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1、I was ill that day, otherwise I _______the sports meet.
A. took part in B. would have taken part in
C. had taken part in D. would take part in
2、After the actor was caught taking drugs, all the scenes in which he appeared in the film were___.
A.cut out B.cut down C.cut up D.cut off
3、—Are you ready for the history test tomorrow?
—No, I wish I_____the clock back.
A．had turned
B．could turn
C．will turn
D．would have turned
4、It was the middle of night ________ my husband woke me up and told me to watch the football game.
A. while B. that C. as D. when
5、With several problems _____to be solved, we still need to hold another meeting as soon as possible.
A. remained B. remaining
C. remain D. having remained
6、The three parties will meet next month to ______remaining differences.
A．carry out
B．pull through
C．get out
D．work out
7、The Winter Olympics ________ in 2022 will surely bring in many international tourists.
A. held B. having held C. holding D. to be held
8、She asked the young man to be brief and _______ as she had little time to spare.
A．at best
B．in place
C．to the point
D．on the spot
9、A lot of suggestions were put forward at the meeting, but ______ was practical.
A. nothing B. none
C. neither D. no one
10、With the advance of technology, the way we make friends and communicate with them has changed________.
A．successfully
B．significantly
C．seriously
D．smoothly
11、Tom had to have his car repaired in a garage because it ______seriously.
A. damaged B. was being damaged
C. had damaged D. had been damaged
12、When Lionel Messi ran into the stadium, he was met with hundreds of thousands of fans ______ his name.
A．to call
B．being called
C．calling
D．call
13、The new product is beyond all praise and has quickly taken over the market ________ its superior quality.
A．in terms of
B．on account of
C．on behalf of
D．on top of
14、The police still haven’t found the lost child, but they’re doing all they .
A．can
B．may
C．must
D．should
15、______me tomorrow and I’ll let you know the lab result.
A.Calling B.Call C.To call D.Having called
16、As teachers we shouldn’t accept the argument given by some people _______ standardized tests restrict educators too much and take the joy out of teaching.
A. where B. what
C. how D. that
17、Bing Dwen Dwen, has a massive fan base, and people are going crazy for products the smiling panda.
A．featuring
B．featured
C．to feature
D．feature
18、As online shopping becomes increasingly popular, the Internet is regarded as a(n) ________ way of reaching target customers.
A．efficient
B．temporary
C．complex
D．definite
19、Only after talking to two students that having strong motivation is one of the biggest factors in reaching goals.
A. I did discover B. did I discover
C. I discovered D. discovered
20、_______relevant departments stressed no plastic covers were used for books, I didn't realize these covers contained harmful chemicals.
A.Until B.Unless C.While D.Since
21、One man’s white bread is another man’s green vegetables.
That’s the key from The Personalized Diet, a new book from Israeli authors Eran Segal and Eran Elinav. The authors say it’s time to admit to ourselves that one-size-fits-all diets don’t work, and when it comes to nutrition, it’s about doing what works best for your body, not catching the latest diet fashion.
“For years, we’ve been trying to search for that silver-bullet diet and we’ve been miserably failing,” Segal said. “And that’s because the best diet for each person really has to be tailored to that individual.”
They conducted a personalized nutrition project at Weizmann, where hundreds of volunteers agreed to have their blood sugar tested after meals. One participant in the study, a woman named Ruti, said she was surprised that it was tomatoes — not ice cream or candies — that were raising her blood sugar level. Ruti recalled, “I have now significantly reduced my intake of tomato and I’m feeling much more energetic, which still surprises me. I have already lost a couple of pounds, and I have high hopes that I have finally found the answer to my weight struggle, too.”
The Israeli scientists found that some people can consume traditionally unhealthy foods with little or no rise in their blood sugar levels, while others have a stronger response, and therefore shouldn’t eat those foods. It’s those kinds of results that you can only find from a personalized diet.
“What we were surprised to find out was just like any other food, there is no such thing as good bread,” Elinav said. “The response to bread was completely individualized.”
【1】What is suggested in the first sentence?
A．Everyone has their own tastes.
B．Nutrition serves your body best.
C．The latest diet doesn’t fit each person.
D．People’s response to the same food is different.
【2】What kind of diet have we continuously pursued?
A．A diet that is low in fat and sugar.
B．A diet that works best for everyone.
C．A diet that begins a new diet trend.
D．A diet that provides all the nutrition.
【3】Ruti’s example suggests that to control weight, one needs to________.
A．eat much fewer tomatoes
B．control their blood sugar levels
C．struggle for weight loss constantly
D．eat according to his or her blood sugar level
【4】Why is Elinav’s opinion on bread mentioned in the last paragraph?
A．To show the importance of good bread.
B．To explain the popularity of white bread.
C．To stress the need of the personalized diet.
D．To advise people not to eat unhealthy food.
22、 Traveling with your dear pet by train in comfort and safety is like an adventure: It requires a little advanced planning. 【1】 And your pet can stay healthy along the way.
【2】
Best practices for keeping your pet healthy can vary by time of year, activity and destination. For example, hiking and back-country adventures can increase your pet’s exposure to ticks, while some regions may have a higher risk for heartworm. And even though your pet may currently be flea-free (无跳搔的)，there’s no guarantee that other animals are as well.
Learn railway requirements
【3】 Additionally, make sure to book your pet’s ticket in advance-no one wants the heartbreak of a trip delayed or canceled because the train is at capacity (程度)for four-legged travelers.
Reduce your pet’s anxiety around train noise
If you know your dog or cat loves to go for a ride, you may not have to worry. 【4】 Put your pet in a carrier, head for the station and give plenty of treats and praise as the trains roll in. This will help your pet get used to the sounds of the railway station and the engine. 【5】 Take your pet on a day trip to see how well they manage the noise, the motion and the excitement.
A．Other routes allow pets in all cars.
B．Going for a test ride is even better.
C．Talk to the vet before you leave.
D．Make sure to do so before you leave for traveling.
E．But anxious pets might benefit from a practice run.
F．Different routes have different rules about pets on board.
G．Follow these three easy tips to help your four-legged friend travel well.
23、Nowadays, video gaming has made impressive gains in the field of standardized competition. One of the fashionable debates is whether competitive video games are sports or not. If cyberathletes are competing against formal teams in a formal environment, with real titles and monetary stakes on the line, it seems strange not to consider the activity a sport. However, unless something technologically odd gains complete control over our world in the next few decades, they never should be. Cyberathletes and eSports aren’t incomparable to traditional athletes and sports because they require less physical exertion or dedication. They are incomparable because they are different from traditional sports in a number of ways.
Traditional sports are steadfast, and consistent in their structures and mechanics. A professional American football player from any past decade could be transplanted into a current football field, and would only have to be told of a few minor rule changes. The player would know what to do, where to go, and how to accomplish the ultimate goal. He may need to learn a few new plays, but it’s fundamentally the same game. However, competitive video gaming has a variety of goals, and those goals are fluid and dynamic. A competitive video gamer from decades past might be aware of the final goal (winning the game, capturing the flag, eliminating the opposing team, etc.), but the execution (执行方式) would be completely foreign. Controls change, maps change, locations change, even the minute rules are adjusted on a regular basis. As a competitive video gamer, one needs to adapt to a much more aggressive ruleset than most sports or other games. Therefore the video game competitions are less likely to be properly regulated.
Most traditional sports are approachable by Everyman, even the esoteric(深奥的) ones, at least in an educational setting, where budgets and funding are set for them. While home computers are widely accessible, a large percentage of the gaming population is unable to participate in competitive gaming due to the high-standard computing requirements. Even decade-old competitive games like Counter-Strike 1.6 require more equipment and gear than most traditional sports. A pick-up game of basketball, football, or soccer is far more accessible than a pick-up game of Counter-Strike.
Traditional sports are embedded in our culture for good reasons: they offer an entertaining diversion and a great form of physical activity for millions of worldwide fans. The principles and lessons gleaned from traditional sports emphasize teamwork, collaboration, and critical evaluations of any given game setting. While many of these lessons are applicable to competitive gaming, competitive video gamers are still distancing themselves from competing for “sport” status, when their pastime and trade is so fundamentally different and ever-changing at such a regular pace.
【1】What is the author’s opinion towards competitive video games?
A．They can be seen as sports due to their emphasis on teamwork.
B．They can be seen as sports due to their standardized regulations.
C．They can not be seen as sports due to their lack of physical and mental efforts.
D．They can not be seen as sports due to the inconsistent rules and high requirements.
【2】What does the underlined word “foreign” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A．Difficult.
B．Common.
C．Typical.
D．Different.
【3】Why does the author mention Counter-Strike in Paragraph 3?
A．To explain the reason why eSports surpass traditional sports.
B．To explore the possibility that competitive video games will be sports.
C．To provide an example of the difference between eSports and traditional sports.
D．To account for the fact that the competitive features of video games are impressive.
【4】How does the author develop his idea?
A．By quoting and citing.
B．By listing and analyzing.
C．By comparison and contrast.
D．By explaining and evaluating.
24、 The three phases of life are increasingly a thing of the past. Where once working lives fitted neatly into the model of education, employment and then retirement, the simplicity of that division is being challenged by changing standards of the workforce.
Increasing numbers of workers, nearing their long-imagined transition into retirement, seem to be actively postponing the moment at which they down tools. Newly released figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown that there are over a million more over 50s in part-time work than a decade ago. And with nine out of 10 employers reporting difficulties hiring workers, there’s likely to be a growing market for their talents as bosses extend their searches to older people, including those who are willing to take on part-time responsibilities.
The ending of the three phases of working life isn’t simply down to people living longer or financial necessity － though those are certainly important factors － but also to an increasing desire to maintain a purposeful life. One survey of British retirees over 50 found that 85 per cent of them felt they’d retired too young – stopping working had left a void that they subsequently regretted.
The 2015 film The Intern conveyed this human need to have value. In it, Robert De Niro plays a 70-year-old widower who finds himself a fish out of water when he joins a trendy internet start-up. In the end, not only does he find the sense of belonging that he craves but his colleagues come to rely on his experience and different perspective. It’s a plot we can increasingly expect to play out in real-life offices over the decades to come as people live ever longer.
Already, we are seeing people in their 50s and 60s looking ahead to a retirement lasting 30 years, choosing instead to build second careers that they can maintain into their 70s or beyond. Freed from the financial burden of young children, they can prioritise flexibility, shorter working hours or more rewarding jobs in areas such as charity work or teaching. Many do it for no money at all, volunteering behind the till in charity shops or showing people round National Trust properties.
However, it’s the next generation where the effect of living longer will really be felt, and the financial necessity will start to bite. In the West, more than half of the children born in 2016 have a life expectancy of more than 100 years. In their book, The 100-Year Life, London Business School professors Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott suggest that acquiring sufficient funds to see oneself through a 40- or 50-year retirement will likely be beyond all but the highest earners.
Then there’s the often repeated claim that young people today are the first generation to be poorer than their parents. Certainly property prices are changing the way they plan for the future. In the mid-Nineties, the average home cost less than three times the average wage; last year, ONS stats placed that ratio at eight times wages.
The overall effect of these trends is that young people recognize that they will likely have to postpone dreams of retirement and instead strap on(绑住) more debt spread over longer spans. It’s why 44 per cent of under 30s say they expect to be working well into their 70s and why data this year from the Bank of England show that 16 per cent of UK mortgages(按揭贷款) now have terms of 35 years or more – a figure that has tripled in the past decade.
All of these factors look set to contribute to a workforce that has a significantly wider range of ages in the future. In an era of work when we’ve all learned to be more inclusive, only eight per cent of firms with a diversity programme have adapted it to go beyond gender, race and sexuality and into age. Incorporating older employees into the workforce is set to be the next big thing at the office.
If Robert De Niro has anything to teach us, it’s that this can be an enormous force for good for both employees and businesses.
【1】What do the underlined words “down tools” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.stop working B.undertake part-time jobs
C.learn a new skill D.imagine the future life
【2】The following may account for the ending of the three phases of working life EXCEPT _________.
A.a longer life B.financial needs
C.a meaningful life D.delayed retirement policy
【3】The author introduces the details of the film The Intern in order to __________.
A.tell us Robert De Niro is a helpful retiree
B.indicate that retirees can also benefit society
C.illustrate that retirees desire to live meaningfully
D.share Robert De Niro’s second career with us
【4】What trend will the next generation face?
A.Their life expectancy will be longer.
B.They will be richer than their parents.
C.They can live within their means.
D.They will fail to pay off their mortgage.
【5】The main reason for young people postponing retirement is ___________.
A.longing for a more purposeful life
B.inability to make their ends meet
C.a shorter term of mortgages
D.eagerness for experience from old employees
【6】What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.Different attitudes to retirement between the young and old.
B.Financial issues facing both old people and young people.
C.Age being no bar in the modern world of work.
D.The new standards of the workplace.
25、 When guys try to catch a flying football in school, they may do it to stay fit or because they love the game. They may ________imagine they'd end up using those skills to save a life! That just________when Philip Blanks, a football player in a high school team, caught a child who was________from the third floor of a burning building, CBS reports.
Philip Blanks is now a________after his saving the child's life by catching him in the air. The________video of the July 3 fire shows Blanks’ catch, which quickly________social media. He told CBS he was at the________to meet up with a friend to exercise. That’s when he heard________and then he caught________of the boy, whose mother was going to throw him down from the balcony. Blanks didn't hesitate for even a moment before________to catch the child whom he recalled as “twirling（旋转）like a helicopter” as he________from the third-floor balcony, CBS reports.
Blanks said, “When I caught him I fell on my side.” Blanks cradled the child as he fell and then ran away with the boy in his arms________to safety. In another________, the child's mother, Rachel Long, was________throwing her son over the balcony, Arizona's Family reports. The boy has been________as a 3-year-old named Jameson, according to the radio station. The mother, Rachel, unfortunately, did not________the big fire.
Blanks' heroic action is________but that doesn't mean that we can't take________from it. Sure, we are not all physically________to catch a child falling from a building, but we can respond in situations when our________is needed. Whatever we can do to be someone's here is always going to be good enough.
A．already
B．never
C．often
D．even
A．arrived
B．improved
C．existed
D．happened
A．dropped
B．rescued
C．heard
D．watched
A．leader
B．worker
C．hero
D．model
A．funny
B．normal
C．boring
D．amazing
A．messed up
B．spread across
C．exposed to
D．turned to
A．market
B．school
C．building
D．station
A．shouting
B．cheering
C．discussions
D．quarrels
A．attention
B．eye
C．hold
D．sight
A．climbing
B．promising
C．rushing
D．landing
A．jumped
B．fell
C．escaped
D．moved
A．immediately
B．slowly
C．quietly
D．casually
A．article
B．email
C．message
D．video
A．sent
B．kept
C．seen
D．suggested
A．asked
B．recognized
C．praised
D．expected
A．fight
B．survive
C．control
D．prevent
A．unique
B．swift
C．kind
D．crazy
A．energy
B．creativity
C．confidence
D．inspiration
A．eager
B．calm
C．able
D．lucky
A．help
B．effort
C．value
D．right
26、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。
I was hungry and hopeful that our babysitter would make a meal. But I found she was sleeping on the sofa. So I wanted to turn to my sister, Ashley. She was coloring in her room. When she saw me, unexpectedly, she said, “I’m hungry. Let’s make some sandwiches.” Unluckily, before making sandwiches in the kitchen, Ashley and I had a fight. We ran around the kitchen, throwing flour at each other. Flour flew in the air around us as we went into the living room. Suddenly, we heard footsteps outside.
“Oh, no! Mom is coming!” I said. “What are we going to do about the mess?” I wondered nervously. It looked like it had snowed inside the house. Ashley quickly ran and took a vacuum cleaner, but she didn’t know how to turn it on. Suddenly, Mom walked in, tired from a long day’s work. After seeing the scene, she shook her head.
Ashley and I ran to her and smiled. Mom didn’t get angry at us. But she seemed disappointed at the babysitter when she woke her up and showed her the mess. Once the babysitter had gone, Mom went into her room. “We’re not in trouble!” I shouted with joy. “But Mom didn’t look so good,” Ashley said to me in a sad voice. “What? She was smiling. Surely she looked good and happy!” I argued. Then Ashley continued, “Well, let’s go and see!”
So we went to Mom’s bedroom door and secretly looked in. Mom was sitting on the bed with tears in her eyes. We returned to the living room. “Mom is crying because of our mess,” Ashley said. “Let’s clean the house. And she’s probably hungry now. Why don’t we make sandwiches for her? We just need to put some meat, vegetables, or something else in between two pieces of bread.”
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After hearing Ashley’s words, I agreed.
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Seeing the kitchen become clean again, Ashley and I began to make sandwiches there.
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