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1、________ both sides accept the agreement ________ a lasting peace be established in this region.
A. Only if; will B. If only; would
C. Should; will D. Unless; would
2、—— At the end of the day we can gather our guests to enjoy fine wine.
—— You seem to be getting off the point．How is that _________ to the discussion?
A. suitable B. tentative C. parallel D. relevant
3、You can’t imagine ________ little time I spent with my parents in those busy days.
A. how B. that C. which D. what
4、Not far from the club was there a garden, _____ owner seated in it playing bridge with his children every afternoon.
A. whose B. its
C. which D. that
5、I was about to start the period __________suddenly there was a knock on the door.
A．while
B．as
C．which
D．when
6、Though we are surrounded with modern technologies, we ______ easily feel lonely.
A.must B.ought to C.need D.can
7、The scientist does not study nature ________ it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it.
A．until B．though
C．because D．Unless
8、________ the sales figure of the new range of products is relatively small, the potential market is large.
A.Unless B.After C.Since D.While
9、 —Do you think you will be able to finish your writing by five o’clock today?
— ______. I’ll be busy with experiments all day.
A. Not a chance B. Not a little
C. Not to mention it D. Not a big deal
10、A good advertisement, _____ people attach positive meanings, can contribute to the sales of a product．
A．for which
B．to which
C．of which
D．on which
11、Ms. Kelly is ________ assisting another customer. May I help you?
A．currently
B．conveniently
C．confidently
D．casually
12、No student ______go out of school after eleven o’clock at night without the teacher’s permission.
A．will
B．must
C．may
D．shall
13、________ did I accept this unreasonable suggestion.
A．By no means
B．By all means
C．By means of
D．By this means
14、I do not want to distract you from continuing your own path to becoming your ______ self.
A.consistent B.controversial C.contemporary D.authentic
15、 Jennifer's work is ________ average, while her younger sister's is very much below it.
A. under B. with C. beneath D. above
16、Nowadays when travelling, travelers usually use the We-chat to share their feelings about their trips with descriptions of their experiences, offering viewers a(n) for the imagination of reality.
A. feast B. account
C. landscape D. principle
17、 in running for head of the department, which most colleagues had not expected, made her parents very upset.
A. Lucy was defeated
B. Lucy being defeated
C. Lucy’s been defeated
D. Lucy's being defeated
18、A man from Jiangsu Province graduated from university at the age of 88, _________ him the oldest university graduate in the country
A．made
B．to make
C．having made
D．making
19、 I know nothing about the young lady ________ she is from Beijing.
A. except that B. besides
C. except for D. except
20、— I can’t bear the air pollution in this city anymore．It is getting worse and worse．
— ________！We’ve never had so many chemical factories before．
A． I wouldn’t bet on it B． You said it
C． Keep it up D． Come off it
21、The Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing (FPCIW) launched a Bear Robotics ‘Servi’ pilot in June 2022 to help ease the challenges for senior dining services. In senior care, difficult as having a major change can be, the FPCIW took strategic steps to maximize the chances of the robotics pilot being a success. Davis Park, vice president at FPCIW, feels the pilot’s success was largely due to the pre-deployment conversations and focus group discussions held. “We strongly believe that a little investment in the groundwork can make all the difference in a successful or failed technology project in senior living communities,” he says.
Clear, open, and honest conversation around the pilot helped to prepare staff and residents for the robots’ introduction. “Change is always hard,” says Park. “The open discussions we had weeks in advance were helpful to make sure residents and staff felt heard about concerns they had about how ‘the robots are taking over’ or ‘this is going to take my job away.’” He notes that the FPCIW worked to reach out directly to those individuals who disagree or feel uncomfortable and to understand their pain points.
The focus on deliberate and clear messaging also helped to address concerns surrounding the pilot. Messaging was delivered in person as early as eight weeks before the robots were introduced to the community dining rooms. Multiple open forums leading up to the “go-live” kickoff created the opportunity to answer questions and address concerns. “We also distributed digital and physical copies of flyers and letters to all residents. And with that, we were able to head off many of the concerns and worries before they became problems and barriers to adoption.”
When it comes to using robots in dining services, Park has a word for senior care operators. “Listen. Make sure to create the time and space for residents and staff to air their concerns, and also be prepared for those who may not be ready,” he says. “And just as importantly, if not more: Make it fun! During our go-live event, we covered the dining room with robot-themed decorations and had the robots pass out robot-themed candies and champagne (香槟).”
【1】What is the key to the pilot’s being successful?
A．Putting in much time.
B．Investing massive money.
C．Providing chances of research maximally.
D．Having sufficient communications beforehand.
【2】Why do some people object to the pilot?
A．They find robots unfriendly.
B．They fear their unemployment.
C．They consider robots unreliable.
D．They think the robot hard to operate.
【3】What’s paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．Concerns on the pilot.
B．Ways of delivering messages.
C．Means of writing letters to residents.
D．Barriers to accepting the dining robots.
【4】What’s Park’s advice for operators?
A．To be sociable and grateful.
B．To be cautious and generous.
C．To be tolerant and optimistic.
D．To be patient and considerate.
22、E
Speaking two languages can actually help offset(抵消) some effects of aging on the brain, a new study has found,
Researchers tested how long it took participants to switch from one cognitive(认知的) task to another, something that-s known to take longer for older adults, said lead researcher, Brian Gold, a neuroscientist at the University of Kentucky.
Gold’s team compared task-switching speeds for younger and older adults, knowing they would find slower speeds in the older population because of previous studies. However, they found that older adults who spoke two languages were able to switch mental activities faster than those didn’t . The study only looked at life long bilinguals(会说两种语言的人) defined in study as people speaking a second language daily since they were at least 10 years old.
Gold and his team asked 30 people, either bilingual or monolingual(只僮一种语言 人) , to have a series of tests. They found that bilingual people were not only able to switch tasks faster they had different brain activity than their monolingual peers.
Kristina called bilingualism "a beautiful natural experiment”, because people grow up speaking two languages,and studies have shown that they get certain cognitive benefits from switching between languages and determining which to respond with based on what's going on around them.
Gold said he grew up in Montreal, where he spoke French at school and English at home, prompting relatives to question whether his French language immersion would somehow hinder his ability to learn English.
"Until very recently, learning a second language in childhood was thought of as dangerous," he said. "Actually, it's beneficial. "
【1】What-s the main idea of the passage?
A. Researchers found that speaking two languages is important.
B. Researchers found that bilingual people respond slowly.
C. Researchers found that bilingual people can slow down the speed or aging on the brain and respond fast.
D. Researchers found that bilingual people are great.
【2】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Older bilinguals can-t respond faster in mind.
B. Older adults speaking a second language daily since they were at least 10 years old can respond faster than those who don't
C. Young bilinguals can respond faster in mind than those monolinguals.
D. Bilingual children respond slower in mind than those monolinguals.
【3】Kristina called bilingualism "a beautif'ul natural experiment" because
A. people grow up, benefiting from speaking two languages
B. people speaking two languages are natural
C. people speaking two languages are beautiful
D. people speaking two languages like the experiment
【4】We can learn from the last paragraph that learning a second language in childhood is________
A. dangerous to children
B. not beneficial to children
C.dangerous but beneficial to children
D. not dangerous but beneficial to children
23、To some, Facebook, Twitter and similar social-media platforms are the highest level of communication—better, even, than face-to-face conversations, since more people can be involved. Others think of them more as something that leads to self-appreciation, threatens privacy and reduces intelligent conversations to the exchange of rude memes (搞笑图片). They might even, these kinds of arguments go, be creating a generation of electronic addicts who are incapable of reflective, individual, original thought.
A topic ripe for anthropological (人类学的) study, then. And such a study, the “Why We Post (发帖)” project, has just been published by nine anthropologists, led by Daniel Miller of University College, London.
The participants in “Why We Post” worked independently for 15 months at locations in Brazil, Britain, Chile, China (one rural and one industrial site), India, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turkey. They buried themselves within families and their surrounding communities. That, the team believes, let them form a subtle view of the roles of social media in their study sites which could not be gained by analysing participants’ public postings. These by-standers’ viewpoints deny much received wisdom. One of the biggest doubts is the “selfie” - which is often blamed for causing self-regard and too much focus on attractiveness. “Why We Post”, however, reveals that the selfie itself has many faces. In Brazil many selfies posted by men were taken at the gym. But at the British site, Dr Miller found, school children posted five times as many “groupies” (images of the picture-taker with friends) as they did selfies. Britons have also created a category called “uglies” (曝丑照), of which the purpose is to take as ugly a self-image as possible.
The often-humorous, marked-up images known as memes have also come in for criticism. They lower down traditional forms of public debate, spreading far and wide with little context. But memes serve different purposes in different cultures. In India they tend to focus on serious and religious issues; Trinidadian memes are more often send-ups of politicians. Yet in all cases Dr Miller sees meme-passing not as limiting what social media users think and say, but as enabling conversations. Many users happily forward memes with strong political or economic messages about which they would not dare to comment individually.
Critics also often view the online characters people create for their social-media postings as false images designed for the medium at hand. Trinidadians, however, disagree. They see online profiles as more representative of a person’s true self even than what is seen in real life. Also, young boys and girls in Turkey see things differently. Social media permit them to be in constant contact with one another, in full view of their parents, but to keep their conversations and photos to themselves.
In rural China and Turkey social media were viewed as a distraction from education. But in industrial China and Brazil they were seen to be an educational resource. Such a divide was evident in India, too. There, high-income families regarded them with suspicion but low-income families advocated them as a supplementary source of schooling. In Britain, meanwhile, they were valued not directly as a means of education, but as a way for pupils，parents and teachers to communicate.
The skeptics’ reaction to new technology seems equally deep-rooted. New means of communication from railways and the telegraph onwards have always attracted critics. Therefore, sooner or later, the doubters either convert, or die.
【1】What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. Face-to-face conversations are better than social media.
B. Social-media platforms bring more problems than benefits.
C. Opinions are divided on the influences of social media.
D. More people will be addicted to electronic products.
【2】Which of the following statements is Daniel Miller likely to support?
A. Selfies make people focus too much on attractiveness.
B. Memes lower down traditional forms of public debate.
C. Online images created for social-media are false.
D. Not all received wisdom is true on social media.
【3】The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.
A. the way the team carried out their project
B. the way the team analysed public postings
C. the way the families lived in the communities
D. the way the participants buried themselves
【4】The writer’s attitude towards social media is ________.
A. ambiguous B. positive
C. unknown D. negative
24、 Prosocial behaviors are those intended to help other people. Behaviors that can be described as prosocial include feeling empathy(同感) and concern for others and behaving in ways to help or benefit other people.
Prosocial behavior has long posed a challenge to social scientists seeking to understand why people engage in helping behaviors that are beneficial to others, but costly to the individual performing the action. Why would people do something that benefits someone else but offers no immediate benefit to the doer?
Psychologists suggest that there are a number of reasons why people engage in prosocial behavior. In many cases, such behaviors are fostered during childhood and adolescence as adults encourage children to share, act kindly, and help others. Prosocial behaviors are often seen as being compelled by a number of factors including egoistic reasons (doing things to improve one's selfimage), reciprocal benefits (doing something nice for someone so that they may one day return the favor), and more altruistic reasons (performing actions purely out of empathy for another individual).
Characteristics of the situation can also have a powerful impact on whether or not people engage in prosocial actions. The bystander effect is one of the most notable examples of how the situation can impact helping behaviors. The bystander effect refers to the tendency for people to become less likely to assist a person in distress when there are a number of other people also present. For example, if you drop your purse and several items fall out on the ground, the likelihood that someone will stop and help you decreases if there are many other people present. This same sort of thing can happen in cases where someone is in serious danger, such as when someone is involved in a car accident. In some cases, witnesses might assume that since there are so many other present, someone else will have surely already called for help.
Why do people help in some situations but not in others? Experts have discovered a number of different situational variables that contribute to (and sometimes interfere with) prosocial behaviors. First, the more people that are present decreases the amount of personal responsibility people feel in a situation. People also tend to look to others for how to respond in such situations, particularly if the event contains some level of ambiguity. Fear of being judged by other members of the group also plays a role. People sometimes fear leaping to assistance, only to discover that their help was unwanted or unwarranted. In order to avoid being judged by other bystanders, people simply take no action.
Experts have suggested that some key things must happen in order for a person to take action.
【1】Prosocial behaviors are motivated for all the following reasons EXCEPT ________.
A.empathy for another individual B.instant benefits of helping others
C.parental influences in the early life D.the desire to better one's selfimage
【2】What does the underlined word “distress” in the fourth paragraph mean?
A.peace B.despair
C.comfort D.trouble
【3】Which situation can be described as the bystander effect?
A.When hearing an injured lady crying for help, the neighbors didn't take action.
B.Seeing an old man slipping on the icy road, many people volunteered to help.
C.A woman was to give birth on the train and you were the only doctor there.
D.On the scene of your colleague's traffic accident, you called the police for help
【4】After the last paragraph, the most possible topic could be ________.
A.possible benefits of prosocial behavior
B.various reasons for prosocial behavior
C.situational influences on prosocial behavior
D.skills and knowledge to provide assistance
25、 One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a (n) _________ test. Once he handed out the test papers to all students, he asked them to begin.
Students were _________ to see that there was not a question but just a black _________ in the center of the page. The professor _________ the students' face expression and told them, 'I want you to write about what you see there. '
The students were still puzzled but got _________ with the test. At the end of the class, the professor took all answer sheets and started _________ each answer in front of all students. All of them _________ about the black dot and tried to explain its _________ etc. After the professor finished reading the whole class was _________.
Now, the professor began to explain, 'Don't worry, I am not going to give you __________ for this but I just want you to __________ something. Here everyone focused on the black spot but no one wrote about the white paper, the __________ is with our lives. The white paper __________ our whole life and the black spot stands for the __________ in our life. Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and __________, and we always have reasons to celebrate the good things. __________ we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money etc., but we never see these problems are very __________ compared to everything we __________ in our lives. '
The test implies that we should try to take eyes __________ our problems and enjoy each one of our blessings. Be happy and live life __________.
【1】A.easy B.amazing C.hard D.surprising
【2】A.glad B.lucky C.confused D.curious
【3】A.dot B.letter C.circle D.mark
【4】A.guessed B.noticed C.felt D.recognized
【5】A.tired B.pleased C.started D.relaxed
【6】A.reading B.correcting C.explaining D.showing
【7】A.knew B.described C.doubted D.worried
【8】A.figure B.color C.name D.position
【9】A.cheering B.laughing C.silent D.sad
【10】A.answers B.grades C.blows D.words
【11】A.bring in B.give up C.think about D.work out
【12】A.same B.test C.result D.lesson
【13】A.faces B.gives C.takes D.represents
【14】A.gifts B.problems C.efforts D.footprints
【15】A.attention B.devotion C.care D.warm
【16】A.Still B.So C.Thus D.Though
【17】A.important B.different C.meaningless D.small
【18】A.do B.have C.lose D.want
【19】A.away B.on C.off D.to
【20】A.positively B.happily C.casually D.seriously
26、假如你是李华，即将大学毕业。你准备毕业后自主创业，开办一家外文图书销售公司。现在请你就此事写一封电子邮件给你的大学就业顾问Eric。内容包括：
1.介绍创业设想；
2.分析创业理由；
3.征求顾问意见。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.文章的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Eric,
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