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1、Professor James will give us a lecture on the Western Culture, but when and where _________ yet.
A. hasn’t been decided B. haven’t decided
C. isn’t being decided D. aren’t decided
2、The number of foreign students attending Chinese universities ___ rising steadily since 1997.
A. is B. are C. has been D. have been
3、The novel Dream of Red Mansions《红楼梦》 _______ reading again and again.
A. is worth B. is worthy of
C. worth D. worth of
4、 Generally speaking, the family, not the school, plays the role in educating children for life.
A. potential B. primary
C. personal D. professional
5、________ did I accept this unreasonable suggestion.
A．By no means
B．By all means
C．By means of
D．By this means
6、As teenagers get older, they struggle to be ________, but at the same time, they may badly want and need their parents’ love.
A. patient B. brilliant
C. independent D. tolerant
7、—Peter, you delivered a wonderful speech today.
—Thanks, but I think I ______ more attention to my stage manners during that time.
A. must pay B. should pay
C. must have paid D. should have paid
8、This kitchen is a non-smoking area. I would like to warn you ___________ that if you smoked here you would be fined.
A. in advance B. in turn C. in exchange D. in case
9、She decided to adopt a different __________ to the problem.
A.advice B.aspect C.ambition D.approach
10、To avoid _________, the team wore different-coloured uniforms.
A. confusing B. being confusing
C. confused D. being confused
11、Scientists and doctors across the world have done _____ research over the years, hoping to find a cure for cancer.
A. a great deal of B. quantity of
C. quite a few D. a large number of
12、—Did Peter fix the computer himself?
—No. He______, because he does not know much about ocmputers.
A.had it fixed B.has fixed it
C.has it fixed D.fixed it
13、－The fire in the supermarket last night was terrible !
—They have taken some measures to prevent it occurring．
A． must B．will C．would D． should
14、In most cases, college graduates don't mind what job they will do so long as it is one ______ they can earn money to support themselves.
A. what B. where
C. that D. how
15、I don’t figure out why Tom ________the job offer. After all, he has been out of work for a long time.
A．told off
B．turned down
C．broke down
D．picked up
16、— Did you have a good time at Laura’s birthday party?
— Yes, indeed. It’s several years ________ I enjoyed myself so much.
A. when B. before
C. since D. that
17、The “new” Japanese prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants the USA to promise _________ Japan declares war against China, the USA will give military aid, __________ promises to be impossible.
A．if; which B．whether; it
C．if; that D．when; it
18、Being a clown doctor means I can help people by ________ the children.
A．enjoying
B．entertaining
C．comforting
D．encouraging
19、My sister is really ______. She often works in her office far into the night.
A．open-minded
B．hard-working
C．warm-hearted
D．self-confident
20、—Do you really want to go out?
—It may rain. ________, I shall go out; I don’t mind the rain.
A．Anyway
B．Otherwise
C．Somehow
D．Therefore
21、Americans are getting older, and family size is getting smaller. That means the United States will have less working adults in the future. By 2030, twenty percent of U.S. residents will be 66 years of age or older. That compares to 13 percent in 2010, and just under 10 percent in 1970.
The aging population could be a concern if Americans expect to have an expanding population, says David Kelly. “If you're investing in things like the housing industry or the auto industry and you need an ever-growing population, then you have to adjust to a world in which the U.S. population is growing more slowly,” he said.
Different studies show that an aging population cuts into economic growth, and older workers who stay on the job are often less productive than younger ones.
But as Americans are aging, last year the birth rate nationwide dropped to its lowest level in 32 years. Less than 3.8 million babies were born in 2018, which is two percent less than the year before. Taken as a whole, the population grew only six-tenths of one percent in 2018, compared to 1.2 percent growth in the 1990s.
Kelly said the low birth rate is not necessarily bad news. Looking beyond economics, a growing world population could do more damage to Earth’s environment. He said that U.S. policy makers should plan for dealing with a smaller workforce. “We really should adapt to a world of slow population growth because it's clearly happening to us,” he said.
What will replace human workers? Like others, Kelly expects the lack of workers to fuel the growth of robotics and artificial intelligence. He said that Americans need to prepare for the U.S. economic growth to slow a little in the future. Another way to fix the decreasing workforce is to add more legal immigrants（移民）. Immigrants usually arrive in the United States when they are of working age.
But this is not an easy solution, because the U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump continue to disagree over how to deal with immigration issues.
The U.S. economy can easily make changes to deal with the slower population growth, Kelly said. But he worries that politics could get in the way of solutions. “The real question is a political question,” he notes, “because it seems even as our population matures（成熟） in years, it seems that our political system gets less mature in terms of thought process.”
【1】What is the main problem discussed in the passage?
A．Solutions to the lack of workers.
B．Conventional political systems.
C．Adaptation to the slow growth.
D．The aging population in America.
【2】According to the passage, aging Americans will contribute to _______.
A．an ever-growing birth rate
B．a catastrophe in some industry
C．slow economic development
D．a perfect Earth's environment
【3】What does "this" in paragraph 7 refer to?
A．The fast development of robotics.
B．The growth of artificial intelligence.
C．The fixing of decreasing workforce.
D．The adding of more legal immigrants.
【4】As for the solution to the problem, what is Kelly's attitude?
A．Optimistic.
B．Casual.
C．Concerned.
D．Desperate.
22、It has always been assumed that traffic noise is a problem unique to animals. But a new study by Ghotbi-Ravandi, a botanist at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, has revealed that plants suffer too.
Scientists have previously suspected that plants may be able to sense sound waves as they are struck by them. A number of experiments have confirmed this in recent years——plants continuously affected by ultrasound(超声波) in the lab have shown a range of adverse responses including the expression of stress-related genes, abnormal growth and reduced sprouting(发芽) of seeds.
Yet blasting(轰击) plants with ultrasound is not the same as growing them in the presence of actual traffic noise. To this end, Dr Ghotbi-Ravandi decided to set up an experiment to study precisely this question.
Working with a team of colleagues, Dr Ghotbi-Rayandi grew two species in his lab. The plants were grown from seed and allowed to mature for two months in the same space before they were divided into two groups. One group was exposed to 73 decibels(分贝) of traffic noise for16 hours a day. The other group was left to grow in silence. After 15 days had passed, samples were taken from the youngest fully expanded leaves on every plant in the experiment and studied.
None of the plants exposed to the traffic noise did well. Analysis of their leaves revealed that all of them were suffering. The chemical compounds indicating stress in plants were found at much higher levels in the samples exposed to the traffic noise. The team also found that a range of hormones normally associated with healthy growth and development in plants were present at significantly reduced levels in the plants exposed to the noise.
His findings make it clear that, though plants lack ears, the impact generated by the noise of traffic still bothers them enough to trigger strong stress responses. The next question is whether all noise pollution affects all species in the same way.
【1】What does the underlined word “adverse” mean in the second paragraph?
A．expected.
B．passive.
C．negative.
D．opposite.
【2】What can we know about the plants exposed to traffic noise?
A．Their seeds failed to sprout.
B．They have high-level hormones.
C．They contain more stress-related compounds.
D．They barely have expanded leaves.
【3】It is possible that the next step of the study is to ________.
A．reduce noise pollution
B．experiment with other plants
C．publish the findings
D．confirm previous assumptions
【4】Which of the following is a suitable title for the passage?
A．Noise Pollution Has to Be Reduced
B．Plant Protection Is Urgently Needed
C．Plant Growth Is Prevented by Ultrasound
D．Plants Are Badly Affected by Traffic
23、 Siblings refer to one’s brothers and sisters. We’re attached to siblings as adults far longer than we are as children. Our sibling relationships, in fact, are the longest-lasting family ties we have.
“Paul, my younger brother, and I, kind of annoyed each other when we were kids,” said Anna, an interviewee,“But as adults, we’ve always had each other’s back, especially when dealing with our mother’s health crisis. Paul is the first person I want to talk to when something worries me.”
There’s probably a biological explanation for the close bond of the sibling relationship. Siblings share half their genes, which biologists say should be motivation enough for each other’s devotion.
One thing that can weaken closeness in adulthood is a parent who played favorites in childhood; this sense of hatred can last a lifetime. The simple concept of parental favoritism was enough to shake their relationship.
“What Paul and I are pretty sure is our parents treated us the same when we were growing up. Yet we’re very different people,” Anna said,“Paul is outgoing while I’m shy. Paul is an amateur pianist while I can’t read music or carry a tune. In families with more than one child, every sibling seems to get a label in contrast to every other sibling.”
The very presence of siblings in the household can be an education. When a new baby is born, the older sibling gains social skills by interacting with the younger, and the younger gains cognitively（认知角度地）by imitating the older. They learn from the friction between them, too, as they fight for their parents’attention. Mild conflict between brothers and sisters teaches them how to interact with friends and co-workers for the rest of their lives.
It’s so sad when things between siblings fall apart, which happens when aging parents need care or die — old feelings of contradiction and jealousy erupt all over again. Many families get through their parents’illnesses just fine, establishing networks where the workload is divided pretty much equally. But about 40 percent of the time there is a single primary caregiver who feels like she is not getting any help from her brothers and sisters, which can lead to serious conflicts.
Throughout adulthood, the sibling relationship “is powerful and unchanged,” said Jane Mersky Leder, author of the new e-book The Sibling Connection. Whether we are close to our siblings or distant, she writes, they remain our brothers and sisters — for better or for worse.
So remember the immortal（永恒的）words of folksinger Loudon Wainwright Ⅲ, in a song called Thanksgiving.“On this brilliant occasion, this special family dinner, if I argue with a loved one, please make me...”
【1】What can probably encourage hatred among siblings?
A. The aging of their Mom and Dad. B. The difference between their hobbies.
C. The conflict in their daily lives. D. The unequal treatment from their parents.
【2】Brothers or sisters will be ready to give each other a hand partly because__________.
A. they have common interest B. their parents force them to
C. there exists a genetic factor D. their parents require them to be
【3】The underlined word“friction” in Para.6 is closest in meaning to_________.
A. mild conflict B. close relationship
C. active interaction D. cognitive imitation
【4】One effective way to avoid conflict when looking after sick parents is to__________.
A. employ an experienced caregiver B. take on reasonable burdens
C. equally divide the fortune D. send them straight to hospital
【5】The writer ends the passage with a song Thanksgiving to indicate that__________.
A. it’s disappointing to quarrel with siblings
B. it’s grateful to have brothers or sisters in life
C. Thanksgiving Day is a wonderful occasion
D. Thanksgiving Day is a time for brothers or sisters to get together
24、Brilliant Ways to Deliver Secret Messages
Many effective ways are used now to deliver secret messages. But in the past when the science and technology was not developing, especially during the war, how did people send secret and important messages?
Shoelaces
In the 1950s, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency created a book of tips to teach spies ways to communicate in public. One tip: Lace up your shoes. Tied one way, the laces might mean “I have information”: tied another, “Follow me”. The spies could communicate while everyone else probably thought, “That guy can’t tie his shoes correctly!”
Tattooed(刺文身) Head
Around 513 B.C., Histiaeus was forced out as the ruler of an ancient city. So he wanted to send a message to his supporters: Rebel against the king who took away his power.
Histiaeus called in a slave, shaved his head and tattooed the message onto the man’s skin on the top of head. After the slave’s hair grew back, he travelled to Greece with orders to shave his head again. Message received!
Orange Juice
In 1597, John Gerard was imprisoned in the Tower of London in England. He asked the prison guard to let him send letters written in charcoal(木炭). But then he wrote another message on top using the juice from an orange-which was only visible when the juice was dry and the page heated. With his invisible ink, he escaped successfully.
Songs
In the 1800s, African American slaves couldn’t talk openly about their plans to escape to freedom- so they secretly sang about it.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot might sound like a religious song. But for slaves, the “sweet chariot” was the code for the Underground Railroad, the network of people who helped slaves head to northern states and Canada. The song Wade in the Water warned escaped slaves to get in the water so dogs wouldn’t smell them. With these songs, hundreds of people escaped slavery.
【1】Which way is connected with the spies?
A．Shoelaces.
B．Tattooed Head.
C．Orange Juice.
D．Songs.
【2】How did John Gerard send the secret message?
A．By lacing up his shoes in one way.
B．By tattooing the message on the head.
C．By using letters written with orange juice.
D．By singing a religious song to the prisoners.
【3】What do the listed ways have in common?
A．They set a lot of prisoners free.
B．They enabled the slaves to escape.
C．They helped send secret messages.
D．They made people against the king.
25、The Thai government intends to further deepen its digital cooperation with Chinese technology company Huawei, senior Thai officials said at a cloud event held in Bangkok this week.
During the Powering Digital Thailand 2022 on Nov 17-19, Thai deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said digital infrastructure (基础设施), such as5G, is crucial to Thailand’s _________ and social development, especially for the country’s post-pandemic economic _________.
Badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism-reliant nation registered an economic reduction of 6.1 percent last year, the worst in more than 20 years. However, the pandemic has significantly speeded the _________ of digital technologies in Thailand, where Chinese tech companies have _________ advantages.
During the pandemic, Huawei used its technology to help local hospitals implement systems for automated medical supply, AI-backed _________ and remote treatment, which greatly improved the _________ of hospitals and made healthcare more _________.
Fueled by Thailand’s digital roadmap, Huawei has focused on helping the country build 20,000 5G stations in the past two years. _________, Thailand has more than 4.2 million 5G subscribers leading in 5G adoption among ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries.
Another strength of Huawei has been its cloud capabilities. Deng Feng, general manager of Huawei Thailand, said Huawei Cloud is the only cloud service _________ with local data centers in Thailand, considering that data localization is a key trend of global enterprises due to government regulations as well as security concerns.
He emphasized the Huawei will support Thailand’s low-carbon and digital development in the future in four areas, including expanding 5G coverage and usage, providing cloud services, creating low-carbon development with digital energy, and __________ industry talents.
Thai Minister of Digital Economy and Society Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn expressed his hopes for __________ cooperation between the Thai government and Huawei to __________ the country’s digital economy, which is targeted to __________ 30 percent of the GDP by 2030.
According to a joint report released by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company earlier this month Thailand’s digital economy is expected to __________ $30 billion this year, up 51 percent, making it the second-largest market in Southeast Asia after Indonesia.
Huawei’s Rotating Chairman Guo Ping said the company will continue __________ and building a tech ecosystem to facilitate faster digitalization in Asia-Pacific, and invest $100 million over the next three years to build a startup ecosystem in the region.
【1】
A．economic
B．educational
C．national
D．industrial
【2】
A．crisis
B．concerns
C．tendency
D．recovery
【3】
A．appreciation
B．adoption
C．industrialization
D．significance
【4】
A．negative
B．instructive
C．competitive
D．conclusive
【5】
A．discovery
B．interview
C．regulation
D．diagnosis
【6】
A．efficiency
B．localization
C．construction
D．symbolization
【7】
A．sensible
B．accessible
C．feasible
D．remarkable
【8】
A．Irrelevant
B．Currently
C．Respectively
D．Fundamentally
【9】
A．instructor
B．indicator
C．provider
D．adopter
【10】
A．discovering
B．investing
C．cultivating
D．distinguishing
【11】
A．routine
B．revolutionary
C．reasonable
D．comprehensive
【12】
A．facilitate
B．propose
C．integrate
D．emphasize
【13】
A．appeal to
B．account for
C．add up
D．strive to
【14】
A．sacrifice
B．invest
C．receive
D．exceed
【15】
A．innovating
B．qualifying
C．purchasing
D．postponing
26、假定你是李华。元旦前夕，你班将举办一场迎新晚会，请你给外教Mr.White写一封信，邀请他参加，内容包括：
1.时间；2.地点；3.活动。
注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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