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1、Only after he was brought to the police station did the boy ________ he had stolen some purses from other passengers.
A. participate B. acknowledge
C. realize D. summarize
2、China is a shining example for the global community to follow _________developing green industry to fight climate change.
A．in addition to
B．in return for
C．in terms of
D．in agreement with
3、--How do you usually go to work? –– I usually drive, but if it is fine, I ______ by bike.
A. will go B. would go C. have gone D. had gone
4、________ in a tiny cabinet were four Mother’s Day poems I’d written for her in the 1960s.
A.Hidden B.Hiding C.Being hidden D.To be hidden
5、The suggestion came from the chairman ______ the new rule ______.
A. what; was developed B. that; was developed
C. what; be developed D. that; be developed
6、China is playing a key role in controlling the virus. However, it will take long and much effort ________ it is under control.
A.until B.after C.before D.unless
7、Although _____ by the opposite team, the players were not discouraged but practiced harder.
A. beating B. beaten
C. having beaten D. being beaten
8、When everyone came into the house, he was found ________ on the floor.
A．lain
B．lying
C．being lain
D．lie
9、After the excitement of Tokyo, there are the Beijing Winter Olympics to ______ .
A．work out
B．look forward to
C．fall behind
D．take over
10、I’m afraid there might have been an audience of about 100,000 watching his live concert in Bird Nest last night, ________?
A. weren’t there B. didn’t there
C. haven’t there D. hadn’t there
11、In contrast with the liberal social climate of the present, traditions in the past were relatively ______.
A. competitive B. comprehensive
C. creative D. conservative
12、Both Class 3 and our class won't be able to finish the work unless we ______________ each other.
A.come up with B.team up with
C.put up with D.catch up with
13、You’ll find this map of great ________ in helping you to get around in London.
A.value B.effect C.concern D.vision
14、________ the numbers in employment, the hotel industry was the second largest industry in this country last year.
A．In spite of
B．In case of
C．In terms of
D．In praise of
15、The power of Charlie Chaplin’s works is not only in his acting, but also in the stories and characters he________.
A．had created
B．has created
C．created
D．creates
16、After Jack ________ some e-mails, he started working on his report.
A. sends B. has sent C. had sent D. would sent
17、The newspaper gave an accurate ________ of what happened the night before last.
A．example
B．display
C．signal
D．account
18、For British people, somebody standing too close may make them focus less on what others are saying than on ______ close he or she is to them.
A.what B.where C.which D.how
19、The most exciting moment during the Spring Festival is_____ the family enjoy the big dinner together.
A．what
B．why
C．which
D．When
20、Try to be a responsible school by not allowing anyone to attend class, ________ has had a fever.
A.who B.which C.as D.that
21、Below are the best four applications to help you organize your closet(橱柜)—and trust us, there really is something for everyone.
Closet
If you’re looking to create your own digital closet, then this app is for you. Closet helps you categorize your outfits and keeps you up-to-date on what you’ve already worn.
PROS:Very simple and user-friendly. Great for helping you look at your own closet without feeling overwhelmed.
CONS: No social interactions. This app is strictly for having a mobile version of your closet.
Pose
The app makes things insanely easy for the indecisive shopper. So if you’re debating whether or not to buy something, you can get a second opinion. The app also gathers photos of items that you wish to buy and items you already own, so they are all in one spot.
PROS: When you sign up, you fill out a short survey that helps identify your personal style and subsequently finds people with similar taste that you can follow for inspiration.
CONS:The phone application is more visually appealing than the actual website.
Stylitics
it allows you to categorize your clothes by color, brand, pattern and more. And if you’re wondering whether you have already worn an outfit, simply check your style calendar.
PROS:The app comes with a“Today in Fashion History”tip so you can brush up on your style knowledge.
CONS:You can’t view your style profile using the app yet unless you log on to the site.
Walk in My Closet
If you’re browsing the Internet, looking for something to buy, you can instantly add the item to your virtual closet so that your wish list items are all one place. Besides sharing your closet with other users, you can also sell items you no longer want.
PROS:The“Moodboard”is a great way to gather inspiring looks that you like from other users and fashion experts.
CONS:The luggage feature, which allows you to prepare outfits for an upcoming trip, is only available on the site; it would be useful if it were on the app.
【1】Which of the following can replace the underlined word?
A.Instantly. B.Accurately.
C.Deliberately. D.Incredibly.
【2】Which of the following is designed for people who often hesitate when buying clothes?
A.Closet. B.Pose.
C.Stylitics. D.Walk in My Closet.
【3】What can we learn about Walk in My Closet from the passage?
A.It is a simple and user-friendly app.
B.It helps you confirm your personal style.
C.It combines both shopping and organizing your closet.
D.It requires you to log on the site to view your style profile.
【4】The passage mainly tells us .
A.about the four best fashion apps to help organize your closet
B.how to use these fashion apps
C.that everyone can find their own personal style
D.that we should share our closet with friends
22、Interpreted Theatres
Deaf people should enjoy a play as much as the hearing audience.【1】Theatre producers, on the other hand, are beginning to realise that theatre interpretation makes their product attractive to a wider audience-with considerable financial rewards.
The most important technical aspect of theatre interpretation for the deaf is the location of the interpreter. Placement strategies can be categorized into three styles: “placed” “zoned” and finally, “shadowed”.
The “placed” style of interpretation, where interpreters are located outside the acting space and do not move, is by far the most common. The interpreters are side-by-side and face the audience. The location of the interpreter is generally in one of three places: stage right or stage left, or on the floor of the house.
The “zoned” style of interpreter placement is a happy medium between the “placed” and “shadowed” styles.【2】Usually, they change position on stage from scene to scene—or from act to act—in order to be within the same “zone” as the majority of the action. Zone placement makes it easier for the deaf audience to see the interpreters and actors at the same time.
【3】It involves placing the interpreters directly within the action—nearly making them “sign language actors”. The interpreters are “blocked” into each scene, and shadow the actors. The advantage of this is clear: the interpreter is so close to the actor that the deaf audience need not make a decision about whom to watch—he or she can watch both at the same time. In the best of cases, the deaf audience mentally mix the interpreter with the actor, and forget that the actor does not sign.
Theatre interpreters for the deaf are dedicated professionals who take great pride in their work. “Theatre”, says Ian, who works for See Theatre, a Chicago-based association for interpreters “is the art of communicating beautiful ideas in interesting ways”. 【4】Thankfully, instead of seeing us as ‘additions’, producers nowadays think of interpreters for the deaf as a new avenue to creativity.
A．Interpreted theatre has long been neglected without taking the issue of their access into consideration.
B．The “shadowed” style of interpreting is the most inclusive style of interpreting for the theatre.
C．This is the thinking behind the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires that theatres become accessible to deaf people.
D．Interpreters move about in order not to block the audience's view.
E．Interpreted theatre, therefore, is an art in itself.
F．Here, interpreters are placed side-by-side within the acting space.
23、One of the great things about pictures is that they make no demands on you. You can look as long as you like and walk away at any time. There's a freedom in the arrangement that's different from going to the movies, concerts or the theater. Occasionally, people always say they feel intimidated by art. On the one hand, I get it. Some in the art world, wanting to establish their authority, fall back on abstractions to create a zone of exclusion. It can be insufferable. But on the other hand, what field doesn't see a version of this phenomenon? Have you tried understanding cellular biology? Contract law? In my experience, there is less of this complex talk around art than around most other fields.
Art is a wide field. It's deep. It's diverse. You can come at the subject from countless angles. People seem to have been making art since the beginning, so the subject is an inseparable part of the whole history of humanity. So yes, things can get complicated. But, in the end, we're talking about pictures and sculptures. How hard is it to look at a painting? How difficult is it to walk around a sculpture? Children get it immediately. They know there's no right or wrong when it comes to looking at art. There are just things to notice, to test against our imperfect sense of the truth, and to fold into our various conceptions of beauty. Things we notice may cause feelings. They may lead to ideas. They might equally provide a release from ideas-a release into wonder, and into new kinds of awareness connected to your body, your senses, and your general state of existential confusion. What I notice will be different from what you notice. That's how it goes with art.
More than the political or economic conditions of any given era, it is art that later generations most want to remember. We remember Picasso and Matisse with more love than General Francisco Franco or Marshall Petain. And we remember the Beatles and Francis Bacon over the chief ministers of Britain in the 1960s. That's because the arts-and I define the term as broadly as possible-reveal the best of us. It's because they combine the most intelligent and the most feeling of us. They testify, most fundamentally, to the fact that we're alive, that people lived before us, that as a species we're capable of making the most extraordinary things, and that human consciousness and the world beyond it are nothing short of astonishing.
Again and again, art expresses that astonishment-that mixture of wonder and disappointment, knowing and unknowing, pleasure and pain, joy and fear.
【1】What does the underlined word “intimidated” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A．Misled.
B．Inspired.
C．Frightened.
D．Attracted.
【2】What is the main idea of the first two paragraphs?
A．Art is complicated but easy.
B．Art is as complex as other fields.
C．Art is insufferable due to its abstraction.
D．Art is an inseparable part of human history.
【3】Why does the author mention several famous people in Paragraph 3?
A．To emphasize artists are more adorable.
B．To illustrate the superior position of art.
C．To show art can spread in a broader area.
D．To compare political and artistic figures.
【4】According to the passage, the author may agree that ________.
A．abstract concepts can block humans' insights
B．art is a combination of unsettled contradictions
C．humans should try to perfect their thoughts of beauty
D．the appeal of art lies in its reflection of the best of man
24、 Grab an ice cube from the freezer and place it on a table. Watch closely enough and you will see, well, not much at all. The ice cube is absorbing heat, but it is still an ice cube. Before it melts, it will draw heat from the environment to change from solid to liquid. Only then will it begin to slip and slide in a puddle of its own making.
And so to A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, retired professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize with AI Gore.
The book gets off to a slow start. You may have to work a little before being rewarded. But given time. Pollack’s account warms up and really takes off. The story he has to tell is fascinating, frightening and important.
Despite the title, this is not a book about the world without ice. Much is given over to the impact of ice in Earth’s long history, as an important force that shaped our planet’s landscape, controlled migrations and influenced cultures. Pollack takes us through Antarctic and Arctic explorations, the natural cycles that bring us ice ages and milder periods without extremes of heat or cold and the rise of climate science which, among other achievements, can recreate a history of the temperature on Earth from kilometers of ice core drilled from the polar caps.
Pollack’s intellectual power and clarity of phrase are invaluable in describing the scientific evidence for global warming, the ways in which it will affect the world, and the all-too-probable consequences. Pollack is not one to brush awkward issues under the carpel. There is serious discussion about uncertainties in climate science, and in particular the computer models used to forecast future warming. For its forensic analysis (取证分析) and strong destruction of climate sceptic (怀疑论者) arguments alone, A World Without Ice is worth keeping on a nearby shelf.
Some readers may hind Pollack’s US-centric approach occasionally grating (刺耳的). He tells of intense irrigation in southwestern Kansas, IPCC reports as big as several New York City phone directories and school-day stories from Omaha. But this is forgivable. The US is uniquely placed to act on climate change but faces a significant barrier in the shape of the outdated. influential, oil-funded anti-climate change lobby (游说议员的团体).
Thoughtful throughout, Pollack occasionally delivers paragraphs that stay with you long after closing the book. On the subject of the book itself, he writes: “Nature’s best thermometer (温度计), perhaps its most sensitive and unambiguous indicator of climate change, is ice, When ice gets sufficiently warm, it melts. Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political baggage as it crosses the threshold (门槛) from solid to liquid. It just melts.”
A World Without Ice is a call to arms. Debates about which mitigation (减缓) strategies might give us the best chances of reducing our emissions miss the point, Pollack says. If we want to avoid the worst that climate change may bring, we need “every horse in the stable pulling together, and as hard and as fast as possible”.
Pollack’s argument is attractive, persuasive and deeply upsetting, no matter the climate change tiredness that unavoidably sets in as a consequence of endless media coverage of global warming. The author’s final warning comes from Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Pollack leaves us in no doubt as to where that is.
【1】A World Without Ice mainly focuses on_______.
A.the adventures to the freezing Poles
B.the impact of ice on human and nature
C.the role of climate science in drilling ice
D.the process of ice cube turning into water
【2】We can learn that A World Without Ice________.
A.brings us to the core of the issue at the very beginning
B.convinces sceptics of the truth about climate change
C.gives an in-depth analysis of global warming
D.gets funded by anti-climate change lobby
【3】Why does Henry Pollack think ice is nature’s best thermometer?
A.Ice is a reminder of peaceful co-existence.
B.Ice is a common topic of the media coverage.
C.Ice is a controversial issue in political debates.
D.Ice is a clear indicator sensitive to climate change.
【4】The underlined sentence in Paragraph 8 probably means the book＿____.
A.urges us to make joint efforts to fight climate change
B.advocates addressing climate change by armed forces
C.recommends debating on strategies to reduce emission
D.calls for separate and tough actions in a timely manner
【5】What does the underlined word that in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Warning from Lao Tzu. B.Destination of a journey.
C.Effect of global warming. D.Argument on climate change.
【6】What is the author’s attitude to A World Without Ice?
A.Ambiguous. B.Cautious. C.Positive. D.Skeptical.
25、 It was just a harmless Valentine's Day joke. Old Lady Hayes_______it. She used to scream at us for “borrowing” a few of her precious raspberries(木莓), like we were_______gold.
George practiced_______the box out of reach by the string. I couldn't wait to see it fly away when she tried to pick it up.
I was first to_______my dad in the doorway. I froze. Within seconds, my_______was shared by all. Dad walked slowly to the empty candy box. He picked it up, and watched it swing back and forth. Then he looked into the eyes of the_______boys.
“It doesn't seem so long ago that I was playing Valentine's Day_______,”he said, “One year my cousins and I decided to try one on our Grandma Walker_______we loved her. We just wanted to have some_______. We sneaked up to her__________and drew a gift there with red paint. Then we kicked the door and__________behind the bushes. When Grandma__________appeared, she looked down. Even from 15 feet away we could see the__________in her eyes. Grandma__________for the fresh paint. Slowly, she__________our joke. She tried to smile, absently wiping red paint on her clean and white apron(围裙).”Dad__________ and for the first time I noticed that his eyes were__________ .“Grandma died later that year. I never had another__________ to give her a real valentine.”
Later that night a red. heart-shaped box was__________ on Mrs. Hayes' front doorstep We hid behind the bushes to see how she would__________to receiving a full box of candy.
【1】A. deserved B. got C. made D. called
【2】A. finding B. stealing C. buying D. giving
【3】A. opening B. closing C. pulling D. putting
【4】A. know B. observe C. watch D. notice
【5】A. happiness B. anxiety C. excitement D. curiosity
【6】A. frightened B. surprised C. delighted D. amused
【7】A. jokes B. games C. roles D. sports
【8】A. even though B. so that C. in case D. as if
【9】A. trouble B. influence C. time D. fun
【10】A. room B. house C. doorstep D. window
【11】A. sat B. hid C. stood D. fled
【12】A. gradually B. suddenly C. frequently D. finally
【13】A. hurt B. joy C. trust D. concern
【14】A. reached B. searched C. asked D. waited
【15】A. turned into B. gave away C. figured out D. talked about
【16】A. left B. finished C. started D. paused
【17】A. weak B. bright C. open D. wet
【18】A. solution B. method C. chance D. example
【19】A. opened B. carried C. placed D. made
【20】A. reply B. react C. refer D. return
26、书面表达
假设你是李明，你想邀请你的笔友Tony来益阳旅游。请给他写一封信，为他介绍你的家乡益阳。要点如下：
1. 空气和水质量好，绿化面积大，环境未被破坏，气候宜人，是全国宜居城市；
2. 民风淳朴，益阳人民热情好客；
3. 特色食物与景点介绍，如擂茶，周立波故居等。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 切勿逐字翻译，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：擂茶grinding tea 周立波故居 former residence of Zhou Libo
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