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1、I received a letter, ________ poor spelling made me think it was written by a child.
A．which
B．that
C．whose
D．who
2、Until I figure that out, I have to___________, or to the doctors, or whoever decides these matters when the decider is too confused to choose between the elevator and the stairs.
A.relieve him of his burden B.leave things up to the fates
C.make the fire alarm go off D.skip practice
3、Traveling is a good way to_______________ different cultures and broaden the mind.
A．expand
B．explore
C．expose
D．export
4、After studying in an agricultural college for four years, Jack his job as an advisor in the countryside.
A. set out B. took over
C. took up D. set up
5、He reads newspapers every day to keep himself _______ about what's going on in the world.
A．inform
B．informing
C．informed
D．being informed
6、The plan was so shallow and impractical that no serious _________ was ever made to realize it.
A．achievement
B．comment
C．attempt
D．credit
7、I have to say that I ________ football for 3 years when I was in junior high, though I am not any good now.
A．played
B．have played
C．had played
D．would have played
8、Not until two days after the earthquake did she find her mother ______. (活着的)
A. live B. liveable
C. alive D. lively
9、To make a living ,they are willing to _______many of the disadvantages of city life such as crime .heavy traffic ,and pollution.
A. put up B. put off
C. put up with D. put away
10、The doctor tried ___________ the lady of her illness, so he tried ____________ her with a new medicine.
A．treating; treating
B．treating; to treat
C．to treat; treating
D．to treat; to treated
11、If it is quite _______ to you, I will visit you next Tuesday.
A. convenient B. fair
C. easy D. comfortable
12、If you my advice, you how to solve the problem now.
A. had taken; would have known B. had taken; would know
C. took; would have known D. took; would know
13、The police had to employ force ______________ the crowd got out of control.
A. the instant B. at the instant
C. in an instant D. for an instant
14、The thieves thought they the stolen goods cleverly, but the whole process of was recorded on CCTV camera.
A．had disposed; disposal
B．had disposed of; disposition
C．had disposed of; disposal
D．had disposed; disposition
15、We ______the difficulty together, but why didn’t you call me?
A. should face B. might face
C. must have faced D. might have faced
16、In that society, you are given food if you obey orders, but when that system ________ people no longer take orders.
A．breaks down
B．breaks up
C．breaks out
D．breaks in
17、— Can I speak to Mr Brown?
— There isn’t any Brown here. You _______ the wrong number.
A.can’t have dialed B.must have dialed
C.might dial D.could dial
18、With his eyes _________ on the family album, he thought of the fun he had when he lived with his parents.
A．fixing
B．fixed
C．to be fixed
D．being fixed
19、Much to the public concern, a/an __________ inspection examined samples from a number of large Chinese online shopping sites, and found that 41.3 percent were fakes.
A. diverse B. random C. absolute D. abstract
20、________ for old men to read newspapers, but it is also a great way to improve their minds.
A．Not only for pleasure is it
B．Not only it is for pleasure
C．Not only is it for pleasure
D．It is not only for pleasure
21、He is an untiring ________ of educational reform. He advocates ________ the teachers for their excellent jobs.
A.advocator; rewarding B.advocate; rewarding
C.advocator, to reward D.advocate; to reward
22、— I ______ to get a driving license these years but without success.
— It’s rather difficult nowadays.
A. have been attempted B. have been attempting
C. am attempting D. was attempting
23、Water birds________ in the lake, and cattle and sheep________ the grasslands bring the scenery to life.
A．were playing; were wandering
B．playing; wandering
C．to play; wandering
D．playing; to wander
24、This makes a fun activity for a children’s party; they love ________ the fruit and frozen bananas into the top of the machine and watching the ice cream come out below.
A.fixing B.feeding C.applying D.forcing
25、In dealing with public relations, we should make every effort to prevent the _____ in personality.
A．contact
B．contrast
C．connection
D．conflict
26、Anyone who has ever played the game of Tetris (俄罗斯方块) knows the game’s surreal ability to spill into real life. After you shut off the game, you still see those Tetris blocks falling in your mind. You're grocery shopping and find yourself thinking about rearranging items on grocery shelves. Your mind continues to play the game, even when you're physically not.
Robert Stickgold, a Harvard professor, noticed something similar after a day hiking a mountain. That night, he dreamt he was still going through the motions of mountain hiking. Curious about this, he tried something: he got a group of college students of various skill levels to play Tetris and let them sleep in the Harvard sleep lab.
Over 60% of the students, including those who suffered from amnesia (健忘症), reported dreams of images of Tetris pieces falling, rotating (旋转), and fitting together. Interestingly, half the Tetris expert students reported such Tetris dreams, while 75% of the beginners did.
A study found that playing Tetris can grow your brain and make it more efficient. Adolescent girls played the game for an average of 1.5 hours a week over three months. The cerebral cortex (大脑皮层) of the girls grew thicker, while brain activity in other areas decreased. Richard Haier, who had found that there was a "Tetris learning effect", in which the brain consumed less energy as mastery of the game rose, concluded, "The brain is learning which areas not to use."
Haier's study showed that as the girls practiced playing the game, nerve cells made connections, communicating through synapses (a synapse is a connection between two nerve cells). When you learn something, you change those connections. Every time you reactivate(激活) a circuit, synaptic efficiency increases, and connections become more durable and easier to reactivate. Stickgold says sleep plays a role in this memory process.
So to sum up, whenever you do specific tasks over and over again, they take up less of your brain power over time. And that’s pretty amazing.
【1】What does the underlined part ‘surreal ability’ in the first paragraph mean?
A. The game can help people arrange things in life.
B. The game can be applied to many aspects of life.
C. There are great similarities between the game and things in life.
D. The mind continues to play the game when we are doing other things.
【2】What can we learn from Stickgold’s study?
A. More than half of the students dreamed of images of Tetris.
B. Students having bad memories didn’t dream of the game.
C. The Tetris expert students were more likely to dream of the game than the beginners.
D. More than half of the Tetris expert students didn’t dream of the game.
【3】Playing Tetris for a long time can help ________.
①grow one’s brain
②one’s brain function efficiently
③arrange things tidily in life
④improve the adaptability of one’s brain
A. ①②③ B. ①②④
C. ②③④ D. ①③④
【4】The purpose of the passage is to ________.
A. encourage people to play Tetris
B. warn people to focus while doing things
C. warn people not to play games before sleep
D. tell people they will improve at something if they keep doing it
27、Welcome to the British Museum, the grandest and the most spectacular of human history. The admission is free and we open every day from 10:00 to 15:30. You can explore 10 departments including:
The Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
The collection of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas includes around 350,000 objects. The scope of the collection is contemporary, and historical. It includes most of Africa, the Pacific and Australia, as well as the Americas. All of the collections were got during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and date from this time.
The Department of Asia
The Department of Asia covers the material and visual cultures of Asia – a vast geographical area of Japan, Korea, China, Central Asia, Afghanistan, South Asia and South-East Asia. The collection dates from about 4000 BC, to the present day. It represents the cultures and ways of life of local people and other minority groups.
The Department of Greek and Roman Empires
The Department of Greek and Roman Empires features antiquities (古董). It has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects. These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200BC) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD.
【1】The scope of the Department of Africa, Oceania and Americas doesn’t include .
A. Africa B. the South America C. Australia D. Britain
【2】The earliest collection is from .
A. The Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
B. The Department of Greek and Roman Empires
C. The Department of Asia
D. All of the above
【3】The Department of Asia represents .
A. the geographic features of Asia
B. the life styles and cultural traditions of some peoples
C. the relationships between Asian countries
D. the cultural fights between some native groups
28、Artist David Bowie may have sung “Is there life on Mars?” in 1971 but the dream of finding or placing living creatures on the red planet is still alive. Oxygen, of course, is critical. Thanks to a large leap in scientific technology, there is now a machine which can produce oxygen in certain environment, and it is a giant step of Mars exploration. Scientists are thrilled because the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) will hopefully make astronauts survive on Mars.
NASA’S Perseverance Mars Rover is a machine of many wonders. Attached to the exploring robot is a particularly innovative device, MOXIE. When started, the device takes several hours to warm up. It then begins filtering(过滤) and pressuring air pulled from Mars’ atmosphere. The air then undergoes an hour-long breakdown process in the part of the machine known as the Solid Oxide Electrolyzer (SOXE). It breaks air molecules(分子) into carbon monoxide(一氧化碳) and oxygen. The collected oxygen is, of course, the breathable element we are all familiar with here on Earth. MOXIE produces 0.2 ounces of oxygen per hour—about as much as a small tree does through photosynthesis(光合作用).
Testing MOXIE’S performance under different conditions is a critical research. “The productivity of MOXIE is unstable,” the investigator Jeffrey Hoffman, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says in a statement. “The atmosphere of Mars is far more changeable than Earth. The density of the air on Mars can vary by a factor or two through the year, and the temperature can vary by 100 degrees. One objective is to show we can run in all seasons.” The team has tested it in fall, winter, and various times of day. They hope to confirm it also works in spring, as well as at dawn and dusk when Mars’ temperatures change rapidly.
Demonstrations of MOXIE’S success offer hope that missions to Mars will be more practicable than previously thought. “To support a human mission to Mars, we have to bring a lot of stuff from Earth, like computers spacesuits and habitats.” Hoffman says. “But oxygen? If you can make it there, go for it you’re way ahead of the game.” Scientists hope a scaled-up model could arrive before astronauts and begin preparing a habitable amount of oxygen for a team of six astronauts arriving months later. The key is how the earlier-arrived MOXIE works without humans.
【1】Why are scientists excited?
A．MOXIE helps prepare for human Mars exploration.
B．MOXIE helps confirm the existence of life on Mars.
C．MOXIE is expected to turn Mars into another Earth.
D．MOXIE is the first demonstration of technology on Mars.
【2】What is the function of SOXE?
A．To give off oxygen into Mars’ atmosphere.
B．To remove oxygen from air molecules.
C．To filter air from Mars’ atmosphere.
D．To warm up MOXIE.
【3】What is Jeffrey Hoffman’s worry about MOXIE?
A．Its method of transportation.
B．Its consumption of energy.
C．Its test result.
D．Its adaptation to Mars’ atmosphere.
【4】What is the next step for MOXIE?
A．How to land MOXIE on mars.
B．How to make MOXIE automatic.
C．How to match equipment with MOXIE.
D．How to increase the production of MOXIE.
29、Read the following passage and then answer the questions.
When thinking back to an experience that has affected me the most, I can’t help but recall the first time I performed for a crowd with my band.
As I stood in the dark, in front of 300 people, my head began to pound and my eyes began to hurt from straining to see the faces before me. No matter how many times I wiped off my hands, they were covered with sweat, making them fumble across the strings of my guitar. Then, in a flash, the spotlights were turned on and the crowd yelled. My heart raced and I knew that the night of my first concert would be exciting and memorable.
The concert was held annually at Frank's school. Being the largest activity for the students in the spring, we were told to expect the whole school to come to see us play. That fact went over and over in my mind. True, I had played in the school band in concerts for many people, but that was with a large group and I had sat in the back. Here it was just the three of us, all up front. I had had different visions of what performing would be like, but what ended up happening was a pleasant surprise.
During the first song, the crowd stood in a mixed state of confusion and excitement. I could see nothing but their dark shapes, some swaying to the beat of the bass drum, others standing still, examining our every move. The song ended with hesitant applause.
Glancing at Frank, the guitarist and singer, I read a message in his eyes. "I don't think they like us." His look pierced through my heart and I almost left the stage, yet kept going anyway. The second and third songs went the same way with the crowd looking at us like monkeys in a zoo. But then the magic started.
Our fourth song we had was written for the occasion and it was as if it were the beginning of a trip that we would take with the crowd of onlookers. The funk bass and driving drums seemed to pick these people up like puppets and do with them what they pleased. The crowd danced and jumped and clapped, in and out of beat. Our music was giving these people a reason to lose their inhibitions and for a short time, enjoy themselves. By the end of the second to last song the crowd was at our mercy. Finally creating a situation that I had only dreamed of, during the last song the crowd began to sing the words. But it was not just any song, it was a song we had written. This sent my heart racing and I couldn't help smiling and even laughing. The song ended and an echoing roar came over the crowd.
The concert was to me part of a childhood dream. My friends and I were responsible for giving 300 people a good time for an evening. They sang my words and they hummed my tune, and all helped to make the dream come true. That night back in my room, I sat up all night. I saw the bodies dancing in front of me and heard their screams. Even though I may perform in college and in the future, this feeling is one I may never feel again.
Questions 26 to 30. Judge if the following statements agree with the information given in the passage. Choose A for TRUE if the statements agree with it; choose B for FALSE if the statements don’t agree with it; choose C for NOT GIVEN if the information the statements carry is not mentioned anywhere in the passage.
【1】The three of us usually sat up front in the school band.
【2】In the beginning, the audience was not fully absorbed in the performance.
【3】The song written for the concert aroused the audience’s excitement.
【4】When the fourth song started, the audience began to sing along.
【5】In the end, the performers played more songs at the request of the audience.
Questions 31 to 34. Match the following words with their meanings in the passage. Note that there are four choices more than you need.
【6】straining
【7】fumble
【8】inhibitions
【9】racing
Question 35. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.
【10】What is the best title for the passage?
A. My Valuable Experience. B. A Special Occasion.
C. My Childhood Dream. D. A Memorable Concert.
30、This heartwarming story began unfolding on Father's Day. It might have been a(n) _______ for dads across the U.S., _______ for Don Rosario, it was “another day at the office.” The 70-year-old, _______ his traditional suit, cowboy hat and leather belt, was _______ a cart around a Chicago neighborhood- hard work for anyone on a hot summer day. However, thanks to some _______ customers and the kindness that spread widely, he _______ had the opportunity to enjoy _______.
Rosario Del Real had been working as a carpenter (木匠) from home. But an injury _______ him to take a break from his profession. He started to sell paletas (棒冰) to the _______.
Since Oscar Gonzalez and his friend Victor Dominguez were ________ a Father's Day barbecue for their families, they invited the paleta salesman to ________ them. Everyone bonded quickly, and before long, they decided to buy all of the paletas in Rosario's ________ so that he could go home and rest.
One of their friends ________ a video of the heartwarming sale and ________ it on the social sharing app TikTok. The video drew attention from the public, and then the family set up a fundraiser to ________ Rosario retire. The first ________ was to raise $10,000 for their new friend, but ________ strangers from all over the world ended up ________ more than $62,000.
Even before learning that his new friends had ________ a huge amount for his retirement, Rosario was moved to tears by their generosity that day - although he was ________ to have the opportunity to work. “I don't like to sit at home doing nothing and without a purpose.” he said.
【1】
A．stage
B．holiday
C．accident
D．challenge
【2】
A．or
B．so
C．but
D．and
【3】
A．packing
B．cleaning
C．wearing
D．trying
【4】
A．pushing
B．selling
C．repairing
D．observing
【5】
A．calm
B．sweet
C．energetic
D．graceful
【6】
A．finally
B．actually
C．extremely
D．usually
【7】
A．shelter
B．success
C．company
D．retirement
【8】
A．forced
B．requested
C．enabled
D．permitted
【9】
A．partners
B．carpenters
C．neighbors
D．colleagues
【10】
A．hosting
B．donating
C．visiting
D．filming
【11】
A．hire
B．join
C．support
D．represent
【12】
A．cart
B．office
C．apartment
D．neighborhood
【13】
A．found
B．explored
C．attracted
D．recorded
【14】
A．sent
B．tapped
C．posted
D．updated
【15】
A．see
B．help
C．hear
D．make
【16】
A．goal
B．reaction
C．process
D．impact
【17】
A．honest
B．confident
C．generous
D．humorous
【18】
A．owning
B．saving
C．borrowing
D．contributing
【19】
A．selected
B．collected
C．rejected
D．expected
【20】
A．capable
B．powerful
C．suitable
D．grateful
31、短文填空
In January, eight gorillas (大猩猩) at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, in California, became the first great apes to test positive (阳性的) for COVID-19. “There was an immediate concern,” said Nadine Lamberski, the chief 【1】 (保护) and wildlife health officer at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. “We want to 【2】 (尽我们的职责) and take all measures to make sure that won’t happen again.”
So Lamberski made a decision. In February, she gave nine other great apes an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Those nine became the first zoo animals in the United States to get the vaccine. Since then, the vaccine has been shipped out to zoo animals in 27 states. Lamberski got the COVID-19 vaccine from Zoetis, a company that makes medications for animals. Now the company reports that its vaccine is safe for other animals, too. It’s 【3】 (incredible) wonderful news for animals and those who care about them.
So far, Zoetis has donated its vaccine to nearly 70 zoos in the U.S. According to Lamberski, zoos are requesting the vaccine because their animals 【4】 (受到……的威胁) getting the virus from visitors and caretakers. “Animals in zoos are exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of people a day,” Lamberski said.
32、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。续写的词数为150左右。
Long ago, there was a big apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it every day. He climbed to the top of the tree, ate the apples, and took a nap under the shadow. He loved the tree and the tree also enjoyed playing with him.
As time went by, the little boy grew up and he no longer played around the tree.
One day, the boy came back to the tree, appearing sad. “Come and play with me," the tree asked the boy gently.
“I am no longer a kid； I won't play around trees anymore," the boy replied, “I want toys. I need money to buy them. ”
Sorry, but I don't have money. However, you can pick all my apples and sell them. Then, you will have money." They boy was so excited that he picked all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy didn't come back after that.
The tree was upset.
One day, the boy returned and the tree was so joyful. “Come and play with me," the tree said.
“I don't have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?" “Sorry, I don't have a house. But you can cut off my branches to build your house. ” So the boy cut all the branches of the tree and left with delight.
The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy didn't appear since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.
One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. “Come and play with me!” the tree requested.
“I am sad and becoming old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?" “Use my trunk to build the boat and you can sail and be happy. ” So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and did not show up for a long time.
Paragraph 1:
Many years later, the boy finally returned.
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Paragraph 2:
The apple tree is our mother.
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