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1、Since this accident has nothing to do with him, he seems no way ______.
A. to be blamed B. to blame
C. blamed for D. to blame for
2、— Excuse me, can you show me the way to the nearest bus stop?
— Sorry. I’m a stranger here. I ______ here until my guide arrives.
A. stand B. have stood
C. am standing D. will stand
3、There are so many beautiful cards on the desk, and I can't ________ the ones I like best.
A. take up B. pick up
C. pick out D. take off
4、―Why are you so excited?
—I met Tommy just now. We _____ each other for ages.
A.haven’t seen B.didn't see C.hadn't seen D.don't see
5、Joining the company as a clerk (职员), he got rapid promotion (晋升), and ______ working as a manager.
A．ended up
B．came across
C．settled for
D．focused on
6、Tom, ________ was brought up by his uncle, is clever.
A．that
B．who
C．whom
D．whose
7、1________ leave________ my telephone rang.
A．am about to;then
B．will;while
C．was about to:when
D．were to:then
8、(2014·合肥八中模拟)—Don't you think Sam is the best person for the position？He is very wise.
—I don't quite agree.He is ________ wise.
A. more kind than B. as kind as
C. not so kind as D. kinder than
9、The Chinese government has introduced efforts to ______ the exploitation of underground water, ______ sources of drinking water and ______ the aquatic ecological system.
A．promote； protecting； regulating
B．regulate； protect； restore
C．restoring； promote； protect
D．regulating； restoring； protect
10、Although going on your first trip to the UK is exciting, new and different customs can also be _____. Table manners are no exception.
A．original
B．stinky
C．confusing
D．shallow
11、As a soldier he showed selfless___________ to duty.
A.devotion B.consideration C.attention D.comparison
12、________ with different numbers, the documents are neatly put on the desk.
A．Contrasted
B．Occupied
C．Associated
D．Marked
13、I have read the letter twice, but I can’t make _____ of it.
A.sure B.sense C.notice D.use
14、The author of Silent Spring made a crucial but potentially difficult-to-understand subject interesting and ________ to millions of people.
A．ambitious
B．accessible
C．attainable
D．available
15、We were all confused why he left the job____he was so well paid in that big company.
A.if B.until C.once D.when
16、When ________ with the United States, China has too much population.
A. compared B. comparing C. to compare D. having compared
17、It won’t be long before we put our plan into final form. you want to make any change, please keep me informed before tomorrow.
A. Would B. Could
C. Might D. Should
18、Victims often meet resistance in the very legal system, evidence may be overwhelmed by public opinion.
A.which B.where C.whose D.that
19、My uncle agreed, _________ that my father had got to go with me.
A．adds
B．adding
C．to add
D．added
20、The doctor suggested Peter _____ outside for a long time.
A.would not be B.must not be C.must not stay D.not stay
21、Guests arriving at the Aloft Hotel in Manhattan or one in Silicon Valley will soon be able to do something hotels have dreamed about offering for years: walk past the check-in desk and enter their rooms by using a smartphone as a room key. The boutique hotel brand from Starwood to
Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. plans to offer this feature at two hotels, in the Harlem neighborhood and in Cupertino, Calif, before the end of the quarter.
Starwood officials are hoping this will be one of the biggest technological changes in the industry since free Wi-Fi. "We believe this will become the new standard for how people will want to enter a hotel." says Frits van Passchen, Starwood's CEO. "It may be a novelty at first,but we think it will become table stakes for managing a hotel.
Not everyone is so sure. Past attempts to use technology to streamline the check-in process have had mixed results. Robert Habeeb, president of the First Hospitality Group, which is the owner of 55 hotels in the U.S, says he pulled out check-in kiosks at two of his Holiday Inn hotels after finding that most guests ignored them. He found that many travelers will sacrifice speed or ease to talk with a staff member and ensure their room has the right view or location, or to try for an upgrade. Other guests may still want to be greeted when they arrive.
Hotels have never been known for being in the forefront of technology. The industry is often a delay, in part because many hotels are owned and managed by separate companies, making investments in technology more complicated. Nevertheless, many hotel operators have been searching for ways to remove the bottlenecks that can form at a hotel's front desk. The delays are the bane(祸根)of many a road warrior's travel experience. “Everybody has to check in, but we are all doing it pretty much the same way we were 100 years ago, ”says Christopher Nassetta, chief executive officer for Hilton Worldwide holdings Inc.”It' s something we are seriously addressing.
Yet it is still not clear that virtual keys will do better than previous attempts to beat traditional check-ins. An effort several years ago to allow guests to enter rooms with the magnetic strip on their credit cards never became popular . Guests worried about security and were unwilling to give their kids credit cards instead of room keys.
【1】According to the first two paragraphs, which of the following is NOT true.
A. Aloft of Hotel in Manhattan will allow guests to use a smartphone as a room key
B. All Starwood Hotels plan to offer the new room key before the end of the quarter.
C. Hotel officials hope the new room key will be a great change in hotel industry.
D. The new room key may become a new standard of choosing a hotel
【2】The word streamline(Para. 3) is closest in meaning to _____________.
A. simplify B. strengthen
C. change D. unify
【3】Christopher Nassetta would most likely agree that _____________.
A. it's a good idea to cancel check-in
B. the way of check-in needs to be changed
C. the management of hotel needs to be improved
D. it's time to make use of technology in hotel industry
【4】From the text we can see that the writer thinks the future of the new room key is __________.
A. optimistic B. negative
C. bright D. uncertain
22、 Traffic Light Reading is one of students’ favorites! And it’s so simple. Here’s what to do: Take three pens in different colors, most suitably red, orange and green. But it’s not too important as long as teachers and students are both clear on the colour code they’re going to use.
Students read a text, not worrying too much about how much they understand. Teachers can ask them to re-read when students are paying attention to vocabulary. Start by underlining the words that they understand completely (including names, numbers etc) in green.
Then students re-read the text and underline the words that look familiar, they maybe know them but aren’t too sure about them. You guessed it: in orange.
Finally, students read the text a third time underlining the words they clearly don’t understand in red. Sometimes teachers might want to set students a limit for how many red words they underline, telling them only to underline the words that they believe are seriously blocking their understanding of the text as a whole. Generally, however, students are pleasantly surprised by how few words are red and how many are green. Seeing their ability laid out in a visual way really helps to increase confidence.
Once the whole text is underlined, teachers can give students a limit of 5, 10 or 15 words, depending on the length of the text, and tell them they’re only allowed to look these words up in a dictionary. This helps them to recognize words that are actually getting in the way of their understanding of the text and words that they don’t know but actually don’t impact their whole understanding of the text.
This is a useful activity that can be done with a printed text, in a Google Doc, on RealtimeBoard, or set as a homework task for some independent study.
【1】What do we know about Traffic Light Reading?
A．It’s easy.
B．It’s expensive.
C．It’s difficult
D．It’s useless.
【2】If a student uses orange to underline a word, it means that he .
A．doesn’t know it at all
B．has actually understood it
C．isn’t certain about its meaning
D．has never met with it at all
【3】What does the underlined word “impact” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A．increase.
B．form.
C．affect
D．use.
【4】In the author’s opinion, Traffic Light Reading .
A．needs more eyes than mind
B．trains students’ ability to learn
C．makes the students study long hours
D．encourages the students to speak bravely
23、When 12-year-old Taylor Smith wrote a special letter to herself last spring, to be read in 10 years’ time, she didn’t know it would be opened before even a year had passed— and that it wouldn’t be her eyes reading the words.
“She had told me that she had written a letter to herself, and that she was excited that she was going to open it when she was older,”said Taylor’s mother, Mary Ellen Smith.
Instead, it was opened by Taylor’s parents after she died last spring. They posted the letter to Facebook, hoping it would inspire others.
It has. “We’ve gotten letters from lots of parents who have said it has encouraged them to love their kids and love each other,” said Mary Ellen Smith.
In the letter, Taylor congratulated herself on graduating from high school and asked, “Are you in college?”
She also wanted to know if she had been on a plane yet and if the show “Doctor Who” was still on the air.
Taylor also had some words for her future kids. After considering the idea of selling her iPad and getting an iPad mini instead, she told her future self to mention to her kids that “We’re older than the tablet.” She included a drawing of an iPad for them to see.
Taylor died suddenly of pneumonia (肺炎), leaving behind both her parents and an older brother.
“I just want people to know just what an awesome, awesome person she was,” her father, Tim Smith said.
Her mother said, “I can’t bring her back, but I’m so grateful people have been inspired by her story.”
Taylor’s father read the closing g words of her letter, which said, “It’s been years since I wrote this. Stuff has happened, good and bad. That’s just how life works, and you have to go with it.”
【1】Taylor Smith decided to open her letter when she was ________.
A. 18 years old B. 20 years old
C. 22 years old D. 24 years old
【2】Why did Taylor’s parents post her letter to facebook?
A. To show Taylor Smith’s deep love for her parents.
B. To encourage parents and kids to love each other.
C. To make themselves well-known and make money.
D. To prove Taylor Smith was good at writing.
【3】We can learn from the passage that Taylor Smith ________.
A. was a college student
B. had never got an iPad
C. had never taken a plane
D. wanted to join “Doctor Who”.
【4】What is the message conveyed at the end of Taylor Smith’s letter?
A. We should develop the habit of keeping a diary.
B. We should accept everything that happens in life.
C. We should stop bad things from happening.
D. We should show our love for our parents in time.
24、I was excited about having a third child, but worried about the first year. A friend of mine who's a filmmaker said, "Why don't you just photograph the whole thing?" So I had one holder for the camera over the changing table and another where I nursed. I wasn't sure that anything would ever come out of it. I had not even looked at the photographs until a couple of months ago. They just seemed so quotidian that I couldn't imagine that they would be interesting at all. Time can turn photographs into metaphor or allow them to become a symbol instead of a documentary picture.
At the particular moment of having a newborn, mothers' needs are on the minds of the country. However, motherload is about what mothers don't show： the emotions and psychological states that we've all been socialized to bury. It's not so much about my personal existence as it is about the blurred（模糊的）existence, all that time spent keeping something alive.
Having a newborn is a very ugly, untidy time of life. I felt out of the picture. I felt very stressed and very needed, but also very invisible. The images get at that unreal quality of not feeling like a whole person. I'm not really in focus, because my brain isn't in focus either.
I can't tell you how many times I've checked an artist's biography to see, Oh God, she's so great, but does she have children? Like, are we in the same race? Because it's like running with weights on. But when I look at the pictures, I feel like a survivor.
【1】The author documented the months following the birth of her third child because_________.
A．she felt the period very terrible
B．she favored her third child most
C．she was encouraged by her friend
D．she fell in love with the filmmaker
【2】What does the underlined word "quotidian" in Paragraph 1 mean?
A．Fantastic.
B．Ordinary.
C．Reliable.
D．Familiar.
【3】What does the author think of motherload?
A．Mothers prefer to socialize with others nearby.
B．Mothers attempt to uncover their mental states.
C．Mothers tend to have their own sense of existence ignored.
D．Mothers enjoy the sweet burden of keeping something alive.
【4】Why does the author mention a great artist in the last paragraph?
A．Because she wants to show how weak she is.
B．Because she finds it good to have no children.
C．Because she loves reading the artist's biography.
D．Because she feels it hard to shoulder the motherload.
25、We get out of this world what we put into it. Usually, the rewards are indirect and sometimes hard to ________ but usually what you ________ comes back to you there and then!
Several days ago my stepson, Josh, was preparing for an event. Children like him were going for their first trial (演练) day at secondary school, so that they could ________ what they would meet after the summer holidays.
I was busy when I noticed him ________ in a pot where we kept pens and pencils. In primary school they use pencils，________ secondary kids get to write with pens. And Josh was looking for a pen. He came out with a(n) ________ pen that was missing a piece off the end. His important day deserved a pen better than that. So I ________ what I was doing and went to the drawer where my favorite pen lived. I would ________ that pen, but this was a special occasion.
“Josh,” I said in a deep, serious voice.“I ________ my pen I like best to you. ________ it well and cherish it.” He smiled and said thanks. Coincidentally, that day was ________ my birthday, but we were just back from a weekend getaway and I wasn’t expecting any more ________. Moments after the pen ceremony, Josh walked to me with a ________ on his face and gave me a pretty packed box. ________ I opened it and it was even more surprised! Inside the box was a beautiful new pen!
Almost like someone had planned it!It is so ________. Give and you will receive!
【1】
A．recognise
B．receive
C．offer
D．change
【2】
A．believe
B．prepare
C．accept
D．give
【3】
A．desert
B．know
C．like
D．refuse
【4】
A．collecting
B．searching
C．playing
D．selecting
【5】
A．so
B．for
C．but
D．and
【6】
A．old
B．pretty
C．colorful
D．tidy
【7】
A．considered
B．hated
C．insisted
D．stopped
【8】
A．mend
B．choose
C．lose
D．exchange
【9】
A．lend
B．present
C．take
D．point
【10】
A．Protect
B．Watch
C．Clean
D．Draw
【11】
A．still
B．even
C．also
D．ever
【12】
A．gifts
B．thanks
C．moments
D．topics
【13】
A．worry
B．smile
C．pity
D．doubt
【14】
A．Satisfied
B．Excited
C．Moved
D．Surprised
【15】
A．valuable
B．strange
C．simple
D．true
26、假定你是李华，参加国际交流活动期间寄宿在Peter家里，寄宿期间因文化差异引起了一些误会。请你回国后给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1.感谢接待；
2.表达歉意；
3.期待重逢。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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