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1、Some endangered languages ________ because people abandon them in favor of ones that serve their needs better.
A．make out
B．account for
C．die out
D．search for
2、— Why was our foreign teacher unhappy yesterday?
— News about the tsunami striking her country ______ an attack of homesickness.
A. set for B. set out
C. set about D. set off
3、Lily is ________ now, for she doesn’t know whether her mother has got on the train safely.
A．eager
B．careful
C．curious
D．anxious
4、Every Monday, my English teacher would cheerfully ask me ______ my weekend had been．（ ）
A．that B．if C．what D．how
5、We must ensure that tourism develops in with the environment.
A.harmony B.company C.favor D.harvest
6、Frank ________ stamps in his spare time. It’s his hobby.
A. is collecting B. collects
C. collected D. was collecting
7、 The United Nations says hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis ________.
A. combining B. combined
C. being combined D. having combined
8、. ---Daddy, I want to watch my favorite program I AM a Singer tonight.
---_________ You must finish your homework.
A.Go ahead. B. That’s great.
C. Forget it. D. Why not?
9、Words _____me when I wanted to convey my sincere gratitude to him for his generous help.
A.failed B.disappointed C.left D.discouraged
10、There ______ be any difficulty about winning the speech contest now that you’re well prepared for it.
A. mustn’t B. shan’t
C. shouldn’t D. needn’t
11、____under the tree was a charming girl aged about seventeen or eighteen．
A．Sat B．Sitting
C．To sit D．Sit
12、Scientists say it may be a few months ____vaccination(疫苗接种) for the epidemic of COVID-19 is widespread throughout the country.
A.until B.after C.before D.since
13、 Had it not been for my teacher’s help, I the first place in the contest.
A. won’t win B. wouldn’t win
C. wouldn’t have won D. mustn’t have won
14、Don't be afraid of difficulties. They can help you ________ experience, and experience can, in turn, broaden your horizons.
A．strengthen
B．intrigue
C．accumulate
D．expand
15、______we'll go swimming tomorrow depends on the weather.
A．If
B．Whether
C．That
D．Where
16、5. --- Do you know why Jane was so angry?
--- Her roommate gave in to _________ and opened the letter addressed to her.
A. curiosity B. consideration
C. concern D. convenience
17、_____ in charge of two classes made Mrs．Li, head of Senior Grade 3, extremely tired．
A． Leaving
B． Left
C． Being left
D． Having left
18、Don't defend him any more. It's obvious that he ________ destroyed the fence of the garden even without an apology.
A. accidentally B. carelessly C. deliberately D. clumsily
19、Thank you for your hard work last week. I don’t think we _______ it without you.
A. could have managed B. can manage
C. managed D. could manage
20、As a new graduate, he doesn’t know ______ it takes to start a business here.
A．how
B．what
C．when
D．which
21、A Writing Fool
In the seventh grade I realized I was dyslexic, which made it difficult for me to read and spell. I did really badly in my history course, so my mother said to me, “I’ll work with you for a full week. I’m going to show you what you can do if you put in the right amount of effort.” So we did. We worked on history for a full week, an extra hour every day. Then I went to school and failed the test, as always. It was really upsetting.
By the time I got to college I came to know that I couldn’t spell no matter how hard I tried. So I would sign up for extra courses. I’d be in registration lines all day. Then I would go around the first day of class and ask each professor: “What’s your policy on misspelling?” If he said, “Three misspellings is a fail,” I’d drop it.
Although I was an academic failure, I had a great time. I had many friends and I was always popular. I was a good football player, which was important in those years because I could read my name in the newspaper. I never had a day when I would think, “People don’t like me.”
In spite of my obvious weaknesses, I became successful in my career, so much so that people say to me, “So you’ve overcome dyslexia.” No. I don’t overcome it. I just learn to compensate for it. Some easy things are hard for me. Most people read 500 words a minute. I only read 200. I try not to dial a phone because I sometimes have to dial three times to get the number right. I owe my successful career to my writing instructor, Ralph Salisbury. He looked past my misspellings and gave me encouragement. So I always feel confident. When I write my books, I’m seeing everything in my imagination. I write quickly and go like the wind.
The real fear that I have for dyslexic people is not that they have to struggle with their reading skills or that they can’t spell correctly, but that they will quit on themselves before they get out of school.
【1】When the author did badly in the course, his mother thought that .
A．he needed a better teacher
B．he did not work hard enough
C．he was probably too ill to study
D．he was not as smart as other children
【2】In college, the author was in registration lines all day to .
A．choose most interesting courses
B．become friends with new classmates
C．stay distance from language teachers
D．avoid courses that require correct spelling
【3】Which of the following best describes the author in college?
A．Happy and active.
B．Shy and unhappy.
C．Successful and funny.
D．Quiet and unsuccessful.
【4】According to the author, it is important for dyslexic people .
A．not to get out of school
B．not to give up so easily
C．to learn to spell correctly
D．to develop reading skills
22、Born into poverty on 21 May 1799, Mary Anning had to work hard from a young age. Her parents had 10 children, of whom only two survived childhood --- Mary and her elder brother Joseph. Mary’s own survival was said by her parents to be a wonder. At the age of 15 months, a sudden rainstorm hit the shelter, where Mary, her babysitter, and two children stayed. A lightning strike killed them all except Mary.
She didn’t have formal education and was only taught to read at a Sunday school. Raised in the seaside holiday village of Lyme Regis in Dorset, Mary and Joseph made a living by selling fossils to holidaymakers at their father’s waterfront booth.
Her life changed in 1811 when Joseph noticed bones mixed together with rock. Unknown to them, this was the first ever discovery of an ichthyosaurus ( 鱼 龙 ), a marine lizard from the Triassic period. Anning noted down every find she made, and after failing to find any new fossils for over a year, in 1821 she made her next discovery, digging up three more ichthyosaur skeletons. This was followed two years later by an even more impressive find --- a complete plesiosaur(蛇颈龙). This was so extraordinary that many leading scientists declared it a counterfeit, unwilling to believe that an uneducated 24-year-old could find such remarkable remains. Additionally, society at the time was highly religious and many rejected these discoveries as they conflicted with the teachings of the Bible.
Despite the setback, Anning continued to make more shocking revelations. Anning also dug up fossilized shit, which made experts know the diets of prehistoric creatures. But her biggest find of all was the first complete skeleton of a pterosaur in 1828.
All of Mary Anning’s discoveries helped influence the study of paleontology(古生物学) as scientists began to take an increased interest in fossilized animals and plants. Her work also encouraged people to question the history of the Earth in more detail and encouraged girls and those from poor backgrounds by proving that they could succeed in scientific study, a profession mainly controlled by wealthy upper-class men.
【1】What can we learn about Mary Anning from the first two paragraphs?
A．It was not easy for her to survive.
B．She didn’t experience the lightning strike.
C．She didn’t get basic knowledge about science.
D．It was impossible for her to find a job outside.
【2】What does the underlined word “counterfeit” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A．Something not needed.
B．Something not valuable.
C．Something not authentic.
D．Something not beneficial.
【3】Anning’s findings of fossilized shit helped ________.
A．her get international fame
B．make her become more professional
C．experts better understand prehistoric creatures
D．convince the leading scientists of her discovery
【4】The last paragraph mainly wants to show ________.
A．the process of her findings
B．the significance of her discoveries
C．the discoveries of fossilized animals
D．the background of her scientific study
23、Matthew Kneale is the award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, including English passengers, which won the Whitbread Book Award. He shares the books that have changed his life.
The adventures of Tintin by Hergé
As a child I loved the Tintin books — for their adventures, their characters and their stylish illustrations. Though Hergé visited almost none of the faraway places he drew, he captured (捕捉) them perfectly. His images, whether of Peru, Arabia, India or China, stayed with me and later, when I became a keen traveler, Tintin’s destinations were the places that I most wanted to reach. I never saw them all, needless to say, but I got to quite a few.
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
This was another book I loved as a child — the story of a boy who is bored staying with his grandparents, when he runs into Stig, a friendly Stone Age man. When my father read it to my sister and me, I was already fascinated by history and I loved the way the book captured the mystery of our distant, unrecorded past. Its charm stayed with me and much later I spent many a weekend driving around Britain, getting lost on small country roads, looking for prehistoric tombs and stone circles. There’s something breathtaking about these places, which are often in extraordinary locations.
I Claudius / Claudius the God by Robert Graves
When I first saw Rome, aged eight, I was amazed by the city’s layers of history and this same magic led me to come and live here, 20 years ago. I first read I Claudius as a teenager and was attracted by the story of friendly, stammering, ridiculed Claudius, who grows up in the vipers’ nest of Rome’s imperial family and who, against all the odds, as his relatives destroy one another, survives and rises. Graves, a fine scholar, has a talent for making the past spring to life, in all its nastiness and wonder. In my own writing, fiction and non-fiction, I’ve tried to follow his example — to make history shocked, as it should do.
【1】What can we learn from the passage?
A．Rich travel experience shaped Herge.
B．Stig of the Dump is adapted from a true story.
C．Matthew showed great interest in history as a child.
D．The close family relationship helped Claudius’ growth.
【2】Why does Matthew share the three books?
A．Because they manage to bring the past back to life.
B．Because they are great representatives of non-fictions.
C．Because they are known for their stylish illustrations.
D．Because they make a great difference to Matthew’s life.
【3】Where can we probably find the passage?
A．In a magazine.
B．In a history book.
C．In a travel brochure.
D．In an advertisement.
24、In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do. Computer code must also be clear enough so that other programmers can read and understand it.
In spite of those similarities, scientists have found that reading computer code doesn't activate the regions of the brain that are involved in language processing. Instead, it activates a distributed network called the multiple demand network, which is also related to complex tasks such as solving math problems or crossword puzzles. Although reading computer code activates the multiple demand network, it appears to rely more on different parts of the network than math or logic problems do. “Understanding computer code seems to be its own thing. It isn't the same as learning a language, and it isn't the same as learning math and logic,” says Anna, the lead author of the study.
Evelina is the senior author of the paper, which appears in eLife. A major focus of her research is the relationship between language and the other cognitive (认知的) functions. In particular, she has been studying the question of whether the other functions rely on the brain's language network, which includes Broca's area and the other brain areas. In previous work, her experiment has shown that music and math don't appear to activate this language network and experiments are under way to see if the other functions can activate it.
Evelina says there are two schools of thought regarding how the brain learns to code. One holds that in order to be good at programming, you must be good at math. The other argues that because of the parallels between coding and language, language skills might be more relevant. To clarify this issue, the researchers set out to study whether brain activity patterns while reading computer code would overlap with language-related brain activity.
【1】What can we learn about learning to program a computer from paragraph 1?
A．It restricts language ability.
B．It just instructs other programmers what to do.
C．It requires the relative organizational capability.
D．It is exactly the same as learning a new language.
【2】What does Anna say about reading computer code?
A．It thoroughly depends on logic.
B．It is harder than learning a language.
C．It is different from some other cognitive tasks.
D．It activates the language-processing areas of the brain.
【3】What can be inferred about Evelina's research question?
A．Its answer remains to be proved.
B．It has nothing to do with the brain.
C．Its answer has been published in eLife.
D．It has something to do with the origin of language.
【4】What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A．Debate on how the brain learns to code.
B．Human brain activity and thinking patterns.
C．The parallels between human language and computer language.
D．The issue over whether language affects computer programming.
25、A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman. But _________ apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallahgher and have a Canadian _________.
Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their _________ ended and he did not want her ticket to _________. The ticket had a strict no-transfer (不可转让) _________, but since passport information was not required when _________, any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can _________ it.
“I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to _________ a lot of joy,” said Axani. He posted his _________ on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the __________ passports, “More __________, there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in __________ their name to Elizabeth Gallagher, Axani said. “It was absolutely out of __________, thousands of e-mails, people around the world __________ their stories of travel.”
Axani wrote in his post that he is not __________ anything in return and that the woman who uses the __________ ticket can choose to either travel with him or __________ the ticket and travel on her own.
The __________ is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before __________ in Toronto on January 8. He said the __________ woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.
【1】
A．deposits
B．benefit
C．restriction
D．examinations
【2】
A．origin
B．passport
C．accent
D．friend
【3】
A．holiday
B．marriage
C．dream
D．relationship
【4】
A．go to waste
B．come to mind
C．go on sale
D．come into effect
【5】
A．policy
B．order
C．payment
D．schedule
【6】
A．applying
B．checking
C．booking
D．bargaining
【7】
A．choose
B．borrow
C．use
D．buy
【8】
A．sacrifice
B．express
C．experience
D．provide
【9】
A．answer
B．offer
C．advice
D．comment
【10】
A．right
B．same
C．now
D．real
【11】
A．convincing
B．annoying
C．satisfying
D．interesting
【12】
A．changing
B．giving
C．lending
D．writing
【13】
A．touch
B．question
C．control
D．date
【14】
A．admiring
B．sharing
C．advertising
D．doubting
【15】
A．leaving
B．dealing with
C．losing
D．looking for
【16】
A．single
B．strange
C．regular
D．extra
【17】
A．return
B．take
C．reserve
D．hide
【18】
A．interview
B．program
C．trip
D．meeting
【19】
A．ending
B．calling
C．repeating
D．staying
【20】
A．honored
B．lovely
C．intelligent
D．lucky
26、请阅读下面文字.并按要求写一篇150词左右的文章。
When you are paying upwards of £15,000 a year to have your child privately educated, the big sum of money for extra tuition(学费) may not sit well with you. But that is exactly what seems to be happening. An increasing number of parents look to "top-up" their child's already expensive education with a private tutor.
According to managing director Nevil Chiles of Kensington&Chelsea Tutors, the agency's students tend to fall into two groups. There are those who are struggling with a particular subject and benefit from one-to-one tuition. The second group consists of students who are already excellent but whose parents want to ensure they go on to their preferred school or university.
"We felt Mica needed help with exam technique and we also realized that she did much better one-to-one than in a classroom," explains Bowman, who contacted Kensington & Chelsea Tutors on the advice of a friend who used them for her sons, including one who was attending Eton."Mica has established a good relationship with her tutors and has gained confidence as a result of the tutoring." adds Bowman.
写作内容：
1.用约30个单词概括短文主要内容。
2.简要分析社会上私人辅导受欢迎的原因(至少两条)。
3.谈谈你对私人辅导的态度(支持或反对)，并说明原因(至少两条)。
写作要求:
1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句，
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称，
3.标题已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：私人辅导private tutoring 家庭教师tutor
评分标准：
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