1、 Difficult as it was, I was not ready to quit and __________ my journey towards life balance.
A. give out B. give on C. give up D. give off
2、--- Why has Mrs. Zhang made up her mind to leave her husband?
--- He is too lazy and gambles every day, so she has had ________ of him.
A.enough
B.none
C.nothing
D.some
3、It disappoints the specialists that Canada is faced with the similar problem as the Internet meant to bring people closer to set them apart.
A. beginning B. begun
C. begins D. had begun
4、Walk down the main street, and the post office is on your right. You won’t __________it.
A.omit B.ignore C.miss D.deny
5、In my opinion, a true friend is the one who always ______ when you are depressed.
A. puts you up B. gives you up
C. picks you up D. cheers you up
6、Parents ______ much importance to education. They will do their best to give their children that priceless gift.
A.contribute
B.pay
C.link
D.attach
7、_______we _______in the traffic on the highway, we _______ dinner at the table now.
A. Hadn’t... been stuck ; are having B. Had... not been stuck; would have had
C. Hadn’t... been stuck; should have D. Had... not been stuck; would be having
8、________ in thought, he didn’t notice his teacher coming into the classroom at all.
A.Losing
B.Having lost
C.Lost
D.To lose
9、—My computer crashed when I was just playing the game. What should I do?
—______, and check it tomorrow morning to see what happens.
A.Leave it alone
B.Help yourself
C.That depends
D.Keep in touch
10、He held on ________ the rock to stop himself slipping.
A.of
B.with
C.at
D.to
11、(2016·北京)Why didn’t you tell me about your trouble last week? If you ________ me, I could have helped.
A.told B.had told
C.were to tell D.would tell
12、The news came, as expected, ________ my cousin was chosen to be the manager of the company.
A.it
B.that
C.what
D.which
13、Bad performances in the exams are closely connected with a ____ of exercise.
A. preference B. lack C. need D. demand
14、The girl was made ________she didn't love at all.
A. marry a man B. to marry a man
C. to marry to a man D. marry to a man
15、The foreign guests, ________ were scientists, were warmly welcomed at the airport.
A.most of which
B.most of them
C.most of whom
D.most of those
16、Now all that was needed were the parents, but they were ______.
A.shallow
B.absent
C.vivid
D.muddy
17、The Spring Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is a time of getting together, when people return home from different places and enjoy the _______ of family members.
A. company B. appreciation
C. expectation D. acquaintance
18、The reason why I was sad was ________ he didn’t understand me.
A.because
B.that
C.why
D.how
19、To our surprise, most residents living nearby choose to ______ the noise from the factory and even keep quiet when interviewed by reporters.
A.catch up with
B.put up with
C.come up with
D.keep up with
20、—Why are graduates likely to work in the eastern part of China?
—Because the economy there is ________ stronger and there are more chances.
A. commonly B. slightly
C. comparatively D. necessarily
21、Though the man was badly hurt in the accident, he was still _______ and could think clearly.
A. awake B. aware
C. conscious D. confused
22、It’s not what we do but what we don’t do that makes us tired. In other words, the tasks we don’t complete cause the most_____.
A. anxiety
B. worry
C. concern
D. fatigue
23、The crowd cheered wildly at the sight of the athlete, who was reported ____________ the world record in the 110-meter hurdle race.
A. breaking B. having broken C. to have broken D. to break
24、—Linda,the phone in your office can't be connected all the time. Why?
—Oh,sorry,Miss Miles. The service________since last Wednesday.
A.has been stopped
B.has stopped
C.was stopped
D.had stopped
25、The shop assistant was dismissed as she was_______ of cheating customers.
A. accused B. charged
C. scolded D. cursed
26、 The way that others judge you is similar to placing marbles (玻璃弹珠) on a scale (天平盘) as soon as they get any information. We form impressions of people the same way we form an impression of anything: As soon as our scale of marbles starts tipping one way, we start collecting evidence to back that up by picking up the marble that’s easiest to pick up.
Why? Our brains are lazy and our time is limited. As we get more choices, we become more careless about everything. “Basically, we get around choice overload by ignoring most of the choices we have,” says the decision-making researcher Peter Todd.
Think about an employment manager working through a stack of résumés (一摞简历), one of which advertises an applicant’s (申请人的) fluency in French. Does it matter, even if the position is for a web designer? It just might.
“Suppose the manager has a great interest in learning French to talk to her elderly aunt in Montreal. No doubt the applicant would feel excited about being offered the job,” writes Warren Thorngate in Judging Merit. “But how would you feel about such a one-step judgment, especially if you’d spent three days preparing your résumé for the job opening but did not trouble to note in your résumé that you, too, spoke French?”
I called Thorngate to ask how such things manage to continue. “Some very good applicants may be missed, but they don’t care,” the judgment and decision-making researcher replied.
“It’s one of those problems where everybody thinks that they’re a good judge of character,” says the researcher Kristine Kuhn. “But obviously people just are not nearly as good as they think they are. Even if they met someone and judged them as great employees and employed them, and then they turned out to be bad, that doesn’t shake people’s confidence. They can always explain away that it really didn’t have anything to do with them not being a good judge of character.”
【1】What does the author say about first impressions in Paragraph 1?
A.They’re lasting.
B.They’re important.
C.They’re hard to make.
D.They’re often unreliable.
【2】Why does the author give the example of an employment manager’s judgment?
A.To prove it is not easy to prepare a résumé.
B.To suggest the employment manager is irresponsible.
C.To explain how your résumé makes a first impression.
D.To show first impressions are formed quickly and easily.
【3】What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A.Employment managers.
B.Decision-makers.
C.Researchers.
D.Applicants.
【4】What would happen if people made a wrong judgment according to Kristine Kuhn?
A.They would hide it.
B.They would be punished.
C.They would excuse themselves.
D.They would lose their confidence.
27、 When David Hyche was helping his local church plan an annual Easter egg hunt nine years ago, he realized his then 19-month-old blind daughter Rachel would not be able to fully take part in it. He decided to look for a way for his daughter to experience an Easter egg hunt just like her normal-sighted older brother.
David then researched online on how a blind child could do an Easter egg hunt and have fun with it. He found there were people who could make beeping (有哔哔声的) eggs. He then called a man in Los Angeles and the man told him how he did it. David then thought he could spread beeping eggs around the world.
He made forty beeping eggs that year and sold them at a price of $14 per egg. Each egg took him about 20 minutes to make. It contains a switch (开关), a beeper, and a 9-volt battery, joined together by wires (导线).
A handful of blind kids, Rachel included, showed up at the first beeping Easter egg hunt hosted by David in Birmingham nine years ago. Hoping to spread it further, David employed his coworkers and friends throughout Alabama to help him make more beeping eggs. This year, three beeping Easter egg hunts were held in Birmingham alone, with dozens more held across the country.
Around six years ago, David’s idea drew an ally (同盟军) in the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI). IABTF’s members collect the eggs and then send them to the requesting groups. Each egg now costs $11.50 to make, according to the IABTI, which posts a step-by-step explainer on its website.
“A lot of schools for the blind use the eggs to teach kids how to locate (定位) things because it teaches them to use a logical mind to search,” said David. “It’s teaching these kids independence,” he said. “It’s not just an Easter egg hunt like it is for other people.”
【1】Why did David want to make the beeping Easter egg at first?
A.To plan a special Easter egg hunt.
B.To make his daughter enjoy an Easter egg hunt.
C.To draw people’s attention to an Easter hunt.
D.To provide beeping Easter for blind children.
【2】What can we infer from the passage?
A.Rachel is 9 years old now.
B.It is not too hard for David to make a beeping egg.
C.David learned how to make a beeping egg by chance.
D.Few children were interested in the beeping egg at first.
【3】David asked his coworkers and friends to help ________.
A.raise money B.send finished eggs
C.make beeping eggs D.post an explainer online
【4】Why do many schools for the blind use beeping eggs?
A.Because they help blind kids to be independent.
B.Because an egg hunt is a lot fun like it is for others.
C.Because they are easy to locate for the blind.
D.Because a logical mode is used in making them.
28、 We take for granted many of the materials used in modern life. However, without major advances in chemistry, many everyday things would not exist. This is why the invention of the periodic table of the elements (元素周期表) was so important. It really opened the door to many future achievements in chemistry and is still very much in use today.
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) of Russia is credited with the invention of the first reliable periodic table. In the middle of the 19th century, only 63 elements had been found. Mendeleev was eager to increase our knowledge of them. He wrote down the atomic mass (原子质量) of each element on cards and reorganised them again and again. After several months, he realized that the physical and chemical characteristics of elements were related to their atomic mass. So he lined them up in order of their atomic mass from light to heavy and then put those with similar characteristics in columns.
Mendeleev’s road to science success wasn’t an easy one. He lost his father at a young age and his large family was poor. Luckily, he had a strong-willed mother who made his education her top priority (优先的事). She moved several times so that Mendeleev could go to a good university. After being rejected many times, Mendeleev began his studies in 1850.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the end of his troubles. Mendeleev suffered from a serious illness for many years, during which time he worked from bed. In spite of his misfortunes, Mendeleev was able to make great achievements in science through his determination to succeed in his work.
Mendeleev was not only an excellent chemist, but also a pioneer in shipbuilding and even suitcase-making. He found a special material that helped him make excellent suitcases that were highly valued. And he also had a hand in building the world’s first Arctic icebreaker, the Yermak. It played a vital part in the development of modern scientific shipping for trade and war.
【1】Why does the author mention “everyday things” in the first paragraph?
A.To show a common mistake.
B.To introduce a great chemist
C.To give examples of materials.
D.To explain the work of inventors.
【2】What major contribution did Mendeleev make to chemistry?
A.He studied the characteristics of elements.
B.He found 63 elements in the 19th century.
C.He made the first reliable periodic table.
D.He wrote down each element on cards.
【3】What helped Mendeleev on his road to science success?
A.The loss of his father.
B.The strong will of his mother.
C.His many brothers and sisters
D.The rejections by universities.
【4】Which of the following words can best describe Mendeleev?
A.Courageous and calm.
B.Lucky and strong-willed.
C.Cooperative and generous.
D.Hardworking and outstanding.
29、Monkeys seem to have a way with numbers
A team of researchers trained three Rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward. The researchers then tested how the monkeys combined or added-the symbols to get the reward.
Here’s how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment: In their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens. On one part of the screen, a symbol would appear, and on the other side two symbols inside a circle were shown. For example, the number 7 would flash on one side of the screen and the other end would have 9 and 8. If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen, they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.
After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.
When the team examined the results of the experiment more closely, they noticed that the monkeys tended to underestimate a sum compared with a single symbol when the two were close in value—sometimes choosing, for example, a 13 over the sum of 8 and 6. The underestimation was systematic: When adding two numbers, the monkeys always paid attention to the larger of the two, and then added only a fraction of the smaller number to it.
“This indicates that there is a certain way quantity which is represented in their brains,” Dr. Livingstone says. “But in this experiment what they’re doing is paying more attention to the big number than the little one.”
【1】How did the monkeys get their reward in the experiment?
A.By drawing a circle.
B.By touching a screen.
C.By watching videos.
D.By mixing two drinks.
【2】What did Living stone’s team find about the monkeys?
A.They could understand simple words.
B.They could perform basic addition.
C.They could memorize numbers easily.
D.They could hold their attention for long.
【3】In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?
A.Science.
B.Health.
C.Education.
D.Entertainment.
【4】What is the passage mainly about?
A.How people fed monkeys.
B.How some monkeys named themselves.
C.How people trained monkeys.
D.The study about monkeys’ abilities of calculation.
30、“Don’t forget your water!” This is a familiar______whenever I leave the house. Water indeed is______— especially when one is 69 years old and might forget the ______and get trapped on Long Island.
This makes me think back to my______. In the early 1960s, when I left to play outside all day, my mother______ said, “Don’t forget your water.” There was no way to bring water or buy a water bottle back then. How did I______?
I was______to live on Long Island. My family lived on more than 50 acres,______cows, horses, sheep, ducks and chickens. Some 60 acres of woods lie on the east side of our little farm. That’s______I followed my dad, uncle and grandpa as they hunted rabbits, squirrels and pheasants. We had only seven TV channels. I______the remote control, changing stations at my dad’s request. Life was______and good.
In my third-grade year, I______Mom to let me ride my bike up Jericho Turnpike to go to school. You can’t imagine a mother letting a 10-year-old bike every day three miles into town. She______and I met about 10 to 12 other guys for baseball or football. We played wildly without water. Not to say we didn’t get______. When we did, we went to drink from the electric cooler. It was cold, free and satisfying. Occasionally, we had money in our pockets and______ourselves to a Coke or Pepsi. What a fun, stress-free and safe place to grow up on Long Island even without water bottles.
【1】
A.sound
B.request
C.word
D.name
【2】
A.visible
B.harmless
C.unique
D.important
【3】
A.bottle
B.demand
C.promise
D.blanket
【4】
A.hometown
B.hobby
C.youth
D.education
【5】
A.never
B.often
C.occasionally
D.sometimes
【6】
A.change
B.escape
C.survive
D.struggle
【7】
A.absent
B.lucky
C.bored
D.confused
【8】
A.cooking
B.raising
C.counting
D.hunting
【9】
A.when
B.how
C.why
D.where
【10】
A.cut off
B.fell apart
C.served as
D.relied on
【11】
A.simple
B.complex
C.hard
D.dramatic
【12】
A.declared
B.guided
C.begged
D.cheated
【13】
A.stood by
B.broke down
C.watched out
D.gave in
【14】
A.hungry
B.thirsty
C.crazy
D.angry
【15】
A.devoted
B.treated
C.addicted
D.taught
31、阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空,在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词,在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。
Mo Li Hua is a popular Chinese folk song 【1】dates back to the 18th century. It’s one of the most well-known Chinese songs both in China and abroad. It’s a nice song【2】beginners to learn due to its simple lyrics. The melody of this song has become well-known among Western listeners for several reasons. One is that it【3】(sing) by Giacomo Puccini in his opera called Turandot in 1926. It was also used in the Olympics opening ceremony in China.
32、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。
One cloudy afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods before she realized that she was lost.
The woods are remnants(残余) of a huge forest which once covered the whole area, which were designated an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Sitting on a rock and wondering what to do, she began crying. A slight breeze was stirring the branches. The flowers were gently swaying in the breeze. It is quiet around her and she listened to the nice chirping(鸣叫) of insects, which is waving and faint, just like a Buddhist melody. After a while, she decided to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes.
When it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. Above the cottage the fir-trees gently swayed and rustled in the breeze.
She opened the door and cautiously stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out the door and back to the woods . She was seized with panic.
She had wandered about long enough to feel too tired to wander any farther. Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a stream.
The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy sensed that his mistress was in danger. He jumped through a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields, but he couldn't find his mistress anywhere.
注意:
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
However, from the ground came a familiar scent (气味) as he lowered his head.
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When she opened her eyes, she saw her dog standing beside her.
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