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1、—Have you heard that our primary school will be torn down next year?
—Really? I suppose it is such bad news ________ most of its former and present students will feel upset about.
A. that B. which C. as D. what
2、Many countries are increasing their use of natural gas, wind and other forms of ________.
A.energy B.source C.power D.material
3、A man ought to follow his heart when reading, or _____ he reads as a task will do him little good.
A.that B.how C.why D.what
4、---Is there in today’s magazine?
---Yes, Premier Li Keqiang saw “stay - home children” May,25th．
A. anything special; hundreds of; on
B. something special; hundred of; at
C. special something; hundreds; on
D. anything special; hundreds of; in
5、Neither Mary nor her parents ________ the result of the election, which greatly surprises me.
A. is knowing B. knows C. have known D. has known
6、—I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.
—________, Bill.
A．No problem
B．Go ahead
C．Don’t mention it
D．All right
7、I’ll never forget Professor Smith, ______ influence I took up teaching, determined to dedicate myself to the rewarding career.
A．on which
B．that
C．under whose
D．who
8、Japan is negatively influenced by the US-Japan security agreement, _____ it has relied a lot.
A.where B.when C.on which D.in that
9、Although an earthquake has just happened, people here still ______ their lives as usual.
A. go about B. go through
C. get about D. get through
10、To ensure the safety of the passengers and improve the traffic conditions, a new law has since January 1st, 2021.
A.come into effect B.gotten away with C.brought to light D.come to power
11、A journal is not necessarily a reliable record of facts, for the writer's impressionscolor the telling of events．
A. shall B. might C. should D. must
12、Music should be taught on a regular basis in schools because of the ______ it can bring to the development of children’s brains.
A．systems
B．priorities
C．barriers
D．benefits
13、When making small talk at holiday parties, don’t tell someone who ______ weight how amazing they look. That implies they looked terrible before.
A. has lost B. would lose
C. will be losing D. had lost
14、 With my mother's________ words in my mind, I never doubt I'll succeed.
A. inspired B. inspire
C. inspiring D. to inspire
15、---Johnson said that he had a headache and wouldn’t come to the discussion.
---____________. He always uses that excuse.
A. You are kidding.
B. I won’t buy his story.
C. You have my word.
D. I can’t agree more.
16、I wondered why John kept it a secret. It was not until he three times that he told me the truth.
A. asked B. was asking
C. had asked D. had been asked
17、I don’t think this case is _______________
A.great importance B.of great importance．
C.of very importance D.of very important
18、Due to the heavy traffic, he failed to ________ himself at the party on time.
A. present B. occur
C. qualify D. regard
19、Were it not for the fact that he ______ his work, he ______ enjoying himself by the seaside.
A. completed; wouldn’t have been B. had completed; wouldn’t have been
C. has completed; wouldn’t be D. completes; wouldn’t be
20、We won’t start the work until all the preparations ___________.
A．are being made
B．will be made
C．have been made
D．had been made
21、 For better or worse, many of us never forget those typical British school days and with a website that now brings together over 32, 200 schools, colleges and universities as well as a growing number of users, you won’t have to.
SchoolMates is a networking platform, which helps people find friends from their past. Subscribers（订阅者） simply need to enter their name, email and password and then the school name as well as the years attended. Users then receive an email to inform them when other students from their year sign up.
The easy-to-use website makes it possible for users to share conversations, jokes, stories, memories and photographs. “The website is an extension of social media, but simpler, catering for (为…提供所需) those who don’t want to get swaddled, but still want to feel part of the community,” explains founder and CEO Chris Goodwin. “It enables users to move away from annoying updates and ‘photoshopped lives’ and get straight to reconnecting with friends from the past.”
According to experts, there are several reasons people should reconnect with their roots and reach out to those who once were fundamental part of their lives. Life seems to become more complex and more difficult with age. Reconnecting with past friends can go a long way to helping people accept life as it is now by allowing them to reflect on paths not taken. People often rely only on their own angles, and reconnecting with past friends allows people to see the world in a new light. Not surprisingly, building healthy social connections promotes changes in life.
With booming updates, social media form an interactive online community, but meanwhile, they often affect people in a bad way. “SchooMates is the answer for people expecting a simpler, less competitive way of keeping in touch with old friends,” concludes Chris.
【1】SchoolMates is a website for people to _____.
A.record old school days 
B.reconnect with former friends
C.learn about educational institutes D.describe learning experiences
【2】What does the underlined part “get swaddled” in paragraph 3 mean?
A.Share stories with others. B.reconnect with their old friends.
C.Move away from ‘photoshopped lives’. D.Be disturbed by updates.
【3】What benefit can users get from SchoolMates according to experts?
A.Changing their life attitudes in a way.
B.Finding a new way of making friends.
C.Developing an interest in social media.
D.Confirming their previous world views.
22、What strategy do you use to make tough life decisions like whether to end a relationship, quit your job, or go back to school? Maybe you weigh the advantages and disadvantages. Maybe you go with your sixth sense. Or maybe, if you’re like most people, you simply do nothing. After all, we have a tendency to prefer the status quo (现状), and focus more on the potential losses involved with change rather than the potential benefits.
But here’s a simpler strategy: When you’re indecisive about a big life decision, choose the path of change. That’s the takeaway of research recently published by Steven Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago.
For the study, Levitt asked people who were facing tough decisions to flip(抛) a digital coin on the website FreakonomicsExperiments.com. The coin tosses were randomized, with one side representing change, the other status quo. The study asked more than 20,000 participants to make whichever decision the coin toss directed, and then report back on how things played out after two and six months.
Of course, not everyone followed through. The two-month survey found that participants chose change less frequently than they had initially predicted they would. After six months, however, this tendency toward inaction disappeared. But most surprising were the results on well-being. At both the two and six-month marks, most people who chose change reported feeling happier, better off, and that they had made the correct decision.
The study had some limitations. One is that its participants weren’t selected randomly. Another limitation is that participants whose decision didn’t play out well might have been less likely to report back on their status after two and six months. Still, the study does suggest that people who are on the edge of a tough decision are probably better off going with change. Levitt isn’t suggesting you flip a coin to make all decisions. But coin-flipping does seem to have some benefits. Levitt notes that some people might prefer giving in to their fate to randomness in order to avoid regret. But you can also use randomness a bit more sensibly. When facing a tough decision, you could flip a coin and, upon seeing the outcome, notice whether you feel relief or fright. If you feel relieved, that’s probably the path you should choose.
【1】What is most people’s priority when making hard choices?
A．Calculating potential losses.
B．Valuing potential benefits.
C．Following inner voice of one’s mind.
D．Making a change to the status quo.
【2】What are the findings of the two surveys?
A．Making changes brought most participants happiness.
B．All participants gave immediate feedback on their status.
C．Participants’ action agreed with their initial prediction.
D．More participants remained inactive after six months.
【3】What is a limitation of the study?
A．The randomness of picking study subjects.
B．The incorrect method of flipping a coin.
C．The insufficiency of study statistics.
D．The insensible outcome of the analysis.
【4】What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Coin flips are beneficial to making hard choices.
B．When facing a hard decision, choose the status quo.
C．A study justifies making hard choices with randomness.
D．A study offers a strategy for making hard decisions.
23、What's in a name?
Some words sound like what they mean. And they could influence everything from fictional depictions of aliens to your first impression on a job application. But most words have no apparent connection to what they signify. As the linguist Steven Pinker puts it, we call a dog “dog” because everyone else does.【1】
That rule applies to most words, but not all. The words pop and murmur sound like they sound. Try to shout the word whisper. Weird, right? 【2】 It seems natural to associate the names of large animals, for example, with low-pitched sounds: say, elephant, compared with mouse. Pinker and others argue that iconicity is rare in language, but plenty of psychologists and linguists disagree.
Beyond the debates, there are far-reaching implications for human interaction. 【3】 People associate the “round” sounds in people's names with one set of characteristics, and names featuring “sharp” sounds with a very different set. “Anne tends to he conscientious, hardworking and sensitive,” Penny Pexinan, a psychologist at University of Canada says. “Kale is expected to the extroverted, less conscientious, less hardworking and less agreeable.”
Luckily, surveys suggest that the link exists only in the mind of the person making it. 【4】 “You could construct a little hint of an unlikely situation where people start to look like their names over time and maybe people's personalities start to match their names through some sort of congruency. But we didn't find that.” Pexman says. “There's also no evidence that people are basing their judgments on people they met previously.”
【5】 “We have videos of people being interviewed for jobs and we will manipulate the names of those candidates before others evaluate them,” she says.
“What's in a name?” William Shakespeare asked us in Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Well, perhaps not.
A．It is generally believed that names define who we are.
B．People lend to expect one to have specific trails based on how one's name sounds.
C．English language has developed a rule of names reflecting people s good qualities.
D．It would overwhelm our senses if every word we spoke came with a deeper meaning.
E．Such terms show sound iconicity, or a similarity between a word's form and meaning.
F．There is no evidence that the Kates of the world are more extroverted than the Antics.
G．Pexman will also examine how people's names could affect their chances of being chosen after an interview.
24、Empathy (同理心) is one of those strange qualities — something almost everyone wants, but few know how to truly give or receive it. In a world where self-satisfaction is emphasized, it is in short supply but high demand. This is all the more reason to teach the next generation what it means to have empathy for those around them.
What Is Empathy? — Many people confuse sympathy and empathy, but they are two distinct values. Empathy is not just the ability to understand someone's feelings; criminals often take advantage of people by appearing to understand their feelings and subsequently gaining their trust. Empathy is more than that. Not only is it the ability to recognize how someone feels, but it also values and respects the feelings of another person. It means treating others with kindness, dignity, and understanding.
Kids Need To See Adults Show Empathy — While some children are gifted with naturally kind hearts, in most cases kids need to see empathy modeled by the adults around them. It begins with the way parents relate to their children. Parents who show an interest in the things that matter to their kids and respond to emotions in a positive and caring way are teaching the skill of empathy.
Meet Emotional Needs — When children have their emotional needs met, two things happen. They learn how to meet the emotional needs of others and they are anchored in what they are receiving, meaning that they are secure enough to give to others when the need arises but first they need to receive. An empty jug cannot fill a cup.
It's a good idea to talk to kids about emotions and how other people experience them. Give their emotions names (for example, jealousy, anger, and love) and teach them that these are normal. Talk to them about how to handle emotions in a positive way and point out situations where other people are experiencing emotions. Teach them about respecting the emotions of others and show them how to act in a situation where a response is required.
【1】Why is it that the next generation are taught to have empathy?
A．Because people tend to center themselves.
B．Because everyone lacks empathy.
C．Because empathy is a strange quality.
D．Because it's better to give than to receive.
【2】Which situation can empathy be used in?
A．When a mathematician is calculating the area of a farmland.
B．When a teacher is comforting a student about his failure in exams.
C．When a criminal is cheating a victim.
D．When a dancer is dancing to music.
【3】What does the underlined sentence "An empty jug cannot fill a cup" mean?
A．An empty jug is too small to hold a cup.
B．It's a must to talk to kids about emotions.
C．Adults should set an example to kids.
D．Kids give empathy with their emotional needs met first.
【4】What is the main topic of the passage?
A．How to train kids to have empathy.
B．How to distinguish sympathy and empathy.
C．How to help kids finish empathy-related tasks.
D．Whether kids can be trained to be more empathetic.
25、My brother Ted was attending college in a little town, situated on top of a steep mountain. At the start of his second year, Ted called home, saying that he had no _________ of the school because they didn’t get the deposit (定金). He had to live in a house for visitors down at the _________ of the mountain. It even didn’t have any _________ in cold winter. Moreover, it was also a long _________ up that mountain to the school. When winter came, he would have a _________ time walking to class through all the snow.
My mother was _________ because she had sent that deposit check. She decided to go there and _________ the thing in order. Mom marched right into the Student Life office, with the canceled check in her hand and a(n) _________ light in her eyes. She _________ Ted back in the dorm. The accountant said the dorms were full and there was __________ he could do. My mother stood up, looked at the accountant in the eyes and asked where the college __________ was.
Mom __________ to the president why she was there. He __________ right away she was not going to leave his office until he had done something — __________, finding a room in the dorm for Ted. He __________ to take care of the matter and __________ Mom out of the door, but she had the last word that she would call him the next week to make sure everything was all right.
The next night, after Mom __________ home, Ted called us in a dorm.
My mother taught me some very __________ life lessons that day: Never take “no” for a(n) __________. Always __________ for what you know is right.
【1】
A．registration
B．dormitory
C．qualification
D．diploma
【2】
A．foot
B．top
C．range
D．area
【3】
A．visitor
B．native
C．staff
D．heat
【4】
A．drive
B．march
C．run
D．ride
【5】
A．good
B．free
C．hard
D．busy
【6】
A．patient
B．calm
C．tired
D．angry
【7】
A．balance
B．break
C．set
D．skip
【8】
A．determined
B．satisfied
C．confused
D．ashamed
【9】
A．allowed
B．wanted
C．persuaded
D．welcomed
【10】
A．something
B．anything
C．everything
D．nothing
【11】
A．entrance
B．professor
C．president
D．town
【12】
A．analyzed
B．preferred
C．apologized
D．explained
【13】
A．realized
B．imagined
C．predicted
D．insisted
【14】
A．generally
B．namely
C．usually
D．suddenly
【15】
A．promised
B．expected
C．commanded
D．deserved
【16】
A．showed
B．met
C．forced
D．kept
【17】
A．left
B．returned
C．phoned
D．missed
【18】
A．painful
B．serious
C．valuable
D．violent
【19】
A．request
B．criticism
C．instruction
D．answer
【20】
A．hold back
B．keep away
C．stick up
D．look into
26、某英文杂志Culture专栏准备刊登两只来自中国的大熊猫“团团”和“圆圆”的照片，请你写篇短文，配发在照片旁。
内容包括：1.对大熊猫的介绍（如外貌特征、生活习性等）；
2.“团团”和“圆圆”的名字寓意。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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