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1、Experts suggest that young parents ______ some time to communicate with their children instead of spending much time playing games on the phone.
A.set out B.put away C.make up D.account for
2、It is because of our hard work that our band is ________ of performing the new songs in such a short time.
A．strategic
B．energized
C．capable
3、The chairman remained silent ______ the whole debate.
A.from B.while C.with D.throughout
4、The time is not far away ________ modern communications will become widespread in China’s vast countryside.
A.as B.when C.until D.before
5、[1] Compared to people with bad attitudes, people _____ are less likely to suffer from colds. It’s possible that being positive helps the body fight illnesses.
[2] In a previous study, people who tended to be cheerful and lively were least likely to develop coughs and other cold symptoms. People who showed positive feelings were also less likely to mention symptoms to their doctors, even when medical tests detected those symptoms.
[3] Those findings were interesting, but they didn’t prove that a person’s attitude affects whether he or she gets sick. Instead, it was still possible that a person’s underlying personality is what matters.
[4] Evidence suggests, for instance, that certain people are naturally more likely to be outgoing and optimistic, with high self-esteem and a sense of control over life. This would mean that who we are, not how we feel, ultimately decides our chances of catching colds.
[5] To figure out which mattered more, personality or emotions, the researchers interviewed 193 healthy adults. The results showed that everyone in the study was equally likely to get infected. Their symptoms, however, differed depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the precious fortnight.
[6] Among those who reported good moods and had been infected with the flu virus, for example, 28 percent developed coughs and stuffy noses. On the other hand, those symptoms struck 41 percent of people who had been less positive.
[7] Scientists argue about whether negative emotions or positive emotions have a stronger effect on how healthy we are. For now, it can’t hurt to look on the bright side more often than not!
What’s the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
Fill in the blank with proper words in the first paragraph. (Please answer within 10 words.)
Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
But their symptoms were closely related to the emotions they had claimed to have in the last two weeks.
Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph in to proper Chinese.
Suppose one of your friends have got infected with the H1N1 flu, give him/her at least 3 pieces of evidence. (Please answer within 30 words.)
6、The lonely boy doesn’t seem _______ many friends.
A．have
B．to have
C．has
D．having
7、Young drivers are far more ______ to have accidents than old drivers.
A.likely B.impossible C.probable D.possible
8、Adapted from Liu Cixin’s novel, the hit film The Wandering Earth reportedly had a budget of nearly $50 million, much of _______ spent on content and special effects.
A．which
B．them
C．it
D．what
9、There ________ some trouble over this in the past, I want to treat the matter carefully.
A．being
B．was
C．had been
D．has been
10、 New Zealand is a beautiful country ________ is known for its pleasant climate and amazing scenery.
A. who B. whose C. which D. where
11、They lay in the cliff top grass with the sea stretching out far below. 此句为_________.
A．简单句
B．并列句
C．复合句
D．倒装句
12、—It was a wonderful trip. So, which city did you like better, Paris or Rome?
— ________ . There were good things and bad things about them.
A．Couldn’t be better
B．Let’s stick to the point
C．That’s something
D．It’s really hard to say
13、He found a purse on the seat and decided to return it to the owner, _______ with the address on the electricity bill.
A. started B. starting
C. having started D. to start
14、The plan for Xiongan New Area ______ officially on April 1, 2017.
A. announced B. was announced C. announces D. is announced
15、The teacher gave me a piece of paper ________.
A．to write on
B．to be written on
C．to write in
D．to be written
16、There was a slight________ in Jamie's voice. but he accepted the offer anyway.
A．harmony
B．format .
C．fluency
D．hesitation
17、Don’t worry. I’m sure your missing glasses will ____sooner or later.
A.stand out B.turn up C.turn out D.come up
18、I was about to take part in the basketball match ________ I hurt my left leg.
A．when
B．while
C．as
D．until
19、The airport ________ next year will help promote tourism in this area.
A．being completed
B．to be completed
C．completed
D．having been completed
20、All the tourists ________ about the bad service in that restaurant.
A.complained B.expressed C.contained D.explained
21、By day, Robert Titterton is a lawyer. In his spare on stage beside pianist Maria Raspopova — not as a musician but as her page turner. “I’m not a trained musician, but I’ve learnt to read music so I can help Maria in her performance.”
Mr Titterton is chairman of the Omega Ensemble but has been the group’s official page turner for the past four years. His job is to sit beside the pianist and turn the pages of the score so the musician doesn’t have to break the flow of sound by doing it themselves. He said he became just as nervous as those playing instruments on stage.
“A lot of skills are needed for the job. You have to make sure you don’t turn two pages at once and make sure you find the repeats in the music when you have to go back to the right spot.” Mr Titterton explained.
Being a page turner requires plenty of practice. Some pieces of music can go for 40 minutes and require up to 50 page turns, including back turns for repeat passages. Silent onstage communication is key, and each pianist has their own style of “nodding” to indicate a page turn which they need to practise with their page turner.
But like all performances, there are moments when things go wrong. “I was turning the page to get ready for the next page, but the draft wind from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the stand,” Mr Titterton said, “Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back.”
Most page turners are piano students or up-and-coming concert pianists, although Ms Raspopova has once asked her husband to help her out on stage.
“My husband is the worst page turner,” she laughed. “He’s interested in the music, feeling every note, and I have to say: ‘Turn, turn!’ “Robert is the best page turner I’ve had in my entire life.”
【1】What should Titterton be able to do to be a page turner?
A．Read music.
B．Play the piano.
C．Sing songs.
D．Fix the instruments.
【2】Which of the following best describes Titterton’s job on stage?
A．Boring.
B．Well-paid.
C．Demanding.
D．Dangerous.
【3】What does Titterton need to practise?
A．Counting the pages.
B．Recognizing the “nodding”.
C．Catching falling objects.
D．Performing in his own style.
【4】Why is Ms Raspopova’s husband “the worse page turner”?
A．He has very poor eyesight.
B．He ignores the audience.
C．He has no interest in music.
D．He forgets to do his job.
22、Science not always so serious
Did you know that if you attach a weighted stick to the back of a chicken, it walks like a dinosaur?
No, you did not know (or care to know) such things, but now you do! Thanks to this year’s winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes! Now in its 25th year, the Ig Nobel is the goofy younger cousin of the honored Nobel Prize. It applauds achievements in the fields of medicine, biology, physics, economics, literature, etc. Every September at Harvard University, awards are presented in 10 categories that change year to year, depending on — according to the organization — what makes the judges “laugh, then think”.
The ceremony officially begins when audience members launch paper airplanes at an assigned human target on the stage, then speakers only have 60 seconds to present their research. In previous years, the one-minute rule was imposed by a young girl — nicknamed Miss Sweetie Poo — who would go up to the platform and repeat the words: “Please stop, I’m bored,” in a sharp tone until the speaker left the stage.
Fortunately for candidates though, the Ig Informal Lectures are held afterwards on Saturday to give presenters more time to explain the crazy things they’re working on.
The research can seem more like the brainchildren of teenage boys than of respectable adults. Justin Schmidt won the physiology Ig for creating the “Sting Pain Index,” which rates the pain people feel after getting stung (蛰) by insects. Smith pressed bees against 25 different parts of his body until they stung him. Five stings a day for 38 days, Smith concluded that the most painful sting locations were the nostril (鼻孔) and the upper lip. Ouch.
As silly as they sound, not all of the Ig awards lack scientific applicability. A group of scientists from 12 different countries won in the medicine category for accurately diagnosing patients with appendicitis (阑尾炎) based on an unusual measurement: speed bumps (减速带). They found that patients are more likely to have appendicitis if they report pain during bumpy car rides.
All these weird experiments have just one thing in common. They’re improbable. It can be tempting to assume that “improbable” implies more than that — implies bad or good, worthless or valuable, trivial or important. Something improbable can be any of those, or none of them, or all of them, in different ways. And what you don’t expect can be a powerful force for not only entertaining science, but also for the boundary-pushing science we call innovation.
【1】The underlined word “goofy” in Paragraph 2 probably means __________.
A. timid B. funny
C. glorious D. warm-hearted
【2】According to the passage, what can we know about the awarding ceremony of Ig Nobel?
A. It is held at a fixed place.
B. Candidates should know how to fold paper planes.
C. Miss Sweetie Poo is one of the hostesses.
D. Ig Informal Lecture gives presenters 60 seconds to finish their speeches.
【3】The example in Paragraph 6 is used to illustrate that Ig Nobel __________.
A. celebrates the diligent work of researchers
B. offers another opportunity to those who miss the Nobel Prizes
C. serves as a platform for the creative and practical achievements
D. amuses the audience
【4】Among the four candidates below, who is most likely to win an Ig Nobel?
A. A chemist who invents a chemical method to partially un-boil an egg.
B. A novelist who criticizes social injustice severely.
C. A physicist who studies the origin of the universe.
D. An economist who achieves a breakthrough in the study of international trade.
23、All melodies(旋律)and harmony in Western music is typically built from just 12 notes. Whether it's a splendid symphony, flourishing concerto or your favourite western pop songs, it will contain 12 familiar tones and be based around familiar intervals(间隙)between these tones to create the melodies we know and love today.
Western music typically uses 12 notes-C, D, E, F, G, A and B, plus five fats(降调) and equal sharps(升调)in between, which are: C sharp/D flat(they're the same note, just named differently), D sharp/E flat, F sharp/G flat, G sharp/A flat and A sharp/B flat.
These 12 notes have typically been used to compose most of the Western music we listen to. The reasons music has landed on these specific notes can be summed up as a combination of convenience, science and listener preferences.
All sounds are the result of waves, and the frequency of waves determine the pitch(音高)of sounds we hear. Pitches or notes that sound high, for instance, have a high frequency. But when it comes to our familiar 12 notes, it's not all about frequency-in fact, frequency hasn't created this set of 12.
We typically use just 12 notes in Western music because of the spaces-or intervals-between the notes.
Pieces of music are familiar entirely because of these intervals. Think of the children's song 'Baa baa Black Sheep' -it's still the same 'Baa baa Black sheep' when you start on the note C as if you start on B, or indeed if it's sung by a person with a deep,low voice as if it's sung by a person with a very high voice. For performers and music theory experts, this is what 'transposing(转调))'is.
Talking about 12 notes in music generally applies to music from the West and from some other parts of the world, but certainly isn't an exhaustive system for all music. Arabic music had a 17 tone scale. Indian classical music creates colour between notes far beyond the limited 12 notes. Indonesian gamelan also uses a different scale. And there are of course many, many more different ways music makers have split the octave(八度音阶)up into different notes to create sensational melodies throughout human history.
【1】Which of the following notes come between note C and note F sharp in correct order going upwards?
A．C flat, C, D,E flat,E
B．C Sharp,D,D fat E sharp, F
C．C flat, C, D, D sharp,E
D．C sharp, D, D sharp, E,F
【2】Why is the song 'Baa baa Black Sheep always the same whether you start on the note Cor the note B?
A．It is always sung by people with a deep voice and then a low voice.
B．The frequency and pitch of note B and C are always the same.
C．The intervals between each of the 12 notes are always the same.
D．It is always transposed by musicians between different notes.
【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．12 notes in music act better than a 17-tone scale.
B．Music varies in different areas around the world.
C．Western music should borrow some ways from the world.
D．The world should learn from western 12-tone scale.
【4】What's the best title of this article?
A．12 Notes in Western Music
B．Difference Between World Music
C．How can We Enjoy Western Music?
D．Why is 12 Notes World Famous?
24、Going on vacation can be challenging for people with physical disabilities. Hotels aren’t always clear about how accessible ( 可 进 入 ) they are and the adaptive equipment needed to participate in certain activities can be expensive or difficult to obtain.
This is where the online travel marketplace Wheel the World comes in. The website connects physically disabled people with special tour packages, depending on the person’s needs.
Today Wheel the World offers over 30 accessible destinations in the U.S. and abroad. They’ve served almost 900 disabled people, their family, and friends. Travelers can sign up for trips to destinations such as New York, Hawaii, Paris, London, and Kruger National Park in South Africa. Trip packages can include adaptive equipment such as wheelchairs, which can be used on the beach and in the ocean, and kayaks ( 皮 艇 ), which can help those disabled to kayak. The team also checks the accessibility of destinations themselves, evaluating things such as door widths, bed heights, bathrooms’ accessibility and if lifts are functioning.
Silberstein, the company’s founder, says there are some trips that are suitable for blind people, though Wheel the World focuses on people with mobility issues. And in the future, they plan to include trips for people with hearing loss, and people with emotional disabilities. “One of the biggest barriers for travelers with physical disabilities is finding information about accessible trips, which is a gap Wheel the World aims to close,” says Silberstein.
Wheel the World is working to enlarge tours in Europe-currently their website lists London and Paris as the only destinations on the continent, but their eventual goal is much higher. “We want to allow millions of disabled people to travel to thousands of destinations,” Silberstein says.
【1】What is the function（功能）of the first paragraph?
A．To show the great success Wheel the World has gained.
B．To tell us the difficulties the disabled face in life.
C．To introduce the background（背景）of Wheel the World.
D．To remind us of the problems with hotel service.
【2】What does Wheel the World focus on?
A．Collecting travel information for tourists.
B．Increasing the online sales of wheelchairs.
C．Extending travel business to the whole world.
D．Providing proper travel services for the disabled.
【3】What does the text mainly tell us?
A．Silberstein has made significant contributions to global tourism.
B．Wheel the World helps people with disabilities enjoy their vacations.
C．Advanced equipment is enabling the disabled to travel around the world.
D．Tour packages intended for blind and deaf tourists have won wide recognition.
【4】Which of the following can best describe Silberstein?
A．Kind and full-hearted.
B．Determined and humorous.
C．Flexible but aimless.
D．Creative but hesitant.
25、This story happened when Gandhiji was practicing law in the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. His office was three miles from his _______.
One day a colleague of his, Mr Polak, asked Gandhiji’s thirteen-year-old son, Manilal to fetch a book from the office. But Manilal _______ forgot till Mr Polak _______ him that evening. Gandhiji heard about it and _______ Manilal. He said, “Son, I know the night is dark and the way is long and lonely. You will have to _______ nearly six miles but you gave your _______ to Mr. Polak. You promised to fetch his book. Go and fetch it now.”
The family were _______ when they heard of Gandhiji’s _______. The punishment seemed too _______. Manilal was only a child, the night was dark and the way was lonely. He had only forgotten a book ________. It could be brought the next day. This was what they all felt, but no one had the ________ to say anything. They knew that once Gandhiji’s mind was made up, nobody could change it. At last Kalyan Bhai gathered up courage. “I’ll fetch the book,” he ________. Gandhiji was gentle but ________, “But the promise was made by Manilal.” “Very well, Manilal will go but let me go with him,” Kalyan Bhai pleaded (请求). Gandhiji agreed to this and Manilal ________ with Kalyan Bhai to fetch the book.
The kind and gentle Gandhiji could be firm as a rock at times. He saw that Manilal ________ his word and did as he had promised.
【1】
A．school
B．hotel
C．house
D．station
【2】
A．completely
B．exactly
C．hardly
D．gradually
【3】
A．scolded
B．reminded
C．invited
D．encouraged
【4】
A．came with
B．caught up
C．brought up
D．sent for
【5】
A．travel
B．walk
C．ride
D．swim
【6】
A．warning
B．order
C．word
D．sign
【7】
A．ashamed
B．upset
C．excited
D．eager
【8】
A．decision
B．explanation
C．cause
D．situation
【9】
A．gentle
B．reasonable
C．severe
D．suitable
【10】
A．right away
B．after all
C．as well
D．for ever
【11】
A．courage
B．interest
C．method
D．opportunity
【12】
A．shouted
B．offered
C．agreed
D．concluded
【13】
A．firm
B．honest
C．impolite
D．lucky
【14】
A．set off
B．set aside
C．set up
D．set down
【15】
A．broke
B．made
C．kept
D．carried
26、假设你是李华，你校将于11月举办110周年校庆，请你代表学校给外教Steven写一封信，希望他推荐一位学生在开幕式上英文致辞。信的内容包括：
1. 写信目的； 2.推荐条件（至少2个）； 3.表示感谢。
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