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1、________ some teenagers don’t realize is ________ difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs.
A．That; how
B．Which; what a
C．What; what
D．What; how
2、The school has a system of________ and punishments to encourage good behavior.
A．prices
B．funds
C．awards
D．rewards
3、—Did you catch what I said?
—Sorry. I ________ a text message just now.
A. had answered B. have answered C. would answer D. was answering
4、When you are ，I will appreciate if you pay in cash.
A.checking out； that B.paying off； it
C.paying out； / D.checking out； it
5、Using this data, third party companies could then paint an accurate picture of users’ habits and ________ in order to serve them more targeted advertisements.
A.presentation B.preservation C.preference D.persistence
6、_______ to building a community with a shared future for mankind is China, which has provided generous support and assistance.
A.Dedicating B.Dedicated C.Being dedicated D.Having dedicated
7、—We didn’t find Ju Xiaopeng attending the English Class online.
—No one ________ him about ________ a lecture even on Saturday.
A.told; there to be B.had told; there to be
C.told; there was D.had told; there being
8、—What’s up? You look worried.
—Well, I ______ on the problem for 5 hours but I haven’t got a single clue.
A. have worked B. worked
C. will work D. have been working
9、Group activities can help children gain the concept_______team spirit is crucial to more achievements.
A.that B.where C.what D.which
10、—Come on，Kitty.
—Oh, good heavens! Both my legs are nearly to give out. I_______ for hours like a dog.
A.have been walking B.had walked C.was walking D.walked
11、We ______ him that he ought to make the bar more attractive with various methods. He finally sees the light.
A.told B.would tell C.have been telling D.had told
12、I ________ my cellphone last night. Now the battery is running out.
A. could have charged B. might charge
C. should have charged D. would charge
13、Nine in ten parents said there were significant differences in their approach to educating their children compared with ________ of their parents.
A. those B. one C. that D. it
14、A man’s worth lies not _______ much in ______ he has as in ______ he is.
A. that; that; what B. that; that C. so; what; what D. as; what; that
15、I will try my best to get lo the station ahead of time ____ I have to walk all the way there.
A.so that B.as though C.even if D.in case
16、The ancient historic site is extremely expensive to________, but the local government spends some money repairing it every three years.
A．preserve
B．deserve
C．appreciate
D．celebrate
17、If Mike______the half-cooked food then, he would not be in hospital now.
A．had not had
B．did not have
C．does not have
D．has not had
18、一Did you forget your promise, dear?
一 I have finished my homework on time, mom.
A.Excuse me. B.Surely.
C.Why not? D.How could I?
19、Scott was amazed by the Great Wall，______he described as the greatest attraction in Beijing.
A．where
B．which
C．what
D．why
20、He doesn’t think that the plan is practical, _____?
A．does he
B．doesn’t he
C．is it
D．isn’t it
21、 Stop wasting your time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings. Instead, realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born. Only you have the power to make those seeds grow.
The seeds, and the power to grow them, are contained in the human mind. Success is a choice and not a chance. You can be a success if only you make the right choice.
You cannot be successful without first developing your self-esteem (自尊). Your level of self-esteem is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low self-esteem do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their life. They are leaves tossed (摆) by the winds of chance blown about with any sudden change in the weather.
You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe that you are responsible for whatever happens in your life. Losers think that everything happens by accident while successful people realize that they are responsible.
Everything happens as a result of something. If we can identify the cause, we can control the effect. We are responsible for what we consciously choose to accept and believe. Thoughts and beliefs cause everything. Our attitudes and actions are a result of habits ingrained in us over a period of time. One generally rises to the level that one expects. We are responsible for setting our expectations. Our success depends upon our level of confidence. We are responsible for either reinforcing (强化) good habits or kicking bad habits and consciously replacing them with consistently practiced good habits.
If you associate with positive-thinking people, you are definitely going to achieve success. On the contrary, the opposite happens. We are responsible for finding, planting, and nurturing (培育) the seeds that contain future victory, born from setbacks.
In short, in all areas of your life, whether they are financial, physical, emotional, or spiritual, you are responsible. Once you recognize this, accept it, and firmly believe it, you are on the road to success.
【1】People with low self-esteem are compared to leaves because they ________.
A. are ready to change their minds
B. are easily affected by windy weather
C. don’t have the power to face their fate
D. can’t exercise control over themselves
【2】Losers would think that ________.
A. success is the result of hard work
B. working hard will lead to success
C. their failure is only because of bad luck
D. they don’t make efforts to succeed
【3】It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that ________.
A. whether we will succeed depends on our attitudes
B. developing confidence is the key to future success
C. thoughts and beliefs are the result of creative mind
D. setting our expectations is essential before taking action
【4】The last paragraph serves as ________.
A. the proof of the author’s points
B. the conclusion of the argument
C. an introduction to another topic
D. a comparison between two views
【5】Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Success Is a Choice B. The Secrets of Success
C. Develop Our Confidence D. How to Achieve Success
22、 Our society is generally becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, Nell-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction of interesting life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of obedience and independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again – by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.
Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system form a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption ends in a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities – those of all love and of reason – are the aims of social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.
【1】By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery” the author intends to deliver the idea that man is ______.
A. a necessary part though the function of each is insignificant
B. working in complete harmony with the rest of society
C. an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of society
D. a irreplaceable component of society when working smoothly
【2】The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that ________.
A. they are more likely to lose their present work
B. they have no real satisfaction or interest in life
C. they are confronted with the fundamental realities
D. they are deprived of individuality and independence
【3】From the passage we can conclude that real happiness of life belongs to those _______.
A. who always live at the bottom of the society
B. who tend to be higher up in their social status
C. who prove better than their fellow competitors
D. who could dip far away from this competitive world
【4】The author’s attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of _______.
A. approval B. dissatisfaction C. suspicion D. sensibility
23、When I was young, a friend and I came up with a “big” plan to make reading easy. The idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each. “Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages?
Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks”. The end result is more than one sentence, but not by much. Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café” is broken into 11 screens of information; Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” fills 13.
Blinkist has been around since 2012. It calls its summaries “15-minute discoveries” to indicate how long it takes to read a Blinkist summary. “Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.”
But I think a book is something we ought to live with, rather than speed through and categorize. It offers an experience as real as any other. The point of reading a book is not accumulating information, or at least not that alone. The most essential aspect is the communication between writer and reader. The idea behind Blinkist, however, is the opposite: Reading can be, should be, measured by the efficient uptake (吸收) of key ideas.
No, no, no. What’s best about reading books is its inefficiency. When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can. Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.
【1】What does the underlined part “the joke was on us” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A．We were actually joking.
B．We were laughed at by others.
C．We were underestimating’ ourselves.
D．We were just embarrassing ourselves.
【2】What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．What Blinkist is.
B．Why Blinkist is popular.
C．How to use Blinkist.
D．Where you can use Blinkist.
【3】What is an ideal pattern of reading according to the author?
A．Obtaining key ideas efficiently.
B．Further confirming our beliefs.
C．Accumulating information quickly.
D．Deeply involving ourselves in books.
【4】What is the author’s attitude to Blinkist?
A．Positive.
B．Negative
C．Uncaring.
D．Tolerant.
24、I’d like to share a little story with you about something that happened when I was four. I remember it clearly. Our loving family dog was nearing the end of his life. My father picked him up and put him in a little bed we had made for him. Our dog, my companion, whom we had cared for, bit my father when he attempted to help him. How could he? Why? I couldn’t understand it. I didn’t like him anymore.
I hadn’t thought about that story for a long time but something that happened last week brought it back to me. I went to speak with a friend. When I knocked on the door, I met in an instant an angry look and a few harsh(尖刻的)words. When the door was slammed(砰地关上)in my face, I stood there shocked, and in a rush, I was reminded of my dog bit my father 20 years ago or so. What brought that story back was that same feeling of betrayal.
Both stories taught me something the next day. You see, when I got up in the morning and was told my dog had died, it became clear to me that he must have been in great pain. For him to have bitten a family member, he could not have been himself. Much the same for the other story when I learned that my friend’s wife had just left him.
We are all beings of our environments, our opinions and feelings. And all of those things can cause you to say and do things that can’t be understood by those who are not in the same situation with you.
If you meet someone either behaving out of character or acting in a way that doesn’t seem to fit the situation, put out your hand and be patient when you think it is least possible for him to do so. You may turn around a story that has a sad ending simply by your actions.
【1】What is the influence of the incident mentioned in Paragraph 1?
A．It hurt his father’s feeling deeply.
B．It has puzzled the author ever since.
C．It left a deep impression on the author.
D．It made the author dislike dogs.
【2】Why did the author’s friend say harsh words to the author?
A．He was ill-tempered.
B．He was suffering the pain of losing his wife.
C．He was bothered by an unexpected visit.
D．They once quarreled and he couldn’t forgive the author.
【3】What’s the author’s advice to us?
A．Help those in need.
B．Look before you leap.
C．Respect for others is a kind of virtue.
D．Learn to put yourself in others’ shoes.
25、Manla got up earlier and went to buy two bags of cat food. She headed for the familiar barbershop on the corner, making her ________ visit to see Hussein, the old barber. Hussein was both grateful and ________ to see Manla and the bags of food. The two ________ over to the tiny food dishes lined up in the alley. Several cats appeared soon.
As the two finished off and ________ the shop, Hussein’s smile ________ and he explained he was about to ________ the barbershop. He had been told to leave within 7 days. His ________ barbershop simply couldn’t pay enough rent and the landlord had invited another roomer, one who wouldn't be ________ animals outside.
Manla’s eyes began to ________ as Hussein expressed his ________ about the homeless cats he cared for. But as fate would have it, there was something better ________ for the barber and his cats. As Manla’s blog supporters read her ________about Hussein, they, one after another,________ subscribing to him and his cats. Every day for the next week, Manuela went to Hussein with the________ . And on the fourth day, something unbelievable happened when Hussein was able to ________ a storefront in an old building near his shop. No electricity, ________here was potential. Manuela and other people ________ to help paint and clear rubbish while electricians made all the necessary ________.
In less than two weeks, the barber was back in ________ again. Through the kindness of strangers,________, his and his cats' whole world was brought back.
【1】
A．casual
B．previous
C．precious
D．routine
【2】
A．thrilled
B．nervous
C．upset
D．awkward
【3】
A．set
B．slipped
C．hurried
D．took
【4】
A．pulled in
B．pulled through
C．dropped by
D．returnedto
【5】
A．faded
B．froze
C．reappeared
D．accumulated
【6】
A．miss
B．purchase
C．lose
D．desert
【7】
A．shabby
B．terrific
C．splendid
D．essential
【8】
A．bothering
B．feeding
C．sheltering
D．collecting
【9】
A．glare
B．pour
C．fix
D．flood
【10】
A．promises
B．adoration
C．anxiety
D．comments
【11】
A．in store
B．by chance
C．on purpose
D．at present
【12】
A．review
B．letter
C．post
D．invitation
【13】
A．suggested
B．remembered
C．reported
D．began
【14】
A．convention
B．decisions
C．announcements
D．contributions
【15】
A．return
B．secure
C．grasp
D．spot
【16】
A．when
B．and
C．but
D．so
【17】
A．came by
B．stood by
C．took up
D．brought up
【18】
A．appointments
B．connections
C．assumptions
D．budgets
【19】
A．comparison
B．advance
C．company
D．business
【20】
A．normally
B．thankfully
C．naturally
D．approximately
26、书面表达
假设你是李华，是我校一位高三学生。最近你收到来自友好学校朋友Tom的邀请，请你下个周去他们学校参加文化交流活动并介绍中国的传统绘画。但是你和其他高三学生一样在忙于准备期末考试，不得不谢绝他的邀请，请根据下面的要点给Tom写一封回信。
要点：
1. 谢绝Tom的邀请；
2. 说明你的理由；
3. 推荐你的同学Mary参加，并说明原因。
注意：
1. 词数为100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头已为你写好(不计入你所写词数)。
Dear Tom,
Thank you very much for your invitation.
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Best wishes.
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