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1、My parents aren’t _______ me going abroad for education, fearing that I'm too young to take care of myself.
A．in charge of
B．in favor of
C．in need of
D．in praise of
2、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
3、You________so slowly. I just needed a few seconds to get used to your voice.
A．shouldn’t speak
B．couldn’t have spoken
C．don’t have to
D．needn’t have spoken
4、As is often the case, there are always some obstacles in the way，something ________ before we realize the real goal of education.
A. to be got through B. got through
C. getting through D. having been got through
5、Volunteering is pleasant and there is so much more I could do if I ________ the time.
A.had had B.had C.would have D.could have had
6、It was two days after he arrived at the mountain village______ he found the villagers faced with a severe shortage of clean drinking water.
A.when B.since C.where D.that
7、The cost of living in big cities ________ steadily for many years，and it has led some youths to drop out of the big city race.
A. is climbing B. is being climbed
C. has been climbing D. has been climbed
8、If you have a job, ______ yourself to it and finally you’ll succeed.
A. do devote B. to devote
C. devoting D. devoted
9、Chinese medical teams have made tremendous to contain the spread of Covid-19.
A.appointments B.headlines C.sacrifices D.compromises
10、Swimming is good for teenagers, ________ some experts say will help them to stimulate their potential and promote their brain development.
A．which
B．why
C．Whom
D．what
11、---I can’t find Mr. Smith. Where did you meet him this morning?
---It was in his office ____ he worked.
A．where
B．which
C．that
D．the one
12、—Didn’t you go fishing with your friends last Sunday?
—No. I ______ to the nursing home as usual.
A. went B. go C. have gone D. had gone
13、Sherry has taught me that no matter how bad things seem they can ______ in the end.
A. work out B. make out
C. set out D. pick out
14、Think carefully before you answer questions online. You may be ______ into giving away very important personal information.
A. caught B. addicted
C. seized D. trapped
15、— Do you know anything about British history?
—______________. I have no interest in it.
A. Take it easy! B. Please don’t bother.
C. It’s up to you. D. No. It’s beyond me.
16、Jack wasn’t saying anything, but the teacher smiled at him ________he had done something very clever.
A.as if B.in case
C.while D.though
17、One of the biggest culture differences I noticed in London was ______ the people of London conducted themselves..
A．that
B．how
C．what
D．why
18、The purpose of the article is to draw public attention ______ the traffic problem.
A. to B. on C. in D. for
19、It’s __________ him to be late; he is usually on time.
A.typical B.unlike C.universal D.unlikely
20、Both Class 3 and our class won't be able to finish the work unless we ______________ each other.
A.come up with B.team up with
C.put up with D.catch up with
21、 Food companies engineer junk food to make it addictive. They label their products to make them seem much healthier than they are. Their advertisements target children. All of this is according to a news report read recently by students in a Texas middle school. They were taking part in an experiment run by the University of Chicago and the University of Texas. “I don't understand how this is even legal, ” said a girl who took part in the study.
Researchers had students learn about food-industry advertising strategies. They wanted to know if learning about them would change how kids feel about junk food. All over the world, kids are eating more foods that are high in salt, sugar, and fat. That is partly the result of clever ads that make junk food irresistible. Christopher J. Bryan led the study. He says that when kids question the motives behind junk food ads, they feel like they're fighting injustice. The reward is knowing they are doing the right thing.
Junk food has been linked to health problems such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes，But in 2018，food companies spent nearly $9 billion TV ads selling unhealthy fare. Companies use varying strategies. An ad with cartoon characters may make chips seen fun to eat. A professional athlete enjoying a sugary drink may make it look cool. Advertisers know that if kids want a product, they'll annoy their parents to buy it. Even parents don't notice the power of ads. By the time they are adults they have been used to junk-food advertising. They just don't see it.
In the Texas study, Bryan had students view ads on iPad. Their job was to write or draw on the screen, to make each ad's message true. For example, a McDonald's ad showed a Big Mac (巨无霸) and the words “The thing you want when you order salad. ” To the end of the sentence, a student added “should be salad”.
Three months after analyzing ads, students were still choosing healthier snacks: milk instead of sugary juices, fruit over cookies. Kids are becoming conscious of themselves as agents in the world. They see a chance to make the world a better place.
【1】What is the purpose of the experiment?
A.To survey what snacks children like best. B.To guide children against unhealthy food.
C.To find ways to make junk food healthy. D.To teach children how to pick out legal food.
【2】How do children feel about junk food advertisements after the experiment?
A.Cool. B.Legal.
C.Funny. D.Misleading.
【3】Why are parents unaware of the harm of junk food advertisements?
A.Parents have never seen such junk food advertisements.
B.Advertisements have blinded them since they were young.
C.The food industry has special advertising strategies for parents.
D.Parents have to agree with their children about the junk food.
【4】How did students conduct the experiment?
A.By correcting unreal advertisements. B.By offering suggestions to food industry.
C.By making up their own advertisements. D.By studying food industry advertising strategies.
22、According to a recent study, children explore more than adults and it helps them learn better than grown-ups. The study notes when adults attempt something new but get a negative result, they often won’t try it again.
Dr. Alison Gopnik, one of the co-authors, said “That might seem like the most basic kind of intelligence—even rats stay away from a path leading to a shock. The downside is that we will never learn the world is more complicated. Children, however, have intense curiosity and drive to explore and this helps them learn many different things and quickly.”
Together with NYU scientist Emily Liquin, Gopnik conducted a scientific experiment to test if young children’s drive to explore more than grown-ups influences the way they learn.
They gave 64 young children and 87 adults a game where each placed different blocks on a machine with one rule: If the machine lights up, they get a prize consisting of a star, but if the machine doesn’t light up, they lose twice as much. The goal of the game was to discover that all the blocks work except for the ones with white spots.
Most of the children were able to figure out the rule correctly, whereas more than 70% adults couldn’t, but it came at a cost: The children earned fewer stars.
The experiment shows adults often leap to faster conclusions, while children are more willing to explore and gather more information before they decide on a result.
The experiment only studied four to seven-year-olds compared to adults in the United States, noting more research is needed to generalize it to a broader population and context, according to the paper.
Gopnik concludes, “We grown-ups are often so anxious to exploit that we don’t explore, so afraid of losing stars that we miss the chance to learn something new. Children, however, are natural explorers, willing to sacrifice stars for the sake of information. We need both types of thinking to grow up, but adults might learn something from those curious kids.”
【1】Why did Gopnik mention rats in Paragraph 2?
A．To show adults’ avoiding bad results is understandable.
B．To compare whether adults are much cleverer than rats.
C．To tell us rats are appropriate subjects in experiments.
D．To suggest that rats are clever enough to choose safe paths.
【2】What do we know about the experiment?
A．It aimed to test if children have more drive to explore.
B．Most adults could understand the game rule correctly.
C．Children got better results than adults in the game.
D．It has some limitations and needs further research.
【3】What does Gopnik mean according to the last paragraph?
A．Adults’ way of thinking should be abandoned.
B．The two ways of thinking should be combined.
C．Children are better at getting information.
D．Adults should learn to think in children’s way.
【4】Based on the study, which of the following is desirable in educating kids?
A．Inspiring kids to explore regardless of risks.
B．Encouraging kids to be brave to try new things.
C．Motivating kids to draw conclusions quickly.
D．Teaching kids not to care about gains and losses.
23、 Years of exposure to Americans has, at last, convinced me of something about their food culture. I now think they’re correct in one of life’s great dilemmas: when eating at a restaurant, it is really fine to politely send your food back if it is not what you ordered, or covered in cheese when you asked for no cheese, etc.
Of course, the idea makes me feel anxious; the British fear of making a scene is planted in my soul. But what persuaded me, in the end, was realizing how self-centered that fear actually is. Are you really such a big deal that your no-cheese request will embarrass your fellow diners, ruin the waiter's day, and send waves of shock through the kitchen? Face it: you're not. Instead, you're in the situation of what might be termed “egocentric reticence (以自我为中心的沉默).”
Egocentric reticence raised its head again the other day in a study about gratitude, which found that people underestimate how much delight a thank-you note can bring. The psychologists Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley had people send grateful messages to someone who'd made a difference to their lives. Again and again, they found, senders assumed their words would lead to less happiness and more awkwardness than they really did, and that recipients would judge their letter-writing competence cruelly, too. Even in the seemingly selfless context of expressing gratitude, senders couldn’t help giving too much weight to their own perspective. So if you stop yourself from sending someone a thank-you note because you're worried you'll make them feel awkward or annoyed, you are letting egocentrism prevent an action that would have made both of you happier.
The most acute form of egocentric reticence, surely, is extreme shyness. “Shyness is just egotism out of its depth,” famous actress Penelope Keith once told an interviewer. The quote was later regarded as a line the writer Sadie Stein credits with curing her own shyness. “For some reason, the clear cruelty of that quote was what I needed, ” Stein wrote. “OK, I thought... No one is looking at you.”
【1】Before contacting Americans, the author thought sending restaurant food back was ________.
A．certainly a customer's right
B．fine to do just in some cultures
C．acceptable but not worthy sometimes
D．embarrassing and would cause trouble
【2】If someone is in a situation of egocentric reticence, he might ________.
A．hesitate to do something due to self-centered reasons
B．keep sending waves of shock to others
C．be ignorant of other people's feelings
D．do something extremely embarrassing
【3】What did the study about gratitude find?
A．People may regard sending grateful messages unimportant.
B．It's common for Americans to send a thank-you letter.
C．It's important to thank others after being helped.
D．People often take a thank-you note for granted.
【4】What does Sadie Stein's story tell us?
A．We sometimes need shyness to behave well.
B．We should pay no attention to other people's thoughts.
C．We can overcome our shyness by removing our egotism.
D．We should avoid being exposed to other people's focus.
24、From little hummingbirds (蜂鸟) to big wild geese, roughly half of the world’s more than 10, 000 bird species migrate. Longer wings and strong flying muscles often help these birds fly in the air for a long distance. But a new study of nearly all bird species suggests many migrators share another unexpected flight aid: lighter-colored feathers.
Researchers say that having more lightly colored feathers than non-migrating birds may help these long-distance flyers stay cool as they work hard under the hot sun to fly.
It’s known that color can help birds hide from some dangerous animals which can hunt them as food, or attract mates by standing out. But color has delicate effects too, including regulating temperature by absorbing or reflecting light, says Kaspar Delhey. For example, bird eggs laid in colder climates tend to be darker, which may help keep them warm.
Migrating birds push their bodies to the physiological limit, which creates more heat. Some species dealing with the problem by flying to cooler air during daytime. “If overheating is a problem in migratory birds, another way of dealing with that would be to evolve lighter colors that absorb less heat,” Delhey says.
Delhey and his colleagues analyzed over 20, 000 pictures of 10, 618 bird species, ranking wing lightness for each species and comparing that with how far the birds fly. On average, lightness slightly increased with migratory distance, the team found. The longest-distance migrators were about 4 percent lighter than no-migrators, an effect that wasn’t explained by size, climate or habitat type for different species.
“It’s not a big difference,” Delhey says, noting that many migrators are darkly colored, perhaps for reasons unrelated to flight. But the trend was significantly consistent.
【1】What advantage of the migrators is beyond people’s knowledge?
A．They have large groups.
B．They have longer wings.
C．They have strong bodies.
D．They have lighter-colored feathers.
【2】Why does the author mention the example of the bird eggs?
A．To indicate that the dark colors can reflect light.
B．To explain why birds keep eggs warm in cold climates.
C．To prove that color plays a role in adjusting temperatures.
D．To show how color helps birds avoid being seen by hunters.
【3】What problem do migrators have to deal with during migration?
A．The lack of food.
B．The long distance.
C．The cooler and cooler climate.
D．The increasing body temperature.
【4】How did the researchers get their conclusion?
A．By checking figures.
B．By making comparisons.
C．By making questionnaires.
D．By drawing pictures.
25、During the lockdown, my husband, Bob, and I were offered a pingpong table. I am a non-athlete but Bob does well in pingpong.
“What are we going to do with that pingpong table?” Bob asked me.
“The two of us will _______ ,” I replied. Bob looked doubtful.
I lost every game and I told myself that it didn’t _______ that I always lost. I was playing for _______ and to provide a positive experience in a difficult time. But there were days when I _______ losing. Once I threw my paddle(球拍) across the yard angrily. Then Bob _______ I play with a handicap(让分) of 12 points. That _______ a lot—I sometimes won! I’d never been interested in any kind of sport. But pingpong became the _______ of my day. I began to get better and won more games. My handicap _______ to 8.
My husband and I _______ the worst of the lockdowns through pingpong. It ________ me that even a self-described bookworm can learn a new sport. The ________ was my husband’s suggestion that I play with a handicap so I’d have an equal ________ to win. He doesn’t like to lose either, but it’s more fun for him if I actually want to participate and ________ it. It takes two willing partners to play table tennis, after all, and two people with an equal chance in each other’s ________ to make a marriage. Simply put, when it comes to table tennis—or any other ________ —there is no ping without a pong.
【1】
A．sell
B．play
C．share
D．donate
【2】
A．happen
B．change
C．remain
D．matter
【3】
A．courage
B．honour
C．exercise
D．hobby
【4】
A．hated
B．avoided
C．missed
D．imagined
【5】
A．suggested
B．demanded
C．required
D．insisted
【6】
A．meant
B．helped
C．finished
D．lasted
【7】
A．fantasy
B．anxiety
C．memory
D．highlight
【8】
A．turned
B．added
C．dropped
D．linked
【9】
A．marched into
B．got through
C．passed by
D．came across
【10】
A．promised
B．persuaded
C．warned
D．taught
【11】
A．reason
B．key
C．goal
D．purpose
【12】
A．partnership
B．stage
C．amount
D．chance
【13】
A．enjoy
B．regret
C．deserve
D．receive
【14】
A．kindness
B．friendliness
C．happiness
D．business
【15】
A．experience
B．education
C．relationship
D．schedule
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两端，使之构成一个完整的故事。
In my early forties, I was diagnosed with late stage breast cancer. As a non-smoker who ate the right foods and exercised daily, all I could think was, "Why me?" My great fear and anxiety of the long term treatment ahead restricted me from seeing a bright side.
A few months later, my neighbor Greg fell off a roof and was paralyzed（瘫痪）from the waist down. Only thirty at the time, he was an enthusiastic outdoors man, besides he had a six-week-old baby. I could only imagine his despair. In a matter of seconds, he went from being an active young man to being helpless. I thought about visiting him, but didn't know if he felt like seeing anybody. Worse, I didn't know what to say.
Later that fall, hoping to take advantage of the sunny and pleasant day, I decided to go for a short walk. But now the treatment had run out of the last of my energy. Depressed, I had turned around to go back home when Greg drove by honking（按喇叭）and waving as if he hadn't a care in the world. To say the least, I was shocked to see the disabled man had driven his car successfully.
Feeling guilty for not visiting sooner, I visited Greg's house the following weekend. Before I could ring the doorbell, I heard wheels rolling on the hard wooden floor. In a cheerful voice, Greg yelled, "Come on in!"
We sat down, and I worked up the courage to ask him how he was doing. He answered, "I'm not going to lie. At first, all I did was be in low spirits, making not only myself but everyone around me miserable. As far as I was concerned, my life was over, and nothing anyone said or did could change my mood, " Excited and proud, Greg couldn't help keeping speaking and told me all his story at last.
注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:
"Then one day, my dad, whose motto is ‘Improvise（随机应变）, adapt, overcome’, stopped by and had a talk with me" Greg said.
Paragraph 2:
When I got ready to leave, I hugged Greg and told him I admired his courage.
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