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1、Hong Kong residents say they can no longer ________ the ongoing Occupy Central protests which greatly influenced their daily life and local business, and ask the protestors to withdraw from the streets.
A. keep up with B. catch up with
C. put up with D. come up with
2、Once in a while, some students didn’t obey school rules. What was worse, they didn’t think they were _______ for their wrong behavior.
A．to blame
B．blamed
C．being blamed
D．blaming
3、---It’s said that the famous physics professor is now enjoying his retirement.
---Yes. You know, he ______ in this key university for over 40 years.
A．has been working
B．worked
C．had worked
D．was working
4、_________ every student aware of the importance of study, they would study efficiently.
A. Were B. Should C. May D. Had
5、—I am so lucky having you as my English teacher. Having a good teacher like you has made much of a ________ for me.
—Thanks for saying so, but as I see it, your success was largely due to your own hard work.
A．difference
B．deal
C．decision
D．point
6、---It’s so cold outside. ________ I fetch you a coat, Grandma?
---Yes.Thanks a lot. You are always so considerate, dear.
A. Can B.Shall C.May D. Will
7、Experts warn that 70% of cosmetics are manufactured using palm oil, a substance which is and has caused a lot of arguments.
A.controversial B.delicate C.dynamic D.objective
8、English is a language shared by several diverse cultures, ________ uses it differently.
A. all of which B. each of them
C. all of them D. each of which
9、Since you are interested in traditional Chinese cultures, I think the festival is worth ________.
A. experiencing B. being experienced
C. of being experienced D. to be experienced
10、If you don’t know how to spell new words ,_______ in a dictionary.
A．look them up
B．find out them
C．look up them
D．look at them.
11、Unless you are brave enough to speak up, you'll lose chances to make yourself understood．
A．more B．less
C．much D．fewer
12、You should be ________ —you can’t expect them to finish the task in such a short time.
A．realistic
B．optimistic
C．academic
D．enthusiastic
13、---Where did you study Japanese?
--- I didn’t. I just_____ a little when I lived in Japan.
A.make up B.picked up C.looked up D.took up
14、Television is more than an electronic equipment; it _____ a powerful tool for communication.
A.was becoming B.has become C.had become D.will become
15、She thinks the best way ________ English is ________ English magazines.
A．to learn, read B．to learn, by reading
C．learn, reading D．learning, read
16、The days we look forward to ____at last.
A. comes B. to come C. came D. coming
17、—Was it still there _______ you were away to answer the phone?
—There is no doubt about it.
A． that B． which C． where D． while
18、Wonderful Friends, a show on Hunan TV, is about _________people get along with animals．
A. how B. what C. why D. who
19、Michelle Wu is the first woman and the first person of color________mayor in Boston.
A．to elect
B．electing
C．to be elected
D．having been elected
20、-I have got a bad cold.
-No wonder you _______these days.
A. have coughed B. coughed
C. have been coughing D. are coughing
21、Microsoft has developed a new smart phone app that identify eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing people with motor neurone disease (运动神经元症) to communicate with others from a phone.
The GazeSpeak app combines a smartphone’s camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements immediately and change them into letters, words and sentences.
For people suffering from ALS (渐冻症) , also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the only way they are able to communicate.
“Current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS are expensive, not strong under sunlight, and require frequent re-adjustment and material, relatively steady setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology.
“To ease off the disadvantages, we created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be low-cost, strong, portable and easy to learn.”
The app is used by the listener by pointing their smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the smartphone is then used by the speaker to determine which eye movements to make in order to communicate.
The sticker shows four grids of letters, which each is equal to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids the letters they want belong to. The artificial intelligence is then able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to say.
Zhang’s research, Smartphone-Based Gaze Gesture Communication for People with Motor Disabilities, is set to be presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May. (265)
【1】According to the passage, people with ALS can communicate with others by __________.
A. eye contact B. body language
C. hand shaking D. language expression
【2】Which of the following is NOT the advantage of GazeSpeak?
A. cheap B. unsteady
C. accessible D. learnable
【3】How do the speakers use the app?
A. They point at the letters they want on the phone.
B. They predict the word or sentence they try to say.
C. They turn to the listeners to speak out the letters for them.
D. They look in the four directions to choose the grid of letters.
【4】Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A. People Suffering From ALS Needs Help
B. Smartphone App Helps ALS Sufferers Speak With Eyes
C. How Do People With ALS Communicate With Others
D. Researchers Develop The New Smartphone App
22、Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle…They compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake. If it is a matter in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time in such routine(日常的) work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what he does not know.
【1】According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by_____.
A.listening to skilled people’s advice.
B.asking older people many questions
C.making mistakes and having them corrected
D.doing what other people do
【2】Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do?.
A.Give children correct answers
B.Allow children to mark mistakes.
C.Point out children’s mistakes to them.
D.Let children mark their own work
【3】According to the writer, teachers in school should _____
A.allow children to learn from each other
B.point out children’s mistakes whenever found
C.correct children’s mistakes as soon as possible
D.give children more book knowledge
【4】The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are____
A.different from learning other skills
B.the same as learning skills
C.more important than other skills
D.not really important skills
【5】The title of this passage could probably be_____
A.Let Us Teachers Stop Work
B.Let Us Make Children Learn
C.Let Children Correct Their Exercises
D.Let Children Learn by Themselves
23、Though it is not good for us to expose ourselves to sunlight for too long, allowing ourselves appropriate amount of exposure to sunlight gives us many benefits and affects us in a number of ways.
Without the sun, life would not have developed. It gives us energy and heats our world. The sun gives us light and thus in turn we are able to see the beautiful colors in our world. It makes us feel good when we feel the warmth of its rays on our shoulders. We store the energy from the sun to help build and heat our houses.
Without sunlight we would not be able to survive. Sunlight gives balance. All living things live in a food chain and at the beginning of the food chain comes the plant which absorbs sunlight and transforms light energy into chemical energy, which will then be absorbed by another life to be turned into a new kind of energy and so on.
One of the benefits that we can get from sunlight is that we can receive vitamin D from sunlight. It helps us to keep a healthy body, control the amount of minerals in the body, which is needed to help keep our bones and teeth in good condition and helps to keep a well-balanced mind.
Different places on the earth receive varying degrees of sunlight, which will decide the region’s climate. For example, the farther away it is from the equator (赤道), the sharper the angle (角度) of the sun’s rays that reach it, which means that sunlight coverage will be more spread out, and receive less heat than lower latitude areas nearer the equator.
【1】Why does sunlight give balance?
A．It helps to pass energy.
B．It helps to absorb energy.
C．It helps to form new lives.
D．It helps to protect new lives.
【2】Sunlight can assist people in____.
A．increasing the amount of minerals
B．obtaining a healthy nerve system
C．keeping their bones and teeth healthy
D．keeping a delighted mind
【3】What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A．Which place is the hottest.
B．How sunlight affects the climate.
C．How to get more sunlight.
D．How much sunlight a place needs.
【4】What would be the best title for the text?
A．Avoid being exposed to sunlight too long
B．Follow the researchers’ words
C．Good effects of sunlight on our lives
D．Making full use of sunlight
24、 Sacagawea was not afraid. Although she was only 16 years old and the only female in an exploration group of more than 45 people, she was ready to courageously make her mark in American history.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought more than 825,000 square miles of land from France. To explore this new part of the country, Jefferson sent Lewis and William Clark on a two-year journey to report on what they found. They needed local guides to help them through this unknown territory.
Born to a Shoshone chief around 1788, Sacagawea had been kidnapped (绑架) by an enemy tribe when she was about 12, then sold to a French-Canadian trapper. When the trapper was hired as a guide for Lewis and Clark's expedition in 1804, Sacagawea also joined as an interpreter to talk to Native-American people on their 8, 000-mile journey.
Sacagawea soon became a respected member of the group. She was skilled at finding plants for food and medicine to help keep the explorers alive. When a boat capsized (翻) on the Missouri River as they were crossing into what is now Montana, Sacagawea saved important books and much-needed supplies. When they needed horses to cross rough area, she convinced a Shoshone tribe—led by her long-lost brother—to give them some. She was so esteemed by Lewis and Clark that when they reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805, Sacagawea was asked to cast her vote for where they should build a fort (营地).
Sacagawea proved herself again after the group took a different route home through what is now Idaho. As they passed through her homeland, Sacagawea remembered Shoshone trails from her childhood and helped the expedition find their way through. Clark even praised her as his “pilot”.
She received no pay for her services and died on December 20, 1812. But Sacagawea's bravery and skill live on in the expedition's journals, which are full of praise for the 16-year-old Shoshone girl who guided the most famous American expedition of all time.
【1】Why did the explorers hire Sacagawea?
A.To do trade. B.To fight the enemy.
C.To be safer. D.To help communicate.
【2】What does the underlined word “esteemed” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.Respected. B.Suspected.
C.Influenced. D.Promoted.
【3】What do you think of Sacagawea's role in the expedition?
A.Active. B.Irreplaceable.
C.Tricky. D.Unreliable.
【4】What is the passage mainly about?
A.A special honor. B.A great expedition.
C.An outstanding girl. D.An unknown territory.
25、Two years ago, Dubuque, Iowa, started its first annual “Back to School Bash” program. It offered needy families an opportunity to learn about free ________ in the community. Holmes decided to ________ by providing help to kids. He was ________ two jobs at the time, one of which was working as a barber. Saturday was his ________ day, but he chose to ________ his time and gave free haircuts to lower class kids on condition that the kids should ________ their free haircut by having to read a book to him.
The idea was so ________ that he continued it for the next two years. Many kids would ________ a favorite book, settle into the barber chair and read aloud ________ Holmes was doing their hair. After the haircut, they’d review the book, from the ________ and vocabulary to the themes—just like in school, only more fun.
Holmes, who is married ________ two sons, recognizes that not every parent has the time to ________ with their kids. So he hopes to offer some ________ in this way. And he admits he,________, benefits from doing that.
There was a seven-year-old kid who ________ stuttered (结巴) over words while reading. He had the boy take the book home and ________. When the child came back a few days later, he read it with no problems. That ________ Holmes to do more.
Holmes and his family have recently moved to a Chicago suburb. When they get ________, he plans to restart his ________ as the Storybook Barber. “Today’s world is full of guns and violence,” he says, “The barbershop is a ________ place for the kids to come and read books.”
【1】
A．materials
B．connections
C．methods
D．resources
【2】
A．develop
B．perform
C．participate
D．withdraw
【3】
A．faced with
B．engaged in
C．presented with
D．caught in
【4】
A．busiest
B．worst
C．happiest
D．best
【5】
A．spend
B．waste
C．save
D．donate
【6】
A．receive
B．demand
C．earn
D．request
【7】
A．complex
B．popular
C．ordinary
D．rigid
【8】
A．pick out
B．take over
C．put away
D．give out
【9】
A．before
B．after
C．while
D．until
【10】
A．kids
B．heroines
C．barbers
D．characters
【11】
A．with
B．to
C．for
D．about
【12】
A．talk
B．learn
C．read
D．stay
【13】
A．insurance
B．judgment
C．guidance
D．assistance
【14】
A．again
B．too
C．then
D．still
【15】
A．merely
B．hardly
C．necessarily
D．usually
【16】
A．reflect
B．practice
C．remark
D．write
【17】
A．inspired
B．impressed
C．surprised
D．excited
【18】
A．settled
B．pleased
C．relaxed
D．refreshed
【19】
A．ownership
B．role
C．promise
D．hobby
【20】
A．secret
B．rough
C．safe
D．crowded
26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Effects of Acid Rain
After studying the Hubbard Brook Forest and other areas, researchers found several important effects of acid deposition, more commonly referred to as acid rain, on both natural and man-made environments. Aquatic (水生的) settings are the most clearly affected because acidic precipitation falls directly into them.
As this acidic liquid flows into larger bodies of water, it is diluted (稀释). However, over time, acids can increase and lower the overall pH of the body of water. Acid deposition also causes clay soils to release aluminum and magnesium, further lowering the pH in some areas. If the pH of a lake drops below 4.8, its plants and animals risk death. It is estimated that around 50,000 lakes in the United States and Canada have a pH below normal (about 5.3 for water). Several hundred of these have a pH too low to support any aquatic life.
Aside from aquatic bodies, acid deposition can significantly affect forests. As acid rain falls on trees it can make them lose their leaves, damage their bark, and stunt their growth. By damaging these parts of the tree, it makes them vulnerable to disease, extreme weather and insects. Damage to forests by acid rain is seen all over the world, but the most advanced cases are in Eastern Europe. Half of the forests in Germany and Poland and about 30 percent in Switzerland, are estimated to have been damaged.
Finally, acid deposition also has an effect on architecture and art because of its ability to corrode certain materials. As acid lands on buildings (especially those constructed with limestone), it reacts with minerals in the stones, sometimes causing them to disintegrate and wash away.
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