1、After several rounds of talks, the two sides ______ reached an agreement.
A.slightly
B.eventually
C.significantly
D.originally
2、One unfortunate accident in 1994 ______ an above-the-knee amputation(截肢) of Amy Palmiero-Winters’ left leg, leaving the passionate runner learning how to walk again.
A.came after
B.cracked down
C.resulted in
D.took over
3、— May I use your dictionary? I’m stuck in the sentence.
— It’s just on my desk. ________.
A.Got it
B.My pleasure
C.Help yourself
D.Come on
4、Believe it or not, it was the fifth time that I the song Yesterday Once More in public.
A. sing B. have sung
C. had sung D. sang
5、The woman ______ her husband to give up smoking but she failed.
A.suggested B.persuaded C.advised D.allowed
6、Although he was seriously __________, he went on to fight heroically.
A. injured B. wounded C. hurt D. harmed
7、I’d like to rent a house, modern, comfortable and _____ in a quiet place.
A. in all B. above all
C. after all D. first of all
8、Had you listened to the doctor, you ____ all right now.
A.are
B.were
C.would have been
D.would be
9、We are living in an age ________ online shopping is part of our daily life.
A.that
B.when
C.where
D.which
10、The reason ______I burst into tears is _________ I don’t want to leave my mother.
A. why; that B. which; because
C. / ; because D. why; because
11、We can try a course for two weeks after we sign up ______ it. After that, we cannot change it.
A.with
B.of
C.in
D.for
12、Is there anything else ________ you require?
A.which
B.what
C.who
D.that
13、You may give it to you think can do the work well.
A. no matter who B. whomever
C. no matter whom D. whoever
14、The teacher suggested to us that every minute should be made use of ___ our spoken English.
A.to improve B.improve
C.improving D.being improved
15、My new English-Chinese dictionary has disappeared, who have taken it?
A.should B.must C.could D.Would
16、I don’t think it was an accident at all. Your brother did it________ .
A.for purpose
B.in order
C.on purpose
D.out of order
17、—Whose advice do you think I should take?
— .
A. I couldn’t agree more B. That’s it
C. It’s up to you D. You got it
18、— My sister is very upset today.
— It’s your fault. You ________ the bad news to her yesterday.
A.should tell
B.should have told
C.shouldn’t have told
D.must tell
19、I want to employ a college student who is good at English and math and has lots of spare time to teach my son. __________, he or she must have a sense of responsibility.
A. Above all B. All in all
C. After all D. In all
20、She was becoming fat, ______ bothered(困扰) her very much.
A. which B. that
C. it D. of whom
21、The engineer is reported the longest bridge of the country.
A.having designed B.have designed C.to have designed D.to design
22、—When shall we have a talk about the design?
—Any time except 8 to 9 tomorrow morning, when I_____ in my desired company.
A. will be interviewed B. shall be being interviewed
C. am going to be interviewed D. am being interviewed
23、Michael Jackson gained popularity at a time when MTV was establishing _________ as a creative force.
A.himself
B.it
C.his
D.itself
24、Though my brother has been out of ________ work for more than half a year, he never loses ________ heart.
A./; /
B./; the
C.the; /
D.the; the
25、They will never forget the days _______ they spent together studying abroad.
A.in which B.that C.on which D.during which
26、Most students are likely to think that their brain is not suitable for a few subjects that they are uncomfortable with.【1】However, because maths is one of the most important subjects in any competitive exam, mastering the subject is necessary for moving forward with confidence. Here are some useful suggestions to help you get over your fear of maths.
【2】Simply remembering formulae (公式) without understanding them will make things difficult for you. Try to understand the theories behind the formulae; once the concept (概念) is clear, you don’t have to make additional efforts to remember the formulae.
Focus on your strengths. Spend more time improving your skills on the topics that you are confident about. Go through former year’s question papers to have an idea about how much confidence these topics can bring to you.【3】This might help you calm down and improve your level of confidence.
Accept the right guidance. Never be shy about asking questions, whether teachers or friends. Ask your questions whenever you are in doubt. This will help you have a better understanding of the subject.【4】
Practice regularly (定期地).【5】Regular practice can help you improve your speed, make you learn new and easier methods of solving problems and make you familiar with more questions, so that you can gain a greater advantage in the exams.
A.Take the easy way.
B.Understand the basics.
C.Maths is one of those.
D.Besides, it will also help you get over your fears.
E.It is a challenge to solve mathematical problems.
F.Move on to the difficult topics once you feel confident.
G.In the competitive exams, speed is as important as correctness.
27、You’ve heard that plastic is polluting the oceans — between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, forcing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products.
At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called “Strawpocalypse,” a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source (来源) of plastic pollution, but they’ve recently come under fire because most people don’t need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that's part of Von Wong's artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear.
In a piece from 2018, Von Wong wanted to illustrate (说明) a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckload's worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled "Truckload of Plastic, "Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they’d been dumped (倾倒) from a truck all at once.
Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint.
【1】What are Von Wong’s artworks intended for?
A.Beautifying the city he lives in.
B.Introducing eco-friendly products.
C.Reducing garbage on the beach.
D.Drawing public attention to plastic waste.
【2】Why does the author discuss plastic straws in paragraph 3?
A.To voice his views on modern art.
B.To explain why they are useful.
C.To show the difficulty of their recycling.
D.To find a new product to replace them.
【3】What effect would "Truckload of Plastic" have on viewers?
A.Disturbing
B.Calming.
C.Refreshing
D.Challenging.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A.Artists' Opinions on Plastic Safety
B.Ocean Plastics Transformed into Sculptures
C.Responsibility Demanded of Big Companies
D.Media Interest in Contemporary Art
28、 Kids ages 6 to 13 in Cape Town, South Africa, really do dig learning at school! With the help of the Earthchild Project, which is offered in schools in two townships, students make worm(蠕虫) farms. The worms break down food waste and make the soil richer. Kids grow seedlings(幼苗) in containers and learn about the importance of good nutrition.
The school program also offers yoga(瑜伽). Teachers find that the exercises help students focus better. The students enjoy Earthchild activities. “The children gets so excited”, says teacher Vuyelwa Rola.
“The society we are in has a lot of noise. When students are taking part in the Earthchild Project, they feel calm.”
Director Janna Kretzmar came up with the idea for the project in 2005. She read about schools in India that involved kids in yoga and learning outside the classroom. She developed the Earthchild Project to offer similar activities in Cape Town schools.
“We hope the Earthchild Project can help students find solutions to all the challenges they are facing in the world today,” Kretzmar said. “The best place to create change is with the youth, through education.”
The Earthchild Project combines schoolwork with hiking, gardening, healthy living, and yoga. “We need more than just math and science to become happy, healthy, inspired, and active citizens of our communities,” says Kretzmar.
In some communities in Cape Town, children live in poverty. They must walk long distances to get clean drinking water. Life is hard. But according to the Earthchild Project’s Carly Appleby, the project works to give hope to every child. “Students who have hope,” she says, “aim for bigger goals”.
【1】What do students benefit from yoga?
A.It helps them calm down.
B.It helps them concentrate.
C.They can learn some living skills.
D.They can learn about the importance of nutrition.
【2】What are students’ attitude towards the Earthchild Project?
A.Uncaring.
B.Doubtful.
C.Supportive.
D.Negative.
【3】What do you know about the Earthchild Project?
A.It was founded in 2005.
B.It only offers outside activities.
C.The idea came up by Vuyelwa Rola.
D.It is aimed at helping students find solutions to challenges.
【4】What’s the best title of the passage?
A.Hard Life in South Africa.
B.Students’ school life in Cape Town.
C.Hope from Earthchild Project in Cape Town.
D.The differences between traditional lessons and Earthchild Project.
29、KK was around five years old when he showed up at the front gate of my house in 2012. And clearly he was used to a life outside. While mostly happy indoors, he did expect to be let out. He would go out and do his things, and then come back and hang out inside until his next need for an outside visit arose.
When Julien, my second cat, showed up in 2013, having two cats wanting in and out at different times was more difficult. After careful consideration, I finally decided to put in a cat door. It allowed KK and Julien to come and go as they wanted without waking me up at 5 am to go outside or at 5:10 am to come back inside. It also saved my door, which KK was always abusing(虐待) as his way of letting me know I was being too slow in opening the door for him or not responsive(应答的) at all.
When my mother passed away in the spring of 2014, leaving her young cat without a forever home, I decided to take her. Once being an indoor/ outdoor cat, Sissy obviously didn't want to suddenly to be kept indoors. She also wanted to be able to get away from the other two cats, as she was used to being in a single cat home.
After KK, Julien and Sissy had all become used to their life of coming and going as they pleased, it pretty much guaranteed(保证) that all future cats would have the same right. And now have seven cats that come and go as they please. Letting my cats go outdoors isn't due to my not caring or getting them out of my head. On the contrary, it is because I love them so much and want them to have the best life possible.
【1】What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A.KK preferred to stay outdoors.
B.KK refused to be kept as a pet.
C.KK brought lots of trouble to the author.
D.KK lived happily with his former owner.
【2】Why did the author put in a cat door?
A.To make her cats feel safe.
B.To prevent cats from damaging her door.
C.To welcome some homeless cats.
D.To let her cats go out and come back freely.
【3】What did Sissy want to do after she was brought in?
A.Stay by herself.
B.Make some cat friends.
C.Spend her time indoors.
D.Go back to her former home.
【4】What would be the best title for the text?
A.Why I love raising cats
B.Why I let my cats go outside
C.What I learned from my cats
D.What I expected from my cats
30、As an old saying goes, “Good fences (栅栏) make good neighbors.” With many people_______to stay at home during the pandemic, some find good fences can _______ make good friends.
My family lives next to 99-year-old Mary O’Neill. Although Mary’s daughter visits her _______ , the pandemic leaves the old lady in _______. Amazingly, Mary manages to develop a special _______with her neighbor—my son Benjamin Olsen, aged two. Mary_______through the fence as Benjamin learns to walk, talk, and_______run and play. And when Benjamin sees Mary, he sees a close friend, and_______ her “Mimi”. Mary will also call out. ‘Hey Benjamin!’ when she sees him. It’s just been so pleasant to watch the_______scene. Mary’s daughter and I, both________ the relationship has a unique function that has kept the elderly woman________ the long period of being separated from others.
As the pandemic limitations have lifted, Mary and Benjamin’s friendship continues to grow on both sides of the ________ only now, the gates can be opened. Benjamin________Mary on her steps to play games, blow bubbles and enjoy the activities that bring joy to the pair—one at a young age, and the other with a(n)________ heart.
Friendship can just happen in so many different ways. We are________they were able to form this whether one-pandemic or not, because it means a lot to both sides.
【1】
A.forced
B.allowed
C.invited
D.sent
【2】
A.never
B.also
C.only
D.already
【3】
A.more or less
B.one by one
C.now and then
D.up and down
【4】
A.panic
B.loneliness
C.freedom
D.joy
【5】
A.custom
B.agreement
C.interest
D.friendship
【6】
A.visits
B.checks
C.watches
D.passes
【7】
A.actually
B.eventually
C.regularly
D.suddenly
【8】
A.calls
B.assures
C.makes
D.regards
【9】
A.warm
B.cold
C.bitter
D.strange
【10】
A.doubt
B.advise
C.predict
D.believe
【11】
A.resisting
B.defending
C.surviving
D.involving
【12】
A.fence
B.family
C.society
D.road
【13】
A.replaces
B.senles
C.joins
D.inspires
【14】
A.old
B.young
C.close
D.far
【15】
A.confident
B.regretful
C.disappointed
D.moved
31、根据课文内容填空
The feeling of happiness and sense of belonging can become particularly important for people who move away from their home country. According to some food experts, there are some aspects of culture 【1】 people will lose right away, but with food, there are more 【2】 to connect to memory, family and place. It is hardest to give up the food that you grow up with. Of course, each person’s comfort food 【3】 depends on where they come from —for a Chinese it might be a plate of dumplings with a saucer of vinegar, and for a native of the UK it might be the classic fish and chips, served hot, salty and sour. One 【4】 of comfort food takes us back to our cultural roots, giving us the “taste of home” that we cry out for and 【5】 feelings of homesickness.
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 worked as a nurse, I was on day duty while my workmates were on night duty. On one shift, I sensed something strange just before going off duty at 1 1 am. I put down the tray (托盘) on the table and suddenly it fell off the table. At first, I didn’t care as I thought I had accidentally knocked it over, but then I felt the whole building shaking and heard patients were screaming and running madly.
At that moment, I realized that an earthquake was happening. My first thought was to rescue my patient and protect myself. I quickly caught hold of a nearby patient, who was terribly frightened and pushed her under a bed. And then, I got under another bed myself. As soon as the earthquake stopped, I decided to try and get the patient safely outside. I carried her out and helped her down to the grassland, where several other people had gathered.
As I was afraid that my other workmates were in danger, I went back inside the building again. When I met Lucy, our head nurse, I found her patient couldn’t walk. We made a seat for the patient by linking our hands and arms, and carried her outside together. We went back through the building to check if anyone was left behind in our sickroom.
Just then, we saw that a man doctor was calling for volunteers to go down to other sickrooms with him to help more patients and medical workers. So we followed him together. The doctor went ahead of us and found one of the nurses partially covered with broken stones, luckily still alive. Suddenly, the aftershock struck and the doctor ordered us to leave. The brave doctor intended to stay alone and risk his own life to save the nurse.
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。
But no one was willing to leave.
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My next task was to settle and care for the sick on the ground.
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