1、The mother bird looked at her baby with a ________ look.
A.concerned
B.concern
C.concerning
D.unconcerned
2、Our plane delayed taking off as we ran into a storm. We were ________ for several hours at the airport, waiting for the storm to clear up.
A. figured out B. built up C. held up D. taken off
3、--Would you mind me asking you some questions,Sir?
--_________.
A. Sure,please B. My pleasure
C. Yes,please D. Go ahead
4、Hello! This is Li Hua. I’m calling to put off the appointment I________ with Dr, Li until next Wednesday.
A.will make
B.had made
C.have made
D.would make
5、Not drinking enough water _____ lead to headache and poor physical performance.
A.can B.must C.should D.need
6、The college examination is _______ easier this year than I have expected.
A. fairly B. quite C. rather D. very
7、After graduation from college, Joe ______ for a year seeing the country before he went to work in his father’s business.
A. knocked about B. knocked over
C. knocked down D. knocked off
8、The birds that will spend the whole winter here have been digging holes in the snow _______ from the cold weather.
A. to shelter B. sheltered
C. having sheltered D. sheltering
9、The earthquake happened at midnight, but ________, no one was hurt.
A.fortunately
B.hopefully
C.frequently
D.occasionally
10、The road_______next week leads to Highway 62.
A. building B. to build
C. to be built D. built
11、The sharpest earthquake and the suffering _____brought about have had a lasting effect on the local people's life ever since.
A.it B.which C.what D.that
12、With the prices rising considerably in ______ of gas and water, we can not afford to send our son to study abroad.
A. respect B. response
C. offence D. reference
13、Shelly ________ shy as a child, but now she is very outgoing.
A. is B. was C. has been D. had been
14、There are various ways ________ society deems it acceptable for women to enhance their looks but not men.
A. in which B. where
C. when D. in that
15、— How do you find your trip to Sanya during the three-day New Year Holiday ?
—________ I can’t speak too highly of it.
A. Oh, wonderful indeed!
B. It’s awful!
C. Don’t mention it.
D. You said it.
16、 You will be successful in the interview ______ you have confidence.
A. before B. once C. until D. though
17、The best method to ______ this goal is to unite as many people as possible.
A. undertake B. conduct C. perform D. Accomplish
18、I don’t think what he said is ______ to the topic we are discussing. He has missed the point.
A. sensitive B. relevant
C. senior D. primitive
19、I found the film hard to follow because it _______ when I arrived.
A. had begun B. was beginning
C. has begun D. would begin
20、 -Where did you find your wallet?
-It was in the shop ____ I bought the shirt.
A. that B. where C. which D. there
21、B
My old digital camera broke down, so I wanted to buy a new one.Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand.So I went on the Net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store.There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list.And it was on special offer.Oh joy.I pointed at it and asked an assistant, "Can I have one of those? " He looked perturbed( 不安)."Do you want to try it first? "he said.It didn' t quite sound like a question."Do I need to?" I replied, "There's nothing wrong with it." This made him look a bit offended and I started to feel bad."No, no.But you should try it," he said encouragingly, "Compare it with the others.
I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box.With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time.But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.
But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice.In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen.The assistant seemed a sincere man.So I let him take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers...and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.Why do we think that new options still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.
【1】The shop assistant insisted that the writer should ____.
A.trust him and stop asking questions
B.try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it
C.get more information about different companies
D.compare the camera he had chosen with the others
【2】What does the writer mean by "it would be worth half what I paid for it"( Paragraph 2)?
A.He should get a 50% discount.
B.The price of the camera would soon fall.
C.The quality of the camera was not good.
D.The price of the camera was unreasonably high.
【3】The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he ____.
A.knew very little about it
B.wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best
C.didn' t trust the shop assistant
D.had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers
【4】It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer's opinion, __.
A.we waste too much money on cameras
B.cameras have become an important part of our daily life
C.we don' t actually need so many choices when buying a product
D.famous companies care more about profit than quality
22、CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS’ PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be in art and design school? This is your time to grow as an individual and take your creative power to the next level!
The California College of the Arts’ Pre-College Program is open to all interested participants, those with little art and design experience and those with advanced skills. Participants will have the opportunity to take studio-focused, college-level courses to help make concepts and ideas into real works while earning 3 college credits.
In-person: July 7- August 3
Animation 3D
Architecture
Illustration/Drawing
Industrial Design
Painting/Drawing
Your setting will be the CCA San Francisco campus. Your backdrop will be the San Francisco Bay Area, home to powerhouse brands, tech companies, world-class museums, and a dynamic ecosystem of artists, designers, and creatives from across the globe.
Online offerings: June 27—July 29
These three studios all begin at 9 a.m. Monday through Friday.
Animation 2D/3D
Fashion Design
Game Design
Online students do not have access to or participate in on-campus resources and activities. Online courses are typically smaller in size and taught by highly successful artists, architects, designers and writers. Most classes meet two to five times weekly and assign homework, research papers, midterms and finals.
Additional Activities:
Optional evening and weekend activities such as life drawing sessions, lectures, and interdisciplinary (跨学科) workshops enhance the overall program experience. A calendar of activities will be provided to students two weeks before the program begins.
Qualification:
The program is designed for the students who will have completed their senior year of high school by summer 2023.
【1】In which aspect will the program benefit the participants?
A.Winning a college scholarship.
B.Enhancing their creativity.
C.Getting all credits required at college.
D.Having their artworks published.
【2】What can we learn about the online offerings?
A.The courses are given by top professionals.
B.Online students can use on-campus resources.
C.The evening and weekend activities are a must.
D.Students highly-experienced in arts enjoy priority.
【3】Who is the program targeted at?
A.Music geniuses.
B.Students majoring in art.
C.College freshmen.
D.High school graduates of 2023.
23、Cities are likely to be affected by overheating, thanks to something called the urban heat island effect. Cities tend to be short of trees, which provide shade, and they are covered with black pavement, which absorbs heat from the sun. Think of how it feels to wear a dark shirt versus a white shirt on a sunny day. A black shirt absorbs light, heating you up. But a white shirt reflects light, keeping you cool.
The average temperature in a city of a million or more people can be more than 5 degrees F hotter than surrounding areas. That extra 5 degrees can turn a hot day from uncomfortable to deadly. As temperatures rise, cities will be an especially dangerous place to be during a heat wave. To protect public health, city officials are going to make the city cooler.
As part of that effort, Los Angeles is coating its roads in CoolSeal, a gray paint that keeps streets and parking lots 10 degrees cooler than black asphalt(沥青). It will help Angelinos save money during the summer, when air conditioning sends power bills soaring. And it will save lives by lowering temperatures and improving air quality. Hot weather worsens air pollution by turning car exhaust into smog, which can make life miserable for people with asthma(哮喘)and other breathing problems.
Of course, LA will have to do more than paint over a few streets to cool off the city. Angelinos will also need to plant more trees and apply white paint to rooftops — at least those not already covered in solar panels. While LA is a pioneer of reflective streets, other cities, like New York, are already experimenting with reflective roofs or, like Melbourne, lowering the temperature by planting trees. LA is hardly alone in its effort to stay cool.
“This is an urgent challenge, and it’s much bigger than one person,” said Mayor Garcetti in a recent statement. “Climate change is a fact of life that people in Los Angeles and cities around the world live with every day.”
【1】Which of the following contributes to the urban heat island effect?
A. Planting more trees in the streets.
B. Covering the streets with white paint.
C. Applying reflective paint to rooftops.
D. Furnishing every house with air conditioners.
【2】What should the city officials emphasize during hot summer?
A. How to make the city cooler.
B. Where to wear a white shirt.
C. Why to coat the roads with black paint.
D. When to cut off the electricity supply.
【3】What benefit can people gain from the use of CoolSeal?
A. Increasing the indoor activities.
B. Promoting the sale of air conditioners.
C. Making life easier and more comfortable.
D. Reducing the number of cold days.
【4】What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. L.A. adopted many approaches to fight against the heat.
B. L.A. calls on people to fight against global warming.
C. More and more countries begin to plant trees in the streets.
D. L.A. is painting its streets white to keep the city cool.
24、Young soldiers, far away from home and missing their families, discover a bear cub. That’s how the story of Wojtek begins, back in 1942. He was alone in the mountains of Iran; nobody knows how he got there.
When the exhausted Polish soldiers came upon Wojtek, they were immediately struck with emotions. They had been away from their loved ones for a long time. They needed something to pick their spirits up. So, they nursed the baby bear with milk from a bottle and named him Wojtek, which means: a warrior to whom fighting brings joy.
Wojtek was officially adopted into the army. He traveled with the army to the Middle East, providing comradery and entertainment. He would wrestle with the men, chase after oranges they cast for him and follow them about like a puppy. He became their connection to humanity in a time when the light of peace seemed so far away. And, like a child, he was also playful. In the desert heat, he learned how to break into the showers and turn on the water. He could also be seen pulling trunks of empty gun shells with the men or standing at attention in formation. Wojtek was also the chief frightener of new members: He would literally bear hug them and hold them upside down for a good laugh.
Getting through the hardship of war takes something extraordinary, something unexpectedly dangerous to preserve your mental state. That’s what Wojtek did for the men who had been so long in the fog and uncertainty of World War II. A playful bear became the symbol of strength and adaptability. Thankfully, wars ended but Wojtek was not forgotten. He was shipped with a group of men to a farm in Scotland, which was a fitting place to retire for a bear with so much military experience. Wojtek was a local celebrity. Stories of him kicking a soccer ball, attending local dances and parties, and enjoying jam and honey are still told today. And to everyone who knew him, Wojtek was the one that made a difficult time a little more bearable.
【1】How did the Polish soldiers react after they found the bear?
A.They were hit by the bear.
B.They accepted him and fed him.
C.They called Wojtek names.
D.They brought joy to him like warriors.
【2】What did Wojtek do in the army?
A.He would run after and eat up the oranges thrown by the soldiers.
B.He could pull branches with the soldiers to the army camp.
C.He would stand and listen attentively for information.
D.He would play tricks on those newly-joined soldiers.
【3】What happened to Wojtek after World War II?
A.He became famous and brought joy to the locals in a farm in Scotland.
B.He settled down with the Polish army in a farm in Scotland.
C.He enjoyed his life in another army in a farm in Scotland.
D.He was shipped to his hometown with the help of the Polish soldiers.
【4】What is the best title of the passage?
A.Wojtek: The Wild Warrior in the Desert Storm
B.Wojtek: From the Frontlines to a Hairy Friend
C.A Lifelong Bear Friend with the Scottish Locals
D.Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Tale of the Polish Army
25、My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea. As was often the_________, we had to pack our belongings into boxes and_________ those we had grown to love. We would arrive at our new home and find ourselves once again_________ at the pier (码头) waving good-bye to my father as his ship pulled him away from us. My mother would turn my brother and me around before the ship was out of sight, wipe our tears, and take us back home to start the process of_________ in the new environment again.
Throughout the years of changing_________, schools and friends, there remained one constant in my childhood—my mother. For both my brother and me, she was the cook, maid and teacher. She played these roles while_________some type of part-time job. Leaving a promising career is just one of the _________which my mother made for my family as we moved around the world with our father every three years or so. While she had to deal with only a small budget, my mother somehow managed to make each house the very home that is safe and _________.
This probably sounds like a depressing way to live, _________ with two small children: “single” parenthood, short-term friendships, and the inability to __________ a career or establish a home. But it was not for my mother. She turned this __________ into adventure for us all! Each relocation was a chance to __________ another part of the world. My mother__________each new culture, climate and neighborhood. Each new house was a __________ to rearrange furniture, make curtains and hang pictures. Every part-time job was an opportunity to learn something new and work with interesting people.
No matter how difficult the life was, she was always having a __________ attitude. She always had strength in the face of struggle and change. My mother was so brave all those years of my childhood—she was my island in a sea of change. She is my hero.
【1】
A.situation
B.case
C.matter
D.rule
【2】
A.leave behind
B.leave out
C.leave off
D.leave for
【3】
A.arriving
B.staring
C.standing
D.looking
【4】
A.adapting
B.suiting
C.matching
D.fitting
【5】
A.names
B.jobs
C.addresses
D.directions
【6】
A.performing
B.seeking
C.waiting
D.applying
【7】
A.programs
B.sacrifices
C.contribution
D.cooperation
【8】
A.romantic
B.comfortable
C.mysterious
D.wealthy
【9】
A.generally
B.actually
C.especially
D.unfairly
【10】
A.desert
B.pursue
C.affect
D.limit
【11】
A.lifestyle
B.value
C.journey
D.opportunity
【12】
A.acquire
B.explore
C.occupy
D.realize
【13】
A.met
B.greeted
C.agreed
D.suspected
【14】
A.load
B.sadness
C.result
D.challenge
【15】
A.changeable
B.cautious
C.positive
D.negative
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。
When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch very obvious scar (伤疤) on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not notice it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”
It never occurred to me that something like this would happen to my son years later. Sending a child off to college can certainly be stressful for concerned parents. It was 2018 that my son went off to college. He rarely contacted us. I couldn’t help asking about other aspects, which sometimes made him complain that I didn’t treat him as an adult.
To be honest, my son is excellent. Some of my friends always tell me that they admire my son’s characters and they hope their sons could have some of them.
Unexpectedly, it was 4 o’clock in the morning in 2020, when I received the phone call. “This is the emergency room calling and your son was just brought in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for an aircraft and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.” Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately this was serious.
The doctor described the reason, which caused the burns. At 6 am, my son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they lit the charcoal, it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline. The flames caught my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.
Fortunately, one of the boys who was quick-minded grasped my son and rolled him on the grass. While it saved his life, it was not in shape to save him from severe burns and the terrible scars.
After he recovered from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery for 6 months because it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling.
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1. 续写词数应为150左右;
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The doctors suggested he return to college with scars of severe burns temporarily.
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So I told him about Nancy’s childhood.
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