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1、Everything ______ into due consideration, she eventually decided to further her education at home.
A. having taken B. to be taken C. being taken D. taken
2、We still haven’t got the sponsor________ the fact that we’ve written to dozens of companies.
A．regardless of
B．in view of
C．in spite of
D．on account of
3、Competition for entry to these programs is keen, and applicants need above-average grades to gain___________.
A.ambition B.preference C.admission D.competence
4、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
5、— Were all the villagers inspected for the suspected disease?
— No. ________ only 10 people who were exposed to the animals infected by the virus.
A.There were B.There are C.It were D.It was
6、Their team _____first prize in the 4×100 relay race, but the last runner fell down half way.
A.could get B.must have got
C.must get D.could have got
7、Sometimes we have to face embarrassing moments ________ we can only keep silent.
A. who B. which C. when D. why
8、— My grandson really loves this place. There is so much children can do here for _________.
— Good for him.
A.decoration B.recreation C.immigration D.association
9、My skating teacher was really great and ______ I knew it, I was able to skate!
A.before B.since
C.until D.after
10、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
11、My parents aren’t _______ me going abroad for education, fearing that I'm too young to take care of myself.
A．in charge of
B．in favor of
C．in need of
D．in praise of
12、— Have you bought the house?
— No, because I can only _____ 300,000 dollars for it.
A. offer B. spend C. charge D. owe
13、The tax only affects people on incomes of over $200,000 - ________, the very rich.
A．in addition
B．for instance
C．in other words
D．on the contrary
14、Now it’s possible for us to be taken into “space”, ________ we can experience weightlessness for a short time.
A．which
B．where
C．when
D．that
15、Tom tried hard to ______ his book, but his thoughts kept flying back to the movie.
A．concentrate on
B．settle for
C．give up
D．take down
16、____regular training in nursing, she could hardly cope with the work at first.
A. Not received B. Since receiving
C. Having not received D. Not having received
17、Upon __________ the word “volunteer”, what comes to your minds?
A.learned B.to learn C.learning D.being learned
18、When first coming to the city, my parents often had a chat with neighbors, just as they _____ in the countryside.
A.will do B.had done C.have done D.were doing
19、Jenny has got________ it takes to be a good actress. In other words, she has the potential to become famous.
A.what B.when C.that D.how
20、It rained heavily in the south, _________ serious flooding in several provinces.
A．caused
B．causing
C．having caused
D．to cause
21、Here’s a selection of festivals for tourists to the United States in summer.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Films at this odd cinematic event have a variety of musical accompaniments, including piano and violin. It includes some classic silent movies. If you want to see them all, you can buy a festival pass.
May 29 to June 1; www.silent film.org
Union Street Festival
This popular street fair stretches out over six blocks of the city, in the fashionable shopping area of Union Street. This year, there’s beer, wine, biscuits tasting and more separate themes-fashion, cuisine, tech, local, craft, and health and fitness.
June 7 to 10; www.unionstreetfestival.com
North Beach Festival
This is San Francisco’s oldest street party, with live entertainment, delicious food and arts and crafts. Situated in the Little Italy district, known for its associations with the “Beat Generation”, festival goers are guaranteed plenty of good Italian food. There is also as the “blessing of the animals”, a San Francisco tradition which takes place at the National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi (610 Vallejo Street) at 2 pm on both days of the festival.
June 14 to 16; www.sfnorthbeach.org
Stern Grove Festival
This is the oldest free summer arts festival of its kind in the United States. It includes a wide variety of acts, from the local symphony orchestra to well known artists such as Smokey Robinson.
Sundays from June 22 to Aug 24; www.stemgrove.org
【1】Which of the following festivals contains the most themes?
A. Union Street Festival. B. San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
C. North Beach Festival. D. Stem Grove Festival.
【2】How is North Beach Festival different from the other festivals?
A. Festival goers can enjoy food in it. B. It lasts the shortest time.
C. It has the longest history of food. D. Some foreign culture is presented in it.
【3】When can you enjoy the oldest arts festival in the United States?
A. Saturdays in July. B. Saturdays in May.
C. Sundays in May. D. Sundays in July.
22、In the early 1990s, my friend Jay was working for IBM and made a good salary.Later, Jay declined an offer from an interesting but small organization because of the low pay.He has regretted it ever since.That small company was Microsoft.
Regret is a reaction to a disappointing event in your life, such as a choice you made that can't be changed, or something you said that you can't take back.It's a heavy and negative emotion connected to pity, sorrow and helplessness and can last for minutes, days, years or even a lifetime.Regret can increase your stress and throw off the balance of immune (免疫) systems.
Fortunately, regret can be overcome through interventions.As a psychologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, I conducted a research on stressful emotions.In the research, we found people would experience regret for action or inaction.The action-related regrets, although painful, stimulate people to learn from their mistakes and move on.But the regret related to the inaction is more likely to lead to depression and anxiety.Avoiding or denying regret only can increase negative feelings and extend the time people suffer with them.Rather than stay stuck, people can manage these emotions in four steps:First, accept the fact that you are feeling them; determine why you are feeling them; allow yourself to learn from them; and finally, release them and move forward.
In Jay's case, at first he pushed away his feelings of regret.He continued to struggle with thoughts of what he missed.He did not change until he approached and explored his feelings of regret.Eventually he accepted the fact and reminded himself of his rationale at the time- he failed to recognize the potential of Microsoft.On making future decisions,Jay recognized the importance of obtaining information about opportunities and challenged himself to learn about the big players in the field.Doing so allowed him to move on and ultimately forgive himself.
【1】What does Paragraph 2 mainly focus on about regret?
A．Its condition.
B．Its definition.
C．Its variation.
D．Its consequence.
【2】What does the finding of the research indicate?
A．Regret can disappear itself.
B．Intervention increases pains.
C．Avoidance may relieve stress.
D．Acceptance helps manage regret.
【3】What does the underlined word“rationale”in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A．Reason.
B．Puzzle.
C．Concern.
D．Emotion.
【4】Why is Jay's experience mentioned?
A．To attract more attention to mental diseases.
B．To raise awareness of psychological health.
C．To demonstrate negative effects of regret.
D．To justify the approach to tackling regret.
23、In some ways, learning to programme a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do. The computer code must also be clear enough that other programmers can read and understand it.
In spite of those similarities, MIT neuroscientists (神经科学家) have found that reading computer code doesn’t activate the regions of the brain that are involved in language processing. Instead, it activates a distributed network called the multiple demand network, which is also related to complex tasks such as solving maths problems or crossword puzzles.
Although reading computer code activates the multiple demand network, it appears to rely more on different parts of the network than maths or logic problems do. “Understanding computer code seems to be its own thing. It isn’t the same as language, and it isn’t the same as maths and logic,” says Anna Ivanova, an MIT graduate student and the lead author of the study.
Evelina Fedorenko is the senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. A major focus of her research is the relationship between language and other cognitive (认知) functions. In particular，she has been studying the question of whether other functions rely on the brain’s language network, which includes Broca’s area and other regions in the left hemisphere (半球) of the brain. In previous work, her lab has shown that music and maths don’t appear to activate this language network.
There are two schools of thought regarding how the brain learns to code, she says. One holds that in order to be good at programming，you must be good at maths. The other suggests that because of the parallels between coding and language, language skills might be more relevant. To clarify this issue, the researchers set out to study whether brain activity patterns while reading computer code would overlap (重叠) with language-related brain activity.
【1】What’s paragraph 1 mainly about?
A．The computer must be instructed what to do.
B．Programming requires new symbols and terms.
C．The computer code must be clear and understandable.
D．There are similarities between programming and language learning.
【2】What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 3 mean?
A．Reading computer code is different from other cognitive tasks.
B．Learning languages is different from learning maths or logic.
C．Language, maths and logic are relatively easier to learn.
D．Reading computer code is more challenging.
【3】What might the researchers do next?
A．Set up two schools to study how the brain learns to code.
B．Research deeper into the parallels between coding and language.
C．Figure out the relationship between programming and learning maths.
D．Compare activity patterns of reading code with those of learning language.
【4】What field can the research findings be applied to?
A．Health.
B．Commerce.
C．Education.
D．Medicine
24、 Learning how to cope with death has always been a central part of human existence. Even the Pixar movie Coco bases its story on the Mexican traditions of Dia de los Muertos. In this article, you will find out why and how Mexicans celebrate the Day of the Dead.
I once visited the Museum of Mummies in the Mexican city of Guanajuato with a Swedish friend. The mummies were displayed among fake cobwebs ( 蜘 蛛 网 ), and other cheap adornments (装饰物). Confronted with this seeming lack of respect for the dead, I explained to my shocked companion that Mexicans have a peculiarly different relationship with death to other cultures. As the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz explained in his work:
“The Mexican ... is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, and celebrates it. True, there is as much fear in his attitude as in that of others, but at least death is not hidden away: he looks at it face to face, with impatience, disdain (鄙视) or irony.”
The celebration of the Day of the Dead — a week of festivities from 28 October to 2 November — is an essential part of this embracement of death that is particular to Mexican national identity. The popular belief is that the dead have divine permission to visit friends and relatives on earth and enjoy once again the pleasures of life. Therefore, Mexicans visit the graves of families and friends and adorn them with colorful flowers and offerings of food. The period is a joyous celebration of life, rather than a sober mourning of its passing.
The origins of the festival lie in the 16th-century fusion of the Aztecs’ belief in death as merely one part in the wider cycle of existence, their ritual venerations (仪式崇拜) and offerings to the goddess Mictecacihuatl (“Lady of the Dead”) for the deceased, and the Spanish conquerors’ desire to accommodate these festivities within the Catholic celebrations of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.
In a country as socially and geographically diverse as Mexico, there is significant regional variation in the nature of festivities: the southern state of Chiapas is far more likely to focus its efforts on processions ( 队 伍 ) and public commemorations( 纪 念 ) of death than the valley of
Mexico, where the decoration of altars ( 供 坛 ) in homes and tombs of the deceased is more popular. Urbanization, too, plays a large role in regional variations. For the south and rural areas the period holds far greater social and cultural significance than in the north and large cities; families and communities in rural areas will often spend large parts of the year preparing for the occasion.
【1】Why does the author say “Mexicans have a peculiarly different relationship with death to other cultures?”
A.Because Mexicans always show their respect for death in the form of mummies.
B.Because Mexicans do not fear death or respect it.
C.Because adornments like flowers can be seen everywhere during the Day of the Dead.
D.Mexicans face death bravely rather than hide it away.
【2】Which statement is NOT true according to the origins of the Day of the Dead?
A.It was the Aztecs who determined how to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
B.The Aztecs believed death was part of the wider cycle of existence.
C.The Aztecs would give offerings to the goddess of death for their lost loved ones.
D.The Spanish conquerors wanted to fit the festivities into some of their Catholic celebrations.
【3】Why do Mexicans visit the graves of families and friends and offer colorful flowers and food?
A.Because they can ask God to permit the dead to visit them in this way.
B.To celebrate the joy of new life in spring.
C.Because the dead will be permitted to visit their families and enjoy the pleasure of life again.
D.Because this is an essential part of embracement of death.
【4】Which of the following explains the role that urbanization plays in the regional variations of celebrating the Day of the Dead?
A.People in the south and rural areas put more emphasis on the occasion.
B.People in the valleys usually decorate the alters in homes and the tombs of the dead.
C.People in the north and big cities spend large part of the year preparing for the celebration.
D.The southern states do not care about the decoration of alters at home.
25、 Last month, 7-month-old Ruth and 2-year-old Idgie were abandoned by a gated community in Florida.
When the pair were found, the little black and white ____ Ruth's two back legs were ____ injured and she could hardly walk. Idgie, a dachshund (腊肠狗), was covered in ants while she stood guard over her little _____.
The animals' rescuers were not able to ____ what had happened to Ruth's legs. “We think the cat may have been born with a disability,” said a rescuer. “It was a really ____ situation. On the one hand, both of them were found in relatively ____ shape, not dirty or starved, so it seems as though they probably had a ____ at some point. But on the other hand, no one came to ___ them, and how could the cat get very far without a(an) ____ taking care of her?”
Both Ruth and Idgie were ____ by Jacqueline Borum later. She noticed the ____ between the dog and kitten, which is why she named them Ruth and Idgie ____ the characters in Fried Green Tomatoes who shared a strong friendship.
“Their ____ from beginning to end is something right out of a Disney movie,” Jacqueline said.
The two share a close bond to this day, and Idgie seems to be ____ to protect Ruth all the time.
“When Idgie gets a new toy, she ____ takes it over to the cat, Ruth, and they pretty much ____ everything,” Jacqueline said. “Besides, there's no doubt Idgie would have laid down her life to protect her best friend.”
The bond between the cat and dog ____ Jacqueline to create Project Paws, a nonprofit organization that helps shelters to ____ veterinary(兽医的) costs. She immediately made Ruth and Idgie the group's mascots.
“They are and will continue to fight for other animals in ____ need of help,” she said. “Their friendship has so much to teach us as humans about love, loyalty, and the ability to look ____ our differences.”
【1】A.dog B.cow C.cat D.rabbit
【2】A.seriously B.slightly C.suddenly D.accidently
【3】A.master B.friend C.neighbor D.pet
【4】A.figure out B.get through C.let out D.believe in
【5】A.similar B.dangerous C.strange D.tricky
【6】A.serious B.pitiful C.attractive D.good
【7】A.garden B.palace C.home D.studio
【8】A.carry B.claim C.accompany D.help
【9】A.owner B.friend C.adult D.dog
【10】A.bought B.adopted C.reported D.treated
【11】A.conflict B.similarity C.cooperation D.bond
【12】A.for B.by C.after D.with
【13】A.message B.trip C.response D.story
【14】A.frightened B.determined C.curious D.cautious
【15】A.always B.already C.indeed D.seldom
【16】A.handle B.learn C.remember D.share
【17】A.advised B.inspired C.requested D.forced
【18】A.cover B.increase C.create D.relieve
【19】A.clear B.endless C.gradual D.desperate
【20】A.after B.into C.beyond D.for
26、阅读下面材料，根据所给内容进行续写,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
It was deep into the night many years ago. The rain just came pouring down outside. An elderly man and his wife entered the lobby (大厅)of a small hotel in Philadelphia, USA.
Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get a room to stay in for the night.
“Could you possibly give us a room here?” the husband asked.
The clerk, a friendly young man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and explained that there were three conferences in the town. "All of our rooms are taken," the clerk said. “But I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o'clock at night. Would you perhaps be willing to sleep in my room? It's not exactly a suite, but it will be good enough to make you comfortable for the night.”
When the couple declined, the young man pressed on. "Don't worry about me. I'll make out just fine," the clerk told them. So the couple agreed.
As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, “You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel. Maybe someday I'll build one for you.”
The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh. As they drove away, the elderly couple agreed that the helpful clerk was indeed exceptional, as finding people who are both friendly and helpful isn't easy.
Three years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the thing when he received a letter from the elderly man. It recalled that stormy night, when he offered his kind help to the elderly couple. In the envelope, there was a round-trip ticket to New York, and a letter asking the young man to pay them a visit. The young man decided to set out immediately.
注意:
1 .续写词数应为150左右；
2 .续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:
“Do you still remember my promise years ago?” the elderly man said to the young man.
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Paragraph 2:
“You must be joking,” the young man said.
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