1、据说他刚从大学毕业就被公司录用了。
A.It is said that hardly had he been graduated from university when he was employed by a company.
B.It is said that hardly had he been employed by a company when he graduated from university.
C.It is said that hardly had he graduated from university when he was employed by a company.
D.It is said that hardly had he been employed by a company when he was graduated from university.
2、People came from all over the world to ________ their fortune.
A.seek with
B.seek out
C.seek in
D.seek
3、Jenny ________ have finished her work. Or she wouldn’t be playing badminton now.
A.should
B.needn’t
C.must
D.can’t
4、The proposal ______ the computer room _______ be closed must be resisted.
A. which; be B. which; must be
C. that; be D. that; must be
5、Please forgive me saying that; I was just ________.
A.pulling my weight
B.letting off steam
C.loosing lips sink ships
D.having yet to
6、--- Lily, ________ you ________ your ticket?
--- Not yet!
A.did; find
B.has; found
C.have; found
D.do; find
7、The differences in the children’s achievements can not be completely explained _________ their social backgrounds.
A.in terms of
B.in case of
C.in need of
D.in charge of
8、In April, thousands of holidaymarkers remained ________ abroad ________ the volcanic ash cloud.
A.sticking; result from
B.stuck; due to
C.to be stuck; as a result of
D.to have stuck; result in
9、—Is Peter coming?
—No, he____ his mind after a phone call at the last minute.
A.changes
B.changed
C.was changing
D.had changed
10、There’s hardly _____ milk in the bottle,_____?
A.no, isn’t it
B.some, is it
C.little, isn’t there
D.any, is there
11、One afternoon, as I was sitting with a book in my hand, my eyes, __________ in abstraction to the window, caught sight of a figure just passing.
A.raising B.to raise C.raised D.having raised
12、Save your energy or it will soon ______.
A.be run out B.run out C.be given out D.use up
13、—Some Chinese students find it difficult to understand native speakers when in London.
—Exactly, _________ they’ve learned a lot about grammar and known many words.
A.if only B.now that C.as if D.even if
14、This modern three-star hotel ________ close to the city center is attractive.
A. situated B. situating
C. is situated D. is situating
15、John is a(n) ________ boy. Whenever I see him, he is working.
A.religious B.energetic C.curious D.familiar
16、The girl has a great interest in sports and ___ badminton classes twice a week over the past 2 years.
A. takes B. took
C. is taking D. has been taking
17、Don't be___________ by its terrible smell-Durian tastes delicious.
A.dropped off B.put off C.taken off D.broken out
18、I’m sorry, but I can’t go with you to the cinema because I have to ______ my sick brother.
A.refer to B.attend to C.lead to D.stick to
19、________ thirty minutes earlier, you would have seen the beautiful rosy dawn.
A. If you got up B. Had you got up
C. Were you to get up D. If you should get up
20、—-What difference will it make _____we shall go to the concert on Tuesday or Saturday?
—They offer a discount on weekdays.
A. that B. when
C. if D. why
21、 When Peter Fortune was ten years old, grown-up people sometimes used to tell him he was a “difficult”child. He never understood what they meant. He didn’t feel difficult at all. He didn’t throw milk bottles at the garden wall, or tip tomato ketchup over his head and pretend it was blood, or slash at his granny’s ankle with his sword, though he occasionally thought of these things. Apart from all vegetables except potatoes, and fish, eggs and cheese, there was nothing he would not eat. He wasn’t noisier or dirtier or more stupid than anyone he knew. His name was easy to say and spell. His face, which was pale and freckled, was easy enough to remember. He went to school every day like all other children and never made that much fuss about it. He was only as offensive to his sister as she was to him. Policemen never came knocking at the front door wanting to arrest him. Doctors in white coats never offered to take him away to the madhouse. As far as Peter was concerned, he was really quite easy. What was difficult about him?
It was not until he had been a grown-up himself for many years that Peter finally understood. They thought he was difficult because he was so silent. That seemed to bother people. The other problem was he liked being by himself. Not all the time, of course. Not even every day. But most days he liked to go off somewhere for an hour to his bedroom, or the park. He liked to be alone and think his thoughts.
Now, grown-ups like to think they know what’s going on inside a ten-year-old’s head. And it’s impossible to know what someone is thinking if they keep quiet about it. People would see Peter lying on his back on a summer’s afternoon, chewing a piece of grass and staring at the sky. “Peter, Peter! What are you thinking about?” they would call to him. And Peter would sit up with a start. “Oh, nothing. Nothing at all.”Grown-ups knew that something was going on inside that head, but they couldn’t hear it or see it or feel it. They couldn’t tell Peter to stop it, because they did not know what it was he was doing in there. He could have been setting his school on fire or feeding his sister to an alligator and escaping in a hot air balloon, but all they saw was a boy staring at the blue sky without blinking, a boy who did not hear you when you called his name.
As for being on his own, grown-ups didn’t much like that either. They don’t even like other grown-ups being on their own. When you join in, people can see what you’re up to. You’re up to what they’re up to. You have to join in, or you’ll spoil it for everyone else. Peter had different ideas. In fact, he thought, if people spent less time joining in and making others join in, and spent a little time each day alone remembering who they were or who they might be, then the world would be a happier place and wars might never happen...
The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially the ones who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you are rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head. A teacher who saw Peter staring out the window or at a blank sheet of paper on his desk might think that he was bored, or stuck for an answer. But the truth was quite different.
【1】It can be learned from the first paragraph that ________.
A.Peter liked playing practical jokes
B.Peter wasn’t particular about food at all
C.boys generally did some crazy things
D.Peter knew why he was called“difficult”
【2】Which of the following would Peter be most likely to do?
A.To walk around a lake for quite a while.
B.To break the neighbor’s fence for fun.
C.To tie a dirty dustbin to a dog’s tail.
D.To sleep in the tent with his friends.
【3】What is the main reason that Peter was considered“difficult”by grown-ups?
A.He was far from communicative.
B.He turned a deaf ear to others.
C.He did not do well in his studies.
D.He preferred to live on his own.
【4】What might the author continue to write about in the following part?
A.Effective measures to help Peter out.
B.How the unique ideas Peter had amazed others.
C.Difficulties keeping Peter from learning well.
D.Further prejudice against Peter among grown-ups.
22、 The only known white giraffe in the world has been fitted with a GPS tracking device in an effort to protect him from poachers (偷猎者) in Kenya. The unique male giraffe now stands alone after a female and her calf were killed by poachers in March, 2020.
The GPS tracking device, secured to one of the animal’s horns, will give hourly updates of his location, said the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy. Rangers will be able to monitor the giraffe’s movements in the conservancy located in Garissa County, eastern Kenya.
“The giraffe’s living range has been blessed with good rains in the recent past and the abundant vegetation is a good sign for the future of the white male,” said Ahmed Noor, manager of the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy.
Noor thanked the Kenya Wildlife Service, Save Giraffes Now and the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) for their help in safeguarding wildlife species.
“Our mission is to work with communities, secure their livelihoods as well as protect the unique wildlife like the only known white giraffe,” said Antony Wandera, the senior wildlife monitoring officer at the NRT.
The male giraffe has a rare genetic trait called leucism (变白), which results in the partial loss of pigmentation (肤色) in an animal and makes it easy to spot for poachers. Unlike albinism (白化), animals with leucism continue to produce a dark pigment in their soft tissue, meaning the giraffe’s eyes are dark.
In March, 2020, the remains of two of the stunning white giraffes that lived at the Kenyan wildlife reserve were found dead, killed by poachers.
The world’s tallest land animal has lost 40% of its population in just 30 years, the African Wildlife Foundation estimates.
【1】Why do people fit the white giraffe with a GPS tracking device?
A.To entertain the white giraffe.
B.To find a better way to feed him.
C.To prevent him from being killed.
D.To learn more about the white giraffe.
【2】How often will the GPS tracking device update its information?
A.Every day. B.Every hour.
C.Every week. D.Every two hours.
【3】Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “mission” in Paragraph 5?
A.Job. B.Dream. C.Interest. D.Suggestion.
【4】What can we learn from the passage?
A.The population of white giraffes is increasing.
B.The white giraffe has become extinct in the world.
C.Few organizations show interest in protecting wild animals.
D.The population of giraffes in the world has been decreasing.
23、Parents usually teach their children how to cross the street safely by looking both ways for cars. But do they also teach them to put away their cell phones?
Texting while crossing the street will soon be forbidden in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. Beginning on October 24, you could be fined from $15 to $99 if you step into a Honolulu street while looking at your phone. Honolulu is the first major U.S. city to forbid what is called "distracted (分心的) walking." It recently passed a law in a seven to two vote. The law says: "No pedestrian (行人) shall cross a street or highway while viewing a mobile electronic device (设备)." In other words, do not look at a screen when you cross the street or you could be fined.
The law’s creators hope it will lower the number of people hit and killed by cars in the city. Mayor Kirk Caldwell told Reuters news agency, "We hold the unfortunate distinction (区分) of being a major city with more pedestrians being hit in crosswalks, particularly our seniors (老年人), than almost any other city in the country."
The law includes all electronic devices with screens: cell phones, tablets, gaming devices, digital cameras and laptop computers. The law does permit an exception. Pedestrians may use such devices in the street to call emergency services and rescue workers, such as firefighters and police officers.
Pedestrian deaths have been increasing as the use of cell phones rises. The Governors Highway Safety Association says pedestrian deaths in the United States increased 25 percent between 2010 and 2015. That trend (趋势) continued in 2016 with the number of pedestrian deaths rising to almost 6000, 11% higher than in 2015.
If you still want to text while walking, you could avoid being fined in Honolulu (and be safer, in general) by using a voice-controlled digital assistant such as Siri or Google Assistant. Or you could just wait until you are again, safely, off the street.
【1】What is the new law about in Honolulu, Hawaii?
A.Pedestrians must follow traffic rules while on the street.
B.Texting is not allowed while crossing the street.
C.Cell phones cannot be used for the sake of safety.
D.Ways to reduce deaths caused by traffic accidents.
【2】What will happen to a pedestrian if he looks at a screen when crossing the street?
A.He will be grounded.
B.His electronic device will be taken away.
C.He will receive a fine.
D.His identity will be made public online.
【3】How do you understand the underlined sentence in paragraph 4?
A.Only voice-controlled digital assistants can be used while walking.
B.Only police officers can use such devices when emergency arises.
C.Only one such device can be allowed to use when crossing the street.
D.Only in case of emergency can a pedestrian be allowed to use a cell phone .
【4】Why is it necessary to pass such a law in Honolulu, Hawaii?
A.To cut down on accidents caused by "distracted walking".
B.To make sure electronic devices will be properly used.
C.To make the city as safe as the other ones while walking.
D.To force parents to teach their children to walk with care .
24、 I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American, who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects, has died at the age of 102.
Although he worked mostly in the United States, Pei will always be remembered for a European project: His redevelopment of the Louvre Museum in Paris in the 1980s. He gave us the glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard, along with three smaller pyramids and a vast subterranean (地下的) addition to the museum entrance.
Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French — and everyone else — were won over.
Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century “some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms. His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.”
After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Pei set up his own architectural practice in New York in 1955.
Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in 1964 established him as a name. His East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978 changed people’s ideas of a museum. The site was an odd trapezoid (梯形) shape. Pei’s solution was to cut it in two. The resulting building was dramatic, light and elegant — one of the first crowd-pleasing cathedrals of modern art.
Though known as a modernist, and notable for his forms based on arrangements of simple geometric (几何的) shapes, he once urged Chinese architects to look more to their architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style.
In person, I.M. Pei was good-humored, charming and unusually modest. His working process was evolutionary, but innovation (创新) was never an intended goal.
“Stylistic originality is not my purpose,” he said. “I want to find the originality in the time, the place and the problem.”
【1】What can we learn about the result of redevelopment of the Louvre Museum?
A.It was criticized by the French.
B.It turned out to be a success.
C.It made the Louvre Museum look strange.
D.It changed the function of the Louvre Museum.
【2】What can we learn from the underlined sentence in paragraph 4?
A.He is a master in applying materials.
B.He is skilled in writing poems.
C.He often combines poetry and construction.
D.He gets inspiration from poetry in designing.
【3】What’s the correct order of the following events?
a. Design the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum.
b. Study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.
c. Design the National Gallery of Art.
d. Win the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize.
A.abcd B.bacd C.bcad D.dacd
25、One day, I experienced something that caused me to lose my temper, to the point that I was in tears. So frustrated was I that I reached out to a dear and ____ friend to ask for advice on how to let go of ___. And then, I went for a long walk.
As I walked, I ____ my anger and what may have caused it. I heard my friend’s voice saying “drop into the heart space”, a space that love booms and if we allow it, it will ____ our hurts. It is my ____ that hate cannot grow where love ____. I allowed my mind to follow that love and to review what the ____ of my anger was. I realized my anger is the result of many emotions that are normal.
There is a ____ of being overwhelmed, frustrated, tired and there is sorrow ____ as well. And perhaps the sorrow is the biggest one. For example, it is not easy to ___ a parent’s falling weak even when I recognize that it is part of the cycle of life. I had not acknowledged my sorrow until a friend ____ that it was part of my anger, and she was correct. I am grateful for having friends I can reach out for ____ and comfort.
I am now able to ____ my anger, to drop into the heart space, to send out love and light, and to let go of any frustration rather than to ____ my anger. I know it will get easier if I am ____ with myself and allow the healing that is needed to happen.
【1】
A.respectable
B.honest
C.famous
D.trusted
【2】
A.tiredness
B.regret
C.anger
D.blame
【3】
A.looked into
B.reflected on
C.thought of
D.picked up
【4】
A.accept
B.provide
C.heal
D.affect
【5】
A.belief
B.excuse
C.dream
D.proposal
【6】
A.calls
B.shines
C.joins
D.approaches
【7】
A.point
B.result
C.root
D.influence
【8】
A.mixture
B.link
C.combination
D.chance
【9】
A.offered
B.shared
C.connected
D.involved
【10】
A.watch
B.follow
C.push
D.prevent
【11】
A.joked
B.suggested
C.implied
D.proved
【12】
A.contribution
B.praise
C.devotion
D.support
【13】
A.envision
B.understand
C.admit
D.value
【14】
A.fuel
B.stop
C.gather
D.inspire
【15】
A.bored
B.active
C.gentle
D.honest
26、请根据下面提示,写一篇短文。词数不少于50。
In your English class,you are asked to describe the following picture and explain to your classmates how you understand it.
(请将开放作文写在答题卡指定区域内)