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1、Consumers' support and encouragement is a _______ stream of motivation for self-improvement of the company.
A．casual
B．smooth
C．current
D．steady
2、Afraid __________? This type of anxiety can deeply disturb people’s enjoyment of social relationships.
A. of laughing at B. to be laughed at
C. of being laughed at D. to laugh at
3、News of the world was gone, shut down after ______ in the biggest newspaper scandal ever to hit Britain.
A. catching B. caught
C. being caught D. having caught
4、The government intends to ________ a new law about wearing safety belts in cars.
A．bring up
B．bring on
C．bring in
D．bring off
5、People always _______education with exam success, which forces students to keep improving their academic abilities.
A.involve B.combine C.equate D.compare
6、We know you care about your home and family. ________ you wouldn't be reading Ideal Home.
A．Therefore
B．Otherwise
C．Instead
D．Meanwhile
7、It is considered that digital TV is________ to satellite TV because it allows the same service to be delivered with clearer pictures.
A．better
B．superior
C．senior
D．junior
8、— The film is, I have to say, not a bit interesting.
— Why? It’s ________ than the films I have ever seen.
A. far more interesting B. much less interesting
C. no more interesting D. any less interesting
9、Having a hobby does do good to you. It doesn’t matter what it is ______ it drives you to move forward.
A. if only B. in case
C. as long as D. in order that
10、---Shall we go and see the museum?
---No, ________.
A．don’t mention it
B．not at all
C．never mind
D．it’s not worth it
11、These theories have been put into practice， according to offenders should be punished out of respect for the victims they have harmed.
A.which B.whose C.who D.what
12、These remarkable findings suggest the elephants have ________ a memory capacity to make distinctions between human voices.
A. built up B. packed up C. brought up D. took up
13、After completing and signing it, please return the form to us in the envelope ________.
A．providing
B．provided
C．having provided
D．to provide
14、Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent ______you respond to it.
A. that B. whether C. how D. what
15、In all aspects of the society, there are many heroes dedicated to their work. So they should get the ________ they deserves.
A．award
B．ceremony
C．price
D．credit
16、Water can absorb and give off a lot of heat without big changes in temperature , thus creating a environment .
A.peaceful B.sensitive C.common D.stable .
17、---How did she lose so much weight as expected？
----_____________ eating less，she jogged for several miles every day.
A.In addition to B.In spite of
C.Instead of D.Thanks to
18、－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
19、______ more about our university courses, write to this address.
A. To find out B. Finding out
C. Found out D. To be found out
20、Kenny still remembers the class discussion________the teacher asked students to share what they wanted to be when they grew up.
A．why
B．which
C．that
D．where
21、 Because the commercial internet has been developed with so little regard for privacy, tech companies have been able to turn personal data into considerable profits, raising billions of dollars off their ability to collect and sell information about anyone who has wandered within shouting distance of their software. This week, Google announced a step in the right direction-but not a huge step, nor one that will stop Google from continuing to collect immense amounts of personal data.
At issue is how online companies track internet users as they browse (浏览) from site to site online, typically through cookies (information that a website leaves in your computer so that the website will recognize you when you use it again). The most harmful version, “third-party” cookies, is the web alternative of a company posting security guards across the internet to monitor what you do, even when you’re on other companies’ sites.
Google declared in a blog post Wednesday that it would no longer use or support third-party cookies, nor would it create or use any other technology that tracks individual users across the web. Given that Google is a main supplier of online advertising technology, its change in approach will impact far and wide.
That’s welcome news, although with huge amounts of warning. As Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation noted, third-party cookies were already on the retreat, with Apple and other makers of popular web browsers moving to block them. Meanwhile, Google, Facebook and other Big Tech companies continue to collect personal information in large quantities from people who use their sites and services through first-party cookies and similar techniques.
The concerns about personal data collection are the same whether it’s being collected through first-party or third-party techniques, said Michelle Richardson of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Companies may use the information to discriminate among internet users, offering different goods, services and even prices to different users.”
Instead of helping advertisers track individuals, Google says, it is improving a technology that assigns users namelessly to large groups with common interests. That’s an improvement, even though it too may be at risk of abuse. But why do any form of tracking at all? Privacy advocates say pitches (兜售) can be targeted effectively by basing them on where the user is at the moment, not where he or she has browsed previously online.
Ultimately, lawmakers are going to have to lay down regulations giving people far more control over whether and how personal information is used online. Ideally the federal (联邦的) government will set a strong floor under online privacy protections, but until then it will be up to state lawmakers or voters to act, as this state has done with its groundbreaking online privacy laws. It’s good to see Google move the ball forward, but there’s much farther to go.
【1】What does the underlined phrase “on the retreat” in Para 4 most probably mean?
A．Exposed.
B．Removed.
C．Emerging.
D．Fading.
【2】It can be learned from the declaration that Google .
A．is developing new technologies to stop data collection
B．refuses to work with companies tracking privacy
C．intends to abandon its advertising technologies
D．resolves to stop the use of third-party cookies
【3】From the passage we can know that first-party cookies .
A．are still collecting personal information
B．are blocked by big companies like Apple
C．are mainly used by advertising companies
D．are less concerning than third-party cookies
【4】What is the writer’s attitude towards Google’s new move?
A．It is less satisfactory than expected.
B．It needs to be more forceful to be effective.
C．It will accelerate the disappearance of cookies.
D．It has driven lawmakers to make new regulations.
22、 Tiny microbes(微生物) are at the heart of a new agricultural technique to manage harmful greenhouse gas. Scientists have discovered how microbes can be used to turn carbon dioxide into soil-enriching limestone(石灰石), with the help of a type of tree that grows in tropical areas, such as West Africa.
Researchers have found that when the Iroko tree is grown in dry, acidic soil and treated with a combination of natural fungi(霉菌) and other bacteria, not only does the tree grow well, it also produces the mineral limestone in the soil around its root.
The Iroko tree makes a mineral by combining Ca from the earth with CO2 from the atmosphere. The bacteria then create the conditions under which this mineral turns into limestone. The discovery offers a new way to lock carbon into the soil, keeping it out of the atmosphere. In addition to storing carbon in the trees’ leaves and in the form of limestone, the mineral in the soil makes it more suitable for agriculture.
The discovery could lead to reforestation(重新造林) projects in tropical countries, and help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the developing world. It has already been used in West Africa and is being tested in Bolivia, Haiti and India.
The findings were made in a three-year project involving researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Granada, Lausanne and Delft University of Technology. The project examined several microbiological methods of locking CO2 as limestone, and the Iroko-bacteria way showed best results. Work was funded by the European Commission under the Future&Emerging Technologies(FET) scheme.
Dr Bryne Ngwenya of the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences, who led the research, said:“By taking advantage of this natural limestone-producing process, we have a low-tech, safe, readily employed and easily operating way to lock carbon out of the atmosphere, while improving farming conditions in tropical countries.”
【1】The passage is mainly introducing .
A. some useful natural fungi and bacteria
B. a new way to deal with greenhouse gas
C. a newly-found tree in West Africa
D. the soil-enriching limestone created by scientists
【2】Which of the following is True about tiny microbes?
A. Most tiny microbes like living in dry, acidic soil.
B. CO2 can be broken down by natural fungi and bacteria.
C. The more greenhouse gas is, the more active tiny microbes become.
D. Tiny microbes get along well with the Iroko tree in special soil.
【3】What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A. Carbon dioxide.
B. Carbon.
C. Soil.
D. Limestone.
【4】According to the passage, what can we infer?
A. The action of the tiny microbes can increase the oxygen in the earth.
B. Researchers have done the experiment on trees in Africa for three years.
C. Researchers tend to use natural power to solve their problem.
D. West Africa is one of the most polluted areas all over the world.
【5】According to the passage, the Iroko-bacteria method .
A. can be used to improve the farming land
B. can save a lot of seriously destroyed woods
C. has been popularized in Bolivia, Haiti and India
D. should be spread all around the world in the future
23、If one more person talks about the benefits of mindfulness, I will throw cabbage at them. Just kidding. But I do have lots of cabbage happily rotting away in my, kitchen thanks to the wellness obsession(着迷) that failed to keep my attention. This is a symptom of a phenomenon known as “wellness tiredness”.
Wellness is seriously big business with a worth of $3.72 trillion and a healthy annual growth of 14 percent. To satisfy this consuming desire, brands of super foods and various exercise classes crowd in. “The problem with all this constantly changing information on what to eat or which exercise class to take is that people begin to form distorted(扭曲的) mindsets towards the idea of a healthy lifestyle,” explains Dr Bijal, a psychologist at Nightingale Hospital. “The least harmful result of a distorted mindset will be confusion. The most harmful would be serious physical and mental disorders like extreme dieting or over-exercising.”
It’s little wonder that many people are beginning to reject the idea of wellness and the lifestyle it advocates. “I can’t tell you the number of wellness accounts I’ve unfollowed on Instagram,” one fitness-enthusiast friend tells me. When I ask her why, she tells me that the public pursuit(追求) of wellness has reached “the eye-roll stage”. Meanwhile, sales of fitness trackers and wearable wellness things have dropped sharply.
Speaking of gym culture, which offers classes like Hula Hoop and Yoga, it’s also beginning to show signs that people are returning to more conventional forms of exercise-some that wouldn’t look out of place on a school timetable.
The whole point of wellness is that it should become such an everyday thing that you forget about seeking it. Living a healthy lifestyle becomes a given rather than something singled out as impressive and worth applauding. Now, more people are starting to cycle to and from work, swim on lunch breaks and even try to buy old school exercise bikes.
【1】What is the main idea of paragraph 2?
A．The wellness business costs people a great deal of money.
B．People are faced with too many food and exercise choices.
C．Distorted mindsets to wellness cause harmful consequences.
D．The wellness industry has been developing at a steady speed.
【2】Why is the author’s friend mentioned in paragraph 3?
A．To inform us wearable wellness things are not popular.
B．To advocate the idea of wellness and a healthy lifestyle.
C．To tell us that online wellness accounts are hard to follow.
D．To show the public’s unfavorable attitude to wellness obsession.
【3】Why are people starting to return to traditional forms of exercise?
A．Sports such as cycling are more impressive.
B．People are treating wellness as an everyday thing.
C．Classes like Hula Hoop and Yoga are too expensive.
D．People have come to know wellness is not so necessary.
【4】Which of the following is the best title for the text r?
A．The Importance of Living a Healthy Lifestyle
B．Are You Suffering from Wellness Tiredness?
C．The Benefits of Mindfulness in Wellness Industry
D．What is the Real Meaning of Wellness Obsession?
24、 Human beings learn technology from nature. They tend to imitate it. 【1】 It did take us a while to learn, though. However, not until the mid-twentieth century was the word “biomimicry (仿生学)” first introduced.
One of the first examples would be the invention of Velcro (魔术贴), a material that was born after a walk in the countryside by an engineer and his dog. On returning home, he found his socks were filled with little burrs (刺果). 【2】 They were covered by many tiny hooks (勾). He used those qualities for some kind of fabric. And then Velcro was born.
【3】 A high-speed train used to create great noise while exiting a tunnel because of the air pressure. Eiji Nakatsu, an engineer and bird-lover, was inspired by the kingfisher’s beak (鸟嘴), able to dive into the water at great speed with almost no friction, to create a new design. That’s how the modern bullet train, much more efficient and quieter, was born.
Secondly, there would be the imitation of Nature’s strategies and mechanisms. For instance, dolphins have mastered the art of sending out ultrasound (超声波) without disturbing each other. A team of researchers have analyzed the way dolphins adjust these frequencies. 【4】
Finally, there’s the imitation of the efficiency within an ecosystem. 【5】 For example, the street is full of tiny holes to empty water in flooding seasons and the foundations of buildings grasp the hillsides like the roots of trees.
A.One is the imitation of shapes.
B.People imitate forests to build cities.
C.For instance, birds taught people to fly.
D.He decided to get rid of these little burrs.
E.Then he bent down to inspect them closely.
F.Urban areas consume more energy than rural areas.
G.Based on the analysis, they designed a tsunami alarm system.
25、 Kobe Bryant was at the peak of his career in 2013, controlling the court by spinning, shooting and scoring. Then suddenly, as he tried to use his way around a defensive guard, he started to limp and ____ . Before the game ended, Bryant fell again, and could ____ walk.
“I remember feeling the silence and ____ . This can be the end,” Bryant ____ in his documentary. His fears were ____ founded. He had ruptured（断裂）his left Achilles tendon（跟腱）. The kind of injury ____ US All-Star player Isiah Thomas’career.
Saying farewell to a sport you love is hard. ____ Bryant took an even harder, more painful route: His goodbye lasted for nearly three year. Seven months after his injury, he was back on the ____ again. But his performance never recovered. Bryant ____ the Lakers as the team and set a record with three season losses. Over the course of this season, he got the ____ rate for shooting accuracy in the league.
But for many, Bryant ____ a legend. He started out as a basketball gift who ____ college and took his talents directly to NBA. Fans remember him as the player who helped the Lakers ____ five NBA championships. However, the ____ fact is that the Lakers may have been better off if Kobe played less this season. Last month, they won a game ____ the Golden State Warriors. Bryant spent the fourth quarter of that game ____ on the bench. But the team has otherwise efforted to thank him for decades of ____ . As teammate D’Angelo Russell told CBS, their job this season is to “ ____ Kobe the ball”.
Bryant’s ____ game is scheduled for April 13 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. For Bryant, the ____ is bitter and sweet.
【1】A.rise B.fall C.climb D.stand
【2】A.barely B.steadily C.totally D.smoothly
【3】A.worry B.concern C.fear D.happiness
【4】A.recalled B.retold C.reminded D.responded
【5】A.badly B.well C.easily D.fully
【6】A.ended B.began C.ignored D.lost
【7】A.And B.So C.But D.Or
【8】A.family B.team C.group D.court
【9】A.won B.led C.lost D.taught
【10】A.best B.worst C.greatest D.smallest
【11】A.remains B.has C.needs D.works
【12】A.went B.sent C.skipped D.left
【13】A.lose B.win C.cancel D.ignore
【14】A.happy B.frightening C.sad D.exciting
【15】A.for B.in C.at D.against
【16】A.waiting B.resting C.standing D.leaning
【17】A.service B.labor C.job D.failure
【18】A.handle B.hand C.keep D.leave
【19】A.final B.wonderful C.early D.lasting
【20】A.wish B.desire C.occasion D.secret
26、假如你是学生会主席李华，为了让同学们(包括外国留学生)了解并加入新社团Traditional Chinese Culture Lovers，请你用英语拟一份通知张贴在校园文化宣传栏。主要内容包括：
1.社团成立的目的和意义；
2.社团计划开展的活动；
3.报名时间和地点：4月10号至15号，学生会办公室。
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