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1、Many of the things we now benefit from would not be around Thomas Edison.
A. thanks to B. regardless of
C. aside from D. but for
2、—Do you still remember ______he was taken to the hospital?
—Yes, he was sent to the hospital in Mr Smith’s car.
A．how
B．why
C．when
D．what
3、–Volunteering is becoming popular in China.
--Yeah, people are now aware that helping others is helping themselves
A.naturally B.successfully C.splendidly D.increasingly
4、It was sad to me that they, so poor themselves, bring me food.
A. might B. would C. should D. could
5、Some of our teachers are dancing ______ the music, which may relieve them ______ a whole day’s tiredness.
A.with; of B.with; from
C.to; of D.to; from
6、_______ I’m willing to help, I don’t have much time available.
A．As
B．While
C．As though
D．Since
7、The organization is ______ smaller class size, because it believes this can promote better student performance.
A.in memory of B.in place of C.in favor of D.in need of
8、Look! How much _______ Alice looks wearing her new show dress!
A. well B. good C. better D. Best
9、____I will go abroad for further study or not is my top concern these days.
A. If B. Whether C. What D. Where
10、When walking down the street, I came across David, when I _____ for years.
A．didn’t see
B．haven’t seen
C．hadn’t seen
D．wouldn’t see
11、The best way to encourage your kids to enjoy meals is to ________ them in the planning and preparing.
A. involve B. devote C. equip D. prepare
12、We have reached a stage ________ we have almost no rights at all.
A. what B. which C. when D. where
13、He studied hard before the exam, and it ___________. He made an A.
A.paid back B.paid down C.paid up D.paid off
14、--What did he say he was unwilling to risk just now?
-______to high levels of radiation.
A. To be exposed B.Exposing C.Being exposed D.Exposed
15、Scientist are learning more every day about the secret ways ______ plants talk to each other.
A．to which
B．for which
C．in which
D．on which
16、Love means you care about the ______ of a person, that is, you hope he or she can lead a happy life.
A. authority B. belief C. preference D. welfare
17、The twins ___ closely in appearance，but are totally different in character．
A．resemble B．distinguish
C．look D．1ike
18、When we entered, we found lying on the ground _______ along with her parents.
A. was a girl B. were a girl
C. a girl was D. a girl were
19、The English play _____ my students acted at the New Year’s party was a great success.
A. for which B. in which
C. at which D. on which
20、_________they can’t wipe away the strain of the past, they can certainly move forward.
A．After
B．If
C．Where
D．While
21、Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a complex world, there’s another set of cognitive (认知的) skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink. Therefore, my aim in this book is to explore how rethinking happens by seeking out the most convincing evidence and some of the world’s most skilled rethinkers.
The first section focuses on opening our own minds. You’ll find out why a forward-thinking businessman got trapped in the past, how a Nobel Prize-winning scientist welcomes the joy of being wrong, how the world’s best forecasters update their views, and how an Oscar-winning filmmaker has productive fights.
The second section examines how we can encourage other people to think again. You’ll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments and an African-American musician persuades people to abandon discrimination (歧视). You’ll discover how a special kind of listening helped an officer convince the opposing side to join in peace talks. And if you’re a Yankees fan, I’m going to see if I can convince you to root for the Red Sox.
The third section is about how we can create communities of lifelong learners. In social life, a lab that specializes in difficult conversations will cast light on how we can communicate better about debated issues like climate change. In schools, you’ll find out how educators teach kids to think again by treating classrooms like museums, and approaching projects like rewriting time-honored textbooks. I close by examining the importance of reconsidering our best-laid plans.
This book is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well, and to establish your sense of self in flexibility rather than consistency. If you can master the art of rethinking, I believe you’ll be better positioned for success at work and happiness in life. Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. It’s a path to learning more from the people around you and living with fewer regrets.
【1】How does the author explain his or her ideas in the book?
A．By quoting famous sayings.
B．By reviewing traditional theories.
C．By presenting research results.
D．By providing various examples.
【2】Which of the following is probably covered in the second section?
A．Helping a student with a complex math problem.
B．Walking an athlete through a detailed training plan.
C．Talking a friend into trying a different dressing style.
D．Guiding an employee to build a successful career path.
【3】What does the author suggest readers do in the third section?
A．Find faults in textbooks.
B．Reflect on existing ideas.
C．Engage in climate debates.
D．Change classroom decorations.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Rethinking: Find New Ways to Success
B．Intelligence: the Ability to Think and Learn
C．How Can We Adapt to a Complex World?
D．Why Does Rethinking Improve Intelligence?
22、When Lauren Schandevel arrived at the University of Michigan for her freshman year, she was struck by how wealthy all her classmates appeared to be.
“Just wealthy in ways that I couldn’t even imagine,” Schandevel recalls. Students had fashionable clothes and well-connected and powerful parents.
Schandevel had grown up in the north of Detroit. Her family was working class and she had gotten scholarships and a few loans to make attending the admirable state school a reality. When she got to campus, she didn’t think much about her status as a low-income student. Sure, when her bill came due, she’d have a bit of panic--- would this be the semester the financial aid fell through?
Then, during Schandevel’s junior year, the university’s student government put out a campus affordability guide, written with the average Michigan student in mind-but it’s worth noting that the average student at the school has a family income of about $150,000 per year.
The advice didn’t go over well with low-income students on campus. “A lot of the advice was like: fire your maid or sell your car. I was frustrated(受挫的) by this guide, and I was seeing others frustrated by it,” says Schandevel.
She decided to make her own affordability guide, and she fired up a Google doc and titled it “Being Not-Rich at UM: A Guide“. She added her own tips---the things that helped her survive and budget. But there was so much she didn’t know, so she left the sharing settings(分享设置) open for other students to jump in and edit the online document.
It took off. Hundreds of students started adding their tips about how to navigate college when you are paying your way through college. Today, Schandevel’s crowd- sourced guide stretches more than 100 pages. It includes advice about jobs, housing, teachers and financial aid---even many great tips on where to find free food on campus. The doc’s popularity helped her accept her economic status and gave her control over her life.
“Economic status is such an invisible identity, and there are no places on campus where we can really find each other,” says Schandevel. “It brought together people who had experienced this before, and students knew they were not alone.”
【1】How did Schandevel probably feel in her first year of college?
A．Very excited
B．A little curious.
C．Very confident
D．A little upset.
【2】What's the campus affordability guide mainly about?
A．Ways to live a happy life.
B．Tips on how to become rich
C．Advice on how to save money
D．Ideas about how to become creative
【3】What is Schandevel’s attitude towards the guide from the student government?
A．Ambiguous
B．cautious
C．disapproving
D．positive
【4】What does the expression “crowd-sourced” in paragraph 7 mean?
A．The tips are well-accepted
B．The tips are from the crowd
C．The source of finance is abundant
D．The online document is crowded
【5】What do we know about Schandevel’s affordability guide?
A．It brings people in the same ecnomic situation together
B．It helps her improve her family’s living conditions.
C．It serves as a reminder of keeping to a strict budget
D．It offered financial aid to low-income students.
23、People and animals often enjoy loving relationships with each other. When people adopt domesticated (家养的) animals into their families as pets, animals give humans the blessings of companionship and fun in return. In the wild, animals sometimes carry out dramatic rescues of people in dangerous situations, miraculously (奇迹般地) sensing human needs and jumping in without fear to help.
In 2000, a 6-year-old boy unified Elian Gonzalez left Cuba on a boat bound for Florida in the United States, but the boat sank and everyone aboard drowned except Elian and two adults. Elian and the other two survivors held onto inner tube for 48 hours to try to stay afloat in the sea. After a while, however, Elian began to lose strength, slipping under the water and then grabbing the tube again as he fought to stay alive.
A small group of dolphins noticed Elian struggling and swan over to him to help. The dolphins formed a circle around the inner tube and took turns using their noses to lift Elian until fishermen working in the area discovered and rescued Elian and the two adults who floated nearby. The fishermen reported that, when they discovered Elian, he was repeating a prayer that his mother had taught him before drowning, asking guardian angels to protect him.
Miraculously, the dolphins knew that a child would need more help than adults, so they focused on Elian — and they figured out exactly what needed to be done and cooperated to carry out that plan successfully. They made it!
【1】Why did Elian slip off the tube?
A. He was tired out. B. A wave pushed him.
C. The two adults dragged him. D. The tube was too smooth to grab.
【2】How did the dolphins save Elian Conzalez?
A. They informed the fishermen.
B. They formed a circle around him.
C. They supported the inner tube by turns.
D. They stopped Elian slipping under the water.
【3】Which of the following words can be used to describe Elian Gonzalez?
A. Self-confident and flexible. B. Calm and lucky.
C. Friendly and motivated. D. Smart and ambitious.
【4】What doe the underlined ‘They’ in the last sentence refer to?
A. The survivors. B. The fishermen.
C. The dolphins. D. The guardian angels.
24、Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. As a child, he was slow to learn to talk. As a pupil, he was backward. But when he was fourteen years old, he became clever. He taught himself maths from textbooks. He studied hard because he wanted to be a physicist.
In 1901, Einstein began teaching. In 1902 he continued his studies at the University of Zurich. Several years later, he formulated(系统地阐述)his famous Theory of Relativity(相对论).To most people the law of relativity is difficult to explain. But once Einstein explained it very well to a group of young students. He said, "When you sit with a good girl for two hours, you think it is only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That is relativity."
After Hitler came into power in Germany, Einstein went to America. In 1940 Einstein became an American citizen. In 1955, Einstein's life ended at the age of seventy-six.
【1】When Einstein was a pupil of twelve, he _______ .
A. was not quick in learning to talk
B. studied very hard
C. was poor in his studies
D. hardly lagged behind
【2】The law of relativity is_______ .
A. very hard for most people to understand
B. too hard for Einstein himself to explain
C. too hard to explain to anybody except Einstein
D. easy to understand only for the young students
【3】When did Einstein become an American citizen?
A. He was an American citizen until 1940.
B. He became an American citizen in the year when Hitler came into power.
C. He did not become an American citizen until 1955.
D. Not until he had reached the age of 61 did he become an American citizen.
【4】Which of the following do you think is true?
A. The Germans owed their scientific progress to Einstein.
B. Einstein made a very great contribution to modern science.
C. Einstein owed a great deal to the modern world.
D. The Americans owed all their economic development to Einstein.
25、Morning tea is a family tradition. It is_________less than an art form, with the rubric(标准) laid down by my late grandmother. Her_________had been formed during her childhood years_________in the border state of Punjab, the land of five rivers, the bread basket of India. After her marriage, she eventually_________to Mumbai, located on the western coast of the country. She lived here for nearly 70 years, bringing with her the_________of home.
Each morning started with a cup of tea boiled in a kettle. Her favorite was a(n)_________of fine black Assam loose leaf tea, to which a small amount of CTC tea was_________for color and flavor. This mix would be_________without a little crushed cardamom(豆蔻粉).
Accompanying the tea was milk, heated to boil. Both were_________in stainless steel pots in quilted(加棉芯的) covers, keeping them__________. The final touch was her cup, prewashed in boiling water, so she could__________a steaming cup of tea.
Adding a spoonful of__________sugar and a spot of milk to the beverage, she would drink it with her biscuits. Occasionally it would be sweet grape biscuits dipped in the tea, but with age, she__________moved on to digestive biscuits packed with fiber. Depending on the__________, her tea would be__________. On hotter days, she would drink iced tea, and during cool windy days, she’d mix up the spices.
【1】
A．something
B．nothing
C．anything
D．everything
【2】
A．belief
B．impression
C．character
D．taste
【3】
A．growing up
B．wandering about
C．hanging out
D．getting along
【4】
A．traveled
B．wrote
C．moved
D．escaped
【5】
A．imaginations
B．memories
C．expectations
D．relatives
【6】
A．mix
B．experiment
C．show
D．sight
【7】
A．boiled
B．drunk
C．added
D．washed
【8】
A．incomplete
B．colorless
C．informal
D．endless
【9】
A．sold
B．weighed
C．tested
D．served
【10】
A．fresh
B．hot
C．wet
D．clean
【11】
A．make
B．preserve
C．buy
D．enjoy
【12】
A．regular
B．ordinary
C．expensive
D．rare
【13】
A．secretly
B．gradually
C．generally
D．possibly
【14】
A．biscuit
B．milk
C．container
D．weather
【15】
A．common
B．interesting
C．different
D．important
26、假如你是李华，你对本校学生的经典阅读情况进行了调查，结果如下图。请给校英文报投稿，呼吁同学们多读经典、传承文化，内容包括：
1. 经典阅读的现状;
2. 经典阅读的意义;
3. 你的呼吁。
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