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1、________ to a good college，he’s studying much harder than ever before.
A．Being admitted
B．Admitted
C．Admitting
D．To be admitted
2、John was made ___ the truck for a week as a punishment.
A.to wash B.washing C.wash D.to be washing
3、 —Will you come over to Beijing next summer?
—I’d like to, but my family ______ London that summer.
A. are visiting B. are to visit
C. will be visiting D. will visit
4、The boy chatted ________his friend last night.
A．with
B．about
C．for
D．in
5、Even very young babies________their mothers’ presence.
A．switch off
B．benefit from
C．respond to
D．keep track of
6、I can’t take all the _____ for the show’s success; it was a team effort.
A. possession B. cooperation C. credit D. blame
7、—It’s said that you are free these days.
—No, on the contrary, I have been ________ my feet all day at the office and I’m too tired.
A. rushed off B. left out
C. put out D. taken off
8、This restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere ______ many others are short of.
A. where B. when
C. that D. what
9、________ China hasn’t banned the travel to Korea, we have seen a decline in choosing Korea as the tourist destination.
A. While B. Since
C. When D. As
10、—I have difficulty working out the problem by myself. Could you help me?
—_____________.
A. It's my pleasure B. With pleasure C. No,l couldn't
11、Only when students fail in the exam and are criticized severely ______ the importance of studies.
A. realize they B. they have realized
C. will they realize D. they will realize
12、The two girls are so alike that strangers find ______ difficult to tell one from the other.
A．that
B．one
C．a
D．it
13、During each NBA season, basketball fans cheer on their favorite teams to make _______ through.
A. it B. them
C. that D. those
14、Nowadays people become more practical and buy only _______ they need.
A. where B. which
C. when D. what
15、With Jim ______the wheel, I’m sure our team will grow in the correct direction and achieve more.
A．behind
B．near
C．against
D．beside
16、It was Mr. Zhang that helped us out of the trouble. Without his help, we ______ it so easily.
A. can’t manage B. mustn’t have managed
C. couldn’t have managed D. couldn’t manage
17、He let me write down his instructions sure that I would know what was after he went away.
A．making; doing
B．making; to do
C．to make; to do
D．to make; to be done
18、The thought of going back home was ________ kept him happy while he was working abroad.
A. that B. all that C. all what D. which
19、It has been announced that some funds will be used to ________ the market and to increase the investment in technology companies.
A．expose
B．expand
C．engage
D．endure
20、—John and Mary,________sure to come to our party this evening,________?
—OK,thank you,________.
A. be;will you;we will B. are;will they;we will
C. are;aren't they;we must D. will be;won't they;we shall
21、Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit(联系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.
Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialization, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.
At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages. Often spoken by many people while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 Languages: the Americas about 1,000, Africa 2,400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6，000, which means that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that.
Already well over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to extinction(消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico(150). Lipan Apache in the United States(two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.
【1】What can we infer about languages in hunter-gatherer times?
A．They developed very fast.
B．They were large in number.
C．They had similar patters.
D．They were closely connected
【2】Which of the following best explains "dominant" underlined in paragraph 2？
A．Complex.
B．Advanced.
C．Powerful.
D．Modern.
【3】How many languages are spoken by less than 6, 000 people at present?
A．About 6,800 .
B．About 3,400
C．About 2,400
D．About 1,200.
【4】What is the main idea of the text?
A．New languages will be created.
B．Peoples lifestyles are reflected in languages.
C．Human development results in fewer languages.
D．Geography determines language evolution.
22、 When you are having dinner, do you eat up all the food on your plate or have some leftover? According to the UN, 1. 3 billion tons of food is wasted around the world every year. That’s about one-third of all food produced each year.
We make a survey in 34 countries to see how much food is wasted in different countries. For example, the UAE(阿联酋) wastes the most food, with each person wasting about 1,000 kilos every year on average. However, some countries have worked hard to use their foo resources wisely. France wastes the least amount of food, according to the survey.
France was the first country to pass laws that stop food waste. It’s not allowed to throw away fresh food. Another law forces French restaurants to provide bags for people's leftovers(剩菜剩饭).
China ranked 23rd for food waste in the survey. China's food waste is around 18 million tons every year, enough to feed up to 50 million people for one year. Facing this situation, China has been working hard to reduce food waste. Since early 2013, a movement to prevent food waste called “empty plate” has begun. It has become popular among both government officials and general public.
【1】How much food is produced every year around the world?
A.1, 000 kilograms. B.Nearly 4 billion tons.
C.About 1. 3 billion tons. D.More than 34, 000 kilograms.
【2】According to the survey, which country wastes the least amount of food?
A.France. B.China.
C.The United States. D.The UAE.
【3】To deal with food waste, China____________
A.produces less food each year
B.passed laws to ban food waste
C.buys more food from other countries
D.started a movement called "empty plate'
【4】According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A.UAE wastes the most food.
B.You can throw away fresh food in France.
C.China has been working hard to reduce food waste.
D.1.3 bilii tons of food is wasted around the world every year.
【5】What does the story mainly talk about?
A.Developed countries waste more food.
B.How much food the world needs every year.
C.Empty plate" has become popular worldwide.
D.A survey about food waste in different countries.
23、Miss Gogers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?”
Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That’s every good,” Miss Gogers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gogers said. “Yes, Kate.”
“I disagree,” Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier because when it’s 11 o’clock here it’s only 8 o’clock in Los Angeles.”
【1】Miss Gogers was teaching her class_________.
A．how to telephone
B．about electricity
C．about time zone(时区)
D．about sound
【2】Miss Gogers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.
A．it was easy to phone to Los Angeles
B．her student could hear her from 75 feet away
C．her students had grasped her lesson
D．sound waves were slower than electricity
【3】Tom thought that electricity was _________.
A．slower than sound waves
B．faster than sound waves
C．not so fast as sound waves
D．as fast as sound waves
【4】Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.
A．clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York
B．electricity was slower than sound waves
C．Tom was not good at physics at all
D．Tom's answer had nothing to do with sound waves
【5】Whose answer do you think is correct according to the law of physics?
A．Tom's
B．Kate's
C．Both A and B
D．Neither A nor B
24、A study of almost 2,700 children aged between seven and ten in 38 schools in Barceiona, Spain, first researches the impact of traffic noise on child cognitive (认知的) development over time.
The children in the study are in a critical stage for the development of memory and attention skill, which are essential to learning. The research found that children exposed to about three times more traffic in the street than other children had memory development that was 23% slower and attention ability development 5% slower over a year.
Noise is the second most damaging environmental factor to health, after air pollution, and, for example, was already known to increase heart attacks in adults. The UN said that urban noise pollution was growing into a global public health threat, leading to 12,000 early deaths a year in the EU alone and affecting many cities.
But research on the impact of road noise on children was limited until now. “We do not know that noise can actually be toxic (有害的) from a physical point of view,” said Dr. Maria Foraster, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, who led the study. “We think that we adapt to it, but research has shown that we don’t completely—we still have a physiological (生理的) response.
The research revealed that peaks of noise heard inside the classroom, such as the passing of loud trucks, had more impact than a higher average level of noise. It also found higher noise levels at school were more damaging than at home.
Prof. Iroise Dumontheil, at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, said, “This carefully designed study provides convincing evidence. Considering that many European children living in large cities are exposed to high road-traffic noise levels, this study has implications for public policy to reduce road-traffic noise near schools.”
The research follows previous work that showed higher levels of aircraft noise at school affected reading comprehension and cognitive development. Next, the authors said, they would like to see their findings replicated (复制) in different cities and towns, where schools may be
built differently and windows opened more or less often.
【1】What can we learn from Maria Foraster’s words?
A．We are troubled by nose.
B．We lack confidence in her study.
C．We try hard to adapt to noise.
D．We aren’t fully aware of the harm of noise to humans.
【2】What is Iroise Dumontheil’s attitude towards the study?
A．Curious.
B．Favorable.
C．Cautious
D．Unsatisfied.
【3】What might the research team focus on next?
A．Finding solutions to reducing noise.
B．Helping students to realize the impact of noise.
C．Confirming their findings in different areas.
D．Studying the differences between various noises.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A．Policies on traffic noise should be improved
B．Traffic noise slows children’s memory development
C．Traffic noise has a growing impact on people’s health
D．Attention should be paid to the environment around schools
25、Being Bigger isn’t Necessarily Considered Better
The firm, which famously started life in 1939, has now declared a new age: that of smaller start-up. By 2014, when Ms Whitman announced HP’s decision to separate its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and services operations, the company had grown into a clumsy _________. Its fortunes started to _________ with a series of expensive and much criticized purchases. By 2012 it had lost its position as the world’s leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo. The dramatic _________ was aimed at helping the firm adapt to the new age of mobile and online computing, responding to shareholder demands for more aggressive _________.
“I would go from laser jet printing to our big enterprise services contracts where we were running the back end of IT for many big companies and organizations. These two things are not like each other. So the ability to focus and engage with customers on a(n) _________ set of objectives and business outcomes... I can already see the difference.” Ms Whitmann, who now heads the new spin-off, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) selling servers and services, says the change has already _________ her performance. “One big change is it _________ each of the divisions to pursue the strategy that is right for them. _________, there is ‘no way’ printer and PC company HP Inc’s decision last year to buy Samsung’s printing business for $1bn would have happened when it was part of the larger firm. So it’s that ability to drive your own program, not _________ by other businesses that don’t have the same characteristics.” Ms Whitman is so convinced her strategy is working that she’s ______________ HPE further, spinning off both its business services division and its software business into separate companies last year.
Her assumption that bigger doesn’t always mean better seems ______________. After all, a larger company should find it easier to dominate the market it operates in. But the rapid rise of much smaller start-ups, competing and often overtaking these established powerful companies means the accepted wisdom that ______________ equals success is being challenged. ______________ in 2014, eBay carved PayPal, the electronic payments arm it bought in 2001, off from the main online sale business.
Box, a cloud storage company, is another case in point. Founder Aaron Levie says “Whether Uber, Airbnb, those same lessons ______________, which is if you can build something that’s cheaper, faster and more scalable and delivers a far better customer experience than what the traditional sellers were able to do, then you can be extremely ______________.”
A．appearance
B．construction
C．giant
D．possession
A．decline
B．increase
C．stay
D．vary
A．adventure
B．combination
C．development
D．split
A．behavior
B．growth
C．markets
D．policies
A．ambitious
B．complex
C．narrow
D．overall
A．delivered
B．improved
C．measured
D．standardized
A．allows
B．employs
C．reminds
D．threatens
A．All in all
B．For example
C．On the contrary
D．What’s more
A．held back
B．kept on
C．looked over
D．taken down
A．dissolved
B．expanded
C．operated
D．shrunk
A．fundamental
B．reasonable
C．surprising
D．widespread
A．diligence
B．discipline
C．profit
D．size
A．Comparatively
B．Generally
C．Similarly
D．Unexpectedly
A．apply
B．fail
C．hide
D．increase
A．friendly
B．miserable
C．motivated
D．troublesome
26、假设你是李华，你所在的学校与美国BASIS Tucson中学有一个交流项目（Exchange Program），此项目为部分同学提供在美国学习一年的机会。现在你有意要参加该项目，请根据以下内容要点，用英语向该校写一份申请。
1．渴望了解不同文化，乐于传播中国文化；
2．现正在寄宿学校（boarding school）上学，习惯离家生活；
3．新的经历对性格培养有益，是学习、锻炼的好机会。
注意：1．短文必须包括以上要点，可适当添加细节。
2．词数：100词左右。开头已经为你写好，不计入总词数。
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