1、The disease is a huge blow for the farmers. Hundreds of them ______ their animals, livelihood and hopes destroyed and many others fear they _____ the same fate.
A. have seen; will suffer B. saw; suffered
C. had seen; was to suffer D. see; suffer
2、Many students think geography is_________ math.
A. as difficult a subject as
B. as a difficult subject as
C. the same difficult subject as
D. a subject the same difficult as
3、—Why didn’t you watch the program “Where are we going, Dad?”?
—It was because something was wrong with the web TV ________ too many users were receiving it。
A. which B. that
C. through that D. through which
4、We have celebrated this festival for many years and it ________ Tang Dynasty.
A. is dated back to B. is dating back to
C. dates back to D. dated back to
5、An individual human existence should be like a river---small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and_____ passionately past rocks and over waterfalls.
A. to rush B. rushing C. rushed D. rush
6、At the railway station, the mother waved goodbye to her daughter until the train was _______.
A.out of sight
B.out of reach
C.out of order
D.out of place
7、 to work overtime that evening ,I missed a wonderful film .
A. Having been asked B.To ask
C.Having asked D.To be asked
8、The teacher together with his assistants _____ ten cell samples during the past two months in the school lab.
A.analyze B.analyzes C.has analyzed D.have analyzed
9、However much money you have, it can not ________ a healthy body.
A. compare B. earn
C. defeat D. match
10、________ the job, you must gain a degree in chemistry first.
A.To do
B.Having done
C.Doing
D.Do
11、More often than not, the enterprise around us are getting even richer, ________ recipe is don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
A. of which B. which
C. whose D. of whom
12、The teaching of language is not _______ throughout the country. There are variations among the different districts.
A. constant B. uniform C. steady D. systematic
13、With the Entrance Exam approaching, I feel more and more stressed. It will ruin my college dream _____ I take action now as soon as possible.
A.since B.once C.until D.unless
14、_________ in heavy school work, most senior three students have no free time to do what they want.
A. Buried B. Having buried
C. Being buried D. To be buried
15、The police________ the murderer everywhere when he suddenly appeared in the theatre.
A.are searching
B.were searching
C.is searching
D.was searching
16、The police have appealed for the public to remain calm.
A.vi. 有吸引力
B.vi. 上诉
C.vi. 呼吁;恳求
D.vi. 启发
17、At the graduation ceremony, the headmaster required the graduates to raise their competitive _______ in modern society.
A. spirit B. intention
C. ambition D. awareness
18、If you can’t trust your friend to have a relationship with another person you consider a friend, it’s a clear ______ of a problem in your friendships.”
A. disappearance B. symbol
C. symptom D. settlement
19、My bike got in the mud. However hard I tried, it wouldn't move, not a small bit.
A.stuck B.sunk C.struck D.stayed
20、Speaking of non - cash payments, I think that we may try to use money less often instead of replacing it ________ .
A.for good
B.at ease
C.on the whole
D.in vain
21、C
No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world,but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million.The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada.
In the United Kingdom,about one in ten people have some disability.Disability is not just something that happens to other people:as we get older,many of us will become less mobile,hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.
Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life.Some people are born with disabilities.Many others become disabled as they get older.There are many progressive(逐渐的)disabling diseases.The longer time goes on,the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents.Many others may have a period of disability in the form of a mental illness.All are affected by people’s attitude towards them.
Disabled people face many physical barriers.Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends,imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps,or onto buses and trains.How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic?But there are other barriers:prejudice(偏见)can be even harder to break down and ignorance represents the greatest barrier of a11.It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through,so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability,not their disability,that counts.
【1】The first paragraph mainly points out that ______________.
A.there are many disabled people in the world
B.the number of disabled people in India is the greatest
C.India has much more disabled people than Canada
D.it is impossible to get an exact figure of the world’s disabled people
【2】The key word in paragraph 4 is _______________.
A. disability B.ignorance
C.prejudice D.barriers
【3】The last word of the text“counts”most probably means ____________.
A.is most important
B.is considered
C.is included
D.is numbered
【4】Which of the following statements is NOT true? ________________.
A.even the able-bodied may become disabled in some way
B.the disabled prefer to be ignored by the able-bodied
C.prejudice against the disabled should be removed
D.The disabled make up about 10 percent in the UK’s population
【5】it can be concluded from the passage that ______________.
A.we should try our best to prevent disablement
B.physical and metal barriers are equally hard to break down
C.we should take a proper attitude towards the disabled
D.all of us will be disabled at a certain time of our life
22、Learn to Cite Sources (引用资料)
During your university education, you’ll be exposed to ideas and scientific theories of scholars and scientists. Unavoidably, your own ideas will be shaped by the ideas you come across. The academic challenge you face is to make something original. 【1】 Your original work is the basis for your professor’s evaluation of your performance. Thus, academic honesty is fundamental in your university education. It demands that you cite the source materials you base your own work on. 【2】
Correctly citing your sources helps you distinguish your own ideas from those of other scholars. On the readers’ side, it permits a reader to determine the depth of your research. It also allows a reader to appreciate your original contribution to the research. 【3】
So you need to learn when to cite and how to provide an adequate or accurate reference list. If you fail to cite your sources, whether deliberately or carelessly, you will be found responsible for plagiarism (抄袭). 【4】 If you are not sure, ask your professor for guidance before submitting the paper or report. Keep in mind this general rule: when in doubt, cite!
【5】 For example, students from East Asia may think that copying directly from sources is the proper way to do research. Students in France, preparing for the final examination, may be encouraged to memorize whole passages and copy them into papers. Those cultural differences can lead to false assumptions about academic requirements in the country you study in.
A.International students may cheat in different ways.
B.These include other scholars’ ideas, figures, graphs and so on.
C.On the contrary, lack of citing will only raise your readers’ doubt.
D.Often, students want to use others’ opinions to support their own essays.
E.For international students, it is important to know local academic expectations.
F.Not knowing academic regulations is an unacceptable excuse for such behavior.
G.That means you should go beyond what you learn from your textbooks or in the library.
23、 If you were like most children, you probably got upset when your mother called you by a sibling’s (兄弟姐妹的) name. How could she not know you? Did it mean she loved you less?
Probably not. According to the first research to tackle this topic head-on, misnaming the most familiar people in our life is a common cognitive (认知的) error that has to do with how our memories classify and store familiar names.
The study, published online in April in the journal Memory and Cognition, found that the “wrong” name is not random but is always fished out from the same relationship pond: children, siblings, friends. The study did not examine the possibility of deep psychological significance to the mistake, says psychologist David Rubin, “but it does tell us who’s in and who’s out of the group”.
The study also found that within that group, misnaming occurred where the names shared initial or internal sounds, like Jimmy and Joanie or John and Bob. Physical resemblance between people was not a factor. Nor was gender.
The researchers conducted five separate surveys of more than 1,700 people. Some of the surveys included only college students, others were done with a mixed-age population. Some asked subjects about incidents where someone close to them—family or friend—had called them by another person’s name. The other surveys asked about times when subjects had themselves called someone close to them by the wrong name. All the surveys found that people mixed up names within relationship groups such as grandchildren, friends and siblings but hardly ever crossed these boundaries.
In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women. Older people and women made the mistake slightly more often, but that may be because grandparents have more grandchildren to mix up than parents have children. Also, mothers may call on their children more often than fathers, given traditional gender norms (常态). There was no evidence that errors occurred more when the misnamer was frustrated, tired or angry.
【1】How might people often feel when they were misnamed?
A.Unwanted. B.Unhappy. C.Confused. D.Indifferent.
【2】What did David Rubin’s research find about misnaming?
A.It is related to the way our memories work.
B.It is a possible indicator of a faulty memory.
C.It occurs mostly between kids and their friends.
D.It often causes misunderstandings among people.
【3】What is most likely the cause of misnaming?
A.Similar personality traits (特点) B.Similar spellings of names.
C.Similar physical appearance. D.Similar pronunciation of names.
【4】What did the surveys of more than 1,700 subjects find about misnaming?
A.It more often than not hurts relationships.
B.It hardly occurs across gender boundaries.
C.It is most frequently found in extended families.
D.It most often occurs within a relationship group.
【5】Why do mothers misname their children more often than fathers?
A.They suffer more frustrations.
B.They become worn out more often.
C.They communicate more with their children.
D.They generally take on more work at home.
24、A few years ago, in one experiment in behavioural psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects for their willingness to obey instructions given by a “leader” in a situation in which the subjects might feel a personal dislike of the actions they were called upon to perform. Specifically, Milgram told each volunteer “teacher-subject” that the experiment was in the noble cause of education, and was designed to test whether or not punishing pupils for their mistakes would have a positive effect on the pupils’ ability to learn.
The teacher-subjects were placed before a panel of thirty switches with labels ranging from “15 volts of electricity (slight shock)” to “450 volts (danger — severe shock)” in steps of 15 volts each. The teacher-subject was told that whenever the pupil gave the wrong answer to a question, a shock was to be administered. The supposed “pupil” was in reality an actor hired by Milgram to pretend to receive the shocks by giving out cries and screams. Milgram told the teacher-subject to ignore the reactions of the pupil, and to administer whatever level of shock was called for.
As the experiment unfolded, the “pupil” would deliberately give the wrong answers to questions, thereby bringing on various electrical punishments, even up to the danger level of 300 volts and beyond. Many of the teacher-subjects balked at administering the higher levels of punishment, and turned to Milgram. In these situations, Milgram calmly explained that the teacher-subject was to carry on with the experiment and that it was important for the sake of the experiment that the procedure be followed through to the end. What Milgram was trying to discover was the number of teacher-subjects who would be willing to administer the highest levels of shock, even in the face of strong personal and moral revulsion(反感) against the rules and conditions of the experiment.
Before carrying out the experiment, Milgram explained his idea to a group of 39 psychiatrists and asked them to predict the average percentage of people who would be willing to administer the highest shock level of 450 volts. The overwhelming consensus was that basically all the teacher-subjects would refuse to obey the experimenter. The psychiatrists felt that “most subjects would not go beyond 150 volts” and only a small percentage of about one in 1,000 would give the highest shock of 450 volts.
What were the actual results? Well, over 60 per cent of the teacher-subjects continued to obey Milgram up to the 450-volt limit! In repetitions of the experiment in other countries, the percentage was even higher, reaching 85 per cent in one country. How can we possibly account for this result?
One might firstly argue that there must be some sort of built-in animal aggression instinct(本能) that was activated by the experiment. A modem sociobiologist might even go so far as to claim that this aggressive instinct was of survival value to our ancestors in their struggle against the hardships of life on the plains and in the caves, finally finding its way into our genetic make-up.
Another explanation is to see the teacher-subjects’ actions as a result of the social context in which the experiment was carried out. As Milgram himself pointed out, “Most subjects in the experiment see their behaviour in a larger context that is good and useful to society — the pursuit of scientific troth. The psychological laboratory has a strong claim to legitimacy(合法性) and gains trust and confidence in those who perform there. An action such as shocking a victim, which in isolation(单独看来) appears evil, acquires a completely different meaning when placed in this setting”.
Here we have two different explanations. The problem for us is to sort out which of these two polar explanations is more reasonable. This is the problem of modern sociobiology — to discover how hard-wired genetic programming decides the interaction of animals and humans with their environment, that is, their behaviour. Put another way, sociobiology is concerned with explaining the biological basis of all behaviour.
【1】Why did Milgram do the experiment?
A. To discover people’s willingness for orders from leaders.
B. To display the power of punishment on ability to learn.
C. To test people’s willingness to sacrifice for science.
D. To explore the biological basis of social behavior.
【2】Which of the following is right about the experiment?
A. The actor’s performance was vital to its success.
B. Its subjects were informed of its real purpose beforehand.
C. The electrical shock made the “pupil” give more wrong answers.
D. Its subjects were convinced of the effects of punishment on ability to learn.
【3】What does the underlined phrase “balked at” most probably mean?
A. commented on B. hesitated in
C. got rid of D. looked down upon
【4】Before the experiment took place the psychiatrists _________ .
A. believed that a shock of 150 volts was unbearable
B. failed to agree on how the teacher-subjects would respond to instructions
C. under-predicted the teacher-subjects’ willingness to follow experimental procedure
D. thought that many of the teacher-subjects would administer a shock of 450 volts
【5】Which of the following is mentioned as one possible factor that explains the teacher-subjects’ behaviour?
A. Economic factor. B. Biological factor.
C. Cultural factor. D. Historical factor.
【6】What’s the author’s purpose with this article?
A. To introduce a problem sociobiology deals with.
B. To explain a scientific phenomenon.
C. To report an experiment that focuses on education.
D. To argue against a scientific view.
25、Growing up in California, I was always outside. Any weekend, you’d find me swimming, water skiing, or riding bikes一you _________ it, I did it.
Skiing was one sport I never learned, _________ I loved the idea of it. So when I recently got a (n) _________ on a ski trip in Deer Valley, I _________ the chance. I figured it wouldn’t be that _________ to learn. After all, I’m fairly _________ , and I used to water ski - that has to count for something, right?
Turns out, not so much. I told our instructor I was “beginner level,” and I was _________ with some women who’d skied only a _________ of times before. Then, we started “skating” toward a chairlift. Immediately, I was left in the _________ Obviously, skiing “a handful of times” before doesn’t __________ “never.”
When we reached the top, 1 started down an easy green __________ with others in our group. OK, this isn’t so __________ ! I’m doing it! I thought at the start of the run. Then we hit a steeper section. I only had one __________ running through my mind: I’m going to die. However, my pride didn’t let me __________ , so I took off 一 I mean, really took off. I started leaning out of control, picking up speed, and ended with a nose dive into the __________ . In fact, my fellow skiers were initially __________ , thinking that I had a natural __________ for skiing. Then they realized the speed wasn’t __________ .
Even though I was still a little shaken up by my crash, somehow, I gathered the __________ both physical and mental一to do more runs, and I’m so __________ I did. To be fair, I never reached Lindsey Vonn level, but I did gain a little more confidence and speed after each run.
【1】
A.preserve
B.dominate
C.name
D.capture
【2】
A.although
B.unless
C.so
D.or
【3】
A.invention
B.contract
C.invitation
D.plan
【4】
A.gave up
B.jumped at
C.looked for
D.lived on
【5】
A.challenging
B.uncomplicated
C.violent
D.precious
【6】
A.gentle
B.eager
C.fit
D.reliable
【7】
A.charged
B.grouped
C.equipped
D.shared
【8】
A.series
B.majority
C.set
D.handful
【9】
A.dust
B.street
C.air
D.mess
【10】
A.bother
B.equal
C.assist
D.prevent
【11】
A.hole
B.chair
C.block
D.run
【12】
A.late
B.bad
C.reasonable
D.accessible
【13】
A.motivation
B.secret
C.comment
D.thought
【14】
A.rise
B.stand
C.stop
D.disappear
【15】
A.snow
B.forest
C.sea
D.river
【16】
A.frightened
B.impressed
C.tired
D.disappointed
【17】
A.fear
B.answer
C.talent
D.preference
【18】
A.identical
B.accurate
C.different
D.intentional
【19】
A.materials
B.strength
C.results
D.lesson
【20】
A.grateful
B.patient
C.cautious
D.honest
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。续写词数应为150左右。
“The mall? Really, Mom?” 13-year-old Michelle asks her mother as her sister Nicole, three, looks on. “Absolutely.” Patty smiles. “You girls deserve some fun, and I need to get out of the house.” With dialysis (透析) treatments every five hours, Patty rarely ventures (冒险) from her Raymond, New Hampshire, home. She’s also been waiting four years to receive a call—the call that would call her for the double organ transplant (移植) she so desperately needs to live—the call that could come at any time. “There,” Patty smiles. “Let’s go have an adventure!”
Before leaving, Patty phones her firefighter husband Gary. But there’s no answer. Patty and her children arrive at the mall. “Whoa!” Patty laughs, forgetting in the excitement to call Gary.
At 3:05 Gary returns to the fire house. Just as he’s about to phone home to check on Patty, the phone is ringing! “We’ve got a match!” Patty’s doctor says. “But she’s got to Charlotte, North Carolina, by midnight.” Gary’s heart beats fast as he calls home. “Why doesn’t she answer?” Gary dials again and again.
Gary worries at the fire station. He’s booked four tickets on both of the two flights to North Carolina, a 6 pm from nearby Manchester or a 7:25 pm from Boston. Where are you Patty? With still no answer, Gary hangs up and dials the police department. He and his firefighter colleagues phone local stores and malls.
Now as Patty and her daughters go shopping, the mall loudspeakers are making an announcement. But in the crowded mall, Patty doesn’t hear it.
At 5:45 Gary realizes it’s too late to make the Manchester flight. And if he doesn’t find Patty soon, they won’t make the Boston flight either. Patty still hasn’t returned at 6:40. “Come home, Patty!” he begs, looking at the driveway. 7:00. It’s too late! Gary panics. Suddenly, he hears the sound of a car! “Patty!” he cries. Spotting her car pulling into the driveway, he calls the fire department. “Get that helicopter here!” he shouts. “She’s home!”
Paragraph 1:
Patty spots Gary racing toward her, a nervous look on his face and suitcases in his hands!
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Paragraph 2:
At 7:37 the plane takes off.
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