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1、Great changes ________ in our school since 2016. A lot of progress ________.
A．have taken the place; have been made
B．had taken place; have been made
C．were taken place; has made
D．have taken place; has been made
2、There is hardly anybody walking in the street in the night, _____?
A.isn’t it B.isn’t there C.is there D.is it
3、I have been convinced that the print media are usually more____ and more reliable than television.
A.accurate B.ridiculous
C.urgent D.shallow
4、—Gosh, I feel I have messed up my whole life.
—Cheer up. Things will _______.
A.break down B.work out C.put up D.show up
5、Despite the previous rounds of talks, no agreement ________ so far by the two sides.
A.had reached B.has been reached
C.was reached D.has reached
6、It is the only one of the most exciting movies_______been shown this year.
A.that has B.that have C.which has D.which have
7、China has made ______ clear to the world that in the course of its development it seeks for both golden, silver hills and clean water, green mountains as well.
A. this B. that C. it D. One
8、 It was the culture, rather than the language,____made it hard for him to adapt to the new environment abroad
A. where B. why
C. that D. what
9、We can no longer ________ to consider water an almost free resource that we can use as much as we like.
A.permit B.afford C.expect D.offer
10、American women usually identify their best friend as someone ________ they can talk frequently.
A. who B. as
C. about which D. with whom
11、I hope to see you at the office tomorrow, but if ________, do remember to leave me a message.
A．possible
B．so
C．not
D．any
12、But for their help, we ________ the program in time.
A. can not finished B. will not finish
C. had not finished D. could not have finished
13、In Africa, educational costs are very low for those who are_______enough to get into universities.
A.successful B.fortunate C.proper D.happy
14、______ the scenery from the top of the mountain, I was fascinated by the autumn colors.
A．See
B．Seeing
C．Seen
D．To see
15、Remember never to tell a lie to others. If you did, you would never ________ it and it is more ________ that you will be discovered before long.
A.get away with; likely B.get away from; possible
C.get away with; possibly D.get away from; probable
16、Once made out, the plan must be carried out ___ any difficulty.
A.instead of B.in need of C.because of D.regardless of
17、Can you tell me something about the new hospital that the mayor is eager to have ________ next month?
A．constructed
B．constructing
C．to construct
D．been constructed
18、Various measures ________ in the years ahead to boost the economic development
A．are taken
B．have been taken
C．were taken
D．will be taken
19、The town's water comes from the ________hills.
A. surrounded B. surrounding
C. nearly D. neighbour
20、It will be a great _________ for Chinese film industry if the movie Go Away, Mr. Tumorwin the Best Foreign Language Film in 88th Academy Awards.
A. embarrassment B. argument C. achievement D. treatment
21、Mark Twain was a great writer. He was from the USA. He was born in 1835. He was also a famous speaker. He was famous for his sense of humour. Many people liked to listen to him talk because he liked to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time.
One day Mark Twain was going to a small town because of his writing. Before he was going to leave, one of his friends said to him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told him that he’d better not go there. Mark Twain waved (摇动) his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. The mosquitoes are no relatives of mine. I don’t think they will come to visit me.”
After he arrived at the town, Mark Twain stayed in a small hotel near the station. He went into his room, but when he was just about to have a rest, quite a few mosquitoes flew about him. The waiters felt very sorry about that. “I’m very sorry, Mr Mark Twain. There are too many mosquitoes in our town.” One of them said to him.
Mark Twain, however, made a joke, saying to the waiter, “The mosquitoes are very clever. They know my room number. They didn’t come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily.
But that night Mark Twain slept well. Do you know why? That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the mosquitoes away for him during the whole night.
【1】That day Mark Twain went to the town _____.
A. to see one of his friends
B. because he was told there were a lot of mosquitoes there
C. because he wanted to do something there for his writing
D. to see one of his relatives
【2】The waiters felt sorry because _____.
A. they did something wrong to Mark Twain
B. their hotel was too small
C. the room was not very clean
D. there were quite a few mosquitoes in Mark Twain’s room
【3】All the people present laughed heartily because _____.
A. the mosquitoes were very clever and they didn’t come into the wrong room
B. the mosquitoes knew Mark Twain’s room number
C. Mark Twain made a joke
D. Mark Twain gave the waiters some nice presents
【4】From the story we know _____.
A. no mosquitoes troubled Mark Twain in the night
B. the owner of the hotel told the waiters to look after Mark Twain well at night
C. Mark Twain didn’t have a good rest that night
D. there were not mosquitoes in the hotel any longer
22、Research suggests that sleeping in a moderately lit room could affect metabolic (新陈代谢的) and cardiovascular health compared with napping in a room with dimmer light.
In a study published in PNAS, researchers at Northwesterm University had two groups of 10 young adults sleep in differently lit rooms. One group slept in rooms with dim light for two nights; the other slept one night in a room with dim light and the next in a room with moderate overhead light—about the equivalent of an cloudy day. Participants wore heart monitors at night. In the morning, they did a variety of glucose (葡萄糖) tests.
Both groups got the same amount of sleep but their bodies experienced very different nights. Both groups responded well to insulin (胰岛素) the first night, when they both slept in dim lighting. On the second night, however, the group sleeping in brighter lighting didn’t respond as well to insulin. The dim light sleepers’ insulin resistance scores fell about 4 percent on the second night, while the bright sleepers’ rose about 15 percent. Their heart rates were faster on the bright night, too.
The heightened heart rate and other measures led the researchers to conclude that light activates the sympathetic nervous system, which usually dominates bodily functions during the day. “Just a single night of exposure to moderate room lighting during sleep can damage glucose and cardiovascular (心血管的) regulation, which are risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome,” said Phyllis Zee, chief of sleep medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician who led the study, in a news release. “It’s important for people to avoid or minimize the amount of light exposure during sleep.”
The study was small and only tracked subjects for a limited time. More investigation is needed, the researchers write, but light exposure during sleep “could have implications for those living in modem societies where indoor and outdoor nighttime light exposure is increasingly widespread.”
【1】At which stage of the research is Paragraph 3 mainly about ?
A．Making a question.
B．Thinking of a method.
C．Drawing a conclusion.
D．Collecting the results.
【2】What can we learn from the text?
A．Outdoor nighttime light exposure will not damage one’s health.
B．Those exposed to light often may suffer from heart disease and diabetes
C．Daily bodily functions have nothing to do with the sympathetic nervous system
D．Phyllis Zee suggests people maximize the amount of light exposure during sleep.
【3】Where is the text probably from?
A．A guidebook.
B．A news report.
C．A health magazine.
D．A medical advertisement.
23、I log onto a computer at the doctor's office to say I have arrived and then wait until a voice calls me into the examination room.
There, a robotic nurse directs me onto a device and then takes my blood pressure. Some time later, in steps the doctor, who is also a robot. He notes down my symptoms and gives me a prescription (处方). I pay for my visit using a credit card machine and return home without having met another human being.
When I call my dentist's office and actually get a human being on the line, I am thrilled. And when I see the introduction of yet more self-service checkout stations at the grocery store, I feel like shouting, "When it comes to cashiers, make mine human, please!"
After all, human cashiers sometimes give you a store coupon (优惠券) for items you are buying. Even more than that, real-life cashiers often take an interest in particularly cute children, which can brighten a young mother's day. A cashier may also show compassion (同情)for an elderly person struggling to get that last penny out of her purse.
What technological device would do any of this? I don't want to go back to the Stone Age, but I'm also worried about a world run by machines. Sometimes when you're chatting with someone, you discover things you need to know. Maybe a receptionist needs prayers said for a sick child. Maybe a salesperson can offer a bit of encouragement to a customer who is feeling tired.
Machines can be efficient and cost-effective and they often get the job done just fine. But they lack an element so important to everyday life.
Call it the spirit, the soul or the heart. It is something no machine will ever have. It is being human that prompts us to smile at others, which may be what they need at that moment.
【1】What's the author's purpose in writing the first two paragraphs?
A. To indicate high technology can make our future life very easy.
B. To describe a possible future scene where robots take control of our life.
C. To warn readers of the possible dangers of robotic nurses and doctors.
D. To predict how technology can affect the way we see a doctoring the future.
【2】Why does the author prefer being served by humans rather than by robots?
A. Robots are indifferent and emotionless.
B. Robots can't provide efficient services.
C. Robots don't offer to give store coupons.
D. Robots are unable to do a job as well as humans.
【3】What's the author's attitude towards machines?
A. He wishes one day they would come to life.
B. He is absolutely against their existence in his life.
C. He doesn't like they get involved in his life too much.
D. He is afraid they would take the place of human beings.
24、In these times of worldwide communications, science is no different from other professions in that English is now the established “universal” language. Like it or not, most scientific reports are published in English, although some countries also have journals that are published in their native languages. But how did English develop into the dominant language of scientific discourse (会话)? Was it a joint decision or did it happen progressively and “accidentally”? And was it a positive move for all?
Arabic was used in all countries with an Islamic culture in the middle ages, while in Europe Latin was used for communication in science and education until the 17th century. During the Enlightenment, Latin lost favour as it was thought to be too complicated. Instead, scientific communication became more “provincial”; German, French, Italian and English were used in their respective countries and colonies, with different languages being more important in different disciplines — German, for instance, was widely used in physics, chemistry and some aspects of medicine and psychology. The relative use of these languages changed through history, reflecting the relative growth and decline of science, culture and economics in these countries. Thus, the use of French predominated in the 18th century, whereas German was most widespread in the 19th and English dominated the 20th. Social upheaval (剧变) also played a role — the use of French declined dramatically after World War I, whereas that of German increased in parallel until World War II. After World War II, and especially in the past 30 years, English progressively established itself as the primary language for scientific communication as America came to dominate both basic research and technology. In the 1920s the need for a universal language of science was debated, and a synthetic language, Esperanto, was developed but never widely used.
Despite the obvious appeal of having a common language that allows scientists around the world to communicate with one another, there can indeed be some drawbacks in using English for all communication — non-native English speakers can be at a disadvantage compared with native speakers when it comes to expressing and highlighting the interest of their papers and communicating with editors and referees. Careful copy editing can tackle the problem of accessibility of accepted manuscripts, but upstream of this stage it is down to all parties to ensure that they evaluate work on its scientific merit rather than its proper use of grammar.
The use of a universal language for communication in science is unavoidable as one obvious advantage is that findings can be more widely accessed, and resisting this concept for the sake of cultural difference would seem to be anything but productive. However, the use of national language and less technical language is useful in communicating science to the general public, as is the case with the Nature gateways in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and German.
【1】Which of the following does NOT contribute to the changes of languages in science through history?
A．Scientific development.
B．Cultural influence.
C．Economic climate.
D．Social communication.
【2】The downside of using English for all scientific communication involves .
A．some scientific work being undervalued due to its improper use of grammar
B．acknowledged manuscripts sometimes not being accessed with enough care
C．editors and referees’ failure to communicate with the authors of the papers
D．non-native English speakers being unable to express what interests them well
【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph？
A．Creating a universal language in scientific communication is inevitable.
B．A universal language enables more people to read about scientific findings.
C．Cultural difference adds to the difficulty in increasing scientific productivity.
D．Ordinary people also benefit from the use of technical language in science.
【4】Which of the following is the most suitable title for this passage?
A．Universal Language Established
B．Universal Language of Science
C．Breaking the Language Barrier
D．Breaking the Language Dominance
25、Have We Reached Peak Trade?
Globalization is usually defined as the free movement of people, goods and capital. It’s been the most important _________ force of modernity. Until the financial crisis of 2008, global trade grew twice as fast as the global economy itself._________, thanks to both economics and politics, globalization as we have known it is developing fast.
The question is: Have we reached peak trade? If you think of it in terms of the flow of digital data and ideas, no — it’s actually _________.” Indeed, the cross-border flow of digital data — e-commerce, web searches, online video, machine-to-machine interactions — has grown 45 times larger since 2005 and is _________ to grow much faster than the global economy over the next few years.
There’s no doubt globalization has increased wealth at both global and national levels. But free trade can also widen the _________ gap within countries, in part by creating concentrated groups of economic losers. Free trade has made goods and services cheaper for Americans — think of all the inexpensive Chinese-made goods at Walmart — but it hasn’t always _________ their job prospects. From l990 to 2008, the area’s most _________ to foreign competition saw almost no net new jobs created. That’s one reason the new generation of Americans is on track to be _________ than their parents.
The gains of free trade do not always _________ the losses. This realization that the tide of __________ doesn’t raise all boats has fed into the anti-free trade movement. And companies themselves are __________ globalization.
Nevertheless, there is one reason to be __________ about the future of globalization — at least, the new information-based kind. McKinsey data estimate that the companies responsible for the jump in flows of digital goods, services and information will include a much higher proportion of small businesses than in the past. An estimated 86% of tech-based startups surveyed by McKinsey now do some cross-border business — __________ before the arrival of the Internet, when globalization was dominated by super powers. That means that more of the wealth generated by globalization could flow down to the 80% of the population that hasn’t __________ as much as it should have.
If those individuals feel they are being empowered by open borders and freer trade, it could help swing the political pendulum (钟摆) back toward globalization in some form. Despite its laws, it has been an economic force that has lifted more people out of __________ than anything else the world has ever known.
【1】
A．political
B．cultural
C．economic
D．natural
【2】
A．Otherwise
B．Hence
C．Moreover
D．Yet
【3】
A．depressing
B．increasing
C．approving
D．operating
【4】
A．projected
B．tracked
C．signaled
D．needed
【5】
A．price
B．welfare
C．pension
D．wealth
【6】
A．ruined
B．helped
C．foreseen
D．reversed
【7】
A．resistant
B．suited
C．exposed
D．inaccessible
【8】
A．happier
B．healthier
C．wealthier
D．poorer
【9】
A．outweigh
B．balance
C．suffer
D．substitute
【10】
A．materialism
B．modernization
C．globalization
D．consumption
【11】
A．withdrawing from
B．counting on
C．profiting from
D．insisting on
【12】
A．confused
B．concerned
C．optimistic
D．curious
【13】
A．adaptable
B．accessible
C．affordable
D．impossible
【14】
A．striven
B．consumed
C．benefited
D．digested
【15】
A．fear
B．poverty
C．frustration
D．embarrassment
26、阅读下面短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
“When should I begin to acquire good habits?”a young boy asked his teacher.
“How old are you?” asked the teacher.
“Eight years old, sir.”answered the boy.
“Then you have just lost eight years,”the teacher replied.
There is no doubt that habits are formed at a very early age．When one is young, it is easy to acquire good habits.
Good habits are practices that help us in our daily life．The habit of brushing one’s teeth in the morning, for instance, keeps one’s teeth clean and prevents a bad smell which is unpleasant to others．Bad habits such as sticking one’s tongue out, biting one’s fingernails and picking one’s nose, are undesirable ways of behaving in front of others．If we want people to enjoy being with us, we should try to develop habits that are pleasant.
It is said, “We sow an act; we reap a habit．We sow a habit and we reap a character.” The habits we formed at an early age shape our character．Habits are like tributaries(支流) which flow into a river．The river is made up of all its tributaries; a person’s character is made up of all the habits that he or she has acquired over the years.
【写作内容】
1．以约30个词概括本文内容；
2．以约120个词谈谈你对好习惯养成的看法，并包括以下要点：
（1）你认为好习惯重要吗，为什么？
（2）你身上有哪些好习惯，它们对你的学习或生活有什么影响？
（3）怎样才能养成良好的习惯？
【写作要求】
1．作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子。
2．作文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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