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1、The lion is considered the king of the forest as it is a(n) ______ of courage and power.
A.feature B.disaster C.evidence D.symbol
2、While I was waiting to enter university, I saw ________ in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived.
A．advertised
B．advertising
C．advertise
D．having advertised
3、Not until recently _______the development of tourist-related activities in the rural areas.
A. they had encouraged B. had they encouraged
C. did they encourage D. they encouraged
4、Bruno was secretly pleased when he knew that it could be weeks before they went back because he had_______ himself to the idea of spending one more month there.
A.contributed B.stuck C.devoted D.resigned
5、-I had butterflies in my stomach before I gave that talk.
-I__________nervous too if I had been in you shoes.
A.was B.would be C.had been D.would have been
6、If ______ to look after luggage for someone else, inform the police at once.
A. asked B. to ask C. asking D. having asked
7、——I’m surprised to hear that Sue and Paul have ______.
——So am I. They seemed very happy together when I last saw them.
A. broken up
B. finished up
C. divided up
D. closed up
8、She ________ the piano regularly for many years when she was young.
A．was playing
B．played
C．has played
D．had played
9、Lady Gaga has put off her concerts because of the difficulties ______ by the strikes.
A.causing B.being caused C.caused D.having caused
10、I remembered _____ the door before I left the office, but forgot to turn off the lights.
A. locking B. to lock C. having locked D. to have locked
11、How long do you suppose it is _______ he arrived here?
A. when B. before
C. after D. since
12、If you want to be ______ success, please remember that failure is the mother of ______ success.
A．the; a B．/; a C．a; / D．the; the
13、Reported novel coronavirus cases have ranged from mild ____ to severe illnesses or even deaths.
A.sympathies B.symptoms C.similarities D.samples
14、Young people should be inspired to think outside the box and innovate, breaking free from __________ methods.
A.contradictory B.dynamic C.conventional D.distinguished
15、________such heavy loss during the financial crisis, the businessman didn’t have the courage to go on.
A. To suffer B. Suffering
C. Having suffered D. Suffered
16、Rude and stupid ________ Trump seems, he is actually quite good at influencing people.
A．while
B．although
C．as
D．since
17、In today’s modern world, their ideas about living simply and being at ease with nature may take us a step closer to ________ personal well-being and fulfillment.
A．attaining
B．missing
C．reaching
D．performing
18、__________these messages always seem important at the time, most people can’t really remember them the next day.
A.Because B.Unless C.While D.Since
19、Dolphins communicate with each other________ clicks, whistles and calls.
A．through
B．across
C．on
D．in
20、The city’s descent into ________appears to have no heroes, only villains and victims.
A．chaos
B．chores
C．choir
D．chunk
21、 What comes to mind when you think of a museum? Perhaps you picture an impressive building in a rather traditional design made of high-quality stone? Some might consider these customary institutions the best way to safeguard the future of typical educational topics. But according to the Museums Association, a museum is traditionally defined as a place enabling "… people to have more knowledge via various collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment."
There are about 2500 museums in the UK; a few are bound to be considered a little unconventional, unusual or even unknown. However atypical your interest is, there's a museum for you!
What about Neil Cole's Adventures? This museum was opened by founder Neil Cole. Visitors to this Allendale attraction in Northumberland can see items ranging from stage properties used in the BBC series Dr Who to part of Thor's costume from the Avengers movie. "Science fiction has now become more mainstream so I thought people might want to see this," says Mr Cole.
If clocks are more to your taste, why not visit the Cuckooland Museum? Set up by brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski, this Cheshire collection of over 600 cuckoo clocks is considered to be the largest of its kind in the world— and all from the Black Forest region in Germany.
Then, you could visit the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in London. This offbeat, alternative institution is against the trend of educating visitors through written descriptions alongside its collections. Instead, it displays all of its rare treasures, which include dodo bones, shrunken heads and a collection of McDonald's Happy Meal toys, with no caption at all.
There are many more wonderful institutions out there that march to the beat of their own drum. All you have to do is go and find them!
【1】What do the traditional museums serve to do?
A.To educate kids more about the world. B.To help people explore more
C.To show visitors a specialized field. D.To help understand the real life.
【2】What does Neil Cole's Adventures focus on?
A.Allendale scenery. B.Stage properties.
C.Science fiction. D.The Avengers movies.
【3】Which of the following museums has no written explanation for visitors?
A.The Museum Association. B.Neil Cole's Adventures.
C.The Cuckooland Museum. D.The Viktor Wynd Museum.
22、 Passenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群)so large that they darkened the sky for hours.
It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons — a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.
Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands.
Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.
By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by American’s need for wood, which scattered (驱散) the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.
In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.
【1】In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger pigeons___.
A.were the biggest bird in the world
B.lived mainly in the south of America
C.did great harm to the natural environment
D.were the largest bird population in the US
【2】The underlined word “undoing” probably refers to the pigeons’ ___.
A.escape B.ruin C.release D.development
【3】What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?
A.To seek pleasure. B.To save other birds.
C.To make money. D.To protect crops.
【4】What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?
A.It was ignored by the public. B.It was declared too late.
C.It was unfair. D.It was strict.
23、 We already know that eating too much salt can lead to heart disease. But could it also affect our mind? Scientists found that a high-salt diet could cause cognitive impairments （认知损伤） in mice, and it could produce the same effect on humans.
Dr Costantino Iadecola, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, said they fed the mice eight to sixteen times their normal salt intake （摄入量） and then tested the mice. After about three months, the mice had a big change in their behaviour. Mice are very curious, and they like to look for new things. However, the tested mice lost the ability to identify （识别） a normal object. When the mice were put in their cage and asked to find a quiet spot, they did not remember where the quiet spot was. Then when the mice were building a nest, which is something the mice do daily, they were unable to do so. The research suggested humans would experience a similar response.
Studies have shown Australians eat around double the recommended amount of salt each day, most of it coming from processed food. Dr Iadecola said the estimated two teaspoons of salt the average Australian eats each day could affect the brain function in the long term. However, the decline might not be as obvious as in the mice, who were given extremely high levels of salt. “ But probably over years and perhaps decades — as opposed to （相对于） a few months for the mice — even lower levels of salt may have a terrible effect, ” Dr Iadecola said.
“ High levels of salt cause serious immune （免疫的） changes in the organs in and around the stomach, resulting in an almost autoimmune （自身免疫的） effect on the brain. It is part of a growing body of evidence that we really are what we eat, ” Bryce Vissel, director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Technology Sydney, said. “Those changes in turn cause all sorts of responses in the body, which over time certainly lead to cognitive impairments. ”
【1】Which can describe the tested mice?
A．They forgot some routine things.
B．They became smarter than ever.
C．They remain quiet all day.
D．They were quick at finding objects.
【2】What does the decline in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．the good effect of high levels of salt intake on Australians
B．the good effect of high levels of salt intake on mice
C．the bad effect of high levels of salt intake on mice
D．the bad effect of high levels of salt intake on Australians
【3】What does the last paragraph mainly focus on?
A．Studies carried out by Bryce Vissel.
B．Immune changes brought about by diet.
C．Links between salt intake and brain damage.
D．Effects of daily diets on human behaviour.
【4】What does the text suggest?
A．Brain health counts much.
B．A low-salt diet is to be advocated.
C．The body never tells a lie.
D．Heart disease can be prevented.
24、Li Ping, a college student has been experiencing social awkwardness since her junior middle school years. Back then, she felt unease about going to the restroom alone. She even limited the amount of water she drank so she didn’t have to go there often. “I feared that other students would think that I didn’t get along well with others if I was seen alone,” she said. Li is not the only sufferer of what* s called “social anxiety”.
China Youth Daily recently did a survey among 1,544 people. Nearly half (44. 6 percent) of the participants admitted that they were afraid of being the center of attention. Up to 66.7 percent of them said they are more likely to be anxious during face-to-face communications than in online conversations. But these feelings are not necessarily anything to worry about. “There is ‘social anxiety’, and there is ‘social anxiety disorder’ or ‘social phobia’. They are two completely different things.” said Li Songwei, a psychological professor at Tsinghua University.
According to Thomas Rodebaugh, a psychology professor at Washington University in St Louis, US, almost everyone suffers from at least a little social anxiety. “For example, we may get it before speaking in public, or have a bad night’s sleep if there is going to be an important interview the next day. But when does social anxiety develop into a disorder? There are two simple questions you can ask yourself if you’re concerned—‘How much does the anxiety affect my life?’ and ‘Is it acceptable?’ If the condition becomes so problematic and you refuse to go out at all and cannot live a normal life, you just need to seek treatment.” he notes.
But for common social anxiety, people all have their different coping strategies. “The way I employ is reason plus reward,” said Wang Li, another once-sufferer. For example, she tells herself that there is no such thing as right or wrong when pushing yourself to speak publicly: there are only people who agree with you or not. And if she conquers her fear, she buys new shoes or goes to see a movie after class.
【1】The first paragraph is mainly used to .
A. make a comparison B. teach a new word “social anxiety”
C. draw a conclusion D. introduce a phenomenon
【2】What may Thomas Rodebaugh agree with?
A. Social anxiety is a deadly problem. B. Social anxiety is a rare problem.
C. Little attention is paid to social anxiety. D. Not all social anxiety needs treatment.
【3】The underlined word “employ” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to the one in “ ”.
A. I want to employ Weibo as a means to practice my writing
B. More than 40 university graduates were employed
C. The children employed themselves in painting
D. He employed me as a secretary
【4】What can we infer from the text?
A. Some participants feel easier in online communications.
B. Social anxiety is regarded as social phobia.
C. Li Ping didn’t often go to the restroom because she didn’t like drinking water.
D. Wang Li dealt with social anxiety only by rewarding herself.
25、It was a bitter winter morning in Kennewick.Wasington. Hogn Lunceford saw a crying child along his bus _________to school. Tears rolled sown the young boy’s cheeks as his bare hands and ears were ________red because of the bitter cold. Lunceford took his _________off, which he gave to the child, and said, “It’ll be OK.” “I’m a grandfather. No one wants a kid to ________like that.”Lunceford said. His heart ________because of the poor child. Knowing the __________winter was still lying ahead.
After ________the kids off at school, the three-year bus driver and former U.S.Army soldier went to the ________to buy ten sets of gloves and hats. He returned to the ________and determined to find the boy. A school worker__________Lunceford to the library . where the boy was studying with his class. There Lunceford __________the boy with a new pair of gloves and a hat.
But the little boy was just the ________.Many other students would receive the ________of their familiar bus driver. He announced to the students in the library that any child found without a hat or gloves along his bus route would be given a set.
One little girl________said she didn’t have a hat. As Lunceford_________her a comfortable hat, he smiled and said, “I;ll take care of you, sweetie.”
【1】
A．entrance
B．route
C．trip
D．duty
【2】
A．generally
B．totally
C．merely
D．roughly
【3】
A．gloves
B．glasses
C．overcoat
D．socks
【4】
A．work
B．behave
C．wait
D．suffer
【5】
A．lost
B．recovered
C．ached
D．changed
【6】
A．latest
B．coldest
C．park
D．bank
【7】
A．sending
B．taking
C．rolling
D．dropping
【8】
A．company
B．store
C．park
D．bank
【9】
A．home
B．school
C．library
D．station
【10】
A．fetched
B．invited
C．followed
D．directed
【11】
A．disappointed
B．blamed
C．surprised
D．charged
【12】
A．beginning
B．center
C．attention
D．end
【13】
A．appointment
B．prize
C．kindness
D．appreciation
【14】
A．jokingly
B．immediately
C．finally
D．consequently
【15】
A．handed
B．promised
C．made
D．lent
26、假如你是李华，最近与好友Mike吵架了，事后你非常后悔，想修复与好友的关系。现在写邮件给你在美国的笔友Peter写信请求帮助。邮件的内容包括：
1.吵架的原因。
2.吵架后的感受。
3.请求Peter提出建议。
注意：1. 词数 100 词左右。
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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