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1、Sandra was determined to become a doctor and finally her persistence ________.
A．paid off
B．took off
C．got off
D．called off
2、— Would you like me to arrange a taxi for you when we finish our work?
— _________
A. That’s very kind of you. B. With pleasure.
C. Yes, you would. D. Good idea!
3、When he was still very young, Ba Jin ______ the reputation he still enjoys today as one of China's greatest writers.
A.founded B.started C.established D.made
4、Critical thinkers have the courage to challenge ____________ thinking while most of us tend to follow it blindly.
A. gradual B. logical
C. productive D. conventional
5、Mike managed to convince his girl friend ________ on the trip with him.
A．going
B．to go
C．gone
D．went
6、 What is ________ at all is _____ well.
A. worth doing ; worthy to be done
B. worthy doing ; worth to be done
C. worth being done ; worth of being done
D. worthy of being done ; worthy doing
7、You ________ be Carol. You haven’t changed a bit after all these years.
A．must
B．can
C．will
D．shall
8、The main reason ________ monarch butterflies are endangered is ________ lots of places ________ used to be home to them have been seriously destroyed.
A．why; because; where
B．that; because; where
C．why; that; that
D．why; that; where
9、His laziness________ his failure; that is to say, his failure_______ his laziness.
A. resulted from; resulted in
B. resulted in; resulted from
C. as a result of; as a result
D. as a result; as a result of
10、He was born in a Chinese immigrant family who made their living ________ duck farming and fruit trading.
A. against B. in C. from D. for
11、________ a good living habits，________ you will stay healthy.
A．To have; or
B．Have；and
C．Having；then
D．Had；but
12、Liu Yifei's latest work “A Dream of Splendor” (《梦华录》) has ________ a lot of discussion about the power of women.
A．elevated
B．shifted
C．perceived
D．generated
13、—The sports meeting is due to be held next Monday.
—_________ it rains?
—Try to put it off.
A. What if B. As if C. Even if D. Only if
14、Young couples will be happy to see their babies _______ with good health and intelligence when they are born.
A. to bless B. blessing
C. blessed D. being blessed
15、As a matter of fact ______, we raise at home are collected from the wild forest.
A.most the plants B.most of plants C.most of the plants D.most of plant
16、We were told all the work ______ by now.
A.was finished B.has been finished C.had finished D.had been finished
17、Effective measures have been taken to prevent _______pollution.
A. exhausted gas B. exhausting gas
C. exhaust gas D. exhaustion gas
18、There is hardly anybody walking in the street in the night, _____?
A.isn’t it B.isn’t there C.is there D.is it
19、After losing a large sum of money on my last business, I’m not taking a(n) _____ this time.
A. chance B. award
C. trick D. belief
20、Liberty, equality, and fraternity are the ideals _______ human beings have been fighting.
A.to which B.against which C.with which D.for which
21、 When we think about people who are leaders, we often get a mental picture of someone who is older, smarter, and wiser than ourselves. Studies of leadership, though, have usually found that there is almost no relationship between skill as a leader and traditional measures of intelligence.
Some recent research by psychologist Red Fiedle and his colleagues suggests that both intelligence and experience may be important—but just now how important depends upon how stressful the work situation is and what kind of task is to be accomplished. The researchers obtained measures of intelligence, experience, performance, and stress.
Overall, these variables did not relate to one another. Men with high and low intelligence were equally likely to give good performance, as were men with more and less experience, or more and less stress with their bosses. When you look separately at those men who have high stress with their bosses, however, the picture changes.
In high stress situations, there was no connection between intelligence and performance, but there was between experience and performance. In other words, in difficult situations, it was helpful to “know the ropes”. In low stress situations, the findings were just the opposite. Experience was not related to good performance, but intelligence was. That is, when things are going well, intelligence is very useful in leadership.
A study of fire fighters’ performance under high and low stress conditions also found the experienced officers performed best under situations of stress. None of this is really very surprising. If you have ever had a supervisory job, you probably found that at least as much energy went into dealing with people as went into managing the job itself. Tests of intelligence—at least the ones we have now—do not predict success in dealing with people.
【1】What kind of people can do the best job in stress situation?
A.intelligent people B.experienced people
C.calm people D.skilled people
【2】In the second sentence of the fourth paragraph, “to know the ropes” most probably means_____.
A.to understand the situation B.to control the situation
C.to get rid of the situation D.to make sure what to do about the situation
【3】In the third sentence of the last paragraph, “a supervisory job” refers to .
A.a management job B.an advisory job
C.a teaching job D.an organizing job
【4】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A.In stress situations, there are no association between experience and performance.
B.Some recent research suggests that most leaders are lack of intelligence.
C.In low stress situations, intelligence plays an important role in leadership.
D.Generally speaking leaders are likely to be cleverer than ordinary people.
22、Recently, a research on how a new virtual reality (VR) experience educated primary children about the fire disasters was done. It was developed by the University of South Australia, aiming to educate children to learn how to be safer in a fire.
Focusing on children aged 10-12 years, the new VR experience presents a situation where children are tasked to look after a friend’s dog just before a fire event begins to unfold. They participate in a series of problem-solving activities to help save and protect themselves and the dog.
The findings showed that more than 80 percent of children reported that they felt more confident to calmly evaluate the options and make wise decisions to protect themselves from a fire. This is especially significant considering that 91 per cent of participants originally lacked any knowledge of fires, and that 67 per cent had said that they were too young to make safety decisions in a fire.
The researchers believed such immersive (沉浸式的) VR experiences had real potential to engage, educate and empower the young. “As children born in digital times, they are engaged by such technology and they can experience events realistically yet within the safe environment,” said Delene Weber, one of the researchers. “Well-designed VR can provide an opportunity for children to apply newly acquired knowledge, strengthen their learnt concepts, and enable immediate feedback — all incredibly valuable learning tools.”
Meanwhile, because children have fewer life experiences, aren’t as physically strong, and are less likely to have learned much about fire safety, they’re often most at risk. Yet the capacity for children to contribute to fire safety at their household should not be underestimated.
“Children do not need to be passive victims of disasters and with purpose-built virtual reality experiences such as these, we can help empower children to understand the risks but realize they can help,” said Weber.
【1】How does the new VR experience try to educate children?
A．By introducing a virtual friend to them.
B．By analyzing the causes of a fire event.
C．By letting them solve virtual problems.
D．By guiding them to ask a dog for help.
【2】What did the result of the research about VR experiences show?
A．Many children found it hard to adapt to them.
B．They could greatly help ensure children’s safety.
C．They benefited children with knowledge of fire.
D．Most children had a misunderstanding about them.
【3】What does Weber think of the new VR experiences?
A．Unrealistic.
B．Dangerous.
C．Unnecessary.
D．Significant.
【4】What can be the most suitable title for the text?
A．VR experiences educate kids to survive a fire
B．VR experiences make learning easier for kids
C．VR education appeals to the young generation
D．VR technology makes no sense in fighting a fire
23、Greenhouse-gas emissions have produced the planet more than 1°C (1.8°F) warmer than it was in the pre-industrial days. Its atmosphere is producing heavy weather in ways both predicted and surprising. And, with emissions continuing, it will get worse.
Unfortunately, 2021 will probably be one of the 21st century’s coolest years. If temperatures rise by 3°C above pre-industrial levels in the coming decades — as they might even if everyone manages to honour today’s firm promises — large parts of the tropics risk becoming too hot for outdoor work. Coral reefs and the livelihood that depend on them will disappear and the Amazon rainforest will become a ghost of itself. Severe harvest failures will be commonplace. Ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will shrink (缩小) past the point of no return, promising sea rises measured not in millimetres, as today’s are, but in metres.
Six years ago, in Paris, the countries of the world committed themselves to avoiding the worst of that nightmare by removing greenhouse-gas emissions quickly enough to hold the temperature rise below 2°C. Their progress towards that end remains seriously inadequate. Yet even if their efforts increased dramatically enough to meet the 2°C goal, it would not stop forests from burning today; prairies (草原) would still dry out tomorrow, rivers break their banks and mountain glaciers disappear.
Cutting emissions is thus not enough. The world also urgently needs to invest in adapting to the changing climate. The good news is that adaptation makes political sense. People can clearly see the need for it. When a country invests in flood defenses, it benefits its own citizens above all others — there is no free-rider problem, as there could be for emissions reduction. So All the governments should make a broader move to increase investment in adaptation. More such efforts are vital.
【1】What can we infer from Paragraph 1?
A．The weather will become better in the future.
B．The earth in the pre-industrial days was warmer.
C．Bad weather is often caused by greenhouse gases.
D．The appearance of bad weather is always expected.
【2】What will happen if the temperature rises by 3°C above pre-industrial levels?
A．Crops will fail a little now and a little then.
B．The melting ice will cause a sharp rise in sea level.
C．People can still make a living by relying on coral reefs.
D．It will be too hot for people to work outdoors all over the world.
【3】What can we learn from the passage?
A．None of the investment money comes from the nation.
B．The disasters would be avoided if the 2°C goal could be met.
C．When a country invests in flood defenses, its own citizens benefits most.
D．All the countries are trying to avoid the worst result by reducing the emission.
【4】What’s the main purpose of the passage?
A．To analyse the possibility of meeting the 2°C goal.
B．To introduce a new method to study greenhouse-gas emissions.
C．To assess the consequences of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
D．To call each country government to raise investment in adaptation.
24、 Essentially, everyone has two ages. a chronological（按时间计算的）age, how old the calendar says you are, and a biological age, basically the age at which your body functions as it compares to average fitness or health levels.
“Chronological age isn’t how old we really are. It’s merely a number,” said Professor David Sinclair at Harvard University. “It is biological age that determines our health and ultimately our lifespan. We all age biologically at different rates according to our genes, what we eat, how much we exercise, and what environment we live in. Biological age is the number of candles we really should be blowing out. In the future, with advances in our ability to control biological age, we may have even fewer candles on our birthday cake than the previous one.”
To calculate biological age, Professor Levine at Yale University identified nine biomarker(生物标志) that seemed to be the most influential on lifespan by a simple blood test. The numbers of those markers, such as blood sugar and immune(免疫的) measures, can be put into the computer, and the algorithm（算式;算法）does the rest.
Perhaps what’s most important here is that these measures can be changed. Doctors can take this information and help patients make changes to lifestyle, and hopefully take steps to improve their biological conditions. “I think the most exciting thing about this research is that these things aren’t set in stone,” Levine said. “People can be given the information earlier and take steps to improve their health before it’s too late.”
Levine even entered her own numbers into the algorithm. She was surprised by the results. “I always considered myself a very healthy person. I’m physically active; I eat what I consider a fairly healthy diet. But I did not find my results to be as good as I had hoped they would be. It was a wake-up call,” she said.
Levine is working with a group to provide access to the algorithm online so that anyone can calculate their biological age, identify potential risks and take steps to improve their own health in the long run. “No one wants to live an extremely long life with a lot of chronic（慢性的）diseases,”
Levine said. “By delaying the development of mental and physical functioning problems, people can still be engaged in society in their senior years. That is the ideal we should be pursuing.”
【1】By saying “we may have even fewer candles on our birthday cake than the previous one” in Para. 2, the author means .
A.we don’t have to celebrate our birthday every year
B.we are chronologically older than last year
C.we might be less happy than the previous year
D.we may be biologically younger than the year before
【2】According to Prof. Levine, what is the most exciting thing about her research?
A.The measures are not fixed.
B.Health services can be set up.
C.The problems are not that serious.
D.The research results are written in stone.
【3】What does the author want to tell us by Levine’s example in Para. 5?
A.It is necessary to change our diet regularly.
B.The test results may give us wrong information.
C.Waking up early in the morning is good for our fitness.
D.The algorithm can reveal our potential health problems.
【4】The ultimate goal of Levine’s research is to .
A.free people from chronic diseases
B.work out a solution to genetic problems
C.keep people socially active even in old age
D.provide people with access to scientific theory
25、 Since Grandma Joy told her grandson that she had never seen the breathtaking landscapes of America, they have gone through dozens of cross-country _________.
In 2015, Brad Ryan _________ his 85-year-old grandma, and he hoped that spending some quality family time in his hometown Ohio would help to _________ his spirit.
When he told _________ of his travels to his grandma, he was heartbroken to _________ that she had never seen the oceans or _________. Then Ryan asked his grandmother if she would like to _________ with him, and she was very willing and very happy. _________ they have visited _________ national parks across America and have driven 25,000 miles through 38 ____________. It has even affected his ____________ of living.
“ ________it through my grandmother’s eyes, who every morning wakes up and is _______ to be alive, has taught me _________ to live,” Ryan said. “I’ve had to ___________ and see it in a different way with her, which has made it a lot richer. I love my grandma ___________, and it’s giving me a lot of ____________. When she does pass away, I can go back to these places to feel her spirit and feel __________________ to her, I think there are so many viewpoints and ____________ we can gain from our elders.”
Ryan has been recording all of their adventures and hopes that their social media presence will ____________ other youngsters to spend more time with their elders.
A．measures
B．adventures
C．stages
D．deserts
A．refused
B．admitted
C．visited
D．left
A．lift
B．lower
C．kill
D．lose
A．gifts
B．stories
C．words
D．effects
A．allow
B．offer
C．doubt
D．hear
A．mountains
B．gardens
C．yards
D．garages
A．work
B．travel
C．bicycle
D．cook
A．At a time
B．By the way
C．From then on
D．After all
A．abandoned
B．dusty
C．dangerous
D．different
A．towns
B．ports
C．states
D．countries
A．attempt
B．duty
C．relief
D．quality
A．Seeing
B．Breaking
C．Hearing
D．Getting
A．useful
B．doubtful
C．regretful
D．thankful
A．what
B．how
C．where
D．when
A．help out
B．rely on
C．give up
D．slow down
A．directly
B．partly
C．deeply
D．frequently
A．peace
B．flash
C．stuff
D．thrill
A．lonely
B．connected
C．crazy
D．disappointed
A．knowledge
B．reform
C．devotion
D．security
A．blame
B．praise
C．inspire
D．prevent
26、假定你是李华，你们学校为响应政府倡导的“公筷、公勺(serving chopsticks and spoons)”的文明饮食习惯，向全校发出了“公筷行动，从我做起”的倡议并组织了相关活动。你的英国朋友John想了解有关情况，请你用英语写一封回信给John，内容包括：
1.活动内容；
2.活动目的；
3.活动意义。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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