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1、The campaign is ________ only partially successful, so we have to keep on working hard.
A. at last B. at latest C. at least D. at best
2、Dad thinks I should study to be a doctor，____ I’m not interested in medicine.
A． so B． and C． but D． for
3、—Tom, were all the students on the school bus injured?
—No, _____ only the three who got hurt.
A. there was B. there were
C. that was D. it was
4、What would have happened, ___________, as far as the river bank?
A． Bob had walked farther
B． if Bob should walked farther
C． had Bob walked farther
D． if Bob walked farther
5、Christmas is______ . Some preparations should be made to welcome it.
A.in the way B.on air C.in hand D.around the corner
6、A report says 74 percent of women hope that the men’s income will be at least twice ______ of the women’s.
A. one B.that C.those D. it
7、He is sure to pass the test, for he_____ his lessons for the test every day over the past month.
A.will review B.was reviewing C.has been reviewing D.had been reviewing
8、Don’t bother your father tonight-he’s got a lot ________ his mind.
A．on
B．to
C．in
D．around
9、We should do as the proverb says—don’t ________ till tomorrow what should be done today.
A．put out
B．put up
C．put away
D．put off
10、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
11、Understanding the cultural habits of another nation, especially ________ containing as many different subcultures as the United States, is a complex task.
A. the one B. that
C. one D. such
12、It is clearly stated that these regulations ___ everyone in the community, without exception.
A. appeal to B. adapt to
C. apply to D. attach to
13、I can’t imagine what air we would be breathing in if we __________ anything to stop air pollution.
A. hadn’t done B. didn’t do
C. haven’t done D. don’t do
14、I'm never going to guess the answer if you don't give me a .
A．order
B．signal
C．clue
D．outline
15、I am sorry he has not told me his name on the phone because helps if I know who I am talking to．
A．it B．he
C．one D．its
16、______ we want to get to Chicago by sunset, it means having to leave at dawn tomorrow.
A. If B. After
C. While D. Where
17、–I am leaving for Madrid tomorrow,Caroline.
--- _______
A. Take your time B.All the best
C. Well done D.That's OK
18、. ___________ 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
19、—Are you finishing your task?
— ________ . We still need at least two days.
A．Exactly
B．Not a little
C．No wonder
D．Far from it
20、—How come Tom picked a quarrel with his wife?
—______? We also have the occasional argument.
A．What’s on
B．Guess what
C．For what
D．Who doesn’t
21、One thinks of princes and presidents as some of the most powerful people in the world; however, governments, elected or otherwise, sometimes have had to struggle with the financial powerhouses called tycoons. The word tycoon is relatively new to the English language. It is Chinese in origin but was given as a title to some Japanese generals. The term was brought to the United States, in the late nineteenth century, where it eventually was used to refer to magnates who acquired immense fortunes from sugar and cattle, coal and oil, rubber and steel, and railroads. Some people called these tycoons “capitals of industry” and praised them for their contributions to U.S. wealth and international reputation. Others criticized them as cruel “robber barons”, who would stop at nothing in pursuit of personal wealth.
The early tycoons built successful businesses, often taking over smaller companies to eliminate competition. A single company that came to control an entire market was called a monopoly. Monopolies made a few families very wealthy, but they also placed a heavy financial burden on consumers and the economy at large.
As the country expanded and railroads linked the East Coast to the West Coast, local monopolies turned into national corporations called trusts. A trust is a group of companies that join together under the control of a board of trustees. Railroad trusts are an excellent example. Railroads were privately owned and operated and often monopolized various routes, setting rates as high as they desired. The financial burden this placed on passengers and businesses increased when railroads formed trusts. Farmers, for example, had no choice but to pay, as railroads were the only means they could use to get their grain to buyers. Exorbitant (过高的) goods rates put some farmers out of business.
There were even accusations that the trusts controlled government itself by buying votes and manipulating elected officials. In 1890 Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust. Act, legislation aimed at breaking the power of such trusts. The Sherman Antitrust Act focused on two main issues. First of all, it made illegal any effort to interfere with the normal conduct of interstate trade. It also made it illegal to monopolize any part of business that operates across state lines.
Over the next 60 years or so, Congress passed other antitrust laws in an effort to encourage competition and restrict the power of larger corporations.
【1】 The Sherman Antitrust Act_______________.
A. affected only the companies doing business within state lines
B. sought to eliminate monopolies in favor of competition in the market-place
C. promoted trade with a large number of nations
D. provides a financial advantage to the buyer
【2】One might infer from this passage that lower prices _________.
A. are more likely to exist in a competitive market economy
B. usually can be found only in an economy based on monopolies
C. matter only to people who are poor and living below the poverty level
D. are regulated by the government
【3】It seems likely that many Americans____________.
A. believed that the trusts had little influence over government
B. expected the wealthy magnates to share money with the poor
C. did little to build up American business
D. were worried that trusts might manipulate the government
22、Food labels already indicate how good or bad a product is for you. But good or bad for the planet? That’s often much less clear. Now a growing number of brands are labeling their products to show their climate impact.
Swedish food company Felix is one of them. For two days in October, Felix opened a pop-up store in Stockholm, where all items were priced based on their carbon footprint. The bigger their emissions, the higher the price. The idea was to demonstrate how easy it is for shoppers to make climate-friendly choices when products are clearly labeled.
“We know that the numbers alone don’t make sense to consumers,”says Sjöberg, Felix’s marketing manager, “To give the figures meaning, we have created a climate scale that clearly shows the current average and which climate footprint is low.”
Evaluating a food’s true carbon footprint isn’t easy and brands are teaming up with specialist platforms that deal with data using complex calculation tools to work out emissions across the whole production chain.
Oatly calculates the footprint of its oat-based drinks, from the agricultural processes all the way to the grocery store, with the help of CarbonCloud, a startup spun out of research at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden. “We have developed a web platform that allows the food producers to perform detailed climate assessments without them needing to understand any of the science or the mathematics behind it,”explains CarbonCloud CEO David Bryngelsson.
Companies like Oatly input information including their ingredients, energy use, waste production and how products are shipped, and CarbonCloud's web tool does the rest.
CarbonCloud has done assessments for hundreds of products and brands including Estrella, Nude and Naturli, and says interest is increasing rapidly.
At the moment the food industry doesn’t have a standardized approach to calculating carbon figures, but Sjöberg says the most important thing is to give consumers the information that9s currently available.
“In the future, hopefully we will see a common ground for how we calculate and how we label products,” he says. “But as for right now, the climate can’t wait.”
【1】What is special about the products in the pop-up store in Stockholm?
A．They are climate- friendly.
B．They are good for people's health.
C．They are priced based on carbon emissions.
D．They are labeled to show nutrition contents.
【2】Which company is mainly responsible for calculating carbon footprint?
A．Felix.
B．Oatly.
C．Estrella.
D．CarbonCloud.
【3】What is Sjöberg’s attitude towards calculating carbon figures?
A．Supportive.
B．Skeptical.
C．Carefree.
D．Negative.
【4】What’s the text mainly about?
A．A newly-opened food store.
B．A growing trend of labeling food.
C．A new approach to calculating carbon footprint.
D．A climate scale to show current average carbon emissions.
23、 Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning, and put the blame on the alarm clock. In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock. 【1】. Here is how to make one.
·【2】. In order to make a change, you need to decide why it’s important. Do you want to get up in time to have breakfast with your family, get in some exercise, or just be better prepared for your day? Once you are clear about your reason, tell your family or roommates about the change you want to make.
·Rethink mornings. Now that you know why you want to wake up, consider re-arranging your morning activities. If you want time to have breakfast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags. 【3】. That’s a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.
·Keep your sleep/wake schedule on weekends. If you’re tired out by Friday night, sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful. But compensating on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found. 【4】.
·Keep a record and evaluate it weekly. Keep track of your effort and write down how you feel. After you’ve tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record. 【5】. If not, take another look at other methods you could try.
A.Get a sleep specialist.
B.Find the right motivation.
C.A better plan for sleep can help.
D.And consider setting a second alarm.
E.If the steps you take are working, keep it up.
F.Stick to your set bedtime and wake-up time, no matter the day.
G.Reconsider the 15 minutes you spend in line at the cafe get coffee.
24、What may well be the oldest metal coins in the world have been identified at an ancient abandoned city known as Guanzhuang in China. Like many Bronze Age (青铜时代) coins from the region, they were cast in the shape of spades (铲) with finely carved handles. These ancient coins existed during an in-between period between barter (以物易物) and money, when coins were a novel concept, but everybody knew that agricultural tools were valuable.
Reading about this incredible discovery, I kept thinking about the way modern people represent computer networks by describing machines as having “addresses”, like a house. We also talk about one computer using a “port” to send information to another computer, as if the data were a floating boat with destination. It’s as if we are in the Bronze Age of information technology, grasping desperately for real-world reference to transform our civilization.
Now consider what happened to spade coins. Over centuries. metalworkers made these coins into more abstract shapes. Some became almost human figures. Others’ handles were reduced to small half-circles. As spade coins grew more abstract. people carved them with number values and the locations where they were made. They became more like modern coins, flat and covered in writing. Looking at one of these later pieces, you would have no idea that they were once intended to look like a spade.
This makes me wonder if we will develop an entirely new set of symbols that allow us to interact with our digital information more smoothly.
Taking spade coins as our guide, we can guess that far-future computer networks will no longer contain any recognizable references to houses. But they still might bring some of the ideas we associate with home to our mind. In fact, computer networks — if they still exist at all — are likely to be almost the indispensable part of our houses and cities, their sensors inset (嵌入) with walls and roads. Our network addresses might actually be the same as our street addresses. If climate change leads to floods, our mobile devices might look more like boats than phones, assisting us to land.
My point is that the metaphors (比喻) of the information age aren’t random. Mobile devices do offer us comfort after a long day at work. In some sense, our desire to settle on the shores of data lakes could change the way we understand home, as well as how we build computers. So as we cast our minds forward, we have to think about what new abstractions will go along with our information technology. Perhaps the one thing we count on is that humans will still appreciate the comforts of home.
【1】Why were many Bronze Age coins made into the shape of a spade?
A．These coins also served as agricultural tools.
B．This stylish design made the coins valuable.
C．A lot of emphasis was put on agriculture.
D．The handles made the coins easily exchanged.
【2】Why does the author relate computers to spade coins?
A．To show they both used to be new concepts when first invented.
B．To highlight their same importance in our civilizational transformation.
C．To suggest computers will experience dramatic changes as coins did.
D．To explain abstract digital worlds are different from concrete coins.
【3】What does the underlined word “indispensable” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．Flexible.
B．Wasteful.
C．Essential.
D．Alternative.
【4】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A．How Agriculture Loses to Digital Industry
B．What Coins and Computers Bring Us
C．What Bronze Age and Information Age Have In Common
D．What Ancient Money Tells Us About the Future Digital World
25、 For most people, graduation day is exciting. _______. My graduation day... was not
Two years ago on my graduation day, my family and friends flew in from across the country to _______me. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had _______ the economy turn from bad to worse during my senior year. We graduates had degrees, but very_______ opportunities Countless applications had been_______
The weeks ahead weren’t_______. I drove to Southern California to find work_______ I knew my small university town couldn't offer me any_______， But 100 job applications later. I found myself in the _______spot as I was before. And the date to begin ________my student loans was drawing ever closer.
You know that feeling when you wake up and you are just filled with ________? And the most frustrating part was no matter how much I tried, It just couldn’t seem to ________
I began to write. Something about writing gave me hope. I began to see the ________.I channeled my frustration into a children’s book. Beyond the river was the story of an unlikely hero featuring a little fish who refuse to give up on his ________.
And then one day，________ any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world--just a lot of hard work and perseverance--I received a publishing contract for my first book！ Things slowly began to fall into _________ After that, I was ________ a second book deal. Months later, I got an interview with The Walt Disney Company and was ________ shortly after.
The lesson of this story: Don't give up, Even if things look ________now, don't give up. Your luck is just ________
If you work hard, give it time, and don't give up, things will always get better. Oftentimes our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream. All we need is the courage to push beyond the river.
【1】A.Therefore B.Additionally C.However D.Instead
【2】A.congratulate B.comfort C.surprise D.entertain
【3】A.smelt B.watched C.let D.made
【4】A.limited B.fair C.valuable D.good
【5】A.processed B.written C.returned D.rejected
【6】A.smooth B.tough C.important D.special
【7】A.if B.because C.though D.unless
【8】A.expectation B.ideas C.wishes D.opportunities
【9】A.right B.same C.only D.opposite
【10】A.checking out B.carrying out C.paying back D.taking back
【11】A.pride B.delight C.anxiety D.anger
【12】A.take action B.make progress C.take chances D.make sense
【13】A.job B.book C.degree D.light
【14】A.ambition B.ability C.habit D.attitude
【15】A.beyond B.through C.without D.from
【16】A.pieces B.place C.interest D.love
【17】A.served B.lent C.offered D.sent
【18】A.employed B.appreciated C.challenged D.inspired
【19】A.stressful B.crazy C.serious D.hopeless
【20】A.in the way B.on the decrease C.around the corner D.out of order
26、英国伦敦一中学组织部分学生在寒假期间对足球起源地——临淄进行参观、游览，他们需要一名中学生英语导游。假如你是李华，请写一封自荐信，自荐理由包括以下三个方面：
（1）英语口语流畅，曾做过博物馆的志愿解说员。
（2）性格优势：热情、开朗，擅长与人沟通……
（3）了解临淄本地文化。
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2.可适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
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