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1、The little boy was allowed to go to have a swim _____ he finished his homework.
A. in case B. provided that
C. now that D. by the time
2、After the war, a new school building was put up ________ there had once been a theater.
A．where
B．that
C．which
D．when
3、Tired of her endless complaints, I walked out of the room she could open
her mouth.
A. before B. until C. when D. once
4、The affairs of each country should be by its own people.
A. elected B. settled
C. developed D. contained
5、Keep down! You ________ let anyone see you.
A．needn’t
B．daren’t
C．mustn’t
D．won’t
6、I stood for a minute ________them and then went to greet them.
A．watches
B．am watching
C．watch
D．watching
7、The hat looks more beautiful than that one which costs almost twice __________.
A．as much
B．as many
C．so much
D．so many
8、With all things _______, we should follow his advice.
A. considered B. having considered
C. being considered D. considering
9、Hearing the dog barking fiercely, away ________.
A. running the thief B. was running the thief
C. the thief was running D. ran the thief
10、__________ the bad weather , the delivery was put off.
A.As a result B.As a consequence of C.In consequence D.Owe to
11、The writer of the passage is to ________ how adventurous it is to make friends online.
A．acquire
B．illustrate
C．assume
D．deliver
12、—What a mistake!
--Yes. I his doing it another way, but without success.
A. was suggesting B.will suggest
C. would suggest D. had suggested
13、-Hello, can I speak to Mr Smith?
-Sorry, you ________ have a wrong number. There is no one of that name here.
A．need
B．can
C．must
D．would
14、________ made the teacher very angry.
A．He came to school late again
B．His coming to school late again
C．His came to school late again
D．That comes to school late again
15、 challenges in Chinas car-sharing economy, shared mobility still has a promising future.
A. Despite B. Besides
C. Concerning D. Regarding
16、What was it ______ brought you two together? Was it your love of music?
A.as B.who C.that D.which
17、High school is undoubtedly a time of growth, both physically and emotionally, ________ academically and socially.
A. but B. as well as
C. therefore D. rather
18、— Do you often come here to have a walk?
— No, only _________, because we are much too busy.
A．occasionally
B．eventually
C．merely
D．frequently
19、The general at last got a chance to visit the village ______ he used to fight, ______ he had been dreaming for years.
A.that; which B.where:that
C.where, which D.in which, what
20、He doesn't know what to say, for it is the first time that he ________ with a girl.
A.went out B.goes out C.has gone out D.had gone out
21、Here are some music festivals that you might be interested in.
Boogie
Tallarook, VIC(26－28 March)
Boogie is definitely kid-friendly, but with a few rules. Kids are welcome, but need to be fully supervised（监管） at all times and out of the licensed area by 10 pm. Kids under 8 years old are admitted for free. Kids between 8 and16 get in cheaper. There are some activities for kids and a great kid-friendly area.
Splendour in the Grass
Byron Bay, NSW(24－26 July)
Look, Splendour can be pretty crazy, so if you and your kids are out of practice with handling festivals and the stress they can sometimes bring, maybe you should try starting smaller. But if you feel like you can do it, then your kids are welcome to hit Splendour with you. The usual rules apply — you'll need to have them with you at all times if they are under 16 and they can't go into bars. If the child is under 11, then they will get in for free.
The Gum Ball
Hunter Valley, NSW(22－24 April)
We didn't originally include the Gum Ball because they took last year off and we wanted to make sure they were definitely returning. Not because we have anything against them. On the contrary, they are one event that manages to balance brilliant music and a family-friendly vibe(氛围).
Bellingen Turtlefest
Bellingen(30 September－2 October)
Great music for a great cause! Bellingen Turtlefest has been set up to raise funds and awareness for the critically endangered Bellinger River Snapping Turtle, while giving families a chance to enjoy some great music at the same time. There's a kidzone, sideshows, workshops and markets, but also an education center and some guest speakers so that the kids (and you) can learn a thing or two while you're at the event.
【1】If a 10-year-old goes to Boogie, he/she_____.
A．cannot find a great kid-friendly area there
B．must leave the licensed area by 11 pm
C．must stay with an adult all the time
D．doesn't have to pay for admission
【2】Which of the following festivals failed to be included in the beginning?
A．The Gum Ball
B．Splendour in the Grass
C．Boogie
D．Bellingen Turtlefest
【3】What do the festivals have in common?
A．They're all held in the summertime.
B．They're all free for kids under 11.
C．They're all concerned with wildlife.
D．They're are suitable for the whole family.
22、Being perfect is something many of us want and try to achieve. It makes us feel we’re correct and that our hard work has paid off. However, as much as perfection and being perfect is not all a perfect thing.
Perfection is all about being without mistakes and criticism. Wanting or trying to be perfect can make it hard to admit a mistake. Nevertheless, it is important to own up to mistakes and work to fix them. Not being able to take criticism and fix mistakes is arrogance, not perfection.
Perfection is a double-edged sword. In our lives, we want perfection. Perfection holds us accountable; it’s the mistakes and imperfection that keeps pushing us harder and further at what we do. It’s the perfect motivator. But it’s also the perfect killer. For example, the movie “Black Swan” showcased how perfection can kill us. Working and training and stress hurt our body, mind, and so much more that we can’t do it any more.
But perfection can also have the opposite effect. The movie “High Strung” showed that perfection doesn’t exist, but practicing and pushing ourselves can bring us great rewards. In “Black Swan,” the main character tried to be perfect but he also compared himself to someone else who he thought was better than him. This added more pressure and self-doubt, which can cause unhealthy ways of achieving perfection. The main character of “Black Swan” didn’t know when to stop, whereas the main character of “High Strung” did, or at least didn’t focus so much on the comparison, and instead focused on the competition and the ones she cared about.
Perfection is something we can’t live without and can’t live with. The only way to keep the sword from cutting us is if we know when to stop. Some days are going to be good days and others will be bad. We have to take whatever day it is — perfect or imperfect — and hope that’s enough.
【1】What does the underlined phrase “own up to” mean in Paragraph 2?
A．Make.
B．Avoid.
C．Correct.
D．Acknowledge.
【2】What prevents the character in “Black Swan” from going further?
A．Comparison.
B．Self-doubt.
C．Pressure.
D．Competition.
【3】What does the author advise us to do while trying to be perfect?
A．Try not to make mistakes.
B．Push ourselves harder.
C．Stop before going too far.
D．Prove our ability to others.
【4】What could be the best structure of the passage? (P=Paragraph)
A．
B．
C．
D．
23、A pretty face is never forgotten. Do you believe so? But maybe it is untrue! Psychologists believe beautiful people are less likely to be recognized. A new study suggests that attractiveness can actually prevent the recognition of faces, unless a pretty face has particularly distinctive (与众不同的) features, such as Angelina Jolie’s.
German psychologists think the recognition of pretty faces is distorted (扭曲) by emotions. Researchers Holger Wiese, Carolin Altmann and Stefan Schweinberger at the University of Jena, Germany, discovered in a study that photos of unattractive people were more easily remembered than pretty ones when they showed them to a group of people.
For the study, which was published in science magazine Neuropsychologia, the psychologists showed photos of faces to test subjects. Half of the faces were considered to be more attractive and the other half as less attractive, but all of them were being thought of as similarly distinctive looking. The test subjects were shown the faces for just a few seconds to memorize them and were shown them again during the test so that they could decide if they recognized them or not.
The researchers were surprised by the result. “Until now we assumed that it was generally easier to memorize faces which are being considered as attractive, just because we prefer looking at beautiful faces,” Dr. Wiese said. But the study showed that such a connection cannot be easily proven. He assumes that remembering pretty faces is distorted by emotional influences, which increase the sense of recognition at a later time. The researchers’ idea is backed up by evidence from EEG-recordings (脑电图记录) they used during their experiment which show the brains’ electric activity.
The study also revealed that in the case of attractive faces, considerably more false positive results were detected. In other words, people thought they recognized a face without having seen it before. “We obviously tend to believe that we recognize a face just because we find it attractive.” Dr. Wiese said.
【1】Where is the text probably taken from?
A．An official document.
B．A travel magazine.
C．A science report.
D．A history book.
【2】What do we know about the photos from Paragraph 3?
A．They were all of pretty faces.
B．They were not distinctive at all.
C．They were selected at random.
D．They were showed twice to the test subjects.
【3】What can be inferred from the new study?
A．Beautiful people are particularly distinctive.
B．People are unwilling to recognize ugly faces.
C．Attractiveness prevents the recognition of faces.
D．Attractive faces are always easy to be recognized.
【4】Which word can show the author’s attitude towards the findings of the research?
A．Doubtful.
B．Objective.
C．Favorable.
D．Disapproving.
24、Rethinking Obesity(肥胖症)
In principle, it sounds simple: eat less and move more. This dietary advice for dealing with obesity has been around for decades. 【1】 So why hasn’t this approach to weight control worked?
One possibility is that we haven’t tried hard enough. Perhaps we have lacked the discipline and willpower to maintain healthy dietary and exercise habits—a challenge made more difficult today for those surrounded by inexpensive, tasty highly processed foods.
【2】 In a recent paper, my colleagues and I question the basic assumption of whether taking in more calories than you burn really is the primary cause of obesity. We argue that we are driven to overeat because we are getting fatter.
The key to how this works in obesity is insulin (胰岛素) processed, rapidly digestible carbohydrates (碳水化合物食品) raise our insulin level too high. 【3】 A few hours after eating a high-carb meal, the number of calories in the blood stream falls suddenly, so we get hungrier sooner after eating.
The two opposing views of cause and effect in obesity have very different implications for how to prevent and treat weight problems. The usual approach focuses on how much to eat, with prescriptions (处方) for daily calorie intake. 【4】 Higher-fat foods may help get rid of body fat, a possibility supported by clinical trials comparing high-fat diets with low-fat ones.
This way of thinking might help explain why calorie restriction usually fails long before a person with obesity approaches an ideal body weight. A low-calorie, low-fat diet further restricts an already limited supply of energy to the body, worsening hunger without addressing the underlying tendency to store too many calories in body fat. 【5】
Although much more research will be needed to test this idea, it is time to question the basic assumptions about cause and effect calories and weight gain that have controlled our thinking.
A．Yet, worldwide obesity rates just keep going up.
B．In our view the emphasis should be place a on what to eat.
C．It is important to control the amount of food consumed by us.
D．Obesity is a disease that affects 650 million adults worldwide.
E．Or perhaps the problem is the focus on “calorie balance” itself.
F．Weight loss becomes a battle between mind and metabolism(新陈代谢).
G．This causes fat cells to take in to many calories, leaving fewer for the rest of the body.
25、Do Brain Training Games Work?
With an ageing population worried about cognitive (认知的) decline, brain training apps have soared in popularity. Search “brain training”, and you will find _________ apps and websites promising to make you mentally agile (敏捷的). In the same way that we might go to the gym to exercise, a daily mental _________ is said to produce physical changes in the brain. All you will have to do is to _________ a few minutes each day to complete puzzles, memory games and word quizzes.
At least that’s the idea. And there are a lot of people who are _________ into it. In 2018, consumers spent an estimated $1.9 billion on brain training apps—a fourfold increase from 2012. Of course, smartphones were not the original home for brain training games. _________, Nintendo recently released its fourth all-time best-selling game, Brain Age, and brought it to the Switch in Japan last month. The idea of improving mental fitness clearly has widespread appeal, but is it based on scientific evidence or _________ marketing promises?
In 2014, the Stanford Center on Longevity published an open letter _________ by 69 international neuroscientists (神经科学家) and cognitive psychologists. There is no convincing scientific evidence, the experts argued, that playing brain games improves cognitive abilities in everyday life.
Two years later, another team of psychologists reviewed every scientific study cited by major brain training companies _________ their products. They questioned not only how the evidence had been reported and interpreted, but the way many of the studies had been designed. The _________ included small sample sizes, inadequate control groups, and cherry-picking (挑选最有利的) research outcomes to __________.
If the science is so __________ flawed (错误的), why do people feel the need to train their brains with these apps and games?
That’s __________, according to Til Wykes, a professor at King’s College London. Nintendo’s Brain Age game, for instance, assigns players a score based on their gaming performance. They might start with a “brain age” score of 60 and after a few weeks of __________, will be told they have reduced it to 40. For some people, there is clearly some positive reward for seeing themselves improve over time. Wykes stresses, __________, that for people who are really worried about their cognition, learning a new language would be more beneficial, which has been shown to improve brain __________.
【1】
A．endless
B．advanced
C．protective
D．imaginary
【2】
A．outcome
B．tryout
C．workout
D．outlook
【3】
A．set out
B．set back
C．set off
D．set aside
【4】
A．buying
B．engaging
C．overlooking
D．inquiring
【5】
A．By contrast
B．For instance
C．Of course
D．In conclusion
【6】
A．reliable
B．precious
C．secret
D．empty
【7】
A．signed
B．secured
C．received
D．sought
【8】
A．in presence of
B．in support of
C．in case of
D．in memory of
【9】
A．expectation
B．solution
C．criticism
D．standard
【10】
A．report
B．design
C．produce
D．negotiate
【11】
A．effortlessly
B．temporarily
C．seriously
D．unfairly
【12】
A．dependable
B．understandable
C．comparable
D．achievable
【13】
A．experiment
B．theory
C．practice
D．performance
【14】
A．altogether
B．therefore
C．however
D．likewise
【15】
A．movement
B．cooperation
C．evaluation
D．function
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。
It was somewhere between spring and summer, and my mom and I were driving through the countryside. Back then, I was 13 years old, and always felt unhappy with Mom. But I didn’t know that this trip was going to be a special one.
A pot of flowers sat in the back seat, whose heavenly fragrance(香味)filled the car. Suddenly, in the middle of nowhere, my mom stopped the car. “What are you doing?” I shouted, fearing that the car had broken down and we’d be trapped there, so far from home. But that wasn’t the case. My mom jumped out of the car, grabbing(抓)the flowers from the back seat. “It’ll just be a minute,” she called back through the open windows.
I impatiently looked at the side of the road before finding a little sign showing that it was a nursing home. I looked back to the building, a little annoyed, as my mom reappeared ——empty- handed.
Before she started the car, curiosity drove me to ask, “Do you know someone there?” She shook her head. “Then what did you do with the flowers?” She smiled slightly, “I gave them to the receptionist (前台接待员).” “What?” She laughed at my confusion. “I told the receptionist to give the flowers to whoever needed them, especially those who haven’t gotten any in a while.”
I kept silent for a moment. Not long after we continued our driving, I spoke again, “Did you leave your name?” To this, she answered instantly, “No. Leaving flowers there for someone who will appreciate them makes me feel good, which is enough of a thank for me.”
Suddenly, still thinking about Mom’s deeds, I heard something burst loudly. It was our car that broke down! Nothing could be worse, because neither my mom nor I understood how to repair it, and we didn’t know where the garage was. It also seemed impossible to wait for any passer-by, since we had seen so few people along the way.
注意：1. 续写的短文的词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式作答。
Paragraph 1
We were worrying about what could be done.
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Paragraph 2
As we drove along, a flower shop came into sight on the road.
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