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1、Simon put up a picture of Jordan beside his bed to keep himself ________ of his own dreams.
A．reminding
B．to remind
C．reminded
D．remind
2、More checkpoints were set up in the country to ensure residents could be ________ for the virus.
A.cancelled B.contained C.strengthened D.screened
3、Mr.Green is always devoted to his work and has a sense of responsibility. That’s why he was asked to _______the company when manager’s health was declining.
A. take over B. hand over
C. turn over D. trip over
4、Diligence and self-discipline are ________ need to make it to our ideal university in the near future, especially at this particular moment.
A.all that B.all what C.that all D.what all
5、We are determined that our teacher training programs should ________ current developments in the field of education.
A．catch sight of
B．make room for
C．take pride in
D．keep pace with
6、The man ________ the fake news that 18 firefighters lost their lives in the explosion was arrested.
A. having circulating B. to circulate
C. circulating D. to have circulated
7、How long do you suppose it is ______ he arrived there?
A.when B.before
C.after D.since
8、It is said that people in that area have little ________ to recreational activities such as watching TV or seeing films.
A. avenue B. edge
C. exposure D. access
9、____regular training in nursing, she could hardly cope with the work at first.
A. Not received B. Since receiving
C. Having not received D. Not having received
10、President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the First China International Import Expo was ________ welcomed by participants at the event.
A.quietly B.frequently C.widely D.gradually
11、People crowd into ________ cherry trees are blooming, appreciating the fresh spring sight.
A. what B. when
C. which D. where
12、—Julia said she sent you a birthday card yesterday. Have you got it?
—Oh, really! I haven’t ________ my mailbox yet.
A. examined B. reviewed.
C. tested D. checked
13、 the great contributions he made to the film industry, the committee awarded Chaplin a special Oscar in 1972.
A．In view of
B．In place of
C．In favour of
D．In terms of
14、What is your main reason for choosing one restaurant another?
A. over B. of
C. from D. for
15、As late as the middle of the 19th century women voting was _____ common. But women in Europe and North America believed that they should have a____ in their government’s leaders.
A．less than, word
B．far from, say
C．rather than, words
D．other than, saying
16、---- I was reading A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin yesterday, but I couldn’t understand it.
---- ______. It is classical literature, so take your time to enjoy it.
A. Don’t fly off the handle
B. You got me there
C. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
D. More haste, less speed
17、Nowadays, more and more young ladies, figures most are fine enough, are going on a diet.
A. who B. whose
C. of whose D. of whom
18、The company and the effect brought about did great good to our business in the market.
A. it B. which
C. that D. what
19、“China, with 56.6 million people living in the Internet connected homes, is now _____second only to the US”, _____leading online rating service reported Monday.
A. the; a B./; a C./; the D.a; the
20、I told you that every effort paid off and you should stick to your goal, ________?
A．didn’t I
B．shouldn’t you
C．isn’t it
D．didn’t it
21、 I remember doing the household chores to help my mother when I was nine. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner (真空吸尘器) bag and picking up things the machine did not suck up. Twenty years later, in 1978, with this lifelong dislike of the way the machine worked, I decided to make a bagless one.
Easier said than done, of course. I didn’t realize that I would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5,127 different prototypes (样机). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our pennies. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash, and we were getting further and further into debt. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to solving the problem.
In the early 1980s, I started trying to get licensing agreements for my technology. The reality was very different, however. The major vacuum makers had built a business model based on the profits from bags and filters (滤网). No one would license my idea, not because it was a bad one, but because it was bad for business. But soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines like mine. I had to fight legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic to protect the patents on my vacuum cleaner.
I was still in financial difficulties until 1993, when my bank manager personally persuaded Lloyds Bank to lend me $1 million. Then I was able to go into production. Within two years, the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a best-seller in Britain.
Today, I still embrace risk and the potential for failure as part of the process. Nothing beats the excitement of invention,
【1】What drove the author to make a bagless vacuum cleaner?
A.His willingness to help mom.
B.His curiosity about machines.
C.His trouble in doing family chores.
D.His discontent with existing cleaners.
【2】What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us?
A.The help from the author’s wife.
B.The financial problems of the family.
C.The tough process of the new invention.
D.The procedures of making a bagless cleaner.
【3】Why did the companies refuse to license the author’s technology?
A.They thought they might suffer loss.
B.They considered it not good enough.
C.They faced legal problems themselves.
D.They had begun making such machines.
【4】What lesson may the author learn from the experience?
A.Think twice before acting.
B.Failure is the mother of success.
C.Actions speak louder than words.
D.A good beginning makes a good ending.
22、Why Are Plane Seats Always Blue?
Planes are an engineering masterpiece. Since they were invented, they have made the world a better place. Like never before, we can travel to almost every corner of the world within hours.
【1】 The only time they land is when they need to get passengers on board or go through regular checks. This means the crew doesn’t have much time to clean up the plane. 【2】 Airlines are likely to go with dark blue fabric (布料)—it’s much more of a bother to clear up a red wine spill on white fabric than on blue.
Blue is also a color that can make passengers less anxious. If you are an 18-year-old teenager, you are probably not afraid of flying. But the aviation (航空) industry isn’t that old. 【3】 In fact, even today in the 21st century, 5% of the world’s population has ever flown on an airplane, which is extremely low. But that also means, most people are afraid of flying. Some statistics show that around 80 percent of people are scared to fly. 【4】 Compared to other means of transport such as cars, it’s a much safer option.
Anyway, people are afraid of heights. That’s why planes are purposefully designed in such a way to make you feel safe. For example, the color red is associated with objects to remind people of danger or to warn people that they need to stop. Green is used to make people aware of the presence of an emergency exit. 【5】
A．The airline business is expensive.
B．Unlike cars, planes are made to fly all the time.
C．Many airlines redesign or change their seats often.
D．Of course, it doesn’t make sense to be afraid of boarding a plane.
E．As recent as the 2000s, not many people had the opportunity to fly.
F．That’s why the seats must be designed in a way to look clean all the time.
G．But blue is a calm color associated with the positive qualities of trust and peace.
23、 Researchers at Ohio State University report that they have been able to recover the sense of a research participant’s hand with a severe spinal cord injury using a brain-computer interface (BCI) system. The technology applies neural signals to the participant, resulting in greatly improved motor function.
The participant in this study is Ian Burkhart, a 28-year-old man who suffered a spinal cord injury during a diving accident in 2010. Since 2014, Burkhart has been working with researchers on a project that aims to recover the function of his right arm. The system they have developed works through a system of electrodes on his skin and a small computer chip inserted into his motor cortex (the brain area that influences motor movements). This setup, which uses wires to route movement signals from the brain to the muscles, bypassing his spinal cord injury, gives Burkhart enough control over his right arm and hand to lift a coffee cup, pick up a credit card, and play Guitar Hero.
The advances in the BCI system led to important improvements. They enable Burkhart to reliably recognize something by touch alone. The system is also the first BCI that allows for recovery of movement and touch at once, and this ability to experience increased touch during movement gives him a greater sense of control and lets him do things more quickly. Finally, these improvements allow the BCI system to sense how much pressure to use when it is handling an object or picking something up.
The researchers are working on creating a next-generation sleeve containing the required electrodes and sensors that could be easily put on and taken off. They also want to improve the system that can be controlled with a tablet rather than a computer, making it smaller and much easier to carry around.
【1】What is the study at Ohio State University aimed at?
A．Protecting people’s spinal cord.
B．Improving one’s motor function.
C．Helping one’s hand regain its sense.
D．Preventing severe spinal cord injuries.
【2】How did the new system help Ian Burkhart’s right hand lift a coffee cup?
A．By building up his body muscles through electrodes.
B．By recovering the function of his injured spinal cord.
C．By inserting a computer chip into his injured spinal cord.
D．By sending movement signals directly to his arm muscles.
【3】What does Paragraph 3 mainly tell us?
A．The advantages of the improved BCI system.
B．The improvement the BCI system needed.
C．The doubt about improving the BCI system.
D．The principles of improving the BCI system.
【4】In what aspect will the researchers improve the BCI system?
A．Its stability.
B．Its portability.
C．Its accuracy.
D．Its safety.
24、My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining. But at last, one night, I forgot to wind it up and it stopped running. The next day I stepped into the jeweler’s to set it by the exact time, and the head of the shop started to set it for me. Then he said, “She is four minutes slow —— regulator wants pushing up.” I tried to stop him —— tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. But no; he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed.
My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Finally I took it to the watchmaker to be regulated. He forced the watch open, and then said it wanted cleaning and oiling, besides regulating. After this, my watch slowed down to an unbearable degree. I began to miss trains and my dinner.
At last, I took this instrument to another watchmaker. He said the kingbolt was broken. To tell the truth, I had no conception what the kingbolt was. He repaired it, but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another. It would run awhile and then stop awhile, and so on.
So I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker. While I waited and looked around I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance —— a steamboat engineer of older days, and not a good engineer, either.
“She makes too much steam and …” he said.
I gave him a heavy blow on the head and ran away.
My uncle William used to say that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance to look at it. And he used to wonder what became of all the unsuccessful repairmen, and shoemakers, and engineers, and blacksmiths, and governors, and school-principals; but nobody could ever tell him.
【1】What did the author say about the jeweler?
A．He made a mistake.
B．He had a quick mind.
C．He had a hearing problem.
D．He was a quiet repairman.
【2】After being cleaned, oiled and regulated, how was the author’s watch?
A．It kept perfect time.
B．It gained faster and faster.
C．It was not a little slow.
D．It ran awhile and stopped awhile.
【3】Why did the author hit the watchmaker on the head?
A．He was a liar.
B．He was talking nonsense.
C．He treated the watch cruelly.
D．He was an old enemy of the author.
【4】What did the author learn from his experience?
A．Never get a watch repaired.
B．He should listen to his uncle.
C．Repair work was a complicated job.
D．Unsuccessful people exist in all walks of life.
25、 “Hey, I’m Courtney. What’s your favorite book? Elephant and Piggy? Yeah, I got it.”
If you thought you’d walked into a(n)_______with a greeting like that, you wouldn’t be too _______. However, the truth is that you’ve_______ the workplace of Courtney Holmes, or the Storybook Barber.
Two years ago, Dubuque emailed on its citizens to offer _______ families free resources in the community. Holmes agreed to _______. He was holding down two jobs at the time — one as an insurance agent, the other as a _______ Saturday was his busiest day, but he chose to donate his _______ and give free haircuts to underprivileged kids so they’d look _______ on that first day of classes. But then he had a lightbulb moment: “The kids should _______ their free haircut by having to __________ a book to me,” Holmes said. The idea was so popular that he__________ it the first Tuesday of every month for the next two years.
Five-to-ten-year-old boys would grab a favorite book, __________ into the barber chair, and read aloud while Holmes was working. If they __________ over a word, Holmes was there to help. After the haircut, they’d __________ the book, from the language to the characters and to the __________— just like in school, more fun,__________.
Holmes and his family have recently__________ from Dubuque to a Chicago suburb. When they get settled, he plans to continue his __________ as the Story-book Barber. “With guns and __________ in the world today,” he says, “I want to create a safe __________ for the kids to come to and read in.”
【1】A.office B.supermarket C.zoo D.library
【2】A.serious B.far off C.at home D.considerate
【3】A.entered B.mentioned C.missed D.imagined
【4】A.wealthy B.needy C.fortunate D.broken
【5】A.present B.compete C.participate D.dominate
【6】A.barber B.teacher C.librarian D.coach
【7】A.money B.time C.books D.properties
【8】A.short B.pretty C.unique D.sharp
【9】A.earn B.produce C.design D.polish
【10】A.lend B.write C.give D.read
【11】A.improved B.promoted C.continued D.celebrated
【12】A.settle B.dive C.slip D.jump
【13】A.argued B.shewed C.tripped D.checked
【14】A.recite B.repeat C.revise D.review
【15】A.heroes B.themes C.assignments D.phrases
【16】A.otherwise B.too C.though D.either
【17】A.moved B.flown C.risen D.travelled
【18】A.opportunity B.ambition C.faith D.role
【19】A.glories B.violence C.revolution D.poverty
【20】A.country B.school C.harbor D.workplace
26、假定你是李华，上周你们学校组织学生参加植树活动。请给你的美国朋友Will写一封邮件，介绍一下此次活动。
注意：
1.写作词汇应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答案卡的相应位置作答。
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