1、What he liked to do was to take an idea and ______ it by finding every possible consequence.
A. squeeze B. wrestle
C. switch D. shrink
2、--- We have booked a room for today and tomorrow.
--- __________________ , sir.
A.At your service B.I’ll check
C.It’s all right D.My pleasure
3、The Spring Festival is the time of year that _____ the largest annual mass migration on the planet when one sixth of the world’s population _____ home.
A. will see; travels B. saw; was travelling
C. will be seeing; will be travelling D. sees; travel
4、You can get you want as a gift for your fantastic performance in the final examination for you and your friends.
A.whoever B.whichever C.however D.whatever
5、There are a great number of attractions in Tianjin, ______ I like the Ancient Cultural Street best.
A.which
B.where
C.among them
D.among which
6、Lack of sleep will cause an increase in stress levels, which will lead to you not liking your job. This_____ will also have a negative impact on your productivity.
A.in turn B.in return C.in place D.in brief
7、Sales director is a position________ communication ability is just as important as sales.
A.which
B.where
C.when
D.why
8、—Why do you care about him so much?
—You _______ him when he first came out — it was so sad.
A.would have seen B.should have seen C.might have seen D.could have seen
9、Besides which major or which university to choose, students and parents face another ______
— the location of the university.
A. dilemma B. edition C. liberty D. mystery
10、—It ________ to plant trees and grass on the hillside.
—Yes. They help stop soil from being washed away.
A. makes sense B. makes money
C. makes a living D. makes a mistakes
11、It is generally agreed that new contents should be added to a good dictionary at regular________.
A.gaps
B.intervals
C.length
D.distance
12、---Did you punish him for losing your digital camera?
---Yes, but I don't think I ______.
A.should do that
B.need to have done so
C.ought have done that
D.should have done so
13、— What’s wrong? You look really stressed out.
—I ________ the whole week preparing for my graduation paper.
A.work B.have worked
C.have been working D.worked
14、The fact that he didn’t speak a foreign language put him at a(an) ________ disadvantage.
A.remote
B.distinct
C.identical
D.greedy
15、I needn’t have been in such a hurry. The flight to Hong Kong _____ due to the typhoon.
A. has cancelled B. was cancelled
C. will be canceling D. had cancelled
16、— What’s the _________ weight of luggage that I can take aboard the plane, Sir?
— Thirty kilograms.
A.accurate
B.average
C.maximum
D.unique
17、—Could you check my list to see I have forgotten anything?
—No problem.
A. whether B. which
C. that D. what
18、If you go, at least wait until the storm is over.
A.can B.may
C.must D.will
19、Why didn't you tell me there was no meeting today? I all the way here through the heavy snow.
A.needn't have driven B.couldn't have driven
C.should have driven D.must have driven
20、Only after talking to two students that having strong motivation is one of the biggest factors in reaching goals.
A. I did discover B. did I discover
C. I discovered D. discovered
21、Sometime back, after a six-year-old lioness named Magigi repeatedly killed cattle, Botswana authorities caught and moved her into Central Kalahari Game Reserve, far from people. Magigi spent most of her time within the reserved protective boundaries, but after a year she escaped outside and was shot dead by a farmer. New research Maude and his colleagues have conducted confirms that Magigi's unfortunate story is common for many relocated lions. For decades, wildlife managers in a number of African countries have used such a kind way to deal with lions that repeatedly kill livestock (牲畜).But the new research shows that after lions are moved, most continue to kill livestock and endanger villagers' living.
Across Africa, lion numbers have fallen by 43 percent in the past two decades, to as few as 23,000 animals today. About 3,000 remain in Botswana. The sharp declines are primarily driven by development-lions now occupy just 8 percent of their historic habitat. With less space set aside for conservation, lions are more frequently coming into contact with humans. These are usually farms, expanding around the edges of the protected areas. The lions eat livestock, which negatively impacts the livelihood of the farmers in these rural areas. Without a proper way to prevent these attacks, the dinners often turn to deadly force, shooting or poisoning the lions, which has resulted in the decrease in lion population.
Rather than trying to move lions, wildlife conservationist Glyn Maude says, emphasis should be placed on reducing the chances of lions encountering and killing livestock in the first place. Many preventative measures are being tested in various African countries, including hiring lion guardians (护卫者) to monitor these big cats, creating lion-proof fences, sending out lion text alerts, and teaching herders to keep livestock away from high-risk areas.
【1】Why was Magigi moved to a reserve?
A.To stop her from being caught.
B.To prevent her from killing cattle.
C.To get her to stay with her family.
D.To train her to get along with people.
【2】What is the major reason for the decline in the lion population in Africa?
A.Illegal wildlife trade.
B.Human-lion conflict.
C.A natural disaster.
D.The lack of food in their habitat.
【3】What can we infer from Maude's words in the last paragraph?
A.Lions will be fenced in to avoid meeting people.
B.The relocation of lions has proven to be effective.
C.Prevention is the cure for lions' attacking livestock.
D.It's impossible for lions to live with humans in harmony.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A.Big Cats' Relocation Proving Deadly
B.Lions Shot Dead after Attacking a Man
C.The Tragic Story of a Magical Lioness
D.Conservation Status of the African Lion
22、Humans are developing new places to live in. In the south of Silicon Valley sits the Monterey Peninsula, where you’ll find a moveable community that’s being designed as a rest region for the region’s tech elites(精英).
Walden Monterey was founded in 2016 by developer Nick Jekogian, who set out to turn the 609-acre land into a coastal “agrihood” community, a growing trend among the tech elites in which they avoid the idea of belonging to golf communities, unlike what the previous generations have done, and instead enjoy agricultural neighborhoods that focus on nature, farms, and outdoor living.
The property plans to build 22 homes in total, with the lots they sit costing about $1 million each(three lots have been sold, as of September 2018). After the sales are made, buyers can work with a team of more than 20 architects assembled by Jekogian to then pay additional millions each for home construction.
A key step in the buying process involves potential buyers actually visiting the land. Jekogian invites people to stay in “moveable rooms” or small moveable glass houses, which allow them to experience what living on the land would actually be like.
But now, Walden Monterey will soon provide a new way to try out the land. The design studio DFA, founded by Laith Sayigh, was approached by Walden Monterey to design a house for potential buyers to stay each in while they think about purchase decisions.
The 3D-printed houses, named Galini Sleeping Pods, are 300 square feet in size, can be moved anywhere, are powered by solar panels, wind turbines and Tesla batteries, and will cost about $250,000 each. Sayigh told Business Insider that they’ re not just a future staple for the Walden Monterey community, but that they represent the next generation of construction technology.
【1】What life do the tech elites like according to the text?
A.Getting close to nature.
B.Playing golf after work.
C.Living in a big house.
D.Having a house in Silicon Valley.
【2】What’s the purpose of designing Galini Sleeping Pods?
A.To attract more people to visit the design studio DFA.
B.To give a rule for the future construction technology.
C.To call on architects to build more moveable communities.
D.To offer buyers chances to try living in a moveable house.
【3】What does the underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refer to? -
A.Solar panels.
B.The 3D-printed houses.
C.Tesla batteries.
D.The Walden Monterey Community.
【4】What can we infer from the text?
A.The style of the houses depends on buyers’ own ideas.
B.Buyers should pay off the expense of the houses in one attempt.
C.The money spent on constructing the houses is more than the cost of the lots.
D.Buyers of the houses are forbidden to get involved in the process of constructing.
23、 Is there a single word that motivates us more than “weekend”? It's like the promise of a sweet hereafter following what seems like a lifetime of toil (劳累). It's the spring in our step that gets bouncier with each passing day - until by Friday, we're practically bumping our heads against the ceiling.
The trouble is that the weekend is a rip-off. You think you're getting 48 hours of unconditional downtime, but reality takes a discount. In fact, it takes most of Sunday. That's when anxiety comes creeping in and another countdown begins: 12 hours until Monday. Sure, weekend is free time. But the mounting stress of an incoming Monday can erase any joy you might get from a Sunday evening.
That feeling is so common among the Monday-to-Friday crowd, there's even more than one name for it: the Sunday Scaries, or Sunday Fear Syndrome. Going from a countdown to the weekend to a countdown to Monday can be difficult. Even Monster.com - a website that specializes in yoking humans to the Monday-to-Friday cycle -admits it's a problem. In a survey, Monster found that 76% of Americans have “really bad” Sunday night blues.
For most people, Sunday is no holiday at all. It may all come down to the same problem: We can't stop thinking about tomorrow. Even worse, we may develop some downright unhealthy coping strategies for that transition from weekends to Monday. Some might resist - staying up late, milking every minute of a fleeting Sunday in the form of mind-numbing distractions.
But why should Monday cast such a long and fearful shadow on our lives? Maybe it's because the counter is reset, and the weekend, or happiness, seems at its furthest point. If, like most of us, you have a tolerable job, but don't much like the whole idea of working, there are plenty of ways to make Mondays a little less stressful. Most importantly, don't leave any unsettled Friday business hanging over the weekend. So, clear the decks and tie up loose ends.
【1】What do we know about weekend in paragraph2?
A.It is hard-earned.
B.It doesn't bring joy as expected.
C.It adds to people's anxiety.
D.It provides good time to relax.
【2】Why does the writer mention Monster.com in the text?
A.To support his idea.
B.To clarify a question.
C.To show its popularity.
D.To provide more information.
【3】What does the writer think of the way most people spend the weekend?
A.Tolerant.
B.Conservative.
C.Practical.
D.Unwise.
【4】Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A.Why Monday Takes a Bite Out of Sunday
B.Why People Are Stressed Out on Fridays
C.Why a Countdown to the Weekend Is Difficult
D.Why Monday Casts a Fearful Shadow on Our Lives
24、On a Friday evening in December, two weeks before Christmas, I lost my job. I hadn’t seen it coming. I was excited for the weekend, when my daughter, Kristil, then 12, and I planned to get our Christmas tree. Then I listened to my voicemail: “We’re sorry but your work assignment has ended as of today.”My heart sank. I wasn’t just a single mother; I was the only parent. My paycheck was survival.
Over the next week, as my bank account grew smaller, I crazily applied for jobs, but I was defeated.
It had been snowing on and off all morning. I noticed a woman with short white hair struggling to open her car door against the wind. As she got out, I realized it was my old professor, Mrs. Heffernan. I hadn’t seen her since we’d met for lunch three months ago.
I’d first met Mrs. Heffernan 10 years earlier when I was her student at Edge wood College. Kristil was 3 at the time, and I sometimes took her to class. Mrs. Heffernan was understanding and would bring coloring books to occupy Kristil.
Even after I graduated, Mrs. Heffernan kept in touch. I had grown to love her like family.
I rushed to the front of my building. “What are you doing out in this weather?” I asked as we hugged.
“Well, I tried to call last week but couldn’t get through. Then I called your job and they said you weren’t working there anymore, so I thought I would come by,” she said. “I have gifts for you and Kristil. ”
I made her a cup of tea and we talked. Just being in Mrs. Heffernan’s presence gave me hope that things would be all right.
As she got up to leave she handed me a Christmas card and kissed me on the cheek. I walked her to her car and waved as she pulled away.
When I opened her card I was in shock. Hundred dollar bills fell onto the table. Tears of gratitude filled my eyes as I counted. Mrs. Heffernan had given me $1,000.
【1】What can we learn about the author from the first paragraph?
A.She was divorcing her husband.
B.She was fired unexpectedly.
C.She sent an e-mail.
D.She couldn’t afford a Christmas tree.
【2】What was Heffernan’s real purpose of visiting the author?
A.To have a talk with her.
B.To wish her a merry Christmas.
C.To offer her some financial help.
D.To give her daughter coloring books.
【3】What role might Mrs. Heffernan play in the author’s life after graduation?
A.A life advisor.
B.A respectable friend.
C.A helpful consultant.
D.A professional expert.
【4】Which words can best describe Mrs. Heffernan?
A.Friendly and confident.
B.Wealthy and optimistic.
C.Warm-hearted and brave.
D.Kind-hearted and generous.
25、 My mother and her family kept information about my father and his family a secret from me for over half a century. In 2010 I began to ______ my father through Ancestry.com. However, I learned he had ______ cancer on August 6, 1999 in a hospital in Dallas, Texas.
When I got my father's death ______, the medical examiner told me because my father had no ______ around the city, they buried him in a body bag in a(n) ______ grave in an old cemetery.
I knew my father ______ in WW2 so I decided to work on getting his remains ______ to my state to be buried in our national cemetery. From 2011 to 2017 I kept working on ______ my debt from a divorce and increasing my ______ score so someday I could get a personal loan.
That certificate of ______ service proved my father served 43 months in WW2 in the USA Army Air Force fighting the Nazi's. I still did not have the money ______. In July of 2018 a bank approved a $10,000 personal loan so I had a funeral director ______ a permit to exhume my father. After 4 months of ______ I asked Senator Brown for help again in November. Six days after he contacted Texas officials a permit was ______.
On July 9, 2019 an airplane will ______ at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ______ I will be finally ______ with my father and touch his metal casket and the missing piece of my heart will be ______.
On January 10, 2019 the Ohio Patriot Guard Riders will escort my father's hearse through my ______ to be buried with honors in our states National cemetery and one day in January Senator Brown will have an American Flag ______ over our Nation's Capital to honor my father.
If you never give up one day your dream will become a reality.
【1】A. hire out B. allow for C. search for D. dive in
【2】A. suffered from B. died of C. evolved into D. died from
【3】A. adjustment B. diploma C. penalty D. certificate
【4】A. soldiers B. seniors C. relatives D. enemies
【5】A. unprotected B. unmarked C. theoretical D. mobile
【6】A. joined B. played C. served D. enrolled
【7】A. brought down B. brought in C. brought out D. brought back
【8】A. lowering B. increasing C. wiping D. swapping
【9】A. housing B. employment C. marriage D. credit
【10】A. sustainable B. military C. authentic D. historic
【11】A. moreover B. while C. though D. therefore
【12】A. apply to B. apply for C. try out D. try on
【13】A. clarifying B. waiting C. requesting D. wrestling
【14】A. suspended B. rejected C. granted D. substituted
【15】A. land B. stop C. leave D. touch
【16】A. which B. whose C. where D. when
【17】A. confronted B. reunited C. involved D. occupied
【18】A. reserved B. restricted C. restored D. rewarded
【19】A. school B. church C. country D. hometown
【20】A. flowed B. flown C. covered D. controlled
26、假定你是学生会主席李华,为响应学校建设文明校园(civilized campus) 的号召,倡导同学们争做文明学生。请给校报英语专栏的编辑写封邮件,内容包括:
I. 列举不文明行为;
2. 提出改进措施。
注意:l. 词数100 左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
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