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1、The number of pupils in school with reading difficulties ________ this year.
A．have fallen
B．was falling
C．has fallen
D．were falling
2、--What happened to the young trees we planted last week?
--The trees _________ well, but I didn’t water them.
A. might grow B. must have grown
C. would have grown D. would grow
3、Chairman Xi Jinping and Jong-un held talks, reaching the important _____ that the two sides agreed to make joint efforts to push for continuous new development of China-DPRK relationships in the new era.
A. consistence B. consensus
C. conscience D. compromise
4、--Your phone number again？I _____quite catch it．
-- It’s 9568422．
A. didn’t B. couldn’t
C. don’t D. can’t
5、Wang Zhizhi's return has _________basketball fans of a far better result in the coming title contest.
A.convinced B.expected C.accused D.believed
6、It is universally recognized that how one performs when faced with fierce competition can ________ the best in them.
A.bring out B.pull out C.turn out D.put out
7、—This new dress code ______ everyone at school, teachers and students alike.
—Yes, there are no exceptions.
A.contributes to B.subscribes to C.adds to D.applies to
8、 _____the size of the universe, some researchers believe that there is life beyond our planet.
A. Consider B. To consider
C. Considered D. Considering
9、The young student did all that he could _____the examination.
A.pass B.to pass C.passing D.passed
10、— My parents will take me to Shanghai Disneyland this summer holiday.
— .
A．Good luck to you
B．It’s a good idea
C．Best wishes to you
D．Have a good time
11、Normally, I would never do anything like skydiving, but I ________ to give it a try since the lessons were free.
A．decided
B．had decided
C．would decide
D．have decided
12、He failed the driving test though he __________for a long time.
A. practises B. has practised
C. was practising D. had been practising
13、We feel our duty to make our country a better place.
A．it
B．this
C．that
D．one
14、The true traveler sets out to make an independent, unhurried journey to the unknown, travelling ________ few people have set foot.
A. in which B. what C. when D. where
15、I was about to start the period __________suddenly there was a knock on the door.
A．while
B．as
C．which
D．when
16、Television is more than an electronic equipment; it _____ a powerful tool for communication.
A.was becoming B.has become C.had become D.will become
17、–Peter, do you know how to download the new software?
–Certainly. I _____ you the steps.
A. show B. am showing
C. will show D. have shown
18、_____ all my money on the car, I can’t afford a holiday with my friend this summer.
A. Spending B. Spend
C. To spend D. Having spent
19、I don’t like sad movies because it usually makes me ________
A．crying
B．cries
C．to cry
D．cry
20、I want to learn about your holidays. Could you tell me how you usually_______ Thanksgiving Day in your country ?
A. Congratulate B. remind
C. remember D. observe
21、By the middle of the second day I know I'm in trouble. In front of me the land stretches up and away towards a distant hill, and into the space, between that hill and me, is crowded one of the most vivid concentrations of color I have ever seen. It starts with the trees. The wet season is the only a few weeks off and almost as if they can smell the coming rains, they have put out their leaves. They are no ordinary green and the dry grasses beneath them are shining with golds, browns, and reds. I want to recreate this scene with watercolors. Although I can make a try at it with words, trying to paint it in my sketch book is another matter altogether. I've already made one attempt: a series of lines in orange and red, with bluish trees placed across them, which now lies face down in the grass beside me.
I've put it there because the last thing I want right now is for someone else to come along and look at it. A young man called Royale walks up the hill. Royale is a sculptor, and, with several other local men, produces pieces of work in the local stone. Recently, and quite suddenly, this work, and that of several other local co-operatives, has acquired an international reputation. I certainly don't want a man capable of such things looking at my own awful painting. So I put my foot, as casually as I can, on the finished one beside me and we resume the conversation started earlier in the day.
I want to talk to Royale about his life here. He, however, is only interested in what I am up to. To begin with, it seems that he considers me a fellow artist, and for a moment I find myself staring into the depths of embarrassment. But when he asks me, "what is painting like?" I realize that this professional artist has never painted anything in his life before. He just wants to go with my colors.
When I signed up for this holiday, I was hoping for an experience like the one I had had four years earlier in Wales. That was my first painting holiday, and I love it. Two things made it great. First was the teacher, a man called Robin, who showed me that what is important about drawing and painting is not the finished article but the process of completing it. The second element of that week was the place. I grew up in places like that, and I connected with it immediately. But it was stupid of me to think that I could reproduce the experience down here, deep in the Southern Hemisphere. Zimbabwe is not a part of me, nor I of it. Trying to draw it for the first time, from a standing start, is like trying to start a conversation in Swahili.
【1】What problem does the writer have at the beginning of her holiday?
A．The weather is not good enough for painting.
B．She's brought the wrong materials with her.
C．There are no animals that she can paint.
D．She can't reproduce the exact color.
【2】The writer hid her work because ________.
A．she thought it would disappoint Royale.
B．she believed Royale painted better
C．it wasn't good enough to sell
D．it was only a quick sketch
【3】What does the writer mean by "what I am up to" in paragraph 3?
A．What I might do.
B．What I am painting.
C．What I will give him.
D．What I can teach him.
【4】What does the writer say about her previous painting holiday?
A．The landscape was more familiar to her.
B．Her technique had improved much faster.
C．She preferred the teacher she had had then.
D．She had been able to complete a number of paintings.
22、Celebrity TV presenter Ju Ping has been a host on China Central Television for 30 years, but her recent experience hosting a charity event was one of the most special moments in her career.
On April 2, World Autism (自闭症) Day, Ju partnered with Xia Junqi, a 17-year-old autistic teenager, to host a charity gala at the Beijing National Aquatics Center, otherwise known as the Water Cube.
The event was organized by One Foundation, which aims to increase public awareness of autistic people and their needs.
Autism is a neural disorder that can impair sufferers’ communication skills and social interactions. Sufferers have restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior. It affects about 1.6 million people in China, with medical studies suggesting autism may affect one in every 166 children.
Autism has no cure. For many years it went largely undiagnosed in China but early intervention (干预，治疗) and continuous education may help to teach the autistic self-help skills and lessen their problematic behavior.
The gala(晚会) featured autistic children singing, dancing and performing, and was greeted with enthusiastic applause from the audience.
Cai Chunzhu, a celebrity playwright, recalled feeling heartbroken when his son was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. He says his family struggled to accept the reality but finally made peace with the diagnoses in the past four years. He says the boy lives in his own world and is trained in an intervention facility. Sun Zhongkai, executive director of the Beijing Stars and Rain Institute for Autism, one of the earliest intervention facilities for autistic children in China, shared with audience his deep sorrow for parents who often broke down with desperation when he told them there was no cure for their autistic children.
Over the years, Chinese society has become more supportive of autistic people and their families, but there are still challenges in terms of getting autistic people employed and looking after them when their parents pass away.
Actor Zhou Xun also called on society to show greater understanding and support toward autistic children and their families.
【1】The underlined word “impair” in Paragraph 4 most probably mean?
A. cause B. improve C. increase D. damage
【2】Which of the following statements about Autism is FALSE?
A. It is a kind of illness that cannot be cured.
B. Nothing can be done about it.
C. People in China were not well aware of it in the past.
D. A lot of children suffer from it in China.
【3】What can we know from Paragraph 7?
A. It is quite difficult for parents to accept that their children have autism.
B. Training in an intervention facility can stop children with autism living in their own world.
C. There is only one intervention facility for autistic children in China.
D. Doctors often break down when they tell parents their children have autism.
【4】Where does this text probably come from?
A. A TV interview. B. A medicine magazine.
C. A newspaper. D. A book review.
23、Solar stills (蒸馏器) provide a clever and simple means of purifying dirty or salty water, but they work at a rather slow rate. A new material has been shown to boost their performance, and it’s made from fruit waste which would otherwise be thrown away.
In its most basic form, a conventional solar still consists of a basin of undrinkable water that is set beneath a cover. The water evaporates (蒸发) as it’s heated by the sun, condensing (凝结) on the inside surface of the cover. That condensation—which is pure, clean water-drops down the cover and is collected in a separate container for drinking. In order to warm the dirty/salty water at a faster rate, scientists have developed materials that float on its surface, transforming sunlight into heat. They commonly use carbon obtained from coal.
To seek a less costly and more environmentally-friendly alternative, Prof. Edison and colleagues at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looked to something that is free for the taking—fruit waste. More specifically, the scientists tried out coconut peels, orange peels and banana peels.
In a simple carbonization process, the fruit waste was heated at 850℃for a few hours, and mixed with a kind of chemical substance. Doing so transformed the fruit waste into a new material which has a very highlight-to-heat transforming efficiency.
When tested in a small solar still, this new material proved to be very effective at transforming sunlight into heat, causing the dirty/salty water to evaporate much more rapidly. And because the material is full of holes, the waters team is able to rise right through it, subsequently condensing on the inside of the still’s cover.
Prof. Edison and his team found material obtained from the coconut peels worked best, as it transformed sunlight to heat with an efficiency rate of 94%. They are now developing the technology further, and are seeking industry partners to help with its commercialization.
【1】What is the paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．The working principle of solar stills.
B．The advantages of conventional solar stills.
C．The new materials of building a solar still.
D．The different ways of purifying dirty water.
【2】Why did Prof. Edison and his colleagues tryout fruit waste as an alternative?
A．To solve the problem of environmental pollution.
B．To find out more eco-friendly materials.
C．To expand the applied range of the solar still.
D．To make solar stills much easier and less costly.
【3】What did the scientists do in the carbonization process?
A．Get more wastewater from the solar still.
B．Test chemical substances in the solar still.
C．Obtain an efficient water-purifying material.
D．Take measures to improve water quality.
【4】What is the best title of the text?
A．Scientists are transforming sunlight into heat
B．Simple process turns fruit waste into new material
C．Solar still s are the best way to get drinking water
D．New technology helps, solar stills reach the customers
24、 In an interview in 1958, Ermest Hemingway made an admission that has inspired novelists ever since:The final words of "A Farewell to Arms", his wartime classic, were rewritten “39 times before I was satisfied."Those endings have never been published together in their entirety, according to his longtime publisher, Scribner.
A new edition of "A Farewell to Arms", will be released soon, including all the different endings, with early drafts of other passages in the book. The new edition concludes that the 39 endings that Hemingway referred to are really more like 47. They have been kept in the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F.Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston since 1979. The endings are named and gathered in an appendix in the new edition, a 330-page book whose cover uses the novel's original artwork.
For readers of Hemingway the endings are a fascinating look into how the novel could have
ended with different endings. And since most modern authors produce their work on computers, the new edition also serves as an artifact,with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out,giving readers a sense of an author's process.
Hemingway also left behind a list of titles, like "World Enough and Time," "Of Wounds and Other Causes,""The Enchantment,"and etc,which are reprinted in the new edition.
Patrick Hemingway,Ernest Hemingway's only surviving son, said that when Scribner suggested the raw material be published, he agreed. "They do give insight into how Hemingway was thinking, but no matter how much you analyze a classic bit of writing,you can never really figure out what makes talent work."said Patrick Hemingway,who is 84.
Susan Moldow, the publisher of Scribner, says that Hemingway is an all-time strong seller. After reading the various endings,Ms.Moldow added, she didn't question the author's decision; the ending has stood the test of time. She said,"I think we have to be glad that he chose the ending in line with his Style."
【1】What can we know about "A Farewell to Arms"?
A.It is a novel written during the times of wars.
B.Scribner has never published Hemingway's works.
C.Hemingway tried to write a satisfying ending for it.
D.Other writers rewrite their works mostly because of its success.
【2】What can't readers find in the new edition according to the passage?
A.47 endings of the book.
B.Handwritten notes by Hemingway.
C.Different unused names of the book.
D.A picture of an artifact made by Hemingway.
【3】What can we know from Patrick Hemingway's Words?
A.Publishing the new edition is thought to be a good idea.
B.It is difficult to find a writer as talented as Ernest Hemingway.
C.Readers never really understand Ernest Hemingway's works.
D.The drafts of the novels are valued more than the novels.
【4】What does Susan Moldow think of the final ending of the book?
A.Ironic.
B.Classic.
C.Average.
D.Interesting.
25、From Zero to Hero: Italy’s Chinese Help Beat Coronavirus
When Chinese-born businessman Luca Zhou flew home from China on Feb 4 to rejoin his family in Prato, Italy, he put himself straight into quarantine (隔离) in his bedroom for 14 days, _______ from his wife and son. “We had learned about the COVID-19 disease and known what was _______ in our homeland and we were _______ for ourselves, our families and friends,” said the 56-year-old, who has a _______ exporting Italian wine to China.
After emerging _______ his self-quarantine, he walked outside in _______ and gloves. He said the few other Chinese on the _______ also wore them, _______ not to communicate the virus to others. “My _______ friends looked strangely at me. I tried many times to ____________ to them that they should wear them…but they didn’t ____________,” Luca said. “When I came back to Prato, no Italian authority told me anything. We did it all by ourselves. If we had not done it, we would all be infected (感染), Chinese and Italians.”
Back from new year holidays in China, many were fully aware what was coming and ____________ the word: stay home. So as Italians headed to the ski slopes and ____________ into cafes and bars as ____________, the Chinese inhabitants (居民) of Prato had seemingly ____________.
As Italian infections began to ____________ in late February and early March, some families, many of whom keep Chinese citizenship, even began ____________ children to relatives in China, alarmed at the ____________ and behavior of Italians around them.
Soon the disease took away many lives and perhaps it was then ____________ the locals began to realize how ____________ and wisely the Chinese were behaving.
【1】
A．appointed
B．kept
C．interrupted
D．separated
【2】
A．happening
B．storing
C．developing
D．considering
【3】
A．surprised
B．afraid
C．eager
D．ashamed
【4】
A．business
B．mission
C．problem
D．tradition
【5】
A．through
B．in
C．from
D．for
【6】
A．vest
B．mask
C．blanket
D．ambulance
【7】
A．courts
B．yards
C．poles
D．streets
【8】
A．anxious
B．upset
C．cruel
D．considerate
【9】
A．close
B．Chinese
C．Italian
D．new
【10】
A．explain
B．apologize
C．whisper
D．scream
【11】
A．answer
B．notice
C．hesitate
D．understand
【12】
A．support
B．spread
C．recite
D．announce
【13】
A．crowded
B．faded
C．sank
D．divided
【14】
A．yet
B．such
C．necessary
D．normal
【15】
A．escaped
B．disappeared
C．suffered
D．relaxed
【16】
A．take over
B．take on
C．take off
D．take in
【17】
A．delivering
B．sending
C．introducing
D．inviting
【18】
A．welfare
B．innocence
C．concern
D．attitude
【19】
A．when
B．which
C．that
D．why
【20】
A．differently
B．immediately
C．strangely
D．roughly
26、假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你班的交换生Jim对中华传统文化感兴趣，准备下学期选修一门相关课程，向你征询建议。请给Jim写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 推荐一门选修课；
2. 说明推荐的理由；
3. 提出学习这门课程的建议。
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