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1、We won’t forget the heroes ________ lost their lives while fighting against a forest fire.
A.who B.whose C.when D.why
2、She is quite________to office work. You had better offer her some suggestions when necessary.
A. familiar B. similar
C. fresh D. sensitive
3、Shirley Temple Black began her film during the Great Depression in the US, ___________ the country’s economy was going through a rough patch.
A. where B. on which C. what D. when
4、Some institutions have established reading clubs to promote reading, but the effort, though ________, is far from enough.
A．appreciated
B．appreciating
C．having appreciated
D．to appreciate
5、Despite some difficulties, there are special moments ______ make it worthwhile for moms to take care of children at home.
A.when B.where C.which D.what
6、The most exciting moment during the Spring Festival is_____ the family enjoy the big dinner together.
A．what
B．why
C．which
D．When
7、A Chinese proverb has it that a tower is built when soil on earth ____, and a river is formed when streams come together.
A.accumulates B.accelerates C.accommodates D.associates
8、Look! Here’ s a photo ______ in my classroom at primary school. Can you recognize me in it?
A. taken B. taking
C. to take D. being taken
9、Cost ________as follows: food and drink 100 yuan, studying material 150 yuan, accommodation fee 300 yuan.
A．breaks down
B．breaks off
C．breaks in
D．breaks out
10、It’s nearly four years since I worked in that firm. I ________ a band with other fellows.
A. operated B. had been operating
C. was operating D. am operating
11、The minister refused for reasons of _______ rather than religion to sign a new law legalizing abortion.
A. comprehension B. conscience C. consequence D. conservation
12、It seems late to say anything. We probably ______ it if we had made an offer sooner.
A. would have got B. would get
C. had got D. got
13、 My flight was delayed, so I read a book ________ time.
A. kill B. killing
C. to kill D. having killed
14、The government has_______ a series of policies and measures to ensure the improvement in living standards.
A. put down B. put out
C. put off D. put forward
15、 I’m always ________ about what I say because careless remarks are likely to hurt others’ feelings.
A. enthusiastic B. curious
C. doubtful D. cautious
16、---We’d better leave now.
---No hurry. The train ______ at 10 o’clock.
A. has left B. left
C. leaves D. would leave
17、Jack lost his father to AIDS last year, since when he has lived on a monthly ______ of £200 from the government.
A.receipt B.allowance C.revenue D.finance
18、Jenny has got________ it takes to be a good actress. In other words, she has the potential to become famous.
A.what B.when C.that D.how
19、Nowadays mobile internet devices are pushing up demands for online education, which makes businessmen see it as one of the most _______ new market.
A. demanding B. damaging C. promising D. leading
20、The way we use a language is so________that one could say there are as many varieties as speakers of English.
A．individual
B．common
C．exceptional
D．reliable
21、Have you ever wondered what the food you eat every day can tell you about where you come from? Have you ever wondered why people from different parts of the world eat different types of food? Do you ever ask yourself why certain foods or culinary (烹饪的) traditions are so important to your culture? There is more of a connection between food and culture than you may think.
On an individual level, we grow up eating the food of our cultures. It becomes a part of who each of us is. Many of us associate food from our childhood with warm feelings and good memories and it ties us to our families, holding a special and personal value for us.
On a larger scale, food is an important part of culture. Traditional cuisine is passed down from one generation to the next. It also operates as an expression of cultural identity. Immigrants bring the food of their countries with them wherever they go and cooking traditional food is a way of preserving their culture when they move to new places.
In China, harmony is a vital quality in almost every aspect of life. This is reflected in Chinese cuisine, where almost every flavor is used in a balanced way creating delicious dishes with flavors that go well together. The cuisine of the United States also reflects its history. The European colonization of the Americas brought European ingredients and cooking styles to the U.S.
As the world becomes more globalized, it is easier to access cuisines from different cultures. We should embrace our heritage(传统)through our culture's food but we should also become more informed about other cultures by trying their foods. It's important to remember that each dish has a special place in the culture to which it belongs, and is special to those who prepare it.
【1】What does the author want to express in Paragraph 1?
A．A link between food and culture.
B．Connections between food and the growth of people.
C．Different types of food.
D．Concerns about food and culture.
【2】What does the underlined word "It" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．Traditional food.
B．Traditional culture.
C．One generation.
D．Childhood.
【3】How do people feel about Chinese food?
A．It is rich in all kinds of vitamins.
B．It balances the dishes of different countries.
C．It is extremely crucial to balance people's daily life.
D．It contains abundant dishes with various flavors.
【4】What can we learn about food from this passage?
A．It binds us to the society, holding a special and personal value for us.
B．The European colonist in Americas brought the ingredients and cooking styles from their hometown to the USA.
C．In Chinese culture, harmony in cuisine is of little significance.
D．We should refuse the cuisines in other cultures.
22、 
Worried about the loss of rainforests and the ozone layer? Well, neither of those is doing any worse than a large majority of the 6,000 to 7,000 languages that remain in use on Earth. One half of the survivors will almost certainly be gone by 2050, while 40% more will probably be well on their way out. In their place, almost all humans will speak a small number of languages——Mandarin, English, Spanish.
Linguists(语言学家)know what causes languages to disappear, but what's less often remarked is what happens on the way to disappearance: languages' vocabularies, grammars and expressive potential all disappear. "Say a community goes over from speaking a traditional Aboriginal(土著的)language to speaking a Creole," says Australian Nick Evans, a language experts, "you leave behind a language where there's very fine vocabulary for the landscape. All of that is gone in a Creole. As speakers become less able to express the wealth of knowledge that has filled ancestors' lives with meaning over thousands of years, it's no wonder that communities tend to become weakened."
Due to the huge losses, some linguists struggle against the situation, for example, training many documentary linguists in language-loss hotspots such as West Africa and South America.
However, not all approaches to the preservation of languages will be particularly helpful. Some linguists are boasting(自夸)of more and more complicated means of recording languages: digital recording and storage, the Internet and mobile phone technologies. But these are encouraging the quick style of recording trip: fly in, switch on digital recorder, fly home, download to hard drive, and store gathered material for future research. That's not quite what some endangered-language experts have been seeking. Michael Krauss from the University of Alaska complained openly that linguists are playing with technology research while most of their raw data is disappearing.
Who is to blame? Linguists who go out into communities to study, document and describe languages, argue that theoretical linguists, like Noam Chomsky, who draw conclusions about how languages work, have had so much influence that linguistics has largely ignored the continuing disappearance of languages.
【1】Why does the author mention rainforests and the ozone layer in Paragraph 1?
A.To highlight they are of great importance.
B.To show their connection with language loss
C.To indicate anxiety about environmental issues.
D.To introduce the topic concerning language loss.
【2】What does Nick Evans say about the effects of language disappearance?
A.People find it hard to describe their culture.
B.Vocabularies have to be changed.
C.People tend to turn to ancestors more
D.Focus is switched on new grammars.
【3】What has Michael Krauss pointed out?
A.Digital age further promotes some endangered languages.
B.An instant approach to language recording may not work.
C.Linguists have made poor use of improvement in technology.
D.Linguists' quick style of recording trip should be encouraged.
【4】What can be concluded from the text?
A.By 2050 only 600 to 700 languages will remain.
B.Local languages are preserved perfectly in West Africa.
C.Theoretical linguists may be responsible for the loss of languages.
D.Linguists have come a long way to save endangered languages.
23、A new study, published this week in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science, reveals that non-human animals' tears are not so different from our own. The chemical similarities are so great, in fact, that the composition of other species' tears—and how they're adapted to their environments-may provide insights into better treatments for human eye disease.
Previously, scientists had studied closely only the tears of a handful of mammals, including humans, dogs, horses, camels, and monkeys. In the new study, Brazilian veterinarians analyzed the tears of reptiles and birds for the first time , focusing on seven species.
Tears, which are released from tear tubes, form a film over the eye that's composed of three ingredients: mucus, waler, and oil. The mucus coats the eyes surface and helps to attach the film to the eye, the water is a natural salty solution containing crucial proteins and minerals, and the oil prevents the eye from drying out.
Humans are the only known species to produce emotional tears; the expression "crocodile tears," which refers to a person's phony display of emotion, comes from the mysterious tendency of crocodiles to release tears as they eat.
But tears play key roles beyond weeping, notes Lionel Sebbag at Iowa State University, who was not involved in the new research. They help with vision by lubricating and clearing the eye. They also protect the eye against infection and provide nutrition to the cornea, the eye's clear outer layer, which lacks blood tubes, he says.
Learning how reptiles and birds' use tears may also inspire new medications for conditions such as dry eye, which occurs when tear tubes don't produce enough oil. The disease, common in cats, dogs, and people, can sometimes lead to blindness.
【1】What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．The source of tears.
B．The composition of tears.
C．The classification of tears,
D．The definition of tears.
【2】What does the underlined word "phony” in paragraph 4 mean?
A．Tricky.
B．Regretful.
C．Cold.
D．False.
【3】Which statement does Lionel Sebbag agree with?
A．Weeping contributes to eye disease.
B．The cornea has rich blood tubes.
C．Tears oil and clear the eyes.
D．More tears mean better vision.
【4】What might be the best title for the text?
A．Tears, a barrier to eyes
B．A better treatment for eye disease
C．Non-human tears promise new cures
D．Other species’ tears are similar to humans'
24、 On my fourth day in a self-driving car, I finally felt comfortable enough to let it stop itself. Before then, Id allowed the car- a Volvo S90 sedan to control the direction, with my hands still on the wheel, and to adjust speed in traffic. By Day 4, I was ready to make a jump into the future.
With the car traveling on a busy road, I activated the driverless mode. Soon, a traffic light turned red. For a split second, I prepared to get on the brakes. There was no need. The cameras and computers in the Volvo recognized the traffic conditions and smoothly began applying the brake.
If you're anything like most people, you're familiar with this anxiety. Almost 80 percent of Americans fear traveling in a self-driving car, a recent survey found.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have conducted some clever experiments studying the phenomenon. They asked participants to complete tasks and compared their performance with a computer system's. After the computer made a mistake, people were unwilling to use it again. After the people made mistakes, their self-confidence wouldn't change. It didn't matter that the human beings made more mistakes than the computer. So it is with driving. More than 37,000 Americans died in crashes last year, most from human error. The death count from cars goes beyond that from guns. So if you are shocked and angry by guns and want things to change, you should feel the same about car crashes.
Technology creates an opportunity to save lives. Computers don't get drunk or distracted by text messages, and they don't have blind spots. Just look at commercial airlines: Automation has helped all but get rid of deadly crashes among American air carriers. The last one happened in 2009.
The technology for self-driving cars still isn't good enough. But it is improving rapidly. Within a few years, many cars will have advanced crash-avoidance systems and driving will be revolutionized sooner than many people now understand.
【1】How does the author introduce the topic?
A.By offering a piece of news. B.By describing an experience.
C.By giving background information. D.By introducing a latest car.
【2】What can we know from the fourth paragraph?
A.The participants lost self-confidence after making mistakes.
B.The participants would ignore the mistakes made by the computer.
C.Car crashes is no less shocking than gun incidents.
D.The death count from cars is the same as that from guns.
【3】The author mentioned commercial airlines___________.
A.to advertise for the commercial airlines. B.to assess the security of driverless cars.
C.to find fault with computers. D.to prove the advantage of technology.
【4】What's the author's attitude towards self-driving cars?
A.Favorable. B.Indifferent.
C.Skeptical. D.Concerned.
25、From the window of my room, I could see a tall cotton - rose hibiscus (木棉树). In spring, when green leaves were half _______ by mist, the tree looked very attractive. _______ with red flowers. This inspiring neighbor of mine often _______ my mind working. I regarded it as my best friend _______.
However, when I opened the window one morning, to my amazement, the tree was almost _______ beyond recognition as a a result of the storm _______ the night before. I was seized with a sudden sorrow at the thought “all the flowers are to fall” I could not help _______ with emotion: the course of life never runs _______, for there are so many ups and downs. _______ twists and turns. The process of my life saw my beloved friends parting one after another. Isn’t it ________ to the flowers falling off the tree in the wind?
This event ________ from my memory as time went by. One day after I came home. I found the room hard to breathe in and opened the window ________. Something outside caught my ________ and impress me. It was a plum tree (李树) with flowers ________ beautifully by the sunset. The surprise discovery filled me with pleasure. I wondered ________ I had no idea of some tough life restarting over the fallen petals (花瓣) when I felt sorry for the hibiscus.
When the last petal ________, all the admiration for the hibiscus disappeared as if nothing was left, until the landscape was again decorated with the red plum flowers to ________ people of life’s alternation and continuity. Can’t it be said that life is actually a symphony, a harmonious ________ of loss and gain.
Standing by the window lost in thought for a long time, I realized that no scenery in the world remains ________. As long as you keep your heart bathed in the sun, every dawn will present a fine start for you and the world will always be about ________ hopes.
Tell anyone who has inspired you how they have inspired you.
【1】
A．buried
B．hidden
C．placed
D．trapped
【2】
A．dotted
B．surrounded
C．covered
D．marked
【3】
A．observed
B．prevented
C．set
D．bore
【4】
A．regularly
B．generally
C．narrowly
D．gradually
【5】
A．bare
B．vacant
C．blank
D．empty
【6】
A．effect
B．fault
C．damage
D．feast
【7】
A．sighing
B．yelling
C．swearing
D．teasing
【8】
A．lucky
B．simple
C．smooth
D．cozy
【9】
A．as many as
B．as well as
C．rather than
D．regardless of
【10】
A．due
B．contrary
C．familiar
D．similar
【11】
A．sank
B．quit
C．matured
D．faded
【12】
A．merely
B．actively
C．casually
D．fiercely
【13】
A．eye
B．nose
C．soul
D．mind
【14】
A．set up
B．set off
C．put up
D．put off
【15】
A．why
B．if
C．how
D．when
【16】
A．slipped
B．dropped
C．quit
D．broke
【17】
A．remind
B．warn
C．convince
D．rid
【18】
A．division
B．dilemma
C．composition
D．conflict
【19】
A．unlimited
B．unchanged
C．unspoiled
D．unexpected
【20】
A．vain
B．practical
C．previous
D．fresh
26、假设你是校英语报编辑，请你为这个月底将举办的“我最喜欢的中国节日”英语演讲比赛写一个通知，内容包括：
1. 比赛时间及地点
2. 每班推荐1人参赛
3. 裁判组成及奖励
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