1、Mr. Wilson is a man of patience and kindness, and his good temper never ______ him.
A.fails
B.disappoints
C.controls
D.worries
2、As a doctor, I spend most of the time with my patients, and that’s ______ it is in my day.
A. how B. when C. why D. where
3、Human life is regarded as part of nature and the only way for us to survive is to live ______ nature.
A.in honor of B.in need of C.in touch with D.in harmony with
4、Treat the flowers right and your garden will be the ______ of the neighborhood.
A. destination B. cause C. purpose D. Envy
5、Five workers ____ the mine disaster. After the injured ___ to the hospital, doctors and nurses immediately got down to saving their lives.
A.was survived; rushed
B.survived from; were rushed
C.survived; was rushed
D.survived; were rushed
6、She was likely to tell the whole truth, in cases ________ other people would have kept silence.
A. where B. that C. who D. which
7、—What will things be like in the year 2080?
—I don’t know, but it was the question________last Tuesday by Brian Solis, a noted futurist from Sweden.
A.acknowledged B.approved C.alarmed D.addressed
8、The girl conquered her fear and ___ the enormous spider in sight of it last night.
A. took up B. picked up
C. put up D. set up
9、—It ________ to plant trees and grass on the hillside.
—Yes. They help stop soil from being washed away.
A. makes sense B. makes money
C. makes a living D. makes a mistakes
10、Nowadays mobile internet devices are pushing up demands for online education, which makes businessmen see it as one of the most _______ new market.
A. demanding B. damaging C. promising D. leading
11、Tom tried hard to ______ his book, but his thoughts kept flying back to the movie.
A.concentrate on
B.settle for
C.give up
D.take down
12、To produce the goods satisfying the environmental ______, the company has brought in advanced technology to remove the chemicals in the course of production.
A.burdens B.requirements C.pollution D.evolution
13、In 2016, I wrote a book, After 9/11,about my experiences and _______of over a dozen of my former classmates.
A.that B.those C.the one D.ones
14、Alan is a careful driver, but he drives ______ of my friends.
A.more carefully B.the most carefully C.less carefully D.the least carefully
15、________ in a tiny cabinet were four Mother’s Day poems I’d written for her in the 1960s.
A.Hidden B.Hiding C.Being hidden D.To be hidden
16、All children should get access to a high-quality education ________ their race, zip code or family income.
A. depending on B. regardless of
C. due to D. apart from
17、Our company is seeking for a manager, especially ________ with creativity and imagination.
A. the one B. each
C. one D. that
18、Beijing’s new international airport into operation in 2019 will serve 72 million passengers annually.
A. being put B. to be put
C. put D. to put
19、The stranger calling himself a friend of my father's________to be a cheat. I was almost taken in by his trick.
A.turned out B.looked out C.pointed out D.came out
20、It’s on such occasions ________ others unites while I am alone in a foreign land that I am twice as homesick.
A.that B.where C.as D.when
21、Here is a list of writing competitions.
Wild Nature Poetry Award
Here we have a new contest from Indigo Dreams Publishing. It is for poems of up to 48 lines on the subject of cruel sports, or wildlife in general, or the natural world, or the environment.
Closing: 30th Sept. , 2022
Prizes: £200, £100, £75
Entry Fee: £5. 50% of entry fees will be donated to the League Against Cruel Sports.
W&A Yearbook Short Story Competition
This annual contest from the writers’ handbook Writers’ &Artists’ Yearbook is for stories of up to 2, 000 words aimed at young adults. There is no theme. Take notice that before emailing your entry, you have to register with the website. Your entry will not be valid otherwise.
Closing: 11th Feb. , 2022
Prizes: A place on one of Arvon’s residential writing courses, plus your story published on the website.
Entry Fee: None. Free to enter.
Green Stories Novel Prize
The competition organized by the University of Southampton is held annually. It is about the idea of a more sustainable society. Submit three chapters of your finished novel or work in progress. One of the chapters must be the first. The three together should run to between 4, 000 and 10, 000 words.
Closing: 30th Dec. , 2022
Prizes: £1, 000, £500
Entry Fee:£2
Melita Hume Poetry Prize
This year’s Melita Hume Poetry Prize from Eyewear Publishing is, as usual, for first full-length collections by poets aged 35 or under, residents in the UK or Ireland. To enter, you should submit between 48 and 100 pages.
Closing:3rd Jan. , 2022
Prizes:Publication with a £1, 200 advance.
Entry Fee:£15.
【1】What is required to enter for W&A Yearbook Short Story Competition?
A.Registration in advance
B.Previous experience
C.A fixed theme
D.Entry fee
【2】What is special about Green Stories Novel Prize?
A.It is a yearly activity.
B.It is about sustainability.
C.It has a word limit.
D.It has a closing date.
【3】Which contest offers the highest prize money?
A.Wild Nature Poetry Award
B.W&A Yearbook Short Story Competition
C.Green Stories Novel Prize
D.Melita Hume Poetry Prize
22、Jobs that use both technical and creative thinking are among the fastest-growing and highest-paying ones,according to a new report from Burning Glass Technologies,a job market analytic company in Boston.
It studied millions of job postings to better understand the skills companies require. What they discovered was that many want workers with experience in such new abilities as big-data gathering and analytic, or design using digital technology.
Burning Glass came up with the term“hybrid jobs”to describe these kinds of positions,which require skills not normally found together. For example,these hybrid jobs might require people with skills in data science and advertising, or engineering and sales.“The jobs of the future don’t involve just one skill,“ says Matt Sigelman,chief manager of Burning Glass.
The company expects general job growth of about 10% between 2018 and 2028,but the hybrid jobs by 21%. What’s more,hybrid jobs pay more than positions that call for a traditional set of skills. For example, a marketing manager mastering a database program gets paid 41% more than a traditional one,with an average yearly salary of $100,000. Moreover,an engineer who improves her sales skills and becomes a consulting engineer fora software company can more than double her pay from $180,000 to $400,000.
While data shows that workers who fail to update their skills will be able to find fewer jobs, people in hybrid jobs are less likely to become out of date, with only 12% possibility of being re-placed by machine,compared with 42% for general jobs, says Burning Glass. Hybrid jobs are mostly not beginner roles,so they mainly go to workers with years of experience and,most importantly,more training after leaving college. That means workers,bosses and educators will have to think about how to better prepare people for these roles.
【1】Why did the company research into job advertisements?
A.To understand the growth of best paid workers.
B.To compare workers’ experience with new abilities.
C.To find out companies’ requirements about skills.
D.To tell the possible changes in future job market.
【2】Which of the following jobs can be hybrid?
A.Data engineer.
B.Machine operator.
C.Marketing manager.
D.Medical consultant.
【3】How much is a traditional marketing manager possibly paid every year?
A.$180,000.
B.$71,000.
C.$41,000.
D.$10,000.
【4】Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A.Future Jobs Requiring“Hybrid”Skills.
B.How to Get Trained for Jobs.
C.Tips on Finding Fastest-Growing Jobs.
D.The Jobs with Highest Pay.
23、Scientist, conservation organizations and government trying to stop the trend of extinction (灭绝) often focus on protected areas such as national parks and wildlife preserves. But with as many as million species(物种) at risk, this plan of action may not be enough to conserve wildlife.
Slowing the mass extinction that now appears to be underway will require more creative means of coexisting alongside wild plants and animals. A new study indicates the effectiveness of some such approaches by examining some lands managed by indigenous groups.
“ We show really strongly that, from a biodiversity standpoint in terms of species richness,indigenous - managed lands are at least comparable to protected areas, ” says biologist Richard Schuster of Carleton University. And in some places, they are better than parks and preserves -even though indigenous communities may use their lands’ resources by hunting or searching for food.
Schuster and his team analyzed more than 15,000 areas in Australia, Brazil and Canada. They found that the total diversity of wildlife was highest on lands either managed or co - managed by indigenous groups, while randomly selected areas with no formal protection were the least bio-diverse. For threatened species in particular, indigenous lands scored slightly higher than protected lands on overall species richness in Brazil and Canada, as well as higher for threatened animals in Australia.
Each country has a different geography, climate and history. Yet remarkably, Schuster says, the best indicator for species diversity is whether a given area was managed by an indigenous community. He pointed out that practices such as sustainable(可持续的) hunting, fishing and searching, as well as burning, are more likely to occur in such areas. Don Hankins, an ecologist at California State University,agrees. “ there’ s probably going to be more of a connection to the land, ” he says, “ and a use of the land for the things that are there, compared to a national park. ”
“ It’ s really important to listen to the people who live on the land and have them drive the stewardship efforts going forward, ” Schuster says, adding that partnering with indigenous communities may enable the world’ s countries to better meet a wide range of conservation goals: “ We really need all the help we can get as a global community to prevent species extinction that we’ re facing right now. ”
【1】What does the underlined word “ indigenous” probably mean in Paragraph 2?
A.Social.
B.Native.
C.Protected.
D.Threatened.
【2】What did Richard Schuster find in his study?
A.National parks are even higher in species diversity.
B.Indigenous communities overhunted on their lands.
C.Some preserves almost have no formal protection.
D.Indigenous lands do better in keeping bio-diversity.
【3】Which of the following statements may Don Hankins agree with?
A.Species diversity depends on geographical positions.
B.Humans’ everyday activities are no longer sustainable.
C.Indigenous groups have a close bond with their lands.
D.Protected areas work perfectly in wildlife protection.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A.Beating back extinction.
B.Dealing with environmental problems.
C.Setting up nature reserves.
D.Fighting against unsustainable behaviors.
24、 The new year is the moment when people vow to improve their fitness. They join gyms, swear off alcohol and adopt healthier diets. These resolutions usually do not last beyond January.
But some employers try to help their workers stick to their goals by offering “wellness” programmes. One of the longest-running examples began in 1979 at Johnson&Johnson (j&j), an American health-care company. The plan promotes weight loss, smoking quitting and efforts to reduce blood pressure. The firm claims it reduced medical costs by $400 an employee per year, and resulted in fewer workers suffering from heart disease or high blood pressure.
Yet an examination of the data by Martin Cherniack of the University of Connecticut found that in 2005-08, a sharp jump in alcohol use, depression and stress among j&j employees occurred. This coincided with a period when the firm had a target of lifting productivity by 9% a year. So the employees may have been leaner and fitter, but it is possible that workplace pressure to produce more meant greater stress.
All this suggests that employee well-being is a rather more complex topic than can be tackled by a programme devoted to exercise and healthy living. A study by Rand Europe, a research institute, found that obvious bad habits such as smoking and high alcohol use were in fact not associated with lower productivity, while obese workers were no more likely to take time off than anyone else. The biggest productivity problems were associated with lack of sleep, financial concerns and mental-health issues-factors that may well be directly linked to work-related stress.
It seems reasonable for companies to expect some level of economic return from any wellness programme that they provide. But the trade-off should not be too blatant. Making employees fitter so you can work them a lot harder seems rather like drilling your infantry (野战军) on a course before sending them to face the machine guns. A better impact on morale (士气) (and thus productivity) might occur if workers felt that their managers had a genuine interest in their welfare.
【1】What does the author want to tell us by the example of Johnson&Johnson?
A.A healthy lifestyle can contribute to higher productivity.
B.Caring for employees’ physical health is of great importance.
C.A health program is not enough to improve employee well-being.
D.A wellness program benefits both the company and the employees.
【2】What does the study by Rand Europe indicate?
A.Certain living habits help improve motivation.
B.Work-related pressure is to blame for low productivity.
C.Financial concerns have nothing to do with productivity.
D.Obesity is associated with lower attendance in the workplace.
【3】What does the underlined word “blatant” mean?
A.Challenging.
B.Effective.
C.Flexible.
D.Obvious.
【4】What’s the purpose of this text?
A.To recommend a new way of increasing profits.
B.To compare various factors affecting productivity.
C.To question some practice in business management.
D.To urge employers to improve health care programs.
25、 The summer before I went off to college, Mom stood me in her usual _______ behind the ironing board (烫衣板)and said, “Pay attention: I’m going to teach you to _______.”
Mom clearly explained her_______for this lesson. I was going to be_______and needed to learn this vital skill. Also, I would be meeting new people, and properly ironed clothes would help me make a good_______
“Learn to iron a shirt,” Mom said, “and you can iron anything.”
But ironing shirts was not_______work. It didn’t make use of long muscles we used to throw a baseball, and it wasn’t a _______ operation like ice-skating. Ironing was like driving a car on a street that has a stop sign every 10 feet, Moreover, an iron produced steam and it carried an element of _______. If you touched the wrong part of it, you’d get burnt. If you forgot to turn it off when you _______, you might burn down the house.
As for technique, Mom________me to begin with the flat spaces outward, always ________the iron forward into wrinkled (有褶皱的)parts. Collars had to be done right. Mom said they were close to your face, where everyone would________them.
Over the years, I’ve learned to iron shirts skillfully, which gives me a sense of________ . Whatever failures I suffer in my life, an ironed shirt tells me I am good at something. ________, through ironing I’ve learned the method for solving even the most troublesome problems. “________ wrinkles one at a time,” as Mom might have said, “and before long everything will get ironed out.”
【1】A.room B.spot C.chair D.passage
【2】A.iron B.mend C.sew D.dress
【3】A.reasons B.rules C.emotions D.methods
【4】A.helpful B.confident C.powerful D.independent
【5】A.conclusion B.suggestion C.impression D.observation
【6】A.useful B.easy C.special D.suitable
【7】A.direct B.single C.smooth D.strange
【8】A.doubt B.pressure C.surprise D.danger
【9】A.went away B.fell down C.jumped off D.looked up
【10】A.taught B.chose C.forced D.sent
【11】A.removing B.dragging C.pushing D.pulling
【12】A.touch B.design C.see D.admire
【13】A.honesty B.freedom C.justice D.pride
【14】A.Instead B.Besides C.Otherwise D.However
【15】A.Make up B.Deal with C.Ask for D.Rely on
26、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.
Nada Popovici was at a professional hockey (曲棍球) game. She kept looking at the back of the man’s neck. She wrote a message with the words “mole (痣)”“cancer” and “doctor” on her phone in bright red type. She did it to get the attention of the man, Brian Hamilton. He is an assistant equipment manager for the Vancouver Canucks hockey team.
Mr. Hamilton had a small mole on his neck. It was irregularly shaped and red-brown. These are the signs of a cancerous mole that Ms. Popovici had learned to spot. Maybe he already knew? But if so, why was the mole still there? She thought that Mr. Hamilton did not know.
“I need to tell him.” Ms. Popovici typed a message on her phone. The game ended. After waving at him several times, she finally drew Mr. Hamilton's attention. She placed her phone against the glass. The message read, “The mole on the back of your neck is possibly cancerous. Please go see a doctor!”
Mr. Hamilton looked at the message, rubbed the back of his neck, and kept walking. He was thinking, “Well, that’s strange.”
After the game, Mr. Hamilton went home and asked his partner to spot the mole, and she said she could. He asked the team doctor if it was worrisome. It was. Then after he had it removed, he waited for the biopsy (活检) results. Was the fan sitting behind the team's bench right?
Indeed, Ms. Popovici was correct. She had saved Hamilton’s life. Doctors later told him that it was a type of skin cancer. They said they could remove with ease and treat. But early detection is important. “The sooner you find something, the better it is,” a doctor said.
Mr. Hamilton recalled the doctor telling him, “I am going to diagnose you with cancer. And I am going to cure you of cancer in the same phone call.”
Once he knew he was fine, Mr. Hamilton tried to find the woman he described as “a hero”.
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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。
Mr. Hamilton wrote a letter posted on the team’s Twitter account.
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A couple of days later, at the next game, they met each other.
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