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1、--- Mum, I didn’t gain a high mark in the first English test.
--- ________! Work harder and you’ll succeed.
A．Well done
B．My pleasure
C．Cheer up
D．No way
2、At the graduation ceremony, the head master _______ the degree certificates to the students one by one.
A.showed B.presented C.awarded D.delivered
3、As global warming increases, the Earth will become less and less suited to life, and many species will face ______.
A.extinction B.direction C.calculation D.application
4、— Are you ready for the history test tomorrow?
— No, I wish I ______ the clock back.
A．had turned B．could turn
C．will turn D．would have turned
5、The five children _____ in fear as the small house in which they were playing hide-and-seek caught fire.
A. fled B. exploded
C. complained D. hunted
6、Protecting yourself from ________ theft is a matter of treating all your personal and financial documents as top-secret information.
A．identity
B．database
C．conference
D．resident
7、Jenny was a little nervous in front of so many strangers at first.But when she glanced at Jack，she immediately felt________.
A. in peace B. in need
C. at a loss D. at ease
8、As a traditionalist, my father was never ________ the changes they made to the town.
A．in favour of
B．in regard to
C．in charge of
D．in control of
9、All these changes will lead to______stronger and more powerful China,______country that can surprise and enrich our planet.
A.a; a B.a; the C.the; a D.the; the
10、He stared ________ the photo and it reminded him ________ his childhood.
A．at; on
B．at; of
C．at; in
D．of; at
11、Eating too much fat can ______ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.
A. contribute to B. attend to
C. link to D. devote to
12、—What a shame! We misunderstood each other for such a long time.
—Yes, I wish I _____ with you earlier.
A. communicate B. had communicated
C. communicated D. would communicate
13、The student ________ from the training so much that he was ________ the first prize in the competition.
A．benefited; benefited
B．awarded; awarded
C．awarded; benefited
D．benefited; awarded
14、It’s supposed to be the end of the paperback and the ________ of digital media, but some bookstores are surviving the Internet age with surprising success.
A. deadline B. dawn
C. dusk D. departure
15、________their son’s response letter, the concerned parents wrote another one and had it delivered at once.
A．Having not received
B．Not having received
C．Not receiving
D．Not received
16、Brendan hurriedly got to the airport, only ________ the plane had taken off.
A．to find B．to finding
C．to be finding D．to have found
17、It took _______building supplies to construct these energy saving houses. It took brains, too.
A．other than
B．more than
C．rather than
D．less than
18、Joseph _____ to evening classes since last month, but he still can’t say “What’s your name?” in Russian.
A．has been going
B．went
C．goes
D．has gone
19、The thought they could the whole continent was exciting.
A. that; cross B. what; cross
C. whether; across D. when; across
20、There is no doubt ________ what he said at yesterday’s meeting was true.
A. what B. that
C. whether D. if
21、My husband and I just spent a week in Paris.【1】So the first thing we did was rent a fantastically expensive sixth-floor apartment the size of a cupboard. It was so tiny that we had to leave our suitcases in the hallway.
The place wasn’t entirely authentic, though. Unlike a normal Parisian apartment, the plumbing (水管) worked. 【2】Our building even had a tiny lift with a female voice that said, “Ouverture des portes,” in perfect French. That is the only French phrase I mastered, and it’s a shame I don’t have much use for it.
Parisians are different from you and me. They never look lazy or untidy. As someone noted in this paper a couple of weeks ago, they eat great food and never gain weight. 【3】 French strawberries do not taste like cardboard. Instead, they explode in your mouth like little flavor bombs.
【4】 On our first morning in Paris, I went around the corner to the food market to pick up some groceries. I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon. My husband and I agreed they were the best fruit we had ever eaten. But they cost $18!
In France, quality of life is much more important than efficiency.
You can tell this by cafés life. French cafés are always crowded.【5】When do these people work? The French take their 35-hour workweek seriously — so seriously that some labor unions recently struck a deal with a group of companies limiting the number of hours that independent contractors can be on call.
A．Not all the customers are tourists.
B．The quality of life in France is equally excellent.
C．There was a nice kitchen and a comfortable bed.
D．The amazing food is mainly consumed by local farmers.
E．That’s not the only reason the French eat less than we do.
F．Our aim was to see if we could live, in some way, like real Parisians.
G．The food is so delicious that you don’t need much of it to make you happy.
22、The pace of today's working life blurs (使模糊) the line between personal time and work time, and it increasingly mixes personal lifestyle and work style. And as companies are trying hard to attract and keep young people for their technical skills and enthusiasm for change, office culture is becoming an extension of youth culture. This may be no bad thing. For most of human history the middle-aged have ruled, but in the future, they will have to share power with fresh-faced youths.
There have been a number of reasons for this change and the most dramatic of these is technology. Children have always been more expert than their parents at something, but usually a game or a fashion, not the century's most important business tool. The Internet has started the first industrial revolution in history to be led by the young. Though there have been youth revolutions before, none of them made a big change the way the Internet has. Throughout the20th century, if a young person wanted to enter an American company they needed to leave their youth behind. They got a haircut, and probably a suit or at least a tie. Now the same hair, same clothes, even nearly the same hours apply to office and home.
If it had not been for the Internet, this change could not have happened. However, it did not happen because of the Internet only; the corporate restructurings (公司重组) of the 1980s and 90s broke down traditional hierarchies (等级制度). In many companies, seniority-based (基于资历的) hierarchies have been replaced by hierarchies based on performance. The abilities to please your superiors are no longer the most valued skills. Today's employees stay with companies only as long as they feel challenged and rewarded; moving from job to job is now a sign of ambition.
The rise of the young is a good thing, because it gives them more opportunity to put their ideas and energy into practice at their most creative stage in life. Nowadays youth and youth qualities seem to dominate, but the experience and maturity of older employees should be put to good use, too.
【1】A company tries to attract young people for their________.
A．office culture
B．modern lifestyle
C．changing attitude
D．technical abilities
【2】In the20th century, to enter an American company, a young person needed to ________.
A．work in the office and at home
B．have an eye-catching hairstyle
C．dress in the business style
D．leave the business tool behind
【3】According to Paragraph 3, company hierarchies are based on the employees' ________.
A．achievements
B．age and experience
C．skills with the Internet
D．ability to please the boss
【4】Why is the rise of the young a good thing?
A．They become more energetic in life.
B．They have taken over the companies.
C．Their creativity can be put to good use.
D．Their ideas appeal to a great many people.
【5】What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Young people will lead in fashion.
B．Young people will have more power.
C．Older people will step off the historical stage.
D．Older people will continue to be the main force.
23、On May 15, 2013, Sarah and David Brown heard the words every parent dreads: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 13 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped . breathing. The baby had just moments to live.
“I saw him gasp, but the doctor said it was no use, ” Sarah said. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up easily. ” Still, the couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to cherish her last minutes with the tiny boy, Sarah asked to hold him. “I wanted to meet him, and for him to know us, ” Sarah told the Daily Mail five years later. “We’d resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to lose him, and we were just trying to make the most of those last, precious moments. ”
Sarah unwrapped the boy, whom the couple had already named Jamie, from his hospital blanket and ordered David to take his shirt off and join the boy and the girl in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would improve his condition. They also talked to him.
“We were trying to make him stay, ” Sarah said. “We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to have him. ” Then something miraculous happened. Jamie gasped again—and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger.
Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and healthy. The Browns only recently told the kids the story of their birth. “Emily burst into tears, ” Sarah said. “She kept hugging Jamie. This whole experience makes you cherish them more. ”
【1】Which phrase is closest to the meaning of “resigned themselves to” in Paragraph 2?
A．devoted themselves to
B．submitted themselves to
C．committed themselves to
D．applied themselves to
【2】What did the couple do to make Jamie stay?
A．They unwrapped the boy and hugged him.
B．They just talked to him how they loved him.
C．They begged the doctor not to give up treatment.
D．They got the twins skin to skin in one bed and talked to him.
【3】What can be the best title of this passage?
A．First-time Parents
B．Premature Twins
C．Life-saving Contact
D．Miraculous Moment
24、Our environment isn’t as green and beautiful as it should be. There are steel(钢铁) monsters blocking out the sun, blowing out dangerous smoke, and letting out poisonous chemicals into rivers, cars producing harmful waste gas, people throwing out waste in a wrong way and all other kinds of sources that ruin the planet. Facing current environmental problems, people need to do their best to save the earth.
You can see many big garbage dustbins in the streets. They’re not there for a show, but for you to drop your waste. We should realize that what we do does count. So next time you get that urge to throw gum or a chocolate package out of the car window, or “accidentally” drop as you walk down the street, ask yourself how much waste you’ve been contributing to the environment with that bad habit going on for years.
At home, the first thing we can do to protect the environment is avoid letting water run continuously and make sure that taps（水龙头）are not leaky（漏的），which would help greatly in scrimping. Another is to use energy-saving lights, and turn them off before you leave the rooms. It is not only energy-saving, but also cuts down electricity costs.
Recycling is a method to make items reusable. Many things you want to throw out can be made into new products through the reproducing process. Use your imagination to come up with ways on things that you can use again.
Pass the message of simple ways to save the environment on to kids. Starting with kids is a good way of teaching the message early in their lives, in the hope that they can carry it forward as they grow older.
With environmental protection awareness in mind, we can do what we can, for the results are to have a big effect on the planet. As long as we do our part, the world is one small step closer to being saved.
【1】In the first paragraph the author uses “steel monsters” to describe________.
A. huge buildings B. high mountains
C. big factories D. characters in fairy stories
【2】From the fifth paragraph, we can know that ________.
A. protecting the environment begins with small chores
B. protecting the environment should start from childhood.
C. wonderful life comes from environmental protection
D. protecting the environment benefits the country and the people
【3】Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The more people do their part, the greener the environment will be.
B. Selling what you don’t want any more is a kind of recycling.
C. To protect the environment may help you save some money.
D. Your bad habits for the environment are a valuable contribution.
【4】The passage is mainly about_____________.
A. the use of garbage dustbins
B. how to save water and electricity
C. how to save the environment
D. our current environmental problems
25、Before our round-the-world trip we always thought that in Peru visiting Machu Picchu would be our most amazing experience.
Although Machu Picchu is simply indescribable, it _________ out that a totally improvised (即兴的) adventure gave us a much stronger _________. When we were staying at a Couchsurfer’s place in Cusco, we _________ him whether it would be _________ to visit a real Quechua village.
He said we could _________, although we would have to find it out ourselves since these Quechua _________live quite far in the Andes. _________, there’s no public transport to get there. In the end, we got very lucky. While_________ for transport, we found out that the local doctor and other social workers were going to _________ some of these tribes and they let us join them.
We were __________ happy because we had the chance to stay in a Quechua community. We __________ about their traditions, saw the colorful clothes they wore every day and __________ their daily routine for some time. We often had to use __________ to communicate, since most of these people don’t speak Spanish, only Quechua. This is one of our most interesting travel __________ and a real heart-warming experience that we will never __________.
【1】
A．figured
B．went
C．turned
D．pointed
【2】
A．impression
B．understanding
C．sense
D．message
【3】
A．questioned
B．informed
C．interviewed
D．asked
【4】
A．suitable
B．possible
C．right
D．necessary
【5】
A．try
B．stop
C．fail
D．wait
【6】
A．tourists
B．communities
C．ancestors
D．regions
【7】
A．More importantly
B．Sure enough
C．Worse still
D．Strange to say
【8】
A．applying
B．longing
C．changing
D．looking
【9】
A．leave
B．manage
C．save
D．visit
【10】
A．really
B．mainly
C．reasonably
D．relatively
【11】
A．heard
B．worried
C．learned
D．complained
【12】
A．made use of
B．took part in
C．paid attention to
D．got used to
【13】
A．gestures
B．words
C．writings
D．mails
【14】
A．plans
B．brochures
C．tips
D．stories
【15】
A．remind
B．remember
C．forget
D．get
26、Write a speech about how music can change a person’s life. Use some of the rhetorical devices you have learned.
Hello, my name is Li Hua, and I’m here to talk about how music has changed my life.
Music is the greatest creation of mankind, as the lyrics and melodies convey whatever the artist was thinking and feeling. Just as the famous writer Hans Christian Andersen said, “Where words fail, music speaks.”
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