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1、 regular exercise is very important，it’s never a good idea to exercise too close to bedtime.
A．It
B．As
C．Although
D．Unless
2、________ in the office had made a mistake, and the firm regretted causing the customers inconvenience.
A．None
B．Anyone
C．One
D．Someone
3、The company is putting more money into the building of a new factory _______ the fast growing demand for the products in the market.
A．in response to
B．in return for
C．in case of
D．in charge of
4、With the exam ______ in ten minutes, they were asked to hand in their mobile phones．
A． taken place B． taking place
C． having taken place D． to take place
5、--Mr. Smith, you are fined for over-speeding. Please sign here.
--Fined? Over-speeding? ________
A. Are you all right? B. You can't be serious!
C. Mind your own business! D. You asked for it!
6、The development of students is influenced by a number of factors, ________ are beyond our control.
A.some of them B.some of which C.some of what D.some of that
7、Scientists say it may be a few months ____vaccination(疫苗接种) for the epidemic of COVID-19 is widespread throughout the country.
A.until B.after C.before D.since
8、Oh！I can feel something _____ up my leg！It must be an insect．
A．to climb B．climbing
C．climb D．climbed
9、----There won’t be anywhere to park.
----Oh, _______. Let’s try the subway.
A. that’s a real bargain B. that’s a good point
C. that’s really something D. that’s all settled
10、 in the heavy traffic, we had no choice but in the car.
A. Stuck; wait B. Stuck; to wait
C. Sticking; to wait D. Sticking; wait
11、__________ ups and downs in the past four years，Bob finally succeeded in extending his business overseas.
A．Experienced B．To experience
C．Having experienced D．Experiencing
12、The world today different without the amazing discoveries produced by great scientists.
A. were B. had been
C. would have been D. would be
13、How could you ________ such a fantastic job when you have been out of work for months?
A．turn off B．turn in C．turn down D．turn to
14、With new technological tools at our fingertips, new art forms, such as digital paintings and videos, have been created, making the line between art and technology less ________.
A．available
B．distinct
C．complicated
D．practical
15、I was bored staying here for years, ________ whether I should try someplace different.
A. wondered B. to wonder
C. wondering D. wonder
16、If people outside China learned a bit about jasmine tea culture, they would realize there_______ a lot of enjoyment in it.
A. is B. was C. were D. would be
17、Watching violence on TV is one of the major causes of _________behavior and crime in society.
A.agent B.allergic C.aggressive D.annoyed
18、Lily is ________ now, for she doesn’t know whether her mother has got on the train safely.
A．eager
B．careful
C．curious
D．anxious
19、Nowadays, some people tend to drink and gamble for the sake of ________ they call the circles, which is definitely stupid.
A. why B. how C. where D. what
20、In Lebanon, they say, a 50% increase in the price of cigarettes would lead to many people smoking in poorer households as wealthy families.
A.as twice; quitting B.twice as; to quit C.as twice; to quit D.twice as; quitting
21、One mile long runway can take people across the oceans, to reach every corner of the world.
That’s the magic power of airplanes as well as airports. Similar as most airports are, some do have their unique features.
Lukla Airport
Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of in the town of Lukla, eastern Nepal. A program titled Most Extreme Airports, rated the airport as the most dangerous airport in the world. The airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp. High wind, cloud cover, and changing visibility often mean flights can be delayed or the airport closed. The airport’s runway is accessible only to helicopters and small, fixed-wing, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. The runway is only 527m with an elevation of 2,845m.
Princess Juliana International Airport
Princess Juliana International Airport is in the country of Saint Maarten. The airport is perhaps best known for very low-altitude flyover landing approaches due to one end of its runway being extremely close to the shore and Maho Beach. The thrilling approaches and ease of access for shooting spectacular images make the airport one of the world’s favorite places among plane spotters.
Gibraltar Airport
Gibraltar Airport serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, a tiny peninsula with an area of only 6.8 square kilometers. The lack of flat space there means the peninsula’s only runway is bisected by its busiest road, the Winston Churchill Avenue that heads towards the land border with Spain. It is really scary that there is a four lane highway passing through the middle of the runway!
Kai Tak Airport
Kai Tak Airport was officially known as Hong Kong International Airport from 1954 to 6 July 1998, when it was closed and replaced by the new one at Chek Lap Kok, 30 kms to the west. With numerous skyscrapers and mountains located to the north and its only runway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, landing at the airport were dramatic to experience and technically demanding for pilots. The low altitude manoeuvre required to line up with the runway was so spectacular that some passengers claimed to have glimpsed the television through apartment windows along the final approach.
【1】Which of the following pictures can be a scene of Princess Juliana International Airport
【2】All of the following can be inferred from this passage Except ________.
A. The transportation of Winston Churchill Avenue might be affected by planes.
B. Lukla airport is the most dangerous airport because of extremely harsh weather
C. An inexperienced pilot might have difficulty landing on Kai Tak Airport
D. People on Maho Beach may have a good chance to view the plane flying overhead
【3】Which of these airports is out of business now?
A. Lukla Airport
B. Princess Juliana International Airport
C. Gibraltar Airport
D. Kai Tak Airport
22、 The outstanding biography — from the same author who brought us Steve Jobs and Einstein —portrays the life of the complicated Renaissance (文艺复兴时期的) artist with details. We come to see da Vinci as not only an inventor of musical instruments and early flying machines, but also a notebook keeper and vegetarian (素食者), who had trouble finishing many of the projects and paintings he started.
Yet what is most thrilling is getting to know da Vinci the scientist. Isaacson explains how loving science and applying the scientific method to observing the world was really what made da Vinci a great artist and, Isaacson argues, a genius.
Da Vinci was fascinated with observing and understanding phenomena in nature, from the proportions of the human body to how the muscles of the lips moved. He wanted to know about everything around him, in minute detail, Isaacson writes. He wondered about questions “most people over the age of ten no longer puzzle about”— for instance, how the tongue of a woodpecker works.
To learn about the world, da Vinci combined his own observations with experimentation. Never formally schooled, “he preferred to induce from experiments rather than deduce from theoretical principles,” Isaacson explains. He recorded his observations, looked for patterns among them, and then tested those patterns through additional observation and experimentation.
When he became fascinated with the idea that he could invent flying machines, three and a half centuries before the Wright brothers flew the first airplane, he observed various birds and filled notebooks with the function and speed at which their wings flapped. That’s why Isaacson calls da Vinci an exemplar of this scientific method.”He goes on:“Galileo, born 112 years after Leonardo, is usually credited with being the first to develop this kind of approach and is often regarded as the father of modern science,” the historian Fritjof Capra wrote. “There can be no doubt that this honor would have been bestowed (赐予) on Leonardo da Vinci had he published his scientific writings during his lifetime, or had his notebooks been widely studied soon after his death.”
Da Vinci’s emphasis on empirical observation also helped him improve his art. First, he was able to use what he learned from looking at nature to paint and draw. His studies of the body, animals, motion, shadow and light, perspective and proportion helped him better understand what he was seeing in front of him, and render it in art more accurately and finely than anyone else of his time. He also used his observations of nature to make connections among phenomena. A recorder (竖笛) was like a larynx (喉管) in the throat. Here’s Isaacson again: What Leonardo probably began as four distinct elements ended up woven together in a way that illustrates a fundamental theme in his art and science: the interconnectedness of nature, the unity of its patterns, and the similarity between the workings of the human body and those of the earth.
Most importantly, his curiosity-driven explorations, and ability to connect art and science, helped him innovate in his work. They helped him think differently, Isaacson argues. Da Vinci made surprisingly diverse series of discoveries, including conceptualizing the helicopter and solar power and advancing knowledge about everything from the reproductive organs to botany. This genius is also what drew Isaacson to Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs as subjects: They’re all innovators who were inspired by and drew connections between art and science.
“Leonardo da Vinci is the ultimate example of the main theme of my previous biographies: how the ability to make connections across disciplines — arts and sciences, humanities and technology — is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius,” Isaacson writes. And this wonderful book is a reminder, in a time of increasingly narrow specialization and focus, that the methods of Renaissance men like da Vinci are as relevant as ever.
【1】What is the highlight of da Vinci’s biography?
A.His unfinished paintings.
B.His preference for vegetables.
C.His spirit of exploring science.
D.His opposition to formal education.
【2】What made da Vinci’s thinking different from others?
A.He was used to skipping school.
B.He kept his childhood’s sense of curiosity.
C.He was filled with ambition to become an artist and inventor.
D.He developed a fascination with historical novels.
【3】Why does Isaacson mention Galileo in the book?
A.To introduce his important findings.
B.To memorize the father of modern science.
C.To show the prejudice faced by da Vinci during his lifetime.
D.To illustrate the significance of da Vinci’s research method.
【4】The underlined word “render” in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by“_____”.
A.express B.mix C.confirm D.associate
【5】What does Isaacson think of the methods of Renaissance men?
A.They are too complicated to understand.
B.They focus on the workings of the human body.
C.They are more accurate than modern methods.
D.They still apply to contemporary scientific research.
【6】What might be the best title for the passage?
A.How a Genius Changed the World
B.The Features of Renaissance Art
C.How Science Shaped His Art
D.The Comparison between Induction and Deduction
23、These days, it seems that almost all of us are too serious．My older daughter often says to me, “Daddy, you’ve got that serious look again．” Even those of us who are committed to non-seriousness are probably too serious．People are frustrated and anxious about almost everything -- being five minutes late, witnessing someone look at us wrong or say the wrong thing, paying bills, waiting in line, overcooking a meal, making an honest mistake -- you name it, and we all lose perspective（理性判断） over it．
The root of being anxious is our unwillingness to accept life as being different, in any way, from our expectation．Very simply, we want things to be a certain way but they’re not a certain way．Life is simply as it is．Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don’t fit our ideas, they become our difficulties．” We spend our lives wanting things, people, and events to be just as we want them to be -- and when they’re not, we fight and we suffer．
The first step in recovering from over-seriousness is to admit that you have a problem．You have to want to change, to become more easygoing．You have to see that your own anxiety is largely of your own creation -- it’s made up of the way you have set up your life and the way you react to it．
The next step is to understand the link between your expectations and your frustration level．Whenever you expect something to be a certain way and it isn’t, you’re upset and you suffer．On the other hand, when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you’re free．
A good exercise is to try to approach a single day without expectation．Don’t expect people to be friendly．When they’re not, you won’t be surprised or bothered; if they are, you’ll be delighted．Don’t expect your day to be problem-free．Instead, as problems come up, say to yourself, “Ah, another barrier to overcome．” As you approach your day in this manner you’ll notice how elegant life can be．Rather than fighting against life, you’ll be dancing with it．Pretty soon, with practice, you’ll lighten up your entire life．And when you lighten up, life is a lot more fun．
【1】Why are people easily frustrated and anxious these days?
A．Because their children are disappointing．
B．Because they have to look serious in public．
C．Because life is becoming a greater burden．
D．Because people have lost sensible judgment．
【2】According to Benjamin Franklin, what was the cause of over-seriousness?
A．The fact that people’s perspective, hopes and fears are limited．
B．The fact that people can’t change life itself．
C．The fact that things fail to meet people’s expectations．
D．The fact that circumstances turn out to be difficult．
【3】In what pattern is this article developed?
A．Phenomenon, causes and solutions．
B．Problems, explanation and conclusion．
C．Examples, causes and arguments．
D．Phenomenon, analysis and conclusion．
【4】What might be the best title for the passage?
A．People seem to be too serious
B．Life is simply as it is
C．Hopes can turn into difficulties
D．A good exercise removes over-seriousness
24、Looking at the photos of public celebrations for International Pillow Fight Day in the news and social media from the 50 cities around the world, one question occurred to me: What are pillows really stuffed with? Not physically, but symbolically? Armed with nothing more than bring-our-own sacrificial cushions, strangers struck heavily each other in playful feather from Amsterdam to Atlanta, Warsaw to Washington DC. But why? Is there anything more to this delightful celebration?
As a cultural sign, the pillow is falsely soft. Since at least the 16th century, the humble pillow has been given unexpected meanings. The Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu tells a famous story about a wise man who meets a depressed young scholar at an inn and offers him a magic pillow filled with the most vivid dreams of a seemingly more fulfilling life. When the young man awakens to discover that his happy 50-year dream has in fact come and gone in the short space of an after-noon’s nap, our impression of the pillow’s power shifts from wonder to terror.
Succeeding writers have likewise seized upon the pillow. When the 19th-century English novelist Charlotte Bronte poetically observed “a ruffled (不平的,起皱的) mind makes a restless pillow”, she didn’t just change the expected order of the adjectives and nouns, but instead she made unclear the boundaries between mind and matter — the thing resting and the thing rested upon.
That can be considered as a trick which perhaps Bronte learned from the Renaissance philosopher Montaigne, who once insisted that “ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”. On Montaigne’s thinking, intelligence and happiness confront each other forever in a pillow fight that only one can win.
Based on the words of Tang, Bronte, and Montaigne, we can perhaps more easily measure the attraction of the global pillow fight. Like a ritual of release, the annual international pillow fight amounts to a kind of cleansing, a brushing off of daily worries, an emptying of the world’s collective mind. Rather than a launch-pad for weightless rest, the pillow is a symbol of heavy thought: an anchor that drags the world’s soul down- one that must be lightened.
【1】The writer uses the example of Tang Xianzu, wanting to illustrate that ________.
A．dreams are always wonderful while the real world is cruel
B．pillows sometimes bless people with satisfactory dreams
C．people’s impression of pillows changes from wonder to terror
D．pillows symbolically convey the meaning in contrast to their soft appearance
【2】From the passage, we can learn that Charlotte Bronte ________.
A．learned a trick from the Renaissance philosopher Montaigne
B．was likely to have been influenced by the thoughts of the Renaissance
C．regarded pillows as reflections of our minds
D．wrote poems about pillows
【3】The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 “ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head” most probably means ________.
A．pillows give us comfort
B．pillows make people more intelligent
C．people with plenty of thoughts have no inner peace
D．people can easily fall asleep when they know little
【4】According to the author why is Pillow Fight Day so popular around the world?
A．Because it is a ritual of release.
B．Because it makes life delightful.
C．Because it comforts restless minds.
D．Because it contains a profound meaning of life.
25、A Leap（跳跃）to Honor.
Leaping on a narrow balance beam（平衡木） is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it.
To perfect her skills, Lola_________for four hours a day, five days a week. At the state championships in March, she finished seventh out of 16 girls.
That’s especially impressive, ___________she is legally blind, born with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift constantly. She often sees double and can’t _________how far away things are.
When she was little, her mom ___________that even though she couldn’t see___________, she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the___________right away and gymnastics became her favorite.
Though learning gymnastics has been more_________for her than for some of her teammates, she has never quit. She doesn’t let her _________stop her from doing anything that she wants to.
She likes the determination it takes to do the sport. Her biggest _________is the balance beam. Because she has double vision, she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even closes her eyes. “You have to__________your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go,” says Lola.
To be a top-level gymnast, one must be brave. The beam is probably the most__________for anyone because it’s four inches wide. At the state competition, Lola didn’t fall__________the beam. In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10---- her highest score yet.
Lola doesn’t want to be__________differently from the other girls on her team. At the competitions, the judges don’t know about her vision__________. She doesn’t tell them, because she doesn’t think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her__________attitude.
Lola never thinks about __________. She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics. Her ______________is to reach level 9. She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to pass down what she’s learned to other kids__________she grew up.
Lola is__________of all her hard work and success. She says it’s helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics, too. Her __________for others is “just believe yourself”.
【1】
A．runs
B．teaches
C．trans
D．dances
【2】
A．since
B．unless
C．after
D．though
【3】
A．tell
B．guess
C．assume
D．predict
【4】
A．suspected
B．remembered
C．imagined
D．noticed
【5】
A．deeply
B．well
C．ahead
D．closely
【6】
A．task
B．sport
C．event
D．show
【7】
A．boring
B．enjoyable
C．difficult
D．unsatisfactory
【8】
A．talent
B．quality
C．nature
D．condition
【9】
A．doubt
B．advantage
C．challenge
D．program
【10】
A．examine
B．express
C．open
D．trust
【11】
A．fearful
B．harmful
C．unfair
D．inconvenient
【12】
A．to
B．on
C．off
D．against
【13】
A．greeted
B．treated
C．served
D．paid
【14】
A．pains
B．stresses
C．injuries
D．problems
【15】
A．positive
B．friendly
C．flexible
D．cautious
【16】
A．defending
B．quitting
C．winning
D．bargaining
【17】
A．standard
B．range
C．view
D．goal
【18】
A．until
B．as
C．when
D．before
【19】
A．proud
B．tired
C．ashamed
D．confident
【20】
A．plan
B．advice
C．reward
D．responsibility
26、假定你是李华，准备参加学校举办的演讲比赛，请用英文写一篇演讲稿，简单介绍中国古代四大发明之一。
内容包括:
1．四大发明之一；
2．意义或影响；
3．对你的启发。
The Four Great Inventions
Papermaking Gunpowder Printing Compass
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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