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1、 Life is always full of hardships. _______ a better life, we need positive energy.
A. Live B. To live
C. Living D. Lived
2、With the new family planning policy _______, many young parents are considering having their second child.
A. introduce B. introducing
C. to introduce D. introduced
3、It rained heavily in the south, _________ serious flooding in several provinces.
A．caused
B．causing
C．having caused
D．to cause
4、The style of the campus is quite different from ______ of most Chinese universities where visitors were amazed by the complex architectural space and abundant building types.
A. that B. one C. the one D. those
5、—Shall we go camping to celebrate our graduation of senior high?
— ______ . Let’s make a plan first.
A．No way
B．Good idea
C．It’s nothing
D．I don’t think
6、The accident have been caused by a dog running across the road, but we don’t know for sure.
A．might
B．should
C．will
D．must
7、Running a business, no matter where it is started, _______ plentiful market research, consistent integrity and a great deal of discipline.
A. clarifies B. involves C. undertakes D. digests
8、Swimming is good for teenagers, ________ some experts say will help them to stimulate their potential and promote their brain development.
A．which
B．why
C．Whom
D．what
9、_____by the English teacher for the high grade, I felt my effort finally paid off.
A. Praise B. Praised C. To praise D. Praising
10、With the advance of technology, the way we make friends and communicate with them has changed________.
A．successfully
B．significantly
C．seriously
D．smoothly
11、--- _____you interrupt now? Can't you see I'm on the phone?
--- Sorry Sir, but it's urgent.
A. Must B. Should
C. Can D. Would
12、If the weather had been better, we ______ a picnic yesterday.
A. must have had B. would have
C. could have had D. will have
13、Although _____ by the opposite team, the players were not discouraged but practiced harder.
A. beating B. beaten
C. having beaten D. being beaten
14、--- How messy it is! Kevin, can I come in?
--- Oh, I'm so sorry. The house____.
A. is being cleaned B. has been cleaned
C. is cleaning D. was cleaned
15、To ensure the safety of the passengers and improve the traffic conditions，a new law has ______ since April l.
A.come into effect B.put to use
C.bring to light D.come to power
16、When I lived in Italy, I ________ often eat in the restaurant next to my flat.
A．could
B．would
C．may
D．must
17、In modern society, punctuality is a necessary __________.
A.variation B.virtue C.version D.vision
18、 ______ from endless homework on weekends, the students now find their own activities, such as taking a ride together to watch the sunrise.
A．Freed
B．Freeing
C．To free
D．having freed
19、What an unforgettable experience! I’ll write it down _______ it is still fresh in my memory.
A.since B.after C.while D.until
20、—Have you finished that long article written by the famous scientist?
—No, I used up my ______. It’s too long and I only stopped halfway.
A.determination B.devotion C.patience D.strength
21、 If you think of the jobs that robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers atop of the list, it's easy to imagine robots and factory workers. But are we underestimating what robots can do？
In some cases, they already do better than doctors at diagnosing illness. Also, some patients might feel more comfortable sharing personal information with a machine than a person. Could there be a place for robots in education after all？
British education expert Anthony Seldom thinks so. He even has a date for the robot takeover of the classroom: 2027. He forecasts that robots will do the main job of disseminating knowledge and teachers will be like helpers. Intelligent robots will read students' faces, movements and even brain signals. Then they will pass the information on to each student in the way he or she can understand.
However, it's not a popular opinion. Most people think it's impossible that robots will have the ability to really connect with humans like another human can.
One thing is certain, though. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren't enough teachers and 9%—16% of children under the age of 14 don't go to school. That problem could be partly solved by robots because they can teach anywhere.
Being a teacher is a difficult job and teachers often feel overworked. Perhaps the question is not “Will robots replace teachers?” but “How can't robots help teachers?” Teachers spend a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 1 hour a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best.
【1】What does the first paragraph mainly talk about？
A．Robots can do creative work.
B．Robots work better than humans.
C．Robots will replace doctors soon.
D．Robots can do more jobs than imagined.
【2】What does the underlined word “disseminating” in paragraph 3 mean？
A．Storing.
B．Spreading.
C．Analyzing.
D．Replacing.
【3】Which word best describes the public's attitude to Anthony Setdom's forecast？
A．Reasonable.
B．Uncreative.
C．Unrealistic.
D．Unacceptable.
【4】What's the main idea of the text？
A．Whether robots will completely replace human teachers.
B．Whether robots will evolve by themselves.
C．What robots are never able to do.
D．What the weakness of robots are.
22、3D TV, Without the Glasses
If you’re thinking about buying a 3D TV, you might want to wait a while. Researchers have developed new 3D technology that doesn’t need any special glasses to work its magic. The new technology could advance the development of 3D on mobile devices, too.
Bioethics Panel Gives Yellow Light to Anthrax Vaccine Trial in Children
A U.S. bioethics committee has said that the country may consider testing the anthrax vaccine in children. The panel advises that the vaccine be tested in progressively younger age groups and includes the caveat(警告) that testing should only take place if risks are “minimal.”
Evolution via Roadkill
We usually think of evolution happening over thousands or millions of years, but it can be surprisingly speedy-literally. In just 3 decades, highway-dwelling swallows(燕子)have evolved shorter wingspans(翼展) to better dodge oncoming cars.
Patients Should Get DNA Information, Report Recommends
Would you want to know if you were at risk for cancer? What about a fatal heart condition? A group of genetics experts, along with the influential American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, have recommended that anyone whose genome is sequenced for any medical reason must be told about their genetic susceptibility to serious health problems, regardless of whether they want to know.
Congress Completes Work on 2013 Spending Bill
This week, the U.S. Congress passed a bill to fund the government until the end of the fiscal(财政的) year, and research agencies now know how much to spend in 2013. The so-called continuing resolution retains the sequester and its $85 billion cut in discretionary spending. The bill throws NASA’s planetary programs a lifeline and gives the National Science Foundation a bit of a boost, but the National Institutes of Health’s funding stays flat at 2012 levels-bad news for biomedical research.
Making Moonshine Safe to Drink
Home-brew drinkers in developing countries often risk blindness or even death from methanol poisoning when they drink. Now, scientists have made a reusable wireless chip that can analyze a drink’s methanol content and warn users of any danger. In 2 years, they hope to develop a product that can send results directly to a cell phone.
【1】If you are concerned about your future health, you will probably be interested in .
A.3D TV, Without the Glasses
B.Patients Should Get DNA Information, Report Recommends
C.Congress Completes Work on 2013 Spending Bill
D.Making Moonshine Safe to Drink
【2】Which of the following can replace the underlined word dodge?
A.Fly. B.Avoid. C.Move. D.Leave.
【3】Most probably, you will read the above information in .
A.a product introduction B.a tour guide
C.a web page D.a newspaper
23、Read the following two blogs and answer the questions that follow.
Our buses drive me to distraction
I’ve had it up to here with buses! To be more precise, I am sick to death of the service offered by our local bus company and which dares to call itself Reliabus—a misnomer if ever there was one, since its exhaust-fume-coughing, atmosphere-choking buses are anything but reliable. Nine times out of ten they arrive late, and when they do eventually turn up, there’s no guarantee you’ll get on. I’ve lost count of the times I have watched as a full-to-bursting number 26—which I try to catch home from college—sails past the bus stop (another misnomer), leaving weary travellers like myself to wait for at least another 20 minutes until the next one comes along. Unless of course that’s full as well, in which case we have to wait even longer. Why don’t they lay on more buses!
It annoys me to think that they are turning people away from travelling by public transport, encouraging them to use their cars and causing traffic jams in our already heavily congested town centre. I wrote them an email and gave them a piece of my mind. If you’re as fed up as I am, why not do the same? They might just sit up and take notice.
Leave me alone!
If there’s one thing that gets on my nerves, it’s people who keep trying to sell me things I don’t want. It drives me mad when I’m in the middle of my dinner or watching a film and some smooth-talking idiot phones up and asks me if I’m interested in new kitchen units, a subscription to a book club or a superfast internet connection. No, I’m not, thank you very much, and if I was, I’d get in touch with you! I very nearly burnt the house down the other day answering one of their ridiculous calls. I forgot I’d left something frying in the kitchen—just got back to the blackened remains in time.
It’s even worse outside of the home—sometimes you can’t move for people handing out fliers in the street, advertising computer classes or urging you to buy this, that or the other. They push one into your face, and if you don’t take it, they give you a nasty look and you can hear them swearing and muttering under their breath about you as you walk away. Not nice at all.
【1】Both the two blogs are meant to .
A．address a problem
B．ask for sympathy
C．make a complaint
D．clarify a misunderstanding
【2】By “another misnomer” (paragraph 1), the blogger actually means .
A．the bus seldom stops there
B．20 minutes’ wait is too long
C．she is often too late to catch the bus
D．public transport is not a good choice
【3】What annoys the blogger according to the second blog?
A．The bad quality of kitchen appliances.
B．The endless phone calls to sell something.
C．The terrible experiences of cooking for the family.
D．The attitudes that her colleagues have towards her.
24、 It's a lesson that most of us learn years before were old enough to drive: Red means stop, green means go. Simple enough. But what happens when you live in a culture where green also means blue?
Drive around Japan long enough and you'll find “go” signals in different kinds of blue. “Is this signal broken?” you might ponder. “Did some careless workers install the wrong bulbs?” The answer, as Atlas Obscura points out, is not in the wiring, but in the Japanese language.
Hundreds of years ago, the Japanese language included words for only four basic colours: black, white, red, and blue. If you wanted to describe something green, you'd use the word for blue-ao. That system worked well until the word midori began showing up to describe green. Even then, midori was considered a shade of ao. This sudden switch-over had lasting effects in Japan.
Today you'll still see green things doubtfully labelled blue. A fruit seller might sell you an ao-ringo (blue apple) only to disappoint you that it's actually green. Likewise, green bamboos are called aodake (“blue bamboos”) and an inexperienced employee may be called aonisai, meaning a “blue two-year-old”. And that brings us to traffic lights.
Initially, Japan's traffic lights were green as green can be. Despite this, the country's official traffic documents still referred to them as ao. International traffic law commands all “go” signals must be represented by green lights, and Japanese linguists objected to their government's decision to continue using the word ao to describe what was clearly midori. The government decided to compromise. In 1973, the government passed through an order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible-still technically green, but noticeably blue enough to justifiably continue using ao nomenclature (命名法).
So, while it may appear that Japan uses blue traffic lights, the government assures us it's actually just a very blue shade of green-green enough to satisfy international regulations blue enough to still be called ao. Don't ever say the government never solved anything.
【1】What does the underlined word “ponder” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A．Remark.
B．Wonder.
C．Explore.
D．Hesitate.
【2】Why did people use ao to describe green things in Japan?
A．The public preferred blue to green.
B．Green must be used with caution in Japan.
C．The word ao developed later than the word midori.
D．There were limited words to describe colours in Japan's history.
【3】What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A．The colour of “go” lights is a mix of blue and green in Japan.
B．Japan's traffic lights still disobey the international traffic law.
C．Japanese linguists opposed changing the color of traffic lights.
D．Japan's traffic lights were first addressed as green in official papers.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A．Traditional colours in Japan
B．Interesting driving rules in japan
C．Why Japan has blue traffic lights
D．Why green can cheat people in Japan
25、 Nineteen-year-old Alexis Easter works at a fast food chain in Mechanicsville. The Virginia Burger King employee is going popular for her ________. She was photographed accompanying an elderly ________ to his car. The man, known to Easter as Mr. John, is a regular at the restaurant.
“When he is done, I see him out to the car because he has a ________ back. When we get to his car, we talk and I ________ he's safe,” the employee told WTVR.
Easter's simple ________ caught the attention of a passer-by, who ________ a photo of the young woman and her customer, which she ________ on social media. “We all should learn from the cashier at the Mechanicsville Burger King, who makes this world a little ________ ,” Elizabeth Chandler wrote on Facebook. Chandler said she was so ________ by what Easter was doing for the man. “Seeing her ________ this gentleman was so heart-warming. It's so ________ to see people going out of their way for others and expecting ________ in return. Since posting this I learned that Easter is ________ 19 and does this on a regular basis for any customer in need,” Chandler told Yahoo.
Easter always tries to do what she can to ________ the best service for customers. “________ go out of your way to aid others,” she told WTVR.
Chandler, who also frequently ________ this Burger King, said Easter isn't the only employee who goes above and ________ their job range. “That's the ________ of that Burger King. Another employee named Monica hands out plaques (纪念匾) to those ________ hard times, including my grandmother when she was receiving ________ for cancer,” she told WTVR.
A．opinion
B．kindness
C．honesty
D．arrangement
A．boss
B．patient
C．waiter
D．customer
A．strong
B．terrible
C．strange
D．broad
A．pray
B．expect
C．ensure
D．insist
A．act
B．word
C．task
D．choice
A．took
B．copied
C．picked
D．printed
A．sold
B．exchanged
C．shared
D．found
A．wider
B．brighter
C．cleaner
D．simpler
A．shocked
B．puzzled
C．confused
D．impressed
A．greet
B．protect
C．help
D．save
A．usual
B．natural
C．common
D．rare
A．everything
B．anything
C．nothing
D．something
A．exactly
B．only
C．then
D．already
A．perform
B．provide
C．buy
D．plan
A．Never
B．Always
C．Often
D．Almost
A．visited
B．advertised
C．reported
D．supported
A．beyond
B．over
C．below
D．inside
A．rule
B．duty
C．order
D．culture
A．turning over
B．looking for
C．relying on
D．going through
A．service
B．concern
C．treatment
D．appointment
26、假定你是武汉市某高中学校学生会主席李华，为有效配合新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情防控，湖北省教育厅宣布延期开学， 请你写一封英文延期开学通知发布在校园网上。要点如下:
1. 严禁学生假期到校。
2. 进行远程教育、在线心理辅导。
3. 如有调整，另行通知。
注意:
1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇:
心理的 psychological
疫情 epidemic
教育部 Ministry of Education
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