1、One thing is certain about globalization—it is ________. Advances in technology combined with more opening-up policies have already created an interconnected world.
A.irrecoverable
B.irreversible
C.irresponsible
D.irreplaceable
2、Measuring the ______ loss of soil requires scientific techniques and equipment.
A.glorious
B.greedy
C.gradual
D.guilty
3、Many findings, ________ hundreds of years, turned out to be wrong nowadays.
A.dated back
B.dating back
C.to date back
D.dates back
4、The crazy fans ______ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till the movie star arrived.
A.were waiting
B.had been waiting
C.has waited
D.would waited
5、This small seaside village is such a perfect place for holidays that visitors never leave it___________ disappointed.
A.feel
B.feeling
C.to feel
D.felt
6、After he was officially pronounced the world’s oldest man, he offered this simple ________ for a long and happy life.
A.affection B.formula C.preference D.desire
7、New technologies ______ the mystery of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
A.gave way to
B.showed concern for
C.threw new light on
D.lent an ear to
8、“Only two centimeters higher, ______ break the world record,” encouraged the coach.
A. or you will B. you will
C. will you D. and you will
9、The old man was very happy when he ______ by the lovely kids.
A.is surrounded
B.was surrounded
C.would be surrounded
D.had surrounded
10、Helen had to shout ______ above the sound of the music.
A.making her heard B.to make her hear
C.making herself heard D.to make herself heard
11、According to what you said, you think it’s funny to plan a meeting like this,______?
A. don’t you B. do you
C. is it D. isn’t it
12、 important it is for teenagers to be creative!
A.How
B.What
C.What a
D.How a
13、I’d appreciate ______ if you would like to teach me how to use the computer.
A. that B. it C. this D. you
14、At school, some students are active ________ some are shy, yet they can be friends with one another.
A. while B. although C. since
15、The shocking news made me realize _____________ terrible problems we would face.
A.that B.how
C.why D.what
16、An excellent teacher is believed to be one who cares about his students but asks for nothing __________.
A. in turn B. in short
C. in return D. in general
17、______ school playgrounds to the public makes exercise easier for the people in the community.
A.Open B.Opened C.Opening D.Have opened
18、“Since you’ve agreed to go, why aren’t you getting ready?” “But I ______ that you would have me start at once.”
A.don’t realize
B.didn’t realize
C.hadn’t realized
D.haven’t realized
19、____, I have never seen a person as warm-hearted and patient as Jack.
A.As long as I have traveled
B.Now that I have traveled so much
C.Much as I have traveled
D.As I have traveled so much
20、Sorry to ________ you, but may I ask you a question on how to prepare for an interview?
A.fool B.bother C.disappoint D.hurt
21、Great holidays in Europe!
Do you like the beach but want a bit more?
Then come on an Active Beach holiday atone of our centers in Greece, Turkey or Croatia.All the centers are near beautiful beaches and all offer sailing, wind surfing or water skiing with our excellent instructors. For achange from the water, you can also book a short trip to a nearby village and visit the colorful markets or eat in a local restaurant. Atthe end of the day, relax in your hotel room or dance the night away at one of our open-air clubs.
Who was King Arthur? Where did he live?
Join us on a five-day UK Road Trip holiday.Imagine life hundreds of years ago as we visit ancient Stonehenge, Roman Bath and TintagelCastle, the home of King Arthur. Learn the historyof these interesting places from your guide as you travel in one of our famous blue coaches. In the evenings we stop at some of the best youth hostels in the country. They have everything you need ,you don 't even need to pack a sleeping bag!
Are you bored with the usual holidays? Do you want to do something you really enjoy?
Then Fame Camp is for you! Spend a week at Hightree House in Yorkshire and learn how to play the piano, violin and guitar! Bring your tentand stay at a campsite near the house. At the end of the week try your new skills in a live performance .
How many countries can you see in 21days?
On our Explore Europe holiday, you can see ten! Learn about them from our best guides as you watch them go past from the window of an air-conditioned coach and stay at some of Europe's top campsites on the way. Of course,we’ll also have time to do the important things such as visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the. historic Sistine Chapel in Vatican and eating appleѕtrudеl іn Vіеnnа.
For more information about any of these holidays, call 0845 333 4523 or visit www. comewithusuk. com.
【1】Tourists who go on an Active Beach holiday.
A.can do some water sports
B.can cook by themselves
C.will enjoy an open-air concert
D.should bring their own sleeping bags
【2】If you want to know more about Tintagel Castle, which holiday should you take?
A.Fame Camp.
B.Active Beach.
C.UK Road Trip.
D.Explore Europe.
【3】What can we learn about Explore Europe?
A.It lasts 10 days.
B.It is a coach tour.
C.It is a self-guided tour.
D.It goes past 21 countries.
22、Dougan’s mum, Patricia, has lived at Dundonald House for two years and has had dementia(痴呆)for nine years. She has lost most of her speech. But the French course was something she and her husband could do together and the whole family has noticed a change in her.
“I think Dad decided he’d take Mum just for her benefit (好处),” says Mari Dougan. “But he loved it just as much as she did. After they did the French course, they did Italian. Mum knows she’s there and she sometimes answers with a word or two — that’s amazing. She has been much more active since she started the classes.”
Courses in French, Italian, German and Spanish last for ten weeks for an hour a week. The classes are the idea of Robbie Norval, who started Lingo Flamingo in 2015 to give lessons to older adults. Lingo Flamingo has 35 teachers who work in care homes and community centres in Scotland. So far, it has worked with more than 800 people.
Thomas Bak is a psychologist from the University of Edinburgh. His research into dementia over 20 years has found that people who are bilingual (双语的) get dementia up to four years later than those who are monolingual (只说一种语言的).
Even for people who aren’t bilingual, learning a language in later life has benefits, Bak says. He has found improvements (改善) in attention and memory among older adults. He believes it is never too late to learn a language. “In fact, it becomes more important with age,” he says. He adds that what is really good about language learning is the variety of tasks you have to do. “You have to learn to tell the difference between different sounds. You have to learn new ideas that might be very different from your mother tongue. You have to learn grammar and how to use words in a conversation,” he says. Bak says doing a sudoku puzzle is not as useful — it is like going to the gym and spending all your time on a single machine.
“We’ve also found learning a language really increases well-being and self-confidence,” Norval says. “If an adult with dementia can learn a couple of words, they think to themselves, ‘I can learn new things.’ They don’t fear dementia as much. They realise they’re not forgetting everything, which is a really important message.”
【1】What has changed about Dougan’s mum after she started learning new languages?
A.She always talks to herself.
B.She is willing to go outside.
C.She can remember everything.
D.She can communicate with others.
【2】What’s the attitude of Dougan’s dad to her mum learning a new language?
A.Amazed.
B.Worried.
C.Uncaring.
D.Supportive.
【3】What can we learn about Lingo Flamingo’s lessons?
A.They are only held in care homes.
B.They are mainly open to the elderly.
C.They include five different languages.
D.They are designed by the University of Edinburgh.
【4】What does Thomas Bak think of language learning?
A.It is good for the brain.
B.It is not easy for older adults.
C.It is like doing work with a machine.
D.It is as hard as doing a sudoku puzzle.
23、In 2015,the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned the world in a TED speech that highly infectious viruses would kill millions of people in the future. It remained unnoticed until recently. The video has been watched over 43 million times online so far. 【1】
Based on his beliefs,Gates writes a new book,How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. 【2】
【3】 He suggests that scientists, data analysts and policy experts across the world work together as a team to prepare for quick response at the future outbreaks of pandemics in different countries and regions. Schedule the arrangements before people shift their attention to other things, he says in the book.
Moreover,research and development should be further strengthened. They are to secure that lifesaving tools, effective vaccines of long-term protection,effective treatments and highly sensitive diagnostic techniques can benefit all people at a faster speed. It requires not only investment but also bigger production capacity. 【4】
Lastly,people need to improve health immunization system and early warning systems, especially in low-and-middle-income countries. 【5】 With early warning systems tracing any outbreak of infectious diseases, people can sequence the genes of viruses as soon as possible to tell how to handle them before they spread.
A.To start with,plans should be made.
B.Routine immunization should be improved.
C.It is about the causes and spread of COVID-19.
D.Firstly,more people are encouraged to watch the speech video.
E.As a consequence, when the next crisis arrives, people can be ready.
F.He believes that people can learn a lot from the COVID-19 pandemic.
G.95 percent viewings happened after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
24、Scientists in Israel have taught goldfish an unusual way to reach a target — by driving a small robotic car on dry land.
Six goldfish, regardless of their weight and size, took part in the experiment and were taught to drive in 30-minute sessions, conducted three times a week, every two days. The experiment was led by researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. They wanted to see if goldfish’s ability to navigate depends on their natural environment, or if they could navigate even under very unusual conditions.
To test the goldfish, the researchers created a special robotic car that could drive forward, backward, and from side to side. The scientists called the car a Fish Operated Vehicle (FOV).
Goldfish was placed inside a water tank on the FOV. Using a special system, the car tracked where the goldfish was and what direction it was swimming in. The FOV would then automatically move in the same direction. To prevent the goldfish from getting stuck in barriers such as walls, researchers equipped the car with lidar. The researchers tested them by placing the car in a small room with a pink target on one side — that was where the fish were supposed to arrive. The fish were rewarded with food when achieving the task.
The fish did indeed learn to drive the FOV, becoming more skillful in its operation overtime both in terms of achieving tasks and in the time taken to complete that task. The researchers wanted to check that the fish weren’t just memorizing a set of movements to earn a reward, so they repeated some tests with a new starting position or added other targets that were a different color. They found the goldfish were able to deal with those changes.
Though the experiment showed that the fish were able to navigate to a target, it’s not likely that the fish knew they were controlling a car. The researchers say that in the future it may be possible to change the FOV to test these ideas.
【1】What did the researchers do before testing the goldfish?
A.They fed them.
B.They numbered them.
C.They trained them.
D.They weighed them.
【2】How did the goldfish get their reward in the experiment?
A.By making the FOV move forward.
B.By avoiding the car being stuck.
C.By mixing the target’s colors.
D.By having the car reach the target.
【3】What did the researchers discover about the goldfish?
A.They were born with the ability to remember.
B.They could recognize the color’s changes.
C.They were curious about new environments.
D.They could understand simple words.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Goldfish Learn to Drive on Land
B.Scientists Teach Fish Navigation Skills
C.Goldfish Know How to control the FOV
D.Scientists Help Goldfish Find Destinations
25、Having a year-round comfortable climate and being close to several European countries, many thought that Paris was the perfect location for Europe's first Disneyland. But_________speaking, Paris was probably the least logical choice. This is because France is known for its _________ of smirking (得意地笑) at anything American - an attitude called “anti-Americanism”. _________this, Disney opened a park in Paris anyway.
Opening in 1992, this year _________ its 29th anniversary. So how has it managed to _________ for so long in a country that some thought may not welcome it?
According to NPR,“America poses (提出) a danger to everything the French _________ highly”. For example, France is famous for its fancy cuisine and people there usually spend a long time over meals. But the US’ fast food - hotdogs and hamburgers, to name two - _________ a completely different dining style. And in the film industry, while French culture values high-art films, Hollywood’s fast-food-style film productions may seem of _________ taste in the eyes of the French.
“In the land of Louis XIV’s real Castle of Versailles ... why do we need the _________ one of Sleeping Beauty?” is the __________ of many French people toward the US theme park, according to The Baltimore Sun newspaper.
There used to be doubt over whether the Disney magic would __________ in France. But this doubt has been __________ unnecessary now that the park has been standing for 25 years. And according to The Telegraph, Disneyland Paris was visited by nearly 15 million people last year, half of whom were French.
France is changing. Slowly,“its way of life is beginning to resemble that of the country it loves to hate," commented the Economist. Today, even though French people are still seen as “aloof (冷淡的)” and proud of their own culture more than anything, they are already a part of the __________ of globalization and there is no getting out of it.
“At the core, America gives us the same __________ as ice cream,” French journalist Jacqueline Remy once wrote in L’ Express magazine.“It makes us sick, but we keep __________ it.”
【1】
A.academically
B.culturally
C.economically
D.problematically
【2】
A.image
B.attitude
C.status
D.reputation
【3】
A.Among
B.Like
C.Despite
D.Except
【4】
A.marks
B.relates
C.involves
D.reflects
【5】
A.struggle
B.survive
C.suffer
D.compete
【6】
A.strike
B.value
C.deserve
D.apply
【7】
A.aroused
B.completed
C.admitted
D.introduced
【8】
A.moderate
B.standard
C.low
D.common
【9】
A.unrealistic
B.artificial
C.false
D.fake
【10】
A.reaction
B.admiration
C.recognition
D.realization
【11】
A.win
B.act
C.work
D.attract
【12】
A.proved
B.caused
C.demonstrated
D.delivered
【13】
A.form
B.tide
C.trend
D.style
【14】
A.effect
B.consequence
C.power
D.fact
【15】
A.waiting for
B.asking for
C.searching for
D.entering for
26、6月5日是世界环境日。假定你作为中国高中生代表,被美国联谊学校邀请,在纪念世界环境日活动上做主题发言,内容包括:
1. 参会感受;
2. 关注生态;
3. 呼吁行动。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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