1、It is naive to expect that any society can resolve all the social problems it is faced with ______ .
A.for long
B.in and out
C.once for all
D.by nature
2、The story was so moving that I could hardly ______ my tears.
A.hold up
B.hold on
C.hold on to
D.hold back
3、— Waiter, a glass of beer and a plate of salad.
— OK, I’ll serve you ________.
A.on time
B.all the time
C.at one time
D.in no time
4、In a typical business situation, women, find themselves bumping their heads on "glass ceiling", a barrier to their career which may be impossible to break
A.as they might try B.try as they might
C.hardly as they try D.as they try very hard
5、I’ve the habit of calling in on my grandparents on my way home from school.
A.come into B.gone into C.got into D.run into
6、-I stayed up late last night writing a report.
—______! You look so tired.
A.No wonder
B.Not likely
C.No way
D.Not yet
7、 The main street is lined with small stands and shops _____ sell almost anything you can imagine.
A. what B. where C. who D. which
8、I didn't know ________ .
A.how long they have married
B.why she married with him
C.when she married him
D.when they have been married
9、Some of the members demanded to know why they had been kept _________ the true facts until they reached the present critical stage.
A.in view of B.in honor of
C.in place of D.in ignorance of
10、_______ I’m willing to help, I don’t have much time available.
A.As
B.While
C.As though
D.Since
11、It was the deep love and encouragement of my teammates_________ helped me gain the greatest strength and meet the challenges in life.
A. what B. which C. who D. that
12、Some experts think, ______ genes, intelligence also depends on an adequate diet, a good education and a nice home environment.
A.instead of
B.except of
C.apart from
D.rather than
13、Nelson Mandela devoted all his life to the struggle of the African people and of every nation that seeks freedom.
A.it B.one C.those D.that
14、But for those interruptions, the meeting _____ half an hour ago.
A. was finished B. would have finished
C. would finish D. had been finished
15、The contract guarantees you ________ the damage by fire or flood.
A. against B. by
C. with D. for
16、I knew a lot about the subject already, but her talk was interesting _____
A.besides B.otherwise C.nevertheless D.moreover
17、Nowadays, it’s a challenge to protect your ______, for your personal information is everywhere.
A. personality B. family
C. identity D. right
18、I forget where I learned the saying, or I _____ it to you now.
A. will show B. would show
C. am going to show D. am showing
19、It was playing computer games ______took the boy a lot of time that he ought to have spent on his lessons.
A.that
B.what
C.which
D.it
20、The Bakers intend to buy a house but _____ must be within their power.
A.they B.one C.it D.which
21、Whether you’re looking for a gifted idea, or you are hoping to find a way to help your teen make better choices, there are a variety of books on the market that can help you.
●Do Hard Things
Written by twin brothers, Alex and Brett Harris, Do Hard Things says that how expectations are the reason why teens are not motivated to create a better world for themselves. By encouraging readers to take the hard road and put challenges in front of themselves, teens can gain motivation to achieve greater things in life.
●Who Moved My cheese?
Adolescence is filled with change and uncertainty and this book, written by Spencer Johnson, helps young people learn how to adapt. Rather than resist change, teens can learn how to accept change and develop increased resilience. It’ll undoubtedly help teens create positive change in their lives as well.
●The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Success
The author, Mawi Asgedom, overcame adversity when he grew up during civil war in Ethiopia and became a student on scholarship to Harvard. In this quick reading, your teen will learn valuable lessons from Asgedom’s own real life examples, and receive practical direction.
●What Color Is Your Parachute for Teens
Written by career authorities Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles, this book will help teen discover their interests, which could be beneficial in helping them decide on a future. The book is a quick reading and has been updated to include the social media aspect of finding a career and job.
【1】Who is the passage intended for?
A.Parents.
B.Students.
C.Educators.
D.Teachers.
【2】If students have trouble getting used to a new environment, they are advised to read ________.
A.Do Hard Things
B.Who Moved My Cheese?
C.What Color Is Your Parachute for Teens
D.The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Success
【3】Whose book may be the most attractive to students who will graduate from college?
A.Alex and Brett Harris’s.
B.Spencer Johnson’s.
C.Mawi Asgedom’s.
D.Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles’s.
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【1】What will people do on the tour?
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C.Stay a few nights in caves.
D.Do a lot of shopping.
【2】Which of the following is most likely to join the tour?
A.A Beijing businessman good at golf.
B.A Japanese model loving fashion.
C.A Yunnan biologist interested in birds.
D.An American student learning history.
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23、 From self-driving cars to carebots for elderly people, rapid advances in technology have long represented a potential treat to many jobs normally performed by people.
But experts now believe that almost 50 percent of occupations existing today will be completely unnecessary by 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to transform businesses. This could put some people’s livelihoods at risk.
“Experts predict that 50 percent of occupations today will no longer exist by 2025 as people will take up more creative professions,”said Martin Chen, Chief Operating Officer of Genesis.“This means that jobs will develop and so will real estate development.”
Workspaces with rows of desks will become completely extra, not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose no longer exists, according to the report.“The next fifteen years will see a revolution in how we work, and a corresponding revolution will necessarily take place on how we plan and think about workplaces,”said Peter Andrew, Director of Workplace Strategy for GBRE Asia Pacific.
A growing proportion of jobs in the future will require creativity intelligence, social skills and the ability to apply artificial intelligence.“And for most people that will be a route to happiness and fulfillment,”the report states.
Data in the US suggests that technology already destroys more jobs than it creates, as GDP has been able grow faster than employment since 2000. A 2014 report by Pew Research found 52 percent of experts in artificial and robotics were optimistic about the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few decades.
The optimists imagined “a future in which robots and digital agents do not replace more jobs than they create,”Microsoft’s Jonathan Grudin told researchers that: “Technology will continue to break up jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created. Although there have always been unemployment people, when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs. There is no shortage of things that need to be done and that will not change.”
【1】What will put some people’s livelihood at risk in fifteen years of time?
A.Self-driving cars and carebots.
B.Artificial intelligence.
C.Business.
D.Real estate.
【2】Why will desks in offices be unnecessary by 2025?
A.The office revolution will make people rethink about their work.
B.The desks will no longer be fit for the purpose.
C.There will no purpose of using the desks.
D.The development of technology removes the need for desks.
【3】What can be implied in what Jonathan Grudin said in the last paragraph?
A.There will be billions of people in fifteen years of time.
B.Enough jobs will be created for everyone to choose from.
C.Robots and digital agents create more jobs than they destroy.
D.People needn’t worry about their jobs in the future.
【4】What can be the best title of the passage?
A.2025, A Jobless World.
B.2025, Robots Leave Humans Unemployed.
C.There Will Be No Desks in future.
D.Half of Our Jobs Will Be Unnecessary by 2025.
24、It was a discovery that could change science. “We hit the jackpot (头奖) here,” said a British scientist, Guillem, about the discovery of a planet “more or less” like Earth that is orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our solar system.
What do we know about this exciting new Earth? Well, Proxima b, or “Earth II” as you could call it, is a little bigger than our Earth. Also, since it is so much closer to its red dwarf star than we are to the sun, the sky on its world is orange without any blue at all, creating a forever sunset effect.
There are a lot of questions for life forms that could live on this new planet. As the Chicago Tribune wrote in an article: “First, as reporter Lois Lane asked Superman in the first movie, Do you eat? Do you have poetry? Do you have any interest in visiting other worlds? If so, put Earth on your Must See list.”
The discovery of the planet made the Chicago Tribune newspaper wonder if anyone had seen or heard of the U.S.’ space postcards from its Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 space probes, sent up into space in 1972 and the next year.
Included with the probes were pictures of a man and a woman, along with diagrams of the solar system. Gold records were also sent up into space on Voyager probes in 1977. If aliens on Proxima b had played the record, they would have found sounds and images that showed the incredible diversity of Earth.
Aliens might also have heard the message from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: “This is a present from a small distant world… our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic (星系的) civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in an … awesome universe.”
It might not be time to plan a visit to Proxima b just yet—even if it has an atmosphere—because first, we would need to invent a way to get there in less than the 78,000 years it would take at 36,000 mph (about 57,900 km/h).
“Proxima b looks to us like a promising Plan B, just in case things go really south on this blue planet,” the Chicago Tribune wrote.
【1】Which of the following is TRUE about Proxima b?
A.Proxima b is bigger and closer to the sun than Earth.
B.It is a newly discovered star in the solar system.
C.Proxima b has an atmosphere like the Earth
D.The sky of Proxima b turns orange at sunset.
【2】The postcards and records were sent up into space on probes to ________.
A.show off the incredible diversity of Earth to aliens
B.describe Earth and express friendly feelings to aliens
C.test if there were aliens in space
D.invite aliens to visit Earth
【3】What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A.Earth will get worse and worse in the near future.
B.Proxima b seems to be an alternative living place.
C.We will be able to settle in Proxima b soon.
D.Proxima b is more suitable to live in than Earth.
【4】What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To give advice on how to visit a new planet.
B.To illustrate the thrills of moving to a new home in space.
C.To prove that aliens really exist on other planets.
D.To report on the discovery of an interesting new planet.
25、In all one’s lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is ________ oneself that one has the least understanding of. When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate yourself. It seems that everything you seek for is within your ________. When you are going downhill you tend to underestimate yourself.
To get a thorough understanding of oneself is to gain a correct view of oneself and be a realist-aware of both one’s ________ and weaknesses. You may ________ hopefully to the future but be sure not to ________ too much, for ideals can never be fully realized. You may be ________ to meet challenges but it should be clear to you ________ to direct your efforts. That’s to say, so long as you have a perfect ________ of yourself, there won’t be difficulties you can’t overcome.
To get a thorough understanding of oneself needs self-appreciation. Whether you think you are a towering tree or a blade of grass, a high mountain or a small stone, you represent a state of nature that has its own reason of ________. If you earnestly admire yourself you’ll have a real sense of self-appreciation, which will give you confidence. ________ you gain full confidence in yourself, you’ll be enabled to fight and overcome any difficulty.
To get a thorough understanding of oneself also requires doing oneself a favor when it’s needed. In time of anger, do yourself a favor by giving an outlet to it in a quiet place so that you won’t be hurt by its flames; in time of sadness, do yourself a favor by ________ it with your friends so as to change a gloomy mood into a cheerful one; in time of tiredness, do yourself a favor by getting a good sleep or taking some stimulant. Show yourself loving concern about your health and daily life. ________ you know perfectly well when and how to do yourself a favor, you won’t be confident and ready enough to ________ the attack of illness. As you are aware, what a person physically has is but a human body that’s vulnerable when ________ to the elements. So if you fall ill, it’s up to you to take a good care of yourself.
In a word, to get a thorough understanding of oneself is to get a full ________ of one’s life. Then one will find one’s life full of color and flavor.
【1】
A.permanently
B.previously
C.precisely
D.perfectly
【2】
A.reach
B.budget
C.development
D.brain
【3】
A.shortages
B.disadvantages
C.strengths
D.limitations
【4】
A.look up
B.look back
C.look forward
D.look down
【5】
A.expect
B.analyze
C.inspect
D.dream
【6】
A.honest
B.comprehensive
C.courageous
D.delicate
【7】
A.what
B.which
C.how
D.where
【8】
A.image
B.knowledge
C.system
D.memory
【9】
A.attack
B.criticism
C.popularity
D.existence
【10】
A.As much as
B.As soon as
C.As far as
D.As well as
【11】
A.quarreling
B.arguing
C.sharing
D.blaming
【12】
A.Unless
B.Once
C.Since
D.If
【13】
A.recall
B.restore
C.restart
D.resist
【14】
A.exchanged
B.exposed
C.experienced
D.exported
【15】
A.mark
B.control
C.account
D.recovery
26、阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Maria was practicing with her soccer mates in a tiny school yard. They were all from River Edge Rockers, a soccer team of their community. Suddenly, the ball flew into a deep hole at the edge of the yard. It was the third time that they had lost their ball this month. Without the ball Maria had to wave goodbye to her mates and went home, depressed. "If only there were a regulation soccer field!" she thought.
That evening, seeing her in low spirits, her father asked, "What was the matter, dear?"
“I was just thinking about playing in a brand new soccer field!" Maria answered.
Her father smiled and said, "Tomorrow, a Town Council meeting is to be held to discuss about the use of that vacant lot next to the pet store, Home for Pets. Why not take this opportunity to convince them we need a better field?"
The next day, with the company of her father, Maria and her teammates went to the meeting hall. On their arrival they saw Councilwoman Jill and some citizens already there. They took their seats. After Jill announced the start of the discussion, Maria stood up and spoke first. "Up till now there is no soccer field in our community, which certainly affects our physical health. Our team currently have to practice in a tiny school yard, and only when it's not already booked."
Mrs. Lorries, owner of the pet store, commented, "I couldn't agree more. Kids do need such a field." The Rockers applauded excitedly and the other citizens all agreed it would be a way out.
"A soccer field would be a good use for that lot with overgrown weeds and some large rocks, but to build such one would need a small sum of money and maybe you even need to do all the work on your own." Councilwoman Jill smiled, "Can you manage it?"
Thinking for a while, Maria nodded with a determined look on her face, "The Rockers can do it! We will turn it into a soccer field." The teammates all cheered.
1.续写词数应为150左右; 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Para l:
The following day, the team got together to share ideas for raising money.________
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Para 2:
A week later, the team gathered at the lot, carrying tools purchased with their earnings.________
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