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1、Tom, you will ________ the department until the end of this month.Next month you'll be rearranged.
A. be attached to B. be belonged to
C. be introduced to D. contribute to
2、It is believed that _________ you work, _________ result you’ll get .
A．more hard; more better
B．the more hard; the more better
C．the harder; a better
D．the harder; the better
3、The road is always very busy at this time every day. If we want to catch the train, we have to find a(n) route.
A．competitive
B．alternative
C．collective
D．distinctive
4、Excuse me would you please tell me ________
A.when the sports meet is taken place B.when is the sports meet going to be held
C.when is the sports meet to begin D.when the sports meet is to take place
5、People depend on cars so much they forget to exercise their bodies and end up _______ various diseases.
A. having developed B. developed
C. developing D. to develop
6、—The concert won' t start till seven．Why____ so early?
—You know I don' t want to be at the traffic there．It' s terrible during the rush hour,
A．are you leaving
B．do you leave
C．were you leaving
D．had you left
7、—Real Madrid is sure to win the match !
—It’ s hard to say . You know, anything ________ happen even in the last minute.
A. need B. must
C. should D. can
8、—My deskmate accused me breaking her glasses.
—Oh,you had the right to defend yourself her accusation.
A.of;against B.for;from
C.of;for D.for;against
9、The famous scientist said that she ______ to her motherland soon.
A．had returned
B．has returned
C．would return
D．will return
10、---I ________ myself more---it was a perfect day.
---Me, too. It’s years ________ I enjoyed myself so much.
A. couldn’t have enjoyed; since
B. needn’t have enjoyed; since
C. wouldn’t have enjoyed; before
D. shouldn’t have enjoyed; before
11、The inventor was determined to go on with the experiment_______countless failures.
A. instead of B.because of
C. in favor of D. regardless of
12、----I’m going to the United States.
---- How long ____you ____in the States ？
A. are; stayed B. are; staying
C. have; stayed D. did; stay
13、The traffic rule says young children under the age of four and________less than 40 pounds must be in a child safety seat.
A．to weigh
B．having been weighed
C．weighing
D．weighed
14、It is recommended that all citizens ________ in creating a civilized (文明的) city together.
A．can be involved
B．be involved
C．should involve
D．are involved
15、Last night he had the light________all through the night.
A．burnt
B．burning
C．to burn
D．was burn
16、Teenagers may run into many problems and it is a _____ for them to be able to talk to someone who understands their problems.
A. relief B. pity
C. surprise D. shame
17、I stopped the car ________ a short break as I was feeling tired.
A. take B. taking
C. to take D. taken
18、—He seems________ tired to do it.
—But I am only________ glad to do it.
A．very；too B．extremely；too
C．too；too D．very；very
19、A sense of ______ is the basic requirement for people working in the fields of education and health care．
A.agreement B.attention C.carefulness D.devotion
20、So fast ________ that it is difficult for us to imagine its speed.
A. light travels B. light has travelled
C. does light travel D. travels light
21、In 2020, Oliver Wallace’s parents entered him in a national speech contest. The contest was held by Think Kindness. It’s an organization that aims to inspire acts of kindness in schools and communities. Oliver wrote a speech and recorded a video for the contest. In his speech. Oliver focused on the idea that kindness is easy. “It can be free and it can make someone's day a whole lot better,” he said.
After winning the contest. Oliver put his speech into action. He created the Race to Kindness, a series of events spreading kindness around the world. For his efforts, the fifth-grader was awarded one of America’s top 2021 youth volunteers.
One of his events is called the Race to 500 Toys. Being in the hospital is difficult for kids. So Oliver started the toy drive for children in a hospital near his home. “I knew that I could help,” said Oliver, “and that made me want to.” With his prize money from the contest and the support from community, Oliver was able to donate 619 toys to the local children's hospital.
Now Oliver is busy with his new project, the Race to 100,000 Meals. “I was seeing so many people that didn't have access to food,” he said. “Or they were waiting in long lines to get small meals.” So far, the event has collected more than 100,000 meals for families in Texas.
Organizing a donation drive is one way to practice kindness. But small, well-thought-out acts are just as important. “It can start off with a positive thought or being kind to someone,” said Oliver. His speech offered suggestions. They included leaving a nice note for a neighbor or asking your parents how you can help them at home.
“If you treat someone with a little kindness,” Oliver said, “it can make you feel better knowing that someone else feels better.”
【1】Why did Oliver start the Race to Kindness?
A．To advocate kind actions
B．To participate in a contest.
C．To serve voluntary organizations.
D．To raise money for Think Kindness.
【2】With the prize money he got from the speech contest, Oliver___________.
A．made videos for the contest
B．donated meals for poor families
C．awarded prizes to young volunteers
D．bought toys for the children in hospital
【3】What can we learn from Oliver’s story?
A．Practice makes perfect.
B．Think twice before acting.
C．Failure is the mother of success.
D．One small act can make a difference.
22、If you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would watch a performance of a Shakespeare’s play in Elizabethan England? What about hanging out with Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period? Or maybe you’d voyage far ahead of the present day to see what the future holds.
The possibility of time travel is indeed appealing. Stories exploring the subject have been around for hundreds of years. Perhaps the best-known example is science fiction novel The Time Machine, written by H. G. Wells and published in 1895. It was adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now universally referred to a vehicle transporting people into the far future.
But could time travel actually be possible? Some scientists say yes, in theory. They propose using cracks in time and space called “wormholes”, which could be used as shortcuts to other periods. Einstein’s theory of relativity allows time travel in extreme circumstances. And Stephen Hawking says you could travel into the future with a really fast spaceship-going at nearly the speed of light. Though building such a spaceship wouldn’t of course be simple.
Even if you could travel into the past, there is something called the “grandfather paradox”. It asks what would happen if a time traveler were to go back in time and have his own grandfather killed for some reason, and therefore prevent himself from being born. If the time traveler wasn’t born, how would he travel back in time?
And would you really like to visit the future? In H. G. Wells’ book, the main character travels into distant time where he arrives at a beach and is attacked by giant crabs. He then voyages 30 million years into the future where the only living thing is a black object with tentacles.
If that’s what’s in store, maybe we are better just living in the present day after all.
【1】Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．The Time Machine is one of the bestselling science fiction novels.
B．There are films, comic books and dramas adapted from the novel The Time Machine.
C．Works of Literature about time travel first appeared one hundred years ago.
D．It was H.G. Wells who invented the term “time machine”.
【2】Einstein’s and Hawking’s theories________.
A．suggest the possibility of time travel
B．have been proved wrong by some time travelers
C．have similarities because both are based on experiments
D．have pushed the invention of the first spaceship
【3】In Paragraph 4, “grandfather paradox” probably refers to the idea that________.
A．the reunion of the traveler and his grandfather brings happiness
B．the grandfather’s death makes the traveler’s birth impossible
C．the traveler goes back in time to seek for his grandfather
D．the traveler is prevented from meeting his grandfather
【4】According to the passage what is probably the author’s attitude towards time travel？
A．Unclear.
B．Supportive.
C．Doubtful.
D．Unconcerned.
23、We humans often say that a growling dog is “angry” or a purring cat is “happy”. But those terms are of little use to scientists like David Anderson who studies the brain circuits (脑回路) involved in emotional behaviors.
“We have to do more than just project our own emotions onto other animals,” he says. Yet Anderson describes research from his lab that suggests the brain circuits underlying human emotions have a lot in common with circuits found in animals’. “What lies beneath feelings,” he says, “is brain states that produce certain behaviors. And that’s the part of emotions we share in common with animals and that scientists can study.”
For example, Anderson’s lab has investigated fruit flies that become much more active when they see a moving shadow looking like their natural enemy. “We see that the more times we deliver the shadow the jumpier the flies become,” he says. And the flies keep jumping long after the shadow is gone. Anderson would behave much the same if he saw a snake. “I’d jump in the air,” he says. “Even for minutes after the snake had slipped away into the bushes, my heart would be pounding, and I’d probably jump every time I saw a snakelike object—even if it was a stick.”
That sort of behavior is typical of an ongoing brain state called defensive arousal(防御性唤醒). It’s present in both fruit flies and people which is why Anderson believes studying fear of an insect or a mouse is meaningful as it can reveal a lot about human emotions. “We can try to figure out how the brain is generating that state and what makes the animal finally calm down,” Anderson says. “We now understand specific parts of the circuit that increase fear and other parts of the circuit that decrease fear,” Anderson says. The next step, he says, is to figure out how to tweak that circuit to reduce the fear response of people with certain diseases like PTSD.
【1】What does Anderson think about people’s common description of animals emotions?
A．It is limited by people’s knowledge of brain functions.
B．It is too subjective to be regarded as scientific evidence.
C．It is actually some misunderstanding of animals behavior.
D．It is meaningless to the study of animals’ emotional behavior.
【2】Why are the examples mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A．To prove the effect of natural enemies on flies’ behavior.
B．To show similarities between human and animal emotions.
C．To mention the great influence of Anderson’s bad experience.
D．To stress the effects of negative emotions on people and animals
【3】What does the underlined word “tweak” in the last paragraph mean?
A．Replace.
B．Predict.
C．Adjust.
D．Observe.
【4】What will the further research mainly focus on?
A．Looking beyond human feelings.
B．Figuring out more human brain states.
C．Finding a cure for certain mental diseases.
D．Changing traditional ways of treating animals.
24、 Walking through an airport is never easy. Now imagine doing it if you were blind. That’s the problem faced by Chieko Asakawa, computer scientist and IBM researcher. Asakawa often flies between the US and Japan, making the journey monthly. If traveling alone, she has to be helped at both ends of the flight, which sometimes includes endless waiting. Searching for a better replacement led Asakawa to invent a high-tech suitcase that helps get her to the place she wants to go safely.
“I never relax when I travel alone,” she says. “I always think about what technology will help me travel more easily, quickly and comfortably.” It was this restlessness that led to the AI suitcase.
The idea has been in development since 2017 through research between IBM. other Japanese companies, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. Asakawa says there are hopes to commercialize the suitcase and pilot scheme (试验计划) is planned to use it in an airport, a shopping mall and other public spaces. Though the suitcase is too full of tech to hold any clothes, that could change in the future, she says.
A runner, Asakawa held Olympic dreams as a child, but a swimming accident at age 11 caused her to gradually lose her sight until, aged 14, she became totally blind. As a grown-up she has paid attention to developing accessibility technology. Among her creations is “a Designer,” whose aim is to make designers’ websites more user-friendly, and “IBM Home Page Reader”, the first voice browser to allow Internet access for blind people. Asakawa has won industry and government awards and been introduced into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.
“The blind people usually use a white cane (手杖) or a guide dog. A smart suitcase will open up many doors for blind people, because we’d be able to go anywhere by ourselves. Without new technology, we can not make our society more inclusive,” Asakawa says. “The suitcase is a great showcase for how AI and technology can change the lives of the blind.”
【1】What drove Asakawa to invent the suitcase?
A．The great commercial value of the suitcase.
B．The suggestion from an international airport.
C．The previous experience of keeping the blind company.
D．The wish to finish her trip smoothly without others’ help.
【2】What can we say about the suitcase?
A．It can hold a lot of clothes.
B．It has yet to be widely used.
C．It has proved unhelpful for the blind.
D．It is ready to be commercially produced.
【3】What does Asakawa think of the suitcase?
A．It will change people’s way of traveling.
B．It will hugely free up the blind’s movements.
C．It will make the public care for the blind more.
D．It will encourage scientists to do more researches.
【4】What is the best title for this text?
A．AI suitcase will help the blind go around.
B．Technology is changing the blind people’s lives.
C．A robot suitcase makes traveling easy and popular.
D．Traveling alone requires much courage for the disabled.
25、 One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to ______my strange problem—inability to ______. In the library, I found my way into the “Children’s Room.” I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the ______ at random. The cover of a book _____ my eye. It ______ a picture of a beagle(小猎兔狗). I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, _____ to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.
There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked _____ to my dog. I ran my fingers ______ the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. ______, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.
Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. ______ pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been ______ from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final _____ of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together. My mother’s call returned me to the ______ world. Something ______ me: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. Books could be incredibly _____ and I was going to read them. I never told my mother about my “miraculous” (奇迹般的) ______ that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable ______ in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was ______ that her son had read thousands of books, was ______ a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the ______ has held.
【1】A. compose B. ban C. defeat D. cause
【2】A. speak B. read C. write D. play
【3】A. shelf B. floor C. window D. shell
【4】A. distracted B. caught C. paid D. raised
【5】A. recognized B. reviewed C. presented D. took
【6】A. washed away B. given off C. broken off D. given away
【7】A. likely B. different C. similar D. opposite
【8】A. out B. behind C. off D. over
【9】A. Historically B. Hopefully C. Occasionally D. Unknowingly
【10】A. Though B. Since C. When D. Before
【11】A. differed B. separated C. broken D. connected
【12】A. setting B. channel C. scenery D. scene
【13】A. real B. fairy C. false D. beautiful
【14】A. occurred B. happened C. hit D. took
【15】A. wonderful B. delighted C. boring D. regretful
【16】A. goal B. training C. opinion D. experience
【17】A. procedure B. improvement C. recovery D. speed
【18】A. confused B. proud C. fortunate D. fond
【19】A. awarded B. taught C. refused D. updated
【20】A. sound B. saying C. words D. observation
26、假定你是李华，你的美国交换生朋友Peter得知你校为庆祝春节将举办中文毛笔书法大赛，向你了解大赛具体情况。请你写信向其介绍。内容包括：
1.欢迎Peter参赛:
2.书写内容及字数；
3.提交作品截止时间。
参考词汇：中文毛笔书法大赛Chinese Brush Calligraphy Competition
注意：1.词数100左右。
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
蓉城名校联盟2018级高三第二次联考
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