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1、________ is the centre of our planetary system was a difficult concept to grasp in the Middle Ages.
A.It’s the sun and not the earth B.The sun and not the earth
C.Being the sun and not the earth D.That the sun and not the earth
2、---Mum, have you seen my U-Disk?
---____________ you bought last Sunday? I'm afraid I haven't seen ________.
A. The one; one B. That; one C. One; it D. The one; it
3、People around the world are becoming more and more _____ about the population explosion.
A. concerned B. interested
C. involved D. disappointing
4、The government has released the policy “One belt, One road', ________ for the further economic growth.
A.intended B.intending C.to intend D.to be intended
5、I have no doubt _______ we’ll succeed.
A.what B.whether C.when D.that
6、I want to know ______ the thief was caught on the spot.
A. whether B. where
C. which D. what
7、The man_________ in prison now because he broke the law during the quarantine time.
A．kept
B．is being kept
C．is keeping
D．was kept
8、Word that you _________ enjoy a three-day holiday has come if you do complete the task on time.
A.may B.should C.could D.shall
9、She has much working experience. _________, we consider her the best candidate for the job.
A．However
B．Otherwise
C．Therefore
D．Instead
10、It is recommended that the project ______ until all the preparations have been made.
A．is not started
B．will not be started
C．not be started
D．is not to be started
11、My advice is that you should think about ________ you know anyone who fits your target audience.
A.which B.what C.that D.whether
12、﹣﹣﹣What do you think of________ opening ceremony of the national games？
﹣﹣﹣It is simple but________ great success．
A.the；a B.an；a C.a；the D.the；the
13、All around the world, we can see kids playing football to their hearts’ ______.
A.content B.pleasure C.satisfactory D.attraction
14、The lady ________ have done something wrong, because she is looking guilty.
A.would B.should C.can D.must
15、—What’s your understanding of success,Robert?
—In my view,success is________preparation and chances meet.
A.how B.why C.what D.where
16、20．We met _____ and have become good friends since then.
A.by mistake B.by accident C.by ourselves D.by the way
17、Your soul is a very private area of your life. Naturally, there are many different ways to feed it.Which of the following ideas might not contribute to feeding your soul positively.
A.Getting back nature. B.Keeping a journal.
C.Reading inspiring books D.Staying up all night
18、The speed of cars and trucks is _______ to 30 kilometers per hour in large cities in China.
A.limited B.limiting C.limit D.to limit
19、He claimed _______ in the supermarket when he was doing shopping yesterday.
A.being badly treated B.to be treated badly
C.treating badly D.to have been treated badly
20、As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began his chant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads to the ground, and__________ the chant. Then, like a colony of worker ants, they dismantled their stalls and left.
A. picked up B. looked forward to
C. aimed at D. took up
21、All rights ____, no one is allowed to copy or use this paper for other commercial purposes.
A. preserved B. deserved C. reserved D. received
22、Some children want to challenge themselves by learning a language different from ______ their parents speak at home.
A.what B.that
C.which D.one
23、I don’t think ________ a good decision to give him the job since he has no experience at all.
A.it B.that C.this D.these
24、As a result of the serious flood,two-thirds of the buildings in the area______.
A．need repairing
B．needs to repair
C．needs repairing
D．need to repair
25、My friend lives in Tianjin, ________ is about an hour’s ride from his office.
A. which B. that
C. where D. who
26、On the day the tornado hit, there was no sign that the fierce weather was on its way—the sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first warning my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m. from some text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel from the national television to our local Pensacola, Florida station.
Soon the tornado was on top us. It was the loudest thing I had ever heard. The house shook, and the power went out. And the wind began to roar (咆哮) through the house, most likely through windows and the door to our garage. Everything was moving. And the back wall of the house came off and flew into darkness outside. We had three flights of steps to get to the storeroom down there, the relative safety of the first floor.
I didn’t know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there was no floor as the wind lifted me off my feet. As we finally reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew open. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch flew over our heads, missing us by inches.
By the time I reached the storeroom, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the storeroom floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I held Jimmy’s arm as the tornado blew the door open. My knees were full of glass, but I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out of the house.
All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over. Our neighbors said the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Luckily, none of us were seriously injured.
【1】Where did the couple learn about the coming fierce weather?
A．From the dark shy.
B．From the text sent by their neighbors.
C．From the radio station.
D．From the news report on TV.
【2】Why do the couple try to get to the storeroom?
A．It was safer there.
B．They went there to get something.
C．They liked to stay in a storeroom.
D．They tried to hide from their neighbors.
【3】What do we know about Jimmy when the author reached the storeroom?
A．He flew out of the house.
B．He was in great danger.
C．He was seriously injured.
D．He got inside the storeroom.
【4】What is the best title of this text?
A．The Wind Roaring Through the House
B．A Couple Stopping a Disaster
C．A Couple Keeping Alive from a Disaster
D．The Tornado Hitting Florida
27、 It is not unusual to stare at a long restaurant menu and not be able to decide what one wants to eat. At other times it is difficult to pick an item of clothing in a shop with plenty of items from which to choose.
According to a new study published in Nature Human Behavior in October, this is the phenomenon of “choice overload (选择超荷)”. It’s the result of a struggle (挣扎) in our brain, Science Daily reported.
In the study, volunteers were given varying sets of six, 12, or 24 landscape pictures. They were asked to choose one to be printed on a coffee mug. While they chose, a machine recorded their brain activities.
According to the research, two parts of the brain – the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) (前扣带皮层) and the striatum (纹状体) - were highly active in the process. The ACC is responsible for the potential costs of decisions while the striatum is to determine (决定) value, Neuroscience journal noted. The study suggests that our brain needs to weigh both reward and workload to make a proper decision.
After further study, the researchers reported that these two parts are likely to be more active for the 12-item set than the other two sets. That’s because 12 is a good number, not “too small” or “too large” in the choice pool.
“As the number of options increases, the potential reward increases, but then begins to level off due to increasing amount of workload,” Colin Camerer, a professor of California Institute of Technology, US, told Science Daily.
But that doesn’t mean 12 is the magic number for decision making. According to Neuroscience journal, the proper number of options for a person is probably “somewhere between 8 and 15”. Still, many people prefer to have a large number of options to choose from even if the experience can be distressing, researchers reported.
According to the UK journal Medical News Today, it’s partly because people tend to feel freer and more able to control their lives when there are more options.
“Essentially, our eyes are bigger than our stomachs,” Camerer told Sci-news. “When we think about how many choices we want, we may not be mentally representing the frustrations of making the decision.”
【1】What did the study published in Nature Human Behavior aim to find?
A.How to make wise decisions quickly.
B.How people feel after making choices.
C.How the number of choices influences one’s decision.
D.How the brain makes choices.
【2】Why did the participants prefer the 12-item set in the study?
A.It made their brains work in the most active way possible.
B.It took the least effort for the ACC and striatum.
C.It was a balance between effort and reward.
D.It included many options.
【3】Why do people like to have lots of choices, according to the article?
A.They feel like they have more freedom in life.
B.They feel they can have better control of other people’s lives.
C.They don’t feel tired after making a choice.
D.They don’t know what they really want.
28、 If you also have a friend like Francia Raisa, you are really lucky. On Thursday, singer and actress Selena Gomez, 25, used Instagram(照片墙，一款社交软件) to explain why she was “laying low” this summer. She posted a photo of herself in a hospital bed with her friend Francia Raisa holding hands. She said she recently received a kidney transplant(肾脏移植) from her best friend because of complications(并发症) from lupus(狼疮), an autoimmune disease, which means it is the result of the immune system attacking normal tissue, including the kidneys, brain, heart and lungs.
People with lupus may first experience tiredness, joint pain or a little bit of rash(皮疹) on their bodies and can go for a long time before their doctors realize it is more serious. Many people see two or four doctors before the real problem is picked up. According to Dr. Kyriakos Kirou, roughly a third to one-half of people with lupus develop kidney disease, and up to one in five of them will eventually need a transplant, sometimes because they weren’t treated with effective drugs to prevent the immune system from attacking the kidneys. Though Gomez said that she was “very well now,” she warned about the dangers of not taking medical diagnoses（医学诊断） seriously, like she did before.
Her Instagram post also called attention to two major health topics: the need for living organ donators and the fact that Gomez represents three groups more likely to be diagnosed with lupus and lupus-related kidney disease. Nine out of 10 people diagnosed with lupus are women, and most develop the disease between the ages of 15 to 44. And lupus is two to three times more common among women of color, including Hispanic (西班牙裔）women, according to the Lupus Foundation.
Raisa is Latin（拉丁人）, and Gomez’s father is of Mexican origin. While it’s not essential that the organ donator and receiver be of the same race, people who share a similar racial background sometimes are better matched, according to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing.
【1】What can we learn about Francia Raisa?
A. She is selfless. B. She is lucky.
C. She is optimistic. D. She is encouraging.
【2】What is lupus like at its early stage?
A. It is deadly. B. It reminds you of a kidney disease.
C. Its symptoms are psychological. D. It is hard to recognize.
【3】What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. People with lupus. B. Colored women lupus patients.
C. Lupus patients with kidney disease. D. Women between the ages of 15 to 44.
【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Raisa and Gomez are from the same race.
B. It is vital for the donator and receiver to be of the same race.
C. Gomez has fully recovered thanks to the kidney from Raisa.
D. The organ from the donator of the same race matches the receiver better.
29、
Visit Nashville, Tennessee, the capital of country music and the home of the Grand Ole Opry. Forty -day bus tour starts from Pittsburgh.
Departures August 23, September 13, September 27, October 11, October 25.
$185 per person based on double occupancy. Includes private motor coach from Pittsburgh, hotel rooms, reserved tickets for the Grand Ole Opry. Country Festival Friday and Saturday nights, sightseeing tour of Nashville, admissions to places of interest.
For information, free booklets, and reservations, call 4212 — 6060. Travel and Tours, 2245 Market Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. 14-day advanced booking required. Visa and Master Card payment welcome.
【1】Why is Nashville an interesting city to visit? Because it is ________.
A. easy to travel around B. famous for country music
C. an old city D. a beautiful city
【2】If you plan to join the tour on September 27, on what date should you book your ticket?
A. August27. B. October13.
C. September13. D. September 26.
【3】Visa and Master Card are most probably the names of _________.
A. newspapers B. clubs
C. telephone cards D. credit cards
30、 My nephew’s 10-year-old son came for a visit one hot, July weekend. I persuaded him to ____ inside and joined him in a game. After ____ for an hour, I suggested that we relax for a while. I ____ my favorite chair to let my neck relax. He left the room and I was catching a few enjoyable ____ of peace.
“Look, Alice,” he said excitedly as he ____ over to the chair where I was sitting. “I found a kite. Could we go outside and ____ it?” Looking out of a nearby window, I noticed it was ____ outside. “I’m sorry. Tripper,” I said, sad to see his ____ expression. “The wind is not ____ today. The kite won’t fly.”
The _____10-year-old boy replied, “I think it’s windy enough. I can get it to fly,” he answered ____ he hurried out to the back door.
He ran back and forth, as ____ as his ten-year-old legs would carry him, looking back ____ at the kite behind. After about ten minutes of unsuccessful trying, he came back in.
I asked, “How did it ____?” “Fine,” he said, not wanting to admit (承认) the failure. “I got it to fly some.”____, I heard him say secretly, “I guess I’ll have to wait for the _____.”
At that moment I heard another voice speak to my ____. “Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way ____ waiting for the wind.”
And the voice was ____. We usually want to use our own efforts to ____ what we want to do. We must learn how to make use of “the wind” in the first place!
【1】A. live B. lie C. study D. stay
【2】A. fighting B. resting C. playing D. selecting
【3】A. fell into B. jumped off C. cleaned up D. went through
【4】A. times B. hours C. moments D. periods
【5】A. sent B. climbed C. left D. ran
【6】A. decorate B. fly C. hang D. drop
【7】A. hot B. fine C. noisy D. still
【8】A. bright B. satisfied C. dull D. unhappy
【9】A. staying B. blowing C. going D. stopping
【10】A. determined B. talented C. clever D. generous
【11】A. as B. unless C. after D. until
【12】A. hard B. hardly C. actively D. gradually
【13】A. angrily B. hopefully C. doubtfully D. nervously
【14】A. make B. come C. go D. settle
【15】A. Therefore B. Again C. Instead D. However
【16】A. news B. order C. wind D. sunshine
【17】A. dream B. memory C. heart D. world
【18】A. because of B. instead of C. except for D. as for
【19】A. strange B. boring C. serious D. right
【20】A. imagine B. complete C. fancy D. decide
31、课文填空
Old French made other【1】to Middle English as well. In old English Germanic way of making words plural was used. For example, they said housen instead of houses, and shoen instead of shoes. After the Normans took【2】they began using the French way of making plurals, adding an-s to house and shoe. Only a few words 【3】 their Germanic plural forms, such as man/men and child/children.
After the Norman Conquest, high-class people spoke French while common people spoke English. However, by the latter half of the 14th century, English had come into【4】use among all classes in England. In 1399, Henry IV became King of England. His mother 【5】 was English, and he used English for all official events.
32、假定你是李华。参观名校如今成为了旅游的新热点。现在某英文报社就“Should university campuses be open to the public?”为主题向你征稿。请你写一篇100词左右的文章，简要描述其现状并谈谈你的看法.
注意:1.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2.标题已经给出，不计入总数。
Should university campuses be open to the public?
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