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1、Almost________ of the students in this class wear glasses, that is ________of them.
A. two thirds; 60 percent B. two thirds; 60 percents
C. two third; 60 percent D. two thirds; 60 percents
2、——What do you think of Mr. Stone?
—— ,he is a good man, but sometimes his bad temper is not easy to .
A．As a result; get along
B．All in all; put up
C．Generally speaking; come about
D．On the whole; put up with
3、He failed in the exam ________ his carelessness.
A．as a result
B．as a result of
C．result from
D．result in
4、The village evolved into a major e-commerce center, and _____ the past, the villagers owed their success to the reform and opening-up policy.
A. reviewed B. reviewing
C. to review D. being reviewed
5、Today, Britain is still a global power---- at least partly because of Queen Elizabeth II, _____ has passionately worked to strengthen ties between Britain and other global powers.
A.which B.whom C.who D.that
6、But a change, no matter how ________ it is needed, doesn't just happen.
A. desperately B. frequently
C. universally D. violently
7、While watching the film yesterday, I couldn't stop laughing at some ________ moments.
A．shocking
B．surprising
C．dangerous
D．humorous
8、I have always been honest and straightforward, and it doesn’t matter ______ I’m talking to.
A.who is it that B.who it is that
C.it is who that D.it is whom that
9、________ for two days, Steve managed to finish his report on schedule.
A．Working
B．To work
C．Having worked
D．Worked
10、To our ________, the little turtle beat the rabbit and won the race.
A．happiness
B．surprise
C．sadness
D．annoyance
E．disappointment
11、What Chinese lawmakers begin to consider is a proposed revision to the country’s Food Safety Law,_______ includes mandatory (强制性) labeling of GM food.
A.one B.the one which C.one that D.the one that
12、In her，_____she began to take up writing.
A．forties
B．fourties
C．fortieth
D．fourtieth
13、A grandmother in Chengdu, Sichuan province, who has ________ pole-dancing is living proof that life doesn’t have to gradually stop when you’re old.
A. taken to B. taken on
C. taken in D. taken up
14、Lei Feng was a person who was only too ready to help others, seldom ________, refusing them when they turned to him.
A.if never B.if ever C.if not D.if any
15、Bob checked the equipment thoroughly, only ________ the power was not set.
A. find B. found C. finding D. to find
16、The minister refused for reasons of _______ rather than religion to sign a new law legalizing abortion.
A. comprehension B. conscience C. consequence D. conservation
17、As a young man, there was _______ time _______ I hated to go to school.
A. a; that B. a; when
C. the; that D. the; when
18、The student _____ in the games on the phone didn’t notice his teacher behind him.
A.absorbing B.be absorbed C.to absorb D.absorbed
19、It's hard to ________ his ability when we haven't seen his work.
A．maintain
B．measure
C．memorize
D．march
20、 The law requires equal treatment for all, ________race, sex or origin.
A. regardless of B. instead of
C. in spite of D. thanks to
21、Speaking in Clicks
Click sounds, such as those found in some languages in Africa, make perfectly good consonants. So why do they appear so rarely in most human speech? One culprit may be anatomy(骨骼).
Previous studies have suggested that in some speakers of click languages, the alveolar ridge(齿龈) the rounded bump between the upper teeth and the roof of the mouth-is small or even absent. In recent research, Scott Moisik of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Dan Dediu of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, built biomechanical models that simulated clicks in vocal tracts(声道) with alveolar ridges of varying sizes. Their results, published in January in the Journal of Language Evolution, showed a clear disadvantage for tracts with large edges. These allowed less air to be trapped in the mouth, requiring more muscular force to produce a click.
The authors interpret this finding as support for an anatomical bias against clicks. They believe the bias is probably weak at the individual level; people with large alveolar ridges can still learn click consonants or that their pronunciations may be wrong. Amplified over generations, this bias might explain why such consonants are so rarely found in language worldwide.
These results are not the first to challenge the traditional premise among linguists that language evolution is largely immune to external factors. Several other researchers have recently argued that geographical context, environmental conditions and genetics could all play a role. But Moisik and Dediu’s work goes a step further by singling out a single feature of human anatomy and quantifying its contribution to a particular type of speech sound.
Susanne Fuchs, senior researcher at the Leibniz Center of General Linguistics in Berlin, who was not involved in the work, says the study’s conclusions are valid. But she cautions that they may present a chicken-and-egg problem: “The palate( 味蕾) shape of an individual matures from early childhood to puberty and , may be affected by frequent productions of clicks,” Fuchs says, “Therefore, over the course of history, it may well be that vocal tract properties and click productions developed in parallel.
【1】The underlined word “one culprit” in Paragraph 1 means _____.
A.something that must cause suffering
B.something that may be the cause
C.something that could be concluded
D.something that never happened before.
【2】According to the findings by Moisik and Dediu, who can make click sounds easily?
A.People with a small or absent alveolar ridge.
B.People with strong muscles inside the mouth
C.People with a normal alveolar rid.
D.People with a large alveolar ridge.
【3】Which of the following statements is true?
A.People with large alveolar ridges cannot learn click language.
B.Having less air trapped in the mouth makes it easier to produce a click.
C.Both Moisik and Dediu believe that language evolution is largely independent of external factors.
D.Language evolution may be subject to geographical context, environmental conditions and genetics.
【4】What is Susanne Fuchs most likely to agree with?
A.The conclusions of the study by Moisik and Dediu are unreliable.
B.Vocal tract properties and click productions might evolve at the same time.
C.Frequent productions of clicks decide the palate shape of an individual.
D.The palate shape of an individual decides whether one can produce click sounds.
22、 Our busy lifestyles can be hard on our family’s health. Rushing to and from school and work can make it hard to find time to be physically active. We can also slip into the habit of choosing unhealthy snacks and take-away foods or spending our free time watching TV or in front of the computer. However, these choices can be dangerous for our health and children’s health— both now and in the long term. 【1】.
Here are five simple ways for your family to lead a healthy lifestyle and get back on track:
1.【2】. Children and young people should get at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. Parents should be good role models and have a positive attitude to being active.
2. Choose water as a drink. 【3】. It doesn’t come with the added sugar found fruit juices, soft drinks and other sweetened drinks.
3. Eat more fruit and vegetables. Eating fruit and vegetables every day helps children grow and can reduce the risk of many diseases. Have fresh fruit as a convenient snack and try to include fruit and vegetables in every meal.
4. 【4】. “Still” time spent watching TV, surfing online or playing computer games is linked to kids becoming overweight. Plan active indoor and outdoor games or activities for your children as alternatives to watching TV or playing on the computer.
5. Eat fewer snacks and select healthier alternatives. 【5】. Snacks based on fruit and vegetables, reduced fat dairy products and whole grains are the healthiest choices. Avoid snacks that are high in sugar fat such as chips, cakes and chocolates.
A.Get active each day
B.Switch off the screen and get active
C.That’s how to follow your own lifestyle
D.Water is the best way to satisfy your thirst
E.Snacks can help children and young people meet their daily nutritional needs
F.Healthy snacks help children and young people meet their daily nutritional needs
G.That’s why it’s so important to stop and make a decision to follow a healthy lifestyle
23、Getting the most out of volunteering
Volunteering can help you make friends, learn new skills, advance your career, and even feel happier and healthier. You’re donating your valuable time, so it’s important that you enjoy and benefit from your volunteering. 【1】, you should do like this.
Ask questions. You want to make sure that the experience is right for your skills, your goals, and the time you want to spend. 【2】: if there’s any training involved, who you will be working with, and what to do if you have questions during your experience.
Make sure you know what’s expected. You should be comfortable with the organization and understand the time commitment. Consider starting small so that you don’t over commit yourself at first. Give yourself some flexibility to change your focus if needed.
【3】. Don’t force yourself into a bad fit or feel forced to stick with a volunteer role you dislike. Talk to the organization about changing your focus or look for a different organization that’s a better fit.
If volunteering overseas, choose carefully. 【4】, if they take much-needed paying jobs away from local workers. Look for volunteer opportunities with well-thought-of organizations.
Enjoy yourself. The best volunteer experiences benefit both the volunteer and the organization. If you’re not enjoying yourself, ask yourself why. Is it the tasks you’re performing? The people you’re working with? Or are you uncomfortable simply because the situation is new and unfamiliar? 【5】.
A．Don’t be afraid to make a change
B．To make sure that your volunteer position is a good fit
C．Learn how to find the right volunteer opportunity for you
D．You will have a richer and more enjoyable volunteering experience
E．Some volunteer programs abroad can cause more harm than good
F．Identifying what’s bothering you can help you decide how to continue
G．Such questions for your volunteer activities might satisfy your time commitment
24、 As pianist Mahani Teave was ready to launch her international career,she remembered the moment when the first piano arrived on her remote island. Teave took her first lessons on that piano.
“The future of Teave is only in her hands, ”Bidini says in the documentary. “She's a wonderful package-musically, as a person, the influence that she has in public, the brightness and the power of concentration that she has in public is absolutely first class. "After four years in Berlin, Teave began to feel the island tugging on her heart and her head. She began to think of giving up a promising career that just got off the ground.The memories of her youthful hunger to learn music often troubled her. She recalled the pain felt when many teachers appeared on the island,then suddenly left. “It would get cut off and cut off and it was breaking children's dreams over and over again at her age, " she says.
That's why Teave felt an urge to change her homeland. After a three-year struggle with funding and logistics,a pair of upright pianos were dismantled(拆卸） and flown to the island. With instruments in hand, Teave's dream of building a free music school for kids was beginning to take shape. With donated land, instruments and crowd-sourced funding, Teave, along with her partner Enrique Icka,a construction engineer,broke ground on their Toki School of Music. The island's children leam more than just Mozart and Beethoven. Teave includes her island's traditional music and dance in the curriculum(课程）.
＂I find great joy when I see the children learning and sharing amongst each other, " she says.“And when I think of this space, it's a space we would have liked to have had as children to study. "
Teave may have given up a successful career as a concert pianist,but through her hard won ambition she gained something more-the satisfaction of supporting the dreams of children,hungry to learn music.
【1】Bidini says "Teave's future is only in her hands"because_______.
A．Teave has a deep influence on music
B．Teave specializes in playing the piano
C．Teave's great talent for music brings huge popularity
D．Teave's works of music are admired by the public
【2】What probably makes Teave decide to change her homeland?
A．Children's dreams to learn music.
B．Being short of excellent teachers.
C．A remote island far from any towns or cities.
D．Her sufferings in learning music as a child.
【3】What do we know about the children at Toki School of Music?
A．They began to love traditional dance.
B．They showed gratitude to Teave.
C．They were satisfied with curriculum.
D．They were devoted to music learning.
【4】What is author's purpose in writing the text?
A．To introduce a music school.
B．To share an interesting story.
C．To praise Teave for her greatness.
D．To show his concem about children.
25、 I had not seen my parents for a long time. Last Saturday I drove a long way to visit them, _____neither of them was at home. So I waited patiently at their home________their return. Not seeing them made me really________
As I was walking around their bedroom,I______ little reminders of them. Some Christmas gifts were still_______in boxes. There were_______on the wall, which I guess must have a ________meaning to them. What took my breath away was seeing my dad's emblems (徽章) from his military service of our country______he was young. My father never_______to us about the Korean Wars. As I looked at those emblems hanging______with all the photos that he treasures, I______that this was an important part of his life, but I never spent the______in talking with him about them. The photos of my mom with her close_______made me realize her life before she was my mom. I had been so______running my business to raise my own family that I______the chance to know about their past and experience.
We sometimes don't realize something is______for us until we have lost it, so it's not too late for us to talk to our parents about their past. I am writing my story to______everyone who is fortunate to still have their parents_______to invest some time to learn about them. I am grateful to have_______of my parents. So I still have time to talk with them. I hope that readers will______from my story and find the time to talk about those things in their life that mean so much to their parents.
【1】A.or B.so C.and D.but
【2】A.for B.to C.of D.in
【3】A.frightened B.embarrassed C.upset D.excited
【4】A.sought B.took C.needed D.saw
【5】A.kept B.folded C.hidden D.covered
【6】A.Santa Claus B.family trees C.family photos D.old clothes
【7】A.past B.special C.simple D.real
【8】A.if B.when C.though D.until
【9】A.talked B.explained C.showed D.referred
【10】A.proudly B.openly C.finally D.clearly
【11】A.promised B.declared C.admitted D.realized
【12】A.courage B.time C.chance D.energy
【13】A.friends B.teachers C.students D.children
【14】A.busy B.blind C.strict D.eager
【15】A.rejected B.avoided C.delayed D.missed
【16】A.hopeful B.important C.careful D.original
【17】A.encourage B.demand C.require D.warn
【18】A.away B.awake C.around D.alone
【19】A.either B.both C.one D.neither
【20】A.make B.benefit C.change D.recover
26、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友peter即将作为交换生来你校学习，他来信询问你校学生社团(association)活动情况。请给他回信，内容包括：
1.学校师生对社团活动的态度；
2. 主要的学生社团；
3.你参加的学生社团。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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