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1、In some countries,the president can ______ somebody from death penalty.
A. punish B. inspect
C. charge D. privilege
2、The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see ________ the next year.
A.carried on B.carried out C.carried off D.carried over
3、—Why did you leave the water running in the sink?
—Heavens! I guess I ________ to turn it off.
A．forgot
B．have forgotten
C．will forget
D．had forgotten
4、To ______ the turkey, people often prepare other things, such as cornbread, mashed potatoes (土豆泥), and pumpkin or apple pie.
A.come across B.go with C.search for D.figure out
5、All of a sudden, the thief walking behind a young and beautiful woman ________ her handbag, ________ into the crowd.
A．seizing；rushing
B．seizing；rushed
C．seized；rushing
D．seized；rushed
6、Parents should keep their children company as much as possible because children feel, if they ______ don' t see their parents regularly.
A.rejected B.offended C.interrupted D.mistaken
7、It came as a great ________ to the parents that their son finally came back safe and sound.
A. relief B. sense
C. relaxion D. favor
8、A Chinese proverb has it that a tower is built when soil on earth ____, and a river is formed when streams come together.
A.accumulates B.accelerates C.accommodates D.associates
9、A heavy sandstorm is going to envelop our city. It is unwise to have your car .
A. wash B. washed
C. washing D. to wash
10、People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often ______ rather than based on fixed criteria.
A．appropriate
B．conscious
C．arbitrary
D．controversial
11、The CEO of the company is a position ____ many abilities are required to deal with all types of problems.
A. which B. that C. when D. where
12、Word comes ________ free books will be given to anyone who comes first in this book fair.
A．which
B．that
C．what
D．where
13、Can we stop the ______ of the world’s deserts and save the land that man depends so much on?
A.loss B.heat C.spread D.defence
14、Introverts (性格内向的人), according to Susan Cain, tend to enjoy being alone, doing quieter things or being with just one friend at a time. She says that is _____ they get their energy.
A. why B. when C. how D. where
15、Dad and mom are busier than before; we're eating out more often than we _________.
A.use to B.used to C.were used to D.are used to
16、---You look very tired. What's wrong with you?
---How bad luck today is! By the time I arrived at the airport, the plane________.
A．left
B．was leaving
C．has left
D．had left
17、Many coral reefs in warm water areas would not be dying out ______ for the pollution accumulated over the previous years.
A.if it is not B.were it not C.had it not been D.if they were not
18、The reason____ Spielberg could not go to the Film Academy was his grades were too low.
A. that; that B. why; that
C. why; because D. that; because
19、— I get at least an hour of physical exercise almost every day.
—Oh great! ________.
A．Good luck
B．Cheer up
C．Same to you
D．Keep it up
20、Conservationists __________on setting aside natural reserves for the wild species they are trying to protect during the past decade.
A.focused B.focus C.have focused D.had focused
21、Newspapers, advertisements, and labels surround us everywhere, turning our environment into a mass of texts to be read or ignored. As the quantity of information we receive continually increases and as information spreading is shifting from page to screen, it may be time to ask how changes in our way of reading may affect our mental life. For how we receive information bears vitally on the ways we experience and interpret reality.
What is most obvious in the evolution of reading is the gradual displacement of the vertical (垂直的) by the horizontal—a shift from intensive to extensive reading. In our culture, access is not a problem, but proliferation (激增) is. And the reading act is necessarily different than it was in its earliest days. Awed by the availability of texts, the reader tends to move across surfaces without allowing the words to resonate (共鸣) inwardly.
Interestingly, this shift from vertical to horizontal parallels the overall societal shift from bounded lifetimes spent in single locales to lives lived in wider geographical areas amid streams of data. This larger access was once regarded as worldliness—one traveled, knew the life of cities, the ways of diverse people…. It has now become the birthright of anyone who owns a television set.
How do we square the advantages and disadvantages of horizontal and vertical awareness? The villagers, who know everything about their surroundings, are blessedly unaware of events in distant lands. The media-obsessed urbanites, by contrast, never lose their awareness of what happens in different parts of the world.
We may ask, which people are happier? The villagers may have found more sense in things owing both to the limited range of their concern and the depth on their information. But restricted conditions and habit also suggest boredom and limitation. The lack of a larger perspective (视角) leads to suspiciousness and cautious conservatism, but for the same reason, the constant availability of data and macro-perspectives has its own decreasing returns. When everything is happening everywhere, it gets harder to care about anything.
How do we assign value? Where do we find the fixed context that allows us to create a narrative of sense about our lives? Ideally, I suppose, one would have the best of both worlds—the purposeful fixity of the local, as well as the availability of enhancing views: a natural ecology of information and context.
【1】What can we learn about the first two paragraphs?
A．Readers today tend to ignore deep engagement with texts.
B．It’s difficult to shift from vertical to horizontal reading.
C．Where and how we read texts shapes our mental life.
D．People are tired of information proliferation.
【2】According to the passage, villagers .
A．have a deeper understanding of their surroundings
B．show no interest in what happens in the world
C．are less bored than media-obsessed urbanites
D．cannot adapt to changing situations
【3】What can we learn from the passage?
A．Vertical awareness allows us to care about others.
B．Changes in our reading habits lead to the societal shift.
C．It’s wise to keep a balance between a local and a global view.
D．Horizontal reading affects our mindset more than vertical reading.
22、An important life lesson that I’ve drawn from running is to run at my own pace. It has guided me in many ways. In particular, it made me challenge the fixed expectations of retirement and aging.
Running is a metaphor (隐喻) for life. I realized this while training for a marathon to celebrate my 60th birthday. All the other runners being faster than me made me embarrassed. But my coach shared some valuable advice; run at your own best pace. Setting a goal or target time could be a limitation. He was right. Over time, I ran more easily and faster. I also enjoyed the experience much more.
I have applied this principle to other areas of my life. Finding a rhythm is not about efficiency or how many things I can get done in a day. It has more to do with what I decide to do at this stage in my life.
Running carries its own set of expectations, including what it means to be a strong runner. But expectations also extend to other areas of life, including what people at certain life stages should be doing or not doing. Expectations at my age can center on how leisure time is spent, decisions about employment, and even the role of a grandmother.
I used to think it was young people who bore peer pressure, but it’s easy to view retirement as another occupation with benchmarks (基准) to be met. We often make what someone else does the reference point. It’s a comparison trap.
Forget what others are doing. Their pace is not necessarily the pace you should run at. Run in your own way. It’s not better or worse — only different.
【1】What does the author intend to tell in paragraph 2?
A．The origin of a life principle.
B．Her misunderstanding of running.
C．The importance of life expectations.
D．Her unpleasant training experience.
【2】What does the author think about life expectations?
A．They are vital for retired people.
B．They vary at different life stages.
C．They cover every decision in life.
D．They are usually too high to fulfill.
【3】What can we infer from paragraph 5?
A．Young people often compete with old people.
B．Retired people take up bad occupations.
C．Retired people are also under peer pressure.
D．A comparison trap makes young people stronger.
【4】What message does the author mainly want to convey?
A．Retirement can’t stop old people’s dreams.
B．People should live life to the fullest.
C．People should live at their own speed.
D．Running at a fixed pace is beneficial to retired people.
23、 If we planted a lot more trees in just the right places, they could reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere to levels not seen since the 1920s, said study leader Jean Francois Bastin, an ecologist from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. After examining more than 70,000 high-quality satellite photos of trees from all over the planet, ecologists concluded that the earth could support 900 million additional hectares (公顷) of tree cover.
Bastin and his colleagues developed a computer program that estimates how much forested land could be restored both now and in a future warmer world. The team members combed through 78,774 satellite photos of a variety of ecosystems- everywhere from the thick Amazon rainforest to the dry Sahel in Africa-that had been protected from human influence. They counted every tree in every photo to assess the current tree coverage in natural environments. The researchers combined that information with data about the climate, temperature and soil conditions for each ecosystem. Then they taught their program to put it all together to determine how much tree coverage a particular area could support.
The result shows trees currently cover 2.8 billion hectares of land- but they have the potential to populate as much as 4.4 billion hectares. Right now, much of the additional 1.6 billion hectares is being used for agriculture or urban spaces. The researchers took those areas off the table and saw that the earth still has 900 million hectares ready and waiting to be restored with trees an area roughly the size of Brazil. When those trees mature, they could remove 205 gigatonnes (兆吨) of carbon from the atmosphere, the study calculated, That represents about two-thirds of the roughly 300 gigatonnes of atmospheric carbon that can be traced to human actions, they said.
Even if trees are planted in the most mindful way, other actions are still needed to fight climate change, Bastin said.
【1】Why did Bastin develop a computer program?
A.To reduce air pollution in Africa.
B.To determine carbon dioxide in the air.
C.To assess the potential forested land.
D.To calculate the area of forest in the world.
【2】What does the underlined phrase “combed through” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A.Looked into. B.Put away.
C.Brought back. D.Took in.
【3】What can we infer from what Basin said in the last paragraph?
A.Brazil has large areas to plant trees.
B.The tree cover is not enough to control greenhouse gases.
C.Trees removed two-thirds of carbon in the atmosphere.
D.Other actions are equally important compared to planting trees.
【4】What is the author’s attitude towards the research result?
A.Disapproving. B.Doubtful.
C.Supportive. D.Objective.
24、 Last year, Zhang's store saw revenue of about 5 million yuan ($772,000) and made a profit of 500,000 yuan. Mhangami was also highly impressed by the laughter he heard among farmers during his trip, which he said helped inspire him.
In his notebook he wrote that such laughter was not only shared by one particular village, but "by the hundreds of millions of people that have been pulled out of poverty".
On the five-day trip, which was organized by Xinhua News Agency, Mhangami was joined by Michael Chick, a Malaysian media worker, and by South African teacher Shaun Nish and his daughter Rebecca.
The foreigners traveled to the once-poor county, Jinzhai, to experience rural life and to witness the nation's poverty alleviation （减轻）efforts. At the end of last year, some 100 million poor rural residents living below the poverty line nationwide had shaken off poverty. All 832 poor counties, including Jinzhai county, had been lifted out of poverty.
During their visit, the foreigners were surprised by the level of internet , development and the booming digital economy in the rural area.
Shaun Nish said he had been amazed by the amount of local infrastructure （基础设施），adding that he had not been expecting to see such a wide variety. He also thought that roads in the area would be less wide. He and his daughter, who live in Hefei, capital of Anhui, were also delighted with the easy access to wireless internet in the villages.
Chick, who has traveled to many Southeast Asian countries for TV production work and is now turning his attention to China, said, "It is not just Wi-Fi — it's internet connectivity. That's pretty much how this village we visited is able to market its products outside.”
“When you talk about infrastructure, it is always roads, water and healthcare, but people always forget to mention the internet. The internet infrastructure forms the basis for a whole lot of things. It changes your perspective. It opens up your markets.”
【1】What is the attitude of farmers, like Zhang, to the nation's poverty alleviation efforts?
A.Opposed. B.Unconcerned. C.Supportive. D.Objective.
【2】What can we learn about the poverty situation from Paragraph 4?
A.The county that the foreigners visited is still poverty-stricken now.
B.China's poverty alleviation efforts have benefited the county a lot.
C.All the poor in China have been lifted out of poverty.
D.All 832 poor counties in China have been fairly well-off.
【3】What benefit poverty alleviation efforts brought to rural areas is NOT mentioned I in the passage?
A.Wireless internet connectivity. B.Road infrastructure.
C.Booming digital economy. D.Full-covered Wi-Fi.
【4】What is the best title of this article?
A.The process of poverty alleviation
B.Some achievements in China's poverty alleviation efforts
C.China's current economic strength after poverty alleviation
D.Trips to areas that have been lifted out of poverty
25、Hungry and thirsty on our way home, my young sister and I came across a splendid plum tree with bright reddish fruit. It belonged to an elderly disabled lady known for giving______ in return for an errand(差事).
We knocked on her door asking for some plums in payment for______an errand. The lady smiled and gave us two______baskets. When we filled the baskets with the ripest plums we picked, she handed us a bag with fresh meat, rice and dried beans. “Take this bag and one basket of plums to the Gomez family on the top of this hill,______with their payment and you will______yours.”
With great expectations to get our plums after the errand, we rushed to the Gomez home. Mrs. Gomez_______ the door with three little children behind her. Her husband was sick in bed and times were______. We told her our intention______, She didn’t seem ______but appreciated it with the payment, a large envelope stuffed full. Could the Gomez ______to pay so much for the food? It looked like much money. Our_______wasn’t cleared until we handed the envelope to the plum lady. “Lovely!” The lady said in delight as she pulled the______ out of the envelope. In her hands were colorful drawings from the Gomez children, the Gomez’s payment for her food. My sister and I______each other and broke out in smiles.
As we walked home, we enjoyed the______from the lady. The juice running down our arms was as sweet and warm as the______we had inside.
【1】
A．juice
B．rice
C．meat
D．fruit
【2】
A．rejecting
B．cancelling
C．offering
D．running
【3】
A．large
B．clean
C．empty
D．firm
【4】
A．depart
B．return
C．survive
D．travel
【5】
A．make
B．purchase
C．obtain
D．increase
【6】
A．locked
B．answered
C．decorated
D．painted
【7】
A．hard
B．changeable
C．different
D．unsettled
【8】
A．doubtfully
B．patiently
C．helplessly
D．secretly
【9】
A．annoyed
B．injured
C．disappointed
D．surprised
【10】
A．afford
B．refuse
C．expect
D．accept
【11】
A．cheque
B．appointment
C．confusion
D．baskets
【12】
A．contents
B．notes
C．stamps
D．letters
【13】
A．calmed down
B．competed with
C．approved of
D．looked at
【14】
A．assistance
B．treat
C．company
D．comfort
【15】
A．wish
B．promise
C．feeling
D．appetite
26、书面表达
假如你是李华,你在很多公共场所经常看见许多成年人和小孩在不停地摆弄手机，请针对这一现象，给全班同学写一篇演讲稿。内容包括：
1.描述现象；
2.分析原因（至少两条）；
3.说明影响；
4.提出建议。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear fellow students,
The topic of my speech today is about mobile phones.
That’s all.Thank you for your listening.
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