1、Finding a partner and settling down has long been convention in many countries.New data,however,suggest that the trend .
A. change B. be changing
C. be changed D. is changing
2、None of the medicine I took ________ effective, but eating sensibly and exercising regularly ________ now my “personal” ways to boost immunity against flu.
A.was…is
B.were…is
C.was…are
D.were…are
3、从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中,找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项
bathe
A. throat B. thunder C. gather D. bathroom
4、No one could _________ the failure of the experiment as everything went smoothly at first.
A.give an account for
B.account for
C.take account of
D.take into account
5、— Do you think I'm a good surfer?
— Of course! I____ you earlier. You made it look so easy, graceful even.
A. am watching B. was watching
C. have watched D. had watched
6、______I am at home, my mother keeps pressing me to study all the time.
A.Because
B.When
C.Though
D.Until
7、Luckily, the old man was sent to the hospital in time. Three minutes later and he _______.
A. would die B. was to die
C. should have died D. would have died
8、_________ in 1931, the Empire State Building-- the highest skyscraper until 1954, inspired the imagination of the world.
A.Having completed B.Being completed
C.Completed D.Completing
9、In the past, ____didn’t make much of a difference to your success____ you had a good family background.
A. that; if B. it; whether C. that; whether D. it; if
10、Great honors will be given to ________ have successfully rescued the victims of the earthquake.
A.whomever
B.whoever
C.who
D.those who
11、It would appear that the activists had _______ broken the police line in order to draw international attention to their case.
A. roughly B. deliberately
C. apparently D. regularly
12、In order to stand out among all the trainees, you need to sharpen your skills you feel strong and confident.
A. that B. where
C. when D. what
13、—The computer looks so old, when did you buy it? —My father ________it for 10 years.
A.has had
B.has bought
C.have had
D.have bought
14、Although there were many students who admitted ________ to these products because of the brands' image they provided for the wearer, the majority did not openly relate the products' appeal to social motives such as status.
A. being attracted B. attracting
C. to attracting D. to be attracted
15、Nowhere in nature is aluminium found free, owing to its always ____ with other elements.
A.combined B.having combined C.combines D.being combined
16、Tony was _________ to five years in prison for abusing his power during his service in the local government.
A. charged B. deserved C. sentenced D. announced
17、--- Can I sit in the front row?
---Yes, you can take ________ seat you like.
A. whatever B. what
C. whichever D. which
18、More attention on digital books reflects a rising trend in the industry towards ______ many are calling "digital first"
A.which B.that C.what D.where
19、—I guess you want to go play basketball.
—________. That’s exactly what I was thinking about.
A.I didn’t get it
B.It’s up to you
C.You never know
D.You read my mind
20、Evidence has been found through years of study________ children’s early sleeping problem likely to continue when they grow up.
A.why
B.how
C.whether
D.that
21、 San Fernando Carriage Tour
Mark (4. 5):based on 41 reviews
204Alamo Plaza San Antonio
Explore the San Fernando Cathedral area by a 40-minute Victorian carriage ride. You can choose a narrated (带讲解的)tour to learn about the colorful history of the church,or a non-narrated tour for a more quiet and romantic ride. At the center of San Antonio and the focus of the tour,the Cathedral was originally a settlement location for people sent by King Philip of Spain in 1731.
San Antonio & Alamo Helicopter Tours
Mark (5. 0):based on 71 reviews
8535 Mission Road San Antonio
★Gift shop on-site
★Accessible to the disabled
The tours provide a chance for passengers to combine the excitement of a helicopter flight with the surprising views of San Antonio countryside. Each flight has room for 3 people max. Both cameras and video cameras are permitted. The Ultimate Helicopter tour lasts about 45-48 minutes and the Short Ride tour lasts about 6-8 minutes.
Downtown Delicacy San Antonio Food Tour
Marks (5.1): based on 97 reviews
1015 Navarro St San Antonio
If you are looking to visit some of San Antonio's best restaurants, be sure to join in the tour. After meeting up with your expert tour guide, you'll start your 3-hour journey through downtown San Antonio and stop along the way at 5 different restaurants and even a few of the city's parks.
City Sightseeing San Antonio Tour
Marks (4. 8): based on 17 reviews
216 E Crockett St San Antonio
★ Double-decker bus tour takes about 60 minutes if you do not take of at any of the 18 sops.
★ Appropriate for all ages
The City Sightseeing Tour is the perfect way to enjoy everything that San Antonio has to offer.
【1】During the San Fernando Carriage Tour, you can________.
A. visit a historic site
B. drive cars on your own
C. travel with a free guide
D. learn about the history of Spain
【2】The San Antonio & Alamo Helicopter Tours allow people to_______.
A. have lunch in some parks
B. do some volunteer service
C. fly with a large group of people
D. take pictures during the journey
【3】What do we know about Downtown Delicacy San Antonio Food Tour on the list?
A. It takes the least time.
B. It is the most popular tour.
C. It is held in the countryside.
D. It invites some food experts.
22、阅读理解。
Conflict is on the menu tonight at the café La Chope. This evening, as on every Thursday night, psychologist Maud Lehanne is leading two of France’s favorite pastimes, coffee drinking and the “talking cure”. Here they are learning to get in touch with their true feelings. It isn’t always easy. They customers-some thirty Parisians who pay just under $2 (plus drinks) per session-care quick to intellectualize (高谈阔论),slow to open up and connect. “You are forbidden to say ‘one feels,’ or ‘people think’,”Lehane told them. “Say ‘I think,’ ‘Think me’.”
A café society where no intellectualizing is allowed? It couldn’t seem more un-French. But Lehanne’s psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It’s trying to help the city’s troubled neighborhood cafes. Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation’s desire to spend more time at home. Dozens of new theme cafes appear to change the situation. Cafes focused around psychology, history, and engineering are catching on, filling tables well into the evening.
The city’s “psychology cafes”,which offer great comfort,are among the most popular places.Middle-aged homemakers,retirees,and the unemployed come to such cafes to talk about love,anger,and dreams with a psychologist.And they come to Lehanne’s group just to learn to say what they feel.“There’s a strong need in Paris for communication,”says Maurice Frisch,a cafe La Chope regular who works as a religious instructor in a nearby church.“People have few real friends.And they need to open up.”Lehanne says she’d like to see psychology cafes all over France.“If people had normal lives,these cafes wouldn’t exist,”she says.“If life weren’t a battle,people wouldn’t need a special place just to speak.”But then,it wouldn’t be France.
【1】What are people encouraged to do at the cafe La Chope?
A. Learn a new subject
B. Keep in touch with friends.
C. Show off their knowledge.
D. Express their true feelings.
【2】How are cafes affected by French lifestyle changes?
A. They are less frequently visited.
B. They stay open for longer hours.
C. They have bigger night crowds.
D. They start to serve fast food.
【3】 What are theme cafes expected to do?
A. Create more jobs.
B. Supply better drinks.
C. Save the cafe business.
D. Serve the neighborhood.
【4】Why are psychology cafes becoming popular in Paris?
A. They bring people true friendship.
B. They give people spiritual support.
C. They help people realize their dreams.
D. They offer a platform for business links.
23、 What makes a person become an Olympic champion? In reality, a combination of biological environmental, and psychological factors as well as training and practice, all go into making a super athlete.
Perhaps the most important factor involved in becoming a super athlete is genetics. Most Olympic competitors are equipped with certain unique physical characteristics. Take a super athlete's muscles, for example. In most human skeletal muscles, there are fast-twitch fibers and slow-twitch fibers. Fast-twitch fibers help us move quickly. They allow weightlifters to lift hundreds of kilos from the ground and over their heads in seconds. The legs of a super marathon runner, on the other hand, might contain up to 90 percent slow-twitch muscle fibers, which generate energy efficiently and enable people to control tiredness and keep moving for a longer period of time when they exercise long or hard.
Some athletes' abilities are naturally enhanced by their environment. Those raised at high altitudes have blood that is rich in hemoglobin, which enables these athletes to run better, Cultural factors also help Tegla Loroupe, a young woman from northern Kenya, won several marathons. She attributes some of her success to her country's high altitude and her cultural background. As a child, she had to run ten kilometers to school every day.
Although genetics, environment, and even culture play a part in becoming a super athlete, training and practice are needed to succeed. Weightlifters and gymnasts perfect their skills by repeating the same motions again and again until they are automatic. Training this way requires an athlete to be not only physically fit but psychologically healthy as well.
How do athletes adjust to such intense pressure? Louganis explains how he learned to control his anxiety during a competition: "Most divers think too much…," he says. "They're too much in their heads. What worked for me was humor. I remember thinking about what my mother would say if she saw me do a bad dive. She'd probably just compliment me on the beautiful splash."
【1】Having a lot of slow-twitch muscle fibers is particularly important for .
A.Weightlifters. B.Divers. C.Cyclists. D.Table tennis players.
【2】What does the underlined word “attribute” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Devotes. B.Compares. C.Exposes. D.Owes.
【3】How does Louganis deal with his anxiety according to the passage?
A.By thinking too much. B.By training hard.
C.By laughing at the amusing things D.By speaking out.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title of the text?
A.Healthy Olympic Champions.
B.Olympic Champions in the Making.
C.Factors in Becoming Physically and Psychologically Healthy.
D.Difference between an Athlete and an Average Person.
24、Greg Evans started to study film at Ryerson University, but had a change of heart and switched to social work at George Brown College in second year.Yet the college recognized only one of Evans' general-interest credits(学分) from Ryerson , and also made him take English all over again although he had passed it at university.
“So I spent time and money taking a course I had already taken before”, complained Evans."The system really needs to change." Evans was part of a chorus of Ontario students on Monday cheering a new $ 73.7 million five-year plan to help students switch from college to university, and from university to college.
After years' of urging from students, the Ontario government set up a new Credit Transfer Innovation loud to help students move back and forth between the more hands-on courses of community college to the often broader academic focus of a university degree." We hear horror stories about students who can't get recognition from one institution for a very similar course at another, and in one case I believe the same professor was teaching them both," noted Malloy after announcing the new fund.
Individual colleges and universities have decided on nearly 500 joint deals to honor each other's credits in certain courses.Each school is required to set targets for more credit-transfer agreements, and link these increases to provincial funding.
More than 4,000 college graduates transfer (转换) to university in Ontario every year twice as many as eight years ago, noted Justin Fox, president of the College Student Alliance.Yet Ontario universities and colleges have been cautious about transferring credits, in part to avoid copying each other's courses, noted Bonnie Patterson, president of the Council of Ontario Universities ,who welcomed the increased flexibility.
【1】What happened when Greg Evans switched to social work at George Brown College?
A. He was considered to be unqualified for social work.
B. His previous credits were not all recognized.
C. He wasn't able to get enough credits.
D. His English didn't reach the required standard.
【2】According to Paragraph 3, Malloy believes _____________
A. it is time that the system was changed
B. the same professor can't teach in different schools
C. students should focus on their chosen courses
D. the students' stories are horrible
【3】Ontario universities and colleges have been cautious about transferring credits partly to _____________.
A. avoid accepting unqualified students
B. keep their similar courses
C. prevent courses becoming similar
D. attract famous professors
【4】What attitude does Bonnie Patterson have towards the transferring system?
A. He is strongly against it
B.He is very doubtful about it
C. He thinks it is too flexible
D.He supports it for its flexibility
25、 It was on Father's Day, 20. 17. When I climbed up the final hill of the 13,000.41-foot-high Grand Traverse Peak, my new running _________, Merle — a one-year-old shepherd dog — was _________ to be seen.
I felt a terrifying attack as I _________ my way down the hill, still seeing no _________ of him. Then, several hundred feet _________ down, I saw his _________ on a five-foot-wide snow. I followed them carefully until they _________ off a steep chute (斜坡). About 800 feet below, the chute ended in a rock field and a massive cliff (悬崖). Below that, I could see a wide, empty, snow-covered _________ There was no sign of Merle in the rock field. Then _________ I saw something running in the basin below me. "There he is!" I ran down. Merle was running downhill away from me. I couldn't follow his ____________ without technical climbing ____________, so I needed to find a safer way down. I could hear the bells on Merle's collar (项圈), but I couldn't see him. I spent another hour ____________ around until the bells on the collar and Merle's heavy breathing disappeared. That day, I went home with deep ____________
Three weeks later, a woman named Dana Gumber ____________ a poor dog outside her yard, weak and extremely thin. Luckily, Gumber found the dog still had a collar. That afternoon, she ____________ a message on my cellphone: "I have Merle. Please ____________ me. I called her back and got a(n) ____________ answer: Merle was still alive.
I drove him to the animal hospital from Gumber's house. Merle was skinny weak after the long ____________ with wounds, but, surprisingly, none of his ____________ were broken. Over the next week Merle ____________ beautifully.
A.racer
B.partner
C.traveler
D.staff
A.everywhere
B.anywhere
C.somewhere
D.nowhere
A.picked
B.arranged
C.lost
D.forced
A.attention
B.belt
C.sign
D.shelter
A.later
B.longer
C.higher
D.farther
A.legs
B.figures
C.footprints
D.sledges
A.took
B.disappeared
C.sank
D.turned
A.house
B.basin
C.hill
D.river
A.In turn
B.As well
C.In addition
D.All at once
A.route
B.words
C.goal
D.instructions
A.organization
B.training
C.equipment
D.preparation
A.searching
B.coming
C.sticking
D.getting
A.excitement
B.sadness
C.shock
D.confusion
A.fed
B.treated
C.noticed
D.heard
A.received
B.took
C.wrote
D.left
A.help
B.appreciate
C.record
D.call
A.extraordinary
B.distant
C.amazing
D.anxious
A.journey
B.voyage
C.adventure
D.transport
A.spirits
B.bones
C.goods
D.functions
A.recovered
B.grew
C.screamed
D.benefited
26、假设你是李华,拟邀请美国朋友Mike五一节期间到你的家乡参观游览。请你写一封邀请函,要点如下:
1. 享受免费住宿(accommodation);
2. 游览名胜古迹;
3. 品尝特色小吃(snack);
4. 感受当地历史、文化和风土人情。
注意:1. 词数80左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 开头和结尾已为你写好,不计入总词数。
Dear Mike,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hun