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1、If ________ in the elevator, please press the emergency button immediately.
A. trapped B. trapping
C. having trapped D. to be trapped
2、I think you’d better avoid talking about politics, religion and other ______ topics with him if you are not close friends.
A．sensitive
B．skeptical
C．aggressive
D．attractive
3、—Michelle, have you got your admission to the Pennsylvania State University as a state-financed student?
—I hope so, but I’m not so lucky. I have to ______ my pocket to pay for my further study.
A.turn to B.dip into C.refer to D.see to
4、Little Tom was frozen with fear when the accident happened, so he just gave some ________answers when asked about what he witnessed.
A. concrete B. abundant
C. apparent D. vague
5、There are other languages that sound extremely different, ________ they’re conveying exactly the same meaning.
A.as though B.even though C.so that D.in that
6、Was it in June 2016 ______ Shanghai Disney land ______ you have been dreaming of visiting was opened to the public.
A.when; that B.that; which C.that; where D.when; where
7、The information tells me that the way of education in Canada is quite different from _____ in China.
A.one B.it C.that D.those
8、You needn’t be too concerned about what to wear to the party—it’s all _____ anyway, because you haven’t even been invited yet.
A. academic B. painful C. physical D. Economical
9、Young people who have got jobs may realize university lessons can’t be the only preparation for all of the situations ________ appear in the working world.
A. where B. when C. that D. what
10、The beautiful girl chose to teach in a village school, though she ______ in a big city for an easier life.
A．could stay
B．could have stayed
C．must have stayed
D．must stay
11、After retirement, Mr. Smith _____ painting, which he had always loved but had no time for.
A. turned up B. held up C. made up D. took up
12、As teachers we shouldn’t accept the argument given by some people _______ standardized tests restrict educators too much and take the joy out of teaching.
A. where B. what
C. how D. that
13、Lack of sleep will cause an increase in stress levels, which will lead to you not liking your job. This_____ will also have a negative impact on your productivity.
A.in turn B.in return C.in place D.in brief
14、This restaurant has become popular for its wide ______ of foods that suit all tastes and pockets.
A.production B.offer
C.range D.division
15、It’s always a good idea to have a second key somewhere ______ you lose the first one.
A. in case B. now that C. even though D. as long as
16、The minister refused for reasons of _______ rather than religion to sign a new law legalizing abortion.
A. comprehension B. conscience C. consequence D. conservation
17、Spending on universities is usually ______ by the belief --- the increase in earnings that graduates enjoy over non-graduates.
A.confirmed B.justified C.convinced D.recognized
18、Those ______ achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off.
A．what
B．who
C．which
D．whom
19、Privacy is like health. Only when it is gone________you had done more to protect it.
A.do you wish B.you wish C.did you wish D.you wished
20、The procedure appealed to the staff a lot________it was introduced to them in January.
A．since
B．until
C．when
D．though
21、Call for entries: young women writers competition
Guardian Weekend magazine is launching a writing competition for UK women aged 16-21 on the theme of conversations．
How to enter
All you have to do is submit a 700-word personal essay that shows off your talents——on the theme of conversations．Did you have an unforgettable conversation with your grandmother about her youth that changed how you viewed her? Do you find having certain conversations really hard, and if so, why? Is there a conversation you regret, or one you regret you never had? We're keen to hear about your personal experiences．
All entries must be sent to weekend@the guardian．com by midnight on 9 March．
The Prizes
There will be one winner and two runners-up．The three winners will each receive £250．The winners will be notified（通知）by email or telephone on or before 30 March 2021 and given details of how to claim their prizes．As part of the editing process, the three winners will participate in a video call with a Guardian Weekend editor to discuss and edit their essay for publication．The one overall winner will also receive a 1-1 work shop with a Guardian editor．
Rules
Follow all rules carefully to prevent disqualification．
■Only one entry is permitted per person．Entries on behalf of another person will not be accepted and joint submissions are not allowed．
■The Competition opens at 09:00 on 22 February 2021 and closes at 23:59 on 9 March 2021．Entries received outside this time period will not be considered．
■Your entry must not be copied, and must not contain any third-party materials or content that you do not have permission to use．
■You must include your name, age and contact details, including your email address and phone number．
【1】What's the theme of the writing competition?
A．Regrets．
B．Conversations．
C．Grandmother's youth．
D．Personal experiences．
【2】What extra prize will the overall winner receive?
A．An additional £250．
B．A video of the competition．
C．A prior notification of the win．
D．A 1-1 workshop with an editor．
【3】Which of the following will result in disqualification?
A．Co-authoring an entry．
B．Including contact details．
C．Mailing your entry on 1 March．
D．Using others' content with permission．
22、 In previous recessions (经济衰退), billionaires were hit along with the rest of us; it took almost three years for Forbes’s 400 richest people to recover from losses caused in 2008’s Great Recession. But in the coronavirus recession of 2020, most billionaires have gotten richer than ever before.
Billionaires increased their new billions just as millions of other Americans ran into terrible financial problems. More than 20 million people lost their jobs at the start of the pandemic. Food banks across the country are preparing for another great increase in demand. Why are American billionaires doing so well while so many other Americans suffer? People may find part of the reasons from the following fact. Stocks (股票) are overwhelmingly owned by the wealthy, and the stock market has recovered from its early-pandemic depths much more quickly than other parts of the economy.
But some billionaires are also benefiting from economic and technological trends that were accelerated by the pandemic. Among these are the owners and investors of retail giants like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree and Dollar General, which have reported huge profits this year while many of their smaller competitors were defeated completely as the coronavirus spread.
Then there are companies that have bet on the rapid digitization of everything Eric Yuan, the chief executive of Zoom, became a billionaire in 2019. Now he is worth almost $20 billion. Dan Gilbert, the chairman of Quicken Loans, was worth less than $7 billion in March, now he commands more than $43 billion. But there is a great deal of stratification (层化) even among billionaires—richer billionaires got even richer in 2020 than the poorer ones did. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s funder, was worth about $113 billion at the start of the pandemic. Now he is worth $182 billion. Two years ago, Bezos was the only “centibillionaire” on earth—the trendy neologism (a new word) for people whose wealth exceeds (超过) ￥100 billion.
【1】What does the author mainly tell us in the passage?
A．Food banks are not enough in the United States.
B．The richest kept getting richer even in the pandemic.
C．The stock market recovered before the pandemic started.
D．400 richest people recovered from losses in the pandemic.
【2】What is “part of the reasons” that is implied in Paragraph 2?
A．The American inequality.
B．The recovery of stock market.
C．The effect of the pandemic.
D．The food shortage across the country.
【3】What is one of the changes during the pandemic?
A．The decline of digital games.
B．More money lent to people by banks.
C．The trend of technology acceleration.
D．High profit earned by smaller companies.
【4】Why does the author refer to “centibillionaire” as a “neologism”?
A．It is a new title in the stock market after the recession.
B．It is a new way of solution to poverty through the world.
C．It is a newly established company during the pandemic.
D．It is a new term for people whose wealth exceeds $100 billion.
23、Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies’ responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of hearing stimulation. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that a baby notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances(讲话，说话). By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling tones. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies’ emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is happy or angry, attempting to begin or end new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of clues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating(夸张) such clues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other researchers have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels(元音) longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make those precisely perceptual（知觉的，感性的） recognition that are necessary if they are to acquire listening language.
Babies obviously obtain pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to boring meaning that it often is for adults.
【1】The author mentions syllables with rising and falling tones to .
A. show how difficult it is for babies to interpret emotions
B. provide an example of ways adults speak to babies
C. give a reason for babies’ difficulty in telling one adult from another
D. show a six-week-old baby can already tell some language differences
【2】What can be inferred about the findings described in Paragraph 2?
A. Mothers from different cultures speak to their babies in similar ways.
B. Babies ignore facial expressions in understanding listening language.
C. The mothers were unconsciously teaching their babies to speak.
D. Mothers only exaggerate their tones when talking to babies.
【3】Why do babies listen to songs and stories, even if they can’t understand?
A. They understand the rhythm. B. They enjoy the sound.
C. They can remember them easily. D. They focus on the meaning.
【4】What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Babies can detect sounds other than the human voice.
B. Babies’ ways to learn a language differ from adults’.
C. Babies can respond to the speech before they can speak.
D. Babies can tell the sound of the human voice from other sounds.
24、 Getting away may be good for your soul---but is it good for everyone else?
---By BEN HEALY
If you feel like you need a vacation, you're almost certainly right Americans get far fewer paid days off than workers in petty much any other industrialized democracy and the time we actually take off has declined significantly, from 20.3 days in 1987 to 17.2 days in 2017.
Beyond souvenirs and suntans, the best reason to take a break may be your own health. For the Helsinki Businessmen Study-- 40-year cardiovascular (心血管的) health study that also happens to be the working title of the solo album I'll probably never get around 10 recording ---researchers treated men at risk of heart disease. From 1974 to 2004 those men who took atl east three weeks of vacation were 379% less likely to die than those who t fewer weeks off.
Even if we don't view time of as a matter of life and death, people who take more of their allotted vacation time tend to find their work more meaningful. Vacation can yield other benefits, too: People who took all or most of their paid vacation time to travel were more likely than others to report a recent raise or bonus.
And time not taken depresses more than individual career prospects In 2017, the average us worker left six paid vacation days unused, which works out to 705 million days of travel nationally, enough to support 1.9 million travel-related jobs.
From longevity to career growth to macroeconomic achievements, the cease for vacation seems open-and shut. Yet the picture's not entirely rosy. Tourism's carbon footprint grew four times as much as expected from 2009 to 2013, and accounted for 8 percent of all greenhouse gas emission in that period. What's more, the travel industry is expected to consume 92 percent more water in 2050 than it did in 2010, and 189 percent more land. In other environmental news, people are less likely too recycle while on vacation (both because they are unsure how to, and because getting away with things seems to be a key part of getting away from it all)
The frisson(短暂的、突然的兴奋或恐惧) of pitching plastic is not the only thrill tempting travelers. Interviews wit tourists returning from various international destinations revealed that they used more drugs while on vacation than in everyday life. Other studies have found that people are more likely to eat with abandon while traveling: On vacations of one to three weeks, tourists gain an average of 0.7 pounds, a significant portion of average annual weight gain. Finally, a 2015 study found that "travel and leisure" provoked envy---perhaps the single most toxic substance known to man--more than any other attribute( 特性) examined (including "relationship and family," "appearance" and “money and material possessions"). The effect may be especially severe on social media: 62% of people who described Facebook-caused bouts(发作) of jealousy said they'd been triggered by travel or leisure experiences--versus less than a quarter of people whose envy had been piqued(激起) in person.
So for your own health and sanity(心智健全)，book that vacation. But for everyone else's, please travel as sustainably as you can, and take it easy with the Instagram.
【1】From the first there paragraphs, we can learn that ______.
A.souvenirs and suntans are not what people want when they go on vacation
B.not using paid vacation days has little impact on a person’s career prospect
C.the time Americans spend on vacation has decreased by about three days from 1987 to 2017
D.the man in Helsinki Businessmen Study are more likely than others to take a vacation
【2】Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “open-and shut" in paragraph 5?
A.tricky and challenging B.uncertain and doubtful
C.interesting and inspiring D.obvious and straightforward
【3】Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A.People are more likely to gain weight when they take a vacation
B.The booming of the tourist industry contributes to the acceleration of global warming
C.The thrill of throwing plastic tempts travelers to travel more often
D.Travel and leisure lead to more envious feelings compared with appearance or wealth
【4】It can be concluded that the author's tone in this passage is_____.
A.objective B.skeptical
C.sympathetic D.admiring
25、 I was 11 years old standing outside in just my underwear while I watched the house that I grew up in rapidly burn to the ground.
A few minutes earlier I had been in bed when a _________ woke me up. A fire had _________ in my grandma’s room and awakened her. _________ hearing her, my brother had jumped into _________, running from room to room quickly waking everyone in the house. _________ we could do anything, the fire consumed it. We all barely _________ it outside before the flames had taken hold of every room.
I stood there _________ while the fire destroyed my books, clothes, and toys. I watched _________ while my mom cried and my dad sighed. I wondered what was going to happen to us _________ we had lost all of our things.
As I looked around, though, I ____________ something for the first time: The things that ____________ aren’t things. I saw my brother running across the swinging bridge by our house to get help. I saw my grandma and dad wrapped in each other’s arms and my mom ____________ our little dog. I realized at that moment that we were all ____________. Everything that was ____________ had survived the fire. Our life would ____________. We would survive without the “stuff” that was ____________. We would all be around to love each other for many years to come. And that was all that mattered.
I still think of that fire in the night. It helped me to become who I am today. It showed me for the very first time what was ____________ valuable in this life. It helped me to learn that the ____________ we share is far more important than the things we own.
Live your life for the things that matter, not for the things you ____________. Love your family. Love others. Let the fire inside of you make this world a ____________ place. Let your soul shine bright.
A．scream
B．dream
C．thunderstorm
D．bell
A．turned down
B．shown up
C．broken out
D．faded away
A．Without
B．As
C．Beyond
D．Upon
A．water
B．bed
C．conclusion
D．action
A．Until
B．When
C．Before
D．After
A．put
B．made
C．got
D．took
A．trembling
B．twisting
C．wondering
D．dreaming
A．carelessly
B．helplessly
C．uselessly
D．fearlessly
A．even though
B．now that
C．as if
D．in case
A．supposed
B．predicted
C．remembered
D．realized
A．matter
B．weigh
C．inspire
D．improve
A．raising
B．holding
C．feeding
D．cleaning
A．afraid
B．alike
C．alone
D．alive
A．delicate
B．essential
C．beneficial
D．profitable
A．stop
B．remain
C．continue
D．progress
A．burning
B．appearing
C．coming
D．leaving
A．barely
B．simply
C．nearly
D．truly
A．dog
B．fire
C．love
D．luck
A．deserve
B．reserve
C．possess
D．value
A．warmer
B．cooler
C．quieter
D．safer
26、假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国好友Jim发来邮件询问你近期在家通过网络学习的情况。请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 你每天的学习安排；
2. 你的收获。
注意：1. 词数不少于50；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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