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1、—Sir, you are fined for speeding. Please sign here.
—Fined？Speeding？______.
A．Are you all right？ B．You can't be serious！
C．I'm a foreigner D．It doesn't matter
2、I ______there with my friends every morning, since the opening of a new sports park near my community,
A.have jogged B.jog C.are jogging D.have been jogging
3、Some pre-school children go to a day care center, __________ they learn simple games and songs.
A．then
B．there
C．while
D．where
4、Is it common practice that salesmen receive a _______ of 10 percent on all sales made?
A. deposit B. receipt
C. pension D. commission
5、Our school doesn’t students’ staying in the classroom too long. We think they should have time for sports.
A．advocate
B．admit
C．assess
D．approach
6、If fish are jumping higher than usual or frogs are croaking more loudly, it________ rain.
A．must
B．may
C．shall
D．need
7、The rain yesterday was heavy and ______ the roads were flooded.
A. however B. otherwise
C. therefore D. consequently
8、The girl came ___________to the bus stop，only ________ the bus had gone.
A. running; to find B. to run; to find
C. and run; found D. running; finding
9、John is very ________. That is to say, if he promises to do something, he’ll do it.
A．reliable
B．generous
C．confident
D．extreme
10、Man may disappear________ other creatures who became too specialized to survive their environment.
A．as
B．just as
C．as if
D．as have
11、She never wanted a “normal” job ____ she would be doing the same things over and over.
A．that
B．which
C．where
D．when
12、—How did you find your visit to the museum, John?
—___________________.
A. By taking a No.3 bus B. Oh, wonderful, indeed
C. I went there alone D. A classmate of mine showed me the way
13、Had he studied harder, he ______ the exam last week.
A．passed
B．would pass
C．would have passed
D．must have passed
14、The North and South Poles represents the final frontiers of exploration on Earth, and ________ they have become an strong attraction for both researchers and tourists.
A．in other words
B．as a consequence
C．by the way
D．on the contrary
15、By the end of the 1980s. about 9.5 million elephants _________for the ivory trade in South Africa.
A.were killed B.were being killed C.had been killed D.have been killed
16、 When he realized the police had spotted him, the man ____ the exit as quickly as possible.
A. made off B. made for
C. made out D. made up
17、In the bright sunlight the surface of the lake looks as if it____dotted with shining diamonds.
A.is B.were C.will be D.would be
18、We should take effective measures to the infectious disease.
A. work out B. stamp out C. turn out D. carry out
19、The shower we put a few years back has broken but we can not afford to ________ it.
A．replace
B．trick
C．destroy
D．whisper
20、 —Hi, are you a student of this University?
—No, but I ________.
A. want to B. want to be
C. want so D. want it
21、School closures due to the corona-virus mean that children across the United States have to go without formed lessons. But many are missing more than that; they’re lacking meals that were formerly provided for them by schools. Two-thirds of the 31 million American kids who regularly eat school lunches depend heavily on those meals to nourish (滋养) their bodies.
Some programs do exist for feeding children when schools arc unable, such as the Summer Food Service Program and the Seamless Summer Option, which can serve as a model for times like these. Such programs use other locations as meal service sites, such as libraries and community corners, but the issue is the closure of many of these public sites which is happening at a rapid rate.
Then there is the additional difficulty of feeding groups of people at a time when groups of people are not supposed to gather, which is not safe during a viral outbreak and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have stated that administrators should ‘‘design new strategies (策略) to avoid providing meals in settings where people might gather in a group or crowd... such as ‘grab-and-go’ bagged lunches or meal delivery”.
These are strange and threatening times, with the corona-virus situation worse by the day. Low-income families suffer the most in times like these. They have less cash on hand to buy supplies; they may not have a vehicle in which to transport large quantities of food; their jobs tend to be more uncertain. It’s important to remember this and to continue donating, supporting, and showing mercy to less fortunate individuals in limes of difficulty. It shouldn’t be left entirely to school administrators to figure out how to feed hungry children, every community has a duty to ensure this happens
【1】What issue does the passage chiefly focus on?
A．Making up for missing lessons.
B．Providing meals for needy kids.
C．The great needs of poor families.
D．The strict measures for virus prevention.
【2】What is the challenge faced by programs like Seamless Summer Option?
A．What food to supply.
B．When to close the public sites.
C．How to get the permit.
D．Where to give out the food.
【3】What is the purpose of strategies like “grab-and-go”?
A．To avoid crowd gatherings.
B．To save people’s time.
C．To give away more food.
D．To change people’s mind.
【4】What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?
A．Show the seriousness of the problem.
B．Improve the general situations.
C．Call for more help or donations.
D．Advertise their programs.
22、Competition in the Olympics should be between athletes who use their own strength or speed. If some athletes don’t follow the rules, it ruins the fun for everyone connected with the game. It also gives an extremely unfair advantage to the athletes using drugs. So I think athletes should be tested for drugs.
—Jim from Atlanta
Drug use among top athletes has long been a problem. Without drug tests, the Olympics would be about who uses the most drugs, not who trains the hardest and has the most athletic skills. Also drugs do harm to people’s health and sometimes even kill people.
—David from Houston
Why should athletes be allowed to compete when it’s not really they who are actually competing? It’s the drugs that do all the work. Athletes who use drugs are like runners with roller skates. It’s cheating and irresponsible, which must be strictly forbidden. It’s unfair to other competitors who don’t use drugs.
—Bruce from Chicago
Most sports athletes are held to a standard of being drug-free. Olympians should not be held any differently. They take part in highly competitive sports and win medals for their country. Testing the athletes for drugs must be done in every country and every sport. No drug test would be unfair to athletes who don’t use drugs.
—Sam from Los Angeles
Although popular opinion is against athletes’ using drugs, I believe drugs do help make the Olympic sports more wonderful. I enjoy seeing human beings achieving things that couldn’t be done with normal conditioning. I enjoy seeing stronger, faster and longer performances by making good use of drugs. I don’t see the necessity of drug tests.
—Jack from New York
【1】What does David think of drug use in the Olympics?
A．It’s more common in top athletes than others.
B．It’s a difficult problem to deal with.
C．It helps improve athletes’ skills.
D．It’s bad for athletes’ health.
【2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 suggest?
A．Using drugs is the same as cheating.
B．Drugs help athletes reach greater speed.
C．Runners should not be allowed to use drugs.
D．Athletes using drugs do not show their real ability.
【3】What do Jim’s and Sam’s opinions have in common?
A．Both mention the popularity of the Olympics.
B．Both mention the fairness of the Olympics.
C．Both mention the rules of the Olympics.
D．Both mention the fun of the Olympics.
【4】The text is mainly written to________.
A．call people’s attention to sports and drugs
B．warn people of the bad influences of drug use
C．explain why drugs should be forbidden in the Olympics
D．discuss whether Olympic athletes should be tested for drugs
23、 Empathy can give purpose to our lives and truly comfort people in distress, hut it can also do great harm. While showing an empathetic response to the tragedy and trauma of others can be helpful, it can also, if misdirected, turn us into what Professor James Dawes has called “emotional parasites.”
Empathy can make people angry — perhaps dangerously so — if they mistakenly perceive that another person is threatening a person they care for. For example, while at a public gathering, you notice a heavyset, casually dressed man who you think is “staring” at your pre-teenage daughter. While the man has remained expressionless and has not moved from his spot, your empathetic understanding of what he “might” be thinking of doing to your daughter drives you into a state of rage. While there was nothing in the man's expression or body language that should have led you to believe he intended to harm your daughter, your empathetic understanding of what was
Probably “going on inside his head” took you there, Danish family therapist Jesper Juul has referred to empathy and aggression (攻击性) as “existential twins.”
For years, psychologists have reported cases of overly empathetic patients endangering the well-being of themselves and their families by giving away their life savings to random needy individuals. Such overly empathetic people who feel they are somehow responsible for the distress of others have developed an empathy-based guilt.
The better-known condition of “survivor guilt” is a form of empathy-based guilt in which an empathetic person incorrectly feels that his or her own happiness has come at the cost or may have even caused another person's misery.
According to psychologist Lynn O’Connor, persons who regularly act out of empathy-based guilt, tend to develop mild depression in later-life.
Psychologists warn that empathy should never be confused with love. While love can make any relationship-good or bad — better, empathy cannot and can even hasten the end of a strained relationship. Essentially, love can cure, empathy cannot.
Rehabilitation and trauma counselor Mark Stebnicki coined the term “empathy fatigue” to refer to a state of physical exhaustion resulting from repeated or prolonged personal involvement in the chronic illness, disability, trauma, grief, and loss of others.
While more common among mental health counselors, any overly empathetic person can experience “empathy fatigue”. According to Stebnicki, “high touch” professionals like doctors, nurses, lawyers, and teachers tend to suffer from empathy fatigue, Paul Bloom, Ph.D., professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University, goes so far as to suggest that due to its inherent dangers, people need less empathy rather than more.
【1】Empathy and aggression are regarded as “existential twins” because___________.
A.empathy can make people angry
B.empathy can be easily misunderstood
C.aggressive people often show more empathy
D.empathy and aggression always come together
【2】According to the passage, what might be an example of empathy-based guilt?
A.People give away their savings to charity
B.One feels sorry for not paying off the debt.
C.One feels guilty for his/her own happiness.
D.Patients feel bad for having to be attended.
【3】What might be the author’s attitude towards showing empathy?
A.Approving. B.Neutral.
C.Optimistic. D.Critical.
【4】Which of the following would the author most likely agree with?
A.It might be better if we show less empathy.
B.Empathy and love both help boost happiness.
C.Empathy fatigue leads to illness and disability.
D.Well-meant empathy won't damage a relationship.
24、Imagine a house that keeps itself warm in the wintertime. Think of the savings in terms of fuel bills and unfriendly emissions. Such houses in fact exist, called “passive houses”. The concept of these highly energy-efficient buildings took root in the 1990s, before slowly consolidating as a niche construction (生态位构建) concept in the 2000s. Are passive houses now actively moving into the mainstream as sustainable buildings?
For Brian Mc Garry, an economics lecturer who built a family house based on passive housing criteria in the Pyrenees this year, the arguments look convincing. As his first full winter in the low energy house draws in, we asked him to keep us informed. Do passive houses work?
I had never heard of a passive house in February 2012, when I purchased a plot of land. Nor did I expect that I would be persuaded to build a pre-constructed, custom-designed house based on energy-efficient passive house criteria. It promised to be easier and quicker to build, cheaper to run, and more comfortable to live in. The objective was to incorporate the fundamental concepts of passive energy management into my project: an airtight and highly insulated building envelope; large south facing double or triple-glazed windows (if possible, filled with argon gas) that passively capture the energy of the sun; a heat recovery ventilation system to provide fresh air; and a simple, low-cost heating system consisting of a modern wood-burning stove, a bathroom heater and a portable radiator backup for when the sun doesn’t shine and temperatures decline. No significant limitations were placed on the design, and it had excellent environmental credentials. Moreover, the cost was no more than a conventional build.
After six months in use, the house is proving to be both cheap to run and remarkably comfortable–staying cool in the hot summer was effortless, as long as the windows were shuttered or shaded from the sun. Nowstaying warm in the cold, high-altitude December climate also seems easy, so far.
Winter arrived in force in the Pyrenees in November, with abundant snowfalls and temperatures as low as minus 8° Celsius. Though early days, the house has responded well: the stove is lit during cold evenings but the portable radiator has not yet been needed. This type of construction seems not only to make economic and environmental sense, but to enhance our quality of life, too.
【1】We can learn from Paragraph one that passive houses __________.
A. consume extra energy to keep warm in winter and cool in summer
B. had been introduced for a decade before the birth of the theory
C. appeal to both the self-builders and those constructors
D. refer to a certain house comfortable, costly and also pleasing
【2】Regarding the passive energy management, the houses have characteristics EXCEPT _______
A. using south-facing windows to take in solar energy
B. Providing energy for taking a shower when it’s rainy
C. supplying fresh air with a special heat recovery system
D. placing more demands and restrictions on the design
【3】How did Brian McGarry find his self-built passive house?
A. very unaffordable
B. Energy-consuming
C. comfortable to live in
D. Awkward to use
【4】What is the writer’s attitude towards the passive housing?
A. supportive B. critical
C. oppositive D. doubtful
25、The 16th-century dramatist Ben Johnson generously called Shakespeare a writer “not of an age, but for all time.” And so it has proven to be, for Shakespeare’s plays are still the most translated and most _________ of any play writer’s in the world. But if you ask people what accounts for Shakespeare’s _________ popularity, you will get a number of different answers. Some will say that he was a great storyteller, others that the _________ lies in the beauty of his poetry. Some scholars point out that he was born in a lively period of England’s history, a time of great national confidence and cultural activity, particularly in the theatre. _________, they claim, he was able to produce an extraordinary volume of work.
This last explanation seems a little _________. A more interesting answer is put forward, although a little over-enthusiastically, by Harold Bloom in his book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Bloom argues that Shakespeare gave us something in his writing that the world had not seen in _________ before: characters with a strong personality. These lifelike characters gave us a real insight into the human _________: Iago, the trusted advisor of Othello, whose jealousy leads him to betray his honest master; Rosalind, the heroine in As You Like It, who remains true to her friends and family in spite of the danger to herself. Through the mouths of such characters, we learn truths about life that we can all _________. These truths are made more moving and more memorable by the way in which they are _________: briefly and poetically.
Shakespeare has been dead almost 400 years, but the words and saying attributed (归功于) to him still __________ the English language today. So whether you are “fashionable” or “sanctimonious,” thank Shakespeare, who probably __________ the terms. In fact, it is amazing just how great Shakespeare’s influence on everyday language has been. Take, for example, these phrases from Michael Macrone’s light-hearted book Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
foregone conclusion seen better days
full circle a sorry sight
at one fell swoop neither here nor there
wear my heart upon my sleeve the world is (my) oyster
Macrone is more interested in the Shakespearean language that has survived than the reasons for its __________. According to his research, some of these sayings are slightly different from their original meaning once taken out of the __________ of the plays in which they first appeared. For example, “be all and end all” is used today to mean “the most important thing”, but in Macbeth, it means “the end of the matter”.
Regardless of such technicalities, it is still remarkable that so many of Shakespeare’s words have survived the large __________ in language between their time and the present day. The beauty of those words is certainly one reason, but as Johnson suggested, it is the humanity relevance of their __________ that brings them to life.
【1】
A．selected
B．performed
C．evaluated
D．revised
【2】
A．unexpected
B．varying
C．individual
D．enduring
【3】
A．magic
B．evidence
C．creativity
D．count
【4】
A．In a word
B．As a consequence
C．By contrast
D．To some degree
【5】
A．possible
B．convincing
C．unsatisfactory
D．boring
【6】
A．man
B．literature
C．history
D．focus
【7】
A．condition
B．emotions
C．factor
D．resources
【8】
A．qualify for
B．judge from
C．specialize in
D．identify with
【9】
A．proved
B．phrased
C．believed
D．understood
【10】
A．color
B．define
C．represent
D．involve
【11】
A．honored
B．improved
C．coined
D．chose
【12】
A．significance
B．variety
C．livelihood
D．popularity
【13】
A．concept
B．time
C．context
D．outline
【14】
A．shifts
B．conflicts
C．similarities
D．trends
【15】
A．usage
B．wording
C．originality
D．message
26、假如你是李华，你所在的英语社团近期将举办一场题为“Money isn’t everything in life”的演讲比赛，请你就此写一篇发言稿。
注意：1. 词数120左右；2. 发言稿开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。
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