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1、________ Daisy worked hard for the whole term pleased her parents.
A．That
B．What
C．How
D．After
2、—There is good news for you. You’ve been admitted to the Tianjin University.
— ______ That’s great!
A．Have I?
B．Pardon?
C．Congratulations!
D．Good idea!
3、We always keep spare paper, in case we run out.
A.too much B.a number of C.plenty of D.a good many
4、—It’s nearly a quarter to eight. Beth hasn’t turned up yet.
—She________ the time. Why don’t I call and see what happened?
A．shouldn’t have forgotten
B．might have forgotten
C．needn’t have forgotten
D．must have forgotten
5、Currently car insurance is not _______ in the annual inspection; all the vehicles are required to register insurance covering safety and property.
A. temporary B. optional C. arbitrary D. confidential
6、Group activities will be organized in and after class _____ children develop team spirit.
A. helping B. having helped
C. helped D. to help
7、It’s widely acknowledged that reading printed texts is no _______ for personal discussion with a great thinker.
A.substitute B.subject C.submission D.substance
8、—I can’t think why he ______ so angry. I meant no offence.
—It’s typical of him to be sensitive.
A. should have been B. must have been
C. might have been D. can have been
9、Little Tom was frozen with fear when the accident happened, so he just gave some ________answers when asked about what he witnessed.
A. concrete B. abundant
C. apparent D. vague
10、In my opinion, his perseverance may ______his great achievement in his research work
A．make up for
B．account for
C．stand for
D．call for
11、You’d better make the plants shorter, ______ they will interrupt the views from the house.
A. but B. and C. so D. or
12、--Mary，how did your Math test go？
--I had thought I _________，but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class．
A．should have failed B．couldn’t have failed
C．might have failed D．shouldn’t have failed
13、— What’s the _________ weight of luggage that I can take aboard the plane, Sir?
— Thirty kilograms.
A．accurate
B．average
C．maximum
D．unique
14、—Ouch, mum! A fish bone has stuck in my teeth!
—______, Lucy. I am coming.
A. Take your time B. Help yourself
C. Don’t bother D. Take it easy
15、--- What do you think I should do?
----________your teacher’s advice, in my opinion, and everything will be OK.
A．Follow
B．Following
C．to follow
D．Followed
16、It was two days after he arrived at the mountain village______ he found the villagers faced with a severe shortage of clean drinking water.
A.when B.since C.where D.that
17、(2014·天津卷)Anxiously, she took the dress out of the package and tried it on, only _________ it didn’t fit
A．to find
B．found
C．finding
D．having found
18、— How are you managing to do your work without an assistant?
— Well, I somehow.
A.get along B.come on C.watch out D.set off
19、Mike is one of those people who just can’t save money. Every time he gets paid, _____.
A. he has ants in his pants B. he tightens his belt
C. he wears his heart on his sleeve D. the money burns a hole in his pocket
20、An ancient temple ________ back to the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed in flames, ________ concerns about the effective protection of cultural remains.
A.dating; causing B.dating; caused C.dates; causing D.dates; caused
21、 Old Mrs. Lynn was working in the cottage, hanging the washed clothes on the line. What she wasn’t aware was that some children were hiding in a nearby tree watching her every move. They were sure that she was a witch and wanted to find the evidence.
They watched nervously as she took a broomstick to sweep the dirt from her stone steps. But much to their disappointment, she didn’t get on the broomstick and fly off. The old lady only looked up when her hen began to make sounds loudly — signaling that she had laid an egg in the nest on the top of the haystack. (干草堆).
The old lady put aside her broomstick and walked to the haystack, followed by Michael, a black cat she had rescued from a fox trap. With only three legs, it was hard for Michael to keep up with his mistress. The cat was proof for the children that only a witch would own a black cat with three legs! Accidentally, she tripped and crashed to the ground. The children were in horror.
“Should we go and help her?” asked Mia.
“What if it’s a trick?” replied Patrick. “She probably knows we’re here. Witches know things like that!”
After thinking for a while, Julia said, “Anyway, we should go and check whether she is all right.”
Approaching prudently, they could see a wound on the old lady’s forehead. She had knocked her head on a stone and was unconscious.
“Go and get Dad,” Mia yelled to her brothers. “Tell him about the accident.”
Later, in the hospital, the old lady smiled her thanks. “I was so lucky that you lovely children happened to be passing when I fell. I must have yelled quite loudly.” The children exchanged guilty glances, but were very pleased that she was not a witch after all!
【1】Mrs. Lynn stopped sweeping when ________.
A.her doorstep became very clean
B.she heard the hen making sounds loudly
C.she noticed the children in the tree
D.her cat Michael managed to get her attention
【2】Why was Patrick not willing to help Mrs. Lynn when she fell?
A.He thought that she could be cheating them.
B.He was afraid of the three-legged black cat.
C.He did not think that she was hurt in the fall.
D.He knew he and the others shouldn’t have been in her tree.
【3】Which of the definitions is closest in meaning to the underlined word “prudently” ?
A.Slowly. B.Hurriedly.
C.Carefully. D.Quietly.
【4】What is the main idea of the story?
A.Constant dropping wears away a stone.
B.Never judge a book by its cover.
C.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
D.A good medicine tastes bitter.
22、 To deal with a changing world, we have to change as well. Transforming land into farms removes forests and worsens climate change. But we need to grow more food to support a growing global population. What can we do?
Scientists have discovered that plants grow best under a certain type of light, which can be provided by red and blue LEDs. The combination of these lights at the right level makes a space look pink. Since “pinkhouses” supply their own light, they don't need to have fragile glass walls and ceilings. And they can be set up anywhere, including places that don't get the amount of light greenhouses need.
Since pinkhouses can pack food in huge columns, one of these farms doesn't need a lot of land. Farmers can set up pinkhouses in cities. They completely control temperature and light, which can help some plants grow twice as well in pinkhouses as they do in traditional farming. Pinkhouses can allow for many more harvests per year since farming doesn't have to stop in the winter.
Even though pinkhouses are a great way to grow crops, lighting and heating an indoor space is very expensive. It doesn't make sense to grow foods that take up a lot of space or that we need to grow lots of, like wheat, rice, and corm, in a pinkhouse. We will still need to grow those crops in fields. We can start farming smarter.
Farmers will use satellite imagery to figure out exactly where to plant each crop. Think of a mixture of just the right crops, rather than a rectangle(长方形) of one type of plant.Sensors in the fields will measure the soil's water level,temperature, and chemical content. They will even be able to detect insects and send out notifications to a smartphone app.Irrigation systems will be tied to weather forecasting programs, allowing very precise watering and care, all calculated to get the best plant growth and yield.
【1】From the text, we know that the pinkhouse
A.covers lots of space B.needs enough sunlight
C.is made of glass or plastic D.can make plants grow larger
【2】What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 4?
A.Summarize the previous paragraphs.
B.Emphasize the advantage of pinkhouses.
C.Introduce a new topic of the discussion.
D.Add some background information.
【3】What is the result of the smart farming?
A.Farmers will have a better harvest.
B.Farmers can grow different plants.
C.Farmers needn't care about the weather.
D.Plants can protect themselves against insects.
【4】What's the best title for the text?
A.Building Pinkhouses B.Feeding the Future
C.Changing the World D.Getting Outdoor Farming Smart
23、THE BEST FILMS OF 2020
Wolfwalkers
Wolfwalkers is Tomm Moore’s most delightful animation. Its brave heroine is Robyn, the daughter of an English huntsman stationed in Ireland in the mid-1600s. He has the job of clearing the wolves from a forest near Kilkenny, but when Robyn goes exploring, she finds that one of those wolves can transform into a human girl. The girls' battles against destructive adults are exciting and fun, and every frame is a work of art.
Ammonite
Mary Anning, whose 19th-Century discoveries of fossils transformed palaeontology, although the credit went to men. Writer and director Francis Lee's romance finds Mary in middle age, scraping together a living in the seaside town of Lyme Regis.
The Personal History of David Copperfield
This joyous and endlessly inventive film by Armando Iannucci is a brilliant achievement that raises the expectation for Charles Dickens adaptations. And while Iannucci roots it firmly in the poverty and class system of Victorian England. BBC Culture’s review called it “a warm and lively David Copperfield for today”.
The Assistant
Structured as a day in the life, The Assistant stars Julia Garner as the lowly new employee who toils from before dawn until after dusk, answering phones, printing out scripts, unpacking bottles of water: imagine a more authentic, low-key companion piece to The Devil Wears Prada. The film looks beyond one man to focus on a wider corporate culture.
【1】Who is the director of Wolfwalkers?
A．Julia Garner
B．Francis Lee
C．Armando Iannucci
D．Tomm Moore
【2】Which of the following films was adapted from Charles Dickens’ works?
A．Wolfwalkers
B．Ammonite
C．The Personal History of David Copperfield
D．The Assistant
【3】Where is the text most likely from?
A．A guidebook
B．A magazine
C．A novel
D．A report
24、People depend on insects to pollinate the plants that make many of the fruits, nuts and vegetables we eat. Past studies had shown urban air pollution might veil the smells insects use to find flowers. Computer models predicted this would cause problems for insects, seeking flowers for a meal. But scientists weren’t sure that would happen in real life.
James Ryalls, a biologist, and his team decided to find out if it would. Working in a field, his group crafted a system made up of large rings. Each area was open, so nearby insects could fly into it. The researchers pumped pollutant gases into these rings. Then during each field season, the scientists recorded how many times pollinators visited the flowers in each ring.
“The results were much more severe than we thought,” Ryalls says. Adding pollution “caused up to 90 percent fewer insects to be able to find the flowers that they need for food,” he says. This was in comparison to the pollutant-free rings. In some cases, only some 30 percent of the pollinating insects even entered the circles with polluted gases.
Counting insects proved easier than getting the pollution into the rings, notes Ryalls. He spent much of his time working on parts of the system that needed fixing. Along the way, gas spills occurred. “By the end of each summer experiment I smelt like a petrol station,” he says. One effect: “Insects now avoid me.”
Later, they counted seed pods on the plants. Overall, only around seven in every 10 flowers had been pollinated. That means there were far fewer seeds in polluted circles. If these were fruit or vegetable plants, there would have been far less food produced.
This study focused on insects finding flowers. But insects also use smells for communication and attracting mates. If air pollution covers those smells too, these tiny animals might face more threats to their survival.
【1】What does the underlined word “veil” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A．Add.
B．Mask.
C．Release.
D．Form.
【2】What did scientists do in the experiment?
A．They counted insect visits to flowers.
B．They studied different polluted gases.
C．They drove some insects into the rings.
D．They pollinated flowers by themselves.
【3】What is the finding of Ryalls’ experiment?
A．Pollution can result in fewer flowers.
B．Insects are afraid of the rings in the field.
C．Insects struggle to find flowers in polluted air.
D．Plant flowers depend on insects to pollinate.
【4】What is most probably talked about in the next paragraph?
A．The aim of the study.
B．Ways to help pollinators.
C．Insects’ various survival skills.
D．Insects’ means of communication.
25、 When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper (志愿护士长) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespiel. He never had any _________, and nobody seemed to care about his_________.I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, _________anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, _________he responded with only a(n) _________ squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was_________. I didn't have the_________to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might_________me he had died.
Several _________ later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I____________who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was ____________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie, With a (n)____________ look on his face, he replied yes. I____________how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever____________.
He began to tell me how, ____________he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could____________me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie____________believed that it was my voice and____________that had kept him alive.
Although I haven't ____________him since, he fills my heart with ____________every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.
A．friends
B．relatives
C．patients
D．visitors
A．condition
B．requirement
C．interest
D．thought
A．talking about
B．helping with
C．pointing out
D．looking for
A．so that
B．even though
C．soon after
D．just as
A．occasional
B．tight
C．satisfactory
D．warm
A．dead
B．mad
C．gone
D．excited
A．right
B．chance
C．nerve
D．time
A．cheat
B．tell
C．remind
D．warn
A．days
B．weeks
C．months
D．years
A．realized
B．wondered
C．heard
D．asked
A．alive
B．great
C．successful
D．lucky
A．happy
B．uncertain
C．nervous
D．proud
A．apologized
B．remembered
C．explained
D．admitted
A．received
B．shown
C．wanted
D．dreamed
A．because
B．if
C．unless
D．as
A．notice
B．feel
C．imagine
D．appreciate
A．hardly
B．immediately
C．firmly
D．wrongly
A．humour
B．touch
C．encouragement
D．treatment
A．forgotten
B．called
C．missed
D．seen
A．regret
B．joy
C．respect
D．sympathy
26、书面表达
假定你是王华，目前正在英国做交换生。你的英国朋友Debbie送了你一张Ceilidh Dance舞会票。现在，请给她写封邮件致谢，并询问有关情况（箭头所指内容）。
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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