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1、Why ______________ to go abroad to study, when there are so many good universities at home?
A. imagines B. bother
C. consider D. prevent
2、______ his love, Chris sent his mom a thank-you note on Mother’s Day.
A. Expressing B. Expressed C. To express D. Having expressed
3、________inspires the whole nation is that China has scored a complete victory in its fight against poverty.
A．Who
B．Which
C．That
D．What
4、–What would you like, beer or juice?
–______. Give me some Cola please.
A. Either B. Neither C.Both D. None
5、It was David dreamed to be an interpreter, _____ he joined a translation club at the age of 16.
A. but B. so C. or D. for
6、With rising work pressure in big cities, Zhang Yixuan decided to return to his hometown. Before that, he _________ at a media company since his university graduation.
A. had been working B. had worked C. worked D. has worked
7、The article is ready to publish, ________ to your approval.
A.entitled B.similar C.attached D.subject
8、--- 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
9、You look beautiful in this dress and there is only one of this kind left here. I wonder if you would buy ________.
A.it B.one
C.some D.any
10、Though ________ behind and feeling awkward, Jack kept on running until he reached the
finishing line.
A. leaving B. having left C. left D. being left
11、China will launch several cooperation projects with other developing countries for climate change.
A.intending B.having intended C.intended D.intend
12、The professor could tell by the ______ look in Maria’s eyes that she didn’t understand a single word of his lecture.
A.cold B.blank C.innocent D.empty
13、－You know, people have different opinions about the construction of the project.
－We welcome any comments from them, favorable or _______.
A. so B. otherwise
C. else D. rather
14、He would have been willing to accompany me________him how important it was to me.
A.if I have told B.had I told C.should I tell D.if I could tell
15、________ a full discussion of the problem, the committee spent a whole hour exchanging their ideas at the meeting.
A．Have
B．Having
C．Had
D．To have
16、We know you care about your home and family. ________ you wouldn't be reading Ideal Home.
A．Therefore
B．Otherwise
C．Instead
D．Meanwhile
17、—Hello. I’d like to have a talk with Mr. Smith staying in your hotel.
—I’m sorry, he isn’t here. He ________ this morning.
A.checked in B.dropped in
C.checked out D.dropped out
18、You’d better go there by train. The train ticket is __________the airplane ticket.
A．as cheap three times as
B．as three times cheap as
C．three times cheaper than
D．cheaper three times than
19、It’s a pity that Notre Dame Cathedral (巴黎圣母院) ________ fire on April 16, 2019.
A.set B.made C.caught D.put
20、We’d better go now, ______ we’ll miss the train.
A. but B. so C. otherwise D. therefore
21、 Joshua Plotnik and his colleagues carried out the tests on six 12-45-year-old Asian elephants living in the grounds of a hotel in northern Thailand. The buckets containing the seeds were not clear enough to see through and had a lid with small holes to let the smell out. In experiments, the elephants chose the greater quantity of seeds in each pair, regardless of the quantity of seeds presented. The accuracy of the prediction was better when the difference between each pair increased.
This is thought to be the first time that an animal is able to use its sense of smell to make a simple calculation of whether one of two quantities is more or less than another-the most basic form of math.
Many animal species have shown an ability to tell apart between more and less when presented with different amounts of food. But they have used vision to discriminate. Dogs have been unable to show they can perform the same trick in tests of their abilities to smell.
For an elephant this ability could be very important. Elephants often travel long distances to find better-quality food and water, which can differ according to seasonal availability, changes to their environment, and a risk they could be attacked by humans. The best performers were able to get it right more than 80 per cent of the time.
The scientists suggest that male elephants are better at the task because they need to eat more food, making it more important that their sense of smell is keener. Males also have to sniff out females in heat over long distances in order to reproduce.
They say that while elephants do use vision, particularly in close contexts where they react to each other’s body language, they use it mainly to match their more powerful senses-hearing, smell and touch.
That elephants have a powerful sense of smell is perhaps unsurprising. They have more genes related to smell than any other animal: 2,000 compared to around 800 for a dog.
【1】What special ability do elephants have?
A.Use their trunks to find different smells.
B.Distinguish between more and less food.
C.Smell the differences of food quality.
D.Per form the basic math calculation.
【2】What does the underlined word “discriminate” mean?
A.Choose. B.Indicate.
C.Measure. D.Distinguish.
【3】Why do elephants often travel long distances?
A.To find where the better food is.
B.To find where humans wait to attack them.
C.To find where the environment has changed.
D.To find where they can adapt to the climate.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A.Elephants can do simple math puzzles
B.Elephants can “count” with their trunks
C.Elephants can smell the quality of food
D.Elephants can use vision to communicate
22、How Super Are Supermarkets?
Buying e week’s groceries is tiring. You want to get it over and done with quickly, so you head for the nearest supermarket, you find everything you need under one roof, and you feel glad that those days of going in and out of different shops in the high street are over. Supermarkets seem to be a big plus. There is a downside, though.
In the UK 90% of all the food people consume is bought at 5 different supermarket chains. This makes these companies extremely powerful, which lets them use their huge buying power to squeeze small suppliers to get the best deal. Milk is a good example. Supermarkets like to use things like milk, which is the top of almost everyone’s shopping list to attract customers. To offer the lowest price possible to the consumer, the supermarkets force dairy farmers to sell milk at less than the cost of production. Supermarkets guarantee their good profits while farmers are left struggling to make ends meet, and the taxpayer pays to support the system without even knowing it.
It would be nice if local grocers supported local agriculture. But for the big supermarkets this just doesn’t make sense. Supermarkets don’t want little farmers thinking they can decide prices. So supermarkets have started a global search for the cheapest possible agricultural produce. In many supermarkets it is difficult to find anything which is produced locally.
UK farmers used to grow a lot of apples. Not anymore. In 1999 36% of apples were imported. By 2015 the figure had risen to 80% and the domestic production of apples had fallen by two thirds. The consumer might just be happy to get a reasonably priced meal made up of foods from Thailand, Spain, Italy and Zambia, but we should also bear in mind the Influence on local producers.
Then there’s packaging. Supermarkets like everything to be packed and wrapped so it can be piled neatly on shelves. Supermarkets produce nearly 10 million tons of waste packaging in the UK every year, of which less 5%is recycled. Some supermarkets make sure that large recycling bins are obvious in their car parks, showing that they are environment-friendly. But that is just an image.
When a new supermarket is planned there are claims about the number of new jobs that will be created. Unfortunately, the number of jobs lost in the area is larger than the number of new positions in the supermarket. On average each new supermarket leads to the loss of 276 jobs.
However, the modern world is all about shopping, and the freedom to buy whatever you what, so it would be impossible to stop people shopping at some particular kind of shop. But some measures do need to be taken when small suppliers lose profits, local producers suffer, sea levels rise and jobs are lost, anyway, we can’t just care about a free car park and special offers.
【1】The author mentions “milk” in paragraph 2 to explain how supermarkets ____________.
A. harm small suppliers ‘benefits
B. support local dairy farmer
C.cheat the taxpayers
D.provide customers with the cheapest product
【2】According to the passage, supermarkets keep price advantage by_______________.
A. competing against each other
B. reducing product tax
C. purchasing local products
D. importing foreign products
【3】What is the author’s attitude towards supermarkets?
A. Doubtful B. Sympathetic
C. Critical D. Cautious
23、 Large oceangoing vessels like oil tankers and cruise ships produce noise that travels long distances underwater. That audio pollution can disturb the sounds that marine mammals, fish and other animals use to communicate.
Emily Carter, a sensory ecologist from University of Exeter wondered whether ship noise might also be harmful to animals that don’t rely on sound for communication. For example, young shore crabs that use camouflage (伪装) to hide from predators. “So they can actually change their color to match whatever it is that they’re sitting on, basically to make it harder for predators to find them.” Carter explained.
She suspected that stress from ship noise might affect the change process. To find out, she and her colleagues collected shore crabs with dark shells and brought them back to the lab. They placed the crabs in tanks full of white small stones. An underwater speaker in each tank played quiet natural sounds at all times. One group of crabs also heard loud natural sounds every hour. But another group was subjected to hourly recordings of large ships.
Carter says shorebirds, which eat the crabs, can see UV light, so she used ultraviolet (紫外线) photography to determine how well the crabs blended into their new habitat over time.
“Through the eyes of a shorebird — so through bird’s perspective — were they camouflaged? Weren’t they camouflaged? How obvious would they be?”
After eight weeks, the crabs that heard only natural sounds had become much lighter and were well camouflaged. But the ones that were exposed to the ship noise didn’t change color as much. And then, as a result, they weren’t as camouflaged at the end of the experiment. So they’d be much more manifest to predator.
Carter says the stress caused by ship noise may affect hormones that regulate color change in crabs or destroy the energy needed to make the change efficiently. The research not only puts a spotlight on the unintended consequences of noise pollution, but is a reminder that too much stress isn’t just bad for people — it can also be deadly to wildlife that needs some peace and quiet.
【1】Why is ultraviolet photography used in the experiment?
A．To scare away shorebirds.
B．To kill the bacteria in crabs’ new habitat.
C．To test the effectiveness of crab’s camouflage.
D．To monitor the shorebird population in nighttime.
【2】What does the underlined word “manifest” mean in Paragraph 6?
A．Avoidable.
B．Noticeable.
C．Changeable.
D．Adjustable.
【3】Which of the following is true?
A．Carter conducted the experiment on her own.
B．The crab that heard natural sound lost some weight.
C．Carter created three kinds of living environment for crabs.
D．The crab that heard ship noise slightly changed their color.
【4】What did the research find?
A．Noises do harm to us people.
B．Wildlife needs a quiet environment.
C．Crabs aren’t camouflaged in new habitats.
D．Stress can change the hormones in humans.
24、I walked up to the counter.Behind it was a lady with glasses on the tip of her nose and gray hair on her head.
"Excuse me," I said.She looked up."You're that Clements kid," she said."I'm Miss Bee.Come closer and let me get a look at you." She pushed her glasses up her nose."I can describe you to the police if something goes missing from the store."
"I'm not a thief!" I was shocked.I was seven,too young to be a thief!
"From what I can see,you're not much of anything.But I can tell you've got potential." She went back to reading her newspaper.
"I need to get these."I said,holding up my list."So? Go get them."Miss Bee pointed to a sign on the screen door. "I'm not your servant,so I suggest you get yourself a basket and start filling."
I visited Miss Bee several times a week that summer.Sometimes she short-changed me.Other times she overcharged. "That can of beans is only twenty nine cents" I corrected her one afternoon.I had watched the numbers change on the cash register closely,and Miss Bee had added 35 cents.She didn't seem embarrassed.She just looked at me over her glasses and fixed the price.
But she ever let me declare victory.All summer long she found ways to play tricks on me.No sooner had I learned how to pronounce bicarbonate of soda（小苏打）and memorized its location on the shelf than Miss Bee rearranged the shelve and made me hunt for it all over again.
One day before I left,she said,"I know what you think of me,but I don't care! Each of us is put on this earth for a reason.I believe my job is to teach every child I meet life lessons.When you get older you'll be glad our paths crossed!"Glad I met Miss Bee? Ha! The idea was absurd...
Until one day my daughter asked me to finish her math problems. "If I do it for you,how will you ever learn to do it yourself?" I said.Suddenly,I remembered the lady Miss Bee.
【1】The girl felt when Miss Bee implied she could be a thief.
A. surprised B. shocked
C. puzzled D. annoyed
【2】We can infer from Paragraph 6 that Miss Bee .
A. showed no care about her mistakes
B. made the girl learn to double-check
C. was always playing tricks on the girl
D. was careless and dishonest to do business
【3】It can be learned from the passage that Miss Bee .
A. knew her job was to help every child she met
B. asked the girl to shop by herself to test her honesty
C. taught the girl many lessons but she didn't understand
D. rearranged the shelves to teach the girl to be changeable
【4】Which is NOT the lesson the writer learnt from shopping?
A. Treat others kindly and politely.
B. Don't be so quick to judge others.
C. The best teachers aren't only in school.
D. Try our best though the task seems beyond us.
25、 There’re many ordinary people who have been volunteering for decades. When Sholapurkar got a call from the Red Cross ______ whether he could help get in touch with some ______ donors, he said “Yes!” and acted at once.
He started contacting voluntary donors. Through efforts, he ______ scores of people to go to the blood bank and donate their blood. “There is ______ in the air when people think of donating blood. So it’s my task to help them overcome fear, ______ confidence in them and tell them through my own safety practice that it’s ______ to donate blood,” Sholapurkar says.
Sholapurkar has been donating blood for more than 40 years—163 times to be ______. “As I complete 90 days after a donation, I feel my body and mind ______ me towards a blood bank,” Sholapurkar laughs.
For Sholapurkar, regular blood donation is not only a healthy ______, but also one way of showing that you ______ others. “Voluntary blood donation is just a(n) ______ thing. Nobody can force you to do it and you just do it ______ love for other people. It brings you a sense of ______ when you know your blood will be used to save someone’s life. That’s a very powerful feeling indeed.” He also ______ his first donation experience, “My mother was rather upset first, but she voiced ______ when I explained to her how blood donation helped.”
Sholapurkar has worked in various non-profit ______ like the Red Cross over the years. He has devoted most of his time ______ the message of the significance of blood donation. He tells people not to be under the ______ that blood donation has side effects. Actually, a donor will remain healthy and ______ to other people’s fitness ______.
A．guessing
B．assessing
C．enquiring
D．stating
A．willing
B．passive
C．helpless
D．curious
A．allowed
B．convinced
C．promised
D．required
A．joy
B．faith
C．sorrow
D．horror
A．express
B．inspire
C．shake
D．regain
A．secure
B．natural
C．complicated
D．desperate
A．honest
B．guilty
C．considerate
D．exact
A．forgiving
B．dragging
C．leaving
D．delaying
A．theme
B．origin
C．practice
D．source
A．care for
B．watch over
C．depend on
D．wake up
A．abstract
B．public
C．personal
D．intentional
A．away from
B．far from
C．regardless of
D．out of
A．belonging
B．loss
C．sympathy
D．satisfaction
A．admitted
B．related
C．planned
D．regretted
A．impatience
B．complaint
C．support
D．defence
A．organizations
B．schools
C．countries
D．apartments
A．editing
B．collecting
C．evaluating
D．spreading
A．principle
B．impression
C．responsibility
D．direction
A．object
B．adapt
C．contribute
D．turn
A．meanwhile
B．though
C．instead
D．otherwise
26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband , Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children as we would go there when he made everything settled.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He almost got lost in those unfamiliar blocks. When he came back in the late afternoon, he discovered that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport. For a while, he was overwhelmed with depression with no one to turn to.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there，lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend. My husband was so excited about the return of the suitcase. Meanwhile, the kindness of this family made him feel that this place could be a new start, a new home for a brand new life.
注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词。
Paragraph 1:
In order to thank this family,…
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Paragraph 2:
A few weeks later, my children and I arrived in Sydney.
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