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1、Only when our project has been approved of by the committee ______ to carry it out.
A. did we start B. we started
C. can we start D. we start
2、The dry-cleaner’s couldn’t get the dirt out completely, but you can ______see it now.
A．approximately
B．virtually
C．barely
D．practically
3、—Would you like to watch a movie with me after the exam?
—______.
A．It doesn’t matter
B．You’re welcome
C．Yes, I’d love to
D．Enjoy yourself
4、 Poetry written from the perspective of the urban youth tends to _______ their anxiety over a lack of sense of belonging.
A. rebel B. refresh
C. reveal D. resign
5、Although he was attracted by the girl in red, he tried to appear ________ as he asked her to dance.
A．casual
B．desperate
C．sceptical
D．typical
6、The pollution is getting worse and worse; we must stop pollution ______ a better life.
A. to live B. from living
C. living D. Live
7、Actually all the empty apartments in downtown areas have been rent at______ high prices.
A. extremely B. constantly C. approximately D. frequently
8、 more and more forests destroyed, some birds are ______with the danger of dying out.
A.With; faced B.By; facing C.As; faced D.Within; facing
9、Please do me a favor — _______ my friend Mr. Smith to Youth Theater at 7:30 tonight.
A. to invite B. inviting
C. invite D. invited
10、—How long _______in that company before you work with us?
— For eight years．
A．were you employed B．have you been employed
C．had you employed D．will you be employed
11、—What do you think of Richard Clayderman’s concert?
—Fantastic. His perfect performance ________ the audience.
A. shocked B. killed C. invited D. promised
12、 —Has James arrived at the hotel?
—No, he ______ by fans for photographs at the airport.
A. has surrounded B. would surround
C. was surrounded D. is being surrounded
13、Seeing the ________ of my daughter playing with other kids on the beach, I felt so happy.
A．scene
B．scenery
C．view
D．sight
14、According to the police，the man called “Tuhao”_______ to be a professional cheat in business．
A． worked out B． made out
C． figured out D． turned out
15、The basketball team has become virtually unstoppable ever since it _____Jack, a gifted player.
A.hosted B.included C.examined D.demanded
16、_______ human beings use it in a wrong way, like we did with nuclear technology, the advancement of science and technology has never led to decline of human development.
A. While B. Unless
C. As long as D. Before
17、As a grassroots singer, she reads everything she can get hold of and catch every opportunity she meets up with so as to gain _____ progress.
A. mild B. widespread
C. steady D. Average
18、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
19、It is not easy to find out everything about her childhood; _________, she herself would wish to put those matters behind her.
A. instead B. besides C. otherwise D. therefore
20、Steven has a lot of work to ______ in the office since he has been away for quite a few days.
A.take up B.make up C.work out D.carry out
21、You are a new manager at the American branch of your German firm in Chicago. With a few minutes to spare between meetings, you go to get a quick cup of coffee.
“Hey, David, how are you?” one of the senior partners at the firm asks you.
“Good, thank you, Dr. Greer,” you reply. You’ve really been wanting to make a connection with the senior leadership at the firm, and this seems like a great opportunity. But as you start to think of something to say, your American colleague breaks in to steal your spotlight.
“So Arnold”, your colleague says to your boss, in such a casual manner that it makes your German soul cringe(畏缩), “So what’s your Super bowl prediction? I mean, you’re a Niners fan, right?” The conversation moves on, and you walk silently back to your desk with your coffee. You know how important small talk is in the U. S. , and you feel jealous of people who can do it well.
There’s nothing small about the role that small talk plays in American professional culture. People from other countries are often surprised at how important small talk is in the U. S. and how naturally and comfortably people seem to do it—with peers，men，women，and even with superiors. You can be the most technically skilled worker in the world, but your ability to progress in your job in the United States is highly dependent on your ability to build and maintain positive relationships with people at work. And guess what skill is critical for building and maintaining these relationships? Small talk.
What can you do if you are from another culture and want to learn to use small talk in the U. S. to build relationships and establish trust? Work hard to hone(磨练)your own version of American-style small talk. Watch how others do it. You don’t have to mimic what they do; in fact, that would likely backfire because people would see you as inauthentic. But if you can develop your own personal version, that can go a long way toward making you feel comfortable.
【1】 The author introduces the topic of the passage by __________.
A. raising an interesting question
B. telling a small jokes
C. making comparisons
D. describing an interesting scene
【2】What do we know about German people?
A. They usually make small talk in work breaks.
B. They don’t make so much small talk.
C. They hate making small talk.
D. They are good at making small talk too.
【3】 What makes people from other countries surprised in American professional culture?
A. The role small talk plays in work settings.
B. American workers’ attitude towards superiors.
C. The special meaning of small talk.
D. American workers’ ability to make progress.
【4】What does “backfire” underlined in the last paragraph mean?
A. be difficult B. be helpful
C. have the opposite effect D. have a good result
22、Pretty soon not even your dreams may be private anymore. Japanese scientists have learned how to interpret what you’re dreaming about by measuring your brain activity while you sleep. This data can then be connected to an algorithm that reconstructs your dream so that it can be played back for you when you’re awake, according to the journal Science. In other words, scientists have invented a sort of dream-reading machine. Before long, you may never have to worry about forgetting what you dreamed about ever again. You’ll be able to simply play your dreams back after you wake up in the morning.
The remarkable breakthrough makes use of a fairly straightforward idea: that when we visualize certain types of objects in our minds, our brains generate consistent neural patterns that can then be correlated with what is being visualized. For instance, when you imagine a chair, your brain fires in a pattern that occurs whenever a chair is visualized. An algorithm can then be used to tie the data from a brain scan to the appropriate correlated images. In this way your dream can be reconstructed. So far the research is still fairly basic—researchers only claim to get the dream right about 60 percent of the time—but it’s still an extraordinary turn for the science of the mind.
Here’s how the study worked. Subjects were first asked to hook themselves up to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine, then to fall asleep within an fMRI machine. Scientists used the EEG readings to identify when the subjects began to enter a dreaming phase. The subjects were then promptly woken up and asked to recall what they were dreaming about. This process was repeated nearly 200 times for each subject.
Later, the scientists processed this data and discovered that certain common types of objects from the subjects’ dreams could be correlated with brain patterns as recorded by the fMRI scans. They then used an Internet search engine to look for images that roughly matched the objects from the subjects’ dreams, and entered all of this information into a learning algorithm that improved the model even further. That algorithm was then able to use the data from the dreamers, fMRI scans to assemble videos from the Internet images, basically creating a primitive movie for each dream.
Again, the research is still in a basic phase. So far these videos only represent rough approximations of the images from the subjects’ dreams, but researchers claim that the machined predictions were still better than chance. Over time, the technology will improve as the algorithm learns. The research could eventually revolutionize how dreams are interpreted and understood. Scientists may even find out valuable clues about what the mysterious function of dreaming is in the first place.
【1】Which of the following statements is true about dream-reading machine?
A．It can make your dream come true.
B．It can rebuild your dream while you sleep.
C．It can help you remember your dream.
D．It can record your dream when you are awake.
【2】What does the author mainly want to tell us in paragraph 2?
A．How our dream can be rebuilt during sleep.
B．Patterns generated in our brain can be visualized.
C．Images can be visualized in our minds.
D．The data from a brain scan can build images.
【3】What does the underlined word “subjects” refer to in paragraph 3?
A．Main feature of a talk in the research.
B．People who were tested in an experiment.
C．Topics which happened in a conversation.
D．Courses that were studied in the process.
【4】In the experiment, the scientists used a learning algorithm to ________.
A．analyze how our brains generate consistent neural patterns
B．discover when the subjects began to enter a dreaming phase
C．visualize the common types of objects from the subjects’ dreams
D．make the images matching the objects from dreams into videos
【5】What’s the author’s attitude towards the machine’s predictions?
A．Doubtful.
B．Supportive.
C．Optimistic.
D．Tolerant.
23、Why do old people dislike new music? As I’ve grown older, I often hear people my age say they just don’t make good music like they used to. Why does this happen? Luckily, psychology can give us some insights into this puzzle. Musical tastes begin to become clear as early as age 13 or 14. By the time we’re in our early 20s, these tastes get locked into place pretty firmly.
In fact, studies have found that by the time we turn 33, most of us have stopped listening to new music. Meanwhile, popular songs released when you’re in your early teens are likely to remain quite popular among your age group for the rest of your life.
There could be a biological explanation for this, as there’s evidence that the brain’s ability to make subtle distinctions between different chords, rhythms, and melodies weakens with age. So to older people, newer, less familiar songs might all “sound the same.”
But there are maybe some simpler reasons for older people’s dislike to newer music. One of the most researched laws of social psychology is something called the “mere exposure effect”, which in essence means that the more we’re exposed to something, the more we tend to like it.
This happens with people we know, the advertisements we see and, the songs we listen to. When you’re in your early teens, you probably spend a fair amount of time listening to music or watching music videos. Your favorite songs and artists become familiar, comforting parts of your routine.
For many people over 30, job and family obligations increase, so there’s less time to spend discovering new music. Instead, many will simply listen to old, familiar favorites from that period of their lives when they had more free time.
Psychology research has shown that the emotions that we experience as teens seem more intense than those that come later. And we also know that intense emotions are associated with stronger memories and preferences. Both of these might explain why the songs we listen to during this period become so memorable and beloved.
So there’s nothing wrong with your parents because they don’t like your music. Rather it’s all part of the natural order of things.
【1】What have studies found about most people by the time they turn 33?
A．They no longer listen to new music.
B．They find all music sounds the same.
C．They can make subtle distinctions about music.
D．They seldom listen to songs released in their teens.
【2】Which of the following situations agrees with the “mere exposure effect”?
A．Tom likes the book, so he reads it more times.
B．Andy recites the words repeatedly and he is fed up with them.
C．Mike often listens to the same song and becomes more and more interested in it.
D．Peter goes to school by bike every day, and therefore his riding skills are better and better.
【3】What conclusion can we draw according to the psychology research?
A．Teenagers are much more sensitive.
B．Teenagers are much more emotional.
C．Teenagers’ preferences are more lasting.
D．Teenagers’ emotions are more intense.
【4】What is mainly discussed in this passage?
A．Quality issues of new music.
B．Older people’s dislike of new music.
C．Older people’s changing musical tastes.
D．Insights into the features of good music.
24、A life lesson is just what it sounds like — a lesson we learn in life. It’s really based on the idea of learning from our mistakes. These lessons could be described as defining (决定性) moments that are remembered. 【1】 Thus they are unique to each person.
【2】 Since the lesson is learned through the consequences of our actions or reactions, in this way we can gain insight into how we think, act and react in certain situations.
Life lessons can occur in any area. Although we learn many things each day, we don’t always learn something that we feel will affect our behavior for the rest of our lives. 【3】 It is usually something that we feel profoundly changed by. For example, if we respond in a certain way to something and then face unpleasant consequences from our actions, this can make us rethink how we handled the situation. We would want to make different choices and decisions in the future to get the outcome we wanted instead of the one we didn’t. 【4】
An example of a life lesson in the area of work and career could be the revelation that making a modest living at something we are passionate about is better than working at an unpleasant or dull job for more money. 【5】 However, there are common themes in these relationships such as spending more time with loved ones. Some of us learn a major life lesson when a loved one dies and we wish we had spent more time with that person. This lesson can result in us spending more time with our remaining loved ones.
A．If so, follow your heart.
B．They are based on an individual’s life experiences.
C．Life lessons can help us understand ourselves better.
D．This separates a life lesson from everything else we learn.
E．Are you more motivated and inspired to pursue your dreams?
F．Such lessons in relationships are as varied and unique as each relationship.
G．To put it simply, a life lesson teaches us not to make the same mistake twice.
25、 Jack Ma is known as one of the richest Chinese. _________, he was not born rich. He grew up at a time when China was _________ from the world, and like every family in China, his family didn’t have _________ when they were young.
As a child, Ma had _________ just like any other kid. He liked collecting crickets(蟋蟀)and making them fight. Without money, the only way Ma could change his life was through _________. After high school, he _________ to go to college, but failed the entrance exam _________. After a great deal of studying, he finally passed on the third try, going on to _________ Hangzhou Teachers College. He _________ from college in 1988 and started applying to as many jobs as he could.
He received more than a dozen __________, including from KFC. But he didn’t give up trying and finally was employed as an English __________. Ma loved his students, though he only made 80 yuan a month at a local university.
Ma had no experience with the __________, which was not very accessible to most Chinese, but he was __________ the Internet when he used it for the first time in 1995. Ma’s first online search was “beer”, but he was __________ to find that no Chinese beers turned up in the results. It was then __________ he decided to found an internet company for China. That was the first step to his future.
【1】A.Therefore B.Fortunately C.However D.Thus
【2】A.closed B.different C.remote D.isolated
【3】A.money B.relatives C.friends D.changes
【4】A.tasks B.hobbies C.jobs D.qualities
【5】A.education B.work C.luck D.view
【6】A.applied B.deserved C.succeeded D.failed
【7】A.once B.often C.twice D.seldom
【8】A.attend B.leave C.quit D.start
【9】A.continued B.presented C.introduced D.graduated
【10】A.admissions B.opportunities C.rejections D.invitations
【11】A.engineer B.headmaster C.teacher D.worker
【12】A.company B.computer C.business D.competition
【13】A.disappointed with B.crazy about C.addicted to D.skeptical about
【14】A.surprised B.excited C.desperate D.helpless
【15】A.when B.where C.that D.how
26、假定你是学生李津。你的美国朋友Tom在给你的邮件中提到他对中国的移动 支付（mobile payment）很感兴趣，请你给Tom回复邮件并做简要介绍。内容包括：
1. 目前中国使用移动支付的情况；
2. 移动支付的好处；
3. 你对移动支付的看法。
注意：（1）词数不少于120；
（2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯：
（3）回邮开头及结尾己为你写好，不计入词数。
参考词汇：微信：WeChat；支付宝：Alipay；二维码：QR code
Dear Tom,
In you letter you asked about mobile payment in China.
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Yours,
Li Jin
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