1、Peter’s application for a visa was rejected because he didn’t follow the right ________.
A. program B. procedure C. pattern D. content
2、A quarrel _________, which made him ______ his family.
A.was broken out; break away
B.broke out; break away from
C.was broken away; break down
D.broke down; break out
3、According to the picture, ______, you can go there.
A.when you want to have a rest
B.when you want to buy something
C.when you want something to drink
4、____ in a branch of the tree ___ a note which read "I'll meet you at the School Gate".
A.Sticking; was there
B.Stick; was there
C.To stick; was
D.Stuck; was
5、________ in the library regulations that any book borrowed should be returned by due time, or the borrower will be fined.
A.What is required
B.It is required
C.What requires
D.It requires
6、I don't know whether you happen ____ it, but I'm going to study in USA this September.
A. to be heard B. to be hearing
C. to hear D. to have heard
7、Luckily, the old man was sent to the hospital in time. Three minutes later and he _______.
A. would die B. was to die
C. should have died D. would have died
8、You will never achieve success _______ you keep working hard.
A.when
B.if
C.unless
D.because
9、_____ having a roommate inevitably has its challenges, it can also be a great part of your college experience.
A.While
B.When
C.As
D.If
10、Li Ming speaks very good English _____ he were an English boy.
A. so that B. even though C. as though D. now that
11、Seeing the happy ______ of the mother and her baby playing on the grassland, I immediately took a picture of them.
A. view B. scene C. look D. sight
12、We wish we________ harder when at school.
A.study
B.have study
C.will study
D.had studied
13、I’m so _____to the teacher who gave me lots of help.
A. available B. essential
C. qualified D. grateful
14、_________ hard at your lessons, you will be admitted into a key university.
A.Work
B.To work
C.Working
D.Worked
15、The princess’ hat was really fancy, which ________ with gold and jewels.
A.decorated
B.decorates
C.was decorated
D.was decorating
16、The reason why so many people sit before the television tonight is that there will be a______ show.
A. living B. live
C. alive D. lived
17、________ with depression, eating disorders and alcohol abuse for years, he now understands how important being healthy is.
A. Struggling B. Having struggled
C. Struggled D. Having been struggled
18、When first seeing Masaccio’s paintings, people were convinced they were looking through _____ hole in _____ wall at _____ real scene.
A. the; a; the B. a; a; a
C. a; the; the D. a; the; a
19、Are you concerned ________ your mother when she is out in Africa?
A.about
B.of
C.for
D.in
20、—Did you have a good time in Qingdao?
—Yes, come and look. My photos will show you ________.
A.how did we go there
B.where we will go
C.when did we meet
D.what the trip was like
21、Good afternoon, and welcome to England. We hope that your visit here will be a pleasant one. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a few of our laws.
The first one is about drinking. Now, you may not buy alcohol in this country if you are under 18 years of age, nor may your friends buy it for you.
Secondly, noise. Enjoy yourselves by all means, but please don’t make unnecessary noise, particularly at night. We ask you to respect other people who may wish to be quiet.
Thirdly, crossing the road. Be careful. The traffic moves on the left side of the road in this country. Use pedestrian crossing and do not take any chances when crossing the road. My next point is about litter (throwing away waste material in a public place). It is an offence to drop litter in the street.
When you have something to throw away, please put it in your pocket and take it home, or put it in a litter bin. Finally, as regards smoking, it is against the law to buy cigarettes or tobacco if you are under 16 years of age.
I’d like to finish by saying that if you require any sort of help or assistance, you should contact your local police station, who will be pleased to help you.
Now, are there any questions?
【1】Who do you think is most likely to make the speech?
A. A guide. B. A person who makes laws.
C. A teacher. D. An English teacher.
【2】How many laws are there discussed in the speech?
A. Three. B. Four.
C. Five. D. Six.
【3】The main purpose of this speech would be ______.
A. prepare people for international travel
B. declare the laws of different kinds
C. give advice to travelers to the country
D. inform people of the punishment for breaking laws
【4】The underlined word “contact” means _____.
A. keep up B. get in touch with
C. bring trouble D. report
【5】From the speech we learn that _______.
A. in this country, if you are under 18 years of age, you may not buy alcohol, but your friend can buy it for you
B. you may not buy cigarettes or tobacco unless you are above 16 years of age
C. because the traffic moves on the left side of the road, you must use pedestrian crossing when crossing the road
D. you can’t make noise except at night
22、MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are free, but without tutoring, and are open to anyone, anywhere in the world. The courses are flexible – normally three to five hours of study a week – done at any time, short (5 to 10 weeks) and video-rich. They are also heavily dependent on crowd sourcing: you can discuss a course with fellow students through online forums, discussion boards and peer review. Students don't have to finish the courses, pass assessments or do assignments, but, if they do, they get a certification of participation.
The Open University launched FutureLearn, the UK's answer to US platforms such as Coursera, EdX and Udacity, which have been offering MOOCs from top US universities for the past two years. The response has been incredible, with more than three million people registering worldwide. Meanwhile, in 2012, Edinburgh University became the first non-US institution to join Coursera's partnership, comprising 13 universities. “We already run 50 online master's degrees, so this was a logical expansion,” says Professor Jeff Haywood, Edinburgh's vice-principal. “It's an investment in teaching methods research. How am I going to teach introductory philosophy to 100,000 people? That's what I call educational R&D.” He adds “If you look ahead 10 years, you'd expect all students graduating to have taken some online courses, so you've got to research that. Our MOOCs are no more in competition with our degrees than a lifelong learning course because they don't carry credits.”
Cooperation is key, Haywood stresses. It is far better to offer 20-30 courses in your own areas of expertise (专门技能) and let other institutions do likewise. Professor Mike Sharples, FutureLearn's academic lead, goes further: “We've tied the elements available before into a package of courses offered by leading universities worldwide on a new software platform, with a new way of promoting it and also a new social-learning teaching method. You won't just receive an exam, but be able to discuss and mark each other's assignments.”
Bath University, one of more than 20 universities working with FutureLearn, launches its first course, Inside Cancer, next January, and regards MOOCs as a way of breaking down age barriers. "There's no reason why someone doing GCSEs should not look at our MOOCs and get quite a way through them, or someone at PhD level and beyond," says Professor Bernie Morley, expert for learning and teaching.
【1】MOOCs have these features EXCEPT that ___________.
A. MOOCs have a platform for learners to share their learning experience
B. MOOCs provide teachers’ instructions if you have some difficulty
C. MOOCs can be adjusted according to people’s learning pace
D. MOOCs are free of charge for anyone
【2】The response to Future Learn has been thought to be unbelievable mainly because ___________.
A. all the courses on the platform are available to anyone in the world
B. the number of people registering in the platform is beyond expectation
C. Edinburgh University became the first non-US institution to join it
D. students can get a certification of participation without passing assessments
【3】What can be inferred from Professor Bernie Morley in the last paragraph?
A. MOOCs are not so competitive as lifelong learning courses due to the problems of credits.
B. Inside Cancer will be the most popular course for someone doing GCSEs.
C. People at PhD level have already known everything about MOOCs.
D. People with various learning levels will probably show interest in MOOCs.
【4】The passage mainly deals with ___________.
A. the advantages of online teaching methods
B. the various opinions on FutureLearn
C. the appearance of a new learning platform
D. the popularity of no-credit courses
23、You may not pay much attention to your daily elevator ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it. But Lee Gray, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the “Elevator Guy”.
“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette (礼仪) is sort of odd,” Gray told the BBC. “They are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.”
We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else comes in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed.
He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want – it’s your own little box.
If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.
When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.
New entrants(新进入者) to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple – look down, or look at your phone.
Why are we so awkward in lifts?
“You don’t have enough space,” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us. And that’s not possible in most elevators.”
In such a small, enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be construed (理解) as threatening or odd. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact,” she said.
【1】According to Gray, when people enter an elevator, they usually _____.
A. try to keep a distance from other people
B. look around or examine their phone
C. make eye contact with those in the elevator
D. turn around and greet one another
【2】Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in an elevator?
【3】The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. ignore B. make the best of
C. put up with D. judge
【4】According to the article, people feel awkward in lifts because of _____.
A. someone’s odd behaviors
B. their unfamiliarity with one another
C. the lack of space
D. their eye contact with one another
24、 When was the last time you thought about breathing? Most people usually do not. When we are healthy, breathing happens naturally and easily. Without much effect on our part, the human respiratory system(呼吸系统)works hard. Experts say we take about 20,000 breaths every day.
One such expert is James Hoyt, a doctor at the University of Colorado’s Health Pulmonology Clinic. He notes our “respiratory muscles are working every minute of the day, every day of our lives.” A muscle called the diaphragm(横膈膜)separates the chest and abdominal cavities(腹腔). As we breathe in, the diaphragm tightens. The chest cavity opens, and the lungs expand. When we breathe out, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, pushing air out.
When you breathe deeply, the air coming in through your nose fully fills your lungs, and the lower belly(腹部)rises. On its website, Harvard Medical School notes that deep breathing may slow the heartbeat, lower blood pressure and lower stress. Deep breaths help your body fully exchange incoming oxygen with outgoing carbon dioxide. However, many people do the opposite of deep breathing. They take short breaths and have shallow breathing. Shallow breathing makes you feel short of breath and worried, or anxious.
The American Lung Association notes that shallow breathing, over time, leaves old, stale air in the lungs. This leaves less room for the diaphragm to bring in fresh oxygen. And that means lower oxygen levels and less oxygen for exercise and activity.
Several health websites explain an easy deep breathing exercise. Find a place to sit or lie down Place one hand just below your ribs(肋骨). Take a slow, deep breath-or inhale-through your nose. Feel your hand go up. Your stomach should rise and expand. Now breathe out slowly through your mouth. Make sure to breathe out-or exhale-all the way. Feel your hand and stomach go down.
【1】How can we breathe air out?
A.By the diaphragm’s tightening.
B.By the chest cavity’s opening.
C.By the lungs’expanding.
D.By the diaphragm’s moving upward.
【2】What does the author think of deep breathing?
A.It’s harmful.
B.It can cause anxiety.
C.It can reduce stress.
D.It’s bad for the heart.
【3】What’s the probable meaning of the underlined word “stale” in paragraph 4?
A.No longer new.
B.Not beneficial.
C.Poisonous.
D.Available.
【4】Which column is the text taken from?
A.Special News.
B.Health Report.
C.The Making of a Nation.
D.People in America.
25、A “blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”. The word “blog” is a_________way of saying “web log”, or “personal website”. Anyone can start a_________, and they can write about anything they like.
There are millions of blogs on the Internet today. They_________news, information and ideas for people who read them. They contain_________to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their_________and react to the ideas of others.
A research company called Perseus has_________more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most_________with teenage girls. They use them to_________their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study_________says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.
__________, some people develop__________blogs to present political and other ideas. __________, the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their__________.
At the same time, some longstanding blogs have__________. Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs. Com”. He said the site became too expensive to __________. He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had written on it. They were upset that the site had been closed.
【1】
A.short
B.long
C.regular
D.central
【2】
A.company
B.expression
C.experiment
D.blog
【3】
A.debate
B.explore
C.provide
D.seek
【4】
A.issues
B.links
C.recovery
D.guidance
【5】
A.reasons
B.ideas
C.faults
D.choices
【6】
A.served
B.reported
C.studied
D.attached
【7】
A.popular
B.pleased
C.bored
D.careful
【8】
A.ask
B.order
C.demand
D.let
【9】
A.instead
B.yet
C.still
D.also
【10】
A.Besides
B.However
C.In fact
D.Therefore
【11】
A.fierce
B.relaxing
C.serious
D.humorous
【12】
A.For example
B.In total
C.In the end
D.In contrast
【13】
A.products
B.employees
C.systems
D.predictions
【14】
A.recognized
B.ended
C.survived
D.happened
【15】
A.advertise
B.start
C.continue
D.close
26、利用下面所给的词语,写一篇50词左右的小短文。
on display, come to life, set…in motion, so as to, bring out, a variety of, rather than
要求:至少使用其中的5个词语,并用下划线标出。
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