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1、Believed _______ buried underwater by a tsunami in the fourth century AD, the ruins of Neapolis are almost 2, 000 years old.
A．to be
B．to have been
C．having
D．being
2、—Mum, my coach says I’m doing well in the training.
—________? You still have a long way to go.
A. Why not B. So what C. How so D. Where to
3、—Yesterday, I read White Night by Higashino Keigo. Such a good book!
—________. No one can match Higashino Keigo in artistic talent.
A. You said it B. You don’t say
C. You can’t be serious D. You set me up
4、When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about ________ but finding food.
A．everything B．anything
C．nothing D．something
5、The recipe book may tell you to add butter, but for those on a diet, there are a number of low-fat ______ that can be used in this soup.
A.alternatives B.selections C.productions D.utensils
6、____ back made her parents angry and sad.
A.Not her coming B.your coming
C.Her not coming D.Her no coming
7、The world today different without the amazing discoveries produced by great scientists.
A. were B. had been
C. would have been D. would be
8、________ in the well for five days, the child finally was rescued.
A.Trapped B.Being trapped C.To be trapped D.Having been trapped
9、— Everything for the project has been progressing smoothly so far.
--- ____ that you’ll complete it on time.
A. No wonder B. No doubt C. No need D. No worry
10、Experts warn that global warming will cause extreme climate changes including more______ floods, heat waves and droughts.
A. usual B. ordinary C. frequent D. common
11、If I _____it with my own eyes,I wouldn’t have believed it.
A. didn’t see
B. weren’t seeing
C. wouldn’t see
D. hadn’t seen
12、I_______it to my teacher to take a better-paid post if I can get one.
A. belong B. owe
C. donate D. apply
13、Unable to take his mind off things, Jacob lay ______ half the night last night.
A.woken B.awaken C.awake D.awoke
14、Henry killed the dog. I'll ask him why ________.
A．did he do that
B．he had done that
C．he did
D．he has done so
15、Bob ________ hard. Otherwise, he ________to be admitted to the key university.
A. can’t work; wouldn’t have failed B. can’t have worked; wouldn’t have failed
C. mustn’t have worked; wouldn’t fail D. mustn’t work; would fail
16、Every Monday, my English teacher would cheerfully ask me ______ my weekend had been．（ ）
A．that B．if C．what D．how
17、Don't defend him any more. It's obvious that he ________ destroyed the fence of the garden even without an apology.
A. accidentally B. carelessly C. deliberately D. clumsily
18、He made up his mind to enjoy his guitar and to accumulate as many happy experiences as he could so that when he retired he wound be able to ______his life with satisfaction.
A. get away with
B. make up for
C. look back on
D. put up with
19、It is thought police had been called to the scene following a report of a collision involving her vehicle and ________ of another motorist.
A. one B. those C. some D. that
20、Believe it or not, the video The Little Apple______in China, and the past few months ______its popularity.
A. was caught on; have seen B. caught on; has seen
C. was caught on; saw D. has caught on; saw
21、In a street largely unchanged since it was built in the 1800s, Hobart’s Battery Point is probably the last place you would expect to find a farm.
In one corner of Peter Handy’s backyard is a controlled environment unit that houses vertical pastures (垂直牧场), the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere (半球). Mr. Handy is changing the definition of what it means to be a farmer. “I know it’s really funny, because when people say to me, ‘Where’s your farm?’, I’ll say ‘it’s in Battery Point’ and they’re like, ‘No, there’s no farms in Battery Point’,” he said “People think the Martians have landed because we’ve got this massive, big pink light that comes out of it from the bottom but other than that, they’d have no idea.”
Not just a backyard project, Mr. Handy is running a business. “It’s here because I need to be as close to my customers, the chefs and restaurants of Hobart,” he said. “I aim to use the least amount of food miles as possible and make this a super-efficient business.”
Using LED lights and hydroponic nutrients, the farm grows leafy greens, root vegetables and flowering plants. “I don’t have to worry about floods, wind, wild animals, electric fences, turning the soil over,” Mr .Handy said. Using 95 percent less water than traditional farming, the farm ticks the box environmentally. “I mean, this is definitely not the answer to food sustainability in the world. But it’s definitely a part of it.”
Science writer Julian Cribb believes a world food crisis is coming, due to a combination of loss of water, loss of topsoil, climate change and overuse of poisons. “We’re going to need to change the nature of the way we produce food and change the human diet at the same time,” he said, “and new urban farming methods would see most of the world’s great cities feeding themselves.”
Mr. Cribb said Australia was still quite a way off from adopting urban farming. But he believes that it poses a rather unique opportunity for Australian farmers to sell their expertise to cities, teaching people to grow food in urban environments.
【1】What might people think of Mr. Handy’s farm?
A．Scared.
B．Impressed.
C．Disappointed.
D．Confused.
【2】What does Mr. Handy say about his farm?
A．It is not affected by weather.
B．It mainly plants and sells flowers.
C．It serves customers from near and far.
D．It is the solution to food sustainability.
【3】What’s the purpose of Mr. Gribb’s words in paragraph 5?
A．To praise his contribution to science.
B．To explain how urban farming works.
C．To stress the necessity of urban farming.
D．To present the seriousness of the food crisis.
【4】What’s the passage mainly about?
A．Cities are struggling to get food.
B．Technology is changing people’s life.
C．Peter Handy is a successful businessman.
D．Food production is being moved into cities.
22、Art is everywhere. Any public space has been carefully designed by an artistic mind to be both functional and beautiful. Why, then, is art still so widely considered to be “the easy subject” at school, insignificant to wider society, a waste of time and effort?
Art can connect culture with commercial products in a way that not many other things can; art generates money and holds significant emotional and cultural value within communities. When people attend a concert, they are paying for music, sure, maybe even hotel rooms, meals, and transport, but they also gain an incredible experience, a unique atmosphere and a memory that will go through the rest of their lives. People don’t just want material things anymore, they want to experience life—the arts are a perfect crossover between culture and commerce.
Furthermore, the arts can bring communities together, reducing loneliness and making people feel safer. Social bonds are created among individuals when they share their arts experiences through reflection and discussion, and their expression of common values through artworks in honour of events significant to a nation’s experience.
The arts clearly have a pretty positive impact on physical and psychological health. It is found that people who frequent cultural places or participate in artistic events are more likely to gain good health compared to those who do not; more engagement with the arts is linked to a higher level of people’s well-being. The Royal Society of Public Health discovered that music and art, when used in hospitals, help to improve the conditions of patients by reducing stress, anxiety and blood pressure.
Children who are involved with the arts make greater achievements in their education: those engaged with drama have greater literary ability while others taking part in musical practice exhibit greater skills in math and languages. Kids with preference for the arts have a greater chance of finding employment in the future. Participating in the arts is essential for child development; encouraging children to express themselves in constructive ways could help to form healthy emotional responses in later life.
Vital to human life, art is celebrated and used by nations across the world for various purposes. Life without art would be boring and dead still, for art is a part of what makes us human.
【1】Art products differ from most other commercial products because ________.
A．most people purchase them for collection
B．they are more expensive and less accessible
C．they have both commercial and cultural values
D．their prices may climb up as time passes
【2】By sharing their arts experiences, community members can ________.
A．keep the community safe from illnesses
B．develop a stronger tie between them
C．learn to appreciate their own works of art
D．offer honourable solutions to their problems
【3】What can we learn about people who are involved in artistic activities?
A．They enjoy better living conditions.
B．They like to compare themselves with others.
C．They are particularly good at both music and art.
D．They tend to be healthier physically and mentally.
【4】How does kids’ engagement with the arts benefit them?
A．It promotes their academic performance and emotional growth.
B．It gives them more confidence in exhibiting their learning skills.
C．It inspires their creativity in designing their future career.
D．It helps to make responsible people out of them.
23、A robot may be defined as a machine that can be programmed to perform acts automatically. With the increase in high technology, robots are taking over boring or inconvenient work in many areas of life.
One area where robots are making an appearance is farming. There is a robotic revolution going on in the milking industry, and cows, as well as farmers are experiencing the benefits. The advantage for the cows is that they can choose when and how many times a day they want to be milked. On the other hand. farmers no longer have to get up at 4 a. m. every day to go to the milking sheds and this makes a huge difference to their way of life.
In traditional farming, cows are milked twice a day, in the morning and the evening, mainly because: this is the most convenient way for farmers to get two milking sessions completed in one day. However, this is not necessarily the best way for each individual cow. Because the robots are programmed to milk the cows whenever they arrive, the cows can be milked once, twice or even four times a day. It is an entirely voluntary system for the cows. They decide. Farmers report that midnight is a particularly busy time at the milking shed. The interesting thing is the cows like the system once they get used to it. Farmers report that milk production increases, the cows live longer and they seem far more relaxed.
The computerized robotic system is entirely automatic. As the cows enter the facility, they are weighed, milked and productivity and health checks are carried out. The facility cleans itself at regular intervals(间隔)and if there is a problem, the robot sends the farmer a message.
Equipping a farm with robots is not cheap. However, farmers who have installed the robotic milking sheds, say they would never go back to the old system. The commonly reported sight of cows queuing patiently in front of their favourite robot must mean the cows like it too.
【1】What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
A．To introduce a kind of robot.
B．To tell the importance of robots.
C．To tell the readers what is a robot.
D．To provide the definition of robotic system.
【2】What benefit may robots bring to the cows according to the text?
A．They can be freer to be milked.
B．They can be milked twice a day.
C．They can get up at 4 a. m. to be milked.
D．They can choose the day to be milked.
【3】Which of the following would the author probably agree?
A．Morning and evening are the two most convenient milking sessions for cows.
B．The robotic system is voluntary for cows to be milked of their own free will.
C．The robotic system is entirely automatic except for health checks.
D．The robotic system is so expensive that farmers will never install one.
【4】What would be the best title for the text?
A．A robotic revolution in milking
B．Cows favourite helper
C．Hands free for the farmers
D．An expensive milking shed
24、When Dekalb Walcott III was just 8 years old, his father, a Chicago fire chief, let him_____on a call. Dekalb says a lot of kids idolized(崇拜) basketball player Michael Jordan when he was growing up in Chicago in the 1990s. Not him.
“I wanted to be like Dekalb Walcott Jr.,” he says of his father.
So when his dad asked if he wanted to go on that call with him when he was 8, Dekalb was excited. “I'm jumping up and down,” saying, “Mom, can I go? Can I go?”
The experience changed Dekalb's life, he tells his dad on a visit to StoryCorps. “My eyes got big from the moment the alarm went off.” the younger Dekalb says. “This is the life that I want to live someday. ”
Now 27, the younger Dekalb is living that life. He became a firefighter at 21 and went to work alongside his dad at the Chicago Fire Department. Before his father retired, the pair even went out on a call together — father supervising(监督) son.
“You know, it's everything for me to watch you grow,”his father says. But he also recalls worrying about one particular fire that his son faced.
“I received a phone call that night. And they said, 'Well, your son was at this fire.' I said, 'OK, which way is this conversation going to go?' ” Dekalb Walcott Jr. recalls.
“And they said, 'But he's OK. And he put it out all by himself. Everybody here was proud of him.'”And the word went around, 'Who was out there managing that fire? Oh, that's Walcott! That's Walcott up there!' So, you know, moments like that, it's heaven on Earth for a dad."
Dekalb Walcott Jr. retired in 2009. The younger Dekalb says he's proud of being a second
-generation firefighter. "You know, it makes me look forward to fatherhood as well, because I'm definitely looking forward to passing that torch down to my son."
【1】The underlined phrase “tag along” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. put out fire B. watch basketball
C. ask his mother’s permission D. follow his father
【2】Dekalb Walcott III determined to become a firefighter at the age of _________
A. 8 B. 21 C. 35 D. 27
【3】What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Dekalb Walcott Jr is proud to be a second-generation firefighter.
B. Dekalb Walcott III wants his son to become a firefighter too.
C. Dekalb Walcott Jr wants to pass the torch to Dekalb Walcott III.
D. Dekalb Walcott III is proud that his son has become an excellent firefighter.
【4】Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Putting Out Fire: A Challenging Job for Father and son
B. Passing The Torch: A Firefighter Dad's Legacy
C. Dekalb Walcott III: A Second-generation Firefighter
D. Dekalb Walcott Jr.: A Chicago Fire Chief
25、In summarising the state of the planet—rising population, widespread conflict, one-sixth of the planet suffering extreme poverty and hunger, global warming—Jeffrey Sachs, author of “The Common Wealth, can paint a terrible picture. However, he’s an_________ and believes that all of these problems can be overcome in relatively straightforward ways and at relatively little cost. That’s because the root causes are interconnected and _________ man-made.
Take child mortality (死亡). Perhaps surprisingly, the higher the child mortality rate is, the higher the birth rate. This leads to a _________ population which puts a greater stress on already scarce resources, so farmers have to work harder to produce enough food for all, which means children are often put to work in the fields or at home. This, _________ , stops children getting the education which will allow them to learn, among other things, about better farming techniques to increase crop yields and provide more food to eat and sell. Sachs argues that the_________ of providing every child in poverty with an anti-mosquito bed net is a major first step. Malaria(疟疾)is a huge cause of death in children and the bed nets massively _________ infections. The fewer children that die of malaria, the more secure parents feel about their children surviving. The more secure parents feel, the fewer children they have, and so on, revising the _________ trend just described.
However, it is _________ a combination of measures at the same time that truly makes a difference: free school meals improve school attendance and health; supplying fertilisers to improve soil and better seeds provides even better harvests; basic health care and clean water supplies_________ more fatal diseases.
These ideas are already being __________ implemented in over 100 African villages in underdeveloped regions. The cost of the project is just $10 per person per year, of which 50% comes from donors and the rest from a mixture of local and national governments and the villagers themselves.
So if it’s so __________ , why hasn’t it been done before? What about all the aid that has been given to Africa and the underdeveloped countries of the world? Has it been lost to corruption (腐败)? Sachs argues that the real problem is not corruption, but the fact that rich governments have __________ such a lot, but actually given so little. They agreed to give 0.7% of national income in aid, but only five countries have met that __________. He suggests current aid is $24 billion per year, which translates as just ten dollars per person—not nearly enough to implement the __________ measures.
So while Sachs sees an opportunity to end poverty forever, he also raises an __________ that this could be the last chance we have, ‘The longer we wait, the greater is the suffering and the larger the long-term costs?
【1】
A．economist
B．optimist
C．expert
D．opponent
【2】
A．prospectively
B．essentially
C．thoughtfully
D．refreshingly
【3】
A．declining
B．global
C．booming
D．local
【4】
A．in turn
B．by contrast
C．on end
D．with care
【5】
A．truth
B．principle
C．solution
D．statement
【6】
A．transmit
B．specify
C．worsen
D．reduce
【7】
A．downward
B．general
C．modem
D．previous
【8】
A．describing
B．reserving
C．adopting
D．protesting
【9】
A．modify
B．intensify
C．prevent
D．locate
【10】
A．successfully
B．hesitantly
C．personally
D．worthlessly
【11】
A．popular
B．simple
C．hard
D．strange
【12】
A．spent
B．promised
C．learned
D．featured
【13】
A．requirement
B．condition
C．challenge
D．target
【14】
A．restricted
B．standardized
C．requested
D．combined
【15】
A．alarm
B．objection
C．amount
D．instance
26、根据下面的图片写一篇文章。
内容必须包括：
（1）介绍漫画内容；
（2）解释考证热盛行的原因，为什么许多大学生参加各种各样的证书考试；
（3）适当表露自己的看法。
注意：
1．词数：120字左右；
2．参考词汇：Certificate Mania（考证热）；Various（各种各样的）
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