1、----Are you feeling tired after the long walk?
----________. In fact, I feel quite relaxed.
A. Not a little B. Not a bit
C. A bit D. A little
2、The water will be further polluted unless some measures _______ .
A.will be taken
B.are taken
C.were taken
D.had been taken
3、Cooking up a quick dish doesn’t always mean sacrifice of flavour. have to be junk food.
A.Nor fast food does B.Nor does fast food
C.So does fast food D.So fast food does
4、He managed to reach the summit of his career, but it was at the ______ of his health.
A. consumption B. credit
C. exhaustion D. expense
5、What some people regard as a ________ is seen as a plus by many others.
A.duty B.drawback C.failure D.faith
6、The door bell _________ but nobody answered the door. The thought came to him _________ Mary had probably fallen ill.
A.had been ringing; if
B.kept ringing; that
C.had rung; why
D.had been rung; 不填
7、The woman was Tu Youyou, the first Chinese female scientist ________ a Nobel Prize for her work.
A.awarded
B.to be awarded
C.to award
D.awarding
8、The speech was so________ that they were all ________.
A.inspiring; exciting
B.inspired; excited
C.inspired; exciting
D.inspiring; excited
9、At last, he got a good job and felt secure about the future.
A.adj. 安心的
B.adj. 安全的
C.vt. 获得
D.vt. 拴牢
10、It was two years since I ________with her.
A.had dined
B.was dining
C.dined
D.had been dining
11、________her mother________she ran to her.
A.Hardly had the girl seen; when
B.Hardly the girl had seen; when
C.The girl had hardly seen; than
D.The girl had hardly seen; as
12、Rather than ___ on a crowded bus, he always prefers _____ a bicycle.
A.ride; to ride
B.riding; ride
C.ride; ride
D.to ride; riding
13、Tom was about to close the windows_______ his attention was caught by a bird.
A. when B. if
C. and D. till
14、Don’t lie to your mother. She appeared ___________ everything.
A. to know B. to be knowing
C. to have known D. to be known
15、If you go to see a 3D film, you special glasses ___________ in the cinema.
A.will be offered
B.were offered
C.offered
D.will offer
16、The poster was revised _________the suggestions of other group members.
A. based on B. to base on
C. basing on D. which based on
17、I can’t imagine what air we would be breathing in if we __________ anything to stop air pollution.
A. hadn’t done B. didn’t do
C. haven’t done D. don’t do
18、Not only David but also I _____ against the plan. Therefore, the plan will surely be given up.
A. is B. are
C. were D. am
19、At no time ________ the rules of the game.It was unfair to punish them.
A.they actually broke B.do they actually break
C.did they actually break D.they had actually broken
20、 19th CPC National Congress which is major event in the country was held on Oct. 18, 2017.
A. A; a B. The; the
C. The; a D. A; the
21、Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, a crocodile was swimming toward him. His mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two. In great fear, she ran toward the water, shouting to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother.It was too late. Just as he reached her, the crocodile reached him. From the shore, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the crocodile snatched his legs. That began an incredible tug-of-war between the two. The crocodile was much stronger than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard their screams, raced from his truck, took aim and shot the crocodile.
Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely scarred by the attack of the animal. And, on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother’s finger nails dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy, asked if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted his legs. And then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, “But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my Mom wouldn’t let go.”
Never judge another person’s scars, because you don’t know how they were made.
【1】By saying “But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too” in paragraph 4, the boy really wants to show ______.
A.how deep the scars made by the crocodile were
B.what a brave and courageous boy he was
C.how many scars and scratches he had
D.how great and beloved his mother was
【2】Hearing Mother’s shouts, the boy ______.
A.remained in the middle at a loss
B.didn’t stop swimming forwards
C.swam back towards the shore
D.was ready to fight the crocodile
【3】Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A.A crocodile attacked him when the boy and his mother were swimming.
B.The crocodile bit the arms of the boy when it reached him.
C.There is always an interesting story behind every scar.
D.It was the farmer who shot the crocodile.
【4】Which of the following will be the best title for the text?
A.Scars of Love
B.Women Hold up Half the Sky
C.A Terrible Experience
D.Don’t Judge by Appearances
22、According to a new US study, couples who expect their children to help care for them in old age should hope they have daughters because they are likely to be twice as attentive overall.
The research by Angelina Grigoryeva, a sociologist at Princeton University, found that, while women provide as much care for their elderly parents as they can manage, men do as little as they can get away with and often leave it to female family members.
Using data from the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study, a study which has been tracking a cross-section of over-50s for the last decade, she calculated that women provide an average of 12.3 hours a month of care for elderly parents while men offer only 5.6 hours.
“Whereas the amount of elderly parent care daughters provide is associated with limitations they face, such as employment or childcare, sons’ caregiving is associated only with the presence or absence of other helpers, such as sisters or a parent’s spouse(配偶),” she explained.
“Sons reduce their relative caregiving efforts when they have a sister, while daughters increase theirs when they have a brother.”
“This suggests that sons pass on parent caregiving responsibilities to their sisters.”
In the UK, the 2011 census(人口普查) showed that there are now around 6.5 million people with caring responsibilities — a figure which has risen by a tenth in a decade.
But many are doing so at the risk of their own health. The census showed that those who provide 50 hours or more of care a week while trying to hold down a full-time job are three times more likely to be struggling with ill health than their working counterparts(相对应的人) who are not careers.
【1】Where can you probably find the text?
A. In a popular science journal. B. In a heal care guideline.
C. In a physics textbook. D. In a tour booklet.
【2】According to the study we know that ________.
A. American couples are preferring daughters to sons a lot
B. sons are twice likely as daughters to care for parents in old age
C. having a brother makes women less likely to do their fair share
D. men tend to take less care of their parents than women
【3】Which of the following statements is true?
A. The number of people providing care has increased by 6.5 million.
B. More people have left behind their work to look after the elderly.
C. Many people who both work and care others can be threatened by health problems.
D. People shouldn’t take much responsibility to care for the old.
【4】What’s the attitude of the author in the article?
A. Positive. B. Subjective. C. Objective. D. Negative.
23、Left-handed people make up around 12% of the global population. One really interesting fact that I picked up was from a scientist who believed that left-handed people tended to be more independent as a result of having to adapt to a world that is largely built for right-handed individuals.【1】!
More likely to have allergies and sleep disorders
A study found that left-handed people were 11 times more likely to suffer from allergies than right-handed folk.【2】.
Left-handed people use the right side of the brain the most
【3】, meaning that the right side controls the left side of the body and the other way around. Hence there is a well-known saying “only left-handed people are in their right minds”. The right-hand side of the brain is thought to control the left side of the body and tasks to do with the arts and creativity.
Are left-handed people smarter?
【4】! One 2007 study “Effect of handedness on intelligence level of students”shows that lefties are more likely to have higher IQ. However,another 2010 study “The relationship between hand preference, hand performance, and general cognitive ability” suggests the exact opposite!
【5】
Experiments showed that when given two tasks to complete simultaneously (同时), lefties performed best. This is because right-handed people tend to solve problems by breaking them down into parts and analyzing each piece one at a time. While left-handed people tend to look at the problem as a whole and use pattern-matching to try and solve it.
A.Better at multi-tasking
B.Smarter than the right-handed
C.As we know, the brain is cross-wired
D.This one varies depending on how dated your source is
E.Here are a few more fascinating left-handed people facts
F.Mixed-handed children are more likely to experience language issues
G.And lefties were two and a half times more likely to suffer from sleep disorders
24、Amy Pankratz spent a few nights in the hospital with her daughter, Isabella, who caught a bad flu. “Lying in bed beside Isabella, I could hear the cries of children in pain, ”says Amy. “It completely broke my heart.”
When Isabella was getting well and could leave her room, she wore her prized possession—a “superhero cape(短斗篷)” Amy had sewn to encourage her—and walked into the hallway. The pink cape was an instant hit with the other young patients, who were doing exercise around the nursing station. “Then, all the kids were taking turns wearing the cape, giggling, ”Amy says. “These were some of the same children I had heard crying the night before, and here they were playing and having fun—kids just being kids!”
From that moment on, Amy began making Comfort Capes for little ones battling with serious illnesses. “I felt God presenting an opportunity, ”she says. “I hoped Comfort Capes can help these kids feel brave, to lift some of the fear away. ”
Since then, Amy has made and donated more than 5, 000 capes in the United States. Amy usually pays for materials herself, although she accepts donations.
The capes she makes for kids in treatment are different from those her own children have. Before Amy starts to sew she learns what image or character the little boy or girl connects with. “I choose the pattern, color and theme specially for each child,” explains Amy.
When she is not sewing, Amy is raising awareness of childhood cancers and looking into ways to get Comfort Capes to more kids who need them, “If a cape can help a child, even only for a moment, forget his illness, it’s worth the time spent sewing,” she says.
【1】What made Amy feel sad when she was staying with her daughter in the hospital?
A.Her daughter’s serious illness.
B.The cries of children in pain.
C.The tiredness from sewing the cape.
D.The illness of children in her daughter’s room.
【2】What purpose did Amy have when she began making Comfort Capes for sick children?
A.To make them feel warm.
B.To find friends for her daughter.
C.To make them happy and fearless.
D.To raise the awareness of children’s illness.
【3】According to the passage, we can get that the author’s attitude toward Amy’s behaviour is ________.
A. indifferent B. neutral C. negative D. supportive
【4】Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Turning Sick Kids into Superheroes
B. How to Treat the Sick Children
C. A strong Mom Who Helps Others
D. Amy: a Considerate Woman
25、How many people can speak English? Some experts estimate that 1.5 billion people—around one-quarter of the world’s population—can communicate reasonably well in English.
Never in recorded history has a language been as __________ spoken as English is today. The reason why millions are learning it is simple: it is the language of international business and __________, the key to prosperity. It is not just that multinational companies conduct their business in English; it is the language in which Germans speak to Indonesians.
David Gtaddol, the author of English Next, says it is tempting to view the story of English simply as a victory for its native speakers in North America, Britain and Ireland, and Australia— but that would be a __________ . Global English has entered a more complex stage, changing in ways that the English-speaking countries cannot control and might __________ .
An important question one might ask is: whose English will it be in the future? Non-nativespeakers now __________ native English speakers by three to one. The majority of __________ in English today take place between non-native speakers. According to David Graddol, many business meetings held in English appear to run more __________ when there are no native English speakerspresent. This is because native speakers are often ___________ at ensuring that they are understood in international discussions. They tend to think they need to avoid longer Latin-based words, but in fact __________ problems are more often caused by their use of idioms, metaphors, and phrasal verbs. On one occasion, at an international student conference in Amsterdam, conducted in English, the only British representative was asked to be “less __________” so that the others could understand her.
Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, Professor of English at the University of Vienna, records spoken English __________ between speakers of the language around the world. She says her team has noticed that non-native speakers are __________ standard English grammar in several ways. Even the most fluent speakers sometimes omit the "s" in the third person singular. Many omit definite and indefinite articles where they are __________ in standard English, or put them in where standard English does not use them. Nouns that are not plural in native-speaker English are used as plurals by non-native speakers (eg, “informations”, “knowledges”, advices”). Other variations include “make a discussion”, “discuss about something”, or “phone to somebody”.
Many native English speakers will insist that these are not variations, they are mistakes. “Knowledges”and “phone to somebody” are simply __________. Many non-native speakers who teach English around the world would agree. But language changes, and so do ideas of grammatical __________ .
【1】
A.well
B.widely
C.fully
D.regularly
【2】
A.besides
B.therefore
C.otherwise
D.however
【3】
A.mistake
B.success
C.challenge
D.competition
【4】
A.forget
B.undergo
C.justify
D.dislike
【5】
A.understand
B.envy
C.outnumber
D.overload
【6】
A.encounters
B.instructions
C.negotiations
D.treatments
【7】
A.roughly
B.slowly
C.swiftly
D.smoothly
【8】
A.poor
B.angry
C.clever
D.skillful
【9】
A.equipment
B.economy
C.comprehension
D.culture
【10】
A.visible
B.considerate
C.English
D.foreign
【11】
A.grammar
B.interactions
C.courses
D.vocabulary
【12】
A.studying
B.explaining
C.checking
D.varying
【13】
A.required
B.deleted
C.judged
D.stressed
【14】
A.harmful
B.impolite
C.wrong
D.illogical
【15】
A.phenomenon
B.research
C.structure
D.correctness
26、假定你是李华,春节里你的美国朋友Michael 发邮件祝你新年快乐,并询问你的新年计划,请你给他回邮件,内容包括:
1. 感谢他的祝福;
2. 你的新年计划;
3. 询问他的新年计划。
注意:
1. 词数 80 词左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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