1、After staying in the USA for ten years, he has been determined to ______ American citizenship.
A.concentrate on B.contribute to C.apply for D.apply to
2、—Do you think the Internet provides us with ________ information?
—Not really. Some is not believable.
A.useful
B.regular
C.universal
D.reliable
3、Before the end of each flight, the purser (乘务长), ________ the crew, wishes the passengers a pleasant journey.
A.by means of
B.in search of
C.on behalf of
D.for fear of
4、Suddenly, a man driving a motor car _______ the girl’s bag and took it away, ______ into the darkness.
A. seizing , disappeared B. seized, disappeared
C. seizing, disappearing D. seized, disappearing
5、Thinking _________ you know ___________ in fact you don’t is a terrible mistake.
A. that; what B. that; that C. what; that D. what; what
6、However, at times this balance in nature is _________, resulting in a number of possible unforeseen effects.
A.troubled
B.disturbed
C.stricken
D.confused
7、In order not to let the others hear what he said,he________the news to me.
A.shouted B.told
C.whispered D.said
8、He made it quite clear __________ he preferred to study English.
A.which
B.when
C.that
D.what
9、With two children _________ a middle school in the nearby town now, the man is working hard.
A.to attend
B.attending
C.attended
D.having attended
10、Upon entering the room, I found the place comforted me even before my eyes the dark.
A.set aside
B.turned down
C.adjusted to
D.drove away
11、He’s never done this type of work before. I’m not sure whether he’ll ________ the other people.
A.give up on
B.end up with
C.get rid of
D.fit in with
12、-- Can I call you back at two o'clock this afternoon?
-- I'm sorry, but by then I ____ to Beijing. How about five?
A. fly B. will fly
C. will be flying D. am flying
13、 —Susan, go and join your sister cleaning the yard.
—Why ____? John is sitting there doing nothing.
A. him B. he C. I D. me
14、The old photo brings to my mind the happy high school days ________ we spent together.
A.which
B.who
C.when
D.what
15、A lot of small towns in Yunnan Province are definitely worth ________
A.to visit B.visited C.being visited D.visiting
16、With the popularity of smart phones, people gradually lose the ______ for watching television, which makes TV a decoration of the house.
A.analysis
B.appetite
C.incident
D.appreciation
17、The question is ________ we will have our sports meet next week.
A.that
B.if
C.when
D.whether
18、The building was designed to show the connection betweeen nature and the modern city environment ________ it sits.
A.that
B.in that
C.which
D.in which
19、Everyone in the village regarded him as a genius, ________ he went to college at the age of 14.
A.that
B.for
C.which
D.why
20、A poor economy has caused the ________ of thousands of small businesses.
A.complexity
B.collapse
C.convenience
D.correction
21、 Tom hasn’t recovered from his knee injury.That’s ________we didn’t see Tom run in the race.
A.because B.that C.why D.what
22、Is this the only reason ________ at the meeting for his carelessness in his work?
A.why he explained
B.what he explained
C.that he explained
D.which he explained
23、The reason why I was sad was ________ he didn’t understand me.
A.because
B.that
C.why
D.how
24、I'm ________ (that) she is lying.
A. conducted B. connected
C. convinced D. concentrated
25、- Have you heard of China's _________ for the 2026 World Cup?
- It's not officially confirmed yet. The committee are _________ it over.
A. effort; blowing B. bid; talking
C. bid; blowing D. effort; talking
26、 My family and I belonged to a country club located across the street from the Long Island Sound. Each summer, the big attraction for us was the pool. I learned how to swim and joined the swimming team but was never really a good swimmer. However, swimming in my younger days was a way to keep cool, and swimming on a team gave me identity and a sense of belonging . It also became invaluable many years later.
In 1973, I was married, pregnant and had a home. What made our little home even more wonderful was when I discovered that four blocks away was Rath Park Pool! For the next 30 years, most of our summer days were spent around that pool.
Each of my five kids took swimming lessons and learned all the different swimming strokes (姿势). They later joined the swimming team and competed in sports meets. My daughter even became a lifeguard at the town pool. I sat back and happily took it all in!
As much as I would have liked to have life stand still, it doesn’t. My children outgrew their pool days and moved on. But the pool was still four blocks from my home, so I began to take up swimming again. And it was far better than I ever could have imagined. I got so much out of it that I joined the local pool so I could swim year-round. Whenever I swam, I would always come out feeling physically and mentally refreshed. I often felt that if I looked hard enough, I would be able to see all of the worries and problems I’ve had in life, sitting at the bottom of the pool!
What has swimming taught me? I’ve learned that balance is the key to being a good swimmer. If you are balanced in the water, you have no resistance. Working on staying balanced made me realize the similarities between life in and out of the swim lane (泳道). If you work on keeping yourself balanced, you will be able to swim right through the stress and problems life throws at you!
【1】What can we learn about the author from paragraph 1?
A.Her family taught her how to swim. B.She swam with friends more often in summer.
C.Swimming brought her lifelong benefits. D.She was elected to be the swim team captain.
【2】What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 3 imply?
A.The author loved the pool days with her kids.
B.Swimming was losing its appeal to the author.
C.She was proud of her kids for winning competitions.
D.The author preferred to have a peaceful life.
【3】What did the author find after she took up swimming again?
A.Sports can give you the courage to face difficulties.
B.She mastered more swimming skills than expected.
C.It enabled her to see how to handle problems in life.
D.Swimming made her remember her younger days.
【4】What is the best title of the article?
A.Wonderful pool days with her family B.Life in the swim lane
C.Balance between life and family D.Similarities between swimming and life
27、Critical Reading
Critical reading applies to non-fiction writing in which the author puts forth a position or seeks to make a statement. Critical reading is active reading. 【1】 . Here are the things you should do to be a critical reader.
Consider the context of what is written.
You may be reading something that was written by an author from a different cultural context than yours. Or, you may be reading something written some time ago in a different time context than yours. 【2】.
Question opinions made by the author.
Don't accept what is written at face value. 【3】 . Look for facts, examples, and statistics that provide support. Also, look to see if the author has involved the work of authorities.
【4】.
Assumptions are whatever the author must believe is true in order to propose opinions. However, in many cases, you must read carefully in order to identify any indirect assumption. Once you identify an assumption, you must decide whether or not the assumption is valid.
Evaluate the sources the author uses.
In doing this, be certain that the sources are credible as well as relevant. 【5】 . For example, studies done by Einstein in the early 20th century may not be appropriate if the writer is discussing the current state of knowledge in physics.
A. Analyze assumptions made by the author
B. What is written may very well reflect the author’s position
C. Before accepting it, be certain that the author provides abundant support for any view made
D. Look to see that what is written is consistent with what others have written about the subject
E. It involves questioning, evaluating and forming your own ideas about what the author is saying
F. Moreover, if the author is writing about a subject in its current state, be sure that the sources are current
G. In either case, you must take into account any differences between your values and attitudes and the author’s
28、 In her 17 years working at Rollins College in the US, there have often been students who have appeared in Anca Voicu’s office and confessed (坦白) they have no idea what to do with their lives once they graduate. That’s why the economics professor decided to add career planning to her class, even starting before young people step onto a college campus.
Throughout this semester, Voicu’s real-world economics class has visited about 100 Winter Park High students. It has asked them to think about everything from picking the right major (专业) to the job market and the cost of higher education.
“They have to balance what they need to do and what they love to do,” said Rollins freshman Nicholas Kay, 18.
During their final class of the semester, Kay and his classmates reflected on what it was like helping younger versions (版本) of themselves explore the future. Voicu expects to continue the class so she can collect data (数据) to see if working together is making a difference.
“These kids were only eight months younger than me,” said Rollins freshman Blake Buell, an 18-year-old business management major.
The high school students also went on a tour of the Winter Park college, seeing what life was like on campus, how admissions worked and what a dorm room looked like. They asked
Rollins students questions including “How does the food taste?” and “What are classes like?” Winter Park sophomore (二年级学生) Sebastian Zendejas, 15, said it was eye-opening and helped him to understand how college could be.
“I don’t want to have a bunch of (大量的) debt when I’m leaving college,” said Zendejas, who plans to study business.
The lessons that showed students’ job availability were something many had never thought about before, said Tim Arnold, one of the four Winter Park High teachers involved in the project. The students also took personality tests to see where they might fit best.
Looking at the data and realizing how many good jobs there were in the science, technology, engineering and math fields made some of Voicu’s students feel better. “I should really stick with this,” said computer science first-year student Brandi Moore, 18.
【1】Anca Voicu decided to add career planning to her class mainly to _____ .
A.establish the connection between economics and real-world problems
B.help students get to know and think about their future
C.show students what life was like on campus
D.collect some data to make a difference
【2】Which of the following did Anca Voicu’s class involve?
a. Getting high school students to consider how much college costs.
b. Teaching students how to socialize at college.
c. Giving high school students a taste of life on campus.
d. Showing data about job availability.
A.ab B.cd
C.abc D.acd
【3】We can infer from Brandi Moore’s words that _____ .
A.she felt the personality test worked well
B.she would love to retake Voicu’s class
C.she is now more confident in her major
D.she had had serious doubts about her major
【4】This article was written mainly to _____.
A.describe Voicu’s new class
B.give advice on career planning
C.remind readers of the importance of early career planning
D.show how colleges can help students with their future plans
【5】From the article, we can learn that _____
A.it is wise to choose what we are most interested in as a major
B.the course benefits high school students more than college students
C.career planning requires the help of teachers and college students
D.it’s important to make a well-balanced choice when making career plans
29、In the far, far future, bicycles and perhaps skates may be run by jet power, and a new thing to ride may be a small flying saucer (飞碟). Imagine a race between them!
There may be telepathy helmets (心灵感应头盔) that send thought waves from your brain to that of your friend miles away. You just think a thought and your friend knows it! You can have secrets with each other that nobody else can turn in on!
What about the food of the future? Scientists think that much of it will be artificial—made in factories from such surprising things as coal, limestone, air and water. The artificial food will be healthful because all the things that you need to live a long and healthy life will be put into it.
The future hospitals will probably have “body banks” that can give you almost any new part you need to keep on living. People of the future may live to be a lot older than 100 years.
What about highways of the future? Well, a very small child probably will be able to drive a car. Electric signals will hold each car on the right road to get wherever the “driver” wants to go. And it probably will be impossible for cars to crash together. Controls that won’t even have to be touched will make all speeding cars miss each other or will put on the brakes. Driving cars will be as safe as being at home.
But maybe the most wonderful surprise in the future will be weather control. Cities may have giant plastic domes (圆顶罩) over them to keep out snow, rain, or storms. When you plan a picnic in a park, you won’t have to worry about rain. It will rain only when the “weatherman” thinks it is necessary to fresh the air inside the city. All other days will be fair and warm.
The future should be a wonderful time in which to live and the time we are living in now is also a wonderful future to the people who lived 100 years ago.
【1】How will you probably talk with each other in the future according to paragraph 2?
A.With a safety helmet.
B.By thought waves.
C.Through secret words.
D.On a special phone.
【2】What can we say about the artificial food?
A.It only consists of water.
B.It is difficult to digest.
C.It is nutritious enough.
D.It can keep us from aging.
【3】What can we expect of the future life?
A.Road safety will be hugely raised.
B.People will not see a doctor any more.
C.Driving on the highways will be avoided.
D.No storms will happen in the neighborhood.
【4】Where is this text most likely from?
A.A health report.
B.A magazine.
C.A guidebook.
D.An advertisement.
30、After a two-hour flight from Shanghai and an hour’s drive, I reached my destination: Jielingkou Village in Qinhuangdao City of Hebei Province, China. The tiny and ________ village is home to Shanhai Pass, where the Great Wall finally dives into the sea. During the Ming Dynasty (1368~1644), Jielingkou Village was considered an extremely important part of the Great Wall. But it slowly fell out of ________ and into disrepair—in modern China.
In 2018, an anti-poverty project began in the village, with the ________ of not only fixing the place up, but also ________ the living standards of the 200 people still living there. One of the ________ was to change all of the old homes into modern guesthouses. “This will allow city folks to enjoy the Great Wall in comfort,” said Ge, who was ________ the project.
But gaining the locals’ ________ took a lot of effort at the beginning. “Just two years ago, they weren’t ________ about the project at all,” Ge told me. “Seeing that they had to ________ water from a faraway well every day, we decided to build a water system that would send water to their homes. It’s one of the first, ________ we have made. It really ________ . Now some of those who were strongly against our project are now our greatest ________ .”
Ge said he hopes that as conditions are ________ becoming better in Jielingkou, some of the younger members of the village who left to seek opportunity in the cities will come back. “Already two university graduates who grew up in the village have returned to ________ the guesthouses. I hope more will be ________ by the potentials here soon.”
【1】
A.rich
B.great
C.old
D.nearby
【2】
A.reach
B.significance
C.view
D.control
【3】
A.cost
B.knowledge
C.favor
D.goal
【4】
A.increasing
B.ignoring
C.considering
D.deciding
【5】
A.benefits
B.measures
C.disadvantages
D.conditions
【6】
A.in charge of
B.in response to
C.in sight of
D.in search of
【7】
A.independence
B.weight
C.trust
D.experience
【8】
A.worried
B.curious
C.angry
D.enthusiastic
【9】
A.carry
B.sell
C.boil
D.produce
【10】
A.mistakes
B.apologies
C.improvements
D.documents
【11】
A.hurt
B.helped
C.failed
D.escaped
【12】
A.workers
B.fighters
C.managers
D.supporters
【13】
A.occasionally
B.gradually
C.hardly
D.regularly
【14】
A.clean
B.decorate
C.destroy
D.run
【15】
A.attracted
B.monitored
C.postponed
D.welcomed
31、根据课文内容,在空白处填入所缺的单词
Certainly, in many ways this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. 【1】to coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food【2】had been changed to suit American tastes. For example, America’s most popular Chinese dish is General Tso’s chicken, which 【3】of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, flavoured with hot red 【4】. This is probably not an authentic Chinese 【5】, however, so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese.
32、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 boy, I had the craziest bus ride to school everyday. First I had to get up early, wolf down my breakfast, and walk across the shaky and swinging wooden bridge that crossed the river between our house and the main road. Then I stood and waited for the bus to arrive. When it got there I climbed in. I was always one of the first ones on the bus. Then even though the bus was only 4 miles from school, I started a ride that would last more than 45 minutes.
First, the bus went in the opposite direction for 6 miles, parked and waited for another bus to transfer kids onto it. Then it started back, but instead of going straight to my school, it started up a long and winding mountain road pausing at every house to pick up more kids. The road swirled around the mountain and back down with the bus getting fuller, louder, and noisier with each stop. Finally, it arrived at the high school to drop off the older kids before heading on to my grade school. But even then it didn’t go straight there but instead headed down another rocky dirt road that was full of potholes to pick up even more children. I usually got to the school stressed, tired, and just before the first class bell rang.
Thankfully, the ride home was different. During it the last kids picked up became the first kids dropped off. But I was different. Since my house was along the way, I got dropped off after just 10 minutes or so. I remember I would literally run across that shaky old bridge because I was so happy to be home again.
注意:1. 续写词数应为150 左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Looking back now I can see my whole life here has been one crazy long bus ride.
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Do your best to enjoy the ride this life gives you.
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