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1、_____________ you are trying to lose weight to please yourself, it’s going to be tough to keep your motivation level high.
A. If B. When
C. Because D. Unless
2、So far all cloned animals have suffered from some different serious disorders, ________ dying soon after birth.
A. many of them B. many of whom
C. many of which D. many of that
3、City planners should bear in mind that social development and balance of nature should go in ________.
A．combination
B．sympathy
C．harmony
D．association
4、After the earthquake，the poor girl was found ________under the ruins of a church.
A．burying
B．to be buried
C．buried
D．being buried
5、Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree ___ they can be controlled on purpose.
A. with which B. for which
C. of which D. to which
6、---What happened to her?
---She was _____ to hospital with a soaring temperature.
A.adapted B.adjusted C.admitted D.adopted
7、---Your suit ______! Why?
---I got stuck in the rain.
A．has ruined
B．had ruined
C．has been ruined
D．had been ruined
8、Harry Potter impressed children _______ his bravery and wisdom.
A.with B.on C.upon D.for
9、— You really did a good job,Robert!
— I was just doing my job and anyone in my position___________the same like me.
A.might do B.could do C.should have done D.would have done
10、 __________ on Wechat is a common phenomenon, and more people hardly write letters．
A. Communicate B. Communicated
C. To communicate D. Communicating
11、 The results of the experiment proved to be very good, _________ was more than we expected.
A. which B. what
C. that D. this
12、Going from junior middle school to senior middle school is really a big __________.
A．challenge
B．strategy
C．experiment
D．accommodation
13、Finally they got to the top of the mountain,___________ stood an old temple.
A. which B. that
C. what D. where
14、None of the underwater workers has been harmed by the great fish．______，most fish were so friendly that they played with the instruments．
A．Instead B．Even though
C．However D．Though
15、It is rude _________ at a lady the first time you meet her.
A．staring
B．stared
C．to stare
D．stare
16、Through efforts, they harvested ______ corn than they had planned.
A.twice as much
B.twice more
C.more twice
D.as twice much
17、There was no light in the room and it took me a few seconds to the darkness.
A．lead to
B．tend to
C．adjust to
D．appeal to
18、Judging from her ________, she liked the birthday present.
A．reaction
B．personality
C．impact
D．authority
19、— Where are my new sneakers? Have you seen them?
一How I know? I’ m your sister, not your servant.
A. shall B. will C. should D. might
20、The difficulty lies ________ we have no money.
A．in which
B．in the fact that
C．in that
D．that
21、Imagine being a famous writer or a poet. What would life be like? Sitting at desk all day long writing down inspiring words? Racking one’s brain for hours until inspiration comes? Actually , such a portrayal is very much mistaken. The truth is most writers need a day job to earn their living, and even after rising to fame, some of them still keep their day jobs for various reasons.
As writing was not profitable in itself, many authors needed a day job for financial support. The famous British writer Virginia Woof ran a publishing house apart from writing. She founded it together with her husband and it was they who first discovered and published T.S. Eliot’s well-known poem The Waste Land. T.S. Eliot himself worked as a bank clerk for nearly a decade, during which time he completed and published The West Land. Then he also chose publishing as a day job and joined a publishing company called Faber&Faber.
Some writers remained passionate about their day jobs and were reluctant to leave them even they became famous. Lewis Carroll, the writer of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was actually a mathematician. He wrote a lot of books on mathematics under his real name, Charles Dodgson. The day job that took up nearly half of his lifetime was being a teacher at Christ Church, the largest college of the University of Oxford. He taught there for 26 years until his death.
To some writers , a day job was also a good source of writing material. Herman Melville , now one of the most recognized writers in Americas, had to take up any job that paid the bills. He used to work as a surveyor, a shipman, a teacher, a lecturer and a customs inspector. His most significant working experience was being a shipman on a whaler(捕鲸船) in the Pacific, from which he drew inspiration for Moby Dick(《白鲸记》).
【1】Which of the following is NOT a reason why authors keep day jobs?
A．To support their life
B．To collect writing materials
C．To pay the bills
D．To have a high social status.
【2】Which of these authors worked as a teacher?
A．T.S.Eliot
B．Virgina Woolf
C．Ernest Hemmingway
D．Lewis Carroll
【3】T.S. Eliot leave the bank ________.
A．when he was writing The Waste Land
B．when he met Virinia Woolf
C．after he pubished The Waste Land
D．after he joined Faber& Faber
【4】According to the passage , what was Herman Melville’s life like?
A．Famous
B．Leisurely
C．Poor
D．Successful
22、Most people will rest and relax when they are old. They do not work. But Grandma Moses is different. She started a new job at the age of 70. She was born in a poor farmer’s family in 1860. Her parents named her Anna Mary Robertson. She married Thomas Moses in 1887. He was a farm worker.
It was 1930. Anna Mary Moses was 70, and was a grandmother. She began to paint pictures. She did paintings of country life. One day, her daughter took her paintings to a store in the town. Her paintings were put in the window. A man from New York saw the paintings in the window and bought them. And he wanted more!
The man liked Grandma Moses’s paintings. He wanted to help her. So he took her paintings to galleries(美术馆) in New York City. Otto Kallir had a famous gallery there. He liked the paintings by Grandma Moses. It was 1940 and Grandma Moses’ paintings were in Kallir’s gallery. She was 80 years old.
Grandma Moses suddenly became famous. Everyone wanted her paintings. So she painted more and more. She won many prizes for her paintings. She become famous in the United States and Europe. When she was 100 years old, the State of New York made her birthday “Grandma Moses’ Day”. After her 100th birthday, she painted 6 more paintings. She died at the age 101 and a lot of people thought she was amazing.
【1】Grandma Moses started to paint pictures________.
A．when her daughter asked her to do that
B．when she got married
C．in the year 1940
D．at the age of 70
【2】Grandma Moses’ paintings were first bought by________.
A．a man from New York
B．her daughter
C．Otto Kallir’s gallery
D．the owner of a store in town
【3】When were her paintings on exhibition?
A．When she was 70.
B．When she was 80.
C．When she was 100.
D．When she was 101.
【4】What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Grandma Moses and New York State
B．Grandma Moses and her paintings
C．Grandma Moses’ family
D．Grandma Moses’ Day
23、 As a composer, Andrew Pekler aims to make music that uses synthetic（合成的）sounds to build real-seeming places. With electronic instruments, he creates the sound of wind, waves, bird calls, and insects. "The sweet spot for me is when a piece I have made can be heard both as a field recording and as a completely composed, synthetic construct,'* he says.
In his new work, an online app called Phantom Islands, he tries out that idea to create a tour of islands that mapmakers once believed were real, but do not actually exist. Working with the web designer and developer Flavio Gortana, Pekler drew a map of imagined islands and filled each one with a fictional auditory(听觉 的）atmosphere.
When European ships were traveling the world, during the Age of Exploration, the men on board would come back with tales of the islands they'd come across, previously, unknown, to their societies. Usually these reports would be accurate enough, but sometimes this system went awry. Ship captains would conjure up（虚构 出 ）imaginary islands to please their funders and sailors would report seeing land that never existed. Over time, these reports would be corrected, although sometimes it would take centuries. Reports of phantom islands are still being exposed in this century. They're strange relics of a human attempt to better understand the world, with all the weaknesses that came along with that project. That's part of what fascinates Pekler. "These nonexistent places are connected with real stories of human bravery, devotion, cruelty, selfishness, and confidence,” he says.
Allow the map to take you on a tour, during which you will be accompanied by extraordinary sounds. Or you can explore on your own, hopping from one island to another, imagining places that never existed.
【1】What do we know about Pekler?
A.He used to be a mapmaker.
B.He combines music with places.
C.He creates music through field recordings.
D.He has toured around some famous islands.
【2】What does the underlined word "awry” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A.complex. B.wrong.
C.unclear. D.slow.
【3】What do we know about the reports about the phantom islands?
A.They are reflections of humans' efforts to see the world.
B.They were all about the sailors' personal experiences.
C.They are in urgent need of correction.
D.They were written by captains* funders.
【4】What's the author's attitude to Pekler's app?
A.It is worth a try. B.It is out of fashion.
C.It needs to be perfected. D.It involves little technology.
24、When Peng Liyuan stepped off the plane in Moscow, the whole world wanted to know who dressed the elegant first lady．The reporter released the secret—Ma Ke．
Peng Liyuan has been wearing Ma Ke’s designs for more than a decade，a fact that was only highlighted recently when she was on her first state visit，accompanying her husband President Xi Jinping．The elegant and attractive Peng，formerly a popular singer, has been pared with the US’ first lady Michelle Obama and France’s Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, since stepping off the airplane in Moscow on March 22．Suddenly, everyone was curious to know more about the first lady’s wardrobe(衣橱)．
Even so，Ma prefers a low key approach．“If you eat a tasty egg why would you want to see the hen?” she says．
Ma’s relationship with Peng began 10 years ago after a concert in Guangzhou when a reporter told Peng she knew the designer behind the label Exception de Mixmind．Peng asked for an introduction because she was a fan of Ma’s designs and had been wearing them for years．
The two naturally became friends．Ma says：“The painting reflects the painter, and clothes reflect both the designer and the wearer．Someone desires fame and wealth，or love and sympathy；what you have in your heart is reflected in the design．Those who don’t share my philosophy won’t buy my clothes．Peng is a caring person，devoted to charity and environmental protection，which is exactly what I’m doing now．”
However, regardless of the brand，Peng’s support of Chinese labels has surprised millions of Chinese who favor foreign fashion brands．
“Instead she presented a vision of Chinese fashion，desiring to bring Chinese designers to the world stage，”says a western designer．
The first lady’s double-breasted coat and her black leather handbag aren’t available at any of Exception’s shops，though Exception’s physical stores do have seen a rising number of visitors．
【1】What does the underlined word in paragraph 1 mean?
A.opened B. invented
C. forecast D.hid
【2】In the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 Ma Ke mentioned “an egg and the hen” to show ______．
A. it is hard to explain“ Which came first，the egg or the hen?”
B. the designer is more important than the design
C. paying such great attention to her was unnecessary
D. her satisfaction with the media attention on her dress
【3】What can be inferred from the passage?
A. First ladies pete with each other whenever they are together.
B. Peng’s suits can be bought in Ma Ke’s clothes stores
C. Ma Ke’s opinions are totally different from Peng’s
D. Peng had liked Ma’s designs long before they met each other.
【4】Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Peng wears the dress designed by a Chinese designer probably to support Chinese brands.
B. Many citizens found Peng Liyuan’s choice quite unexpected.
C. Black leather handbags like Peng’s are widely sold in bag stores in big cities.
D. After Peng Liyuan’s visit to Moscow Ma Ke’s clothes became more popular
25、 Hard work is often the only competitive advantage many people possess. We may not be as experienced or as _________ as other people.
But we can always work harder, smarter and longer.
As Kara Lawson-the Duke women's basketball team head coach-says, generally speaking, there's a huge _________ between working hard and competing.
Plenty of people work hard. But what is the best praise you can receive or give?
You competed.
_________ Lawson, most people mistake hard work for competitiveness:
“Hard work is I give you a task. I give you limitations on some task. I say, ‘You have to do this, in this amount of time, with this much weight.’ And then I force you to do it. I can force you to work hard just by what I ask you to do. You can't force someone to _________.”
The difference might seem amazing. Hard work requires effort and so does competing.
But working hard doesn't automatically mean _________ improvement. I can put in countless hours of effort without ever trying to “win.”
As Lawson says to her players:
“At the end of every session, that's the question you're asking yourself: Did I compete today?
That's different than working hard. Working hard is something some people do. Many people work hard in whatever job they do. Before you start, and then when you're done, be _________ with yourself: ‘Did I compete today?”
When you think you're _________, when you think you've done all you can, remember: You always find a little more inside you. You are capable of more than you think. Dig deep. Work a little harder.
When you're on the downside（劣势）of _________ and reaching a goal feels impossible, don't just work hard.
Compete: Make the extra phone call. Do the extra preparation. And remember to offer to not just tell _________ what to do but show them and then work beside them.
Every day, compete: to be the best boss you can be, the most empathetic（同理心的） listener you can be... Whatever it is, compete.
Competing will make you an even __________ “you” than you are today.
And that's the only competition that really matters.
A．devoted
B．satisfied
C．talented
D．excited
A．relationship
B．difference
C．benefit
D．connection
A．Thanks to
B．In addition to
C．In response to
D．According to
A．compete
B．obey
C．change
D．cooperate
A．striving for
B．leading to
C．asking for
D．turning to
A．strict
B．honest
C．serious
D．curious
A．finished
B．engaged
C．interested
D．fried
A．disadvantage
B．success
C．advantage
D．adventure
A．employers
B．listeners
C．competitors
D．employees
A．better
B．kinder
C．wiser
D．harder
26、写作一(满分l5分)
请结合材料按要求用英文写作，词数不少于60字
Although failures always make us depressed，it still will make us stronger，which no other
success can do．
要求：1．应紧扣材料，有明确的观点；
2．词数不少于60；
3．在答题卡上作答。
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