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1、The journey around the world took the old sailor nine months, the sailing time was 226 days.
A. of which B. during which
C. from which D. for which
2、Some other advertisers have turned to “proximity marketing,” _________retailers detect _________the consumers are on the street and send __________advertisements to their phone.
A．where, where, tailored
B．whose, where, tailoring
C．where, that, tailored
D．whose, that, tailoring
3、Caroline doesn’t have a gift for music, but she ________ it with hard work.
A．goes back on
B．takes away from
C．makes up for
D．catches up with
4、I have two grammar books, ______ are of great use.
A．all of which
B．either of them
C．both of that
D．both of which
5、Professor James will give us a lecture on the Western Culture, but when and where _________ yet.
A．hasn’t been decided
B．haven’t decided
C．isn’t being decided
D．aren’t decided
6、---Hi, Mike! We’re going biking along the beach this weekend.
---_______．I love being bathed in the sunshine.
A． By all means B． Count me in
C． Go ahead D． With pleasure
7、—Jack, do you have any problems if you______
—Well, I'm thinking about the salary．．．
A．will be offered B．have offered
C．are offered D．will offer
8、It really annoys me that whenever I have important issues to deal with, something unexpected always keeps getting ________.
A．in sight
B．in the way
C．around the corner
D．out of place
9、Over the years, people have learned from ants that teamwork and perseverance are indeed two key ______ to success.
A. certificates B. ingredients
C. approaches D. instructions
10、The recent cold weather has prevented residents from going out, which may ________ the decline in customer flows at the shopping mall.
A. account for B. change for C. apply for D. stand for
11、I don’t prefer to live in Sanya. Though the sea food is delicious, the damp weather there doesn’t ________ my rheumatism(风湿)。
A. agree with B. agree to
C. agree on D. agree about
12、Whatever happens ,Ben, ________ drugs.
A. doesn’t take B. not take
C. not taking D. don’t take
13、I would _________ it very much if you could do me a favor.
A．grateful
B．thank
C．appreciate
D．thankful
14、Before you start, it seems that the task is _____________ to be accomplished.
A. possible B. unlikely
C. impossible D. probable
15、Last year was the warmest year on record, with global temperature 0.68℃ ______ the average.
A.below B.above C.about D.on
16、The farmer considered me as his old friend and treated me ________ some good tea.
A. as B. for C. to D. on
17、The final score of the basketball match was 96-97. We were only _____ beaten.
A. tightly B. slightly C. narrowly D. roughly
18、The news________ Ning Zetao won the gold medal in the swimming competition excited Chinese People.
A. which B. that C. what D. if
19、 _____ increasing public discontent, the government is determined to push the bill through.
A. In terms of B. As a result of
C. In favor of D. In spite of
20、I don't know the reason ______ you were absent from the meeting, but I'm sure someone will tell me the reason ________ you haven't told me.
A.why; that B.that; why
C.Because; which D.of which; that
21、On October 20th comes “Killers of the Flower Moon” from the director Martin Scorsese. At nearly three and a half hours, its length is nearly double that of the average film last year. Even movie fans struggle to concentrate for that long. During the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, some viewers dozed off. Afterwards there was a mad dash (and long queue) for the toilets. When did watching a film become such a labor?
Film-makers started producing long-lasting movies at a rapid pace in the early 1960s. Cinema was booming and filmmakers wanted to distinguish their art from television. Epics surpassing the three-and-a-half hour mark graced the silver screen. Back then, audiences enjoyed an interval while the projectionist prepared the reels for the next act. Runtimes of popular films experienced ups and downs over subsequent decades. But they have ballooned since 2018.
Movie series is one driver of this trend. Studios want to squeeze the most out of their costly intellectual property, but they are competing with streaming platforms for eyeballs. The hope is that a spectacular, drawn-out blockbuster (大片) will tempt audiences away from the small screen and into cinemas. This approach has often paid off: “Avengers: Endgame” (2019), which showcased Marvel superheroes remarkably with a runtime of three hours, achieved the highest box office revenue among all films in that year.
Anything that attracts people away from their sofas to see a film in theatres is good news for cinemas. But lengthy runtimes also pose a “fundamental problem”, complains Clare Binns of Picturehouse, a British cinema group and film distributor. Long movies can mean abandoning two showings per night, which hurts ticket sales and profits.
Another explanation for longer films has to do with directors’ growing influence. Who would dare tell the likes of Mr Nolan to shorten his masterpieces? Streamers, which do not have to worry as much about concision because viewers can pause whenever they like, may attract big names with deep pockets and promises of creative freedom. “Killers of the Flower Moon” will debut on AppleTV+ after its theatrical release.
【1】What can we learn from paragraph 1?
A．Movie fans tend to have a dislike for long movies.
B．Movie theaters should provide adequate restrooms.
C．The average movie fan cannot focus for over three hours.
D．Long movies affect audience engagement and physical comfort.
【2】What does the underlined word “ballooned” mean in paragraph 2?
A．Expanded with air.
B．Made great profits.
C．Enjoyed great popularity
D．Increased rapidly in length.
【3】Why does the author mention the movie “Avengers: Endgame”?
A．To demonstrate the trend of longer movies.
B．To highlight the success of Marvel series.
C．To illustrate the strong appeal of movie series.
D．To emphasize the studio-streaming platform contest.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．Movie Marathons: Past and Present
B．Long Movies: Impacts and Reasons
C．Filmmaking: Challenges and Rewards
D．Streaming Platforms: Promising and Profitable
22、Pacing and Pausing
Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve’s new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn’t hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.
Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there’s no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I’m finished or fail to take your turn when I’m finished. That’s what was happening with Betty and Sara.
It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.
The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (思维定势). And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in — and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.
That’s why slight differences in conversational style — tiny little things like microseconds of pause — can have a great effect on one’s life. The result in this cause was a judgment of psychological problems — even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.
【1】What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?
A. Betty was talkative.
B. Betty was an interrupter.
C. Betty did not take her turn.
D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.
【2】According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?
A. Americans. B. Israelis.
C. The British. D. The Finns.
【3】We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing
B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US
C. one’s inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes
D. one should receive training to build up one’s confidence
【4】The underlined word “assertiveness” in the last paragraph probably means ________.
A. being willing to speak one’s mind
B. being able to increase one’s power
C. being ready to make one’s own judgment
D. being quick to express one’s ideas confidently
23、While dogs openly show joy or displeasure through different expressions, judging a cat’s feelings from its face is often hard, even for its owners. Now, researchers from Canada’s University of Guelph declare that cats also express emotions (心情) on their faces — one just has to learn how to interpret them!
For their study, Professors Lee Niel and Georgia Mason recruited (招募) 6300 people from 85 countries. The participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire and watch 20 short cat videos, obtained mostly from YouTube. Each video highlighted just the cat’s face — its eyes, nose, and mouth — and gave no clues to its surroundings or circumstances. The viewers did not have to determine the cat’s exact emotion, but just decide whether it was in a positive state or a negative state.
The researchers, who published their findings in the November 2019 issue of Animal Welfare, found that only 13 percent, or 819 participants, were able to read the cats’ emotions accurately over 75 percent of the time. Further research showed that the so-called “ cat whisperers ” were primarily women. Younger adults also seemed to be able to read the expressions better than older individuals.
“ The fact that women generally scored better than men is consistent with previous research that has shown that women appear to be better at understanding non-verbal displays of emotion, both in humans and dogs, ” said Mason. And the answer to both results lies in the fact that they are gifted in doing these. Surprisingly, being a cat owner did not help study participants, indicating that a strong attachment to the animal did not necessarily mean better understanding of its emotions.
Fortunately, all is not lost for cat owners who are unable to tell their pet’s emotions. The researchers believe the skills are not inborn but learned over time. “ This is important to be able to do because it could help strengthen the bond between owners and cats, and so improve cat care and welfare, ” said Niel.
【1】What were participants required to do after watching cat videos?
A．Decide the cat’s emotion state.
B．Judge the cat’s exact emotion.
C．Analyse the cat’s living conditions.
D．Determine the cat’s personality.
【2】Who will be the best cat whisperer?
A．An old man.
B．A middle-aged man.
C．A young woman.
D．A cat owner.
【3】Why did women perform better than men in the study?
A．Women have more time to spend with pets.
B．Women have a talent for understanding emotions.
C．Women have strong affection for animals.
D．Women have a strong will to understand animals.
【4】What’s the researchers’ opinion on becoming a cat whisperer?
A．It can be obtained through studying.
B．It is necessary for those raising pet cats.
C．It is difficult especially for cat owners.
D．It improves the owner’s social bond.
24、Is renting clothes greener than buying them? Sustainable (可持续的) fashion expert Elizabeth Cline isn't sure. Clothing renting is a hot new industry and businessmen are trying to attract shoppers who care about the environment. Last summer alone, Urban Outfitters, Macy's, Bloomingdale's American Eagle and Banana Republic all announced renting services — a sure sign of changing times.
But is renting fashion actually more environmentally-friendly than buying it? And if so, how much more? Journalist and author Elizabeth Cline researched this question in a feature article for Elle, and she concluded that it's not as sustainable as it seems.
Take shipping for example, which has to go two ways if an item is rented — receiving and returning. Cline writes that consumer transportation has the second largest carbon footprint of our collective fashion habit after manufacturing.
Then there's the burden of washing, which has to happen for every item when it's returned, regardless of whether or not it was worn. For most renting services, this usually means dry-cleaning, which is a polluting process. All the renting services that Cline looked into have replaced perchloroethylene,a carcinogenic (致癌的) air pollutants that's still used by 70 percent of US dry cleaners, with hydrocarbon (碳氢化合物) alternatives, although these aren't great either. They can produce harmful waste and air pollution if not handled correctly.
Lastly, Cline fears that renting services will increase our appetite for fast fashion, simply because it's so easily accessible. There's something called "share-washing" that makes people have more wasteful behaviors because a product or service is shared and thus is considered more eco-friendly. Uber is one example of this: advertised as a way to share rides and reduce car ownership, and yet it has been proven to discourage walking, bicycling and public transportation use.
Renting clothes is still preferable to buying them cheap and throwing them into the bin after wearing them a few times, but we shouldn't let the availability of these services make us self-satisfied. There's an even better step — and that's wearing what we already have.
【1】The underline word in Paragraph 3 most probably means______.
A．traveling by ship
B．selling or renting a ship
C．delivering or mailing
D．the cost of sending
【2】What can we infer from the passage?
A．Clothing renting became popular ten years ago.
B．Consumer transportation has the largest carbon footprint.
C．Renting clothes deserves further consideration.
D．Uber is a good example of sharing rides.
【3】How much are the following alternatives preferred by the author?
①Renting used clothes ②Buying cheap new clothes and dumping them soon
③Wearing the clothes we have instead of getting more to wear
A．①＞②＞③
B．②＞③＞①
C．③＞②＞①
D．③＞①＞②
【4】Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?
A．Renting fashion-a sustainable choice!
B．Clothes renting or clothes buying?
C．Renting services are catching on
D．Clothes renting-truly greener?
25、I had moved to Arizona about two weeks before the start of my junior year of high school. Not only was this a(n)_______ new school for me, but also a new _______ and I did not know anyone.
On the first day of school at lunch after getting my meal, I sat down at an empty table in the courtyard. As I began to eat, I _______ at the other tables and saw another girl sitting alone, so I decided to go sit with her. I walked to _______ and said, “Excuse me, do you mind if I sit with you?” She was _______ at first, but then smiled and said, “Sure!”
We got on well with each other and _______ close friends throughout the next two years. She _______: On the first day of school when you sat down with me during lunch, I was _______ depressed that day. I had even made detailed plans to _______ something regrettable. I had been bullied (欺负) the whole first half of the day and it had just made me ________. But when you reached out to me from the other side of the courtyard in a ________ way, even though you didn’t know me, it ________ me deeply.
It has been almost 15 years since this ________. I still chat with her occasionally on Facebook about our past and present life and I can’t ________ but smile every time. It showed me that a simple kind act has the ________ ability to change lives.
【1】
A．eventually
B．initially
C．completely
D．temporarily
【2】
A．environment
B．culture
C．revolution
D．possession
【3】
A．came around
B．looked up
C．looked around
D．walked about
【4】
A．comfort
B．confirm
C．accompany
D．rescue
【5】
A．surprised
B．disappointed
C．excited
D．devoted
【6】
A．abandoned
B．made
C．became
D．deserved
【7】
A．recalled
B．lied
C．imagined
D．expressed
【8】
A．rarely
B．deeply
C．timely
D．finally
【9】
A．host
B．edit
C．pack
D．commit
【10】
A．outstanding
B．heartbroken
C．cold-blooded
D．hardworking
【11】
A．funny
B．smooth
C．considerate
D．strong
【12】
A．instructed
B．touched
C．assisted
D．dragged
【13】
A．sympathy
B．treatment
C．incident
D．entertainment
【14】
A．stand
B．wait
C．choose
D．help
【15】
A．selfless
B．clear
C．confident
D．extraordinary
26、假定你是李华，你校将举办庆祝“中华人民共和国成立70周年” (the 70thanniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China)联欢活动。请给你们的外教Andy写封电子邮件邀请她参加。内容包括:时间和地点；活动安排；欢迎她表演节目。
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