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1、Bobby secretly decided to _______for the track team with the purpose of being the winner, and his roommate instantly showed his disapproval.
A.let out B.try out C.work out D.drop out
2、There is a shortage of teachers in Western China, and it will fall on the 80s and 90s generations to this responsibility.
A. take on B. step up
C. make up D. apply for
3、Which of the following sentences is WRONG?
A.There was a time when I hated going to school.
B.It is the first time that the girl has seen such an animal.
C.It is high time that we took some measures to deal with it.
D.Every time when we stopped,everybody would stare at us.
4、It ________me that I had forgotten his birthday.
A. occurred B. beat
C. hit D. knocked
5、___ theory must be closely connected with practice is a basic rule we should always keep in mind.
A.Why B.What C.That D.How
6、He could do nothing but __________ for the bus ___________.
A.to wait; coming B.to wait; to come C.wait; coming D.wait; to come
7、-With American tech companies cutting ties with China's Huaiwei, US___________ the global economic recovery now.
-I can’t agree more. I believe more damage is on the way.
A.is damaging B.has damaged C.damaged D.had damaged
8、The human body can tolerate only a small range of temperature, _____ when the person is engaged in vigorous activity.
A.essentially B.specially C.generally D.especially
9、—I’m kind of hungry, Mum!
—But I am occupied now, dear. Turn to Ele.me and order _______ you desire.
A．whichever
B．whatever
C．no matter which
D．no matter what
10、This restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere ______ many others are short of.
A.where B.when C.which D.what
11、Nowadays students go to key universities just for a formal ________，which may help them hunt for a good job in the future.
A．conservation
B．preparation
C．graduation
D．qualification
12、 The education program ________combining brain work with manual labor is being widely spread throughout the country.
A．to aim at B．aims at
C．having aimed at D．aimed at
13、The clever boy made a hole in the wall, _____he could see what was going on inside the house.
A.on which B.at which C.through which D.in which
14、Lisa was angry with Joe because she couldn’t _____ his disrespect to the kind man who had helped them out.
A. violate B. allocate C. relate D. tolerate
15、_____ the deaf children, the young lady has little time to care for her own daughter.
A. Devoted to teach B. Devoted herself to teaching
C. Devoting herself to teaching D. Devoting to teaching
16、—— We shall take the condition _____you’ve attached to this project into careful consideration.
—— Thanks a lot.
A. where B. when C. which D. what
17、_____ the delicious food here, why not enjoy yourself shopping for handsome jewelry?
A. Upwards of B. Apart from
C. Instead of D. Regardless of
18、Only when you have been familiar with the plan ______.
A.then you’ll be able to carry it out
B.were you able to carry it out
C.and you will be able to carry out it
D.will you be able to carry it out
19、A clean environment can help the city bid for Olympics which ____ will promote its economic development.
A. in nature B. in return
C. in turn D. in fact
20、My brother ________ to college last year, but unfortunately he wasn’t able to take the examination because he was seriously ill.
A. needn’t have gone
B. shouldn’t have gone
C. could have gone
D. must have gone
21、At one point I made up my mind to talk to Uncle Sam. Then I changed my mind, ______ that he could do nothing to help.
A.to realize B.realized C.realizing D.being realized
22、Modem TVs use many of the ________ first discovered by Farnsworth, who contributed a lot to the development of TV
A.platforms B.principles C.sources D.symptoms
23、He _____himself_____ this cause for many years,and achieved what he had expected .
A. cured ... of B. devoted... to .
C. equipped ... with D. entitled ...to
24、—What do you think of the talent show last night, Jessica?
—Well, it was so boring that some people ________ during the show.
A. dropped by B. dropped off C. dropped behind D. dropped in
25、He shouts when he gets angry, _________ is often the case.
A.which B.that C.when D.as
26、 Have you ever had someone tell you, “If you eat before bed, you're going to get fat” 【1】 But is eating late at night, specifically after 8 p.m., really going to make you gain weight?
One theory is that your metabolism(新陈代谢)slows down when you're asleep. With a slower metabolism, fewer calories are being burned. Thus the calories you eat right before bed would not be bumped off as much as they would be while you're awake. Although the science seems pretty sound, recent studies have shown that metabolism changes very little while you are asleep. The heart is still beating, lungs are still working, and the brain is still very active. 【2】 So while we are asleep, we are still burning calories.
【3】 Carbohydrates(碳水化合物)are one of your body's main sources of energy. When they go unused, they are stored primarily as fat. However, the time of day that carbohydrates are consumed does not play a role as to how much of it is stored as fat.
Actually, weight gain is based on the amount of calories being consumed overall and the amount of calories used overall. 【4】 It has little to do with the time when you eat. So how come individuals have higher BMIs when they snack' at night? Although there is a relation between the two, it is simply a result of eating too many calories!
Snacks that individuals tend to eat during the night are usually high in sugar and calories, such as ice cream, candy, potato chips, and soft drinks. The time these snacks are consumed does not matter.【5】.
A.All of these actions take energy.
B.That is to say, you will not get fat if you eat before bed.
C.Anyone eating anytime after the morning will become fat.
D.Food consumed late at night will more likely be stored away.
E.Without ever questioning it, people quickly assume this to be true.
F.Simply speaking, if you eat more calories than you burn, you will gain weight.
G.There's another theory about eating specifically carbohydrates before bed.
27、 On Nov. 24, near Yellowstone's northeast entrance, Spitfire, a female grey wolf, was shot and killed by a hunter as she approached a group of cottages.
"It was a legal harvest," Abby Nelson, a wolf management specialist said. "The facts are obviously a little bit harder for people to bear, but that pack has showed signs of habituation. They just stand there and have no fear. Wolf hunters can easily pick the one they want."
The carefree relation that some Yellowstone wolves have built with humans is reportedly attractive for hunters who look for an easy kill.
In the overnight, yet another famous Yellowstone wolf met a violent end outside the park, officials are actively rethinking how to manage wildlife habituation.
Smith, a wolf biologist for Yellowstone, says, "Now we're thinking of pounding them," Park officials might use fireworks, and paintball or beanbag guns when they approach humans in the park. "If you get close to people, you're going to get attacked."
If you think this sounds cruel, you're not alone. Seeing these creatures from the roads that wind through the park not only allows tourists to witness something amazing, but also to reconnect with nature in a way that is better than any conservation campaign. But there's a growing sense that the present policy of doing nothing isn't working; more wolves will unnecessarily die and the broken record of hunters scoring easy kills will go on.
As Smith adds, urging people to keep wolves wild when meeting them halfway is a big ask. Still, he's hopeful to preserve the world's best place to observe free-ranging wolves; it's a policy change that tourists can be involved in.
"... perhaps Spitfire's death will accomplish some good, and we'll all come together to do a better job on managing crowds and roads and wolves in Yellowstone, " Smith said.
【1】What was the main reason for the death of Spitfire?
A. Wildlife habituation. B. Park officials' carelessness.
C. The nature of grey wolves. D. The cruelty of the hunter.
【2】What does the underlined word "pounding" in paragraph 5 probably mean?
A. greeting. B. protecting.
C. challenging. D. hitting.
【3】What does Smith expect visitors to do in Yellowstone?
A. Be more friendly to wolves. B. Avoid meeting grey wolves.
C. Keep away from wolves. D. Force wolves away
【4】What is the main idea of the text?
A. The wolves in Yellowstone are out of control.
B. Illegal wolf-hunting in Yellowstone is going on.
C. Yellowstone considers "attacking" wolves to protect them.
D. The wolves in Yellowstone are living in harmony with humans.
28、Taktak tabulaba?
You probably don’t know how to answer that question---unless you happen to be one of the about 430 people in the world who speak a language called Matukar Panau. Then you would know it means “What are we doing?” Matukar Panau is one of the world’s rarest languages. It is spoken in just two small coastal villages in Papua New Guinea.
Several years ago, David Harrison, a language expert didn’t know much about Matukar Panau either. No one had ever recorded or even studied its words and rules. With so few speakers, the language risked disappearing soon. It was endangered.
Harrison didn’t want that to happen to Matukar Panau. So in 2009, he set out for Papua New Guinea. His goal: use modern technology to help the remaining speakers preserve their native tongue.
But Matukar Panau is far from the only language facing loss. Studies suggest that by the end of this century, nearly half of the 7,000 languages now spoken worldwide could disappear. They’re in danger partly because the only people left speaking them are elderly adults, Harrison says. When those individuals die, their language will die with them. In addition, children may discard a native language and instead use more common global languages, such as Chinese, English or Spanish.
In the United States alone, 134 native American languages are endangered. Harrison says, “language hotspots” exist all over the world. These are places with endangered languages that haven’t been recorded. They include the state of Oklahoma, pockets of central and eastern Siberia, parts of northern Australia and communities in South America.
【1】The purpose of using the question “Taktak tabulaba?” is to ________.
A.introduce a new foreign language
B.introduce the topic of the text
C.show the difficulty understanding Matukar Panau
D.stress the importance of Matukar Panau
【2】The underline word “discard” in Paragraph 4 means _______.
A.get rid of B.pick up
C.hear of D.learn about
【3】The last two paragraphs imply that endangered languages are _________.
A.dying quickly in Siberia
B.popular in some special places
C.becoming a worldwide problem
D.some native tongues
29、 By 11:00, Gopamma knew something was wrong. Her husband, Hanutha, should have returned from collecting firewood an hour before.Gopamma sent for her son, who gathered a search party and headed to Bandipur Tiger Reserve, a nearby national park in south-western India. Just inside the forest, they discovered Hanutha’s half-eaten remains. The tiger that killed him was still sitting next to the body.
In the face of her husband’s death, Gopamma struggled not only with grief but economic hardship. Her son had to drop out of university. “My life was much better when my husband was alive,” she says. “My older son could have studied, but now both of my sons have to work. I feel insecure and dependent.”
Despite all this, Gopamma feels no hate toward the tiger that killed her husband. Like many Hindus in India, she views humans and creatures, each with an equal right to existence. Her husband’s death, she says, has nothing to do with the fact that the government is trying to save tigers: “This was my fate.”
Rural Indians are unique in the world for their high tolerance for co-existing with potentially deadly wildlife. “You don’t find this in other cultures,” says Ullas, a biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and a leading expert on tigers. “If this kind of thing happened in Montana or Brazil, they’d wipe out everything the next day.”
The country holds just 25% of total tiger habitat, but accounts for 70% of all remaining wild tigers, or around 3,000 animals today.Success does not come without cost, however.They still have a lot of difficulties with tigers breaking into human-dominated places in certain parts of India,livestock(牲畜) are killed and sometimes so are people.
Some animal activists think that there are too few tigers left in the wild ,so even one shouldn’t be killed.Tigers are treasures, we’d better live with them together.
【1】Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “remains” in the first paragraph?
A.ashes B.body C.rest D.flesh
【2】How was Gopamma’s life after her husband’s death?
A.She suffered financial difficulties.
B.Her life was much better than before.
C.She hated the tiger and was in deep sorrow.
D.She became independent and supported her sons with their studies.
【3】The sentence “You don’t find this in other cultures.” in the fourth paragraph implies ______.
A.Other cultures keep tigers as pets.
B.Other cultures can kill tigers casually.
C.Rural Indians can bear the killing caused by the tiger.
D.People wipe out the tigers once they see them in Montana or Brazil.
【4】What can we know from the article ?
A.Gopamma’s two sons used to study in the university.
B.Tigers often break into indians’ houses and kill the villagers.
C.Gopamma knew something was wrong in the early morning.
D.Hanutha was found killed in the forest in a national park.
30、 Once a mouse met a frog, and they went for a walk, spent the day wandering and then made friends. So the mouse _______ to take the frog to his house, and_______him what he had stored, for example, grain and wheat.
First, the frog _______ a piece of wheat but as he put it in his _______ , the chaff (谷物的皮壳)pricked his throat.
“What bad, _______ food! Don’t you have anything else?” the frog _______.
So the mouse gave him a chick pea. He _______ it in his mouth but it just wouldn’t dissolve and he had to_______ it out.
“How hard it is! Don’t you have anything _______ ?” said the frog.
The mouse said, “No, we’ve become strong and fast because we ________ strong food.”
So on another day they decided to go to the frog’s house. The frog was living in a ________ , so he jumped into the pond and called out to the mouse. The mouse also________ into the pond, but because he couldn’t ________ , he began gasping (喘气)and struggling in the water.
The frog said, “How ________! You’ve become drunk without even drinking anything. And I was________ to give you so much food and drink.
Then he ________ the mouse out on to the side of the pond. The frog began bringing him all the food that he’d ________ - worms and insects. The mouse took everything into his mouth ________ it was all very watery, and lacked tastes.
“What’s all this trash (垃圾)?” said the mouse. “How do you ________ to eat this?”
“Oh, we’ve become soft because that’s ________ what we eat,” said the frog. Two possible explanations are, “You are what you eat”, or, “You should not mix with people who aren’t like you.”
【1】A.wanted B.decided C.refused D.hesitated
【2】A.told B.called C.offered D.paid
【3】A.set down B.set up C.brought up D.took in
【4】A.mouth B.hand C.skin D.bag
【5】A.long B.sharp C.big D.round
【6】A.nodded B.replied C.asked D.reacted
【7】A.attracted B.drew C.included D.rolled
【8】A.spit B.throw C.run D.get.
【9】A.warm B.soft C.loose D.delicious
【10】A.use B.eat C.buy D.choose.
【11】A.hole B.bowl C.pond D.cave
【12】A.dived B.climbed C.jumped D.pulled
【13】A.float B.flow C.breathe D.swim
【14】A.strange B.curios C.crazy D.popular
【15】A.planning B.wondering C.expecting D.debating
【16】A.sent B.pushed C.absorbed D.raised
【17】A.checked B.fixed C.stored D.saved
【18】A.for B.or C.and D.but
【19】A.promise B.discuss C.try D.manage
【20】A.exactly B.naturally C.usually D.gratefully
31、Since the first day of preschool, I was always the type to invest more time in my physical war than social activities, the type that _________ the girls who could get up in front of the class and _________ give a presentation. Anything in the area of being vocally confident was never my _________. But now I’m different. Such a change _________ my summer job.
My entire existence has been defined by the summers I’ve spent in Avalon, New Jersey. Then, in my 14th summer, I got a job, which made a _________ to me.
At first it frightened me:The idea of having to _________ my freedom. Not only was the loss of freedom saddening me, but the _________ in me came out to play when I realized that I was going to launch myself into a completely _________ environment.
The place was Brian’s Waffle House. At the beginning I was very nervous, _________ I gradually pushed myself much more and boosted my confidence. I’ve made so many great friends that I’ll __________ contact with even when the Waffle House is long gone. The time in the Brian’s Waffle House is not dull. And every customer is a valuable part of the __________.
My summer job has helped guide me in my own personal growth. Now I __________ to sing in front of a large group of people. And I never miss a __________ to allow my fashionable style to shine. If I hadn’t walked into the shop, I wouldn’t have __________ the social skills I have now. I will be __________ for the lessons and values I have learned forever.
【1】
A．ignored
B．convinced
C．envied
D．consulted
【2】
A．confidently
B．definitely
C．fortunately
D．secretly
【3】
A．expectation
B．strength
C．excuse
D．ambition
【4】
A．emerged from
B．departed from
C．suffered from
D．recovered from
【5】
A．introduction
B．contribution
C．discovery
D．difference
【6】
A．excite
B．possess
C．abandon
D．threaten
【7】
A．shyness
B．delight
C．curiosity
D．pressure
【8】
A．secure
B．strange
C．formal
D．natural
【9】
A．as
B．or
C．but
D．so
【10】
A．restore
B．lose
C．establish
D．maintain
【11】
A．memory
B．experience
C．incident
D．journey
【12】
A．dare
B．fail
C．promise
D．demand
【13】
A．goal
B．plan
C．choice
D．chance
【14】
A．assessed
B．acquired
C．exercised
D．applied
【15】
A．ready
B．eager
C．grateful
D．suitable
32、 Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th， my father would give each of his children ＄20. This was the 1970s， and ＄20 was quite a bit of money.
But I saw it___. My father trusted me to have the___to spend money wisely. Even better， he gave me the means to get it. On a very basic level， my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢） every year. But he was also giving me___over my own fun， trusting my ability to___money and making me feel like a（n）___. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes， but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and___it for myself， so it felt like a gift from him.
My mother had （a）n___for giving me what I needed， usually___at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25， I___at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my___job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit， I___a good show， telling her I had started my own company.
My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until she___that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with___. She knew how___I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries， or___to pay my rent， she would have made me feel much___. The cold， hard cash meant she was helping me. And， funnily enough， the___with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to___my life and preserve my dignity （尊严）. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to make my own___，and the other was giving me a second___when those decisions had cost me dearly.
【1】A.naturally B.negatively C.differently D.originally
【2】A.privilege B.intelligence C.authority D.desire
【3】A.advantage B.doubt C.charge D.concern
【4】A.earn B.allocate C.manage D.raise
【5】A.expert B.grown﹣up C.adventurer D.pioneer
【6】A.read B.edit C.choose D.publish
【7】A.passion B.talent C.plan D.demand
【8】A.even B.merely C.roughly D.right
【9】A.failed B.hesitated C.froze D.fell
【10】A.routine B.creative C.challenging D.previous
【11】A.put away B.put on C.put forward D.put off
【12】A.arrived B.left C.fled D.returned
【13】A.credit B.loans C.receipts D.cash
【14】A.badly B.reluctantly C.briefly D.temporarily
【15】A.attempted B.offered C.promised D.managed
【16】A.better B.more C.less D.worse
【17】A.depth B.length C.distance D.range
【18】A.defend B.equip C.fix D.develop
【19】A.preparations B.adaptations C.contributions D.decisions
【20】A.chance B.visit C.solution D.trial
33、 A video last week showed a mini house in a high chair eating a bowl of carrots. It might seem ridiculous, but it might also be the logical extension of a growing trend; treating animals as human and treating pet as children, _______ to the toddler （学步的小孩）who eats from the same chair.
_______ of this attitude are everywhere, ranging from the innocent to the near-insane. Some people _______ their pets for Halloween, throw them birthday parties, or create social media accounts for them. Five-star cat resorts offer spa services. Yoga studios now offer “doga” classes. Stores sell pet pans and bikinis, and doctors will perform cosmetic surgery in case your pet needs a facelift.
There seems to be _______ between pets and children. An increasingly large group of people who genuinely believe that having a pet is the same thing as being a parent. They _______ the language of parenthood with their pets, calling themselves “mommy” or “daddy” when talking to their “baby”. Of course, it’s one thing to use such language _______, as an expression of love or a reflection of the great joy that pets, like children, can create. But it’s quite another to use this language literally（照字面意思地）.
Using _______ labels for things not only blurs （使…模糊）the real lines between pets and people but also leads to dangerous misbelief. What if a woman thinks she knows what a mon of two kids if going through because she’s a “mom” to two cats or a man believes having a baby won’t be much different from being a “dad” to a dog?
Every pet has its own parent—another cat or dog that feed and teaches it to survive in the animal kingdom. Our love for pets results from their _______ from us, but once we have them, we treat them as people, taming and teaching them how to pee（撒尿）in the tight place and not drink from the toilet. Sometimes, this goes _______, leading to horrible industries like pet cosmetic surgery. But we can’t call our role with pets “parenting” when we do the _______ of what a pets parent would do.
_______, “pet parents” claim that they do everything real parents do – feed, bathe, cuddle, clean up, care for, and love. Indeed, all these actions constitute part of the routines of true parenthood. But pet parents cannot teach character and morality to cats and dogs, which is the most important job of a parent. Having a child means _______ another mind and soul for adulthood and independence. Having a pet child means keeping an animal obedient and _______ so it never leaves as a child will.
Pet and children serve different roles. Ignoring or denying these differences _______ neither creatures nor people. Calling a pet a child, or yourself its parent, reflects a _______ of what animals are and what parenting is. We can call pets “pets” without loving them any less.
【1】A.attractive B.equivalent C.opposite D.valuable
【2】A.Changes B.Results C.Explanations D.Examples
【3】A.hang up B.take up C.pick up D.dress up
【4】A.conflict B.distinction C.confusion D.balance
【5】A.create B.adopt C.interpret D.enrich
【6】A.lightly B.frequently C.practically D.habitually
【7】A.unfriendly B.abnormal C.inaccurate D.inactive
【8】A.attention B.freedom C.difference D.separation
【9】A.without saying B.out of control C.beyond expectation D.a long way
【10】A.best B.joy C.trick D.opposite
【11】A.Moreover B.However C.Otherwise D.Therefore
【12】A.Preparing B.Exchanging C.Possessing D.Searching
【13】A.popular B.miserable C.dependent D.demanding
【14】A.shelters B.influences C.upsets D.benefits
【15】A.shift B.attitude C.misunderstanding D.awareness
34、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Smell the flowers before you go to sleep and you may just end up with rosy dreams. Have a whiff of rotten(腐烂的)eggs during the night and your dreams may be【1】(pleasant). So says researcher Dr. Boris Stuck, 【2】invited sleeping volunteers to a rose vs. rotten egg test in the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. The subjects didn’t dream about roses【3】eggs, but rather he found that what they smelt affected the emotions of【4】(they) dreams.
And if you think【5】(smell) have a say in dreams, wait for what TV tells us. A UK study reveals that people exposed【6】black-and-white film and TV in their youth are to have monochromic(单色的)dreams throughout their life more【7】(probable). Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee tested two age groups— one half 【8】(age) over 55 and【9】other half under 25.
The result? Under 5% of the dreams of the under-25s were in black and white. 【10】(watch)color TV in childhood seems to be the reason why.
35、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
My daughter
(A story told by a father, a famous actor)
My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.
I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.
We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.
I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.
We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.
I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.
We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.
36、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.
I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.
For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.
At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.
The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”
37、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.
The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.
It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.
Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often 【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.
Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.
38、假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，介绍你在居家自主学习期间第一次为家人做饭的过程，并以“My First Cooking”为题，给校刊“英语角”写一篇英文稿件。
提示词：家常菜homely dishes
注意：1. 词数不少于60；
2. 可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。
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39、假如你叫李华，你的美国笔友Wilson决定暑假来中国学习汉语,了解中国传统文化， 时间一个月。他向你询问附近大学开设培训班的情况，请你按照下列要点给他回一封信，内容包括：
1. 报名、班额、价格； 2. 住宿、吃饭、交通； 3. 交友。
注意：1. 开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2. 词数100左右；
3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Wilson,
I am glad to know that you will come to China
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Yours sincerely
Li Hua
40、假设你是某中学的学生李华，你校拟选拔一批优秀学生，利用暑假到某小学为学生辅导英语，你希望参加此活动。根据以下提示，请你用英语给校评选小组写一封申请信，要求如下：
1.此活动对自己，对辅导学生的好处；
2.个人优点，如性格、语言能力；
3.你的辅导计划。
注意：1.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2.词数100左右（开头已经给出，但不计入总词数）。
Dear Sir or Madam，
I am Li Hua from Class One，Senior Two.
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Yours sincerely，
Li Hua
41、假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Tom对你校正在举行的“中华好书分享”活动很感兴趣，希望你介绍此活动，并推荐好书。请你写封信，内容包括：
1.该活动的意义；
2.同学们参与的情况；
3.你推荐的书籍及理由。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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