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1、_____the early flight，we ordered a taxi in advance and got up very early.
A. Catching B. To catch
C. Caught D. Catch
2、With ________ help of Mrs. Brown, I have made ________ great progress in my study.
A．the, a
B．the, /
C．a, /
D．/, the
3、—Why were you late for class this morning?
—I stayed up ________________ late ________________ I overslept this morning.
A.so; that B.such; that C.too; to D.enough; to
4、He always thinks I'm wrong, ________I may say.
A．no matter whatever
B．whatever
C．what
D．that
5、My teacher stressed again that I should not ______ any important details while retelling the story.
A．bring out
B．make out
C．let out
D．leave out
6、I only intended to be there for a few days, but I ________ ended up staying for a whole month.
A. basically B. apparently
C. naturally D. acturally
7、________ remains important is that we have an incredible desire to think and create, and that’s the real spirit of invention.
A．Which
B．Who
C．That
D．What
8、We ______ be careful with the words we say when we are angry.
A. may B. can C. might D. should
9、We didn’t go home the old man was sent to the hospital.
A.until B.when C.while D.whether
10、I ______ an apology to you earlier, but failed because you ______ me since we last quarreled.
A．intended to make, had avoided meeting
B．intended to have made, had avoided to meet
C．had intended making, have avoided to meet
D．had intended to make, have been avoiding meeting
11、Why do you want a new job __________ you have got such a good one already?
A. when B. while
C. as D. although
12、__________her, he waved a hello.
A. Seeing B. See
C. Saw D. Having seen
13、-- It’s many years since I saw you last； I _____ you at all.
--- I wouldn’t have, either, if someone ______ you by the name.
A.didn’t recognize; hadn’t called B.didn’t recognize; didn’t call
C.haven’t recognized; didn’t call D.recognized; had called
14、Montreal is the second largest French-speaking city in the world, ________.
A．Paris is the largest
B．Paris being the largest
C．Paris to be the largest
D．Paris be the largest
15、Mary said I could use her computer while mine ______ .
A．repaired
B．was repairing
C．would be repaired
D．was being repaired
16、Alice's mother has ________ views about the style of dressing, so she was unhappy when Alice wears a miniskirt.
A．blank
B．conventional
C．rational
D．subjective
17、You will be amazed to discover that what confused you at first makes sense _____further readings.
A. to B. of
C. upon D. before
18、The teacher asked more________ to prevent the students' eyes from being injured.
A．to do
B．done
C．to be done
D．being done
19、When _______ what is the most efficient way to protect oneself from COVID-19, the expert says no doubt it is wearing a mask.
A．asking
B．asked
C．to ask
D．having asked
20、The doctor told Tom’s father that it would not take him a long time to _____ from his disease.
A. suffer B. cure C. treat D. recover
21、As you grow older, you’ll be faced with some challenging decisions. Some don’t have a clear right or wrong answer—like should you play soccer or field hockey.【1】.
Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. People who are your age, like your classmates, are called peers. When they try to influence how you act, to get you to do something, it’s called peer pressure.
Peers can have a positive influence on each other. You might admire a friend who is always a good sportsman and try to be more like him or her. 【2】 For example, a few kids in school might try to get you to cut class with them.
Some kids give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or because they worry that other kids might make fun of them. The idea that ‘everyone’s doing it’ can influence some kids to leave their better judgments, or their common sense, behind.
【3】 Paying attention to your own feelings and beliefs about what is right and wrong can help you know the right thing to do.
Even if you are faced with peer pressure while you are alone, you can simply stay away from peers who pressure you to do stuff you know is wrong.
If you continue to face peer pressure and you’re finding it difficult to handle, talk to someone you trust. 【4】
A．You might follow whatever he or she does.
B．But sometimes peers influence each other in negative ways.
C．Talk to the peer who pressure you and you will feel much better.
D．It is tough to be the only one who says ‘no’ to peer pressure, but you can’t do it.
E．Other decisions involve serious moral questions, like whether to cut class, try cigarettes, or lie to your parents.
F．Talking to a parent, teacher, or school counselor can help you feel much better and prepare you for the next time you face peer pressure.
22、“If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect,” the media giant Ted Turner supposedly said sometime in the 1990s. Why be modest? Aristotle said: “All men by nature desire to know.” Intellectual humility is a particular instance of humility, since you can be down-to-earth about most things but still ignore your mental limitations.
Intellectual humility means recognising that we don’t know everything. Actually, it means we should acknowledge that we're probably biased in our belief about just how much we understand and seek out the sources of wisdom that we lack.
The Internet and digital media have created the impression of limitless knowledge at our fingertips. But, by making us lazy, they have opened up a space that ignorance can fill. The psychologist Tania Lombrozo of the University of California explained how technology enhances our illusions (错觉) of wisdom. She argues that the way we access information is critical to our understanding—and the more easily we can recall an image, word or statement, the more likely we’ll think we’ve successfully learned it, and so withdraw from effortful cognitive processing. Logical puzzles presented in an unfriendly font (字体), for example, can encourage someone to make extra effort to solve them. Yet this approach runs counter to the nice designs of the apps and sites that populate our screens, where our brain processes information in a “smooth” way. What about all the information that presents online? Well, your capacity to learn from it depends on your attitudes. Intellectually humble people don’t hide or ignore their weaknesses. In fact, they see them as sources of personal development, and use arguments as an opportunity to refine their views. People who are humble by nature tend to be more open-minded and quicker to resolve disputes, since they recognise that their own opinions might not be valid.
At the other end of the scale lies intellectual arrogance. Such arrogance almost always originates from the egocentric bias – the tendency to overestimate their own virtue or importance, ignoring the role of chance or the influence of other people’s actions on their lives. This is what makes these people credit success to themselves and failure to circumstance. From an evolutionary perspective, intellectual arrogance can also be seen as a way of achieving dominance through forcing one’s view on others. Intellectually arrogant people hardly invest mental resources in discussion or working towards group consensus, thus making it hard for groups to work successfully.
The Thrive Center for Human Development in California, which seeks to help young people turn into successful adults, is funding a series of major studies about intellectual humility. Their hypothesis is that humility, curiosity and openness are key to a fulfilling life. “Without humility, you are unable to learn,” Laszlo Bock, Google’s Head of People Operations, notes.
【1】The passage is mainly about ______.
A．the harm arrogance does to us
B．the key elements to a fulfilling life
C．the significance of intellectual humility
D．the way people access information online
【2】Technology enhances our illusions of wisdom because it ______.
A．enables people to think critically
B．offers too much unreliable information
C．allows easy access to abundant information
D．makes it hard for people to recall information
【3】According to Para.3, intellectually humble people ______.
A．value others’ opinions more than their own
B．use online information to better themselves
C．are unwilling to show their strengths
D．prefer to solve difficult problems
【4】The author will probably agree that ______.
A．intellectual arrogance is the result of evolution
B．intellectually arrogant people often lack team spirits
C．successful people are often unaware of their limitations
D．circumstances don’t favor intellectually arrogant people
23、 Just because a scientist puts a GPS tracking collar on a wild polar bear does not mean the animal will willingly keep it on. They can remove it, if one becomes annoying. But scientists have now found a way of using signals from those dropped collars to track the ice itself.
The scientists identified 20 collars that transmitted movement data consistent with ice drift (漂流) rather than polar bear motion between 2005 and 2015. The resulting records of how melting ice drifts in Hudson Bay are unique; there are no easily accessible on-the-ground sensors, and satellite observations often cannot accurately capture the motion of small ice sheets.
The team compared the removed collars’ movements to widely used ice-drift modeling data from the U. S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Collar data indicated that the NSIDC model underestimates the speed at which ice moves around in Hudson Bay — as well as the overall extent of drift. Over the course of several months the model could diverge (偏离) from an ice sheet’s location by a few hundred kilometers, the scientists say.
This means the bears may be working harder, when moving against the direction of the ice, than scientists had assumed, “Since we’re underestimating the speed of drift, we’re likely underestimating the energetic effort of polar bears,” says Ron Togunov, who led the study.
The study reveals timely insight into how highly mobile ice moves. As melting increases in coming years, such ice will likely become more common farther north, in the central Arctic, says Andy Mahoney, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, who was not involved in the study. Scientists had known NSIDC data could underestimate drift speeds, Mahoney says, but “any time we can find a data gap and plug it is a good thing.”
Plus, such data could improve predictions about how oil spills or other pollutants may spread in seas littered with drifting ice, says Walt Meier, a senior NSIDC research scientist. The findings may even influence future NSIDC models. “It'’s a really nice data set.” Meier says. “And certainly one we’ll take under consideration.”
【1】What can a GPS tracking collar do?
A．Measure the depth of ice sheet.
B．Capture the movement of ice.
C．Describe the melting speed of ice.
D．Record the emotional state of bears.
【2】What can we learn about the collar data?
A．It shows the ice moves more slowly from its original location.
B．It may reveal polar bears are not so energetic as before.
C．It indicates the ice is more likely to move south in the central Arctic.
D．It can help predict the location of some pollutants in seas.
【3】Which would be the best title for this passage?
A．Data Tells a Different Story
B．Wild Polar Bears’ Signaling
C．Insights into a Puzzling Aspect
D．Ice Is Taken under Consideration
24、When it comes to becoming eco-conscious, many people choose to start with something simple: recycling. But it’s not as simple as everyone seems to believe.
Indeed, the desire for some people to recycle can lead to ill-informed decisions about what can and cannot be recycled, and non-recyclable objects are accidentally put into the recycling bin. The practice is what is known as wishcycling.
Wishcycling boils down to the idea that just about anything can be recycled, and that if you put it into a recycling bin, those who are responsible for it will find a way to recycle it. This is obviously not true, because, despite everything that you’ve been told by the media, not everything is recyclable.
Small non-recyclable objects that are attached to recyclables are generally acceptable. For example, glue and tape attached to paper will be removed in the recycling process without any trouble. But improperly recycling broken eyeglasses, plastic shopping bags, food waste and greasy(油渍)pizza boxes could cause problems to the recycling process.
The objects in the recycling bin are typically sorted by machines at recycling centers, not people. These complex machines are designed to separate plastics, paper, and other recyclables. If something is thrown into the bin that shouldn’t be there, it could end up damaging the machine, which means the recycling center could lose time and money every time people decide to wishcycle. Sometimes, a non-recyclable object is able to sneak(溜)past these sorting machines. If this happens, the non-recyclable object ends up in a load of recyclables that will be sold for the recycling center to make a profit. However, having just one non-recyclable thing mixed in can pollute the entire load of recyclables, which has to be thrown away.
So what you as a consumer need to do is make your own recycling practice most functional. The best way is to educate yourself. There are certain general rules when it comes to recycling that everyone should know.
【1】What do we know about wishcycling?
A．It is misled by the media.
B．it leads to a better ecology.
C．It is related to ill intentions.
D．It comes from people's hope.
【2】Which of the following can be put into the recycling bin according to the passage?
A．Paper with glue on it.
B．Oily pizza boxes.
C．Plastic shopping bags.
D．Left-over food.
【3】What is paragraph 5 about?
A．The problems from wishcycling.
B．The need to update the machines.
C．The reasons for making less profit.
D．The objects unsuitable for recycling.
【4】What might be talked about in the paragraph that follows?
A．Reducing waste.
B．Making rules.
C．Recycling properly.
D．Consuming wisely.
25、 As a young boy, Lorenzo Odone seemed like a normal child. He was intelligent and well-behaved. Just before his sixth birthday, however, his_______ began to change. Lorenzo started to lose his_______ at school for no apparent reason. His tantrums became so disruptive (破坏性的) that his teachers had no choice but to call his parents. Lorenzo’s parents were very_______ with their sons’ change in behavior, so they brought him to a_______ to try and find out what was wrong.
After_______ numerous psychological and medical tests on Lorenzo, doctors discovered that his_______ behavior was_______ a rare, incurable disease called Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). The doctors had little _______ for Lorenzo’s survival and said that he would only live for two more years._______ little was known about ALD, they were certain that Lorenzo’s brain would be severely damaged by the disease, and he would quickly__________ his ability to see, speak and move.
Lorenzo’s parents were extremely shocked by the news about their son.__________ their lack of medical knowledge, they were determined to find a cure for their son’s disease by themselves. After countless hours of__________, they discovered a kind of solution. They found an edible oil that appeared to prevent ALD from damaging the brain. They named the oil Lorenzo’s oil __________ their son. This remarkable story __________ the attention of Hollywood, and a__________ starring Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon entitled “Lorenzo’s oil” was__________ in 1992.
Eventually it became clear that Lorenzo’s oil was not a cure for ALD. It did, __________, help to prolong the lives of people that had the disease. The oil certainly__________ Lorenzo’s life, but he was unable to leave his bed and could not communicate, except for blinking his__________ and move his fingers with small movements. Thanks to his parents’ efforts, Lorenzo survived more than 20 years longer than his doctors__________ expected.
【1】A.behavior B.appearance C.voice D.intelligence
【2】A.way B.temper C.fortune D.confidence
【3】A.excited B.delighted C.careless D.concerned
【4】A.principal B.doctor C.surgeon D.friend
【5】A.carrying B.passing C.running D.taking
【6】A.strange B.normal C.acceptable D.criminal
【7】A.lack of B.full of C.due to D.addicted to
【8】A.hope B.desire C.knowledge D.decision
【9】A.Because B.Although C.If D.When
【10】A.evolve B.pass C.miss D.lose
【11】A.Though B.Short of C.Owing to D.Despite
【12】A.research B.talk C.cry D.watch
【13】A.by B.for C.after D.with
【14】A.switched B.distracted C.caught D.devoted
【15】A.song B.movie C.novel D.poem
【16】A.made B.discovered C.invented D.written
【17】A.therefore B.however C.besides D.in short
【18】A.saved B.took C.risked D.extended
【19】A.eyes B.ears C.mouth D.nose
【20】A.hurriedly B.actually C.finally D.originally
26、假定你是李华，是某国际高中的学生会主席。学生会计划下周五举办主题为“My life with the internet”的英语演讲比赛,请你准备一则英文通知,刊登在校英文报上。
要点包括: 1.活动目的; 2.比赛信息:时间、地点等; 3.鼓励学生积极参加。
注意: 1.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯:
2.词数80左右。
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