1、Students will encounter many challenges in the universities for the first year,________ getting used to a new environment quickly comes to be the most important one.
A.of which
B.for which
C.to which
D.by which
2、The government has taken some measures to reduce the smog, but it may be some time _____ the situation improves.
A. since B. when
C. unless D. before
3、They never wavered in their ________ to succeed.
A.addition B.command C.recognition D.determination
4、______developing countries need to do is to stop poverty.
A. How B. That C. Which D. What
5、Not until recently _______the development of tourist-related activities in the rural areas.
A. they had encouraged B. had they encouraged
C. did they encourage D. they encouraged
6、It’s reported that the fire that ________ at two o’clock last night caused a lot of damage.
A.breaking out
B.breaks out
C.broke out
D.was broken out
7、The doctor is skilled at treating heart trouble and never accepts any gift from his patients, so he has a very good ______.
A. expectation B. reputation
C. contribution D. civilization
8、– Do you mind if I smoke?
– Well, I’d rather you ______.
A. don’t B. didn’t C. won’t D. aren’t
9、Jim who is now our English teacher once ________ as a manager in an international
cooperation for 5 years.
A. worked B. had worked
C. was working D. has worked
10、---I’m planning to go to Kingdom of Cambodia this summer vacation. I think the trip will be exciting.
---___________, as it’s the rainy season then.
A. Yes, it will B. Of course not
C. You can say so D. It’s hard to say
11、He ordered that the house __________.
A.was sold B.is sold C.would be sold D.be sold
12、Research found that children who drank mainly soda were more than twice as likely as those who drank no soda signs of aggression.
A. showing B. shown C. to show D. show
13、My washing machine ________ this week, so I have to wash my clothes by hand.
A.is repairing
B.has been repaired
C.is being repaired
D.repaired
14、Under the Dome, ________ 103-minute documentary released by Chai Jing, has pushed public awareness about air pollution and encouraged people to join in efforts to make ________difference.
A. the; a B. a; a.
C. the; 不填. D. a; 不填
15、Prof. Wu says that the best way to help the tradition ________ is passing it down from generation to generation.
A.survive
B.recover
C.preserve
D.function
16、Although the test________look like a simple one, great care is needed.
A.may B.must C.should D.need
17、He glanced through the guide book, ___________ only those pages __________.
A. reading, concerned B. to read, concerned
C. having read, concerning D. reading, concerning
18、Different cultures have different ways of __________ their children.
A.disciplining B.marking C.understanding D.creating
19、______ your own needs is as important as learning to express your emotions.
A. Understand B. Understanding
C. Understood D. Having understood
20、He worked as a librarian before ________ to journalism .
A. switching B. swearing C. swelling D. swinging
21、The Beijing International Marathon has acquired a new name among some disappointed participants: Smogathon.
About 30,000 runners, many from other parts of China or abroad, awoke in the Chinese capital on Sunday to an orange sun glowing weakly through a dirty haze(雾霾). Some ran anyway. Some ran away. But no one cancelled on the advice of the organizers, the Chinese Athletic Association and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports, because those organizations did not call it off. That has made participants call the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which has approved the 26-mile, or 42-kilometer race, to set air quality standards in the future to avoid damaging the runners’ health. The association could not be reached by telephone on Sunday.
“Does the IAAF have guidelines?” asked Chas Pope, a British engineer who took part in the marathon on Sunday. “If they don’t, they should consider it,” said Mr. Pope, who has lived in Beijing for 11 years and runs several long-distance races each year. “It’s meant to be fun and good for your health,” Mr. Pope said of the marathon. “But in such air, it’s just ridiculous to be running,” he said. He abandoned the course. “Most of my overseas friends pulled out,” he said. “And quite a few of my Chinese friends too, but a lot didn’t. I think they don’t know as much about the health impact.”
Images on Twitter and Chinese social media showed Chinese runners wearing a variety of face protections, from light cloth masks to World War I-style gas masks. Still many completed the race without masks. “Today’s race should definitely have been called off or rescheduled,” said Zhang Kai, Beijing-based campaigner with Greenpeace East Asia. “What happened today to this sports even is just another reminder to the government that much remains to be done to China’s energy and industrial structure to solve pollution,” said Mr. Zhang. “If the battle against pollution is a marathon, it is now time to catch up on speed.”
In the end, the race was won by two Ethiopians: Girmay Birhanu Gebru won the men’s race in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 42 seconds while Fatuma Sado Dergo won the women’s in 2 hours, 30 minutes and 3 seconds, breaking Chinese women’s advantage of the race for the last 22 years.
The favored Chinese woman runner, Gong Lihua, told China News Net that the smog didn’t affect her too much but it interfered with many people’s ability to sweat, affecting their performance.
【1】The underlined sentences “Some ran anyway. Some ran away.” mean _____________.
A. Some runners who dropped out returned to run.
B. Some runners gave up after running a short distance.
C. Not all runners continued to run.
D. Most runners quit the race.
【2】Why did participants call the IAAF?
A. To tell it the Beijing International Marathon was also named Smogathon.
B. To appeal to it to set air quality standards in the future.
C. To tell it the 42-kilometer race should be cancelled.
D. To appeal to it to make some laws to prevent pollution.
【3】Which of the following states does Chas Pope agree to?
A. A dirty haze is harmful to health.
B. Running in any air is good.
C. The marathon in China should be cancelled.
D. Friends should learn from each other.
【4】Zhang Kai thinks the battle against pollution _______.
A. will be the most urgent thing in China.
B. should be got rid of immediately.
C. is connected with China’s unreasonable energy and industrial structure.
D. will remind all the Chinese to reduce pollution.
22、“A novel, like a letter should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of morality and decay,” Saul Bellow once wrote. Like many novelists, in his spare time the author of The Adventures of Augie March was also an enthusiastic letter writer.
A selection of Bellow’s huge correspondence, reproduced in a recent issue of the New Yorker, provides a fascinating insight into the writer’s character. Witty, often brief and almost always entertaining, Bellow’s letters are a reminder of why writers’ letters often prove so popular with readers. At their best, literary letters have something for everyone: general readers get a glimpse of how authors write when freed from the expectation to produce a work of conventional literary worth, and scholars get enough scholarly writings.
All this is well and good—except for one small problem: nobody writes letters anymore, at least not the kind of intellectual, humorous letters that distinguish great correspondence. As we are so often told, we live in the digital age. Like the rest of us, authors now largely correspond with their agents, friends, and occasionally, fans through email, not “snail mail”.
As literary vehicles, emails are severely lacking. Digital messages tend to alternate between the deathly dull and formal and the casually daring complete with BTW, LOLs and unclear text—speak with little middle ground. Letters can be revealing, friendly, humorous; emails, even at their best, tend to exhibit only one of these characteristics of good writing.
Future literary archivists (档案管理员) will need to be digital experts, hacking through hard drives and email accounts, mobile phones, in their attempts to fully document the lives and thoughts of their subjects. But who among us has all their email correspondence from the past five years, let alone a lifetime? Hardware is disposed (废弃) of and forgotten about; mobile phones are replaced every few years. The idea that we can construct a complete record of a writer has always been unrealistic, but technological advances have made it physically impossible, too. With so much material digitalized, and often wiped, writers will no longer leave behind boxes suffered with letters, ripe for investigation and possible publication.
Back in 1898, the New York Times named the long-dead Lord Byron the greatest letter writer in the English language, celebrating his letters’ humor, the force and spirit of their substance, the grace and purity of their style. Saul Bellow’s letters might not be remembered quite so fondly 70 years from now, but chances are that, by then, the entire genre of collected writers’ letters will have disappeared completely—leaving readers significantly poorer for their loss.
【1】Authors’ letters are often popular with readers probably because ______.
A.well-known magazines like New Yorker choose to publish them
B.authors write them with a specific audience in mind
C.not only are they scholarly, but they are also funny
D.readers can gain an insight into how the classics are created
【2】According to paragraphs 3 and 4, one advantage of email over traditional letters is that _____.
A.email exhibits characteristics of good writing
B.email reaches its receivers much faster
C.email is full of variation alternating between “formal” and “casual”
D.email conveys clear messages with little ambiguous middle ground
【3】Why does the author mention future archivists work?
A.To illustrate that technological advances can contribute to greater literary loss.
B.To arouse readers’ interest in how digital property will be treated in the future.
C.To point out that it is impossible to document the life experience of a writer.
D.To warn that there will be no writers’ letters left for research.
【4】Which of the following can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Exploring Literature through Letters.
B.Well-Written “Letters”: Saul Bellow Shows Us How
C.The Dying Art of Letter Writing
D.The Power of a Letter in the Digital Age
23、 'I get so frustrated. I end up hitting the desk. ' 'I feel very unwell and I am really scared. ' These are how students feel about one of the basic but important subjects being learnt in school-mathematics. These also reflect a phenomenon where children as young as six may feel fear, anger and despair as a result of 'mathematics anxiety', a condition which can cause physical symptoms and behavior problems in class, according to a study.
Researchers from the center for neuroscience in education at Cambridge University worked with 2,700 primary and secondary students in the UK and Italy—including detailed one-to-one interviews —to explore maths anxiety and its causes.
Researchers say maths anxiety should be treated as a 'real concern' because of the damage it does to a child's learning. Pupils in both primary and secondary school can find themselves locked in a cycle of despair, suffering from anxiety which harms their maths performance, which in turn leads to increased anxiety.
The children interviewed provided vivid descriptions of their fears about maths. One primary school student described his reaction during a math lesson. 'Because my table's in the corner I kind of tried not to be in the lesson. '
Researchers found there was a general sense that maths was hard compared with other subjects, which led to a loss of confidence. Yet the study points out that most children with high levels of maths anxiety are also high achievers in the subject.
It was also found that key triggers for anxiety included poor marks, test pressures, tease from fellow pupils and a confusing mix of teaching methods. National State tests taken in the final year of primary school were another cause of anxiety for some, while the transition to secondary school was challenging for others.
【1】What can we learn about maths anxiety?
A.It is a typical condition of primary students.
B.It is the root of students' strange daily behaviors.
C.It does damage to students' math performance.
D.Only teenagers can suffer a lot from it in class.
【2】What does the underlined word mean in the last paragraph?
A.Problems. B.Reasons.
C.Phenomena D.Consequences.
【3】What will be possibly talked about next?
A.How students respond to maths learning.
B.What makes maths learning difficult.
C.Why students suffer from mathes anxiety.
D.How to deal with the maths frustration.
24、 Raise your hand if you've had your Smartphone stolen. According to the Federal Communication Commission(FCC. ),the phone theft rate for the year 2013 is estimated to be about 369 per 100,000 individuals﹣with a higher rate in cities. The solution to that problem starts at home﹣with you. While 36 percent of Smartphone owners secure their phonic with a four﹣digit code,just 11 percent used a code longer than four digits,a password,or an unlock pattern; fully a thrice of those surveyed took none forth listed security measures at all.
Improved security can definitely help deter thefts. In cases where users set no password,it's quite easy to erase a phone and turn it around on the black market. While simple four﹣digit pass codes can help slow that process down,they are mathematically much cashier to crack(破解) than longer,more complicated passwords.
Technological measures have agreeably begun in the making process:Apple,lord example,introduced a feature which prevents someone from disabling the Find My aphonic service,erasing the device,or react. inviting an erased device. In the six months after that upstate,thefts of phones decreased by around a quarter in New York,San Francisco and London. Were everybody to set a strafing password on their devices﹣or work device makers to re. curie. Lasers to set a pass code,rather than merely suggesting it. it would be considerably harder tore thieves to resell those phonics elsewhere. Though. much as with cars,it wouldn't necessarily stop insolents where smart phones arc taken apart.
The FCC,is asking that device makers better educate consumers about the anti﹣theft measures available on their devices. Really,it's a matter of common sense:just as you wouldn't leave your house unlocked﹣especially if you lived in an urban area﹣you shouldn't walk around with an unprotected phone. Because these days. the amulet oversensitive and personal information you keep in your phone may actually be more valuable than what you leave in your house. So,for your own sake,fire up that Smartphone and set a secure pass code,and do it right now.
【1】Which of the following can be the FCC's conclusion?
A.More smart bones arc stolen in cities than in the countryside.
B.Smartphone's should be put at home so that they won't be stolen.
C.About 400 smart phones were stolen in cities in 2013.
D.A four﹣digit codec is the best way to scurf your Smartphone.
【2】What does the underlined word"deter"in Paragraph 2 probably mean'?
A.Commit. B.Discourage.
C.Investigate. D.Report
【3】If security measures are taken in the making process,____.
A.it won't be possibly for stolen smart phonics to be sold
B.users have to set a pass Coclé before using a Smartphone
C.there will be fewer thefts of smart phonics
D.the stolen smart phones will be almost Listless
【4】We can know loom the last paragraph that_____.
A.houses can usually be unlocked in the countryside
B.people should buy more expensive snort phones
C.personal or valuable information should be kept in the Smartphone
D.phone nacres are expected to play their part in preventing pone thefts
【5】What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To advise securing smartphones.
B.To advertise an Apple product.
C.To condemn smartphone thefts.
D.To tell us the result of a survey.
25、Bending our knees in the sand and protected by only a plastic glove, I put my hand into the cigarette ends, drink bottles and rotten fruit. I ____ to my friends, triumphantly (洋洋得意地) waving a ____ sock at them before dropping it into the rubbish bag.
My friends and I are ____ of the CSF, a high school community service club. On a Sunday morning we came to the Santa Monica Beach as ____ as possible. It was Step. 17. International Coastal Cleanup Day, and people in more than 90 countries were ____ to clean up the beaches. When four of us and the club adviser ____ near the Santa Monica Pier (码头), the beach was nearly empty. We were —____ with plastic gloves, rubbish bags and information ____, which we used to ____ the rubbish we found for later research. In ____ of two or three, we started by collecting the most ____ pieces of rubbish, such as bottles and bags. Soon our backs were hurting from ____ so much. To pass the time, our club adviser invented a ____ called “Balloon Search” — whichever group found the most shreds (碎片) of balloons would ____.
My group found several sickening and ____ items, such as, used underwear, dead birds and toothbrush. Another group ____ found false teeth!
After three hours of collecting rubbish, we ____ ourselves to lunch, I washed my ____ with a soap four times in the bathroom, but the smell of ____ fish stayed. Although we were tired, we all ____ that the work was definitely worth it.
【1】A. explained B. got C. shouted D. nodded
【2】A. beautiful B. muddy C. plastic D. white
【3】A. students B. customers C. cleaners D. member
【4】A. early B. late C. soon D. often
【5】A. calling B. gathering C. meeting D. pretending
【6】A. turned up B. came up C. turned out D. came out
【7】A. equipped B. filled C. covered D. pulled
【8】A. scores B. papers C. tools D. sheets
【9】A. copy B. record C. hold D. sort
【10】A. search B. memory C. groups D. forms
【11】A. amazing B. expensive C. useful D. noticeable
【12】A. walking around B. bending over C. falling down D. moving back
【13】A. game B. machine C. sport D. rule
【14】A. leave B. blow C. win D. speak
【15】A. interesting B. surprising C. important D. pleasant
【16】A. again B. still C. even D. suddenly
【17】A. treated B. helped C. took D. invited
【18】A. clothes B. hands C. face D. hair
【19】A. bitter B. fresh C. tasty D. rotten
【20】A. agreed B. decided C. promised D. understood
26、一家英语报社举行征文活动,主题是“我的高中生活”。请根据以下要点完成短文。
1. 校园生活; 2. 收获; 3. 感想。
注意 1. 词数100左右; 2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯; 3. 开头语已为你写好。
High school is a golden time in one’s life with great fun and fond memories.
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