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1、The situation in the country is ________， yet we are still concerned about its future.
A. coming up B. drying up
C. breaking up D. picking up
2、Jim will go on a trip to Sichuan, ________ his parents used to live.
A. where B. which
C. when D. that
3、We should take the problem ________.
A.seriously B.impatiently C.immediately D.completely
4、---- Remember the first time you ____ her?
----Sure, she was singing on the stage.
A. had met B. met
C. would meet D. were meeting
5、To my great disappointment, my best friend left the city I could have a word with her.
A. before B. after
C. while D. until
6、I felt like giving up. I probably ________， but my Dad whispered, “Come on! You can make it.”
A. would have B. would C. should D. should have
7、_______ digital technology is bridging geographic distance, highly skilled workers are increasingly crowding into cities.
A．Where
B．As
C．While
D．When
8、There are two small robots in the house, ________ ________ the smaller serves as a butler.
A．of which
B．of them
C．with which
D．of that
9、Unfortunately, my classmates and I went to the Art Museum last Monday, only to be told that it ________.
A．was being decorated
B．decorated
C．is being decorated
D．is decorating
10、 One more week, _______ we will accomplish the task.
A．or
B．so that
C．and
D．if
11、Teachers should bear in mind that each student’s improvement ______.
A. is closely monitored
B. closely monitors
C. has been closely monitored
D. closely monitored
12、It is said that the temperature is unusual mainly ________ global warming caused by human activities.
A．in spite of
B．by means of
C．in case of
D．on account of
13、Melissa was inspired by a presentation about the Paralympic Games which increased her swimming to a competitive level. Although she was considered a long shot, Melissa made the 2008 USA Paralympic Team and represented her country in Beijing, China.
A. a talkative woman
B. somebody who has difficulty achieving something
C. a wealthy woman
D. somebody who is good at taking a shot
14、It is broadcast on TV that the 88th Academy Award Ceremony was held in Dolby Theatre can contain an audience of approximately 4000.
A. where B. whose
C. which D. when
15、He began to take political science _______ only when he left school.
A. seriously B. strictly
C. carefully D. truly
16、So ______ to Coca-Cola that he can hardly go without it.
A. addicted is he B. is he addicted
C. addicted he is D. he is addicted
17、By the end of 2020, about half a million people________into the city,making up around 10 percent of its total population.
A．flooded
B．have flooded
C．had flooded
D．will flood
18、Katherine is not ________ in the way to treat her children. Sometimes she is too hard on them and sometimes she just ignores what they do.
A.conventional B.consistent C.considerate D.controversial
19、________ modern technology can grow more crops, the terraces are still important to local s who value their traditions.
A．As if
B．In case
C．So that
D．Even though
20、—Come on，Kitty.
—Oh, good heavens! Both my legs are nearly to give out. I_______ for hours like a dog.
A.have been walking B.had walked C.was walking D.walked
21、Dyslexia (阅读障碍) is a common reading disorder. It refers to a language-processing problem in which the brain tends to confuse the order of numbers, letters and other images. Past research showed that crowded text was especially difficult for people with dyslexia to read. So researchers at Anglia Ruskin University wanted to see how much help an increase in the spacing between letters would provide.
Steven Stagg and his team found 59 students between 11 and 15 years old. The kids came from schools in three cities in England. 32 had dyslexia; 27 did not. While the researchers recorded them, each student read two passages out loud. One passage was printed in its original format. In the other, the spacing between the letters was increased by 2.5 points. That extra space equals about 0. 88 millimeters. The recording allowed the scientists to measure someone’s reading speed and count any errors, such as skipped
People with dyslexia often employ aids to help them read, such as colored overlays (透明膜). So the researchers offered those colored plastic sheets to the students here. Readers place the plastic on top of the text and then read through it.
Those colored overlays didn’t help either group of kids. But the extra spacing did. Kids with dyslexia read the wider-spaced text 13 percent faster than the text with original spacing. These kids also made fewer mistakes. Students without dyslexia read faster, too, although only by 5 percent. Stagg studies how the mind processed language. He wasn’t surprised that the colored overlays weren’t helpful. Stagg has dyslexia and says colored overlays never helped him much, either. What was unexpected to the scientist was that wider-spaced letters helped even kids without dyslexia.
This is very good news. It means teachers and publishers can print material with extra spacing between letters knowing it will help everyone. Readers with dyslexia won’t feel singled out by having to use special reading materials. It’s a simple fix, too. Certain text-writing and document— processing software, such as Microsoft Word, can easily add extra spacing between letters. Web designers can add space to the text on their pages, too,
【1】What were the students asked to do in the research?
A．Read two passages out.
B．Record their reading speed.
C．Distinguish the letter space.
D．Avoid errors in reading activity.
【2】What surprised Steven Stagg about the study?
A．The uselessness of the overlays.
B．The negative effects of dyslexia.
C．The help of wider letter space to kids.
D．The reading speed of kids with dyslexia.
【3】Why does the author mention “Microsoft Word” in the last paragraph?
A．To draw a comparison.
B．To clarify a concept.
C．To make a summary.
D．To provide an example.
【4】What is the author’s attitude to the finding of the research?
A．Disapproval.
B．Favorable.
C．Doubtful.
D．Unclear.
22、Are you having difficulty falling asleep? Try drinking a glass of warm milk. If that doesn’t work, listen to some soft, beautiful music. Still no luck? Try think about sheep jumping over a fence. If you are still awake, take a sleeping pill. People who take pills often become dependent on the drugs. So you lie awake knowing that the new workday will soon arrive. If you have been in such condition for at least one month, you may have primary insomnia(失眠症).
A new study has found that you might fall asleep more quickly and stay asleep longer if you try “cerebral hypothermia.” It is not a complex medical process. It just means cooling down your brain. Eric Nofzinger and Naniel Buysse from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School led the study. They examined twelve people who had sleeping problems. Twelve others had no sleeping problems. Each of them wore a soft plastic cap on their head at bedtime.
The caps had tubes inside filled with water. The researchers moved the water through the tubes and then changed the temperature of the water. Other studies showed that people who had sleeping problems often had more chemical reactions in the front of their brain. The researchers thought cooling down the brain might help.
On the first two nights of testing, the patients wore caps with no water. On the next two nights, the caps were worn, but the water was not cooled. Then the researchers cooled the water a little for another two nights. On the final two nights of the study, the temperature of the water was made much cooler. The researchers found that the water caps didn’ t help the patients until the temperature was about 14℃. Most of the patients fell asleep faster and slept better when the coolest water was moving around their head.
Dr Nfzinger and Dr. Buysse noted that this was only the beginning of the brain temperature study. But they believed they had discovered something important that needed more research.
【1】The first paragraph is written to _________.
A．put forward the topic of the passage.
B．explain how serious insomnia is
C．tell us the causes of sleeping problems.
D．tell us the danger of having sleeping problems.
【2】From the passage we know that “cerebral hypothermia” is actually _________.
A．a complex medical process.
B．a psychological treatment.
C．a simple physical treatment.
D．a difficult scientific theory.
【3】In the study, researchers helped people fall asleep faster through _________.
A．increasing chemical reactions in the front of their brain.
B．making them feel safe with a cap on their head
C．asking them to drink water to cool down
D．lowering the temperature of their brain
【4】What is paragraph 4 mainly about?
A．The cause of the study.
B．The function of the caps.
C．People’s reactions to the study.
D．Some details of the study.
23、 The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks, which was blown away by a wolf. His brother, by contrast, built a wolf-proof house from bricks. The fairy tale could have been written by an agent for the construction industry, strongly favoring brick, concrete and steel. However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.
No other building material has environmental credentials (认证信息) as exciting and overlooked as wood. The energy required to produce a laminated wooden beam (层压木梁) is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing, wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. And for refitting older buildings to be more energy efficient, wood is a good insulator (绝缘体). A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminium (铝) equivalent.
But such bigger stories are still uncommon. Governments can help push the industry to use more wood, particularly in the public sector — the construction industry’s biggest client. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be altered to take account of the emissions that are presented in materials.
Construction codes could be regulated to make building with wood easier. Here the direction of travel is wrong. Britain, for instance, is banning the use of timber on the outside of tall buildings after 72 people died in a tower fire in London in 2017. That is a nonsense. Grenfell Tower was covered in aluminium and plastic, not wood. Modern cross-laminated timber (交叉层叠木板) panels perform better in fire tests than steel ones do.
Carpentry alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world’s buildings into line. But using wood can do much more than is appreciated. The second little pig was not wrong, just before his time.
【1】The purpose of the writer telling the story in the first paragraph is to _______.
A.attract the readers’ attention B.make the argument more convincing
C.criticize the author of the tale D.lead in the topic of the text
【2】Paragraph 2 is intended to inform us _______.
A.wood is a good insulator
B.such skyscrapers with wood are uncommon currently
C.the unique advantages of wood material being friendly environmental
D.how wood reduces the emission of carbon dioxide
【3】Which of the following does NOT belong to the governments’ measures to help the scheme?
A.To encourage the construction industry’s biggest client to use more wood.
B.To transform Zero-carbon building regulations.
C.To arouse the public’s awareness of protecting the woods.
D.To regulate the Construction codes.
【4】The author may imply that _______.
A.the second pig in the tale was unlucky
B.the outside of tall buildings Grenfell Tower could have been constructed in wood
C.we haven’t appreciated the characteristics of using wood at all
D.wood-building specialists will achieve greater profits
24、 About 18 months ago, my father was in the hospital recovering from a major lung operation. My mother had recently passed away, and my father had taken the loss of his partner of 55 years very hard and had lost interest in life.
Trying to get him to eat each day was quite a chore as he didn’t want anything. The one thing, however, that he would ask us to bring him was ice-cream.
One evening to our surprise, he refused to eat the ice-cream, so I placed it in a staff room freezer. A little while later, my son decided he wanted it, so I fetched it for him.
As I passed another ward, a woman asked, “Are there more? Where that came from?” When I explained the situation, she apologized. She then said that she had cancer and could eat very little other than the occasional ice-cream.
The next evening, I decided to buy two ice-cream. On the way to Dad’s room, I stopped in at the sick woman’s room, and offered her the ice-cream I’d bought for her. She was totally stunned that I had thought of her, and accepted the gift with tears in her eyes. I spoke with her for a few minutes, explaining what was happening in my family and listened to her similar story of pain and suffering. It was apparent that she did not have many visitors, and the ice-cream and our short chat meant a great deal to her.
I repeated the gesture a few days later, and this time was rewarded with a huge hug.
I never even thought to ask her name, and never saw her again, but it made me realize that an act of kindness can be more rewarding when you give it, rather than receive it.
【1】The writer’s father stayed in the hospital because________.
A.he had trouble eating B.he had had a lung operation
C.he had lost interest in life D.he was ill for losing his wife
【2】The writer bought ice-creams for the sick lady when he realized________.
A.ice-cream was among the little food she could eat
B.they had similar family experiences
C.she was lonely without family around
D.to give is as important as to receive
【3】The underlined word in paragraph 6 probably means________.
A.body language B.word
C.action D.decision
【4】What did the writer try to convey to us through the story?
A.Giving is rewarding.
B.Don’t hesitate to help elderly people.
C.It’s our responsibility to look after our parents.
D.Never put of anything you can do till tomorrow.
25、 Five years ago,at the age of 66, I stared running. I was not a natural _________. I wanted to lose weight and it seemed that running was a (n) _________ way. At first it was very _________ — I was mainly walking more than running when I started — but I didn’t _________.
When I started training running, I was just trying to build up stamina (耐力), and just the idea of even going three miles, even walking was a _________ .In the beginning, I just walked as much as I could and then as time went on, I _________ began running. Later I kept on adding more and more _________.
I _________ my coach Mario in my running club, and he’d been running for over 30 years. He had a lot of knowledge and often sent various quotes to _________ and encourage me.
Running the New York City Marathon for the first time was probably the greatest __________ of my life. I was really prepared, __________ Mario. I leaned a lot of life lessons during the __________: To be a winner, you have to believe in yourself __________ nobody else will. When I crossed the finishing line, I was so excited. I remember just getting to the ____14____ and realizing, “Oh my God, I’m going to do this!” I heard them say, “Welcome to the finishing line,” and I thought, wow, I was actually going to ____15____ this!
I could never have __________ myself doing the New York City Marathon, and here I am and I __________ it. I was a true __________ that it’s never too late to present yourself with a __________ image, as long as you have faith and allow that faith to __________ you.
【1】A.coach B.athlete C.teacher D.student
【2】A.easy B.funny C.good D.traditional
【3】A.hard B.helpful C.popular D.interesting
【4】A.show up B.come back C.give up D.hold back
【5】A.chance B.reason C.weakness D.challenge
【6】A.hopefully B.secretly C.suddenly D.gradually
【7】A.walking B.hiking C.running D.wandering
【8】A.met B.supported C.attended D.considered
【9】A.war B.inspire C.entertain D.confuse
【10】A.adventure B.experience C.honor D.opportunity
【11】A.thanks to B.out of C.apart from D.except for
【12】A.graduation B.construction C.separation D.preparation
【13】A.when B.what C.unless D.which
【14】A.top B.site C.end D.point
【15】A.listen to B.get through C.hang on D.take over
【16】A.controlled B.expressed C.imagined D.noticed
【17】A.tried B.earned C.chose D.made
【18】A.scholar B.leader C.athlete D.example
【19】A.right B.new C.powerful D.hopeful
【20】A.direct B.grasp C.select D.represent
26、假定你是高一学生李华。你班为了给同学们减压放松,决定在全班征集搞笑金点子创意。请你用英语写一篇文章，发表自己的观点。内容包括:
1. 简要说明笑的好处;
2. 搞笑的方法;
3. 你的建议。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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