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1、He dived into the water, _________ only his face _________.
A.leaving; exposed B.leaving; exposing
C.left; exposed D.left; exposing
2、Television enables us to see things happen almost at the exact moment ________.
A.which they are happening
B.when they are happening
C.which is happening
D.when they have happened
3、Walk ______ of the street, and you can see a post office just around the corner.
A.at the end B.in the end C.to the end D.to an end
4、A recent study ______ by researchers from three universities has suggested that having an interesting job in your fortes may reduce your risk of getting dementia in old age.
A．looked into
B．carried out
C．put off
D．opened up
5、 — It’s a lovely day, isn’t it?
— Yes. I love when the weather is like this. Why don’t we sit outside and have our lunch?
A.this B.that C.it D.one
6、The _______ papers recorded that his grandfather was among the group of astronauts who made the _______ first voyage to outer space.
A.historic…historical B.historical…historic
C.historic…historic D.historical…historical
7、—Mum, must I come back before five o'clock?
—No, you ________. Just get home before dinner.
A．mustn’t
B．needn't
C．shouldn't
D．couldn't
8、— How did the residents in your community show their sympathy to the victims in the stricken area?
— A large sum of money, with surgical masks, ______ to them.
A.is offered B.are offered C.was offered D.were offered
9、Unless ________ to speak, most high school students here prefer remaining silent in class.
A.invited B.inviting C.being invited D.having invited
10、Rarely ______ so heavily in Ning Xia as it did in Hei Long Jiang last year.
A．does it snow
B．it snows
C．did it snow
D．it snowed
11、He couldn't ________ the reason why the money was found in his room.
A. answer for B. account for
C. speak of D. result from
12、1 am looking forward to your answer as soon as possible.
A. be received B. being received C. receive D. receiving
13、Jan feels very glad because her life ________by the Internet.
A．have been great improved
B．has been greatly improved
C．has greatly improved
D．has been greatly improving
14、The office is ______ that one, so we can have our meeting there.
A．six times bigger as B．six times big than
C．six times as bigger as D．six times as big as
15、The hero of the story is an artist in his .
A.thirtieth B.thirty C.thirtys D.thirties
16、The monthly sales of Mo Yan’s works ________ 199 times compared with those before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A.accelerated B.stretched C.multiplied D.switched
17、Anyway, don’t give in. I’m sure the temporary _______ should not bother you too long.
A．expectation
B．setback
C．exchange
D．awareness
18、______ young in our village are now living _______much more comfortable life than we did.
A.A ; / B. The ; the
C.Ａ; a D. The ; a
19、______, the concert began.
A. The listeners having taken their seats B. Having taken their seats
C. Having taken their places D. Taking their seats
20、The reason for________ he failed in the exam was that he was too careless.
A．which
B．why
C．that
D．it
21、Great American Song Contest
Contest Rules & Entry:
This annual event is designed for amateur and semi-pro (半职业) songwriters only. Songwriters who earn over $10,000 annually from song publishing royalties (版税) do not have qualifications.
Amateur and semi-pro songwriters from all nations of the world are invited to participate in the Great American Song Contest.Song lyrics (歌词) may be in any language. Please include an English translation.
All participants will be sent an entry confirmation and a judging schedule when their songs are received and processed.
This year’s deadline is March 5. Online submissions must be received by this date. Mailed submissions must be postmarked (盖邮戳) by this date.
An entry fee of $30 is required for each entered song. After the first two entries,the entry fee drops to $25 for each additional song.
If the same song is entered in multiple categories, each requires a separate entry fee.
Prizes & Benefits:
Grand Prize Winner receives $1,000 in cash; each First Prize Winner receives $500 in cash. In addition, all winners receive a free membership to TAXI Independent A & R Company—$300 value!
Unlike those highly competitive“big cash prize”contests, which receive 20,000 to 30,000 entries each year but reward only a few, the Great American Song Contest offers a clear benefit to everyone who enters. Songwriters can get their songs heard and get feedback from knowledgeable music-industry professionals. That’s because the Great American Song Contest offers this opportunity and unique guarantee: All participating songwriters receive written opinions on their songs from experienced music-industry professionals!
【1】What can we know from the contest rules?
A．Song lyrics must be written in English only.
B．Not all songwriters can take part in the contest.
C．All submissions must be received by the deadline.
D．Not all participants will receive a judging schedule.
【2】How much should a songwriter pay for his three entries?
A．$75.
B．$80.
C．$85.
D．$90.
【3】What’s an advantage of the Great American Song Contest?
A．More cash for every prize.
B．Quicker confirmation.
C．A larger number of entries.
D．Written comments on entries.
22、In a time when many people around the globe are in lockdown (封锁) and unable to attend the gym, home exercising is becoming important. Fears of piling on the pounds are forcing many to find novel ways to move the body. You don’t need to pump iron or have expensive equipment like rowing and cycling machines to help you stay fit.
Exercising is not just important for your body, but also your mind. A study by Dr. Andrea Dunn at the Cooper Research Institute in Dallas, Texas found patients who did daily 35-minute walks per week experienced a 47% reduction in their depression (抑郁) levels.
Cardiovascular (心血管的) exercise, often simply called cardio, is designed to keep your heart rates up, which in turn will strengthen your heart and improve your general fitness. Many of us are turning to activities like skipping with an old rope, or watching one of the many “fitness experts” who produce exercise videos online.
Walking is another great activity to help you increase your blood circulation. There are many affordable pedometers which can be worn like a watch and used to track your steps, heart rates and sleeping patterns. You don’t even have to step outside, with many people simply doing some power walking or running round their gardens or up and down their hallways.
Practicing yoga or Tai Chi can help to increase our body flexibility, which in turn can lower joint pain and help to protect us from injury. Finally, strength and resistance training can be done at home by simply lifting bags of rice or boxes instead of heavy weights in the gym.
There are many ways to help us stay active, and indeed these exercise habits can be carried over in our lives long after lockdown is lifted. For those of us who complain about our busy lives stopping us from hitting the gym, ten minutes a day with a rope or a bag of rice may not only help our fitness, but our mental health too.
【1】What may encourage us to find new ways to exercise according to Paragraph 1?
A．Living a boring life.
B．Gaining weight.
C．Being mentally ill.
D．Losing connection.
【2】Which is the most suitable for maintaining the heart rate?
A．Rope skipping.
B．Pumping iron.
C．Power walking.
D．Lifting bags.
【3】What are the possible benefits of yoga and Tai Chi?
A．Losing weight quickly.
B．Making our bodies stay flexible.
C．Letting us recover from injury slowly.
D．Reducing your depression levels efficiently.
【4】What’s the best title of the text?
A．How to Exercise at Home
B．What to Do in Lockdown
C．Different Ways to Keep Healthy
D．The Importance of Staying Fit
23、The earliest tomatoes were little sour berries. They grew among low bushes in dry, sunny places in the Andes Mountains in South America. It was about 350 million years ago.
Tomato plants are relative to nightshade (茄属植物), which has poison. The leaves and stems of tomato plants have poison , but the berries are good to eat. The berries are red so that animals can find them easily and eat them. The animals carry the seeds to other places. That was how earliest tomato plants found new places to grow. Tomatoes are also relative to tobacco, chili peppers and potatoes.
When people first came to South America about 20,000 years ago, they ate these tiny wild tomatoes. Travelers brought a few kinds of wild tomato plants from the Andes to Central America, there the ancestors of the Maya began to farm them. Nobody knows exactly when people began farming tomatoes, but it probably was much later than corn and beans, and it was surely before 500 BC. These Central American fanners bred tomatoes to be bigger and sweeter than the wild ones.
By the time Spanish explorers got to Tenochtitlan in Mexico in 1521 AD, the Aztec people ere eating a lot of tomatoes, made a sauce of chopped (剁碎的)tomatoes, onions, salt and chili peppers that was a lot like our salsa. The word “tomato” comes from their Nahuatl word “tomato”.
Because tomatoes weren't farmed until pretty late, farmers further north had not yet been able to adapt heir growing season to working in North America. Even today, it's pretty hard to get your tomatoes ripe in the northern parts of North America before the growing season ends.
【1】What do we know about the earliest tomatoes?
A．They were big sweet berries.
B．They grew in Central America.
C．They grew in dry, sunny places.
D．They grew about 35 million years ago.
【2】How did the earliest tomato plants grow in new places?
A．People grew them in new places.
B．They grew in new places naturally.
C．Their seeds were carried away by wind.
D．Their seeds were carried away by animals.
【3】What happened after tomatoes were brought to Central America?
A．The farmers sold them to others.
B．The farmers disliked their taste.
C．The farmers tried to improve them.
D．The farmers showed no interest in them.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A．How to grow tomatoes.
B．The history of tomatoes.
C．When to grow tomatoes.
D．The places where tomatoes grow.
24、From this issue, we explore why the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute hasn't turned up anything since its founding in the 1980s. (See page 30 for more.) We asked our Facebook followers: Do you think that astronomers will find evidence of alien life in your lifetime?
Loran McCormick: 1 think they already have it. Judging by the sudden industrialization, I figure they found something that's probably been here since before humans walked the Earth.
Jens Avery: We may find life, but it may not want anything to do with us. We are not very advanced and can't even get along with each other.
Steven Buhrow: I think the more important question is — will any government ever publicly admit it in our lifetime? I fully believe that we could discover alien life today and the government would simply say the public is not ready for this information.
Jenna Walsh: I think we already see it, but just don't realize what it is. Intelligent alien life probably doesn't want anything to do with the disaster that is Earth at this point, so no doubt they're playing it safe and observing from a safe distance.
Christopher Harvey: By alien life, do you mean intelligent alien life? Then no. It would be extremely hard to find, short of them coming down to Earth. But if you mean unintelligent alien life, like bacteria or single cell, we might.
【1】Why did we ask the Facebook followers the question?
A．To question the efficiency of SETI.
B．To confirm the appearance of aliens on earth.
C．To ensure the existence of aliens.
D．To complain about the failure to find aliens.
【2】Who doubts the ever visits of aliens to the earth?
A．Loran McCormick.
B．Steven Buhrow.
C．Jenna Walsh.
D．Christopher Harvey.
【3】Where does this text probably come from?
A．An album.
B．A science fiction.
C．A magazine.
D．A travel guide.
25、完形填空
阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
We could all say that we have bad days as we go through life, but what does it take to have a really good day?
I remember a day recently when I had to go to the _____ for special tests because I wasn’t feeling well and my doctor sent me to a specialist to try and find the cause of my illness. As I_____ to the hospital, I was feeling sad and certainly wasn’t on top of my game. As I approached the hospital, I began my _____ for a parking spot. I finally found one not too far from the entrance to the hospital.
As I got out and brought my change out of my pocket, I noticed a man looking a little _____standing in front of a parking meter(停车记时收费表 ) two cars away. He seems to be searching his pockets for what I supposed were _____ for the meter.
Although I _____ didn’t feel that great, I thought that I should at least go over to him and find out if I could _____ him. As I approached him, he turned to me looking worried. I asked him if he had a problem I could help with. He said that he had no coins at all _____ he was only thinking about visiting his sick wife when he left his house.
I reached into my pocket and _____ out two dollars and gave it to him without saying a word. And, without waiting for a _____, I turned on my heel and said to him as I was walking away:”Have a good day.”
The funny thing was that I felt a lot _____ , a small smile came to my face, and second to walk just a little quicker. I was walking away when he called out:”Thank you so much.”You know, I didn’t even _____ him to say anything. He didn’t have to say a word to me. It was simply enough to _____that I had helped someone else who needed a little _____ . That’s all it took to bring a smile to my face as I went on toward completing my own business.
You know, it doesn’t_____ much to help someone else.
【1】A.hospital B.school C.gym D.company
【2】A.walked B.ran C.rode D.drove
【3】A.search B.plan C.travel D.design
【4】A.tired B.worried C.puzzled D.bored
【5】A.tools B.keys C.coins D.batteries
【6】A.really B.suddenly C.finally D.probably
【7】A.help B.understand C.follow D.join
【8】A.while B.although C.unless D.because
【9】A.turned B.dropped C.pulled D.sent
【10】A.call B.cheer C.regret D.response
【11】A.safer B.younger C.brighter D.easier
【12】A.tell B.expect C.remind D.encourage
【13】A.trust B.hope C.share D.know
【14】A.courage B.patience C.hand D.guide
【15】A.mean B.take C.make D.save
26、假定你是李华，你的意大利朋友Jeff写邮件告诉你此次“冠疫情（COVID-19 epidemic）”期间中国医务工作者对他们国家的帮助，请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 你的感想；
2. 表示关心和安慰；
3. 你的期待。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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