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1、Though the teacher asked a very difficult question, Tom up with a very good answer immediately.
A. put B. kept
C. came D. caught
2、I still remember my happy childhood, when my mother ________ take me to Disneyland on weekends.
A．should
B．would
C．might
D．must
3、The more one is the English-speaking environment, the better he or she will learn the language.
A.exploded to B.experienced in C.caught on D.exposed to
4、－So you gave Mary your dictionary？
－______．She said she'd return it to me when she could afford her own．
A．Not exactly B．My pleasure
C．No doubt D．Good idea
5、When the authorities refuse to register The Slants as an Asian American band’s name, are they ___ its rights?
A. challenging B. violating
C. abusing D. confirming
6、________ did I accept this unreasonable suggestion.
A．By no means
B．By all means
C．By means of
D．By this means
7、– You left your umbrella.
– ______. I’m becoming so forgetful these days.
A. So did I B. So I did
C. So was I D. So I was
8、How elegant and attractive our teacher is today!
—Yes. The red dress ____ her hidden beauty.
A. brings out B. takes out
C. lets out D. gives out
9、Meetings ________ in the company every two days and he is fed up with them.
A．hold
B．are held
C．are holding
D．were held
10、---Why didn’t you attend the assembly this morning?
---But I anything about that.
A.didn’t tell B.haven’t told C.hadn’t been told D.haven’t been told
11、John was dismissed last week because of his _______ attitude towards his job.
A.caring B.casual C.capable D.changeable
12、______ prize for the winner of the competition is ______ two-week holiday in England.
A．The; a
B．不填; a
C．不填; the
D．The; 不填
13、The number of pupils in school with reading difficulties ________ this year.
A．have fallen
B．was falling
C．has fallen
D．were falling
14、—Why not go to Lahsa for a visit during the October 1st vacation?
—Sounds fine. It deserves _______.
A. considered B. to consider
C. considering D. being considered
15、The manager put forward a suggestion we should have an assistant. There is too much work to do.
A.whether B.that C.which D.when
16、— Did you drive oil the road because you were tired and sleepy?
—Absolutely not! Actually I ______ to avoid a truck overtaking me on the inside lane.
A.had been trying B.had tried C.was trying D.tried
17、On the annual International Volunteers Day, the world________ the work of millions of people who give their time to help others.
A．abolishes
B．accompanies
C．acknowledges
D．absorbed
18、— Has he finished his homework?
— He ______, for he is enjoying his favourite album.
A. must have B. can have C. must D. can
19、There are as many as five student clubs in our school．You can join _____ interests you most．
A．whatever B．whichever
C．whenever D．wherever
20、It was a remarkable ________ that John should turn up here just when we needed him.
A. convenience B. coincidence
C. characteristic D. contribution
21、To earnest HEMINGWAY, Paris was a movable feast. To a bedbug, so are Parisians. In videos on social media, the seats of the city’s metro are seen filled with bedbugs, tiny bloodsucking insects no bigger than apple seeds.
The health risk from bedbugs is minor: itchy (发痒的) bites and a small risk of allergies and secondary infections. As the present panic suggests, the bigger impact tends to be psychological, says entomologist Clive Boase. Mosquitoes, leeches and other parasites (寄生虫) are unpleasant, but they do not colonize your home. If a traveler brings bedbugs back from their holidays, the insects can start an invasion that can be very difficult to shift.
Schadenfreude among the non-French is unwise.“ There won’t be a city without bedbugs,” says Boase. DNA analysis suggests that the pests evolved from parasites that lived on bats, with which humans shared caves, and on birds, which may have nested in early thatched(茅草盖的) roofs. That may explain the one bit of good news about them. Mosquitoes spread malaria(疟疾), dengue fever and yellow fever. But no human pathogen(病原体) is known to use bedbugs as a vector-perhaps because there has not been time for one to evolve the ability.
Bedbugs favor warm environments with plenty of dark places to hide. Cities, and crowded blocks of Hats, are ideal. The bugs shelter in the crannies (裂缝) of furniture, in mattress scams or in cracks in walls, coming out to feed at night. Centrally heated homes accelerate their life cycles, making the problem worse as does a warming climate.
The introduction and widespread use of insecticides in the aftermath of World War II came close to wiping out the bugs from most houses. But that chemical attack placed a powerful evolutionary pressure on the insects to develop resistance to the poisons. Just as bacteria have evolved resistance to many of the antibiotics that used to kill them, modern bedbugs are almost free from at least some insecticides.
Scientists are therefore turning to other methods of attack. Diatomaceous earth can kill the bugs by desiccating them. Certain oils can block the pores through which they breathe. Temperatures above 45°Care also effective. Some firms offer to heat-treat affected furniture in insulated tents. Such treatments are expensive, however. New insecticides, to which the bugs have no resistance, could probably be invented. But for now, at least, says Boase, the market does not exist to justify much corporate research. And since the bugs do not spread diseases, public health bodies have more pressing priorities. If bedbugs continue to spread, though, their focuses could start to shift.
【1】According to the article, bedbugs are insects that .
A．are as small as apple seeds
B．are impossible to get rid of
C．pose a serious health risk to humans
D．usually feed on human blood in broad daylight
【2】According to the article, bedbugs are everywhere because
①warm cities provide ideal environments for them
②overseas travel helps them spread across the world
③they’ve lost the ability to spread infectious diseases
④they’ve become resistant to some chemical insecticides
A．①②③
B．①③④
C．①②④
D．②③④
【3】The last paragraph mainly talks about some ways of getting rid of bedbugs that are .
A．alternative ... costly
B．innovative... inefficient
C．expensive... complicated
D．eco-friendly ... inconvenient
【4】According to the author, the prospects for new insecticides against bedbugs are .
A．Exciting
B．uncertain
C．discouraging
D．unimaginable
22、Scientists are learning new things about Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth. For example, the Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking. A new study found that summer ice loss in parts of Antarctica was at its highest level in 1,000 years. The study showed that Antarctic ice was melting mostly from below ice shelves, where the water is warmer than the ice.
Eric Rignot is an earth system expert at the University of California, Irvine. He also works for the American space agency, NASA. There he serves as senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in California. He says ice melting from below is responsible for 55 percent of the shelf loss from 2003 to 2008. That is a much higher rate than scientists thought earlier.
Professor Rignot and his team used satellite observations, radar and computer models to measure features above the ice to learn what was going on below.
The measurements show differences from one area to the next around the continent. The major ice shelves are called Ross, Filchner and Ronne. They make up two-thirds of Antarctica’s ice shelves. But they are responsible for only 15 percent of the melting ice.
The professor says even small changes, like changes in ocean flow driven by wind, can make a huge difference in the melting of the ice shelf.
Sixty percent of the Earth’s fresh water is held in the huge Antarctic ice sheet. Professor Rignot says the study will help experts predict how the continent reacts to warmer ocean waters and helps to cause rising sea levels around the world. The study was published in the journal Science.
【1】 What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. the Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking
B. the coldest place on earth
C. the major Antarctica’s ice shelves
D. the Atlantic Ocean are changing
【2】How did Eric Rignot and his team do the research?
A. He serves as senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
B. Small changes, like changes in ocean flow driven by wind, can make a huge difference in the melting of the ice shelf.
C. They used satellite observations, radar and computer models to know the things happening below the ice.
D. They melted 55% of the Antarctica’s ice to prove their theory is right.
【3】Which is true of the following statements?
A. Ice melting from below is responsible for 35 percent of the shelf loss from 2003 to 2008.
B. Sixty percent of the Earth’s fresh water is contained in the huge Antarctic ice sheet.
C. The major ice shelves are called Ross, Filchner and Ronne, which make up one-third of Antarctica’s ice shelves.
D. Summer ice loss in Antarctica was at its highest level in 1,000 years.
23、 When men and women take personality tests，some of the old Mars-Venus stereotypes(定式)keep reappearing. On average，women are more cooperative，kind，cautious and emotionally enthusiastic. Men tend to be more competitive，confident，rude and emotionally flat. Clear differences appear in early childhood and never disappear.
What's not clear is the origin of these differences. Evolutionary psychologists think that these are natural features from ancient hunters and gatherers. Another school of psychologists argues that both sexes' personalities have been shaped by traditional social roles，and that personality differences will shrink as women spend less time taking care of children and more time in jobs outside the home.
To test these hypotheses(假设)，a series of research teams have repeatedly analyzed personality tests taken by men and women in more than 60 countries around the world.For evolutionary psychologists，the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures.For social-role psychologists，the bad news is that the change is going in the wrong direction.It looks as if personality differences between men and women are smaller in traditional cultures like India's or Zimbabwe's than in the Netherlands or the United States.A husband and a stay-at-home wife in a patriarchal(男权的)Botswanan clan(部族)seem to be more alike than a working couple in Denmark or France.The more Venus and Mars have equal rights and similarjobs，the more their personalities sem to separate.
These findings are so unbelievable that some researchers have argued they must be due to cross-cultural problems with the personality tests. But according to new data from 40.000 men and women on six continents，David P. Schmitt and his colleagues conclude that the trends are real. Dr. Schmitt，a psychologist at Bradley University in I llinois and the director of the International Sexuality Description Project，suggests that as wealthy modern societies level(使平等)the barriers between women and men，some ancient internal differences are being developed.
The biggest changes recorded by the researchers involve the personalities of men, not women.
Men in traditional agricultural societies and poorer countries seem more cautious and anxious, less confident and less competitive than men in the most progressive and rich countries of Europe and North America.
To explain these differences, Dr. Schmitt and his partners from Austria and Estonia point to the hardships of life in poorer countries. They note that in some other species, environmental stress tends to extremely affect the larger sex. And, they say, there are examples of stress decreasing biological sex differences in humans.
【1】According to personality tests, the differences between men and women begin to exist________.
A.ocesionally and temporarily B.randomly and forever
C.regularly and constantly D.early and permanently
【2】What is stated in Paragraph 2 is to indicate________.
A.psychologists have no way to know the origin of the differences
B.experts fight against one another
C.the explanation for the differences is open to tests
D.women will solve the problem of the personality differences
【3】Now researchers tend to believe that the differences between men and women________.
A.originate from ancient hunters and gatherers B.are shaped by traditional social roles they play
C.are affected by traditional cultures D.vary from one culture to another
【4】What can be inferred about Dr. Schmitt?
A.He doesn't recognize the findings above.
B.He thinks social environment contributes to some internal differences.
C.He believes wealthy women and men are equal.
D.He has no examples to explain the differenees at all.
24、What looks like an angry old man and lives at the bottom of the ocean? It’s the world’s ugliest animal---the blobfish(水滴鱼).
Its strange skin is shaped by its habitat. It lives 800 meters below the ocean’s surface, a depth where very few other creatures can survive.
Most fishes have a swim bladder(鱼鳔), which is filled with gas and helps them stay afloat. At the depth that the blobfish live, water pressure is 80 times higher than that at higher sea levels and any swim bladder wouldn’t be able to serve its purpose.
The blobfish don’t have a swim bladder because their skin works the same way. It helps them stay afloat without having to use any energy.
The blobfish have a pretty relaxed attitude towards eating. All they do is stay and wait for crabs or lobsters to come by.
Since the blobfish like to eat crabs and lobsters, they often get caught in nets that are used to catch lobsters or crabs and end up dying or being killed. They are not suitable for eating so they are useless for fishermen.
There’s a purpose behind the blobfish’s new title; it has become the new mascot for the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, an organization whose purpose is to preserve endangered ugly animals.
“We’ve needed an ugly face for endangered ugly animals for a long time and I’ve been amazed by the public reaction,” said the Society’s Simon Watt. “For too long cute animals have taken the limelight(风头) but now the blobfish will be a voice for those who always get forgotten.”They hope this new face will help the world know that we need to help preserve the populations of ugly animals too.
【1】The biggest difference between the blobfish and most other fishes is that the blobfish_____ .
A. cannot be eaten by people
B. don’t have a swim bladder
C. only live at high sea levels
D. aren’t active in catching food
【2】What makes the blobfish stay afloat?
A. Their skin. B. Their tail.
C. Their mouth. D. Their swim bladder.
【3】We can learn from what Simon Watt said that _____ .
A. most ugly animals are in danger
B. the population of the blobfish is increasing
C. the blobfish have attracted the public’s attention
D. people knew nothing about the blobfish in the past
【4】What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To discuss the importance of preserving animals.
B. To give the reason for starting an organization.
C. To present the results of a survey.
D. To introduce a special animal.
25、 A few years ago, I decided to read a novel or a short story collection from every country in the world. But when it_______to reading the world, the biggest _______ for me was that I didn’t know what to read and how to get the books. I had to turn to others for _______.In October, I _______ my blog and posted a short appeal online. I explained who I was, how_______ my reading had been, and I asked anyone who _______ to leave a message suggesting what I might read from other parts of the planet. I had no idea _______ anyone would be interested, but within a few days people started to get in _______.
Books often came from surprising _______. People gave me different ideas about what to do, I got a message from a woman called Rafidah in Malaysia. She said she loved my project and that she could go to her __________English—language bookshop and __________ a book I needed and post it to me.
I accepted __________, and a few weeks later, a package arrived, __________ not one, but two books —Rafidah’s from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also __________for me. I was__________that a stranger more than 6000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never meet. But Rafidah’s __________proved to be the pattern for that year.
I was deeply __________ by these kind-hearted strangers around the world and I know it’s the power of books that has __________us across the world. I hope more people will __________ me. If we all read more __________ ,we would all be richer for that.
【1】A.read B.came C.sold D.put
【2】A.doubt B.advantage C.challenge D.progress
【3】A.praise B.help C.comment D.apology
【4】A.requested B.organized C.decorated D.registered
【5】A.narrow B.obvious C.normal D.steady
【6】A.chose B.learned C.passed D.cared
【7】A.what B.that C.whether D.which
【8】A.touch B.influence C.concern D.effect
【9】A.customs B.packets C.sources D.shops
【10】A.latest B.local C.special D.private
【11】A.change B.consider C.serve D.choose
【12】A.generally B.anxiously C.enthusiastically D.calmly
【13】A.creating B.containing C.including D.supporting
【14】A.found out B.carried out C.looked out D.picked out
【15】A.amazed B.attracted C.confused D.discouraged
【16】A.kindness B.happiness C.politeness D.brightness
【17】A.puzzled B.stuck C.moved D.warned
【18】A.accessed B.connected C.recognized D.remembered
【19】A.show B.offer C.judge D.join
【20】A.widely B.safely C.suddenly D.quickly
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。 续写的词数应为150左右。
Once upon a time, there was an old man who couldn't read or write. When he was little, his family was so poor that he couldn't attend school. But he always dreamed of being able to read.
One day, he took his seven-year-old grandson to school.
Since he didn't have anything to do that day, he didn't leave immediately. Instead, he stood outside his grandson's classroom and looked in through the window.
The kids' teacher, who was an old man in his fifties, entered the classroom when the class began. The teacher was wearing thick glasses. He started teaching. Through watching him, the old man found something interesting, He noticed that the teacher could read nothing without putting his glasses on. As soon as he put on his glasses, he could read very well.
“How amazing! said the old man to himself.
He waited outside the classroom until the class was over and stopped the teacher.
“Excuse me, sir," said the old man to the teacher.
“Yes?” said the teacher.
“I noticed something amazing. You can't read without the glasses, right?" said the old man.
"Yes, that's true. I can read nothing without them," replied the teacher.
"But you can read once you put them on, can't you?" asked the old man.
"Yes, that's true, too," replied the teacher, wondering why the old man was asking such strange questions.
The teacher looked at the old man, who left in a hurry with a big smile on his face.
The old man, who was extremely happy, decided to go to town to find an eyeglasses store. After being unable to read so many years, he finally found an easy way to read, which cheered him up. He realized what he needed to read was just a pair of glasses.
"I can finally read,” said the old man to himself when walking to the town.
Finally, the man arrived at the town. He looked around and soon found a store with glasses in it, The man happily entered the store.
Paragraph 1:
After the old man entered the store, the store owner greeted him.
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Paragraph 2:
The store owner, thinking the old man didn't like that pair, picked another pair far him.
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