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1、The old temple roof was damaged in storm is now under repair.
A．where
B．which
C．its
D．whose
2、The two birds _________ each other in shape and color. In other words, they _________ each other in shape and color.
A. differ, are different from B. differ from, are different to
C. resemble, are similar to D. resemble, are similar with
3、The students have decided on a final date by which everyone reading the books assigned by their professor.
A. finishes B. finished
C. have finished D. will have finished
4、Don’t forget to check in online and print your boarding pass _________.
A．by accident
B．at one point
C．in advance
D．over time
5、She tries to ________ the latest fashions by going to lots of shows in Shanghai.
A．keep up with
B．keep in with
C．keep out of
D．keep away from
6、Three young men have been arrested because they were caught ___ an old lady last night.
A. robbed B. to rob C. rob D. robbing
7、He never studied Japanese; what he knows is what he ________ while living in Japan.
A．took up
B．turned up
C．picked up
D．made up
8、Her voice was shaking _______ all her efforts to control it.
A. although B. in terms of C. despite D. therefore
9、Even when they grow up, the twins are difficult to .
A．tell apart
B．fall apart
C．take apart
D．apart from
10、 by the teacher can always make children feel proud even if it’s a small one.
A.Praised B.Being praised C.To praise D.Praising
11、The student said there were a few points in the essay he_________impossible to comprehend.
A.has found B.was finding C.had found D.would find
12、---Do you mind if I record your lecture?
---________. Go ahead.
A．Yes, I do.
B．Not at all.
C．No way.
D．No, you' d better not.
13、Between the two parts of the concert is an interval, ________ the audience can buy icecream.
A．when
B．where
C．that
D．which
14、Some students who are ______ the online games can’t bear being separated from mobile phones even for a short while.
A.anxious about B.addicted to C.curious about D.content with
15、The children enjoyed the zoo very much, they like monkeys________.
A．in order
B．in person
C．in particular
D．in time
16、— Can you shoot the bird at top of the tree?
— No, it is out of ___________.
A. reach
B. range
C. control
D. distance
17、— I'm sorry that I shouted at you this morning.
— ________， but please don't get angry so often.
A. All right B. No problem
C. Never mind D. With pleasure
18、If you do not know who you are, what are your interests and values, you can hardly act ________ yourself.
A．in addition to
B．in return for
C．in terms of
D．in agreement with
19、—A sports meeting is going to ________ next month.
—Oh, that’s wonderful.
A．organize B．be organized
C．be organizing D．have been organized
20、It ______ him over 10 years to work on his one-man helicopter and at last he succeeded.
A. spent B. cost
C. took D. paid
21、The Power of the Press
In modern countries any efforts to restrict the freedom of the press are rightly condemned. However, this freedom can easily be abused. 【1】 Though we may enjoy reading about the lives of others, it is extremely doubtful whether we would equally enjoy reading about ourselves. Acting on the contention that facts are sacred, reporters can cause untold suffering to individuals by publishing details about their private lives. Newspapers exert such tremendous influence that they can not only bring about major changes to the lives of ordinary people but can even overthrow a government.
The story of a poor family that acquired fame and fortune overnight, dramatically illustrates the power of the press. The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town of 23, 000 inhabitants in South Dakota. 【2】 They were expecting their sixth child and were faced with even more pressing economic problems. If they had only had one more child, the fact would have passed unnoticed. They would have continued to struggle against economic odds and would have lived in obscurity. But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy, an event which radically changed their lives. The day after the birth of the five children, an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers.
The rise to fame was swift. 【3】 Newspapers and magazines offered the family huge sums for the exclusive rights to publish stories and photographs. Gifts poured in not only from unknown people, but from baby food and soap manufactures who wished to advertise their products. The old farmhouse the family lived in was to be replaced by a new $ 500, 000 home. Reporters kept pressing for interviews so lawyers had to be employed to act as spokesmen for the family at press conferences. While the five babies were still quietly sleeping in oxygen tents in a hospital nursery, their parents were paying the price for fame. 【4】 They had become the victims of commercialization, for their names had acquired a market value. Instead of being five new family members, these children had immediately become a commodity.
A．Television cameras and newspapers carried the news to everyone in the country.
B．Stories about people often attract far more public attention than imagined.
C．It is hard not to read news about the miserable things happening in the world.
D．They were more than happy to make full use of their names.
E．It would never again be possible for them to lead normal lives.
F．As the parents had five children, life was an endless struggle against poverty.
22、“Does my smile look big in this?” Future fitting-room mirrors in clothing stores could subtly adjust your reflection to make you look ─ and hence feel ─ happier, encouraging you to like what you see.
That’s the idea behind the Emotion Evoking System developed by Shigeo Yoshida and colleagues at the University of Tokyo in Japan. The system can manipulate, or in other word, control your emotions and personal preferences by presenting you with an image of your own smiling or frowning face.
The principle that physiological changes can drive emotional ones ─ that laughter comes before happiness, rather than the other way around ─ is a well-established idea.
The researchers wanted to see if this idea could be used to build a computer system that manipulates how you feel. The system works by presenting the user with a web-camera image of his or her face ─ as if they were looking in a mirror. The image is then subtly altered with software, turning the corners of the mouth up or down and changing the area around the eyes, so that the person appears to smile or frown (皱眉).
Without telling them the aim of the study, the team recruited (招募) 21 volunteers and asked them to sit in front of the screen while performing an unrelated task. When the task was complete the participants rated how they felt. When the faces on screen appeared to smile, people reported that they felt happier. On the other hand, when the image was given a sad expression, they reported feeling less happy.
Yoshida and his colleagues tested whether manipulating the volunteers’ emotional state would influence their preferences. Each person was given a scarf to wear and again presented with the altered webcam image. The volunteers that saw themselves smiling while wearing the scarf were more likely to report that they liked it, and those that saw themselves not smiling were less likely.
The system could be used to manipulate consumers’ impressions of products, say the researchers. For example, mirrors in clothing-store fitting rooms could be replaced with screens showing altered reflections. They also suggest people may be more likely to find clothes attractive if they see themselves looking happy while trying them on.
“It’s certainly an interesting area,” says Chris Creed at the University of Birmingham, UK. But he notes that using such technology in a shop would be harder than in the lab, because people will use a wide range of expressions. “Attempting to make slight differences to these and ensuring that the reflected image looks believable would be much more challenging,” he says.
Of course, there are also important moral questions surrounding such subtly manipulative technology. “You could argue that if it makes people happy what harm is it doing?” says Creed. “But I can imagine that many people may feel manipulated, uncomfortable and cheated if they found out.”
【1】What’s the main purpose of the Emotion Evoking System?
A. To see whether one’s feeling can be unconsciously affected.
B. To see whether one’s facial expressions can be altered.
C. To see whether laughter comes before happiness.
D. To replace the mirrors in future clothing-store fitting rooms.
【2】What can we learn about the web-camera image in the study?
A. It recorded the volunteers’ performance in the task.
B. It gave the volunteers a false image.
C. It attempted to make the volunteers feel happier.
D. It beautified the volunteers’ appearance in the mirror.
【3】What does Creed mention as a limitation of the technology?
A. It only changes the areas around the mouth and the eyes.
B. It only works in clothing stores.
C. It only makes subtle changes to people’s expressions.
D. It only deals with a limited number of facial expressions.
【4】What does Creed’s comment on the moral issues with this technology imply?
A. Nothing is more important than happiness.
B. Technology is unable to manipulate people.
C. People should make their decisions independently.
D. People should neglect the harm of the technology.
23、A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all—milk. At the same time, a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk. She buys it. But, she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at the school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband’s niece. Then she gets coffee for breakfast, ice cream for dessert and remembers stamps to mail the bills.
And that is the difference between the female and male brains. It can be simply explained in a grocery store. Generally speaking, men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Doing many things at a time is often called “multi-tasking”, a very popular word these days.
Now scientific research supports this theory about male and female brains. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain, or hemisphere(脑半球). In the female brain, they found more activities and connections between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of “reason”. The right hemisphere is known as the “creative” side.
Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they use different parts of the brain. Men, she adds, generally use just one side of the brain. As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain, like the part connected with reason and the part connected with sensitivity(理智)when solving a problem.
【1】A woman with the purpose of buying milk will go to the store and buy_______.
A．nothing but milk
B．more things than planned
C．a lot of things except milk
D．all the things that she likes
【2】What can we infer from the passage?
A．Male brains develop better than female brains.
B．It’s necessary for women to use different parts of the brain.
C．Men should use two sides of the brain to solve a problem.
D．Women may think more when finding a solution to the problem.
【3】In which section of a newspaper can we find this passage?
A．Sport Report.
B．Farming Report.
C．Health Report.
D．Education Report.
【4】What’s the best title of the passage?
A．Do one thing or do many a time.
B．Men and women think differently.
C．The male and female interest in shopping.
D．The study on the behavior of men and women.
24、Household chores like cooking, cleaning, washing the dishes, and making the bed are never done; they just get repeated like a broken record. Boring! 【1】. But there are science-based reasons for changing your attitude towards chores. It turns out that doing chores is great for your health.
【2】. As researchers state in a report, doing undemanding tasks allows the mind to wander. Your mind gets a break, which allows you to consider old problems with new eyes. In fact, undemanding tasks stimulate (激发) more creative ideas than demanding tasks or just resting.
Chores are linked to a lower dementia (痴呆) risk. To discover what activities might be linked to a lower rate of dementia, researchers analyzed massive amounts of healthcare data from the UK Biobank. They found that those most engaged in household chores had a 21 percent lower risk of dementia compared to those least engaged in chores. 【3】.
Finishing your chores can increase motivation. BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, states that the most important skill is recognizing and celebrating successes. Completing even a small task, like making your bed, can give you a sense of satisfaction. 【4】. Similarly, author Admiral William H. McRaven argues that if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
Chores are good for children’s mental health. Children develop a sense of ownership when they have jobs to do around the house and it makes them feel like they are an important member of the household. 【5】. In my own case, I bond with my daughter by gossiping (闲聊) and singing while we do chores together.
A．Chores are an opportunity for “me time”
B．Chores can lead to creative problem-solving
C．Thus, you feel motivated to deal with tasks one after another
D．In this way, they can be taught to be independent and confident
E．Like many people, you may regard chores as something annoying
F．Doing chores with children also improves the parent-child relationship
G．This result indicated simple changes could make a difference to health
25、 There once was a very wealthy and curious king. This king had a huge rock _________in the middle of a road. Then he _________nearby to see if anyone would try to remove the gigantic rock from the road.
The first group of people to pass by were some of the _________merchants and the king's officials. Rather than moving it, they simply walked _________ it. Though they had made a tidy fortune, these _________merchants and officials never thought of making any contribution. A few even loudly_________the king for the inconvenience caused by not _________the roads. Not one of them tried to move the rock.
Finally, a peasant _________. His arms were full of vegetables and farm tools. When he got near the rock, rather than simply going around it, the peasant put down his _________and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. It took a lot of effort but he __________succeeded.
The peasant gathered up his load and was ready to go on his way when he saw a purse lying on the __________where the rock had been. The peasant __________the purse. The purse was stuffed full of gold coins and a note from the king. The king's note __________the gold was a __________for him, because he moved the rock from the road. Then, the king walked out from where he had hidden to meet the peasant.
The king__________the peasant what many of us never understand: every obstacle gives an opportunity to improve our condition.
A．broken
B．thrown
C．placed
D．moved
A．hid
B．lived
C．sat
D．stood
A．poorest
B．wealthiest
C．greatest
D．brightest
A．behind
B．over
C．under
D．around
A．generous
B．devoted
C．evil
D．selfish
A．blamed
B．begged
C．mentioned
D．encouraged
A．removing
B．constructing
C．maintaining
D．keeping
A．turned out
B．rushed off
C．came along
D．settled down
A．vegetables
B．load
C．tools
D．purse
A．eventually
B．gradually
C．merely
D．hardly
A．stone
B．farm
C．square
D．road
A．tore
B．opened
C．dropped
D．caught
A．read
B．wrote
C．knew
D．witnessed
A．praise
B．test
C．reward
D．souvenir
A．represented
B．showed
C．declared
D．announced
26、假如你是李华，你有一个外籍朋友Tom在湖北进行为期一年的交换生项目，因为湖北爆发新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)，Tom非常害怕，请你写一封信告诉他不要害怕。内容包括：
1. 不要慌张
2. 如何预防病毒 (勤洗手、多通风、出门戴口罩等)
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