1、—It seems that people are becoming more and more selfish.
—How much happier life would be if we ________to the values of the past!
A. would return B. had returned
C. return D. were to return
2、Little Tom admitted ________ in the examination, promising that he wouldn't do that in the future.
A. having cheated B. cheat C. cheated D. to cheat
3、It was ______ first discovered and published T.S. Eliot’s famous poem The Waste Land.
A.them who B.they who C.them that D.they whose
4、At the ceremony, the president delivered a thank-you speech ________ the company.
A.in favor of
B.in charge of
C.on behalf of
D.in terms of
5、Emails are efficient and convenient, but the best way to ____________ a message is still to talk it out in person.
A.attend to B.break through
C.result from D.get cross
6、—I don’t know about you,but I’m sick and tired of this weather.
— .I can’t stand all this rain.
A.I don’t care
B.It’s hard to say
C.So am I
D.I hope so
7、Humor, if ________ properly, will help us break the ice and gain affection of others in social communication.
A.using B.used C.to use D. to be used
8、Since I have little work experience, I will have to take a series of unpaid internships ________ I can find my ideal job.
A.before
B.after
C.once
D.when
9、 --Jack fell off the ladder yesterday, but he is all right now.
--What a lucky dog! He ______ himself badly.
A. should injure B. could have injured
C. should have injured D. might injure
10、Mr. Smith let off upon me the speech he_______ to make all along.
A. had died B. died
C. was dying D. had been dying
11、My dream began to ______ the quality of reality.
A.take back
B.take on
C.take over
D.take up
12、— Joe, what about going to Belgium for our coming holiday?
— Sorry, honey, I _________ on the newly discovered dinosaur site in Argentina. There are remains of what is thought to be the largest creature ever to walk the earth.
A. was working B. work
C. will be working D. worked
13、—The constant noise around here______ me crazy!
—Calm down.It’s no use complaining.
A. drove B. drives
C. is driving D. had driven
14、The satellite image shows more rain______in the area over the next 24 hours.
A.is forecasting
B.will forecast
C.is forecast
D.forecasts
15、There is little chance that we will succeed in changing the law. ________, it is vital that we strive for the equality.
A.Moreover
B.Nevertheless
C.Despite
D.Additionally
16、—So touching a story! Love is allpowerful.
—Yes. love exists, there are miracles.
A. Where B. If C. Unless D. While
17、After receiving the news, immediate ______ was taken by the local government to stop the disease spreading.
A. measure B. adventure C. action D. activity
18、If it _____ earlier, the printing machine would not have broken down.
A.has been repaired B.is repaired
C.had been repaired D.was repaired
19、Tom ________ full marks, but he was too careless and made a spelling mistake.
A. could have gained B. could gain
C. must have gained D. must gain
20、With the city ________ clouded by dirty smog, the government has planned to shut down the four major coal-fired power plants.
A. abruptly B. frequently
C. occasionally D. regularly
21、With the Chinese language becoming popular, the UK government plans to invest(投资) 10 million pounds to help more kids learn Mandarin (普通话). Do you think it is necessary for the UK pupils to learn Mandarin? Some people share their opinions online.
Tsd (UK): The learning of any language can be valuable and useful, but it is not suitable for everyone. Chinese is a difficult language to learn and the UK is said to be bad at learning foreign languages. Why should they learn Chinese when most people in the world speak English?
Mark (US): I studied French for 2 years in high school and German for 4 years in college. I studied Mandarin informally for about 4 months before moving to China. Now I speak Mandarin every day as my wife doesn’t speak English. But it is far from being fluent. Learning additional languages is a great thing, which offers a different view on the world around us. Nowadays, it’s almost necessary to be able to speak more than just your mother tongue.
George (UK) : No, unless they’re taught from a very early stage of childhood. Mandarin is so difficult. If China really is going to lead the world, it’ll have to do so by speaking the world ‘s leading language— English.
【1】What is probably Mark’s main purpose of learning Chinese?
A.His frequent travel to China.
B.Further education in the future.
C.Effective communication with his family.
D.The official request of his company.
【2】Tsd from UK disagrees to learn Chinese for some reasons except ________.
A.It is difficult to learn Chinese.
B.The people in the UK are not good foreign language learners.
C.English is the mostly spoken language.
D.China is not as developed a country as the UK.
【3】What does George think of learning Chinese?
A.It’s of little use.
B.It’s unnecessary.
C.It takes too much time.
D.It’s not popular.
【4】What seems to be the major problem when foreigners try to learn Chinese?
A.Its difficulty as a language.
B.Misunderstanding about China.
C.The great popularity of English.
D.No enough learning resources.
22、During the spring break, my daughter, Lucy, was offered the opportunity to go to Thailand with Adventures Cross-Country (ARCC) on a summer adventure that combined community service with some unique, amazing actually, travel opportunities.
Less than 24 hours after landing in, they squeezed in their first service project, teaching and volunteering in a local school, before hopping on a night train to Chiang Mai. From there they boarded open-air bus-like trucks and bumped their way along rough dirt roads for a couple of hours, leaving their comfort zones behind before reaching the Village Hill Tribe.
Surrounded by rice fields, the teenagers taught English and poured the cement floor of a library in the making. Their home away from home was a village classroom. Tables and chairs were pushed aside to clear floor space for the kids to sleep at night. There were bugs of the flying and crawling variety. There were no flush (冲水) toilets. Showers were accomplished by filling a bucket with a plastic pipe and hanging it over your head. When my home phone rang about a week after she left, there were no complaints but the shower, in her words, “was the best thing that ever happened to me.” There aren’t many folks, let alone teenagers, that can rough it in those conditions, do community service work that involves hard labor, and most impressively, still be smiling at the end of the day.
Experiences like this can’t be gained by reading books or searching the Internet. They’ve learned by traveling and doing. She learned how to lay a cement floor without the luxury of any fancy equipment. All of the teenagers learned that people, themselves included, can do great things when they put their minds to it.
【1】How was Lucy’s journey to the Village Hill Tribe?
A.Lonely.
B.Dangerous.
C.Uncomfortable.
D.Relaxing.
【2】Where did the young volunteers sleep?
A.On the classroom floor.
B.In a newly-built library.
C.On tables put together.
D.Next to the shower room.
【3】How does the author feel about Lucy’s experiences?
A.They are terribly bad
B.They are quite beneficial
C.They are hardly imagined
D.They can be unbearable
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A.An unforgettable traveling experience.
B.A mother, who is proud of her daughter.
C.A girl, who is persistent and determined.
D.A volunteer experience in a Thai school.
23、The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards began its life modestly in 2015 as a photographic competition. And this year is no exception. The recently announced winners and finalists of the 2021 competition include a visibly uncomfortable monkey, three gossiping raccoons (浣熊), a joyful bird reunion, a fish who jumps high and an all-powerful prairie dog (土拨鼠).
A group of judges sorts through thousands of submissions from expert and inexperienced photographers alike, and determines one winner for each of the several groups- except for the peoples’ choice award, which is left up to members of the public.
This year’s top prize goes to Ken Jensen. His photo, taken in Yunnan, China, shows a golden silk monkey in a rather uncomfortable position with an appropriately surprised look on its face. The caption (图片配文) reads: “This is actually a show of aggression however in the position that the monkey is in it looks quite painful!” Another crowd favorite shows a pigeon with a flyaway yellow leaf covering its entire face, captioned: “I guess summer’s over.” The shot was taken by John Speirs when fruits and crops became ready to eat and were picked, and leaves fell.
The contest is more than just a delight to see. “The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards was born from the need for a wildlife photography competition that was light-hearted, modest and importantly, could make a difference to animals and our natural world,” reads its website. “Its founders realised that laughter was a uniquely effective tool to engage audiences of all ages and cultures with images of creatures they may never be able to see for themselves - and that the world could lose forever.”
Organizers Tom Sullam and Michelle Wood say they also donate 10% of their total net revenue to conservation organizations that protect endangered wildlife. This year, proceeds are going in Borneo.
Nature is healing, but it still has a long way to go.
【1】What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A.An announcement of awarded works.
B.The birth of the competition.
C.An introduction to the event.
D.A group of abnormal animals.
【2】How did the pigeon “guess the summer’s over according to the text?
A.There were no leaves on the trees.
B.The leaf covering its face was yellow.
C.Harvest showed the arrival of autumn.
D.Summer never seemed this cold.
【3】We can learn that the birth of The Awards intends to ________.
A.make viewers laugh.
B.hold a photographic competition.
C.raise awareness of wildlife conservation.
D.get people to see animals in a new way.
【4】What is the author’s attitude towards nature?
A.Positive.
B.Concerned.
C.Uncaring.
D.Tolerant.
24、阅读理解。
I am Peter Hodes , a volunteer stem cell courier. Since March 2012, I’ve done 89 trips—of those , 51 have been abroad. I have 42 hours to carry stem cells(干细胞)in my little box because I’ve got two ice packs and that’s how long they last. In all, from the time the stem cells are harvested from a donor(捐献者) to the time they can be implanted in the patient, we’ve got 72 hours at most. So I am always conscious of time.
I had one trip last year where I was caught by a hurricane in America. I picked up the stem cells in Providence, Rhode Island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London. But when I arrived at the check-in desk at Providence, the lady on the desk said:“Well, I’m really sorry, I’ve got some bad news for you—there are no flights from Washington.” So I took my box and put it on the desk and I said:“In this box are some stem cells that are urgently needed for a patient-please, please, you’ve got to get me back to the United Kingdom.” She just dropped everything. She arranged for a flight on a small plane to be held for me,re-routed(改道)me through Newark and got me back to the UK even earlier than originally scheduled.
For this courier job, you’re consciously aware that in that box you’re got something that is potentially going to save somebody’s life.
【1】 Which of the following can replace the underlined word “courier” in Paragraph1?
A. provider B. delivery man
C. collector D. medical doctor
【2】 Why does Peter have to complete his trip within 42hours?
A. He cannot stay away from his job too long.
B. The donor can only wait for that long.
C. The operation needs that much time.
D. The ice won’t last any longer.
【3】 Which flight did the woman put Peter on first?
A. To London. B. To Newark.
C. To Providence. D. To Washington.
25、How people stay connected before the invention of text messaging? That makes it easy to send a note to a friend. And before there were telephones in every home that could_________you immediately with a loved one, there were letters. Sure, you might_________to wait a few days or weeks for the postman to_________it, but the special feeling it contained made it worth the_________. Although a letter offers no_________joy, handwritten correspondence(通信)was always highly_________and favored. A letter could be read_________so that one could enjoyed that special moment over and over again.
In the face of worry over the coronavirus pandemic and all the_________it has placed on New Yorkers, a Brooklyn-based performance artist and English professor Brandon Woolf came up with the idea of reviving(复兴)the letter-writing_________as a means to reach out and__________one another.
Knowing that people have lost loved ones, jobs and businesses, and__________simple pleasures like hugs from a friend, Woolf began to think about how to help people make__________connections.
His__________was to take a page from history
"When interpersonal connection is__________during the hard times, what are other ways where we can be__________?" Woolf wondered. "What is a better experience than__________a piece of mail in your mailbox from somebody you didn't expect to hear from?"
Using a portable__________and seated on a folding chair alongside a mailbox, he put a sign says, "Free Letters for Friends Feeling Blue." Woolf spent several hours, a few days a week for four weeks, typing letters for his Park Slope, Brooklyn__________.
The 37-year-old New York University teacher called his street__________ "The Console"—short for consolation(慰问). He__________the neighbors and those hearing from them could feel the warmth.
【1】
A.fill
B.equip
C.compare
D.connect
【2】
A.need
B.want
C.dream
D.pretend
【3】
A.design
B.read
C.write
D.deliver
【4】
A.wait
B.purchase
C.exchange
D.work
【5】
A.bitter
B.permanent
C.instant
D.real
【6】
A.corrected
B.expected
C.wasted
D.processed
【7】
A.silently
B.easily
C.repeatedly
D.loudly
【8】
A.order
B.stress
C.importance
D.attention
【9】
A.tradition
B.hobby
C.project
D.trouble
【10】
A.rescue
B.comfort
C.trust
D.praise
【11】
A.tested out
B.took on
C.given up
D.turned to
【12】
A.regretful
B.dangerous
C.shameful
D.meaningful
【13】
A.doubt
B.answer
C.routine
D.reason
【14】
A.legal
B.useless
C.random
D.risky
【15】
A.out
B.away
C.together
D.apart
【16】
A.receiving
B.borrowing
C.removing
D.protecting
【17】
A.platform
B.suitcase
C.notebook
D.typewriter
【18】
A.patients
B.volunteers
C.neighbors
D.supporters
【19】
A.artwork
B.performance
C.appeal
D.theory
【20】
A.hoped
B.worried
C.promised
D.forgot
26、你最好的朋友Jack最近迷上电脑,因此常常熬夜,疏忽课业,并受到父母的指责。你打算写一封信给他,适当地给予劝告。
注意:⒈ 词数120-150之间(开头语已为你写好,不计入总词数);
2.可以适当增加细节,以便行文连贯;
Dear Jack,
How have you been recently?
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