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1、What do you think ______ to John if he finds his bike has been stolen?
A．will happen
B．happened
C．to have happened
D．to happen
2、In other words, a few countries are benefiting ________ from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing little to the global burden of climate change.
A．enormously
B．actually
C．currently
D．typically
3、Tom, don’t be_______________ of speaking in front of people. You are the best one.
A.afraid B.sad C.crazy D.angry
4、What a woman! I just wonder how she manages to keep smiling after all that she has ______.
A. figured out B. made up
C. taken away D. gone through
5、Edison is very satisfied with his job as a clown doctor, who can help people by ________ them.
A．examining
B．entertaining
C．impressing
D．curing
6、 I travelled in Mountain Tai, I was deeply impressed with its beautiful scenery.
A. For the first time B. At first
C. It was the first time D. The first time
7、Compared with one's workplace, home provides a more humane environment for one to____ relax oneself．
A．closely B．fully C．widely D．sincerely
8、Nature is understandable in the sense ______ she will answer truly and reward with discoveries when we ask her questions via observation.
A. that B. where
C. how D. what
9、With economy getting worse，we have reached the point ________ we have to cut down our daily expenses.
A．that B．which C．when D．where
10、In order to improve English，________.
A．Jenny’s father bought her a lot of tapes
B．Jenny bought a lot of tapes for herself
C．a lot of tapes were bought by Jenny
D．a lot of tapes were bought by Jenny’s father
11、A growing number of family doctors are working fewer hours to avoid huge pension taxes, _________ already overworked surgeries are making fewer appointments for patients.
A.to mean B.meant C.meaning D.having meant
12、Life in the following ________time may be harder than before, but everyone should stick to his goals and make an effort to achieve them.
A．three-months
B．three-month
C．three months
D．three month
13、Although he didn't like teaching at the beginning, he ________ the Teacher of the Year many times in a row.
A. ended up as B. ended up
C. ended with D. ended up with
14、It is always better to__________ your worries and troubles with your trusted friends or relatives.This helps lighten your burden.
A.tell B.deal C.divide D.share
15、—Mr. Gordon asked me to remind you of the meeting this afternoon. Don't you forget it?
—OK, I ________.
A．won't B．don't C．will D．do
16、Our head teacher decides to put ________ he thinks is fat and strong in the front of the queue in tug—of—war(拔河).
A.whoever B.anyone C.whomever D.those
17、When the foreign guest arrived, I found him speaking good Chinese. I his speech into Chinese the night before.
A. needn't translate
B. didn't need to translate
C. needn't have translated
D. didn't need translatin
18、--- Hi, Jane, I’m going out for a walk in the park. --- ______ !
A. That’s all right B. Good exercise
C. Sounds great D. How nice you are
19、Without your help, I _____such a breakthrough in this project.
A. hadn't made B. didn't make
C. won't have made D. wouldn't have made
20、To realize his dream as a pianist, he________ practicing playing it in all his free time.
A. hired himself out B. threw himself into
C. resigned himself to D. wrestled himself with
21、Perhaps no one knows the power of imagination better than Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Until four years ago, Liu worked full-time as a computer engineer at a power plant in Shanxi province. He only wrote science fiction in his spare time. But it was during this time that Liu’s imagination took flight. He did what he might never have the chance to do in real life – wander in space, fight with aliens, and visit planets light-years away.
But even with such a powerful imagination, Liu, 55, probably hadn’t expected that he would become the first Asian to win the Hugo Award, science fiction’s highest prize, in 2015. Perhaps neither did he think that former US president Barack Obama would read his novel The Three-Body Problem, nor that on Nov 9 in Washington DC, he would win the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. It’s the first time a Chinese writer has ever won the award.
In his acceptance speech, Liu said that he owed his imagination to Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), a famous UK sci-fi author. He said that reading Clarke’s 1968 classic novel 2001: A Space Odyssey in the early 1980s had a great effect on him.
“My mind opened up like never before. I felt like a narrow river finally seeing the sea,” Liu said. “That night, in my eyes, the starry sky was completely different from the past. For the first time in my life, I was awed (使……敬畏) by the mystery of the universe.”
But no matter how far away Liu’s imagination takes him, somehow his novels always stay rational.
In The Three-Body Problem, for example, Liu tells a tale of aliens invading Earth. But unlike other alien stories, Liu talks more about relationships between civilizations, rules of survival, and the meanings of life. And in The Wandering Earth, Liu looks ahead to the day when our solar system comes to an end and humans have to look for a new place to live. However, all his visions and solutions are based on “hard science”. Liu’s works aren’t simply daydreams.
【1】What do we know about Liu Cixin?
A. He became a full-time writer when he was young.
B. He dreamed about wandering in space from childhood.
C. He is the first Asian to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
D. He is the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award.
【2】Liu Cixin’s words are used mainly to show ______.
A. his interest in mysteries of the universe
B. his love of reading science fiction
C. his confusion when he started writing
D. his feeling after reading Clarke’s work
【3】Why did the author mention The Three-Body Problem and The Wandering Earth?
A. To compare the different writing styles in the two books.
B. To explain how Liu Cixin came up with his ideas.
C. To show that Liu Cixin has a powerful imagination.
D. To prove that Liu Cixin’s works relate science to reality.
【4】What’s the text mainly about?
A. Liu Cixin’s achievements and writing style.
B. Liu Cixin’s contributions to science fiction.
C. How Liu Cixin became a sci-fi writer.
D. How Liu Cixin started a new sci-fi style.
22、Babysitter(保姆) Wanted
I am seeking a babysitter for my 6-month-old son.A few hours on Saturdays and Sundays to help me and then other times as needed.She or he should be over 18,responsible,loving ,warm and have some experience in caring for babies .This position also suits a college student with experience looking for a part-time job.This pay is $10 an hour.
If this sounds a good job to you.Please reply to rebecharv@aol.com or call 800-4964.
Office Manager Wanted
Our company is looking for a full-time experienced manager to run the business.Strong skills in organization and business management are required for the position.The office manager will be responsible for keeping financial(财务)records, so he or she should be familiar with computers.
Please reply to jim@californiaaquatics.com or call 800-6978 to apply.
Office Cleaner Wanted
Looking for a part-time job? A position in the Mississauga area needs an office cleaner! Part-time 4 hours a day from 10:00am-2:00pm.
Duties included;
*Cleaning the washrooms
*Cleaning the furniture
*Sweeping the floors
*Other general cleaning experience is necessary.Pay:$15 per hour
Reply to:job-p3b7u- 1 @craigslist.org or call 800-8197
【1】Which of the following position is a full-time job?
A．Babysitter
B．Office manager
C．Waiter/waitress
D．Office cleaner
【2】If a college girl with some experience caring for children wants to apply for a job where should she send an e-mail?
A．job-p3b7u-1365632206@craigslist.org
B．job-tkupe-1329358152@craigslist.org
C．jim@californiaaquatics.com
D．rebecharv@aol.com
【3】What can we learn from the passage?
A．The office cleaner has to work three hours each day.
B．One can apply for a waiter or waitress by telephone
C．Ababysitter earns $5 more than an office cleaner per hour
D．Experience is necessary for all these three jobs
【4】Which one is not included if a man applys for an office manager?
A．He has the ability to organize the company.
B．He is good at managing business
C．He is familiar with caring for babies.
D．He is skilled in computers.
【5】Where can you find the passage?
A．Newspapers
B．Storybooks
C．Movies
D．Micro-blog
23、 Fifty four years ago, young Quentin entered this world. “Action!” he must have yelled then to his mum. When he was two, his whole family moved to Los Angeles, and before Quentin Tarantino turned a teenager, he had already seen more movies than most people . In his twenties he started working at the Manhattan Beach Video Archives, where he made some important friendships and tried his hand at making a first movie. It would take another few years until he would sell the scripts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers, and shortly after go on and conquer the film festival circuit in a storm with Reservoir Dogs. And so it began ...
With Pulp Fcition, QT finally turned Hollywood upside-down for good, and established himself as, what they would then call, an “enfant terrible” of the new film-making community. to this day, Pulp Fiction counts as a completely original masterpiece, that sometimes even to his most loyal fans he has not matched again. After Jackie Brown, he took a pause for a while, not turning out a major motion picture until Kill Bill. Kill Bill turned into an epic, and manifested director Tarantino as the truly great filmmaker, opening the eyes of millions among the younger generations to lost classics, foreign cult cinema and the wild world of exploitation film.
Then in 2007, he made Grindhouse together with his long time friend Robert Rodriguez. The movie was well-received among critics, but was a financial disaster. Tarantino has talked about a war movie for many years, but not until 2008 did any of those rumors come together, when he announced that he had in fact finally finished a script for Inglourious Basterds, a massive war epic. The movie went into production that same year, starring Brad Pitt in the leading role. It was a huge international success and gathered quite a few awards.
In 2011, Tarantino announced the completion of his latest script, a movie about slavery in the old US south of the 1860s, titled Django Unchained. The movie has attracted enormous attention, especially because it stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz, who won an Oscar for his role in Inglourious Basterds, and whose acting talents have been truly recognized. And 2015 marked the release of his 8th film, appropriately titled The Hateful Eight, a post Civil War era Western mystery and thriller.
At the age of 54, Quentin Tarantino has recently gone on record saying he will retire some time soon, but all of the movie fans definitely hope the speak of film-making stays strong in his heart of a long time still. Because in a world densely crowded with average filmmakers QT seems to be one of the few who never play it safe.
A Salute to Quentin Tarantino
【1】The underlined phrase “enfant terrible” in paragraph 2 means ________.
A.rude and unpleasant B.ordinary but arrogant
C.smart but unconventional D.boring and traditional
【2】According to the passage, which one of the followings is Right?
A.Quentin Tarantino was born and raised in Los Angeles.
B.After Jackie Brown, Tarantino shot Kill Bill right away.
C.The film Grind-house made in 2007 gained huge profits
D.2008 witnessed the production of Inglourious Basterds.
【3】We can infer from the paragraph 4 that ________.
A.Tarantino finished his shooting of Django Unchained in 2011.
B.Christoph Waltz has at least worked with Tarantino two times.
C.The all-star cast helped Django Unchained gain wide publicity.
D.The story of The Hateful Eight was set during the Civil War.
【4】What might be the author’s attitude towards Quentin Tarantino?
A.indifferent B.negative
C.neutral D.favorable
24、Skiing is a fun winter sport that is practiced in all places that get snow-laden during the cold months of the year. There are several beautiful resorts around the world that offer skiing to the visitors.
Squaw Valley, California
Squaw Valley of Olympic Valley in California is one of the biggest ski areas in the United States of America. It is located in the west of Lake Tahoe in Nevada, to which it is connected by a small plain that covers the distance in between within ten minutes. Apart from skiing, it offers facilities like roller skating, swimming, dining, shopping, and even high-altitude golf courses.
Alpine Meadows, California
Alpine Meadows, located in California of North Lake Tahoe, is one of the top most popular ski resorts, where there are 13 different lifts and one of the most remarkable vertical drops in the world. The quality of the resort matches the skill levels of different skiers. Along with the Lake Tahoe ski resorts, the Alpine Meadows often has the longest snow season.
Vail, Colorado
Vail, situated at Eagle County, Colorado, is the second largest mountain ski resort in the United States. It is one of the most favourite ski destinations for people from around the world. It is large enough to offer a wide variety of runs for both the skiers, as well as snowboarders.
Mont Tremblant, Canada
Mont Tremblant is a ski resort located in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec in Canada, near Montreal. The resort operates all the year round, featuring Lake Tremblant for swimming, as well as two golf courses, for the summer months.
【1】Which resort should a beginner go skiing?
A．Vail.
B．Squaw Valley.
C．Alpine Meadows.
D．Mont Tremblant.
【2】What is special about Mont Tremblant?
A．It has golf courses.
B．It allows visitors to swim.
C．It opens for four seasons.
D．It is located near a lake.
【3】In which part can this text be read in a magazine?
A．Travel.
B．Weather.
C．News Report.
D．History.
25、Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very ______ with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was ______ than him, he felt disappointed. So he ______ hard about how he could also be richer. Finally he got an idea. He started to spend less money on food and clothes to ______ some money to buy more land. Once he had enough money, he started ______ for land.
He ______ that on the neighboring land, there were some nomads (游牧民) living there. He bought some gifts and went to ______ their head. He presented the gifts to the head and told him the ______ of his visit. The head welcomed him, accepted the gifts and agreed to his ______ to get the land. The head told him that he could have the land ______ giving him anything. He can take as much land as he could ______ by walking through the land before sunset (日落). He should start in the morning and whatever distance he could travel during the ______, he could have it.
The farmer became very ______ when he heard this offer. Now he could have lots of ______ without paying anything. He came ______ the next morning and started running, not walking,______ he could cover the largest area. To reach his goal, he neither ate food, nor drank water, nor had any rest. He just continued ______. Without eating, or drinking, or resting he just got very ______. When he came back to the head in the evening, he ______ right on the spot. Sadly his son buried him in a piece of land about 6 x 4 feet.
Don’t be greedy (贪婪的) or you will ______ everything finally.
【1】A. careful B. bored C. pleased D. busy
【2】A. healthier B. stronger C. cleverer D. richer
【3】A. learned B. thought C. tried D. worked
【4】A. save B. spend C. make D. borrow
【5】A. waiting B. preparing C. looking D. caring
【6】A. explained B. hoped C. guessed D. noticed
【7】A. follow B. see C. help D. cheat
【8】A. purpose B. result C. condition D. chance
【9】A. promise B. suggestion C. request D. order
【10】A. for B. by C. before D. without
【11】A. farm B. cover C. buy D. have
【12】A. day B. month C. week D. year
【13】A. interested B. sad C. calm D. happy
【14】A. crop B. land C. experience D. knowledge
【15】A. quietly B. finally C. early D. suddenly
【16】A. even if B. so that C. because D. whether
【17】A. running B. walking C. speaking D. dreaming
【18】A. nervous B. excited C. worried D. tired
【19】A. refused B. appeared C. died D. rested
【20】A. face B. lose C. change D. defeat
26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
At first, Michael didn’t see the black smoke or flames shooting from the windows of his neighbors’ home. He and his wife had just parked around the corner from their own house when they got a call from one of his daughters: “The house next door is on fire!” He went to check. That’s when he saw two women and a girl helpless and heartbroken on their doorway.
“The baby’s in there!” one of the women cried. Though the fire department had been called, Michael, then 64, immediately ran inside. “The baby” was 8-year-old Tiara, the woman’s granddaughter and a playmate of Michael’s three youngest kids.
Entering the burning house was like “running into a bucket of black paint”. The thick smoke caused Michael to stumble blindly around, burned his eyes, and made it impossible to breathe. The conditions would have been dangerous for anyone, but for Michael, who has severe lung disease, they were life-threatening.
After a few minutes in the smoke-filled house, he retreated outside to catch his breath. “Where is Tiara?” he asked desperately.
“The second floor,” her aunt shouted back.
Michael knew he couldn’t hold his breath for long. However, taking a deep breath, he went in a second time. The darkness was overwhelming. Yet because the house had a similar design to his, he made it to the second floor. He turned to the right and was met by intense heat. He was already out of breath.
“Baby girl, where are you?”
His throat and lungs burned as if he’d inhaled fire instead of the smoke in the air. Every blink stung his eyes. All he could hear was the crackling and popping of burning wood. Then a soft but distinct moan emerged. Still unable to see, Michael fell to his knees on the hot wood floor. He crawled toward the sound, feeling around for any sign of the girl. An unlucky thought crossed his mind: I’m probably gonna die up here.
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
Finally, Michael touched something.
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Paragraph 2:
Tiara was safe now; however, Michael fainted down to the ground, unconscious.
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