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1、A recent study has found that the number of smokers ________ sharply over the past five years.
A．is increasing
B．are increasing
C．has been increasing
D．have been increasing
2、It’s not an urgent matter. Let’s ______ it ______ for the moment.
A．take...over
B．lay...aside
C．max...out
D．bring...forth
3、________ the answer several times , he still couldn’t answer the question.
A．Having told
B．Having been told
C．Being told
D．Telling
4、You must return the book to me today. There will be no excuse for any further ________．
A. response B. hesitation
C. delay D. loss
5、The dress is nice but she doesn’t like the________on the material．
A．pattern
B．size
C．model
D．shape
6、After graduation from high school we will reach a point ________ we have to decide which university to attend.
A．that
B．what
C．which
D．where
7、Nearly every job is ________ at risk in the long run.
A．independently
B．potentially
C．immorally
D．illegally
8、Nature’s repair process is slow and steady, with cells being _______ renewed.
A．rarely
B．constantly
C．urgently
D．instantly
9、Nowhere else, as Tim’s sister said, ______ except the small garden in the backyard after school.
A. would he go B. he did go
C. had he gone D. he has gone
10、Jack is a great talker. It’s high time that __________ something instead of just talking.
A．will do
B．has done
C．do
D．did
11、She fully to continue her sporting career once she has recovered from her injuries.
A. undertakes B. intends
C. bothers D. hesitates
12、It sounds _________ someone is knocking at the door.
A．as if
B．even if
C．even though
D．whether
13、—Who do you think will be in charge of our class during Mr. Wang’s absence?
—I don’t know. _________I am not particular about teachers.
A. It can’t be helped. B. It all depends.
C. It makes no difference. D. It won’t hurt to ask.
14、 — I followed your advice on how to appreciate Great Expectations, but I still can’t find an effective way to get clear its plot. Why?
— Well, ______.
A. all is well that ends well
B. no pains, no gains
C. no sweet without sweat
D. one man’s meat is another man’s poison
15、What Jim said doesn’t ________, so don’t take his words seriously.
A．make a difference
B．make sense
C．make a mistake
D．make sure
16、As soon as I got to the airport, I realized I _______my ID card at home.
A．has left
B．left
C．had left
D．would leave
17、I _______ travel by train, but now by car.
A．used to
B．got used to
C．was used to
D．am used to
18、— Johnson is indeed a wise man.
— Oh, yes. How often I have regretted _____ his advice!
A. to take B. taking
C. not to take D. not taking
19、Astronauts Zha Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Gaungfu are out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 spaceship, all in good physical ________.
A．situation
B．circumstance
C．condition
D．mood
20、I’d like to buy a house --- modern , comfortable and in a quiet neighborhood.
A．in all
B．above all
C．after all
D．at all
21、The disease, if ________ (treat) timely, can be cured.
A．treated
B．treating
C．have treated
D．to treat
22、About _________of the land _________covered with trees and grass.
A．three fifths; is
B．three fifths; are
C．three fifth; are
D．three fifth; is
23、As I grew up in a small town at the foot of a mountain, the visit to the village ______scenes of my childhood.
A．called up
B．called for
C．called on
D．called in
24、 I am not so _______ to get a new car now, for the prices have gone up.
A. eager B. curious
C. aware D. considerate
25、Those last few days______my classmates and teachers studied and lived together with me will stay in my mind forever.
A.when B.which C.that D.what
26、If you are hungry,what do you do?Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that?Just like your stomach,even your mind is hungry.But it never lets you know,because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover,favorite star and many such absurd things.So it silently began to pay careful attention to your needs and never let itself grow.When mind loosens its freedom to grow,creativity gets a full stop.
This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next?”,“Why can't I think?”,“Why am I always given the difficult problems?”Well this is the result of our own karma（宿命）of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.
Hunger of the mind can be actually settled through extensive reading.Now why reading and not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood.Just like that to develop other aspects of our life,we have to take help of reading.You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your "How to?" questions.Once you read a book,you just don't run your eyes through the lines,but even your mind decodes（解码）it and explains it to you.The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed.
Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas.The same seed if used many times,can help you link and relate a lot of things,of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing lout creativity.The more the number of books you read,the more your mind will open up.Also this improves your speaking skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary.Within no time you start speaking English or any language fluently with your friends or other people and you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.
【1】What does the author mean by saying that our mind is hungry?
A. We don't read books. B. Our creativity gets a full stop.
C. We don't have a good memory. D. We don't know what to do next.
【2】One's mind is hungry because he/she .
A. can't work out things well
B. loosens the freedom to grow
C. is mentally busy with many absurd things
D. begins to pay careful attention to his needs
【3】Which of the following is NOT the advantage of reading?
A. Helping you develop your creativity.
B. Helping you enlarge your vocabulary.
C. Helping you improve your speaking skills.
D. Helping you run your eyes through the lines.
【4】By reading more,we are sure to .
A. perform better mentally in the future
B. dream the wildest dreams
C. store books in your mind
D. speak English fluently
27、Bright red post boxes, the Queen and queuing — what do they all have in common? They are all important parts of British life. At least I thought so.
However, the ability to queue for long periods of time, once believed to be a traditional characteristic of British, is no longer tolerated by people in the UK, according to a survey done by British bank Barclays.
Once upon a time, queuing was seen as normal. During World War Ⅱ, everyone had to queue up to receive their daily supply of foods. In fact, if you didn’t stand up and wait in line with all the others, it was seen as uncivilized (不文明的).
The famous English double-decker buses, with only one entrance, might also help explain why queuing was seen as part of British life. Almost always, there is a queue to get in.
But perhaps the British are tired of being pushed past by the Spanish, the Italian or the French as they queue up to get a table at a restaurant. The people of these other European countries have more than one entrance to their buses, which explains their more relaxed attitude to the queue.
Two minutes is now the longest time most British people are prepared to stand and wait. But could it be that the Internet, which allows us to carry out tasks quickly, is the main reason why British people are no longer prepared to queue?
“Used to buying without delay, customers are even giving up purchases rather than wait their turn,” says Stuart Neal of Barclaycard. “Shoppers are also less likely to queue for long if the item they are buying is of low value.”
Perhaps I will have to replace “queuing” with “impatience” in my list of things I relate to the British.
【1】What can we learn about the tradition of queuing in Britain?
A．It was a product of the slow pace of life.
B．It was a long time tradition as old as the Queen.
C．It was considered a symbol of a civilized behavior.
D．It has made the British different from other Europeans.
【2】According to the passage, the British gradually stopped queuing because .
A．they prefer shopping online
B．they follow the example of foreigners
C．British buses have more than one entrance
D．the Internet has changed their way of life
【3】It can be learned from the text that .
A．the British get impatient with queuing for long
B．the British have to queue to receive foods
C．the British like to eat in foreign restaurants
D．the British prefer to take double-decker buses
【4】The author’s main purpose of writing the passage is .
A．to tell us the influence of the Internet on the British ways of life
B．to compare the cultural differences between Britain and other European countries
C．to talk about the changes in the attitude to queuing in Britain
D．to report his research on the British ways of life
28、Professor Heinz Wolff, who has died aged 89, was a bioengineering pioneer. He established the discipline, named it and, in a 60-year career, made significant contributions to medical research. But to the British public, he was best known as the “dotty scientist” who fronted The Great Egg Race, a BBC show in which colour-coded teams were set engineering challenges (the first was to transport an egg in a vehicle powered by rubber bands). With his trademark bow tie, half-moon glasses and Mittel-European accent, he looked really like Professor Branestawn, as described by W. Heath Robinson. Yet while he cheerfully exploited his reputation as an “odd egghead”, he was very serious about his work and inspired thousands of young people to consider scientific careers.
Born in Berlin in 1928, Heinz Wolff was the son of Jewish parents. His mother died in 1938, and the next year the family fled. They arrived in Britain on the day war was declared. “We really cut it rather fine,” he said on Desert Island Discs in 1998. After leaving school, he worked as a technician at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where he invented a machine to count red blood cells, and then at the National Institute for Medical Research′s pneumoconiosis (尘肺) research unit in Cardiff, where he designed a means of measuring dust levels in coal miners. He went on to study at University College London and graduated with a first in physics and physiology. Then, in 1983, he founded the Institute for Bioengineering at Brunel University. His particular interest was in technologies to improve the lives of older people, but he was also heavily involved in space research and worked as an adviser to the European Space Agency.
Wolff had made his first appearance on TV on Panorama in 1966, encouraging Richard Dimbleby to swallow a “radio pill”. On The Great Egg Race, which ran from 1979, his task was to get opponent teams representing organizations such as the chemical company ICI. Challenges included building a hovercraft(气垫船) from a lawnmower(割草机), and inventing a bicycle that could ride on water. Marks were awarded for entertainment value and technical accomplishment. The show ended in the mid-l980s, but Wolff continued to judge scientific competitions, on TV and elsewhere. A natural entertainer with an inexhaustible curiosity about the world, he said he’d be happy to dress up as a clown if it got children interested in science.
【1】What does the underlined sentence “We really cut it rather fine” in paragraph 2 mean?
A．We fled from Germany timely.
B．We settled down at the cost of punishment.
C．We led a comfortable life in Britain.
D．We didn’t have much time for the declaration.
【2】Which inference can you draw from Heinz Wolff according to the passage?
A．He used to major in physics and physiology.
B．His family left Berlin after World War II broke out.
C．He invented a machine while in University College London.
D．His interest lay in helping those living in war-stricken areas.
【3】Heinz Wolff didn’t mind his peculiarities as long as ________.
A．he could keep being curious about the world.
B．he could combine entertainment and technology.
C．he could help stir up children’s interest in science.
D．he could appear on TV to judge scientific competitions.
【4】Which of the following can best describe Heinz Wolff?
A．Patriotic.
B．Passionate.
C．Optimistic.
D．Pioneering.
29、Digital technology-email and smart phones especially-have vastly improved workers’ ability to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, most white-collar work still happens in an office. One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers conducted by Wakefield Research for the IT company Citrix, most bosses arc doubtful about remote working. Half of the workers say their boss doesn’t accept it, and only 35 percent say it’s tolerated.
Skeptical bosses will likely have their doubts reinforced (加深) by the same survey, which shows that 43 percent of workers say they’ve watched TV or a movie while “working” remotely, while 35 percent have done housework, and 28 percent have cooked dinner.
It is true, however, that working at home makes people much more efficient (高效的), because it allows workers to take care of annoying housework while still getting their jobs done. It’s much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.
The fact that such practices remain officially unaccepted reflects how far we haven’t come as a society from the days when we expected every full-time worker to be supported by a full-time homemaker.
More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value. Sixty-four percent of those survey participants who haven’t worked remotely would rather give up some bonus in order to get even one day a week working from home. Under such circumstances, smart firms need to find ways to let their employees have enough flexibility (灵活性) to manage their time efficiently.
【1】Why do some employers hesitate to allow remote working?
A. They have little trust in modem technology.
B. They want to stick to their routine practice.
C. They fear losing control of their workers.
D. They are used to face-to-face communication.
【2】What seems to be most workers’ attitude toward remote working?
A. Favorable. B. Doubtful.
C. Reserved. D. Disapproving.
【3】What does the author suggest smart firms do?
A. Shorten their office hours. B. Give employees a pay raise.
C. Reduce their staffs workload. D. Adopt flexible work patterns.
30、“I’m bored.” You may turn your nose up at the words when a child says so. In fact, boredom is generally viewed as an unpleasant _________ state. How can anyone _________ boredom when there’s so much that can and should be done?
But boredom is _________ to experience. _________ the lesson most adults tell you — boredom is for boring people — boredom is useful. It’s good for you.
If kids don’t _________ this out early on, they’re in for a not-so-pleasant surprise in the future. Life isn’t meant to be full of _________. “That’s right,” a mother says to her daughter in the novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette. “You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The _________ you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.”
People used to accept that much of life was boring. _________ things happen when you’re bored. Once you’ve truly felt bored, you find yourself _________ to discovery. This is why so many useful ideas occur in the shower, when you’re held captive to a routine activity. You let your mind wander and __________ it where it goes.
Of course, it’s not really the boredom itself that’s important; it’s what we __________ it. When you reach your breaking point, boredom teaches you to make something happen for yourself.
Teaching children to __________ boredom will prepare them for a more realistic future. One day, __________ in a job they otherwise love, our kids may have to spend an entire day answering Friday’s leftover email. This sound boring, you might conclude. It sounds like __________, and it sounds like life. Perhaps we should get used to boredom again, and use it to our __________.
【1】
A．emotional
B．original
C．classical
D．natural
【2】
A．stress
B．relieve
C．claim
D．seize
【3】
A．anything
B．something
C．nothing
D．everything
【4】
A．Except
B．Though
C．Besides
D．Despite
【5】
A．figure
B．carry
C．hold
D．break
【6】
A．assessment
B．achievement
C．amusement
D．arrangement
【7】
A．sooner
B．better
C．worse
D．less
【8】
A．Thus
B．But
C．And
D．Moreover
【9】
A．at the edge
B．in the end
C．by the way
D．on the route
【10】
A．abolish
B．observe
C．follow
D．consult
【11】
A．lay out
B．do with
C．show off
D．put up
【12】
A．violate
B．decline
C．strike
D．endure
【13】
A．still
B．even
C．also
D．then
【14】
A．work
B．love
C．loss
D．term
【15】
A．passion
B．regret
C．benefit
D．sense
31、课文内容填空
Hunting and fishing have directly 【1】 the world’s animal populations. Some people hunt animals for 【2】: whale meat is eaten in some parts of the world. Some people hunt animals for 【3】: animal skin is used to make coats and bags. Still others hunt animals just for 【4】: deer are tracked and shot by people who enjoy the 【5】 of the sport.
32、假定你是李华，最近《21 世纪英文报》以“提升幸福感”为话题，征集读者意见。请你根据 以下内容给编辑写封信。
内容主要包括：
1. 谈谈你朋友们对幸福感的看法；
2. 你对幸福感的看法；
3. 你认为应如何提升幸福感。
注意：
1. 词数 120 左右；
2. 以使行文连贯，可适当增减。
词汇：提升 enhance ；培养 cultivate
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