1、----A study suggests reducing energy demand in the future may _______ urban areas.
---That’s true. Cities need more energy than small towns or other rural areas.
A. center on B. act on C. hang on D. catch on
2、The house, _____ was destroyed in the terrible fire, has been repaired.
A. the roof of which B. which roof
C. its roof D. the roof
3、John stopped his car to ______ running over the little cat.
A.admit B.consider C.avoid D.keep
4、Eating too much fat and sugar can heart disease and high blood pressure.
A. result from B. attend to
C. devote to D. contribute to
5、The place ________ interested me most was the Children’s Palace.
A.which
B.where
C.what
D.in which
6、The visitor asked to have his picture taken ________stood the famous tower.
A. where B. at which
C. that D. when
7、— The price of the apartment advertised is rather reasonable, and I fancy it much.
—Let’s be ________ —we just can’t afford to pay that much money.
A.optimistic
B.enthusiastic
C.realistic
D.systematic
8、They prefer ______ the birthday party till next Sunday rather than ______ it without the presence of their manager
A.putting off; to hold
B.to put off; hold
C.putting off; to holding
D.to put off; to hold
9、The building has been made _____ to disabled people.
A.accessible B.relative C.acceptable D.sensitive
10、It is wise ________ the experiment that way.
A.of him to do
B.for him to do
C.of his doing
D.that he do
11、Mary was dissatisfied with the result of the experiment conducted yesterday,________ ?
A.wasn’t she
B.was she
C.were she
D.weren’t she
12、Time will ________ us from babies into adults and our parents from adults to seniors.
A.transform
B.transmit
C.transfer
D.transport
13、I was nervous but pretended not __________, in order to leave a nice first impression on the interviewer.
A. to be B. be C. being D. been
14、He’s as a “bellyacher”—he’s always complaining about something.
A. who is known B. whom is known
C. what is known D. which is known
15、— 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
16、__________ the generosity of the public, we have reached our goal of collecting 50,000 yuan for the sick boy.
A. In response to B. According to
C. In favor of D. Thanks to
17、The police officers decided to conduct a thorough and _______ review of the case.
A. comprehensive B. complicated
C. conscious D. crucial
18、Not until_______ home ______he had had his wallet stolen.
A. he returned, that he found B. he returned, did he find,
C. did he return, he found D. did he return,, did he find
19、The parking rules in public places should be ________ strictly, otherwise you will get a ticket.
A.realized B.recognized C.consulted D.observed
20、— Can your factory really afford ________ food for the people in the mobile cabin hospitals?
— I believe we can because we have ________ orders.
A.a large amount of ; a number of B.a number of ; plenty of
C.a great amount of ; a great deal of D.plenty of ; the number of
21、When Stars Are Scattered
This novel by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed tells the true story of two brothers who live in a refugee (难民) camp in Kenya. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have escaped a war in their home country of Somalia. Even though they are kids, the boys deal with many adult problems. The brothers stick together, no matter what life throws at them.
— By TFK Kid Reporter Miguel Madero
Mañanaland
11-year-old Max loves his grandfather's stories of Mañanaland, a place where dreams come true. Max dreams of making the football team and finding his missing mother. When Max discovers a secret, he sets off for Mañanaland in search of answers. On the way, he wins something more valuable than a spot on the team. I love this book by Pam Muñoz Ryan because each page is different and interesting.
— By TFK Kid Reporter Afton Campbell
Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid
15-year-old Mikaila Ulmer has created a healthy type of lemonade made with honey, which she sells all over the country. She gives away some of the money from the sale to bee conservation. In Bee Fearless, Mikaila shares her story and offers business tips. Readers will love learning how Mikaila’s business grew and what she’s doing to encourage young entrepreneurs (企业家).
— By TFK Kid Reporter Abby Rogers
Condor Comeback
In Condor Comeback, writer Sy Montgomery follows conservationists as they care for endangered California condors. They’re the largest flying North American land birds. Can scientists save the condor population? Read Condor Comeback to find out!
— By TFK Kid Reporter Jeremy Liew
【1】What do we know about Omar and Hassan?
A.They find their missing mum.
B.They solve many difficulties.
C.They want to save endangered birds.
D.They make a lot of money from their business.
【2】Who wrote the book Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid?
A.Abby Rogers.
B.Afton Campbell.
C.Mikaila Ulmer.
D.Sy Montgomery.
【3】Which book will you choose if you are a nature lover?
A.Condor Comeback.
B.When Stars Are Scattered.
C.Mañanaland.
D.Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid.
22、Organic(有机的)farming is a type of agriculture that benefits from the recycling and use of natural products. Use of dried plants not only saves money,but also ensures the growth of crops. The technique is characterized by the use of green manure(肥料), biological pest control methods and special farming techniques to keep soil productive. Limiting the use of man-made chemicals or completely doing away with them reduces the risk of diseases. Today,organic farming is a major and preferred industry around the world. Organically grown food products have a huge market,with farmlands covering about 10% of the total world-farmland cover. The hard work of Sir Albert Howard, the Father of Organic Farming, has paid off.
Advantages of Organic Farming:
(1)The economics of organic farming are characterized by increasing profits through reduced water use and reduced soil erosion(侵蚀).
(2)Organic farming produces the same crops as those produced through traditional farming methods,but uses half the energy,and holds 40% more top soil
(3)Farming the organic way enables farmers to get rid of weeds without the use of any chemicals.
(4)The use of green pesticides(杀虫剂) is environmentally friendly and does no harm to human's health.
Disadvantages of Organic Farming:
(1)Organic methods of farming produce less,compared to traditional farming techniques.
(2)Organic agriculture does little to fight global climate change.Though organic farming practices are recognized as giving out less CO2,but not to a significant degree.
However,though there are some disadvantages of organic farming,farms where organic methods for cropping have been used have more advantages than traditional farms.Organic agriculture is surely better in the long term.
【1】The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 shows that Sir Albert Howard ____.
A.worked hard for nothing
B.succeeded in organic farming
C.spent all his time on organic farming
D.didn't expect organic farming to be successful
【2】According to the passage,compared to traditional farming organic farming ____.
a. is more environmentally friendly
b. produces a lot more food
c. uses less energy
d. results in more weeds in the farmland
e. is better for human's health
A.abc
B.acd
C.ace
D.bce
【3】The author's attitude towards organic farming is ____.
A.anxious
B.hopeless
C.unclear
D.optimistic
【4】The writer wrote this passage to tell us ____.
A.the development of agriculture
B.what kind of food is being grown at present
C.why organic farming is so popular around the world
D.what organic farming is and its advantages and disadvantages
23、Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for lazy, you might even be angry. Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human,” with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of resentment (不满). But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Franks de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food readily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan’s and Dr. de Waal’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens(代币) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but connected rooms, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behaviour became markedly different.
In the world of capuchins, grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either threw her own token at the researcher or out of the room, or refused to accept the slice of cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to inspire resentment in a female capuchin.
The researchers suggest that capuchin monkeys, tike humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species. Such cooperation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous anger, it seems, are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolves independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
【1】In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by____.
A.making a comparison
B.making an assumption
C.giving a conclusion
D.explaining a phenomenon
【2】The statement “it is all too monkey” (Last line, Paragraph 1) implies that____.
A.anger towards unfairness is also monkey’s nature
B.monkeys arc also angered by lazy rivals
C.monkeys, like humans, tend to be jealous of each other
D.no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions
【3】Dr. Brosnan and Dr. de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys____.
A.prefer grapes to cucumbers
B.will not be co-operative if feeling cheated
C.can be taught to exchange things
D.are unhappy when separated from others
【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions.
B.Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild.
C.Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
D.How a sense of fairness in humans evolves is uncertain.
24、Dear Linda,
I have been in England three months now. I hope you don’t think I’ve forgotten you. There have been so many places to see and so many things to do that I’ve not had much time for writing letters.
I shall soon be starting my studies at King’s College. So far I’ve been learning about England and British ways of living. I won’t tell you about London. There are plenty of books you can read and plenty of pictures you can look at. I’m sure you’ll be more interested to know what I think about the life here.
I find some of the customs(风俗) new and interesting. People here do not shake hands as much as we do in Europe. During the first few weeks I was often surprised because people did not put out their hands when I met them. Men raise their hats to women but not to each other.
Yours
Alice
【1】The writer came to London from________.
A.Asia
B.Europe
C.America
D.Africa
【2】The writer_________.
A.has never been to England
B.came to England just now
C.came to England three months ago
D.will come to England in three months
【3】She has_________.
A.not written any letters
B.much time to write letters
C.no time to write letters
D.a little time to write letters
【4】She came to England to_________.
A.study
B.make a living
C.learn British ways of living
D.learn about life there
25、She was dancing. My disabled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely ________. I looked how her body bent beautifully, her arms greeting the sunlight that was ________ through the window. And her legs… Those legs that had ________ walked, aided with a walking stick as long as I could remember. Now she was wearing beautiful dancing shoes and her legs ________ her perfectly.
She turned around and saw me standing in the doorway. Her beautiful movement ended so ________ that it felt like being shaken awake from a beautiful dream. Grandma looked so much like a kid ________ with her hand in a cookie jar. Grandma sighed and gave me the whole story.
“________, my legs have been well all my life”, she said. She thought for a while and then continued. “We were talking about engagement when your grandfather had to go to war. I put all my energy and time into ________. I was invited to perform with the best and one day I realized
I was considered to be one of them. And then one day a letter from the ________ came. He lost his leg and asked me to forget about him.”
“What happened then?” I ________ her.
“I made my decision ________. I loved him so much that I was not going to lose him to depression. I told everyone I had been in a car ________ and that my leg would never completely heal again. My dancing days were over. I only danced at home when no one was around and never ________ my decision. I figured I could change a few years of fame to a lifetime of ________. And I was right. It was worth it.”
Tears filled my eyes. I was thinking about how much joy we can bring to each others’ lives. I know people who have chosen to ________ a lot and done it gladly to achieve something they considered worth it, just like my grandma.
【1】
A.astonished
B.amused
C.annoyed
D.ashamed
【2】
A.sticking
B.rising
C.pouring
D.lifting
【3】
A.rapidly
B.inflexibly
C.firmly
D.freely
【4】
A.obeyed
B.followed
C.stretched
D.pushed
【5】
A.early
B.slowly
C.weakly
D.suddenly
【6】
A.beaten
B.caught
C.banned
D.forgiven
【7】
A.to begin with
B.to sum up
C.to tell the truth
D.to make matters worse
【8】
A.dancing
B.singing
C.working
D.exercising
【9】
A.hometown
B.battlefield
C.ballroom
D.campground
【10】
A.confirmed
B.persuaded
C.hurried
D.greeted
【11】
A.here and there
B.up and down
C.day and night
D.there and then
【12】
A.race
B.crash
C.ride
D.park
【13】
A.regretted
B.accepted
C.defended
D.supported
【14】
A.loss
B.gift
C.love
D.pain
【15】
A.go over
B.take off
C.put away
D.give up
26、阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇 60 词左右的内容概要。
Being a high school student is probably one of the hardest things in the world. From the countless classes to the endless homework, your school may seem stressful some days. So, it’s understandable if you feel under pressure sometimes.
However, by making a few changes, your high school life could become easier. First, as starters, try to build a better relationship with the most important people in your life: your parents. “To succeed, teens need love, acceptance and support from their parents,” psychologist Sara Villanueva wrote on Psychology Today website. With this in mind, try to explain your difficulties to your parents. That way, they’ll understand you better. To do this, simply talk to your parents and share your feelings with them and they may be able to help you. Having a good relationship with your teachers is important too. If you’re finding a certain class too hard, talk to your teachers and ask them for help. It’s teachers’ job to make sure their students understand what they teach, so they’ll be more than happy to help you.
And then, you also should start by helping yourself to become more successful at anything you do. To start with, set yourself some realistic goals, like “I’ll improve my math grade by next semester,” or “I’ll join one more after-school club.” And rather than just tell yourself these goals, plan them out carefully-and stick to them. You can get yourself a calendar, and mark every piece of school work you have on there, for example. That way, you can see exactly what you need to do and when you need to finish it by.
Another thing to remember, however, is that relaxation is just as important as working hard. “It is good to take time to relax during heavy periods of work to stay energized (精力充沛的) and focused,” US student Anna Pohoryles wrote on university website Odyssey. So, if things get too difficult, taking a break may be the best solution of all.