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1、Nothing is more ____________ to me than my good health.
A.precise B.previous C.precious D.powerful
2、The companies are working together to create ________ they hope will be the best means of transport in the 21stcentury.
A. which B. that C. what D. who
3、Many young people are only ready to watch basketball games via TV, but somewhat ________ to participate in person.
A.desperate B.reluctant C.voluntary D.anxious
4、If you ________ to his speech attentively, you should have known that his achievement was not all from good luck.
A. listened B. would listen
C. had listened D. would have listened
5、It was several minutes before I could take in what he was saying.
A．include
B．cheat
C．judge
D．absorb
6、Half an hour later, Lucy still couldn’t get a taxi _______ the bus had dropped her.
A.until B.when C.although D.where
7、People in those days liked to believe in computers ________ the world.
A. taking over and ruling B. take over and rule
C. that took over and rule D. to take over and rule
8、Julia has got a pretty _ deal—she was laid off just for being late once!
A. rough B. tough
C. illegal D. mean
9、Your composition is good but your handwriting requires _______.
A. to improve B. improved
C. being improved D. improving
10、Loneliness is a feeling _______ people experience a powerful rush of emptiness and solitude.
A. which B. where C. that D. how
11、The two sisters hugged each other, ________ their grief and ________ one another.
A．shared; comforted
B．shared; comforting
C．had shared; comforted
D．shared; having comforted
12、Much disappointed as he is _______ in the job interview, he still keeps his confidence．
A．to have failed B．failed
C．having failed D．failing
13、The picnic will be put off if it ______ tomorrow.
A.will snow B.snows C.is snowing D.snowed
14、The best method to ______ this goal is to unite as many people as possible.
A. undertake B. conduct C. perform D. Accomplish
15、There ________ a very old private school in this town.
A．used to have
B．used to be
C．used to having
D．is used to being
16、—— Here ________！Where is Xiao Liu?
——There ________.
A. comes the bus; is he B. comes the bus; he is
C. the bus comes; is he D. the bus comes; he is
17、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。
He has just landed a job in an investment company.
A.searched B.lost C.found D.left
18、--- Why did your brother look so down?
His ________ to become a pilot was held back by his poor eyesight.
A. promotion B. destination.
C. instruction D. ambition
19、I decided to do something to regain my good name as a kindly aunt. My ____, Frost, had never forgiven me for the dictionary I had bought him as a birthday present last year.
A.grandson B.cousin C.niece D.nephew
20、-Can I pay a visit to you this Friday afternoon manager？
-Sorry, I some American business partners the whole afternoon.
A. have met B. have been meeting C. will be meeting D. will have met
21、Mars( 火星) appears to be flowing with small streams of salty water, at least in the summer,scientists reported Monday. "It suggests that. it would be possible for there to be life today on Mars," NASA's science mission chief, John Grunsfeld, said at a news conference on September 28, 2015. The streams are about 12 to 15 feet wide and 300 feet or more long, scientists said.
"What we're dealing with is wet soil. thin layers of wet soil, not standing water," said Aifred McEwen of the University of Arizona at Tueson ! the principal scientist for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's high-resolution imaging experiment.
Because liquid water is essential to life, the findings could have major implications for the possibility of Martian life. The researchers said further exploration is needed to determine whether microscopic life exists on the planet.
The presence of liquid water could also make life easier for astronauts visiting or living on Mars. Water could be used for drinking and for creating oxygen and rocket fuel. NASA's goal is to send humans there in the 2030s.
The evidence of flowing water consists largely of dark, narrow streaks(条痕) on the surface that tend to appear and grow during the warmest Martian months and fade the rest of the year.
Mars is extremely cold even in summer, and the streaks are in places where the temperature is as low as minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit. But salt can lower the freezing point of water and melt ice.
The source(源头) of the water is a mystery. Scientists noted it could be melting ice. It could be an underground aquifer, which is rock or sand that can hold water. It is possibly water vapor from the thin Martian atmosphere, Or it may be a combination Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars exploration program, said the only definitive way for now to determine whether there's life on Mars is to collect rocks and soil for analysis on Earth - something a U. S. lander set for lift-off in 2020 will do.
【1】What would be the best title for the text? '
A Streams of Water Spotted on Mars
B. Astronauts will Land on Mars
C. NASA's Mars Exploration Program
D. A Breakthrough in the Exploration of Mars
【2】According to John Grunsfeld, there seems to be on Mars.
A. salty water
B. standing water
C. rocket fuel
D. human beings
【3】Scientists are uncertain about the of the water on Mars.
A. state
B. source
C. temperature
D. taste
【4】What matters to the existence of liquid water on Mars?
A. The distance from the sun.
B. The favorable climate.
C. The gravity of the earth
D．The salt in it．
22、Hacking our senses to boost learning power
Some schools are pumping music, noises and pleasant smells into the classroom to see if it improves exam results. Could it work? Why do songs stick in our heads? What does your school smell like? Is it noisy or peaceful?
It might not seem important, but a growing body of research suggests that smells and sounds can have an impact on learning, performance and creativity. Indeed, some head teachers have recently taken to broadcasting noises and pumping smells into their schools to see whether it can boost grades. Is there anything in it? And if so, what are the implications for the way we work and study?
There is certainly some well-established research to suggest that some noises can have a harmful effect on learning. Numerous studies over the past 15 years have found that children attending schools under the flight paths of large airports fall behind in their exam results. Bridget Shield, a professor of acoustics (声学) at London South Bank University, and Julie Dockrell, from the Institute of Education, have been conducting studies on the effects of all sorts of noises, such as traffic and sirens (汽笛), as well as noise generated by the children themselves. When they recreated those particular sounds in an experimental setting while children completed various learning tasks, they found a significant negative effect on exam scores. “Everything points to a bad impact of the noise on children’s performance, in numeracy, in literacy, and in spelling,” says Shield. The noise seemed to have an especially harmful effect on children with special needs.
Whether background sounds are beneficial or not seems to depend on what kind of noise it is — and the volume. In a series of studies published last year, Ravi Mehta from the College of Business at Illinois and his colleagues tested people’s creativity while exposed to a soundtrack made up of background noises — such as coffee-shop chatter and construction-site drilling — at different volumes. They found that people were more creative when the background noises were played at a medium level than when volume was low. Loud background noise, however, damaged their creativity.
Many teachers all over the world already play music to students in class. Many are inspired by the belief that hearing music can boost IQ in later tasks, the so-called Mozart effect. While the evidence actually suggests it’s hard to say classical music boosts brainpower, researchers do think pleasant sounds before a task can sometimes lift your mood and help you perform well, says Perham, who has done his own studies on the phenomenon. The key appears to be that you enjoy what you’re hearing. “If you like the music or you like the sound — even listening to a Stephen King novel — then you do better. It doesn’t matter about the music,” he says.
So, it seems that schools that choose to prevent disturbing noises and create positive soundscapes could enhance the learning of their students, so long as they make careful choices. Yet this isn’t the only sense being used to affect learning. Special educational needs students at Sydenham high school in London are being encouraged to revise different subjects in the presence of different smells — grapefruit scents for maths, lavender for French and spearmint for history.
【1】The four questions in the first paragraph are meant to ________.
A．create some sense of humour to please the readers
B．provide the most frequently asked questions in schools nowadays
C．hold the readers’ attention and arouse their curiosity to go on reading
D．declare the purpose of the article: to try to offer key to those questions
【2】What does the conclusion of the studies of noise conducted by Bridget Shield and Julie Dockrell suggest?
A．Peaceful music plays an active role in students’ learning.
B．Not all noises have a negative impact on children’s performance.
C．We should create for school children a more peaceful environment.
D．Children with special needs might be exposed to some particular sounds.
【3】Ravi Mehta’s experiment indicates that ________.
A．students’ creativity improves in a quiet environment
B．we may play some Mozart music while students are learning
C．a proper volume of background noises does improve creativity
D．noise of coffee-shop chatter is better than that of construction-site drilling
【4】Which of the following is most likely to follow up the research findings?
A．Experts’ research into other senses that can improve students’ grades.
B．More successful examples of boosting learning power by using music.
C．Suggestions for pumping lots of pleasant smells into school campuses.
D．Debates on whether noises can really have positive effect on students’ performance.
23、Online Money Earning
Yes you can earn money online without any investment or without anytime limit. I have many useful easy methods for earning easy money while we all spend our useful time on the Internet by surfing, chatting, downloading and other work. There is no need to stop any other work. We can earn with or without our daily routine. Here I tell you the complete method for online earning.
First Method
Earn money with “Bux. to”. You can earn money through “Bux.to” by clicking on ads on “Bux. to” site. First you need to open an account at “Bux. to”.
“Bux. To” is a new international and FREE English based service that allows advertisers to reach thousands of potential customers by displaying their ads on our “Surf Ads” page. An exact calculated percentage of all advertising income is paid to our members. “Bux. to” makes money through advertising.
How you make money
You view websites in 30 seconds through the “Surf Ads” page. Once the 30 seconds is up, you’ll either get a green tick sign or a red “x”. The green tick sign means you’ve earned $0.01and the “x” means you have not earned money for the visit. You’ll get red x’s when you have more than one websites from the “Surf Ads” page open. When this happens, you get no credit.
Earnings example
You click 10 ads per day =$0.10
20 referrals(转送) click 10 ads per day =$2.00
Your daily earnings =$2.10
Your weekly earnings =$14.70
Your monthly earnings =$63.00
How to get paid
If you have at least $10.00 accumulated, you can click on your account balance within your states area and it will meet your request. At present, it only makes payments through “AlertPay”. It will soon be using other methods of payment.
AlertPay is the payment processing solution that we use to pay members. Your AlertPay address is the e-mail address you use to register with AlertPay. You can get a free AlertPay account at http:// alertpay. com.
Method 2 will publish soon…
【1】What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
A. To tell an interesting story.
B. To solve a puzzling problem.
C. To present an exciting research.
D. To introduce a surprising way to earn money.
【2】You can earn money by ________.
A. chatting online B. advertising some products
C. clicking on advertisements D. choosing green ticks or x’s
【3】What can we know from the passage?
A. You’ll earn $0.10 if you click 1 ad.
B. You can get your payments through AlertPay.
C. Your AlertPay account is not for free.
B. You’ll get many green ticks if you have many websites open.
24、Less than one year after France imposed a nationwide ban on smoking in most public places, it will, from Jan. 1, 2009, extend the ban to bars, restaurants, hotels, nightclubs—and the most cherished of all: cafés.
Ireland and Italy show that countries with long-standing smoking traditions may introduce bans fairly smoothly, as they did in 2004 and 2005. In Germany, where regulations vary locally, Berlin will join France on Jan 1. But fierce critics of the new law in France say it all but destroys the café's basic function: to serve as the socio-economic glue of society.
Cécile Perez, owner of La Fronde, a typical Parisian neighborhood café, said: “In the morning, street cleaners in bright green uniforms sip coffee next to well-dressed businessmen; at lunch hour, working-class types rub shoulders with those of the latest fashion at the bar, while couples of all ages rub noses over salads; during the after-work rush, there is a steady soundtrack of clinking glasses combined with conversation; the constant, no matter what time of day, is the smoke that drifts through the air in curls and clouds, seemingly unnoticed.”
“Our motto in France is: liberty, equality, fraternity,” Olivier Seconda, a regular at the café, said. “The café is the place that represents that. You’re free to smoke, everyone pays the same price for a beer and different kinds of people talk with one another. This new law goes against that.”
Seconda expects the ban to be felt even more strongly in small villages far from Paris, where the café is often the only means of social activity. “People already miss the space that allows people of all walks of life to share something—even if it is sometimes no more than a few words and the smoke floating between them.”
【1】Cécile Perez mentions the curls and clouds of smoke drifting through the air to ______.
A．describe a friendly atmosphere
B．show the beauty of his own café
C．support the ban on smoking
D．remind us of something unnoticed
【2】Olivier Seconda implies that ______.
A．the café provides people with enough liberty, equality, and fraternity
B．people, regardless of their social classes, enjoy equal rights in a café
C．the new ban on café smoking should be put in effect only in villages
D．people would not find fun in a café without smoking a cigarette
【3】The passage is written to _______.
A．show the writer’s personal opinion against a new law
B．provide information for law-makers to pass a new law
C．tell why some people are unhappy about smoking ban in cafés
D．compare attitudes to a law, held by people from different countries
25、How can you think in English? I think the best way is to practice as what a football player does every day. During the _______ the football player will pass the ball to his teammates over and over again. So he won’t have to _______ passing the ball in the game, he will just do it.
You can _______ yourself to think in English this way. The first step is to think of the words that you use daily, simple everyday words _______book or shoe or tree. For example, whenever you _______ a book you should think of it in English instead of in your mother language.
After you have learned to think of several words in English, then move on to the next step-thinking in _______. Listening and repeating is a very useful _______ to learn a language. Listen first and don’t care too much about _______ you fully understand what you’re hearing. Try to repeat what you hear. The more you listen, the _______ you learn. After you reach a higher level, _______having conversations with yourself in English. This will lead you to think in English.
【1】
A．practice
B．break
C．game
D．day
【2】
A．wait for
B．think about
C．look at
D．give up
【3】
A．allow
B．train
C．tell
D．ask
【4】
A．in
B．about
C．like
D．from
【5】
A．buy
B．keep
C．borrow
D．see
【6】
A．sentences
B．passages
C．lessons
D．classes
【7】
A．idea
B．step
C．way
D．plan
【8】
A．which
B．whether
C．how
D．why
【9】
A．harder
B．less
C．later
D．more
【10】
A．remember
B．stop
C．start
D．finish
26、写作
假设你是李华， 你的加拿大朋友Bob 给你发了一封电子邮件，想了解一下中国高中生对于大学的选择意向，于是你在班里进行了一次调查。请根据下表的信息，给Bob 回复一封电子邮件，告诉他调查结果，并说明原因。
选择意向和比例
| 原因
|
省内大学25﹪
| 录取机会大；生活习惯相似
|
省外大学70﹪
| 培养独立性；可选学校多
|
国外大学5﹪
| 了解外国文化；有助于学外语
|
注意: 1.词数100左右；
2.电子邮件的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Bob,
Last week I did a survey among the students in my class on what university they want to choose. ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
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