1、除非我们给顾客提供更好的服务,不然我们的生意就不会改善。
________________________________________
2、The hotel was very noisy. ________ , I was so tired from travelling that I slept very well.
A.Instead B.Therefore C.However D.Otherwise
3、Be quiet!The baby ________.
A.sleeps
B.slept
C.are sleeping
D.is sleeping
4、--The story is so amazing! It’s the most interesting story I’ve ever read.
--But I’m afraid it won’t be liked by________.
A. everybody B. somebody C. anybody D. nobody
5、-You look a bit under the weather. What’s the matter?
-Nothing serious. I caught a cold last night.
A.excited B.sick C.frightened
6、Governments have________laws to stop the sale of wild animals. We must obey them.
A.thrown B.played C.drawn D.developed
7、— My favorite singer is Kate Perry. Who is ________?
— I like Alan Walker best.
A.you B.your C.yours
8、My grandfather is over 80,but he is still in good health and stays ________.
A. safe B. warm C. active
9、I believe that knowledge ________ rather than being taught, so I get all the schoolwork ________ every day.
A.learns; to do B.is learnt; done C.will learn; doing
10、Your bike needs ________ at once.
A.repair B.repairing C.be repaired D.to repair
11、A: You’ve got good grades in the test .Congratulations!
B:___
A.I agree with you. B.thank you C.I don’t think so D.You are welcome
12、— Can you tell me ________ about Pyeongchang Olympics?
— Yuzuru Hanyu from Japan won the first gold medal at Pyeongchang Olympics on Saturday in men's single figure skating, ________ Jin Boyang set China's best result in the event as the fourth finisher.
A.anything special; while B.something special; while C.anything special; when D.something special; when
13、 — How do you like the TV play? — _________
A. It’s wonderful. B. Yes, I like it.
C. No, I don’t like it at all. D. What about you?
14、— I finish the work today?
— , the Sports & Arts Festival in our school is coming in two months.
A. Can; Yes, you can B. May; Yes, you must
C. Must; No, you needn’t D. Should; No, you shouldn’t
15、—Could you help your brother________, Mary?
—OK, but where are his sweater and trousers?
A.brush teeth
B.get dressed
C.do the dishes
D.do homework
16、People ________to set off fireworks around the center of the city last Spring Festival.
A.weren't allowed B.won't be allowed C.will allow D.didn't allow
17、The children will climb the hill if it ______tomorrow.
A.Won’t rain B.didn’t rain
C.isn’t raining D.doesn’t rain
18、—How is your brother? Still doesn't like studying?
—He's fine. He used to ________ TV after supper. But now he is used to ________
his homework.
A.watch; doing B.watching; do
C.watch; do D.watching; doing
19、I________ cleaning my room.It’s clean now.
A.have finished B.finished C.finish D.will finish
20、The movie “The Time Machine” is ________ a science fiction story.
A.basing on B.based in C.based on
21、— Have you heard that Lei Haiwei, a courier brother (外卖小哥), won the championship at the Chinese Poetry Conference?
— It's not surprising, . He has worked hard at it these years.
A.every dog has its day
B.actions speak louder than words
C.no pain, no gain
D.many hands make light work
22、(At break, Amy meets Ken in the hallway)
Amy: Hi, Ken. Jane's birthday is coming. Have you received her invitation?
Ken: Yes, 【1】
Amy: Me too. I'm just thinking about the gift. 【2】
Ken: Well, she likes writing. Why not get her pens and books?
Amy: 【3】 I think she'll be happy to get them.
Ken: Yeah, by the way, how will you buy the gift? Will you ask your parents for money?
Amy: 【4】 I've already saved my pocket money.
Ken: You're right. I think we should learn to manage pocket money. I just spend it on the things I really need.
Amy: That's true. 【5】
Ken: What a kind girl! Learning to save and use money are both important to us.
A.Yes, please.
B.Sounds good.
C.Of course not.
D.How about you?
E.I also use it to help others in need.
F.Have you got any good ideas?
23、根据汉语意思补全句子。
【1】和过去相比,我们的生活越来越好了。
Compared with the past, our life is getting _____________________.
【2】这些产品的质量很好,并且价格也不高。
These products are of good quality, _____________, they aren't very expensive.
【3】尽管时间如此久了,我仍然记得。
I can still remember, ____________it was so long ago.
【4】 课堂上电脑永远不会取代老师。
Teachers will never_____________ by computers in the classroom.
【5】我们没买那车,原因很简单,我们买不起。
I didn't buy the car. The simple ___________________ we couldn't afford it.
24、 Some students get so nervous before an exam that they do poorly even if they know the material. Sian Beilock, a psychology (心理学) professor at the University of Chicago, has studied these highly anxious (焦虑的) exam-takers.
“They start worrying about the results. They might even start worrying about whether this exam is going to prevent them from getting into the college they want. And when we worry,it actually uses up attention and memory resources that we could otherwise be using to focus (集中) on the exam.” says Sian Beilock.
The researchers tested the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students. They gave them two short math tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the coming second test.
The researchers added to the pressure. They told the students that those who did well on the second exam would get money. They also told them that their performance would affect other students as part of a team effort.
Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of 20% worse on the second exam. But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of 5%.
Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things not connected to the test.
Professor Beilock says highly anxious students who wrote about their feelings got an average grade of B+,compared with a B-for those who did not.
But what can they do if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam or presentation? Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in the library and they can still improve their performance.
【1】In which paragraph does the author introduce the background of his study?
A. In the last paragraph. B. In the second paragraph.
C. In the third paragraph. D. In the first paragraph.
【2】According to Sian Beilock, if you want to succeed in an exam, you should ________.
A. focus your attention on the exam B. be as serious as you can about the exam
C. set clear study goals and keep them D. make a careful preparation for the exam
【3】The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph means “_______”.
A. looking for a chance B. preparing for the exam
C. writing about the feelings D. taking the exam
【4】We can infer (推断) from the study that students who sit quietly before the exam ______.
A. are more likely to get better exam results
B. worry more about the exam in their mind
C. have a positive attitude towards exam results
D. have a strong will to be successful in the exam
25、When you make a mistake, big or small, treasure it as it's the most valuable thing in the world.
Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, and get mad at ourselves.
And that's only natural: Most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, and we should try to avoid mistakes. We've been punished when we make mistakes — at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction(无意识的反应).
Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be treasured and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world: They make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.
By test and error — trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes — we have found out how to make electric lights, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and to fly.
Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, and make works of genius(天才) possible.
Think about how we learn: We don't just get information about something and know it at once or know how to do it. You don't just read about painting, or writing, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from watching usually ... then you set a model in your mind ... then you test it out by trying it in the real world ... then you make mistakes ... then you correct the model based on the results of your real world experiment ... and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you've pretty much learned how to do something.
That's how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new — because if you succeed in something, it's probably something you already knew how to do. You haven't really grown much from that success — at most it's the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey is made up of mistakes, if it's a good journey.
So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world full of wonders possible.
【1】According to the passage, how should we treat mistakes?
A.We should try to avoid making mistakes.
B.We should owe(把…归功于) great inventions mainly to mistakes.
C.We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.
D.We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.
【2】The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph 6 probably means ________.
A.a small child learning to walk
B.a kindergarten child learning to draw
C.a primary pupil learning to read
D.a school teenager learning to write
【3】We can learn from the passage that ________.
A.most of us can really grow from success
B.growing and improving are based on mistakes
C.we learn to make mistakes by test and error
D.we read about something and know how to do it right away
【4】The author wants to tell us ________.
A.what you should do when meeting with difficulties
B.where you can find your mistakes
C.how you can avoid making mistakes
D.why you should celebrate your mistakes
26、My dad was a plumber(水管工) for the public works department in our town, so from time to time he came into my school. Can you imagine sitting in class and seeing your dad walk past the door of your classroom and wave his hand at you? In junior high?
One girl in our class always made fun of me because my dad was a plumber and hers was a lawyer(律师), and she would say things like, “Ew, that’s gross(粗俗的)!” I must admit I was sometimes embarrassed by what my dad did, especially in my early teens, when the only thing I really cared about was what the other girls thought.
The girl lived a few streets away from us, and one winter day---the day her elder sister was getting married---the toilet in their main upstairs bathroom broke and there was water everywhere. Her father, the lawyer called every plumber in the Yellow Page, but nobody would come and because we were having a major snowstorm. Her daughter told him that my father was a plumber, and he called, and my dad went right over---and took me with him.(Maybe he was hoping that the lawyer’s daughter would be nicer to me.) My father fixed the toilet, help them clean up everything, and didn’t take much time for his trouble. But as we were leaving, he told the girl, “If I ever need a lawyer, I’ll be happy to call your dad.”
As we walked to our car, he said to me, “Do you believe he didn’t know where the main shut-off valve(阀) was? What a dumb ass!”
From that point on, her dad was known in school as Lawyer Dumb Ass.
When my husband and I bought our house, the first thing my dad showed him was the main shut-off valve.
I have always been proud to say that I’m a plumber’s daughter.
【1】When her father came to her school and walked past the classroom door, the writer might feel ________.
A.pleased B.embarrassed C.disappointed D.proud
【2】The girl’s attitude towards the writer can be best described as ________.
A.unfriendly B.doubtful C.kind D.gross
【3】Why couldn’t the lawyer find anybody to fix the toilet on that winter day?
A.He had little money
B.All the plumbers were too busy to come
C.There was a major snowstorm and nobody would come out
D.One of his daughters was getting married and the house was in a mess
【4】From the passage, we know the followings are right EXCEPT _______?
A.The writer’s father thought the girl’s father was stupid.
B.In the writer’s early teens, the only thing she cared about was what her dad did.
C.The writer’s father spent only a little time fixing the toilet.
D.What the other girls thought troubled the writer when she was in junior high.
27、Imagine you are thinking about entering a senior high school, but have questions. So you go to the school's website to find answers. A message appears on your computer and says, "How can I help?" You are not communicating with a human being, but a chatbot. It is using artificial intelligence (AI) to communicate with you. This might sound strange, but in recent years, chatbots have become an usual tool for banks and large companies around the world.
Having workers answer people's questions and complaints can be expensive. And workers canonly work several hours a day, making customers wait longer for a response (答复). So not only companies, but more schools have also begun using chatbot technology, says Keith Rajecki. He is with Oracle Higher Education, a computer software company that serves these institutions.
Rajecki notes that reducing costs and response time is one of the main reasons why schools and companies are turning to this technology. However, the purpose of many schools is to find ways to better serve students, since students are used to communicating online through Facebook or WeChat, says Rajecki.
Now Oracle is offering many schools a chatbot which can do everything from helping students register (注册) for classes to helping them ask for a few days off. Oracle is not the only company working on chatbot technology. Businesses like AdmitHub and Ivy.ai are involved in similar efforts.
Western Governors University, or WGU, also received a $750,000 award to experiment with a new kind of chatbot. "We're not trying to create a bot that answers simple questions," said Jason Leven, the director of WGU Labs. "We're trying to create a chatbot that can help decision making for students."
Ian Jacobs is with the market research company Forrester. He suggests that technology like chatbots can work well if it is able to do what users ask of it. Jacobs says the problem will appear when cost cutting becomes an important reason for using the technology. This means schools and companies are more likely to try using chatbots for things they are not yet able to do, such as communicating in the way humans do. For one thing, there are hundreds of ways to word even simple requests. For another, chatbots aren't able to deal with emotions (感情). They can't understand how humans feel, not to speak of comforting (安慰) them.
【1】Which of the following is not the reason why more schools are turning to chatbot technology?
A.Schools want to serve the students better.
B.Chatbot technology can help schools save money.
C.Students are used to communicating with chatbots.
D.Chatbot technology makes students wait shorter for a response.
【2】Chatbots may work well in the following situations except ________.
A.when students want to know more about a school
B.when students are wondering how to register for classes
C.when students want to have two days off because of illness
D.when students are in need of some help because a parent dies
【3】The following sentence would best be placed at the end of ________. However, not everyone is ready to consider the possibilities this kind of technology presents.
A.Paragraph 5
B.Paragraph 4
C.Paragraph 3
D.Paragraph 2
【4】What can we infer from the passage?
A.A chatbot is able to do whatever users ask of it.
B.A chatbot is a kind of completely new technology using AI.
C.A new chatbot may appear to help students to make decisions.
D.Chatbot technology has been used in both schools and companies.
28、阅读下面的短文,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或使用括号内所给单词的正确形式(每空不得多于3个单词。
Bill doesn’t do well in public speaking. One day, he 【1】(invite)to make a speech at the church. His 【2】(young)brother, Ben, knew he was nervous and tried to calm him down. “ Don’t worry. Everything【3】(be) fine.”
When the day came, Bill’s car had an accident【4】the way to the church. Luckily, he wasn’t badly hurt and got to the church on time. It was his turn. When he stood up, his coat became tangled (纠缠)with his chair. After a few 【5】 (minute), he began his speech, but he was so nervous 【6】 he dropped his book. Many people thought he would run, but he went on.
Suddenly, people saw something【7】(usual) running down from his nose, blood! He stopped 【8】speak) when he saw the blood. But he still tried to finish his speech. Then Ben quietly moved to the front and handed him his handkerchief(手帕).Then he gave him a smile and 【9】 (return) to his seat.
It was a really simple gesture, and might be the simplest. He just saw someone in need, and gave him a hand. In the end, Bill finished his talk【10】more confidence.
29、 It's hard to go anywhere these days without seeing people staring at their smart-phones, but one place that still asks you to turn them off is the cinema. But even this may be about to change. In _______interview with Variety, Adam Aron, CEO of one of the _______cinema chains in the world, AMC, said the company is considering allowing phones to be used in its US theaters.
Aron said the plan was to draw more millennials into cinemas as a way of _______the industry's number of audience. "When you tell 22-year-olds to turn off the phone so as not to ruin the movie, they hear please cut off your left arm above the elbow. You _______tell 22-year-olds to turn off their cellphones. That's not _______they live their lives," he said.
"We need to reshape our product in some concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity _______baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives."
Aron admits that _______the idea may attract some people, not everyone is going to appreciate having the glare of multiple smart-phone screens disturbing their cinema experience.
"We're going to have to figure out a way to do it that doesn't disturb today's audience, because today's moviegoers don't want anybody sitting next to _______texting or having their phone _______. But there are ads up there saying turn off your phone."
Aron did offer one possible solution that could potentially benefit everyone. He ________designating certain auditoriums as 'texting friendly,' ________would hopefully mean that those who can't bear to go without checking their phone ________few minutes can watch a movie in one screening room while everyone else can use ________.
Whether we do ever see 'texting screens' appearing in any of AMC's cinemas remains to ________. So far, the idea hasn't been very well received, with most people saying, rightly, that keeping a phone ________during a movie isn't a difficult task.
【1】A.the B.a C.an D./
【2】A.big B.bigger C.much bigger D.biggest
【3】A.increase B.increasing C.increased D.to increase
【4】A.shouldn't B.wouldn't C.mightn't D.can't
【5】A.how B.what C.why D.who
【6】A.with B.except C.as D.like
【7】A.unless B.although C.because D.before
【8】A.theirs B.their C.they D.them
【9】A.on B.off C.by D.in
【10】A.suggests B.suggested C.has suggested D.had suggested
【11】A.why B.which C.what D.that
【12】A.every B.each C.all D.some
【13】A.another B.the other C.other D.others
【14】A.see B.be seeing C.be seen D.have seen
【15】A.turns off B.turning off C.to turn off D.turned off