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1、An interviewee should be good at grasping every opportunity _____he is supposed to show his best self to others.
A.when B.where C.that D.which
2、--He didn’t feel a bit nervous when ________．
--No．He’d had a lot of time ________ for it after all．
A．interviewing; to prepare
B．interviewed; to prepare
C．interviewing; preparing
D．being interviewed; preparing
3、The quality of life is a(n) ________ survey to individuals or group’s physical functions, and psychological and social adaptation.
A.representative B.productive C.impressive D.comprehensive
4、Only my cousin has chosen to apply for a job in Africa _______ the majority of this year’s graduates working in Britain.
A.in common with B.as well as
C.in contrast to D.by reason of
5、Competed in 1891, in ________ was known as The Gilded Age, the fivestory mansion is now owned by a famous actor who decides to stage a special production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
A. that B. what C. which D. it
6、— How can I wake up so early?
—Set the alarm at 5:00 am., you will make it.
A. and B. but
C. or D. so
7、The young lady, ________ several attempts to fix her cell phone, decided to have another try.
A. making B. to have made
C. having made D. made
8、With scenic spots exploring new projects, ticket sales will no longer be the only source of______.
A.revision B.revenue C.revolution D.review
9、---We’d better leave now.
---No hurry. The train ______ at 10 o’clock.
A. has left B. left
C. leaves D. would leave
10、—I’m not looking forward to this. It’s going to be a really hard exam.
—Oh,________I’m sure we’ll all get good marks.
A．I can’t agree more.
B．You’d better get started.
C．You must be kidding me.
D．I won’t worry about it too much.
11、We’re trying to ring you back, Bryan, but we think we your number incorrectly.
A.looked up B.took down C.worked out D.brought about
12、— 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
13、________ has greater potential than flammable ice being mined from underneath the South China Sea when it comes to a global energy revolution.
A. nothing B. neither
C. no one D. none
14、Every time you enter the subway station, you must have the ______ of your bag checked to make sure you aren't carrying any illegal things.
A.spots B.contents
C.qualities D.entrances
15、The famous performing artist can not come in person for some reason, so his wife will accept the prize_________ him.
A.in case of B.in return for C.on behalf of D.on account of
16、Without our team’s great effort, the art exhibition last week ______ such a great success.
A. wouldn’t be B. won’t be C. wouldn’t have been D. won’t have been
17、— You speak very good French!
—Thanks. I________ French in Nankai University for four years.
A．studied
B．study
C．was studying
D．had studied
18、After the bridge has been widened, the traffic is now flowing________.
A．quickly
B．smoothly
C．cautiously
D．accurately
19、I must say he reads very well, and I shouldn’t be surprised if he ______ acting for a living one day.
A. had taken up B. would have taken up C. have taken up D. takes up
20、---My son is addicted to computer games. He is hopeless，isn't he？
---Yes，_____________he is determined to give up and start all over.
A．if
B．unless
C．though
D．so
21、As global climate change becomes more serious, growing crops will be a major challenge. Massive heat waves and droughts (干旱) are already doing harm to farmers: Over the next three decades, California’s San Joaquin Valley alone could lose up to 535, 000 acres of farming land as a result of the shortage of water supplies.
Jennifer Brophy wants to help solve that problem. She’s an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, and works on methods that she hopes will be used to change crop species so that they can survive severe conditions. At present, Brophy is developing new genetic(基因的) engineering techniques that can help crops survive droughts.
In order to promote plants to respond to extreme climate, Brophy is building what she calls “genetic circuits”. Besides changing the genes within plant cells, this method also changes how and when those genes are activated. If the plant senses a specific sugar, it can express one protein (蛋白质); if it senses another signal, it’ll express a different protein, kicking off an entirely separate chain of events. If both signals are there, the plant may be able to express something else entirely. “Using circuits, you can have plants respond in new ways to all these different inputs,” she says.
“Normally, a plant doesn’t necessarily know what’s coming. It just knows if it’s hot or temperate right now,” says Brophy. This can lead to problems when weather becomes unstable: A plant that usually flowers in spring may flower in winter if there’re a few unseasonably warm days. When temperatures fall quickly again, the flowers die and ruin a year of crops. “It’d be great to be able to communicate with plants to tell them, ‘Hey, you should wait on that flowering, ’” she adds.
Controlling plants’ growth at this level is exciting, but actually putting it into practice is not an easy task. At the moment, Brophy is testing the method in the lab using a small weedy plant called Arabidopsis. She’s still in the process of figuring out how to activate certain genes on command.
【1】Why is California’s San Joaquin Valley mentioned?
A．To prove the significance of growing more crops.
B．To point out the barrier to increasing water supplies.
C．To show the harmful effect of climate change on farming.
D．To tell the root cause of more severe global climate change.
【2】What is the expected function of genetic circuits?
A．Creating warmer living conditions.
B．Increasing plants’ exposure to nature.
C．Controlling plants’ growth on demand.
D．Monitoring the protein in the plants.
【3】What does the text say about Jennifer Brophy’s research？
A．It still has a long way to go.
B．It is actually an easy task.
C．It has proved successful.
D．It turns out meaningless.
【4】What is the text mainly about？
A．A victorious battle against global warming.
B．A way to help crops survive climate change.
C．A scientific breakthrough in bioengineering.
D．A new type of crops resistant to heat waves.
22、A recent housing project in Helsinki offers remarkably cheap apartments for those under the age of 25. They must commit to spending time with their older neighbors.
Helsinki offers 247-suqare-foot studio apartments with a bathroom, storage space, kitchen, and balcony for only $272 every month—about a third of the average price for a studio in the city. The apartment is inside homes for the elderly, and the young renter must spend between three to five hours with their elderly neighbors each week.
Like pretty much all other major cities in the world, Finland’s capital of Helsinki has faced rapid population growth in recent years. And with population growth, comes an inevitable rise in the cost of living, and of course, sharp increase in rent. Currently, Helsinki is ranked 14th on the list of the world’s most expensive cities. For those young and freshly independent, this causes terrible problems — even homelessness.
"It's a very expensive city to live in," Mr. Bostrom writes in an email to CNN’s Eoghan Macguire. "If you manage to get an apartment that the city owns, it can be quite affordable. The screening criteria included the ability to participate in a variety of activities, such as cooking or playing instruments, but the number of applicants for those apartments is so high that waiting list takes forever,” he says.
According to Helsinki’s Youth Housing Association, the city council aims to ensure that every young person will have a home by 2018. Miki Mielonen, a representative of the youth department, says this project, currently in its trial stages, will help out young people while offering social benefits to senior citizens. “I think there is quite a rigid opinion in Finland with many people thinking young of the old ideas that we are going to break down.”
【1】Helsinki probably rents a cheap apartment to a young man who ________.
A. reaches the age of 25
B. has financial problems
C. promises to accompany the elderly
D. agrees to share it with his neighbor
【2】Which is the root reason for the housing problems in Helsinki?
A. The population explosion.
B. The high living standard.
C. World’s priciest apartment rent.
D. Low employment of college graduates.
【3】According to Mr Bostrom, the cheap apartments are ________.
A. well-decorated B. difficult to afford
C. in short supply D. popular with technicians
【4】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. The young in Helsinki are mostly homeless.
B. Helsinki will overcome people’s prejudice.
C. The project will be experimental in future.
D. The project is more beneficial to the young.
23、NASA-s New Horizons probe（宇宙探测器）flew by Pluto（冥王星）this morning, sending back history's first up-close looks at the vast freezing-cold world. Closest approach came at 7:49 a.m. EDT. To celebrate, NASA gave out the latest photo of Pluto. It showed a reddish world with an amazing heart-shaped feature on its surface.
After today's close encounter, all the nine solar system's traditionally recognized planets have now been visited by a spaceship-a huge project begun in 1962 when NASA's Mariner 2 probe flew past Venus, a planet in the solar system. More than l,200 scientists, NASA guests and important persons, including 200 reporters, watched the flyby live at New Horizons' mission control center.
That close encounter has been a long time coming. The$723 million New Horizons mission launched in January 2006 but began taking shape in 1989. "New Horizons is'a capstone mission'," Glen Fountain, mission project manager told Space, com. "It is the first completion of the observations of our solar system. It-s giving us a new idea about how we human beings fit into the universe."
New Horizons "faced a crazy number of challenges," Stern, a driving force behind New Horizons said, "So many people stuck with this for so long. They got knocked down; they stood up. They got knocked down again; they stood up again.”
In a coincidence, today's close approach falls on the 50th anniversary of the first flyby of Mars, another planet, which was completed by NASA-s Mariner 4 spaceship.
There are no longer nine officially recognized planets, of course. The International Astronomical Union regarded Pluto as “a dwarf planet" in 2006 in a decision that remains controversial（有争议的）today.
【1】Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Ideas still vary in the identity of Pluto.
B. Only scientists could watch the flyby live.
C. Mars is the first planet visited by a spaceship.
D. New Horizons mission aimed to observe the solar system.
【2】Glen Fountain may probably agree that _____________________．
A. it is the most difficult to land on Pluto in the solar system
B. New Horizons mission is a long and troublesome project
C. their strong determination leads to the successful flyby
D. people are likely to find new ways to fit into space
【3】Which is the best title for the passage?
A. A New Horizons Probe
B. NASA's Huge Project
C. Pluto,a Controversial Planet
D. A Close Approach to Pluto
24、（重庆一中2016届高三5月模拟）For more than twenty years scientists have been searching for signs of life on other planets. Most of these searches have been done over the radio. The hope is that someone in outer space may be trying to get in touch with us. Scientists also have sent radio and television messages on spaceships traveling through space, on the chance that someone may be receptive to such messages.
Scientists are using powerful radio telescopes to listen to signals from about 1, 000 stars, all within 100 light years of earth. In addition, they will scan the entire sky to “listen” for radio messages from more distant stars. Using a computer, they will be able to monitor more than eight channels at one time. Scientists are looking for any signal they stands out from the background noise.
Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, scientists find that five percent are like our sun. Perhaps half of them have a planet like earth. Such a planet would be a reasonable distance from the star for temperatures to be right for the evolution of life. Based on the inhabitable（that can be lived in）planets in our galaxy, most scientists agree that chances are likely that one or more of these planets support some life.
However, many scientists wonder whether intelligent life exists on other planets. Some believe that twenty years of searching without any intelligible messages shows that no one is out there. They say that the evolution of intelligence comparable to ours is unlikely.
Other scientists believe that our search hasn’t been long enough to rule out the possibility that intelligent life exists in our galaxy. Although our sun family is only about five billion years old, our galaxy is about 20 billion years old. In that time, some scientists think it is likely that civilization much more advanced than ours have developed. Perhaps these civilizations send us no signals; perhaps we have not recognized the signals they have sent us. If we hope to find intelligent life, these scientists believe that we have to keep looking.
【1】According to the passage, how many planets in our galaxy might be inhabitable?
A. 5 billion． B. 10 billion.
C. 15 billion. D. 200 billion
【2】The first paragraph in this passage is mainly about ________ .
A. how scientists are looking for signs of life on other planets
B. why scientists are looking for signs of life on other planets
C. where scientists are looking for signs of life on other planets
D. when scientists are looking for signs of life on other planets
【3】The underlined word “monitor” in the passage means“ ________ ”.
A. find B. imitate
C. check D. form
【4】Which of these statements is true based on the information in the passage?
A. The earth is one of the oldest planets in our galaxy.
B. Most scientists believe that there is intelligent life on other planets.
C. Scientists are trying different ways to find signs of life on other planets.
D. Scientists don’t believe that there might be life on other planets.
25、My family moved from Hong Kong to a small town in central Georgia, where my dad got a job and a visa for my family. I had just learned English, and from what I could ________ from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one’s chimney and put toys in one’s ________ on Christmas Eve! After I ________ “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionary, I knew what I had to do.
On that fateful night, I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and ________ it to a nail (钉子) already on the mantel (壁炉). Obviously, the former owners of this house were no ________ to this Santa character. However, my parents were.
I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ________ to the fireplace. To make a sob story short, I was ________ with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. Santa ________ existed.
Every December since then, the ________ of Christmas would unavoidably come up, and I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me story. I had to make it as ________ as possible, or else I would cry.
How could I know that Santa was just ________? Nine years ago, on Christmas Eve, an older man with a white ________ and a red cap knocked on my front door. He said, “I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five ________.” He handed me a red stocking, winked, and left. On top of the stocking was a card. It ________ : “For Becky — I may have ________ you in the second grade, but you’ve always lived in my heart. Santa.” Through tear-blurred eyes, I recognized the ________ of Jill, a friend I had met just two months before. I later ________ that the older man was her father. Jill had seen the ________ little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it.
So now I believe that Santa is ________ . This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day ________, really listens to friends, and then plans deliberate acts of kindness.
【1】
A．use
B．gather
C．separate
D．deliver
【2】
A．stocking
B．hat
C．pocket
D．drawer
【3】
A．left out
B．took down
C．looked up
D．put away
【4】
A．threw
B．covered
C．buried
D．tied
【5】
A．customers
B．strangers
C．friends
D．relatives
【6】
A．drove
B．backed
C．rushed
D．wandered
【7】
A．related
B．surrounded
C．impressed
D．hit
【8】
A．never
B．just
C．always
D．sometimes
【9】
A．memories
B．lesson
C．surprise
D．topic
【10】
A．slow
B．funny
C．sad
D．confusing
【11】
A．sick
B．free
C．lazy
D．late
【12】
A．eye
B．tooth
C．mouth
D．beard
【13】
A．minutes
B．months
C．years
D．days
【14】
A．reflected
B．described
C．read
D．printed
【15】
A．missed
B．recognized
C．met
D．helped
【16】
A．name
B．handwriting
C．face
D．voice
【17】
A．pretended
B．announced
C．sensed
D．found
【18】
A．hurt
B．shocked
C．annoyed
D．satisfied
【19】
A．famous
B．real
C．old
D．imaginary
【20】
A．anxiously
B．temporarily
C．purposefully
D．generally
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