1、Scientists are making every effort to go beneath the surface of the data to the hidden possibilities.
A.release B.reveal C.reflect D.record
2、—Bob has gone to Shanghai.
—Oh, can you tell me when he_________?
A.has left
B.left
C.is leaving
D.would leaving
3、When Lisa moved to a new city, she had a hard time ________ to her new surroundings.
A.adding
B.adjusting
C.applying
D.attending
4、Is it he or you ________ in charge of the job and supposed to complete it punctually?
A.who is
B.that is
C.who are
D.whom are
5、-That must have been a terrible experience.
-Yeah. I________ in the damaged car, unable to move.
A. was stuck B. have been stuck
C. am stuck D. had been stuck
6、–Will you read me a story, Mummy?
--OK. You ______have one if you go to bed as soon as possible.
A.might
B.must
C.could
D.shall
7、 on the light in the bathroom,or you will experience an unfortunate fall.
A.Turn B.Turning
C.Being turn D.Having turn
8、To get a better grade, you should ________the notes again before the test.
A.go over B.get over
C.turn over D.take over
9、The stronger the________ is, the more quickly a man will learn a new skill. In other words, it is up to whether he has an interest in it.
A.motivation
B.ambition
C.effect
D.imagination
10、In the past few years, we’ve seen works by Chinese sci-fi writers winning international ______.
A.conclusion
B.standard
C.potential
D.recognition
11、If we had phoned the rescue service in time, we ________ on the motorway right now.
A. weren’t trapped
B. wouldn’t be trapped
C. hadn’t been trapped
D. wouldn’t have been trapped
12、--Can I use the telephone on the table,sir?
--Under no circumstances _________ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs.
A.anyone is allowed B.nobody is allowed
C.is anyone allowed D.is nobody allowed
13、This agreement reached by both sides is ______ and open to various interpretations.
A.offensive B.temporary C.compulsory D.ambiguous
14、____visa change made by China and the US will witness _____increase in economy, tourism and education.
A. A; the B. The; / C. A;/ D. The; an
15、—Michelle, have you got your admission to the Pennsylvania State University as a state-financed student?
—I hope so, but I’m not so lucky. I have to ______ my pocket to pay for my further study.
A.turn to B.dip into C.refer to D.see to
16、Manchester United has decided that Wayne Rooney will not be sold to any other club no matter how much money is offered or ______ the potential risks of keeping an unhappy player.
A.however B.whether C.what D.whatever
17、He studied hard and later became a well-known writer, which was ______ his father had expected.
A.why B.how C.that D.what
18、I have so many clients who believe that cutting their hair helps it grow. Actually, for every few inches you’re cutting, you ______ months to the growing time.
A.have added B.will have added C.add D.are adding
19、-Mike, did you see Mr. Chapman in the office just now?
-Yes, he ________, and he looked a little bit nervous.
A. had interviewed B. was interviewed
C. was being interviewed D. is being interviewing
20、—What does Nicky’s job involve as a public relations director?
—______ quite a lot of time with other people.
A. Spending B. Having spent
C. To spend D. To have spent
21、In dry Niger, south of the Sahara, farmers who allowed cut trees to regrow in their fields have seen crop harvests increase rapidly. In recent decades, farmers there have allowed millions of trees to regrow on land that had once been cleared.
For centuries, rich woodlands dotted this dusty, sun-baked region south of the Sahara. By the time Ali Neino was a boy in the 1980s, however, just one lonely tree shot from his family’s land, and he could see clear to the horizon. “There was no vegetation in between the village and the fields,” recalls Neino, 45. “No trees, no plants, nothing.”
Decades of drought, land-clearing, and demand for firewood had left Niger nearly treeless. Intensive farming (密集农作) to feed the world’s fastest-growing population ensured new trees would not take root. Government efforts to reforest the area in the 1970s failed. Sixty million trees were planted; fewer than 20 percent survived.
Instead of cutting trees down, farmers in Niger now leave them standing and allow them to regrow from stumps (树桩), knowing that the soil around them will retain more water and be enriched by the leaves. On a recent walk along his family’s farm outside Dan Saga, Neino pointed to the trees growing everywhere.
In the past 35 years, as scientists begged nations to get serious about bringing forests back, one of Earth’s poorest countries, in one of the planet’s worst regions, added an astonishing 200 million new trees—maybe more. Across at least 12 million acres of Niger, woodlands have been re-established with little outside help, almost no money, and without driving people off their land. The trees here weren’t planted; they were encouraged to come back naturally, cared by thousands of farmers. Now, fresh trees are popping up in village after village.
【1】Why is Ali Neino mentioned in Paragraph 2?
A.To stress the importance of trees.
B.To show the features of the Sahara.
C.To prove Niger ‘s shortage of trees.
D.To predict the disappearance of trees.
【2】What made it hard for new trees to grow in Niger?
A.Years of drought.
B.Intensive farming.
C.Trees’ low survival rate.
D.Government efforts’ failure.
【3】How did Niger manage to rebuild its woodlands?
A.By driving people off their land.
B.By allowing trees to regrow naturally.
C.By encouraging farmers to plant more.
D.By getting support from other countries.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Trees growing again in a dry nation
B.Land cleared for tree-planting in the Sahara
C.Trees planted for the environment worldwide
D.Crop harvests benefiting from trees in Niger
22、Art galleries are places in which artists can display all types of works of art, including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures,etc. 【1】 At the same time, however, each artwork must be protected from exposure to too much light since that can cause works to fade and therefore get ruined. 【2】
The most common form of lighting used to light up artwork is indoor spotlights on tracks attached to the ceiling near where the work is being displayed.【3】 It permits the lights to be moved more easily when the light patterns require adjusting. Recessed(嵌入的)lights in walls and ceilings can be useful so long as they are not fixed in place but can instead be easily moved to create ideal light patterns. Most art gallery directors state that a combination of tracked and recessed light equipment is ideal because the tracked lights focus directly on the artwork while the recessed lights are used on the nearby walls to provide a surrounding light source.【4】
How to angle the lights depends upon the height of the ceiling and the size of the artwork. Caution must be taken to avoid creating too many areas with shadows or to have the lights cause a glare on the artwork. Besides, the lights should not be bare bulbs burning directly on the artwork but should be made in some way to make the lighting softer. According to experts, low voltage(电压)bulbs are the best to use when lighting artwork.【5】 Thus artwork should be placed in a room where sunlight can’t directly hit it.
A.It can make the displays attractive.
B.Using tracked lighting is beneficial.
C.Light plays a key role in art galleries.
D.This light source can better improve the mood surrounding the work.
E.To better improve their appearance, the display area needs to be well lit.
F.Finding a happy medium between not enough light and too much of it requires considerable skill and experience.
G.Above all, natural light should be avoided since direct sunlight will damage artwork, particularly paintings,over time.
23、 A 2015 survey found that two out of three U.S. teens owned an iPhone. For this reason, I call them iGen, and as I explain in my new book “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing up Less Rebellious(反叛的), More Tolerant, Less Happy-and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood,”【1】.
What makes iGen different? 【2】. They spend so much time on the internet, texting friends and on social media—in the large surveys I analyzed for the book, an average of about six hours per day—that they have less leisure time for everything else.
That includes what was once the favorite activity of most teens:【3】. Whether it’s going to parties, shopping at the mall, watching movies or aimlessly driving around, iGen teens are participating in these social activities at a significantly lower rate than previous generations.
【4】: In the annual Monitoring the Future survey, the percentage of high school seniors who read a nonrequired book or magazine nearly every day dropped from 60 percent in 1980 to only 16 percent in 2015.
This isn’t to say that iGen teens don’t have a lot going for them. 【5】 . They also seem to have a stronger work ethic and more realistic expectations than millennials(千禧一代) did at the same age.
To be clear, moderate smartphone and social media use—up to an hour a day—is not linked to mental health issues. However, most teens (and adults) are on their phones much more than that.
A.spending most of their free time on screens
B.hanging out with their friends
C.They would rather see their friends in person than communicate with them using their phones
D.Growing up with a smartphone has affected nearly every aspect of their lives
E.They are physically safer and more tolerant than previous generations were
F.They’re the first generation to spend their adolescence with a smartphone
G.In addition, iGen reads books, magazines and newspapers much less than previous generations did as teens
24、 Festivals are about fun in large helpings(一份食物), and science festivals should be no exception There should be plenty of it at the second Edinburgh Science Festival, which runs from 2 April to 16 April, But there really does seem to be something to cater for all tastes in the impressive listing of more than 300 events.
For starters, what about a tour of tropical crops in the Botanical Gardens- tastes and smells included? You can follow that up with a course of lectures and tastings of Italian food and wine given by the finest Italian delicatessen(熟食) in the country. No trip to Scotland would be complete without a trip to a distillery(酿酒厂) to see how the" water of life" is made.
Besides food and drink "practicals", you can try something in the medicine section.There are also plenty of events designed for kids, such as the Discovery Dome and the "hands on"science tent. OK,you might say, but where is the high-tech physics, the computer science and the space technology? Well, it is all in Edinburgh, but room is unavailable here to list the entire programme: including the daily diary and A map of venues. It covers 20 pages! There is also a host of specialist conferences on a range of topics including statistics, computing and urban planning. The idea seems to be to make Edinburgh a focus of science at all levels during the festival.
The programme of the festival is well arranged and subdivided, making it easy to pick out interesting events to suit your tastes, whatever they may be. Venues and the target audience (children, adults or specialists)are all clearly coded and the maps posted along the road should make it easy to get around.
【1】What do we know about the second Edinburgh Science Festival?
A.It lasts for 14 days. B.It includes 300 events.
C.It has much fun about food. D.It is the largest festival in Edinburgh.
【2】What does the author strongly recommend for a trip to Scotland?
A.Tasting the delicious local food. B.Visiting the famous Botanical Gardens.
C.visiting a factory where the wine is made. D.Seeing how the drinking water is made.
【3】Why can't we find information about the entire high-tech programme?
A.The information is too much to list
B.There are more important events.
C.The visitors are not interested in it.
D.The information concerned has appeared in the poster.
【4】What does the last paragraph mainly tell us?
A.The events suit all the tastes.
B.It is convenient for tourists to visit the festival.
C.Tourists have to buy a map for the festival.
D.The target audience are restricted to certain events.
25、Most of us associate learning with younger people — kids in school and college or recent graduates early in their careers. But at Udemy, an open university offering online courses, Artist Anneke Camstra is _______ in the pursuit of lifelong learning and shows her potential for teaching. She loves the _______ of gaining new knowledge and also loves _______ it with others.
She reaches countless people with her online courses and exposes them to what they can _______ on their own using animation software, such as Go Animate and Pow Toon. Her _______ for teaching on Udemy is “to get the tools to the people.” She hopes people can go such a long way to make things that look _______ but still have their own voice.
Most of Anneke’s students start out thinking they’re not creative and can’t _______ . Anneke understands how _______ can get in the way of so many things people dream of doing. With her five-day challenge courses, she helps them _______ the fear. Anneke loves the effect she has on her ________. What makes her more ________ of them is that they have gone from their first animation to ________ their own works.
She encourages people of all ages, ________ older people, to develop their ________ for life. Grandparents, for example, can learn to use Go Animate and make animations together with their grandkids.
As an older woman, teaching and having fun learning again, Anneke wants others later in their ________ to catch up with her on this journey.
【1】
A.lacking
B.disappointed
C.engaged
D.trapped
【2】
A.condition
B.purpose
C.method
D.experience
【3】
A.combining
B.mixing
C.sharing
D.connecting
【4】
A.accomplish
B.observe
C.send
D.decorate
【5】
A.motivation
B.influence
C.effort
D.request
【6】
A.effective
B.obvious
C.professional
D.typical
【7】
A.imagine
B.draw
C.write
D.play
【8】
A.concern
B.anxiety
C.desire
D.fear
【9】
A.worry about
B.get over
C.focus on
D.hold up
【10】
A.children
B.colleagues
C.students
D.friends
【11】
A.proud
B.careful
C.ashamed
D.afraid
【12】
A.examining
B.describing
C.buying
D.creating
【13】
A.absolutely
B.eventually
C.fortunately
D.especially
【14】
A.curiosity
B.humor
C.generosity
D.responsibility
【15】
A.tasks
B.lives
C.dreams
D.thanks
26、假定你是李华,你的朋友Mary给你送了一个生日礼物,你非常喜欢。请你用英语给她写一封邮件,内容包括:
1. 对礼物的喜爱;
2. 对她的感激。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Mary,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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