1、The traffic rule says young children under the age of four and________less than 40 pounds must be in a child safety seat.
A.to weigh
B.having been weighed
C.weighing
D.weighed
2、The school in library my mother works in the east of the village.
A. whose;lies B. which;lay C. which;lies D. which;lying
3、In the face of unfair phenomenon, we should not________ from defending social justice.
A.swallow
B.swell
C.shrink
D.stroke
4、As a child, I liked listening to stories, so now it is __________ a great story that my warmest memories from childhood come from.
A. reading B. being read
C. to read D. to be read
5、Living in the dormitory means______to take care of yourself,understand each other's difference and share______ interests.
A. to learn;common B. learning;ordinary
C. to learn;ordinary D. learning;common
6、_________ this is the biggest progress you have made this term.
A.In the way B.By the way
C.In a way D.On the way
7、He felt ______ this morning in the class because he didn’t fall ______ last night.
A.sleepy; asleep B.asleep; sleepy
C.sleep; sleep D.sleepy; sleeping
8、______ is known to all, Taiwan belongs to China.
A.Which
B.What
C.That
D.As
9、There is a________ increase in students’ creativity since they have been greatly encouraged to develop their own ways of doing things in recent years.
A.slight
B.tight
C.significant
D.various
10、Hardly _____ into the country ______ it began to rain.
A. we had got; when B. we got; than
C. had we got; when D. did we got; than
11、—My model ship doesn't work.
—Don't worry. I'll have it _________this afternoon.
A.repairing B.made C.repaired D.mend
12、________ the car approaching ________ the Tian An Men Square, we saw many tourists saluting to the Five-starred Red Flag.
A.As; to
B.While; /
C.With; /
D.For; to
13、Health problems are closely connected with bad eating habits and ________ exercise.
A.lack of
B.lacking of
C.lack in
D.lacking in
14、I believe the time is coming soon there will be no weapons in the world.
A.which
B.that
C.where
D.when
15、________ at the cafeteria before, Tina didn't want to eat there again.
A. Having eaten B. To eat
C. Eat D. Eating
16、I walked slowly ________ the market, where people were selling all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
A.beyond B.across C.over D.through
17、---You have to believe in yourself. No one else will, if you don’t.
--- _______. Confidence is really important.
A. It’s not my cup of tea
B. That’s not the point
C. I don’t think so
D. I couldn’t agree more
18、My wallet is no longer in use. I can buy I want simply with WeChat Pay.
A. whoever B. whichever
C. whatever D. whenever
19、Due to the widespread ________ of this medical technology, more diseases can be discovered and treated at an early stage.
A. presentation B. application
C. qualification D. appreciation
20、______ arriving at the airport, we were given a warm welcome by our friends.
A.With B.At C.Upon D.Until
21、Bananas, apples and avocados are called climacteric fruits because they continue to become ripe after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries and grapes are called non-climacteric fruits because they do not. Knowing the difference between them is pivotal for fruit-growers and greengrocers because they can keep their goods in perfect condition when they arrive at the market places based on the knowledge. But how the difference originally came about remains unclear.
Fukano Yuya and Tachiki Yuuya of the University of Tokyo offered a view. Fruits, which they observe, exist to solve a problem faced by all plants-how to best spread their young around. Wrapping their seeds in the sugary fruits, to provide a tasty meal, serves as a way to get animals to do this for them. They do, however, need to make sure that their fruits favour the animals most likely to do the distribution work. Their climacterism, or its absence, is a way to achieve this.
To test their idea, the two researchers looked into 276 papers reporting on 80 sorts of fruits, and noted which animals each depended on for the distribution of their young 35 of these fruits they discovered, were eaten by both ground-dwelling animals and those living above the ground. But of others, 15 of the 19 eaten mainly by ground dwellers were climacteric, while 21 of the 26 fed on by animals living above the ground were non-climacteric.
That is a suggestively strong connection. Other evidence points out that non-climacteric fruits tend to have vivid colors. This may help them stand out amid the leaves of their parent plants, advertising their presence. On the contrary, climacteric fruits are generally better at hiding themselves. That makes them harder to spot until they have fallen to the ground.
The main limitation of their work, say Dr Fukano and Dr Tachiki, is that most of the papers they looked through concerned fruits eaten by people. This has probably affected, the sample, for thousands of years of selective breeding for characteristics that human beings find attractive may have weakened any signal improved by natural selection. The next step, therefore, should probably be to limit the analysis to wild fruits.
【1】What does the underlined word “pivotal” in paragraph 1 probably mean?
A.Critical
B.Popular
C.Reasonable
D.Obvious.
【2】How do plants spread seeds according to Fukano and Tachiki?
A.By using their fruits to protect their seeds.
B.By showing their sugary seeds to attract animals.
C.By hiding their seeds on animals’favorite plants.
D.By making their fruits beneficial to the potential spreaders.
【3】Which can best describe the non-climacteric fruits?
A.Protective and fully-grown.
B.Small-sized and unnoticeable.
C.Bright-colored and eye-catching.
D.Hard and eaten by ground dwellers.
【4】What do Dr Fukano and Dr Tachiki aim to do in the future?
A.Find out fruits of old varieties.
B.Turn to the study of wild fruits.
C.Look into the selective breeding fruits.
D.Protect different fruit plants for breeding.
22、Evergreen Teen Book Club Offer
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This catalogue offers a wide selection of over 500 books in every issue, including mysteries, adventures, biographies, cookbooks, sports, and many more. Our catalogue also contains interviews with your favorite authors, reviews of newly published novels, and a teen top-ten list for both fiction and nonfiction.
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【1】 If you join the Evergreen Teen Book Club, you can __________.
A. buy books at cost price
B. get one free book for a cash purchase of 3 books
C. receive a gift after each order
D. expect 3 free books each month
【2】If Lily wants to get free delivery, she should __________.
A. accumulate 6 bonus points
B. order at least 3 books
C. purchase the catalogue
D. join the club before June 30th
【3】 The purpose of the text is to get more people to __________.
A. collect books for the club
B. read different kinds of books
C. join the club and order books
D. learn from famous writers
23、Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world.
When it comes to cancer, the sooner you know you have it, the better your chances of surviving are.
A new blood test could change the way doctors and researchers find cancer in patients. Researchers say the test could provide some hints of the early forms of the disease.
Gareth Jenkins is a professor at the University of Swansea. He says he and his team did not look for cancer. They instead looked for a by-product of cancer, mutated (突变的) red blood cells. They looked for, what Jenkins calls, the collateral (附带的) damage of cancer—the damage left by the disease.
“In this blood test we don’t measure the presence of cancer,we measure the presence of mutated red blood cells which are the collateral damage that occurs—a by-product of the cancer developing.’’
The researchers used normal laboratory equipment to perform the tests. This equipment looks for changes in the structure of millions of red blood cells. Those mutated cells lack a surface protein (蛋白质) that healthy cells normally have.
“The goal of the test is looking for very rare cells which have picked up a mutation. The number of mutated red blood cells in a healthy person is around 5 or so mutated cells per million; so, you have to look at millions of red blood cells to discover those rare events. The number increases in cancer patients—it goes up to 40 or 50 on average.”
The researchers tested blood from about 300 people, all of whom have cancer of the esophagus (食管). Patients with esophageal cancer have high levels of mutated red blood cells. Jenkins says that at this point he is not sure if other cancers would produce similar results.
The hope is that the new test could one day become part of commonly used medical methods to find out if a person has cancer. These new technologies could save millions of lives.
【1】What does the underlined word “hints” probably mean in Paragraph 3?
A. Deaths. B. Experiences.
C. Signs. D. Kinds.
【2】Healthy people and patients with esophageal cancer are different in of mutated red blood cells.
A. the size
B. the color
C. the shape
D. the number
【3】What’s the author’s attitude to the new test?
A. Negative. B. Indifferent.
C. Positive. D. Doubtful.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A. Cancer Can Be Prevented
B. New Test Could Find Cancer Earlier
C. Scientists Have Discovered How Cancer Spreads
D. New Cancer Treatment Is Showing Extraordinary Results
24、 Read the following rules a coach laid down for his fifth-grade basketball team and then do the quiz.
1. Be on time for practice and games. That means you should be at the gym 5 to 10 minutes before practice and 15 to 20 minutes before a game. Players need time to stretch and warm up in order to play their best.
2. Tell your- coach as soon as you can if you are going to miss a game or practice Coaches plan their practice and who is going to play in the games. If you are missing when the coach thought you would be there, that can really mess up the team.
3. Get plenty of rest before the games. Basketball is a tough game that takes lots of energy. You can’t play well if you are dragging around the court. So the rule is: No sleepovers before games .
4. Don’t yell at your teammates for making a bad pass or a bonehead play Everybody including LeBron James, makes mistakes. There will be times when you make mistakes, and you won’t want your teammates. yelling at you .
5. Don’t even talk about the referees (裁判员). Too many coaches and players spend too much time complaining about referees and their calls. Calls that you think are bad or unfair are part of the game. Learn to forget about the calls and concentrate on your performance. More games are won and lost by the players than by the referees.
6. Practice on your own. Most kids’ teams practice an hour or two each week. No one ever became a good basketball player by playing an hour a week. If you don’t have a basket, practice dribbling on a driveway or in a parking lot. Or pass the ball back and forth with a friend.
7. Go watch high school basketball games. Pick a good player who plays your position and really concentrate on what he does. Notice his form when he shoots the ball or how he positions himself on defense or where he moves when he doesn’t have the ball.
8. Limit the video games you play. After coaching kids for years, I am convinced that video games make kids into watchers. Basketball is a game that requires you to move our whole body, not just your thumbs.
【1】According to the coach, players _______.
A.mustn’t miss a game or practice
B.Shouldn’t practice much in driveways or in parking lots
C.are not allowed to play video games in their spare time
D.are advised not to yell at their teammates when they make mistakes
【2】According to the coach, what attitude should players have toward referees?
A.They should be friendly and try to leave a good impression on referees
B.They should focus on their own performance rather than those calls
C.They should speak out when they believe a referee has made a poor call
D.They should complain to the coach when they think an unfair call has been
【3】To improve their basketball skills, the players are advised to ________.
A.watch basketball games on TV as frequently as they can
B.practice with their teammates an hour or two each week
C.spare some time to stretch and warm up before a game
D.watch games by good players who play their positions
25、 I’ve been obsessed (困扰) with languages for as long as I can remember. My dad could talk to everyone with ease, confidently ____between languages. His abilities made a big impression on me, but he didn’t ______ me to follow his lead.
I wasn’t a(n)______ language learner. I made slow progress with French at school and almost gave it up. But things felt different when I ______ German at university — loving many German writers in translation, I wanted to read them in their _____ tongue, and that’s been my main ______ for learning new ones since. Once I got German, I was ______; French, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit quickly followed. The idea of having a ______ overview of the world has always fascinated me, and ______ languages seemed a good way of achieving that. By my 20s, I’d set my heart on _____ the rest of my life to learning as many as I could.
I’m often asked what the ______ is, and whether some people have a gift for absorbing words and phrases. The truth is that it’s down to endless hours of ______ — reading, studying and practicing grammar.______, all these wonderful languages start to swim into focus, and increasing numbers of great works become _____.
It’s hard, but the _____ can be thrilling. When I started studying Spanish, there was a moment when the living language suddenly ______ itself to me. Something _____ happened when I heard Swedish spoken around me. It seemed to _____ elements of languages I was familiar with. The more of them I know, the more I see how inter-related they are. All it took was three weeks and I was able to _____ effectively in complex conversations.
Now, I can read about three dozen languages and speak most of them fluently. I think I’m much richer for that — it makes me more _____.
【1】A.distinguishing B.switching C.comparing D.dividing
【2】A.threaten B.encourage C.promise D.trust
【3】A.sensitive B.average C.individual D.natural
【4】A.took on B.put down C.made up D.went over
【5】A.simple B.sharp C.native D.polite
【6】A.advantage B.appreciation C.foundation D.motivation
【7】A.shocked B.relieved C.depressed D.hooked
【8】A.comprehensive B.historical C.scientific D.skeptical
【9】A.speaking B.selecting C.imitating D.acquiring
【10】A.adjusting B.devoting C.reducing D.attaching
【11】A.secret B.purpose C.benefit D.puzzle
【12】A.expectation B.admiration C.concentration D.evaluation
【13】A.Gradually B.Suddenly C.Regularly D.Usually
【14】A.affordable B.accessible C.invisible D.assessable
【15】A.circle B.beginning C.options D.rewards
【16】A.revealed B.explained C.limited D.recommended
【17】A.reasonable B.significant C.similar D.funny
【18】A.substitute B.combine C.promote D.transform
【19】A.compromise B.compete C.communicate D.compensate
【20】A.arbitrary B.objective C.considerate D.confident
26、读写任务
阅读下面材料,然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
There are the two simple words, “if” and “what”. These two words can be used in many sentences and questions by themselves, but if you put them together, it forms a serious question, “What if…?”
This question will bring you back to a certain time in your life when you made a choice. You may not be happy with that choice today and often think about why you did it, but you made the decision because it was the best choice at that specific moment in your life. Now, years later, you start to think about that specific choice you made. You mentally struggle with yourself and consider if you could choose again, what would you do? Would it be totally different?
I truly believe if you want something very much, you can do it and achieve it , because “Where there is a will, there is a way.” You can correct the mistakes of your decisions for the past, go out and find happiness in the right decisions for your future. It is never too late to do anything in life.
【写作内容】
1. 以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2. 以约120个词就“人生努力永不晚”谈一谈你的看法,内容包括:
(1) 你对人生努力的理解;
(2) 举一个“大器晚成”的例子;
(3) 你对实例的评价或看法。
【写作要求】
1. 作文中可以使用实例来支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容论述,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,篇章连贯。