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1、--- Kim, give me your report by 1O am.
--- __ have you been in charge of this project?
A. Since when B. By whom
C. For what D. From where
2、Please do me a favor — _______ my friend Mr. Smith to Youth Theater at 7:30 tonight.
A. to invite B. inviting
C. invite D. invited
3、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
4、It is so good a habit to instruct children to lay things _______ they belong when they are young.
A. to which B. that
C. in which D. where
5、______ Air Asia aircraft of Indonesia, with 162 people on _____board, is reported to have crashed into the sea.
A. An; a B. The; a
C. An; 不填 D.不填; 不填
6、I ______ for six months．I'm really out of shape．
A．hadn't exercised
B．didn't exercise
C．don't exercise
D．haven't exercised
7、– Do we get paid this week?
– ______! I’m running out of money.
A. No way B. No problem
C. I hope so. D. I’m afraid not
8、Thanks for bringing so many beautiful balloons, which____the festival atmosphere.
A. led to. B. added to. C. appealed to. D. turned to.
9、--- You _________ this book for me. I borrowed copy from Tom yesterday.
--- Well, why didn’t you call and let me know?
A. must have bought B. needn’t have bought
C. can’t have bought D. shouldn’t have bought
10、 Following the decline in house prices in many small and medium-sized cities, there are now signs home prices in majors cities may also be set for a slide．
A． which B． that C． how D． what
11、I send you my revised catalogue and price list, ______ you may find something that suits you.
A. to hope B. hoping C. hoped D. hope
12、—The constant noise around here______ me crazy！
—Calm down．It’s no use complaining．
A． drove B． drives
C． is driving D． had driven
13、Officials say that few patients ____with the COVID-19 owing to the effective prevention.
A.infected B.have infected C.be infected D.are infected
14、When working on a tough project, you need to keep ________ the guidelines to ensure you’re always on the track.
A．preserving
B．reserving
C．observing
D．deserving
15、In the front of the hall ______ a group of pupils, who were listening to the lecture attentively.
A．seated
B．sat
C．sit
D．was sitting
16、You don’t have to know the name of the author to find a book. You _____ find the book by the title.
A.must B.need C.can D.would
17、Nowadays it’s easier for students to gain ______ to good learning resources online.
A.privilege B.preference C.access D.permission
18、 I believe the world is ______ you think it is. So smile at the world and it will smile back.
A. which B. how C. that D. what
19、Today APEC is playing a more important role in the world stage，______ purpose is to promote economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific area．
A. where B. whose C. when D. Which
20、________ why he went there, he said he was sent to be trained for a space flight.
A．Being asked
B．Asked
C．Having asked
D．Asking
21、 Hardware in general, and smartphones in particular, have become a huge environmental and health problem in the Global South' s landfill sites(垃圾填埋场).
Electronic waste(e-waste) currently takes up 5 percent of all global waste, and it is set to increase rapidly as more of us own more than one smartphone, laptop and power bank. They end up in places like Agbogbloshie on the outskirts of Ghana's capital, Accra.It is the biggest e-waste dump in the world, where 10,000 informal workers walk through tons of abandoned goods as part of an informal recycling process.They risk their health searching for the precious metals that are found in abandoned smartphones.
But Agbogbloshie should not exist. The Basel Convention, a 1989 treaty aims to prevent developed nations from unauthorized dumping of e-waste in less developed countries. The E-waste industry, however, circumvents the regulations by exporting e-waste labelled as “secondhand goods” to poor countries like Ghana, knowing full well that it is heading for a landfill site.
A recent report found Agbogbloshie contained some of the most dangerous chemicals.This is not surprising: smartphones contain chemicals like mercury(水银), lead and even arsenic (砷 ) Reportedly, one egg from a free-range chicken in Agbogbloshie contained a certain chemical which can cause cancer and damage the immune system at a level that's about 220 times greater than a limit set by the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), Most worryingly, these poisonous chemicals are free to pollute the broader soil and water system. This should concern us all, since some of Ghana's top exports are cocoa and nuts.
Some governments have started to take responsibility for their consumers' waste.For example, Germany has started a project that includes a sustainable recycling system at Agbogbloshie, along with a health clinic for workers.However, governments cannot solve the problem alone, as there is am almost limitless consumer demand for hardware, especially when governments’ green policies are focused on issues like climate change.
Only the manufacturers can fix this.A more economically sustainable and politically possible solution is through encouraging hardware manufacturers to make the repair, reuse and recycling of hardware profitable, or at least cost-neutral.
【1】What can we infer from paragraph2?
A.Electronic products need improving urgently.
B.Electronic waste is too complex to get fully recycled.
C.Electronic waste requires more landfill sites across Ghana.
D.Electronic pollution is a burning question in Agbogbloshie.
【2】What does the underlined word"circumvents" in paragraph 3 mean?
A.Tightens
B.Abolishes
C.Avoids
D.Follows
【3】What should be the biggest concern according to the text?
A.The violation of EFSA’s standard
B.The lack of diversity in Ghana s exports.
C.The damage to chickens immune system
D.The threat of polluted food around the world
【4】What does the author think is the best solution to the e-waste problem?
A.Manufacturers' developing a sustainable hardware economy.
B.Governments' adjusting their green policies about e-waste.
C.Reducing customers' demands for electronic products.
D.Letting governments take on the main responsibility.
22、Must-read Books for the Year
Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32
By B.C. R. Fegan
Enter for the chance to win a paperback of Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32. The magical Hotel of Hoo is a mysterious place with some very unusual occupants. As our guests explore the strange hotel, they are invited to experience everything it has to offer with just one warning—don't ever look behind Door 32.
Our Teenage Years :Growing up in a small town in the 80's
By T.J. Wray
This is a true story about growing up in a small town in Oklahoma, in the 1980s. It's about the wild adventures and stories of two best friends trying to survive their teenage years, dealing with parents and siblings(兄弟姐妹)，or just trying to survive high school.
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership?
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
By Philip Pullman
One of the most highly praised and best selling authors of our time now gives us a book that records the history of his love for stories—from his own books to those of William Blake, John Milton, Charles Dickens and the Brothers Grimm, among others—and explores the role of stories in education. Daemon Voices is both a look at the writing mind and methods of a great contemporary master and a fascinating exploration of storytelling itself.
For more information, please click here.
【1】By viewing the web page, you are likely to win a free copy of________
A．Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32
B．Our Teenage Years: Growing up in a small town in the 80's
C．Leadership: In Turbulent Times
D．Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
【2】What is Our Teenage Years :Growing up in a small town in the 80's about?
A．Leadership.
B．Growing up.
C．Love for stories.
D．A magical hotel.
【3】What can you learn from Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling ?
A．Surviving in the 1980s.
B．The role of stories in education.
C．Siblings adventures.
D．History of leadership development.
23、Cheaters called “pirates” often use camcorders(便携式摄像机) and cell phones to make illegal copies of blockbusters in the local theater. These pirates then sell those recordings on the street or over the Internet for very low prices. Some share them for free.
“It’s unfair for people to pirate movies,” says 15-year-old Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin. Movie piracy “takes money out of the pockets of thousands of people in the movie industry,” she notes. Victims include famous actors and directors as well as local theater owners and their employees.
Hadaia came up with an idea that could help stop movie piracy. Hadaia’s idea uses infrared(红外线的) light. This range of light is invisible to the human eye. It is visible, however, to many types of cameras. Theater owners could place small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie. It would, however, distort the recordings made by many types of cameras.
To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside. Then, she projected images on that screen through a hole in the box. She took recordings of those images, using nine different types of cameras. These included the types found in cell phones as well as camcorders. During some tests, she also turned on light emitting diodes(发光二极管), or LEDs. The LEDs were embedded（植入的）in a certain place behind the movie screen. They gave out infrared light.
Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on. It might be possible to use the LEDs to flash the date and time on the movie screen. The information would then appear in the illegal recordings. Theater owners or police might use the information to track down the pirates.
Cutting down on piracy might get more people into theaters to watch the real movie instead of an illegal copy. Six out of every ten films now produced aren’t profitable. They don’t make enough money to recover how much was spent to make and market them. Such a poor payback can discourage filmmakers from producing anything but the types expected to become blockbuster hits. It might also keep smaller theaters from showing a wider variety of movie types.
【1】From what Hadaia says in Paragraph 2, we can infer that _______.
A. most people spend less money on pirates moves
B. the pirates don’t have to pay for the movie tickets
C. theater owners will increase the price of movie tickets
D. she strongly criticizes those who video movies in the theater
【2】Infrared lights are put on the movie screens to _______.
A. adjust the brightness of the movie screens
B. make sure the images of movies are dark
C. make illegal copies of movies unpleasant to see
D. protect the eyesight of viewers in the darkness
【3】What is the correct order of the steps in Hadaia’s test?
a. She projected pictures on the screen.
b. She used cameras to record the pictures.
c. She turned on the LEDs placed behind the screen.
d. She made a special box with a movie screen inside.
A. d c a b B. d b a c
C. b a c d D. b c a d
【4】According to the last paragraph, we can know that _______.
A. forty percent of movies now are profitable
B. small theaters often choose to show low-cost movies
C. more and more people go to theaters to fight movie piracy
D. filmmakers prefer to produce ordinary movies than blockbusters
24、 In Central America, sea turtle eggs are a popular cuisine dish. The eggs are hugely and secretly harvested onto tables, leaving the sea turtles listed as threatened. Yet we simply do not have the ability to continuously guard large beaches. Scientist Kim Williams was thinking hard when she had an “aha” moment: How about placing a fake(假的) egg containing a GPS tracker.
That’s how the special eggs come in. To build them:Williams and colleagues used a 3D printer. Then:they fixed in the smallest GPS tracking devices. As mother turtles laid their eggs under cover of night, the researchers slipped a single spy egg into each nest. Once they are covered in sand from the real ones: “it’s very difficult to tell the difference,” says Williams.
Of the 101 spy eggs, 25 were taken away while six of them were quickly discovered and left on the beach. The team received tracking data with the farthest egg travelling 137 kilometers inland and stopping at a local supermarket. The spy egg sent its final signal the next day from a personal house, suggesting that the research team had tracked the eggs all the way. The researchers stress that the tracker is not a way to catch local thieves: many of whom are living in poverty(贫穷), but rather a tool to better understand how the deal goes.
Still stopping stealing is not as simple as handing the tracking data over to the police. Across Central America, trade in sea turtle eggs can be legally ambiguous. In Costa Rica:for example, it is illegal to steal and sell sea turtle eggs but buying them is not a crime. It is not black and white. Meanwhile, local support is in need above all. “It but not tracking with eggs, is the real meat and potatoes of conservation,” says Williams.
【1】What is the major threat to the existence of sea turtles?
A.Unsafe GPS trackers. B.Unguarded Sea Beaches.
C.The popular dishes of sea turtles. D.The overhunt of turtle eggs.
【2】How does Williams explain her study in paragraph 2?
A.By listing scientific data. B.By making a comparison.
C.By clarifying the process. D.By using an expert’s words.
【3】The researchers tracked so many spy eggs to________.
A.test the GPS trackers
B.catch the egg thieves
C.look into the whole deal of turtle eggs
D.learn about the current situation of sea turtles
【4】Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A.Spy Eggs Save Endangered Sea Turtles
B.Sea Turtles Draw International Concern
C.GPS Trackers Improve Tracking Accuracy
D.Central America Need Wildlife Protection
25、 Many little kids dream of changing the world, but how does someone so_________make a difference to a place so big? This 5-year-old boy from the UK may have found a_________.
Toby is reaching out to every country through letters. He’s_______to contact at least one person from each country -- and get a_________. Toby’s mission began with a_______assignment from school. His mother, Sabine, said.
He was asked to read a book called A Letter to New Zealand, which _________ the journey a letter takes. _________reading it, he asked, “Mummy, can I write a letter to New Zealand?” And while I was still trying to _________ how to answer that, he said, “Can I write a letter to the _________ world?”
At first she thought his__________ for the project would __________, but 239 letters later, Toby is still going strong. __________ he’s written to 187 countries and received many replies. But Toby’s project won’t __________ there. The 5-year-old also wants to find a way to help the people he’s __________ with.
“When we started writing letters, we __________with easily accessible First World countries,” his mother added. “Suddenly, we got a(n) __________in Somalia. When we researched the country, Toby was __________ and asked what he could do to help. Together, we __________a charity whose work was accessible to children.”
Toby chose the ShelterBox, a charity that provides for families and children who have __________everything due to disasters. Just today, Toby met his __________ of raising $ 950. “I want the world to be a better place,”Toby said.
【1】A.small B.noisy C.lovely D.clever
【2】A.partner B.skill C.friend D.way
【3】A.careful B.determined C.satisfied D.proud
【4】A.response B.story C.permit D.result
【5】A.speaking B.writing C.listening D.reading
【6】A.begins B.describes C.explains D.completes
【7】A.Until B.Before C.After D.Despite
【8】A.show B.understand C.prepare for D.figure out
【9】A.free B.new C.whole D.other
【10】A.support B.concern C.enthusiasm D.sympathy
【11】A.return B.spread C.fade D.develop
【12】A.After all B.However C.So far D.Therefore
【13】A.pass B.end C.apply D.expand
【14】A.connected B.stayed C.played D.competed
【15】A.kicked off B.negotiated C.worked D.caught up
【16】A.idea B.address C.question D.deal
【17】A.scared B.excited C.happy D.sad
【18】A.looked for B.set up C.headed for D.dropped into
【19】A.requested B.lost C.recorded D.provided
【20】A.standard B.match C.challenge D.goal
26、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
It’s a really good idea to visit colleges before you apply because their websites can all start to look and sound the same. Nothing will give you the sense of what it will actually be like to live on a college campus(校园) like visiting and seeing for yourself the dorms, classrooms and athletic equipment and, of course, the students. It seems a little crazy once senior year hits to find the time to visit college campuses, and it can also be pricey if the schools you are applying to happen to be more than a car ride away. But keep in mind that you are making a decision about the next four years of your life, and do all the research you can to make sure you are making the right one.
There’s no excuse not to visit the schools in your local area. In fact, a lot of college applications even ask if you have visited campus, and obviously, if you live across the country that won’t be as much of a possibility, but if you live nearby, go check it out!
If campus visits aren’t going to happen before you apply, at the very least you should find some time between applying and getting your acceptance letters to visit the schools you’d like to attend. It can save you a lot of heartache if you rule out now the things that you don’t like about certain campuses, things that you wouldn’t know unless you actually visit.
Now, if time and money are making it impossible, then check out the online college fairs at CollegeWeekLive. It’s a chance to chat online with admissions officers, students, and college counselors (顾问), and it won’t cost you a penny! You can register for its online college fair at collegeweeklive.com. While visiting an online college fair can’t take the place of an actual campus visit, it can be a very useful tool that along with all your other research will help you make an informed decision about which colleges or universities you’d like to attend.
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