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1、Working as a manager, Rebecca found it hard ______ between work and her family.
A. balancing B. to balance
C. to have balanced D. having balanced
2、His suggestion that she ________ in his home suggested he ________ very warm-hearted.
A. would stay; was B. stayed; be
C. should stay; be D. stay; was
3、In China, the Dragon Boat Festival is held every year __________ the great ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan.
A. in favor of B. in place of
C. in honor of D. in search of
4、 --- The film we saw last week is very romantic.
--- ___ I did not think it romantic at all.
A. With all due respect B. I beg to differ
C. As predicted D. I can’t agree with you more
5、______ down to your work, and you will have little trouble ______ the task.
A．Settle; finishing
B．To settle; finishing
C．Settling; to finish
D．Having settled; to finish
6、Yesterday he ________ a book to me and I can ____it for 3 days.
A．lends; borrow
B．lent; keep
C．borrowed; keep
7、The speaker mentioned many examples people lived through hard times and succeeded at last．
A. which B. whose C. when D. Where
8、It is recommended that the project ______ until all the preparations have been made.
A．is not started
B．will not be started
C．not be started
D．is not to be started
9、—Is that the small town you often refer to?
—Right, just the one________you know I used to work for years.
A．that
B．which
C．where
D．what
10、Han Hong is ________ kind singer and she does a lot to help the poor.
A．a
B．an
C．the
D．/
11、You are very ________ to be late again unless you get there by bus.
A．likely
B．possible
C．probable
D．proper
12、Most parents are not _________ the danger of their babies’ eating jelly, which causes most unfortunate incidents to happen.
A．well aware to
B．very aware of
C．aware that
D．well aware of
13、Tom wanted to play football with his friends in the street，but his father told him ________.
A.not to B.not to do
C.not do it D.do not to
14、Enthusiastic fans would rather they________ the super star at the airport tomorrow morning.
A. should meet B. would meet
C. met D. were to meet
15、You can depend on _______ China is always a country to live in harmony with her neighbors.
A. it that B. that C. what D. whether
16、We ________ them in the game last Sunday and finally ________ the match.
A．won; beat
B．defeated; won
C．won; defeated
D．beat; defeated
17、The Chinese tech giant has launched its new operating system, ______an alternative app ecosystem to Google’s Android.
A．creating
B．to create
C．having created
D．creates
18、They are very glad that most of the people ________ gave very useful answers.
A. questioned B. questioning
C. to question D. to be questioned
19、She was angry to see the beautiful coat ________ she had bought the day before ________ with snow.
A．which; cover
B．that; covered
C．/; covering
D．where; covered
20、This is the best film_____I have ever seen.
A.which B.that C.what D.whose
21、 Don’t you wish those long summer days could last forever? An island in northern Norway is campaigning to do just that.
Sommary-meaning “Summer Island” -wants to throw away its watches and declare itself the world’s first time-free zone. On this island in West Troms, north of the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn’t set from May 18 right through to July 26.
The locals, having suffered the long polar night from November to January, when the sun doesn’t rise at all, make the most of these precious months, with no regard to conventional timekeeping. “When there’s constantly daylight, we act accordingly,” says islander Kjell Ove Hveding in a statement. “In the middle of the night, which city folk might call‘2 a.m. ’, you can spot children playing soccer, people painting their houses or mowing their lawns, and teens going for a swim.”
Islanders hope to be free of traditional opening hours and to introduce flexibility in school and working hours. Fishing and tourism are the main industries on this island with a population of little more than 300 people. Hveding says local fishermen and women often spend days on the ocean pursuing their catch, with little regard to timekeeping.
It’s clear they mean business. Islanders gathered at a town hall meeting to sign a petition （请愿）for a time -free zone and on June 13, Hveding met with a Norwegian official to hand over the locals’ signatures and to discuss the practical and legal challenges of the initiative. “To many of us, getting this in writing would simply mean formalizing something we have been practicing for generations.” he says.
Now, when visitors cross the bridge to the island from the mainland, they aren’t greeted with love locks like on similar bridges worldwide. The bridge is covered with watches, as people prepare for entry to the land time forgets.
【1】How long are the polar days on Sommary?
A.About2 months. B.About3 months.
C.About4 months. D.About5 months.
【2】What can we learn about the islanders from paragraph 3?
A.They prefer to work at might.
B.They arrange their time flexibly.
C.They can’t distinguish day from night.
D.They are bothered by the constant daylight.
【3】What do the islanders intend to do?
A.Raise locals’ awareness of time.
B.Make the time-free zone official.
C.Promote their fishing and tourism.
D.Have their working hours extended.
【4】Which can best replace the underlined part “they mean business” in paragraph 5?
A.They are traditional. B.They are greedy.
C.They are serious. D.They are friendly.
22、 Growing up in a city has a lifelong negative impact on a person's ability to navigate, according to a vast global survey.
In a new study, scientists led by Antonine Coutrot at Nantes University in France and Hugo Spiers at University College London describe how they used a dataset（数据集）gathered from 4 millions players of a computer game called "Sea Hero Quest", which tests way-finding skills by asking players to memorise a map showing the location of checkpoints and then measuring how well players can steer a boat to find them.
Dr. Spiers found that the strongest indicator of a high score was a player's age——older people performed relatively poorly. But the benefit of rural living was strong enough to offset（抵消）some of that, Data from American players showed that a 70-year-old who grew up in the countryside had the navigational abilities of an average 60-year-old across the dataset.
"The gap between the navigation skills of rural and city people was largest in America, and the researchers think they know why. They found that countries dominated by simple layouts of grid-based（网格式的）cities dragged down navigation skills more than growing up in a city based around more complicated networks of streets, such as Prague.
Dr. Spiers says that the brain's navigational abilities probably weaken in the city environment because they are not being used as much. Although cities may appear more complicated, they also feature more clues to help residents find their way, such as numbered streets. As many city-dwellers on a visit to the countryside can prove, one field tends to look much the same as another, so there are fewer external（外部的）landmarks to help guide the way.
While people who live in cities should not be alarmed, the study does raise some interesting ideas for urban planners: keep their city designs not so simple perhaps. And for everyone else, it might be an idea to turn off Google Maps.
【1】Why did the researchers use the dataset from a computer game?
A.To study the players' memory.
B.To measure how well people control boats.
C.To improve the players' skill to find way out.
D.To see what influences people's way-finding skills.
【2】What does the underlined word "that" in paragraph 3 refer to?
A.Strong indicator. B.Poor performance.
C.Old age. D.High score.
【3】What weakens the brain's navigational abilities according to Dr. Spiers?
A.Lack of practice. B.Few external landmarks.
C.Living in the countryside. D.Complicated city environment.
【4】What is the best title of the passage?
A.Ways to Improve Navigational Skills
B.Reasons to Design Complicated Cities
C.Urban Living Weakens Navigational Skills
D.Turn off Google Maps while Exploring City
23、Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window. It really looks terrible.”
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
【1】“It dawned on me” in paragraph 4 probably means “________”.
A. I knew it grew light B. it cheered me up
C. I began to understand it D. it began to get dark
【2】It’s clear that ___________.
A. the writer had never met the woman before B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaners D. they lived in a small town
【3】From the passage, we can learn___________.
A. one shouldn’t criticize others very often
B. one should often make his windows clean
C. one must judge himself before he judges others
D. one must look at others through his dirty windows
24、 Children love to have pets, and having these furry animals in your family does good to children. Many studies have shown that kids who have pets do better at school because they have higher scores of emotional intelligence(EI)(情商). Here are some of the ways pets can help children develop their EI.
Grow empathy(同情)
Children are naturally empathetic and having pets can develop this. Researchers Nienke Endenburg and Ben Baard wrote a book The Waltham Book of Human-Animal Interaction, which is an overview of scientific studies about raising pets. 【1】. It also shows that even young children who have pets show more empathy towards other animals and people.
Reduce stress
Today, some doctors are writing social prescriptions(处方) to get a pet. Even just petting a dog has been shown to reduce stress in children. 【2】, because they are great listeners.
Raise self-esteem(自尊)
【3】 In fact, the authors said that research “found that children’s self-esteem scores increased greatly over a nine-month period of keeping pets in their school classroom. Besides, it was children with originally low self-esteem scores who showed the greatest improvements.”
【4】
Many parents find it difficult to talk to their kids about sensitive topics like birth, illness, and death. Learning about these through the lives of their furry family members helps make it easier to understand the cycles of life. 【5】, but the authors say it can also be a very valuable learning experience. Children will learn how to deal with feelings of sadness and anger.
A.Help prevent loneliness
B.Teach about life cycle events
C.Animals can provide emotional support for kids
D.Of course, experiencing the death of a beloved pet is difficult for kids
E.Kids who take care of pets feel proud and have a sense of achievement
F.The book shows kids who take care of their pets are more caring than those who don’t
G.Having a pet around also helps children better socialize with other kids of the same age
25、 I was 11 when I asked my mum for piano lessons. As she'd been in_________difficulties, she said a polite “no”.
That didn't_________ me. I drew a keyboard onto a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would_________ notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one — keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without_________a real piano. As my mum found I was_________about it, she bought me 10 lessons with borrowed money.
After eight lessons, I_________grade one and scored high. By the time I started secondary school, we couldn't_________lessons again, so I returned to my paper keyboard, kept practising and passed grades three and five.
For the grades above that, there was an_________that you add a certain sensitivity into your playing. To take advantage of practising on our school's grand piano, I_________wake up at 5:30 a. m. to get there__________and play until lessons started. I'd skip lunch and then practise after school__________the caretaker kicked me out. At home, I'd have dinner, do three hours of revision, and then __________practice until l: 00 a. m.
My school didn't offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The audition (试镜) was extremely__________,and I felt extremely nervous. To my amazement, I was offered a __________.
I had been thought to have started playing too__________to reach conservatoire (音乐学院) level but when I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior piano prize. I realized that I wasn't __________everyone else. I am now at the Guildhall School in London with a scholarship. I feel__________: it's been 10 years since I drew my paper piano and I'm at one of the world's leading conservatoires.
The fun thing is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano:__________we call mental practice. It__________ key areas of the mind that are less readily accessed by piano playing alone. The paper piano helped encourage my__________about how music works.
【1】A.social B.educational C.financial D.political
【2】A.protect B.frighten C.embarrass D.discourage
【3】A.take B.click C.sign D.observe
【4】A.seeing B.touching C.enjoying D.choosing
【5】A.serious B.careful C.hesitant D.nervous
【6】A.fell behind B.dropped out C.got through D.put off
【7】A.offer B.teach C.overlook D.afford
【8】A.expectation B.attitude C.opinion D.opportunity
【9】A.would B.might C.could D.dared
【10】A.in patience B.in time C.in peace D.in need
【11】A.although B.since C.until D.if
【12】A.technical B.mental C.mechanical D.physical
【13】A.fascinating B.boring C.frightening D.challenging
【14】A.course B.reward C.certificate D.place
【15】A.soon B.late C.hurriedly D.suddenly
【16】A.above B.against C.behind D.beyond
【17】A.lucky B.proud C.ambitious D.grateful
【18】A.what B.how C.that D.why
【19】A.builds B.covers C.determines D.unlocks
【20】A.prediction B.memory C.curiosity D.invention
26、请阅读下面短文，并按要求以Our Life Rests on Our Choice为题，用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
Life is a matter of choice. Seemingly, it means a choice of concrete (具体的) things. But in fact, it means choosing a way of life. Life is to be lived and enjoyed, not to be wasted or complained about.
Hardly can we forget the time when our society faced the threat from the life-and death disease— SARS. Yet, even during those dreadful times, some suffering people remained optimistic. Instead of wearing white masks, some people turned to colorful ones, and thus displayed a happy mood. And some creative people dubbed SARS to mean “SMILE AND REMAIN SMILING.” People who survive these kinds of circumstances decide in their minds to carry on in spite of the hardships.
Although we cannot choose our appearance, inborn gifts and even avoid unexpected disasters and adversities (逆境), we do have the right to choose to live optimistically, to love our lives, to have dreams, and to cherish hopes.
Every morning when we get up, we have a choice of how we want to approach life that day.
【写作内容】
用约30个单词写出上文的概要；
用约120个词就“Our Life Rests on Our Choice” 谈谈你的看法和感受，内容包括：
（1）简要叙述你对“Our Life Rests on Our Choice”的理解；
（2）请举例说明你会选择怎样的人生态度；
（3）简要叙述你这样选择的理由。（至少2点）
【写作要求】 1. 阐述观点或提供论据时，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。
【评分标准】 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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