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1、Students’ confidence in speaking English ________ as they kept practicing day by day.
A．grow
B．grew
C．grows
D．was grown
2、_____ kids are spending an hour and a half at a sports practice, most aren’t getting all the activity they need for the day.
A．As long as
B．When
C．Because
D．Even if
3、 Every night he heard the noise upstairs.句子的状语是________
A．Every night
B．heard
C．the noise
D．upstairs
4、My boss always ______ me, which was why I decided to leave the company.
A.showed respect for B.found fault with
C.approved of D.related to
5、Our teacher told us that there ________ no end to learning.
A. had B. is C. has D. was
6、Although his family couldn’t afford his further education, he managed to find a place at the College of Art _____ word of his talent quickly spread.
A. whose B. when C. that D. Where
7、— Is Lang Lang going to perform at Art Center this Friday?
— Yes. It ________ be him. He has been here for three days.
A．might
B．must
C．mustn’t
D．may
8、The best cake in the world by my mom now. Please wait an hour to enjoy it.
A. makes B. is made
C. is going to make D. is being made
9、A new high-speed railway line was ________between Ji’an and Ganzhou over a year ago.
A．set down
B．set off
C．set out
D．set up
10、My business partner is senior ________ me ________ two years.
A. to... by B. to... for
C. by... to D. by... for
11、How time flies! I feel junior high school was only yesterday!
A．even if
B．unless
C．if
D．as if
12、__________ by his boss, he had to give in to pressure and agreed to do some extra work.
A．Not to be fired
B．To be fired
C．Not being fired
D．Not fired
13、His parents told him ________ too much about what others said.
A. don’t care B. not care
C. to not care D. not to care
14、. They were surprised that a child should work out the problem _____ they themselves couldn't.
A．once
B．then
C．while
D．if
15、— The film A Dog’s Purpose was moving.
— Yes, it ______ the bond between dogs and humans to the audience.
A. wished for B. put forward
C. appealed to D. got across
16、Anyway, don’t give in. I’m sure the temporary _______ should not bother you too long.
A．expectation
B．setback
C．exchange
D．awareness
17、_________, so we will go for an outing.
A．Being a fine day
B．As a fine day
C．It is a fine day
D．Because it is a fine day
18、Johnny, you ______ play with the knife; you _____ hurt yourself.
A. wont; cant B. mustn’t; may
C. shouldn’t; must D. cant; shouldn’t
19、Happier people are more likely to volunteer, to ______ money, to help others, and to be friendly.
A.give off B.take in C.break up D.give away
20、I found most of my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful.
A．SVO
B．SVA
C．SVOC
D．SVP
21、It was raining heavily. They could do nothing but ______ at home.
A. to stay B. stay C. stayed D. staying
22、We have ________ a lot of money ________ Project Hope.
A．raised; to
B．raised; for
C．donated; with
D．donated; for
23、The reason why he was late was ___ he was caught in the traffic jam.
A．because
B．why
C．that
D．when
24、The painting we had thought to be of great ______ turned out to be________.
A. value;valuable B. value;valueless
C. valuable;valueless D. valuable; of value
25、In crowded places like airports and railway stations, you _______ take care of your luggage.
A．can
B．may
C．must
D．will
26、Many gardeners believe that “talking” to their plants helps them grow---it turns out that they may not be crazy after all. According to the scientists from the University of Exeter, plants may keep communicating with each other through a secret “unseen” language.
For their experiment, the scientists picked a cabbage plant that is known to send out a gas when its surface is cut. In order to get video evidence of the communication, they changed the cabbage gene by adding the protein---luciderase(虫荧光素酶), which is what makes fireflies(萤火虫) glow in the dark.
When the changed cabbage plant was in full bloom, they cut a leaf off with a pair of scissors, and almost immediately, thanks to the luciderase, they could see the plant sending out “methyl jasmonate(茉莉酸甲酯)”.
While this was a known fact, what was surprising was the fact that the minute this gas began to give out, the nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger and started to send out a gas that they normally have to keep predators(捕食者) like caterpillars(毛虫) away.
What the scientists are not sure is whether the plants are trying to warn the other leaves or the near plants about the danger---something that will require further research However, the team, which is led by Professor Nick Smirnoff, is quite excited about the findings because this is the first time it has been proved that plants do not live a passive life, but actually move, sense and even communicate with each other.
However, before you get all concerned, they are quite sure that plants do not feel the pain when they are cut, since they do not have nerves---so go ahead and bite into that juicy carrot!
【1】What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Plants Can Send Some Gas
B. Plants Can Communicate with Each Other
C. The “Unseen” Language of Plants
D. Plants Can’t Feel Pain
【2】 What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Gardeners B. Plants
C. Scientists D. Fireflies
【3】When the plant sent out methyl jasmonate, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A. The nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger.
B. The nearby cabbage plants started to send out a gas.
C. The nearby cabbage plants tried to warn the near plants.
D. The nearby cabbage plants communicated through a secret language.
【4】According to the experiment, plants ________________.
A. don’t live a passive life
B. can feel pain when they are cut
C. can warn the other leaves about danger
D. can talk with each other
27、Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer and pilot who used his life experiences to write his publications. The Little Prince is one of his most famous books, selling about 140 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the best-selling and most translated books ever published. Born in Lyon, France in 1900, Saint-Exupéry’s family was filled with nobility. His father was a manager of an insurance company who died when Saint-Exupéry was very young.
In 1915, Saint-Exupéry joined a high school in Switzerland. Due to his poor performance in class, Saint-Exupéry didn’t graduate from the boarding school in 1917. Saint-Exupéry twice tried to apply to the French Navy Cadet School. However, both times he failed the entry test. Finally, he went to a local college to study architecture. Again, due to poor grades, he didn’t complete his study.
In 1921, Snint-Exupéry decided to join the French army as a soldier. He trained as a pilot and made his first solo（单独的）flight in July of that year. The next year, after he obtained his licence, he was asked to transfer to the air force. However, his fiancee（未婚委）and her family believed that joining the air force means meeting lots of risks. In that case, they were against his staying in the military. Finally, Saint-Exupéry gave in to them and left the military. Later he took an office job in Paris.
As he had difficulty setting on a career path, Saint-Exupéry began to fly as a pilot again in 1926. It turned out that he was a successful pilot and made great contributions to his country during World War Ⅱ. Saint-Exupéry’s last light was on 31 July, 1944. He left on a wartime mission over occupied France, from which he was never seen again.
Saint-Exupéry was honoured by the Trench in France and the French region of Quebec, Canada. His portraits appeared on the 50-franc notes and 100-franc coins before the introduction of the euro in France. In Lyon, his birthplace, the city’s international airport was named after him.
【1】What do we know about The Little Prince?
A．It is a copy translated from another work.
B．It has been a big hit since it was published.
C．It is about the business of the author’s father.
D．It is about the author’s view on rich family life.
【2】Why did Saint-Exupény take an office job?
A．He performed badly at school.
B．He did poorly in his entry exam.
C．The military’s office refused his application.
D．His fiancee’s family objected to his staying in the air force.
【3】Why is Lyon’s airport named after Saint-Exupery?
A．To celebrate his success.
B．To remember his first light.
C．To show great respect for him.
D．To introduce him to the world.
【4】How is the text organized?
A．In order of space.
B．In order of time.
C．In order of importance
D．In order of place.
28、 Microsoft announced this week that its facial-recognition system is now more accurate in identifying people of color, touting (吹嘘)its progress at tackling one of the technology’s biggest biases (偏见).But critics, citing Microsoft’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, quickly seized on how that improved technology might be used. The agency contracts with Microsoft for cloud-computing tools that the tech giant says is largely limited to office work but can also include face recognition.
Columbia University professor Alondra Nelson tweeted, “We must stop confusing ‘inclusion’ in more ‘diverse’ surveillance (监管)systems with justice and equality.”
Facial-recognition systems more often misidentify people of color because of a long-running data problem:The massive sets of facial images they train on skew(歪曲) heavily toward white men. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study this year of the face-recognition systems designed by Microsoft, IBM and the China-based Face found that facial-recognition systems consistently giving the wrong gender for famous women of color including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama and Shirley Chisholm, the first black female member of Congress.
The companies have responded in recent months by pouring many more photos into the mix, hoping to train the systems to better tell the differences among more than just white faces. IBM said Wednesday it used 1 million facial images, taken from the photo-sharing site Flickr, to build the “world’s largest facial data-set” which it will release publicly for other companies to use.
IBM and Microsoft say that allowed its systems to recognize gender and skin tone with much more precision. Microsoft said its improved system reduced the error rates for darker-skinned men and women by “up to 20 times,” and reduced error rates for all women by nine times.
Those improvements were heralded(宣布)by some for taking aim at the prejudices in a rapidly spreading technology, including potentially reducing the kinds of false positives that could lead police officers misidentify a criminal suspect.
But others suggested that the technology's increasing accuracy could also make it more marketable. The system should be accurate, “but that’s just the beginning, not the end, of their ethical obligation,” said David Robinson, managing director of the think tank Upturn.
At the center of that debate is Microsoft, whose multimillion-dollar contracts with ICE came under fire amid the agency’s separation of migrant parents and children at the Mexican border.
In an open letter to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella urging the company to cancel that contract, Microsoft workers pointed to a company blog post in January that said Azure Government would help ICE “accelerate recognition and identification.” “We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits,” the letter said.
A Microsoft spokesman, pointing to a statement last week from Nadella, said the company’s “current cloud engagement” with ICE supports relatively anodyne(温和的)office work such as “mail, calendar, massaging and document management workloads.” The company said in a statement that its facial-recognition improvements are “part of our going work to address the industry-wide and societal issues on bias.”
Criticism of face recognition will probably expand as the technology finds its way into more areas, including airports, stores and schools. The Orlando police department said this week that it would not renew its use of Amazon. com’s Rekognition system.
“Companies have to acknowledge their moral involvement in the downstream use of their technology,” Robinson said. “The impulse is that they’re going to put a product out there and wash their hands of the consequences. That’s unacceptable.”
【1】What can we know about the improvement of facial-recognition technology?
A.Justice and equality have been truly achieved.
B.It is due to the expansion of the photo database.
C.It has already solved all the social issues on biases.
D.The separation of immigrant parents from their children can be avoided.
【2】What is the focus of the face-recognition debate?
A.Data problems. B.The market value. C.The application field. D.A moral issue
【3】We can infer from the last paragraph that Robinson thinks _____.
A.companies had better hide from responsibilities
B.companies deny problems with its technical process
C.companies should not launch new products on impulse
D.companies should be responsible for the new product and the consequences
【4】Which can be the suitable title for the passage?
A.The wide use of Microsoft system B.Fears of facial-recognition technology
C.The improvement of Microsoft system D.Failure of recognizing black women
29、Bogre Udell, who speaks four languages, met Frederico Andrade, who speaks five, at the Parsons New School in New York City. In 2014, they started a project to make the first public records of every language in the world. They’ve already recorded more than 350 languages, and plan to hit 1,000 in the coming years.
“When humans lose a language, we also lose greater diversity (多样化) in art and traditions,” said Bogre Udell. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages disappeared. Today, a third of the world’s languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers left. Every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker, and 50 to 90 percent of them are said to disappear by the next century.
Wikitongues (维基语言) has asked for volunteers in 40 countries to film native speakers talking in the past, present, and future tenses of their mother languages. Native speakers are asked to recall childhood, share their stories, and discuss their hopes and goals. One volunteer in the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu recorded a language that had never been studied by language experts before. Another volunteer found a speaker of Ainu, a language in Japan that has no relation to any other known language, and he also recorded it. However, priceless recording opportunities disappear regularly. Not long ago, one of the last two speakers of a Saami language in the Russian steppes died right before his recording session with Wikitongues.
A lack of protection and globalization are responsible for reducing language diversity. For much of the 20th century, governments across the world forced some local people to use official languages. More than 100 languages in Australia have disappeared since European settlers arrived. However, most languages die today because of other factors (因素); climate change and urbanization (城市化) lead greatly to the disappearance of languages.
【1】What do Bogre Udell and Frederico Andrade want to do together?
A．Test people’s language levels.
B．Offer language courses to people.
C．Find out the reasons for language loss.
D．Record all the languages in the world.
【2】What does the author point out in Paragraph 2?
A．Language loss is becoming very serious.
B．Few people are worried about language loss.
C．Language loss makes it difficult for people to communicate.
D．Some countries fail to slow down the process of language loss.
【3】How do volunteers help protect languages?
A．By writing down native speakers’ stories.
B．By learning languages from native speakers.
C．By improving the living conditions of native speakers.
D．By videoing native speakers talking in their languages.
【4】What would be the best title for the text?
A．The Birth of Languages
B．The History of Languages
C．The Disappearance of Languages
D．The Diversity of Languages
30、My husband and I changed our front yard with something eatable, adding apples, bananas, oranges, and pomegranates(石榴).
Every crop brought us closer to ____ and strangers. The food was an ____ to communicate. Kids in the neighborhood (including our sons) learned ____ and gentle timing. When we had extra, we would ____ it. Then, we received a powerful lesson: a gift hidden as a ____. Our first-ever crop of pomegranates had ripened (成熟). ______, at harvest, they all disappeared in the middle of the night. We were ____ , sad and angry. Friends had fun suggesting deterrents (威慑物). One _____suggested we post a sign to curse (诅咒) those who ____ our fruits.
And suddenly, the ____ was clear. We did need a sign. But our sign would encourage sharing and community. Last autumn, we had a larger crop of pomegranates. We ____ a sign that read, "If you'd like one, please knock and ____ yourself, and we would be ____ to cut one off the bush for you. Cutting saves the branches and is good for future growth, so we can ____ to share pomegranates with ____ friends like you. Thanks, The Green Family."
Out of eight fruits, one pomegranate was taken, and most others were ____ to new friends. This year, we won the Kindness Contest award, _____we planted three new fruit trees - a peach, a pear and a plum. Before they fruit, I’ll ____ a big sign to the yard to encourage sharing. Today, I'm happy to be a role model of ____ for my young sons and to have the opportunity to ____ an eatable front yard for others.
【1】
A．families
B．neighbors
C．tourists
D．guests
【2】
A．excuse
B．explanation
C．evidence
D．tool
【3】
A．confidence
B．kindness
C．patience
D．responsibility
【4】
A．take
B．store
C．select
D．share
【5】
A．loss
B．challenge
C．result
D．surprise
【6】
A．Besides
B．Otherwise
C．Moreover
D．However
【7】
A．embarrassed
B．shocked
C．puzzled
D．discouraged
【8】
A．still
B．yet
C．even
D．just
【9】
A．destroyed
B．stole
C．bought
D．hid
【10】
A．attitude
B．answer
C．need
D．lesson
【11】
A．put up
B．put down
C．put away
D．put on
【12】
A．enjoy
B．impress
C．introduce
D．help
【13】
A．proud
B．afraid
C．happy
D．eager
【14】
A．pretend
B．happen
C．agree
D．continue
【15】
A．true
B．new
C．polite
D．close
【16】
A．devoted
B．sold
C．sent
D．gifted
【17】
A．so
B．unless
C．since
D．or
【18】
A．connect
B．turn
C．add
D．keep
【19】
A．encouragement
B．generosity
C．enjoyment
D．creativity
【20】
A．provide
B．change
C．prepare
D．choose
31、I studied at a British high school for one school year. It was quite an 【1】 for me. My class with 29 students is of 【2】 size in Britain, but much smaller according to the Chinese standard. At first, I find the homework a little 【3】 as everything was in English, but I soon got used to it. Later I made great progress in English. I worked hard and 【4】 high grades so I earned 【5】 from my classmates. After school I enjoyed 【6】 under a tree or sitting on the grass. When I 【7】 my family and friends, I would 【8】 them at lunchtime in the school Computer Club for 【9】. One thing I like about British food is the 【10】 after the main meal.
32、假设你是李华。英国一所友好学校准备派一个学生团来你校参观交流，该校彼得先生来信询问有关情况。请你给他写封回信，主要内容包括：
1. 学生反应积极；
2. 提出你的安排建议（如品尝中华美食、浏览名胜古迹等）；
3. 征询意见（如：住在学生宿舍还是同学家里等）。
注意：1. 词数120词左右；
2. 适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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