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1、____ the driving test, Kim was unwilling to face his disappointed wife.
A. Not having passed B. Having not passed
C. Not passing D. Not passed
2、________ the students’ real life, the movie is said to be fantastic.
A.Based by B.Basing by
C.Based on D.Basing on
3、The written record of our conversation doesn’t ______ what was actually said. There are a lot of mistakes.
A.correspond with B.relate to C.look into D.compare with
4、 Experiments _______ that children can be instructed in swimming at a very early age, as early as about two months.
A.are proving B.will be proved C.are proved D.have proved
5、I have a big brother. ___ name is Paul.
A.Her B. His C. My
6、The exact year _____ Angela and her family spent together in China was 2008．
A． When B． where C． why D． which
7、The Internet users have been warned to ______ any messages that ask you to send cash or personal information, no matter how formal they are.
A.abandon B.reject C.decrease D.withdraw
8、We’re always looking out for new subjects that will _________ our readers.
A.involve B.engage C.arouse D.disappoint
9、—What did you do last weekend?
—Oh, nothing ________.
A.much B.else C.ever D.yet
10、We live day by day,but in the great things,the time of days and weeks_______so small that a day is unimportant.
A．is
B．are
C．has been
D．have been
11、You will never gain success ________ you keep working hard.
A．when
B．because
C．if
D．unless
12、Traditionally, Chinese people ________ the Chinese characters “Double Happiness” and stick them onto walls or doors for weddings.
A. cut out B. cut off C. cut up D. cut down
13、Though born poor, Elvis Presley, king of rock and roll, became a huge success as a singer, whose story is really ________ of the American Dream.
A. everything B. nothing
C. the one D. one
14、People were moved by the clear, logical ______ of her arguments.
A．documentary
B．responsibility
C．presentation
D．embarrassment
15、A new high-speed railway line was ________between Ji’an and Ganzhou over a year ago.
A．set down
B．set off
C．set out
D．set up
16、Before they ________ anything, children see the world with fresh eyes. Their responses are honest and imaginative.
A.teach B.were taught C.taught D.are taught
17、Police are now searching for a woman who is reported to since the flood hit the area last Friday.
A．have been missing
B．have got lost
C．be missing
D．get lost
18、We shake hands when we make a ________.
A.reward B.sale C.deal D.agreement
19、Tom is so lazy that it is the third time that he _____ late this week.
A. is coming B. comes
C. came D. has come
20、I was blamed for stealing money from her but in fact it was________.
A．to some extent
B．in particular
C．in its own right
D．the other way round
21、Farming is destroying the planet, but there could be a much more environmentally friendly way to feed ourselves: using renewable energy to turn carbon dioxide into food. “This is becoming a reality,” says Pasi Vainikka at Solar Foods, a company that is building the first commercial-scale factory that will be able to make food directly from CO2.
There can be no doubt that immediate attention to find greener ways to grow food is required. Conventional agriculture, including organic farming, causes damage to the environment in many ways. It requires a lot of land, leading to habitat loss and deforestation. It is also the source of a third of all greenhouse gas emissions and releases other pollutants. It isn’t very efficient, either. Crops typically transform less than 1 percent of light energy into usable biomass (生物量).
Instead, Solar Foods plans to avoid photosynthesis (光合作用) altogether, and grow bacteria that use hydrogen as their source of energy. At the factory, renewable electricity will be used to split water to produce hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen will be added to large containers, where the bacteria grow, along with CO2 and ammonia (氨气). The end result will be a yellow powder called Solein.
Solein is made of bacterial cells and is up to 70 percent protein. It can be used as an ingredient in all kinds of foods. “We are aiming at replacing animal-sourced proteins, which we think have the highest environmental impact,” says Vainikka.
Compared with plant crops, Solein will use 100 times less water per kilogram of protein produced, 20 times less land and emit a fifth as much CO2, according to Solar Foods. There are other benefits, too: factories could be situated anywhere in the world and production won’t be affected by weather conditions.
“With Solar Foods and other companies scaling up their systems, this is truly beginning a new era of agriculture,” says Dorian Leger at Connectomix Bio in Germany. “I think these trends are exciting and will help bend the carbon curve as well as lead to improved global food supply security.”
【1】What is the author’s purpose in mentioning conventional agriculture in paragraph 2?
A．To demonstrate its influence on crops.
B．To compare different farming methods.
C．To highlight the urgent need for alternatives.
D．To provide an example of agricultural types.
【2】What is mainly presented in paragraph 3 concerning Solein?
A．Its production process.
B．Its storage condition.
C．Its ingredient materials.
D．Its investment potential.
【3】What is one of the features of Solein?
A．It is low in protein.
B．Its production is weather sensitive.
C．It is resource-limited.
D．Its production is location-independent.
【4】Which statement would Dorian Leger probably agree with?
A．The use of Solein may help reduce carbon emissions.
B．Solein will dominate the agricultural development.
C．Solein can help achieve global food safety.
D．The prospect of Solein remains to be seen.
22、A new study published in "Annals of Behavioral Medicine" shows that three continuous nights of sleep loss cause great damage to your mental and physical well-being.
Soomi Lee, assistant professor in the School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida, found the biggest jump in symptoms appeared after just one night of sleep loss. The number of mental and physical problems steadily got worse, peaking on day three. At that point, research shows the human body got relatively used to repeated sleep loss. But that all changed on day six, when participants reported that the severity of physical symptoms was at its worst.
"Many of us think that we can pay our sleep debt on weekends and be more productive on weekdays," Lee said. "However, results froth this study show that having just one night of sleep loss can significantly impair your daily functioning."
Data provided by the Midlife in the United States study included nearly 2, 000 middle-aged adults who were relatively healthy and well-educated. Among them, 42% had at least one night of sleep loss, sleeping 1%fewer hours than their typical routines. They recorded their mental and physical behaviors in a diary for eight consecutive days, allowing researchers to review how sleep loss causes wear and tear on the body.
Participants reported a pile-up of angry, nervous, lonely, irritable and frustrated feelings as a result of sleep loss. They also experienced more physical symptoms, such as upper respiratory（呼吸道）issues, aches, gastrointestinal（肠胃的）problems and other health concerns. These negative feelings and symptoms were continuously elevated throughout consecutive（连续的）sleep loss days and didn't return to baseline levels unless they had a night sleep of more than six hours.
About one-third of U.S. adults sleep less than six hours per night. Lee says once that becomes a habit, it's increasingly difficult for your body to fully recover from lack of sleep, continuing the vicious（恶性的）cycle of worsening daily well-being, which could impact one professionally. A previous study led by Lee found losing just 16 minutes of sleep could impact job performance. Her previous findings also show that minor sleep loss can decrease daily mindfulness, which is a critical recourse for managing stress and maintaining healthy routines.
Lee says the best way to maintain a strong daily performance is to set aside more than six hours to sleep every night.
【1】Which of the following statements is true about the sleep loss according to paragraph 2?
A．The most severity of physical symptoms happens on day six.
B．The biggest symptom of our body appears on the first day.
C．The problems of mental and physical steadily exist during the days.
D．One night of sleep loss can also affect your body functioning.
【2】Which of the following influences is not mentioned in the passage?
A．People's work.
B．People's family.
C．People's bad emotion.
D．People's body health.
【3】Which is not true according to the passage?
A．Minor sleep loss can reduce daily mindfulness.
B．An over 6-hour night sleep can ease the negative feelings.
C．Losing just 16 minutes of sleep have no impact on job performance.
D．Sleep loss can lead to vicious cycle of worsening daily well-being.
【4】Which can be the best title of this passage?
A．Who Steals Your Sleep?
B．How to Make up Our Sleep Debt?
C．How Sleep Loss Impacts Our Health?
D．How to Be a Good Sleeper?
23、Rainforests are a very important part of our planet, giving us oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide and giving a home to 50% of the animal and plant species of the planet. Not to mention the medicines and cures that are made from the plants that grow there. 【1】 .
What is deforestation? Deforestation is the name given to the damage toe rainforests. This is being done by burning them down, cutting down the trees or flooding the areas. 【2】 It’s reported that an area, the size of one football pitch (足球场), is being destroyed every minute! If this carries on at this speed, it will take less than a hundred years to destroy all the rainforests on Earth.
【3】 People clear the rainforests to make space for producing food, including cattle to be farmed for cheap beef and also growing large crops, such as soya beans. In addition, other causes of deforestation, which are also related to making money, include cutting down and using the wood from the forest, building roads for mining metals, gold or diamonds and something like that.
How can they be saved? 【4】 Also, you could think about the reasons why the forests are being destroyed and how you could help. For example, the cheap beef farmed in the areas that used to be rainforest land is often used in fast food chains. 【5】 You could also check on your supermarket food labels-is it farmed in an area where deforestation is taking place? Besides, you could use rainforest-friendly wood which is not a product of deforestation.
A．This is happening so fast.
B．Why are they being destroyed?
C．What can they provide for humans?
D．You could avoid eating that to save some rainforests.
E．However something unpleasant like deforestation is happening to them every day.
F．You could help by raising money for a charity that protects rainforests.
G．As we destroy forests, we lose their ability to change carbon dioxide into oxygen.
24、Volunteers Wanted
Description:
Children from low-income families or new arrivals have difficulties in learning English based on their growing backgrounds and financial problems. For most of them, tutoring (家教) that build self-confidence in speaking English is beyond their dreams. During the COVID-19 outbreak, a number of children’ have fallen behind with their studies.
We are calling for volunteers with high English proficiency (流利) to provide virtual tutoring lessons at Kwun Tong centre on Saturdays for children in Primary 4—6. These one-hour visual lessons will support them with practicing English conversations through storytelling and/or self decided topics. This activity will help primary school students to improve their English proficiency and confidence by communicating more in English.
Requirements:
Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and they are required to be fluent in speaking both Chinese (Mandarin is more preferable) and English.
Volunteer roles:
● Volunteers will be working in a pair.
● Each volunteer pair will be working with the same group’ of children for 4 consecutive (连续) weeks.
● Practice English speaking with the children online.
All volunteers who attend this activity must be registered (登记) with HandsOn Hong Kong. If you wish to have a friend or family member join you in this activity, they must first register with HandsOn and sign up for the activity.
Sign Up
SATURDAY, 29 JANUARY, 2022 FROM 15:45—17:00
SATURDAY, 05 FEBRUARY, 2022 FROM 16:45—18:00
SATURDAY, 19 FEBRUARY, 2022 FROM 15:45—17:00
Full opportunity address and directions will be sent to you by e-mail after you sign up.
Contact:
New Home Association at http://www.nha.org.hk/.
【1】Which of the following is a requirement for the volunteers?
A．Coming from low-income families.
B．Having previous teaching experience.
C．Registering with HandsOn Hong Kong.
D．Having a good knowledge of English and French.
【2】At what time can you sign up as a volunteer?
A．At 16:05 on 29 JANUARY, 2022.
B．At 17:50 on 29 JANUARY, 2022.
C．At 15:45 on 05 FEBRUARY, 2022.
D．At 18:00 on 19 FEBRUARY, 2022.
【3】What do we know about the work of the volunteers from the text?
A．Volunteers will teach the kids face to face.
B．Volunteers will teach different kids each week.
C．Two volunteers will work in pair when giving lessons.
D．The lessons will be given to the kids as well as to their parents.
25、Growing roots
When I was growing up. I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd _________ known. When Dr. Gibbs wasn't _________ lives, he was planting trees.
The good doctor had some _________ theories on planting trees. He believed in “No pains, no gains”. He never _________ his new trees, which was _________many people. He thought that watering plants spoiled (宠坏) them, and that if you want strong trees, you have to make things _________ for them. He talked about how watering trees _________ shallow roots, and how trees that weren't watered had to grow deep roots in _________ of water. I came to understand that he meant deep roots were to be _________. The lack of water seemed to __________ the trees in ways comfort and ease never could.
I used to __________for my sons that their lives will be easy. But __________ I’ve been thinking that it's time to __________ my prayer. I know my children are going to meet __________ and I'm praying they will be strong. The prayer for comfort is seldom met. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the winds blow, they won't be __________ away.
【1】
A．even
B．never
C．ever
D．hardly
【2】
A．valuing
B．making
C．enjoying
D．saving
【3】
A．horrible
B．dull
C．interesting
D．terrible
【4】
A．watered
B．raised
C．loved
D．sheltered
【5】
A．against
B．beyond
C．within
D．from
【6】
A．harmful
B．tough
C．favorable
D．wonderful
【7】
A．head for
B．made for
C．allow for
D．care for
【8】
A．charge
B．favor
C．honor
D．search
【9】
A．treasured
B．challenged
C．respected
D．liked
【10】
A．harm
B．raise
C．benefit
D．hurt
【11】
A．stand
B．apply
C．pray
D．call
【12】
A．perfectly
B．formally
C．obviously
D．lately
【13】
A．attend
B．say
C．change
D．keep
【14】
A．hardships
B．worries
C．bosses
D．jobs
【15】
A．given
B．sent
C．broken
D．swept
26、假如你是李华，你在美国某高中做交换生，你校校报新开了“中国文化”专栏，邀请你介绍中国传统绘画艺术，请给校报编辑写一封回信介绍该艺术形式，内容包括以下要点：
1.写信目的；
2.中国画的特点；
3.著名的中国画画家。
注意:1.可适当增加细节，以使结构完整，行文连贯；2.词数100左右。
参考词汇:专栏 column 中国画 Chinese painting
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