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1、—Did you catch what I said?
—Sorry. I ________ a text message just now.
A. had answered B. have answered C. would answer D. was answering
2、Not until I had watched the football match between Brazil and Germany _________ to bed last night.
A. I went B. I had gone
C. did I go D. had I gone
3、Some institutions have established reading clubs to promote reading, but the effort, though ________, is far from enough.
A．appreciated
B．appreciating
C．having appreciated
D．to appreciate
4、— How did you find Professor Smith’s speech last night ?
— To be frank, his speech didn’t ________ to me .
A.appeal B.belong
C.refer D.occur
5、The water _____ cool when I jumped into the pool for morning exercise.
A.was felt B.is felt C.felt D.feels
6、______ his love, Chris sent his mom a thank-you note on Mother’s Day.
A. Expressing B. Expressed C. To express D. Having expressed
7、The expert points out the phenomenon that cream goes bad faster than butter______ its structure rather than its chemical composition.
A. lives up to B. gets down to
C. comes down to D. stands up to
8、 The farmers’ living conditions have improved _______ ever since the policy of supporting agriculture was introduced.
A. differently B. roughly
C. approximately D. significantly
9、As is reported, it is 115 years______Peking University was founded.
A. when B. before C. after D. since
10、We work during the week，but weekends and evenings are usually ________．
A. vacant B. casual C. empty D. clear
11、It's an either-or situation-you can take on-line classes at home or have classes in the school, but you can't do_________.
A.others B.both C.another D.either
12、We are determined that our raining should ______the current development in education.
A. keep pace with B. take possession of
C. make room for D. give birth to
13、My brother ________ you more help, but he was fully occupied at that time.
A. gave B. had given
C. could give D. could have given
14、Their ship was blown off course by strong wind, and they arrived in ________is known as Greenland by chance.
A.where B.when C.what D.which
15、Just hang the towel _______ the back of the chair so that it will dry soon.
A. over B. behind
C. with D. from
16、 First-class players of football must have excellent ball control, but it is not just _____ they do with their feet _____ counts.
A. how; that B. that; what
C. what; that D. whether; what
17、--- Has your wife come back from Africa?
---Yes, but she _____here for only one month before she went on another expedition to Cuba
A. has been B. was C. will be D. would be
18、—I’m sorry. I think I am not fit for the job. I don’t handle pressure too well.
—Oh, I can’t believe it. You know, that’s not the impression I have of you at all. That’s_________ I’d describe myself.
A. what B. why C. which D. how
19、The British romantic poet William Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District,which was a great ________ of inspiration for his poems.
A．discovery
B．form
C．source
D．symbol
20、The terrible situation required that the manager ________ present.
A.be B.was C.would be D.shall be
21、For your next out-of-this-world vacation, you now have the option of literally going out of this world—but it’ll cost you $ 40 million. Then again, can you really put a price tag on having the time of your life? According to a new report from Popular Mechanics, Russia is looking to build a luxury hotel in outer space. There you will wake up to a breathtaking blue planet—the earth! The hotel is expected to be stationed on the International Space Station (ISS).
While space tourism itself isn’t exactly a novel idea, the notion of building a hotel out there hasn’t been raised before. Really, other companies are still focused on the transportation part of the puzzle — after all, a trip to space is enough for most folks.
According to Popular Mechanics, the hotel will include a luxury orbital suite with big windows, personal hygiene (卫生) facilities, exercise equipment, and yes, WiFi. Because if you can’t share your experience on social media, did it really even happen?
Of course, the reasons behind the hotel aren’t just for fun and games. Apparently, space tourism might be able to help the Russians pay for another module to add to the international Space Station. Russian space contractor RKK Energia is currently building the first such module, which will give scientists a laboratory and power supply station from which to conduct tests.
If any of this is going to happen, however, Russia is going to have to hurry. With the ISS expected to be out of use in 2028, there’s little time to build the hotel and find wealthy tourists to actually buy a trip into outer space.
So if you’ve recently come into a fortune and are interested in investing in what could be the time of your life, ISS is calling your name.
【1】What do we know about the hotel from the first paragraph?
A. It is quite affordable.
B. It will be built in Russia.
C. It will offer an amazing view.
D. It costs $ 40 million to build.
【2】What does the underlined phrase “the puzzle” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. An orbital suite. B. Space tourism.
C. Space exploration. D. A creative idea.
【3】What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?
A. Hotel guests won’t be able to see into space.
B. Visitors are required to take exercise each day.
C. Space travel is not possible without the Internet.
D. Tourists tend to share traveling experiences online.
【4】The hotel will be built to provide Russian scientists with
A. fun and games B. financial support
C. space contractors D. more time in space
22、David Rees runs a very distinctive business. He charges customers $15 to sharpen their pencils to perfection, using a variety of tools.
I know what you’re thinking—is this a joke? The 39-year-old gets asked that question a lot. To clarify everything, he even created a special section on his website telling everyone he’s actually providing a real service.
You can supply your own pencil or you can have Rees sharpen one of his own favorite 2B pencils. After that, he mails it to you in a display tube with the shavings in a separate bag, and an authentic certificate which just happens to mention the pencil is so sharp as to be a dangerous object.
To achieve the desired result, the master sharpener uses all kinds of tools, including general sandpaper, pocket knives and even a special $ 450 sharpening machine. “It depends on what the customer wants to use his/her pencil for,” he says. That determines the most appropriate pencil-sharpening technique. Some customers buy pencils as inspirational symbols while others buy them because of their special memories of classic 2B pencils.
$15 to have a pencil sharpened is a bit expensive though, right? You’re not the only one who feels that way, and David’s unique business has really angered lots of people, who talk of inequality in America, saying it is so insane for the wealthy to pay $15 to sharpen a pencil. But others will say, “This is just our urge to put an end to the welfare state because new ideas arise along with the business.”
David admits his trade is sort of unusual. But there are those who actually value his service, as is proven by the over 500 orders he has gotten.
【1】How could David make money by sharpening pencils?
A．He invented new tools for the job.
B．He provided quality service for his customers.
C．He promoted his skill on his website.
D．He saved lots of time for other people.
【2】What can we infer from the words of David Rees in paragraph 4?
A．He provides personalized services.
B．He knows all kinds of pencil users.
C．He values ideas behind the pencils.
D．He always writes in pencil.
【3】What does the underlined word “insane” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A．Deliberate.
B．Rewarding.
C．Unreasonable.
D．Irresponsible.
【4】What seems to be the author’s attitude to David Rees’ trade?
A．It’s a waste of time and money.
B．It needs further improvement.
C．It’s awfully expensive.
D．It’s a fancy service.
23、 You can’t walk into the office without Rihanna’s voice singing “work work work work work work” in your head. And that one line from Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” still makes you want to scream. These are commonly known as earworm songs—those sticky tunes that continue to play in your head. A recent study finds that more than 90% of adults report hearing earworm songs on a weekly basis.
Fortunately, most people report earworm songs as pleasant. But others find them annoying or even maddening. “Some people are troubled by them to the point that it disturbs life,” says Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, a professor at the University of Arkansas who has studied earworm songs.
Margulis says earworm songs tend to have some predictable characteristics. For one thing, they tend to small parts of a song—not the whole track. And “the songs you’ve heard recently also have the most possibility to get stuck in your memory,” she says.
But sometimes something strange and unpredictable can also start a track paying in your head. “Once I was at the doctor’s office and saw a poster of a man who I thought looked like Gaston—a character from Beauty and the Beast,” Margulis recalls. A couple minutes passed, and she realized she couldn’t get “Be Our Guest”, the song in the movie, out of her head, even though she hadn’t thought of the tune in years. In that instance, she was able to identify her earworm’s trigger: the Gaston-looking man in the poster. “But the connections can be really unclear,” she says.
Margulis points out that, in all of human history, recorded music is a very new phenomenon. She says some have inferred that earworm songs are also new—the unintended consequence of being able to hear the same song played everywhere in the same way over and over again. So far, the convincing explanation for why human beings experience earworm songs remains a mystery. But there are some well-established ways to cast off the earworm songs.
“Finding a mentally demanding task and putting your mind on it usually shifts attention away from internal music. People tend to get earworms when performing tasks that don’t require their full attention—stuff like doing the dishes,” Margulis says.
Chewing gum can also help. When a song is stuck in our heads, it’s almost like we’re singing along with it. If you make your mouth do something else—chewing gum, eating a meal or talking with a friend—that can kick out the earworm.
You could also face your enemy. By listening to the full track that includes the passage stuck in your head, you may find “closure” and relief.
【1】Which of the following is most likely to be an earworm song?
A.A song made up of simple words.
B.A song heard frequently these days.
C.A song sung by a most famous singer.
D.A song learned during one’s childhood.
【2】What does the underlined word “trigger” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.Type. B.Tune.
C.Cause. D.Characteristic.
【3】We can infer that earworm songs may ________.
A.result from modern technology B.be experienced over meals
C.help regain lost memories D.hurt one’s hearing
【4】What is mainly talked about in the last three paragraphs?
A.Why we hear earworm songs. B.Where to find earworm songs.
C.When we hear earworm songs. D.How to get over earworm songs.
24、 For famous photojournalist Sir Don McCullin, the landscape has changed since the days when dozens of printed pages were devoted to his photo stories, leading him to declare, “Photojournalism is dying.” According to Sir Don McCullin, newspapers and magazines are much more interested in the wealthy, the glamorous and celebrities. They don’t want suffering people in their newspapers. Photojournalism hasn’t lost its way but it’s been conveniently pushed aside. Shrinking editorial budgets, increasing competition and mistrust of the Press are just some of the factors impacting photojournalism. But the power of photography endures and technology is allowing photographers more creative freedom than ever before. The world is hungry for visual storytelling, but will photojournalism survive?
We spoke to photojournalists working in this industry about the state of affairs today, and asked their opinions about photojournalism in the digital age.
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
“Assignments have changed, so people don’t need to go somewhere for months to work on one project. When Don McCullin’s pictures were making it into the newspaper, his images would be the news. Now if I take a picture at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, for instance, there are 300 other photographers there. There are so many images that you are never going to really shoot an iconic image. You’re not the only one there — there are your colleagues and there are people with cellphones. I don’t think a single image will ever lose its power. Single images, to me, are so strong — I can look at a single image and never forget it. But there are new ways of storytelling — with cellphones, with interactive online experiences and virtual reality. Therefore, it’s important to see what matches the story.”
Jérôme Sessini
“I think now we are freer than before because of technology. Besides, we don’t care about the newspapers like people did before. We get free from the newspapers, so we are able to tell stories in the way we want to tell them. In my opinion, pictures can express emotions — I believe more in emotions than in rationality. I don’t want to tell people, ‘this is like this’, or ‘like that’. I want them to first feel something from the pictures, and then ask some questions. They will have to find the answers by themselves.”
Magnus Wennman
“When I started, press photography was a pretty old-school profession, but today it’s completely different. It’s not about the technique any more. It’s about telling stories, and you have endless opportunities to tell stories by means of pictures. If you are engaging in storytelling, I would say your future is very bright. Photojournalism is more democratic. As a matter of fact, nowadays we can see people shooting with their cellphones anywhere. Photojournalism is no longer the privilege of those working at newspapers. The new generation of photojournalists should work in a completely different way. As you see everywhere, visual storytelling is getting more and more important. If you’re good at that, you’re going to survive.”
Daniel Etter
“A lot of people have been declaring that photojournalism is dead and, somehow, it’s still around. It’s still alive, and it’s still kicking — maybe not quite as hard as in Don McCullin’s days, but it’s still important. It doesn’t have the impact it once had, and it will never have that impact again. I always believe photography plays a role, but if there are better ways of telling visual stories, I’m fine with that. The biggest problem we are running into now is how to make others believe us. Look at how really basic facts are in question nowadays. To make our work a reliable source of information is our biggest challenge. I haven’t figured out a way to make news more trustworthy — the only thing we can do is do good work. That means doing research and trying to represent events in a fair way.”
【1】What does Ilvy want to say with the example of Nelson Mandela’s funeral?
A.Great news like this is always attractive.
B.Taking a satisfying picture is really difficult.
C.Too many people take up photojournalism.
D.Popularity of cellphones threatens photojournalism.
【2】What idea do Sessini and Wennman share?
A.Good pictures are worth all the hard work.
B.It’s better to let the picture itself tell stories.
C.Technology is photographers’ greatest enemy.
D.Photojournalism will be the first to be kicked out.
【3】What does the underlined sentence mean?
A.Photojournalism enjoys great popularity nowadays.
B.Photojournalism is really a promising career in the future.
C.Everyone can report news stories using photos taken by themselves.
D.Photojournalism has lost its appeal for those working at newspapers.
【4】What does Etter say about photojournalism?
A.It is not as influential as in Don McCullin’s days.
B.It almost died in Don McCullin’s days.
C.It may have an even better future.
D.It actually exists in name only.
【5】What can we learn about Etter?
A.His talent was once questioned.
B.He is optimistic about his future career.
C.He will resign from his job sooner or later.
D.He is seeking suitable ways to tell visual stories.
25、Every Friday and Saturday night I deliver food for a local food delivery company. I need this _________ job to pay off the debt that resulted from an accident a few years ago.
Last night I got a(n) _________ in which the restaurant and the customer's house were pretty far away from each other. This was actually a _________ thing. The customer got charged a higher delivery fee, which would be paid to me.
I _______ the customer's food and drove to his house. Though I used Google Maps, I still had problems_________ his house. I called the customer and he told me that the address on the order was _________. When I knew this, I became very _________. By this time I had already _______ half an hour on this order. What's more, I had_________ another order which got reassigned (再分配) to another person during the time.
Another 30 minutes later I got to the customer's door. I __________ him to be in a bad mood because his delivery had taken so long. __________, I was greeted by a very pleasant customer. He__________ to me that his wife's eyesight was not that great so she had put in the wrong address in the order __________, so the whole thing was their ________
Knowing the________, I didn't complain to the customer. I__________ my anger towards the couple. But he said he felt so __________ for me and decided to give me an additional ＄30 cash for my __________. I knew I needed money, but I also knew forgiving was a virtue. So I ________
Later the company I worked part-time in __________ me for what I had done and I was given an extra amount of money as a reward. You can't imagine how happy I was!
【1】
A．extra
B．tough
C．full
D．comfortable
【2】
A．request
B．reply
C．order
D．position
【3】
A．common
B．difficult
C．dull
D．good
【4】
A．picked up
B．cut up
C．paid for
D．waited for
【5】
A．fixing
B．finding
C．designing
D．judging
【6】
A．clear
B．strange
C．wrong
D．secret
【7】
A．worried
B．relieved
C．nervous
D．angry
【8】
A．got
B．saved
C．enjoyed
D．wasted
【9】
A．lost
B．finished
C．signed
D．forgotten
【10】
A．needed
B．wanted
C．expected
D．considered
【11】
A．Anyhow
B．Besides
C．Therefore
D．However
【12】
A．admitted
B．explained
C．complained
D．suggested
【13】
A．in return
B．with pleasure
C．by accident
D．on purpose
【14】
A．excuse
B．fault
C．choice
D．request
【15】
A．truth
B．goal
C．decision
D．opinion
【16】
A．understood
B．regretted
C．expressed
D．canceled
【17】
A．anxious
B．ashamed
C．sorry
D．afraid
【18】
A．trouble
B．delay
C．progress
D．patience
【19】
A．changed
B．refused
C．accepted
D．agreed
【20】
A．pardoned
B．fired
C．charged
D．praised
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。
Last April, Taylor got an unusual package in the mail. The postman carried the box to the door and handed it to Taylor directly. The box was peeping!
“What have you got there?” asked the postman.
“These are my chicks,” said Taylor.
The box was full of six small, fluffy chicks. They were each just one day old. When Taylor opened the box, the peeping got louder. Carefully, Taylor held one yellow chick in his hand. The chick was quiet and then closed its eyes to sleep. Taylor placed it gently under the heat light so it would stay warm. Taylor did this for each chick, and soon they were all sleeping together in their special box.
Taylor kept the chicks in his bedroom with the heat lamp running all day and all night. He would watch the chicks for hours when his homework was finished. Soon the chicks learned to peck at each other and to jump up and down. They also began to grow feathers, first on their wings and then on their tails. When all of their fluff was gone and their feathers in place, it was time to move the chicks to the hen house outside.
The hen house had three doors. There was a small door at the top of a slide that was just for the chickens. There was a big door in the back that was for people. Taylor used this door when he cleaned the hen house or filled the chickens’ food and water dishes. There was also a small door on the side of the hen house that led to the nesting boxes. These were small boxes that the chickens could sit in to lay their eggs. The special door would make it easy for Taylor to pick up the eggs without disturbing the hens.
Taylor checked the nesting boxes every day. Many times he saw the chickens sitting in the boxes, but there were no eggs. It would be many months before the chickens were old enough to lay eggs. Taylor was getting impatient. But his mother always taught him the importance of being patient, so he decided to wait.
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One day when he opened the door to the nesting boxes, Taylor saw one of the hens inside.
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But holding it for a while, Taylor found that it wasn’t a green ball!
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