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1、— How do you think I can make up with Jack?
— Set aside _______ you disagree and try to find _______ you have in common.
A. what; what B. what; where C. where; what D. where; whether
2、The excellent service of the waiters______ highly praised. That’s why the restaurant is always full of customers.
A．were
B．are
C．was
D．is
3、Over time,13 such churches in Shanghai,but only the Russian Orthodox Mission Cathedral and Saint Nicholas Church survive.
A. came up B. broke up C. took up D. sprang up
4、When he was told that only a few apartments were still __________, he hurriedly took out all of his bank savings to place an order for a flat.
A. empty B. hollow C. convenient D. vacant
5、In our town, wood can ___________ a fire.
A. be used to make B. be used to making
C. use to make D. used to making
6、He was _____at the _____ news.
A. exciting, excited B. excited, exciting
C. excited, excited D. exciting, exciting
7、Probability is the mathematical study of the_____ of an event's occurrence.
A.desire B.likelihood C.result D.effect
8、You ____ be Carol. You haven’t changed a bit after all these years.
A. must B. can
C. will D. shall
9、（题文）（2016·浙江）That young man is honest , cooperative , always there when you need his help.______, he’s reliable.
A. Or else B. In short
C. By the way D. For one thing
10、She is in the special team of medical workers ________ to support the neighbouring province, where the epidemic has broken out suddenly and volunteers are in urgent need.
A．at her own pace
B．in public
C．on standby
D．by trial and error
11、With these words ________ in their ears, Allied soldiers prepared for ________ would become known as D-Day.
A．ring ,which
B．ring, what
C．ringing, what
D．ringing, which
12、Anyone, whether he is an official or a taxi driver, should be________ respected.
A．equally
B．naturally
C．normally
D．especially
13、—Have you heard the news that the U.S. military began moving parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to South Korea?
—Yes, I think a war is likely to ________. It must be terrible for people.
A. break down B. break up
C. break out D. break off
14、He said that the painting in a day.
A. would finish B. will finish C. will be finished D. would be finished
15、________ is important for you to give her some help in her work.
A．It
B．What
C．That
D．Which
16、The reason why he adapted to the new situations quickly is that he had a ________ attitude.
A. changeable B. stable C. movable D. flexible
17、——I'm going to Paris next week.
——____________! So am I
A. Wish you good luck B. What a coincidence
C. Don't mention it D. Good trip
18、How lucky! The boy had a ________ escape when he ran across the road in front of the bus.
A.fine B.short C.close D.narrow
19、A strong-willed person will stand up ______ and will continue on his way until he succeeds.
A．in a larger sense
B．against all odds
C．on reflection
D．at a glance
20、The law requires that everyone should be equal ________ race, religion or sex.
A.in search for B.in support of C.on behalf of D.regardless of
21、The Appalachian Trail winds some 2,190 miles across 14 states in the eastern US. Although it attracts thousands of serious hikers each spring, only one in four hikers completes the entire trail.
The Sutton family recently finished hiking the entire trail. They are a unique trio (三人组) as their son Harvey turned five on the trail, which makes him the youngest to complete the Appalachian Trail.
Josh and Carrie Sutton said they needed to take breaks from busy work called mini-retirements. “ We set the family goal of living a life with extraordinary stories. Doing things like hiking with a child on the Appalachian Trail gives you extraordinary stories, ” Josh Sutton said.
When Harvey turned three, they took him winter camping, and by the time he was four, the family completed a 50-mile hike, camping over six days. Seeing that Harvey developed a passion for hiking, they planned a thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail. Hiking from end to end is called a thru-hike and generally takes five to seven months to complete.
They hit the trail in Georgia on January 13, 2021. The first weeks were cold. The trail was icy and snow-covered, and the weather was often cloudy and bitter, so they made slow progress. They would wake up early each day, pack their gear (装备), and then start walking. As they had many miles to cover each day, they had to be inventive and started using imagination and Skittles (彩虹糖) as incentive for little Harvey.
The family completed their journey on August 9, 2021. Little Harvey learned to count all the way to 2,193, the total miles his little feet traveled, and a big number for someone who just started kindergarten. “ I will do it again because I like it so much, ” said Harvey.
Although the Suttons are now back home, they have incredible memories of this mini-retirement. The journey is a life-changing experience for the Sutton family and is an inspiration for families who dream of taking a similar journey.
【1】What’s special about the Sutton family hiking the Appalachian Trail?
A．Their young son’s participation.
B．Their rich experience in hiking.
C．Their great love for adventure.
D．Their ways to get rid of busy life.
【2】What does the underlined word “incentive” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．Motivation.
B．Information.
C．Evidence.
D．Suggestion.
【3】Which of the following can best describe their journey?
A．Tiring and boring.
B．Relaxing and pleasant.
C．Dangerous but exciting.
D．Challenging but meaningful.
【4】What can we learn from Harvey’s story?
A．More haste, less speed.
B．Chances favor the prepared mind.
C．We should think twice before acting.
D．We should dream big and start small.
22、Jennifer Lawrence, 25, is known for being down -to- earth and likable—she ordered McDonald’s on the red carpet at the Oscars.
And when she described her anger and disappointment at the fact that women are not equal to men in Hollywood, Lawrence “continued to make America fall in love with her”, said Business Insider.
Earlier this year, an E-mail from film company Sony Pictures showed that Lawrence and Amy Adams made less money for American Hustle(2013) than their male(男性) co-stars, even though both women played major roles in the movie.
In an article published in Lenny Letter, a popular e-mail newsletter, Lawrence wrote “I’m trying to find the ‘adorable(可爱的) way to state my opinion and still be likable’!”
Lawrence joins a long list of actresses, including Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett, who have spoken up about Hollywood’s pay gap.
According to Forbes, the 10 highest paid movie actors in 2015, led by Robert Downey Jr, made ＄431 million.But the 10 highest paid movie actresses, led by Lawrence, only made about $218 million. The pay gap comes partly from the low number of actresses. According to a report in August, only 28.1 percent of characters in 2014’s 100 top grossing(高票房的) films were female(女性) and of them, only 21 percent had a female lead or co-lead character.
“People with more experience are paid more,” Nancy Dubue, the president CEO of A+E Networks, told Variety, “The problem is that the industry still gives too many men that experience.”
The pay gap is a problem that affects the whole US, The White House reported that women earn 78 cents to every dollar a man gets there.
“This is what made Lawrence’s piece powerful: it showed that women still experience pay inequality everywhere-whether you’re Hollywood’s top talent or you work in a retail store,” commented CNN.
As Lawrence points out, it’s not just about less payment for women; it’s also about women making sure that their pay shows their value.
【1】According to Business Insider, Americans_____ Lawrence after she expressed her anger at Hollywood’s pay gap.
A. dislike. B. like
C. doubt D. forgive
【2】From the passage we can infer that_____.
A. men earn more money for the same job than women because they are better than women
B. Lawrence is the leader of the 10 highest_ paid movie actresses
C. a great many actresses have spoken up about Hollywood’s pay gap
D. a White House report points out that men make twice as much money as women
【3】The writer’s purpose of writing this passage is____.
A. to inform
B. to advise
C. to persuade
D. to argue
【4】The best title of the passage can be____.
A. More Experience, More Pay
B. Asking for Fair Pay
C. Speaking up for Hollywood
D. Higher value, Higher Pay
23、We might think we know which colours do what．The idea that red wakes us up or blue calms us down is deeply rooted in Western culture．But do they really change our behaviour in the ways that we assume?
When it comes to scientific research, the results are mixed and at times contested． Some studies have found that people do better on cognitive tasks when faced with red rather than blue or green; others show the opposite．The idea is that if you repeatedly have a particular experience surrounded by a certain colour, then you eventually begin to associate that colour with the way you were feeling or behaving．A school career spent reading your teacher’s red writing circling your mistakes forever makes you link red with danger．Blue meanwhile is more likely to be associated with calmer situations like marvelling at a big blue expanse of sky．
Of course there will always be exceptions --- the comment from the teacher saying “well done” is also written in red． It is true that people do make different associations with different colours, but whether this translates into behaving in a certain way or succeeding at a particular task is a different question．
In 2009 researchers tried to clarify the situation．They sat their participants at computer screens colored blue, red or “neutral” and tested them on various tasks．With a red screen people did better on tasks requiring attention to detail, but when the screen was blue they did better on creative tasks．In practice this might be tricky．In a classroom you might want to think creatively some of the time and pay attention to detail at others．
However, when another team tried to repeat the study with a larger group of people in 2014, the effect of color disappeared． The initial study consisted of just 69 people．In this new, bigger study, of 263 volunteers, background color made no difference．
So colors might well have an effect, but so far those effects have been difficult to demonstrate consistently and sometimes don’t seem to exist at all．
【1】What’s the major function of the first paragraph?
A． To present a widely held view
B． To raise a question of behavior change
C． To introduce the theme of the passage
D． To summarize the whole passage
【2】The author mentions the exception in Paragraph 3 in order to show _____．
A． there are exceptions to every rule
B． people tend to associate colors with behaviors
C． colors don’t necessarily mean particular behaviors
D． colors do matter to those who desire success
【3】It can be concluded from the results of the studies in 2009 and 2014 that _____．
A． the research findings are practical in indoor decoration
B． solid evidence is inadequate to prove how colors affect us
C． a larger study may help confirm colors’ effects on our behaviors
D． walls should be painted different colors depending on different tasks
24、A hearty laugh means the same thing on every continent: joy.【1】 when we laugh with someone else.
Scientists have found that people around the world can tell whether people are friends or strangers by listening to them laughing together. And the ability is globally owned by people.【2】. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used a simple experiment. Psychologist Gregory Bryant recorded pairs of college students having conversations. Some were friends.【3】. He then picked out just the parts in which the two people were laughing. Each cut was only about one second long. Then Bryant and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, first had volunteers listen to the records of laughter.【4】. They ran the experiment in 24 societies around the globe, including indigenous tribes (土著部落) in New Guinea, tiny villages in Peru and cities in India and China.
【5】. They were good at telling whether women were friends. But for other pairs — like two men laughing — it was harder. On average, listeners guessed correctly only about 60 percent of the time. Details about what laughter means require cross-cultural studies. Even in the most remote places on Earth, a laugh among friends is a special sound.
A．Laughter does good to you
B．Some hardly knew each other
C．People weren’t perfect at the task
D．But our laughter may reveal more than we realise
E．In other words, it isn’t limited by culture and language
F．So laugh a hearty laugh for at least three times every day
G．Then the volunteers were asked to guess whether the people were friends or strangers
25、Is the west falling out of love with the car? For environmentalists it seems a(n) _________ dream, but it is happening. While those with young families may carry on using four wheels, a combination of our ageing societies and a new attitude among the young seems to be _________ our 20th-century car addiction. Somewhere along the road, we reached the high point of the car and are now moving down the other side.
That _________ takes several forms. Sales of new cars have almost halved in the US, down from nearly 11 million in 1985 to about 5.5 million now. We shouldn't _________ that to a great degree, though. Cars last longer these days, and sales go up and down with the economy. But we have hit peak car ownership, too. And, more to the point, peak per-capita travel (人均出行).
The phenomenon was first _________ in The Road ... Less Traveled, a 2008 report by the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, but had been going on largely unnoticed for years. Japan reached it in the 1990s. They talk there of "demotorisation". The west had its _________ point in 2004. That year the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia and Sweden all saw the start of a decline in the number of kilometres and average person travelled in a car that _________ today.
What could be driving us _________? Fuel costs and rising insurance premiums (保险费) may be a factor. And urban congestion, combined with an absence of parking places and congestion charging, makes an increasing number of us look on the car as a(n) _________ way to move around in cities where there are public transport alternatives.
Demographics (人口统计数据) are another possible __________. It is surely no __________ that "peak car" happened first in Japan, which has the world's oldest population. Pensioners do not drive to work, and many don't drive at all. There is also the rise of "virtual commuters" who work from home through the Internet.
Besides these new __________ pattern, leisure lifestyle are also changing. The biggest __________ in car use in the US is among people under 35. The number of American 17-year-olds with a drivers' licence has fallen from about three-quarters to about half since 1998. Twenty-somethings have recently gone from driving more than the average to driving less.
Social scientists detect a new "culture of urbanisms". The stylish way to live these days is in inner-city apartments, not the __________. Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist at the University of Toronto in Canada, points out that the young shop online, telecommute, live in walk-able city neighborhoods near public transport and rely more on social media and less on fact-to-face visiting. Given those changes, they can think of better ways to spend their money than buying a(n) __________.
【1】
A．amazing
B．impossible
C．emerging
D．realistic
【2】
A．admitting
B．discovering
C．causing
D．breaking
【3】
A．side
B．peak
C．love
D．road
【4】
A．give rise to
B．lose interest in
C．take notice of
D．keep pace with
【5】
A．recognized
B．underestimated
C．neglected
D．overrated
【6】
A．missed
B．common
C．tipping
D．focal
【7】
A．suffers
B．occurs
C．pauses
D．continues
【8】
A．into a state
B．onto the street
C．off the road
D．off the phenomenon
【9】
A．dumb
B．individual
C．wise
D．efficient
【10】
A．tendency
B．explanation
C．condition
D．alternative
【11】
A．obstacle
B．accident
C．defense
D．evidence
【12】
A．thought
B．behaviour
C．progression
D．employment
【13】
A．fall
B．growth
C．difference
D．problem
【14】
A．downtown
B．houses
C．suburbs
D．mansion
【15】
A．car
B．computer
C．apartment
D．cellphone
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
That year, my father worked abroad — and couldn’t come back for Christmas. My mother, sister and I had to make our own Christmas decorations.
My mother and I dragged in the final section of our seven-foot artificial Christmas tree from the garage. Before setting the tree in its stand, we moved our sofa over so we would have the room needed for our large tree to fit in the living room. In a moment, we would form the branches that would hold our decorations.
Everything was going smoothly, and my sister announced the stand was ready. Mother and I lifted the bottom section of the tree and were about to place it into the stand when I heard a scream. It was so loud that I assumed someone had broken into our home.
“A mouse! A mouse!” screamed my sister. She screamed just as loud, and jumped up on the sofa as the baby mouse ran to one side of our living room and then the other. Because of the loud screams, the mouse was frightened. The little creature had obviously found a home in our Christmas tree. Once we brought the tree inside and opened the branches, the baby mouse fell out of its temporary home and ran across our living room.
“Get the mouse!” my sister screamed.
It was so tiny and quick that I wasn’t sure what to do. I tried grabbing its long gray tail, but it slipped away. Then I ran to our bedroom and came back with an empty shoebox and a fly swatter (蝇拍). My plan was to stun (打晕) the little mouse and put it in the box.
I was about to hit it with the swatter when my sister shouted out, “Don’t kill it! It’s a baby and kind of cute.” My mother agreed with her, and I could tell by its frightened eyes that the little mouse did, too.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
As I saw the fear in the mouse’s eyes, I gained some Christmas sympathy.
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I asked my mother and sister if they wanted to say goodbye to the mouse.
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