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1、________for the free ticket, I would not have gone to see films so often.
A．If it is not
B．Were it not
C．Had it not been
D．If it has not been
2、–Why？This is simply a common bike!
–_____ sir．It’s our special offer today．
A． Don’t mention it
B． Let me see
C． So it is
D． Neither do I
3、________ what I had previously thought, my new biology teacher turned out to be a rather interesting person.
A. In spite of B. As a result of
C. Contrary to D. In addition to
4、—Ken has gone to the Africa country to work as a volunteer.
— I would rather he _____there. The situation there is very tense.
A. didn’t go B. hadn’t gone
C. doesn’t go D. hasn’t go
5、Tom’s mother kept telling him that he should work harder, but ______didn’t help．
A．he
B．which
C．it
D．one
6、The Obama government has reformed on tax system.What people doubt is ______ it will do them any good．
A. that B. whether C. why D. What
7、—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
8、 We are planning to _______ a party for our grandparents to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of marriage.
A. put B. throw C. make D. get
9、Please call me before 10am next Monday. I classes after 10am.
A. would have B. have had
C. will have D. had
10、_______the virtual world of Real Cine， the headsets even have small openings _______ smells to match the environment.
A． Adding to； give out B． Added to； give off
C． To be added to； giving off D． To add to； giving out
11、I think you'd better give the books to _________ needs them in his studies.
A．those who
B．everyone who
C．whomever
D．whoever
12、—It is a mystery and a shock to all who knew him that he____ have taken his own life in this way.
—What a pity, indeed.
A. must B. may
C. can D. should
13、________ is less than ________.
A．One-third; two-thirds
B．One-third; two-third
C．First-three; first-threes
D．One-third; one-three
14、The Subway Line 16 ______ in Beijing is planned to open this year．（ ）
A．being built B．building
C．built D．to build
15、—The dinner was very good. I am so full.
—That’s too bad. But some dessert ________.
A. has been ordered B. will be ordered
C. was going to order D. has ordered
16、Actually, creative thinkers rarely come up with new ideas; instead, they ________ old ideas into new ones, adapting them from one context to another
A．condemn B．convert C．contrast D．Contradict
17、Darling, our son has grown up and is quite independent now, you ________ be too concerned about him.
A．mustn’t
B．needn’t
C．couldn’t
D．shouldn’t
18、The Scottish girl ________ blue eyes won the first prize in the Fifth Chinese Speech Contest.
A.by B.of C.in D.with
19、Delete the short message at once! Many a man ________by such tricks so far.
A．are cheated
B．is cheated
C．has been cheated
D．have been cheated
20、With appropriate measures controlling the outbreak of COVID-19, China's economy is again.
A.picking up B.putting up C.taking up D.looking up
21、Where do you find beauty? Fashion Magazines? Music Videos? One American photographer is finding beauty in unexpected places. And a new documentary about his work might help change the traditional standards of “who” is beautiful.
Rick Guidotti put aside his career as a fashion photographer to turn his lens to people living with genetic, physical and behavioral differences. He says what changed his perception of beauty was a chance encounter with an albino (白化病) girl.
“I was just tired of people telling me who was beautiful. Every season that face would change but I was always told who was beautiful. As an artist, I don’t see beauty just on covers of magazines. I see it everywhere. So it was my initial intention that opened my eyes a little wider and wider.” Said Guidotti.
Guidotti has created Positive Exposure, a not-for-profit organization that uses photography and video to transform public perceptions and promote a world where differences are celebrated. Guidotti and Positive Exposure are featured in a new documentary called On Beauty.
The cast and crew recently hosted a screening at Georgetown University in Washington. One of the women featured in the film is Jayne Waithera. “I never thought I was beautiful because nobody said that to me, but meeting him was my profound moment. I remember that particular day he took my picture and I felt so good like I felt there’s somebody who, really loves me and sees me for who I am and who sees me more than my condition.” said Waithera.
The documentary is the idea of producer Joanna Rudnick. After seeing Rick’s photos, she decided to tell his story. Joanna and Rick are traveling from city to city to promote On Beauty. “As I travel from community to community, I’m taking photographs and I’m encouraging individuals with a positive sense of who they are. They’re seeing beauty in their reflection but I’m also encouraging their families and they in turn are encouraging their communities as well. All is based on the philosophy of change how you see, see how you change.”
【1】For what reason did Rick change his career?
A．He was intended to make a new documentary.
B．He was completely tired of being a photographer.
C．An albino girl changed his comprehension of beauty.
D．The beauty on covers of magazines is always changeable.
【2】What can we know about Positive Exposure?
A．It promotes awareness of beauty.
B．It brings a healthy profit for Rick
C．It makes documentary more popular.
D．It welcomes differences in the world.
【3】What Jayne Waithera said conveys that________.
A．pictures of beauty were popular with people
B．what she experienced has shaped her life greatly
C．it was lucky for people to appreciate the real beauty
D．photographs gave people a positive sense of society
【4】What words can best describe Rick Guidotti?
A．Ambitious and committed.
B．Hardworking and cautious.
C．Talented and independent.
D．Determined and humorous.
22、If you’ve ever owned a chimney, you know that it can get pretty dirty. There’s a whole lot of soot(烟灰) that gets stuck on the inside. That stuff has to get cleaned, or you could have a serious fire risk. While nowadays we have easier ways of doing this dirty job, in the way back days somebody used to climb up the chimney and clean all that soot. And the thing is, not just anybody could do it.
You had to be really small to fit up in the chimney, so they used to give the task to kids – some as young as four or five years old. They worked for their boss known as a master-sweep. They were often covered in soot, and were very likely to get burned. They often developed what became known as soot wart, a form of cancer.
Are your unfairness bells ringing? William Blake’s certainly were. The physical dangers and widespread unfairness of the chimney-sweeping job really stuck in his throat, so much so that he wrote not one, but two poems called “The Chimney Sweeper”.
The first poem (the one we’re discussing here)was published in 1789 in a book called Songs of Innocence. These little poems took children and the joys of childhood innocence as their subject. As you’ve probably guessed by now, many of the poems in Songs of Innocence, like “The Chimney Sweeper”, are about the ways in which childhood innocence is destroyed by unkind old adults. For Blake, innocence is, in many ways, a total joke. It doesn’t exist, because it’s always taken away by the realistic world – chimney-sweeping, death, poverty, etc.
What does a five-year-old chimney sweeper in 18th-century England have to do with you? More than you might think. It is reported that 150 million kids are in child labor in developing countries. Many of them work long hours and face dangerous health risks. Like Blake’s chimney sweeper, these kids are not even given a chance at innocence because experience keeps getting in the way.
【1】Which of the following can best describe the chimney-sweeping job?
A. Easy and interesting. B. Dirty and dangerous.
C. Pleasant and well-paid D. Challenging and creative.
【2】Why did Blake write two poems called “The Chimney Sweeper”?
A. He was very interested in the job.
B. He had much experience in the job.
C. He considered the job very important.
D. He felt deeply sorry for the kid workers.
【3】How did Blake look at the realistic world?
A. Thankfully B. Regretfully C. Doubtfully D. Negatively
【4】In the last paragraph, the writer explains ________.
A. the realistic meaning of “The Chimney Sweeper”
B. the great influence of Blake’s Songs of Innocence
C. why child labor still exists in developing countries
D. why chimney-sweeping becomes unnecessary today
23、 Mom was right! If you say "thank you" for even the smallest gift or slightest show of kindness, you'll feel as happy as Larry.
Gratitude, says Robert A. Emmons, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, is an important element of happiness. In his recent book, Thanks!Emmons uses the first major study on gratitude to prove mom's point. In acknowledging and developing this much-ignored expression of thankfulness, he explains how people have benefited-even improved their health.
Expressing gratitude shouldn't be a reaction； it should be a state of mind. To feel grateful when life is a breeze and you have more than you need is easy. To feel grateful in time of crisis-anger, hatred and bitterness-is easier. Also, too many people are aware of life's blessings only after these are lost.
It's crisis and chaos-danger, disease, disability and death-that bring many individuals to realize just how dependent they are on others. Yet it's the way each of us begins life and ends it. It's too bad that so many people waste those decades in between labouring under the illusion that they are self-sufficient, says Emmons.
The abundance of voices expressing gratitude from his studies of individuals with chronic health problems is many. But Emmons goes beyond his groundbreaking" science to make his case for gratitude by including the inspirational writings of philosophers, novelists and saints, as well as the beliefs of various religions and their respective scriptures. Taken together, these observations are summed up quite nicely by famous humanist Albert Schweitzer, who said the secret of life is "giving thanks for everything".
To enable and embrace gratitude, Emmons encourages the readers of Thanks! to keep a gratitude diary. He even provides easy-to-follow directions on how to practice and develop gratitude.
I'm not a reader or advocate of self-help books, but I am thankful for the reference I found in a newspaper article to the research Emmons was conducting on gratitude involving organ donors and recipients. The chance discovery led me to this book.
Mom implied that kindness seems to find its way back to the giver because life really is all about giving, receiving and repaying. So I'll pay attention to her Professional advice and say: Thank you, Professor Emmons.
【1】What is the text mainly discussed?
A.There are many ways of being thankful. B.Mom is great for her being thankful.
C.Gratitude is important to happiness. D.Being thankful will keep you fit forever.
【2】The author mentions Robert Emmons' book Thanks! in order to prove that_________.
A.Professor Emmons supports mom's study on psychology.
B.mom is as great a psychologist as Professor Emmons.
C.Professor Emmons is a famous psychologist.
D.mom is right about her viewpoint on gratitude.
【3】What is the opinion of Professor Emmons?
A.It is enough to thank others orally.
B.Whether you are thankful is always up to you.
C.Remember to be thankful anytime and anywhere.
D.It is easier to be thankful for yourself than for others.
【4】In the writer's opinion, Emmons' book Thanks! on gratitude is_________.
A.helpful B.unreasonable
C.puzzling D.one-sided
24、 For most thinkers since the Greek philosophers, it was self-evident that there is something called human nature, something that constitutes the essence of man. There were various views about what constitutes it, but there was agreement that such an essence exists—that is to say, that there is something by virtue of which man is man. Thus man was defined as a rational being, as a social animal, an animal that can make tools, or a symbol-making animal.
More recently, this traditional view has begun to be questioned. One reason for this change was the increasing emphasis given to the historical approach to man. An examination of the history of humanity suggested that man in our time is so different from man in previous times that it seemed unrealistic to assume that men in every age have had in common something that can be called “human nature.” The historical approach was reinforced, particularly in the United States, by studies in the field of cultural anthropology (人类学). The study of primitive peoples has discovered such a diversity of customs, values, feelings, and thoughts that many anthropologists arrived at the concept that man is born as a blank sheet of paper on which each culture writes its text. Another factor contributing to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed. In the name of human nature, for example, Aristotle and most thinkers up to the eighteenth century defended slavery. Or in order to prove the rationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society, scholars have tried to make a case for acquisitiveness, competitiveness, and selfishness as natural human characters. Popularly, one refers cynically to “human nature” in accepting the inevitability of such undesirable human behavior as greed, murder, cheating and lying.
Another reason for skepticism about the concept of human nature probably lies in the influence of evolutionary thinking. Once man came to be seen as developing in the process of evolution, the idea of a substance which is contained in his essence seemed untenable(站不住脚). Yet I believe it is precisely from an evolutionary standpoint that we can expect new insight into the problem of the nature of man.
【1】Most philosophers believed that human nature ________.
A.is the quality distinguishing man from other animals
B.consists of competitiveness and selfishness
C.is something partly innate and partly acquired
D.consists of rationality and undesirable behavior
【2】The traditional view of “human nature” was strongly challenged by _______.
A.the emergence of the evolutionary theory
B.the historical approach to man
C.new insight into human behavior
D.the philosophical analysis of slavery
【3】The author mentioned Aristotle, a great ancient thinker, in order to ______.
A.emphasize that he contributed a lot to defining the concept of “human nature”
B.show that the concept of “human nature” was used to justify social evils
C.prove that he had a profound influence on the concept of “human nature”
D.support the idea that some human characters are inherited
【4】According to the passage, anthropologists believe that human beings _________.
A.have some characters in common
B.are born with diverse cultures
C.are born without a fixed nature
D.change their characters as they grow up
25、During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there order to be ________ him. I hated the place. I had never________ been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack (棚屋) alone. The heat was________ almost 125°F even in the shade of a cactus. ________ a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate and the very air I breathed were________ with sand, sand, sand!
I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told then I was________ and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I________ be in prison! My father answered my_________with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my_________—two lines that completely changed my life:
Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.
I read those two lines________. I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present________ ; I would look for the stars.
I made friends with the natives, and their_________ amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had________ to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and________ for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the sands of the desert had been an ocean________.
What brought about this astonishing change in me?The desert hadn’t changed, but I had. I had changed my attitude. And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing adventure of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered. I had looked out of my self-created prison and found the stars.
【1】
A．off
B．behind
C．near
D．beyond
【2】
A．before
B．already
C．then
D．still
【3】
A．inflexible
B．incomprehensible
C．uncontrollable
D．unbearable
【4】
A．Only
B．No
C．Many
D．Such
【5】
A．covered
B．filled
C．buried
D．charged
【6】
A．catching up
B．keeping up
C．giving up
D．getting up
【7】
A．ought to
B．might well
C．would rather
D．had better
【8】
A．request
B．call
C．question
D．letter
【9】
A．comparison
B．imagination
C．consideration
D．memory
【10】
A．over and over
B．by and by
C．up and down
D．now and then
【11】
A．company
B．occupation
C．situation
D．relationship
【12】
A．movement
B．reaction
C．guidance
D．purpose
【13】
A．refused
B．failed
C．managed
D．happened
【14】
A．asked
B．hunted
C．waited
D．headed
【15】
A．floor
B．surface
C．rock
D．level
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。
A Foothold in Life
A dozen children ran around laughing and playing in my friend’s yard, while we parents sat chatting and sipping cool summer drinks. The barbecue had been cleared away when our host announced a surprise. A huge movable rock wall was loaded in, which was about twelve feet wide, made of gray molded plastic with indented footholds that stretched straight up for what looked like at least a hundred feet. The enthusiastic kids swiftly lined up to give it a try, and with the complete fearlessness most children possess, scrambled to the top and rang the bell that hung at the highest point. There wasn’t really anything to be afraid of since they were belted into place. Three people could climb side by side and talk to each other, so gradually the adults tried it, too.
“Come on; let’s go get in line,” my husband Neil urged. “No, you go ahead without me.” I had all sorts of good excuses: I don’t have the right shoes; I forgot my sunglasses; I have to help the hostess. I have a unique talent for seeing unthinkable danger in almost every situation, and this scene seemed dangerous to me. I watched everyone else having fun, though, and finally convinced myself to try it.
With all the nerve I could gather, I started the climb. The belt wrapped around me like a diaper so there was no way to fall. Yes, I thought, this is fun and safe! Concentrating on each foothold, I slowly made my way up. I avoided looking down to prevent any sudden panic, and within a few minutes I made it to the top and proudly rang the bell.
“Woo hoo!” my daughters called up to me. “Way to go, Col!” Neil yelled.
I enjoyed my success and the enjoyable view of fields and farmland until I realized there was a line below me waiting for a turn. It was time to go down.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
It was one thing to look out at the world in the distance, but it was a whole other thing to look straight down.
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Finally, the two of us reached the ground.
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