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1、He________ the wall and just looked at everybody in the room.
A.loaded with B.lined up C.held back D.leaned against
2、When I try to understand _____prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes.
A．what it is that
B．that it is what
C．it is what
D．what is it that
3、—Have you some new ideas?
—Yeah. I’ll tell you later.
A. come about B. come up
C. come out with D. come up with
4、---Why so serious, dear?
---Nothing. I am just thinking about the problem _______tomorrow.
A.discussed B.will be discussed C.to be discussed D.being discussed
5、I'm trying to look ahead at ________ might happen in future and be ready to handle it.
A. which B. that
C. what D. as
6、 The vegetable looking fresh in his field ______well. It’s often sold out immediately it appears in the market.
A. has sold B. has been sold
C. is sold D. sells
7、Sam, in every way, has handled the challenge, _________ his friends_________ how he’s achieved success in spite of the difficulties.
A. overcome; by B. overcoming; with
C. impressed; by D. impressing; with
8、—Mum, I can’t see any point in studying hard.
—Come on, dear! Years of hard work will surely in your future career.
A. pay off B. pay back
C. make sure D. bring back
9、She passed the TOFEL test at her first __________.
A. replacement B. approval
C. attempt D. anecdote
10、________, I have never seen anyone who’s as capable as John.
A. As long as I have traveled
B. Now that I have traveled so much
C. Much as I have traveled
D. As I have traveled much
11、My father, ______ was often the case, came with me to grocery shops and taught me how to pick out produce by smell and touch.
A．as
B．that
C．what
D．who
12、You were working too hard.You'd better_______ between work and relaxation
A.keep a balance B.keep a distance
C.make a comparison D.make a difference
13、Since it has been only partially successful to just adopt________ treatments for this condition, something needs improving urgently.
A．conventional
B．contradictory
C．controversial
D．convenient
14、 The level of the river ___ 20 centimeters over the security line and ____must be taken to control the flood.
A．is measured; measures
B．measures; measurement
C．measures; measures
D．is measured; measurement
15、Eve _______ about having a second child for a whole year, but she hasn’t made her final decision yet.
A．has thought
B．had thought
C．thought
D．has been thinking
16、Then little more than a minute, we saw a strange red and orange light in the sky, ________ by a cloud of white smoke.
A．to follow
B．followed
C．following
D．being followed
17、—Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?
—I went to Tibet and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.
A.stayed B.would stay C.had stayed D.am staying
18、Rumors were already beginning to ________ that the project might have to be abandoned.
A. circulate B. evaluate
C. applaud D. reject
19、The number of children is expected to _______ rapidly as the declaration of Two-child Policy by the government.
A. standardize B. supervise
C. multiply D. adopt
20、Local governments to strengthen water transport safety management recent fatal accidents.
A. are urging, followed B. are being urged, following
C. are urged, to follow D. urge, being followed
21、Seba Stephens is only 10 years old, but he’s a very talented musician. He plays drums, bass, guitar and piano. Recently, he earned a professional certificate (证书) in music through the Berklee Online program at the famous Berklee College of Music.
Seba and his family live in Memphis, Tennessee — a place famous for music. He grew up with music all around, but he especially loved the drumming of Stewart Copeland from the band The Police.
Before he turned three, his parents asked him what he wanted for his birthday. “Drums!” he answered. His parents weren’t sure, but after seeing him play the drums at a local music store, they decided he was serious. They bought him a junior drum kit. It was a huge step. “He didn’t stop playing — ever,” said his dad, Everett.
In just a few months, his drum teacher reported that Seba was learning extremely quickly and needed a higher level of training. He was still four.
Seba’s parents encouraged him to explore music in other ways. Seba learned bass, guitar and piano. He faced challenges. “I couldn’t see over my drum set,” he said. He also had trouble finding a good bass that was small enough,
In 2020, Everett got special permission for Seba to join a summer music program at Berklee as an 8-year-old boy. Seba studied bass in an online program. To keep up, he had to practise up to 36 hours a week.
After the intense summer, Everett thought Seba might want a break. He was wrong. Instead, Seba asked his parents to home-school him so he could keep going to Berklee during the school year. His parents had to make some big changes to make the plan work, but they agreed.
Last May, Seba became the youngest person ever to receive a professional certificate from Berklee. The certificate is equal to about four college-level classes.
【1】What is Stewart Copeland?
A．A teacher.
B．A drummer.
C．A pianist.
D．A soldier.
【2】How old was Seba Stephens when he got his first drum?
A．Three years old.
B．Four years old.
C．Eight years old.
D．Ten years old.
【3】What were challenges for little Seba?
A．No time to practise.
B．Many things to learn.
C．Difficulties in finding proper instruments.
D．The requests made by the teacher.
【4】What may be the best title for the text?
A．The Musical Journey of a Famous Musician
B．An Online Program at Berklee College of Music
C．A Teenage Drummer Inspires Kids’ Music Education
D．A 10-year-old Drummer Earns Certificate From Berklee
22、Amazon Alert
The Amazon rain forest stretches about 2.7 million square miles. It has been described as the “lungs of our planet”. More than 20% of the planet’s oxygen is produced there! The Amazon holds one-fifth of the world’s freshwater supply. The tropical forests in the heart of the Amazon basin are full of many different kinds of life. They hold the world’s widest variety of life, and are also home to many species found nowhere else. This area is one of the world’s natural treasures. But unless nations around the world take action, it will disappear.
Every year, the rain forest in the Amazon is shrinking. Farmers and builders are clearing the land, usually by burning down the forest. This destruction reached record levels in the 1990s and has remained steady since then. In 2003, an estimated 9,170 square miles were burned or cleared.
The Amazon River basin stretches into the countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, but the bulk of it is in Brazil. Loggers, miners, and farmers in Brazil have been rapidly cutting down the Amazon since the 1960s. South American farmers and settlers burn the rain forest to clear the land. The land is used to grow crops and raise livestock or for new towns. Satellite photos show how the forest continues to shrink.
The government of Brazil has pledged time and again to slow down the clearing of land. However, they have not done enough to stop illegal burning and logging. But it's not just Brazil's problem. The Amazon is a treasure for all of humanity. Other countries, including the United States, must do more to help Brazil preserve the Amazon.
In order to protect the area, the Central Amazon Conservation Complex in Brazil was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000. The heritage site makes up the largest protected area in the Amazon Basin (over 6 million hectares). The rain forest is over 55 million years old. There are still many parts of the Amazon that no one has ever been to, and many species that no one has ever seen.
Fact File
The Amazon
You can’t drive there! The main form of transportation in the Amazon is by boat. The only way to get around the rain forest is through the Amazon River system. The river system has 20 percent of all the Earth’s fresh water. Each year during the rainy season, the rivers flood over nine meters deep.
The Amazon is famous for these flooded forests. Tourists will spend days boating through the flooded areas, watching tropical birds flying in the humid air, and fish swimming through the water.
【1】What is the main threat to the Amazon rain forest?
A．Air and water pollution
B．Floods in the rainy season
C．Natural disasters near the forest
D．Burning the rain forest for the land
【2】What is the purpose of paragraph 1?
A．To tell that there are many different animals in the Amazon rain forest.
B．To explain through some figures that the size of the Amazon rain forest is quite large.
C．To indicate what will disappear in the Amazon rain forest if nations don’t take any action.
D．To emphasize that the Amazon rain forest is important and unique.
【3】what does the underlined word “shrinking” in paragraph 2 mean?
A．Getting larger
B．Getting smaller
C．Being protected
D．Being cleared
【4】What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?
A．Farmers and builders are clearing the land
B．The destruction of the land is steady
C．The local people refuse to protect the rain forest.
D．The rain forest in the Amazon is facing great danger
【5】What is the author’s opinion toward the problems in the Amazon rain forest?
A．The government of Brazil should take full responsibility.
B．Laws should be established to stop farmers from cutting and burning the forest.
C．Brazil and other countries should work together to protect the Amazon.
D．Brazil cannot make any more efforts to stop illegal burning and logging.
【6】Besides the title Amazon Alert, which could also be a proper title of this text?
A．Life in the Amazon Rain Forest
B．The World’s Natural Treasures
C．Travel Around the Amazon
D．Protect the Amazon Together
23、The Score: Looking for Jobs Online
Analysis shows that record numbers of Americans are visiting Job Search sites; younger women make up the biggest audience. The recent flood of advertisements from Monster.com and Career Builder has reminded us that the New Year is a time to re-evaluate one's current job and perhaps seek a better career.
In Search of Skilled Workers, Employers Go to Summer Camp
With skilled-labor shortages looming, some employers are moving to solve the problem by winning the hearts and minds of the young -- the very young. In an effort to tap future workers in middle school or earlier, big employers, including IBM and Boeing, are increasing their backing of career-driven summer camps. The camps promote kids' interest in all kinds of fields. The efforts are yielding new opportunities for families, and insights into how to help kids explore promising careers.
More Women Decide to Extend Careers
Three years ago, after a long career with FedEx, Anne made a difficult decision: She accepted an early retirement offer when the company was downsizing.
"It was a bit of an identity crisis for me," says Anne, who is in her early 60s and divorced. "I wasn't sure what I wanted to do." After a lengthy search, she found another position in public relations at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. "I needed the structure of a full-time job, the stimulation of working with others, and the reward of being productive," she says. "The income was also welcome.”
【1】On the website “Monster.com” we can see lots of advertisements about .
A. clothes B. foods
C. monsters D. jobs
【2】In order to get skilled workers for the future, most big companies .
A. go to world-famous universities to hire employees
B. begin to support the career-driven summer camps
C. begin to train middle school students even earlier in many ways
D. spend much money on training their employees
【3】From the last paragraph we can know that .
A. Anne really didn’t want to retire early
B. Anne enjoys a higher salary than before
C. Anne was very happy to retire and found a new job
D. Anne found the present job easily
24、In colleges around the country, most students are also workers.
The reality of college can be pretty different from the images presented in movies and television. Instead of the students who wake up late, party all the time, and study only before exams, many colleges are full of students with pressing schedules of not just classes and activities, but real jobs, too.
This isn’t a temporary phenomenon. The share of working students has been on the rise since the 1970s, and one-fifth of students work year round. About one-quarter of those who work while attending school have both a full-course load and a full-time job. The arrangement can help pay for tuition (学费) and living costs, obviously. And there’s value in it beyond the direct cause: such jobs can also be critical for developing important professional and social skills that make it easier to land a job after graduation. With many employers looking for students with already-developed skill sets, on-the-job training while in college can be the best way to ensure a job later on.
But it’s not all upside. Even full-time work may not completely cover the cost of tuition and living expenses. The study notes that if a student worked a full-time job at the federal minimum wage, they would earn just over $15,000 each year, certainly not enough to pay for tuition, room, and board at many colleges without some serious financial aid. That means that though they’re sacrificing time away from the classroom, many working students will still graduate with at least some debt. And working full time can reduce the chance that students will graduate at all, by cutting into the time available for studying and attending classes.
There is little reward for attending but not finishing college. Students who end up leaving school because of difficulty in managing work and class are likely to find themselves stuck in some of the same jobs they might have gotten if they hadn’t gone at all. The difficulty of working too much while in school can create a cycle that pushes students further into debt without receiving any of the financial or career benefits.
【1】According to the passage, the reality of college students is that ______.
A. they throw parties a lot
B. they stay up late every night
C. they work besides attending classes
D. they pay no attention to exams
【2】What is the indirect cause of an increasing number of working students?
A. The need of developing social networks.
B. The lack of summer jobs for young adults.
C. The chance of finding a job after graduation.
D. The expenses of high tuition and living costs.
【3】We can learn from the passage that ______.
A. working students are more likely to finish college
B. students can cover their college expenses through working
C. students receive a huge reward for managing work and class
D. dropping out of college may not help students get career benefits
【4】What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Difficulties of Landing a Job
B. The Struggle of Work-School Balance
C. The Reward of Working While Studying
D. The Images of Working College Students
25、No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own efforts.
I learned this lesson from a(n) _______ many years ago. I took the head coaching (教练) job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.
It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to _______ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t _______ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _______ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _______ me. I had to change my _______ about their ability and potential.
I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride. Most important, I began to treat them like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their _______, we met every day and _______ passing and kicking the football.
Six months after suffering our _______ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to ________. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a ________ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest ________ of my life!
From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can ________ the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and ________ them. I helped them to see themselves ________, and they built themselves into winners. Winners are made, but not born.
【1】
A．experiment
B．experience
C．visit
D．show
【2】
A．cheer for
B．finish with
C．help with
D．prepare for
【3】
A．believe
B．agree
C．describe
D．regret
【4】
A．realize
B．reserve
C．permit
D．demand
【5】
A．reacting to
B．looking for
C．depending on
D．caring about
【6】
A．decision
B．conclusion
C．attitude
D．intention
【7】
A．rewards
B．vacations
C．health
D．honor
【8】
A．risked
B．missed
C．considered
D．practiced
【9】
A．defeat
B．fault
C．accident
D．mistake
【10】
A．relax
B．improve
C．expand
D．defend
【11】
A．shame
B．burden
C．victory
D．favor
【12】
A．chances
B．thrills
C．concerns
D．offers
【13】
A．surprise
B．serve
C．interest
D．affect
【14】
A．protected
B．observed
C．encouraged
D．impressed
【15】
A．differently
B．individually
C．calmly
D．honestly
26、假如你是高二学生李华，请围绕“中学生独立性培养”的话题为某英文报投稿，主要内容包括：
1. begin with our own things: clean the bedroom…
2. help with the housework: do some cooking…
3. learn actively in class:
4. think for ourselves:
注意：
1.开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数；
2.可适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
3.词数100左右。
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