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1、The Internet allows us quick ______ to all the data and research findings in the fields available worldwide.
A. entrance B. charge C. access D. advance
2、Tech-free tourism refers to traveling without a mobile phone or similar devices, particularly to places_____ block or cannot access Internet and cellular signals.
A. which B. where C. when D. who
3、It is no use __________ with Bill because he will never change his mind.
A.arguing B.to argue C.argue D.argued
4、Some elderly people find it hard________ the things that happened while they were children.
A．remember
B．to remember
C．remembering
D．remembered
5、Although _____ by the opposite team, the players were not discouraged but practiced harder.
A. beating B. beaten
C. having beaten D. being beaten
6、Shakespeare's writing is still popular today. It has really the test of time.
A.overcame B.stood C.taken D.conducted
7、As often happens after long sleeplessness, he was ________ by an unreasoning panic.
A．seized
B．fascinated
C．impressed
D．embarrassed
8、If you don 't have a guide,you________ lose your way.
A．must
B．dare
C．should
D．could
9、A new ________ bus service to Tianjin Airport started to operate two months ago.
A.normal B.usual C.regular D.common
10、________a small amount of money each month is widely recognized as a good habit for personal finance management.
A．Picking out
B．Putting aside
C．Giving away
D．Getting back
11、1 have one regret about the time I spent in high school: I _______ more advanced classes that are really helpful in college.
A．couldn't have taken
B．should have taken
C．needn't have taken
D．must have taken
12、The artist is said during the production and thus a pirated video was sold in every part of Kenya.
A. to be cheated B. being cheated
C. to have been cheated D. having been cheated
13、Professor Johnson is such a _______ person that he always tries to finish the research, no matter how hard it is.
A.stubborn B.determined C.reliable D.remarkable
14、Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will build a 200-million-euro factory in France________potential challenges and obstacles.
A.owing to B.regardless of C.apart from D.instead of
15、Nowadays, basic health care services are ________ to almost all the Chinese people. This accounts for the fact that the average life expectancy of all the Chinese has already risen to 75.
A．accessible
B．abundant
C．accurate
D．attractive
16、The bridge, which ________ 1688, need repairing.
A. was dated from B. dated from
C. dating from D. dates from
17、It’s widely acknowledged that reading printed texts is no _______ for personal discussion with a great thinker.
A.substitute B.subject C.submission D.substance
18、 --I hear that there was a terrible crash in the subway in Shanghai the other day.
--Yes, _____ news came as _____ shock to all of us.
A. the; the B. a; / C. the; a D. /; a
19、____to the students at home, the textbooks enabled them to study more efficiently.
A．Distributing
B．Having distributed
C．Being distributed
D．Distributed
20、The inner strength of the girl allows her _____ going when she gets into trouble.
A. keep B. keeping C. to keep D. kept
21、 They make a guest appearance in at least half of the articles on Medical News Today. They are responsible for many of the biggest breakthroughs in medicine. However, the humble lab mice also shoulder much of the blame when the failure of drugs to translate from animal models to humans keeps worrying the whole of medical research. Should scientists abandon lab mice altogether?
Mice were introduced into the lab back in the 1920s. An ambitious young American geneticist Clarence Cook Little strongly believed that cancer was an inheritable (有遗传性的) disease, and that mice were the ideal subjects for his experiments.
Other animals were, and still are, used to study disease. Cats and dogs are popular, as well as chimpanzees. Of course, ethical (伦理的) considerations get more complicated the further up the food chain you go. And mice are in sufficient numbers for researchers to conduct thousands of trials. Add to that the problem of cost: A standard lab mouse costs about $20---far cheaper than a healthy cat or dog. So their importance in scientific research has become well-established.
We share more than 97 percent of our working DNA with mice, a consequence of a shared ancestor 75 million years ago. This similarity has been both a blessing and a curse. While we share many basic biological processes, it is the three percent of the genes which set us apart from mice that can have a big influence on how our bodies work.
Mice may not always be the perfect model for understanding our own bodies, but they do hold real value to researchers. Their usefulness will only increase as scientists work out better ways to modify (修改) their genes to compensate for their shortcomings. The difficult part of the issue may be that researchers need to be more critical as they evaluate the type of model that is best for their experiment.
In the end, the story of scientists’ relationship with lab mice will possibly be one of gradual advances to improve an imperfect system. This is exactly how most scientific research progresses — by critically examining what we know to expand our knowledge of what we do not.
【1】What does the underlined word “they” in the first paragraph refer to?
A.American geneticists B.cats and dogs
C.lab mice D.breakthroughs in medicine
【2】Paragraph 4 mainly answers the question “________?”
A.Why do drugs that work in mice fail when tried in humans
B.Why are mice the ideal subjects for medical research
C.Why do we and mice share more than 97% of our working DNA
D.How can we understand our own bodies by studying lab mice
【3】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Mice are in sufficient numbers because they are at the lower part of the food chain.
B.Many scientist are considering stopping the use of lab mice.
C.More genetically modified mice will be used in medical research in the near future.
D.It will become easier for researchers to choose the proper type of lab mice.
【4】What is the author’s attitude to the use of lab mice?
A.Disappointed B.Supportive
C.Indifferent D.disapproving
22、Consumerism is a phenomenon which lies in the tendency of production and buying ever-greater amounts of different goods and services. It not only has an impact on the lifestyle of individuals, but also determines technological and financial progress of the whole states.
Firstly, consumerism enables people to improve the quality of their lives. As Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell states in his article “In Defense of Consumerism”, in 1900 the average life length of women was about 48 years, and of men — 46, but today these indexes are 80 and 77 respectively. This has happened due to the influence of many factors, among which are possibilities to get twenty-four-hour hospital-and home-based medical care, buy high-quality goods, medicines, and to use more safe devises in the working processes. Without the consumerism all this would be impossible as economically unprofitable.
Secondly, consumerism is an effective way of motivation. The temptation to buy a new device, better clothes and tastier food encourages people to earn more money. But for this they should work harder, develop their professional skills and widen their outlook. Moreover, a new purchase itself can become a reason for a person to get some new experience.
Thirdly, the economies of almost all developed countries are based on production of new goods and services. You may not realize it, but the more people buy, the more income the state gets, and the more money can be donated to the social spheres, such as health care, education and culture. So the countries possessing more financial resources provide their citizens with better life conditions.
On the other hand, there is an opinion that consumerism is a kind of a harmful circle, which will not make people’s lives better, but will only contribute to an endless competition between all of them. Juliet Bschor, for example, thinks that the rising number of different goods and services available nowadays makes people neither happier nor wealthier. It only makes them work harder in order to earn money for just another nice thing, spending less time with their families and friends, and trying to compensate it with buying new goods. The satisfaction usually does not last long, only till the moment one sees someone else possessing a better or more fashionable thing. But in fact, the issue of social happiness does not depend on services of products that can be bought. It is just a matter of a person’s character.
So consumerism can influence society both positively and negatively depending on many factors. But, in general, it has more advantages, because it serves as a basis for development on individual, social and state levels.
【1】According to the passage, the temptation to buy things can ________.
A．force people to work harder
B．lead people to earn more money
C．provide people with more holidays
D．forbid people to be more professional
【2】What’s the author’s attitude towards consumerism?
A．Favorable.
B．Objective.
C．Negative.
D．Doubtful.
【3】What’s the purpose of the 5th paragraph?
A．To present one opinion.
B．To show changes of people’s lives.
C．To tell what social happiness depends on.
D．To convey a study result about life satisfaction.
【4】What’s the passage mainly about?
A．The qualities of people’s lives.
B．The evaluation of life satisfaction.
C．The influences of consumerism.
D．The tendency of economic development.
23、 In the last decade a revolution has occurred in the way that scientists think about the brain. We now know that the decisions humans make can be traced to the firing patterns of neurons in specific parts of the brain. These discoveries have led to the field known as neuroeconomics, which studies the brain’s secrets to success in an economic environment that demands innovation and being able to do things differently from competitors. A brain that can do this is an iconoclastic one. Briefly, an iconoclast is a person who does something that others say can't be done. Neuroscientists have suggested that iconoclastic brains are different in three ways: perception, fear response, and social intelligence.
To understand how iconoclastic brains work, we first need to realize that the brain suffers from limited resources. It has a fixed energy budget, so it has evolved to work as efficiently as possible. When faced with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest way possible. Thus it will draw on both past experience and other source of information, such as what other people say, to make sense of what it is seeing. The brain takes shortcuts that work so well we are hardly aware of them. We think our perceptions of the world are real, but they are only the products of the brain's interpretation.
Perception is central to iconoclasm. Iconoclasts see things differently to other people. Their brains do not fall into efficiency pitfalls as much as the average person's brain. The best way to see things differently is to bombard (轰炸) the brain with things it has never encountered before. Novelty releases the perceptual process from the chains of past experience and forces the brain to make new judgments. Successful iconoclasts have an extraordinary willingness to embrace what is fresh while most people avoid things that are different.
The problem with novelty, however, is that it tends to trigger (触发) the brain's fear system.
There are many types of fear, but the two that prevent iconoclastic thinking are fear of uncertainty and fear of public ridicule. The fear of public speaking troubles one-third of the population. It is simply a common feature of human nature, one which iconoclasts do not let stop their reactions.
Finally, to be successful iconoclasts, individuals must sell their ideas to other people. This is where social intelligence comes in. Social intelligence is the ability to understand and manage people in a business setting. Neuroscience has revealed which brain parts are responsible for functions like empathy, fairness, and social identity. These brain regions play key roles in whether people convince others of their ideas.
Iconoclasts supply creativity and innovation not easily accomplished by others, creating new opportunities in every area from art to technology to business. It is crucial for success in any field to understand how the iconoclastic mind works.
【1】Neuroeconomics is a field of study which aims to _______.
A.understand how decisions are made in the brain
B.cause a change in how scientists understand the brain
C.trace the firing patterns of neurons in different parts of the brain
D.understand how the brain is linked to achievement in an economic environment.
【2】According to the author, an iconoclastic thinker _______.
A.has more opportunities than the average person
B.B. relies on previous events to make smart decisions
C.has a brain that functions differently to other people
D.centralizes perceptual thinking in one part of the brain
【3】The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 means the iconoclasts' brains _______.
A.work more efficiently than the average person's brain
B.interpret information more accurately than the average person's brain
C.do not have a fixed energy budget as the average person's brain
D.D. do not take perceptual shortcuts as much as the average person's brain
【4】What can be inferred from the passage?
A.One-third of the population are too shy to do public speaking.
B.Exposure to different events forces the brain to think differently.
C.If you think in an iconoclastic way, you can easily overcome fear.
D.Social intelligence is more a matter of personality than brain function.
24、 Genealogy, or researching your family tree, is a hobby that can rapidly develop into an obsession. Before you start looking for your own ancestors, read this advice from genealogist Maria McLeod.
The first question to ask yourself is why you want to research your family tree. Genealogy is not about discovering that you are the lost prince or princess of an unknown kingdom. It’s about finding more about yourself. For most people the important question is “Why am I like I am?” You might not look like other members of your immediate family and you want to know where your green eyes or curly hair come from. You may be curious about why you have such a quick temper. You may even be suffering from a medical condition and want to know if something in your genetic makeup has caused it.
Another common motivation for researching your family tree is that you plan to visit the place that your ancestors came from and you secretly hope that you will find some long lost cousins with whom you can share your memories. There can be few more exciting things than meeting a distant cousin who is living on the other side of the globe and finding that she looks just like your younger sister. But you should also bear in mind that they may not necessarily want to have anything to do with you. Sometimes there are skeletons in the cupboard that you and your branch of the family are unaware of, but which are still fresh in the minds of your more distant relatives.
Once you are clear about your motivations, you need to take a moment to think about just how many ancestors you might have and how far back you intend to go. You have, no doubt, thought about your parents’ parents and your parents’ parents’ parents. But go back ten generations and the picture becomes much more complicated. You can work it out for yourself. You may be descended(遗传) from no fewer than 1,024 people through ten generations. This can mean that you spend hours going through official records, either in person at the records office or on the Internet. Are you prepared for such a huge task?
【1】What might be Maria Mcleod’s first piece of advice be?
A.Be prepared to accept your bad temper.
B.Don’t expect to find lovely relatives.
C.Be prepared to find out your hidden health problems.
D.Don’t expect to find out you are a member of a royal family.
【2】Why are some relatives unwilling to meet you?
A.You may bring back bad memories.
B.They find it disturbing to entertain you.
C.They suspect you of having wrong motives.
D.You could remind them of their lost loved ones.
【3】What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Who your great grandparents are.
B.When you can finish your huge task.
C.Why researching a family tree is complex.
D.How many people you are descended from.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A.Uncovering family secrets: do you dare?
B.The science of genealogy: new developments
C.Expert opinions on researching your family past
D.A step-by-step guide to researching your family tree
25、The Chinese government has a plan to link the cities of Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing into an economic and business powerhouse. It will be called The Greater Bay Area. Some in China's central bank are looking to the European Union and Britain to _______ how best to do this.
The Greater Bay Area already has a total economy almost _______ to Australia's. But the area is divided _______ Hong Kong and Macau have their own money and legal systems. This makes _______ difficult.
China's central bank's branch in Shenzhen created a 295-page report on financial and economic integration in the bay. It suggested building a_______ market similar to the 28-state European Union. The report was written with China Merchants Bank's chief economist and published last month. The report notes some of the _______ of European integration. But it also points to some of the problems China faces as it tries to control an area that _______ has international financial markets, industrial centers and technology sectors.
In the report, the head of the Shenzhen central bank, Xing Yujing, was clear about the importance of the free movement of people and money in the bay. The report also pointed to what could be _______ from Britain’s planned exit from Europe.
The European Union and the common market have strengthened “the welfare of the European people," the Shenzhen branch of the People's Bank of China said in a statement. It added that suggestions do not represent official policy _______. Britain has made professional decisions to reduce the effects of Brexit ________keeping "integration with European economy and finance," the report also said.
The European common market ________ the free movement of labor. So should the Greater Bay Area, said Gary Smith. He is a London-based director at Barings Investment Institute. “That's the way that the economic benefits maximized,” he said.
Europe has ________ border control between 26 of its 28 countries. In the Greater Bay Area, there are still borders between Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. This is the ________ of the "One Country, Two Systems" agreement that permits the two cities to keep their way of life while under Chinese rule.
For a(n) ________ solution, Xing noted Britain's idea of a ‘soft’ border with Ireland after Brexit. The soft border would permit the free movement of people, money and products between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The report said an ________ border could be put in place in the bay and businesses could pay taxes online after crossing it.
【1】
A．consult
B．decide
C．maximize
D．emphasize
【2】
A．equal
B．subject
C．inferior
D．crucial
【3】
A．suppose
B．though
C．provided
D．because
【4】
A．division
B．association
C．integration
D．assembly
【5】
A．single
B．prosperous
C．diverse
D．continental
【6】
A．consequences
B．influences
C．benefits
D．factors
【7】
A．barely
B．originally
C．initially
D．already
【8】
A．obtained
B．learned
C．extracted
D．derived
【9】
A．situations
B．adoptions
C．implementations
D．positions
【10】
A．consequently
B．while
C．furthermore
D．though
【11】
A．sustained
B．restricted
C．permitted
D．publicized
【12】
A．imposed
B．capped
C．removed
D．enforced
【13】
A．advantage
B．concern
C．intention
D．result
【14】
A．possible
B．agreeable
C．controversial
D．foreseeable
【15】
A．physical
B．national
C．legal
D．electronic
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。
My husband Erik and I had promised the kids a Labrador puppy.
I’d seen the ad at the local hardware store. “Thirteen puppies in all, “Sally, the owner, said when I called. ”There’ re only three left. “I decided to take a look the next day. The boys jumped and shouted excitedly as I copied down directions and hung up the phone.
Early the next morning, still discussing names, we wound our way through the mountains to meet our family’s new best friend. Our boys had simple names: Ike, Sam, Ben, and Dom, so they Preferred simple names like Rosy ,too. Finally, we met the sweet little dog. ” Rosy, “the boys called it softly. Our little puppy cocked her head. ” She likes it,“they cheered and set about making Rosy comfortable for the long drive home. They offered her a chew toy and lifted her up so she could see out the window. They took turns holding her in their arms lovingly and offered her a snack.
Though small, Rosy grew strong and healthy beneath her shiny black coat. And, just as I’d hoped, she was a calming addition to our houseful of noisy boys. But something was wrong. “It’s like she doesn’t know how to play,” Sam commented one day after school. “Dogs have different personalities, just like people,”I said. “Besides, she’s still very young. ” “But her legs aren’t very long, and one eye is smaller than the other,”Ike added, trying to make sense of why Rosy was different from other puppies he’d met.
I looked across the room to where Rosy sat between the boys. The last golden rays of autumn sunshine shone brightly on her face. Sure enough, one eye was misshapen. Not only that, it didn’t glint (闪光) in the afternoon light. I drew in a breath. Rosy, our puppy with a name as short as her four little legs, was blind in one eye.
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Everyone in the room became serious and sad.
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Surprisingly, the boys refused to give the little puppy back.
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