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1、About 10 million dolphins are said ________ in the past 15 years.
A. to have killed B. to kill
C. to have been killed D. to be killed
2、Most of us know we should cut down on fat, but knowing such things isn’t much help when it ____shopping and eating.
A.refers to B.speaks of C.focuses on D.comes to
3、______ more about our university courses, write to this address.
A. To find out B. Finding out
C. Found out D. To be found out
4、_________ several adjustments to the design for two months, the engineer eventually succeeded in building a highly efficient system.
A．Trying
B．Tried
C．Having tried
D．Having been tried
5、Take the note as a reminder ______ you forgot to buy some sweets for the kids while shopping there.
A. how B. that
C. in case D. even if
6、The weather is fine. I’m sure ________ we can go camping this afternoon.
A.why B.what C.that D.if
7、This year's English movie dubbing competition will be held, but no date has yet been set for the ________of the entries to be selected.
A.commission B.submission C.association D.occupation
8、We will hold a meeting to sum up our experience ____ we finish our task.
A. in case B. even though
C. despite D. immediately
9、Some experts think, _____ genes, intelligence also depend on an adequate diet, a good education and a nice home environment.
A．instead of
B．apart from
C．except for
D．far from
10、Fear of failure is ______ holds people back from achieving their dreams and acting on their great ideas.
A. whether B. which C. that D. what
11、－That must have been a terrible experience.
－Yeah. I________ in the damaged car, unable to move.
A. was stuck B. have been stuck
C. am stuck D. had been stuck
12、Internet is an important part of society now, ______ has even influenced our language.
A．as
B．that
C．which
D．where
13、Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will build a 200-million-euro factory in France________potential challenges and obstacles.
A.owing to B.regardless of C.apart from D.instead of
14、We express the hope that a climate beneficial to a negotiated settlement would be created soon, ________ there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle.
A. in case B. even though
C. so that D. as long as
15、---Hi, there. Can I help you with anything today?
---Oh, yes.________, I’d like to buy a present for my niece’s birthday.
A．Exactly
B．Somehow
C．Actually
D．Definitely
16、(2014·天津卷)Anxiously, she took the dress out of the package and tried it on, only _________ it didn’t fit
A．to find
B．found
C．finding
D．having found
17、---- I’ve had a bad cough recently.
----Me too. I’ve never experienced ______ of air pollution in cities before.
A. an acute problem B. a more acute problem
C. a most acute problem D. the most acute problem
18、—The lecture about 3D technology was very interesting.
—It’s a pity. How I wish I ________ time to attend it.
A. had B. have C. had had D. have had
19、It’s nearly four years since I worked in that firm. I ________ a band with other fellows.
A. operated B. had been operating
C. was operating D. am operating
20、Ever since the new park was opened to the public last month, I ______ a walk in it every morning.
A. am taking B. take
C. have taken D. have been taking
21、Newspapers, advertisements, and labels surround us everywhere, turning our environment into a mass of texts to be read or ignored. As the quantity of information we receive continually increases and as information spreading is shifting from page to screen, it may be time to ask how changes in our way of reading may affect our mental life. For how we receive information bears vitally on the ways we experience and interpret reality.
What is most obvious in the evolution of reading is the gradual displacement of the vertical (垂直的) by the horizontal—a shift from intensive to extensive reading. In our culture, access is not a problem, but proliferation (激增) is. And the reading act is necessarily different than it was in its earliest days. Awed by the availability of texts, the reader tends to move across surfaces without allowing the words to resonate (共鸣) inwardly.
Interestingly, this shift from vertical to horizontal parallels the overall societal shift from bounded lifetimes spent in single locales to lives lived in wider geographical areas amid streams of data. This larger access was once regarded as worldliness—one traveled, knew the life of cities, the ways of diverse people…. It has now become the birthright of anyone who owns a television set.
How do we square the advantages and disadvantages of horizontal and vertical awareness? The villagers, who know everything about their surroundings, are blessedly unaware of events in distant lands. The media-obsessed urbanites, by contrast, never lose their awareness of what happens in different parts of the world.
We may ask, which people are happier? The villagers may have found more sense in things owing both to the limited range of their concern and the depth on their information. But restricted conditions and habit also suggest boredom and limitation. The lack of a larger perspective (视角) leads to suspiciousness and cautious conservatism, but for the same reason, the constant availability of data and macro-perspectives has its own decreasing returns. When everything is happening everywhere, it gets harder to care about anything.
How do we assign value? Where do we find the fixed context that allows us to create a narrative of sense about our lives? Ideally, I suppose, one would have the best of both worlds—the purposeful fixity of the local, as well as the availability of enhancing views: a natural ecology of information and context.
【1】What can we learn about the first two paragraphs?
A．Readers today tend to ignore deep engagement with texts.
B．It’s difficult to shift from vertical to horizontal reading.
C．Where and how we read texts shapes our mental life.
D．People are tired of information proliferation.
【2】According to the passage, villagers .
A．have a deeper understanding of their surroundings
B．show no interest in what happens in the world
C．are less bored than media-obsessed urbanites
D．cannot adapt to changing situations
【3】What can we learn from the passage?
A．Vertical awareness allows us to care about others.
B．Changes in our reading habits lead to the societal shift.
C．It’s wise to keep a balance between a local and a global view.
D．Horizontal reading affects our mindset more than vertical reading.
22、 Ashley Power's mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet on a regular basis, but she couldn't find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website, I'd make it a really interesting site for teenagers."
Consequently, when Ashley was sixteen, she started her own website called GooseHead. She had no idea how big a success it would be, but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.
After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lived in Los Angeles, was asked to write a book called The GooseHead Guide to Life. The book is about how to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called"All About Ashley", where Ashley tell readers what it's like to be the boss of a company when you' re only sixteen-not always easy!
In her book, Ashley talks about the problems that teenagers have today plus the importance of friendship. She also focuses on being independent. "Learn to love your friends but not rely on them. I did that by creating GooseHead on my own."
Ashley says that The GooseHead Guide to Life is not a book of teenage advice."It isn't a book that's going to tell you what to do. I hope you can work that out yourself," she says."I just want to provide a little inspiration to teenagers. Maybe after reading my story, you' ll start your own website! But perhaps you' ve got a better idea? Well, if I were you, I'd just do it, whatever it is. Maybe it won't work---but maybe it will."
【1】Why did Ashley start GooseHead?
A. To promote the sale of her book.
B. To update her mother's computer.
C. To teach teenagers how to use the Internet.
D. To create a platform for teenagers to communicate.
【2】Where can you find the information that best shows the success of Ashley's website?
A. In Paragraph 1. B. In Paragraph 2. C. In Paragraph 3. D. In Paragraph 4.
【3】What do we know about The GooseHead Guide to Life.
A. It serves to fuel teenagers' motivation.
B. It is meant to give teenagers tips.
C. It advises teenagers to depend on friends.
D. It is about ways to be boss of a company.
【4】What does Ashley inspire teenagers to do？
A. Follow their dream.
B. Start their own website.
C. Buy a copy of her book.
D. Be a model for others.
23、Take a bottle of soda, and shake it really hard. Gas will form inside, causing a buildup of pressure. Twist the cap off. Pressure will be released from the bottle, and soda will shoot everywhere.
【1】 Pressure builds up inside a volcano as gas forms in magma (岩浆), which is hot liquid rock beneath the surface of the earth. Gas bubbles in the volcano need to escape. When a volcano erupts, magma is pushed up through the opening with great force. When magma reaches the earth’s surface, it’s called lava (熔岩).
Some volcanic eruptions are explosive. Lava shoots into the sky. Gas and hot pieces of rock and ash are also released. The intensity of an eruption depends on a few factors. One is the magma’s temperature. Another is the magma’s thickness. 【2】
Volcanic eruptions can cause other natural disasters. These include landslides, mudslides, earthquakes and tsunamis. Volcanoes can be destructive. 【3】 The Hawaiian Islands were created by the eruptions of large low-lying volcanoes which are made up of layers of hardened lava.
【4】 Ash from volcanoes adds helpful minerals to soil. This helps plants grow strong. Healthy plants produce oxygen for humans and animals to breathe. Volcanoes also remove heat from the earth’s interior (内部), which helps keep our planet cool.
In recent years, a new benefit of volcanoes has surfaced. 【5】 Their measures involve using the heat beneath the earth’s surface to produce electricity.
Volcanoes may be unpredictable. However, as we learn more about how they work, they will become even more important to life on the earth.
A．However, they can also create new land.
B．Volcanoes can become more dangerous.
C．A volcanic eruption works much the same way.
D．Scientists are using volcanoes to help power cities.
E．The amount of gas trapped inside is also an important one.
F．Volcanoes are threatening the life of people across the world.
G．Volcanoes have played an important role in shaping the earth.
24、Refugees are on the move in forests across the western U. S. As climate conditions change, the ranges of tree species are shifting, especially toward cooler or wetter sites. A new Stanford analysis, published on November 15th in Nature Communications, provides some of the first confirmable evidence that wildfire is accelerating this process, likely by reducing competition from established species.
“Complex, interdependent (互相依赖的)forces are shaping the future of our forests,” said study lead author Avery Hill, a graduate student in biology at Stanford, s School of Humanities & Sciences.
As the climate changes, animal and plant species are shifting their ranges toward conditions suitable for their growth and reproduction. Past research has shown that plant ranges are shifting to higher, cooler altitudes at an average rate of almost five feet per year. In many studies, these range shifts fall behind the rate of climate change, suggesting that some species may become stranded (困住)in unsuitable habitats. The factors that impact plant species’ ability to keep up with climate change are key to maintaining healthy populations of the dominant trees in western forests, yet have remained largely mysterious.
To better understand the distance, direction and rate at which tree ranges are shifting, Hill and study co-author Chris Field, the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, looked at how the phenomenon is affected by wildfire, a powerful and widespread driver of ecosystem structure and composition in the western United States.
Using U. S. Forest Service data collected from over 74, 000 plots across nine Western states, the researchers identified tree species that are shifting their ranges toward cooler, wetter sites. Then, they compared the rate of these range shifts between places that were burned by wildfire and places that were not.
The findings demonstrate not only that fire can accelerate tree migration, but that some species may be slowing the range shifts of others through competition. This, in turn, raises questions about the impact of fire management on trees’ ability to keep up with climate change, and points to the importance of low-intensity natural fires.
【1】What does the underlined word “Refugees” refer to in the first paragraph?
A．Wildfire.
B．Climate.
C．Animals.
D．Trees.
【2】What is unknown in the past researches?
A．Why plant ranges shift more slowly than climate change.
B．How plant species’ ability influences the weather change.
C．What causes plant species to be stuck in unfit habitats.
D．How fast plant ranges shift on a regular basis.
【3】Which possibly influences the rate of trees migration according to the analysis?
A．Fire management and climate.
B．Low intensity and natural fires.
C．Wildfire and other tree species.
D．Ecosystem structure and ranges.
【4】What can be inferred about this new Stanford analysis?
A．Different plant species are interdependent.
B．A natural fire may help forests remain healthy.
C．Range shifts won’t be affected by fire management.
D．Competition between species accelerates climate change.
25、 When Athaya Slaetalid first moved from Thailand to the Faroe Islands, where winter lasts six months, she would sit next to the heater all day:
"People told me to go _________ because the sun was shining but I just said: 'No! Leave me alone, I'm very _________.'"
Moving here six years ago was tough for Athaya _________, she admits. She _________her husband Jan when he was working with a Faroese friend who had started a business in _________.
Jan knew _________ that bringing his wife to this very different _________, weather and landscape would be challenging.
"I had my _________, because everything she was leaving _________ everything she was coming to were opposites," he admits. "But knowing Athaya, I knew she would __________."
There are now more than 300 women from Thailand and Philippines living in the Faroes. It doesn't __________ like a lot, but in a population of just 50,000 people, they now __________ the largest ethnic minority in these 18 islands, located between Norway and Iceland.
In recent years the Faroes have experienced population __________, with young people leaving, often in search of education, and not returning. Women have __________ more likely to settle abroad. As a result, according to Prime Minister Axel Johannesen, the Faroes have a "gender deficit" with __________ 4,000 fewer women than men.
This, __________, has lead Faroese men to look __________ the islands for romance. Many, though not all, of the __________ women met their husbands online, some through commercial __________ websites. Others have made connections through social media networks or existing Asian-Faroese __________.
【1】A.outside B.inside C.away D.off
【2】A.hot B.cold C.warm D.cool
【3】A.at last B.at once C.at first D.at length
【4】A.would find B.had found C.would meet D.had met
【5】A.Iceland B.Philippines C.Faroes D.Thailand
【6】A.ahead schedule B.in advance C.without hesitation D.in particular
【7】A.country B.nation C.culture D.minority
【8】A.concerns B.conflicts C.beliefs D.problems
【9】A.but B.and C.while D.when
【10】A.make B.get C.handle D.cope
【11】A.sound B.hear C.look D.appear
【12】A.consist of B.belong to C.make up D.build up
【13】A.decline B.increase C.boom D.failure
【14】A.shown B.remained C.proved D.tended
【15】A.mostly B.totally C.exactly D.approximately
【16】A.however B.then C.actually D.instead
【17】A.within B.faraway C.throughout D.beyond
【18】A.European B.Asian C.foreign D.poor
【19】A.knowing B.playing C.dating D.marrying
【20】A.couples B.wives C.husbands D.families
26、假如你是李华，你的英国笔友 Tom 正在学习中文，了解到中国四大名著(China's four great classics)的知识并写信与你交流。作为一名古典文学爱好者，你很高兴地回信给他， 介绍你最爱的四大名著中的某个人物(character)以及原因。
注意：
1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以增加适当的细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：
Journey to the West 《西游记》 A Dream of Red Mansions 《红楼梦》
Water Margin《水浒传》 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 《三国演义》
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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