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1、They are very glad that most of the people ________ gave very useful answers.
A. questioned B. questioning
C. to question D. to be questioned
2、It’s unclear________ the tiny computer will be released, but it will come onto the market sooner or later.
A．when
B．what
C．how
D．whether
3、Two blocks beyond the school is a field ______ we often played football during childhood.
A. who B. which
C. when D. where
4、We were packing to leave fore weekend away ________ my daughter heard cries for help.
A．after
B．while
C．since
D．when
5、Nowadays，more film stars ______ to be difficult to work with．
A．say B．have said
C．are said D．were said
6、Some classical music, _______ softly, can be gentle and help put one in the calming state of mind when just lying down to sleep.
A. playing B. played
C. having played D. to play
7、Didn't she notice they were crying there? How ________she just walk away from her children like that?
A．should
B．would
C．could
D．need
8、The method seemed to work, as I gained the respect of my ________, peers, and subordinates.
A．alumni
B．interns
C．colleagues
D．seniors
9、My key isn’t in my backpack. Where on earth________ I have put it?
A．can
B．would
C．should
D．must
10、I regret that I waited in the queue for a long time to buy the ticket this morning. I ______ it online.
A．could buy
B．must buy
C．could have bought
D．must have bought
11、Some pills many people take to achieve or maintain their desired weight will lower their life expectancy_____ they contain something harmful．
A. so that B. in that C. even if D. as if
12、Our society would be better off but for the fact that the economy ________ by the current global financial crisis.
A. had been affected B. were affected
C. should be affected D. is affected
13、I got to the office earlier that day,________ the 7:30 train from Paddington.
A. caught B. to have caught
C. to catch D. having caught
14、—Did you enjoy staying with your friend last week, Lily?
—Yes. I ________ with him for a long time.
A．haven’t stayed
B．didn’t stay
C．hadn’t stayed
D．wouldn’t stay
15、The White Horse Temple first gained importance _________ Buddhism spread from here to other parts of China and Asia.
A. while B. so
C. as D. though
16、China will ________ cooperation with countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.
A. approve B. justify C. enhance D. tighten
17、Sinclair’s next computer, the ZX81, was an even bigger hit, and his company’s ________ grew by 600% over the previous year.
A. allowance B. receipts
C. finance D. salary
18、—John is feeling extremely_______ after his friend’s wedding ceremony last night.
—Well, he must have drunk himself stupid during it and he should have a good rest.
A.fragile B.distant C.empty D.weird
19、Pointing to the village at the foot of the mountain, Mr. Smith told us it was ______ he met his wife five years ago.
A．what
B．how
C．when
D．where
20、_________ in heavy school work, most senior three students have no free time to do what they want.
A. Buried B. Having buried
C. Being buried D. To be buried
21、An elderly couple in the UK claimed that they were held hostage by a pair of seagulls nesting on the roof of their home. Every time they tried to leave, the birds would become aggressive and attack them.
One time, when Roy Pickard, the 71-year-old husband, decided to take his chances and go outside, he was hit so hard on the back of the head that he had to be taken to the hospital for help. Local authorities have installed a gazebo outside the couple’s home, which should offer some protection. That’s the best they can do for now.
“The whole thing has been terrible,” Roy old reporters. “I’ve not been able to go out of the front door. If I try to get out of the door, the two adult birds are right there, and I’ve got no chance. It’s really frightening. My wife isn’t well at the moment, so we’re relying on me to get out.” Luckily, the Pickards’ garage is connected to their house and he can get out through there when he needs to do some shopping, but he doesn’t dare get out of the car to close the garage door, so he always leaves it open until he comes back.
Roy has complained about the situation to both the local authorities and animal organizations like the RSPCA and RSPB, but their solutions have not been very helpful. The Wyer Council says that seagulls are protected while nesting, so all they can do is try to make the couple’s life bearable by installing a gazebo and making arrangements so that the 77-year-old wife, Brenda, can reach her private appointments safely. Unfortunately, animal organizations wouldn’t help the Pickards either. For now, all they can do is wait for the chicks to fly away. “The RSPCA and RSPB have been no help whatever. They seem to put the rights of these birds above those of people , which is ridiculous,” Roy said.
【1】What is the problem facing the Pickards?
A．The door of their garage can’t be closed.
B．They can’t walk out because of the seagulls.
C．Their pet birds often attack them aggressively.
D．A flock of birds nested on the roof of their house.
【2】What did local authorities do to help the couple?
A．Tell them to wait until the birds fly away.
B．Build a gazebo to provide some protection.
C．Send people to guard them outside the home.
D．Make arrangements for them to have appointments.
【3】What can we know about the Wyer Council according to the text?
A．It wants to protect the seagulls.
B．It is looking for an ideal solution.
C．It will help Roy do some shopping.
D．It hopes the couple can lead a simple life.
【4】What hopes the infer from Roy’s words in paragraph 4?
A．The RSPCA and RSPB are useless.
B．Birds are more valuable than humans.
C．It is ridiculous for people to help others.
D．Roy is disappointed with the authorities’ actions.
22、Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-education well off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individual and society, are profound.
The world is facing as astonishing rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create government budget problems.
But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers (二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.
That even the better-off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation. Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity. Do not necessarily decline with age.
【1】what is happening in the workforce in rich countries?
A. younger people are replacing the elderly
B. well-educated people tend to work longer
C. unemployment rates are rising year after year
D. people with no college degree do not easily find work
【2】what has helped deepen the divide between the well-off and poor?
A. Longer life expectancies
B. Profound changes in the workforce
C. rapid technological advance.
D. A growing number of well-graduated.
【3】what do many observers predict in view of the experience of the 20th century?
A. Economic growth will slow down.
B. Government budgets will increase.
C. More people will try to pursue higher education
D. There will be more competition in the job market.
【4】What is the result of policy changes in European countries?
A. Unskilled workers may choose to retire early.
B. more people have to receive in-service training.
C. Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in retirement.
D. People may be able to enjoy generous defined-benefits from pension plans.
【5】What is characteristic of work in the 21st century?
A. Computers will do more complicated work.
B. More will be taken by the educated young.
C. Most jobs to be done will be creative ones.
D. Skills are highly valued regardless of age.
23、D
Do you love the holidays，but hate the pounds that follow? You are not alone. Holidays are times for feasting and celebrating. Many people are worried about their weight.With proper planning，though，it is possible to keep normal weight during the holidays.Whether it is celebrating at the office party or sitting down for the traditional family dinner，regard eating as a time for tasting a variety of the foods.The idea is to enjoy the holidays but not to eat too much. You don't have to turn away from the foods that you enjoy.
Here are some tips for preventing weight gain and maintaining physical fitness：
Don't skip meals.Before you leave home，have a small，low-fat meal or snack.This may help to avoid getting too excited before delicious foods.
Control portions.Use a small plate (about 10 inches) and put aside the large ones that may encourage you to “load up.” You should be most comfortable eating an amount of food about the size of your fist. Once you have your “tasting” serving，move away from the buffet(自助餐). Doing so will make it less tempting to be eating constantly as your appetite is inspired by the sight of food.
Begin with soup and fruit or vegetables. Fill up beforehand on water-based soup and raw fruit or vegetables. Or drink a large glass of water before you eat to help you feel full.
Stick to physical activity. Don't let exercise take a break during the holidays. A 20-minute walk after a meal can help burn off excess calories.
Avoid high-fat foods. Dishes that look oily or creamy may have a large amount of fat. Choose lean meats. Fill your plate with salad and green vegetables. Use lemon juice instead of dessert or butter.
【1】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．You had better turn your attention away from delicious foods.
B．Drinking some water or soup before eating helps you eat less.
C．Holidays are happy days with pleasure but they may bring weight problems.
D．Physical exercise can reduce the chance of putting on weight.
【2】Which of the following CANNOT help lose weight according to the passage?
A．Lean meats.
B．Dessert or butter.
C．Raw fruit or vegetables.
D．Physical exercise.
【3】Many people can't control their weight after the holidays mainly because they _______.
A．can't help being tempted to eat constantly
B．take part in too many parties
C．enjoy delicious foods
D．can't help turning away from the foods
【4】If the passage appears in the newspaper，you think it should belong to ______ Column.
A．Holidays and Festivals
B．Health and Fitness
C．Fashion and Frontier
D．Student Times Club
24、Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can’t you be bothered to do?
A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so idle that they’d catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.
Just over 2，000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain’s largest health charity. The results were startling.
About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.
More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.
This led the report to conclude that it’s no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese before they start school. Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said, “People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too. If we don’t start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the simple tasks.”
And Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most indolent city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.
The results pose serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesityrelated illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.
【1】What do lazy British people probably choose to do?
A. Go to stores. B. Catch the lift.
C. Cook from scratch. D. Climb flights of stairs.
【2】How many people surveyed don’t play with children because of tiredness?
A. About 419. B. About 333.
C. About 654. D. About 1280.
【3】What is the potential result of more and more people, including children, getting obese?
A. People will not get enough exercise.
B. People will not have enough money.
C. People will not be able to do the easy job.
D. People will not cure themselves of heart disease.
【4】What is the author’s attitude towards the finding of the study?
A. Indifferent. B. Doubtful.
C. Negative. D. Supportive.
25、When it comes to anxiety over online data privacy, the first and most common legal solution comes to mind: more transparency. If firms are required to tell people what information they collect, and do so in a simple and obvious manner, people would be able to ___________ doing business with those that adopt abusive privacy practices.
There is one ___________ with the transparency solution. There is no evidence that it works! (And there are mountains of evidence that it fails.) Even when the information people are asked to share is highly private and ___________, and even if the notices about the ways firms collect, use and share this information are delivered in the simplest and most concise manner, people still don’t read the notices and don’t change their ___________. A recent experiment tried to deliver the privacy notices to users in the format of a simple “nutrition facts” box, to no avail. The notice still went ___________ and people shared the same amount of sensitive personal information as they do when the notices are long and cluttered.
If simple notices are not read or used by people, the hopes for ___________ choice flee. Users are not going to ___________ Google’s personalized ads or to personalize the Facebook’s privacy setting. These consumers might comparison-shop among services based on various quality and service measures, but not on the basis of ___________ features.
It is also important to dispel a second perceived solution to privacy ___________: lawsuits. There are numerous class action lawsuits percolating in courts, alleging violations by websites of privacy statutes. Google,____________, has long been defending against the complaints that its Gmail service, which scans the text of its users’ emails, is a violation of the Wiretap Act (窃听法). Many of these lawsuits eventually fail because they cannot prove a ____________ injury. But even the few that succeed are not going to change the behavior of firms. They will only teach firms to write more ____________ privacy notices and require more frequent clicks “I Agree” from users.
A third legal solution fueled by privacy anxiety is the “right to be forgotten”. It gives users the right to request search engines to ____________ links to personal information that are no longer accurate or relevant. Viewed by its ____________ as a major landmark in privacy protection, the right to be forgotten mandate is ultimately proving to be a storm in a tea cup. In one year, Google reported to have received only 218,000 requests (or which it granted about half). Only a minor number of users are ____________ sensitive to privacy issues to exercise the cherished right.
【1】
A．avoid
B．advise
C．favor
D．admit
【2】
A．proof
B．problem
C．possibility
D．purpose
【3】
A．detailed
B．sensitive
C．adequate
D．effective
【4】
A．mind
B．decision
C．behavior
D．direction
【5】
A．invalid
B．wrong
C．round
D．unread
【6】
A．preferred
B．accepted
C．informed
D．obliged
【7】
A．opt out of
B．make up for
C．look forward to
D．put up with
【8】
A．privacy
B．advertising
C．designer
D．specific
【9】
A．policies
B．protection
C．risks
D．terms
【10】
A．by contrast
B．in particular
C．on average
D．for example
【11】
A．severe
B．fatal
C．concrete
D．external
【12】
A．informal
B．comprehensive
C．informative
D．unavailable
【13】
A．start
B．attach
C．remove
D．build
【14】
A．initials
B．advocates
C．appeals
D．motivates
【15】
A．sufficiently
B．extremely
C．comparatively
D．appropriately
26、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友David来邮件想了解你们学校近期举行万米接力赛的情况。请给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 比赛目的；
2. 时间和地点；
3. 过程及意义。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结束语己为你写好。
Dear David，
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Best wishes!
Yours，
Li Hua
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