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1、She lived in two rooms over a teashop, ________ was convenient, since she could send for cakes if she had visitors.
A．where
B．in which
C．which
D．that
2、The thought took root in Europe long before people realized ______ diverse language could be.
A.how B.that C.what D.where
3、All agree,in the fierce competition,honesty is a vital__________of her success.
A.evidence B.element C.concept D.criterion
4、The Chinese government has begun a campaign to_____________ the crazy housing market.
A.calm B.destroy
C.occupy D.reflect
5、I will keep drawing and see what happens. ________ I never become famous, this is what I love to do every hour of every day.
A．Even if
B．Unless
C．So long as
D．Now that
6、The child was found __________ the streets alone.
A.wandered B.to wander C.wander D.wandering
7、It is believed________ children should learn to be responsible from the very beginning.
A．why
B．that
C．how
D．when
8、This newspaper has a daily ______ of more than one million in this city and if s common to see passengers read a copy in the subway.
A.circulation B.association C.contribution D.accumulation
9、______ is willing to volunteer in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is welcome to join us.
A. Whatever B. Whoever C. Whenever D. Wherever
10、There are lots of examples of English idioms ________ animals are used.
A. which B. when
C. whose D. where
11、Parents should keep their children company as much as possible because children feel _______ if they don’t see their parents regularly.
A.rejected B.offended C.interrupted D.mistaken
12、If he had been working hard, he ______ in the office now. However, he didn’t.
A. would be working B. were to be working C. was working D. should work
13、All we have is 24 precious hours a day and therefore we shall waste ______
A. nothing
B. none
C. neither
D. no one
14、These theories have been put into practice， according to offenders should be punished out of respect for the victims they have harmed.
A.which B.whose C.who D.what
15、--Has James finished his report on his Enquiry Learning yet?
--I’m not sure. She _________ on it last week.
A. was working B. has worked C. worked D. had worked
16、---Did you know any German before you arrived in Munich？
---Never______________ it, actually.
A.had I learned B.did I learn
C.I had learned D.I learned
17、Do not make complaints about being left out___you shy away from sharing your joys and sorrow with others.
A.when B.unless C.once D.until
18、There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is ______ wisdom in this: “Love me, love my book.”
A.some B.much C.more D.most
19、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
20、He hasn’t got any hobbies—________ you call watching TV a hobby.
A．if
B．as long as
C．unless
D．although
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、For years, David James, who studies insects at Washington State University, had wanted to examine the migration (迁徙)patterns of West Coast monarch butterflies (黑脉金斑蝶). The route the butterflies travel has been hardly known because the populations are too small to follow. For every 200 monarchs tagged (打标签)by a researcher, only one is usually recovered at the end of its trip, James says, and finding even 200 in the wild to tag is unlikely. Knowing the route is vital to conservation efforts, but James had no way to figure it out- until he got a phone call from Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
The prison was looking for new activities to improve the mental health of those serving long-term sentences. So James began working with prisoners to raise monarchs through the whole process of their transformation. The adult insects were then tagged and released from the prison. Over five years, nearly 10, 000 monarchs flew from the facility. Elsewhere in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, researchers released another few thousand.
The tags included email addresses, and soon after the first butterflies took off, James started receiving messages from people who had spotted them. The butterflies, the reports confirmed, wintered in coastal California. Twelve of them landed at Lighthouse Field State Beach in Santa Cruz. Several more headed to Bolinas and Morro Bay.
The work helps researchers identify ideal places to plant milkweed and other vegetation that are important to the life cycle of West Coast monarch butterflies. It also brought out the gentler side of some of the prisoners. “They were very worried that they were going to harm the butterflies, ”James says. Watching the monarch change their form also touched the men. “This butterfly changed, ” James recalls prisoners telling him, “and maybe we can too. ”
【1】What was hard for David to do in his study?
A．Gain financial support.
B．Hire qualified workers.
C．Build a new laboratory.
D．Find enough monarchs.
【2】Why are the butterflies tagged before being released?
A．To guarantee their safety.
B．To enable them to fly longer distances.
C．To track their travel routes.
D．To distinguish them from other species.
【3】What makes the prisoners feel that they can change?
A．The patience the butterflies showed.
B．The hardship the butterflies underwent.
C．The transformation of the butterflies.
D．The devotion of James to the butterflies.
【4】What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A．The impact of the research.
B．The findings of James’ study.
C．The release of the prisoners.
D．The life cycle of the butterflies.
23、It was a warm spring evening. As I often do after a long day, I went straight to my backyard and did some work in my flower garden. I had only just walked a few steps on the patio (露台) when I suddenly felt a horrifying blow to the right side of my neck. Totally confused, I reached up and, to my shock and horror, realized that I had been shot — with an arrow.
I grabbed the arrow with a death grip where it had pierced my neck and ran inside, screaming my husband’s name. Ed ran to me and called an ambulance. I lay on the couch and prayed. I didn’t know if there was any way I could survive.
The arrow had come from a young man practising with a hunting bow in his backyard. Luckily, he was using a practice arrow. An arrow for hunting would have killed me.
At the hospital, I tried hard to reassure my family and friends. I kept telling them I was fine, but the looks on their faces told me that they weren’t buying it. After a CT scan, the doctors and nurses began telling me how lucky I was. The arrow had gone between the carotid artery and the jugular vein. There was no bleeding at all. Although I didn’t realize how incredible this was, I began arguing with them that I wasn’t “lucky“, I was “blessed”. Someone told my son there was a post on the site texasbowhunter.com asking for prayers for me. It turns out a friend had posted the prayer request on that website.
The morning after my two-hour surgery to remove the arrow, the surgeon came in my room. He revealed that I had a brain tumour and the surgery had to be done. I remember going a bit numb but thinking, God works in mysterious ways. The brain surgery was successful and in less than a week I was back home.
Nothing eventful happened for a couple of years. After an MRI in 2015, I was told that there was still no sign of a tumour growing back. Had it not been for that arrow, I would have died from a brain tumour. And honestly, the arrow should have killed me. But it didn’t.
Coincidences? Luck? I think not. The gentleman who wrote the last comment on the prayer-request thread on texasbowhunter.com summed it up in just two words. He simply wrote, “Amazing grace”.
【1】How did the author’ family feel when she told them she was fine at the hospital?
A．Doubtful
B．Concerned
C．Convinced
D．Reassured
【2】What did the author think of all that happened to her?
A．It is a blessing in disguise.
B．No pleasure without pain.
C．One good turn deserves another.
D．What goes around comes around.
【3】Why did the gentleman write “amazing grace”?
A．To appeal for attention.
B．To describe his reaction.
C．To call for others’ support.
D．To comment on the whole issue.
【4】Which section of a magazine does the passage come from?
A．Health
B．Entertainment
C．Nature
D．Story
24、What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.
“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.
In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multitrillion-dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be “meaningfully uncontrollable” in many parts of the world.
The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue, Crow maintained, and are, to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.
“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable. … We are part of the problem.”
Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.
Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”
Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.
Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”
During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school’s distance-learning program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.
He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.
【1】The fourth wave of change in America’s higher education refers to _______.
A. public colleges
B. land-grant schools
C. research universities
D. initial higher education
【2】Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share?
A. People enjoy a quality life.
B. People live longer and longer.
C. The freedom to move around.
D. An environment that is sustainable.
【3】Which is an initiative adopted by Crow at Arizona State University?
A. Restructuring the teachers College.
B. Launching the School of Life Sciences.
C. Ignoring the linkages between disciplines.
D. Enrolling more students from poor families.
【4】Which one is similar to the underlined word “architect” in meaning?
A. The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.
B. If you want to refurnish the house, consult the architect.
C. Deng Xiaoping is one of the architects of the PRC.
D. Tom is considered one of the best landscape architect here.
【5】With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ______.
A. enroll 40% of its students online
B. keep costs down without a loss of quality
C. provide an even greater number of courses
D. attract the most gifted students all over the world
25、 I tightly held the seat under me as the jeep raced forward, bouncing me into the air. I, a bookish Manhattanite, ____ solo north of the Arctic Circle to the Swedish Lapland. I didn't want to ______ my fortieth birthday as a day I was chained with my office work. Feeling an urgency to live life to the ______ , I answered the call of the wild.
I booked a Husky sledding tour and ______ myself that I would be safe on the journey. Yet, I still doubted my ability to steer the ______ dogs. What if the sled stopped halfway and the ______ began to crack under us?
After struggling into multiple layers of clothing. I boarded and looked like a fat monster. With the pack of Huskies, ______ in the noise of barks and howls, I hit the open rough road. While speeding down, I could even hear the snow crunching under us. With ______ eyes, I tried to avoid any possible dangers. I didn't want to put my own life ______.
Eventually, the pack of Huskies had brought my ______ into the unknown. A vast stretch of wild opened before us. Tall conifers（松柏）______ a tunnel of trees. I desired to catch a glimpse of the native wildlife-the quiet moose. the arctic fox, the magical reindeer,which seemed straight from a storybook. I was searching, like the Huskies, all senses ______ , eager for adventure.
I strained my eyes as far as they could see ______ paths met milky-white sky. Perhaps the earth and the heaven were one. Perhaps life wasn't so much about ______ the reins（缰绳）but letting go and trusting the adventure. Perhaps we even need a little rough weather, the slippery snow, to experience the ______ of challenging the wild.
A．hiked
B．settled
C．traveled
D．dreamed
A．get along with
B．look back on
C．make up for
D．keep up with
A．fullest
B．largest
C．fairest
D．coldest
A．requested
B．declared
C．forgave
D．convinced
A．freezing
B．emotional
C．dangerous
D．energetic
A．car
B．ice
C．rock
D．air
A．erupting
B．training
C．feeding
D．living
A．watchful
B．sensitive
C．patient
D．generous
A．with ease
B．under control
C．at risk
D．in return
A．thought
B．work
C．future
D．journey
A．grew
B．created
C．lifted
D．covered
A．alert
B．absent
C．dull
D．obvious
A．muddy
B．snowy
C．tough
D．busy
A．loosening
B．fixing
C．tightening
D．breaking
A．pain
B．sorrow
C．hope
D．joy
26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
Tucker stood by the back door and considered the winter sky: ice blue and not a single cloud. His breath made steamy circles in the air.
“I don’t think today’s the day, Tuck. We have to wait for the snow.” His father walked up beside him and looked outside. Then he walked off toward the basement door.
Tucker looked across the backyard of his family’s new house. Just beyond some pine trees, the flat ground pushed upward into a steep and empty hillside. Dad had promised that the hill would be perfect for sledding.
Tucker’s brand-new sled (雪橇板) rested in the corner of his room, sandwiched between his dresser and train table. It was perfect. He was sure it would be superfast. If only it would snow.
Tucker kicked gently at the door, then turned and went to look for his elder brother. Paul was in his usual spot, controller in hand, working his way through a video game.
“Hi, Paul.” Tucker sat down beside his brother. No response. “I said, ‘Hi!’” He tried speaking louder this time. “Sorry, Tuck. I’m at level ten. Later, OK?” Paul’s eyes remained glued to the screen. Tucker sighed and got up.
Tucker went down to the basement and found his father surrounded by piles of flattened cardboard (硬纸板) boxes. “Can you play knights (骑士) with me, Dad?” Tucker asked. His father looked over the wall of boxes and told him he had promised to get all these boxes broken down and ready for recycling. Tucker sighed. Suddenly, he got an idea.
“Dad, can I have some boxes and some duct tape (胶带)?” Tucker asked. His father smiled, grabbed the duct tape and tossed (扔) it to Tucker. “Have fun.”
Despite the cold, Tucker was sweating from carrying a mountain of cardboard into the backyard.
Paul appeared and asked, “What are you up to?” “Oh, good. I need help cutting the duct tape.” Tucker threw the sticky silver tape roll to his brother.
An hour later, Tucker and Paul stood, with a cardboard sled, on top of the hill under the fading January sun.
Para 1: “Do you think it will work?” Paul asked as he handed Tucker his sled.
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Para 2: “That’s so cool! Your turn!” Tucker collapsed (倒) next to Paul, breathless.
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