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1、---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
2、Jane wishes that she ______ foreign trade instead of literature when she was in college.
A.studied B.had studied
C.would study D.might have studied
3、—That important document is nowhere to be seen.
—Don't worry! You ___________ it somewhere. Calm down and think it over.
A．might leave
B．might have left
C．should leave
D．should have left
4、When you visit our town next August, a modern sports center ________, for the National Games are to be held then.
A. will be constructing B. will have been constructed
C. has been constructing D. is being constructed
5、—Will the color________ if the dress is washed?
—No, it won`t.
A．drop
B．walk
C．run
D．pass
6、English is a language shared by several diverse cultures, each of ________ uses it somewhat differently.
A.which B.what C.them D.those
7、It is generally agreed that new contents should be added to a good dictionary at regular________.
A．gaps
B．intervals
C．length
D．distance
8、The stronger the________ is, the more quickly a man will learn a new skill. In other words, it is up to whether he has an interest in it.
A．motivation
B．ambition
C．effect
D．imagination
9、Is it he or you ________ in charge of the job and supposed to complete it punctually?
A．who is
B．that is
C．who are
D．whom are
10、Bob was trying to ________ that he knew the famous singer who would perform in our city.
A. let out B. lay out
C. figure out D. make out
11、Try to buy less______unnecessary shopping could become another source of pressure to the environment.
A.though B.unless C.because D.before
12、Christine is ______ about anything but her dress as she doesn’t really care about what she looks like in the eyes of others.
A.cautious B.optimistic
C.particular D.curious
13、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?
---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.
A. has stayed B. had stayed
C. stayed D. am staying
14、—What about your self-drive trip yesterday?
—Tiring! The road was being widened, and we ________ a rough ride.
A．had
B．have
C．would have
D．have had
15、When I lived in Italy, I ________ often eat in the restaurant next to my flat.
A．could
B．would
C．may
D．must
16、My skating teacher was really great and ______ I knew it, I was able to skate!
A.before B.since
C.until D.after
17、Experts advised that parents ______ children from doing homework by using electronic equipment too much.
A. discouraged B. discourage
C. would discourage D. have discouraged
18、—Why did you leave the water running in the sink?
—Heavens! I guess I ________ to turn it off.
A．forgot
B．have forgotten
C．will forget
D．had forgotten
19、______________ their final medical check, the astronauts boarded their spacecraft.
A．Received
B．Being received
C．To receive
D．Having received
20、I can still remember my childhood life,_________it was so long ago.
A.if only B.as though C.even though D.in case
21、Earl Forlales, a graduate in Materials Science and Engineering, took inspiration from the bamboo hut his grandparents lived in outside Manila and created a house made of bamboo that can be put together in four hours to solve the chronic(长期的) shortage of affordable accommodation in the Philippines. His design won a £50.000 top prize from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in its Cities for our Future competition.
His house, known as Cubo, could be produced in a week, constructed in four hours and costs £60 per square meter. Its use of bamboo—which releases 35％ more oxygen into the environment than trees—was praised by the judges. The ability of the houses to be constructed in any bamboo-producing area was one of the key attractions.
“The world’s cities are growing all the time and there is a real need to make sure they are safe, clean and comfortable places to live in,”John Hughes, the competition’s head judge and then president at RICS, said. “As we look at our competitors, who are our next generation of leaders， I believe that real progress will be made in tackling the world’s biggest issues.
Forlales has already identified a suitable area of land to start building his Cubo houses. He plans to begin the work next year with experts from the RICS in an attempt to help relieve the huge pressure on housing in Manila, where a third of the 12 million population live in poor districts. He said, “I would like to thank RICS for the opportunity, and look forward to working with them to put this money to good use in Manila and then hopefully elsewhere around the world.”
【1】What contributes most to Forlales’ winning the prize？
A．The material of his house.
B．The shape of his house.
C．The design of his house.
D．The expense of his house.
【2】Which word can best replace the underline word “tackling” in Paragraph 3?
A．Facing.
B．Treating
C．Covering.
D．Handling.
【3】What can we infer about the Cubo house？
A．It is created by Forlales and his parents
B．It is environmentally friendly and economical.
C．It has already been built in Forlales’ hometown.
D．It can be constructed in a week.
【4】Which of the following can be a suitable title？
A．A Competition in House Building
B．A Man Devoted to City Development
C．The Bamboo House Winning a top Prize
D．The Way to Solve Housing Shortage
22、65-year-old Somerset native Carole-Ann Warburton experienced a plot twist that led to the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream she’d never even spoken of aloud.
After a life-threatening illness weakened her, Warburton was left with the question of what to do forward. During her recovery, her daughter brought around some real estate (房地产) listings for the sort of homes in which she thought her mother might best spend her golden years. Coincidentally, among the notices was an offering for a small barbershop with an above-stairs apartment.
For Warburton, although she admits “the place was awful”, it was love at first sight and the perfect opportunity to do something she’d yearned to do for almost as long as she could remember—running a bookshop.
Less than three months after coming to her decision, Warburton had handed in her retirement notice, sold her house and bought the store, and using a personal collection totaling between 8,000 and 9,000 titles she began her new life chapter—The Book Rest.
Warburton has been an avid (狂热的) book collector since she was a child. As an adult, she married a man with a similar hobby. The four-bedroom home she and her ex-husband shared with their children was filled with books.
Warburton admits learning to let go of her beloved books was a bit of an adjustment, but one she feels better for making. “It still feels, when a special book goes out, like a bit of a loss—as if some little part of me has been taken away,” she said in an interview. “And then I make common sense come back to me and say, ‘Let someone else learn from it.’ It’s acceptance.”
The Book Rest recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Although the pandemic has slowed foot traffic, since Warburton’s driving motive isn’t monetary profit, but rather, something of a deep personal value, she has no plan to close up the bookstore.
【1】What was the turning point in Warburton’s life?
A．Being forced to retire earlier.
B．Starting to work for a barber.
C．Suffering from a serious illness.
D．Buying a house for her daughter.
【2】What does the underlined word “yearned” in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A．Volunteered.
B．Managed.
C．Declined.
D．Desired.
【3】Paragraph 5 is mainly intended to show ________.
A．how Warburton got a large collection of books
B．why Warburton had a love for collecting books
C．how Warburton got on with her family members
D．why Warburton was willing to let go of books
【4】What does The Book Rest mean to Warburton?
A．A path leading to a large fortune.
B．A way to realize her personal value.
C．A reminder of kindness in hard times.
D．A temporary inspiration for dreamers.
23、 Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, a mere 700 people lived on. Here is one story of the Titanic survivors whose stories are still haunting more than a century after the ship's sinking, revealing the true facts of the disaster.
A junior wireless officer aboard the Titanic, Harold Bride was one of the two people responsible for sending SOS messages to nearby ships, thus allowing the Carpathian to rescue the Titanic survivors.
He and another man on duty, Jack Phillips, raced to send SOS signals to nearby ships－but as the communications specialists, they knew that the closest,the Carpathian,would likely not arrive until alter the Titanic sank. They worked wildly until Captain Edward Smith came and told them they were relieved of duty；the ship had nearly lost power, and only two lifeboats remained.
They made a run for Collapsible B and were just getting it into the water when a wave swept across the deck(甲板),throwing both Harold Bride and the upturned boat into the ocean.
Bride and 15 others struggled onto the waterlogged, sinking Collapsible B and survived until other lifeboats collected them and conveyed them to the Carpathian.
Once aboard the Carpathian, Bride got back to work and began helping the ship's wireless officer send messages from the other Titanic survivors.
When the Carpathian made land, Bride had to be carried ashore: he had injured one foot in the plunge into the ocean, and the other was frostbitten after a night in the Atlantic's icy waters.
【1】Which can replace the underlined word "haunting" in paragraph 1 ?
A．confusing .
B．unforgettable.
C．romantic.
D．contradictory.
【2】What was Bride's job on the Titanic during the accident?
A．Rescuing the Titanic survivors.
B．Investigating the problems of the Titanic.
C．Sending signals to ships around for help.
D．Receiving SOS signals from nearby ships.
【3】What happened to Bride after he was dismissed from his duty?
A．He stayed there to continue his work.
B．He escaped in a lifeboat immediately.
C．He turned off the power of the Titanic.
D．He was washed into the sea by a wave.
【4】Which of the following best describes Bride?
A．Responsible and helpful.
B．Intelligent and brave.
C．Tough and ambitious.
D．Considerate and humble.
24、Reading the Screen
The debate on literacy is one of the most heated in education. On the one hand, there is an army of people convinced that traditional skills of reading and writing are declining. On the other hand, a large number of progressives protest that literacy is much more complicated than a simple technical mastery of reading and writing. This second position is supported by most of the relevant academic work over the past 20 years. These studies argue that literacy can only be understood in its social and technical context. In Renaissance England, for example, many more people could read than could write, and within reading there was a distinction between those who could read print and those who could manage the more difficult task of reading manuscripts (手稿). An understanding of these earlier periods helps us understand today’s “crisis in literacy” debate.
It seems that there has been an overall decline in some aspects of reading and writing—you only need to compare the newspapers of today with those of 50 years ago to see a clear decrease in vocabulary and simplification of sentence patterns.
While reading a certain amount of writing is as crucial as it has ever been in industrial societies, it is doubtful whether a fully extended grasp of either is as necessary as it was 40 years ago. While print holds much of its authority as a source of topical information, television has increasingly taken this role. The ability to write fluent letters has been weakened by the telephone and research suggests that for many people the only use for writing, outside formal education, is making shopping lists.
The decision of some car factories to issue their instructions to mechanics as a video pack rather than as a handbook might end the automatic link between industrialization and literacy. On the other hand, it is also the case that ever-increasing numbers of people make their living out of writing, which is better rewarded than ever before. Schools are generally seen as institutions where books rule—films and recorded sound have almost no place, but it is not clear that this opposition is appropriate. While you may not need to read and write to watch television, you certainly need to be able to read and write in order to make programs. Those who work in new media are anything but literate. The traditional oppositions between old and new media are inadequate for understanding the world which a young child now encounters. There is evidence that children are mastering reading and writing in order to get on to the Internet.
Nevertheless, there is a crisis in literacy and it would be foolish to ignore it. To understand that literacy may be declining because it is less central to some aspects of everyday life is not the same as reluctantly accepting this state of affairs. The production of school work with the new technologies could be a significant stimulus to literacy. How should these new technologies be introduced into the schools? It isn’t enough to call for computers in every classroom. They will stand unused unless they are properly combined with the educational culture.
【1】When discussing the debate on literacy in education, the writer notes that________.
A．children can read and write as well as they used to
B．academic work has improved over the last 20 years
C．there is evidence that literacy is related to external factors
D．people’s reading skills are more important than writing skills
【2】What is the writer’s main point in the 4th paragraph?
A．The printed word is both gaining and losing power.
B．The car factories’ decision brings benefits to labors.
C．Those who do manual jobs no longer need to read.
D．New media offers the best career for the literate.
【3】According to the passage, what is the main problem that schools face today?
A．How to teach students the skills of reading and writing.
B．How to apply new technologies to classroom teaching.
C．Raising money to purchase technological equipment.
D．Managing the widely differing levels of literacy among pupils.
【4】What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Modern communication has completely replaced writing letters.
B．New media has the potential to promote students’ literacy.
C．New technologies are inadequate for us to know about children’s world.
D．Current newspapers use more complicated sentence patterns than before.
25、 Ethan comes from Birmingham, Alabama. He is one of those people who seem to have been born with _______ beyond his years. He’s only 10 years old, _______ he has already done more to help _______ people than many of us ever will. For the past four years, he’s _______ a program called “Bags4Blessings”, which provides much-needed _______ to anyone living on the streets.
Later Ethan _______ his own organization “Ethan’s Heart” after meeting a local homeless man on his way to _______ to attend a lecture one day. They began chatting and _______ developed a friendship.
“His name is Mr. Marcus,” Ethan said. “He’s a very nice man. He _______ under the bridge. It’s starting to get ________, so I was ________ on the Internet to see if there’s anything I can do to help them and what they need to ________ in winter.”
When Ethan didn’t get the ________ he was looking for, he decided to be the help ________.
Since then, Ethan has ________ all his free time to putting together care packages and ________ them to his local homeless community.
Ethan’s Heart collects money along with everyday ________ ranging from bread to toilet paper. He also routinely hands out ________ clothes and sleeping bags during the cold winter months.
Perhaps the most ________ part of his charitable work is that he doesn’t do any of it for praise or recognition. He ________ wants to help — and to encourage others to get involved!
A．courage
B．disease
C．wisdom
D．trick
A．but
B．and
C．so
D．or
A．kind
B．old
C．sick
D．homeless
A．joined
B．supported
C．continued
D．evaluated
A．life
B．adventures
C．supplies
D．experience
A．founded
B．improved
C．designed
D．abandoned
A．hospital
B．cinema
C．office
D．school
A．secretly
B．quickly
C．obviously
D．surprisingly
A．shelters
B．works
C．lives
D．waits
A．cold
B．dry
C．hot
D．cloudy
A．talking
B．checking
C．interviewing
D．searching
A．recover
B．survive
C．adapt
D．change
A．partner
B．instruction
C．resources
D．medicine
A．instead
B．already
C．even
D．forever
A．spent
B．applied
C．invested
D．devoted
A．selling
B．delivering
C．showing
D．reporting
A．harvests
B．food
C．essentials
D．clothes
A．warm
B．expensive
C．old
D．fashionable
A．important
B．interesting
C．amazing
D．impressive
A．nearly
B．simply
C．hardly
D．specially
26、Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是高三某班班长李华，7 月即将毕业，你正计划高考后在班级里开展一项离校公益活动---“绿色离校（Be a Green school-leaver）”旧书回收项目。请写一封倡议信给你们班级同学，信中必须包括：
该活动的目的和意义；
该活动的具体计划。
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