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1、If she ________ generous as she makes out, she would have donated more money in the catastrophe.
A. had been B. were
C. would be D. was
2、________exhausted he was, the firefighter still kept rescuing the villagers trapped in the flood.
A．However
B．How
C．Whatever
D．What
3、We climbed up to the top of a hill, we got a good view of the whole forest park.
A. which B. where
C. when D. that
4、—Sorry, I have to________ now. It 's time for class.
—OK. it'll call back later.
A．give up
B．hang up
C．hold up
D．break up
5、________ online payment is safe, people will be more likely to link their bank cards to WeChat.
A. Even though B. As though
C. Ever since D. As long as
6、--- Sunny day today, isn’t it?
--- Yeah! It’s not like what the radio ________ at all.
A. says B. will say C. had said D. said
7、When they first came to the city, my parents often went to neighbors for a talk, just as they ________ in the countryside.
A. will do B. had done
C. have done D. were doing
8、From 1902 to 1904, Picasso painted a series of pictures________ the main color was blue.
A.which B.that C.where D.when
9、_________ several adjustments to the design for two months, the engineer eventually succeeded in building a highly efficient system.
A．Trying
B．Tried
C．Having tried
D．Having been tried
10、________ by his teachers made him regain the confidence in himself.
A. Praised B. Being praised
C. Praising D. Having praised
11、__________ his skyrocketing popularity , Korean film star Kim Soo-kyun (金秀贤) will meet Asian fans, covering China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and South Korea.
A. With regard to B. In response to C. In spite of D. In terms of
12、The information tells me that the way of education in Canada is quite different from _____ in China.
A.one B.it C.that D.those
13、--- What do you think I should do?
----________your teacher’s advice, in my opinion, and everything will be OK.
A．Follow
B．Following
C．to follow
D．Followed
14、---Can I pay the bill by credit card?
---Sorry, sir. But it is the management rules of our hotel that payment ______________ be made in cash.
A.shall B.need
C.will D.must
15、Studying hard is, of course, important, but enough res is no doubt ______ or even more important.
A.largely B.merely C.equally D.partly
16、Nantong has become one of the most_____cities in the Yangtze River Delta through innovation.
A.dynamic B.conservative C.primitive D.ethnic
17、Take an active part in programs you enjoy______you can meet various kinds of people.
A.what B.when C.that D.where
18、She was such a proud person that she would die she would admit she was wrong.
A．since
B．when
C．unless
D．before
19、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
20、As a teacher, you have to _____ your method to suit the needs of slower children.
A．display
B．test
C．adjust
D．transfer
21、The Legacy Senior Communities is proud to announce the latest innovation in senior living care is coming to its Dallas and Plano campuses, the TrueLoo® smart toilet by Toi Labs. “We’re consistently exploring new technologies to ensure that we are providing excellent care in the most effective and efficient ways,” says Legacy Senior Communities CEO Melissa Orth.
“The TrueLoo® smart toilet provides early detection of oncoming health complications before they become serious, and all in a dignnified and valuable manner. This improves our care response and can potentially avoid a potential health complication altogether,” says Orth. “The innovative toilet automates data collection and enables clinical team members to keep track of the residents around the clock without uncomfortable conversations with them about their toileting habits. Investing in TrueLoo® technology enables a higher standard of care with dignity,” says Vik Kashyap, Toi Labs’ founder and CEO.
In assisted living and memory support residences, where toileting activity is harder to collect, the TrueLoo® smart toilet provides effortless collection, enhancing current services as well as residents’ experience. The Legacy Senior Communities begins testing the units in early March. The pilot program will launch in Memory Support at the Kalman and Ida Wolens Foundation Healthcare Center at the Willow Bend community and at the Midtown Park community’s Andrea &Richard Skibell and Leslie Rudd Healthcare Center. The communities will continue manual monitoring to establish a control group during this trial period. The resulting data will enable The Legacy to benchmark the ability of the smart toilet.
“We decided to trial the smart toilet in two different service areas,” said Director of Strategic Development Bridgette Walshe. “We want to ensure that this technology is non- invasive (非侵入性的) while providing accurate and relevant data.” Walshe believes that artificial intelligence is one potential means to cost-effectively improve senior care services, freeing up valuable time for clinical team members to provide more person-centric care.
【1】How can the TrueLoo® smart toilet benefit seniors?
A．By improving their toileting habits.
B．By identifying their potential health issues.
C．By calling clinical team members for them at any time.
D．By informing care workers of their desire to use a toilet.
【2】What can best conclude Kashyap’s words about his company’s product?
A．It is quality-centered.
B．It is safety-guaranteed.
C．It is privacy-ensured.
D．It is comfort-focused.
【3】What does the underlined word “benchmark” in paragraph 3 most probably mean?
A．Measure.
B．Recognize.
C．Demonstrate.
D．Improve.
【4】What is Walshe’s attitude to the toilet?
A．Hopeful.
B．Critical.
C．Tolerant.
D．Contradictory.
22、3D TV, Without the Glasses
If you’re thinking about buying a 3D TV, you might want to wait a while. Researchers have developed new 3D technology that doesn’t need any special glasses to work its magic. The new technology could advance the development of 3D on mobile devices, too.
Bioethics Panel Gives Yellow Light to Anthrax Vaccine Trial in Children
A U.S. bioethics committee has said that the country may consider testing the anthrax vaccine in children. The panel advises that the vaccine be tested in progressively younger age groups and includes the caveat(警告) that testing should only take place if risks are “minimal.”
Evolution via Roadkill
We usually think of evolution happening over thousands or millions of years, but it can be surprisingly speedy-literally. In just 3 decades, highway-dwelling swallows(燕子)have evolved shorter wingspans(翼展) to better dodge oncoming cars.
Patients Should Get DNA Information, Report Recommends
Would you want to know if you were at risk for cancer? What about a fatal heart condition? A group of genetics experts, along with the influential American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, have recommended that anyone whose genome is sequenced for any medical reason must be told about their genetic susceptibility to serious health problems, regardless of whether they want to know.
Congress Completes Work on 2013 Spending Bill
This week, the U.S. Congress passed a bill to fund the government until the end of the fiscal(财政的) year, and research agencies now know how much to spend in 2013. The so-called continuing resolution retains the sequester and its $85 billion cut in discretionary spending. The bill throws NASA’s planetary programs a lifeline and gives the National Science Foundation a bit of a boost, but the National Institutes of Health’s funding stays flat at 2012 levels-bad news for biomedical research.
Making Moonshine Safe to Drink
Home-brew drinkers in developing countries often risk blindness or even death from methanol poisoning when they drink. Now, scientists have made a reusable wireless chip that can analyze a drink’s methanol content and warn users of any danger. In 2 years, they hope to develop a product that can send results directly to a cell phone.
【1】If you are concerned about your future health, you will probably be interested in .
A.3D TV, Without the Glasses
B.Patients Should Get DNA Information, Report Recommends
C.Congress Completes Work on 2013 Spending Bill
D.Making Moonshine Safe to Drink
【2】Which of the following can replace the underlined word dodge?
A.Fly. B.Avoid. C.Move. D.Leave.
【3】Most probably, you will read the above information in .
A.a product introduction B.a tour guide
C.a web page D.a newspaper
23、 The ruins of a Maya city have been discovered in Guatemala with the help of the remote sensing technique LiDAR. This lost city envelops sites like Tikal, Holmul, and Witzna, but shows that these famous areas are a small part of this lost urban network.
Hidden under the jungles of the Maya Biosphere Reserve site, more than 60,000 human-made features — homes, canals, highways, and more — have been identified in aerial (从飞机上的)images collected by some international researchers headed by the PAGUNAM Foundation, a Maya cultural and natural heritage organization. Those have experts rethinking the outlines and complexity of the Maya Empire.
These ancient peoples obviously created these imaginative cultures based on their known relics (遗迹), but the new research has suggested that the size of this lost society is far beyond what experts imagined. The findings will be explored in a one-hour documentary called “Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings”, to be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.
This breakthrough was possible thanks to LiDAR sensors, which can survey lands in 3D by bouncing pulses off the ground from unmanned air vehicles and others. LiDAR is exceptionally useful for detecting archeological(考古的)sites, as it gets through jungles and other features that hold up exploration on the ground. The technique has made many discoveries become a reality in recent years. For instance, major finds at Angkor, Cambodia and Caracol, Belize can explain what it did. The final goal is to survey Guatemala’s lowlands with it.
“There are entire cities we didn't know about now showing up in the survey data,” Francisco Estrada-Belli, one of the lead archeologists on the project, said in Nat Geo's coming documentary. “There are 20,000 square kilometres more to be explored and there are going to be hundreds of cities about the mysterious people who built this urban network there that we don’t know about, and we will push back the frontiers with the technology,” he added.
【1】What does the underlined word "Those" in paragraph 2 refer to?
A.Jungles. B.Human-made features.
C.Researchers. D.Aerial images.
【2】What does the author want to convey in paragraph 4?
A.The working principle of LiDAR sensors.
B.The process of researching Maya civilization.
C.Great importance of Guatemalans lowlands.
D.LiDAR’s contribution to discovering the relics.
【3】Which words can best describe the lost Maya city?
A.Small and hidden. B.Famous and high-tech.
C.Vast and complex. D.Fully-explored and imaginative.
【4】What will the archeologists do next?
A.Continue to explore the unknown. B.Upgrade the LiDAR technology.
C.Study the documentary carefully. D.Build a massive urban network,
24、I graduated from college in the early 1990s with a major in Italian literature and there was no clue how I was going to make a living. I struggled to find my footing in a new city; working a variety of jobs, always looking for my “real” career. 【1】
One day I opened my mail and found a note with an image from my mother. 【2】 It was a portrait(肖像) of John Gorrie—the inventor of the first artificial ice machine- -that the artist Dennis Gephardt had made entirely out of pieces of toast.“If someone can make a portrait out of toast,” my mother wrote to me, “you can do anything.”
This small portrait brought a ray of hope to me. Corrie believed he did not need winter in order to make ice. Gephardt, the artist, believed he could honor that fact by, painstakingly cutting 143 slices of bread into the likeness of a man. 【3】 Why not me? I carried this cutting in my notebook for years.
When I entered my 30s, now as a wife and a mother, I decided to throw myself into a new career as a writer. So once again, I needed all the encouragement I could get. 【4】 Years went on. Failed marriage, my daughter’s teenage years, another career shift-throughout it all, the toast remained in view. When I gave up writing and started a new business, my friends had their doubts. But I looked to toast. This career has brought more success than I’ve ever achieved before. 【5】 If someone can make a portrait out of toast, well, we can do anything.
A．Both achieved their goals.
B．As in most cases, Mom was right.
C．She’d cut it out from Harper’s Magzine.
D．The framed portrait lay quiet in my new office
E．Gorrie and Gephardt had been friends for long.
F．I framed the portrait and hung it on my wall.
G．I was badly in need of encourgement, from anyone, anywhere.
25、Ella Smith in California learned a lesson on an ordinary 2016 day. That is, a simple act of kindness can make a ____ impact on someone’s day.
The video begins with Ella, aged 6, sitting with a full plate of steak and potatoes. “Can I just give it to him?” Ella ____asks her father. “Go ahead,” her father____ Ella quickly hurries from the table, full of ____, with the full plate of food and a fork outside the restaurant.
From the ____of the restaurant window, Ella’s father proudly watches his daughter. Ella then ____a homeless man sitting on a bench right outside the restaurant with the full meal and a fork. The man____accepts the meal. Ella’s father, unable to____his pride, repeats, “That’s my girl.” As Ella makes her way back into the restaurant, the homeless man looks back before____ the hot meal.
“Good job, Ella!” her father shouts. “I think you just made his week. How does that make you feel?” Ella responds with her face____, “I like it!”
Ella’s father describes the moment full of ____: “My daughter learned a valuable lesson by giving back to people that have less. Ella saw a homeless guy outside the restaurant and gave him her steak and potato dinner. Proud father moment!”
It’s a(n)____that shows how it just____one person to make a difference. Whether a friend or stranger, a kind act can____a long way. There’s no end to acts of kindness for kids, or anyone of any____, to do. As we can see from Ella’s selflessness, it just may make someone’s day.
【1】
A．formal
B．sympathetic
C．significant
D．necessary
【2】
A．sincerely
B．intensely
C．guiltily
D．humorously
【3】
A．challenges
B．designs
C．distributes
D．approves
【4】
A．motion
B．motive
C．entertainment
D．prediction
【5】
A．structure
B．reception
C．column
D．painting
【6】
A．assesses
B．transforms
C．approaches
D．introduces
【7】
A．confidently
B．happily
C．curiously
D．successfully
【8】
A．contain
B．defeat
C．seize
D．distinguish
【9】
A．putting down
B．breaking down
C．knocking into
D．digging into
【10】
A．lifting
B．pitying
C．shining
D．clarifying
【11】
A．recreation
B．pride
C．stimulation
D．confusion
【12】
A．consultation
B．reference
C．encounter
D．difficulty
【13】
A．anticipates
B．reserves
C．counts
D．takes
【14】
A．go
B．strike
C．decline
D．illustrate
【15】
A．strength
B．age
C．education
D．tolerance
26、假定你是李华，在网上看到了某国际文化交流公司在你所在城市征集寄宿家庭（host family）的广告，你很感兴趣。请你用英语给负责人Mr. Smith 写封申请信，内容包括：
1. 自我介绍；
2. 家庭住宿条件及周边交通状况；
3. 其它优势。
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