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1、The machine has been used for man years. It’s no wonder that it doesn’t work well __________.
A. regularly B. constantly
C. frequently D. occasionally
2、Lack of sleep will cause an increase in stress levels, which will lead to you not liking your job. This_____ will also have a negative impact on your productivity.
A.in turn B.in return C.in place D.in brief
3、— I'm sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final.
— I think so. He ________ for it for months.
A．is preparing
B．was preparing
C．had been preparing
D．has been preparing
4、It has rained cats and dogs for days.I hope it will___________next week.
A.step up B.make up C.take up D.clear up
5、Lily is so ______ . She is always making you feel you can talk quite naturally to her.
A．critical
B．available
C．magnificent
D．dramatic
6、Word came __________ Napoleon would come to inspect them.
A.when B.why C.how D.that
7、While the kids were making their decisions, they were periodically shown TV _________, some for fast food outlets and some for non-food businesses.
A.programs B.news C.movies D.commercials
8、I slipped into the professor's room quietly, on ______ wall there was a big slogan saying "Learn for a Stronger China".
A.where B.which
C.whose D.that
9、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?
---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.
A. has stayed B. had stayed
C. stayed D. am staying
10、—What’s wrong with the door?
—The key has got stuck in it and ______ come out.
A.shouldn’t B.mustn’t C.needn’t D.won’t
11、But for the rescue team’s efforts, more lives ________ in the wreck accident.
A.would be claimed B.should have claimed
C.would have claimed D.could have been claimed
12、-----It’s a pity that Nelson Mandela passed away.
------ But he will __________ in the memories of people worldwide.
A. live on B. stay on C. go on D. put on
13、 Between the two generations, it is often not their age, _________their education
that causes misunderstanding.
A. like B. as C. or D. but
14、Taking years________, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a record of all of our efforts to overcome the most difficult engineering challenges.
A．completing
B．having been completed
C．to complete
D．completed
15、Mr. Li is a good man who always thinks more of others than himself, ______ we should follow the example of.
A.it B.him C.one D.that
16、The real winners in sport are those who know how to persevere and to behave with ________—whether they win or lose a game.
A. certainty B. caution
C. dignity D. independence
17、My friend came around for a cup of tea and we________ having a big meal together.
A．put up
B．ended up
C．took up
D．brought up
18、People believe writing poems provides a through which they can express their feelings.
A. shelter B. source
C. channel D. background
19、Can you make yourself __________ in English?
A.to understand B.understand C.understanding D.understood
20、Most of the money for the reconstruction of the quake-stricken town has been allocated by the
government, the rest ______ from the coming charity concerts.
A. to be collected B. having been collected
C. being collected D. to have been collected
21、269020 9thAvenue S.DES Moines, Washington
Rent: $3,895/Month
Detail:
Located at the end of a private lane on a quiet beach, this elegant three-story home has beautiful views from all three floors. Features formal and casual spaces, a beautiful wood paneled room, a media room equipped with projector, screen and surround sound. Kitchen has a huge breakfast bar, high end stainless steel appliances, and separate eating area. Master bedroom offers a view balcony, his and her walk-in closets. Air conditioners, 3 gas fireplaces and alarm systems. This is a MUST see!
6235 139th Place SE Bellevue, Washington
Rent: $3,495/Month
Detail:
Located in a great school district. (Tyee Middle) Quiet area in excellent condition Available August 1st, this property includes a fenced backyard with landscape maintenance included with rent.
4021 214th St SE Bothell, Washington
Rent: $3,300/Month
Detail:
This home is set back on a quiet corner in a family friendly neighborhood just minutes' walking distance from parks and about 5 minutes from the 405 freeway. Enjoy the hot tub and outdoor living space which includes a nice private back yard which features views of large greenery. The master bedroom is very large and features a private sitting area with its own gas fireplace and walk-in closets. The kitchen has all stainless steel appliances. The home features an attached 3-car garage. The bonus room makes for an excellent entertainment center, play room, or large home office. The house has high ceilings and many windows, so it is always bright.
526 6th Ave,#1004 Kirkland, Washington
Rent: $2,800/Month
Detail:
Exceptional first-floor apartment in Kirkland's 520 Building. Gorgeous 2-bed-room, Features 10 ft ceilings and crown molding, open and spacious with gorgeous upscale tile(瓷砖) floors, wood blinds in master bedroom, new carpet, new wood finishes, fireplace, beautiful built-in entertainment center. Secure entry and parking. Steps to restaurants, parks and waterfront.
【1】Which feature do 26902 9th Avenue S. Des Moines and 4021 214th St SE Bothell share?
A.They both have a private back yard with car garages attached.
B.They both have a large master bedroom offering a balcony view.
C.They both have a nice kitchen and a room suitable for entertainment.
D.They are both located in a quiet place, just minutes' walking distance from parks.
【2】If you wanted to live in a school district and preferred a fenced backyard, which would be your best choice?
A.26902 9th Avenue S. Des Moines.
B.6235 139th Place SE Bellevue.
C.4021 214th St SE Bothell.
D.526 6th Ave, #1004 Kirkland.
【3】What are the features of the apartment for rent in Kirkland’s 520Building?
A.It is very close to restaurants, parks, and the 405 freeway.
B.It lies the first floor and has gorgeous wood floors and high ceilings.
C.It offers brand-new furniture, air conditioning, and free parking.
D.It comes with 2 bedrooms and a wonderful built-in entertainment center.
22、When I was a boy my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to. Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city and so he did．
When I was 16，Dad looked closely at the violin I played and said that he wanted to make one．He read about violin-making, and then became a violin-maker at the age of 43. He bought the tools and materials, opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper, while he worked at a local company. He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments.
Dad often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sounded so beautiful. Some experts told him that it was the special varnish(油漆)that gave the instruments their beautiful sound．Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish—if that was the answer．
One of Dad’s friends asked him which kind of wood was used to make violins．When Dad explained that the top was made of spruce(云杉), his friend said that he had all old piece of spruce which Dad might be interested in.
He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him. It proved to be an excellent violin and it would become Dad’s masterpiece. He believed that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself.
Later, the instrument was stolen, Dad’s spirit was broken and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old, selling guitars and violins.
The violin has been missing for more than 25 years．Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone．The owner today may never understand why this Ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like Stradivarius．
【1】In Paragraph l，the writer mentioned his father’s developing color prints to .
A. let others know that he believed his father
B. show that his father would like to make violins
C. Prove that his father could do anything he wanted to
D. give an example showing that his father was an inventor
【2】What did the writer’s father think about Stradivarius violins?
A. They were made by experts．
B. The wood of the violins was special．
C. The way of making them was unusual．
D. The varnish was different from the others．
【3】From the underlined sentence, we learn that the writer’s father ．
A. found another new job
B. wanted to become famous
C. lost interest in instruments
D. liked the violin very much
【4】What could be the best title of the passage?
A. My Experienced Father
B. My Father and His Violin
C. The Secret of Making Violins
D. The New Owner of the Violin
23、 When Carnevali’s son started at St Mary primary school in London, he was alarmed to find that pupils were sometimes kept indoors at break times, despite a large playground.
The reason was the nearby six-lane road, which has up to 100,000 vehicles thundering past the school each day. As evidence mounted about the impact of gas waste on children’s health, the headteacher restricted time outside.
Carnevali and other parents decided to take action. Within months they had crowdfunded almost £100,000, and last month a 126-metre “living wall” of 12,000 plants was installed (安装) as part of a clean-air initiative at the school. They hope the wall will transform one of London’s most polluted schools into one of its greenest.
St Mary’s living wall is one of many being installed around the country by local authorities and private developers. Tennis fans may have noticed two enormous living walls placed on both sides of the giant outdoor screen at this year’s Wimbledon championships.
“Demand is definitely growing. It’s being mainly driven by local authorities, but also a greater awareness in the private sector of the need for sustainable architecture.” According to Benz Kotzen of the Green Roofs and Living Walls Centre at the University of Greenwich, “We need every tool to try to improve things, and there just isn’t enough capacity in urban environments to create green infrastructure at ground level.”
Living walls range from simple wire structures to support climbing plants to complicated modular systems, using soil and solar-powered irrigation (灌溉). The cost ranges from £200 to £800 per square metre. Living walls will die if they’re not maintained regularly, but the challenge is that it must be done at height.
Not everyone is a fan of the trend towards vertical (垂直的) gardens.
“They’re not a solution, except for the wealthy,” said Mick Crawley, professor of plant ecology at Imperial College London. “There are much cheaper and more effective ways of improving air quality. Local authorities struggling to pay for essential services will be better advised to plant trees.”
【1】What made the headteacher restrict children’s break times outside?
A．A jammed playground.
B．Poor air quality.
C．Constant traffic flow.
D．A tight schedule.
【2】What do we know about St Mary’s living wall?
A．It is installed to increase biodiversity.
B．It is designed to make the school green.
C．It is meant for the Wimbledon championships.
D．It is funded by local authorities and private developers.
【3】What is the challenge for maintaining a living wall?
A．Its cost.
B．Its market.
C．Its structure.
D．Its height.
【4】What is Mick Crawley’s attitude to the vertical garden?
A．Disapproving.
B．Uncertain.
C．Flexible.
D．Casual.
24、 In 1973, Mark Granovetter, a sociology professor at Stanford University, published a paper entitled The Strength of Weak Ties. It went on to become one of the most influential sociology papers of all time. Until then scholars had assumed that an individual’s well-being depended mainly on the quality of relationships with close friends and family. Granovetter showed that quantity matters, too. He categories a person’s social world as “strong ties” and “weak ties”. His central insight was that for new messages and ideas, weak ties are more important to us than strong ones. As Granovetter pointed out, the people whom we often talk to swim in the same pool of information as we do. We depend on acquaintances whom we see infrequently to bring us news of opportunities.
This was the idea behind the Pixar building, the design of which was made by Steve Jobs. The building has a large central hall through which all employees have to pass several times a day. Jobs wanted colleagues to run into each other, grab coffee and have a chat. He believed in the power of these seemingly random conversations to fire up creativity.
Encounters with weak ties can be good for our mental wellbeing, too. Gillian Sandstrom, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Essex, investigated the extent to which people get happiness from weak-tie relationships. She found that on days when a participant had a greater number of casual interactions with weak ties — say, a neighbour, a member of yoga class – they experienced more happiness and a greater sense of belonging.
For all these reasons, we should continue to try and find ways to cultivate weak-tie relationships. Sandstrom adds that we can also engage in more weak-tie-style interactions with our strong ties. The goal is to let others know you are thinking of them without asking for a great deal of time, energy or attention.
【1】Why does Granovetter think weak ties are more important?
A．They are smaller in number.
B．They form same circle of friends.
C．They are sources of new information .
D．They are related to close friends and family.
【2】Which of the following can be categorized as weak ties?
A．Neighbors.
B．Best friends.
C．Parents.
D．Husband or wife.
【3】What is the function of the central hall in Pixar building?
A．It helps staff build friendship.
B．It allows staff to have a break.
C．It encourages staff to meet and chat.
D．It helps Jobs communicate with staff.
【4】What does Sandstrom want to convey in the last paragraph?
A．We can develop weak ties into strong ties.
B．We should spend more time with strong ties.
C．We should balance weak ties with strong ties.
D．We can apply casual interactions to strong ties.
25、 The movie Forrest Gump follows the life events of a man who shares the name as the title of the film.Gump faces many _______throughout his life, _______ he never lets any of them influence his happiness.From_______leg braces(支架）,to having a below average IQ and even being shot,Gump continues to _______that good things will happen and_______ his dream.While several_______ things occur during Gump's life,he_______ to turn setbacks(挫折）into something_______for him,such as when he finally gets his braces off, he discovers that he is _______to run faster than most other people.This__________allows Gump not only to__________being bullied(欺凌）while he is a child,but also to gain a football scholarship,__________ many soldiers’ lives and become famous.
While Gump __________ achieves the majority of the things he hoped to,it proves a much more difficult __________ to win the heart of his life-long friend Jenny Curran.The movie __________Forrest Gump and the incidents that occur during his life,but during each period in his lifetime he thinks back of Jenny and __________how important she is to him.Although the two characters grew up together and shared a very __________relationship,they grow apart as the movie progresses.This__________Gump who cares dearly for the girl.Even though Gump is the main __________of the film,it __________ tells the story of Curran and the hardships she faces.
【1】A.choices B.dangers C.prejudices D.hardships
【2】A.so B.as C.but D.or
【3】A.wearing B.carrying C.making D.using
【4】A.believe B.remember C.pretend D.complain
【5】A.gives up B.goes after C.breaks down D.shows off
【6】A.unfortunate B.unexpected C.uncertain D.unbelievable
【7】A.offers B.refuses C.manages D.fails
【8】A.awful B.good C.risky D.funny
【9】A.eager B.willing C.afraid D.able
【10】A.condition B.ability C.function D.performance
【11】A.escape B.admit C.delay D.hate
【12】A.spare B.risk C.save D.take
【13】A.easily B.strangely C.shortly D.eventually
【14】A.task B.decision C.choice D.time
【15】A.depends on B.centers on C.checks on D.comments on
【16】A.suggests B.realizes C.denies D.forgets
【17】A.casual B.poor C.hard D.close
【18】A.moves B.delights C.upsets D.bores
【19】A.victim B.winner C.director D.character
【20】A.totally B.exactly C.similarly D.simply
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Birthdays are typically the occasions for delight and feasting. Family and friends get together on the occasion and convey their regards with the beautiful presents they bring with themselves. I am personally a big fan of birthdays and wait for my birthday approximately a month prior to the day.
This year, my birthday came off on last Monday. I didn’t know that my parents had arranged a special party for me. At eight o’clock in the evening of my lucky birthday, I was alone at home complaining and frowning, and pitying myself for my misfortune. I thought it was going to be a special day filled with presents and fun, but all I received was a “Happy Birthday”.
All of a sudden, the electricity was cut off and there was a complete darkness in the house. I couldn’t do anything. Therefore, I decided to go to sleep and end this unlucky day.
Out of the blue in that quiet night, I heard a sudden noise coming from downstairs. Startled and terribly shocked, I suspected that someone broke into the house. Immediately, I tried to phone my parents, but no one answered.
After a couple of minutes of fear, I started to calm down. Although in the meantime I heard more noises of people talking, I summoned up some courage and started heading for the basement. As I slowly drew closer to the basement, I guessed there were more than one person, but I found it hard to believe. There couldn’t be a lot of people in our basement!
Courageously, I opened the door of the basement. There was a complete darkness. There wasn’t a single noise. However, as I approached, I heard some laughter and confirmed that there were people. Suddenly, the lights were on and there stood my parents and friends cheering at me with the beautiful presents they had carefully prepared for me. It was a surprise party! The room was beautifully decorated with colorful balloons. Tables and chairs were laid and covered with white and contrasting red sheets. A gigantic birthday cake was positioned on the innermost table.
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中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语。
Paragraph 1:
Now everything was ready and the party was set in motion.
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Paragraph 2:
The partly was over and the guests began to head off.
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