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1、Competition forces them always to the latest technology, which both increases output and puts pressure on prices.
A.encounter B.establish C.estimate D.employ
2、The room is three meters long and two meters ________.
A. broad B. board
C. abroad D. width
3、Your parents have a deep affection for you. Even if they are , they can still keep out the wind and rain for you.
A. as cool as cucumbers B. as strong as horses
C. as poor as church mice D. as busy as bees
4、In that factory, anyone who breaks the rules will be asked to leave ________.
A. in a spot B. on the spot
C. spotlessly D. suddenly
5、I sent you 100 dollars today, the rest ____ in a year, because I’m also in debt.
A. follows B. ones C. those D. one
6、No one hates arguments more than Martin—he becomes miserable whenever they occur. ________, in his household, disputes are abundant.
A. Generally B. Actually
C. Unfortunately D. Roughly
7、I was delighted that the company decided to employ me for a trial period.
A．n. 审讯;审判
B．n.试验
C．n.试用
D．n.选拔赛
8、You _____ the dictionaries when you were not sure of word spelling or meaning yesterday, but you didn’t.
A．should have consulted
B．may have consulted
C．must have consulted
D．could have consulted
9、___many times, but he still couldn't understand it.
A．Having been told
B．He was told
C．Told
D．Though he had been told
10、—Excuse me, would you mind answering a few questions?
—Well, I don’t know. I’m in rather a hurry ________.
A．seriously
B．actually
C．immediately
D．anxiously
11、I was ill that day, otherwise I _______________the sports meet.
A. took part in B. would have taken part in
C. had taken part in D. would take part in
12、Now with the development of science and technology, more robots ________ to do the housework.
A．are using
B．are being used
C．were used
D．will be used
13、You will be impressed by the delicious Chinese food. _____, Chinese people are very friendly, which you will never forget.
A．At times
B．In addition
C．As a consequence
D．On the contrary
14、Tom ________ full marks, but he was too careless and made a spelling mistake.
A. could have gained B. could gain
C. must have gained D. must gain
15、The athlete’s years of hard training when she finally won the Olympic gold medal.
A. went on B. got through C. paid off D. ended up
16、_______the virtual world of RealCine, the headsets even have small openings _______ smells to match the environment.
A．Adding to; give out B．Added to; give off
C．To be added to; giving off D．To add to; giving out
17、The class teacher was anxious to hear one of his top students _____ because of family move．
A. will leave B. is leaving
C. was leaving D. has left
18、How can you expect him to make any progress ______ you never give him a chance to have a try?
A．when B．unless C．once D．until
19、The award was established in 1902 as a special______for outstanding people in this field.
A. statement B. distinction C. commitment D. instruction
20、As we all know, , the pollution will get worse and worse.
A. not if carefully dealt with
B. until not carefully dealt with
C. if not carefully dealt with
D. when not carefully dealt with
21、Imagine your smartphone’s screen gets broken, or your favourite boots get a hole in them. What do you do? You could buy a replacement. Or you could join the worldwide trend of taking your broken stuff to a “repair café”.
The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre has just launched Australia’s first repair café, in Sydney’s inner west. The crowd-funded project will hold weekly repair sessions focusing on bikes, furniture and electrical items.
The first repair café was set up in Amsterdam in 2009, and the Repair Cafe Foundation says there are now more than 400 around the world. A repair café is a free face-to-face meeting of skilled volunteers and local residents who want things fixed. Visitors bring broken items from home and watch, learn or help as the repairs get done. Some things are fixed during the event, while for more challenging items people might be referred to local speciality repair shops.
Last year, according to the ABS, Australians sent more than half a million tons of leather to landfill—more than ten times the amount that was reused or recycled. Mending represents an attempt to resist the throwaway culture. Repair cafés get people talking and give them the chance to network and learn about the local resources available. And, perhaps most surprisingly for anyone who considers mending to be some kind of drudgery, repair cafés can be fun and creative.
“In a circular economy, repair cafés fit right in”, says the organiser Martine Postma. In rejecting buy-use-throw, the circular economy aims to keep resources moving around in the economy, rather than moving them through it to a dead end, where they cannot be put into valuable use.
It might be quicker and easier to throw stuff in the bin, but it’s more expensive and less fun too.
【1】What can we know about the repair café in Sydney?
A．It’s financed by the government.
B．Its visitors are involved in the fixing.
C．It’s the first repair café in the world.
D．All items are fixed during the event.
【2】Why does the author discuss landfill in paragraph 4?
A．To stress the difficulty of landfill.
B．To indicate the urgency of reusing.
C．To support the throwaway culture.
D．To show the influence of repair cafés.
【3】What does the underlined word “drudgery” in paragraph 4 mean?
A．Special network.
B．Weekly meetings.
C．Unpleasant work.
D．Interesting games.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．Places to Meet Up and Drink
B．Repair and Share Every Month
C．Repair Cafes Continue the Art of Mending
D．Repair Cafes Fix Things- Including the Economy
22、When Dawn Bonfield, the former chief executive of the Women's Engineering Society, ran a stand recently at a big military air show, she was in for a shock.
There were around 900 Brownies among the crowd and Ms Bonfield says, "I'm saying to all these girls, 'Do you know about engineering, would you like to be an engineer, have you thought about engineering?' And in the whole day... probably five or six of them said yes. Every other one said no, just straight out no."
What surprised her most, she says, is that it wasn't that these eight and nine-year-old girls didn't know what engineering was. Simply that they had already switched off. They had lost interest in engineering. "So how much work does it take to change that?" asks Ms Bonfield. "I mean it's huge."
There's no shortage of data to back up her estimation of the scale of work required. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that women make up around just 8% of engineers in the UK. And this is at a time when the UK needs to produce thousands more engineers, so much so that the inventor, Sir James Dyson, is planning to open his own instituteto address the skills shortage.
Not enough female role models is well documented as a reason why girls don’t choose engineering.
The attitude of parents was also an important factor in career choices. For girls, perhaps unsurprisingly, mothers were particularly influential.
"My mum was a bit iffy about it at first because she was more like, 'Girls should do this and that and the other,' more like 'keep your posture up and be ladylike'," says middle school student Hannah. "But my dad used to build a lot of stuff and he got me into that. So after my mum saw how me and my dad interacted she said, 'Yeah, go for it' and she's kind of the one who supported me with this."
【1】 What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To show the shortage of girls in engineering.
B. To introduce some famous girl engineers.
C. To promote the social status for engineers.
D. To give girls advice on how to select careers.
【2】What does the underlined word “Brownies” in the Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Chocolate cakes. B. Young girls.
C. Girls with brown hair. D. Students in brown.
【3】What shocked Dawn Bonfield most?
A. There were so many girls at the show.
B. Many girls had run off before seeing her.
C. Girls didn’t know anything about engineering.
D. Girls paid no attention to engineering.
【4】 Why did Hannh finally choose engineering?
A. Because she found a woman role model.
B. Because her mother was sure of her future.
C. Because her father had influence on her.
D. Because she wanted to meet the demand of society.
23、Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better. However, social changes are brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes.
An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college. Surveys (调查) on this topic suggests that parents today continue to be “very” or “somewhat” overly-protective even after their children move into college dormitories. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago. This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.
However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their “adult” children.
In the context (背景) of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents’ involvement with their grown children. If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently, would this have been possible?
Probably not. On the other hand, does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago? Many studies show that older parents—today’s grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.
Furthermore, studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children. The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home. This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.
Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication. This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.
【1】The surveys inform us of______.
A. the development of technology
B. the changes of adult children’s behavior
C. the parents’ over-protection of their college children
D. the means and expenses of students’ communication
【2】 The writer believes that__________.
A. parents today are more protective than those in the past
B. the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages
C. technology explains greater involvement with their children
D. parents’ changed attitudes lead to college children’s delayed independence
【3】What is the best title for the passage?
A. Technology or Attitude
B. Dependence or Independence
C. Family Influences or Social Changes
D. College Management or Communication Advancement
【4】Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?
24、 Cortana, Alexa, Siri, These are names of robotic voices that are often programmed on electronic tablets. They also become default (默认) identities for people with speech disorders who rely on technology to communicate. Now some speech scientists are developing personalized voices to reflect the broader diversity of the people who use them. To do it, they are tapping into a vast network of volunteers who are donating their voices to share with people who can’t speak.
The effort to build an international “Human Voicebank” has attracted more than 17,000 volunteers from 110 countries, including Priyanka Pandya, a 16-year-old from Columbia, Md., who plans to spend her winter vacation recording a string of sentences into her computer “To be able to give somebody the gift of voice, I think that’s really, really powerful,” she said.
“Everyone has a voice,” said Rupal Patel, founder of Vocalic, the company that started the voicebank. “Even people who are unable to speak have sounds that are unique to them.” Her company designs personalized voices by recording the unique sounds of the user, and then mixing them with 6 to 10 hours of recordings from a voice donor, matched by age, gender and region. The company is developing voices now for its first 100 customers.
Also, people’s voices change. The company is looking for donors who are willing to record their voices, and then record them again a few years later, as they get older.
Some of the first customers say they are happy with the results, John A. Gregoire was one of the first customers to receive a personalized voice from Vocalic last December. The voice came eight years after he developed ALS (肌萎缩侧索硬化症) and more than six years have passed since his voice became unintelligible to everyone except his wife and youngest son. “Having a distinctive voice is like getting something back that was stolen.” John said.
【1】What can we know about the voicebank?
A.It collects all kinds of voices.
B.It is widely supported by public .
C.It helps to recognize special voices.
D.It is designed for people of all ages.
【2】What does the underlined word “unintelligible” mean in the last paragraph?
A.Unclear. B.Gentle. C.Cold. D.Unkind.
【3】What could be the best title of the text?
A.Volunteers donate their voices to Vocalic.
B.Vocalic is devoted to building a voicebank.
C.Voicebank wins fame among with speech problems.
D.Voicebank can benefit people with speech problems.
25、Aesthetic thought (美学思想, 审美理念) of a distinctively modern art emerged during the 18th century. The western philosophers and critics of this time devoted much attention to such matters as natural beauty, the purity, and representation—a trend ______ the central position they had given to the philosophy of nature.______ that time, however, the philosophy of art has become ever more famous and has begun to ______ the philosophy of nature. Various issues ______ to the philosophy of art have had a ______ impact on the or 20th-century aesthetics. Among these are problems relating to the theory of form of art and to the distinction between representation and expression. Still another far-reaching question has to do with the value of art. Two ______ theoretical positions have taken on this issue: one holds that art and its appreciation are a ______ to some recognized moral good,______ the other maintains that art is in itself valuable and an end. Underlying this whole issue is the concept of taste, one of the basic concerns of aesthetics. In recent years there has also been an increasing preoccupation with art as the prime object of critical judgement. Corresponding to the trend in contemporary aesthetic thought,______ have followed either of two approaches. In one criticism is ______ to the analysis and interpretation of the work of art.______, it is devoted to the response to the aesthetic object and to justifying a particular way of perceiving it.
Over the years, aesthetics has developed into a ______ field of knowledge and inquiry. The ______ of contemporary aesthetic include such problems as the nature of style and its aesthetic significance; the relation of aesthetic judgement to culture; the relevance of psychology ______ the criticism of art; and the place of aesthetic judgement in ______ reasoning in the conduct of everyday affairs.
【1】
A．leading
B．conducting
C．taking
D．reflecting
【2】
A．Since
B．For
C．At
D．Before
【3】
A．transplant
B．transmit
C．displace
D．replace
【4】
A．chief
B．central
C．main
D．prior
【5】
A．remarked
B．marked
C．regraded
D．considered
【6】
A．opposing
B．similar
C．same
D．confusing
【7】
A．method
B．means
C．mind
D．moral
【8】
A．and
B．or
C．though
D．while
【9】
A．artists
B．authorities
C．critics
D．psychologists
【10】
A．owing
B．used
C．opposed
D．restricted
【11】
A．In the other
B．In another
C．On the other
D．For another
【12】
A．narrow
B．broad
C．visual
D．moral
【13】
A．consequences
B．morals
C．concerns
D．believes
【14】
A．to
B．on
C．for
D．by
【15】
A．theoretical
B．ideal
C．technical
D．practical
26、书面表达
假定你是李华，上周日是你的外国朋友Anne 的生日。你本来答应参加她的生日聚会，但是你当时正忙于准备月考，不小心忘了赴约。请写信向Anne表达你的歉意，说明原因，并提出补救办法。
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