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1、It was so dark in the theatre that I could hardly ________ my friend.
A. pick up B. bring out
C. call out D. pick out
2、Have you heard of such an experiment ________ wine experts were fooled into thinking a cheap bottle of wine was an exceptional one with the labels changed.
A. as B. where
C. that D. which
3、—Candy’s new skirt looks funny on her.
— ______It looks fine to me.
A．Who cares?
B．I couldn’t agree more.
C．I’m with you on that.
D．I wouldn’t say that.
4、The course normally attracts 20 students per year, ____up to half will be from overseas.
A．in which
B．of whom
C．of which
D．for whom
5、About ______ of the surface of the earth is covered with water.
A. three fourth B. three fourths C. third fourth D. third fours
6、Look, the ground is wet. It must have rained last night, _________?
A. wasn’t it B. hasn’t it
C. didn’t it D. mustn’t it
7、Simone Biles had to ________ from the competition because of the injury.
A．delay
B．charge
C．withdraw
D．defend
8、He believed he had spotted an unknown city ________ deep in the jungle.
A．buried
B．to bury
C．burying
D．having buried
9、In many countries in the world, breakfast is a snack ______ a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is a full meal.
A. less than B. more than
C. other than D. rather than
10、______ being the selfish teenager I used to be, I have begun to feel more aware of other people and to develop a stronger sense of social responsibility.
A．Instead of
B．Despite
C．In addition to
D．Now that
11、Exhibits include pottery (器)________ back to the 3rd Century BC and coins from the 17th Century.
A．being dated
B．to be dated
C．dating
D．to date
12、There is nothing________ than a cup of tea.
A．better
B．good
C．well
D．best
13、You can't predict everything. Things don't often work out as you expect.
A．finish
B．develop
14、I have trouble ______my English homework, because I know little English.
A.to prepare B.preparing C.prepared D.prepare
15、He is a teacher but his wife is a doctor， ________？
A.isn’t she B.isn’t it
C.aren’t they D.isn’t he
16、She wants to ________ the traditional ideas of what theatre is about.
A．get over
B．get away from
C．get through
D．get down to
17、They wanted to________a machine that was both attractive and practical.
A．argue
B．design
C．wrap
D．survive
18、As a result of the report many villagers rushed to the mountain ________ gold.
A．in search of
B．in the search of
C．to search
D．searching
19、–What do you think of your new ipad? --Good. I can’t find a ______ one.
A. worst B. best C. worse D. better
20、I’m now up to my ears in debt and __________ not borrow any more money.
A．be able to
B．have to
C．had better
D．dare
21、 Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. 【1】 There was a woman living there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. 【2】 I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window. It really looks terrible.”
One bright morning I decided to clean my apartment, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise ! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). 【3】
Then I came to understand that I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
【4】 How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings (缺点)?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” 【5】
A.Her window was clean!
B.She got on quite well with her neighbors.
C.I should respect others’ opinions and beliefs.
D.That was quite an important lesson for me.
E.Everything was unclear through the dirty window.
F.The next building was only a few feet away from mine.
G.I try to clean the window of my own world to see the world about me more clearly.
22、 New international research reveals the far-reaching impacts of forest cover loss on global biodiversity. The study, led by the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews, investigated the impacts of forest loss on species and biodiversity over time and around the world, revealing both losses and gains in species.
Focusing on biodiversity data spanning(跨越) 150 years and over 6,000 locations, the study, published in Science, reveals that as tree cover is lost, plants and animals are responding to the transformation of their natural habitats.
Bringing together over 5 million records of the numbers of different plants and animals with information on both historic and contemporary peaks in forest loss, the researchers discovered both immediate and delayed effects of forest loss on ecosystems.
The pace at which biodiversity responds to forest loss varies from a few years, as is the case for light-loving plants and insects, to decades for long-living trees and larger birds and mammals. Gergana Daskalova, a Ph.D. student in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh and lead author of the study, said, “Changes in the biodiversity of the planet’s forests matter because they will reflect how these landscapes look, the types of species they support and the benefits that forests provide for society like clean air and water.”
Maria Dornelas, a co-senior author from the School of Biology at the University of St Andrews, continued, “Humans are undoubtedly changing the planet. Yet, global analyses of how biodiversity is changing over time are revealing biodiversity changes are nuanced(有细微差别的) and variable.”
She added, “With a better understanding of the different ways, both positive and negative, in which forest loss influences biodiversity, we can improve future conservation and restoration of global ecosystems.”
【1】What did the international research find?
A．Species suffer losses as tree cover is lost.
B．Historic and contemporary peaks in forest loss vary.
C．Forest loss cannot impact ecosystems immediately.
D．Plant and animal species are reacting to forest cover loss.
【2】Why are there immediate and delayed effects of forest loss on ecosystems?
A．Effects of forest loss are difficult to notice.
B．Insects adapt to forest loss quite slowly.
C．Species respond to forest loss at different paces.
D．There are different degrees of forest loss in history.
【3】What do we know about the changes in forests’ biodiversity?
A．They make no difference.
B．They worsen the landscapes.
C．They have a great effect on society.
D．They cause damage to types of species.
【4】With a better understanding of effects of forest loss, we should ________.
A．call on people to change nature
B．find ways to make global analyses
C．pay attention to the negative effects
D．improve protection of global ecosystems
23、In 1916, two girls of wealthy families, best friends from Auburn, N. Y. — Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood — traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The girls had gone to Smith College. They wore expensive clothes. So for them to move to Elkhead, Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden, who is a magazine editor and Dorothy Woodruff’s granddaughter.
Why did they go then? Well, they wanted to do something useful. Soon, however, they realized what they had undertaken.
They moved in with a local family, the Harrisons, and, like them, had little privacy, rare baths, and a blanket of snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning. Some mornings, Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping from the cold. In spring, the snow was replaced by mud over ice.
In Wickenden’s book, she expanded on the history of the West and also on feminism, which of course influenced the girls’ decision to go to Elkhead. A hair-raising section concerns the building of the railroads, which entailed (牵涉) drilling through the Rockies, often in blinding snowstorms. The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy’s return to Auburn.
Wickenden is a very good storyteller. The sweep of the land and the stoicism (坚忍) of the people move her to some beautiful writing. Here is a picture of Dorothy Woodruff, on her horse, looking down from a hill top: “When the sun slipped behind the mountains, it shed a rosy glow all around them. Then a full moon rose. The snow was marked only by small animals: foxes, coyotes, mice, and varying hares, which turned white in the winter.”
【1】Why did Dorothy and Rosamond go to the Rocky Mountains?
A．To teach in a school.
B．To study American history.
C．To write a book.
D．To do sightseeing.
【2】What can we learn about the girls from paragraph 3?
A．They enjoyed much respect.
B．They had a room with a bathtub.
C．They lived with the local kids.
D．They suffered severe hardships.
【3】Which part of Wickenden’s writing is hair-raising?
A．The extreme climate of Auburn.
B．The living conditions in Elkhead.
C．The railroad building in the Rockies.
D．The natural beauty of the West.
【4】What is the text?
A．A news report.
B．A book review.
C．A children’s story.
D．A diary entry.
24、 An epidemic is the occurrence of a disease which affects a very large number of people living in an area and which spreads quickly to other people. Like infectious diseases, ideas in the academic world are spreadable. But why some travel far and wide while equally good ones remain in relative insignificance has been a mystery. Now a team of computer scientists has used an epidemiological model to imitate how ideas move from one academic institution to another. The model showed that ideas originating at famous institutions caused bigger “epidemics” than equally good ideas from less well-known places, explains Allison Morgan, a computer scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and lead author of the new study. “This implies that where an idea is born shapes how far it spreads, holding the quality of the idea constant.” says senior author Aaron Clauset, also at Boulder.
Not only is this unfair --- “it reveals a big weakness in how we’re doing science,” says Simon DeDeo, a professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, who was not involved in the study. There are many highly trained people with good ideas who do not end up at top institutions. “They are producing good ideas, and we know those ideas are getting lost,” DeDeo says. “Our science, our scholarship, is not as good because of this.”
The Colorado researchers analyzed an existing data set of computer science department hires in North America, as well as a database of publications by these hires. First they looked at how five big ideas in computer science spread to new institutions. They found that hiring a new member accounted for a little more than a third of the time --- and in 81 percent of those cases, transfers took place from higher- to lower-status universities. Then the team imitated the broadcasting of ideas using an infectious disease model and found that the size of an idea “epidemic” (as measured by the number of institutions that published studies on an idea after it originated) depended on the status of the originating institution. The findings were published online last October in EPJ Data Science.
The researchers’ model suggests that there “may be a number of quite good ideas that originate in the middle of the pack, in terms of universities,” Clauset says. DeDeo agrees. There is a lot of good work coming out of less famous places, he says: “You can learn a huge amount from it, and you can learn things that other people don’t know because they’re not even paying attention.”
【1】The underlined word “this” in paragraph 2 refers to the fact that _________.
A.good ideas from less important institutions lack influence.
B.the quality of the original ideas tends to be not easy to maintain.
C.scholars in insignificant institutions consider their ideas valueless.
D.the time when good ideas were born decides how far they may spread.
【2】The case of some hires in paragraph 3 is used to indicate _________.
A.why the originating institutions transfer their new findings.
B.the way the movements of some new ideas happen and their effects.
C.how they carry the ideas from lower - to higher - status institutions.
D.the statistics the epidemological model provides for the researchers.
【3】Researchers such as Clauset are very much concerned about _________.
A.losing quite a number of great and creative thoughts.
B.missing the opportunities of getting more well-known.
C.misusing the epidemiological model in scientific research areas.
D.having difficulty in finding more proper science department hires.
【4】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A.Infectious Diseases. B.Original Ideas.
C.Epidemiological Model. D.Idea Epidemic.
25、Tommy Price, 27, was running through Halls Fell Ridge in the Lake District with his friend Max Saleh, 26. ____, the lifeguard’s run was stopped when he suffered a life- threatening episode(发病)-finding himself face down on the ____
Temperatures had been at____ point all day with strong winds and snow as Tommy took a turn for the _____. As the pair’s phones were short of battery, Max made the brave _____to put Tommy in an emergency survival bag and run for help.
When Max _____ his best friend, he was clinically dead for up to three hours and 20 minutes. Tommy suffered a sudden cardiac arrest (心脏骤停)caused by severe ______temperature as his body temperature dropped below 19°C on January 6. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team _____ Max’s raised alarm and went to investigate, armed with warm _____ and snacks. Around 20 minutes up Hall’s Fell, two responders discovered Tommy’s survival _____ empty. They continued to find him lying face ______further up the trail and unresponsive. They found the man was _____ to all appearances. But they did all they could to treat Tommy. Along with a team doctor, they _____ him to a hospital in Newcastle. Five days later he _____, asking what had happened and wanting a glass of coke.
Tommy has made a good ____, but he has severe nerve damage in his hands and feet. He is now running the London Marathon in October to_____ money for Keswick Mountain Rescue and the team who saved his life. He thanked his _____very much. He said, “If it weren’t for Max getting down the_____ and getting MRT to me as soon as possible, who knows if I’d be here today. ”
The rescuers have ______ daring runners to always pack spare clothes and a survival bag if running in extreme conditions-calling it a _______of life or death.
【1】
A．Instead
B．However
C．Therefore
D．Thus
【2】
A．ground
B．bed
C．air
D．water
【3】
A．boiling
B．turning
C．freezing
D．folding
【4】
A．future
B．past
C．better
D．worse
【5】
A．explanation
B．decision
C．preparation
D．promise
【6】
A．deserted
B．met
C．left
D．lost
【7】
A．hot
B．cold
C．high
D．low
【8】
A．received
B．ignored
C．heard
D．witnessed
【9】
A．clothes
B．hats
C．socks
D．trousers
【10】
A．place
B．bag
C．wallet
D．material
【11】
A．in
B．up
C．out
D．down
【12】
A．helpless
B．homeless
C．lifeless
D．hopeless
【13】
A．led
B．rushed
C．accompanied
D．pulled
【14】
A．lay down
B．came over
C．got up
D．woke up
【15】
A．recovery
B．examination
C．comment
D．ending
【16】
A．spend
B．earn
C．raise
D．save
【17】
A．friend
B．doctor
C．team
D．family
【18】
A．town
B．village
C．city
D．mountain
【19】
A．threatened
B．urged
C．allowed
D．ordered
【20】
A．time
B．way
C．matter
D．question
26、假定你是李华，你校刚刚结束为期一周的消防宣传活动，请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：
1. 活动目的;
2. 活动内容;
3. 活动效果。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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