1、Try ____ he might, he failed to put it off.
A.although B.as C.unless D.if
2、—Can I fax this paper?
—Sorry, but our fax _____ at the moment, and it won’t be working until around 3 o’clock.
A. is being repaired B. is repairing
C. is repaired D. repairs
3、Such behavior will _______ your reputation, so better think before you leap.
A. compromise. B. communicate. C. compensate. D. combine.
4、— Do you think it's a good idea to make friends with your students?
—________, I do. I think it's a great idea.
A. Really B. Hopefully
C. Actually D. Eventually
5、________ with his sisters, Jerry is even more sensitive to emotional and relationship problems.
A.To compare B.Compare
C.Comparing D.Compared
6、People ________being charged parking, so the decision maker had to compromise.
A. resigned to B. subscribed to C. submitted to D. objected to
7、The journalist echoed the villagers’ doubt in the newspaper _____ the tourist resorts would really benefit the local economy.
A. that B. if
C. whether D. when
8、The video, Under the Dome, has rapidly pushed the public______ about air pollution and encouraged people to join in efforts to make a difference.
A. analysis B. imagination
C. awareness D. argument
9、Tom did not _____easily, but was willing to accept any helpful advice for a worthy cause.
A.approach B.wrestle C.compromise D.communicate
10、Africa is a very _____ continent, with each country, or even each part of a country having its own unique culture.
A. diverse B. abstract C. remote D. vacant
11、We'll have a _________ holiday, what about going to Huang Shan ?
A.seven days B.seven day C.seven-day D.seven-days
12、——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
13、______ is well known to us all is ______ Jeremy Shu-How Lin has become one of the most popular NBA players.
A. It; that B. As; that
C. What; what D. What; that
14、Much to their delight, their new project ______ at the conference, the excited scholars decided to have a barbecue to celebrate the fantastic moment.
A.to approve B.being approved C.having approved D.having been approved
15、Tom knew he would certainly get ________ if he was late home
A.shout at
B.to shout at
C.shouted at
D.to be shouted at
16、He says French people are _____ about the future of their country, so it’s not absurd to discuss how to deal with the subject.
A.anxious B.ashamed C.weak D.patient
17、Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it ________ and is beyond our control.
A. has passed B. will pass C. passed D. had passed
18、—I didn’t know you play the piano. It sounds wonderful!
—Thank you! I ______ it when I worked in UK.
A. learned B. had learned
C. have learned D. learn
19、So far, during her time at the English Club, Lucy ___ to six parties and ten barbecues.
A. came B. comes C. has come D. has been coming
20、As ________, we will gather at the foot of Baiyun Mountain near our school at 8:00 am this Saturday.
A.scheduling
B.schedules
C.scheduled
D.to schedule
21、A study shows that the more eco-conscious way to shop is going to a physical store rather than by making purchases online from companies that don't have physical stores. Researchers estimated that shopping at physical stores for frequently bought items such as toilet paper, shampoo and toothpaste, often results in less greenhouse gas emissions than ordering the products from a company that only sells through the Internet.
The main reason is because of how people shop online: Many buy items online frequently — but they only buy a few items per purchase. Frequent online purchases produce more packaging waste, and online items tend to come from different distribution centers. Both factors result in higher greenhouse gas emissions per item.
The team modeled their research on the movement of goods from the factory all the way through to the end consumer. They analyzed the carbon footprint of the "last mile delivery" for the three most popular types of shopping channels in the United Kingdom — physical stores, "brick & clicks" (when people order online and a physical store delivers the items to them) , and "pure players” (strictly online sellers). Included in the three models were greenhouse gas emissions estimates from the number of products bought, transportation, warehouse storage , delivery and packaging activities.
The analysis showed that total greenhouse gas footprints per item purchased were higher from physical stores than those from bricks & clicks purchases in 63% of the shopping events but lower than those of pure players in 81 % of shopping events in the United Kingdom. In the United States, greenhouse gas emissions from shopping at physical stores were also estimated to be higher than from the brick & click channel, and lower than the pure play channel, on average.
This pattern holds true in countries where people mostly drive. It really depends on the country and consumer behavior there.
【1】What is the function of the first paragraph?
A.To persuade the readers.
B.To show the research conclusion.
C.To compare two shopping ways.
D.To state the reason for this study.
【2】Which is one of the disadvantages of frequent online shopping?
A.It is not convenient.
B.It is a waste of money.
C.It causes packaging waste.
D.It results in air pollution.
【3】How is this research conducted?
A.By making comparison.
B.By doing experiments.
C.By giving an explanation.
D.By making a survey.
【4】Which way of shopping might the author advocate?
A.Shopping by car.
B.Buying in physical stores.
C.Dealing with “pure players".
D.Purchasing from "brick & click.
22、Have you ever heard someone say, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, or give you advice about why it’s vital to start the day with a healthy breakfast? It seems that this meal, for many of us, is necessary for our day to start well, but is it really that important?
The word “breakfast” comes from “breaking the fast”— the idea of ending the period in which we don’t eat during the night. The regeneration process that takes place while we sleep consumes some of our natural food reserves. Breakfast gives us an opportunity to replenish those reduced stores of things like protein and calcium. So, in that way, a healthy breakfast makes sense.
There are also many often-quoted studies which seem to connect a state of being overweight with not eating breakfast. In fact, it leads many health experts to advise a healthy breakfast to not only control but also lose weight. In a US study, 50,000 people were monitored over seven years, and those who ate a healthy breakfast were found to have a lower BMI (体重指数), which seems to suggest that breakfast may indeed help people maintain a healthy weight.
But it might not be as simple as that. Alexandra Johnstone, professor of appetite research at the University of Aberdeen, suggests those who do not have breakfast might be less aware of healthy diets and nutrition, and people who eat breakfast might have a healthier lifestyle overall exercising and not smoking, for example. And he also points out that with the rise in popularity of intermittent (间歇性的) fasting to lose weight, there may also be some benefits to not eating breakfast, like improving blood sugar control and lowering blood pressure.
So, while breakfast has its benefits, it might not be the most important meal. It seems that a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet might be more important for many of us than just one single meal.
【1】Why does the author list the questions in the first paragraph?
A.To give a warming.
B.To offer some advice.
C.To introduce the topic.
D.To prove a certain fact.
【2】What does the underlined word “replenish” mean in paragraph 2?
A.Set aside.
B.Manage without.
C.Make up for.
D.Run out of.
【3】What conclusion can we draw from Johnstone’s research?
A.Skipping breakfast may do good to our health.
B.Those who eat breakfast can keep a lower BMI.
C.Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
D.Intermittent fasting contributes greatly to weight loss.
【4】What does the author suggest we do at the end of the text?
A.Try new lifestyles.
B.Follow a balanced diet.
C.Pay more attention to breakfast.
D.Be aware of the benefits of each meal.
23、Teaching artificial intelligence to understand simple physics concepts, such as that one solid object can’t occupy the same space as another,could lead to more capable software that takes less computational resources to train, say researchers at Deep Mind.
Now,Luis Piloto at Deep Mind and his colleagues have created an AI called Physics Learning through Auto-encoding and Tracking Objects (PLATO) that is designed to understand that the physical world is composed of objects that follow basic physical laws.
The researchers trained PLATO to identify objects and their interactions by using simulated(模拟的)videos of objects moving as we would expect, such as balls falling to the ground, rolling behind each other and bouncing off each other. They also gave PLATO data showing which pixels(像素)in every frame or photo belonged to each object.To test PLATO’s ability to understand five physical concepts, such as solidity, persistence (that an object doesn’t tend to vanish) and unchangingness (that an object tends to retain features like shape and colour), the researchers used another series of simulated videos. Some showed objects obeying the laws of physics,while others depicted ridiculous actions. They tasked PLATO to predict what would happen next in each video, and found that its predictions were reliably wrong for nonsensical videos,but usually correct for logical ones, suggesting the Al has an intuitive(直觉的)knowledge of physics.
Piloto says the results show that an eccentric view of the world could give an Al a more generalized and adaptable set of abilities.“If you consider,for instance,all the different scenes that an apple might be in,”he says.“You don’t have to learn about an apple on a tree,versus an apple in your kitchen, versus an apple in the garbage. When you kind of separate the apple as its own thing, you’re in a better position to generalize how it behaves in new systems,in new contexts.It provides learning efficiency.”
“This is somewhat like teaching a kid what a car is by first teaching them what wheels and seats are,”Chen Feng at New York University says.“The benefit of using object centric representation, instead of raw visual inputs,makes Al learn intuitive physical concepts with better data efficiency.”
【1】Why was PLATO created?
A.To help AI process more data.
B.To teach AI researchers how to use simple physics knowledge.
C.To enable AI to comprehend simple physics concepts.
D.To have objects follow basic physical laws.
【2】What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?
A.The purpose of the research.
B.The participants of the research.
C.The objects of the research.
D.The process of the research.
【3】What’s the function of the example in paragraph four?
A.Clarify a concept.
B.Provide theoretical basis.
C.Attract readers’ attention.
D.Introduce a scene.
【4】Which word can best describe the attitude of the author towards PLATO?
A.Unconcerned.
B.Critical.
C.Objective.
D.Indifferent.
24、“Why do you have 9,632 emails in your inbox (收件箱)?”
I looked at my husband,“Um...is that a lot? How many are in your inbox?”
“About twenty,” he replied. I looked at my inbox. There were emails I had meant to deal with; emails from customers and the kids’ schools with information I needed; there were time-sensitive offers I’d never got around to investigating; endless updates from the social media platforms I subscribed to, and the rest I had kept just in case.
I realized that I had become an email hoarder (囤积者). I clearly had a problem and I needed to act. I paused my work and began to delete unwanted emails. An hour later I made little progress.
“Just delete the whole lot,” my husband strongly suggested.
Could I do that? It was appealing. But I paused. I couldn’t. I did have a problem! Then I decided to compromise. I kept the last month’s emails and deleted everything else. I looked at my almost empty inbox. Wow, it felt so good.
To be honest, I feel genuine anxiety about deleting emails, FOMO (错失恐惧症) is a real problem for many people like me with email issues. So many emails are “offers”. What if that amazing offer never comes up again? But the fact is that they do...frequently. What’s more,these great offers are often time-sensitive and so we hang on to them “just in case”, then miss the deadline anyway and still don’t delete them.
I found it useful to limit my emails to 50 and I use an email system which ensures all school emails go into a separate inbox, so I can see at a glance when “Dress like a Roman” day or “Bring an onion to school” day (yes really) is coming up! I feel more in control and organized now. I’m on top of my inbox. Now I’m off to handle the cupboard under the stairs!
【1】What was the author’s immediate reaction to her husband’s suggestion??
A.She approved of it.
B.She felt annoyed at it.
C.She hesitated about it.
D.She was astonished at it.
【2】What led to the author’s anxiety about deleting emails?
A.The deadline that she forgot to meet.
B.The fact that she liked keeping emails.
C.The offer that she might never give.
D.The fear that she would miss out something.
【3】What does the author do with her inbox at last?
A.Adopt an email system to classify all emails.
B.Separate unwanted emails into a new inbox.
C.Reply to school emails as soon as possible.
D.Set a restriction to the number of emails.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A.How the author became an email hoarder.
B.How the author takes her inbox in hand.
C.Why FOMO is a real problem.
D.Why emails turned out to be a headache.
25、As a teenager, Shannyn, was shocked to discover grey hairs coming through. It was the _______ thing the 16yearold wanted to see, and it led to _______ from her unkind classmates, who said she was looking “old”.
In order to _______, she started visiting a salon every six weeks to have her hair dyed black. It was a heavy _______.
But it was money well _______ for the teen because she no longer stood out as “old” looking. However, as her 30th birthday approached, she _______ she was finally ready to go natural and took the _______ to stop dying her hair.
“It’s incredibly healthy because it’s not _______ with chemicals. It’s not weighed down or anything like that, it’s really nice,” she said.
_______ to the salon were no longer necessary and she also saved herself a ________ in the process. Four years since she made the decision, Shannyn is still ________ with her silvery hairs.
Women’s valuing their grey colour has gained ________ since the pandemic lockdowns, and Shannyn was far ________ for she committed to it several years ago.
If you can ________ your true self, then you’ve crossed the line that not many women in today’s society can do, and that’s indeed great ________.
【1】
A.right
B.last
C.cool
D.natural
【2】
A.anxiety
B.excitement
C.passion
D.rudeness
【3】
A.fit in
B.give in
C.take over
D.turn over
【4】
A.damage
B.workload
C.exercise
D.expense
【5】
A.prepared
B.spent
C.organized
D.suited
【6】
A.decided
B.argued
C.demanded
D.valued
【7】
A.advice
B.trouble
C.step
D.lesson
【8】
A.forced
B.compared
C.covered
D.confused
【9】
A.Approaches
B.Invitations
C.Visits
D.Responses
【10】
A.lesson
B.fortune
C.dream
D.shadow
【11】
A.pleased
B.cautious
C.friendly
D.patient
【12】
A.courage
B.qualification
C.experience
D.popularity
【13】
A.beyond
B.behind
C.away
D.ahead
【14】
A.remember
B.embrace
C.transform
D.improve
【15】
A.power
B.care
C.mind
D.luck
26、书面表达
请根据你对下面这幅图的理解,写一篇100字左右的英语短文。
请包括以下内容:
1.简要描述图画内容
2.联系实际说说自己的看法和建议
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