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1、What a wonder! They’ve finished ______half of the project in such a short time.
A.no more than B.no less than C.not more than D.much less than
2、—John may not like what you will do.
—______? I don’t care what he thinks.
A．So what
B．What for
C．How come
D．Why not
3、________ in the traffic jam, it took the car about 3 hours to get out.
A．To be stuck
B．Stuck
C．Sticking
D．Stick
4、Today impressionist paintings are accepted at the beginning of ____ we call “modern art”.
A. what B. which C. that D. how
5、They searched around for a nice table to________ their new apartment.
A. fill B. furnish
C. arrange D. put
6、______, everyone present was amused by his adventure story in Africa.
A. Absurd as might it sound
B. As it might sound absurd
C. As absurd it might sound
D. Absurd as it might sound
7、History enables pupils to learn about their culture, ________ helps them to understand the society they live in.
A. who B. which
C. where D. that
8、A(n) _____ dressed speaker is more likely to leave a pleasant impression on the audience.
A. appropriately B. informally
C. casually D. complexly
9、________ is less than ________.
A．One-third; two-thirds
B．One-third; two-third
C．First-three; first-threes
D．One-third; one-three
10、. ___________ the extreme levels of air pollution, city authorities have started to take measures to quickly reduce pollution levels and protect city dwellers.
A. In spite of B. As well as
C. In response to D. By means of
11、We’ll make the final decision on our scheme. ________ you change your mind, please inform us as soon as possible.
A.Should B.Were C.Would D.May
12、---______ you possibly take me to the railway station on your way to work tomorrow?
---No problem.
A．May
B．Might
C．Should
D．Could
13、---Your grandfather still seems very energetic, although he is already in his seventies now.
---Yes, he _______in the army for three years when he was young.
A． would serve B． served
C． had served D． has served
14、True happiness does not lie in the ________ of money，but the joy of achievement.
A. possession B. profession
C. permission D. persuasion
15、The measure of a man’s real character is what he ____ if he ____ he would never be found out.
A. would do; knew B. may do; knew
C. might do; knows D. should do; had known
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16、—When will you come to see me, Dad？
—I will go to see you when you______ the training course.
A．will have finished
B．will finish
C．are finishing
D．finish
17、He’s become the ________ for a lot of criticism recently.
A．pressure
B．target
C．function
D．trick
18、Mary couldn’t________ the terrible working conditions in that factory and resigned last week．
A．catch up with B．keep up with
C．put up with D．come up with
19、Although Beijing didn’t establish its first Antarctic research base until 1985, Chinese efforts _________ its influence across the continent are now outpacing other nation’s plans.
A. expanding B. to be expanded
C. expanded D. to expand
20、________ she welcomes the new enterpreneurial spirit, she advises that people be realistic and seek guidance________ rushing into things.
A．Since, when
B．As, before
C．Though, before
D．Although, when
21、Struggling for breath, I felt another wave crash against my body. Desperately attempting to hold onto the sand for my life, at seven years old, I felt completely helpless. Waking up on the shore, I got up and began to clean the sand off me. My parents had been always drilling water safety into me and so I felt I should have known much better. But nearly drowning made me even more of a water baby.
Growing up in South Africa, I have many fond summer memories associated with the water. However, when I moved to the UK in 2013, I realized how much I missed it. As life went on, working full-time in media and advertising, I realized I wanted to do something else.
So much so, in 2016, I decided to train as a swimming teacher. I would work evenings and weekends, but eventually realized it was something I wanted to devote all my time to. I have been trained to teach a whole range of ages from three years old up to 77!
This desire to help others went even further when, in October last year, I decided to swim the English Channel with the charity Swim Tayka. I first knew about the charity back in 2019 after searching Google for volunteering projects, and I was really inspired by the work they did in providing disadvantaged children with swimming lessons and drowning prevention education.
“Why did you sign up for the challenge?” one of the charity workers asked me.
Sitting down one evening, I really thought about why I wanted to do this and I remembered the incident that happened when I was a child.
I just want to help people love and respect the water in the same way I do. Watching by the pool side as my students splash (溅) about care-free, I smile proudly. It really does make all the difference knowing you’re helping others and I encourage people to take up the challenge.
【1】How does the author feel about his drowning experience?
A．Amazing.
B．Beneficial.
C．Destructive.
D．Embarrassing.
【2】Why did the author move to the UK in 2013?
A．To teach all-age people to swim.
B．To further study swimming skills.
C．To escape from childhood memories.
D．To be engaged in media and advertising.
【3】How was the author informed of Swim Tayka?
A．By inquiring volunteers.
B．By overhearing a project.
C．By googling for information.
D．By crossing the English Channel.
【4】What is the root motivation for the author to take up the challenge?
A．His deep love for swimming.
B．The drowning incident in childhood.
C．The education he received in the training.
D．His determination to improve people’s well-being.
22、Failure is probably the most exhausting experience one ever has. There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding.
We experience this tiredness in two ways: start-up fatigue (疲惫) and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it is either too boring or too difficult.【1】
Such start-up fatigue is very real, even if not actually physical. The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply: always handle the most difficult job first. 【2】 Using my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical (字母) order and I always started the day's work with the difficult task of essay-writing. Experience proved that the rule works.
【3】Its difficulties appear so great that we fail again and again. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can and then let the unconscious take over. When planning Encyclopedia Britannica, I had to create a table of contents. Nothing like this had ever been done before so that my fatigue became almost unbearable. I tried to convince myself that the trouble was with the problem itself, not with me. 【4】 An hour later, I woke up suddenly with the solution which had come up in my unconscious mind and proved correct at every step.
【5】Success was now as exciting as failure had been depressing. Human beings, I believe, must try to succeed. Success, then, means never feeling tired.
A．Feeling relieved, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.
B．Hard as I worked as before, l felt no fatigue.
C．This feeling finally weighed me down.
D．Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle.
E．And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel.
F．I racked my brains day and night and wrote the essays desperately.
G．I once was asked to write quite a lot of essays on some famous authors.
23、 One day I stopped to think about growing apples. I was eating a delicious, juicy apple and took a big bite. As a result, I got an apple seed into my mouth. I spat it out into my hand, with the intention of throwing it away. But instead I looked at the apple seed. I realized I was holding an apple tree in the palm of my hand. A little seed with the potential to become a beautiful big tree-a tree that could grow thousands of apples in its lifetime. Why then the world wasn't filled with apple trees? It is a rule of nature that only a few of these seeds grow.
And it came to my mind that it's also quite often so with people's dreams. Wonderful ideas come to our minds but they die too soon-we don't tend to the little saplings, we don't protect them as we should. And then one day we wonder what happened to our dreams-why did they never come true?
The seeds of your dreams did not automatically grow, like planting an apple tree. It might take many tries: like a hundred job applications to get that good job. You might send your manuscript out two hundred times before it was accepted.
Some people think their best time in life is when they are young. I refuse to believe that. There are plenty of examples out there that prove you can achieve amazing things even in your mature years. I love the little story of a woman who decided she wanted to go and study when she was in her forties. Her husband asked her.”Do you realize that if you start your studies now, you will be fifty when you graduate?" To which this admirable lady replied:“Darling-l shall be fifty in any case".
So go ahead and follow your dreams. No matter what they are, no matter what your age, and no matter what others think of it. It's your life after all.
【1】How does the author introduce the topic of the text?
A.By giving a classic example.
B.By telling us a natural phenomenon.
C.By asking and answering a question
D.By describing a personal experience.
【2】Which of the following is true according to the author?
A.Wonderful ideas will not die easily.
B.The seeds of our dreams grow naturally.
C.Our dreams will not come true without tries.
D.We never know what will happen to our dreams.
【3】What does the author tell the story of the woman to show?
A.People will grow old anyway.
B.It's never late to achieve things.
C.It's better to start doing things early.
D.We should not care what others think of us.
【4】What is the author's purpose of writing the text?
A.To describe how our dreams are ruined.
B.To treat apple seeds like our dreams.
C.To encourage us to pursue our dreams.
D.To explain the process of growing apple trees.
24、A sick little girl is being kept alive thanks to her best friend — a dog who carries her oxygen tank on his back. Alida’s faithful dog companion Mr Gibbs has been specially trained to shepherd the three-year-old, who breathes through a tube most of the time. He follows her closely as she plays in her family’s ten-acre land in Louisville, uses the slide or even rides her bike.
Alida was diagnosed with neuroendocrine hyperplasia of infancy（NEHI）when she was just eight months old. Her rare condition has just eight hundred documented sufferers throughout the world, and causes diseased pieces of the lungs to filter oxygen through extra layers of cells, making it hard or almost impossible to breathe. For Alida and her parents, it meant that even a walk in the park was very difficult because oxygen equipment was too heavy for the youngster to be able to carry herself. As parents, they wanted to do something to help their daughter survive despite having a tube following her all the time. The couple found out about “service dogs” from a TV program and realized an animal trained to help the blind could be trained to help Alida. They finally found help in the shape of golden doodle—a retriever crossed with a poodle-dog Mr Gibbs. Now thanks to trainer Ashleigh Kinsley—Alida and Mr Gibbs love nothing more than playing and running around together with the dog acting as Alida’s life saver.
【1】What is Mr Gibbs?
A. A pet dog.
B. A policeman.
C. A doctor.
D. A firefighter.
【2】When did the doctor know Alida caught the disease?
A. At her birth.
B. At the age of eight.
C. Before she was one year old.
D. When she was three years old.
【3】The underlined part “the couple” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.
A. Alida’s classmates
B. Alida’s parents
C. Alida’s doctors
D. Alida’s pets
【4】How did Alida keep alive?
A. By training her dog.
B. By staying with her parents.
C. By playing with her fellows.
D. By breathing through a tube.
25、During World War II, a young nurse, Irena Sendler, risked her life to save over 2,500 children. Back in 2008, she was ________with some of the children whom she had saved. They wanted to ________her face to face for what she did.
Irena was only 29 when the war began, and at the time, she was ________at the Welfare Department of the Warsaw municipality in Poland. This gave her the perfect ________to help Jewish people being targeted by the Nazis.
In the 1940s, the Nazis ________the country’s Jewish population to the Warsaw ghetto. The ghetto was meant to ________Jews from the general population, and inside, Jews had to live in ________conditions. By 1942, nearly everyone in the ghetto had been deported (驱逐) to concentration camps and killed.
When Irena heard that, she decided to ________Jewish people. Using her credentials(证件) as a social worker, she was able to get ________to go into the ghetto. Then, she ________to take as many children out of the ghetto as she could secretly, ________over 2,500 of them between 1935 and 1943.
To get the kids out, Irena and her team would ________them in ambulances, lead them through underground sewer(下水道) networks and passageways, or wheel them out in suitcases or boxes. She eventually became one of the main ________behind Zegota, a secret organization that called itself the Council for Aid to Jews.
The Gestapo(盖世太保) ________what Irena was doing in 1943, and when she learned they were ________her, she wrote the names of the rescued children on cigarette papers, put them into two glass bottles and ________them in a friend’s garden. After the war, these bottles were dug up so that the children could be reunited with their families. ________, most of the families died in concentration camps, so many of the kids ________saw their loved ones again.
The Gestapo ________Irena and wanted to kill her, but finally she was saved by Zegota.
Irena received plenty of ________for her bravery, including the Gold Cross of Merit. Though she died later, we continue to honor her memory to this day.
【1】
A．found
B．combined
C．compared
D．reunited
【2】
A．thank
B．pay
C．encourage
D．congratulate
【3】
A．performing
B．studying
C．working
D．struggling
【4】
A．right
B．opportunity
C．excuse
D．tool
【5】
A．followed
B．introduced
C．welcome
D．sent
【6】
A．free
B．separate
C．protect
D．attract
【7】
A．common
B．different
C．challenging
D．terrible
【8】
A．look for
B．fight for
C．live with
D．write about
【9】
A．directions
B．tickets
C．permission
D．Inspiration
【10】
A．managed
B．promised
C．expected
D．pretended
【11】
A．raising
B．accepting
C．saving
D．influencing
【12】
A．hide
B．search
C．lock
D．replace
【13】
A．journalists
B．experts
C．learners
D．activists
【14】
A．believed
B．noticed
C．wondered
D．predicted
【15】
A．depending on
B．waiting for
C．competing with
D．coming for
【16】
A．burned
B．threw
C．buried
D．shared
【17】
A．Unfortunately
B．Doubtfully
C．Unsuccessfully
D．Surprisingly
【18】
A．also
B．even
C．never
D．nearly
【19】
A．joined
B．caught
C．prevented
D．remembered
【20】
A．help
B．attention
C．questions
D．honors
26、你校于上周五下午在学校大礼堂举办了第十届校园“十佳歌手”大赛。请你用英文写一篇报道，发表在你校的网站上。内容包括：
1.主办单位：学校团委及学生会；
2.举办歌手大赛的目的；
3.简单介绍比赛的整个过程。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.题目和首句已为你写好。
参考词汇：团委 the League Committee
The Top Ten Singers Competition
The Tenth Best Singers Competition was held in the school auditorium(礼堂）last Friday afternoon.
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