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1、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
2、________, more Asian politicians are voicing support for clean power. In July, 2019, Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ president, also instructed his energy minister to reduce his country’s dependence on coal.
A.Surprisingly B.Unfortunately C.Horribly D.Promisingly
3、Not until ________a third time ________that he had given birth to the reading system for the blind called Braille.
A．Louis Braille tried; he announced
B．did Louis Braille try; he announced
C．Louis Braille had tried; did he announce
D．had Louis Braille tried; had he announced
4、—Have you received a reply to your job application?
—No．I ________.
A．waited B．am waiting
C．have waited D．had been waiting
5、______ we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains.
A. Although B. So long as C. Even though D. Unless
6、—What did David demand in the meeting just now?
—________ a chance to join the Debating Club.
A. Being offered B. Having been offered
C. To be offered D. To have been offered
7、Li Hua’s parents hold different opinions on whether they should have ________ child.
A. another B. other C. others D. the other
8、Reducing the figure of fishing can safeguard the future sustainability of small-scale fisheries and the communities ______ livelihood is dependent on them.
A.where B.which C.whose D.who
9、– You might as well apply for that job — you’ve got nothing to ______
– OK, I will have a try.
A. stop B. show C. lose D. miss
10、--How long do you expect it before the African can keep the disease under control?
--As soon as possible.
A. is B. has been
C. will be D. will have been
11、Everybody present at the party was surprised at ______ Kate said.
A.what B.how C.when D.whether
12、It is illegal for a public official to ask people for gifts or money favors to them.
A．in preference to
B．in place of
C．in agreement with
D．in exchange for
13、Tom knew he would certainly get ________ if he was late home
A．shout at
B．to shout at
C．shouted at
D．to be shouted at
14、His grandfather joined the army in 1940 and only when the war was over in 1945 ________ back home.
A. he came B. he did come C. came he D. did he come
15、People with simple names enjoy quicker career advancement because names which are hard to pronounce inspire negative _______ from superiors.
A. consideration B. consequences
C. expectations D. reactions
16、The award was established in 1902 as a special______for outstanding people in this field.
A. statement B. distinction C. commitment D. instruction
17、A new learning center has been built in the school, ______ students to get to know the world more easily．
A．allow B．allowed
C．to allow D．allowing
18、Stephen William Hawking, the writer of A Brief History of Time, is always being _______ as a model of strong will.
A. taken up B. held up
C. picked up D. kept up
19、There is a world of ________ between liking someone and loving them.
A．difference
B．amusement
C．expression
D．description
20、Tom doesn’t want to move to London because he thinks if he _____there, he wouldn’t be able to see his parents very often.
A. lives B. were to live
C. had lived D. would live
21、Smartphone Bans in School
Today's students all over the world are losing an hour a week of productivity due to their smartphone activity.
That is what two researchers from the London School of Economics are arguing with their new study that examined 130,000 students in 91 British schools that employed various smartphone-use policies. Then, they looked at how their respective students performed in 16-year-olds' national exams.
In what may not come as a surprise to some, researchers Richard Murphy and Louis-Philippe Beland found that as schools' phone policies evolved since 2001, with some choosing to completely ban smartphones, school test scores improved by an average of 6.4 percent. The increase in scores from underachieving students was even more significant as they saw their scores increase by an average of 14 percent.
“The results suggest that low-achieving students are more likely to be distracted by the presence of mobile phones, while high achievers can focus in the classroom regardless of the mobile phone policy," the researchers told CNN. "We found the effect of banning phones for these students was the same as an additional hour a week in school, or increasing the school year by five days."
Professor Murphy and Beland said their study does not mean that smartphones and other technology have no place in assisting learning.
“There are, however, potential drawbacks to new technologies," they told CNN, citing the temptation to text, play games or chat on social media. Therefore, smartphones will not be completely out of classrooms anytime soon. Smartphone ownership among young people and children has skyrocketed in the past few years. Pew Research and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University reported that as of 2013, 78 percent of teens aged 12 to 17 owned a cellphone, 47 percent of which were smartphones.
The use of smartphones in schools is a controversial topic. Parents want to be able to reach their children while teachers complain about the effect they have on classes.
In March, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ended a decade-long city-wide ban on smartphones in public schools and left them to make up their own rules.
But Murphy and Beland said the decision may not have a good result.
“Schools could significantly reduce the education achievement gap by prohibiting mobile phone use in schools. So by allowing phones in schools, New York may unintentionally increase the inequalities of outcomes.”
【1】Which of the following is TRUE about the research?
A.It examined 130,000 underachieving students.
B.It proves that smartphones are no good for students' studies.
C.Smartphone ownership among teens aged 12 to 17 amounted to about 50 percent.
D.In schools with smartphone bans, scores of the underachieving students increased by 14%.
【2】Which could best replace the underlined word “distracted" in paragraph 4?
A.Improved. B.Interested. C.Assisted. D.Affected.
【3】As the research suggests, as a result of smartphone use students may.
A.lose about an hour every day
B.relatively lose five days for learning
C.increase their scores by an average of 6.4 percent
D.decrease their scores by an average of 14 percent
【4】What's the passage mainly about?
A.Smartphone bans in schools are beneficial.
B.Smartphones cause students many problems.
C.Some students use smartphones too much.
D.Heavy smartphone use can harm students' learning abilities.
22、Color psychology is the study of how colors affect human behavior, mood, or physiological processes. Colors affect our feelings and memories. 【1】 Companies choose colors that they believe will motivate customers to buy their products and improve brand awareness.
Color perception is very subjective, as different people have different ideas about and responses to colors. Several factors influence color perception, which makes it difficult to determine if color alone impacts our emotions and actions.【2】 In some cultures, for example, white is associated with happiness and purity. In a situation where a woman is wearing a white wedding dress, is she happy because she is influenced by the color white or because she is getting married? To someone from a different culture, wearing white may signify sadness. 【3】
While no direct cause and effect relationship between color and behavior has been found, some generalizations about colors and what they may symbolize have been determined. Colors including red, yellow, and orange are considered warm colors. 【4】 Cool colors include blue, violet, and green. These colors are associated with calmness and coolness.
【5】 We see colors with our brains. Our eyes are important for detecting and responding to light, but it is the brain's visual center in the occipital lobes（枕叶）that processes visual information and assigns color. The colors we see are determined by the wavelength of light that is reflected. The brain integrates these wavelength signals enabling us to distinguish among millions of different colors.
A．We don't actually see colors with our eyes.
B．Our brain associates the wavelength with a color.
C．Colors also have been used to treat various diseases.
D．They are even thought to influence our buying choices.
E．These colors are thought to stimulate exciting emotions.
F．The influential factors of color perception include age and culture.
G．This is because white is associated with sorrow and death in those cultures.
23、
Removing the sleeve (封套), you will find a book that is entirely white,except for the names of its author and subject in elegant black type on the cover. It is the perfect design for the biography of a man who insisted that even the insides of his products be perfectly constructed, and that his factory walls flash in the whitest white.
The cover was the only part of the book Steve Jobs wanted to control,writes Isaacson in his introduction.Though Mr. Jobs pushed the biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin to write in his own way, generously allowing the writer more than 40 interviews, this book offers quite a different view of Mr. Jobs, who won much praise from his fans after his death on October 5th at the age of 56.
As a biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Isaacson knows how to celebrate longdead genius, but he claimed that Steve Jobs would not be entirely praiseful words.The picture he paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not nice. Mr. Jobs emerges as a controlling and often coldblooded character. A child of the 1960s counterculture (反主流文化)，he hated materialism and lived in simply furnished houses (in part because he was too particular about furniture),But when Apple went public in 1980, he refused to give any share to Daniel Kottke, a longtime supporter and soul mate from college. “He has to abandon the people he is close to”, observes Andy Hertzfeld, an early Apple engineer.
Mr. Jobs was undoubtedly possessing an extraordinary ability to attract others and inspire a kind of faith that could not be questioned. But also he could be cold and cruel. If he disapproved of an employee’s work，he often shamed him.“This is who I am,” he once said after being challenged,“and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.” This disgusting personality wasn’t always helpful, but it served a purpose, writes Mr. Isaacson, many would “end their chain of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible”．
Mr. Isaacson treats Steve Jobs as the biography of record,which means that it is a strange book to read so soon after its subject’s death.
【1】The biography for Jobs is believed to have the perfect design because________.
A. it follows Jobs’ style
B. its cover is entirely white
C. black and white are his favorite
D. it is designed by a famous biographer
【2】The picture of Jobs that Isaacson paints in his book is________.
①cruel ②humorous ③particular ④generous
A. ①③ B. ②③ C. ①④ D. ③④
【3】It can be safely concluded that________.
A. Jobs is highly spoken of in the book
B. Isaacson doesn’t think Jobs a good man
C. Jobs didn’t care about the design of the book
D. all descriptions of Jobs are not nice in the book
【4】This passage can be classified as________.
A. a personal diary B. a book review
C. a news report D. a TV interview
24、 Shortly after World War Il, a Dutch art dealer was arrested for secretly selling paintings by Vermeer（1632-1675） to the Nazis who invaded Holland during the war. Because Vermeer is considered to be one of Holland’s best painters, the dealer was charged with selling national treasures to the enemy. To avoid the punishment for this serious crime, he admitted that the paintings were forgeries（伪造品）， or fakes he had painted them himself and fooled the art world and the Nazis. Today, experts agree that the forgeries do not look like Vermeer's other works, Why then, did the art world accept the fakes as real？
One reason why they were accepted was that the forgeries actually looked different than Vermeer's other works. The dealer had claimed that the forgeries were from an unknown period early in Vermeer's career. Because painters' styles often change throughout their careers, art historians at the time did not expect "the new discovery" to look exactly like the known works of Vermeer. In fact, because they did not look similar to the known works, experts did not bother to look at them carefully. This is because experts expect a forger to copy famous paintings as closely as possible. Once the art dealer's first forgeries were accepted as real, he was free to make more The others closely matched the first paintings in style, so they were also accepted as real Vermeer tings from the same early period.
Another reason experts were fooled is what some historians call The Emperor’s New Clothes Effects. In Hans Christian Andersen’s story, The Emperor’s New Clothes, two criminals convince an emperor that he is wearing beautiful clothes, when he is actually naked. No one in the empire wants to admit that they can’t see the clothes because they believe the clothes are magic and that only good people can see them. Similarly, the art world was influenced by the famous art historian Wilhelm von Bode, who said the forgeries were some of Vermeer's best works. Because von Bod was highly respected, other experts began praising the "new discoveries.” At the time, this made it difficult to criticize the paintings or suggest that they were fakes
【1】Why did the art dealer admit that he had faked paintings？
A.He wanted to anger the Nazis
B.He wanted to prove he was a good painter
C.He felt bad about what he had done
D.He wanted to escape heavy punishment
【2】Why didn’t experts expect the forgeries to look like Vermeer's known works？
A.The experts didn't carefully examine the paintings
B.Painters' styles vary during their careers
C.Painters often create forgeries to fool experts.
D.The paintings looked similar to Vermeer s earlier works
【3】Why does the author mention the story The Emperor 's New Clothes？
A.To compare the works of Vermeer with those of Andersen
B.To suggest that Vermeer was the emperor of the art world
C.To explain how experts were fooled by the forgeries
D.To give an example of a forgery in the literary world
【4】What is the best title for the text？
A.The Nazi invasion of Holland in World War II.
B.How von Bode influenced the art world
C.How some forgeries fooled the art world
D.The paintings of Vermeer's early period
25、One Sunday night, I circled the neighborhood a few times, looking for a place to park my car. Finally, I found one a block south of my house. It was behind a Jeep. I tried to _________ into the space, but I _________ to see the angles clearly. I heard it before I felt it, the _________ of plastic on plastic. I got out of my car to check the _________. My car was unharmed. _________ there were two distinct lines on the Jeep.
Then I noticed a woman, walking her dog, who was now _________ me with her phone. “I hope you’re not planning to drive away,” she said quietly. Until then, I was annoyed with myself for having been so _________, but now, I was _________ with her for taking my picture. She had no respect for my _________.
And how dare she __________ I would do the wrong thing? But soon I __________ because I knew she wasn’t __________ incorrect. I’d made no decision to drive away without leaving a note, but I’d be __________ if I said the idea hadn’t flashed across my mind. It was __________, and aside from her no one was watching. It happens all the time—the __________ in the parking lot.
We all have those __________ to behave selfishly, to go against the social contract. It is not the thought but what we do with it that __________. It is the commitment to take __________ and to care for one another that makes this world a better place to stay. The choice to __________ was left to me. I left a note with my name and phone number under the wiper blade (雨刮器) of the __________.
【1】
A．dive
B．walk
C．back
D．look
【2】
A．happened
B．failed
C．forgot
D．regretted
【3】
A．sound
B．danger
C．feeling
D．impact
【4】
A．picture
B．metal
C．window
D．damage
【5】
A．However
B．Besides
C．Therefore
D．Otherwise
【6】
A．calling
B．conducting
C．saving
D．photographing
【7】
A．generous
B．careless
C．polite
D．sad
【8】
A．rude
B．mad
C．patient
D．excited
【9】
A．independence
B．personality
C．power
D．privacy
【10】
A．inform
B．declare
C．suppose
D．warn
【11】
A．ran off
B．stood up
C．rolled over
D．calmed down
【12】
A．entirely
B．secretly
C．probably
D．particularly
【13】
A．wondering
B．complaining
C．lying
D．crying
【14】
A．obvious
B．dark
C．cold
D．wet
【15】
A．hit-and-run
B．show-off
C．standby
D．breakdown
【16】
A．desires
B．abilities
C．chances
D．difficulties
【17】
A．harms
B．works
C．counts
D．proves
【18】
A．lesson
B．responsibility
C．charge
D．breath
【19】
A．escape
B．blame
C．admit
D．explain
【20】
A．bus
B．train
C．equipment
D．Jeep
26、假设你是李华。澳大利亚网友 James 写信告知你他将来中国做交换生，到你校学习，他向你了解学校 课外活动情况。请你给他写封回信表示欢迎，简介课外活动基本情况，并重点介绍上周刚举办的模拟联合 国活动 Model United Nations Conference（MUN）。
注意： 1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear James,
Welcome to China as an exchange student.
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Look forward to seeing you here.
Yours.
Li Hua
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