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1、—I’m sorry that I dropped some coffee on your coat just now.
—________. I will wash it tomorrow.
A．No kidding
B．Forget it
C．You are welcome
D．I’m afraid not
2、We need to strike a _______ between the needs of the community and the rights of the individual.
A. silence B. difference C. balance D. weakness
3、With the development of economy and the spread of Chinese culture, the number of foreign students attending Chinese universities ______ rising steadily since 1997.
A．is
B．are
C．has been
D．have been
4、If you have any doubts about your health, you’d better______ your doctor at once.
A. convince B. consult
C. avoid D. affect
5、The father could barely ______ his anger when hearing the news that his son was ______ from the school due to misbehavior.
A.contain; accounted B.contain; suspended
C.maintain; advised D.maintain; driven
6、In order to make greater progress in English, he attends extra classes ________.
A．every other days
B．every other day
C．each second days
D．each two days
7、 It is a pity that none of the ______ stopped ______ the poor man lying there, begging.
A. passer-bys; to help B. passers-by; helping
C. passer-bys; helping D. passers-by; to help
8、With our country entering an aging society, ______ the retirement age is probably unavoidable.
A.having delayed B.delaying C.being delayed D.to be delayed
9、At last, I should thank Mr. White for the ________ of speaking here.
A.prejudice B.privilege C.ambition D.favor
10、It is reported that living spaces for wildlife ________ due to the cutting of trees.
A．are reduced
B．is reduced
C．reduces
D．are being reduced
11、Bats are surprisingly long-lived creatures, some ______ a life span of around 20 years.
A. having B. had C. have D. to have
12、Self-objectification may be a bigger problem for men, _____ the time and effort to edit and improve their selfies, before posting them online.
A.many taken B.with many taking
C.many took D.with much taken
13、Helen listened carefully _____ she might discover exactly what she needed.
A. in that B. in order that
C. in case D. even though
14、The infrastructure project has consumed so much money that we can't find any financial support and have to ______.
A. pull out B. pull through
C. catch up D. catch on
15、 —It is not enough for you just to tell me your decision. _____.
—The only reason is that I’m interested in it.
A. I don’t agree B. I don’t think so
C. Give me your reason D. Let’s have a discussion
16、You have to rewrite the monthly report because you _____ many important details.
A. turned off B. left out
C. dropped by D. put up
17、I spent years ________for my college entrance exam and my dream finally came true.
A．prepare
B．prepared
C．to prepare
D．preparing
18、The board thought it urgent that these files _____ right away.
A.printed B.had been printed C.would been printed D.be printed
19、With globalization sweeping the world, learning foreign languages will become increasingly necessary if a country ________ economically.
A. will compete B. is to compete
C. were to compete D. competes
20、What a wet blanket he was! We a good journey.
A.would have had B.will have C.had D.had had
21、Crushing disappointment
“If you want to make money in Cuba, buy garlic,” says a farmer in Artemisa province, in western Cuba. Garlic, known as “white gold” for its value, is critical to the unique seasoning of Cuban food. 【1】. A lack of fertilizer and pesticide makes it especially hard to grow. And it is harvested only once a year, in January.
Every year garlic-sellers on the streets of Havana peddle bulbs from backpacks, as if selling fake luxury handbags or electronics. The price of garlic tends to boom around November and December, before more comes onto the black market. A pensioner in one part of the capital complains that a bulb now costs 25 pesos ($1) and 450g (11b) costs 240 pesos, four times the price in September.
【2】. They pay garlic farmers $50,000-100,000 to buy their whole harvest and then resell it to a network of other resellers, who in turn sell to smaller resellers and so on. The dealers make so much cash from these transactions that banks, especially the small ones out in the provinces, sometimes have to close to the public while they process the sacks of money being deposited. “You can recognize the big resellers by their cars,” sighs the farmer in Artemisa.
【3】.In 1986 Fidel Castro, then Cuba’s dictator, discovered that a garlic farmer was making $50,000 a year—ten times a local surgeon’s wage at the time— by privately selling what he had left over after meeting his quota for the state agriculture system. Outraged to see that people were behaving like “capitalists in disguise”, he closed the private farmers’ markets where it was sold.
But the pandemic has worsened shortages of basic goods in Cuba, along with fertilizers, fungicide, seeds and supplies for animals. Thousands of rabbits died last summer in an outbreak of haemorrhagic disease. Pigs may be next. 【4】. Last year the government mooted eating guinea pigs, a popular food in parts of South America, but the idea was largely ridiculed. Then again, Cubans cannot live by allium alone.
A．Profiting from garlic is nothing new.
B．Another way to get the bulbs is through garlic resellers.
C．The country is on high alert following an outbreak of African swine fever in the Dominican Republic.
D．Ministry of Agriculture of Cuba has been developed a program of plant breeding with the aim of obtaining adaptation to the country conditions.
E．That is why these pensioners refuse to pay the garlic sellers on the street.
F．As with so many things on the communist island, however, it is in short supply.
22、 In 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer, I took what I could get — a teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area: western New Jersey. My characteristic optimism was alive only when I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted to do since I was fourteen — teaching English.
School started, but I felt more and more as if I were in a foreign country. Was this rural area really New Jersey? My students took a week off when hunting season began. I was told they were also frequently absent in late October to help their fathers make hay on the farms. I was a young woman from New York City, who thought that “Make hay while the sun shines” just meant to have a good time.
But, still, I was teaching English. I worked hard, taking time off only to eat and sleep. And then there was my sixth-grade class — seventeen boys and five girls who were only six years younger than me. I had a problem long before I knew it. I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. I wanted to make literature come alive and to promote a love of the written word. The students wanted to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room.
In college I had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. So I did, confident that, as the textbook had said, the bad behavior would disappear as I gave my students positive attention. It sounds reasonable, but the text evidently ignored the fact that humans, particularly teenagers, rarely seems reasonable. By the time my boss, who was also my taskmaster, known to be the strictest, most demanding, most quick to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited very little good behavior to praise.
My boss sat in the back of the room. The boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. I just pretended it all wasn’t happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions. My boss, sitting in the back of the classroom, seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. After twenty minutes he left, silently. Visions of unemployment marched before my eyes.
I felt mildly victorious that I got through the rest of class without crying, but at my next free period I had to face him. I wondered if he would let me finish out the day. I walked to his office, took a deep breath, and opened the door.
He was sitting in his chair, and he looked at me long and hard. I said nothing. All I could think of was that I was not an English teacher; I had been lying to myself, pretending that everything was fine.
When he spoke, he said simply, without accusation, “You had nothing to say to them.”
“You had nothing to say to them”. he repeated. “No wonder they are bored. Why not get to the meat of literature and stop talking about symbolism. Talk with them, not at them. And more important, why do you ignore their bad behavior?” We talked. He named my problems and offered solutions. We role-played. He was the bad student, and I was the forceful, yet, warm, teacher.
As the year progressed, we spent many hours discussing literature and ideas about human beings and their motivations. He helped me identify my weaknesses and strengths. In short, he made a teacher of me by teaching me the reality of Emerson’s words: “The secret to education lies in respecting the pupil.”
Fifteen years later I still drive that same winding road to the same school. Thanks to the help I received that difficult first year, the school is my home now.
【1】It can be inferred from the story that in 1974 __________.
A.the writer became an optimistic person
B.the writer was very happy about her new job
C.it was easy to get a teaching job in New Jersey
D.it was rather difficult to get a job in the USA
【2】According to the passage, which of the following is most probably the writer’s problem as a new teacher?
A.She took too much time off to eat and sleep.
B.She didn’t ask experienced teachers for advice.
C.She had blind trust in what she learnt at college.
D.she didn’t like teaching English literature.
【3】What’s the writer’s biggest worry after her taskmaster’s observation of her class?
A.She might lose her students’ respect.
B.She might lose her teaching job.
C.She couldn’t teach the same class any more.
D.She couldn’t ignore her students’ bad behavior any more.
【4】Which of the following gives the writer a sense of mild victory?
A.Her talk about symbolism sounded convincing.
B.Her students behaved little better than usual.
C.She managed to finish the class without crying.
D.She was invited for a talk by her boss after class.
【5】The students behaved badly in the writer’s classes because __________.
A.she didn’t really understand them
B.they were eager to embarrass her
C.she didn’t have a good command of English
D.they didn’t regard her as a good teacher
23、Whether you are at Disneyland or another Disney park, you will usually find a nighttime show that will be showing.
【1】. Read this article to find out how you can get a good seat for an evening event at any Disney park.
●Plan on seeing the show in advance.
Usually, if you decide an hour beforehand that you’re going to see a show, you will likely end up not getting a good seat, unless the park is not very busy.【2】, or at least the day before.
●Do your research.
Research online: “The best places to view...”. 【3】 Some of them may even be less known, so you may not deal with such a big crowd.
●【4】.
In order to get a good spot, plan on arriving an hour before the event. Possibly even earlier if the park is more crowded on that day. If you arrive ten minutes before the event starts, you’re a lot less likely to get a good spot.
●Stay in the same area.
【5】, make sure that it’s extremely quick, and try to have another member of your party stay in your spot while you are away.
A．If you must leave to do something
B．Enjoy the show with a friend
C．It’s usually much more enjoyable if you can get a good seat
D．This is especially important if you arrive closer to the event time
E．Arrive to the event early
F．Therefore, look at the schedule before your trip
G．You’ll see a list of places in the park that are the best for viewing that event.
24、About 12 years ago, Sandy Cambron noticed her mother, Pearl Walker, had become quiet after she moved into a nursing home for patients of Alzheimer's disease in Kentucky.
“We tried everything — photos, old stories — but nothing worked,” she said. “It was really hard for everyone to see how she had changed.” Then one day while Sandy was in a toy store, she had an idea: Why not give Pearl a baby doll so she could feel as if she were caring for something again? And why not give one to all the other care center seniors?
As soon as Sandy gave Pearl the doll, her mother's face lit up. “She started talking again and she never went anywhere without that baby,” Sandy said. “She took 'baby' to the dining room with her and slept with her in her arms every night. When she passed away a year later, we even buried her with that well-loved baby doll.”
In the following 10 years, Sandy and her husband, Wayne Cambron, continued to buy dolls and hand them out to the elderly of care centers near their home every New Year. Now Pearl's Memory Babies is a nonprofit (非营利) organization that has contributed more than 300 dolls to old people with Alzheimer's disease at nursing homes since February 2018.
Last year, Sandy posted New Year’s photos on Facebook, all of which are about seniors reacting to dolls that she and Wayne sent to a local nursing home. The post was shared more than 210,000 times overnight. People gave almost $15,000 online. That helped the group buy many dolls.
“The dolls offer treatment and comfort,” said Elise Hinchman, who works at a care center in Kentucky, "Some seniors cry when they get a doll. And they always rock and talk to their dolls. People with Alzheimer might lose their memories, but they don't lose their ability to love.”
【1】How did Pearl change after she moved to a nursing home?
A．She hardly talked.
B．She lost hope in life.
C．She felt bored.
D．She forgot everything.
【2】How did Pearl react after receiving the doll?
A．She began to cry.
B．She was very delighted.
C．She played it with a baby.
D．She was unconcerned about it.
【3】What's paragraph 5 mainly about?
A．What Sandy did for her mother.
B．People's reaction to Sandy's post.
C．The rising needs for baby dolls.
D．How Sandy became a celebrity.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Good News for Alzheimer's Patients
B．How to Remove Alzheimer's Disease
C．Baby Dolls Cheer up Alzheimer's Patients
D．Daughter Helps Mother Recover Memory
25、 _______ to us all, Martin Luther King was the black leader in America, who devoted his life to the racial equality, and died for his beliefs. The following is a(n) _______ from his famous speech delivered in the large audience of American people. The speech is called “I have a dream”.
I say to you today, my friend, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I will have a dream. It is a dream deeply _______ in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this _______ will rise up and live out the true meaning of its belief that “all men are _______ equal”.
I have a dream that the sons of _______ slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of _______. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis(绿洲) of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation _______ they will not be judged by the color of their skin _______ by the content of their character.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. This is our hope and faith. __________ this faith, we will work together, pray together, struggle together, go to jail together, stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
【1】A.It is known B.As it is known C.As is known D.We all know
【2】A.story B.fiction C.speech D.excerpt
【3】A.rooted B.mixed C.rested D.grown
【4】A.state B.nation C.government D.community
【5】A.discovered B.invented C.created D.born
【6】A.latter B.former C.late D.previous
【7】A.manhood B.brotherhood C.boyhood D.sisterhood
【8】A.which B.where C.that D.what
【9】A.and B.either C.but D.though
【10】A.As B.With C.For D.By
26、假设你是李华, 写信邀请英国朋友Sara来观摩你校举行的“文明礼貌月活动”。请根据以下提示，用英语给她写一封电子邮件。
包括:1. 活动时间和地点
2. 活动的形式和目的
3. 欢迎给出建议
注意:1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:文明礼貌月活动 National Courtesy Month
提高学生文明礼貌意识 raise students’ awareness of civilization and courtesy
Dear Sara,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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