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1、―Are you sure you'll leave the company you've served for nearly three years?
—Yes. The boss never gives me any for all the extra work I have done.
A.praise B.promise C.guidance D.expectation
2、Food stupplies in the flood-stricken area______.We must act immediately before there’s left.
A.have run out B.are running out
C.have been run out D.are being run out
3、Not until his father came back ____________ to bed.
A. he went B. did he go
C. went he D. he did go
4、High-tech scans sometimes yield murky (浑浊不清的) results, so patients have to get the more ________procedure anyway.
A．firm
B．invasive
C．humble
D．minor
5、John was dismissed last week because of his______ attitude towards his job.
A. informal B. casual
C. determined D. earnest
6、The teacher suggested to us that every minute should be made use of ___ our spoken English.
A.to improve B.improve
C.improving D.being improved
7、We could see nothing in the thick fog at a _____ of two meters, so we got lost.
A. distance B. length C. way D. space
8、 Generally，students' inner motivation with high expectations from others ________ essential to their development.
A．is B．are
C．was D．were
9、Children can get close to ________nature by taking part in ________series of outdoor activities.
A. the；/ B. the；a C. /；the D. /；a
10、All those _______ the proposal, raise your hands!
A. in relation to B. in excess of
C. in contrast to D. in favor of
11、—Did you like your trip to Xi' an during the Summer vacation?
—____．It was too hot and there was too much traffic．
A．Not a little
B．Don' t mention it
C．Not really
D．'Not exactly
12、As many as 150 people died in the explosion. If only the owners ____ enough attention to the safety measures!
A. paid B. should pay
C. would pay D. had paid
13、Some kinds of animals can ______ the color of their surroundings.
A. take on B. dress up
C. put on D. get into
14、Little ______ about his own safety, though he was in great danger himself.
A. cared he B. he cared
C. did he care D. was he cared
15、Opposite is St. Paul’s Church, ________ you can hear some lovely music.
A．which
B．that
C．when
D．where
16、Jason should tell us that he is fine, otherwise, we would ________ him.
A．be concerned with
B．be concerned about
C．be concerned in
D．be concerned over
17、Just because a bird does not breed one year, it does not follow that it will fail the next.
A.仿效 B.继续 C.理所当然 D.听从建议
18、Life being very short, we ought to waste none of them in reading ______ books.
A．valueless
B．valuable
C．invaluable
D．worthwhile
19、Don’t team up with those people. They are always claiming all the ______ for themselves and shifting all the blame on others..
A. commitment B. consequence
C. credit D. convenience
20、She drove so fast at the turn that the car almost went _______ the road.
A. on B. along
C. from D. off
21、The Cube has his own voice
I arrive at the Szepilona Bisztro, on a leafy road on the “Buda” side of Budapest, holding a Rubik’s Cube and searching for the man who had created it almost 50 years ago. I feel unworthy to have lunch with Emo Rubik, not the least reason of which is because the Cube I am holding has never been solved.
Rubik arrives punctually. He’s been coming to this restaurant since the late 1960s, when he was a graduate student, before he had invented one of the world’s most successful puzzles — a cube with 43 quintillion combinations, only one of which is correct.
【1】 At that time, Rubik was living in his family’s apartment on a grand avenue on the “Pest” side of the city. He was a professor of architecture, but his room was “like a child’s pocket, full of marbles and treasures”.
In an attempt to help students understand three-dimensional problems, he tried to build a set of cubes that stayed together but could also move independently. 【2】 He painted each side a different colour. But after he had twisted it, he realised that he could not easily return it to its original state.
“It was a more difficult task to find a system to solve it than it had been to create the thing itself” he says. In the end, it took him a month. And solving it gave him a “happy feeling of freedom’’, he said at the time. The Rubik’s Cube was born, and to date more than 450 million have been sold, the craze reaching its peak in the early 1980s.
Rubik was 29 when he “discovered” the Cube in 1974. By 1979, Rubik had sold 300,000. 【3】From there, it spread across the world, with some 100 million Rubik’s Cubes being sold in only three years. “I can’t imagine there being a higher type for it than there had been in the 1980s,” he says. He motions to my Cube.【4】Rubik comforts me with a Japanese slogan from the 1980s, coined for a game: “a minute to learn and a lifetime to master”.
A．But the content of the Cube is so wide that it can be a symbol of logical thinking, a way of life.
B．Eventually he came up with a six-sided structure with nine interlocking cubes on each side.
C．His moment of inspiration came in the spring of 1974.
D．I am forced to admit that I haven’t solved it yet.
E．Rubik was born towards the end of the Second World War to an aircraft engineer father and a poet mother.
F．The following year he was offered the chance to take his invention to a toy fair in New York.
22、The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year indicated a new era for climate action. For the first time, the world’s nations agreed to keep global warming well below 2℃.
This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations. Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. In a study published in Nature Scientific Reports, we reveal just how deep this injustice runs.
Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate “free-riders”: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while paying few of the costs such as climate changes impact on food and water. In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.
On the other hand, there are many “forced riders”, who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem. Many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions. This is much like a non-smoker getting cancer from second-hand smoke, while the heavy smoker is fortunate enough to smoke in good health.
The Paris agreement has been widely considered as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing “climate justice” can be best described as incomplete.
The goal of keeping global temperature rise “well below” 2℃ deserves to be praised but the emissions reduction promises submitted by countries leading up to the Paris talks are very unlikely to deliver on this.
More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions. However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring historical emissions. There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly, who is responsible for their provision. Securing these funds and establishing who is responsible for raising them will also be vital for the future of climate-vulnerable countries.
The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most. There must urgently be a meaningful mobilization of the policies outlined in the agreement if we are to achieve national emissions reductions while helping the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.
And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants (暴君) or pioneers.
【1】The author is critical of the Paris climate agreement because ________.
A．it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nations
B．it aims to keep temperature rise below 2℃ only
C．it is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countries
D．it burdens developed countries with the full responsibility
【2】Why does the author call some developed countries climate “free-riders”?
A．They needn’t worry about the food and water they consume.
B．They are better able to cope with the global climate change.
C．They hardly pay anything for the problems they have caused.
D．They are free from the greenhouse effects affecting “forced riders”.
【3】What does the author say about the $100 billion funding?
A．It will motivate all nations to reduce carbon emissions.
B．There is no final agreement on where it will come from.
C．There is no clarification of how the money will be spent.
D．It will effectively reduce greenhouse emissions worldwide.
【4】What urgent action must be taken to realize the Paris climate agreement?
A．Encouraging high-emitting nations to take the initiative.
B．Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.
C．Pushing the current world leaders to come to a consensus.
D．Putting in effect the policies in the agreement at once.
23、Quick Talk
In the exciting thriller Baby Driver, the actor and DJ, Ansel Elgort, 23, plays a music-obsessed (对音乐着迷的) getaway driver trying to escape from a life of crime.
Your character gets turned on to new music from iPods he finds in stolen cars. Who has influenced your taste?
Eve Beglarian, a composer (作曲家) and friend of my mother’s, made me my first iPod (playlist). One of the songs was Easy by the Commodores. The auditions (试演) for Baby Driver weren’t going well, and director Edgar Wright said, “Do you know any songs that you know every word to?” I remembered Easy. He said, “When you’re ready, I want you to sing it.” He told me that that was what got me the role. I guess I have to thank Eve.
At times the movie plays like a very complex music video.
They filmed very rhythmically. If I wasn’t wearing earphones, I was wearing an earwig — like a radio, but it’s tiny and you can hear things in your ear. Whatever the audience hears, we heard while filming.
How much did you get to drive?
They only let me drive when no one else was in the car, so that wasn’t often. They didn’t want me to kill Jamie Foxx.
You’re known for your brave and confident fashion choices. When did you start caring about style?
I must have been in the sixth grade. I wore the same red Adidas sweatpants every day, a white T-shirt and blue shoes. I was like a cartoon character.
After young-adult films like The Fault in Our Stars and Divergent, were you eager to be in a more adult film?
I don’t look at The Fault in Our Stars as a teenage movie. I looked at it like, this is a great script (剧本) and a good character, and I was excited to do it. But of course I was looking forward to being part of a “real” movie. If it meant working with Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm, sign me up.
【1】What helped Ansel get the role in Baby Driver?
A．Edgar’s suggestion.
B．Eve’s recommendation.
C．His excellence in driving.
D．His performance of a song.
【2】What do we know about Ansel?
A．He is pretty stylish.
B．He likes cartoon films.
C．He is a driving enthusiast.
D．He has starred in two films.
【3】How does Ansel find the movie The Fault in Our Stars?
A．It’s encouraging.
B．It’s worth seeing.
C．There’s no film worse than it.
D．There’s room for improvement.
24、Jim found himself exhausted during a trip. When he came home, he went to see a doctor. “The reason why I was fatigued (精疲力竭),” Jim says, “was that my kidneys were gone.”
Jim, 69, a former Air Force pilot, immediately started dialysis (透析) three times a week. A person of his age on dialysis usually lives only about four years. Transplants are a long-shot alternative. The National Kidney Foundation estimates that 13 people die every day while waiting for a donor with the right blood and tissue types.
Jim’s wife, nephew and four family friends offered but weren’t a match. Jim was so discouraged that he was even considering not attending a reunion of some Air Force buddies (铁哥们). But his wife encouraged him to reunite with his old friends, among whom was one he hadn’t seen for nearly 50 years: Doug Coffman. The two had met. When they both were learning Vietnamese before they went overseas.
Doug, then 70, felt a strong bond with his band of brothers, even though he hadn’t seen some of them for decades. Their connection went beyond the battlefield in ways most, soldiers never experience.
Doug had received help from his friends when he was in trouble, so he felt like it was a time that he could pay that ahead by donating a kidney to Jim. Fortunately, series of testing revealed not only that Doug’s tissue type matched Jim’s but also that he had the kidneys of a 35-year-old.
The transplant was a success. “It’s pretty miraculous to be able to take an organ out of one person’s body—a living organ—put it in another person’s body, and have it work.” Doug says. “And there’s nothing finer than knowing I’ve helped another person live a better life.”
【1】From paragraph 2 we know that kidney transplant is ________.
A．expensive
B．dangerous
C．a matter of luck
D．an unwise choice
【2】How old was Jim when he went overseas?
A．About 17.
B．About 19.
C．About 22.
D．About 25.
【3】What can we infer from Doug’s words in the last paragraph?
A．Doug is happy to donate a kidney to Jim.
B．Jim is having a better life than Doug.
C．The kidney transplant was very successful.
D．Modern medical science is very advanced.
【4】What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A．To share his good luck.
B．To tell us to pay it forward.
C．To introduce a kidney transplant.
D．To encourage us to make friends.
25、Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist? A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full_________of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not_________on obvious facts, and therefore refuses to accept authority as the only reason for truth. He always checks ideas_________and makes experiments to prove them.
The rise of modern science may be considered to_________as far back as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1294. He was probably the first in the Middle Ages to suggest that we should learn science_________observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself_________many important truths.
Galileo(1564—1642), ________, who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of several great men in Italy, France, Germany, and England, who began to show how many important_________could be discovered by observation by degrees. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more rapidly towards the earth than small ones, _________Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two__________stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It is Galileo’s__________of going direct to nature, and proving our__________and theories by experiment, that has__________all the discoveries of modern science.
What makes those people good scientists? From the example of Galileo, we know clearly that__________scientists are those whose observations have__________better results.
【1】
A．use
B．sense
C．speed
D．trust
【2】
A．relied
B．based
C．insisted
D．centered
【3】
A．casually
B．carefully
C．quickly
D．privately
【4】
A．date
B．keep
C．look
D．come
【5】
A．in
B．with
C．on
D．by
【6】
A．brought
B．discovered
C．handled
D．announced
【7】
A．however
B．therefore
C．seldom
D．never
【8】
A．truths
B．problems
C．investigations
D．subjects
【9】
A．although
B．because
C．when
D．if
【10】
A．big
B．small
C．similar
D．unequal
【11】
A．spirit
B．skill
C．theory
D．wish
【12】
A．plans
B．opinions
C．world
D．ability
【13】
A．led to
B．turned to
C．set up
D．put forward
【14】
A．reasonable
B．successful
C．expert
D．sensitive
【15】
A．foreseen
B．rejected
C．produced
D．challenged
26、假如你是李华，你在美国某高中做交换生，你校校报新开了“中国文化”专栏，邀请你介绍中国传统绘画艺术，请给校报编辑写一封回信介绍该艺术形式，内容包括以下要点：
1.写信目的；
2.中国画的特点；
3.著名的中国画画家。
注意:1.可适当增加细节，以使结构完整，行文连贯；2.词数100左右。
参考词汇:专栏 column 中国画 Chinese painting
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