike or anger. It is important that we should begin being more thoughtful about our actions and words.
Love can reach so many different people, making it a powerful force in the world. Anger has the same effect. The world would be a better place if we learn to love and show kindness to others. We can’t always control what others do, but we have power over our actions and contribute our own ripples into the world.
We don’t always know the effect that our actions have on others. There will be times when you are angry. Some people may feel a sense of short-lived relief when they throw a rock of anger into the world, but that feeling usually changes into shame and anger towards oneself eventually. Anger hurts yourself and the world in the meanwhile. I suggest walking away for a while when you feel angry. Spreading love and kindness not only has positive effects on others but also on ourselves. You get to enjoy it, and the people around you can enjoy it too. Personally, I feel my best when I help others and I feel my worst when I’ve made someone upset. When we put kindness into the world, we’ll feel thankfulness, sympathy, and understanding. Let my kindness guide my decisions and this allows love and connection to ripple out into the world.
It’s important that we take care of ourselves when we show love and kindness for others. When we love ourselves, we’re then able to love others. And when we let this love and kindness guide our decisions, the world will become more beautiful.
【1】For what reason does the author mention the experience of throwing a rock into a pond?
A．To introduce the topic of this text.
B．To see how ripples spread in water.
C．To teach us how to make big ripples.
D．To share the very interesting experience.
【2】Why does the author advise you to walk away for a while when you are angry?
A．To find a place to think over what has happened.
B．To talk about your problems with someone else.
C．To stop those ripples of anger from spreading.
D．To avoid seeing the person making you angry.
【3】How is the third paragraph mainly developed?
A．By referring to a theory.
B．By making comparisons.
C．By giving some examples.
D．By analyzing cause and effect.
【4】What is the passage mainly about?
A．Dislike usually leads to shame and anger in the end.
B．Anger has a similar effect on our actions to kindness.
C．Kindness or anger ripples out to other people nearby.
D．Love and kindness make the world much more beautiful.
22、 As to the question what is a best age to learn a language, many would rush to the conclusion that it’s best to start young. Though it is true to some extent, now science offers a much more complex view of how our relationship with languages evolves over a lifetime-and there is much to encourage late beginners.
Broadly speaking, different life stages give us different advantages in language learning. As babies, we have a better ear for different sounds s as toddlers(幼儿), we can pick up native accents with astonishing speed. As adults, we have longer attention spans and important skills like literacy that allow us to continually expand our vocabulary, even in our own language. And a wealth of factors beyond ageing—like social circumstances, teaching methods, and even love and friendship—can affect how many languages we speak and how well.
“Not everything goes downhill with age, “says Antonella Sorace, a professor of developmental linguistics and director of the Bilingualism Matters Centre at the University of Edinburgh. She gives the example of what is known as “explicit learning”: studying a language in a classroom with a teacher explaining the rules. “Young children are very bad at explicit learning, because they don’t have the cognitive(认知) control and the attention and memory capabilities,” Sorace says. “Adults are much better at that. So that can be something that improves with age.”
A study by researchers in Israel found, for example, that adults were better at grasping an artificial language rule and applying it to new words in a lab setting. The scientists compared three separate groups: 8-year-olds, 12-year-olds, and young adults. The adults scored higher than both younger groups, and the 12-year-olds also did better than the younger children. They suggested that their older participants may have benefited from skills that come with maturity—like more advanced problem-solving strategies—and greater linguistic experience. In other words, older learners tend to already know quite a lot about themselves and the world and can use this knowledge to process new information.
【1】What is the correct understanding of the underlined sentence in paragraph 1?
A.We should stay up late to learn a language.
B.Late beginners strive hard to learn a language.
C.Late beginners can also learn a language well.
D.We should give much encouragement to late beginners.
【2】According to the passage, language learning is NOT affected by .
A.our inborn abilities B.our native accents
C.our cognitive control D.our attention spans
【3】Why do the adults score higher than both younger groups in the test?
A.They have already known quite a lot about the words.
B.They draw upon their existing knowledge to help.
C.They have been taught the way to learn a language.
D.They are better at learning artificial language rules.
【4】What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To compare and evaluate. B.To examine and assess.
C.To argue and discuss. D.To inform and explain.
23、Loch Ness, the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles, is twenty- four miles long and at one point, one mile wide. It has an average depth of four hundred and fifty feet and at times drops close to a thousand.It is cold and murky (混沌的), with dangerous currents. In short, it is the perfect place to hide a monster from even the sharpest eyes of science.
The Loch Ness Monster, also called Nessie, is supposedly living in this area. The earliest recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in the biography of Life of St.Columba by Adamnan in the year A.D.565. The monster apparently attacked a man who was swimming in the River Ness.
The monster didn’t make headlines again until August 27, 1930, when 3 fishermen reported seeing a creature with 20 feet long approaching their boat, throwing water in the air. In 1933, after a new road was built along the edge of the Loch, the number of reports rose suddenly. Early in 1934, Author Grant, a young student, was out on his motorcycle one evening when he almost ran into the monster as it crossed the road. Grant’s description of the thing — small head, long thin neck and tail with a big body, seemed to match the appearance of the plesiosaur (蛇颈龙), an aquatic (水生的) type of dinosaur that has been extinct for 65 million years.
The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was formed in 1962 to act as a research organization for information about the creature. Even now, efforts have continued to find the monster. A great deal of information was discovered about the Loch, but there isn’t any yet to produce any specific evidence of a monster.
Skeptics (怀疑论者) argue that the water in the Loch is too cold for a plesiosaur to live in. They also argue that an air-breathing animal, like a whale or seal, would spend much more time on the surface than the creature seems to, and would be spotted more often.
Some scientists have wondered if the sightings might be caused by an underwater wave which is known to sometimes occur in deep, long, and cold lakes, like Loch Ness. Such a wave might push debris (废弃物) to the surface that might look like a strange animal. However, none of these is identified.
【1】Which of the following is the CORRECT order for the things that happened in the passage?
a. A young student met with a monster crossing the road.
b. A swimmer was attacked by a monster in Loch Ness.
c. A new road was built along the edge of the Loch.
d. The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was set up.
e. Three fishermen saw a creature swimming towards their boat.
A．b, e, c, a, d
B．a, b, e, d, c
C．b, d, a, c, e
D．d, c, e, b, a
【2】According to the skeptics, which of the following is TRUE?
A．It is impossible for a monster to live in cold water.
B．The Loch Ness Monster often stays under the water.
C．The Loch Ness Monster is an air-breathing animal.
D．There is no so-called monster in Loch Ness.
【3】What does this passage mainly talk about?
A．The natural scenery of Loch Ness.
B．The Nessie.
C．Skeptics’ opinions on Loch Ness Monster.
D．The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau’s research results.
24、 My name is Deirdre Veneracion and I am a paraglider (滑翔伞) pilot.I’ve been paragliding since I was 11.
My dad and I arrive at our local fly site on a June morning.We meet our instructor and spend the first 20 minutes watching the wind cycles.I go through my pre-flight steps and turn on my radio.At last, I take a step and feel the ground under me fall away.I feel the pressure of my weight on the canopy (伞衣).
After 15 minutes of playing with the wind, my father radios me from the place where he is about to take off.“How is the wind?” “Perfect!” I say.Dad takes off behind me.
I have done almost 100 flights and yet every flight amazes me just as much or even more than my first flight.I love the unpredictability of each flight.Every flight is different.After 15 minutes, I decide to land.
Now, I’m over a rice field.It is a much smaller landing than most landing zones but it’s possible.Out of nowhere, I feel my canopy becomes unstable.It loses pressure and falls directly in front of me.I am falling.I have butterflies in my stomach.I pull my brake line, in the hope that my wing will get pressure again but it doesn’t.I look towards my dad and see that he is also in trouble.It’s as if we were inside a washing machine being thrown up and down.I won’t make it to the landing zone in front of me.On my right is a narrow stream with hardly any water in it.I make my decision: The narrow stream is my best chance of landing safely.
As I touch down, I check on my dad and am glad to hear that he is fine.Local villagers come to check on me but, surprisingly, I am uninjured.
This is one of those times when we are reminded that no preparation can prevent Mother Nature from surprising us.
【1】What does the author do before taking off?
A．She has a talk with her father.
B．She watches the weather.
C．She turns off the radio.
D．She gives instructions.
【2】What is the attraction of paragliding in the author’s eyes?
A．The pleasant wind.
B．The success of each flight.
C．The excitement of landing.
D．The uncertainty of each flight.
【3】What kind of feeling does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 probably show?
A．Nervousness
B．Happiness
C．Anger
D．Luck
【4】What happens in the process of the author’s landing?
A．She hurts herself.
B．She asks her dad for help.
C．She sees a washing machine below.
D．She changes her mind about the landing site.
25、Imagine that you’re a whale (鲸鱼), about 25 feet long and weighing thousands of pounds. You can _______ as fast as 35 miles per hour and may travel 100 miles in a day. The entire _______ is your home. Now picture yourself as the_______ whale living alone in a small pool. You cannot dive _______ or swim great distances. There is nothing much to do _______ circle the small pool day after day.
Now imagine you’re an elephant living in a close family group. Members of the family _______ each other while travelling long distances to find the large quantities of food needed to _______ the family. Now picture yourself _______ in a trailer（拖车）or train moving from city to city. You’re _______ to perform tricks like standing on your head-things you’d _______ do in the wild.
For many years, people watched whales and elephants _______ in circuses（马戏团）and marine（海洋的）parks. But now people are speaking up for the _______. They’re saying that they deserve to live a more _______ life and not be used for entertainment. And people and some companies-are beginning to _______.
In March 2015, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey _______ that they would no longer use elephant acts in their circuses. And on May 1, 2016, the elephants performed their last _______. One year later, SeaWorld Theme Parks announced that it would gradually _______ using shows featuring whales performing silly _______.
The announcements by Ringling Bros. and SeaWorld are first steps in putting an end to using wild animals for _______. These decisions were made as a result of many people speaking out loud and clear that _______ animals deserve to live free.
【1】A. run B. swim C. walk D. sail
【2】A. world B. house C. ocean D. pool
【3】A. same B. last C. next D. real
【4】A. first B. deep C. quickly D. carefully
【5】A. so B. or C. and D. but
【6】A. watch out for B. keep up with C. look forward to D. break away from
【7】A. help B. save C. train D. feed
【8】A. resting B. sleeping C. standing D. travelling
【9】A. encouraged B. advised C. forced D. reminded
【10】A. still B. only C. never D. seldom
【11】A. practising B. performing C. celebrating D. competing
【12】A. circuses B. parks C. animals D. people
【13】A. colourful B. meaningful C. natural D. healthy
【14】A. listen B. look C. examine D. review
【15】A. predicted B. imagined C. explained D. announced
【16】A. duty B. function C. show D. operation
【17】A. deny B. consider C. discuss D. stop
【18】A. tricks B. mistakes C. games D. rules
【19】A. education B. entertainment C. exploration D. experiment
【20】A. living B. rare C. trapped D. wild
26、某英语报社向大众征稿，谈谈个人的爱好，假如你是李华，请你依据下图提示，介绍自己的爱好：
注意：1词数：100左右（开头巳写好，不计入总词数）；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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I'm glad to share my hobby with you.____________________________________________
Yours truly,
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