1、– You left your umbrella.
– ______. I’m becoming so forgetful these days.
A. So did I B. So I did
C. So was I D. So I was
2、The government began to make regulations and controls in late November, which have pressed down some prices, ________ slight relief to consumers.
A.bringing
B.to bring
C.brought
D.to have brought
3、Pollution has reached high level in some urban areas, which is quite worrying.
A. disturbingly B. slightly
C. exactly D. flexibly
4、The workers are ________ the project.
A.in terms of
B.in honor of
C.in favour of
D.in memory of
5、The question of _________ English will keep on changing in the future, though most people doubt, is actually easy________.
A.if; to be answered B.whether; to answer
C.how; answered D.what; to answer
6、I’ll never forget the days ______ I studied hard in my senior high school, ______ changed my whole life.
A.when; which
B.that; which
C.which; when
D.when; that
7、There are about 85% of adults _______ the idea of a ban on smoking.
A. welcome B. to welcome
C. welcomed D. welcoming
8、The organization is ______ smaller class size, because it believes this can promote better student performance.
A.in memory of B.in place of C.in favor of D.in need of
9、I would rather ________ with her about it, but I couldn’t control my feelings at that time.
A. didn’t argue B. hadn’t argued
C. wouldn’t argue D. not have argued
10、Do not talk about such things ________ you do not understand.
A.that B.which C.as D.where
11、Some college students are seen doing _____work they can find to support themselves.
A.that B.which
C.whatever D.no matter what
12、My close friends,after they heard about my experiences in South America,________ said it was totally out of their imagination.
A.which B.them
C.all D.who
13、The job is not very rewarding _______ money, but he is getting valuable experience from it.
A. in memory of B. in terms of
C. in charge of D. in search of
14、Just like a voyage at sea, our life journey, _____ days are limited, is full of difficulties as well as opportunities
A.whose B.that C.which D.what
15、We were ________ to find the temple still in its original condition after several years’ war.
A.astonished B.discouraged C.dissatisfied D.impressed
16、I had no idea that one simple comment would ___________ such a huge argument.
A.set aside B.set down C.set out D.set off
17、---Kingsman: The Secret Service is a spy action comedy film. Wants to come with me?
---I’d love to, but my best friend is getting married, and I won’t _______ it for anything.
A. overlook B. trade C. miss D. forget
18、By the time he gets home, his father _____________ for Pairs on business.
A. has left B. will have left
C. had left D. will leave
19、Some college students are seen doing _____work they can find to support themselves.
A. that B. which
C. whatever D. no matter what
20、You are not ________ to unemployment benefit if you have never worked.
A.accustomed B.resigned
C.entitled D.Submitted
21、Elizabeth Mitchell’s new “Liberty’s Torch” is the fascinating story of how the Statue of Liberty came to be. The Statue of Liberty’s rough history is explored in “Liberty’s Torch”.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is an all-but-forgotten figure in American history. He was, however, responsible for one of the most enduring symbols of the United States: the Statue of Liberty. A Frenchman from Alsace, he designed and built the Statue of Liberty which stood on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor. How this statue came to be is the fascinating subject of Elizabeth Michell’s new book “Liberty’s Torch”.
The power of Mitchell’s narrative is convincing(令人信服的). We recognize the Statue of Liberty now as a symbol of hope and opportunity for a nation of immigrants. At the time, though, people could not see that-nor did they even imagine that. Instead, the construction of the statue was born of one man’s desire to set up a great monument.
For this reason, perhaps, “Liberty’s Torch” relies on Bartholdi as the connecting thread. Bartholdi went to Egypt to make photographic copies of the main monuments. On the boat, Bartholdi met and began a lifelong relationship with Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who would build the Suez Canal. Maybe it was this friendship, or maybe it was seeing Egypt’s huge monuments, but finally the trip inspired Bartholdi’s dream to create the largest statue ever built. Failure to bring this to completion in Egypt, followed by his exile (流放) from Paris, led Bartholdi to sail to America.
By explaining the Statue of Liberty’s hard history and showing Bartholdi’s brave spirit, Mitchell has done a great service.
【1】 It can be inferred from the text that ________.
A. American people have never forgotten Frederic August Bartholdi
B. the Statue of Liberty wasn’t originally regarded as a symbol of hope
C. Bartholdi finished the Suez Canal
D. Bartholdi was a famous architect from Egypt.
【2】What was the main reason for Bartholdi to build the Statue of Liberty?
A. To finish his education in the arts.
B. To mark his friendship with Ferdinand.
C. To create something better than Egyptian monuments.
D. To achieve his dream to create the largest statue.
【3】What type of writing is the passage?
A. A travel guide. B. A book review
C. An announcement D. An architecture report.
22、Fashion designers produce all types of clothes from casual to formal, and they are sometimes involved in creating wearable products like smartwatches or accessories like hats, handbags and shoes. They also sometimes make costumes for plays and movies and can help create patterns for high-tech uniforms such as those worn by firefighters.
The greatest thrill of being a fashion designer, many of them say, has nothing to do with dressing up supermodels for grand events and watching them walk down runways wearing the clothing you designed--though that is a plus and a sign of success. What makes the job truly exciting, several designers say, is watching an everyday person smile when they put on an outfit you created that makes them feel confident.
“You can see when somebody tries something on and they fed good, it’s almost like they’re empowered,” a fashion brand founder Franne Golde says. “You know, they look in the mirror, and they love what they see.”
But what is vital for being a fashion designer? “Design is all about getting to know who you are, because you have to express who you are, and you have to be able to convey that to your ultimate customer and client,” says Bern Conrad, an alumnus (校友)of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, a prestigious school that has educated world-famous fashion designers such as Calvin Klein.
The fashion designer, who has produced a significant amount of silk apparel, sportswear and knitwear over the course of his career and plans to launch a modem casual fashion line under his own name this fall, also notes that a unique perspective and a distinctive identity arc essential for being a fashion designer.
Other fashion designers emphasize that an appreciation for beauty and strong visual observation abilities are a must for future fashion designers, but they note that having a good eye is inadequate, since what counts most is the ability to manufacture clothing items that are somehow better than what is already out there.
【1】What really makes being a fashion designer exciting?
A.Attending grand events,
B.Appreciating the joy of success.
C.Seeing the outfits accepted by ordinary people.
D.Watching supermodels display the well-designed clothing.
【2】According to the passage, a fashion designer should be ________.
A.artistic and cooperative
B.creative and expressive
C.educated and productive
D.observant and experienced
【3】In which section of a newspaper can you find the article?
A.Career.
B.Society.
C.Entertainment.
D.Advertisement.
23、 A troop of a million walking robots could enable scientific exploration at a microscopic level.
Researchers have developed microscopic robots before, but they weren't able to move by themselves, says Marc Miskin at the University of Pennsylvania. That is partly because of a lack of micrometre-scale actuators(微米级致动器)---components required for movement, such as the bending of a robot's legs.
Miskin and his colleagues overcame this by developing a new type of actuator made of an extremely thin layer of platinum, a very valuable silvery-grey metal. Each robot uses four of these tiny actuators as legs, connected to solar cells on its back that can make the legs bend in response to laser light(激光)and push their square metallic bodies forwards.
“Each solar cell is connected to a specific leg and by shooting the solar cells with a laser, you make the legs move in the way you want,“ says Miskin. "It's really cool.”
Through a process similar to that used in creating circuit(电路)boards, Miskin and his team were able to mass-produce more than a million of the microrobots, each of which could only be seen under a microscope.
The robots are only able to walk around, but Miskin says they provide important evidence of concept, showing that it is possible to develop and mass-produce microrobots with on-board electronics. The next step will be to put additional functions together, he says. "We're developing things where we'll have sensing capabilities and well have programmability.”
He also wants to develop microrobot groups that work together. “There's all sorts of cool stuff that happens when you wind up with a lot of robots working together,“ he says.
In the future, these robots could let us explore the world at a microscopic scale. They could potentially be developed to wander inside the human body. "The hope is that these robots are really going to take us into the micro-world," says Miskin.
【1】What is the problem with previous microscopic robots?
A.Their lack of adjustable metal legs. B.Their wrong way of walking alone.
C.Their insensitivity to tiny actuators. D.Their inability to move automatically.
【2】What directly enables microscopic robots' legs to bend?
A.Solar cells. B.Circuit boards.
C.A normal metal. D.Natural sunlight.
【3】What is Marc Miskin's expectation?
A.To train an army made of microscopic robots.
B.To replace human employees with microscopic robots.
C.To change present microscopic robots into smaller ones.
D.To mass produce walking microscopic robots with on-board electronics.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A.Robots Are Exploring the Micro-world
B.An Army of Tiny Robots Are in Concept
C.Walking Microscopic Robots Are Created
D.Robots Will Walk Inside the Human Body
24、 I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke(唤起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions(认识)of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal(内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show: her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
【1】By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that ______.
A. she uses English in foreign trade
B. she is fascinated by languages
C. she works as a translator
D. she is a writer by profession
【2】 Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?
A. Americans do not understand broken English.
B. The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.
C. The author’ mother had positive influence on her.
D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.
【3】The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is _____.
A. well structured B. in the old style
C. rich in meaning D. easy to translate
【4】What is the passage mainly about?
A. The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.
B. The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.
C. The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English.
D. The author’s experiences of using broken English.
25、When my husband and I were packing for a trip, my eyes rested on a small, smooth object in an old drawer, which was my father's book dating from 1929 to 1931. I sat down slowly and opened it. Dad's _________ ran across the yellowed pages.Every _________ was tightly packed with dates,time sand prices of places he had visited. Right then I knew that I wanted to use this small journal to_________ a journey he had taken long.
Arriving in New York,we _________ its trail.Searching for a place to eat,we know my father had a _________ for a good restaurant.So I hadn't been _________ to find two pages devoted to the rich details of a dinner he had enjoyed on a garden patio(露台) one night in 1931.We hadn't _________ to find the restaurant was still in _________ nearly seventy years later,but its listing in the telephone directory _________ us it was.
When we finally found it,a waiter came to greet us.
"I'm sorry,Sir,but our __________ are full.”
“Then we'll be quite __________ with your famous garden patio." I spoke suddenly in my father's charming Irish tone.Hearing that,we were led through the dining room to the patio beyond.
"There will be three of us,"I said quietly to him before taking our order.
“Of course,Madam,and may I__________ you something while you __________ the third party?”
“Oh,he's __________ here.He could hardly wait to get back here after sixty-eight years,"I smiled.
"That's actually why we're here, in fact. We'd like to __________ him.Perhaps you have some wine..?"
【1】
A.tales
B.words
C.thoughts
D.suggestions
【2】
A.line
B.blank
C.note
D.chapter
【3】
A.record
B.continue
C.map
D.imagine
【4】
A.followed
B.left
C.lost
D.made
【5】
A.sense
B.knowledge
C.nose
D.name
【6】
A.surprised
B.excited
C.disappointed
D.ashamed
【7】
A.managed
B.expected
C.asked
D.refused
【8】
A.trouble
B.sight
C.construction
D.business
【9】
A.reported
B.pointed
C.allowed
D.convinced
【10】
A.customers
B.tables
C.restaurants
D.orders
【11】
A.content
B.familiar
C.affordable
D.concerned
【12】
A.bring
B.sell
C.serve
D.prepare
【13】
A.learn about
B.inquire into
C.show up
D.wait for
【14】
A.just
B.already
C.ever
D.always
【15】
A.cheer
B.toast
C.treat
D.applaud
26、假如你是李华,你在Teen Voice杂志上读到一句话:It is important to be honest in life. 请你用英语写一篇短文针对诚实的重要性发表自己的看法和阐述理由。
注意:词数120左右;
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