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1、--How do you usually go to work? –– I usually drive, but if it is fine, I ______ by bike.
A. will go B. would go C. have gone D. had gone
2、You look beautiful in this dress and there is only one of this kind left here. I wonder if you would buy ________.
A.it B.one
C.some D.any
3、Karl, a real book lover, often brings home many books to read ____ the library.
A. in B. for C. by D. from
4、In some western countries， demand for graduates from MBA courses has______.
A.turned down B.turned over C.fallen down D.fallen over
5、The Dragon Boat Festival ________ the beginning of the hottest season of the year.
A. is marking B. marks C. will mark D. marked
6、Humans tend to regard ourselves we are the only species is on the planet-and certainly the only one that matters.
A.as though B.even though C.though D.as
7、When you are ，I will appreciate if you pay in cash.
A.checking out； that B.paying off； it
C.paying out； / D.checking out； it
8、More subway lines______ to make travelling easy in Beijing in the coming years.
A．will build
B．will be built
C．build
D．are built
9、The professor _____about how to protect the endangered animal in the conference at this time tomorrow.
A. talked B. talks C. has been talking D. will be talking
10、— I usually go to Beijing by train.
— Why not try __________ there by plane for a change?
A.goes B.went C.going D.to go
11、Paris has some great museums _____ visitors can see fine works of impressionist painters.
A. that B. which C. when D. where
12、--I hear that there was a terrible crash in the subway in Shanghai the other day．
--Yes，_____ news came as _____ shock to all of us．
A．the; the B．a; /
C．the; a D．/; a
13、—The weather turns out to be fine.
— We can depend on ___ that the goods will be shipped to the flooded area on time.
A. it B. / C. this D. which
14、She is quite________to office work. You had better offer her some suggestions when necessary.
A. familiar B. similar
C. fresh D. sensitive
15、Some experts think, ________ genes, intelligence also depends on an adequate diet, a good education and a nice home environment.
A．instead of
B．except for
C．apart from
D．far from
16、All children should get access to a high-quality education ________ their race, zip code or family income.
A. depending on B. regardless of
C. due to D. apart from
17、It is known that water is not an endless resource, ________ can it be made once more, so we should save and protect it.
A．so
B．as
C．thus
D．nor
18、I must say he reads very well, and I shouldn’t be surprised if he ______ acting for a living one day.
A. had taken up B. would have taken up C. have taken up D. takes up
19、Once the massive rocket by SpaceX sprinted off (腾空而起) at about 3:45 p.m, everything seemed to _____ as planned, from the activation of David Bowie’s (大卫·鲍威) music as soundtrack to the pinpoint return of two reusable booster rockets.
A. take off B. go off C. set off D. pull off
20、In universities in China, classes are often arranged in more flexible___ and a lot of jobs are offered to the students after graduation.
A. patterns B. ranks C. grades D. scales
21、Why Is Independence Important?
When we speak of a person being independent, what do we mean? 【1】 Therefore, he becomes capable of being independent. We will grow apart from our parents as we grow older. We need to develop independence in every aspect of our lives so that we can earn a living and develop a career. Outlined here are reasons why achieving independence is essential.
【2】
If you are dependent on other people, your ability to make clear, precise decisions is severely affected.【3】 How often have we heard of dependent adult children being cut out of a will or denied an inheritance because they have made a decision their parent does not agree with? Their dependence made them subservient. Being independent means you can make decisions without fear of the consequences.
Independence leads to personal improvement.
【4】 You can pursue the career that you want and undertake activities that appeal to you. No-one else will be trying to limit your ambition. You can meet new friends, try new things, and follow up on new opportunities.
Independence is a boost to your self-esteem.
Self-esteem is tied in very closely to achieving success. How we see ourselves can affect our whole approach to life. 【5】If you see yourself as a successful person, you will be more likely to achieve greater success.
When you can act independently in each of these areas of your life, then you will have become a mature adult with a positive attitude towards everything you do.
A．Independence makes you happier.
B．Independence makes you a better decision-maker.
C．When you are independent, you can lead a free social life.
D．Usually, we take it to mean that a person achieves adulthood.
E．You will always have to consider the effect that your choices will have on those other people.
F．The more independent you are, the more likely it is that you will have positive self-esteem.
G．You are going to be willing to do things on your own, without needing support or approval from others.
22、In recent years, there has been a rise in the volume of audiobook sales, which is easily aided by the dominance of the smartphone. Other contributors to the rise beyond technology?
One thing is obvious: Reading even a short book involves a significant investment of time and prevents any other activity. You can’t drive or garden while reading. Andy Miller, the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously, said: “I was hunting for a book to read.” Kit Waal, my friend, said, “you should get the audiobook Old Filth; it’s fantastic.” She was right. I could walk the dog and still be reading a brilliant novel, or have one read to me brilliantly. I loved that book and I loved that way of reading it. So I’m a recent convert.”
Does he worry audio provides too different an experience to reading itself? “Clearly on audio you are at the mercy of the reader’s skills,” he says. “But then , ego (自己) aside, the same is true of reading a book on the page. We’re all at the mercy of our own skills and tastes, aren’t we? But on audio you are influenced by someone else’s interpretation. And you might simply dislike the voice of the reader. But at its best audio offers a complementary (互补的) experience to the actual book.”
Will audiobook distract us from the page before us? Better to focus on what we might gain. As someone who frequently interviews authors on stage, I'm aware of the unique insight to a text produced by hearing someone read their own work; I’ve frequently re-interpreted a passage after such an experience. But that has had no impact on whether or not I'll read a book by a writer I will never hear reading.
I once met the writer Don Delillo. In response to a question about the process of writing, he remarked that he sometimes became attracted by the shape of particular letters, by the way individual words appeared before him, their beauty beyond meaning and the relationship to meaning. He sounded hippy-dippy; then it made perfect sense. Reading does start with shapes, which slowly resolve to make a certain meaning, filtered through our own subjectivity and our senses. That will never change.
【1】What does Andy Miller mean by “I’m a recent convert” in paragraph 2?
A．I like the reader’s voice.
B．I enjoy my daily routines.
C．I fall in love with audiobook.
D．I am addicted to reading novels.
【2】What does Andy Miller think of the audiobook?
A．It has a good voice.
B．It limits our interpretation.
C．It controls our skills and tastes.
D．It misleads our interpretation.
【3】What is Don Delillo’s attitude to reading the actual book?
A．Unclear.
B．Objective.
C．Opposed.
D．Favourable.
【4】What is the best title of the text?
A．Easy listening: the rise of the audiobook?
B．The audiobook-a growing trend in reading
C．Slow reading-the decline of the actual book?
D．A new experience: the appearance of audiobook
23、 What if you could take your drawing pen and simply scan any color you want and then turn around and draw with it? This new pen design allows you to do that. That is Scribble. And it’s very easy to use.
·How does Scribble work?
The built-in RGB sensor (传感器) lets you easily get any color — simply point it at an object and press the button! Red, green and blue inks are then mixed — much like in a traditional printer — to create your desired color.
·Different tips
The Scribble Pen (for paper) comes with three different sizes of drawing tips. Scribble is perfect for both drawing and writing. The Scribble Stylus Pen comes with two different tips — hard tip and soft tip. It works on more than just paper; it can be used for drawing or writing on your mobile device.
·Rechargeable battery
Scribble’s battery is rechargeable and lightweight. The Scribble Pen’s battery lasts seven hours. And the Scribble Stylus Pen’s battery lasts as long as 15 hours.
·Price
The regular price of a Scribble Pen is US$400. Now, you can have it at 40% off the regular price. And you can have a Scribble Stylus Pen at US$119 (save US$80). You also need to pay US$15 for postage. Remember to choose the color you want. At present, we offer five colors for you to choose from. If you are an artist, you really need a pen like this. It’s the last pen you will ever need to buy.
To learn more information about the products you can visit our website.
【1】What can we learn about Scribble from the passage?
A.It is connected to a printer.
B.It is lighter than an ordinary pen.
C.It doesn’t need electricity to work.
D.It can be used for both drawing and writing.
【2】Which is true about the Scribble Stylus Pen?
A.It works best on paper.
B.It can create five colors at present.
C.It is initially designed for mobile devices.
D.It has a better battery life than the Scribble Pen.
【3】If you buy a Scribble Pen now, how much should you pay in total?
A.US$175. B.US$240.
C.US$255. D.US$260.
24、 Just as a hungry brain craves (渴望) food, a lonely brain craves people. A new brain study demonstrates this. After being left alone, it shows people's brains would be activated at the sight of other people. The action was in the same brain region that speeds up when a hungry person sees food.
Livia Tomova, a neuroscientist, who studies how the brain produces mental activities, and her colleagues began this study. They recruited (招募) 40 people. On one day, the participants had to fast—not eat anything at all—for 10 hours. On another day, the same people were placed in a room for 10 hours. They couldn't see anyone. No friends, no family and no social media. They weren't even allowed to check their email. After both days, Tomova and her colleagues put the people in a MRI machine. It shows activity in the brain by tracking how much blood is flowing to each region.
At the end of each day, the participants showed high activity in a brain area called the midbrain. The scientists were interested in two, small areas within it. Both areas produce dopamine, a chemical that is important in craving and rewards. The two areas activated when hungry participants saw pictures of tasty pizza or juicy hamburgers. After the volunteers had been isolated, those brain areas became active when they saw social activities they missed. It might be playing sports or chatting with friends.
The midbrain plays an important part in people's motivation to seek food or friends. In fact, it responds to food and social signals even when people aren't hungry or lonely. But hunger and loneliness increased the reactions and made people's responses specific to the thing they were missing. And the more hunger or isolation the volunteers said they were experiencing, the stronger the activity in this part of the brain. Tomova and her colleagues published their results November 23 in Nature Neuroscience.
【1】How does Tomova test out the result of the study?
A．By stimulating desire.
B．By controlling blood flow.
C．By monitoring brain activity.
D．By examining mental activities.
【2】What do we know about midbrain?
A．It consists of two areas.
B．It helps motivate desire for food.
C．It stops working when people are full.
D．It decreases responses to lost friends.
【3】What does the underlined “it” in paragraph 3 refer to?
A．A midbrain area.
B．A social activity.
C．A volunteer.
D．A hamburger.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A．Dopamine—a Sure Sign of Age
B．Midbrain—a Nest for the Thoughts
C．Hunger Makes Mental Health Struggle
D．Loneliness Makes Our Brains Need People
25、 Mid-afternoon on a particularly busy Tuesday, I took leave of my desk at work and walked into a local Starbucks. I went there simply because I wanted to find a space where neither my clients nor my _______ would ask me to do something.
Inside, I ran into Kate, a co-worker of mine. I _______ she was there for the same reason I was. But as we started chatting, I realized that there was a(n)_______ difference in the reasons for our visit. The topic of parenthood _______. I joked about how_______my schedule was, noting that I was needed “from the minute I wake up, to the minute If all asleep.” But a bit of_______seemed to come over Kate's face. “Well, my daughter's in San Francisco and she doesn't seem to _______me at all these days, ”Kate said, with a sad-looking smile. It was in that moment that I realized:_______I might often feel in high demand, there will come a day when I'll actually miss that same stress I now_______about. And as our conversation continued, it became clear that I wasn't just talking to Kate; I was talking to myself________15-20 years.
The conversation turned to our children' s __________ years, with Kate smiling proudly，thinking of the little boy and girls he raised who are now a man and a woman. But I noticed her smile was __________ with regret. She explained that she often wondered about what she could have done __________ when her children were in their earlier years. “I just wish ... I wish I had brought them to each other' s sporing event and encouraged them to cheer and to be stronger__________for each other,” Kate noted.
This got me thinking. Is regret an unfortunate footnote (注脚) to__________? I asked six older parents in my life one question: What is your biggest regret from your early days as a parent? It turned out that all of them thought they could have done it better. But, each of them also has a ________relationship with their kids. Regret didn't affect them in am________way.
The __________line is, we all feel like we could be doing this parent thing beer. And quite clearly, years later, we're still going to look back and__________we tried things differently. But the past can't be________, and neither should it.
【1】A.children B.parents C.friends D.colleagues
【2】A.claimed B.concluded C.assumed D.declared
【3】A.impressive B.modest C.slight D.significant
【4】A.came over B.came up C.came in D.came about
【5】A.packed B.crushed C.involved D.exploited
【6】A.happiness B.disappointment C.sadness D.anxiety
【7】A.love B.contact C.miss D.need
【8】A.Once B.Unless C.While D.As
【9】A.complain B.think C.argue D.wonder
【10】A.after B.over C.in D.within
【11】A.adolescent B.younger C.later D.adult
【12】A.decorated B.connected C.dotted D.marked
【13】A.differently B.carefully C.eventually D.personally
【14】A.audiences B.referees C.opponents D.advocates
【15】A.childhood B.maturity C.parenthood D.growth
【16】A.secure B.weak C.unhealthy D.sharp
【17】A.comprehensive B.complete C.meaningful D.miserable
【18】A.finishing B.bottom C.fine D.hard
【19】A.regret B.remember C.hope D.wish
【20】A.celebrated B.changed C.replaced D.returned
26、Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
学校学生会准备为文学社、英语社、体育社、艺术社等各社团招募新成员。假如你是其中一个社团的负责人，请你写一篇宣传稿介绍你们社团的情况。文章必须包括：
●简单介绍你们社团的特色或优势
●简要描述你们社团的发展规划
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