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1、Obviously, the ability to talk is ______ that marks humans off from animals.
A. something B. anything
C. nothing D. everything
2、He stayed there for quite a long time,during_______time he learned much spoken English.
A. that B. this
C. which D. the same
3、With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth ________ each year.
A．is washing away
B．is being washed away
C．are washing away
D．are being washed away
4、More than one the people heart and soul.
A. official has served B. officials have served
C. official has served for D. officials have served for
5、A couple of people voiced objections ______________ the patient, as it might cost more than expected．
A.to operate on B.to the doctor's operating on
C.for the doctor to operate on D.operating on
6、When I opened the door, a parcel on the floor ____ my eye.
A. fixed B. caught C. focused D. appealed
7、I failed in the final exam last term and only then the importance of study.
A. I realized B. I realize
C. had I realized D. did I realize
8、In the _______ of proof, the police could not take action against the man.
A．lack
B．shortage
C．absence
D．failure
9、---How do you find my composition, Mr John?
---Good, ________ too many spelling mistakes. You can't imagine what great difficulties I had ________ them.
A．except; correct
B．except for; to correct
C．except; correcting
D．except for; correcting
10、_______ luggage has to be abandoned to save the people on the ship.
A.A good many B.A large number of
C.A great deal of D.A great many of
11、The new teacher was so well-organized that she began ________ we stopped yesterday so that no point was left out.
A．when
B．in which
C．how
D．where
12、The millionaire looked forward to ________ his old house in his hometown, but when he arrived, he found his hometown much ________.
A．find; change
B．finding; changing
C．found; changed
D．finding; changed
13、The experience ________ through this journey will help me get over difficulties in life in the future.
A．gaining
B．gained
C．to gain
D．having gained
14、 _____ the days went on, my memories seemed to get worse.
A. With B. Since C. As D. While
15、________ English magazines is the best way to learn new words.
A．To reading
B．Reading
C．Reads
D．Read
16、Most of her spare time ________, she still kept on her research in the library.
A. occupied B. to be occupied
C. was occupied D. had been occupied
17、Yuan Longping, a famous scientist, enjoys music in his spare time.
A．listening to
B．looking at
C．putting on
D．taking off
18、Lionel Messi playing for Barcelona claimed the 2019 Ballon d’Or on Monday, and before that he the award for five times.
A.was winning B.would win C.has won D.had won
19、Zhang Guimei, founder and principal of the first free high school for girls in China, often works overtime despite ________ from several kinds of illnesses.
A．suffered
B．suffering
C．to suffer
D．having suffered
20、As I'm weight, the doctor has warned me to keep off sugar
A.gaining B.getting C.gathering D.putting
21、 The Scandinavian languages consist of Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese. Danish is closely related to other Scandinavian languages such as Swedish and Norwegian. In fact, they are so similar that a Dane, a Swede, and a Norwegian can all have a conversation while each person is speaking his or her own language. You might wonder why, if the three languages are mutually understandable, they aren’t considered a single language.
Well, language isn’t only about communication; it’s an important part of a nation’s cultural and political identity. For centuries, Denmark, Sweden and Norway have worked to maintain separate identities, and having distinct languages helps. Besides, communication between the three languages isn’t easy; speakers have to work hard to understand each other.
In medieval times, Sweden was under Denmark’s control, and Danish was the language of government. When Sweden became independent in 1523, its officials decided to establish its own writing conventions, changing the spelling of words to reflect Swedish pronunciation and changing the alphabet to make it look less Danish. Soon after these changes were complete, the Bible was translated into Swedish. The Bible made the new Swedish more official, and the differences between written Danish and Swedish were solidified.
Spoken Swedish sounds pretty similar to Danish. The problem is that the two languages have rather different vocabularies. For example, pocket is lomme in Danish, but ficka in Swedish. Also, some words that sound similar have different meanings. The word frokost means lunch in Danish, but Swedish frukost, which sounds almost the same, means breakfast. This kind of difference is pretty common and can cause a lot of misunderstandings.
Norway was under Danish control for 400 years, until 1814. During this time, all official documents were written in Danish, and written Norwegian entirely died out. As a result, contemporary Norwegian looks very similar to Danish. The two languages also have similar vocabularies, although Norwegian pronunciation can be very different.
The relationship between the languages can be seen in a vast number of cognates, words that are similar in different languages.
【1】What did Sweden and Norway do to maintain their cultural and political identities?
A.To have their own languages.
B.To keep exchanges with Denmark.
C.To copy the Danish language.
D.To create a lot of new words.
【2】What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A.How Sweden won its independence.
B.Why Sweden created a new language.
C.Why the Bible was important to Swedish.
D.How Sweden established its writing system.
【3】Which of the following words means “breakfast” in Swedish?
A.ficka B.lomme C.frokost D.frukost
【4】Which will a Norwegian find easier to learn according to the text?
A.Danish pronunciation. B.Swedish vocabulary.
C.Danish vocabulary. D.Swedish pronunciation.
22、I live in London now. In 2015, I decided to take a break and do some traveling. During my travel, I saw a lot of plastic waste in the ocean, and started wondering what I could do about it. I reused my bamboo bike, which I’d made at the Bamboo Bicycle Club in Hackney, to float on the Thames and collect plastic on the river.
On September 18, I started my journey at the source of the Thames in Lechlade. Every day was different and the first was the worst. It was raining hard and when I tried to put the bamboo bike in the water, the weight of it turned the whole thing over. I thought: This is it — the project is over! But after a good hour I managed to get it out.
I had two fishing nets that I filled up every day with plastic, and I couldn’t even collect everything because some bits were hidden under a forest of seagrass. I also took pictures and geotagged them, to map which parts of the river were the most polluted. Oxford was particularly bad, with a lot of takeaway boxes, bottles, DVDs and even some chicken breasts still in the plastic bags.
My journey taught me the hard way that cleaning up the river is not going to solve the problem. We need to target the root cause: the buying of plastic. I’m thinking of running some activities in London and trying to make them spread quickly, like filling up a London bus with plastic bottles to represent how much plastic waste is produced every minute in London.
I want to show people how plastic is affecting us: how some of it even comes back into our bodies via microplastics(塑料微粒) in fish or salt. I know you can’t totally cut out the use of plastic, just like that, but I’d like people to think twice before buying their next bottle of water. Every step helps.
【1】Why does the author make use of the bamboo bike again?
A．It’s comfortable to ride.
B．It can float on the water.
C．It can be used for exercise.
D．It won’t pollute the river.
【2】How did the author feel when the bamboo bike turned over?
A．The project failed.
B．The bike was gone.
C．Everything would turn better.
D．All the work was finished.
【3】Which is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “geotagged” in paragraph 3?
A．Revised.
B．Cleared.
C．Marked.
D．Collected.
【4】What does the author think is more important to do with plastic pollution?
A．Closing plastic factories.
B．Reusing plastic items.
C．Collecting plastic waste.
D．Buying fewer plastic products.
23、Food festivals around the world
Stilton Cheese Rolling
May Day is a traditional day for celebrations, but the 2,000 English villagers of Stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans. Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course. On the way, they must not kick or throw their cheese, or go into their competitors' lane（赛道）. Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete Stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones). All the competitors are served with beer or port wine, the traditional accompaniment for Stilton cheese.
Fiery Foods Festival—The Hottest Festival on Earth
Every year more than 10,000 people head for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They come from as far away as Australia, the Caribbean and China, but they all share a common addiction—food that is not just spicy（辛辣）,but hot enough to make your mouth burn, your head spin and your eyes water. Their destination is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival which is held over a period of three clays every March. You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepper—officially the hottest pepper in the world—or any one of the thousands of products that are on show. But one thing's for sure—if you don't like the feeling of a burning tongue, this festival isn't for you!
La Tomatina—The World's Biggest Food Fight
On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts Ea Tomatina—the world's largest food fight. A week-long celebration leads up to an exciting tomato battle as the highlight of the week's events. The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes—official fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.
The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50,000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back. Then everyone heads down to the river to make friends again—and for a much-needed wash!
【1】In the Stilton cheese rolling competition, competitors on each team must .
A．wear various formal clothes
B．roll a wooden cheese in their own lane
C．kick or throw their cheese
D．use a real cheese weighing about four kilos
【2】Where is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival held?
A．In New Mexico.
B．In the Caribbean.
C．In Australia.
D．In China.
【3】The celebration of La Tomatina lasts .
A．three days
B．seven days
C．less than three days
D．more than seven days
【4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．The chief prize for the Stilton cheese rolling competition is beer or port wine.
B．More than 10,000 Chinese take pail in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.
C．Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.
D．An exciting tomato battle takes place at the beginning of La Tomatina.
24、More college graduates in China are seeking for work experience instead of advanced degrees, a survey shows. The practical approach, coupled with a record number of students graduating from college, is expected to strengthen competition in the job market, analysts said.
More than 76 percent of university students said they wanted to work after earning their degrees this summer, up from 68.5 percent in 2012 and 73.6 percent last year, according to poll results from Zhaopin.com, a major online agency, Zhu Bo.
The annual survey also shows that about 20 percent university graduates chose to further education after graduation, while about 3 percent wanted to start their own businesses.
Zeng Hao ,a 25-year-old media major, managed to land a job in a publishing company in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, before he received his master's degree from the University of Macau in June. " Work experience really matters in the publishing industry" he said.
Wei Guihong , a program administrator at Nanjing University, said about 60 percent of the school's graduates entered the labor market every year. “More and more students majoring in a foreign language choose to go abroad to continue their studies to improve their language skills," she said continuously, "That's perhaps a bright future.”
Liu Junsheng , a researcher at the Labor and Wage Institute of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, believes that economic conditions play a vital role in shaping college graduates' choices .“There were fewer job opportunities in the market. ” he said. "Although academic degrees still matter, more and more employers value job seekers' work experience." he said.
The Zhaopin.com survey shows that each of the graduates sent resumes(履历) on average to about 28 potential employers and received five interview opportunities.
【1】We can infer from the first three paragraphs that____
A. the number of graduates from college is likely to decline gradually
B. the employment situation is still relatively optimistic
C. the majority of university graduates are ready for further education
D. those who want to start their own businesses are fewest
【2】From the text, we know that the real expert on employment is____
A. Zhu Bo B. Zeng Hao
C. Liu Junsheng D. Wei Guihong
【3】What is Wei Guihong's attitudes towards her students' going abroad for their studies? ____ .
A. Pessimistic. B. Supportive C. Critical D. Negative
【4】What would be the best title for the text?
A . Graduates pick work instead of taking advanced degrees.
B. Graduates take advanced degrees instead of picking work
C .Few graduates can get their jobs they seek for
D. Few Graduates receive the interview opportunities
25、Last summer, we went to Hawaii for holiday. During my _______ trip with my husband, we spent most of our time _______ during the day in the sea, and then enjoying walks along the beach in the evenings.
We didn’t take any_______ because we had enough. We had visited the island many times _______. On our way to the _______ we joked that other than our sunburnt skin, we had no way to show that we had _______ there!
As we stood in line at the check-in, we noticed the _______ who had been on our plane the week before. _______, they all had tear-filled eyes this day. On the plane, we sat directly behind them: a mother and her four children without Dad’s _______. We learned that the father had been ________ in a jet-skiing accident that week, and his wife and children had to ________ make their way home without him.
We watched the children become ________ while they were playing cards. But the mother stared at her knees, ________ to believe her husband’s death. We could ________ feel her pain as we realized that this could have happened to any of us. ________ we were laughing and playing in the water, this poor family had been ________ the sufferings. The vacation they had dreamed about had ________ the terrible dream they would never forget.
I suddenly ________ that we had no pictures for this vacation together. I closed my eyes, ________ that my mind had recorded all the wonderful moments that I had ________ with my husband that week. What a trip!
【1】A. week-long B. month-long C. year-long D. weekend
【2】A. flying B. travelling C. swimming D. walking
【3】A. action B. children C. photos D. friends
【4】A. before B. ago C. now D. yet
【5】A. sea B. airport C. destination D. station
【6】A. traveled B. left C. missed D. forgotten
【7】A. class B. parent C. passenger D. family
【8】A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However D. Then
【9】A. attendance B. care C. protection D. love
【10】A. hit B. discovered C. forbidden D. killed
【11】A. nervously B. bravely C. confidently D. proudly
【12】A. unworried B. sad C. worried D. frightened
【13】A. unable B. likely C. willing D. afraid
【14】A. never B. ever C. almost D. hardly
【15】A. Whether B. While C. Although D. If
【16】A. feeling B. experiencing C. fighting D. ignoring
【17】A. wiped out B. eased off C. broken up D. turned into
【18】A. regretted B. decided C. remembered D. discovered
【19】A. noticing B. hoping C. finding D. seeing
【20】A. created B. valued C. shared D. planned
26、假定你是校学生会主席李华。为了帮助你校外国交换生更好地了解中国传统文化，学生 会将举办迎中秋活动。请根据以下提示用英语向他们作口头通知。
时间：2020年9月30日19:00—20:30
地点：报告厅（Lecture Hall）
内容：了解中秋节；比赛用筷子；学习做月饼等。
1. 字数：100词左右；
2. 可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。
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