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1、French author Le Clezjo, a brilliant novelist as a child of all continents, won the Nobel Prize in literature in October, 2008.
A．honored B．honoring
C．being honored D．having honored
2、Standard Cognition, a startup company. in California, has developed technology that works like of Amazon Go, but it seeks to sell its artificial intelligence system to businesses for use in their own stores
A.the one B.those C.that D.one
3、Sinclair’s next computer, the ZX81, was an even bigger hit, and his company’s ________ grew by 600% over the previous year.
A. allowance B. receipts
C. finance D. salary
4、Under the Dome, ________ 103-minute documentary released by Chai Jing, has pushed public awareness about air pollution and encouraged people to join in efforts to make ________difference.
A. the; a B. a; a.
C. the; 不填. D. a; 不填
5、Take action today ______ you won’t miss your windows of opportunity.
A. as if B. now that C. so that D. even if
6、There are some differences between American and British English, but do you know the differences came into being?
A．how
B．what
C．whether
D．that
7、Meeting my dear teachers and fellow students after so many years was indeed a warm occasion, ______ I’d strike into my heart forever.
A. that B. one C. when D. what
8、The island, _____ to the mainland by a new bridge, is much easier to visit.
A. joining B. having joined
C. joined D. to join
9、 these trials, people are ________assigned to a "treatment" group, which benefits from the project, and a "control" group, which does not.
A. initially B. conventionally
C. superbly D. randomly
10、In a typical business situation, women, find themselves bumping their heads on "glass ceiling", a barrier to their career which may be impossible to break
A.as they might try B.try as they might
C.hardly as they try D.as they try very hard
11、Unless a heart operation is carried out, his chance of ________ is slight, since it is the third time that he has suffered a severe heart attack.
A. championship B. survival
C. scholarship D. approval
12、A report ________ by Taobao on May 3, 2017 has revealed there are more than 50 million “empty-nest” youths aged 20 to 39-years-old in China, with most of them ________ in the places far from their hometowns.
A. released; working B. released; worked
C. releasing; working D. being released; to work
13、The expression “add oil” has enjoyed so much popularity in the past years, ________ was collected into the OED last month.
A.that B.which C.as D.when
14、He is reported ________ the novel about China at present.
A．writing
B．to have written
C．to be writing
D．having written
15、— Where are my new sneakers? Have you seen them?
一How I know? I’ m your sister, not your servant.
A. shall B. will C. should D. might
16、The use of an alcohol breath test by the police greatly reduces the ____of drivers causing traffic accidents．
A．possibility B．pressure
C．preference D．Production
17、As a grassroots singer, she reads everything she can get hold of and catch every opportunity she meets up with so as to gain _____ progress.
A. mild B. widespread
C. steady D. Average
18、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。
It’s easy to overlook the small detail like that.
A.excuse B.examine C.inspect D.miss
19、Don't phone me between 10:00 and 11:30 tomorrow morning． I a meeting then．
A． had B． have
C． was having D． will be having
20、---- Have you learned Spanish before?
---- Yes. I______ English for six years in my hometown.
A．learn
B．learned
C．are learning
D．have learned
21、JOHANNESBURG—They say cats have nine lives. Now a Chinese toad(蟾蜍) has joined that club of clever survivors.
South Africans are shocked at the endurance of a toad that got trapped in a cargo shipment from China to Cape Town, after jumping into a porcelain candlestick(烛台) that was made there. South African officials reportedly planned to put down the creature, fearing it would cause harm as an invasive species if it were let go in the wild.
But the toad got a last-minute pardon. Mango Airlines, a South African airline, transported the toad on Friday to Johannesburg for delivery to an animal shelter, after officials decided to find a way to let the toad live. The two-hour flight was a breeze compared to the trip from China, a long way of many weeks and thousands of kilometers across the Indian Ocean.
Airline spokesman Hein Kaiser said the toad got “first-class treatment”, sitting in a transparent plastic container with escort Brett Glasby, an animal welfare inspector. There was even a ceremony, in which the toad’s boarding pass was handed to Glasby.
“He was the star of the show on the flight,” Kaiser said of the amphibious(两栖的) passenger. “I think every passenger stopped to have a look.”
On landing in Johannesburg, the toad was brought out of its container for a celebrity-style photo shoot. Observers said the brown toad seemed like a cool customer. It belongs to the Asian Toad species, which breeds during the monsoon(季风) season. It is believed to have survived the trip from China by hardening its skin to prevent it from drying out, and also by slowing its breathing and heart rate—methods that help the species survive in times of drought.
“We’ve had snakes in imported timber and scorpions(蝎子) in fruit. We were called because the toad was right inside the candlestick, and we had to break it to get it out” Glasby, the inspector, told The Star, a South African newspaper.
【1】What is the passage mainly about?
A. Asian toads can’t get used to the life in South Africa.
B. South Africa ignores the protection of animals.
C. An Asian toad gets a new home in South Africa.
D. Workers shipped a toad to South Africa on purpose.
【2】If the toad is released into the wild, ________.
A. it will make the locals feel shocked
B. it will lose its life in the wild
C. it might flee into another country
D. it might harm the native species
【3】The toad was able to arrive in South Africa alive ________.
A. because it formed hard skin to protect itself
B. because it escaped all attacks and hunts
C. because it used to stop its breath in winter
D. because it was lucky to be given a chance
【4】It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. a candlestick is the best place for a toad
B. droughts make toads live longer
C. sometimes animals are transported accidentally
D. no one has seen such a big toad in Africa
22、As anybody with children knows, dining out with kids is an entirely different experience from dining out with friends. If the restaurant offers crayons (蜡笔), puzzles or toys of some sort, it takes a lot of the stress out of dining out with kids. Here, in no particular order, are our pick of top restaurants for kids.
The Olive Garden
The Olive Garden is a family favorite, especially because of the kids menu, crayons, and activity books. My daughter believes this famous Italian food chain has the “best pizza ever” on its kids menu. The kids also get to indulge in the famous Olive Garden bread --- a favorite for kids of all ages.
The Silver Diner
The Silver Diner, which has locations in New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, gets a nod for featuring one of the most fun kids meal containers --- a heavy-duty paper car --- as well as old-fashioned, table-side jukebox selectors (点唱机选择器).The menu wins too, both for its breadth (范围) of choices, and for the number of them that are healthy.
Legal Sea Foods
The kids menu for popular seafood chain Legal Sea Foods is extensive (详尽的) and features the most choices from the sea of any kids menu we’ve seen. The original Boston Harborside restaurant has a small children’s menu, but its other locations all have 12 kid’s choices, including a pricy (昂贵的) One Pound Lobster (or 1/2 pound), Wood-Grilled Fish of the Day, and Popcorn Shrimp selections.
Ground Round
This restaurant chain was a favorite of children growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s, as it served popcorn and peanuts before the meal instead of bread, and let kids throw the peanut shells on the floor. There were also cartoons and silent movies shown during dinner. Ground Round has changed with the times, but they still have delectable (美味的) offerings for kids.
【1】What makes the Silver Diner different from the other restaurants for kids ?
A. Its great pizza and variety of activity books.
B. Its fun kids meal containers and jukebox selectors.
C. The popcorn and peanuts served before the meal.
D. The way its menus change with the times.
【2】Which of the following restaurants might interest those who like eating lobster?
A. The Olive Garden. B. The Silver Diner.
C. Legal Sea Foods. D. Ground Round.
【3】Who is the article intended for?
A. School teachers. B. Parents with kids.
C. Travelers to the US. D. Restaurant managers.
【4】The underlined word “indulge in ” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _____.[
A. be crazy about B. be tired of
C. be good for D. be surprised at
23、Silly Mistakes Hit the Headlines
We have probably all had moments when we said the wrong thing. I certainly have. There was the time at university when I met a friend in a coffee bar after class and immediately started complaining about our tutor, who was called Dr Gray. I was going on and on about how miserable she was一strict, boring, unfriendly—and my friend wasn’t really saying much. After a minute or so, she interrupted me and said, “Um, I think I should introduce you”. She then turned to this other student who I hadn’t really noticed up till then and said, ”This is Tracy. Tracy Gray’!
Fortunately, the result of putting my foot in it was only an awkward moment and a stony silence. Maybe my friends thought a little less of me, maybe they thought I was an idiot, but no real harm was done. 【1】
Take Gerald Ratner. He was the multimillionaire owner of a chain of shops that sold cheap jewellery. In what was supposed to be a light-hearted speech to some fellow businessmen, he joked about the quality of some of his products. He said some earrings were ‘cheaper than a sandwich, but probably wouldn’t last as long’. Other products could be sold at such low prices because they were rubbish. 【2】 Ratner had to resign as director and shortly afterwards the company was taken over by a competitor.
In some ways, Ratner could be seen as unfortunate in that he was in a semi-private meeting with friends and colleagues he was at ease with, but there happened to be a journalist there. 【3】 And with the rise of social media, there have been plenty of others who have been caught out by the increasingly vague boundaries between our private and public faces. For example, a group of flight attendants made jokes about the engines on their planes failing and complained about their airline and clients (客户).【4】 Unfortunately, they did it publicly on Facebook and it led to thirteen of them being fired.
A．Unsurprisingly, when his customers heard about the jokes they didn’t see the funny side and the share price of the company crashed.
B．All I can say is that it’s the same with the famous!
C．The same is not true for everyone, particularly if you are famous.
D．What makes things worse for the famous is that these mistakes become even more widely publicised because of 24-hour news channels and websites.
E．This is the kind of thing many people might do privately when they get together with colleagues after work.
F．As a result, what was private suddenly became public.
24、Outside her cottage, old Mrs. Taylor was hanging out laundry on a wire line, unaware that some children were hiding in a nearby tree watching her every move. They were determined to find out if she really was a witch.
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! Crawling further along the branches, they could clearly see the haystack.
Mrs. Taylor was standing on a wooden box with the new-laid egg in one hand. Placing the egg in her pocket, she readied herself to climb down. Then, without warning, the box broke under her and she 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.”
The boys didn’t need another excuse to leave. They ran as fast as they could for help, hoping that Mrs. Taylor would not regain consciousness and turn the girls into frogs.
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. Taylor 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. Taylor 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】Which of these old sayings best summaries the lesson from story?
A. Make hey while the sun shines.
B. Never judge a book by its cover.
C. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
D. People in glasshouses shouldn’t throw stones.
25、If you hear about Matt Cox’s response to his daughter, who was suspended (暂停) from her school bus for bullying (欺凌), you are likely to have an opinion about his actions.
Matt Cox _________ his ten-year-old daughter Kirsten, who had _________ bullied her classmates on the bus, to _________ five miles to school in 2℃ weather. He drove behind her, filmed her walk, and _________ the video to social media.
Matt who considered his _________ a “life lesson” said, “She has been kicked out of the school bus for the second time this school year, because she _________ another student from getting off the bus.”
“Last Friday, when my daughter brought home her _________ for her bus suspension, she said, ‘Daddy, you are going to have to take me to school next week’. As you see, this morning she is _________ a lesson,” said Matt.
In order to teach his daughter to be _________ for her behavior and be aware of her __________ for bullying her classmates, Matt __________ her transportation to school, ________, he made her walk. Many parents __________ his actions, celebrating his “tough love”, while experts disapproved of his __________ response, insisting that by publicly __________ his daughter, he did more harm than good.
However, Matt didn’t __________ their judgments. “I hope the video can lead parents to hold their children responsible for their own __________. I am just a father trying to teach my daughter that life has standards for our actions and we have to pay for the __________ of breaking them. It’s important to be kind and __________ to others, because words and actions have strong effects on others, and some can be very __________ and destructive.
【1】
A．warned
B．advised
C．forced
D．begged
【2】
A．repeatedly
B．secretly
C．probably
D．accidentally
【3】
A．drive
B．run
C．exercise
D．walk
【4】
A．applied
B．posted
C．donated
D．attached
【5】
A．attitude
B．punishment
C．experience
D．statement
【6】
A．stopped
B．freed
C．excused
D．protected
【7】
A．homework
B．permit
C．paperwork
D．reward
【8】
A．attending
B．preparing
C．skipping
D．learning
【9】
A．ready
B．concerned
C．responsible
D．grateful
【10】
A．fault
B．feature
C．desire
D．value
【11】
A．afforded
B．overlooked
C．replaced
D．refused
【12】
A．besides
B．instead
C．therefore
D．otherwise
【13】
A．supported
B．doubted
C．joined
D．performed
【14】
A．reasonable
B．normal
C．severe
D．quick
【15】
A．shaming
B．discussing
C．controlling
D．scolding
【16】
A．look through
B．take down
C．clear up
D．c are about
【17】
A．scores
B．problems
C．feelings
D．actions
【18】
A．challenges
B．consequences
C．courage
D．burden
【19】
A．grateful
B．respectful
C．rude
D．devoted
【20】
A．limited
B．magical
C．hurtful
D．boring
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When Susan told her 12 years old son Andy their family were visiting New Delhi, a dreamlike place for teenagers, his little face was shining with indescribably wild joy. He had long expected to explore the imaginative kingdom, especially the Stone Forest, two miles east of the town, where lay various stones in different colors and sizes.
The two-day trip was very tight—first met their old friends, the Millers and then met Andy's expectation. When they reached their house it was already 3 p.m. Miller and his wife were happy to meet them after a long time. They sat in the drawing room and chatted about old times. Their son soon bored with adult conversation, went out to play with the host's children—Eric and Daisy—both of whom were around Andy's age.
But Andy's appetite seemed never to be satisfied. As his name Andy conveyed, he was courageous and adventurous. Andy was impatient to inspect the route to the Stone Forest ahead so as to be a tour guide for his parents the next day! He forgot the grand dinner the Millers prepared the evening.
Dinner time Eric and Daisy came running back, both excited about the special dinner, but Andy wasn't with them. Alarmed, Miller asked them about Andy, but between our panicked questions and keyed-up voices they became nervous, unable to convey anything. From the little they were able to explain, they guessed that the children were riding their bikes in the neighbourhood lanes (小巷), while Andy ran after them. At some point, Andy must have fallen behind, unable to keep pace, taken a wrong turn and lost his way.
Panic-stricken, they all ran out in search of Andy. At the same time, Susan's mind raced with all sorts of horrible situations—a part of the road was dug up for some construction work; what if Andy had fallen in? How far had he wandered? How alone and scared he must be in a strange town!
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Actually, Andy now was enjoying himself in the Stone Forest.
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On the halfway back, Andy heard his mum's calling.
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