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1、----Judy, I will have a meeting in Canada next week.
----Well, you’d better take a _______with you, or you may easily get lost.
A. photo B. stamp
C. map D. postcard
2、Pandas are facing danger! The situation won’t change humans stop killing.
A.after B.though C.if D.unless
3、Nowadays，more film stars ______ to be difficult to work with．
A．say B．have said
C．are said D．were said
4、The restaurant is ________ my uncle.
A．in charge of
B．in the charge of
C．on charge of
D．on the charge of
5、According to the police，the man called “Tuhao”_______ to be a professional cheat in business．
A． worked out B． made out
C． figured out D． turned out
6、______ twice, the postman refused to deliver our letters unless we chained our dog.
A.Being bitten B.Bitten C.Having bitten D.To be bitten
7、Not once ________ Bob Dylan ever ________ the time to ask himself if his songs are literature.
A．would; have
B．did; have
C．has; had
D．was; had
8、— I have trouble falling asleep these days because my neighbor upstairs is too noisy!
一 ________ .You should talk to him about it.
A．It's up to you
B．That's annoying
C．Forget it
D．What a pity
9、Look, ___beautiful flowers the girl ___carrying that she becomes the focus in the room.
A. such; is B. so; are C. how; is D. what; are
10、Witnesses said the participants, __________ young men, approached in a very orderly fashion.
A. most B. mostly
C. foremost D. almost
11、I think a good organizer should act as a(n) ________ reminder of what the team needs to achieve.
A. confident B. independent
C. innocent D. constant
12、If you are ________ about Chinese culture, you can read some books about it.
A．embarrassed
B．impressive
C．curious
D．visible
13、Long-term ______ to domestic and foreign classics has made him so knowledgeable.
A. resistance B. submission C. admission D. exposure
14、The demand________ the workers ask for higher wages seemed reasonable.
A．that
B．what
C．which
D．when
15、--Haven’t seen you for ages! Do you still work in Guangzhou?
---______. It’s two years since I worked there.
A．Yes, I have
B．Yes, I do
C．No, I haven’t
D．No, I don’t
16、It was a few days later that he found the lady he was looking for ______ for eight years.
A.had died B.had been dead C.had dead D.had been dying
17、It was in the forest _____ they found the lost cow.
A.where B.that C.when D.as
18、Varieties of solutions have been provided for us to solve the problem. We can choose________ to start with.
A．it
B．that
C．each
D．one
19、—This is the refrigerator______ we had so much trouble.
—Get someone to repair it .
A.at which B.of which C.with which D.to which
20、He said he would come to the party, but he hasn’t __________ yet. Which of the following is wrong?
A. shown up B. come along
C. turned up D. come up
21、 Derek Rabelo is not the only surfer (冲浪手) to conquer Hawaii’s famous Pipeline big wave break, but while all others use their sight to do it, this young professional surfer must rely only on his other senses. That’s because he is completely blind.
When Derek was born, over 24 years ago, he got his name from Derek Ho, the first Hawaiian surfing world champion. A surfing enthusiast himself, Ernesto dreamed that his son would share the talent of his uncle, a professional surfer. Unfortunately, Derek was born completely blind, but this didn't stop his family from believing that he could do anything he wanted, even if that meant becoming a surfer.
At age 2, Derek received a bodyboard and the beaches of Guarapari, Brazil, became his backyard. He was always comfortable in the water and surfing was in his blood, but he didn't actually try riding a wave until he turned 17, when his father bought him a surfboard. His father taught him the basics and encouraged him to keep practising, but after successfully standing up on the surfboard, Derek knew he needed to become much better if he was going to achieve Ernesto's dream and become a professional surfer. So he joined the Praia do Moroo surf school, where he studied under coach Fabio Maru.
Standing up on a surfboard and conquering small waves is one thing, while gathering the courage to take on Hawaii's board—breaking Pipeline is another. But that's exactly what Derek Rabelo set out to do just months after learning how to surf. Everyone told him it was too dangerous, but he felt he could do it. And he did, earning the praise of famous professional surfers like Kelly Slater and Mick Fanning. Now 24, Rabelo has been surfing the Pipeline every winter since.
【1】What does the first paragraph tell us?
A.Good eyesight is necessary for becoming good surfers.
B.Nobody has ever conquered Hawaii's big wave break.
C.Derek Rabelo dreams to conquer Hawaii’s big wave break.
D.Derek Rabelo is the only blind professional surfer to conquer Hawaii’s big wave break.
【2】How did Ernesto behave after Derek was born?
A.He never lost confidence in him.
B.He named him after his uncle.
C.He sent him to a surfing champion.
D.He started his own interest in surfing.
【3】After Derek was able to stand up on the surfboard, he .
A.began to try riding a wave
B.was no longer afraid of water
C.realized he still had a long way to go
D.knew his father's dream had come true
22、Nenad Sestan was working in his office one afternoon in 2016, when he heard his lab members whispering with excitement over a microscope. He realized something beyond their expectations was happening.
The researchers, at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, had found electrical activity in brains taken from dead pigs. With that shocking result, Sestan realized what had started as a side project to find ways to better preserve brain tissue for research had changed into a discovery that could redefine our understanding of life and death.
The excitement soon turned to concern, when the researchers thought they saw widespread, consistent electrical activity which can indicate consciousness( 意识 ). Sestan brought in a neurologist, who determined the readout was actually an error, but the possibility had frightened them.
Sestan kept his cool and immediately did two things: he shut down the experiment and contacted the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as a Yale bioethicist(生物伦理学家). Over the next few months, experts discussed the potential ethical implications, such as whether the brains could become conscious and whether physicians needed to reconsider the definition of brain death.
They submitted the work to Nature. But before the final paper was published, Sestan met sharp criticism from the press. Some even suggested that the researchers were engineering immortality(永生), or maintaining a room full of living brains in jars. Neither he nor his team wanted to discuss the results until the paper was out, but as their inboxes filled with concerns and anger from animal rights activists and futurists, Sestan became depressed. He felt all they could do, however, was to hold off on correcting public misunderstandings until the expert review process had run its course.
Since the paper was published in April, 2019, the team has been so busy fielding questions from the media and scientists that it hasn’t performed any further experiments. Sestan wants to focus on his original questions and explore how long the brains can be maintained and whether the technology can preserve other organs.
“We want to get outside opinion before we do anything,” Sestan says. “When you explore uncharted territory, you have to be extremely thoughtful.”
【1】What happened in the lab at Yale School of Medicine in 2016?
A．A better method was found to maintain brain tissue.
B．Researchers discovered how to redefine brain death.
C．Brains from dead pigs were accidentally discovered alive.
D．Researchers arrived at the expected results of the experiment.
【2】Why did Nenad Sestan stop the experiment?
A．He needed assistance with the final paper.
B．He spotted a major mistake in the final result.
C．He was frightened by the possibility of failure.
D．He was concerned about the related moral issues.
【3】What was people’s reaction towards Nenad Sestan’s experiment?
A．The press were strongly opposed to the experiment.
B．Some people supported the research on immortality.
C．Nobody wanted to discuss the final result in advance.
D．The public took a positive attitude towards the experiment.
【4】How could we best describe Nenad Sestan?
A．Responsible and reliable.
B．Cooperative and creative.
C．Determined and inspiring.
D．Professional and cautious.
23、 The word “adulting” started as a kind of joke—whenever a millennial (千禧一代) would do something as an adult does, this was an act of “adulting”. However, now, millennials clearly need training in being an adult.
Rachel Flehinger has founded an Adulting School, which includes online classes on simple sewing (缝纫), problems solving and cooking. The cause for such classes is that many millennials haven’t left childhood homes—in America 34 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 still lived with their parents in 2015, up from 26 percent 10 years before. There’s a good deal of truth to this. If you’re living at home, with Mom and Dad doing their best to spoil (溺爱) you, you’re less likely to know how to wash clothes, cook or make the bed. Dependency leads to enervation. Over time, you are unable to adult.
But living at home doesn’t necessarily bring dependency. Back in 1940, 30 percent of 25-to-29-year-olds lived at home with parents or grandparents. But they were adulting. Parents expected their kids to do housework, and to prepare for life. Then, what’s the real problem now?
Instead of blaming (责备) living at home, we have to blame our style of parenting. The truth is that we’ve simply become lazier as parents. We’re more likely to let our kids lie on a sofa than tell them to get a job. We don’t push our kids to build families of their own, because life cost has increased. Then the question is how we can encourage young people to “adult” in such a situation.
【1】What is the purpose of showing the data (数据) in paragraph 2?
A.To show that millennials liked to live with their parents.
B.To show that the Adulting School became popular in 2015.
C.To show that more adults still depended on their parents.
D.To show that the online courses were necessary to learn.
【2】Which of the following can best explain “enervation”?
A.Emergency B.Argument C.Tension D.Weakness
【3】Which of the following statements is TRUE about the last two paragraphs?
A.Living at home certainly leads to dependency.
B.Parents are too lazy to do housework.
C.We often tell kids to get a job.
D.Kids are not pushed to start their own families.
【4】What does this passage mainly talk about?
A.What the life of the millennials is like.
B.Why millennials need adulting training.
C.How parents encourage millennials to “adult”.
D.How parents educated kids in the past.
24、Some cities and lawmakers are resisting crime-fighting tech owing to bias (偏见) and accuracy concerns. Police departments around the U.S. are asking citizens to trust them to use facial recognition software as a handy tool in their crime-fighting toolbox. But some lawmakers — and even some technology giants — are against it.
Take the western Massachusetts city of Springfield, where many residents are Latino or black. Springfield police say they have no plans to use facial recognition systems, but some City Council members are moving to block any future government use of the technology anyway.
At an October hearing on the subject, Springfield City Councilman, Orlando Ramos, defended the technology. “The facial recognition technology does not drop a net from the sky and put you to prison,” he said, noting that it could serve as a useful investigative tool. However, he doesn’t want to take any risks. “It would only lead to more racial discrimination.” he said, citing studies that found higher error rates for facial recognition software used to identify women and people with darker skins.
Similar debates across the country are highlighting racial issues and concerns about the technology’s accuracy. Axon, which supplies body-worn cameras nationwide, had already formed an artificial intelligence ethics board (伦理委员会)that concluded facial recognition technology isn’t yet dependable enough to justify its use on police cameras. Axon Chief Executive Rick Smith said, “Even if facial recognition software was perfectly accurate, the ability to track people raises privacy concerns. “Do we want everybody who walks near a police officer to get their face identified and logged in a database?” he said.
Nevertheless, Todd Pastorini, general manager at biometric forensics (生物取证) company DataWorks Plus, said it’s the “extremely effective” method of running images through photos to help identify a suspect. “Society and the public are going to get frustrated, if governments refuse to adopt a technology that keeps improving”, he said. In his eyes, facial recognition hits are just one part of an investigation.
【1】What is Orlando Ramos’ attitude towards facial recognition?
A．Hopeful.
B．Cautious.
C．Ambiguous.
D．Tolerant.
【2】What is one focus of the debates about facial recognition?
A．Gender discrimination.
B．Speed limit.
C．Accuracy rate.
D．Steadiness control.
【3】What does Rick Smith think of facial recognition?
A．It appears to cause prejudice.
B．It brings about privacy concerns.
C．Its technology is reliable.
D．Its accuracy needs improving.
【4】What can we learn from the passage?
A．Facial recognition tool meets with resistance.
B．All the people disapprove of facial recognition.
C．Facial recognition is the only tool of investigation.
D．Governments should ban facial recognition.
25、Mother’s Day is around the corner, and to mark the occasion, I want to share with you what Mom taught me, impressed upon me, and how she otherwise shaped me.
From my earliest ____, I felt as if my mother was preparing me for ____ special. When we entered a room, her entire focus was on me. I felt as if I was the ____ of her universe — a great feeling. Offering her the same ____, I intently listened to her stories without ____. I tried to return that feeling of being truly loved.
____ there was always deep affection flowing between us, she wasn’t a softy (心肠软的人). She worked hard and ____ her children to do the same. I began working in our little corner grocery store by age eight and ____ it by the age of twelve. She ____ my hard work and treated me as an equal. I learned that I could do anything through hard work. I learned ____.
Mom always supported my decisions, but also ____ her concern. When I decided to retire early from teaching to writing about etiquette (礼仪), she announced her concern. She ____ that there wasn’t a ____ for it — my mom, always the business person. ____, by the end of our conversation she ____ me with, “With your training and love of people, you are ____ for this.” She followed quickly with a saying I’ll always remember, “Nothing is ___ to a man who will have a try.” Thanks, Mom.
By ____, my mother taught me how to show respect for others. She gave me my listening skills, my courage, and my manners. Through her, I ____ to be strong, to follow my heart, and to work hard. I never ____. If not for this, I wouldn’t be a successful business owner and good friend to all.
【1】A. memories B. . times C. lessons D. opinions
【2】A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything
【3】A. pride B. center C. trouble D. success
【4】A. admiration B. reward C. authority D. respect
【5】A. interrupting、 B. moving C. understanding D. thinking
【6】A. Now that B. As though C. Even though D. So that
【7】A. ordered B. allowed C. forbade D. expected
【8】A. abandoned B. managed C. controlled D. adjusted
【9】A. appreciated B. ignored C. celebrated D. treasured
【10】A. determination B. communication C. encouragement D. devotion
【11】A. covered B. expressed C. changed D. displayed
【12】A. thought B. argued C. worried D. convinced
【13】A. chance B. market C. company D. limit
【14】A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. Though D. However
【15】A. encouraged B. assured C. advised D. signaled
【16】A. eager B. grateful C. perfect D. responsible
【17】A. unique B. good C. harmful D. difficult
【18】A. accident B. design C. example D. nature
【19】A. wanted B. learned C. tried D. remained
【20】A. give up B. give out C. give away D. give back
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Abby Jaramillo never lost her enthusiasm. She believed that with age came courage, vision (远见卓识) and a true appreciation of life — all life. That’s why, at the age of eighty-six, Abby became the only caretaker of a flock of chickens abandoned alongside one of Southern California’s busiest freeways. The chickens were never rescued. Instead, they simply lived in the roadside bushes, becoming known to locals as the Hollywood Freeway Chickens.
Like many seniors, Abby lived alone and survived on a small amount of money. But to her, life was precious and not to be cruelly given up or ignored-not even the lives of abandoned chickens. Abby simply saw creatures in need and without hesitation, stepped into action. For nine years, while others sped past unaware and unconcerned, Abby made two visits a day to provide food and water for the abandoned chickens, using what little money she had available. As the years passed, she worried about the day when she would no longer be able to care for her adopted chickens and her cat Tiffy. Who would look after these poor helpless creatures if she could no longer make her journey?
At ninety-five, just when the cruelties of time began to damage Abby’s body, a heroine (女英雄) appeared. Alice Kahn, a young actress and a founding member of the organization Actors and Others for Animals, was Abby’s neighbor. Alice had observed Abby and noticed that the older woman also fed many of the homeless cats in the neighborhood. Alice approached Abby to see if her neighbor could identify the owner of a stray (走失的) dog that Alice had recently rescued. A quick and lasting friendship resulted.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150个左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Learning of Abby’s concern for the fate of her flock, Alice volunteered to help
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Abby is gone now, but her concern for her fellow creatures lives on.
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