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1、There are lots of examples of English idioms ________ animals are used.
A. which B. when
C. whose D. where
2、The fellow we spoke ________ no comment at first.
A．to make
B．to made
C．made
D．to making
3、I was only joking when I said Sarah failed in the driving test again; no one ______ she took it seriously.
A. would have thought B. would think C. had thought D. thought
4、The researchers who study jokes want to know ________ people from different nations and cultures find very funny.
A．why
B．that
C．what
D．whether
5、Only my cousin has chosen to apply for a job in Africa _______ the majority of this year’s graduates working in Britain.
A.in common with B.as well as
C.in contrast to D.by reason of
6、—Simon will listen to music every time he comes across a maths problem.
—You know, music is the source of ______ in life.
A. inspiration B. identification
C. reaction D. recreation
7、The old couple, ________ country life, were unwilling to move to the city to live with his son.
A. accustomed to B. buried in
C. addicted to D. exposed to
8、Though he started late. Mr. Guo played the piano as well as, if , Miss Liu.
A.not better than B.not better C.no better than D.better
9、The artist is said during the production and thus a pirated video was sold in every part of Kenya.
A. to be cheated B. being cheated
C. to have been cheated D. having been cheated
10、As late as the middle of the 19th century women voting was _____ common. But women in Europe and North America believed that they should have a____ in their government’s leaders.
A．less than, word
B．far from, say
C．rather than, words
D．other than, saying
11、On the third floor there are two rooms, ________ used as a meeting-room.
A. the larger of which B. one of them
C. and a larger of them D. the largest one of which
12、—Shall we go camping to celebrate our graduation of senior high?
— ______ . Let’s make a plan first.
A．No way
B．Good idea
C．It’s nothing
D．I don’t think
13、Many e-commerce platforms play a great role in promoting employment, ________services from stock support to interest-free loans
A.offering B.to offer C.offered D.having offered
14、---Shall we go and see the museum?
---No, ________.
A．don’t mention it
B．not at all
C．never mind
D．it’s not worth it
15、My friend showed me round the town, ________ was very kind of him.
A.that B.which C.who D.where
16、—Will Uncle Peterson come to my birthday party tomorrow?
—Pity he ______ to Zimbabwe as a volunteer teacher.
A．was sent
B．has been sent
C．had been sent
D．would be sent
17、Their team is so powerful that we have very________chance to win, but we will try our best.
A．thin
B．light
C．rare
D．slim
18、Don’t be afraid! If the person standing in front of us were a witch, she _______ us into frogs already.
A.would turn B.would have turned C.may turn D.may have turned
19、President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the First China International Import Expo was ________ welcomed by participants at the event.
A.quietly B.frequently C.widely D.gradually
20、We are determined that our teacher training programs should ________ current developments in the field of education.
A．catch sight of
B．make room for
C．take pride in
D．keep pace with
21、Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.
I was attending a stand-up comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their hearts out. The main reason those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn’t only funny, it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.
The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren’t jealous of him.
In short, we don’t laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person’s emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.
【1】What did the author find out after studying psychology?
A. Only good jokes make people laugh
B. Many factors lead to people laughing.
C. Funny things can make people laugh
D. Laughter can make people healthy.
【2】Why did the audience laugh loud at the pedestrians?
A. They played a trick on the pedestrians.
B. The pedestrians behaved in a funny way.
C. They could feel the pedestrians’ happiness.
D. Their emotion was approved of by the show.
【3】What does the underlined word “belittling” probably mean?
A. Speak highly of B. Get close to
C. Look down on D. Feel content with
【4】Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
22、Top chefs aren’t known for their friendly character. Assistants who overcook food by ten seconds usually struggle to get out of the kitchen alive. My father was a top chef. We’d had a stormy relationship for years, but I decided to follow in his footsteps anyway, and train as a chef. It was better than the dead-end I ‘d reach with the job I’d been doing.
After three years, I became head chef in a restaurant called The Tortoise. As the boss, I made important decision but if anything went wrong, I was the one who should take the responsibility. Experiencing the sweaty kitchens, I learned why my father was the way he was. When I began, I didn’t have my sights set on anything much---I just wanted a regular job—but soon I realized my career was taking off. The rich and famous started to visit the restaurant and eventually came the time when I had to decide about my future: I could either open my own restaurant or go and work for one of the big ones. Then life made the decision for me. My father tried and I got his job.
On my first day, I received an unfriendly welcome. No one would talk to me. What made it worse was that I was ill—I had a cold , and my hands were shaking as I went into the kitchen. I held my breath, stood up in front of everyone and said, My name is Leah Kleist. You all know my father. whether you loved him or hated him, I don’t care. He is the past. Now let’s get to work. And we did.
【1】What will happen to assistants who overcook food?
A. They got punished B. They eat the food
C. They get some advice D. They get fired
【2】Why did the author decide to work as a chef?
A. It was his favorite B. It was a better job.
C. He was forced to D. He lost his job.
【3】What does the underline part tell us about the author?
A. He knew little about the job.
B. He misunderstood his father
C. He didn’t have a clear goal.
D. He had a very poor eyesight.
【4】What caused the staff’s unfriendly attitude towards the author?
A. His lack of experience
B. His poor health condition
C. Their impression of is father
D. Their envy at his success
23、 Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, was one of motor racing's most influential engineers. He summed up his philosophy as "simplify, then add lightness". A simple, featherweight car might be slower on the straights than a beefy muscle-machine, he reasoned. But it would be faster everywhere else. Between 1962 and 1978 Lotus won seven Formula One constructors championships.
It appears to be an uncommon insight since humans always struggle with subtractive thinking. When asked to improve something, they tend to suggest adding new things rather than removing some, even when additions lead to not satisfying results. In one study conducted by Gabrielle Adams, along with colleagues at the University of Virginia, participants were asked to change a pattern on a grid(网格)of coloured squares to make it balanced. Although that could be done equally well by adding new squares or by deleting existing ones,78% chose the additive option.
But why people forget that less is often more? One experiment asked participants to redesign an unbalanced Lego structure so that it could support a house-brick. Participants could earn a dollar for fixing the problem, but each piece of Lego they added cut that reward by ten cents. Even then, only 41% worked out that simplifying the structure by removing a single block,rather than complicating it by adding more, was the way to maximise the payout. Practice improved people's chances of spotting subtractive solutions, suggesting that many were simply not thinking of the possibility, at least at first.
What all this amounts to is evidence for " additive thinking" entering the list of" cognitive biases"(认知偏差).The 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded for demonstrating that humans are not thinking logically as economists do. Instead of thinking a problem through and coming up with an ideal solution, they tend to use cognitive shortcuts that are fast and—mostly—"good enough".
【1】Why is Chapman's case mentioned in paragraph 1 ?
A．To prove his philosophy.
B．To introduce the topic.
C．To support the argument.
D．To provide an example.
【2】What were the participants asked to do in Adams's study?
A．To balance a pattern.
B．To plus new squares.
C．To delete original squares.
D．To change a pattern's colour.
【3】What can we know about subtractive thinking from paragraph 3?
A．It can make things more complex.
B．It is a shortcut to gaining a fortune.
C．It can be facilitated through practice.
D．It is a common way to tackle problems.
【4】What does the author try to convey through the text?
A．Less is often more.
B．Think less and act more.
C．Additive thinking is a shortcut.
D．Economists think more logically.
24、 If we want a fair shot at transitioning to renewable energy, we’ll need one critical thing: technologies that can change electricity from wind and sun into a chemical fuel for storage and vice versa. Commercial devices that do this exist, but most are costly and perform only half of the expectation. Now, researchers have created small lab-scale devices that do both jobs. If larger versions work as well, they would help make it possible—or at least more affordable—to run the world on renewables.
The market for such technologies has grown along with renewables: In 2007, solar and wind provided just 0.8% of all power in the United States; in 2017, that number was 8%, according to the U. S. Energy Information Administration. But the demand for electricity often doesn’t match the supply from solar and wind. In sunny California, for example, solar panels regularly produce more power than needed in the middle of the day, but none at night, after most workers and students return home.
Some companies are beginning to install massive rows of batteries in hopes of storing extra energy and balancing the financial sheet. But batteries are costly and store only enough energy to back up the power system for a few hours at most. Another option is to store the energy by transforming it into hydrogen fuel. Devices called electrolyzers do this by using electricity—ideally from solar and wind power—to break down water into oxygen and hydrogen gas, a carbon-free fuel. A second set of devices called fuel cells can then transform that hydrogen back to electricity to power cars, trucks, and buses, or to feed it to the power system. But commercial electrolyzers and fuel cells use different catalysts to speed up the two reactions, meaning a single device can’t do both jobs. The researchers must conquer this.
“They did a really good job with that.” says Sossina Haile, a chemist at Northwestern University in Evanston. Still, she holds the view that both her new device and the one from the O’Hayre lab are small laboratory demonstrations. For the technology to have a greater impact in society, researchers will need to scale up the button-size devices, a process that typically reduces performance.
【1】What can we learn about the new device from the first paragraph?
A．Its universal use remains to be seen.
B．It is more expensive but more practical.
C．It can transform more renewable energy.
D．It is the most advanced around the world.
【2】Why does the author use data and example in paragraph 2?
A．To show the rapid development of American technologies.
B．To emphasize the potential market for energy transformation technologies.
C．To indicate solar panels works better in the middle of the day than at night.
D．To warn us of the imbalanced demand and supply of electricity in California.
【3】What may the researchers focus on next?
A．Lessening costly batteries.
B．Increasing the efficiency of the two reactions.
C．Looking for one shared catalyst for the two reactions.
D．Transforming solar and wind power into hydrogen fuel.
【4】What is Haile’s attitude to the future of the new device?
A．Positive.
B．Negative.
C．Critical.
D．Cautious.
25、 Sometimes a seemingly unimportant option can mean the difference between life and death. For Dan Magennis this _______ was deciding to call Comcast before starting his yard work.
The elder from Walker, Michigan knows if he hadn't _______ that call, he might not be here today. All he _______ was to fix an issue with his cable. What he got _______ was his own savior (救命恩人) — from 800 miles away.
Dan called the company, hoping to get it over with quickly. But _______ had he just connected Kimberly Williams, a customer service _______ when he found he couldn't speak after _______ his name. Then his right leg went numb (麻木的). He began _______ and dropped the phone. “I would try to say something, and I just couldn't," Dan said. “Soon I _______ maybe it was a stroke (中风), but I wasn't able to tell the representative that.” But Kimberly already knew something was ________. Slurred (口齿不清的) speech was something she'd become ________ as a teenager when she ________ her grandmother suffering a stroke. She also knew every second ________.
She immediately opened Google to ________ for first responders in Dan's area. Several calls later, she got in touch with the Walker Fire Department and stayed on the ________ with Dan for five minutes before the rescuers arrived.
Not even an hour after the call was placed, Dan was ________ with surgery at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital. Two days later, he walked out of the hospital with almost no lingering (迟迟不去的) ________. Dr Justin Singer, director at Spectrum Health, says things would have ________ very different were it not for Kimberly's quick ________.
Dan says he'll be ________ forever that Kimberly, whom he's never met, didn't hang up. It is thanks to her that he's still walking, speaking, and living independently.
【1】A.order B.choice C.lesson D.motto
【2】A.placed B.answered C.repaired D.bought
【3】A.faced B.wanted C.concluded D.supplied
【4】A.just B.even C.still D.instead
【5】A.instantly B.simply C.hardly D.quickly
【6】A.manager B.agent C.representative D.secretary
【7】A.writing B.stating C.hearing D.forgetting
【8】A.panicking B.comforting C.relaxing D.calming
【9】A.admitted B.agreed C.suggested D.realized
【10】A.important B.strange C.possible D.wrong
【11】A.worried about B.interested in C.familiar with D.sick with
【12】A.witnessed B.changed C.imagined D.attended
【13】A.stopped B.counted C.struggled D.raced
【14】A.leave B.wait C.care D.search
【15】A.line B.research C.spot D.list
【16】A.associated B.treated C.concerned D.satisfied
【17】A.process B.patterns C.effects D.recovery
【18】A.picked up B.worked out C.turned out D.took off
【19】A.response B.comfort C.examination D.trust
【20】A.regretful B.worried C.curious D.grateful
26、假设你是李华，学校学生会有四个社团正招募新人（如下图所示），你希望加入其中一个。请你写一封应征信，谈谈你的想法。内容必须包括：
1.你希望加入的社团；
2.选择该社团的原因；
3.你可以为该社团做些什么。
注意：请勿透露本人真实姓名和学校名称。
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