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1、We’re glad to see that Jiajiang is developing _______ these years than ever before.
A．quickly B．more quickly C．most quickly
2、After the long journey, the three of them went back home, ＿＿＿＿＿＿ .
A. hungry and tiredly B. hungry and tired
C. hungrily and tiredly D. hungrily and tired
3、Faced with the dilemma, the company committee ________ a public statement, appointing the capable man to be its new global chief financial officer.
A. pulled out B. put out
C. reached out D. drew out
4、—Jimmy has had a lot of parties recently.
—Yes, that might ________ why he didn’t do well in the test.
A．turn up
B．add up to
C．account for
D．make sense of
5、No one knows for certain how the first Americans arrived in _____ is now the United States.
A. which B. what
C. where D. why
6、______ worries me that my daughter plays with her cellphone for a long time every day.
A．It B．What C．This D．That
7、— Do you think it's a good idea to make friends with your students？
—________, I do．I think it's a great idea．
A．Really B．Hopefully
C．Actually D．Eventually
8、________ with his sisters, Jerry is even more sensitive to emotional and relationship problems.
A．To compare B．Compare
C．Comparing D．Compared
9、— Let’s go and have a good drink tonight.
— ________ Have you got the first prize in the competition?
A． Thanks a lot． B． What for?
C． Yes, I’d like to． D． Why not?
考点：词组／短语
10、EBOLA（埃博拉） is said_______ another big health challenge to our humans over the past several months .
A. becoming B. to become
C.having become D. to have become
11、Our football team had a lead in the match, but the last minute goal of the guest team .
A. gave it away B. put it away
C. wiped it away D. carried it away
12、The unquestioned role of students is to learn as much as possible through ________ method they find.
A. whichever B. whatever
C. no matter what D. no matter which
13、——If you make it in the competition, I’ll buy you a drink.
——Ok. ______!
A. That’s a deal B. That’s all right
C. Good luck D. Take care
14、—You didn’t invite Mary to the ball?
—___ her, too?
A. Must I invite B. Would I have invited
C. Must I have invited D. Should I have invited
15、Nothing shall _______ me _________ from accomplishing my purpose.
A. hold , on B. hold , back C. hold , up D. hold , out
16、The more _________ we take the safety standards, the further we can speed up the development of the school bus industry.
A. constantly B. seriously
C. generally D. immediately
17、Only after being attacked by the Japanese in Pearl Harbor ________in the Second World War thoroughly.
A. had America involved B. was America involved
C. America had involved D. America was involved
18、In yesterday’s business training course the consultant instructed us that a good salesman must
be ______ if he wants to succeed.
A. aggressive B. conventional
C. visual D. fragrant
19、Motorists________to the radio or their familiar tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.
A．used to listening
B．who used to listen
C．who used to listening
D．who are used to listen
20、--- Why didn’t you ring me up when Sue arrived?
---sorry, I ______ my essay that was to be handed in by noon.
A. had written B. wrote
C. have been writing D. was writing
21、“Federal weather forecasters are predicting a ‘near normal’ number of storms this hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November 1. Between nine and 15 named storms are predicted to form in the Atlantic this year,” said Neil Jacobs, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“Of those, between four and eight are predicted to become full-blown hurricanes, with winds capable of removing shingles (木瓦) and taking down power lines,” Jacobs said Thursday at a news conference to announce the forecast. “And between two and four storms are expected to strengthen into so-called major hurricanes, with winds strong enough to break trees and tear off roofs.”
Gerry Bell, the lead hurricane forecaster at NOAA, said people shouldn’t be fooled into satisfactions by the word “normal”. “Nine to fifteen named storms are a lot,” he said. “Two to four major hurricanes are a lot. So the key message is: We’re expecting a near-normal season, but you need to start getting prepared for the hurricane season now.”
This year’s outlook is shaped by two competing meteorological (气象学的) phenomena.
On one hand, the climate pattern known as El Nino (厄尔尼诺) is happening this year, which generally prevents hurricane activity in the Atlantic. At the same time, the water at the surface of the tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean is warmer than usual. That warm water acts like an engine for hurricanes, fueling their creation and making them bigger and wetter.
While ocean temperatures change under normal climate conditions, global warming is also causing ocean waters to get hotter. The overall global surface temperature has already risen more than I degree Fahrenheit compared with pre-industrial times. That suggests increasing hurricane risk, as big and wet storms become more likely.
【1】How many storms may take place in the Atlantic at least this year?
A．4.
B．9.
C．15.
D．24.
【2】What can be the effect of the full-blown hurricanes?
A．Blowing off shingles.
B．Destroying roads.
C．Causing earthquakes.
D．Taking down dams.
【3】What can we know from Gerry Bell’s words?
A．People were often fooled by the NOAA.
B．There will be less major hurricanes this year.
C．There has been a near-normal hurricane season,
D．People should prepare for the coming hurricanes.
【4】What is the direct cause of hurricanes?
A．El Nino phenomenon.
B．The increasing population.
C．Environmental pollution.
D．Warmer water of the ocean.
22、Guide for New Students
Transportation
The TWU Express is a shuttle (班车) service. The shuttle transports students between campus and the shopping centre, leaving from the Mattson Centre. Operation hours are between 9 am and 3 pm, Saturdays only. Round trip fare is $1.
Food
The TWU Cafeteria is open from 7am to 8pm. It serves snacks, drinks, ice cream bars and meals. You can pay in cash or with your ID cards. You can add meal money to your ID cards at the Front Desk. Even if you do not buy your food in the cafeteria, you can use the tables to eat your lunch, to have meetings and to study.
If you are on campus in the evening or late at night, you can buy snacks, fast food, and drinks in the Lower Café in the bottom level of the Gouglas Centre. This area is often used for entertainment such as concerts, games or TV watching.
Health
The Wellness Centre，on the top floor of Douglas Hall, is committed to physical, mental and social health. A doctor or a nurse is available if you have health questions or need immediate medical help or personal advice. The cost of this is included in your medical insurance. Hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 pm.
Relaxation
The Globe, in the bottom level of McMillan Hall, is available for relaxing, studying, cooking, and eating. Monthly activities are held here for all international students. Hours are 10 am to 10 pm, closed on Sundays.
【1】What is the function of TWU Express? ________
A.To transport students to and from the stores. B.To provide students with campus tours.
C.To take students to their homes. D.To carry students to the lecture halls.
【2】What can you do in the TWU Cafeteria? ________
A.Do housework and watch TV. B.Buy books and enjoy concerts.
C.Have meals and meet with friends. D.Add money to your ID and play chess.
【3】Where and when can you cook your own food? _______
A.The McMillan Hall, Sunday. B.The Lower Café, Sunday.
C.The TWU Cafeteria, Friday. D.The Globe, Friday.
23、On the eve of our daughters’ weddings, I gave both of them what I considered to be excellent marital advice: never leave your husband unsupervised (无人监督的) with pruning shears (修枝剪).
If only I had taken my own advice. I recently let my guard down. Thirty-some years of marriage can do that to a woman. Give a man pruning shears and electric trimmers (电动修剪器) and he will give new meaning to “armed and dangerous.”
One day earlier this year, my husband said that the crab apple tree was dead.
“Why do you think it is dead?” I asked.
“Look at it. There’s not a leaf on it.”
“There’s not a leaf on anything. It’s March,” I said.
“It looked sick last fall and with this bitter winter we had, I’m convinced it’s dead.”
The truth is he’s never liked the crab apple. Sure, it has beautiful blooms in the spring, but then it gets a disease, the leaves curl, and it drops those little apples that sit on the driveway.
Each passing week he pronounced the tree dead. Eventually I began to believe him. Though he agreed it would be a regrettable loss, there was a twinkle in his eye. He armed himself a couple of weeks ago and began trimming. A branch here, a branch there, a small limb, then a large limb. I watched and then decided to check the wood on some of the branches closer to the trunk. I broke one off and saw green.
The crab apple was not dead. It just hadn’t had time to leaf out. The tree was now falling to one side, but it was not dead. I would have told him so, but he had moved on to a maple. Once the man starts, he can’t stop. One trim leads to another.
“Please, stop!” I called.
He smiled and nodded, but he couldn’t hear because he had started the hedge (树篱) trimmers and was getting ready to fix a line of hedges.
Zip (飕飕声), zip, zip.
“What do you think?” he shouted.
“It’s supposed to be a privacy hedge; now all that will be private are our ankles.”
He started the trimmers again. “Stop!” I called, “Come back!”
“Why?” he shouted.
“You’re in the neighbor’s yard.”
【1】By saying “if only I had taken my own advice.” the author means that _____.
A. she should have kept a closer watch on her husband
B. she feels regretful about her marriage after many years
C. she didn’t follow her own advice about pruning shears
D. she shouldn’t have given that marital advice to her daughters
【2】We can learn from the article that the author’s husband ______.
A. has a great talent for gardening
B. had never used pruning shears before
C. mistook their crab apple tree for a maple tree
D. nearly ruined their neighbor’s garden
【3】What does the article mainly talk about?
A. Why husbands shouldn’t be left to trim trees alone.
B. Why the author’s husband insisted on trimming their crab apple tree.
C. How the author has survived her “thirty-some” years of marriage.
D. How the author’s husband killed their crab apple tree.
【4】What is the tone of the article?
A. Anxious. B. Humorous.
C. Serious. D. Critical.
24、When you hear “I have a dream…”, one of the most famous speeches in human history, you’ll never have the idea how the audience on the scene were fueled by emotional intelligence. When Martin Luther King. Jr. presented his dream, he chose language that would stir the hearts of his audience. Delivering this electrifying(震撼性的) message required emotional intelligence—the ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions.
Emotional intelligence has been highly recommended by leaders, policymakers, and educators as the solution to a wide range of social problems. Emotional intelligence is important, but the uncontrolled enthusiasm has obscured (掩盖)a dark side. New evidence shows that when people sharpen their emotional skills, they become better at controlling others. When you’re good at controlling your own emotions, you can hide your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can motivate them to act against their own best interests.
Social scientists have begun to document this dark side of emotional intelligence. In a research led by University of Toronto professor Jochen Menges, when a leader gave an inspiring speech filled with emotion, the audience was less likely to scrutinize (细察) the message and remembered the content. Ironically(讽刺 的是), audience members were so moved by the speech that they claimed to recall more of it.
The authors call this the awestruck effect, but it might just as easily be described as the dumbstruck effect. One observer reflected that Hitler’s persuasive impact came from his ability to strategically express emotions—he would “tear open his heart”—and these emotions affected his followers to the point that they would “stop thinking critically and just emote.”
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our abilities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be destructive. New evidence suggests that when people have self-serving motives, emotional intelligence becomes a weapon for controlling others.
Throwing light on this dark side of emotional intelligence is one mission of a research team led by University College London professor Martin Kilduff. According to these experts, emotional intelligence helps people disguise (伪装) one set of emotions while expressing another for personal gain. Professor Kilduff’s team writes, “The strategic disguise of one’s own emotions and the controlling of others’ emotions for strategic ends are behaviors evident not only on Shakespeare’s stage but also in the offices and corridors where power and influence are traded.”
Of course, people aren’t always using emotional intelligence for nefarious ends. More often than not, high EQ is helpful in most aspects of our life. Emotional intelligence—like any skill—can be used for good or evil. So whether it is a gift or a curse lies in your hand.
【1】Why does the author mention Martin Luther King, Jr?
A．To honor the great leader for his courage.
B．To recommend his speech to other leaders.
C．To introduce the major topic to readers.
D．To advocate a society with fewer problems.
【2】Which of the following belongs to a dark side of emotional intelligence?
A．Developing the capability to control one’s own emotion.
B．Influencing people to do what brings disadvantages to them.
C．Appealing to the audience to concentrate and remember more.
D．Encouraging the moved audience to learn more of the speech.
【3】What is the dumbstruck effect of Hitler’s emotional intelligence?
A．His followers would tear open their hearts to him.
B．His followers would express emotions strategically.
C．His followers would lose the ability to reason properly.
D．His followers would develop the self-serving motives.
【4】How do people use their emotional intelligence for personal gain?
A．They disguise their true emotions and show another one.
B．They help their colleagues to build up confidence.
C．They present their strategic behaviors on the stage.
D．They lower their own dignity to gain popularity.
【5】Which may mean the same as the underlined word in the last paragraph ?
A．Immoral.
B．Unimportant.
C．Illegal.
D．Uncontrollable.
【6】What would be the best title for the passage?
A．The benefits of emotional intelligence.
B．The advantages and disadvantages of emotions.
C．The reasons for using emotional skills.
D．The dark side of emotional intelligence.
25、Herb Chasan could have eased into retirement after spending 18 years teaching in high school and another 30 years remodelling homes. But the 80-year-old didn’t _______ . He saw a need in the lower-income neighbourhoods near his home and he wanted to _______ it.
So Mr. Chasan _______ Hoops and Homework, an after-school program providing _______ for youths up to age 14. Since 2012, it has helped over 300 children, who otherwise would have gone home to _______ houses or wandered around the streets until their parents _______ work.
Every Wednesday afternoon, the day’s volunteers—a married couple—would _______ the children with their homework, ranging from science to art projects. The air was filled with laughter and _______ from those curious minds.
Thanks to the founder Mr. Chasan and a group of _______ volunteers, the children have spent their afternoons ________ , making crafts, playing basketball, learning violin and gardening in the ________ of a small army of tutors (助教).
While the ________ after-school operations have been affected by COVID-19, Mr. Chasan is still planning to ________ the program for the benefit of more children in need.
“Our ________ is to help these kids break the cycle of poverty—to have a good job, to be a success,” says Mr. Chasan. The work isn’t easy, but the ________ can be big.
【1】
A．wait
B．change
C．rest
D．leave
【2】
A．meet
B．feel
C．recognize
D．emphasize
【3】
A．consulted
B．discovered
C．established
D．checked
【4】
A．donations
B．interviews
C．exams
D．activities
【5】
A．distant
B．empty
C．messy
D．small
【6】
A．left for
B．looked for
C．put off
D．got off
【7】
A．assist
B．comfort
C．impress
D．inspire
【8】
A．advice
B．guidance
C．questions
D．behaviours
【9】
A．polite
B．selfless
C．sensible
D．cheerful
【10】
A．casually
B．toughly
C．competitively
D．productively
【11】
A．rule
B．attention
C．hope
D．evaluation
【12】
A．costly
B．occasional
C．regular
D．dull
【13】
A．expand
B．replace
C．suspend
D．choose
【14】
A．profession
B．request
C．problem
D．goal
【15】
A．pay
B．reward
C．demand
D．result
26、第二节：书面表达：（满分25分）
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2. 表明你的观点；
3. 给出理由。
注意：词数100左右。
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