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1、— Fancy meeting you here! Are you a librarian?
— Not really. I________my volunteer effort until the new term begins.
A.will just contribute B.have just contributed C.just contribute D.am just contributing
2、The superhero movie Avengers: Endgame topped Chinese mainland box office，Capernaum ___________ the second place.
A.took B.taken C.having taken D.taking
3、His movie won several awards at the film festival, ________ was beyond his wildest dream.
A．which
B．that
C．where
D．it
4、People began looking around to see ________ the noise was coming from.
A.how B.why C.whether D.where
5、Finding her car stolen, ______.
A. a policeman was asked to help B. the area was searched thoroughly
C. it was looked for everyone D. she hurried to a policeman for help
6、 If you keep on your research, you will succeed _____.
A. at the same time B. at no time
C. in time D. on time
7、The project, by the end of 2033, will expand the city’s telephone network to cover 2,000,000 users.
A. being accomplished B. accomplished
C. to be accomplished D. having been accomplished
8、If you had told me in advance, I ___ him at the airport.
A．would meet
B．would had meet
C．would have met
D．would have meet
9、The viewers will have _______ second chance to watch Voice of China on _______ Channel 4 tonight.
A. a; the B. the; the C. the; / D. a; /
10、As we know, a red jacket doesn’t ______ green pants. But when a little girl wore them, they ______ her very well.
A．fit; suited
B．suit; fitted
C．fit; matched
D．match; suited
11、Your support is important to our work. _________ you can do helps.
A．Whatever
B．No matter what
C．However
D．No matter how
12、I don’t doubt ________ he will come tomorrow, but I do doubt ________ he will come on time.
A．that; whether
B．whether; whether
C．that; that
D．whether; that
13、I came across an old school friend in China Town last week, ______ at his funny hairstyle.
A. surprised B. surprising C. being surprised D. having surprised
14、The ability to keep calm is one of her many ________. Owing to her excellent trait, she was promoted to deal with the emergency.
A.bases B.challenges C.benefits D.strengths
15、The WTO cannot _______ its name if it dose not include a country that is home to one fifth of mankind.
A．turn into
B．live up to
C．break down
D．keep in touch with
16、The old man could buy nothing ______.
A．with his money to steal
B．with his money stolen
C．with his money stealing
D．with his money having stolen
17、 — Do you know __________ they got to know each other?
— It was last year ________ they both taught English in China.
A. when was it that; when B. when it was that; that
C. when it was that; when D. when was it that; that
18、Chinese people have done everything they can ________ the disease from spreading. Now, China is the safest country to live in.
A．to prevent
B．preventing
C．have prevented
D．to have prevented
19、When _____ to hand in his homework, Philip told his teacher that he had left it home.
A．asking B．asked
C．having asked D．to be asked
20、John opened the door. There he had never seen before.
A. a girl did stand B. a girl stood
C. did a girl stand D. stood a girl
21、 Videos and video calls are becoming increasingly popular on social media in China, particularly on WeChat, the country’s most-used messaging app. We Chat’s 1.08 billion monthly active users last year made 410 million daily video and audio calls. That was 5.7 times more than in 2015, when WeChat first disclosed its operational data.
Uploading videos on WeChat Moments, a function that allows users to share their latest whereabouts, has become more widely used, with the number of videos posted multiplying 4.8 times in the past 4 years.
As a one-stop solution for Chinese people’s daily lives, We Chat has been able to produce a breakdown of its users’ preferences by age group. Those born in the 1980s for example are followers of news related to state and public affairs, whereas those younger than 20 spend the most on sweet treats.
In line with previous findings, China’s elderly population are becoming adept at using WeChat as a means of communication and conducting errands (办差事). As of September 2018, over 63 million users were registered as 55 years old or above. This group recorded an average length of 11 minutes for video calls, topping all age groups. We Chat Wallet has also registered exponential (指数的) growth, with payments in public transportation and high-speed traffic rising 4.7 times and 6.3 times, separately. Spending in retail stores and dining via WeChat rose by 1.5 times and 1.7 times. The number of users who use the app for making medical appointments and paying bills almost tripled.
【1】Which of the following is closer to the truth according to the passage?
A. The number of videos posted has declined in the past 4 years.
B. The users’ preferences for WeChat can be various by age group.
C. Downloading videos on WeChat Moments is widely banned officially.
D. The number of users’ spending in retail stores and dining via WeChat will be doubled.
【2】From what column on a certain website is the above passage most probably taken?
A. VIDEOS B. ADVERTISING
C. BUSINESS D. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
【3】What does the underlined word “adept” in the last paragraph roughly mean?
A. disappointed B. inexperienced
C. surprised D. skilled
【4】What is the passage mainly concerned about accordingly?
A. Video use continues to rise sharply on WeChat.
B. WeChat video calls are more frequently used by those younger than 20.
C. The post-80s are more likely fond of public affairs as well as sweet treats.
D. Making medical appointments and payments on We Chat will be more convenient.
22、A European Union program is letting blind people experience famous paintings for the first time. It uses three dimensional (3-D) printing to re-create famous paintings so that they can be touched.
One painting printed with the new technology is Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss.” It is a popular attraction at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria. The painting shows a man and a woman standing in a field filled with flowers. They are wearing gold robes and have their arms around each other. The man leans down to kiss the woman.
Klimt finished the painting in 1908. Until now, people who have trouble seeing can not enjoy the artwork. But thanks to the reproduction (复制品) they can touch the piece and feel the ridges (隆起) and depressions (凹地). Andreas Reichinger started making 3-D versions of artwork in 2010. He said this reproduction was his most difficult project because the couple’s robes are so detailed (精细的).
Dominika Raditsch is a blind museum visitor. She touched the reproduction. As she moved her hands around it, she said, “Exactly, can you see these? There are so many details.” Raditsch said she can imagine what the original painting looks like when she touches the reproduction. “It’s somehow round. You can feel it. It comes with it. And in many places it’s so smooth. And then I think to myself: it probably shines too!” Raditsch said.
The Belvedere is not the only museum to have 3-D versions of its artwork. Some of the pieces at the Prado, in Madrid, Spain, have reproductions that can be touched. But the piece in Vienna has one special part: it is made with widely available 3-D printing technology. That means one day, blind art fans anywhere in the world could download the source files and print the reproductions themselves.
【1】What is “The Kiss”?
A．A European Union project.
B．A popular painting
C．A 3-D technology.
D．A famous museum.
【2】Why did Reichinger say this reproduction was difficult to finish?
A．The painting was reproduced detailedly.
B．The original artwork was made in 1908.
C．Blind art fans can’t download the source files.
D．The 3-D technology is not available.
【3】What is the best title for the text?
A．A European Union Program for Museum Visitors
B．How to Reproduce the World-famous Paintings
C．A Special Museum for Art Fans in Vienna, Austria
D．3-D Printing Lets the Blind Experience Famous Paintings
23、Coastal cities worldwide are squeezed by two opposing forces: urban sprawl (扩张) and the rising sea. This struggle is intensely visible in the flatlands where expanding neighborhoods routinely flood and saltwater flooding damages the river mouths that protect communities from the worst of our climate crisis.
Massive resources are being put into environmental restoration projects, and development is subject to many layers of approvals. Yet in 2022 the commissioners of a coastal city voted to expand a legal boundary that contains sprawl to allow a 400-acre warehouse project. They are failing to see the value of this land in the greater ecosystem.
Wetlands, coastal plains and forests do cheaply (or even for free) what seawalls and pumps do at a cost of billions of dollars. They are vital infrastructure (基础设施) that makes us more resilient against climate change, and the cost of destroying them or weakening their ability to function must be factored into the decisions we make to build and grow.
To do so, the economic incentives to develop any natural landscape should be weighed against the protective economic value that land already provides. Economists call this an “avoided damage” valuation. Local planning boards might consider the value of a sand dune or swamp in flood protection versus the expense of replacing it with a seawall and water pump system. Maintaining and restoring natural infrastructure to support healthy functioning saves money, time and lives.
The concept of “natural capital”, or the idea that ecosystem services should be valued in a similar manner as any form of wealth, dates back to the 1970s. Markets have always valued wood as a commodity (商品), for example, but not the services that came along with producing it, such as soil maintenance, carbon storage, and nutrient cycling. We didn’t need a market for resources that industrialists saw as abundant (丰富的) and endlessly renewable. This exploitative (开发资源的) assumption turned out to be very wrong. Failing to measure the benefits of ecosystem services in policy and management decisions is a major reason many of those ecosystems disappeared.
It also seems crass to place a dollar amount on ecosystems that we’d rather view as priceless, existing for their own sake and valuable to humans in ways that are beyond capitalism. This preciousness is ethically sound. But developers have long confused pricelessness with worthlessness, allowing them to profit without paying for the consequences of destroying the environment.
Economic value is never the only reason nature is worth preserving; it is simply a powerful, underused tool to help us make decisions about how to live more sustainably in a climate-changed world. If policy makers considered natural infrastructure in the language of economics, they might recognize just how deeply we rely on it.
【1】What are the first two paragraphs mainly about?
A．The consequences of the saltwater flooding.
B．The cause of the urban sprawl and the rising sea.
C．An approval to an environmental restoration project.
D．The problem caused by the expansion of coastal cities
【2】What can we learn from the passage?
A．The idea of natural capital can enhance the profit of commodity.
B．The economic growth boosts the protection of natural landscape.
C．The abundance of resources is not the reason for devaluing them.
D．The exploitation of nature reflects the “avoided damage” valuation.
【3】What does the underlined word “crass” in Paragraph 6 probably mean?
A．Inadvisable.
B．Beneficial.
C．Relevant.
D．Unrealistic.
【4】What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To appeal for stricter control over city scale.
B．To propose the use of nature as infrastructure.
C．To stress the importance of ecosystem services.
D．To promote public awareness of nature protection.
24、For centuries, people have kept large amounts of cash at home during difficult times. But during the coronavirus (冠状病毒) crisis, things are different. Metal coins and paper money can be a source of worry rather than hope.
The fear is that these objects, possibly touched by thousands of people, could provide a way for the coronavirus to spread. Public officials and health experts have said that the risk is small. Still, some businesses refuse to accept cash and some countries have suggested that their citizens should stop using it altogether.
Zachary Cohle is an economics professor at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. “In many areas, cash was already beginning to disappear due to the increased risk of robbery, the ease of Internet ordering, and the ubiquity (无处不在) of cell phones,” he said. “Sweden, Finland, Norway, Canada and others have slowly reduced cash use to the point where using it in large amounts seems unusual. Britain and Australia are expected to become cashless countries. And in China, cash use has dropped as electronic payment services have increased over the past ten years.”
“Cash ist Fesch” is a common saying in Austria and southern Germany. The words mean cash is beautiful. But since the virus outbreak, shops that have remained open there, like grocery stores, have encouraged people to pay with cards. And Germany’s central bank said 43 percent of Germans recently paid for goods and services with a card. The Bank of Japan estimates that cash makes up 53 percent of household assets (家庭资产). But the threat of the coronavirus could move the country toward going cashless, said Hiroki Maruyama, head of the nonprofit Fintech Association of Japan. He added, “The culture is slowly changing.”
However, cash use is still common in places like West and Central Africa, where many are too poor to pay for the cost of banking services. Dorothy Harpool teaches at Wichita State University’s W. Frank Barton School of Business. Harpool thought some people would rethink their use of cash during the crisis, but she said the world would not be cashless until everyone and every country has a reliable way to use the Internet.
【1】Why is cash regarded as a source of worry?
A．Cash may carry viruses after being used.
B．Cash can’t be used during the crisis.
C．It’s risky to keep a lot of cash at home.
D．Some countries refuse to accept cash.
【2】What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．The disadvantages of paying in cash.
B．The introduction to cashless countries.
C．The present situation of cash use worldwide.
D．The increasing using of electronic payment.
【3】What do we know from the example of Germany and Japan?
A．Shops in Germany only take cash because it’s beautiful.
B．Less than half of the Germans still like to pay goods in cash.
C．More than half of the Japanese prefer to put cash in the bank.
D．The Japanese are changing their traditional attitudes to cash.
【4】Why is it impossible for the world to be cashless according to Harpool?
A．The virus crisis will last for a long time.
B．The Internet can not be used in all the countries.
C．The habit of paying in cash is hard to change.
D．People in Africa can’t afford the banking services.
25、 My daughter was having trouble recently deciding on what to major in at college, so she asked for my _________. I told her the one thing I wish that I had been told at her age: “Find a _________ that you love and you will never work a day.” I didn't know how to answer, though, when she asked me what she should do if she had to take a job that she _________.
That question brought back a lot of _________ of jobs that I had over the years. I remembered one in particular. My young family was _________. We had no money, and there were no good _________ to be had in the area. My brother, _________, got me a job at a local lumber mill (木材场). The work was hard and meant constant pain for my back. Hours were spent loading and stacking (码放) wood. The pay was very _________. In the winter the skin on my fingers bled from the cold, dry air. In the several years I worked there, many people left. Only those of us who had families to support didn't leave to _________ something better.
Still, I also remembered singing to myself while working. I remember as I pushed the lumber carts, glancing out the window and __________ watching the leaves changing in the fall. I remembered how a __________ sandwich tasted like the greatest meal in the world after hours of hard work. I remembered being grateful for this job so I could __________ my family. Remembering all this gave me the answer I needed for my daughter. “Just __________ your love to your job then, sweetheart,” I said. “If you can't do what you love, then __________ what you do.”
In this life we work to __________ but we live to love. Without love, work is drudgery (苦差事). Yet, with love, work is joy.
A．permission
B．advice
C．choice
D．expectation
A．hobby
B．person
C．major
D．career
A．hated
B．wanted
C．needed
D．enjoyed
A．thoughts
B．regrets
C．memories
D．opinions
A．improving
B．enlarging
C．moving
D．struggling
A．stores
B．jobs
C．markets
D．universities
A．however
B．instead
C．therefore
D．meanwhile
A．good
B．low
C．promising
D．reasonable
A．ask for
B．wait for
C．look for
D．prepare for
A．boringly
B．anxiously
C．angrily
D．joyously
A．different
B．simple
C．unique
D．healthy
A．see
B．save
C．start
D．feed
A．bring
B．prove
C．continue
D．put
A．change
B．end
C．love
D．respect
A．live
B．get
C．succeed
D．practice
26、假设你是育才中学学生会主席李华。你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛（speech contest），希望附近某大学的外籍教师Smith女士来做评委。请参照以下比赛通知给她写一封信。
英语演讲比赛
主题：人与自然
时间：6月15日下午2：00－5：00
地点：501教室
参赛选手：10名学生
联系人：李华（电话44876655）
欢迎大家光临
注意：词数100左右。
Dear Ms. Smith,
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