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1、It happens that I am quite familiar with the professor _______ to give us a speech on environmental protection next Monday.
A. inviting B. to be invited
C. being invited D. having invited
2、To my delight, I from hundreds of applicants to attend the opening ceremony.
A. was chosen B. was being chosen
C. would choose D. had chosen
3、Finally, my thanks go to my tutor, who has offered a lot of suggestions and comments on my paper and ______ every page of my draft.
A．multiplied
B．restricted
C．polished
D．enlarged
4、______ from Milan Trenc's novel, the film Night at the Museum brings to life a world where dinosaurs wander the earth.
A．Adapted
B．Adopting
C．Attracted
D．Abusing
5、Today he came earlier than __________, for it was not a(n) ______ day.
A.common; usual B.ordinary; normal
C.normal; ordinary D.usual; ordinary
6、Her parents require that she her homework before she________TV.
A. will finish;watches B. finishes;watches
C. finish;watches D. finishes;will watch
7、Dr. Johnson loves music but doesn't like Jazz, and ________.
A．neither is his wife
B．so is his wife
C．it is true of his wife
D．so his wife is
8、The museum will open in the spring with an exhibition and a viewing platform ________ visitors can watch the big glasshouses being built.
A．whose
B．who
C．where
D．which
9、 ________nothing to do with us.
A.What she did have B.What she did is
C.What did she do has D.What she has done has
10、A drop of water and a little pity—— that is ________ I can repay with my life.
A．more than
B．less than
C．rather than
D．other than
11、You may borrow any book ______.
A．that you interest
B．which you are interested
C．that interests you
D．which interests you
12、They asked him to tell them everything ________ he saw at the front.
A. what B. that C. which D. where
13、Charles Dickens died in 1870 and his tomb ______, “By his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.”
A. speaks B. tells C. reads D. writes
14、The experience of my trip to Tibet not only ________ a new culture, but it also made me have a new look on my lifestyle .
A．looked forward to
B．paid attention to
C．threw new light on
D．took advantage of
15、He talks about Roman as if he ________ there before.
A．had been
B．was
C．were
D．has been
16、Going from junior high school to senior high school is ________ really big challenge. The first week was ________ little confusing.
A．the; the
B．a; a
C．a; /
D．/; /
17、She started singing to the baby and was greeted with a smile. Which of the following can replace the
underlined word?
A. offered B. rewarded
C. valued D. awarded
18、------Do you know anything about China’s space program?
------Yes, ________ I know, China will send woman astronauts into space in the near future.
A. As long as B. So far as
C. As much as D. As soon as
19、We should learn to accept the good with gratitude to God.______，we should also learn to accept the bad without complaint.
A.Meanwhile B.However C.Therefore D.Moreover
20、All over the city, history and modernity come together to make _______ an essential place for tourists to discover.
A. each B. this C. one D. it
21、Drew Goodall was once homeless. But a chance of meeting with a stranger turned his life around. Over 2 decades ago, Goodall worked with stars like Brad Pitt and Hugh Grant, being eager to be an actor in London. But poor theater reviews destroyed his confidence.
Goodall ran out of acting offers. He ran out of money and was evicted, ending up on the streets of London. His home was a cardboard box, surviving on what little money people gave him. He took on many jobs like polishing and shining people’s shoes. And he never asked anyone for help.
He purchased a brush and a tin of polish from what little he had from begging and he began his trade in London’s financial district. Goodall didn’t have a license to trade so he was wary of the authorities. But after six months, one of his regular customers made Goodall an offer that would turn his life around.
Goodall was allowed to set up on the hall of his customer’s office, which gave him a more stable income. He was now off the streets. The business grew as he moved in to other establishments, inspiring Goodall to start his own shoeshine business Sunshine Shoeshine. He began hiring the homeless and those with special needs to help with his trade.
Goodall soon began earning around £250,000 a year in profit as he set up and expanded in various places around London. Sunshine Shoeshine employs mostly former homeless people like him. Goodall’s story and his way of giving back boosted his employees’ confidence as well, since he gave them a new chance in life.
Goodall remembers where he came from, and now he is able to transform lives through his efforts. This is what Sunshine Shoeshine is all about. He gives others the ability to take control of their lives once more. He just gives them a little push in the right direction.
【1】What made Goodall lose confidence?
A．His being homeless.
B．Poor theatre previews.
C．Bad comments on theatre.
D．Competition between actors.
【2】Why did Goodall have to look out for the officials?
A．He didn’t have a place to trade at.
B．He didn’t possess a permit.
C．He didn’t have confidence in trading.
D．He didn’t offer customers good service.
【3】What did Goodall bring to his employees?
A．Their creativity.
B．Their education.
C．Their confidence.
D．Their health.
【4】Which words can best describe Goodall?
A．Ambitious but selfish.
B．Generous and humorous.
C．Confident but stubborn.
D．Determined and helpful.
22、What makes a word real? Who has the power to make those kinds of official decisions about words? Those are the questions many people have in mind. When most people say a word isn’t real, what they mean is that it doesn’t appear in a dictionary. That, of course, raises some other questions, including, who writes dictionaries?
Now, dictionaries are good resources, but they are changeable. If you ask dictionary editors, what they’ll tell you is that they’re just trying to keep up with people as people change the language. They’re watching what people say and what people write and trying to figure out what’s going to stick and what’s not going to stick.
Every January, dictionary editors go to the American Dialect Society Meeting every year, where among other things, they decide on the word of the year. There are about 200 or 300 people who come. Some of them are the best known linguists(语言学家) in the United States. In the past, some of the winners have been “staycation” to describe a vacation spent at home and “tweet” to describe a post made on the social networking service Twitter.
So how does a word get into a dictionary? It gets in because people use it and people keep using it, and dictionary editors are paying attention to people. If a community of speakers is using a word and knows what it means, it’s real. That word might be informal and that word might be a word that you think is illogical(不合逻辑的) or unnecessary, but as long as people are using the word, it is real. I hope that what you can do is to find language change not annoying but fun and interesting, just the way dictionary editors do. I hope you can enjoy being part of the creativity that is continually remaking our language and keeping it alive.
【1】Why do dictionaries change over time?
A．Speakers keep changing language.
B．Linguists often make up new words.
C．Dictionary editors change every year.
D．Words in the dictionary are out of date.
【2】Who has the right to decide the word of the year?
A．New words inventors.
B．American Officials.
C．Dictionary editors.
D．Famous linguists.
【3】What does the underlined word “staycation” mean in paragraph 3?
A．Taking a holiday while working.
B．Working online at home.
C．Staying at home for the moment.
D．Going on a vacation at home.
【4】What is the author’s attitude towards language changing?
A．Worried.
B．Positive.
C．Uninterested.
D．Confused.
23、Car Hire
Hiring a self-drive car really adds to the enjoyment of your holiday.There are so many places of interest to visit,and if you enjoy seeing more than just the city center there’s no better way to explore than by car.
Hire Charges:
What’s included
a) Unlimited mileage （英里数）.
b) Expenses on oil,maintenance and repairs,which will be repaid on production of invoices.
C) Full insurance except personal accident (see below).
What’s not included
a) Personal accident insurance.
b) Garaging,petrol,parking and traffic fines.
Conditions of Hire:
★The shortest rental period at these special low prices is three days.For prices for periods of one or two days you only see our representative at the hotel.
★Car hire must be booked six weeks or more before arrival in London to guarantee a car.But if you have been unable to make a booking in advance please see our representative at the hotel who may still be able to help you.
★The car types on the sheet are examples of the types of cars in each price range,but particular car cannot be guaranteed.
★Upon delivery the driver (s) will be asked to sigh the car hire company’s Condition of Hire.
★If you decide to hire a car,just fill in the Booking Form and return it to us.A booking fee of £ 12 as part of the car hire cost is required.
Should you be forced to cancel your car hire booking after payment in full (two weeks before date of hire),a cancellation charge of £ 12 will be made.
【1】From the advertisement we can see a car hirer will pay .
A. insurance against damage to the car B. insurance against injury to the driver
C. the cost of maintenance of the car D. the cost of repairs to the car
【2】If car hirers change their minds after paying the whole cost of hiring,the £ 12 booking fee is .
A. partly returned B. doubly paid
C. not returned D. returned within six weeks
【3】The prices for car hire are especially low when .
A. it is booked for at least three days B. it is booked two weeks in advance
C. it is booked for two days D. the booking is made in London
24、Gold Fame Citrus
by Claire Vaye Watkins ($5.99)
With the flight of its characters through a landscape destroyed by climate crisis, this novel does not indicate much hopefulness for the future. Within it is a series of situations and consequences made more severe in a future California short of water. Across the desert. we follow Watkins’ characters through a place so transformed that it needs its own field guide of animals newly adapted for strange survival.
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson ($18.1)
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate will affect us all. Its setting is not a deserted world, but a future that is almost upon us. This extraordinary novel from the visionary science fiction writer will change the way you think about the climate crisis.
Breathing Fire
by Jaim Lowe ($27)
The front lines of the fight against climate change are peopled with those society has forgotten. Up to 30 percent of the firefighters battling wildfires in California each year are prisoners performing backbreaking labor while earning a 40th of what a civilian makes. This book follows six female prisoner firefighters and their worried families, looking into the human cost of environmental crisis.
Something Under the Sun
by Alexandra Kleeman ($28)
In Alexandra Kleeman’s new novel, a novelist new to Los Angeles teams up with a former child actor to investigate a conspiracy (阴谋). But this is L.A., where wildfires burn all year long and the rich store water while the poor suffer from the consequence of climate crisis. Human weakness is pushing the city toward a disaster.
【1】Which book will change how we look at the climate crisis?
A．Gold Fame Citrus
B．The Ministry for the Future
C．Breathing Fire
D．Something Under the Sun
【2】Which category does Something Under the Sun fall into?
A．drama.
B．Biography.
C．fiction
D．poetry
【3】What do the four books have in common?
A．They show concern over climate.
B．They are at a discount.
C．They are intended for parents.
D．They are set in California.
25、Do you have a dream? Is it part of your life? Everybody has dreams. I have a dream, too. When I slept, I would dream of living it; when I _________, I would work for living it.
One day, somebody told me, “To _________ is better than to arrive. ”Hearing this, I just laughed it off, not quite understanding how that was even _________. And I didn’t realize how true it was _________ I had what I wanted. Then I suddenly realized that the person living the dream was different from the one who had _________ for it. Since then, I have made a great effort to work for the realization of my dream. _________, I achieved what I had wanted. I have now become a wiser, calmer, stronger and more passionate person.
The journey has _________ me a lot. I made mistakes and learned from them. I _________ and learned to get up again. I cried and I learned to wipe away my tears. I made friends and learned to value people. I made enemies and learned to value _________. The journey has transformed a caterpillar (毛虫) into a beautiful butterfly, eagerly waiting to __________ the world with her newly- found wings.
We all know that our __________ isn’t as perfect as it is in the fairy tales. It __________ great ambition and courage to fulfill our dreams. But we should remember that even if something gets in our way, nothing will __________ us.
So friends, always remember: “Experience is the best __________ and there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the __________ matters.” So let’s drink to a new journey.
Cheers!
【1】
A．got in
B．got through
C．got on
D．got up
【2】
A．gather
B．escape
C．travel
D．return
【3】
A．possible
B．difficult
C．certain
D．necessary
【4】
A．because
B．until
C．if
D．after
【5】
A．paid
B．waited
C．prepared
D．worked
【6】
A．Normally
B．Regularly
C．Finally
D．Actually
【7】
A．pleased
B．changed
C．pressed
D．worried
【8】
A．fell down
B．set down
C．looked out
D．put down
【9】
A．plans
B．choices
C．lessons
D．concerns
【10】
A．save
B．imagine
C．enjoy
D．explore
【11】
A．study
B．life
C．plan
D．creation
【12】
A．attracts
B．advises
C．praises
D．takes
【13】
A．persuade
B．stop
C．cure
D．match
【14】
A．fruit
B．course
C．teacher
D．hope
【15】
A．journey
B．task
C．decision
D．wealth
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Ashlee Larsen, of Melbourne, Australia, was eating in a local restaurant with her family when she noticed it had been a while since she had seen her son, two-year-old Brooklyn Larsen. So she decided to go check on him. She had left him playing in the indoor playground of the restaurant, which was within her view. But now he was not there. Thinking that the boy had probably been attracted by something and crawled out, Ashlee looked for him everywhere in the restaurant.
Curiosity is a character of most children, and Brooklyn was no different. However, Ashlee was still shocked when she saw him smiling at her from inside the toy machine up to his knees in stuffed toys. One would think this would have scared the child. Well, no. Brooklyn was smiling and giggling to his mom. He was happy to have so many toys to play with and was throwing the toys down the chute for all the people who had come around to see what had happened. Some kids, who were also having dinner in the restaurant, gathered around the toy machine, picked up the toys from the end of the chute and cheered joyfully.
Amused as the adults were, they knew they had to get Brooklyn out of the machine somehow. The restaurant manager called the firemen for help. However, before they could arrive, Brooklyn began to cry. This was when Ashlee’s brother Troy stepped in and tried to get the boy out of the machine. It was very hard because the chute was blocked by the toys Brooklyn had thrown and the boy was stuck. At that moment, Ashlee got an idea that maybe she could think of a way to motivate the boy to come out by himself.
注意：1 .续写一段文字；
2 .续写词数应为100左右；
3 .请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Considering Brooklyn had played for some time and must be thirsty, Ashlee thought his favorite orange juice might work.
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