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1、 Not that John doesn’t want to help you, ______ it’s beyond his power.
A. but that B. for that
C. and that D. in that
2、The wounded ____ as well stay at home on such a terrible day.
A. can B. must C. may D. should
3、 --Jack, how can I turn on this iPod?
--_______
A. Allow me! B. So what?
C. Hold on D. Nothing much.
4、Are you concerned ________ your mother when she is out in Africa?
A．about
B．of
C．for
D．in
5、 fired, your health care and other benefits will not be immediately cut off.
A.Would you be B.Could you be C.Should you be D.Might you be
6、The number of the students studying in the university _______more than 50,000.
A.reaches B.gets C.has D.arrives
7、Many things we benefit from now wouldn't be around _______ Albert Einstein.
A.aside from B.thanks to C.but for D.regardless of
8、No sooner ________ his talk ________he was surrounded by his fans.
A．had he finished; when
B．had he finished; than
C．did he finish; when
D．did he finish; than
9、George, remember to wear more clothes when it gets cold, for the change in climate may ______ your health.
A．affect
B．prevent
C．destroy
D．reduce
10、Except for working hard, we should give more attention to proper exercise and enough sleep. ________, health always comes first.
A．For instance
B．So far
C．In general
D．After all
11、What puzzles Lily's friends is ________ she always has so many crazy ideas.
A．whether
B．why
C．what
D．when
12、Jim who is now our English teacher once ________ as a manager in an international
cooperation for 5 years.
A. worked B. had worked
C. was working D. has worked
13、When these slave owners descendants finally realized that slavery time has departed America, they began to awaken and see how they were to keep America in the olden days.
A．desperate
B．delicate
C．despair
D．diligent
14、No matter where he is, he makes ________ a rule to go out for a walk before breakfast.
A．him B．this C．that D．it
15、Tom was sitting on the floor ______ by boxes.
A．surround
B．surrounding
C．surrounded
D．was surrounded
16、The most energetic festival is______ that looks forward to the coming of spring.
A. / B. the one
C. the ones D. It
17、---Nancy has worked in our company for three years. She speaks French very fluently.
---She French for four years in university
A．studied
B．had studied
C．has studied
D．study
18、Clearly and carefully _________, his homework won the teacher’s praise.
A．written
B．to write
C．writing
D．being written
19、I don't think we should _______ our business in the present economic climate.
A. express B. explain
C. exhaust D. expand
20、 After walking the whole day, I was almost ______, not feeling bad, though.
A.out of shape B. out of breath
C. out of control D. out of order
21、Last summer, I spent four months working in France, where the company I was working for put me up in a house that didn’t have Wi - Fi. I wasn’t looking forward to it.
I soon discovered, however, that living in a house without Wi - Fi was easier than I expected.
Contact between my friends and family was significantly reduced to the odd text message here and there. I couldn’t enjoy my usual web browsing on BBC iPlayer, social media sites, keeping up to date with the news, or even wanting to know the opening hours of shops in the new area I was in.
I didn’t, however, spend a full four months without connecting to a Wi - Fi network. It was only a five minute walk to the reception where I could connect for free and spend as much time online as I wanted to at my own leisure. It made me think, though, how unnecessary it can be, how unnecessarily we rely on it - how we perhaps rely on it too much. As a person, I was more sociable. I spent more time with my housemates instead of hiding behind a computer screen. I did other things that I wouldn’t necessarily have done if I could have browsed the web at my leisure. I read more, I cooked meals for my friends, and I even tidied up more often. Dare I say it; I learned how to live without Wi - Fi. Dare I say it; I found it was easier than I had imagined.
【1】What was the writer’s first feeling when finding her house had no Wi - Fi?
A．Unexpected.
B．Angry.
C．Shocked.
D．Hopeful.
【2】How did the writer keep in touch with her friends and family without Wi - Fi?
A．By writing regularly.
B．By text message.
C．By video calls.
D．By telegram.
【3】What was the writer’s life like without Wi - Fi?
A．Boring.
B．Lonely.
C．Active.
D．Relaxing.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A．A life without Wi – Fi
B．Different views on the Internet
C．The disadvantages of Wi – Fi
D．How to use the Internet properly
22、It seems that we are one step closer to finding alien life and maybe a future home for humanity. Scientists from NASA have found a new solar system filled with planets that look like the Earth and could even support life.
The group of seven planets, which orbits a star called Trappist-1, is 39 light years away from the Earth in the constellation of Aquarius (水瓶座). And three of them are in the “habitable zone” --the area around a star where water is most likely to be found. This is important because water is necessary for life.
“This is an amazing planetary (行星的) system, not only because we have found so many planets, but because they are all surprisingly similar in size to the Earth”, astronomer Michael Gillon from the University of Liege in Belgium told The Independent.
Trappist-1 is a “dwarf star (矮星)” which is colder and shines dimmer than our sun. If a person were on one of the seven planets, everything would look a lot darker than usual. The amount of light heading toward our eyes would be about 200 times less than we get from the sun, according to The Independent.
Because of that, Trappist-1, together with many other dwarf stars, was never on the list of places where scientists looked for alien life. But Michael Gillon, lead researcher behind the discovery, decided to give dwarf stars a chance. He built a telescope in Chile to observe 60 of the closest dwarf stars, and it turned out that Trappist-1 was worthy of the effort.
The researchers hope that they can spend more time watching the newly found planets to learn more about them. Even though more research is needed before determining whether these planets could really support life, the discovery is still encouraging. It shows just how many Earth-size planets could be out there.
“The discovery gives us a hint that finding a second Earth is not just a matter of if, but when,” NASA scientist Thomas Zurbuchen told The Telegraph.
【1】Why is this new planetary system amazing?
A．The size of the planets is similar to that of the Earth.
B．It has the same number of planets as our solar system.
C．Scientists have found alien life in the new solar system.
D．The planets are more suitable for humans to live than the Earth.
【2】What does the underlined word “dimmer” mean?
A．Stronger.
B．More powerful.
C．Less bright.
D．Less beautiful.
【3】Why didn’t other scientists observe dwarf stars?
A．It is impossible to find alien life on the planets of Trappist-1 and other dwarf stars.
B．Scientists did not find a good place to observe dwarf stars according to the passage.
C．Trappist-1 and other dwarf stars don’t provide as much heat and light as our sun can.
D．Scientists have observed dwarf stars, but they failed to find the possibility of survival.
【4】What is the main idea of this text?
A．Scientists have found a second Earth.
B．People will move to another Earth soon.
C．Scientists are planning to explore another planet.
D．A new solar system may become home for humans.
23、NOT all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive(再体验)these experiences in nightmares.
Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase(抹去), the effect of painful memories.
In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing(释放)chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.
The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it.
Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers’ troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.
＂Some memories can ruin people’s lives. They come back to you when you don’t want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions,＂ said Roger Pitman, a professor at Harvard Medical School. ＂This could reduce lot of that suffering.＂
But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity(特质). They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past.
＂ All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but make us who we are. I’m not sure we want to wipe those memories out,＂ said Rebecca Dresser, a medical expert.
【1】The passage is mainly about __________.
A. a new medical invention
B. a way of erasing painful memories
C. an introduction to the function of a new pill
D. an argument about the research on the pill
【2】The drug tested on people can __________.
A. cause the brain to fix memories
B. stop people remembering bad experiences
C. prevent body producing certain chemicals
D. erase the emotional effects of memories
【3】We can infer from the passage that __________.
A. not all of the people support the research
B. taking the pill will do harm to people’s health
C. the pill has probably been produced in America
D. the pill will put an end to people’s bad experiences
【4】Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser probably agree with?
A. Some memories can ruin people’s lives.
B. People want to get rid of bad memories.
C. Experiencing bad events makes us different from others.
D. The pill will reduce people’s sufferings from bad memories.
24、Eating for the sake of pleasure, rather than survival, is nothing new. Traditionally researchers focused on so-called metabolic（代谢的）hunger, which is driven by physiological necessity and is most commonly identified with an empty stomach. When we start dipping into our stores of energy or when we drop below our typical body weight, the system rings the bell. 【1】 After we eat enough food or put on weight, the same hormonal system and brain circuit（回路）then tend to depress our appetite.
Now, “Shifting the focus to pleasure” is a new approach to understanding hunger and weight gain. The brain begins responding to fatty and sugary foods even before they enter our mouth. Merely seeing or hearing a desirable item excites the reward circuit. Many overeating people go beyond their energy needs, due to consuming these food items they hear or see. 【2】 Determining whether an individual's weight problem arises from emotional longings or a physical failure in the body's ability to burn up calories is important for doctors to choose the most appropriate medications or behavioral interventions（干预）for treatment.
A kind of surgery that some overweight people have already undergone to manage their weight might have provided some of the biological insights into why many of us eat far beyond our physiological needs. 【3】 Through removing tissue, doctors make it impossible for the stomach to accommodate more than a couple of ounces of food at a time. The brain's reward circuit then responds much more weakly to the images and spoken names of tempting foods
Psychologically, removing influence factor can be an option. The traditional idea is that we can teach overweight people to improve their self-control. However, scientists now realize that the foods themselves are more the problem. For many people, certain foods cause such a strong response in the brain's reward circuit that our willpower will rarely, if ever, be sufficient to resist those foods once they are around. 【4】 That means never bringing fatty, super sweet foods into our house and avoiding going to places that offer them whenever possible.
A．A network of hormones and neural（神经的）pathways in the brain activate our feeling of hunger.
B．People’s follow-up gesture then greatly affects the time they spend in consuming the food.
C．This medical operation dramatically shrinks the stomach.
D．Therefore, we have to reengineer the food environment.
E．This approach has already had an influence on the choice of treatment.
F．The type of food processing method also takes a hand one way or another.
25、 I believe we can create our own happiness. I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans.
I was sitting in my ______ at a stoplight listening to the radio, thinking how happy and warm I was in it. It was ______ outside, and I thought, “Life is good."
Now, this was a long line. As I ______ , I noticed two people huddled (挤在一起) together at the bus stop. The couple seemed to be doing their best to keep ________To my eyes, they were unhappy and uncomfortable. They looked ________Their coats looked like they came from a bargain store.
But then I saw their ______.Yes, they were huddling, but they were also laughing. They seemed to be sharing a good ______, and suddenly, instead of pitying them, I envied them. I thought, "Huh, what's so funny?" They didn't notice the wind. They weren't looking at my car thinking, "I ______ I had that."
You know ______ a single moment feels like an hour? Well, in that moment, I realized I had ______ things were all bad for them, but they weren't. And I understood we all have the ______to make moments of ______ happen.
Now, maybe that's easy for me to say. I feel lucky to have a house with a roof and a wife who ______ me. I felt this ______ even when I was working at Long John Silver's. In the beginning, it didn’t seem like a promising job. But ______ I had a job. And frankly, it was ______. After two weeks, I knew all I needed to know, and it freed my mind. The job allowed me to ______ about what my life could become.
The first year I worked there, we got robbed. I thought I was going to die. But everything ______ out all right. A lot of people ______ life as a series of miserable tasks, but after that, I didn't.
I believe this is _____ all of us can do: Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of luck. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
【1】A.store B.office C.house D.car
【2】A.bright B.cold C.warm D.dark
【3】A.walked B.returned C.complained D.waited
【4】A.warm B.calm C.close D.active
【5】A.innocent B.helpless C.poor D.strange
【6】A.coats B.faces C.bags D.backs
【7】A.joke B.speech C.offer D.idea
【8】A.regret B.promise C.wish D.hope
【9】A.when B.how C.why D.what
【10】A.worried B.found C.admitted D.reckoned
【11】A.power B.promise C.demand D.chance
【12】A.excitement B.satisfaction C.happiness D.trouble
【13】A.makes up for B.puts up with C.breaks up with D.keeps up with
【14】A.way B.case C.point D.sense
【15】A.at first B.at least C.in fact D.in brief
【16】A.funny B.fine C.precious D.easy
【17】A.come B.care C.bring D.dream
【18】A.proved B.helped C.turned D.got
【19】A.think B.look C.regard D.act
【20】A.anything B.something C.everything D.nothing
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Imagine what's in your closet. There might be an old pair of shoes, a worn jacket and a box of junk you wouldn't know how to get rid of. And that's exactly as it should be.
A closet is messy, unorganized, years-long collection of exactly what makes you the person you are. So the tension rose in my chest when my mom recently decided to move because it meant we would have to clean out Dad's closet, nearly a decade after his death. A brain tumor ate away at the parts of the mind and changed the special person—smart, warm and brave into the one who was bound to a chair in hospital. But when your body goes, your closet stays.
In the years after his death, I would sometimes walk into that closet when I was home visiting for the holidays. I had moved into a city many miles away from my mom, starting a life as my mom took pains to slowly evolve her home—upgrading the decorations, sweeping away the dust of grief, and making it once again a place for warmth and gathering.
When I opened the door to Dad's closet last Christmas, I saw so many ties, shirts, and more shoes than I had remembered. And there were the vital things: a handkerchief I'd pull out of his jacket pocket when he lifted me up after arriving home from work, the bright red jacket he'd wear golfing and on family vacations. In the closet, I could remember every detail between us. I worried that would go away when my mom moved. I rolled around nervously in bed in my home. Could I stand to see this closet one last time before Mom moved? Would I find the strength to help clear that stuff out? Then, a shock—I got a call from my mom saying "I cleaned out the closet already." The announcement shocked me completely. What had she thrown out?
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I flew home shortly afterwards, trying hard to ease my tension on the way home.
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I pulled the door open. To my surprise, the empty closet caused me no panic—just peace.
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