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1、I ________ Wang Ping when we reached ________ looked like a large market.
A．lost the sight of; what
B．lost sight of; where
C．lost the sight of; where
D．lost sight of; what
2、It was reported that 115 miners in the flooded mine for eight days were pulled out alive at last.
A.trapped B.being trapped
C.were trapped D.had trapped
3、This time tomorrow we_____in the classroom，having an English lesson．
A．will sit B．will be sitting
C．are sitting D．are to sit
4、It is the third time that she has won the race, ______ has surprised us all．
A．that B．where C．which D．what
5、 He could not ________ Yong Hui ___________ telling people lies.
A. have; get away from B. have; got away from
C. have; got away with D. have; getting away with
6、These ancient Indians used to live in ________ is now a part of the USA.
A．where
B．the place
C．which
D．what
7、Inspired by J.K Rowling, my uncle decides to devote all he could novels.
A. to write B. write C. to writing D. writing
8、In order to get his hands on the French Open title, ______he has never won, Djokovic has decided to work harder.
A. one B. the one
C. that D. it
9、In ancient Egypt, green represented hope and spring, ________ is the time of year ________ things in nature start to grow after a long winter.
A. when; which
B. what; when
C. which; when
D. which; that
10、There is still a long way to go. , some progress has been made with no doubt.
A．Nonetheless
B．Instead
C．Therefore
D．Moreover
11、Jane, _____at the news of the earthquake, was at a loss for words.
A. shock B. shocked
C. shocking D. having shocked
12、Bicycling is good exercise; _______, it does not pollute the air.
A.nevertheless B.besides C.otherwise D.therefore
13、Jack’s father, who is British, has come to love hot pot! But there are still some dishes that he ________ not try even after many years of marriage to his Chinese mother.
A．must
B．will
C．need
D．dare
14、You can ask anyone for help. here is willing to lend you a hand.
A. One B. No one C. Everyone D. Someone ^ *
15、Since the mid-1980's, growing numbers of Asians ________ in New Zealand, and they ________ about six percent of the total population.
A．had settled; make of
B．have settled; make up
C．settled; make up of
D．are settling; make up for
16、Often working at night, the poachers shoot whole herds of antelope ________leaving only the babies, whose wool is not worth so much.
A．at one time
B．at a time
C．at times
D．at some time
17、One of my biggest dreams has always been ________ the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring.
A．seen
B．to see
C．seeing
D．to be seen
18、Space exploration has been made ______ with the development of modern science and technology.
A. it possible B. it was possible
C. that possible D. possible
19、Although living on a income, the Smiths lead a happy life.
A. modest B. mild
C. evident D. acute
20、There is no power like ______ power of confidence, and there is no student as competitive as ______ student who trusts his own abilities.
A. the; a B. a; the
C. /; a D. the; /
21、The rest of your daily routine is probably something like mine：Divided among streaming movies on Netflix, watching home improvement videos on YouTube and playing video games. There has to be more to life than this. With the holiday season upon us, now it is a good time to take a breather and consider a digital detox. 【1】 Here’s what we can do.
Come Up With a Plan.
【2】 — after all, many students are attending school via videoconferencing apps. So Step One is assessing which parts of screen time feel toxic and make you unhappy. Step Two is creating a realistic plan to minimize consumption of the bad stuff.
Create NoPhone Zones.
“My No.1 piece of advice is no phone in the bedroom overnight,” Dr. Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, said. “Have a charging station outside the bedroom.”【3】 The dinner table, for example, is a prime opportunity for families to agree to put phones away for at least 30 minutes and reconnect.
【4】
Social media sites create goals to keep users engaged. Those include the number of likes and followers we accumulate on Twitter. YouTube automatically plays the next recommended video, not to mention the neverending Twitter scrolling. For starters, we can resist the hooks by making our phones less intrusive. Turn off notifications for all apps except those that are essential for work and keeping in touch with people you care about. 【5】
A．Resist the Hooks.
B．Not all screen time is bad.
C．Say no to Facebook or Twitter.
D．So I turned to psychology experts for their advice.
E．Whenever we are at home, we can put phones away.
F．Outside of our bedrooms, we can create other NoPhone Zones.
G．If you feel strongly addicted, take an extreme measure and turn the phone to grayscale mode.
22、 Do you know of anyone who uses the truth to deceive? When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can give you a false picture.
For example, some might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!”
This guy's a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. In fact, he bought $200 worth of tickets. He's really a big loser!
He didn't say anything that was false, but he left out important information on purpose. That's called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are just dishonest.
Some politicians often use this trick. During Governor Smith's last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her opponents says, “During Governor Smith's term, the state lost one million jobs!” That's true. However, an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith's term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs.”
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It's against the law to make false statements sol they try to mislead you with the truth. An advertisement might say, “Nine out of ten doctors advised their patients to take Yucky Pills to cure toothache.” It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Company.
This kind of deception happens too often. It's a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
【1】What do the underlined words “net gain” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A．Final increase.
B．Large share.
C．Big advantage.
D．Total saving.
【2】We may infer that the author believes people should ________ .
A．buy lottery tickets.
B．make use of half-truths.
C．not take anything at face value.
D．not trust the Yucky Company.
【3】What can we know from the example of the Yucky Pills advertisement?
A．Advertisements are based on facts.
B．Doctors like to act in advertisements.
C．False statements are easy to see through.
D．Half-truths are often used to mislead people.
【4】How is the passage mainly developed?
A．By listing examples.
B．By comparing.
C．By inferring.
D．By listing numbers.
23、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.
24、 By analyzing the fossilized teeth of some of our most ancient ancestors, a team of scientists led by the universities of Bristol (UK) and Lyon (France) have discovered that the first humans significantly breastfed their infants (婴儿) for longer periods than their contemporary relatives.
The results, published in the journal Science Advances, provide a first insight into the practice of weaning （断奶）that remain otherwise unseen in the fossil record.
The team sampled minute amounts from nearly 40 fossilized teeth of our South African fossil relatives, early Homo, Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus. They measured the proportions of their stable calcium isotopes （同位素）in the tooth enamel（牙釉质）, which are a function of the mother milk intake by infants. They show that early Homo offspring（后代） was breastfed in significant proportions until the age of around three to four years, which likely played a role in the apparition of traits that are specific to human lineage（血统）, such as the brain development.
In contrast, infants of Paranthropus robustus, that became extinct around one million years ago and were a more robust species in terms of dental anatomy, as well as infants of Australopithecus africanus, stopped drinking sizeable proportions of mother milk in the course of the first months of life.
These differences in nursing behaviors likely come with major changes in the social structures of groups as well as the time between the birth of one child and the birth of the next.
One of the study's lead authors, Dr Theo Tacail said: "The practice of weaning -- the duration of breastfeeding, age at non-milk food introduction and the age at cessation of suckling -- differs among the modern members of the hominid family which includes humans and modern great apes: orangutan, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.
The development of such behavioral differences likely played major roles in the evolution of the members of human lineage, being associated for instance with size and structure of social groups, brain development.
However, getting insights into these behavioral changes from fossils that are millions of years old is a challenge and, so far, little evidence allow discussing nursing practices in these fossil species.
The findings stress the need for further exploration of calcium stables isotopes compositions in the fossil record in order to understand the co-evolution of weaning practices with other traits such as brain size or social behaviors."
http://www.dentaldailynews.com/first-human-ancestors-breastfed-for-longer-than-contemporary-relatives/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190829115427.htm
【1】What do we know the findings of the team?
A.It takes the lead in focusing on Practice weaning.
B.It has disclosed the link between the weaning practice and other traits.
C.It is evident that nursing practice is associated with behavioral changes.
D.It’s contemporary humans that spend more time breastfeeding their infants.
【2】What does the underlined phrase “such behavioral differences” in Paragraph 7 most probably refer to?
A.Differences in the calcium isotope in the teeth.
B.Differences in the social structure of groups.
C.Differences in the practice of weaning.
D.Differences in the change of behaviors.
【3】What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.The evolution of human lineage
B.The possible influence of nursing behaviors.
C.The exploration of compositions in the fossil.
D.The function of mother milk at the age of infants.
25、 Lucy did not want to move to California. Her parents had bought a house there, but before _______ , they had to attend a meeting in Berlin, so they had_______ Lucy to stay with her uncle in California, rather than _______ her start at the new school. None of Lucy’s complaining _________, and off she went.
“Lucy,” said her uncle one evening, “I may arrive home _______ tomorrow. Mrs. Carpenter next door said you could stay in her house with the girl that_______ her baby.” Lucy agreed reluctantly.
Lucy arrived at the Carpenters’ after school and was_______ by a young Asian girl. Her name was An Ha. She let Lucy in but excused herself right away to_______ the crying baby. Lucy thought the baby would never stop, but somehow An Ha _________ to quiet him down and then she returned to the living room where Lucy was.
Then followed an awkward________. As Lucy was searching for something to say, her companion________, “Do you like living here, Lucy?”
“No,” replied Lucy but added __________, “I mean, I like my uncle, and you’re nice, __________ I just want to go home.”
“I miss home, too. My home is in Vietnam. When I________ here, I spent quite a while learning English and looking for __________. Finally, I got a job offer from the Carpenters after many ________.”
Lucy ________ that they had a lot in common—they were both homesick. However, the ways they showed it were ____________. Maybe if she stopped ____________, there might be something she could do to help them both.
“An Ha, can you teach me Vietnamese?” “Of course!”
The two girls both laughed. Before long, neither girl was thinking about________ at all.
【1】A.moving B.rushing C.travelling D.gathering
【2】A.begged B.allowed C.arranged for D.waited for
【3】A.avoid B.delay C.witness D.imagine
【4】A.appeared B.mattered C.grew D.changed
【5】A.soon B.alone C.late D.safely
【6】A.talks to B.plays with C.dresses up D.looks after
【7】A.supported B.greeted C.recognized D.seized
【8】A.scold B.punish C.encourage D.comfort
【9】A.managed B.happened C.failed D.refused
【10】A.experience B.movement C.silence D.question
【11】A.asked B.commented C.explained D.urged
【12】A.repeatedly B.coldly C.quickly D.deliberately
【13】A.for B.so C.though D.but
【14】A.returned B.survived C.visited D.arrived
【15】A.education B.employment C.assistance D.motivation
【16】A.decisions B.conversations C.interviews D.advertisements
【17】A.realized B.remembered C.denied D.hated
【18】A.different B.wrong C.new D.normal
【19】A.pretending B.judging C.asking D.complaining
【20】A.friendship B.homesickness C.nationality D.freedom
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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