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1、 It’s recommended that our plan _____ until it was tested again.
A. put off B. be put off
C. should put off D. would be put off
2、The project savings from cooling is about $4,000 a year on a new roof ________ life span is about 50 percent longer than that of a traditional roof.
A．what
B．whose
C．which
D．such
3、John, ________ money was now no problem, started a new company with his friends.
A. for whose B. of whose C. of whom D. for whom
4、—Can I help you, sir?
—No, thanks. I________.
A．have just looked around
B．am just looking around
C．just look around
D．just looked around
5、If he had decided where to go, he ___ on his way at present.
A. would be B. would have been C. is D. can’t
6、There is no goal that you cannot obtain ________ you have an honest attitude and a strong will.
A.even if B.so that C.except that D.as long as
7、We had a long way to go, and the snowstorm ________ our difficulties.
A.referred to B.added to
C.belonged to D.turned to
8、________you call me to say you’re not coming, I’ll see you at the theatre.
A．Though
B．Whether
C．Until
D．Unless
9、The reason ________ the TV networks are forced to come up with better shows is ________ nowadays more and more young parents prefer to spend time reading stories to their kids rather than root themselves in front of the TV.
A.why; because B.that; because C.that; that D.why; that
10、 He, together with his friends，_______ coming to visit us this weekend.
A. is B. are C. will D. should
11、Yesterday I bought an ancient Chinese vase, was very reasonable.
A．which price
B．its price
C．the price of which
D．and whose price
12、She lost heart since she failed in the exam. She felt_____about her future.
A.puzzle B.puzzling
C.puzzled D.puzzles
13、LED lighting, even in most developed countries, ________ long enough to know its effects across the human lifespan.
A.has not been used B.was not used
C.had not been used D.is not being used
14、He admitted ____________the little girl, who refused to give him some money.
A. to beat B. to have beaten
C. being beaten D. having beaten
15、All her time ________ experiments, she has no time for entertainment.
A．devoted to doing
B．devoted to do
C．devoting to doing
D．is devoted to doing
16、If you_______ a gas leak(泄露), do not strike a match or even turn on an electric light.
A.suspect B.generate C.evolve D.decline
17、She is_______, so her students are afraid to talk with her .
A. shy B. serious
C. kind D. nervous
18、The crowd cheered wildly at the sight of the athlete, who was reported ____________ the world record in the 110-meter hurdle race.
A. breaking B. having broken C. to have broken D. to break
19、Rick has always ____________ foreign language. He is a genius in language.
A.run out of B.excelled at C.fought against
20、—Could you please tell me __________ ?
—Sure. On Friday afternoon.
A．where the book sale is
B．when the book sale is
C．what the book sale is about
D．what the book sale about is
21、Many news reports focus on climate change these days. Extreme heat, wildfires, floods, homeless polar bears... How do you feel when reading worrying news about climate change? You may believe that people are becoming insensitive to the warming planet, accepting that it is only getting worse.
A research team at Pennsylvania State University, US, reported otherwise. To record how the news can impact people’s emotions, participants were first exposed to negative news stories about climate change for three days. They then continued to read negative news headlines for seven days. In the first three days, the participants experienced greater fear and less hope, which can potentially hurt an audience’s belief that they can do anything to tackle the problem.
However, during the seven-day-long exposure, the fear peaked and then held steady (稳定的). “We saw the opposite pattern in our second study. The more exposure people had to these threatening news stories each day, the more likely they are to think that they can make a difference in tackling climate change,” Christofer Skurka, the paper’s lead author told the Pennsylvania State University website.
According to the researchers, one possibility is that when the public hears about climate change threats, they may convince themselves that they have control over the situation. They will then believe that their actions may make a difference.
Knowing that everyone is able to help is only the first step. According to a study that analyzed information from 430 different studies, what motivates people the most to change their behavior is social comparison. For example, if a person’s neighbors follow a low-carbon lifestyle, such as driving electric cars, the person may feel social pressure and become more likely to follow this behavior. This happens because people usually judge their own behavior and follow social norms (规范). Another effective motivation is providing financial rewards to consumers, helping them save money.
“There are so many routes to our goals,” Matthew Goldberg, the co-author of the study, told Scientific American. As Goldberg pointed out, future research like this can help policymakers decide how best to encourage people to ward more climate-friendly habits.
【1】How did the participants react to negative news in the second study?
A．They found the news unbelievable.
B．They lost hope in tackling climate change.
C．They experienced greater fear for the future.
D．They felt a strong sense of social responsibility.
【2】What encourages people most toward more climate-friendly behavior?
A．Effective policy.
B．Healthy lifestyle.
C．Social influence.
D．Financial support.
【3】What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?
A．Responses to climate change education.
B．T he effectiveness of community initiatives.
C．T he impact of social norms on environment.
D．Ways to encourage climate-friendly behavior.
【4】What is Goldberg’s attitude towards similar future research?
A．Doubtful.
B．Optimistic.
C．Objective.
D．Indifferent.
22、Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Entrepreneurs in New Zealand are working with American designers to develop robotic dolphins that look almost exactly the same as real dolphins.【1】A robotic dolphin that can nod an answer to a child. It might not sound attractive or may even sound worrying, but as marine parks around the world are under pressure to stop using real whales and dolphins, the creatures are an attractive alternative. their creators say.
“Marine parks have been making less money for more than ten years because many people think the parks are cruel and because of the cost of live animals, but people still really want to learn about and experience these animals,” said Roger Holzberg, a Californian designer of the life-size robot bottlenose dolphins.【2】
“We have to persuade marine park owners that these dolphins can make them money, even more money than live animals,” Holzberg said. 【3】On average, bottlenose dolphins live for less than 20 years in captivity but 30 to 50 years in the wild.
Melanie Langlotz, one of the entrepreneurs behind the project, has a background in reality games. “It became clear that any large aquarium, in order to compete with any other aquarium, would need to have all the big animals on display, such as dolphins and sharks,” she said. “The bigger, the better.”【4】Finally, the group decided to use robotic animals instead of live ones. The sample robotic dolphin, Langlotz said, weighs more than 270Kg. A test audience was unable to guess the dolphin was not real, she added. Animal rights supporters also welcomed the change, hoping robotic dolphins would replace real ones in marine parks worldwide.
A.The arguments among her New Zealand-based suppliers about the use of live animals became heated.
B.They can respond to questions, swim happily in tanks and are not harmed by close contact with visitors.
C.He added that the robots did not cost anything to keep and didn’t need temperature-controlled water.
D.A robotic bottlenose dolphin cost four times more than normal dolphins but would last much longer.
E.In nature, dolphins live in close family groups, but in captivity, they’re forced to interact with strangers.
F.He believed it’s time to change marine parks to be more humane and to make more money at the same time.
23、How is it that siblings (兄弟姐妹) can turn out so differently? One answer is that in fact each sibling grows up in a different family. The firstborn is, for a while, an only child, and therefore has a completely different experience of the parents than those born later. The next child is, for a while, the youngest, until the situation is changed by a new arrival. The mother and father themselves are changing and growing up too. One sibling might live in a stable and close family in the first few years; another might be raised in a family crisis, with a disappointed mother or an angry father.
Sibling competition was identified as an important shaping force as early as in 1918. But more recently, researchers have found many ways in which brothers and sisters are a lasting force in each others’ lives. Dr. Annette Henderson says firstborn children pick up vocabulary more quickly than their siblings. The reason for this might be that the later children aren’t getting the same one-on-one time with parents. But that doesn’t mean that the younger children have problems with language development. Later-borns don’t enjoy that much talking time with parents, but instead they harvest lessons from bigger brothers and sisters, learning entire phrases and getting an understanding of social concepts such as the difference between “I” and “me”.
A Cambridge University study of 140 children found that siblings created a rich world of play that helped them grow socially. Love-hate relationships were common among the children. Even those siblings who fought the most had just as much positive communication as the other sibling pairs.
One way children seek more attention from parents is by making themselves different from their siblings, particularly if they are close in age. Researchers have found that the first two children in a family are typically more different from each other than the second and third. Girls with brothers show their differences to a maximum degree by being more feminine than girls with sisters. A 2003 research paper studied adolescents from 185 families over two years, finding that those who changed to make themselves different from their siblings were successful in increasing the amount of warmth they gained from their parents.
【1】The underlined part “in a different family” (in Para. 1) means “_______”.
A．in a different family environment
B．in a different family tradition
C．in different family crises
D．in different families
【2】In terms of language development, later-borns ________.
A．get their parents’ individual guidance
B．learn a lot from their elder siblings
C．experience a lot of difficulties
D．pick up words more quickly
【3】What was found about fights among siblings?
A．Siblings hated fighting and loved playing.
B．Siblings in some families fought frequently.
C．Sibling fights led to bad sibling relationships.
D．Siblings learned to get on together from fights.
【4】The word “feminine” (in Para. 4) means “_______”.
A．having qualities of parents
B．having qualities of women
C．having defensive qualities
D．having extraordinary qualities
24、The earth is dying before us yet we sit and watch. If the TV or the game system breaks, we run off to the stores to get it fixed immediately no matter what the cost. Why aren’t we willing to fix our earth? Are our televisions and game systems more important to us than where we live? Where shall we continue to live, until the end of time?
The earth is our home and cannot be replaced. We must take care of it. We have come up with so much technology that limits us instead of helping us. Take that game system we run to repair. What does it do? It occupies kids’ time! The earth has already given kids plenty of entertainment in the forms of fields and hills, forests and plains, water and land. However, instead of using what the earth has given us, and helping kids by giving them exercise as they run around, we decide to ruin kids’ minds with game systems that glue them to the screen for hours, and make them ignore their homework and chores. We have polluted this earth by making these things which do not even help in any way!
We have already messed up this world, we have ruined the air, water, and animals that it has so willingly provided for us. We need to stop this destruction of life and bring back the world we had before. It will not be easy, but everybody can help! What about something as simple as turning the lights off when you leave a room? Recycling what can be recycled? Picking up litter? Donating money to an environmental organization? None of these things are very hard. We can’t just always say, “Oh, the earth is a mess. Ah, well, those big companies that are polluting so much can stop and fix it.” Instead, we need to help out. It’s not only those big companies; it’s everyday things that we do too that are ruining the earth. So stop and think about what you can do to make a difference to our world!
【1】Why does the author mention televisions and game systems in Paragraph 1?
To make people better aware of the urgency to the protection of the earth.
B. To explore the great harm done to the earth by too much technology waste.
C. To show the relationship between overuse of those things with early death.
D. To remind people to spend less on them and use the saved money in a wiser way.
【2】It can be inferred from the second paragraph that the author .
thinks we must take care of our irreplaceable home-----the earth
B. thinks running around in fields occupies too much of kids’ time
C. takes an extremely negative attitude to things like game systems
D. takes it for granted that technology gives kids plenty of entertainment
【3】We can clearly feel that the author wrote this passage with deep_____
A. anger B. emotion C. sadness D. Regret
【4】What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To criticize those big companies that ruin the earth
B. To ask people to save kids from the harm done by pollution.
C. To give kids plenty of entertainment in a clean environment
D. To call on people to stop ruining the earth
25、You may always hear about people who knew exactly what they wanted to do with their life from the time they were in kindergarten. I didn’t consider lots of career ________ when I graduated from high school. Like most students who earn good grades in maths and science classes, I found people ________ me to be an engineer. But all of that changed when I went to my ________.
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my very first Biology ________. I nervously found a seat and waited for the type of ________ you see in TV shows, old and strict. What I got was exactly ________ . Dr Espinoza was a caring and ________ teacher, and two terms of her classes made me fall in love with Biology. Her exciting classes made me realise that I had other choices besides being a(n) ________: heading for a career in biological research.
Due to Dr Espinoza, I found that scientists aren’t just what we ________ on the National Geographic Channel. They are real people who answer real questions and ________ real problems. This led me to seek out opportunities to do real science projects and see if I ________ it. While I was at university, I learned how to ask good questions, how to ________ experiments and collect data, and how to share what I learned with people.
Falling in love with ________ was a long process for me, but it led me to a job I love. Like the science itself, my journey towards being a scientist was ________, but helped along by many teachers and professors who ________ me the way.
【1】
A．development
B．difficulty
C．choices
D．requirements
【2】
A．appointing
B．forcing
C．allowing
D．encouraging
【3】
A．university
B．office
C．room
D．lab
【4】
A．league
B．lecture
C．test
D．teamwork
【5】
A．agent
B．volunteer
C．host
D．professor
【6】
A．opposite
B．traditional
C．typical
D．similar
【7】
A．average
B．casual
C．enthusiastic
D．severe
【8】
A．lawyer
B．educator
C．scholar
D．engineer
【9】
A．take care of
B．make fun of
C．learn about
D．search for
【10】
A．solve
B．bring
C．raise
D．ignore
【11】
A．enjoyed
B．doubted
C．recommended
D．acknowledged
【12】
A．replace
B．predict
C．conduct
D．copy
【13】
A．literature
B．science
C．language
D．art
【14】
A．precious
B．smooth
C．beneficial
D．slow
【15】
A．promised
B．showed
C．left
D．awarded
26、请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
The hardworking and never-give-up attitude of Malaysian badminton star Lee Chong Wei has won many people’s hearts.
The 36-year-old player is already a veteran of the badminton world. Despite this, he doesn’t want to call it a day. At the moment, nose cancer is keeping him out of the game.
At a press conference earlier this month, Lee said that he hopes to return to badminton next year and to compete in his fifth Olympic Games held in Tokyo in 2020. “It’s going to be tough to fight for the gold medal, but I will try my very best because it’s always my dream,” he said. Although Lee is one of the world’s greatest players, he has never won a badminton world championship. So if health permits, he will continue to compete because he wants an Olympic gold. Besides his great determination, his other drive is his passion for the sport. “One of the most important things in life to him is badminton,” Lee’s coach Misbun Sodik told the New Straits Times.
After two months of cancer treatment that caused eating and sleeping problems, recently Lee began a little training.
（写作内容）
1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；
2. 综合上述信息，用约120个单词谈一谈“热情对于一个人事业成功的重要性”及其理由。
（写作要求）
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
（评分标准）
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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