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1、Kids shouldn’t have access to violent films because they might _______ the things they see.
A. indicate B. investigate
C. imitate D. innovate
2、In front of the farmhouse________.
A. lay a peasant boy B. laid a peasant boy
C. lie a peasant boy D. did a peasant boy lie
3、Word came _______ Chinese climbers made it to the top of Mount Qomolangma once again on May, 27th. I was always wondering _______ they managed to make such a great achievement .
A.which; why B.that; why C.that; how D.when; how
4、 Beijing isn’t what it used to be. The last decade _______ great changes in the city images.
A. witnessed B. was witnessed
C. has witnessed D. had witnessed
5、Witnesses said the participants, __________ young men, approached in a very orderly fashion.
A. most B. mostly
C. foremost D. almost
6、The audience was surprised _______ the result of the singing contest.
A.from B.with C.at D.about
7、Laughter produces short-term changes in the function of the heart and blood circulation,_________heart rate and oxygen consumption.
A. increasing B. to increase C. having increased D. being increased
8、On receiving a phone call from his wife _____ she had a fall, Mr. Gorden immediately rushed home from his office.
A. says B. to say C. said D. saying
9、There is some doubt_______ he can win the first prize.
A. that B. whether C. if D. what
10、We must make it clear whether it happened by accident or________ design.
A．on
B．by
C．in
11、She often argues ______ her classmates ______ small things，which sometimes makes them very unhappy.
A. with；for B. with；about
C. to；for D. to；about
12、_____ ourselves from stress, we need deep thought and inner quietness.
A. Free B. Freed
C. To free D. Freeing
13、These tall buildings ________ in our hometown last year.
A．built B．are built C．were built
14、China on Monday delivered to Pakistan the largest and most advanced warship________China has ever exported.
A．when
B．where
C．which
D．that
15、Molly, my mother once gave me a special number to call I run into an emergency.
A.as if B.so that C.in case D.even though
16、On the top of the hill ______ many trees.
A. stand B. stands
C. is standing D. have stood
17、She couldn’t imagine____________.
A.how had the blind man found her B.where did the blind man find her
C.how the blind man has found her D.how the blind man had found her
18、The idea started in Standlake and has travelled throughout the country.
A．driven
B．moved
C．spread
D．achieved
19、Bitten twice, the postman refused to ______ our letters unless we changed our dog.
A. deserve B. deliver C. expand D. direct
20、Due to the unreasonable individual income _______, the gap between the rich and poor has become an outstanding issue.
A. accommodation B. association
C. distribution D. contribution
21、 Many black-footed ferrets (雪貂) once lived in the American West. They live mainly on prairie dogs (土拨鼠). But when farmers began killing off prairie dogs, lots of them died, too. Additionally, the environment in which they lived was destroyed. By the 1970s, most experts believed that black-footed ferrets no longer existed. Then, in 1981, a group of them were found in Wyoming, but they were suddenly hit by an unknown disease in the mid-1980s, and their population decreased to just 18. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) caught all of them and tried to protect them. All but seven died.
Currently, there’re between 400 and 500 ferrets remaining. But all of them are related to the seven animals rescued from Wyoming except Elizabeth Ann.
Normally, the DNA of the animals gets mixed up when different pairs of animals have babies. The small differences in their DNA can help protect the group as a whole. Because all living black-footed ferrets are closely related, they all have similar weaknesses. But Elizabeth Ann is cloned from an animal that died in the 1980s, so her DNA is very different. When this DNA is mixed back in, future black-footed ferrets will be healthier in general.
In the 1980s, the DNA from a ferret named Willa was stored in the “Frozen Zoo” run by San Diego Zoo Global. Hopefully, cloning would allow black-footed ferrets to return to the wild. The idea of cloning was understood, but it was hard to carry out for many animals. The matter was left hanging in the air. But in 1996, a scientist cloned a sheep, called “Dolly”. Since then, many other animals have also been cloned. The USFWS has been talking about cloning black-footed ferrets since 2013. In 2018, they finally gave a group called Revive & Restore permission to try it.
On December 10, 2020, Elizabeth Ann was born. Blood tests have proven her to be 100% black-footed ferret.
【1】What was the main cause of black-footed ferrets’ almost dying out by the 1970s?
A．They were short of food.
B．They were killed by farmers.
C．They lost their living places.
D．They suffered from a bad disease.
【2】What does Paragraph 3 focus on about cloning Elizabeth Ann?
A．The effective method.
B．The great significance.
C．The different types.
D．The potential risk.
【3】What does the underlined phrase “hanging in the air” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A．Unexpected.
B．Unconcerned.
C．Unresolved.
D．Unexposed.
【4】What can we say about the birth of Elizabeth Ann?
A．It is the start of the cloning age.
B．It’s an inspiration of Dolly.
C．It’s not accepted by the USFWS.
D．It is a long and hard process.
22、 “Dad,” I say one day, “let's take a trip. Why don't you fly out and meet me?”
My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thought, and his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.
My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.
He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.
“What is our first stop?” asks my father.
“What time is it?”
“Still don't have a watch?”
Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite (花岗岩),his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of a little boy.
“Unbelievable.” he says, “How was this done?”
A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.
We stare up and I ask myself, “Would I ever devote my life to anything?”
“No directions, no goals.” I always used to hear those words in my father's voice. Now I hear them in my own.
The next day we're at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.
“Did you ever travel with your dad?” I ask.
“Only once,” he says, “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other—but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”
The last sentence—it's probably the same thing I'd say about my father. And what I'd want my child to say about me.
In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I've never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep travelling. I realize—and maybe a regular job won't be as dull as I feared.
Weekes after our trip, I call my father. “The photos from the trip are wonderful.” he says. “We heve got to take another trip like that sometime.”
I tell him I've decide to settle down, and I'm wearing a watch.
【1】We can learn from Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3 that the father ________.
A．followed the fashion
B．got bored with his job
C．liked the author's collection of stamps
D．was unhappy with the author's lifestyle
【2】From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author ________.
A．hopes to give whatever he can to his father
B．learns how to communicate with his father
C．comes to understand what parental love means
D．wants his children to learn from their grandfather
【3】What could be the best title for the passage?
A．A Journey with Dad
B．Reflections on Nature
C．Benefits from Travelling
D．Deep Love from a Father
23、The death of languages is not a new phenomenon. Languages usually have a short life span(寿命) as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Latin, have lasted more than 2,000 years.
What is new, however, is the speed at which they are dying out. Europe’s colonial ruling caused a sharp decrease in language kinds, reducing at least 15 percent of all languages spoken at the time. Over the last 300 years, Europe has lost a dozen, and Australia has only 20 left of the 250 spoken at the end of the 18th century.
The rise of nation-states has also been decisive in selecting national languages. By making great efforts to establish an official language in education, the media, national governments have tried to reduce minority languages.
This process of language standardization(标准化) has been improved by industrialization and scientific progress, which have created new methods of communication that are fast, straightforward and practical. Language kinds came to be seen as an difficulty to trade and the spread of knowledge. Monolingualism(单种语言) became an perfect choice.
More recently, the internationalization of financial markets, the spread of information by electronic media and other aspects of globalization have led to the danger to “small” languages. A language not on the Internet is a language that “no longer exists” in the modern world. It is out of the game.
The serious effects of the death of languages are clear. First of all, it is possible that if we all ended up speaking the same language, our brains would lose some of their natural functions for language inventiveness. We would never be able to figure out the origins of human language or resolve the mystery of “the first language”. As each language dies, a chapter of human history closes.
Multilingualism(多语种) is the most right solution. The destruction of the first will lead to the loss of the second. Creating a language without any links to a people’s culture and way of life stifles the expression of their language gift. A language is not only used as the main instrument of human communication. It also expresses the world vision of those who speak it, their ways of using knowledge. To safeguard languages is an urgent matter.
【1】Which of the following does not contribute to the death of languages?
A. Colonial conquests of Europe
B. The rise of nation-states
C. Advances in science and industrialization
D. The increase of human population
【2】The underlined word “ stifles” in the last paragraph probably means “_____”.
A. kills B. cheer C. creates D. improve
【3】The serious effects of the death of languages include all except that_______.
A. People would fail to understand how languages started
B. Monolingualism would lead to the loss of multiculturalism
C. Language kinds would become an difficulty to globalization
D. Human brains would become less creative in languages
【4】What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
A. To call people’s attention to the importance of language preservation.
B. To warn people of the negative result of globalization.
C. To explain the reasons why languages are dying out.
D. To argue how important it is for people to speak more languages.
24、A psychologist at Stanford once did an experiment. He assigned preschool children to three groups. The first group watched adults play rudely with an inflatable clown (充气小丑) called Bobo; another watched adults play quietly with a different toy while ignoring Bobo; and the third had no exposure to these adult role models. Next, each of the children was left alone with Bobo.
The results of the study were striking. Only the children in the first group later kicked Bobo, hit it with a stick, and sat on it just as they watched the adults do.
The above study indicates kids may follow suit if they see what others do. That’s why role models matter. When kids are exposed to role models they can relate to, it helps them set ambitious goals. Don’t assume kids know they can be anything they want when they grow up.
Take myself for example. “Angela, do you think the US will elect a female president in your lifetime?” Years ago, this was the last question of the last interview for a scholarship I didn’t win. Without hesitation I shook my head saying “no”. As the interview ended, I sensed I’d given an answer the committee found disappointing. “Of course there will be a female president,” they wanted me to say with a confident smile. “And I hope I have your vote.”
Like most children, my first role models were in my family. My dad had a PhD in chemistry. My uncles and countless cousins were mostly doctors or scientists. So, if you’d asked me in, say, third grade, “Angela, could you become a college professor someday if you tried?” Without a bit of evidence that I’d be any good at such a career, I’d have nodded my head.
So it’s quite necessary that we should go out of our way to expose kids to role models, whether it’s an Olympic athlete or a CEO. Now that we have our first female vice-president, can the first female president be far behind?
【1】Why did the children in the first group treated Bobo rudely?
A．They regarded it as a mere toy.
B．They meant to make fun of Bobo.
C．They were raised to behave badly.
D．They were set a negative example.
【2】What did the committee expect Angela to do with the last question?
A．To raise her doubt.
B．To respond positively.
C．To interpret its meaning.
D．To change her reply quickly.
【3】How did third-grade Angela feel about the chance of being a professor?
A．Hopeful.
B．Doubtful.
C．Curious.
D．Hesitant.
【4】Which of the following may be the best title for the text?
A．My Role Models
B．Aim High and Act Early
C．How to Become American President
D．Role Models Help Shape Kids’ Future
25、 As a banker, Chip Paillex had never planted so much until he moved to rural Pittstown, New Jersey, seven years ago. ______by farms, he quickly became interested in growing and rented a 30-by-30-foot land. One weekend, he ______tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant—enough to feed his family for the summer.
He ended up with so much ______that he couldn’t give it away. Thus he founded a local food ______, and by the time he delivered his last______, he had ______120 pounds of fresh vegetables.
The following year, with a handful of ______from his church and a memorable name “America’s Grow-a-Row”, Paillex planted,______,and harvested 2,500 pounds of vegetables, all of which he donated to food banks. Later he had more volunteers, rented more land and donated more vegetables.
Paillex also ______ local school kids. On a ______Friday morning in May, 40 third and fifth graders trooped onto a freshly plowed field, each ______with a spade. Squatting or kneeling in teams of two , they loosened the dirt, then carefully______the plants .Several rows later, they eagerly lined up to seed corn under a hot mid-morning sun. Nobody ______.
“The ______makes kids know there are people ______, says Paillex, “and it plants the seed for giving back. When they become tomorrow’s ______, it will be much more possible for them to ______ their coworkers and employees to get ______ in something like this.
“Paillex makes people want to ______,” says Colleen Duerr, a mother of two who has signed on as an ______“Grow-a-Row” member. “And families love this. Pallex has given us a way to raise our kids with a giving heart.”
【1】A. Trapped B. Occupied C. Prevented D. Surrounded
【2】A. put aside B. planted out C. wrapped up D. got in
【3】A. advice B. produce C. cost D. equipment
【4】A. bank B. market C. shop D. room
【5】A. crop B. fruit C. harvest D. grain
【6】A. donated B. sold C. found D. stored
【7】A. neighbors B. employees C. volunteers D. tourists
【8】A. delivered B. stored C. bought D. tended
【9】A. refuses B. welcomes C. chooses D. pushes
【10】A. cloudless B. snowy C. foggy D. rainy
【11】A. compared B. combined C. filled D. armed
【12】A. cooked B. counted C. positioned D. pulled
【13】A. laughed B. complained C. worked D. competed
【14】A. programme B. example C. lesson D. thought
【15】A. at war B. in anger C. on business D. in need
【16】A. farmers B. workers C. leaders D. owners
【17】A. force B. encourage C. beg D. wait
【18】A. locked B. moved C. involved D. turned
【19】A. grow B. relax C. settle D. help
【20】A. unpaid B. unexpected C. unseen D. unknown
26、假设你是校英语报的记者，请你根据以下信息，写一篇新闻报道：昨日夜间本市遭遇特大暴雨袭击，导致西村附近发生泥石流灾害，造成一人死亡，五人失踪；灾情发生后，一些村民同官兵一起积极参与搜救；此次灾害造成直接经济损失约一千多万元。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：泥石流 mudslide
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