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1、 Tian'anmen Square is the largest square in the world, which covers a total area of 440,000 square meters, 880 meters north to south, and 500 meters east to west.
A. measured B. to measure
C. being measured D. measuring
2、The tech giant, Huawei won respect all over the world.
A．n. 巨人，伟人
B．adj. 巨大的，特大的
C．n. 大公司，强大组织
D．adj. 伟大的
3、World Food Day is held each year to underline the progress that against hunger and that still needs to be made.
A. is made B. was made
C. has been made D. will be made
4、It was in Haikou _______ more than 80 farmers received about 2.89 million yuan year-end bonus on Jan 8, 2015.
A. where B. which C. that D. when
5、Had they known what was coming next, they _____ second thoughts.
A. may have B. must have had
C. could have D. might have had
6、— Why didn’t Ann see me wave to her?
— She _____ in the other direction.
A. looked B. was looking
C. has looked D. is looking
7、I was once ashamed to admit my weakness, but now I have no such feeling and I _____myself much discomfort.
A． bring B． save
C． offer D． promise
8、The world is a book，and those who don’t travel read only one page．That’s____I’ll go on a tour this summer．
A．how B．why C．when D．Where
9、Many businesses started up by college students have________ thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation.
A．taken away
B．taken off
C．taken on
D．taken up
10、PE has become part of the high school graduation examinations. ________, you’ll have to be strong enough and healthy to graduate.
A.In a word B.In fact C.In other words D.In the end
11、The number of the graduates choosing to work and live in big cities has declined, one third of ________ we expected.
A. what B. which C. whom D. that
12、“We ____the idea to my mum of sharing a house,” says Kathy, “she agreed, saying she was ready to live in a multigenerational family.”
A.yelled B.planted C.declared D.floated
13、Ms. Kelly is ________ assisting another customer. May I help you?
A．currently
B．conveniently
C．confidently
D．casually
14、______ that after the ash covered the people who failed to flee the city， their bodies nearly completely______ and disappeared，_________ empty spaces in the ash.
A. It turned out；broke down；leaving
B. As turned out；broke up；which left
C. It turned out；broke off；leaving
D. What was turned out was；broke down；left
15、“It’s a secret. Promise no one else will know it,” he lowered his voice and whispered________ no one could overhear it．
A．in case
B．even if
C．so that
D．only if
16、Living in the dormitory means _______ to take care of yourself, understand each others' differences and share _______ interests.
A．to learn, common. B. learning, common
C. to learn; ordinary D. learning; ordinary
17、Due to the frequent school shootings, the only way the president could imagine ________ such tragedies was to ban guns across the US.
A. preventing B. prevented C. to prevent D. having prevented
18、The developed nations have to ______ the growing gap between the rich and poor around the world and do something to narrow it.
A．recognize
B．unfold
C．respect
D．maintain
19、Speaking in an inspection in Yunnan Province, Xi Jinping said authorities must poverty removal efforts to support the building of a rich and successful country.
A. anticipate B. allocate
C. appreciate D. accelerate
20、Obviously, many wines have improved, or are expected to improve _____age, and it is the case ________friendship.
A．with; with
B．to; over
C．alongside; in
D．for; of
21、Its well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also remember things incorrectly, with damaging consequences in the classroom, courtroom, and other areas of life. Now, researchers show for the first time that bumblebees(大黄蜂) can be unreliable witnesses too.
Bumblebees are rather clever animals, which explains why Chittka has been studying learning and memory in the insects for the last 20 years.
Most times when people have studied memory in animals, errors in performance have been taken to mean that the animals failed to learn the task or perhaps learned it and then forgot. But what if animals can experience a more interesting type of memory failure?
To find out, Chittka first trained bumblebees to expect a reward when visiting a yellow artificial flower followed by one with black-and-white rings. During subsequent tests, bees were given a choice between three types of flowers. Two were the types they’d seen in the training before. The third had yellow-and-white rings, representing a mixed-up version of the other two. Minutes after the training, the bees showed a clear preference for the flower that recently rewarded them.
One or three days later, however, something very different happened when the bumblebees’ memory was put to the test. At first, the bees showed the same preference displayed in the earlier tests, but as the time went on, they began selecting the flower with yellow rings, even though they’d never actually seen that one in training before.
Chittka says that insects make similar errors in the conjunction (结合) of long-term memories as humans do. The ability to extract (提取) common features between different events in the environment might come at the expense of remembering every detail correctly. In bees, with their limited brain capacity (容量), the pressure to store main features of several objects rather than each individual object might be much greater, compared with humans.
【1】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Human memory can fail sometimes.
B. Bumblebees make false memories too.
C. Humans are not as clever as bumblebees.
D. Bumblebees have extraordinary memory.
【2】Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word subsequent?
A. scientific B. accurate
C. following D. exceptional
【3】What does the test mentioned in Paragraph 4 tell us?
A. Short-term memories serve the bees well.
B. The yellow artificial flower appeals to the bees.
C. Bumblebees like the flowers with yellow-and-white rings.
D. Bees have remarkable abilities to distinguish colors.
【4】 We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Chittka thinks that bumblebees failed to remember the color of the flowers
B. Researchers have learned that bumblebees are unreliable animals
C. There exist no similarities between the memory errors in humans and bees.
D. It is less challenging for humans than bees to store main features of several objects.
22、Internet Explorer, the Microsoft browser that is almost 20 years old, is to be killed off and replaced by a new operating system.
Microsoft has confirmed that its new browser, code-named Project Spartan, which is due to be unveiled later this year, will not use the familiar Internet Explorer name. "We’re now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10," the company's marketing chief Chris Capossela told a conference.
Internet Explorer once dominated the market and had more than one billion users but it could not compete when Firefox and Google’s Chrome launched with faster technology and slicker design.
Microsoft is thought to be dropping the brand in a bid to get rid of “negative point of views" gathered since its 1995 launch. The software is known to be slow and has had various security problems. The company has often talked about changing the browsers’ name to recover its reputation. Nearly a decade ago, Dean Hachamovitch, then-head of the Internet Explorer business, is said to have told an industry conference: “We messed up.”
Tom Bedecarre, chairman of Akqa, a digital advertising agency, said the Internet Explorer brand was past its sell-by date. “In the war of the future, which is mobile, they’re losing,” he told the Financial Times. “Nobody’s going to download Internet Explorer as their mobile browser.”
Jason Liggi, a developer at Ascot-based digital agency Rawnet, said: “Microsoft’s change in direction is a smart, but bold, and a symbolic gesture. Internet Explorer has developed a fairly bad reputation over the years, by and large because of IE6-7, but also because of its practice of web standards. This change in name is going to bring with it a quantity of psychological improvements for users. Internet Explorer, and referring to it as ‘IE’, generally causes complaints across the board, even with people outside of tech communities. It's just got negative indications nowadays, and it will be interesting to see the changes the new name will bring for the brand.”
【1】What is mainly discussed in the passage?
A．The Microsoft browser has a history of almost 20 years.
B．Microsoft is to replace the Internet Explorer with a new browser.
C．The Internet Explorer has developed a fairly bad reputation.
D．The new browser is sure to bring good name for the Microsoft.
【2】What problems does Internet Explorer has?
A．People held negative points of view at the very beginning.
B．The software hasn’t brought the company good reputation.
C．It is slow and has had various security problems.
D．It was messed up in the industry of explorer business.
【3】What can we infer from the passage?
A．Microsoft is losing the competition of IT.
B．Internet Explorer has destroyed the future of Microsoft.
C．Microsoft still takes a lead in the development of mobile browsers.
D．Microsoft is confident that the new browser will be popular.
【4】Where can you most probably read this passage?
A．Science fiction.
B．Newspaper.
C．Guidebook.
D．Health magazine.
23、Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making it possible for companies to monitor workers’ behavior in great detail and in real time. Start to slack off (懈怠), and AI could talk to your boss.
One company offering such services is London-based start-up Status Today. Its AI platform relies on a regular supply of employee data, including everything from the files you access to when you use a key card. From this, it builds a picture of how employees normally function and signals any unusual performance. The idea is to spot when someone might become a security risk by doing something different from their usual behavioral patterns. “All of this gives us fingerprint of a user, so if we think the fingerprint doesn’t match, we raise a warning”, says Mircea Dumitrescu, the company’s chief technology officer.
The system also aims to catch employee actions that could accidentally cause a security breach (漏洞), like opening malware (恶意软件).“We’re not monitoring if your computer has a virus.” says Dumitrescu. “We’re monitoring human behaviors.”
But catching the security breach means monitoring everyone, and the AI can also be used to track employee productivity. “It seems like they are just using the reputation of AI to give an air of lawfulness to old-fashioned workplace surveillance (监视),” says Javier Ruiz Diaz of digital campaigning organization the Open Rights Group. “You have a right to privacy and you shouldn’t be expected to give that up at work.”
Exactly how companies use the system will be up to them, but it’s hard to shake the picture of an AI constantly looking over employees’ shoulders. “It will bother people, and that could be counterproductive if it affects their behavior,” says Paul Bemal at the University of East Anglia.
Phil Legg at the University of the West of England says it will never catch every security risk. “If people know they’re being monitored, they can change their behavior,” he says.
【1】According to the text, AI monitors employees by ________.
A．taking pictures of them
B．getting access to their data
C．signaling their usual performance
D．catching their actions
【2】What’s Javier Ruiz Diaz’s attitude towards the system?
A．Doubtful.
B．Supportive.
C．Uncaring.
D．Negative.
【3】What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 4 refer to?
A．Security breach.
B．Employees’ productivity.
C．The right to privacy.
D．Workplace surveillance.
【4】Phil Legg’s concern about the system suggests that ________.
A．it is too risky to be used at work
B．it will affect employees’ emotions
C．it may not be so effective as expected
D．it will encourage employee, productivity
24、Living and dealing with kids can be a tough job these days, but living and dealing with parents can be even tougher.
If I have learned anything in my 16 years, it is that communication is very important, both when you disagree and when you get along. With any relationship, you need to let other person know how you are feeling. If you are not able to communicate, you drift apart. When you are mad at your parents, or anyone else, not talking to them doesn’t solve anything.
Communication begins with the concerns of another. It means that you can’t just come home from school, go up to your room and ignore everyone. Even if you just say “Hi”, and see how their day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing.
If you looked up the word “communication” in a dictionary, it would say “the exchange of ideas, the conveyance （表达）of information, correspondence （通信）, means of communication: a letter or a message”. To maintain (保持) a good relationship, you must keep communication strong. Let people know how you feel, even if it’s just by writing a note.
When dealing with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing as a parent. If you are trying to make them see something as you see it, tell them that you’ll listen to what they have to say, but ask them politely to listen to you. Yelling or walking away only makes the situation worse.
This is an example: one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by midnight after the fireworks, but she didn’t feel she could just ask to go home. That would be rude. After all, they had been nice enough to take her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were mad at first, not when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren’t as mad and let the incident go. Communication is the key factor here. If Sophie’s parents had not been willing to listen, Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble.
Communication isn’t a one-way deal: it goes both ways. Just remember: if you get into a situation like Sophie’s, telling the other person how you feel-listening is the key factor to communication.
【1】In the writer’s view, dealing with parents is __________ than with children.
A．more difficult
B．easier
C．more uninteresting
D．more interesting
【2】The main idea of the second paragraph is __________.
A．the importance of friendship
B．to make your feeling known to others
C．the importance of communication
D．the disagreement between generations
【3】When parents and children are in communication, the key to a happy relationship is that __________.
A．children should always obey their parents
B．they should be equal
C．parents play the leading part
D．both make the opposite know their feelings
【4】The example in this passage proves that ___________.
A．Sophie’s parents are willing to listen to her
B．Sophie is very polite to her parents
C．Sophie did well in explaining her being late
D．communication is the solution(解决办法) to misunderstanding
【5】All the following statements are correct except “_______”.
A．If you don’t agree with others, you’d better let them know
B．It is better to say “Hi” to others than say nothing
C．If you are not able to communicate, walk away
D．Communication is a two-way deal
25、 My mind seems always to return to the day that I met Carl. The city bus stopped at Centennial Drive to_________the dally commuters(往返者). When boarding the bus, I luckily_______a seat near the back.
When sitting down, I began to read the book On the Road I'd been_________.The man next to me then asked if I'd read any other books like that one from the same era. When I said yes, he seemed to become_________.
He_______himself as Carl and told me he used to play the trumpet in jazz clubs. He asked if I like jazz, and I told him that I didn't really listen to it._______Carl to tell me that I should listen to “real_______”, I was shocked when he just_________and smiled, saying, “You_______me of myself when I was your age. I remember how my parents________jazz, how they couldn't see how I could listen to 'that awful__________' I bet your parents say the________thing, don't they?” Now it was my turn to smile, saying how right he was.
All the way, the more we talked, the more________I became at how much the two of us really had in common, despite the age________.Finally, Carl got off at his stop, and mine was soon after. I haven't seen him since then, but the________of our connection that day________leaves my mind.
Carl really made me________how much we can learn from each other if we just break through the barriers we've got. Carl________me that we should make an extra________to try and get to know the people around us, regardless of age, race or anything else. If we all understand each other, the world would be a much better place that we could________together.
【1】A.drop off B.go through C.pick up D.set down
【2】A.spotted B.swapped C.spared D.reserved
【3】A.selling B.possessing C.checking D.carrying
【4】A.tired B.concerned C.interested D.encouraged
【5】A.introduced B.recovered C.recognized D.claimed
【6】A.Relying on B.Calling on C.Turning to D.Waiting for
【7】A.music B.instrument C.disadvantage D.performance
【8】A.cheered B.disagreed C.nodded D.applauded
【9】A.warn B.remind C.inform D.convince
【10】A.promoted B.advocated C.disliked D.enjoyed
【11】A.pace B.noise C.power D.howl
【12】A.stubborn B.contradictory C.significant D.same
【13】A.annoyed B.amazed C.determined D.confused
【14】A.connection B.shortcoming C.diversity D.difference
【15】A.expression B.attempt C.thought D.determination
【16】A.rarely B.merely C.eventually D.frequently
【17】A.foresee B.identify C.admit D.consider
【18】A.motivated B.taught C.requested D.commanded
【19】A.preparation B.goal C.effort D.accomplishment
【20】A.share B.evolve C.settle D.construct
26、一家英语报社举行征文活动，主题是“我的高中生活”。请根据以下要点完成短文。
1. 校园生活； 2. 收获； 3. 感想。
注意 1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3. 开头语已为你写好。
High school is a golden time in one’s life with great fun and fond memories.
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