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1、______ the warning message, more lives would have been lost in the flood.
A．But for B．Except for
C．Regardless of D．Instead of
2、Our new machines are much cheaper to run．
A．effective B．efficient
C．energetic D．Enthusiastic
3、 What about todays temperature?
-- Its the same as, if the weather report is exact as usual, ___ of yesterday.
A. one B. it C. that D. what
4、With the help of curriculum reform, students enjoy a variety of after-school activities, ______ up to half are aimed at strengthening their physical strength and building up their confidence.
A. to which B. of which
C. from which D. in which
5、Everything seemed to be going_______ for the first two days after I moved to New York.
A. vividly B. generally C. frequently D. Smoothly
6、John always gets up early in the morning _____ energetic and ready to start a new day.
A. feel B. to feel
C. feeling D. felt
7、Mr. Reed made up his mind to devote all he had to some schools for poor children.
A．set up B．setting up
C．have set up D．has set up
8、________ the reasons behind wild animals entering our cities, one thing is for sure-as it’s often a means of their survival, they could be with us to stay.
A．However
B．Whenever
C．Whatever
D．Whichever
9、The population of China is larger than ________ of the United States.
A. this B. that
C. these D. those
10、_______ the temperature might drop, it’s wise of you to prepare some coal in advance.
A. Considering. B. Considered. C. To consider. D. Having considered.
11、A journal is not necessarily a reliable record of facts, for the writer's impressionscolor the telling of events．
A. shall B. might C. should D. must
12、I _____ to my cousin’s birthday party last night, but I was not available.
A. went B. had gone
C. would have gone D. would go
13、The teacher often makes a(n) ________ on how different the two boys are.
A．comment
B．decision
C．impression
D．effect
14、Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin __________ on Wednesday that he had bought 20 percent shares in Spanish league champions Atletico Madrid.
A. confirmed B. submitted C. informed D. promoted
15、If you feel any_____ in your neck, put a towel under your head for support when sleeping.
A.tension B.abortion C.submission D.dimension
16、It was playing computer games ______took the boy a lot of time that he ought to have spent on his lessons.
A．that
B．what
C．which
D．it
17、Faced with a bill for $10,000, _____．
A．Smith has taken an extra job
B．the boss has given Smith an extra job
C．an extra job has been taken
D．an extra job has been given to Smith
18、It is ______ that men and women should share the equal responsibility both at home and in the society.
A. in black and white B. child’s play
C. as easy as pie D. as plain as day
19、The band，_________ members are all over 70， is currently on tour all over country.
A．whose B．who C．which D．what
20、While I have only listed two of each, there are ____many other situations that can arise.
A.obviously B.slightly C.immediately D.rarely
21、If you’re a camping lover, the scenery of the following campsites will provide you with an experience that you will never forget.
North Rim Campground, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Address: North Rim, AZ 86052, USA
Camping in the famous Grand Canyon, with its layers of million-year-old red rock, is the favorite thing for many people. After all, it is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. You will see rural views of the canyon which is shaded by towering pines. And it is home to vast wildlife including wild wolves and deer.
Apgar Campground, Glacier National Park, Montana
Address: US Hwy 2, West Glacier, MT 59901, USA
There are plenty of original forests, mountain meadows, lakes, and rocky mountains in Glacier National Park. Adventurous visitors and campers visiting Montana enter a hiker’s paradise when coming here. Apgar Campground is situated among the trees and wildlife there ranges from mountain goats to grizzly bears.
Watchman Campground, Zion National Park, Utah
Address: UT-9, Springdale, UT 84767, USA
Located a quarter-mile from the south entrance of Zion National Park in Utah, Watchman Campground is surrounded by hug sandstone cliffs, tall rocky peaks and pines. There is the Virgin River near the campgrounds, allowing campers access to bike trails along the riverbank plus hiking to a nearby archeological (考古学的) site.
Hidden Valley Campground, Joshua Tree National Park, California
Address: California 92277, USA
For campers wanting to enjoy a unique experience in the desert, sleeping under the starry skies and surrounded by cacti and rock formations, Joshua Tree National Park is the answer. The campgrounds and park become even more breathtaking at sunset when the colors of the sky are noticeable against the vast ground.
【1】What will campers enjoy at North Rim Campground?
A．Bike riding along a river.
B．Sunsets against the vast desert.
C．Goats and bears in ancient forests.
D．Red rocks formed in ancient times.
【2】If a camper is a historian, where might he prefer to go?
A．California 92277, USA.
B．North Rim, AZ 86052, USA.
C．UT-9, Springdale, UT 84767, USA.
D．US Hwy 2. West Glacier, MT 59901. USA.
【3】Which campsite can offer a chance to appreciate the starry night in the desert?
A．Apgar Campground.
B．Hidden Valley Campground.
C．North Rim Campground.
D．Watchman Campground.
22、I have two sons. They are as different as night and day. My youngest is sweet, loveable, easy-going, and finds joy in everything. My oldest we’ve nicknamed the “Evil Genius” is ambitious, self-confident, and suffers no fools.
Whenever we mentioned Santa my husband and I were rewarded with major eye rolling and deep sighs from my oldest. At first we both tried to ignore it.
We both knew that our eldest had figured out the big secret. But I’d be damned(指责) if he was going to ruin it for his six-year-old brother who had plenty of Santa-loving years ahead of him. I looked at my husband in the eye and said, “I’ll handle this.” to which he responded “Okay just be careful because I’m not sure he knows - he might just be acting like it.” But I knew. And I had it in my mind that he was about to break his younger brothers spirit and break the news to him. I was afraid he was going to take the Christmas spirit away from my sweet innocent youngest and stamp all over it. I had to protect him. I needed to control this now before it got out of control. I rushed into the play room where my oldest was playing alone. I looked him dead in the eyes and said: “Well you know Santa isn’t real, right?” And as I stared at my eight-year-old son for what seemed like a long time of silence, his eyes started to fill with tears. And a tear dropped down his cheek when he screamed out, “He’s not?”
“Um well it’s not that he’s not real (shut up you idiot(白痴) - stop saying he’s not real), but he doesn’t really make and deliver all the toys. Dad and I get some of them for you. So he’s real. He’s just got a little help from us.”
The Evil Genius wasn’t buying it. He just sat there looking at me with an expression of doubt.
You know when you make a terrible mistake but you can’t stop yourself from making it worse? That was me because I just had to know. I had to know why he had seemed to be over Santa. So I asked him why he rolled his eyes and sighed every time his father and I mentioned Santa. To which he replied that kids at school had been saying Santa wasn't real but that he still thought he was.
【1】What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Two different sons
B. Santa secret given away
C. Protecting one, ruining the other
D. Making a mistake worse
【2】What did the writer conclude when “Evil Genius” rolled his eyes and sighed?
A. “Evil Genius” had discovered Santa was not real.
B. “Evil Genius” had broken the secret to his younger brother.
C. Evil Genius” had passed his Santa-loving years.
D. Evil Genius” had been influenced by his classmates.
【3】What does the underlined sentence mean in the passage?
A. “Evil Genius” refused to buy toys.
B. Evil Genius” didn’t believe his mother’s words.
C. Evil Genius” wanted to keep silent.
D. “Evil Genius” would not give away the secret.
【4】What lesson can we learn from the story?
A. Lies can never change facts.
B. Honesty is the best policy.
C. No one is perfect.
D. We should think twice before we act.
23、Are we trapped in the present, free to move in space yet unable to travel in the fourth dimension（次元）? Or is there a chance or a glimmer of a possibility that the past and future could unfurl（展开）to our physical experience at will? James Gleick’s latest offering Time Travel: A History sets out to question the questions, exploring how the idea of time travel emerged, held our imaginations and shaped our society.
From the start it is apparent who the hero of this journey is. “One way or another, the inventions of Mr. H.G. Wells colour every time-travel story that followed,” writes Gleick, pointing out that while a small number of earlier stories explored utopian（鸟托邦的）futures, it was him who, with his 1895 work, got to the practical details of the mater in knocking up a time machine.
It’s easy to forget that time travel is a relatively recent idea. As Gleick points out, for most of human history, change was incremental-yesterday looked much like today, today much like tomorrow. “Before futurism could be born, people had to believe in progress,” he writes. The development of technology, resulting in the industrial revolution, made that possible. With a great many changes, the future, and what it might look like, became a subject for meditation. And as archaeology developed, writers like E Nesbit began flights of fancy to the past, too.
Embraced by novelists, wrestled with by philosophers and informed by science—not least Hermann Minkowski’s revelation, following Einstein’s breakthrough, of four-dimensional space-time-the possibility that the arrow of time could be tinker（走街串巷的小炉匠）became a meme（口头禅）. From fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein, to F Scott Fitzgerald and his The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, from Terminator to Dr Who, events in the future which are affected by imaginary developments in science blossomed the literary world.
As Gleick reveals, problems and paradoxes（看似矛盾而可能正确的说法）were immediately put forward. Is our future governed by fate, or free will? Does time travel always mean ending up naked, with your clothes left in the present? “All the paradoxes are time loops（循环）. They all force us to think about causality, the relationship of cause and effect.”
Among those doing the thinking are philosophers and scientists. Attempting to tackle the idea that wormholes-tunnels in space-time-could be turned into time machines allowing journeys into the past, even Stephen Hawking has entered the heated discussion, concluding that the laws of physics are against it.
Gleick navigates the twists and turns of our fascination with time travel, investigating its evolution in literature, exploring scientific principles that have hinted at or contradicted the idea, and teasing the curious spell it has cast across society with its suggestion of immortality（永生）.
But, as he notes, not every product of this obsession with time was hard to understand. “The time capsule（时间胶囊）is a characteristically 20th-century invention: a tragicomic time machine. It lacks an engine, goes nowhere, sits and waits,” he writes, surveying various attempts to send snapshots（快照）of civilisation into the future. Indeed, it’s hard to know whether disappointment, amusement or simply confusion will be the dominant emotion when the Crypt of Civilisation time capsule at Oglethorpe in Atlanta is opened in 8113 AD. Created in 1936, its contents include voice recordings of historical figures.
Not every idea of time travel is rooted in the physical, and Gleick explores how in the act of storytelling we mess with chronology（年代表）. “We don’t have enough tenses. Or rather, we don’t have enough names for all the tenses we create,” he writes of the complexity unleashed in literature by the concept. Readers, too, become time travellers, able to move at will backwards and forwards through a story. More than that, Gleick argues, books cannot be separated from time. Even if you know a book well -even if you can recite it, like the Homeric（荷马史诗的）poet一you cannot experience it as a timeless object.
【1】What’s the author’s purpose in asking the two questions in the first paragraph?
A. To arouse readers’ interest in reading the passage.
B. To introduce the latest book by James Gleick.
C. To stress the significance of scientific development.
D. To encourage readers to explore the possibility of time travel.
【2】The underlined word “incremental” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to “ ”.
A. gradual B. impossible
C. unwelcome D. abrupt
【3】Which of the following is unlikely to be science fiction?
A. Dr Who. B. Terminator.
C. Time Travel: A History. D. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
【4】What can we learn from the passage?
A. People who return from time travel are often described as naked.
B. Philosophers have firmly believed in the possibility of time travel.
C. Stephen Hawking denies that wormholes can be tunnels for time travel.
D. James Gleick thinks time travel can guarantee the everlastingness of one’s life.
【5】We can infer from the last two paragraphs that .
A. the voice recordings stored in Crypt of Civilisation may become unclear in 8113
B. exploring a book's historical background can help better understand its contents
C. authors of sci-fi novels should draw a clear time line by adopting proper tenses
D. James Gleick advises people to distinguish reality from imagination
24、We all know the saying“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, and the fact that there are a whole lot of strange—looking people out there happily loved up would suggest that it’s true．But scientists have now performed the biggest test so far，analyzing the preferences of more than 35，000 people，and have shown that we really do all have a unique “type”．
In fact，the study showed that even identical twins，who share nearly l00 percent of their DNA, aren’t attracted to the same people，suggesting that it’s our experiences，more than our genes，that determine whether we find someone hot or not．
“We estimate that an individual’s aesthetic(审美的)preferences for faces agree about 50 percent，and disagree about 50 percent，with others，’’explained Laura Germine from Harvard University，and Jeremy Wilmer of Wellesley College，lead researchers of the project．
“This fits with the phenomenon that on one hand，fashion models can make a fortune with their good looks，while on the other hand，friends can endlessly debate about who is attractive and who is not，”they added．“Of course，there are some things that people seem to find pretty much universally pleasant to look at，eg，most people prefer faces that are symmetric(对称的)．”But after analyzing the facial preferences of more than 35，000 volunteers, the researchers found that，it was experiences that seemed to be what shape the “eye of the beholder”．And those experiences are highly specific to each individual．
So in other words，it’s not your family，where you grew up，or how much money your parents make that shape who you’re attracted to，it’s things like the magazines you read, the social activities you’ve take part in，and even your first boyfriend or girlfriend，that determine these preferences．
【1】What does the underlined word “identical” in Para 2 mean?
A．unique B．same
C．distinguishing D．considerate
【2】Why does the writer talk about the “fashion model”?
A．To tell us they own beautiful faces which help them earn money．
B．To emphasize they have symmetric faces which people widely enjoy．
C．To show people’s preference for faces partly agree and disagree．
D．To explain the role genes play in people’s preference．
【3】Which of the following statements agrees with the theme of the passage?
A．Symmetric faces look beautiful in eastern culture but not in western culture．
B．The more beautiful a person looks，the more likely he is to get a success．
C．A person’s aesthetic preferences for beauty will remain the same in the future．
D．Some think the movie star Huang Xiaoming handsome while some don’t think so．
【4】What is the title of the passage?
A．Gene preference or social preference?
B．Difficult to meet every taste．
C．Beauty is in the eye of beholder．
D．Love me，love my dog?
25、An e-mail request asking for a dish recipe came into Ekiben restaurant late on a Thursday afternoon. A man sent the e-mail _________ his mother-in-law, who was now in the final _________ of lung cancer at her home. He was hoping to get the _________ to make it for her there.
Steve Chu, the restaurant’s owner, read the e-mail and quickly _________ with an alternative suggestion. He wrote, “I’d like to _________ you in person and make it fresh for you.” Brandon Jones, the son-in-law, was_________, thanked him and told him the _________.
A day after receiving Brandon’s e-mail, Chu _________ his truck with necessary ingredients and then headed for the lady’s house. As soon as Chu _________ the parking lot, he got to work. After __________ boxing everything up, he knocked on the customer’s door.
“As soon as I opened the door, she recognized the aroma（香味）,” Brandon says. “It smelled __________.” The lazy also recognized Chu. She said, “I can’t believe it. You drove all the way up here to cook for me?” She was so happy and __________.
Brandon __________ Chu to join them for dinner, but he needed to get back. Chu also wouldn’t accept any __________ from them. “It was a（n）__________ to help fulfill their wishes.” Chu says.
【1】
A．in response to
B．on behalf of
C．with regard to
D．in view of
【2】
A．development
B．vacation
C．stage
D．devotion
【3】
A．permission
B．recipe
C．knowledge
D．request
【4】
A．replied
B．declined
C．commented
D．declared
【5】
A．protect
B．envy
C．call
D．meet
【6】
A．extraordinary
B．optimistic
C．surprised
D．elegant
【7】
A．location
B．expectation
C．avenue
D．instruction
【8】
A．loaded
B．compared
C．swept
D．equipped
【9】
A．broke into
B．pulled into
C．looked into
D．ran into
【10】
A．neatly
B．clumsily
C．casually
D．impatiently
【11】
A．frightening
B．confusing
C．amazing
D．amusing
【12】
A．embarrassed
B．touched
C．ashamed
D．inspired
【13】
A．persuaded
B．urged
C．forced
D．invited
【14】
A．congratulation
B．proposal
C．generosity
D．money
【15】
A．wonder
B．preference
C．honor
D．affection
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。
Trust
“Settle down!” Mr. Taylor was trying to calm the boys with a loud voice. The moment they entered the gym and saw the climbing walls towering over them, the boys got excited and started making noises. But Stevie was an exception, who was standing aside looking at his thin arms silently. Stevie didn’t like climbing. It wasn’t his thing. Getting along with people wasn’t his thing, either. He just felt nobody liked or trusted him at school.
Then came the coach, who taught the boys some basic skills. He said everyone should have a climbing partner and showed them how to belay (保护) their partner. “If you are a climber, trust your belayer and challenge yourself. Belayers, please remember that your partner’s life depends on you.”
The moment he finished, the boys couldn’t wait to match themselves with a partner except Stevie, who was left alone wandering around the gym. Noticing his embarrassment, Mr. Taylor raised his voice and said, “I need someone I can really trust to team up with!” He looked around. Then his gaze fell upon Stevie. “How about you, Stevie? Would you like to be my belayer?” “Me?” Stevie widened his eyes, surprised to hear Mr. Taylor even say his name. He had thought he was invisible. “I guess,” Stevie managed a weak smile.
Nervous as he was, he plucked up courage. “It doesn’t matter who gets to the top first. It’s about giving it a go.” Hearing Mr. Taylor’s words, Stevie gritted (咬紧牙关) his teeth and moved up slowly, his face pressed against the rough surface. “Done it!” Stevie finally called from the top with excitement. Then Mr. Taylor started to let him down through a perfect control of the rope.“Well done,” said Mr. Taylor when Stevie landed on the floor.
Now it’s Stevie’s turn to control the rope. Bearing in mind his responsibility, Stevie carefully watched as Mr. Taylor climbed up, pulling in the rope hand over hand. He felt his heart racing wildly. Finally, Mr. Taylor arrived at the top. “Ready to let me down now?” said Mr. Taylor. “Okay,” Stevie took a deep breath, his palms sweating uncontrollably.
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As Stevie loosened the grip, the rope slipped through his hand much faster than expected.
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Suddenly, the boys burst into wild applause and yelled encouragement at them.
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