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1、The class ________ 80 students is hard to manage.
A. consisting of B. consists of C. making up of D. made up
2、A harmonious society is very important , so all the laws must be strictly _________.
A. watched B. observed
C. carried D. handled
3、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
4、A lot of the waste thrown away in the U.S. ______ being shipped overseas to China, India, and other developing countries.
A.breaks up B.clears up
C.sums up D.ends up
5、Mum, I was wondering if you could lend me a few dollars until I ____on Friday.
A.get paid B.got paid C.would get paid D.had been paid
6、—Wang Bing is ________ of the students who _________ been admitted to Peking university in our school this year.
—Really? the only one? And I will offer my congratulations to him.
A．one; have
B．the only one; have
C．the only one; has
D．one; has
7、Susan made______ clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself.
A. that B. this
C. it D. her
8、I am wondering how it ____ that you did so much work within such a short time.
A. held up B. came about
C. gave away D. called for
9、Achieving success at this level requires a ________ of time and energy.
A．commitment
B．comment
C．confirmation
D．committee
10、---Did you remember to take the key to Tom?
---Yes, I gave it to him ________ I saw him.
A． while B． once
C． suddenly D． the first time
11、 it is expected that students come to university with the ability to take good care of themselves,this is not always the case.
A. When B. While
C. For D. As
12、John as well as the other children who_______no parents_______ good care of in the village.
A.have; is being taken
B.have; has taken
C.has; is taken
D.has; have been taken
13、It is said that in Africa over a third of the population were believed to have no ______ to the health care and advanced education.
A．control
B．access
C．opportunity
D．accent
14、There is a mountain _____the top is always covered with snow.
A．of that
B．of which
C．of it
D．that
15、They’d won 12 ______ games before they lost.
A．vivid
B．straight
C．typical
D．flexible
16、Weibo as well as WeChat _____ as a media platform for people to share their thoughts instantly without limits of place or time.
A．serves
B．is served
C．serve
D．are served
17、________ you’ve read the story, you can’t imagine how interesting it is.
A.Unless B.Because C.Although D.When
18、Being addicted to your phone, ________ is a bad habit, is, however, very popular among students.
A．that
B．what
C．which
D．why
19、Within one language, there could be hundreds or even thousands of smaller changes, ________it is due to the age, gender, race, or religion of the speaker.
A．though
B．when
C．whether
D．as
20、My parents like climbing the mountain behind my home in the morning, because the mountainous air is so good ________.
A.breathing B.breathed C.to breathe D.to be breathed
21、He’s as big as a small golden dog and covered with scales (鳞片). He is the pangolin (穿山甲), an endangered animal.
According to the wildlife trade monitoring organization Traffic, about one million pangolins were killed from 2000 through 2013, mainly for their scales, which are used in medicine. Pangolins are sensitive creatures and picky eaters that only eat certain species of ants, a diet that’s very difficult to copy in the food chain.
“In the last decade, there’s been a huge growth trade in pangolins between continents, especially their scales,” says Dan Challender, chair of the pangolin specialist group. Previously, most pangolin killing happened within Asia, he says. This shift means that Asian pangolins are becoming difficult to find but that the value of the scales makes it worth the extra cost to take pangolins from Africa to Asia secretly.
All eight species of pangolins, four in Africa and four in Asia, are in danger of extinction due to the illegal trade. International trade in the four species of Asian pangolins has been banned since 2000. In the past few years, a ban on international commercial trade in all eight species has gone into effect. It was voted by 183 governments that are parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which is in charge of cross-border trade in wild animals and their parts.
Pangolins are eaten as bushmeat in western and central Africa and by some local groups in South and Southeast Asia. Their parts also are used in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa as traditional medicine. Typically dried, ground into powder, and put into pills, pangolin scales are used in a range of traditional medicines to help mothers who have given birth to babies to recover. But they are now endangered. Perhaps no pangolins can be seen when our next generation grow up.
【1】What do you know about pangolins from Paragraph 2?
A．Their meat is very delicious.
B．Their scales are of great value.
C．They are smaller than young dogs.
D．They are on the top of the food chain.
【2】Why are pangolins brought from Africa to Asia?
A．Pangolins are cheaper in Africa.
B．No laws protect pangolins in Africa.
C．People in Asia can really save pangolins.
D．Pangolins have sharply decreased in numbers in Asia.
【3】What does the fourth paragraph mainly tell us?
A．Pangolins have many different species.
B．The bans on pangolin trade are ineffective.
C．People used to take advantage of pangolins in different ways.
D．Governments have tried to contribute to the protection of pangolins.
【4】What’s the author’s attitude towards pangolins’ future?
A．Positive.
B．Uncaring.
C．Concerned.
D．Confident.
22、Casting blame is natural: it is tempting to fault someone else for a mistake rather than taking responsibility yourself. But blame is also harmful. It makes it less likely that people will own up to mistakes, and thus less likely that organizations can learn from them. Research published in 2015 suggests that firms whose managers pointed to external factors to explain their failings underperformed companies that blamed themselves.
Blame culture can spread like a virus. Just as children fear mom and dad’s punishment if they admit to wrongdoing, in a blaming environment, employees are afraid of criticism and punishment if they acknowledge making a mistake at work. Blame culture asks, “who dropped the ball?” instead of “where did our systems and processes fail?” The focus is on the individuals, not the processes. It’s much easier to point fingers at a person or department instead of doing the harder, but the more beneficial, exercise of fixing the root cause, so the problem does not happen again.
The No Blame Culture was introduced to make sure errors and deficiencies (缺陷) were highlighted by employees as early as possible. It originated in organizations where tiny errors can have catastrophic (灾难性的) consequences. These are known as high reliability organizations (HROs) and include hospitals, submarines and airlines. Because errors can be so disastrous in these organizations, it’s dangerous to operate in an environment where employees don’t feel able to report errors that have been made or raise concerns about that deficiencies may turn into future errors. The No Blame Culture maximizes accountability because all contributions to the event occurring are identified and reviewed for possible change and improvement.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which supervises air traffic across the United States, makes it clear that its role is not to assign blame or liability but to find out what went wrong and to issue recommendations to avoid a repeat. The proud record of the airline industry in reducing accidents partly reflects no-blame processes for investigating crashes and close calls. The motive to learn from errors also exist when the risks are lower. That is why software engineers and developers routinely investigate what went wrong if a website crashes or a server goes down.
There is an obvious worry about embracing blamelessness. What if the website keeps crashing and the same person is at fault? Sometimes, after all, blame is deserved. The idea of the “just culture”, a framework developed in the 1990s by James Reason, a psychologist, addresses the concern that the incompetent and the malevolent (恶意的) will be let off the hook. The line that Britain’s aviation regulator draws between honest errors and the other sort is a good starting-point. It promises a culture in which people “are not punished for actions or decisions taken by them that are commensurate with their experience and training”. That narrows room for blame but does not remove it entirely.
【1】According to the research published in 2015, companies that ________ had better performance.
A．blamed external factors
B．owned up to mistakes
C．conducted investigations
D．admitted failures
【2】According to the passage, the No Blame Culture ________.
A．encourages the early disclosure of errors
B．only exists in high reliability organizations
C．enables people to shift the blame onto others
D．prevents organizations to learn from errors
【3】What is the major concern about embracing blamelessness according to the passage?
A．Innocent people might take the blame by admitting their failure.
B．Being blamed for mistakes can destroy trust in employees.
C．The line between honest errors and the other sort is not clear.
D．People won’t learn their lessons if they aren’t blamed for failures.
【4】Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A．Why We Fail to Learn from Our Own Mistakes
B．How to Avoid Disastrous Errors in Organizations
C．Why We Should Stop the Blame Game at Work
D．How to Deal with Workplace Blame Culture
23、 I have been carrying a notebook and pen around with me since I was three. I practiced letters over and over because the act of writing was appealing. Once I could form words, I discovered the beauty of the sentence. The pages transformed into two- or three-line tales about dogs and horses and something else that interested me.
Eventually, I began to understand what it was my heart longed for: to create words and stories. I wrote plays out of the adventures of my American Girl dolls and mimicked(模仿) the mysteries of Harry Potter. I scribbled(涂鸦) across margins in class notes and grabbed any magazine that caught my eye.
I was 11 when I wandered into a Goodwill shop one afternoon with my mother. We searched for treasures and I discovered a row of old typewriters. Most were black, some electric and others manual(手动的), almost all behemoths(庞然大物). Many keys were yellowed with age, but they all shone up at me like magic. I spent long minutes opening cases, tapping keys, shifting rollers to hear that oh-so-delightful ping.At last, I came across a small tan case. Inside was a 1950s baby blue Smith Corona typewriter. I was instantly attracted.
I begged my mom to buy it. Despite my puppy-dog eyes, we left without it. Months passed, and the typewriter left my mind. Christmas arrived with a usual number of presents, until we reached the last one: a tiny box behind the tree. Inside I found a typewriter tape, along with instructions to look under my brother’s bed. With a scream I dashed for his room and found a familiar tan case hidden below.
Within minutes, I had the baby blue beauty set up at our dining table and paper gathered. Growing up, I spent many hours pulling out the typewriter whenever I wanted to copy handwritten stories or needed inspiration.I dragged it with me when I moved from Illinois to Washington.
My typewriter made my childhood dreams of being a writer feel real. Its well-worn keys stoked the creativity in my soul. The words I imagined went from the scribbled pages of notebooks to the print of the typewriter. It was as if I was turning these fantasies into published works all on my own.
【1】What happened after the author was able to write a sentence?
A.She developed an interest in writing. B.She took to practising her handwriting.
C.She showed much affection for pets. D.She became a huge Harry Potter fan.
【2】Why was the author attracted to the 1950s Smith Corona typewriter?
A.It had yellow keys originally.
B.It was in better condition than the others.
C.It was of small size and had a unique color.
D.It made a more delightful sound than the rest.
【3】How did the author finally get the typewriter she had desired?
A.She saved up for the typewriter. B.She received it as a prize.
C.She got it as a Christmas gift. D.She got it from the shop owner.
【4】The underlined word “stoked” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to “ ________”.
A.prevented B.increased C.reflected D.consumed
【5】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A.Magical Typewriter B.Happy Childhood C.Power of Words D.Typewritten Wonder
24、Dwayne Johnson was born Dwayne Douglas Johnson on May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California, United States. His father, Rocky Johnson, was a professional wrestler while his mother, Ata Maivia, was the daughter of a wrestler. His father is of Black Nova Scotian origin, while his mother is of Samoan heritage, which explains his exotic (异国的) looks. Dwayne Johnson, previously employed as a professional wrestler, is an actor known for his appearance in the fantasy adventure film, ‘The Mummy Returns’. A highly successful professional wrestler before making his first attempt into films, Johnson is also famous for his ring name, ‘The Rock’.
Born into a family of wrestlers, it comes as no surprise that he too made a name for himself in the sport. Athletic and fond of sports from a young age, he used to join in many sporting activities as a school student. He played football for his high school and was also a member of the school’s track and field and wrestling teams. He was a promising footballer and received a full scholarship from the University of Miami to play defensive tackle (后卫). He was hopeful of making it big as a professional footballer when an injury put a full-stop to his football ambitions. Though disappointed, he did not let this incident demotivate him and instead decided to become a wrestler. His father, a professional wrestler himself, began training the young man. Eventually Johnson made his WWF debut (首秀) and established himself as a successful wrestler.
Due to his popularity coupled with his attractively strong looks he started receiving offers from Hollywood studios and he began his acting career with the movie, ‘The Mummy Returns’.
【1】What made Dwayne Johnson famous?
A．His appearance and ring name.
B．His family background.
C．His professional performance.
D．His blood relationship.
【2】What do we know about Dwayne Johnson’s father?
A．He is a famous film actor.
B．He often joined in many sporting activities.
C．He was a football member on the school team.
D．He actually coached Dwayne Johnson.
【3】Which can best explain the underlined word “demotivate” in paragraph 2?
A．Inspire.
B．Satisfy.
C．Discourage.
D．Anger.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Johnson’s Film
B．A Wrestler-Turned Actor
C．A Born Actor
D．Johnson’s Acting Career
25、Jones Thando was a 16-year-old senior high school student, who had an idea for a new method of finding pancreatic cancer. When Jones was 15 years old, her aunt died of this kind of cancer, which_______her deeply. This disease is_______serious because there is no way to detect it as early as possible. By the time_______tests determine the patient has the possibility of cancer, it’s often too late to do anything!_______that it was often the case, Jones was determined to do whatever she can to develop a test that could_______problems as early as possible.
The way ahead seemed_______for Jones. She was_______a senior high school student, and what she_______to create was something no one else had tried. So Jones read_______about this kind of cancer, wrote a letter of advice about her idea, and sent it out to more than 500 medical ________. But only one expert, Dr. Amy Maitra ________to her timely and enthusiastically. Dr. Amy promised to cooperate with Jones and gave her some assistance as well as________to a lab.
Another great reward for Jone’s________was winning the big prize at the World Science and Technology Conference. This grand award is presented to young creators that have got a ________ idea. It’s bound to take many years to develop a new test way, ________Jones hopes the way will ________enhance people’ lives and maybe save them, so she insisted on trial and error. Luckily, Jones is not alone as a young creator.________, there were nearly 1500 other competitors for the International award, all of whom had ground-breaking________. For Jones, growing up in a family that is attracted to science and________innovative thinking offered him many advantages. But the key for Jones is that reading, experiment, survey and________are just for fun, and the possibility to enhance the world around her during the process makes it much better.
【1】
A．affected
B．challenged
C．disappointed
D．inspired
【2】
A．accidentally
B．extremely
C．originally
D．abnormally
【3】
A．painful
B．precious
C．standard
D．improper
【4】
A．Recognizing
B．Realizing
C．Hit
D．Warned
【5】
A．relieve
B．cure
C．treat
D．catch
【6】
A．awkward
B．smooth
C．tough
D．simple
【7】
A．even
B．ever
C．merely
D．rarely
【8】
A．declined
B．desired
C．regretted
D．afforded
【9】
A．absolutely
B．similarly
C．limitedly
D．endlessly
【10】
A．researchers
B．patients
C．followers
D．survivals
【11】
A．neglected
B．responded
C．guaranteed
D．contributed
【12】
A．access
B．introduction
C．application
D．movement
【13】
A．fright
B．persistence
C．ambition
D．responsibility
【14】
A．goal-setting
B．problem-solving
C．world-changing
D．heart-breaking
【15】
A．also
B．and
C．so
D．but
【16】
A．hardly
B．fluently
C．occasionally
D．eventually
【17】
A．All in all
B．First of all
C．After all
D．At all
【18】
A．ideas
B．dreams
C．personalities
D．advantages
【19】
A．contacts
B．doubts
C．encourages
D．reflects
【20】
A．stress
B．career
C．discovery
D．concentration
26、人们对于学生网上交友持不同意见，请你用英语写一篇关于学生网上交友的短文，介绍人们的不同观点，并表达自己的看法。
赞成的理由 | 反对的理由 | 你的看法 |
1、广交朋友 | 1、浪费时间 | ？ |
2、可自由表达思想 | 2、影响学习或上当受骗 |
注意：1、文章必须包括表中的全部内容；
2、词数为100左右；
3、参考词汇：网络朋友 on—line friend（s）, 上当受骗to be cheated
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