1、Optimism is the essential ingredient of top performers,__________we assume separates the high achievers from the rest.
A.as B.who C.which D.that
2、— He speaks Chinese very well.
— It’s not surprising. He ___ in Beijing for nine years next week.
A. has been living
B. has lived
C. will have been lived
D. will have been living
3、---Do these paintings ________ you?
--- No, not really. They don’t ________ to me at all.
A. interest to you; make any sense
B. appeal for you; attract
C. appeal to; make sense
D. interest; attract
4、He wrote a letter he explained what had happened in the accident.
A.where
B.which
C.who
D.why
5、—I guess she taught herself French, ________?
—Yes.
A.did she
B.didn't she
C.do I
D.don't I
6、Life has become so easy for children today that they the spirit to work hard.
A.lack B.lack of
C.are lacked D.are lacking of
7、---I have been worried about the possible danger of driving on a railway line.
---Don’t be afraid; God will us.
A. watch over B. turn over
C. go over D. look over
8、2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil,which attracted the whole planet,________on the 12 th of June.
A. fell B. set
C. lay D. happened
9、Where is the window ____ glass is broken ?
A.which B.that C.whose D.its
10、Sorry. I know you here, otherwise I would have greeted you.
A. don't ... are B. don't ... were
C. didn't ... are D. didn't ... were
11、The children ________ many times not to swim alone in the sea before the accident happened.
A.has warned
B.had warned
C.has been warned
D.had been warned
12、---Was yesterday’s conference successful?
--- Not really. The number of ________ was much smaller than we had expected.
A.people who attend B.people attended
C.people attending D.people attend
13、_______ work did we have to do that we were so exhausted.
A. Too much B. So much
C. Too little D. So little
14、(2015·天津)The boss of the company is trying to create an easy atmosphere _______his employees enjoy their work.
A.where
B.which
C.when
D.who
15、________ his eyes on the album,he thought of the happy time when he lived with his parents in that mountain village.
A.Fixed
B.To be fixed
C.Fixing
D.Having fixed
16、Although she wants her paintings________ in the gallery, we don’t think they will be popular because they are quite unconventional and not what most people expect________ in a gallery.
A.displayed; seeing
B.to display; to see
C.displaying; to be seeing
D.displayed; to see
17、You may depend ______ he won’t be late, since he is always on time.
A.on that
B.on it that
C.that
D.it that
18、It is reported the housing prices in some big cities fall in different degrees.
A. which B. what
C. that D. where
19、---Your daughter looks so thin.
---Yes, she’s so ________ about what she eats.
A. particular B. special C. especial D. likely
20、Tom passes the exam, ______ surprised us all.
A.who B.whom C.that D.which
21、American kids are taking more tests than ever before, and they're stressed out. Is help on the way? Just the sight of a test booklet makes some kids sweat. For others, it is a blank answer sheet. Then there are the dreaded words, "Take out your Number 2 pencil." All these fill 10-year-old Chelsea Logo with fear. "I start to tap my pencil on the desk," says the fifth grader from Toluca Lake Elementary, near Los Angeles, California. "Then I feel the butterflies in my stomach."
Chelsea is not alone. In a recent survey by Kids Health£.org, more than 70% of kids aged 9 to 13 said they worry about tests. It's no wonder. Across the United States, public schools give more than 250 million standardized tests each year.
Why do kids have to take so many tests? The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law requires that students in grades 3 through 8 be tested each year. The law's goal is for all students to be at grade level by 2014. Students must pass the tests and meet other requirements or their schools may be shut down.
The U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wants to change NCLB. But that doesn't mean he favors getting rid of tests. Duncan believes tests should be used mainly to evaluate kids' strengths and weaknesses. Tests, Duncan says, should not be used to punish kids or their schools for failure. "The goal is to focus on great teaching and learning," Duncan said.
Under NCLB, each state sets its own standards for students to meet. The result, Duncan says, is that states are making the tests easier. To fix this problem, 48 states are now working together to create common standards. "I want to set a high bar for kids, " Duncan says, "so they'll be in great shape to achieve their dreams."
Like them or not, tests are here to stay. So how can you handle test nerves? Schools are teaching students to relax through. deep breathing. and stretching (伸展运动) . In Oakland, California, Principal Zarina Ahmad of Piedmont Avenue Elementary leads her students in a cheer to get them excited about learning.
"Kids are under high pressure," says Ahmad. "There has to be time for kids to be kids. Still, we need tests to help us assess what students have yet to learn."
【1】The underlined part "the butterflies in my stomach" can be replaced by .
A. nervous B. guilty C. exciting D. proud
【2】 According to the passage, the NCLB law .
A. is focusing on teaching methods in schools
B. is requiring schools to make the tests more difficult
C. is trying to make schools be responsible for students
D. aims to evaluate kids' strengths and weaknesses by means of tests
【3】 We can learn from the last two paragraphs that .
A. it's possible to get rid of tests
B. schools have no good way to deal with students' stress
C. tests help assess what students have to learn
D. schools are aware of students' stress caused by tests
【4】What would be the best title of the passage?
A. Why kids are more stressed than before?
B. Kids' tips for test success
C. How to deal with test stress
D. Put kids to the standardized test
22、Parents can cut the chances of their children getting fat simply by keeping them longer at table. Just three minutes extra at a family mealtime could help prevent child obesity. Research found that among poor families, the extra minutes at mealtimes made great improvement of a normal weight for the youth. The factors are likely to be communication and the importance of a scheduled mealtime.
Dr Barbara Fiese said, “Children, whose families have a 20-minute meal over four times a week, weigh less than kids who leave the table after 15 to 17 minutes. Over time, those extra minutes per meal add up and become really powerful.”
The researchers studied 200 family mealtimes, testing the effects of factors and mealtime behavior of families with children in primary school. They found that families, who said that shared mealtimes were an important part of family life and had special meaning for them, were less likely to have an obese child. Similarly, families, who talked more together and interacted more positively during the meal, were more likely to have healthy-weight children.
Teaching low-income families how to make the most of family mealtimes was a wise idea. Dr Fiese said, “This is something we can target and teach.” She added, “It’s also important to recognize the increasing differences of families and their sometimes complex living arrangements that may challenge their abilities to plan ahead and arrange a single time to communicate with each other.”
Families in poorer US neighborhoods faced a lot of problems, including poor access to healthy food. But even so, regular high quality family mealtimes made a difference to the children’s weight. Dr Fiese said, “Three to four extra minutes per meal will make a healthy weight more possible.”
【1】According to the passage, to have a healthy-weight child, parents should ________.
A.limit the food for each meal
B.increase their eating time
C.shorten the mealtime
D.make them eat healthy food
【2】How much time is reasonable for one meal according to the passage?
A.About 15 minutes.
B.About 17 minutes.
C.About 20 minutes.
D.About 30 minutes.
【3】Why does a longer mealtime make a difference to a normal weight?
A.Because people can have a good rest as they eat meals.
B.Because people can have time to choose what they like.
C.Because people can use mealtimes to do other things.
D.Because people can communicate more in the scheduled time.
【4】What does Dr Fiese suggest to us?
A.Parents should not communicate during mealtime.
B.It’s better to add three to four extra minutes to one meal.
C.Four meals a day will make a difference to the children’s weight.
D.Twenty extra minutes per meal make a healthy weight.
23、 In September 1966, NASA launched its second Surveyor spacecraft to study the surface of the moon. Surveyor 2 was carried to space by a Centaur stage rocket. Unfortunately, it crash-landed on the lunar surface, but that’s not the end of Surveyor 2’s story. The upper stage of its Centaur rocket has spent decades floating around the solar system. This week, astronomers confirmed that the upper stage of the Centaur rocket has returned to Earth for a brief visit. Researchers guessed that a strange-looking object was a piece of human-made space debris (碎片) when they first saw it in September. But some serious work was required to confirm its identity.
Scientists around the world have been studying the booster (助推器) since September, when the then-unidentified object received the name 2020 SO. By observing how light reflects off 2020 SO and comparing those observations to space debris of a similar age and material, scientists were able to confirm the object’s identity. The 1966 Centaur’s upper stage re-entered Earth’s orbit in November and astronomers got the best look at the rocket booster on December 1, when it made its closest pass to Earth.
The rocket booster caught astronomers’ attention because its orbit is very similar to Earth’s, but it was moving much slower than most asteroids (小行星). Paul Chodas, from NASA, studied 2020 SO’s orbit to find out where the object came from and he believed it came from Earth around September 1966, when Surveyor 2 launched.
“There’s very little ambiguity (模棱两可),” says University of Arizona planetary scientist Vishnu Reddy to The New York Times. It was a perfect match. “the final apples to apples comparison.”
【1】What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A.The Surveyor spacecraft.
B.A brief visit.
C.A part of a long-lost rocket.
D.The solar system.
【2】How do the scientists identify the floating object?
A.By recording its moving orbit.
B.By measuring its distance to Earth.
C.By choosing a suitable date for observation.
D.By comparing it with the debris of a similar age.
【3】What made astronomers interested in the floating object?
A.Its coming from Earth.
B.Its moving at a high speed.
C.Its orbit’s similarity to Earth’s
D.Its failure in returning to Earth
【4】What kind of feeling can we infer from Vishnu Reddy’s words?
A.Doubt.
B.Confidence.
C.Gratitude.
D.Surprise.
24、The 187-foot-tall Tower of Pisa is famous all over the world mainly because it leans (倾斜). For many years, people believed that the tower’s designer intended it to lean. As it turns out, though, the tower’s lean is an accident caused by poor planning. The Tower of Pisa was constructed (建造) on a riverbed of sand and clay (黏土) that was not strong enough to support a building so tall and heavy.
Construction of the tower began in 1173. Because Pisa experienced several wars, the tower wasn’t completed until 1350. Only a few years after the construction started, people could see that the first three floors of the tower were already leaning. As the next three floors were added, builders purposefully built them with one side higher than the other to try to correct the lean. This resulted in the tower leaning in the opposite direction
Fortunately for the people of Pisa, the long delays (耽搁) during construction gave the structure time to settle and the ground to become compacted (结实的). This mad the foundation (地基) stronger over time, which is the main reason why the tower never fell over. For hundreds of years, the tower was indeed falling. It would lean one more inch about every 20 years. In the end, in 1990, it was closed to the public for fear that a large group of people at the top would weigh enough to make it fall down.
From 1990 to 2001, engineers from around the world helped balance the tower After several unsuccessful attempts at a solution, engineers finally came up with a plan that worked. They slowly removed ground under the high side of the tower. When they had finished, they had returned it to the position it held in about 1838—the tower had been straightened by nearly 16 inches. Except a sudden great disaster, such as a earthquake, engineers believe the tower is safe for another 300 years now.
【1】What does the author try to explain about the Tower of Pisa in Paragraph 1?
A.Why it leans.
B.Why it was built.
C.Why it is famous.
D.Why it stopped leaning.
【2】What can we learn about the Tower of Pisa?
A.It was completed in 1173.
B.It began to be built in 1350.
C.It was seen leaning after 1173.
D.It was repaired every 20 years.
【3】What kept the Tower of Pisa from falling down according to Paragraph 3?
A.The special structure.
B.The timely protection.
C.The skill of the builders.
D.The long time of building.
【4】What would be the best title for the text?
A.When does the Tower of Pisa lean?
B.Is the leaning Tower of Pisa falling?
C.When was the leaning Tower of Pisa built?
D.How did the leaning Tower of Pisa get its name?
25、 When two sisters found themselves having difficulty finding a way to get to their aunt’s 100th birthday party, they were fortunately ____ by a stranger in a very unexpected way.
Last weekend, sisters Kerry Maggard and Deb Eggers ____ to fly from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls to go to the party, but their flight was canceled ____ bad weather. They soon found that all other flights to South Dakota were ____, and there were no taxis available, ____ they had no way to make the 200-mile journey themselves.
Feeling like they had no other ____ , Kerry made a last-ditch(孤注一掷的) attempt to get to the party by calling Uber, and their ride was ____ by a man named Jesus Florentino.
“I was shocked that someone picked it up. It was kind of a last resort(最后一招)to ____ if anyone would consider it, ”Kerry recalled. “It was picked up at once and of course I got the ____ on the phone which said ‘Jesus is 7 minutes away, ’which was quite a ____ .”
Kerry called Jesus to make sure that he was ____ to make the 400-mile round ____ , and much to her surprise, he said he was game for it! Jesus ____ to get the sisters to their aunt’s house in time for her 6 pm party, and he quickly turned back around to make the four-hour trip back to Minneapolis.
Kerry said afterward that she____ Jesus $50 for the $216 trip, which is a(n) ____ price to pay for the quality time that she got to spend with her aunt. As for Jesus, he was just ____ that the women got to be there for their aunt.
"I felt that they needed to ____ the birthday party and I enjoy ____ , so it worked out well, ” Jesus said. “It's a(n) ____ occasion, and if I was in their place I would ____ very much someone bringing me there when there was no other way.”
【1】A.affected B.interviewed C.helped D.followed
【2】A.planned B.continued C.happened D.refused
【3】A.due to B.as for C.according to D.apart from
【4】A.recorded B.offered C.organized D.booked
【5】A.showing B.meaning C.predicting D.reporting
【6】A.information B.questions C.reason D.choices
【7】A.picked up B.looked into C.put down D.held up
【8】A.imagine B.see C.recommend D.prove
【9】A.invitation B.number C.direction D.message
【10】A.mess. B.challenge C.shock D.struggle
【11】A.willing. B.afraid C.quick D.careful
【12】A.race B.trip C.corner D.flight
【13】A.learned B.managed C.pretended D.failed
【14】A.borrowed B.saved C.gave D.returned
【15】A.fair B.fixed C.average D.full
【16】A.grateful B.surprised C.confident D.happy
【17】A.remember B.attend C.expect D.change
【18】A.walking B.talking C.driving D.staying
【19】A.informal B.similar C.rare D.important
【20】A.miss B.consider C.appreciate D.regret
26、假定你是李华,你的美国朋友Tim的生日即将到来,你给他寄了一套关于中国春节的邮票作为生日礼物。请你用英语给他写一封邮件。
要点包括: 1.祝贺生日; 2.介绍邮票内容。
注意:1.词数100左右。
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Tim,
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Yours ,
Li Hua
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