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1、It is generally acknowledged that loving your life is _____ the key to happiness lies.
A.what B.why C.where D.whether
2、“The Mozart effect” is a study described in 1993 in Nature _______ aroused public interest about the idea _______ listening to a classical music somehow improves the brain.
A. that; which B. what; why
C. who; that D. which; that
3、Is this the factory ________ computers are built?
A．that
B．where
C．which
D．in that
4、In the book, Anne describes ______ her science teacher inspired her to become a medical scientist.
A.how B.what C.where D.whether
5、Whoever ________ a crime can never escape from being punished.
A. commits B. does
C. makes D. earns
6、________makes this shop different is that it offers more personal services .
A．What
B．Whatever
C．Who
D．Whoever
7、When he got home, he found his house ______.
A.broken out B.broken into C.broken up D.broken down
8、 The roof fell _______ he had time to dash into the room to save his baby.
A. after B. as C. before D. until
9、The number of members in the club ________ more than 200 at present.
A．is
B．was
C．has been
D．have been
10、Paul is studying Chinese and________is his dream to work in China.
A．it
B．this
C．that
D．there
11、Up the Oriental Pearl Tower_____, with the intention to overlook the whole city of Shanghai.
A.did the tourists climb B.climbed the tourists
C.the tourists climbed D.did climb the tourists
12、—You could have asked Mrs Zhang for advice, for she is an expert at it.
—Yes, a whole day ________.
A. will be wasted B. would be wasted
C. had been wasted D. was wasted
13、— I’m so tired. I want to give up.
— Come on! Success favours those who never ________.
A．explain
B．argue
C．quit
D．forgive
14、—Have you checked all the relief________ to the people in the disaster area?
—Yes, several times. But I'll check it once more.
A．sent
B．sending
C．to send
D．to be sent
15、Young students are ______ not to smoke both in and out school.
A．suggested
B．requested
C．hoped
D．invited
16、Most girl students will hit the library on Sunday evening. And ________ date a campus brute (令人不快的人), many would prefer to go out with friends.
A.other than B.rather than C.more than D.better than
17、He ________ his last chance of winning the election when he said the wrong thing on TV.
A．gave in
B．gave up
C．gave away
D．gave out
18、Every possible means ________ to save the wounded soldier up to now.
A．tried
B．is trying
C．has been tried
D．tries
19、Which of the following sentences is correct?
A.I think my long and active life must due to the healthy life I live.
B.If a person to become infected, blood or sexual fluid that carries the virus, has to get inside the body through broken skin or by injection.
C.Neither did I know that my cigarette smoke could effect the health of non-smokers.
D.She said my breath and clothes smelt, and that the ends of my fingers were turning yellow.
20、When you come across difficulties, it is ______ of you to expect the worst.
A．abnormal
B．considerate
C．responsible
D．pessimistic
21、 “A teacher affects eternity( 永恒); he can never tell where his influence stops.”
---Henry Adams
He was eight years old. A telegram came from the hospital, and since his father, a Russian immigrant, could not read English, Morrie had to break the news, reading his mother's death notice like a student read in front of the class. “We regret to inform you.." he began.
On the morning of the funeral, Morrie's relatives came down the steps of his tenement building on the poor Lower East Side of Manhattan. At the cemetery, Morrie watched as they shoveled dirt into his mother's gave. He tried to retell the tender moments they had shared when she was alive. She had operated a candy store until she got sick, after which she mostly slept or sat by the window, looking frail and weak. Sometimes she would yell out for her son to get her some medicine, and young Morrie, playing stickball in the street, would pretend he did not hear her.
In his mind he believed he could make the illness go away by ignoring it.
How else can a child deal with death?
Morrie's father, whom everyone called Charlie, had come to America to escape the Russian Army. He worked in the fur business, but constantly out of a job. Uneducated and barely able to speak English, he was terribly poor, and the family was on the public assistance much of the time. Sometimes, to make money, Morrie and his younger brother, David, would wash porch steps together for a nickel(镍币).
One morning, David couldn't move. He had polio(小儿麻痹症). For a long time- -as his brother was taken back and forth to a special medial home and was forced to wear braces on his les, which left him limping-- Morrie felt responsible.
So in the mornings, he went to synagogue(犹太教会堂) and he stood among the swaying men in their long black coats and he asked God to take care of his dead mother and his sick brother.
And in the afternoons , he stood at the bottom of the subway steps and sold magazines, turning whatever money he made over to his family to buy food.
In the evenings, he watched his father eat in silence, hoping for- -but never getting --a show of affection, communication, warmth.
At nine years old, he felt as if the weight of a mountain were on his shoulders.
But a saving embrace came into Morrie's life the following year: his new stepmother, Eva. She was a short Romanian immigrant with plain features, curly brown hair, and the energy of two women. She had a glow(光) that warmed the otherwise murky atmosphere his father created. She talked when her new husband was silent, she sang songs to the children at night.
Morrie took comfort in her smoothing voice, her school lessons, her strong character. When his brother returned from the medical home, still wearing braces from the polio, the two of them shared a rollaway bed in the kitchen of their apartment, and Eva would kiss them good-night. Morrie waited on those kisses like a puppy waits on milk, and he felt, deep down, that he had a mother again.
There was no escaping their poverty, however. Because of the Depression, Morrie's father found even less work in the fur business.
Still, despite their circumstances, Morrie was taught to love and to care. And to learn. Eva would accept nothing less than excellence in school, because she saw education as the only antidote to their poverty. She herself went to night school to improve her English. Morrie's love for education was hatched in her arms.
He studied at night, by the lamp at the kitchen table. And in the mornings he would go to synagogue to say Kaddish- the memorial prayer for the dead- for his mother. He did this to keep her memory alive.
“What will you do?" Eva would ask him.
“I don't know," he would say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn't take the sight of blood.
“What will you do?"
It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher.
【1】Why didn't Morrie respond to Mother's yelling for medicine?
A.He didn't know how to help his mother.
B.He was too focused on playing stickball.
C.He was lost in tender moments they shared in the past.
D.He was too young to understand what was happening to his family.
【2】After Eva joined in the family, Morrie ________.
A.began to enjoy a materially rich life
B.witnessed his father changing the atmosphere
C.partly recovered from the sufferings in his life
D.was forced to pursue academic achievements
【3】Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “antidote”?
A.Alternative.
B.Credit.
C.Exception.
D.Solution.
【4】What can we learn from the story?
A.Every cloud has a silver lining.
B.No man is wise at all times.
C.Time and tide wait for no man.
D.Well begun is half done.
22、 In many-even most-space-themed films, whenever Earth faces a disaster, the solution is always leaving the planet in spaceships. But the latest Chinese sci-fi movie,“The Wandering Earth”，offers a different idea.
In the film, which is adapted from a short story by Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin, Earth is in danger of being destroyed by the dying Sun. Humans around the world work together to build a huge engine system that will push Earth away from the Sun. Instead of leaving Earth-again-this time we’re taking it with us.
This idea didn't come from nowhere. For thousands of years, Chinese people have had a special emotion at their “homeland” in their hearts and minds. One old saying is “luo ye gui gen", which means returning to one’s homeland in old age, like fallen leaves returning to the roots of their tree. Or look to an ancient poem: “The season called the White Dew ( 白露) begins tonight/Nowhere as in our native place is the moon so bright.” These both show the strong relationship that Chinese people have had with their homeland.
This is probably what sets “The Wandering Earth" apart from Hollywood-style space films. “What is Chinese sci-fi?”Guo Fan. the film’s director, said in an interview. “Films that can really express Our cultural and spiritual core ( 精神核心) can be called Chinese sci-fi. Otherwise, we' re just copying others and telling the same American stories.
And the makers of “The Wandering Earth” may have chosen the best time to tell the Chinese sci-fi story. The film was screened on Feb 5, the first day of Chinese New Year. It was a time when many people had just made the hard journey back to their hometowns. So to them, there is only one possible way to tell the story: Earth goes wherever humans go, because it's our home.
【1】What can we know about “The Wandering Earth” from the passage?
A.It follows the latest film fashion.
B.It is based on Liu Cixin' s book.
C.It is a film copying foreign movies.
D.It offers us a new experience of watching films.
【2】What does Para 3 mainly talk about?
A.The suitable season when the film was screened.
B.The famous poems mentioned in the film.
C.The common points between Chinese films and foreign films.
D.The cultural background of the film.
【3】The makers of this film choose Feb5 to put on it probably because_________.
A.it was the Spring Festival and many people have time to see it.
B.many old people want to return to their hometown.
C.it can cause many people’s common feelings at this time.
D.Chinese people usually celebrate together on that day.
【4】What can we infer from Guo Fan's words?
A.American sci-fi fails to express its culture.
B.“The Wandering Earth" tells a foreign story.
C.Chinese sci-fi should have its own features.
D.Science fiction films should express certain spiritual cores.
23、Masks that helped save lives are proving a deadly danger for wildlife, with birds and sea creatures trapped in the shocking number of thrown-away facial coverings. Single-use masks have been found around pavements, waterways and beaches worldwide. Worn once, the thin protective materials can take hundreds of years to decompose. “Face masks aren’t going away any time soon—but when we throw them away, these items can harm the environment and the animals,” Ashley Fruno of animal rights group PETA said.
In Britain, a gull was rescued by the RSPCA after its legs became tangled in the straps of a mask for up to a week. The animal welfare charity took it to a wildlife hospital for treatment before its release.
The biggest impact may be in the water. More than 1.5 billion masks made their way into the world’s oceans last year, accounting for around 6,200 extra tons of ocean plastic pollution, according to environmental group Oceans Asia.
Conservationists in Brazil found one mask inside the stomach of a penguin after its body was washed up on a beach, while a dead pufferfish was discovered caught inside another off the coast of Miami. French campaigners found a dead crab trapped in a mask near the Mediterranean. Masks and gloves are “particularly problematic” for sea creatures, says George Leonard, chief scientist from NGO Ocean Conservancy. “When those plastics break down in the environment, they then enter the food chain and impact entire ecosystems.” he added.
There has been a shift towards greater use of reusable cloth masks as the pandemic has worn on, but many are still using the lighter single-use varieties. Campaigners have urged people to bin them properly and cut the straps to reduce the risk of animals becoming trapped. Oceans Asia has also called on governments to increase fines for littering and encourage the use of washable masks.
【1】What’s paragraph 1 mainly about?
A．The problem of littering masks.
B．The long time to break down masks.
C．The threat of masks to wildlife.
D．The protective use of masks to people.
【2】What did the animal welfare charity do to the gull?
A．They gave first aid to the bird.
B．They released the bird at once.
C．They kept the bird for about a week.
D．They sent the bird to hospital.
【3】Which measure has been taken to help solve the problem?
A．Forbidding the use of single-use masks.
B．Wearing reusable cloth masks.
C．Cutting the masks up before throwing.
D．Increasing fines for binning masks.
24、Migrants to the UK are to be quizzed about their English skills before being able to claim income-related benefits, the government has announced.
In a move to "protect the integrity（完整性）of the benefits system", people will also be asked what efforts they have made to find work before coming to Britain. Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith said people should not be able to "take advantage" of British benefits. Job centres in England, Scotland and Wales will use the "more mighty" test. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said the test would ensure "only migrants who have a legal right to be in Britain and plan to contribute to this country can make a claim for benefits".
"For the first time, migrants will be quizzed about what efforts they have made to find work before coming to the UK and whether their English language skills will be a barrier to them finding employment," the DWP said in a statement.
Income-related benefits include council tax benefit, housing benefit, income-based jobseeker's allowance and pension credit.
Mr. Duncan Smith said British people were "rightly concerned" that migrants should contribute to the economy and should not be "drawn here by the attractiveness of our benefits system".
"It is vitally important that we have strict rules in place to protect the integrity of our benefits system," he said. He said the new test would help create a fair system which provided for "genuine" workers and jobseekers but "does not allow people to come to our country and take advantage".
To claim the benefits, migrants will have to pass a "habitual residence test" including more than 100 extra questions compared to now. This will be overseen by an "intelligent IT system" which will ensure questions are "tailored to each individual claimant".
Migrants will be allowed to claim benefits if they can prove they are legally allowed to be in Britain and are "habitually resident" of the country. As part of this they might be questioned about what measures they have taken to "establish" themselves in Britain and what ties they still have abroad.
"They will also have to provide more evidence that they are doing everything they can to find a job," the DWP said.
【1】What does the British government use the test for?
A. promoting the English skills of migrants.
B. making efforts to help migrants find work.
C. protecting the rights of migrants.
D. ensuring the British benefit claimed legally by migrants .
【2】What do we know about the test?
A. All British residents must be quizzed about their English skills.
B. The test will ask migrants whether they are willing to work in Britain.
C. The test is an act to protect British benefits system.
D. The test will help the government dismiss jobseekers.
【3】What does the underlined word “claimant “(in para.7) probably mean in the text?
A. a person who applies B. a person who is badly off
C. a person who migrates D. a person who is quizzed
【4】What does the passage mainly want to inform us?
A. All migrants can claim benefits from the UK.
B. Income-related benefits can be a great help to migrants.
C. All migrants come to the UK only to claim benefits.
D. Migrants are to pass a test to get the benefits from the UK.
25、Any kid would be lucky to have a brother as thoughtful as Christian Hammerer.
Not only is the 18-year-old from Georgia a ________ role model to his sister Skylar, but he would also do anything to make her________. That was why he made sure the 7-year-old had a ________ time at her father-daughter dance.
In the days leading up to the dance, it was all Skylar could ________. Her mom Trelysia, on the other hand, was growing more and more________. Although Skylar’s dad had________ to be there, he didn’t ________at last year’s dance. He was always ________ with his work and he went abroad last year, so Trelysia couldn’t make sure that he would________.
The big day was approaching. ________, Trelysia was right to be anxious(忧虑的). On that day, Skylar was rather________ when her dad didn’t show up.
“She cried________ she had her heart set on going,” her mom wrote. “I felt so bad because there was ________ I could do.”
That was when Christian appeared!
“Her big brother stepped in and said he’d ________ her because he wanted his sister to know that she deserved a man capable of(有能力) ________ his word and making her feel special. We were all very ________” Trelysia said “I know that I’m raising someone a ________ husband one day.”
While Skylar missed her dad, she had great fun ________ with Christian! Even better, now she knows she can always ________him, which brings their proud mom plenty of joy.
We have no doubt Christian will grow up to be a kind man – and an amazing father! After all, he’s already________ himself to be one of the world’s best brothers.
【1】
A．fantastic
B．similar
C．formal
D．healthy
【2】
A．wealthy
B．popular
C．safe
D．happy
【3】
A．hard
B．limited
C．pleasant
D．thin
【4】
A．look for
B．believe in
C．get across
D．talk about
【5】
A．excited
B．worried
C．curious
D．tired
【6】
A．promised
B．managed
C．regretted
D．happened
【7】
A．react
B．work
C．appear
D．lose
【8】
A．bored
B．busy
C．familiar
D．angry
【9】
A．pay off
B．pass by
C．hold on
D．come back
【10】
A．Unfortunately
B．Thankfully
C．Uncertainly
D．Commonly
【11】
A．calm
B．sad
C．tired
D．shy
【12】
A．but
B．when
C．until
D．because
【13】
A．anything
B．everything
C．nothing
D．something
【14】
A．visit
B．take
C．leave
D．save
【15】
A．trusting
B．accepting
C．spreading
D．keeping
【16】
A．touched
B．confused
C．embarrassed
D．disappointed
【17】
A．strict
B．polite
C．confident
D．trustworthy
【18】
A．dancing
B．competing
C．speaking
D．sharing
【19】
A．learn from
B．care for
C．rely on
D．cheer for
【20】
A．considered
B．proved
C．bothered
D．reminded
26、假设你是李华，请写封邮件给美国的笔友Jack，讲述学校于上周五上午在操场举办的每年一度的以“感恩、责任、成长、梦想”为主题的成人礼（coming-of-age ceremony）。邮件内容主要包括：
1. 成人礼概况；
2. 你的感受；
3. 询问美国的成人礼情况。
注意：1. 可以适当增加细节，使结构完整。 2. 词数100左右。
Dear Jack,
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Yours,
Lihua
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