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1、Old-fashioned phones matter when wireless networks in disasters.
A．turn down
B．turn out
C．break down
D．break out
2、 Teenage is an especially important stage for us, ______we are supposed to go all out to improve ourselves because anything can happen.
A. what B. where
C. which D. that
3、—I don‘t think I can afford an iphone 6. It’s expensive．
—__________ You’re rich．
A. Who cares? B. So what?
C. No doubt． D. Come on．
4、—Can I really get a car as a reward if I win the race?
—Absolutely. _______.
A. It all depends. B. I mean it.
C. I’m sorry. D. Not really.
5、______ the rain yesterday，we _____ such fresh air now．
A． Were it not for; couldn’t enjoy
B． Had it not been for; couldn’t enjoy
C． But for; can’t have enjoyed
D． Without; couldn’t have enjoyed
6、Frank put the medicine into a top drawer to make sure it would not be _______ to the kids.
A. accessible B. flexible
C. available D. agreeable
7、– Do you mind if I smoke?
– Well, I’d rather you ______.
A. don’t B. didn’t C. won’t D. aren’t
8、 Hardly _ when they realized that it was too late to catch the last train．
A. the clock had struck twelve
B. the clock had been struck twelve
C. had the clock been struck twelve
D. had the clock struck twelve
9、-- Do you mind my opening the window? It's a bit hot in here.
---___________, actually.
A. Go ahead. B. Yes, my pleasure
C. I would rather you didn't D. Come on
10、 James left his hometown when he was 16, and he ______ back there since.
A. wouldn’t be B. hasn’t been
C. hadn’t been D. won’t be
11、 Many people agree that there has never been a more splendid opening ceremony than ______ of the Beijing Olympic Games in history.
A. one B. what C. that D. it
12、Due to the frequent school shootings, the only way the president could imagine ________ such tragedies was to ban guns across the US.
A. preventing B. prevented C. to prevent D. having prevented
13、Younger people might like snow and cold, but for________, such weather is very tough; snow can turn into ice, _______is easy to slip on.
A. people my age; where B. my age people; where
C. people my age; which D. my age people; which
14、_______he has finished writing the novel is unknown.
A．If
B．Whether
C．When
D．While
15、After a day’s work, I went to the restaurant near my company to have dinner, only to be told that it ________.
A．is decorated
B．was decorated
C．is being decorated
D．was being decorated
16、Having signed the agreement on the ceasefire, both sides have _____ it. In other words, neither of the two sides have broken the agreement so far.
A. ignored B. assessed
C. obtained D. observed
17、Loud music like hip hop can make a driver drive far more ______, braking harder and accelerating faster.
A. aggressively B. deliberately
C. tentatively D. definitely
18、You’ve missed your ______ to speak and you have to wait for another round.
A. turn B. chance C. order D. opportunity
19、The satellite image shows more rain______in the area over the next 24 hours.
A．is forecasting
B．will forecast
C．is forecast
D．forecasts
20、Life affords no higher pleasure than that of overcoming difficulties, from one step of success to another.
A. to pass B. having passed
C. passed D. passing
21、As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations — UNESCO and National Geographic among them — have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
Mark Turin, a scientists at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolingustic Introduction to the Speaker and Their Culture, grows out of his experience of living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
Documenting the Thang-mi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials — including photographs, films, tape recording, and field notes — which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.
Now, through the two organizations that he has founded — the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project — Turin has started a campaign to make such documents available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved reconnected with speech communities.
【1】Many scholars are making efforts to __________.
A．promote global languages
B．rescue disappearing languages
C．search for language communities
D．set up language research organizations
【2】What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．Having full records of the languages.
B．Writing books on languages teaching.
C．Telling stories about language users.
D．Living with the native speaker.
【3】What is Turin’s book based on?
A．The cultural studies.
B．The documents available at Yale.
C．His language research in Bhutan.
D．His personal experience in Nepal.
【4】Which of the following best describe Turin’s work?
A．Write, sell and donate.
B．Record, repair and reward.
C．Collect, protect and reconnect.
D．Design, experiment and report.
22、A recent housing project in Helsinki offers remarkably cheap apartments for those under the age of 25. They must commit to spending time with their older neighbors.
Helsinki offers 247-suqare-foot studio apartments with a bathroom, storage space, kitchen, and balcony for only $272 every month—about a third of the average price for a studio in the city. The apartment is inside homes for the elderly, and the young renter must spend between three to five hours with their elderly neighbors each week.
Like pretty much all other major cities in the world, Finland’s capital of Helsinki has faced rapid population growth in recent years. And with population growth, comes an inevitable rise in the cost of living, and of course, sharp increase in rent. Currently, Helsinki is ranked 14th on the list of the world’s most expensive cities. For those young and freshly independent, this causes terrible problems — even homelessness.
"It's a very expensive city to live in," Mr. Bostrom writes in an email to CNN’s Eoghan Macguire. "If you manage to get an apartment that the city owns, it can be quite affordable. The screening criteria included the ability to participate in a variety of activities, such as cooking or playing instruments, but the number of applicants for those apartments is so high that waiting list takes forever,” he says.
According to Helsinki’s Youth Housing Association, the city council aims to ensure that every young person will have a home by 2018. Miki Mielonen, a representative of the youth department, says this project, currently in its trial stages, will help out young people while offering social benefits to senior citizens. “I think there is quite a rigid opinion in Finland with many people thinking young of the old ideas that we are going to break down.”
【1】Helsinki probably rents a cheap apartment to a young man who ________.
A. reaches the age of 25
B. has financial problems
C. promises to accompany the elderly
D. agrees to share it with his neighbor
【2】Which is the root reason for the housing problems in Helsinki?
A. The population explosion.
B. The high living standard.
C. World’s priciest apartment rent.
D. Low employment of college graduates.
【3】According to Mr Bostrom, the cheap apartments are ________.
A. well-decorated B. difficult to afford
C. in short supply D. popular with technicians
【4】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. The young in Helsinki are mostly homeless.
B. Helsinki will overcome people’s prejudice.
C. The project will be experimental in future.
D. The project is more beneficial to the young.
23、Road politeness is not only good manners, but good sense too. It takes the most cool-headed and good-tempered drivers to resist the temptation to take revenge (报复) on uncivilized behavior. On the other hand, a little politeness goes a long way towards reducing the tensions of driving. A friendly nod or a wave of appreciation in response to an act of politeness helps to create an atmosphere of goodwill and tolerance so necessary in modern traffic conditions. But such appreciation of politeness is too rare today. Many drivers nowadays don’t even seem able to recognize politeness when they see it.
However, misplaced politeness can be dangerous. Typical example are the drivers who brakes violently to allow a car to came out of a side street at some danger to following traffic; or the man who wave a child across a zebra crossing into the path of oncoming vehicles that may be unable to stop in time. The same goes for encouraging old ladies to cross the road wherever and whenever they like to.
An experienced driver, whose manners are faultless, told me it would help if motorists learnt to move correctly into traffic streams one at a time without causing the total blockages that give rise to bad temper. Unfortunately, modern motorists can’t even learn to drive, let alone master the less obvious points of driving perfectly. Years ago the experts warned us that an explosion in car-ownership would demand a lot more give and take from all road users. It’s high time for all of us to take this message to heart.
【1】 According to the passage, the role of politeness can _______.
A. help us learn about traffic rules
B. reduce the pleasure of driving
C. make our life happier than others’
D. resist the temptation to take revenge on uncivilized behavior
【2】By “good sense” in the first paragraph, the writer means ________.
A. the driver’s ability to understand politeness and react reasonably
B. the driver’s immediate response to terrible road conditions
C. the driver’s skill of controlling his or her car in extreme situations
D. the driver’s ability of driving safely in traffic jams
【3】Which of the following is NOT misplaced politeness?
A. The driver lets old ladies cross the road when they want to.
B. The driver responses to an act of politeness in a friendly way.
C. The driver suddenly stops to permit a car to come from a side street.
D. The driver waves a child across a zebra crossing into the path of dangerous
oncoming vehicles.
【4】In the writer’s opinion, ___________.
A. strict traffic regulations are badly needed
B. drivers should apply road politeness properly
C. rude drivers should be punished
D. drivers should avoid traffic jams
24、Deep within the Yukon, one of the most densely wooded areas of Canada, sits a patch of land that is unlike any other forest on the planet. Instead of a canopy of treetops spreading across the horizon, tens of thousands of signposts perch haphazardly one on top of the other. They are all part of the Signpost Forest, the largest collection of signs from places around the world. At last count, the Signpost Forest in Watson Lake, located about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Canadian border, contains 91,000 signs from spots near and far.
The tradition began during the Alaska Highway Project in 1942, when U.S. soldier Carl K. Lindley spent time in Watson Lake recovering from an injury. A commanding officer asked him to repair and erect the directional signposts, and while completing the job, the homesick soldier added a sign that indicated the direction and mileage to his hometown: “Danville, Illinois, 2,835 miles.” Others followed suit, and the trend caught on. Each year, an average of 1,000 new signs are being added to the collection. Lindley’s original sign has since been lost to time. Fifty years later, in 1992, Lindley and his wife Elinor made the pilgrimage back to Watson Lake to place a replica, which is still there.
The Signpost Forest takes up a couple of acres, with huge panels snaking through the trees. There are street signs, welcome signs, signatures on dinner plates, and license plates from around the world. There are also a lot of familial signs; for example, a grandfather will put up a sign and then years later family will come back and try to find it. A lot of these are personal signs to literally say that they are here. Though the visitor center has wood and paints on hand to help create a sign, many people opt to bring their own signs, though illegally, by snatching a metal sign from their hometown and nailing it to one of the wood posts. The forest has grown so vast that the visitor center no longer tries to keep a detailed list of the signs.
【1】What does “The tradition” in the second paragraph refer to?
A．Counting the number of signs in the Signpost Forest.
B．Replacing the natural forest with signs of different kinds.
C．Putting directional signposts on the highways of the Yukon.
D．Bringing signs to the Signpost Forest from around the world.
【2】According to the passage, which of the following is true about the first sign in the Signpost Forest?
A．It remained in the Forest until 1992.
B．It was erected by an American soldier.
C．It was first put on the Alaska Highway.
D．It was brought from Lindley’s hometown.
【3】Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “replica” in the second paragraph?
A．List.
B．Trunk.
C．Copy.
D．Border.
【4】What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A．The origins and sizes of the signs in the Signpost Forest.
B．The quantity and variety of the signs in the Signpost Forest.
C．The difficulty of categorizing the signs in the Signpost Forest.
D．The practice of nailing illegal signs to the posts in the Signpost Forest.
25、完形填空，阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Remembering My Father’s Vest
People get into trouble because they don’t know enough to keep cool. As a child, I had a lot of ________ that had been held back and not released. Worse still, I was not good at ________ constructively.
Once as I was getting ready for school, my mother ________ me my father’s vest instead of mine. This was around the time when I was going to be larger in ________ than my father, so as I put on the vest, I felt like I was being choked in it! I ________ that it was a small oversight(疏忽) on my mother’s part, but ________the feeling of being choked drowned me and I got very angry.
I took my anger out on my mother ________ thinking much. I was so upset when she had handed me the wrong vest, and I ________by violently tearing it apart from my chest!
Later, my mother shared her own ________ with my father: “ See what your son has done.”
Instead of scolding or abusing me, my father________ responded by asking my mother to ________ the vest. He then worn it to work the next day.
When my mother told me about my father’s response much later, when I had________from my fit, I immediately felt a great sense of ________ for my violent behavior, just ________ that he was spending the entire day wearing a(n) ________ vest. At the same time, I was filled with great ________ for my father, whose gentle kindness taught me a life lesson I would treasure forever.
On that day, I made a ________ never to let anger get the better of me. I learn to ________ other when I think that they behave in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way, ________ forgiveness is a tool to turn anger off. And whenever I have difficulty ________ my strong emotion, I try to remember my father’s vest.
【1】A. pressure B. anger C. stories D. tears
【2】A. listening B. debating C. communicating D. working
【3】A. handed B. sent C. delivered D. carried
【4】A. size B. weight C. height D. mind
【5】A. expected B. discovered C. suspected D. realized
【6】A. anyway B. somehow C. somewhat D. however
【7】A. without B. beyond C. besides D. despite
【8】A. performed B. agreed C. reacted D. declined
【9】A. excitement B. frustration C. enthusiasm D. failure
【10】A. calmly B. politely C. attentively D. anxiously
【11】A. save up B. give away C. hold back D. sew up
【12】A. recovered B. changed C. developed D. benefited
【13】A.disappointment B. sympathy C. panic D. shame
【14】 A. hoping B. joking C. imaging D. supposing
【15】 A. old B. broken C. torn D. shabby
【16】A. curiosity B. pride C. envy D. admiration
【17】A. choice B. decision C. requirement D. compromise
【18】A. respect B. assist C. appreciate D. forgive
【19】A. and B. but C. for D. do
【20】A. controlling B. expressing C. treasuring D. monitoring
26、请一下列词语为关键词写一篇英语短文。
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内容： 1. 自己或他人的经历；
2. 你的感受。
注意： 1. 必须使用所给的4个关键词语；
2. 词数不少于120个。
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