1、Premier Li Keqiang is going to take questions from both Chinese and foreign correspondents at the annual press conference_________ in March.
A.to hold
B.to take place
C.occurred
D.held
2、It opens a new ______ in Russian history, one that may well end in crisis.
A.leaf
B.chapter
C.range
D.chart
3、When reading the touching letter, Lucy found it difficult to ________ tears.
A.reflect on
B.emerge from
C.hold back
D.adjust to
4、(题文)_____ from his clothes, he is not so poor.
A. Judged B. Judging
C. To judge D. Judge
5、In the 1980s, the team ______ the international volleyball scene with several major world titles.
A.burst into
B.burst out
C.burst through
D.burst onto
6、While ________ the meal, some talented students gave a wonderful folk dance performance, ________ the elderly very happy.
A.enjoyed, making B.enjoying, making C.to enjoy, making D.enjoying, to make
7、You are a producer of "green food"----your food is _______ of chemical fertilizers and is grown away from industrial areas and dirty water supplies.
A.fertile B.barre C.free D.short
8、—Hello, John. How are you feeling now? I hear you've been ill.
—They ________ me with my twin brother Rod. He's been sick all week, but I've never felt better in my life.
A.must confuse
B.may can
C.could have confused
D.must have confused
9、 _____ for the fact that she got hit by a car and broke her leg on her way to school, she might have passed the exam.
A. Had it not been B. Were it not
C. Was it not D. Hadn’t it been
10、With such a tight schedule, everyone will have to go all out if they _____________ the task.
A. have completed B. would complete
C. will complete D. are to complete
11、— Did she break the vase ________? — No. Quite by accident.
A.on purpose
B.with purpose
C.for purpose
D.at purpose
12、__________these messages always seem important at the time, most people can’t really remember them the next day.
A.Because B.Unless C.While D.Since
13、With all the money ______, the man had to make a living by begging.
A. run out B. to run out C. used up D. to use up
14、In the past ten years, great changes __________ in China.
A.took place B.take place
C.have been taken place D.have taken place
15、With so many eyes __________ on me, I felt so nervous that I couldn’t say a word.
A.fix
B.fixing
C.to fix
D.fixed
16、--Would you mind me asking you some questions,Sir?
--_________.
A. Sure,please B. My pleasure
C. Yes,please D. Go ahead
17、The fallen leaves covered the path, ________ added the beauty to the park.
A.that
B.which
C.it
D.this
18、Tu Youyou went to Hainan ,in________ malaria was more common, to study malaria patiences.
A.that
B.which
C.where
D.whom
19、There is no simple answer to such a question, ________ is often the case in science.
A. one B. that C. as D. what
20、—It is a long time I saw you last time.
—Yes. And it will be a long time we see each other again.
A. when; before B. after; when
C. since; before D. since; until
21、Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do .some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition tothat, in order to be really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do ,it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
【1】Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.
A. the reasons for success
B. the meaning of success
C. the standards of success
D. the importance of success
【2】In Paragraph 2,the underlined word that refers to ______.
A. being good at something
B. setting a practical goal
C. putting in more time
D. succeeding in life
【3】What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A. Successful people like to show their great skills.
B. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.
C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.
D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.
【4】What is the main theme of the passage?
A. Having a goal is vital to success.
B. Being good is different from being great.
C. One cannot succeed without time and practice.
D. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.
22、In a study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Diana Deutsch of the University of California and her co-authors find that musicians who speak an East Asian tone language fluently are much more likely to have perfect pitch(音高).
Unlike English, many East Asian languages, such as Mandarin, Cantonese and Vietnamese, are “tonal”, so that a word’s meaning often depends on the tone in which it is said. So learning perfect pitch is, for fluent speakers of a tone language, similar to learning a second tone language.
The study looked at 203 students at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music through a test. The students listened to the 36 notes. They attempted to identify the notes, and they self-reported their musical, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds — including whether they were very fluent in an East Asian tone language, fairly fluent or not at all fluent. Deutsch and her colleagues found that students who spoke an East Asian tone language very fluently scored nearly 100 percent on the test, and that students who were only fairly fluent in a tone language scored lower overall. Those students who were not at all fluent in speaking a tone language scored the worst on average.
Deutsch acknowledges that it still remains to be discovered why and how it is that some speakers of non-tone languages have perfect pitch. She expects it to be related to either an exceptionally long “critical window” for language acquisition, a very early musical upbringing, or both.
“Perfect pitch for years seemed like a beautiful gift — given only to a few genetically talented people. But our research suggests that it might be available to virtually everybody,” Deutsch said. She also proposed that parents who want their kids to acquire perfect pitch should expose them to musical tones from infancy onwards.
【1】What makes East Asian language speakers have perfect pitch?
A.Their tonal language.
B.Their various dialect.
C.Their musical talent.
D.Their large vocabulary.
【2】Who performed best in the test according to paragraph 3?
A.Students from Asia.
B.Students from America.
C.Students who speak English quite fluently.
D.Students who speak a tone language very fluently.
【3】What is the purpose of paragraph 4?
A.To summarize the paragraphs above.
B.To provide some advice for readers.
C.To add some background information.
D.To introduce the main idea of the text.
【4】How can people develop perfect pitch according to Deutsch?
A.By practicing communication skills.
B.By developing an interest in writing songs.
C.By acquiring as many languages as possible.
D.By receiving musical education from childhood.
23、Telepathy (心灵感应) is the ability to communicate without the use of the five senses. It's an instinct (本能) which can be woken up in times of emergency or need. When we feel that something is happening or about to happen by instinct, we're using resources within the unconscious mind. When the resources of two persons' unconscious minds link together into the same frequency (频率), we call it telepathy.
We can either send or receive telepathy. If you know who is calling before you answer the ringing phone,you are probably a good receiver. If you think of a person and he/she calls you,you are most likely to be better at sending.
You can easily put your ability to the test. Thinking of somebody and wish him or her to contact you. Be patient. The other person may not be a good receiver,but they should contact you much earlier than would normally be expected. Or whenever the phone rings,try ‘feeling’ who is contacting you. Don't guess, but try to feel it with your mind. However,if neither of these works for you,that doesn't mean that you have no ability of telepathy. As mentioned earlier, telepathy is most likely to turn up in case of emergency.
Telepathy dreams often contain telepathic messages. Two people may both dream of the other and find that their dreams have a clear connection. These people are probably linking to each other's unconscious mind.
Telepathy & relationship. The more people spend time together, the more likely they are to be able to link up to the other's mind, especially when separated. There are two reasons for this. One is that they understand the other's mind through time spent together; the other is that there is usually a strong desire to communicate. A mother will often sense that her child is in danger. This is due to the child's eagerly wanting his or her mother, knowing that this is the person who would always want to be there for them, and the mother's deep desire to protect her child from harm.
【1】Telepathy happens when one ________.
A. has a similar dream with another person.
B. is good at guessing
C. wants to call his/her best friend
D. doesn't know a stranger
【2】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The more people separate, the more likely that telepathy will occur in their life.
B. Telepathy occurs when people make use of their five senses.
C. Telepathy happens when people live far away and have no chance to see one another again.
D. One is better at sending than receiving telepathy if one receives a friend’s call as one wishes.
【3】Which of the following belongs to telepathy?
A. Your action in your dream.
B. People's communication over the telephone.
C. A mother's sense of her child being in danger.
D. A couple's long separation.
【4】Which one can be the title of the passage?
A. Receiving Telepathy B. Dream of telepathy
C. Telepathy: People’s Dream D. Mind-to-Mind Contact
24、 How does a brilliant teacher get that way? The question of how they developed has as many answers as there are inspired instructors. One example is an original and magnetic woman who has become one of best ever at taking disadvantaged students to a new level.
Jackson was born in Altoona. Her father was a construction worker. When she was in the eighth grade, her father died just before Christmas. Her principal, Mrs. Brown, said not to worry about schoolwork for a while. That upset her. Her father would not have wanted her to do anything but her best. He always said: “Don’t let your first failure be the reason for your next.”
Jackson was an accomplished shooting guard in basketball and a star sprinter on the track team, running the quarter — mile in 57 seconds. She thought she might become a sports broadcaster. She gave no thought to teaching until a friend took her to an introduction to a program, which placed novice instructors in schools full of low-income children. Jackson liked the idea of giving back, as well as the chance to have some of her student loans forgiven.
She is a big sports person, and that is how she connects with lots of kids. She couldn’t motivate children until she knew what was bothering or pleasing them. “Students learn from people who love them.” she said, “They will be motivated and inspired to learn if they know deep down that you care about them." In class she gave basketball tickets to students who were doing their work. At weekly drawings they could win sticky notes, pencils or other small prizes.
She helped create after-school clubs. A tall student said to her: “I’m a bailer. I heard you ball.” There was a basketball league in Paterson, but the school didn’t have a team. Jackson started one with support from local business executives. The student, Essence Carson, went to Rutgers University, was a first-round draft (运动员选拔机制) selection for the WNBA’s New York Liberty and now plays for the Connecticut Sun.
【1】Why did Mrs. Brown’s words upset Jackson?
A.Her father just passed away. B.She was taught to do her best.
C.Her first failure led to another one. D.She was concerned about her grades.
【2】What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A.The way Jackson turned teacher. B.The dream job Jackson desired.
C.The student loans Jackson owed. D.The athletics Jackson did well in.
【3】Why did Jackson give small prizes to her students in class?
A.To connect with them. B.To please or bother them.
C.To encourage them to learn. D.To show her love to them.
【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.Jackson founded a school team in Paterson alone.
B.Jackson played in the basketball league in Paterson.
C.Jackson selected Essence to play for WNBA’s New York Liberty.
D.Jackson should take some credit for Essence’s professional career.
25、 In France, a bookstore chain has put a special camera in its shops. The system feeds a video stream to software which_______shoppers’ movements and facial expressions for surprise, dissatisfaction, confusion or hesitation. When a shopper walks to the end of an aisle(货架通道) only to_______with a frown to a particular bookshelf, the software messages_______, who then go to help. For the eight months leading up to this April, sales rose_______a tenth.
The bookseller wants to keep its name_______for now. Similarly,other French clients of the Paris startup behind the technology, Angus.ai, are_______it in stores which are not open to the public. They_______ airport owner Aéroports de Paris, the luxury-goods giant LVMH, and Carrefour, the supermarkets chain.
Simple video produces a lot of insights, but there are far more complicated ways of learning about shoppers’_______. Thermal-imaging (热成像的) cameras_______detect heart rates. Wirelessly collected data from smartphone accelerometers (加速度传感器) can suggest when shoppers become fascinated (movement stops) or are unhappy about________(a phone is raised to search for cheaper products online). For even more insights, shoppers are sometimes asked to put on special equipment, typically in exchange for a ________or reward of another kind.
All of this could be a(n)________, some say, for sellers to enjoy the advantage that big data has long given online sellers. A race is________to work out how best to________and use emotional data, thus improving packaging, displays, music, or the content and timing of persuading customers into buying goods.
Using technology is much less________than old-fashioned interviewing. Nielson, a consumer-research giant, charges around $10,000 to interview 25 shoppers about three products. Angus. ai’ s service costs just $66 a month per camera. Sometimes,________market surveys may ask the wrong questions. What’s more, they can give misleading________. People typically change their responses intentionally to make themselves sound sensible,________purchases are often driven by subconscious (潜意识的) emotions.
One obvious________of shopping’s emotional side is the idea of “retail therapy” — consumers driven to spend when they are feeling blue. Whichever store is the first to spot mildly________customers could make a fortune!
【1】A.receives B.analyzes C.designs D.delivers
【2】A.return B.nod C.yell D.sit
【3】A.guards B.officials C.secretaries D.clerks
【4】A.to B.at C.for D.by
【5】A.present B.different C.quiet D.famous
【6】A.testing B.improving C.leading D.leaving
【7】A.contain B.include C.list D.involve
【8】A.ideas B.preferences C.choices D.emotions
【9】A.must B.need C.can D.should
【10】A.services B.prices C.qualities D.packages
【11】A.product B.value C.discount D.activity
【12】A.challenge B.chance C.alternative D.routine
【13】A.on B.off C.up D.in
【14】A.store B.process C.collect D.share
【15】A.mature B.popular C.attractive D.expensive
【16】A.traditional B.ordinary C.original D.historical
【17】A.impressions B.suggestions C.results D.promotions
【18】A.because B.while C.though D.unless
【19】A.change B.imitation C.example D.signal
【20】A.satisfied B.affected C.confused D.depressed
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