1、--- Kim, give me your report by 1O am.
--- __ have you been in charge of this project?
A. Since when B. By whom
C. For what D. From where
2、His food ______, the man had to come out of his hiding place.
A.run out B.was run out
C.running out D.using up
3、The government has made it clear _______ 35 international soccer stars will be invited to coach students in soccer.
A. what B. when C. that D. which
4、—Could you tell me the ______ of making such tasty cakes?
—Well, I just follow the directions in the cookbook.
A.trick B.feature C.technology D.fashion
5、 My sister-in-law is the ______ of the information, so it cant be false.
A. resource B. source
C. birthplace D. data
6、The young teacher is working hard to buy a new flat near his working site for his own ______, not for rent.
A.occupation B.recreation C.regulation D.separation
7、Some experts claim that the________ of students should cover more aspects, such as activity involvement and teamwork contributions.
A.admission
B.assessment
C.awareness
D.ambition
8、Why! I have nothing to confess. ______ you want me to say?
A.What is it that B.What it is that
C. How is it that D.How it is that
9、The manager should take_______ action if safety standards are not being met.
A.awkward B.average
C.appropriate D.automatic
10、Tony kept silent at the beginning of the discussion, but finally he ________ his opinion on the subject.
A.gave voice to
B.kept an eye on
C.turned a deaf ear to
D.set foot on
11、Nine in ten parents said there were significant differences in their approach to educating their children compared with __ of their parents.
A.those
B.one
C.both
D.that
12、It displeases my parents when Richard and I stay out late at night. My parents don't _____ of Richard and me staying out late at night.
A.approach B.allow C.appeal D.approve
13、One needs much experience and knowledge ________ one’s correct decisions.
A. which to be based on
B. on which to base
C. which to base up on
D. on which to be based
14、My headache ___________ me. I thought it was going away, but it’s going worse and worse.
A.killed B.was killing C.kills D.is killing
15、What’s the , in your opinion, of helping him if he doesn’t make an effort to help himself?
A. sympathy B. theme
C. object D. point
16、The Chinese sports idol Li Na shocked fans by __________ her racket(球拍) due to serious
injuries in September, on the eve of a tournament in Wuhan, her home city.
A. hanging up B. putting up
C. breaking up D. holding up
17、Pointing to the village at the foot of the mountain, Mr. Smith told us it was ______ he met his wife five years ago.
A.what
B.how
C.when
D.where
18、Young people who have got jobs may realize university lessons can’t be the only preparation for all of the situations ________ appear in the working world.
A. where B. when
C. that D. what
19、Some parents are just too protective. They want to ______ their kids from every kind of danger, real or imagined.
A. prevent B. shelter
C. recover D. accompany
20、A new study suggests that yelling at children may have consequences that go beyond of beating them.
A. ones B. these C. those D. that
21、A new study,conducted by British company Mindlab International, has found that listening to music at work increases accuracy(精确) and speed,The Telegraph reported.
Perhaps, some parents disagree with this idea, saying,”Switch off the music and concentrate!" Well, if that's the case with your parents, you might now be able to convince them that you have science on your side.
The company gave 26 participants(参与者) a series of different tasks for five days in a row, including spelling checking, mathematical word problems, data entry, and abstract reasoning. The participants completed these tasks while listening to music or no music at all.
The results showed that while music was playing, 88% of participants produced their most accurate test results and 81% completed their fastest work.David Lewis, chairman of Mindlab International, told The Telegraph,"Music is a very powerful management tool if you want to increase not only the efficiency of your workforce but also their emotional state... they are going to become more positive about the work."
However, you may have a list of your favourite songs, but not all kinds of music match all homework. For maths or other subjects involving numbers or attention to detail, you should listen to classical music, the study found. In the study, pop music enabled participants to complete their tasks 58% faster than when listening to no music at all. If you are reviewing your English writing, pop music is the best choice, as it is the best kind for spelling checking. It cuts mistakes by 14%, compared to listening to no music.After finishing your homework, do you often take time to check your answers? Maybe, some dance music is suitable for you.
【1】What did the participants have to do in the study?
A.Persuade their parents to listen to music.
B.Do a series of work without rest or pause.
C.Complete five tasks in fìve days without help.
D.Finish tasks with music or without music at all.
【2】What does the underlined word "they" in Para. 4 refer to?
A.Results.
B.Tools.
C.Workforce.
D.Tests.
【3】When you review your English writing, what kind of music should you listen to?
A.Classical music.
B.Dance music.
C.Pop music.
D.Rock music.
22、 Nothing good generally comes of a conversation that start with the words, "I think you should probably sit down before I tell you this.”
And so it came to pass. Away for Christmas, we got a call from kind friends at home, our neighbour's house had caught fire while they were out. The fire didn't spread to our house but the smoke very much did.
It's weeks of either throwing out, or sending away for specialist cleaning, every single thing into which smoke could have permeated(渗透)because the particles(微粒) are an ongoing health risk and washing isn't enough. Anything soft—sofas and carpets and children’s teddy bears, clothes—is suspected. We will be seeing in the New Year in a decidedly minimalist fashion.
What I didn't expect to feel, however, is this lucky. Friends and neighbours have come together with incredible generosity. We will never again underestimate the closeness of the village community in which we live, or the innate kindness that is most people's natural reaction to trouble, and are grateful to be reminded of so much that is good. But that's not the only thing I've learned. For in a sense, we have a chance to start again.
The surprise on being forced to think about what might urgently need replacing is how short the list of essentials seems; how much we must have been hanging on to out of habit, and how much we have been conditioned to think was important.
It's all too easily assumed that family history lives in tangible(有形的)things— old photographs, a dress bought decades ago for a night heavy with memories — but that's not quite right. These things were only reminders of what we already carry with us in head and heart.
Walking through the house, sweeping up the broken glass, I realised that the answer to the old question of “What would you save in a fire? ” is actually that nothing really matters but each other.
【1】What happened to the author's house?
A.It caught a fire.
B.It was affected by a fire.
C.It was broken into by friends.
D.Its windows were broken.
【2】What does the underlined word "suspected" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A.something that may be damaged.
B.something that may not be genuine.
C.something that may not be so good.
D.something that may be dangerous.
【3】What did the author expect to feel?
A.People around him were cold to others' trouble.
B.His friends and neighbours were so generous.
C.People in his community were close to each other.
D.He was so lucky to find much that was good.
【4】How will the author probably feel when the New Year finally comes?
A.Worried. B.Surprised.
C.Excited. D.Contented.
23、 Asking for help is a sign of strength rather than weakness. In American culture, the independent individual is seen as their ideal. As the University of Missouri at St. Louis states on its website under the heading Key American Values, “Americans have been trained since very early in their lives to consider themselves as separate individuals who are responsible for their own situations in life and their own destinies.” The value also makes them think they can do everything themselves, and makes them feel bad about asking for help when they need it.
And when it comes to work situations, when they think about asking for help there, sometimes they fear that a request for help would make them look inept. While this has always been true for men, many women in the workplace have felt the need to try twice as hard as their male colleagues and do twice as much to get just as far and to prove their worth. Sometimes when we think about asking for help, our inner voices tell us, “See, if you admit you can’t do this on your own, they’ll see you for the imposter (骗子) you really are.”
But the fact is, even though individualism is on the rise, we can’t do everything by ourselves and we shouldn’t try.
Apple founder Steve Jobs once told the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association about the power of asking for help, and how he “never found anybody who didn’t want to help me when I asked them for help”. He said, at the age of 12, he called Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, on the phone after getting his number from the phone book and asking him for spare parts so he could build a frequency counter(计频器). And Hewlett agreed and offered young Jobs a summer job assembling frequency counters.
“If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far,” Jobs said.
【1】What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A.What key American values are. B.Why Americans refuse to ask for help.
C.Asking for help is a sign of strength. D.Americans are responsible for their life.
【2】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “inept” in Paragraph 2?
A.impolite B.depressed C.incompetent D.sensitive
【3】What can be learned from this US cultural phenomenon?
A.Americans suffer a lot from mutual distrust.
B.Americans see weakness as a sign of strength.
C.Americans should learn to build up confidence.
D.Americans think highly of individual values.
【4】What can we learn from Jobs’ words in the last paragraph?
A.Don’t hesitate to ask for help. B.Be brave to try whatever you want.
C.Never ask for help. D.Learn to cooperate with others.
24、 Imagine you are opening your own company and want to hire a manager. You have two candidates and they are both capable and experienced, so who would you rather hire: Julia Watson or Shobha Bhattacharva? Chances are that you would prefer Watson, right? But why?
“Easy names are evaluated as more familiar, less risky and less dangerous, ” Eryn Newman, a scientist at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, told Scientific American. As a result, people with easier names are often assumed to be more trustworthy. This is what Newman and her teammates have found in their recent study.
In the experiment, they picked 18 different foreign names, including difficult-to-pronounce ones like Yevgeni Dherzhinsky and easy names like Bodo Wallmeyer. They then attached each name with a statement such as “turtles are deaf” and “giraffes are the only mammals that cannot jump” and asked volunteers whether they thought the claims were true.
The results showed that claims connected to easier names were more often ranked as believable than those attributed to difficult names, regardless of what the truth really was. In fact, previous studies have already found that our judgments about products can be affected by their names. For example, we tend to think of a food additive (添加剂) with an easier name as safer and a stock with an easier name as more lucrative (利润丰厚的),according to Medical Daily.
But researchers pointed out that this effect can change depending on where someone comes from. For example, a native British man may find “Yevgeni Dherzhinsky” hard to pronounce while Russian people could say it without effort. Newman hopes that this finding can make us better see our biases (偏见). It’s not just unfair to people that we make judgments based on gut feelings (直觉) rather than facts, and it can sometimes have serious consequences.
For example, we may choose to believe certain eyewitnesses in court simply because their names sound more trustworthy even if they are actually lying. Or, we may let go of qualified job candidates due to their “difficult” names.
Now, if you could make that decision again, would you still prefer Julia Watson to Shobha Bhattacharva?
【1】What did Newman and her teammates discover in their experiment?
A.Volunteers with easier names were more likely to choose true claims.
B.A difficult name doesn’t influence the way the volunteers viewed the claims.
C.Volunteers trusted claims paired with easy names more often.
D.Volunteers trusted claims connected with difficult names.
【2】The underlined words “this effect” in Paragraph 5 refer to the effect ______.
A.names have on peoples judgments
B.gut feelings have on people from different places
C.of decisions made based on facts
D.of people’s biases against certain types of people
【3】What can we conclude from the last paragraph?
A.We should think twice before we make a decision.
B.The harder your name is to pronounce, the more likely it is you will get a job.
C.Judging people based on their names may cause serious problems.
D.Russians have less bias against people’s names than the British.
【4】What is probably the best title for the text?
A.Names Affect Products
B.Employers Prefer Shobha Bhattacharva
C.Difficult Names are Trustworthy
D.Easy Names Win Out
25、 Life is to be lived. No excuses. No reservations (保留). No holding back.
A story about the violinist Fritz Kreisler tells how he once _________ a beautiful instrument he wanted to acquire. When he _________ raised the money for the violin, he returned to_________ it and learned that it had already been sold to a(n) _________.
He went to the new owner’s home in order to try to _________ him to sell the violin. _________, the collector said it was one of his prized possessions and he could not let it go. Kreisler felt _________ and turned to leave, but then asked a favor, “May I play the instrument once more _______ it is put away?”
_________ was given and the great musician began to play. The __________ sang out a quality of music which was so beautiful that the collector himself could only listen in __________. “I have no __________ to keep that to myself,” he said after the musician finished. “The violin is yours, Mr. Kreisler. Take it into world, and let people __________ it.”
You and I are excellent violins—our __________ is meant to be heard.
I want to live my ________ that way—to take it into the world and live it fully. I’d rather burn out than rust out. I’d rather be__________ than die not having done whatever I could.
I’m not talking about __________ ourselves by doing too much. Happiness is never found in overmuch busyness. But it is found in investing our lives in others. Say yes when asked for a hand. __________ to work for a worthwhile organization. Spend an hour with a ________ relative.
In the end, I know that my happiness is not about by my ability or my inability. It is about how much I ________ to others.
【1】A.found out B.came across C.came to D.picked out
【2】A.slowly B.actually C.eventually D.regularly
【3】A.buy B.play C.pick D.get
【4】A.musician B.performer C.player D.collector
【5】A.force B.persuade C.advise D.ask
【6】A.Therefore B.Besides C.However D.Otherwise
【7】A.disappointed B.angry C.helpless D.desperate
【8】A.unless B.after C.until D.before
【9】A.Judgment B.Permission C.Award D.Appreciation
【10】A.violin B.musician C.singer D.collector
【11】A.amazement B.agreement C.puzzlement D.embarrassment
【12】A.freedom B.right C.interest D.money
【13】A.play B.know C.feel D.hear
【14】A.story B.sound C.music D.message
【15】A.life B.dream C.hobby D.reality
【16】A.hung up B.put up C.used up D.dressed up
【17】A.exhausting B.requesting C.fighting D.changing
【18】A.Struggle B.Volunteer C.Manage D.Promise
【19】A.special B.close C.tired D.lonely
【20】A.turn B.treat C.give D.adapt
26、假如你是红星中学高三学生李华,你的英国朋友Jim发邮件告诉你,最近他参加一次学校电视主持人的面试,但是失败了,心情很沮丧。请你给Jim回信,内容包括:
1. 给与安慰和鼓励;
2. 提出一些建议。
注意: 1. 词数不少于50;
2. 开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
提示词:电视主持人 TV host
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua