1、People try to avoid public transportation delays by using their own cars, and this creates further problems________.
A.in case
B.in doubt
C.in turn
D.in short
2、Sorry to have kept you waiting so long,but it’ll still be some time____Mr.Smith is available.
A. when B. before C. after D. Since
3、______ good service, the restaurant offers different kinds of traditional Fujian dishes.
A.Far from
B.Apart from
C.Instead of
D.Regardless of
4、The living standard of the people in China, _______ is shown in the report, has improved over the past decades.
A. what B. which C. as D. who
5、The problem of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, if not properly ___________, can result in many serious problems.
A. being handled B. to handle
C. handled D. handling
6、——If you make it in the competition, I’ll buy you a drink.
——Ok. ______!
A. That’s a deal B. That’s all right
C. Good luck D. Take care
7、“Tommy, run! Be quick! The house is on fire!” the mother shouted, with _________ clearly in her voice.
A. anger B. rudeness
C. regret D. panic
8、She was so upset about the fight with her best friend. She had to ______ the details to her mother.
A.speak
B.spill
C.split
D.spell
9、The autobiography Becoming by Michelle Obama, _________ about her life in the White House, sold well once on the market.
A. definitely B. essentially C. initially D. accurately
10、He left a ________ saying that he would be a little late.
A. word B. letter
C. sentence D. message
11、_____, everyone present was amused by his adventure story in Africa.
A. Absurd as might it sound
B. As it might sound absurd
C. As absurd it might sound
D. Absurd as it might sound
12、George Bush, the former US president, has taken up oil painting since he left the White House, revealing that painting _______ his relaxed lifestyle.
A.allowed for B.consisted in
C.stuck to D.contributed to
13、 — Lucy looks so upset. She ______ the driving test.
— It is the second time that she has failed in the test.
A. can’t pass B. mustn’t pass
C. can’t have passed D. mustn’t have passed
14、—Our uncle will be here to attend a meeting tomorrow, you know?
—Oh, I thought that he _____ today.
A. is coming B. comes
C. was coming D. will come
15、 If you want to do international trade successfully, ______ of English is _______.
A.good command; a must B.a good command; a need
C.a good command; a must D.good command; must
16、We’ve enjoyed having you on board and look forward ________you again in the near future.
A.to see
B.to seeing
C.at seeing
D.on seeing
17、My dream began to ______ the quality of reality.
A.take back
B.take on
C.take over
D.take up
18、Yesterday, Jane walked away from the heated discussion. Otherwise, she _____ something arbitrary that she would regret forever.
A.must have said B.said C.might say D.might have said
19、—Don’t you feel surprised to see Bruce at the meeting?
—Yes, I really didn’t think ______ here.
A. he has been B. he had been
C. he would be D. he would have
20、—Dad, where on earth did you put my raincoat?
—Oh, Jim.I forgot to tell you.It _________ behind your bedroom door.
A.would hang B.has hung
C.is hanging D.hung
21、If you love chocolate, maybe you have eaten a bar of Cadbury's Bournville chocolate. But Bournville isn't just the name of an English chocolate bar. It's the name of a village which was built especially for workers at the Cadbury's chocolate factory.
George and Richard Cadbury took over the chocolate business from their father in 1861. A few years later, they moved the factory out of the centre of Birmingham, a city in the middle of England, to an area close to the railways and canals so that they could receive milk deliveries easily and send the finished products to stores across the country. More importantly, here, the air was much cleaner than in the city, and the Cadbury brothers thought it would be a much healthier place for their employees to work.
They named the site Bournville after a local river called "The Bourn" and "Ville", the French word for town, was used because at the time, people thought French chocolate was the highest quality. The new factory opened in 1879. Close to it, they built a village where the factory workers could live. The Cadbury brothers thought their workers deserved to live and work in good conditions. In the factory, workers were given a fair wage, a pension and access to medical treatment. The village provided everything that workers needed including a shop, a school and a community centre where evening classes were held to train young members of the workforce.
The Cadbury brothers were among the first business owners to make sure that their workers had good standards of living. Soon, other British factory owners were copying their ideas by providing homes and communities for their workers designed with convenience and health in mind.
Today, over 25,000 people live in Bournville village. Over a hundred years since the first house here was built, the aims of its founders have still been carried out.
【1】Why did the Cadbury brothers choose the new site for the chocolate factory?
A.It had clean countryside air.
B.There were so many cows.
C.A lot of people lived nearby.
D.It was in the downtown.
【2】What is the name Bournville related to?
A.A local town.
B.A French word.
C.An employee
D.A French river.
【3】What do we know about the houses in Bournville?
A.They were used for finished chocolate.
B.The workers used them free of charge
C.They were near the chocolate factory
D.The factory workers had them built.
【4】Which of the following best describes the Cadbury brothers?
A.Careful.
B.Conservative.
C.Demanding
D.Pioneering
22、Guide to Stockholm University Library
Our library offers different types of studying places and provides a good studying environment.
Zones
The library is divided into different zones. The upper floor is a quiet zone with over a thousand places for silent reading, and places where you can sit and work with your own computer. The reading places consist mostly of tables and chairs. The ground floor is the zone where you can talk. Here you can find sofas and armchairs for group work.
Computers
You can use your own computer to connect to the wi-fi specially prepared for notebook computers; you can also use library computers, which contain the most commonly used applications, such as Microsoft Office. They are situated in the area known as the Experimental Field on the ground floor.
Group-study Places
If you want to discuss freely without disturbing others, you can book a study room or sit at a table on the ground floor. Some study rooms are for 2-3 people and others can hold up to 6-8 people. All rooms are marked on the library maps.
There are 40 group-study rooms that must be booked via the website. To book, you need an active University account and a valid University card. You can use a room three hours per day, nine hours at most per week.
Storage of Study Material
The library has lockers for students to store course literature. When you have obtained at least 40 credits, you may rent a locker and pay 400 SEK for a year’s rental period.
Rules to be Followed
Mobile phone conversations are not permitted anywhere in the library. Keep your phone on silent as if you were in a lecture and exit the library if you need to receive calls.
Please note that food and fruit are forbidden in the library, but you are allowed to have drinks and sweets with you.
【1】Library computers on the ground floor .
A. help students with their field experiments
B. contain software essential for schoolwork
C. are for those who want to access the wi-fi
D. are mostly used for filling out application forms
【2】A student can rent a locker in the library if he .
A. can afford the rental fee
B. attends certain courses
C. has nowhere to put his books
D. has earned the required credits
【3】What should NOT be brought into the library?
A. Mobile phones. B. Orange juice.
C. Candy. D. Sandwiches.
23、Language Arts Games
MrNussbaum.com features challenging and exciting educational games for kids aged 4-14 to learn and practice topics. When you arrive on the game page, most have instructional videos underneath the game.
Ant-O-Nyms
You are an ant with your ant friends. Your goal is to go through the grass back to your ant home. Your knowledge of antonyms (反义词) will guide you. Choose the correct antonym for each word that appears and you will move in the right direction. Be careful though, you have seven minutes limit! If you take too much time, you’ll become dinner for a hungry anteater.
Type: Word/ Phonics Game
International Pizza Delivery
In the game, users must deliver pizzas to all corners of the world using their geography skills. The object is to deliver as many pizzas as possible in six minutes. For each successful delivery, the user earns the flag of the nation. These flags may be printed out at the end of the game.
Type: Social Studies Fun
Spellerz
Spellerz is an application in which users can practice their spelling and typing. Users must type the words that flash on the screen correctly. The number of words increases with the correct typing. The time limit of the game is ten minutes. Teachers can also create their own word lists for students to use in the game.
Type: Spelling Game
Tony Fraction’s Pizza Shop
Tony Fraction is a fun game. Students play the role of Tony, a pizza shop owner who must fulfill the requests of his demanding customers. Tony’s customers order pizzas with fractions (分数) such as fourths, sixths, eighths, twelfths, and even sixteenths. Students have five minutes to fill as many pizza orders as possible with the goal of making as much money as they can.
Type: Math Game
【1】What type of game is Ant-O-Nyms?
A.Math Game.
B.Spelling Game.
C.Word/ Phonics Game.
D.Social Studies Fun.
【2】Which game has the shortest time limit?
A.Spellerz.
B.Tony Fraction’s Pizza Shop.
C.Ant-O-Nyms.
D.International Pizza Delivery.
【3】What do the games have in common?
A.They are all video games.
B.They are all online games.
C.They all have instructions.
D.They are just kids’ fun games.
24、Adult musk ducks raised in captivity (圈养) can copy the sounds they heard as hatchlings, such as a door slamming, a man coughing and even what was probably a former caretaker’s catchphrase (口头禅), “ You bloody fool! ”
The large, grey Australian waterbirds usually learn to make high-pitched whistles from their older flock mates. But individuals raised in captivity away from other musk dusks have been heard copying the sounds around them associated with human life.
The findings provide evidence that musk dusks now join parrots, seals, bats, elephants and humans as vocal (声音的) language learners, which means they acquire “ words ” based on what they hear as infants, says Carel Ten Cate at Leiden University in the Netherlands. “ Vocal learning is a rare and special trait, so that makes this duck particularly special, ” he says. Ten Cate studies vocal learning in birds and was recently fascinated to come across a story about a talking duck in Australia. So he tracked down the now-retired Australian scientist Peter J. Fullagar, who first noticed the phenomenon more than 30 years ago.
Fullagar shared his conserved audio clips (片段) of 4-year-old Ripper, a male musk duck hand-raised on a nature reserve without other musk ducks. In the clips, Ripper walks around speaking when acting aggressively and copying a slamming door sound when trying to attract females.
Fullagar also shared an audio clip of a second male that was raised on the same reserve with his mother in 2000, along with Pacific black ducks that make sounds “ like common park ducks, ” Ten Cate says. Female musk ducks don’t perform vocal displays, and the young, unnamed duck grew up to copy the black ducks around him.
After Ten Cate ensured the recordings, he used software to confirm that the birds were repeating noises from their environment, in some cases sounds that they had only heard in the first weeks of life. In the recordings, the ducks made these sounds dozens of times in a matter of minutes, at about 4-second intervals (间隔).
【1】What is special about adult musk ducks raised in captivity?
A.They can make high-pitched whistles.
B.They join elephants in large forests.
C.They repeat what they hear around.
D.They create languages of their own.
【2】What does paragraph 4 mainly tell us?
A.Studies on vocal learning.
B.Fullagar’s audio clips.
C.A story about a talking duck.
D.Fullagar’s living condition.
【3】What was Ten Cate’s discovery?
A.Female musk ducks can make vocal sounds.
B.Musk ducks repeat what they hear as infants.
C.Musk ducks repeat vocal sounds without pause.
D.Musk ducks raised with other ducks make vocal sounds.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A.Australian Ducks Talk Like Humans
B.Animals Are Smarter Than We Expect
C.What Vocal Language Can Animals Learn
D.People Learn a Lot from Adult Musk Ducks
25、Now elsewhere in the world, Iceland may be spoken of, somewhat breathlessly, as western Europe's last pristine wilderness. But the truth is, once you're off the ______ track of the low-lying coastal areas where everyone lives, the roads are few, and they're all bad, ______ Iceland's natural wonders have been out of reach and unknown even to its own ________For them the land has always just been there, something that had to be dealt with and, if possible, _______—the mind-set being one of land as commodity rather than land as, well, priceless art on the scale of the " Mona Lisa".
When the opportunity arose in 2003 for the national power company to enter into a 40-year ______ with the American aluminum company Alcoa to supply hydroelectric power for a new smelter (冶炼厂), those who had been dreaming of something like this for decades ______ the opportunity. For a long time, life here had meant little more than a hut, dark all winter, cold, no hope, children dying left and right, plagues, starvation, volcanoes erupting and destroying all vegetation and livestock, all spirit— a world ______ almost entirely around the welfare of one's sheep and, later, on how good the cod catch was. In the outlying regions, it still largely does.
Ostensibly, the Alcoa project was intended to save one of these dying regions— the remote and sparsely populated east— where the way of life had steadily ______ to a point of desperation and gloom. After fishing quotas (定额) were ______ in the early 1980s to protect fish stocks, many individual boat owners sold their allotments or gave them away, fishing rights ended up mostly in the hands of a few companies and small fishermen were virtually ______. Technological advances drained away even more jobs previously done by human hands, and the people were seeing everything they had worked for all their lives turn out to be ______ and their children move away. With the old way of life doomed, aluminum projects like this one had come to be perceived, wisely or not, as a last chance. "Smelter or death."
The contract with Alcoa would infuse the region with foreign ______, an estimated 400 jobs, and spin-off service industries. It also was a way for Iceland to develop expertise that ______ could be sold to the rest of the world and ______ an economy historically dependent on fish. “We have to live,” Halldor Asgrimsson said. Halldor, a former prime minister and longtime member of parliament from the region, was a driving ______ behind the project. “We have a right to live.”
【1】
A.beaten
B.explored
C.expired
D.centered
【2】
A.so
B.when
C.if
D.as
【3】
A.government
B.inhabitants
C.countryside
D.scale
【4】
A.designed
B.retained
C.exploited
D.preserved
【5】
A.stage
B.contract
C.transition
D.prosperity
【6】
A.gave up
B.jumped at
C.rushed to
D.made up
【7】
A.revolving
B.developing
C.Stirring
D.Initiating
【8】
A.transferred
B.declined
C.grew
D.reformed
【9】
A.preferred
B.presented
C.resisted
D.imposed
【10】
A.wiped out
B.held up
C.kept down
D.put aside
【11】
A.priceless
B.superficial
C.worthless
D.negative
【12】
A.investment
B.Exclusion
C.invasion
D.landscape
【13】
A.socially
B.immediately
C.accidentally
D.potentially
【14】
A.stabilize
B.wreck
C.diversify
D.consolidate
【15】
A.force
B.wheel
C.instructor
D.signal
26、假设你是星光中学的李华,因越来越多的汽车导致环境污染做一个演讲。请根据以下提示,就Let's Ride Bicycles这一话题,用英语写一篇演讲稿。
Good morning, everyone,
I am Li Hua form Xingguang Middle School. The topic of my speech is "Let's Ride Bicycles".
注意:①无须写标题;
②除诗歌外,文体不限;
③文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称;
④词数不少于120,如引用提示语则不计入总词数。
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