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1、I want to learn about your holidays. Could you tell me how you usually_______ Thanksgiving Day in your country ?
A. Congratulate B. remind
C. remember D. observe
2、I _____ thank you too much for all your help to my son while we were away from home.
A．won’t
B．can’t
C．can
D．will
3、Imagine ________ you are lying on a beach and listening to the sound of the waves.
A．whether
B．which
C．that
D．what
4、There are nearly 7000 local languages in the world, but only 7% ______ reflected in published online material.
A．were
B．was
C．is
D．are
5、There has been a recent ________ in the food service industry towards lower fat content and less salt.
A. track B. trick C. trend D. trial
6、— Can I lie about seeing a text message because I was too busy or lazy to respond to it ?
—Receiving a text message does not necessarily mean you have to respond． Why waste a perfectly good lie the truth will serve?
A． unless B． until C． when D． while
7、——You didn’t watch the film last night, _________?
——_________, but I missed the beginning.
A．did I; Yes, I did
B．did you; No, I didn’t
C．did you; Yes, I did
D．did I; No, I didn’t
8、In the past few years, he has collected a lot of ancient coins, __________date back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
A.most of them B.most of that
C.most of which D.most of whom
9、—Will you attend the meeting this afternoon？
—But I ________ told anything about it．
A. haven't been B. am not
C. wasn't D. won’t be
10、Much time _____ siting at a desk, office clerks are generally troubled by various health problems.
A. being spent B. having spent
C. spending D. spent
11、If you ever aren’t sure whether you have bought the very best smartphone, just _________ “good enough.”
A. make for B. settle for
C. answer for D. account for
12、—Thank goodness! You came here at last.
—You can hardly imagine what great trouble I have taken _______ your house.
A. to find B. finding C. found D. having found
13、The way Tom operated the machine was different________ we were used to.
A．in which
B．in what
C．from what
D．from which
14、Intelligence doesn’t __________ mean success. You need to work hard as well.
A.honestly B.necessarily C.formally D.simply
15、The government has taken measures to______the high prices of daily goods to keep the market stable．
A．put down B．tear down
C．hand down D．bring down
16、 To keep up with their work, the vast majority of office clerks today must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, to say _______ of newspapers and magazines.
A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. something
17、 The drama, “The Empress of China" that was pulled off the air for technical reasons now back on TV．
A． is B． are C． has D． have
18、----I think a good teacher should ________ to his students the importance of a proper learning method.
----I couldn’t agree more.
A. get across B. get over C. get through D. get down
19、The school board has teachers to spare no effort to help the students who have fallen behind in studies.
A. looked into B. turned into
C. called for D. cared for
20、You must have seen him off yesterday, _________?
A. haven't you B. didn't you
C. mustn't you D. needn't you
21、Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge(报复)of the Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. They are not good at social communication and look clumsy while doing sports.
How, then, do we account for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres?
Roman is on the tennis team at Fairmont Senior High School. She also sings in the choral group, serves on the student council and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has maintained A’s in every subject. Melendres, a freshman at the University of New Mexico, was student-body president at Valley High School in Albuquerque. He played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the science fair, and meanwhile worked as a reporter on a local television station. Being a speech giver at the graduation ceremony, he achieved straight A’s in his regular classes, plus bonus points for A’s in two college-level courses.
How do super-achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains aren’t the only answer. “Top grades don’t always go to the brightest students,” declares Herbert Walberg, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted major studies on super-achieving students. “Knowing how to make the most of your innate(天生的)abilities counts for more. Much more.”
In fact, Walberg says, students with high IQ sometimes don’t do as well as classmates with lower IQ. For them, learning comes too easily and they never find out how to get down.
Hard work isn’t the whole story, either. “It’s not how long you sit there with the books open,” said one of the many-A students we interviewed. “It’s what you do while you’re sitting.” Indeed, some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates.
The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn.
【1】What can we conclude from the first paragraph?
A. Most TV programs and films are about straight-A students.
B. People have unfavorable impression on straight-A students.
C. Everyone knows about straight-A students from TV or films.
D. Straight-A students are well admired by people in the society.
【2】Some students become super-achievers mainly because_________.
A. they are born cleverer than others
B. they work longer hours at study
C. they make full use of their abilities
D. they know the shortcut to success
【3】What will be talked about after the last paragraph?
A. The interviews with more students.
B. The role IQ plays in learning well.
C. The techniques to be better learners.
D. The achievements top students make.
22、From the moment we wake up each day, we’re faced with a continuous stream of choices. 【1】 This is decision fatigue (疲惫).
When decision fatigue kicks in, you may feel like you just don’t have the mental capability to deal with more decisions. 【2】 And this can further cause you to avoid making certain choices entirely, to go with the wrong option or to make ones that aren’t in line with your goals or values, experts say.
Here’s how to minimize or manage this phenomenon:
【3】 When you go grocery shopping, use a master list that has the same staples (主要食物), and buy the same brands each time. 【4】 And if you’re trying to exercise regularly, devote a fixed time for it every day.
【5】 If you’ve had a demanding day that was filled with lots of decisions, put off making another one, if you can. If things that wouldn’t normally disturb you start bothering you, consider that a sign that you may not be in the best state of mind to make a major decision.
“People may not realize that they’re experiencing decision fatigue,” Baumeister, a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, says. “It’s something to watch out for.”
A．Make some choices automatic.
B．Start from what is important to you.
C．Why is it so hard to make up your mind?
D．Be aware of signs of decision fatigue and act accordingly.
E．This can lead to decisional inability or worn-down self-control.
F．If you like having oatmeal for breakfast, stick with it on a daily basis.
G．When there are too many options, we tend to feel anxious, stressed or otherwise out of sorts.
23、B
We answer some questions this week in our series on getting into an American college or university.
The first question is about our recent discussion of English language test. Vo Ngoc from Vietnam would like to know about the TOEIC, which is designed to measure skills of English as spoken in the workplace.
The Educational Testing Service administers the TOEIC. It says the test measures the language skills of people working in an international environment. American colleges and universities accept scores from the TOFEL and often the IELTS. If you miss our report on these tests, you can find it at our website www. unsv. com..
Tahir Mahood from Pakistan asks how to improve his English before taking these kinds of tests. Well, you can start by looking for ways to use English as much as you can Watch American movies and TV shows and read books in English Look for English speakers to talk to.
The Internet has many free materials for Engiish learners. Visitors to www. unsv. com. for example, can read, listen and watch programmes on many different subjects. The U.S. Department of Education recent launched a free website designed to help immigrants learn English.
The site is called USA Learns at www. usalearns, org, like www. chinadaily. cn, intended for English learners in China
Next,a question from Turkey:Hasan Eker asks about getting a postdoctoral position in the U. S. This is work generally done by a person who recently earned a PhD. The National Post-doctoral Association in Washington has information about international postdocs on its website www. Nationalpostal.org.
And, finally, we have questions from Iran, Afghanistan and Indonesia about how to pay an education through jobs. There’re rules that restrict the kinds of jobs that foreign students
can have while studying in the U. S.
【1】What-s the purpose of the passage?
A. To attract more people to the website.
B. To introduce the TOEIC to readers.
C. To ask questions on entering American universities.
D. To help deal with some puzzles on entering American colleges.
【2】According to the passage, TOEIC is .
A. a must for those who go to American universities
B. designed for whoever apply for a job with companies
C.to test a student’s language skills in the workplace
D. a test for students to graduate from universities
【3】A person wb.o wants to learn. English can go to the following EXCEPT.
A. www. unsv. Com
B. www. national postdoc. org
C. www. usalearns. Org
D.www chinadaily. cn,
【4】What can we know from the passage?
A. Foreign students are not allowed to do whatever jobs they like in the U. S.
B. Every graduate from colleges can get a postdoctoral position if they want to.
C. The IELTS is also necessary for job application like the TOEIC.
D. Students from Iran aren’t allowed to have jobs in the U. S.
24、 One picture in the Wonder Book of knowledge I had as a little boy showed a man reading a book while floating in the Dead Sea. What a miracle! How would it feel to lie back in water so thick with salt that it was impossible to sink?
Fed by the Jordan River and smaller streams, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on the earth’s surface, and its water is ten times saltier than the Mediterranean. With evaporation its only outlet, salt and other minerals become super-concentrated.
Earlier this year, I drove down the long, steep hill to realize my dream. The shoreline was a broad area of bare salt-mud, but the water edge was far out of sight. Had somebody pulled the Dead Sea’s plug? I wondered. Eli Dior, an Israeli official, explained the problem: “The Dead Sea is drying up. Every year, the surface drops about one meter, and as the water level falls, shadow areas are left high and dry.”
Over the last half-century, the five neighboring countries have collectively diverted nearly all the water flowing into the Dead Sea to meet human and agriculture needs. Result: the Dead Sea is being emptied.
With population in the region set to double at least in the next 50 years, there is little hope of restoring the water being diverted for human consumption. No country has a drop to spare for the Dead Sea, where they know it will just evaporate. To dream of opening the dams and restoring natural balance is plainly unrealistic.
Yet one ambitious high-tech dream may turn out to be not only the salvation of the Dead Sea but also a ticket to peace around its shores. The “Red-Dead” is a proposed $5 billion project to bring sea water some 240 kilometers by pipeline and canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The Red-Dead may be the only solution, but even if the project is carried out successfully, the Dead Sea will be 10 to 20 meters lower than now and two thirds of its current size.
Whatever the future holds, the Dead Sea’s magical mix of sun, mud, sea and salt will surely survive. Many might complain that the Dead Sea is half empty—but for me the Dead sea will always be half full.
【1】What’s the passage mainly about?
A.Dead Sea – miracle of the world.
B.Save the environment of the Dead Sea.
C.Slow shrinking of the Dead Sea.
D.Why is the Dead Sea so salty.
【2】The shrinking of the Dead Sea is mainly caused by ________ according to the passage.
A.a severe reduction of the water flowing into the sea
B.rapid evaporation of the water in the Dead Sea area
C.the increasing quantity of water drawn from the sea
D.very low annual rainfall in the Dead Sea Area
【3】Which of the following is right according to the passage?
A.With no outlet to any ocean, the Dead Sea has become by evaporation most dense waters on earth.
B.Though burdened with the growing population, the neighboring countries haven’t cut off the sources of the Dead Sea.
C.All the countries in the area will consider diverting less water from the Jordan River.
D.The Red-Dead Project has not only brought water to the Dead Sea, but peace to the area as well.
【4】Which of the following statements will the author approve of?
A.If the Dead Sea dried up, great natural disasters would happen in the region.
B.The Dead Sea will not survive no matter what people do to save it.
C.The five neighboring countries should stop diverting water from the Jordan River.
D.Though the Dead Sea is shrinking gradually, it will not die.
25、 A mother and a daughter living in my community are two of the most unfriendly people I have ever come across in my life. They are totally_______, mixing with nobody. As they drive past neighbors they keep their eyes looking away and make no sign of______. The only fame they have is making a nuisance of themselves to the local police station by______music played too loud, dogs barking more than once a day and any other petty little_____.
On moving into this neighborhood, I was ______ of these two but decided I would make up my own mind. This proved quite a _____to me as more than once either the mother or the daughter would knock on my door and blast me with some _____or other. I ______ answered politely and made sure I ______ as they went past my place and also made the effort now and then to make a kind _______ about their garden or pets.
Time passed and in October, as part of the Kindness Rock Give, Maureen and I decided to place a kindness rock in their garden. Their ______ remained unchanged, however, and I continued to be as friendly as possible. During the Easter Give, we decided once again to ______ these two unhappy ladies to our list and______ a packet of cookies on their gate. Imagine my ______when two days later they ______ at my gate and jokingly said they were ______ hanging their Christmas stocking on their gate, and they brought me a bunch of flowers!
So, my fellow gifters, do not _______ on your random gifts of kindness. You may never know just what this ________to others, nor how many broken or ________ hearted people you may just change________ a simple act of kindness.
【1】A.equipped B.separated C.depressed D.protected
【2】A.excitement B.intelligence C.acquaintance D.entertainment
【3】A.rejecting B.discussing C.requesting D.reporting
【4】A.affairs B.events C.accidents D.elements
【5】A.convinced B.required C.warned D.accused
【6】A.matter B.challenge C.project D.task
【7】A.complaints B.quarrels C.opinions D.explanations
【8】A.sometimes B.seldom C.never D.always
【9】A.cried B.waved C.stared D.noticed
【10】A.remark B.difference C.account D.gesture
【11】A.anger B.smile C.attitude D.decision
【12】A.drove B.add C.recommend D.reduce
【13】A.fixed B.threw C.took D.left
【14】A.doubt B.interest C.anxiety D.surprise
【15】A.wandered B.whispered C.stopped D.shouted
【16】A.approaching B.considering C.advising D.imagining
【17】A.give up B.take in C.take up D.give in
【18】A.contributes B.refers C.means D.relates
【19】A.warm B.kind C.light D.hard
【20】A.with B.on C.in D.over
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。
One day last June, I picked my son up from afterschool care to take him to the second of his twice-weekly boxing classes. He was tired and hungry and didn’t feel like going. “Can you drive me to the dam (大坝), Mom? I want to find something fun there,” he begged. The Colliery Dam is a pleasant attraction in our town. Beautiful big trees with birds calling, a freshwater reservoir (水库) filled with fish, and acres of paths to wander. But I insisted I had decided that it was important that he finish what he started, and that it was equally important to teach him that sometimes we have to do things even when we don’t feel like it.
Effectively, I was ignoring an eight-year-old’s request for some rest. He went to school five days a week, as well as before and afterschool care; he had a tutor once a week, two boxing classes and gymnastics on the weekend.However, I felt it justified in that he’s a very active boy and needs ways to get out all his energy.
But on this particular day, he was not going to let me ignore his feelings, however hard I tried. He even declared that he would never go to the boring boxing classes and instead take the painting courses he had been longing for. As usual, I rejected, claiming that’s an activity for girls. As we got in the hot car for a 15-minute drive to boxing, he returned to a three-year-old--he screamed and cried and kicked my seat.
We pulled into the parking lot, both of us worn out, annoyed and angry. My son took off his seat belt and curled (蜷缩) into a ball on the floor. What was I doing? Why was I so determined that he go to boxing? Was I worried that his absence would reflect badly on me as a parent somehow? Wouldn’t it actually teach him that I heard he was tired and hungry and needed a break and that it was just as well that boys took painting classes? “Put on your seat belt,” I said. “We’re going to the dam.”
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When we arrived at the dam, I noticed the tension disappear from both of our bodies.
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My son has now quit boxing and is taking painting once a week.
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