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1、BYD Motor is designing more new models, ______ a 20 percent growth in sales this year.
A．eyeing
B．eyes
C．eyed
D．having eyed
2、The newly elected president required at the meeting that the problem ________ be solved before the National Day.
A. must B. need
C. can D. should
3、—What does Nicky’s job involve as a public relations director?
—______ quite a lot of time with other people.
A. Spending B. Having spent
C. To spend D. To have spent
4、________ himself, the traveler made a fire in the cave.
A.To warm B.Warmed C.Warming D.Having warmed
5、As ______ healthier lifestyle is being promoted, the bicycle has also become a tool that keeps people on ______ go.
A.the; a B.a; a
C.a; the D.a; /
6、There is no doubt that climate all over the world ______ greatly in recent years.
A. had changed B. is changing
C. changed D. has been changing
7、 The farmers’ living conditions have improved _______ ever since the policy of supporting agriculture was introduced.
A. differently B. roughly
C. approximately D. significantly
8、The beauty of a tournament like the World Cup is ________ it can be wildly unpredictable.
A．whether
B．how
C．that
D．why
9、Bob made a promise to the manager ________ the work would all be finished on time.
A. that B. what
C. which D. whether
10、Thanks to her determination and perseverance on the piano lesson, she has a ______ grasp of the subject.
A. comprehensive B. confidential
C. conservative D. compulsory
11、---I’m not going to the party tonight. I’ll stay at home and read.
---Come on, ________
A．You get a frog in your throat.
B．You’re pulling your weight.
C．We’d better throw in the towel.
D．Don’t be such a wet blanket.
12、— The room looks bigger!
— We ______ the furniture.
A. have changed B. had changed
C. changed D. are changing
13、Take the note as a reminder ______ you forgot to buy some sweets for the kids while shopping there.
A. how B. that
C. in case D. even if
14、In the lecture, the professor told his students about how to write an _________ of a graduate paper, expressing the main argument.
A. account B. application C. address D. abstract
15、—What if he failed in the next monthly examination again?
—I don’t know. ________ heart and be reduced ________ the class?
A. Will he lose; not to attending
B. Did he lose; to not attending
C. Had he lost; not to attending
D. Would he lose; to not attending
16、—Why not get in my car to the swimming pool instead of walking?
—No, thanks. ______.
A．I’m used to
B．I’m able to
C．I’m about to
D．I’m sorry to
17、The hero’s touching story ________ online has drawn thousands of “likes” and hundreds of comments from the public.
A．posting
B．to post
C．posted
D．to be posted
18、We can gain valuable wisdom from mistakes which __________ to prevent them from
happening again.
A. should be avoided B. might be avoided
C. must have been avoided D. could have been avoided
19、— Why didn’t you come to the party?
— _______, but I’d really like some time alone to clear my thoughts.
A．No wonder
B．No offence
C．No comment
D．No doubt
20、You’d better make the plants shorter, ______ they will interrupt the views from the house.
A. but B. and C. so D. or
21、Reducing class size has traditionally been seen as an important way to improve a student’s educational experience. Many often believe that smaller classes would permit teachers to give more personal attention to their students. 【1】.
But one recent study suggests there's not much research-based evidence to support this idea. The research was collected by a team from Denmark's Danish Center for Social Science Research.
The study notes that one of the main problems with reducing class size is that it can have very high costs. 【2】. Financial limitations make it very difficult for many schools to reduce the number of students in the classroom.
The new study began by examining 127 studies on classroom size. Its goal was to examine the major research studies already completed on the subject. 【3】. In the end, the research centered on 10 main studies with possible sampling (采样)problems.
The researchers concluded that there's some evidence to suggest that reducing class size may lead to some improvement in a student 's reading achievement. 【4】. They found just a 53-percent chance that a randomly selected test score from a student from a small class would be higher than the selected score of a student from a larger class. 【5】. This led the researchers to conclude that there would be no benefit at all to math students in a smaller class size.
A．But they said the effect is very small
B．For mathematics achievement, the result was 49 percent
C．This can theoretically lead to improved academic results for students
D．Many public opinion studies have shown teachers favor smaller class sizes
E．The effects of larger class size can stay long after the students complete their education
F．Increasing class size is one of the most common ways school systems control education spending
G．They especially centered on those trying to measure if smaller class size led to greater academic success
22、 Recently, I was interviewed by a parenting magazine for a story it was running on eco-parenting (环保式育儿).
The reporter explained that it was expensive to be an eco-parent, with organic baby food and clothing to buy.
But I told her, “I’m sorry, but eco-parenting isn’t about buying ecologically-produced versions of products we think we may need. It’s about discovering what we don’t need.” I told the reporter about my daughter Sarah’s simple wish for a pink balloon on her birthday, but she felt that things would inevitably (不可避免地) change as Sarah grew up and adopted more materialistic desires.
I agreed that Sarah may not always be interested in such simple gifts as balloons, but I couldn’t agree that a birthday needs to be about materialistic desires. To me, a birthday is an opportunity to celebrate the life and the development of person. Do we need to see a table covered with gifts to know that our family and friends love us? Somewhere in our consumer culture, we’ve confused material items with expressions of love and gratitude.
My own birthday was just a few days ago. It came and went in the middle of a snow storm, and my birthday party was canceled. While my husband and I spent much of the day clearing the snow, Sarah made some little dolls for me.
And when we came in to rest, Ula climbed onto my lap and sang Happy Birthday. Throughout the day, my friends called to wish me a happy day, and my mother called, upset that she couldn’t visit.
Later, my husband apologized that he was unable to do anything special for me that day. “I had a fantastic birthday,” I replied, as thought of all the love I’d felt.
【1】What does the author think eco-parents should do according to the article?
A.Buy organic foods and clothing for their kids.
B.Teach their kids to protect the environment.
C.Try to avoid buying useless things for their kids.
D.Allow their kids to make their own choices in life.
【2】What does the author intend to express with Sarah’s story?
A.A pink balloon is the best birthday gift for girls.
B.Kids’ material desires will change as they grow up.
C.We don’t have to express our love with expensive gifts.
D.A birthday is a good occasion for us to seek new experiences.
【3】Why did the author think that her birthday was fantastic?
A.Her husband did something special for her.
B.Many friends came and celebrated it with her.
C.She received meaningful gifts from her children.
D.She felt a lot of love from her family and friends.
23、 Would you rather watch a new movie or an old favorite? Would you rather try a dish, you have never had at a restaurant, or stick with something you know you will like? Researchers studying the “mere-exposure effect”(曝光效应) have found that we often prefer the familiar over the novel.
In 1968, social psychologist Robert Zajonc published a landmark paper on the mere-exposure effect. His hypothesis (假说) was that simply being exposed to an object on a repeated basis was enough to make people like that thing. To test this, Zajonc had participants read words in a foreign language out loud. He varied how often they read each word (up to 25 repetitions). Next, participants were asked to decide how positive or negative the meaning of each word was. Zajonc found that participants liked the words that they had said more often, and the words that had been read 25 times were rated the highest.
In the decades since Zajonc published his paper on the mere-exposure effect, researchers have also suggested several theories to explain why the effect happens. One of the leading theories is that mere exposure makes us feel less uncertain. According to this idea, we tend to be cautious around new things, since they could be dangerous to us. However, when we see the same thing over and over and nothing bad happens, we start to realize that there is nothing to be afraid of. Additionally, mere exposure increases what psychologists call “perceptual fluency” (知觉流畅性). It is based on the idea that, when we have seen something before, it is easier for us to understand and interpret it, which puts us in a positive mood.
While psychologists are still debating what causes the mere-exposure effect, it seems that having been previously exposed to something can change how we feel about it. And it may explain why, at least sometimes, we tend to prefer things that are already familiar to us.
【1】What were the participants asked to do during the test?
A．Read each word for 25 times.
B．Rate how much they like a word.
C．Write in a foreign language.
D．Decide the meaning of each word.
【2】Which of the following would Robert Zajonic most probably agree with?
A．A person will choose a new movie instead of an old one.
B．A person will try an old favorite rather than choose a new dish.
C．A person will like a variety of things that they see for the first time.
D．A person will be cautious about the advertisement repeated many times.
【3】Which of the following may explain the mere-exposure effect?
A．We will rely more on something familiar.
B．We will feel curious about something new.
C．We will be careful about something dangerous.
D．We will find it quite easy to be in a positive mood.
【4】What is the authors purpose in writing the text?
A．To introduce a psychological phenomenon.
B．To advise you to try something new bravely.
C．To analyze the reason for mere-exposure effect.
D．To stress the importance of mere-exposure effect.
24、 It's easy to understand why early humans domesticated (驯养)dogs as their new best friends, domesticated dogs can guard against fierce animals and provide warmth during cold nights. But those benefits only come following domestication. Despite more than a century of study, scientists have struggled to understand what caused the domestication process in the first place.
A new theory given by Maria Lahtinen, a senior researcher, might be able to explain this puzzle. She made this theory when studying die diet of late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Arctic and sub — Arctic. At that time, around 20,000 to 15,000 years ago, the world was buried in the coldest period of the last ice age. In cold environments then, as today, humans tended to gain the majority of their food from animals. Nutritional deficiencies (缺失) came from the absence of fat and carbohydrates (碳水化合物), not necessarily protein. Indeed, if humans cat too much meat, they can develop protein poisoning and even die. "Because we humans are not fully adapted to an all-meat diet, we simply cannot digest protein very well," Lahtinen says.
During the coldest years of the last ice age — and especially in lough Arctic and sub-Arctic winters — reindeer, wild horses and other animals that humans killed for food would have been struggling to live. Using previously published early fossil records, Lahtinen and her colleagues calculated that the gamecaptured by people in the Arctic and sub-Arctic during this time would have provided much more protein than they could have safely consumed.
【1】What has been confusing scientists in the past century?
A．How domesticated dogs benefited humans.
B．When humans began to domesticate dogs.
C．What led to dog domestication originally.
D．Why early humans made friends with clogs.
【2】What will happen if one eats too much meat?
A．It can be fatal in a short period of time.
B．He will probably digest it very well.
C．He can develop carbohydrates poisoning.
D．He will survive the cold environment.
【3】What does the underlined word "game” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A．The fierce contests.
B．The hunting activities.
C．Wild animals or birds.
D．Some tricks or schemes.
【4】What can be learned about the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from the last paragraph?
A．They struggled with wild horses.
B．They shared extra meat with dogs.
C．They struggled to live a good life.
D．They had trouble adapting to the cold environment.
25、During breakfast this morning, I watched my son, Jake, drag the kitchen chair to the counter (厨房案台). “Never drag the chair again, Jake!” I shouted. He’s been doing this on a(n) _________ basis for over a year. Each time we see it happen, my wife and I _________ the same way — shouting at him to stop. But each time we feel _________ that he is not learning this lesson.
As I reflect on this frequently-occurring scene, I _________ that I’ve been looking at this situation in the wrong way. He drags the chair because the charger for the iPad is on the _________. He wants to sit there and play while the Pad is being _________. My goal is to prevent the floor from being damaged _________ his goal is to play there. We actually become a(n) _________ to each other, getting in each other’s way _________ even knowing it.
For me, the deeper insight comes from recognizing just how quickly and __________ I keep using my power over him to get what I want at the __________ of what he wants. I justify (使正当有理) this behavior by reminding myself that I am the adult and I am teaching my son __________ and keeping him in line. Instead if I took a few minutes to __________ what he wanted. I could have made a change that __________ each of us to achieve our goals.
Why not __________ the charger to the living room next to our sofa?
【1】
A．single
B．random
C．voluntary
D．regular
【2】
A．vote
B．teach
C．respond
D．function
【3】
A．cautious
B．disappointed
C．nervous
D．frightened
【4】
A．expect
B．imagine
C．realize
D．predict
【5】
A．sofa
B．counter
C．floor
D．chair
【6】
A．charged
B．restarted
C．occupied
D．programed
【7】
A．since
B．until
C．unless
D．while
【8】
A．stranger
B．barrier
C．relative
D．attraction
【9】
A．without
B．against
C．by
D．for
【10】
A．sincerely
B．secretly
C．repeatedly
D．universally
【11】
A．cost
B．request
C．bottom
D．mercy
【12】
A．consequences
B．resistance
C．strategies
D．rules
【13】
A．write down
B．think about
C．search for
D．put away
【14】
A．allowed
B．expected
C．told
D．motivated
【15】
A．drag
B．lift
C．throw
D．move
26、假定你是李华，得知外教Mr. Smith喜欢中国传统文化，想邀请他到你家过端午节。请给他写一封信，内容包括：
1. 时间；
2. 一同过节的家人；
3. 活动。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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