1、--Mr. Smith, you are fined for over-speeding. Please sign here.
--Fined? Over-speeding? ________
A. Are you all right? B. You can't be serious!
C. Mind your own business! D. You asked for it!
2、You have to stop eating ______ meals if you want to lose weight.
A. among B. within
C. between D. from
3、She felt uncomfortable;________, She needed a rest
A.What's more B.By the way C.In other words D.All in all
4、One can another person without any words. What it takes is a shoulder to cry on and an ear that listens.
A. take advantage of B. spare a thought for
C. catch sight of D. reach out to
5、High school students will be better aware of _____ the real world is like by participating in community service.
A.that B.how C.what D.where
6、She _________the sign language before she served as a volunteer to help the deaf.
A. learns B. has learned
C. was learning D. had learned
7、The problems to be discussed at the meeting tomorrow are really hard ________.
A.to be solved
B.solved
C.solving
D.to solve
8、 The Alibaba Group, _____was founded in 1999, has become China’s largest e-commerce company.
A. what B. which
C. whose D. whether
9、My mother asked me to repeat ________telephone number ________second time so that she could write it down.
A.the ; a
B.an ; the
C.an ; a
D.the ; the
10、Words failed me when I heard the news of the New Year’s Eve stampede in Shanghai. But for lacking a sense of safety, so many people __________ killed or injured.
A. couldn’t be B. wouldn’t have been
C. mustn’t have been D. shouldn’t be
11、In times of trouble, _______ our spirits are low, telling our worries and fears to friends eases the stress.
A. when B. where C. which D. that
12、The best method to ______ this goal is to unite as many people as possible.
A. undertake B. conduct C. perform D. Accomplish
13、Languages across the world are becoming extinct______ endangered mammals and four times endangered birds.
A. at twice the rate of B. as twice fast as
C. twice faster as D. twice at the rate of
14、Many great artists were not famous in their own time, and people only started to them many years later.
A. remind B. appreciate C. inspire D. assist
15、When he discovered that it was all ______ joke, he laughed so hard that he nearly fell to _____ ground.
A. a; 不填 B. the; 不填
C. a; the D. the; a
16、 we have accomplished our mission, we hope the situation will return to normalcy.
A. As soon as B. Because
C. Though D. Once
17、So easy was the maths problem that it didn’t take much time for the students to _______ the correct answer.
A. make out B. bring out
C. figure out D. carry out
18、Whenever I made mistakes, the teacher pointed them out with _____.
A. curiosity B. satisfaction C. envy D. Patience
19、--- Why do you think ________ the Eagles went home, angry and bitter?
---_________ they didn’t win the tournament andbecause what mattered to them was victory.
A.was it that; That B.that; For
C.it was that; Because D.that; Because
20、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。
The book is intended for children.
A.meant B.predicted C.intentional D.tended
21、Applications for GoCamp online volunteers are now open
GoCamp is employing English speakers to volunteer to teach English online this summer.
What will I be doing?
Volunteers will teach Ukrainian school students English.
You will:
● receive free webinars(网络研讨会)and teaching materials.
● get special training on how to work with children.
● work with teachers to encourage English-language learning.
● inspire children to discover the entire world by sharing your culture, thoughts and values with them.
Am I qualified?
● You must be at least 18 years of age. There is no upper age restriction.
● You are required to have a middle — and — up level of English.
● You are expected to be active, loving and responsible to engage children in activities you enjoy and share and give them a memorable experience.
How do I apply?
Instructions on how to apply are available on GoCamp. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. If GoCamp determines that you are a good match for the programme, the next step will be a Skype interview.
How do I get in touch?
For contact details, please email us gocamp8899@hotmail.com.
【1】What do we know about GoCamp?
A.It's a language course. B.It's a guidebook.
C.It's an agreement. D.It's a website.
【2】Who can be qualified as a volunteer teacher?
A.A Spanish-speaking adult. B.An English-speaking adult.
C.A computer programmer. D.A 17-year-old Chinese student.
【3】In what column can we find this passage?
A.Take language exams. B.Online English Learning.
C.Study and work abroad. D.Education, art and society.
22、An allowance is an important tool for teaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decisions. Children remember and learn from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spent foolishly.
How large an allowance is appropriate? Experts say there is not right amount. Actual amounts differ from region to region, and from family to family.
To set an appropriate allowance for your child, work up a weekly budget. Allow for entertainment expenditures such as movies and snacks. Next, include everyday expenses such as lunch money, bus fare, school supplies. "If you make the child responsible for these ‘ ills’," says Josephine Swanson, a consumer specialist, " he or she will learn to budget for necessary expenditures."
Finally, add some extra money to make saving possible. If you can, keep your child’s allowance in line with that of his friends. A child whose purchasing power falls away below his peers’ can feel left out.
It can be tough, but avoid excusing your children when they make a mistake with their allowance. When Brooke Stephens was ten and growing up in Jacksonville, her mother gave her $5 a week, $1.75 of which was for bus fare and lunch." If you lose your money," Brooke’s mother told her, "you walk home."
One week the girl spent all her allowance in a candy store, then she called home for a ride. " Mom made me walk home," recalls Stephens, now a financial planner in Brooklyn. " At first I was angry. But I finally realized that she was trying to teach me an important lesson. "
Experts advise that an allowance should not be tied directly to a child’s daily chores. Kids should help around the house not because they get paid for it but because they share responsibilities as members of a family. You might, however, pay a child for doing extra jobs at home, which can develop his or her initiative.
【1】Which of the following is the possible title of the passage?
A.How to develop a child’s initiative.
B.How to work up an amount of pocket money.
C.How to teach a child to save money.
D.How to teach a child about money.
【2】It can be inferred from the passage that if a child is given an allowance, he or she may ________.
A.spend all the money very soon
B.be spoiled and finally ruined
C.feel responsible and careful about money
D.lost the money and can not return home
【3】In Paragraph 4, the words “his peers” refer to ________.
A.his parents
B.his teachers
C.his financial experts
D.his friends
【4】The author implies in the passage that ________.
A.paying children for their housework is no good
B.a child’s initiative can be developed if he or she is paid for all the housework
C.children may feel lost and lonely if they have no pocket money
D.children may learn to put aside some money if they are given a great amount of pocket money
23、 Dyslexia (失读症) is a reading and writing disability characterized by difficulties in reading and spelling, and for some readers to understand what they have read. Experts say dyslexia affects about five to ten percent of the population of the United States. Researchers have long known that people with dyslexia write or read words and letters backwards in the wrong order.
But a new study shows that people with dyslexia may have trouble redirecting (重新传入) their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something. Vanessa Harrar of Britain's University of Oxford led the study. She reported the findings in the journal Current Biology. The study suggests that dyslexic people may have trouble moving quickly from what they read to what they hear. Doctor Harrar calls this a sluggish shifting of attention across the senses.
'So, if you are trying to read something and then trying to listen to somebody who's reading aloud and you're trying to follow along with what they are reading, they have to switch their attention from hearing what they are saying to looking at the piece of paper and back again. ' said Harrar.
She found that people with dyslexia were just as fast as the others when they saw only a picture or heard only a sound. But the dyslexics had a slower reaction time when they heard a sound and saw a picture at the same time.
Doctor Harrar feels like playing action video games could help dyslexic people shift from seeing to hearing more quickly. She adds that images in video games force the eyes to move and focus quickly.
'Video game types of things pop out of here and there, they move your eyes around the screen quickly in response to things quite quickly, and the more you play a video game the faster you get that kind of thing. So the video game is really training the attention system to move quickly, ' said Harrar.
The study also shows that dyslexic people have the most difficulty going between what they saw and what they heard, this may have an effect on how dyslexic children are taught how to read. When children learn the alphabet, they usually see the letter first and then hear the sound, or they see and hear the letter at the same time. The study shows that dyslexics might learn more quickly if they hear the sound of a letter or word first before seeing it.
【1】Dyslexic people have the following problems except _________.
A.writing or reading words and letters in the right order
B.redirecting their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something
C.moving quickly from what they read to what they hear
D.seeing a picture or hearing a sound
【2】What does the underlined word 'sluggish' in paragraph 2 mean?
A.Slow. B.Wrong.
C.Specific. D.Accurate.
【3】Why can playing video games help dyslexic people learn more quickly?
A.Because they will train their reading and hearing.
B.Because they will have a good knowledge of the system.
C.Because they can train the attention system to move quickly.
D.Because they can arouse their interest in reading and learning.
【4】What is the importance of the finding?
A.People with dyslexia will be cured by playing video games.
B.People with dyslexia will not be made fun of by others.
C.People will play more video games for dyslexic children.
D.People will know how to teach dyslexic children to read.
24、If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal (夜间活动的) species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun’s light. This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of us don’t think of ourselves as diurnal beings. Yet it’s the only way to explain what we’ve done to the night: We’ve engineered it to receive us by filling it with light.
The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences—called light pollution—whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky. Ill-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and completely changes the light levels—and light rhythms—to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have adapted. Wherever human light spills into the natural world, some aspect of life is affected.
In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze (霜) that mirrors our fear of the dark. We’ve grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night—dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadows on Earth-is wholly beyond our experience, beyond memory almost.
We’ve lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further from the truth. Among mammals alone, the number of nocturnal species is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet (磁铁). The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being “captured” by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms. Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.
Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint, including their nighttime breeding choruses. Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs. Like most other creatures, we do need darkness. Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.
Living in a glare of our own making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage—the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night. In a very real sense, light pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way—the edge of our galaxy—arching overhead.
【1】Which of the followings has the similar meaning to the underlined word “diurnal” in Paragraph 1?
A.Everyday.
B.Routine.
C.Daytime
D.Nighttime.
【2】The writer mentions birds and frogs to ________.
A.provide examples of animal protection
B.show how light pollution affects animals
C.compare the living habits of both species
D.explain why the number of certain species has declined
【3】It is implied in the last paragraph that ________.
A.light pollution does harm to the eyesight of animals
B.light pollution has destroyed some of the world heritages
C.human beings cannot go to the outer space
D.human beings should reflect on their position in the universe
【4】What might be the best title for the passage?
A.The Magic Light.
B.The Orange Haze.
C.The Disappearing Night.
D.The Rhythms of Nature.
25、Sitting in the classroom, I felt confused.
Our teacher pointed at the blackboard and gave us instructions. Looking around, I watched as my classmates _______ their heads and started writing. A wave of _______ washed over me-I couldn’t read the board, for I couldn’t see clearly. It didn’t _______ at primary school because my teachers always read aloud what they were writing. But now, I was expected to read by myself.
Mum took me to a(n) _______. I was diagnosed with a terrible sight problem. I was _______ blind.
However, despite all the difficulties, I’d amazingly _______ to reach the age of 13! As a kid living on a farm, I was always falling over objects. I could only _______ the outlines of things and contrasts between different shades. I was given reading _______ but they didn’t help much.
_______ to let my diagnosis hold me back, I continued doing everything I loved, including milking the cows. Over the years, I’ve ________ lovely family holidays, but sometimes felt like my families were being too ________ to me. So I was thrilled when I heard about a travel company that takes those who are blind or have poor ________ Aussie adventures without families’ company. ________, I booked myself onto a trip to the ________. It was amazing to appreciate places, such as the beach and seaside theme parks, with ________ who were just like me. And the incredible guides were great at ________ us through all the way while making sure we had a fun and ________ time. Since then, I’ve travelled with them a lot. While we can’t see the sights like others, our ________ take us to awesome places. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. I’m so lucky to have a wonderful family and lots of ________.
Life is ________-you don’t need vision to “see” that.
【1】
A.raised
B.lowered
C.turned
D.shook
【2】
A.regret
B.passion
C.panic
D.courage
【3】
A.relate
B.change
C.happen
D.matter
【4】
A.doctor
B.teacher
C.engineer
D.architect
【5】
A.entirely
B.frequently
C.hopefully
D.nearly
【6】
A.managed
B.decided
C.expected
D.preferred
【7】
A.bring out
B.turn out
C.make out
D.work out
【8】
A.classes
B.glasses
C.apps
D.skills
【9】
A.Anxious
B.Delighted
C.Sorry
D.Unwilling
【10】
A.launched
B.enjoyed
C.organized
D.avoided
【11】
A.generous
B.tolerant
C.protective
D.trustworthy
【12】
A.vision
B.intelligence
C.confidence
D.pay
【13】
A.Puzzled
B.Confused
C.Touched
D.Excited
【14】
A.downtown
B.coast
C.village
D.countryside
【15】
A.classmates
B.colleagues
C.tourists
D.families
【16】
A.supporting
B.lecturing
C.pushing
D.persuading
【17】
A.easy
B.short
C.simple
D.safe
【18】
A.education
B.wisdom
C.imagination
D.confidence
【19】
A.adventures
B.lessons
C.actions
D.experiments
【20】
A.peaceful
B.precious
C.plain
D.permanent
26、假如你是李华。得知你的外国笔友Jimmy将在今年除夕前到你所在的城市旅游,你写信告诉他:
1.欢迎他到你家过年;
2.说一说你有什么样的计划安排。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当添加细节,使行文连贯;
3.已给出的部分不算词数。
Dear Jimmy,
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Yours’
Li Hua
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