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1、—They don’t have much in their house yet.
—________ they’re planning to live here only until Bob gets his degree, they don’t want to buy much furniture.
A．Since
B．Although
C．While
D．Unless
2、— I feel terrible. I didn’t do well in the math test.
— _______. You’re already making progress and will surely learn it well.
A. Don’t dream away your time B. Don’t take things for granted
C. Don’t put the cart before the horse D. Don’t take it too hard
3、–Mo Yan’s novels have attracted public attention．
–Yeah．Now there are his books _____ in every bookstore．
A． affordable B． acceptable
C． vailable D． Valuable
4、—Your phone number again？I ________ quite catch it.
—It’s 9568422．
A．didn’t B．couldn’t C．don’t D．can’t
5、_____ the trip from Alaska to Argentina by bike, Gregg and Brooks worked and saved money for years.
A. To pay for B. Paying for
C. Paid for D. Pay for
6、These teachers have no idea ______ it is like to earn one’s living in industry or commerce.
A.which B.that C.whether D.what
7、–I really thought I’d win first prize．
--Oh,…well, , Tom．
A. that’s all right
B. best wishes
C. it’s out of question
D. better luck next time
8、A lot of language learning, has been discovered, is happening in the first year of life, so parents should talk much to their children during that period.
A. as B. it
C. which D. this
9、Many parents in China always _______ too much importance to words, ordering their children to do this or that.
A. attach B. add C. link D. apply
10、We should prevent such a silly mistake from ______ again.
A．occurring
B．to occur
C．to be occurred
D．from being occurred
11、________ sure that all the windows are shut, mainly because it is reported that a heavy rain is on the way.
A．Making
B．To make
C．Having made
D．Make
12、Lily’s dress looked just the same as Rose’s, but it cost_________hers.
A．as twice much as
B．as much as twice as
C．twice as much as
D．as much twice as
13、Thanks to the Internet, different kinds of information in a short time.
A．can be learned B．has been learned
C．can learn D．has learned
14、— Miss. Miller, this is Ruben Holmen calling again. You had said I should call this week to schedule an interview with you.
— ________, why don’t we say next Monday at 11:30 a.m.?
A. It depends B. All right then
C. How come D. With pleasure
15、The doctor advised her to eat more bean products _____meat which might be harmful to her heart disease.
A. for lack of B. by means of
C. as a substitute for D. in favor of
16、I think it is where they got the money that counts ________ what they did with it.
A．rather than
B．other than
C．more than
D．or rather
17、There are some differences between American and British English, but do you know the differences came into being?
A．how
B．what
C．whether
D．that
18、 The nation's top health administration office is ______ an increase in the cigarette tax to control smoking in China.
A. making for B. catering to
C. pushing for D. answering for
19、It would appear that the activists had _______ broken the police line in order to draw international attention to their case.
A. roughly B. deliberately
C. apparently D. regularly
20、Going into a supermarket without a clear list, you might picking up what you wouldn't necessarily want．
A．give up B．take up C．make up D．end up
21、Congratulations! You’ve gotten to college, and now you never have to read another book in your life! 【1】 Instead of a book being something you have to read, think about college literature classes as your opportunity to get to read. Here are some ways to get the most out of the literature class.
Take a lecture course. 【2】 Even if you haven’t taken other literature courses, specialized lectures can be a great place to start. If you’re considering a literature lecture, consider one on a single author, or a single genre, or a single time period. Even if you don’t come in with a lot of background knowledge, that’s okay, because the topic is narrow enough so that you can launch right into the material without mastering everything under the sun first.
【3】 Don’t just rely on your friends for this; instead, you should turn to people who are juniors and seniors in departments with a lot of literature courses and ask them which professors they’ve had very positive experiences with.
Take a literature class with a book on the syllabus that you’ve read before but hated. You know you should like The Sound and the Fury, which you read in junior year of high school. But somehow, you just couldn’t get into it then. Or you knew that Walt Whitman is supposed to be great, but you’ve never clicked with “I Hear America Singing.” This is your opportunity to re-discover the books and authors that you’ve completely written off. 【4】
In short, don’t be afraid to take a college literature class. 【5】 Instead, give yourself a chance to explore!
A．All the excuses are just getting in the way.
B．But don’t be afraid to take a specialized lecture.
C．You might find something in them that you love after all.
D．But that’s exactly the opposite of what books can do for you in college.
E．Don’t be frightened by the fact that you have nowhere to hide — embrace it!
F．Take a small seminar, even if you’ve never taken a college literature course before.
G．Ask people who are majors in humanities departments to recommend professors to you.
22、 “I’m so tired of Christmas I wish there never would be another one!” cried Effie as she watched her mother arranging presents. Although her mother was shocked to hear this, Effie continued to complain about the holiday, with all its useless gins and lack of surprise. She wished that she were a beggar girl, free to go out at will.
In her sleep that night, Effie dreamed she was a beggar girl. but it wasn’t what she thought it would be -- for she was cold, hungry, and miserable. Just then, a Christmas spirit appeared before Effie. He took her hands in his, turned the snow into a warm coat, and gave her a bowl of hot soup.
Suddenly, an amazing world began appearing around Effie. She heard merry Christmas bells and saw the most marvelous Christmas trees with candles that never stopped burning. There was joy in the air, and Effie watched as other spirits got ready for Christmas. There were four Santa Clauses getting ready for their long rides, and dolls in their houses living like humans, except the dolls were being kinder and nicer to each other.
Effie was then taken to another place, where she saw kindhearted people bringing joy in the form of gifts, food, and love to the poor. “I wish I could make merry Christmases as these good people do,” she said. She wanted to stay longer but was awoken by her mother.
Hearing the details of Effie’s dream, her mother had an idea. She got to work on setting up a surprise for Effie. When it was finally time. Effie was dressed up like the spirit in her dream and was led to a large room.
What awaited Effie was something truly magical. There were rows of Christmas tree decorated with popcorn, fruit. candy, and toys. Twenty-four orphan girls walked onto the magical scene, and they couldn’t contain their excitement. They each were given their own tree and the toys and candy that came with it. Some of the girls even cried, overcome with joy. Effie’s Christmas dream had come true. Later, as she lay in bed, her heart was filled with a new love for Christmas, and she couldn’t wait to do it all again next year.
【1】How would you describe Effie at the start of the story?
A.Excited. B.Spoiled. C.Shocked D.Sleepy.
【2】What didn’t happen in Effie’s dream?
A.A Christmas spirit gave Effie some hot soup.
B.Kind dolls brought her to the magical world.
C.Ellie saw kind people giving gifts to the poor.
D.Four Santas were getting ready for their journey.
【3】Why did Effie change her mind about Christmas?
A.Effie’s mother threatened her. B.She didn’t. It was all a dream.
C.The orphan girls were nice to her. D.Ellie discovered the joy of giving.
【4】Which is the correct order of the loll owing events?
①A Christmas spirit appeared.
②Effie complained about Christmas.
③Effie was transported to a magical world.
④Effie discovered the true meaning of Christmas.
⑤Her mother set up a surprise for Effie.
A.②①③⑤④ B.②①③④⑤ C.②③①⑤④ D.③①②④⑤
23、 For many of us，summertime means road trips to the beach or mountains，or at the very least some additional dust and bird poop on the exterior of our vehicles.The extra dirt leads us to do one of two things：wash our car in the driveway or head to the car wash.But which choice is better for the environment?
The main concerns with either choice are the amount of fresh water being used and the types of chemicals used to remove the dirt.Both of these concerns can be closely monitored when washing the car at home，says Katy Gresh，spokeswoman for the Southwest Region of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.She advises car owners to put aside a set amount of water for the entire wash.“It’s just like brushing your teeth，”she says.“You don’t want to leave the water running or use more than you need for the job.” But even following this advice comes with an environmental risk：Washing your car in the driveway or street flushes the dirty water into storm drains.
John Schombert is executive director of 3 Rivers Wet Weather.His organization works to educate the public about storm sewers(下水道) and water runoff，keeping this untreated water from entering the Allegheny region’s waterways.“We ask people to consider washing their cars on lawns or other permeable(透水的) surfaces where the water gets absorbed，”Schombert says.“Soil can break down and help filter(过滤) those things，”Schombert says.“Storm sewers are not made for waste disposal.”Even when car owners use natural soaps to wash their cars，which Schombert says are probably ineffective at breaking down grease anyway.
The commercial car wash down the street knows full well the rules regarding wastewater in storm sewers.According to the International Carwash Association(ICA)，professional car washes must use water reclamation systems.These mandated processes not only keep the dirty water out of storm sewers and regular water treatment systems，but they also work to reduce water usage at commercial facilities.
【1】What worries people when they have their cars washed?
A.The dirt cannot be removed easily.
B.Large quantities of water are wasted.
C.The washing ways do no good to their cars.
D.The used chemicals are harmless to the environment.
【2】What’s the disadvantage of washing cars at home?
A.It is not easy to deal with.
B.It cannot clean the dirt completely.
C.It consumes a larger amount of water.
D.It does much damage to the environment.
【3】What can be the best title of the text?
A.Do You Put Carwashing at Risk?
B.Which Is Better：Car Wash or DIY?
C.Why Dishwashers Are Better than Hand Washing?
D.Do Americans Use Less Water than They Did Years Ago?
24、You can learn anything on the Internet, so why do I so often learn things I don't want to know? When I'm surfing the web, I want to be drawn in by articles on Europe's political history or the nature of the outer space, but I end up reading trivia (琐事) such as a menu from a Netherlands prison. Why am I not curious about the things I want to be curious about?
Curiosity feels as if it's out of your control, and trying to direct it sounds as challenging as forcing yourself to find a joke funny. But if you understand what arouses curiosity, you may be able to channel it a little better. Across evolutionary time, curious animals were more likely to survive because they learned about their environments; a food hunter that occasionally skipped a reliable feeding ground to explore might find an even better place to eat.
Humans, too, will give up a known payoff to explore the unknown. In one experiment, subjects were asked to choose one of four photos, each carrying some chance of paying a cash prize. Photos repeated, so subjects learned to pick the best-paying, but when a novel photo popped up, they chose it more often. This preference for something novel is, of course, the reason manufacturers constantly make changes to product packaging and advertising. But it's good to know about your environment even if it doesn't promise a reward right now; knowledge may be useless today but vital next week. Therefore, evolution has left us with a brain that can reward itself； satisfying curiosity feels pleasurable, so you explore the environment even when you don't expect any concrete payoff. Infants prefer to look at novel pictures compared with familiar ones. Preschoolers play longer with a mechanical toy if it's difficult to deduce how it works.
【1】Why does the author ask the two questions in paragraph 1?
A．To seek solutions.
B．To introduce the topic.
C．To present his curiosity.
D．To express his amazement.
【2】What can be learned about curiosity?
A．It's of great value.
B．It's mostly under control.
C．It rarely exists in animals.
D．It sometimes appears as a joke.
【3】What can we learn from paragraph 3?
A．People make explorations for concrete payoff.
B．Curiosity guarantees people a pleasurable life.
C．The constant changes meet manufacturers' demand.
D．People would rather satisfy curiosity than get payoff.
【4】What does the underlined word "deduce" in paragraph 3 mean?
A．Show off.
B．Figure out.
C．Bear in mind.
D．Pick up.
25、 Everybody wants to be happy, but not everybody knows what happiness is and how to be happy. I listen to how people discuss with each other with interest. Mostly they _______. They get caught in negative stuff , talk about it _______ and try to make others agree with them in their misery. And they pay no attention to the most _______thing.
Happiness is a feeling. We should _______ how to create such a feeling. Do you know how to be _______ on purpose?
We are so used to our negative mindset that we don’t even _______ it at all. So our mind, used to negativity, looks at the world through the eyes of _______. Even if an event is positive, we cannot find the emotion of pure _______, because we always think of negative things.
This _______ happened to me. It was in my twenties that I first ______________ my own negative self-talk. Once, on a bus, looking at the sunny skies, I noticed the ______________ and found myself thinking that rain was coming, and the______________ day would turn grey and miserable soon.
Many people around me were ______________ the same, and we saw nothing ______________ in this behavior. We simply did not know how to be happy.
But gradually my ______________ to positive thinking started. I cannot ______________ bad stuff from happening, but I have built tools in my mind to ______________ the bad events.
Happiness is a string of short moments, and in each of those memories we have the ______________ to choose how to make a response. We can learn to think on purpose. And with purposeful ______________ we learn to create wanted emotion, which will help us find ______________ in our life, and even happiness.
【1】A.explain B.laugh C.complain D.question
【2】A.politely B.gently C.friendly D.constantly
【3】A.impossible B.important C.favorable D.surprising
【4】A.take down B.wonder at C.make up D.concentrate on
【5】A.happy B.lucky C.unusual D.interested
【6】A.understand B.mention C.recognize D.remember
【7】A.selflessness B.sorrow C.freedom D.confidence
【8】A.pleasure B.sadness C.pain D.regret
【9】A.fortunately B.hardly C.finally D.certainly
【10】A.noticed B.proved C.doubted D.changed
【11】A.birds B.stars C.clouds D.rainbows
【12】A.snowy B.terrible C.foggy D.beautiful
【13】A.admitting B.looking C.behaving D.explaining
【14】A.strange B.exciting C.similar D.comfortable
【15】A.career B.journey C.visit D.education
【16】A.protect B.prevent C.spare D.free
【17】A.look at B.search for C.pull through D.go through
【18】A.secret B.reason C.power D.need
【19】A.management B.thinking C.arrangement D.discussion
【20】A.balance B.excuse C.hurt D.cheating
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。
I taught English as a Second Language (ESL) at a school. One particular sixth grader, Pablo, was struggling with fluency in reading, so after class I suggested that he get extra practice by reading aloud to his mom while she prepared dinner each evening. This was something I routinely encouraged my struggling students to do. Imagine my surprise when Pablo responded by starting to cry. He said, “My mom can’t cook dinner!” Then he cried harder. Eventually, he calmed down enough to tell me that his mom was only able to “cry in her bed” when he got home every afternoon. He said that he was caring for his six-month-old baby brother by himself from the time he got home each day. His mother, it seemed, had a bad tooth and was in extreme pain. He said that his father didn’t have enough money to get it fixed, and that there was no way for her to go to a dentist. This child’s heart was broken for his mom.
I was speechless! He was still crying when he left me that day, and I promised him I would try to help. I kept asking myself how I could help this student. How could I help his mother when we didn’t even speak the same language?
The next day, I sent a note, which a friend helped me translate, to Pablo’s mother asking if she would like me to find someone to help her. The following day, Pablo brought me a note from his mom accepting my offer to help.
Meanwhile, I had been doing some networking among my friends asking if anyone knew a dentist who might do some free work for this lady. At the time, I was not able to pay for the work to be done myself. Several friends suggested a dental office that had recently opened up in the area, thinking that they might be willing to provide the services. I didn’t want to waste a lot of time going to several dentists, so I prayed that this would be the one.
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Stopping by the dental office, I went to the reception desk.
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Pablo’s mother came to meet the dentist at the appointed time.
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