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1、If you want to do the experiment again, you had better be more careful ________ you made a mistake.
A.when B.why C.where D.that
2、—You've done a good job.
—Yes. It ________ us a whole month to finish it.
A．takes
B．has taken
C．took
D．was taking
3、Students will encounter many challenges in the universities for the first year,________ getting used to a new environment quickly comes to be the most important one.
A．of which
B．for which
C．to which
D．by which
4、The news came as no surprise to me．I _____ for some time that the factory was going to shut down．
A．knew B．had known
C．have known D．know
5、-----Don’t step on the grass next time, Mike.
----- ________ .
A．Is that so?
B．Don’t worry.
C．No, I don’t
D．Sorry, I won’t
6、All bad things must come to________end, ________ terrible an experience is.
A.the; whatever B.an; however C./; how D.a; what
7、The politician’s speech the others that he was the man for the job.
A. informed B. convinced
C. reminded D. warned
8、It is I who ________ going to Beijing on business next week.
A．is
B．am
C．are
D．was
9、Peace is necessary to all. After all, it is the United States and China, as the two largest economies in the world, that ________ most from a peaceful and stable Asia-Pacific.
A. are benefited B. will benefit
C. will be benefited D. had benefited
10、The man________a black coat got________the bus________the bus stop. Then he began to walk along the street.
A．in, on, at
B．with, off, from
C．in, off, at
D．with, on, from
11、The train doesn’t stop at ______station along the way, but it stops at ______of the main ones.
A．all; either
B．every: most
C．few; all
D．each; none
12、A number of children ________ parents had died in the quake were sent to live with families in other cities.
A. who B. whom C. that D. whose
13、More than one generation of schoolchildren by the scientist’s bravery and his scientific approach to looking
for the truth in the past century.
A.have been amazed B.has been amazed C.were amazed D.was amazed
14、 attended the premiere(首映) of this new play is sure to tell the show is worthy twice.
A．Whoever has…to be watched
B．Whoever has…watching
C．Those who have…to be watched
D．Those who have…watching
15、It was said that the two parties had not ____an agreement on the issues discussed.
A. reached B. treated
C. assessed D. accepted
16、______ you have seen he is in poor condition, you should understand why he has to take up two part-time jobs.
A. As long as B. Unless C. Now that D. While
17、Tom did not _____easily, but was willing to accept any helpful advice for a worthy cause.
A.approach B.wrestle C.compromise D.communicate
18、Country music is familiar _________ Bush while his son is familiar _________ modern jazz.
A. to; with B. with; to
C. to; to D. with; with
19、She understood what I was talking about________ it was the first time we had spoken together.
A. whether B. even though
C. as though D. since
20、Many people make a sharp________ between humans and other animals.
A．balance
B．examination
C．distinction
D．conclusion
21、Dogs can tell how other dogs are feeling from the way their tails are wagging(摇摆)，according to researchers who monitored the animals’ heart rate as they watched dogs’ movies. The Italian team found that dogs had higher heart rates and became more anxious when they saw others wag their tails more to the left，but not when they wagged more to the right, or failed to wag at all.
The curious form of communication is probably not intentional, or consciously understood, but is instead an automatic behavior that arises from the structure of the brain, said Giorgio. “It’s not something they clearly and exactly understand,” Giorgio told The Guardian. “It’s just something that happens to them.”
Giorgio traces the effect back to the way the two halves of the brain process different experiences. In a previous study, his team showed that when a dog had a positive experience, activity rose in the left side of the brain, bringing about more tail wagging to the right. Or else more tail wagging to the left. The effect is barely visible to the human eye because dogs tend to wag their tails too fast, but it can be seen with slow motion video, or in some larger types.
In the latest study, the researchers wanted to find out whether the direction of tail wagging had any effect on other dogs. To get an answer, they fitted dogs with vests that recorded their heart rates, and played them movies of other dogs wagging their tails one way and then the other. To ensure the dogs reacted only to tail wagging, and not appearance? they repeated the experiment with dogs that appeared only as shadows.
“When dogs saw other dogs wagging their tails to the right, there was quite a relaxed reaction and no evidence of an increased heart rate. But when the wagging was to the left we saw an increase in heart rate and a series of behaviors typically associated with stress, anxiety and being more watchful, “Giorgio said. The anxious animals held their ears up, breathed, and kept their eyes wide open. The study appears in the latest issue of Current Biology.
【1】What does the text focus on?
A. Animal protection. B. Animal welfare.
C. Animal tests. D. Animal psychology.
【2】What leads to dogs’ wagging tail to the left or right according to Giorgio?
A. Their automatic behavior. B. Their conscious response.
C. Their increasing heart rate. D. Their selective preference.
【3】At what time do dogs have more tail wagging to the right?
A. When they run quickly. B. When they feel hungry.
C. When they play with their owners. D. When they feel stressed.
【4】What may be the best title for the text?
A. How dogs communicate with each other
B. Some reasons why dogs feel seriously anxious
C. Dogs’ different behaviors in different situations
D. Dogs’ communicating ways of tail wagging
22、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the US and Britain, the slogan around colleges was “Save water. Shower with a friend.” Now, Wuhan University has come up with another system for the campus bathhouse. It charges students for the amount of time in a shower. Before entering the bathhouse, students pay for the amount of time they want in the shower with cash or their student ID card. The clock starts ticking the minute the tape is turned on. It pauses when a button is pressed for soap. An integrated circuit (IC) card reader at each tap shows the time. No money, no water. The benefits of the new system can be seen with the old system, which charged 1 Yuan for each person regardless of time in the shower. The university used about 320 tons of water daily under the old system, but only 160 tons now.
Many students use the new system but opinions on it are divided. Some students say it is bad because bathing had become a sort of race. Many people using it for the first time are not sure how long they need to shower. Some might be embarrassed if their time is up and they’re still covered in soap. They have to ask the bathhouse worker to help them buy extra time.
“It’s a flaw in the system that you can not buy extra time on the ID card,” said Ren, a freshman in Wuhan University. The university is also considering some students’ suggestions that they be allowed to pay after they’ve finished the shower. Not surprisingly, some are complaining about losing the hour shower. But many students say the move helps them develop a water-saving sense.
Without the time limits, most students tended to shower for 30 to an hour in the bathhouse.
Some even used the hot water to wash their clothes. “In my experience, 10—20 minutes is enough,” said Dai Zhihua, a third-year student who usually takes 8 minutes.
A similar system has been installed in other universities. Shanghai Normal University introduced it at its Fengxiang Campus in September. The bathing fee there is 0.2 Yuan per minute. One male student responded by setting a record with a two-minute shower.
【1】According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Students buy the time of their showers.
B. The clock times the student’s bathing except when the bather pauses for soap.
C. If money runs out, there will be no water.
D. Having finished bathing, the student has to pay for it.
【2】The underline word “flaw” (Paragraph 3) most probably means __________.
A. fault B. advantage
C. pity D. perfection
【3】Since the new system has performed, __________ of water can be saved.
A. a quarter B. one third
C. one half D．two thirds
【4】It can be inferred from the passage that __________.
A. the new operation can raise students’ environmental awareness
B. the new operation can solve the water crisis
C. a similar operation has been set in other universities
D. the university has saved a lot of water by using the new system
【5】In which column can you find this passage?
A. Culture. B. Society.
C. Campus Life. D. Lifestyle.
23、Would you like to stay at a beach home in Australia, a home on Egypt’s Red Sea, or a castle in France, all without spending a dollar? People swap (交换) their homes for a few days, a few weeks or longer. You move into someone else’s home, and they move into yours.
Many travelers say it’s a fantastic way to travel. In the movie The Holiday, Kate Winslet is very happy to find a wonderful Southern California home through a home exchange website.
At HomeExchange.com, paying $60 a year allows members to list their homes and swap them with other members for free. The website lists some 15, 000 homes around the world and includes pictures and detailed (详细的) descriptions, dates the owners are available (有空的) for an exchange, and the places members would like to travel.
“It’s a great way to travel—basically you stay at my house, I stay at yours, so there are no hotel bills—you save a lot of money on vacation,” said Ed Kushins.
That’s why Susana Parks is a big fan of home exchanges. She and her husband live in a beautiful Rodeo Drive home just a few blocks from Beverly Hills. And the couple is willing to let home exchangers, who they’ve never met, move in and have free use of their kitchen, library, swimming pool, even their new car.
“If we swap our home, we’re in their home too. So there is trust between us that we treat their home like our home and they treat our home like theirs.”
【1】What is home exchange?
A．People sell their homes for money or other things.
B．People swap their homes that they are not satisfied with.
C．People swap their homes when they are on vacation.
D．People take care of others’ homes when they are out.
【2】Susana Parks is willing to let other travelers use their home because ________.
A．she can make money from it
B．she believes in other people
C．the website makes a promise to her
D．she wants people to know Beverly Hills
【3】The writer wrote the text in order to ________.
A．persuade us to trust others
B．introduce a new way to travel
C．tell us some tips on traveling
D．advertise for HomeExchange.com
24、I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.
Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.
The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing”. In free writing, the objective is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The goal is to get the words flowing. As the words begin to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.
Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that you’ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.
Instead of staring at a blank start filling it with words no matter how bad. Halfway through your available time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.
【1】When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot work in parallel ” in the writing process, he means ______ .
A．one cannot use them at the same time
B．they cannot be regarded as equally important
C．they are in constant conflict with each other
D．no one can be both creative and critical
【2】What prevents people from writing on is ______ .
A．putting their ideas in raw form
B．ignoring grammatical soundness
C．attempting to edit as they write
D．trying to capture fleeting thoughts
【3】What is the chief objective of the first stage of writing?
A．To organize one’s thoughts logically.
B．To get one’s ideas down.
C．To choose an appropriate topic.
D．To collect raw materials.
【4】One common concern of writers about “ free writing ” is that ______ .
A．it overstresses the role of the creative mind
B．it does not help them to think clearly
C．it may bring about too much criticism
D．it takes too much time to edit afterwards
【5】In what way does the critical mind help the writer in the writing process?
A．It allows him to sit on the side and observe.
B．It helps him to come up with new ideas.
C．It saves the writing time available to him.
D．It improves his writing into better shape.
25、Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns (酒馆) and coffee houses in the form of pamphlets and newsletters. The coffee houses particularly are very roomy for a free conversation, and for reading at an easier rate all manner of printed news, noted one observer. Everything changed in 1833 when the first mass-audience newspaper, The New York Sun, ________ the use of advertising to reduce the cost of news, thus giving advertisers access to a wider audience. The penny press, followed by radio and television, turned news from a two-way ________into a one-way broadcast, with a relatively small number of firms controlling the media. Now, the news industry is ________ to something closer to the coffee house. The Internet is making news more participatory, social and diverse, reviving the ________ characteristics of “the era before the mass media”. In much of the world, the mass media are flourishing. Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005 and 2009. But those global figures mask a sharp ________ in readership in rich countries.
Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers and TV news and ________ events in profoundly different ways. Most ________ ordinary people are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news. Twitter lets people anywhere report what they are seeing. Social-networking sites help people find, discuss and share news with their friends.
And it is not just readers who are ________ the media elite. Technology firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter have become important channels of news. Celebrities and world leaders publish updates directly via social networks; many countries now make raw data ________ through open government initiatives. The Internet lets people read newspapers or watch television channels from around the world. The web has allowed new ________ of news, from individual bloggers to sites, to rise to fame in a very short space of time. The news agenda is no longer controlled by a few press giants and state outlets.
________, every liberal (自由人) should celebrate this. A more ________ news environment with a remarkable diversity and range of news sources, is a good thing. The transformation of the news business is unstoppable, and attempts to ________ it are doomed to failure. As producers of new journalism, individuals can be cautious of facts and transparent (透明的) with their sources. As consumers, they can be general in their tastes and demanding in their standards. And although this ________ does raise concerns there is much to celebrate in the noisy, diverse, argumentative and alive environment of the news business in the ages of the Internet. The ________ is back. Enjoy it.
【1】
A．rejected
B．substituted
C．pioneered
D．celebrated
【2】
A．conversation
B．culture
C．channel
D．business
【3】
A．applying
B．returning
C．contributing
D．clinging
【4】
A．comparable
B．desirable
C．delicate
D．free
【5】
A．turn
B．difference
C．decline
D．contrast
【6】
A．making up for
B．keeping up with
C．giving rise to
D．shifting away from
【7】
A．strikingly
B．ironically
C．likely
D．recently
【8】
A．embracing
B．challenging
C．subscribing
D．regulating
【9】
A．trustworthy
B．readable
C．available
D．incredible
【10】
A．providers
B．witnesses
C．consumers
D．collectors
【11】
A．For example
B．By comparison
C．By chance
D．In principle
【12】
A．participatory
B．complex
C．rewarding
D．innovative
【13】
A．escape
B．reverse
C．identify
D．shape
【14】
A．technology
B．production
C．communication
D．transformation
【15】
A．news giant
B．coffee house
C．social networking
D．printed press
26、假设你是李津，在英国一个月的文化体验活动即将结束时，你准备给接待你的Back夫妇送上你从中国带来的一个有中国文化特色的小礼物并附上一张卡片，卡片内容包括：
1.表达对他们的感谢；
2.对你的小礼物作一个简单说明；
3.邀请 Black夫妇到中国来体验中国传统文化。
注意：
（1）词数不少于100；
（2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
（3）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Black,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours
Li Jin
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