1、________is the power of global warming that the climate goes from one extreme to the other.
A.Such
B.This
C.That
D.So
2、The energy program ______ at reducing our dependence on fossil fuels has made considerable breakthroughs in the past decades.
A.aim B.aimed C.being aiming D.to aim
3、—Jerry, where did you guys go for the summer vacation?
—We ___ busy with our work, or we would have gone to Brazil to watch the games.
A.were B.have been C.had been D.would be
4、We won’t forget the heroes ________ lost their lives while fighting against a forest fire.
A.who B.whose C.when D.why
5、Colors like green can ________ a sense of life and quietness to people.
A.acquire
B.remark
C.investigate
D.convey
6、The art historians tried to figure out how the temple ______ when built around 15 B.C.
A. might look B. might have looked
C. must look D. must have looked
7、You can get you want as a gift for your fantastic performance in the final examination for you and your friends.
A.whoever B.whichever C.however D.whatever
8、After several days of heavy rain the roof ______ with a loud noise, crashing onto the ground.
A. came out B. came down C. came on D. came up
9、My skating teacher was really great and ______ I knew it, I was able to skate!
A.before B.since
C.until D.after
10、--- _____you interrupt now? Can't you see I'm on the phone?
--- Sorry Sir, but it's urgent.
A. Must B. Should
C. Can D. Would
11、WiFi also has a place in technologies like 5G and CBRS,which by the year 2020.
A.will be widely used
B.will have been widely used
C.used
D.is used
12、Having the courage to be disliked does not mean that you can use your weaknesses as an ________ for not improving yourself.
A.capacity
B.excuse
C.passion
D.demand
13、It's unnecessary that you complain about the power cut for _____repair work about the line is being carried out for the coming hurricane.
A.extensive B.investigative C.conservative D.explosive
14、She would move quietly up to the sparrow on a small tree just to get a better look, her face __________ with childlike expressions at one of God’s simple wonders.
A. shone B. shining
C. having shone D. being shone
15、As they’re handmade, each one __________ slightly in shape.
A.various B.varied C.varies D.variety
16、—Why are you so mad at her?
—She should have given in to _______ and opened my handbag without my permission.
A. concern B. curiosity C. consideration D. convenience
17、The mother never criticized her children, but used praise to________their best.
A.put out B.give out C.pick out D.bring out
18、Some restaurants are happy to provide a free cake if you let them know in advance that you ________a group for a birthday party.
A.will be bringing
B.have brought
C.have been bringing
D.were bringing
19、 Life is harder for Senior Three students throughout China.Hardly _____ endless exercises or tests.
A.does everyday go by with
B.any day goes by with
C.everyday goes by without
D.does any day go by without
20、“The interest be divided into five parts, according to the agreement made by both sides,” declared the judge.
A.may B.can C.must D.shall
21、Sunrise Magic Balloon Flights
Wondala is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Floating over the city in a hot air balloon in the early morning sky will fill you with peace and quietness. The beauty of the city as the sun comes up will take your breath away! Sunrise Magic offers sunrise flights 365 days a year. After landing, a champagne breakfast awaits passengers at Lakeview hotel. Sunrise Magic has over 25 years of experience and is a leader in commercial hot air ballooning. Passengers meet at five-star hotel Lakeview. Weekend flights, are approximately one hour in length and weekday fights last about 45 to 60 minutes.
Flight prices
Weekday fights
Flight cost: s 180 per person (Children inder12- $120)
Champagne breakfast (optional): Additional $25 per person
Weekend fights
Flight cost: $ 235 per person (Children under12-- $ 150)
Champagne breakfast (optional): Additional $ 25 per person
Groups of five or more will be offered a 10% discount off the normal price of a light.
Safety is very important to us and we will not fly if weather conditions are unsuitable. We have a 100% safety record. All of our pilots are approved by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
Phone Sunrise Magic on 53467999 to make a booking. Departure time will be confirmed when booking. Please allow at least two and a half hours for lights and an additional 1-2 hours for breakfast. We advise that you wear comfortable clothes and that you wear strong shoes so that your feet remain warm and dry. If weather conditions don’t allow us to fly on your preferred day, you can have a full refund or we can rebook your flight on another day.
【1】What can we learn about Sunrise Magic Balloon Flights?
A.Sunrise Magic offers sunrise flights all year round.
B.Passengers meet at a hotel with 25 years of history.
C.Weekend flights usually last about 45 to 60 minutes.
D.Passengers can enjoy a champagne breakfast for free.
【2】How much should a couple with a son aged 11 pay at least?
A.$432.
B.$480.
C.$530.
D.$555.
【3】What can passengers do if weather conditions are unsuitable?
A.Make a complaint.
B.Get a discount.
C.Confirm the booking.
D.Get a full refund.
22、 Imagine looking at a view of mountaintops and wondering about the name of each peak. Suddenly, above each mountaintop, a name appears on the sky. The words are not written in smoke by skywriting planes. The words are actually not in the sky at all. They come from tiny computers in contact lenses(隐形眼镜)
Computers have become smaller and smaller over the decades. The first computers filled houses. Transistors(晶体管) and then chips allowed computers to become small enough to fit on a desktop, then a laptop, and finally a phone. When experimenting with further reductions in size, developers often have to deal with the limits of human eyesight, which control how small the computers can be and still present visible information.
One new solution employs microprojectors (微投影机) to create a readable display for tiny computers. These machines project computer information onto any surface. Though an impressive breakthrough, there are potential problems. Such public displays can lead to privacy concerns; Most people do not want their information displayed on a wall for everyone to see. Besides, these projectors are extremely expensive, and their screens give users headaches.
Babak Parviz, a researcher at the University of Washington, created another solution: inventing a screen visible only to a person wearing a contact lens. Parviz created a computer in a contact lens that uses the wearer's field of vision as the display. To create the display, Parviz took ordinary soft contact lenses with a wirelessly controlled system. At some point, Parviz says, it will be possible to connect the lens to a remote personal computer device such as cellphone or a laptop. By looking in a certain direction, the wearer sends the computer visual information about what he or she sees. The device then uses this information to point out the names of peaks.
These contact lenses are inserted and removed in much the same way as ordinary contact lenses. In addition, the computers in the lenses won't block the wearer's sight at all. Although now the computers are not on lenses treating eyesight problems, Parviz hopes that someday the technology will progress to that level.
【1】What can the contact lenses in the text do?
A.Treat eyesight problems of the wearers.
B.Offer beautiful views of nature to users.
C.Project information on wall surface remotely.
D.Show information about what wearers can see.
【2】According to Paragraph 3, what can the microprojectors do?
A.Put people's privacy at risk. B.Save computer information.
C.Cause serious illnesses. D.Support users' needs.
【3】What does the underlined part "that level" refer to in the text?
A.Further reducing computers' size. B.Creating the visual information.
C.Treating eyesight problems. D.Blocking the wearer's sight.
【4】What might be the best title for the text?
A.Tiny Computers, Amazing Sights. B.Smaller Lenses, Closer Views.
C.Progress Towards Clearness. D.Road to the Small World.
23、Cooking Travel Tours in Italy
Many Italian culinary (烹饪) schools offer food-related tours that give you hands-on experience with food preparation, as well as a close-up view of traditional Italian cuisine.
Organic Tuscany
Organic Tuscany focuses on vegetarian cuisine and organic ingredients. Guests stay in a 19th-century castle surrounded by grape and olive orchards in Certaldo, and courses are taught by experienced local cooks. Their five-day courses are limited to nine participants, and they break up daily cooking classes with hikes, tours of Siena and Florence, meals at local restaurants and trips to nearby farms and vineyards.
Capezzana
Located within an hour of Siena, Capezzana offers an authentic experience into Italian food and wine. Guests stay in country farmhouses near Mount Albano. The school has its own olive oil and wine production facilities (场所) where guests can view the process from start to finish. Capezzana offers a one-day course where students tour the facilities and learn to make a meal. There is also a five-day course including trips to local markets, classes on wines, olive oil and bread-making.
DivinaCucina
DivinaCucina is an internationally known Italian cooking school located in the heart of Tuscany. Guests stay in nearby apartments, and the school offers two one-day courses and tours. The Monday tour centers around the historic San Lorenzo market, and the Wednesday tour includes a visit to the weekly market in Chianti followed by a hands-on cooking class. A five-day course includes daily cooking lessons and tours to surrounding towns and farms, focusing on sources of local meat, wine and produce.
The Awaiting Table
While most cooking tours are centered in scenic Tuscany, the Awaiting Table is located in the pretty town of Lecce. The Awaiting Table offers not only authentic local recipes, but also an enthusiastic introduction to the “Italian” experience. Guests meet the vendors (商贩) at the local markets, participate in daily cooking lessons and even learn some practical Italian. Each day of the week-long course focuses on one type of food, with an educational field trip before the lesson. One-day tours and lessons are also available, as well as lessons specializing in olives.
【1】What do we know about Organic Tuscany?
A.It appeals to those vegetable lovers.
B.It offers cooking classes only for beginners.
C.It doesn’t provide good accommodation to guests.
D.It doesn’t give guests the chance to go sightseeing.
【2】Which school appeals to students interested in wine making?
A.Organic Tuscany.
B.Capezzana.
C.DivinaCucina.
D.The Awaiting Table.
【3】For a lady looking for a seven-day cooking course, she could choose _________.
A.Organic Tuscany.
B.Capezzana.
C.DivinaCucina.
D.The Awaiting Table.
24、There’s a case to be made, from things like Google search figures, that Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken – you know, the one about two paths diverging (分开) in a wood – is the most popular in modern history. Yet people still can’t agree what it means. On the surface, it’s a fridge-magnet cliché (陈词滥调) on the importance of taking risks and choosing the road less travelled. But many argue it slyly mocks (暗讽) that American belief in the individual’s power to determine his or her future. After all, the poet admits that both paths look roughly similarly well-travelled. And how could he be sure he took the right one? He’ll never know where the other leads. Looking back at our life histories, we tell ourselves we faced important dilemmas and chose wisely. But maybe only because it’s too awful to admit we’re stumbling (跌跌撞撞地走) mapless among the trees, or that our choices don’t make much difference.
Two psychologists, Karalyn Enz and Jennifer Talarico, throw light on these matters in a new study with a title that nods to Frost: Forks In The Road. They sought to clarify how people think about “turning points” versus “transitions” in life. A turning point, by their definition, is a moment that changes your future – deciding to leave a job or marriage, say – but often isn’t visible from the outside, at least at first. “Transitions” involve big external changes: going to university, marrying, emigrating (迁出). Sometimes the two go together, as when you move to a new place and realize it’s where you belong. (“New Yorkers are born all over the country,” Delia Ephron said, “and then they come to New York and it hits them: oh, that’s who I am.”) But it’s turning points we remember as most significant, Enz and Talarico conclude, whether or not they also involve transitions.
The distinction is useful: it underlines how the most outwardly obvious life changes aren’t always those with the biggest impact. Hence the famous “focusing illusion”, which describes how we exaggerate (夸大) the importance of a single factor on happiness: you switch jobs, or spouses, only to discover you brought the same troublesome old you to the new situation. Before it became a joke, “midlife crisis” referred to a turning point that happens because your circumstances don’t change, when your old life stops feeling meaningful. Turning points can be caused by mundane (世俗的) things – the offhand remark that makes you realize you’re in the wrong life – or by nothing at all.
【1】Why do some people think the poem makes fun of the American belief?
A. Because the two roads are more or less similar in the poet’s view.
B. Because Americans believe they can decide their future themselves.
C. Because Americans can find their way easily in a forest just with a map.
D. Because Americans surely know which road to take without consideration.
【2】Which of the following can be considered as a transition?
A. Your experience of midlife crisis.
B. Your choice of the road to take.
C. Your decision to travel abroad.
D. Your move into a new flat.
【3】What can we infer from this passage?
A. Turning points involving transitions are often remembered as most significant.
B. The biggest impact is often characterized with obvious outside changes.
C. A fundamental change is often affected by more than one single factor.
D. We can rid ourselves of the unpleasant past with the change of a job.
【4】What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Is our fate in our own hands?
B. Must people make changes in life?
C. Should we choose the road less travelled?
D. Are turning points connected with transitions?
25、My family moved from Hong Kong to a small town in central Georgia, where my dad got a job and a visa for my family. I had just learned English, and from what I could ________ from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one’s chimney and put toys in one’s ________ on Christmas Eve! After I ________ “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionary, I knew what I had to do.
On that fateful night, I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and ________ it to a nail (钉子) already on the mantel (壁炉). Obviously, the former owners of this house were no ________ to this Santa character. However, my parents were.
I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ________ to the fireplace. To make a sob story short, I was ________ with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. Santa ________ existed.
Every December since then, the ________ of Christmas would unavoidably come up, and I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me story. I had to make it as ________ as possible, or else I would cry.
How could I know that Santa was just ________? Nine years ago, on Christmas Eve, an older man with a white ________ and a red cap knocked on my front door. He said, “I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five ________.” He handed me a red stocking, winked, and left. On top of the stocking was a card. It ________ : “For Becky — I may have ________ you in the second grade, but you’ve always lived in my heart. Santa.” Through tear-blurred eyes, I recognized the ________ of Jill, a friend I had met just two months before. I later ________ that the older man was her father. Jill had seen the ________ little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it.
So now I believe that Santa is ________ . This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day ________, really listens to friends, and then plans deliberate acts of kindness.
【1】
A.use
B.gather
C.separate
D.deliver
【2】
A.stocking
B.hat
C.pocket
D.drawer
【3】
A.left out
B.took down
C.looked up
D.put away
【4】
A.threw
B.covered
C.buried
D.tied
【5】
A.customers
B.strangers
C.friends
D.relatives
【6】
A.drove
B.backed
C.rushed
D.wandered
【7】
A.related
B.surrounded
C.impressed
D.hit
【8】
A.never
B.just
C.always
D.sometimes
【9】
A.memories
B.lesson
C.surprise
D.topic
【10】
A.slow
B.funny
C.sad
D.confusing
【11】
A.sick
B.free
C.lazy
D.late
【12】
A.eye
B.tooth
C.mouth
D.beard
【13】
A.minutes
B.months
C.years
D.days
【14】
A.reflected
B.described
C.read
D.printed
【15】
A.missed
B.recognized
C.met
D.helped
【16】
A.name
B.handwriting
C.face
D.voice
【17】
A.pretended
B.announced
C.sensed
D.found
【18】
A.hurt
B.shocked
C.annoyed
D.satisfied
【19】
A.famous
B.real
C.old
D.imaginary
【20】
A.anxiously
B.temporarily
C.purposefully
D.generally
26、在学校刚举办的科技创新设计大赛中,你设计的一款老人智能陪护机器人荣获一等奖。请以“My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly”为题写一篇英语课堂前的一分钟汇报,内容包括:
1. 设计目的;
2. 功能介绍;
3. 你的期望。
注意:1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly
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