1、Many people are competing ____________each other in the competition____________ the prize.
A.against; with
B.with; against
C.against; for
D.for; with
2、— I hear you won the prize in the English Contest last week.
— That was the second time that I ______ the prize.
A. have got B. got C. get D. had got
3、When parents come to visit the school and talk to the teachers, we often play songs by students, and messages are also given in order to keep them of events such as outings and school plays.
A. sang; informed B. sung; informing
C. sing; informed D. sung; informed
4、— Have you seen the TV play My Ugly Mother?
— Yes, it’s well worth ________. It’s ________ moving that I’ve seen it twice.
A. seeing; so B. to see; enough
C. seeing; too D. to see; such
5、Mum, I was wondering if you could lend me a few dollars until I on Friday.
A.get paid
B.got paid
C.have paid
D.had been paid
6、The letter he had been looking forward to________at last this morning.
A.come B.comes C.coming D.came
7、Studying is very important, but as parents, we'd better not put too much ________ on children.
A.personality
B.creativity
C.pressure
D.advance
8、I gathered all my courage to take a bite.
A.一起,咬一口
B.一起;闻
C.聚集;闻
D.聚集;咬一口
9、______ which direction should we go,west or east?
A. On B. To
C. In D. With
10、Not only ________ reading the book, but he wrote a summary about the book.
A.he finished
B.did he finish
C.he did finish
D.was he finish
11、The internet is a technological wonder, ________ far-reaching changes in all aspect of our lives.
A.bringing about
B.holding back
C.getting across
D.making up
12、His face seems so familiar to me. I ______ him somewhere before.
A.must have seen
B.must see
C.might have seen
D.might see
13、The old woman has two sons, both of ______are drivers.
A.them
B.whose
C.who
D.whom
14、The old man didn’t answer my question. It seemed that he didn’t ________ any importance to it.
A.attach
B.strengthen
C.stick
D.apply
15、The meeting was held in Pittsburgh, a once-prosperous US industrial center now ______ dramatic job-cuts because of the competition ______ by globalization.
A.facing;bringing about
B.faced;brought about
C.faced;bringing about
D.facing;brought about
16、Charles is believed_______ the floor yesterday; he is always helping others silently.
A.to sweep
B.to have swept
C.having swept
D.swept
17、The girl ______ some old photographs in a drawer when searching for her papers.
A.got across
B.came out
C.came across
D.lived up to
18、The truth will sooner or later ______.
A.come about
B.turn out
C.come out
D.give out
19、We have to ________ some practical measures to solve the problem.
A.come out
B.come up with
C.come up
D.come about
20、I am fond of music while my sister likes reading novels. It seems that we have nothing ______.
A. in like B. in common
C. in same D. in similar
21、It is said that this tradition________ for around 1,000 years.
A.is preserved
B.has been preserved
C.has preserved
D.will be preserved
22、You may be an inexperienced candidate, but none of that makes things worse than your walking into that interview room ______in confidence.
A.lacked B.lacking C.for lack of D.lacking of
23、--- Is the girl is interviewing the manager of that company your friend?
--- Yes, she is a journalist from CCTV.
A. whom B. which
C. who D. whose
24、—Are you familiar with the coastal town?
—Yes. I ______ here for nearly five years. I’m more than glad to come back here.
A.worked
B.work
C.am working
D.have been working
25、 Not everybody knows exercising too much can_________ serious pain and even injuries.
A. attach to B. attend to
C. contribute to D. devote to
26、 I came home one day recently and, for reasons I don’t quite understand, my living room smelled like my grandmother’s house. Suddenly I felt as if I were 12 years old, happy and relaxed, sitting in her kitchen. I can remember what her house looked like, though it was sold 20 years ago — her three-level plant stand, the plates lining the walls, the window over her sink — but these visual memories don’t have the power that smell does. The funny thing is, I can’t even begin to describe the odor that was so distinctively hers. The best I can do is this: “It smelled like my grandmother’s house.”
It’s a common experience, and a common linguistic problem. In cultures worldwide, people have powerful olfactory memories. This odor-memory link is also called “the Proust phenomenon,” after Marcel Proust’s famous description of the feelings aroused by a cake dipped in tea in “Remembrance of Things Past.”
Olfactory memories seem to be more closely bound up with emotions than are visual or auditory ones.
Not all these memories are pleasant, of course, and smells can also trigger feelings of pain.
It is surprisingly hard for English-speakers to describe the odors that occasion such strong emotions, however. English possesses almost no abstract smell words that pick out links or themes among unrelated aromas.
We have plenty of these in the visual field. “Yellow,” for example, identifies a characteristic that bananas, lemons, some cars, some flowers, old book pages, and the sun all share.
But for odors, we don’t have many more than the vague “musty” (smells old and stale) and “musky” (smells perfumey). We usually have no choice but to say that one thing smells like another—like a banana, like garlic, like diesel fuel.
A few languages, though, do have a rich odor vocabulary. Linguist Asifa Majid has found that the Jahai, the Semaq Beri, and the Maniq, hunter-gatherer groups in Malaysia and Thailand, employ a wide range of abstract smell words and can identify aromas as easily as we can colors. The Jahai have a word, for example, that describes “the seemingly dissimilar smell of petrol, smoke, bat poop, root of wild ginger and wood of wild mango.”
Last year my cat got sprayed by a skunk, and the vet told me to wash its face with coffee to cover the bad smell. Until then, I had never realized that coffee, which I find delicious, smells remarkably like skunk spray, which I do not.
Science has identified the chemicals that both share. They are called mercaptans. But in oral English, we have no word for the underlying note that connects these two odors. If the Jahai drank coffee and encountered skunks, I bet they would.
【1】The opening paragraph is mainly intended to_______.
A.express the writer’s affection for his grandmother.
B.direct the readers’ attention to a linguistic problem.
C.tell us the odor of the grandmother’s house stayed the same.
D.prove smell has a greater power than visual memories.
【2】Which of the following is related to olfactory memories?
A.Forming an image in mind after seeing the word “injury”.
B.Feeling sympathetic when seeing a sick cat.
C.Dancing to the music upon hearing it played.
D.Missing fried eggs with garlic cooked by mum.
【3】The example of the Jahai suggests that_______.
A.the Jahai don’t have many words in the visual field.
B.English possesses many vague words like “musty” and “musky”.
C.the Jahai has more abstract smell words than English.
D.skunk and coffee have the same smell, but different functions.
27、Around 7,000 B.C. (during the Neolithic period), some hunters and gatherers began to rely chiefly on agriculture for their life. Indeed, agriculture itself evolved over the course of time and Neolithic peoples had long known how to grow crops. The real transformation of human life occurred when huge numbers of people began to rely primarily and permanently on the grain they grew and the animals they domesticated.
Agriculture made possible a more stable and secure life. With it Neolithic peoples developed, starting an energetic, creative time. They were responsible for many fundamental inventions and innovations that the modern world takes for granted. First is systematic agriculture – the reliance of Neolithic peoples on agriculture as their primary, not merely additional, source of food.
Thus they developed the primary economic activity of the entire ancient world and the basis of all modern life. With the settled routine of Neolithic farmers came the evolution of towns and eventually cities. Neolithic farmers usually raised more food than they could consume, and their surpluses permitted larger, healthier populations. Population growth in turn created an even greater reliance on settled farming, as only systematic agriculture could sustain the increased numbers of people. Since surpluses of food could also be traded for other goods, the Neolithic time witnessed the beginnings of large-scale exchange of goods. With the increasing complexity of Neolithic societies, writing emerged with the need to keep records and later by the urge to record experiences, learning, and beliefs.
The change to settled life also had a deep impact on the family. The shared needs and pressures that encourage extended-family ties are less urgent in settled than in nomadic (游牧的) societies. Ties to the extended family weakened. In towns and cities, the nuclear family was more dependent on its immediate neighbors than on distant relatives.
【1】The passage talks mainly about ____________.
A.why many human societies depend on agriculture
B.what changes agriculture brought to human life
C.how Neolithic peoples discovered agriculture
D.why the first agricultural societies failed
【2】With agriculture, Neolithic people no longer needed to ____________.
A.move from one place to another
B.exchange goods with others
C.domesticate wild animals
D.worry about their safety
【3】“Their surpluses” (in paragraph 3) refer to ____________.
A.the amount of food they had to consume
B.the more food they produced than needed
C.the extent to which they relied on agriculture
D.the increase in population agriculture brought about
【4】According to the passage, how did the shift to agricultural societies impact people’s family?
A.Family members began to work together to raise food
B.Immediate neighbors often became family members
C.The extended family became less important
D.The nuclear family became self-sufficient
28、Last Thursday, Michael and Linda stood behind large food trucks distributing meals to 4,000 homeless people for their wedding reception on the border town of Kilis. The couple had decided that instead of hosting their friends and family for a traditional feast reception, they would feed the victims from an earthquake-stricken area.
The idea came from the bridegroom's father, Ted, who volunteers for a Turkish relief organization. For the past few years, the organization has distributed daily meals to thousands of people who've suffered from natural disasters. He approached a representative of the organization and suggested that the family cover part of the costs of feeding them for the day.
Then he told his son, who was surprised by the suggestion, but soon won over. When he told that to the bride, she was really shocked but finally accepted because in southeastern Turkey there is a real culture of sharing with people in need. They love to share their food, their table and everything they have. And afterwards she was quite amazed about it. So, they arrived at the distribution center on Thursday to spend the day serving food and taking photographs with their grateful recipients (接受者).
On Tuesday evening, the newly married couple were still pleased with their decision to quit a personal celebration for one with a greater good. “It's like sharing a dinner with your friends and family who have this kind of thing on a daily basis or sharing something with people who don't even have the most basic things,” Michael said. “Hopefully, this will also give the start for other wedding dinners to be held here with our brothers and sisters in need.”
【1】Why did so many people crowd in Kilis?
A.To attend Michael and Linda's wedding.
B.To support the organization.
C.To escape the damaging earthquake.
D.To help distribute free daily meals.
【2】How did the couple celebrate their wedding?
A.They treated their friends and relatives to a big dinner.
B.They shared their happiness with the homeless in Kilis.
C.They afforded the entire cost of the day for feeding victims.
D.They took photos with the grateful victims.
【3】What does the underlined word “approached” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.took in.
B.moved towards.
C.came across.
D.discussed with.
【4】We can know from the text that ________.
A.Kilis is a place which lies in southeastern Turkey.
B.Ted was a representative of the organization.
C.Linda adopted the suggestion immediately she heard it.
D.Michael doubted if more new couples would follow him.
29、The year 2021 saw some important developments in the exploration of Mars as well as a rise in space tourism.
In February, NASA announced(宣布)that its Mars explorer. Perseverance. landed successfully on the Red Planet, whose mission(任务、使命)was to search for signs of ancient life.
Perseverance landed in an area of Mars called Jezero Crater. Scientists believe the area contains a large ancient lake bed. Scientists believe if life ever existed on Mars, it would have been present 3 to 4 billion years ago, when water flowed on the planet. Perseverance also carried to Mars a small experimental helicopter(直升飞机)named Ingenuity, which had successfully completed a takeoff and landing on the planet.
This year. both China and the United Arab Emirates(UAE)sent their first spacecraft to Mars.
In May, China announced that its Tianwen—I spacecraft had successfully landed on Mars after a seven-month trip. The spacecraft landed at Utopia Planitia. a large flat area in the northern half of the planet. The six wheeled explorer is studying the planet's surface soil and atmosphere in search for signs of ancient life. The UAE's Hope Probe spacecraft was sent to an extremely high orbit(轨道)above Mars to study the planet. Unlike other explorations, the UAE's project aims to study atmospheric conditions around Mars.
In July, British billionaire Richard Branson flew into space on a rocket plane built b Virgin Galactic. the space tourism company he founded. Branson joined two pilots on the flight. Virgin Galactic aims to fly private citizens to space to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and observe Earth. Over a week later. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos flew to space on a rocket built by his company. Blue Origin. The flights by Branson and Bezos officially created a new industry that promises any citizen the chance to visit space. Such trips will be costly. however. Virgin Galactic's price for a single flight is $250,000. Blue Origin has not announced its price.
【1】Which of the following about "Perseverance" is true?
A.It found a water source in a lake.
B.It landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
C.It found life present 3 to 4 billion years ago.
D.It was designed to search for signs of ancient life.
【2】What can we learn about the UAE's Hope Probe spacecraft?
A.It carried a helicopter to the Mars.
B.It studied the Mars' surface soil.
C.It mainly studied the Mars' atmosphere.
D.It landed on the Mars to do experiments
【3】What can we infer about space travel from the text?
A.The common people can afford to travel to space.
B.The rich tend to show more interest in space exploration.
C.Space tourism is far too expensive to afford for the most.
D.Tourists can experience a few hours of weightlessness.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Space Tourism is Appreciated by the Public
B.2021 Saw Advances on Mars and Rise in Space Tourism.
C.Space Exploration on Mars Shows Signs of Ancient Life.
D.2021 Saw Significant Technological Advances in IT.
30、In the dining room of my grandfather’s house stood a large clock. When I was a child, the old clock_________me very much. I was surprised at how the clock would chime (敲) three times, six times or more, with a wonderful clear_________. I often paid attention to it instead of the foods when I had_________. And always the clock stood like an old family friend,_________the family. I found the clock comforting and familiar. Year after year, the clock became a part of my memories.
It was even more_________to me when my grandfather carefully wound up (上发条) that clock with a special_________each day. The key was_________to me. It kept the clock_________. It kept the clock chiming. How did it do that? I watched as my grandfather took the key from his pocket and_________the door in the old clock and used the key to wind it up. He never let that clock wind down and__________. When I got a little older, he taught me how to open the door, __________let me wind up the clock myself. I remember the__________time I did, I felt so excited…
After my grandfather__________, every time I saw the clock, I couldn’t help crying. Never could I see him again. The__________ on the clock were frozen. It stopped. I took the key with my__________hand and opened the door. All of a __________, I was a child again, watching my grandfather. He was there, smiling at me. I stood there,__________in the memories. Then slowly and__________, I wound up the clock. Tick-tock, tick-tock…The dining room and the house seemed to be filled with__________. In the image of the clock, my grandfather also__________again.
【1】
A.disappointed
B.encouraged
C.interested
D.confused
【2】
A.picture
B.sound
C.noise
D.time
【3】
A.meals
B.homework
C.dreams
D.trouble
【4】
A.beating
B.testing
C.heating
D.watching
【5】
A.wonderful
B.strange
C.different
D.fearful
【6】
A.pen
B.ring
C.clock
D.key
【7】
A.small
B.colorful
C.beautiful
D.magic
【8】
A.running
B.standing
C.speaking
D.laughing
【9】
A.painted
B.opened
C.locked
D.repaired
【10】
A.go
B.play
C.stop
D.leave
【11】
A.and
B.but
C.or
D.so
【12】
A.first
B.last
C.next
D.second
【13】
A.gave in
B.passed away
C.turned over
D.took off
【14】
A.face
B.door
C.hands
D.eyes
【15】
A.wet
B.broken
C.dirty
D.shaking
【16】
A.while
B.sudden
C.way
D.step
【17】
A.closed
B.lost
C.waited
D.turned
【18】
A.quickly
B.wrongly
C.carefully
D.angrily
【19】
A.joy
B.excitement
C.fun
D.life
【20】
A.cried
B.walked
C.lived
D.listened
31、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Now, let me say a few words to our American friends. Climate change is one of the major【1】of our time. It is already changing our daily lives but it is global. Everyone is impacted. And if we do nothing, our children will know a world of migrations, of wars, of shortage. A dangerous world. It is not the future we want for ourselves. It is not the future we want for our children. It is not the future we want for our world.
Today, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced his decision to【2】the United States from the Paris Agreement. I do respect his decision, but I do think it is an actual mistake both for the US and for our planet.
I just said it to President Trump, in a few words a few minutes ago this【3】. Tonight, I wish to tell the United States: France believes in you. The world believes in you. I know that you are a great nation. I know your history, our common history.
To all the scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and responsible citizens who were disappointed by the decision of the president of the United States, I want to say they will find in France a second homeland. I call on them---come and work here with us, to work together on【4】solutions for our climate, our environment. I can assure you: France will not give up the fight.
I reaffirm clearly that Paris agreement will remain irreversible and will be【5】not just by France, but by all the other nations. Over the coming hours, I will have the opportunity to speak with our main partners to define a common strategy and to launch new【6】. I already know that I can count on them.
I call on you to remain confidence. We will succeed, because we are【7】, because wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility to make our planet great again.
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。
We were traveling home over the winter holidays by car and stopped to have supper. There was a big snow storm in the news but we were traveling south and the roads stayed clear for us for hours, so we figured we’ d beat the storm. By the time we finished eating, the temperatures had dropped to just below freezing but we weren’t paying attention.
We got back on the road. I was behind the wheel, and within less than five minutes we must have crossed a county line because the roadway suddenly became narrower and less well-marked. There was snow on the ground on either side of the road.
Suddenly there was freezing ice on the road and before I had a chance to slow down, I had slid (滑) over a long area of ice and the car started to fishtail. My family had already fallen asleep in the backseat. It was so frightening.
I stayed off the brakes (刹车) for several long moments, nervously judging the areas of woods on both sides of the road as the back of the car slid and slid from side to side. Then there was a small space on the left and I took the risk of gently tapping on the brakes.
The car left the roadway still going at a high rate of speed and headed for the trees on the other side of the space. There was a stump (树桩) and the car got hung up as it went over the stump, swung us around, and suddenly stopped in the opposite direction we’d been going. It was cold and snowy and we had a young child with us. We got out to see how we were going to get off the stump.
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。
Having learnt about the difficult situation, we knew we had to wait for help.
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Then we discussed how to remove the danger caused by the ice.
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