1、Jenny has got________ it takes to be a good actress. In other words, she has the potential to become famous.
A.what B.when C.that D.how
2、— How is the result, doctor?
— Well, your health is _____ good, but you still have a few minor problems.
A.normally B.generally C.gradually D.frequently
3、Susan has ________ more than 5,000 dollars in the last three months, with which she could buy new bicycles for those poor children.
A. accelerated B. accumulated
C. acknowledged D. accompanied
4、Paris has some great museums _____ visitors can see fine works of impressionist painters.
A. that B. which C. when D. where
5、—Jim, what’s the result of the final?
—Believe it or not, China ________ beat its strong opponent France.
A.narrowly
B.casually
C.initially
D.typically
6、—When will this be settled?
— A working party has been set up to ________ the problem.
A.look through
B.look up
C.look for
D.look into
7、I needn’t have been in such a hurry. The flight to Hong Kong _____ due to the typhoon.
A. has cancelled B. was cancelled
C. will be canceling D. had cancelled
8、I think John will make a good monitor, ________ I'd like to vote for him.
A. but B. so
C. or D. for
9、It is generally agreed that new contents should be added to a good dictionary at regular________.
A.gaps
B.intervals
C.length
D.distance
10、The growth of economy is influenced by a number of factors, ________are beyond our control.
A.most of them B.most of that C.most of what D.most of which
11、—Someone wants you on the phone.
—________ nobody knows I am here.
A.Although B.And
C.But D.So
12、Look! Here’ s a photo ______ in my classroom at primary school. Can you recognize me in it?
A. taken B. taking
C. to take D. being taken
13、The bridge, which ________ 1688, need repairing.
A. was dated from B. dated from
C. dating from D. dates from
14、I decided to do a random act of kindness last year. And ______ that the person I would end up helping most would be myself.
A. I little knew B. little did I knew C. little did I know D. little I knew
15、Even though the way Lin Daiyu expresses her feelings may be ________ to a modern audience, it is rooted in her character and makes who she is.
A. allergic B. foreign
C. sensitive D. fundamental
16、________ that the govemment can lead them out of the financial crisis, people are optimistic about the future of the country.
A. Convincing B. Convinced
C. To convince D. Having convinced
17、I was ill that day, otherwise I _______the sports meet.
A. took part in B. would have taken part in
C. had taken part in D. would take part in
18、_____ entirely with the flagship smartphone and directed by Peter Chan (陈可辛), the 7-minute video follows a train attendant on a six-day train journey from Nanning to Harbin.
A. Shot B. Pictured C. Screened D. Videoed
19、I feel I am as well-behaved and as careful as my deskmate, but _______ I always fall behind?
A. how about B. how come
C. what if D. what for
20、The TV Dwelling Narrowness (蜗居) is really fantastic. The show has succeeded in ________ much to the audience, which has contributed to its success.
A. touching on B. diving in C. getting across D. going about
21、If you’re looking to buy a gift for your children, why not keep up with the trend and get the best hoverboard?
What is a Hoverboard?
A hoverboard is a two-wheeled personal transportation device. It’s electrical, portable and became highly popular in 2015 in reference to a popular 1980’s movie. Typically, this self-balancing device operates like a powered skateboard.
How Does a Hoverboard Work?
The device may have many designs, but the mechanism itself isn’t complicated. Basically, a standard hoverboard contains:
•Battery: stores the electrical power. Almost all hoverboards use a high-watt lithium-ion battery.
•Gyroscope (one for each wheel): allows riders to tilt (倾斜) the hoverboard while maintaining balance and adjusting their direction.
•Motor (one in each wheel): provides the power to the wheels to keep the rider balanced and upright.
•Logic board: functions as the hoverboard brain. It processes data — your speed, tilt, etc. — and sends information to the motors. This unit controls the power of the board so riders can adjust their speed.
All the above components work together to control the power and tilt of the hoverboards so the rider is balanced, upright and moving at a controlled speed.
Why Buy a Hoverboard?
Undoubtedly, hoverboards are cool. You’ve probably seen kids riding one around the house. They’re a phenomenon and everybody wants in. So, why deny your kids and prevent them from being part of this trend?
Where is a hoverboard legal?
Despite their wild popularity, hoverboards have yet to become “street-legal”. Currently, some places prohibit anyone under 16 from using these devices, and hoverboards are banned in academic institutions and public places, like campus buildings, parks, shopping malls and subway stations. Some places have also put speed limits on the devices and restricted their use to bike paths. However, open areas — including your yard — are free of these restrictions.
【1】The logic board of a hoverboard can ______.
A.store electricity
B.power the wheels
C.send information to the riders
D.receive data and give command
【2】According to the passage, a hoverboard can be used ______.
A.on campus
B.in parks
C.on bike paths
D.in shopping malls
【3】What is the main purpose of this passage?
A.To evaluate a gift’s quality.
B.To recommend a gift choice.
C.To compare new hoverboard models.
D.To clarify functions of the latest hoverboards.
22、 My best friend travelled to stay with my family last weekend. when she arrived, she went straight to the kitchen and, without asking, ate some dried fruit. She wasn’t being rude. I knew she would do this. We’ve known each other for almost 20 years. She can eat anything she wants from my kitchen. Indeed, I bought her favorite fruits and snacks at the shop that morning.
Our long weekend together was simple. I was recovering from surgery and couldn't go to shopping malls, We passed the time running errands(差事), but there's never been a quiet moment. We’ve lived in different cities for almost a decade, Reunions demand conversation.
Our personalities are matched, to be sure,and a shared history is indescribably(难以形容地)valuable. We were competitors at high school before bonding. Then we discovered the many interests that we had in common. Our friendship developed itself quickly. We stayed companions and supported each other through law school and through our first jobs. Ours is a friendship for the ages.
There is something special about friends who know everything about you. They are rare. They have seen your bright lights of achievements, the depths of desperation(绝望的境地)and the boring routine of the in-between. It's special to unpack feelings without wasting time filling in the blanks. As my long weekend shows, with such friends we don't have to “do”, but we simply have to “be”. We drop the act, the performance, the public version of ourselves, The special friendships are those which never fail to delight, whose continuation is worth the extra effort, despite distance and difference in our separate lives. I had the very great joy of this reminder last weekend. I'm lucky to have found this friend, and to see a future where her companionship remains. Being together is perfection.
【1】What can we infer from Para. 2?
A.They talked constantly about their lives. B.They enjoyed running errands.
C.They had a noisy weekend D.They quarreled at times.
【2】What does the author appreciate about their friendship?
A.They help each other achieve in their fields
B.They’re best friends despite different hobbies
C.They inspire each other to be their best selves.
D.They' re comfortable just being themselves
【3】What message is conveyed in the last paragraph?
A.Real friends are easy to make
B.Good friendships need devotion
C.Special friendships may fail to delight.
D.Distance and difference bring friendship
【4】Why does the author write this text?
A.To express thanks to her best friend
B.To share the friendship she treasures.
C.To describe what her best friend is like
D.To explain how she offers help to her friend
23、When I read that we spend almost three hours every day checking our smartphones, I was shocked. What was I missing in the real world when walking down the street, lost in a virtual world of social media updates and videos of dogs on bicycles? I promised myself I would use my smartphone less, but it didn’t happen. Then one day my phone died and I had to wait a week for a new one.【1】I thought it would be hard, but in fact it was quite easy—and surprising in a good way for a number of reasons!
The first consequence was quite amazing—On the first day in the office without my phone, I was thinking more deeply and concentrating more. I rediscovered my brain!【2】Another consequence was that I actually talked to people more and felt more connected to them. I realized I was being more responsive to their news and sympathetic to their problems because I wasn’t constantly checking my phone. 【3】Their kindness made me feel welcome, and I discovered my brain has very good GPS!
At the very beginning, I was worried that I would be bored without my phone, but actually I enjoyed it—I’d forgotten how much I love books and newspapers.【4】And I also sensed that I slept so much better and felt more awake in the morning.
At times it was inconvenient to have no mobile internet connection, but all in all, there were a lot of benefits from not being connected 24/7. So, if you think you use your smartphone too much, put it away for a few days and see what happens.【5】
A.Would I survive?
B.What’s the problem?
C.You never know, you may become smarter!
D.Without a phone at hand I was more productive.
E.Reading everyday made me feel a lot more special.
F.I’m a lot more careful about how much I use it now.
G.Another day I was in a new city and I asked people for directions.
24、 On my fourth day in a self-driving car, I finally felt comfortable enough to let it stop itself. Before then, Id allowed the car- a Volvo S90 sedan to control the direction, with my hands still on the wheel, and to adjust speed in traffic. By Day 4, I was ready to make a jump into the future.
With the car traveling on a busy road, I activated the driverless mode. Soon, a traffic light turned red. For a split second, I prepared to get on the brakes. There was no need. The cameras and computers in the Volvo recognized the traffic conditions and smoothly began applying the brake.
If you're anything like most people, you're familiar with this anxiety. Almost 80 percent of Americans fear traveling in a self-driving car, a recent survey found.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have conducted some clever experiments studying the phenomenon. They asked participants to complete tasks and compared their performance with a computer system's. After the computer made a mistake, people were unwilling to use it again. After the people made mistakes, their self-confidence wouldn't change. It didn't matter that the human beings made more mistakes than the computer. So it is with driving. More than 37,000 Americans died in crashes last year, most from human error. The death count from cars goes beyond that from guns. So if you are shocked and angry by guns and want things to change, you should feel the same about car crashes.
Technology creates an opportunity to save lives. Computers don't get drunk or distracted by text messages, and they don't have blind spots. Just look at commercial airlines: Automation has helped all but get rid of deadly crashes among American air carriers. The last one happened in 2009.
The technology for self-driving cars still isn't good enough. But it is improving rapidly. Within a few years, many cars will have advanced crash-avoidance systems and driving will be revolutionized sooner than many people now understand.
【1】How does the author introduce the topic?
A.By offering a piece of news. B.By describing an experience.
C.By giving background information. D.By introducing a latest car.
【2】What can we know from the fourth paragraph?
A.The participants lost self-confidence after making mistakes.
B.The participants would ignore the mistakes made by the computer.
C.Car crashes is no less shocking than gun incidents.
D.The death count from cars is the same as that from guns.
【3】The author mentioned commercial airlines___________.
A.to advertise for the commercial airlines. B.to assess the security of driverless cars.
C.to find fault with computers. D.to prove the advantage of technology.
【4】What's the author's attitude towards self-driving cars?
A.Favorable. B.Indifferent.
C.Skeptical. D.Concerned.
25、Until a few years ago, I was a calm person. If you were going to offend me or verbally ______ me, I almost never lost temper ______; of course I felt hurt, but I didn’t show it.
Then, one day, I met my husband and I fell in love with him, a proud ______ who loudly discusses things even with himself when he’s not happy. Things, however, got worse for me when we started ______ on things. He seemed really angry while I seemed polite. Truth is that I was ______ too, but I was used to not showing it on the outside. Fight after fight, he always acted as if nothing had happened a few minutes after each quarrel, while my moments of ______ discontent started to expand until they became hours, sometimes even days.
I felt this had to change and the conversation went ______ like this:
Me: “Either you change your ______ when we fight or I will start avoiding any discussion, otherwise this will ______ our relationship.”
Him: “Did you ______ the Mpemba Effect? If you put two ______ containers filled with the same amount of the same water into the freezer except that one has boiling water in it while the other one has water at ambient (周围的) ______, the boiling water will ______ faster than the ambient water. Baby, you got to boil first, to cool down faster. That’s why the Italians live longer than Canadians.”
The connection he suggested is to be ______, but I have learned a fact I didn’t know, one that has inspired me to understand that if I’m angry about something or someone, for that anger to disappear, it has to be towards the outside or otherwise it is like hiding ______ under the carpet: your house might look clean, but it is not.
【1】
A.praise
B.impress
C.attack
D.defend
【2】
A.in turn
B.in public
C.in secret
D.in time
【3】
A.Chinese
B.American
C.Canadian
D.Italian
【4】
A.disagreeing
B.operating
C.working
D.trying
【5】
A.boiling
B.struggling
C.controlling
D.preparing
【6】
A.inner
B.outer
C.extra
D.distinct
【7】
A.up and down
B.by and by
C.sooner or later
D.more or less
【8】
A.vision
B.viewpoint
C.attitude
D.attention
【9】
A.improve
B.affect
C.mend
D.clarify
【10】
A.learn from
B.worry about
C.hear about
D.hear from
【11】
A.mobile
B.relevant
C.solid
D.similar
【12】
A.temperature
B.sound
C.level
D.environment
【13】
A.explode
B.burst
C.freeze
D.flow
【14】
A.suspected
B.proven
C.inspected
D.created
【15】
A.money
B.water
C.treasure
D.dust
26、Directions: Read the following three passages. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
American College of Physicians 'stepped out of its lane" by placing gun control in medical education. Stanley Gold-farb, formerly the associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, argued that teaching social justice issues and population health comes "at the expense of strict training in medical science" at a time when sub-specialists are in short supply. But many physicians, ourselves included, think social issues should be at the heart of medical education.
Formal medical school typically takes four years, followed by several years of residency(住院医生实习期)and often a fellowship(研究员职位), and during that short time students have a wide range of competing requirements. They must learn complex biological and chemical pathways that explain diseases and health. They must be educated on how to read the the scientific literature and apply it to their patients. They must master many therapies and know how to adapt them to patients' varied diseases states. On top of all this, they must learn to communicate effectively and compassionately with patients and colleagues.
Being a good doctor also demands that we understand the reasons behind poor health. Our mission is not simply to diagnose, manage and treat. Physicians should act to prevent the root causes of illness and improve well-being. Physicians are trained to tackle problems at their root. System and structural-level social issues are also drivers of poor health, and it is our duty to address them. Medical training must evolve to produce doctors who are able to not only treat the individual but also understand the larger influencers of health -- of which gun violence is most emphatically one. As medical professors, we would fail our students -- and our patients - if we expected any less.