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1、 She has already tried her best. Please don’t be
too about her job.
A. responsible B. special
C. particular D. unusual
2、I need to call my friend David coat I took away by mistake yesterday.
A.whose B.of which C.that D.of whom
3、________ many times, he still couldn’t overcome the difficulties.
A．Trying
B．Tried
C．Have tried
D．Having tried
4、A quarrel ___________ last Sunday, and he ___________ his family.
A.broke down; broke away B.broke out; broke into
C.broke up; broke away from D.broke out; broke away from
5、Oh，it’s you，Jane！I didn’t ___ you. Where have you been these years?
A.realize B.recognize C.admit D.know
6、—I heard Mr. Morgan would be here at 4:00 pm. next Thursday.
—No, he _____ at that time.
A. was boarding B. would be boarding
C. will be boarding D. is boarding
7、The ______ after the earthquake were terrible, the houses damaged, people buried or dead.
A.scenes B.spot C.scenery D.view
8、Some endangered species are disappearing from the countryside at a/an ________ speed.
A．essential
B．alarming
C．ethical
D．diligent
9、--- I don't feel I can accept her words.
---But what she said was fair ________.
A．content
B．comment
C．contact
D．concern
10、It’s a pity you were late，otherwise you ______the film star Rain from Korea．
A． would have seen B． must have seen
C． may have seen D． can have seen
11、Lucy has got into a situation in her study______ she finds it hard to go further.
A. that B. where
C. which D. at which
12、Scientists are convinced ______ the positive effect of laughter ______ physical and mental health.
A. of; at B. by; in C. of; on D. on; at
13、Oh, ________, if you see Lucy, tell her I will give her a call this afternoon.
A．In fact
B．in other words
C．By the way
D．At the same time
14、– I cannot find my watch. I must have lost it.
-- Don’t worry. Hopefully it will _____ somewhere one day.
A. get across B. back out
C. put away D. turn up
15、The professor _____about how to protect the endangered animal in the conference at this time tomorrow.
A. talked B. talks C. has been talking D. will be talking
16、The doctor insisted that I ______ a high fever and that I ______ a rest for a few days.
A.had; had B.have; have C.had; have D.have; had
17、These historic photographs show Shang Hai's landmarks such as old downtown,People's Square and Hongqiao areas have developed over the past three decades.
A. where B. what C. how D. when
18、Nowadays smart phones have_____. There is a growing need for them and many companies are trying to launch a new generation of it.
A.come about B.gone up C.checked out D.taken off
19、Tom says he ________ successfully in three marathons by the time he finishes this one.
A.will run B.will have run C.has run D.runs
20、Mr. Reed made up his mind to devote all he had to some schools for poor children.
A．set up B．setting up
C．have set up D．has set up
21、 Last year, on report card day, my son and a bunch of his 13-year-old friends piled into the back seat of my car, ready for the last-day-of-school party at McDonald’s. “Jack got a laptop for getting straight A’s, and Laurie got a cell phone,” one boy said. “Oh, yeah, and Sarah got an iPod Nano, and she’s only in third grade,” said another. “And how about Brian? He got $10 for each A.”
I suddenly became concerned. These payoffs might get parents through grammar school, but what about high school and beyond? What would be left after the electric guitar, the cell phone, and the portable laptop?
I saw the road ahead: As the homework load increased, my income would decrease. I saw my comfortable lifestyle vanish before my eyes — no more of those $5 bags of already-peeled organic carrots. No more organic anything!
I started to feel surprised and nervous. Would every goal attained by my two children fetch a reward? A high grade point average? A good class ranking? Would sports achievements be included in this reward system: soccer goals, touchdowns（橄榄球触地得分）, runs-batted-in（棒球打点得分）? What about orchestra（管弦乐团）? Would first chair pay more than second? I’d be penniless by eighth-grade graduation.
“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor across the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but that’s about it.”
Don’t you just hate that? We’re all running around looking for the latest electronic products, and she’s spending a few dollars on pizza. She gets motivation; we get negotiation.
【1】The sentence “As the homework load increased, my income would decrease.” in the third paragraph probably means ______.
A.taking care of the children would influence my work
B.I would spend more money on my children’s homework
C.reducing children’s homework load would cost me a lot
D.more rewards would be needed as the children grew up
【2】It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.if you pay the children for good grades, they would take it for granted
B.if you buy children pizza for good grades, they would work harder
C.children would not ask for rewards when they enter high school
D.children would not ask for rewards when they enter university
【3】The example of the author’s neighbor shows that ______.
A.pizza is the best way to motivate children
B.reward is not the only way to motivate children
C.the author’s neighbor was very poor
D.the author’s neighbor’s son didn’t like reward
【4】What is the author’s attitude toward paying children reward for good grades?
A.Favorable. B.Ambiguous.
C.Disagreeable. D.Unknowable.
22、 Should we be thrilled that, for the first time in a century, Australia went more than a week without using any coal to make electricity? While some are welcoming this as a sign that the country is going green, the bigger picture is less encouraging. For one thing, renewables （可再生能源）supplied only 23 per cent of electricity during this coal-free period, while 45 per cent came from natural gas. In the past decade, the country has gone from getting a third of its electricity from coal to obtaining more than a third from renewables like onshore wind on average. Australia now gets 11 per cent of its electricity from “renewable” biomass （生物质能）, much of it using imported wood. But forest campaigners say swapping coal for wood isn’t truly renewable and is actually doing huge damage to the environment.
For another, Australia is off-track when it comes to meeting its long-term targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions (排放).Producing electricity without burning fossil fuels is relatively easy. But it is much harder to heat homes, to make cement and steel, to grow food and to power cars, ships and planes without producing any greenhouse gases. In view of this, we should handle the energy and climate crises at the same time by finding climate-friendly alternatives to coal.
Australia has now stopped the financial aid that drove its renewables revolution. So growth in renewable energy is expected to come to a stop in a decade. The global renewables revolution seems to be following the same trend. The International Energy Agency （IEA） recently announced that the world added 180 gigawatts （千兆瓦）of solar, wind, hydro power and bioenergy in 2018, the same as in 2017. But IEA said we must add 300 gigawatts a year to have a chance of limiting global warming to under 2°C by 2100. So we should cheer the end of coal, but continue to worry about how it will be replaced.
【1】In the “coal-free week”, what did Australia use most to make electricity?
A.Natural gas. B.Onshore wind.
C.Biomass. D.Wood.
【2】What can be inferred about the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Paragraph 2?
A.Positive results are tracked.
B.Long-term goals are ambitious.
C.Additional efforts are required.
D.Climate changes are unavoidable.
【3】What can we learn about renewable energy in Paragraph 3?
A.It ought to be replaced.
B.It will see an adequate increase.
C.It starts a revolution in Australia.
D.It needs constant financial aid.
【4】What is the author’s attitude towards the coal-free week?
A.Skeptical. B.Optimistic.
C.Thrilled. D.Ambiguous.
23、Much of the work in today’s world is accomplished(完成) in teams. Most people believe the best way to build a great team is to gather a group of the most talented individuals. 【1】Companies spend millions hiring top business people. Is their money well spent?
【2】They focused on football, basketball and baseball. The results are mixed. For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team’s performance begins to decline. Interestingly, this trend isn’t evident in baseball, where additional individual talent keeps improving the team’s performance.
To explain this phenomenon, the researchers explored the degree to which a good performance by a team requires its members to coordinate(协调) their actions. 【3】In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates. They conclude that when task interdependence is high, team performance will suffer when there is too much talent, while individual talent will have positive effects on team performance when task interdependence is lower. If a basketball star is, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the team’s performance. Young children learning to play team sports are often told, “There is no I in TEAM.” 【4】
Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort. Just as in a game of tug-of-war(拔河比赛), whenever a person is added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.
【5】 An A-team may require a balance--not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.
A．It’s not a simple matter to determine the nature of talent.
B．Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.
C．The group interaction and its effect drew the researchers’ attention.
D．Stars apparently do not follow this basic principle of sportsmanship.
E．Several recent studies examined the role of talent in the sports world.
F．Building up a dream team is more complex than simply hiring the best talent.
G．This task interdependence distinguishes baseball from football and basketball.
24、Most of us don’t reach for that gnarled (多节的) carrots when selecting our produce at the local supermarket. That’s exactly why Americans waste up to 40% of eatable food every year. This unbelievable number has caused the “ugly food” movement, and inspired many companies to sell misshapen fruit and vegetables to consumers, rather than throw them in the trash.
One San Francisco organization is taking a unique approach to this idea. The Salvage Supperclub hosts fancy dinners inside dumper truck (自卸车) where they serve dishes entirely prepared with food that would have otherwise gone to waste.
Josh Treuhaft, founder of these ugly food dinners, originally came up with the idea to make people realize America’s food waste problem. “There is undeveloped possibility that their food is going to waste for some reason, not to their own fault,” he told Seeker’s Laura Ling.
Treuhaft isn’t alone in his effort to reduce America’s food waste. A Change.org last year called for Whole Foods to become part of the ugly food movement. They sold misshapen fruit and vegetables in Northern California stores.
Selling imperfect produce is still relatively rare right now, which can be partially due to a supply issue rather than a lack of willing participants. Raley’s, a Sacramento-based grocery chain, started an ugly food pilot program called “Real Good”, but discontinued it after 90 days saying they had “some challenges getting the product”. A grower might have large amounts of ugly produce one year due to terrible weather, but much less the next year if the weather has been more ideal. Harvests constantly vary and retailers are more likely to buy ugly produce in large number rather than just a few pounds at a time.
This is why organizations like Imperfect Produce and Salvage Supperclub are playing an important role in the prevention of food waste. Salvage Supperclub takes it a step further by not only buying the ugly produce, but turning it into a good dining experience as well.
【1】What can we infer from Paragraph 1?
A．People usually prefer good-looking produce.
B．Gnarled carrots mostly appear in the supermarket.
C．Many companies find new business opportunities.
D．Americans eat less fruit and vegetables than expected.
【2】Why does the Salvage Supperclub have dinners inside the dumper truck?
A．To prove his fancy idea.
B．To advise people to dine in dumper truck.
C．To show waste can be eaten.
D．To remind people not to waste.
【3】What’s Josh Treuhaft’s advice to reduce America’s food waste?
A．People should reduce the ugly food.
B．People should make full use of ugly food.
C．People should be more aware of food shortage.
D．People should develop their potential in producing food.
【4】Why did Raley’s stop its “Real Good” after 90 days?
A．Retailers’ pursuing larger profit.
B．Lack of enough steady amounts of produce.
C．Bad harvests due to bad weather.
D．People’s unwillingness to buy imperfect produce.
25、阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we____realize that those challenges are the very things that____us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with____.
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two____. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing____the challenge isn’ t worth the____and call it quits. Although there are certainly____when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most____all that is needed is____and communication.
When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how____or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to____it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a____for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong.____you can say to a friend, “ I got my feeling hurt,”____“You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with the many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for____they are: small hurdles you need to jump or____on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is____to get over, and hurt only____to make us stronger. It is all part of growing up, it____to everyone, and some day you will____all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”
【1】A.seem to B.come to C.hope to D.try to
【2】A.design B.promote C.direct D.shape
【3】A.confidence B.pressure C.friendship D.difficulty
【4】A.opportunities B.expectations C.choices D.aspects
【5】A.demanding B.deserving C.predicting D.presenting
【6】A.comment B.loss C.trouble D.expense
【7】A.spans B.times C.dates D.ages
【8】A.cases B.fields C.parts D.occasions
【9】A.assessment B.commitment C.encouragement D.adjustment
【10】A.doubtful B.shameful C.harmful D.painful
【11】A.keep B.control C.face D.catch
【12】A.space B.plan C.topic D.room
【13】A.If B.As C.While D.Unless
【14】A.other than B.rather than C.or rather D.or else
【15】A.what B.who C.where D.which
【16】A.pass by B.come across C.get through D.run over
【17】A.unnecessary B.necessary C.impossible D.possible
【18】A.serves B.means C.aims D.attempts
【19】A.opens B.appeals C.goes D.happens
【20】A.look down on B.look back on C.look forward to D.look up to
26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
Every Christmas, people in shopping malls, grocery stores and on street corners collect donations for the Salvation Army’s programs for those in need. And bell-ringers are volunteers helping collect donations. That probably doesn’t seem like a big deal to most people, but I find it difficult - in fact, ridiculously hard - to ask people for anything, even though I quite enjoy helping others when they need a hand.
My friends will tell you I’m outgoing, independent, even adventurous. Yet, when I’m sick I’d rather stagger out of the door half-dead to buy some chicken soup than ask a friend or neighbor for help. When I sign up for a run to raise money for cancer, I donate the cash myself rather than asking others. The thought of asking a friend for a ride to the airport is way too stressful, even though I know the answer would be yes.
So, I decided one Christmas I would take a baby step in learning to ask. I’d do a few shifts (轮班) as a “bell-ringer” to see how it felt to ask perfect strangers to give.
I arrived early and tried to calm my nerves as I approached the man standing by the donation box. For weeks, I had prepared myself for this. I put the instruction sheet on my refrigerator and re-read it many times. But I could not have felt worse as I slipped on the Salvation Army vest (背心) and took my spot beside the donation box.
The man who had been a volunteer for a decade gave me some tips before he left. I thanked him and consciously tried to follow the tips. Stand (don’t sit), smile, make eye contact, and don’t ring the bell too loud or too often.
It felt awkward at first. My location on the second floor of shopping mall wasn’t a busy spot, so I tried to smile and catch the eyes of every passerby. Most quickly glanced away. I worried I was making them feel guilty. I didn’t like that at all.
注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Para 1:
I was starting to wonder whether this bell-ringing thing was for me when a lady walked purposefully toward me.
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Para 2:
For the rest of my shift, I became relaxed and were impressed by different people coming to me.
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