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1、It was difficult to keep a positive attitude when I had a list filled with things to do, _____ none sounded like fun.
A．for which
B．to which
C．of which
D．from which
2、On the contrary, I think it is Truman, ________ you, ________ to blame.
A. more than; are B. less than; who are
C. rather than; that is D. rather than; is
3、American Indians_______ about 5% of the US population.
A.keep off B.keep up C.make up for D.make up
4、Laws that punish parents for their little children’s actions get parents ________.
A.worried B.to worried
C.worrying D.worry
5、Twins may look ________ the same, but are quite different in personality.
A．closely
B．exactly
C．clearly
D．mainly
6、We can communicate________people in every part of the world ________the Internet.
A.with；with B.with；through
C.through；through D.through；with
7、What impressed me most was not ________ he said but the way ________ he said it.
A．what; which
B．when; in which
C．that; that
D．what; that
8、Considering its convenience and wide application, the investors are becoming increasingly excited about the future ________ of the new digital device.
A．expense
B．prospect
C．property
D．profit
9、We hope the teammates will catch some fire from Yao Ming, and Rockets will be _______ to succeed this year.
A.praised B.asked C.bound D.blamed
10、In my opinion, a true friend is the one who always ______ when you are depressed.
A. puts you up B. gives you up
C. picks you up D. cheers you up
11、—Could you help me solve this puzzle, Tom?
— ________ I'm really not good at this game.
A．Never mind.
B．You got me there.
C．It's up to you.
D．Sounds good.
12、It is time that the government _____ measures to protect the valuable heritage.
A.takes B.to take C.take D.took
13、 George always does his best in school, and that’s ______ I like about him.
A. where B. why C. how D. what
14、. They were surprised that a child should work out the problem _____ they themselves couldn't.
A．once
B．then
C．while
D．if
15、 ---Guess what! I have own the first prize in the speaking competition.
---Congratulations! You ______ put a lot of work into it.
A. should B. must
C. should have D. must have
16、_________ people’s discussion and you will know a lot.
A. Join B. Join in
C. Take part D. Add up
17、—What do you think of the band's performance?
—It could be________. I think they're feeling very nervous.
A．good
B．bad
C．better
D．worse
18、________ did I accept this unreasonable suggestion.
A．By no means
B．By all means
C．By means of
D．By this means
19、____ he will offer us enough help doesn’t matter a lot to our success.
A. If B. Whether
C. Before D. How
20、—What a surprise! I _____________ you still away on holiday.
—But it __________only a fortnight before our new voluntary project begins.
A.think; is B.thought; will be C.had thought; was D.thought; is
21、Are you sick of going to bed late and waking up tired? Then grab your hiking boots and a tent. A new study suggests that camping in the great outdoors for a couple of days can reset your body clock and help you get more sleep.
The body clock is an internal system that tells our bodies when it’s time to go to sleep and when it's time to wake up. Scientists track this clock by measuring the amount of melatonin (褪黑激素) circulating in a person’s blood at any given time.
In a healthy sleeper, melatonin levels rise a few hours before bedtime, stay high through the night, and then settle back down when it’s time to wake up.
In our modern society, however, most of us stay up many hours past sunset and would probably sleep in many hours after sunrise if we could. And the trouble is, your melatonin levels may still be high when your alarm clock goes off in the morning, which leads to fatigue. It may also have other health consequences as well, such as diabetes (糖尿病), overweight and heart disease.
Professor Kenneth Wright of the University of Colorado in the US wanted to see if our body clocks can be reset by a short stay in nature. His team recruited (招募) fourteen physically active volunteers in their 20s and 30s. Nine went on a weekend camping trip, while the other five stayed home. At the end of the weekend, the researchers reported that in just two days, the campers’ body clocks had shifted so that their melatonin levels began to rise more than an hour earlier than they did before they left on the trip. By contrast, the body clocks of the group that stayed home shifted even later over the course of the weekend.
“This tells us we can reset our clocks fast,” Wright said.
Therefore, if you want to change your sleep patterns you could try to increase your exposure to natural light during the day and decrease the amount of artificial light you see at night. And if that doesn’t work，there’s always camping.
【1】The underlined word “fatigue” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A. excitement
B. tiredness
C. relief
D. disappointment
【2】What did Wright's team discover from their experiment?
A. Those staying outdoors reset the clock inside their bodies over a short period.
B. The body clocks of the two groups didn’t show much difference.
C. The body clocks of those who stayed at home remained the same.
D. Changes to the body clock don't necessarily affect melatonin levels in our bodies.
【3】According to the passage, to change our sleeping habit, we’d better ________.
A. stay home to reset our body clock and get more sleep
B. stay up late long past sunset and sleep long after sunrise
C. get exposed to more natural light but less artificial light
D. try to reduce melatonin levels as much as possible at night
【4】What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?
A. To inform us of a possible way to adjust the body clock.
B. To explain how a lack of sleep is bad for our health.
C. To analyze how the body clock influences our sleeping habits.
D. To explore how the body clock is connected with melatonin levels.
22、 Growing up in an Italian-American household was, for me, very special. My mother, Gina, an immigrant from Calabria, Italy, held on to so many of her family traditions that sometimes, regardless of the fact that we were living in the United States, our home felt like an annex(附件) of Italy.
To this day, my mother may use some English terms and expressions from time to time, but our conversations are, for the most part, in her mother tongue. And most of those conversations revolve around food.
While eating breakfast, we often discuss what we will make for lunch and right after lunch, we begin to figure out what’s on the menu for dinner. For us, food— Italian food— is an important part of our lives. We live to eat, not eat to live. The food my mother prepared for me and my sister as children is the same food my grandmother created in her small farm kitchen high up in the mountains.
So, it surprised no one that I dedicated the past four years of my life to a new cookbook, Heirloom Kitchen, which records and preserves the recipes of our ancestors, my family’s, and those of the families of many of my friends. These heritage recipes link us to our pasts.
One of my family’s heritage dishes I was sure to learn when I was young is my mother’s arancini di riso (Italian rice balls). Arancini, in Italian, means little oranges. After you roll some leftover rice into a small ball, place a piece of mozzarella(白干酪) in the center, and then bread and fry it, you get a golden ball.
My mother has always been respectful of ingredients. She grew up on a farm where the “fruits” of their labour directly transferred into the food on the table, and wasting any ingredient was unacceptable. One of the greatest lessons my mother taught me in the kitchen is to cook what I have on hand, and to never let anything go to waste, because a bit of creativity can create a new, delicious dish.
So, when I take a perfect little arancino out of the hot oil and crack it open, I am immediately transported back to my childhood: I was a little girl getting off the bus and running through the back door to the smell of last night’s rice transformed into crunchy goodness. This small snack symbolizes so many things in my life: my mother’s waste-not philosophy, her ability to take a few simple ingredients and transform them, and finally, the way she carried her mother’s recipes to the US in her mind and heart so she could, years later, teach me about my heritage through food.
【1】What do we know about the author’s family?
A.The author’s mother lives in Calabria now.
B.Most of the family lead an American-style life.
C.The author’s mother only speaks to her in Italian.
D.The author’s mother often talks about food with her.
【2】Arancini di riso probably earned the name from_____.
A.the taste
B.the appearance
C.a famous chef
D.the author’s mother
【3】What can we learn from the text?
A.Compared to Italian food, the author prefers American food.
B.The family’s dinner is based on the recipes of their ancestors.
C.Making good use of ingredients is the family’s cooking tradition.
D.The author’s mother doesn’t make preparations before meals.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A.The heritage the author has learned through food.
B.How to make delicious Italian rise balls.
C.How to be creative at reducing food waste.
D.The introduction of the author’s new book.
23、 For hundreds of years, Africans have preserved their history through storytelling. But some Africans worry that oral traditions will be lost to the Internet connections and social media.
This has led a Nigerian woman named Elizabeth Kperrun to create a mobile phone application as a way to preserve African folk stories. She calls her mobile app AfroTalez, which tells children’s stories that teach moral lessons.
“We can’t teach kids something by telling them, ‘Don’t do this’. I think kids need context to understand. In a story somebody stole something and then something bad happened to them. Alternatively, somebody else did something good and they ended up happy or rich.”
“Hello children. My name is Liz and I’d like to tell you a story about tortoises, elephants, and ...” The voice of “Aunt Liz” narrates the story, while a full-screen animation appears. An arrow signals when it’s time to move on. There are also quizzes on object recognition and counting throughout.
Kperrun asks her older relatives to help her collect stories for the application. The stories come from an ethnic group living in southeast Nigeria and northwest Cameroon. “I want to keep it centered on folk stories, not the ones that Walt Disney has made really popular... It’s fair and respectful to keep certain cultures alive because folk stories are part of the tapestry that keeps cultures together.” Kperrun once said.
Kperrun writes and reads the stories. Her business partner and husband Idamiebi Ilamina-Eremie does the animation (动画).
AfroTalez is available for Android users and can be downloaded for free. So far, AfroTalez has more than 50,000 users. Funding for the app has been a major challenge. Kperrun hopes to use a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the next version of AfroTalez to be released soon.
Kperrun believes technology doesn’t have to destroy or replace traditions. Her goal is to combine them to keep African culture alive. She says “Africa is our home, but we are so eager to become Western that we are forgetting things that are really important and should be passed on of who we are, and I don’t think that’s right.”
【1】What caused Elizabeth Kperrun to create the mobile app AfroTalez?
A．Desiring to make money through the Internet.
B．Planning to keep technology replacing traditions.
C．Dreaming of launching a crowdfunding campaign.
D．Worrying about the disappearance of African oral traditions.
【2】The stories AfroTalez provides ________.
A．are narrated by Kperrun’s husband
B．are familiar to today’s African children
C．are as popular as those of Walt Disney’s
D．are means to teach children moral lessons
【3】According to the passage, AfroTalez ________.
A．will destroy African traditions
B．is free for Android users
C．has released two versions
D．faces no financial problems
【4】What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A．Mobile App seeks to preserve African folktales
B．African people pass on traditions by storytelling
C．It is unwise for a nation to learn from western countries blindly
D．Social media lead to the disappearance of African Oral traditions
24、Hands up, who’s rubbish at drawing? Ha! Bet you’re not as bad as me.
Like most during lockdown, I missed being in familiar green city spaces. A quick snap on my phone never quite captured the moment. So excitingly, I found “green sketching” sessions near my home.
This type of art, “green sketching”, was inspired by environmental scientist Dr Ali Foxon. Ali thought that spreading the joy of sketching could be the key to making people care about nature instead of just wordy reports. She launched her movement, Boggy Doodles, in 2016.
The day we were there the forest was glorious. We spent the last hour trying to capture a forest scene I made a real effort to catch the dark and brighter areas of the trunks, their textures. I used an eraser to create the white shape of a silver tree in the distance. Mine looked more like a winter scene. But when the five of us brought our work together at the end, I wasn’t too ashamed: mine was only just the worst.
At the prospect of a new lock down, I can’t be the only one to feel sad. Sketching calms a busy, anxious mind and trains the brain to notice “little things” that spark joy and help strengthen us against life’s challenges. While engaging with nature may well make us keener on protecting it — in Robert Macfarlane’s words, “We will not save what we do not love — and we rarely love what we cannot name or do not see”— the benefits of sketching work the other way round.
【1】Why would the author be a member of the “green sketching”?
A．She was eager to return to green spaces.
B．She followed her friends’ advice to do so.
C．She wanted to improve her painting skills.
D．She needed something special to kill time.
【2】What is the purpose of the “green sketching” activity?
A．To let participants learn a skill.
B．To help participants to write a report.
C．To introduce people to a relaxing activity.
D．To raise the awareness of protecting nature.
【3】What does the underlined word “spark” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．Arouse.
B．Release.
C．Decline.
D．Prevent.
【4】What do Robert’s words convey?
A．Sketching can strengthen one’s creativity.
B．A calm mind overcomes challenges in life.
C．Doing things we love brings us happiness.
D．To protect nature is to connect with it first.
25、 I was fifteen and a high school freshman when I started rapidly losing weight. I was about 130 pounds, and I was ________ ten pounds every couple of weeks. I couldn’t understand why I was always hungry, thirsty, and never ________.Every night I ________ five or six times, feeling like I had to go to the bathroom, but I never really had to. Finally, I decided to go to the hospital to ________ nothing bad was going on.
I remembered being ________ in the hospital, confused, hungry, and with an extremely ________ blood sugar level. The doctors and nurses thought I might pass out, so they injected me and told me the worst news I could have imagined— tests showed that I had Type 1 juvenile diabetes. I was so ________ that the only question I could think to ask was, “Am I going to die?” A nurse told me to go out, enjoy a meal with my family, and ________, because tomorrow my new, difficult life would begin.
I don’t remember what time I had to be at the hospital, ________ I know it was early. Three nurses, one dietician, and a doctor all trained me, over the course of two days, to ________ me. Every needle hurt, but in some way I began to feel ________ every time I was able to think about the needles without crying.
Now, nearly three years later, I still remember the ________ when the doctors told me I was a Type 1 diabetic. I’m ________ when I look back that I was able to be strong, and that my family and friends supported me. I’m now two months shy of eighteen. To this day, I have had 3,38 needle injections, but each of them helps me to remember I must be strong. ________, I am grateful for my disease—it has made me the person I am today, and I would never ________who I am.
A．keeping
B．carrying
C．dropping
D．measuring
A．satisfied
B．frustrated
C．determined
D．stimulated
A．stood up
B．woke up
C．dressed up
D．cheered up
A．make out
B．make for
C．make sure
D．make up
A．looked after
B．operated on
C．paid for
D．checked over
A．swift
B．flat
C．high
D．average
A．ashamed
B．annoyed
C．depressed
D．delighted
A．recover
B．relax
C．escape
D．exercise
A．so
B．and
C．because
D．but
A．make fun of
B．make use of
C．take control of
D．take care of
A．stronger
B．healthier
C．stranger
D．simpler
A．message
B．dream
C．feeling
D．courage
A．appreciated
B．appropriate
C．approximate
D．apparent
A．Fortunately
B．Doubtfully
C．Naturally
D．Incredibly
A．mind
B．recognize
C．shape
D．change
26、用英语写一篇100词左右的文章介绍我国首位航天员杨利伟。
姓名：杨利伟
出生年月：1965年6月
籍贯：辽宁省绥中县
简历：1983年6月参军
1992年调到成都空军某部
1996年8月1500名飞行员参加体检，杨利伟进入14人之列
1998年1月正式成为我国首批航天员，经过5年训练光荣地选为我国首次载人航天飞行首飞队成员
2003年10月15日乘“神州5号”飞船遨游太空
出生于农民家庭，从儿时起向往蓝天，在部队聪明好学，训练刻苦。
参考词汇：astronaut 宇航员 manned-space aircraft 载人航天飞机 research 研究 candidate 候选人
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