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1、 We had ______ fun at Mary’s party last Sunday.
A. a large number of
B. a great many
C. a great deal of
D. many a
2、Alexander the Great spread the Greek culture from Europe to Africa and Asia, ______ the world for centuries to come.
A．affected
B．affecting
C．affect
D．to affect
3、Instead of blaming others for our failure, we should _________ what to do next and try our best to succeed in the future.
A. figure out B. carry out C. take out D. put out
4、—I am sure Johnson will be admitted to a key university.
—I believe so. He _________ for the entrance examinations for years.
A.was struggling B.struggles C.had been struggling D.has been struggling
5、Genius is one percent________ and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
A．collection
B．orientation
C．inspiration
D．resource
6、True happiness does not ________ the possession of money, but the joy of achievement.
A.contribute to B.lie in C.result in D.add to
7、The jokes told by Tom made us ________, so the teacher couldn’t make himself ________.
A．to laugh; hearing
B．laugh; heard
C．laughing; hear
D．laughed; heard
8、So far, every possible means ________ to save the miners____in the mine.
A．were tried; sticking
B．has been tried; stuck
C．had been tried; sticking
D．have been tried; stuck
9、He wrote a letter he explained what had happened in the accident.
A．where
B．which
C．who
D．why
10、You can imagine how many people must have sacrificed their precious lives in the________ of the American West considering the unfavorable conditions at that time.
A．entertainment
B．measurement
C．arrangement
D．settlement
11、No one has come up with a convincing explanation of why dinosaurs ________.
Which one of the following choices is NOT CORRECT?
A．extincted
B．became extinct
C．came into extinction
D．died out
12、I have a lot of emails to deal with, but the computer at this busy hour.
A. broke down B. broke out
C. broke up D. broke in
13、 Ms Chen teaching me Physics, I am sure I will do well in the exam.
A．If B．When C．With D．For
14、John suggested _________ swimming tomorrow.
A．going
B．to go
C．we will go
D．we going
15、She told me ______ a noise in the hall.
A. don’t make B. not to make
C. make not to D. to make not
16、In the new TOFEL test, there are questions ________ test takers ________ read, listen and then speak into a microphone.
A．which … must
B．which … need
C．where … must `
D．where … need
17、_______was wrong.
A．Not only the teacher but the students
B．Both the students and the teacher
C．Neither the teacher nor the students
D．Either the students or the teacher
18、That was written in 1946, ________ the education system has undergone great changes.
A．when
B．during which
C．since when
D．since then
19、Helen was very rude to me. I refuse to speak to her again __________ she says sorry.
A.If B.until C.because D.since
20、—I hear Tom has passed the exam.
—_____ He didn’t even spend a single hour preparing for it.
A. No problem! B. I believe so.
C. You must be joking! D. It’s a crazy idea!
21、The students_____heatly when the teacher came in.
A．discussed
B．had discussed
C．would discuss
D．were discussing
22、The door ______ open and in rushed the crowd, shouting with anger.
A. pushed B. knocked
C. forced D. burst
23、Mr Li has some trouble sleeping, so drinking a glass of milk before going to bed every night is his common _________.
A. practice B. experience
C. sense D. duty
24、The city government makes every effort not to have the housing price _______ too fast.
A.to raise B.raise C.raised D.to be raised
25、Fever, cough and headache are the common __________ of catching a cold.
A. angles B. symptoms
C. diagnosis D. constructions
26、 Teenagers are risk-takers. Those things may not be understood by the adults around them. Are they driven by poor judgment or immature (不成熟的)brains?
In their book Wildhood, the bestselling authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, present findings from their five-year study on wild animal adolescence(青春期). The two performed a complete survey of age-related death in wild animals and found something truly surprising—young folks are born to take risks, and with good reasons.
Life on Earth for adolescent and young adult animals is just as dangerous. In the wild young animals crash, drown and starve more often than their adult animals. And they are more likely to be targeted and killed by predators (捕食者).Old enough to be away from home? But new to the ways of the world? This time of life is risky for human adolescents as well. Wildlife biologists describe these unprepared creatures as predator naives(幼稚).
Facing death danger while still maturing is a fact of life for adolescents across species. Adolescents must have predator awareness if they are to survive. Said another way: To become safe, you must take risks.
Adult bats typically flee predators such as barn owls. But adolescent bats have been seen doing the opposite —flying toward them. This behavior can also be seen in other wild animals. Biologists call it “predator inspection(检查)”. Predator inspection provides young animals important information about their deadly predators. Familiarity with predatory strategies helps adolescents survive and even avoid future attacks. Predator inspection is one of the ways to help predator naives to become experienced predators.
Studying wild animal adolescence offers a new understanding of why teenagers act the way they do. Parents should balance the urge to protect with the need to let their teenagers test their wings. The research suggests that adolescents need some exposure to the dangers they will someday face on their own —and without knowing that, parents’ over protection maybe the riskiest behavior of all.
【1】What do we know about predator naives?
A．They die of hunger.
B．They are inexperienced.
C．They are born to hate risks.
D．They like living in the wild.
【2】How can adolescents survive according to paragraph 4?
A．By keeping away from dangers.
B．By experiencing various dangers.
C．By approaching other companions .
D．By learning security experience from elders.
【3】What benefit can adolescent animals get from predator inspection?
A．They don’t have to avoid dangers.
B．They don’t have to fight for food.
C．They can learn about their predators.
D．They can understand the value of life.
【4】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．Refusing parents’ protection benefits teenagers.
B．Parents should take risks with their teenagers.
C．Studying wild animal adolescence benefits human parenting.
D．Parents should avoid leaving their teenagers exposed to dangers.
27、If you read and listen to one article every day, your reading and listening skills can improve fast. You can learn quickly and after some time you will not have to translate it into your own language. You will simply understand. Why should you do this?
When you listen to your native language, you do not translate. You simply understand. The same has to be in English. When you learn English, you have to learn the whole sentences in the context (语境).
Students, who translate English texts, do exercises and do tests, are very good at translating, doing exercises and doing tests, but they have problems with understanding English in real life. In real life, nobody waits for your translation. People usually use simple English when they speak but they speak it fast. You have to understand with no translation into your native language. If you translate, you cannot be part of communication because you are thinking about the language too much.
You also have to hear every new word 5 to 10 times if you want to remember it. That’s why we use the same words at one level. If you read and hear the same words again and again, you will understand them and remember them. If you know words from one level perfectly well, you can go to a higher level and learn new words. It is important to go step by step, and read and listen to words which are used in English often.
We are trying to do everything possible to help you learn English fast and understand it. That’s why we prepare easy English news for you. If you can use this website every day, you can learn 5,000 words which you need for communication with anybody. Now click the OK button to start.
【1】When we read or listen to English, we usually ________.
A. have a lot of difficulties B. only remember new words
C. change it into our own language D. learn some useful sentences in the context
【2】Translating, doing exercises and tests ________.
A. can help us make greater progress
B. can help us speak fast in English
C. can help us learn English quickly
D. can’t help us improve our English understanding fast
【3】It can be learned from the passage that ________.
A. translation is necessary when we learn English
B. words must be repeated many times before we can remember them
C. different levels of English news use the same words
D. listening is the most important part in learning English
【4】What is the purpose of easy English news?
A. To help us learn English fast.
B. To help us learn about the world.
C. To teach us how to pass the tests.
D. To help us learn how to communicate.
28、If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and, as a result, we are growing old unnecessarily soon.
Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down.
With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes (脑量) of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs. Computer technology helped the researchers to get most exact measurements of the volume of the front and side parts of the brain, which have something to do with intellect and feelings, and decide the human character. As we all know, the back part of the brain, which controls the tasks like eating and breathing, does not contract (萎缩) with age.
Contraction of front and side parts — as cells die off — was seen in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction — using the head.
The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. “Those with least possibility,” says Matsuzawa, “are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing the same work day after day in government offices are, however, as possible to have contracting brains as the farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants.”
【1】Their research findings are based on __________.
A．an examination of farmers in northern Japan
B．tests given on a thousand old people
C．examining the brain volumes of different people
D．using computer technology
【2】The word “subjects” in paragraph 5 refers to __________.
A．something to be considered
B．branches of knowledge studied
C．persons chosen to be studied in an experiment
D．any member of a state except the supreme ruler
【3】The researchers’ tests show that __________.
A．our brains contract as we grow older
B．one part of the brain does not contract
C．sixtyyearold have better brains than thirtyyearold
D．some people’s brains have contracted earlier than other people’s
【4】The most possible conclusion of the passage is that __________.
A．most of us take more exercise
B．it’s better to live in the town
C．the brain contracts if it is not used
D．the more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes old
29、Drinking more water is an excellent goal for your health. Water is also a calorie-free choice, so drinking more water can help you to lose weight or keep a healthy weight. 【1】
Always having water on hand makes it easier to remember to drink it. It’s important to drink more water any time you’ve been sweating, such as when you’re exercising or after spending time in a hot environment. 【2】
Drinking water before your meals and while you eat can help to reduce your appetite since thirst is often confused with hunger. 【3】 This will save your money when you eat out and help you cut calories.
【4】 Try filling up a water bottle and adding a few simple fruit slices such as orange, lemon or some fresh berries such as blueberries, strawberries. Then, let the water sit in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours while it absorbs the flavors.
Tracking the amount of water you drink each day also works. This will help you to determine how much water you’re drinking and figure out if you might need to increase your intake. Remember to set a goal for how much water you want to drink each day. 【5】 The amount of water you need depends on your weight, sex, activity level, environment, and other factors. Consider how much of your daily fluid intake is water and identify how much of it you’d like to be water.
A．After meals, drinking water is a good choice.
B．The more water you drink, the healthier you are.
C．Here are some tips that can help you drink more water.
D．There’s no “right” amount of water for everyone to drink.
E．Replace your typical drink before and during meals with water.
F．Adding flavor to your water is a simple way to make it more tasty.
G．Always keep a water bottle into your bag or car and refill it regularly.
30、It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central lowa (艾奥瓦州) to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota (明尼苏达州). During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting, Ehlers _______ about the small dog he had seen _______ alongside the road. He had _______ to coax (哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _______.
Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _______ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______. After a long and careful _______, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _______ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _______. It just started licking (舔) Ehlers’ face.
A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one________ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ________ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers called the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had ________ their dog.
Jeff had hunted in lowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ________ for Rosie in the next four days.
Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who cares enough to go to that kind of ________,” says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue effort.
“figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as close to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ________ to go that extra mile.”
【1】
A．read
B．forgot
C．thought
D．heard
【2】
A．fighting
B．trembling
C．eating
D．sleeping
【3】
A．tried
B．agreed
C．promised
D．regretted
【4】
A．calmed down
B．stood up
C．rolled over
D．run off
【5】
A．injured
B．stolen
C．lost
D．rescued
【6】
A．home
B．past
C．back
D．on
【7】
A．preparation
B．explanation
C．test
D．search
【8】
A．cautiously
B．casually
C．skillfully
D．angrily
【9】
A．surprise
B．joy
C．hesitation
D．anxiety
【10】
A．predicted
B．advertised
C．believed
D．recorded
【11】
A．house
B．phone
C．street
D．car
【12】
A．fed
B．adopted
C．found
D．cured
【13】
A．on purpose
B．on time
C．in turn
D．in vain
【14】
A．place
B．trouble
C．waste
D．extreme
【15】
A．suitable
B．proud
C．wise
D．willing
31、阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给字母的提示，在标有题号的横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。
A: Why don’t you get another job for a c【1】?
B: But I like my job.
A: Look, d【2】 gardens is not a job for a university graduate.
B: But the money is not bad and there is also p【3】 of fresh air.
B: If I were you, I’d like to take a different job, l【4】 teaching.
A: Teaching? Anything but that. I think it’s so b【5】.
B. Come on, you really must think of the f【6】.
A: I’ll tell you w 【7】. I want to be a doctor.
B: Doctor? Well, you should think very s【8】 about that. It means a lot of study, and
then working all sorts of hours.
B: Yes, maybe. But the idea s 【9】 interesting.
A: Well then, you ought to get more i【10】 about it as soon as possible.
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。
When Jackie came to his first piano lesson in his mother’s car, he was already 11 years old.I preferred that students began at an earlier age, but owing to his insistence, I took him as a student. As much as Jackie tried, he lacked the sense of basic rhythm (节奏). At the end of each lesson, he’d say, “My mom’s going to hear me play someday.” But it seemed hopeless. I only knew his mother from a distance as she waited in her aged car, but never stepped in.
Then one day Jackie stopped coming to our lessons. I thought about calling him but assumed (认为), because of his lack of ability, that he had decided to quit. I also was glad that he stopped coming—he was a bad advertisement for my teaching!
Several weeks later I mailed a letter on the upcoming concert to the students’ homes. Surprisingly, Jackie received and asked me if he could be in the concert. I told him that the concert was not for dropouts (辍学者), but for current pupils. He said that his mom had been sick and unable to take him to piano lessons but he was still practicing. I didn’t know what led me to agree eventually.
The night for the concert came. The high school gymnasium was packed with parents and friends. I put up Jackie last in the program. I thought that any damage he would do would come at the end of the program and the negative effect would be reduced to the minimum (最小值).
The concert went off smoothly. Then Jackie came up on stage. His clothes were wrinkled (皱巴巴的) and his hair looked messy (凌乱的). “Why didn’t his mother at least make him comb his hair for this special night?” I thought.
注意：续写词数应为150左右。
Paragraph 1:
Unexpectedly, Jackie chose Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.21 in C Major.
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Paragraph 2:
Immediately I ran up on stage and held Jackie firmly in great joy, asking “How did you do it?”
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