1、The advice columnist is very happy now, for Jane just called to tell him that his advice ____very well,_____ hadn’t been expected.
A. worked out; which B. went on; as
C. turned out; that D. worked out; who
2、 Over 1.8 million of Hong Kong’s residents have sent out a clear message against the movement ______ they want an end to disorders and a return to normal life.
A. what B. that C. which D. where
3、Having battled with their _______ over whether to offer help to an aged man or woman who has fallen over, most people choose to help.
A. compromise B. contradiction
C. conscience D. competence
4、The policeman analyses the chief reasons ________ some cyclists and pedestrians will get caught in traffic accidents and ________they should do to prevent them.
A.when; that
B.why; how
C.why; what
D.that; where
5、As they were walking around, they noticed a man _______ against a tree.
A. sit B. to sit C. sitting D. Sat
6、China will remain a developing country, as there is still a long way to go ________ we’ll be able to achieve modernization.
A. before B. since C. after D. during
7、—I hear a Tibetan student in your school ________ and that you’ve raised money for him.
—Well, the doctors are considering a conservative therapy.
A. was operated on B. will be operated on
C. is being operated on D. has been operated on
8、Alice trusts you; only you can ________her to give up the foolish dream of climbing the tallest tower.
A.suggest
B.advise
C.persuade
D.organize
9、--- Alex came back home the day before yesterday.
--- Really? Where ______ at all?
A.had he been B.has he been C.had he gone D.has he gone
10、I’d like to rent a house, modern, comfortable and _____ in a quiet place.
A. in all B. above all
C. after all D. first of all
11、He devoted all his spare time the old in his community.
A.into helping B.in helping C.helped D.to helping
12、 The boss stressed again that the secretary should not __________ any important details while taking notes at the meeting.
A. leave out B. let out
C. bring out D. make out
13、Randy did everything he could to reinforce his __________ with his kids.
A. bonds B. abstracts
C. burdens D. capability
14、 _____ for the fact that she got hit by a car and broke her leg on her way to school, she might have passed the exam.
A. Had it not been B. Were it not
C. Was it not D. Hadn’t it been
15、Mr. Frank asked me I could go with him to he called the Treasure House the next week.
A.that; which
B.whether; that
C.whether; what
D.that; where
16、We should make joint efforts, for your contribution will make a ________ to the cause of peace.
A.difference
B.determination
C.comment
D.challenge
17、When the big earthquake happened, in less than a minute, the whole city lay ______.
A.in ruins
B.in trouble
C.in danger
D.in shock
18、Her confidence and soon she was able to go out driving on her own.
A.gained B.grew C.greeted D.glared
19、There are many online shopping payment methods in China, and you can choose, when the order is _____, cash, POS or checks, to pay for the goods.
A. deposited B. delivered
C. deduced D. defined
20、—Did you watch the news on TV last night?
— ________ I was doing my homework.
A.No way.
B.No problem.
C.No wonder.
D.Not really.
21、Children's Games in Ancient China
Unlike the children nowadays, the children during ancient times didn't have smart phone, iPad or computer to entertain(娱乐) themselves. 【1】 Let's take a look.
Flying kites
Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite. 【2】 For example, the swallow-shaped kite is a well-known Beijing style.
Playing hide-and-seek(捉迷藏)
Hide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. Even nowadays, many children like playing it. There are two ways to play. One way is covering a child's eyes while other kids run around to tease(戏弄) him. 【3】
【4】
The closest thing to watching a film or television for entertainment during ancient times was going to see a shadow play(皮影戏). Folk artists manipulate puppets behind the screen, narrating stories and accompanied by music.
Setting off firecrackers(鞭炮)
Firecrackers have a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that there was a beast (野兽) named Nian in ancient China. 【5】 After gunpowder was invented, it gradually replaced the bamboo joint cracker. Crackers are still set off during Spring Festival to symbolize auspiciousness(吉利).
A.And to scare off the beast, people burnt bamboo joints to make it blast(爆炸)
B.Watching shadow plays
C.Instead, they came up with interesting games to play in their childhood.
D.Each of them has special features.
E.Different materials are used to make the kite.
F.Shadow plays were the popular entertaining form in ancient times.
G.More commonly, participants hide and one child must try to find them.
22、How to Love Yourself
Sometimes it seems easier to love others than it does to love yourself, but self-acceptance is an important part of developing healthy relationships with others.【1】. It also means living your own life as honestly as you can. Luckily, with a little practice and patience, you can learn to love yourself, too.
Know the dangers of a lack of self-love. A lack of self-love can lead you to make harmful choices. It can lead to a harmful dependence on others for validation, which makes people set aside their own needs in order to gain others’ approval.【2】
Discard your negative filter.【3】Too much focus on negative or less favorable events in your, life can make these events seem disproportionately (不成比例地) important. If you find yourself complaining that everything that happens to you is bad, try to find a little evidence to the contrary. It is very unlikely that everything is really bad.
【4】. Some people have trouble accepting anything less than perfection from themselves. If you find yourself pursuing perfectionism and feeling negatively about yourself when you are less than perfect, take three simple steps. Stop your current line of thinking, then focus on the effort that will be required to work toward a goal, and then steadily apply the required effort.
Celebrate and reward yourself. This is the fun part of self-love: rewarding yourself!【5】celebrate it with a nice dinner at your favorite fancy restaurant. Think of all of the hard work you do every day, and find a reason to reward yourself with something nice. Buy yourself the new book or video game you’ve had your eye on.
A.Avoid perfectionism
B.Reflect on the effects of self-love
C.If you have had a significant accomplishment
D.When you are thinking negatively about yourself
E.It can also prevent emotional recovery and progress
F.Loving yourself means recognizing your own self-worth
G.Focusing only on the negatives in your life is a bad habit
23、 The year is 1971. Ray Tomlinson is sitting in his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He types a few letters on a keyboard. Then he moves to a second computer in the room and reads the monitor. He just sent the first electronic message from one computer to a different computer through a network.
What did this first e-mail say? Tomlinson doesn't remember. Maybe it was just a string ( 串 ) of letters, like "q w e r t y u i o p." He does remember the second message. He sent it to his co-workers. This second e-mail message told people how to send e-mail on the computer network.
Before 1971, people only had keyboards monitors, which were all connected to a computer, at their desks. People could only send messages to other people on the same computer. They could send files (文件) to other computers through the network, but they couldn't "talk".
To solve this problem, Tomlinson needed a way to direct messages to the right person on the right computer on any network. He chose the @ symbol to separate a person's name from the name of the computer the person was using. The @ symbol was a good choice. This symbol was not in anyone's name. Few people used it. In fact, typewriter companies thought about taking it off the keyboard.
In the 1970s, only about 500 people used e-mail to do projects at work. Then, in the 1980s, the first personal computers arrived. For the first time, people could have computers at home. Then cane the Internet: Soon e-mail became a popular way to communicate. Today, over one billion people use it.
Tomlinson is sorry about one thing - spam. Most of it is advertising that tries to sell something. As much as 70 percent of each day's 180 billion e-mail messages is spam. As the number of e-mail users grows, spam is becoming more and more of a problem.
Pitifully, Tomlinson never made any money from e-mail and most people don't even know his name. However, thanks to this unknown hero, people all over the world can communicate with each other in seconds.
【1】What can we learn about Tomlinson's first e-mail?
A.It had several files attached. B.It was just a test message.
C.It was an e-mail usage warning. D.It came from one of his co-workers.
【2】What happened before e-mail?
A.There wasn't the @ symbol on the keyboard.
B.Personal computers had been networked.
C.Not many people used the @ symbol.
D.Computers had been used at home.
【3】What did the public think of e-mail in the 1970s?
A.They were against it. B.They thought highly of it.
C.They paid little attention to it. D.They had high expectations for it.
【4】What does "spam" probably refer to?
A.Unfinished e-mail. B.Unknown e-mail.
C.Unwanted e-mail. D.Unfamiliar e-mail.
24、As many as 4 out of every 1,000 infants born today have permanent hearing loss.When parents learn that their child has hearing loss, they are faced with many difficult decisions.These decisions can include choosing therapies and schools, as well as finding financial help for hearing aids or cochlear implants (人工耳蜗).
Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world.The foundation offers life-changing services for impoverished families, and provides real help for children with hearing impairment who may otherwise be left behind in schools or society due to their lack of hearing.
Help Me Hear Foundation believes that a child’s first years of development are critical.Being able to hear is vital to human, and Help Me Hear Foundation seeks to provide a positive lasting impression on society through its programs.Help Me Hear Foundation has many goals, including relieving the burden on communities with hearing-impaired infants and children, and strengthening the social structure of families and neighborhoods.
Recipients of Help Me Hear Foundation’s benefits receive state-of-the-art hearing devices that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars per child over the course of their lifetime.The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids and cochlear implants, which saves recipients and their families on average over $50,000 on related expenses.
The Foundation tries to be a transparent charity, and wants to be a catalyst for allowing deaf and hearing-impaired children to develop in a typical fashion alongside their peers.
Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website.The website offers helpful information on how hearing aids work, and how hearing aids ease many of the learning and language challenges that hearing-impaired children deal with on a daily basis.
【1】Help Me Hear Foundation was probably set up to _____.
A. build schools for deaf children
B. research deaf children’s behavior
C. protect deaf children from being ignored
D. offer real help to poor deaf children
【2】We learn from the text that _____.
A. the local government is in charge of the foundation
B. the work of the foundation depends on donations
C. even blind children can turn to the foundation
D. poor deaf African children cannot get help from the foundation
【3】Visit the foundation’s website, and you will learn about _____.
A. the function of hearing aids
B. the specific services the foundation needs
C. the challenges that children face every day
D. the prices of a variety of hearing aids
【4】For whom is the text most probably written?
A. Poor parents who have deaf children.
B. Doctors who want to improve skills.
C. Students who cannot see the blackboard clearly.
D. Teachers who have deaf children in their class.
【5】The author writes the text mainly to _____.
A. tell how to avoid permanent hearing loss
B. explain how hard a life deaf children live
C. introduce Help Me Hear Foundation
D. advise people to give money to Help Me Hear Foundation
25、 In this age of environmental crises, perhaps it comes no surprise that Stella Bowles found one in her own backyard. What is unique is her_______to do something about it.
The 100-kilometre LaHave River passes through Stella's community of Upper LaHave. Back in 2015, the pretty waterway was considered by many locals_______ to swim in,but Stella wanted to know_______.The then 11-year-old was_______ to learn what was causing the pollution: human waste being cast_______into the water by hundreds of her neighbors.
"I was _______ , " Stella says, when she found out 600 homes were using straight-pipes to pump waste from toilet to river without any filtration(过滤). She decided to _____the problem for her Grade 6 science project. With the help of a retired local physician, Stella learned how to_______ the water in the LaHave. _______, her results showed contamination (污染) way above Health Canada guidelines. _______ , locals were boating on the river without knowing they were ______the potential danger of infection.
Stella began to raise _______ about the LaHave's contamination problem. Soon she was making local headlines and trying to _______politicians.Finally,in spring 2017, all levels of governments _______ to remove all straight-pipes in Nova Scotia by 2023.
The LaHave _______isn't safe for swimming, but it should be safe for the sixth graders of Upper LaHave's future. Stella, now 14, continues to _______ more rigid rules to protect the river and this year travelled around her province to teach other kids how to test their local waterways and _______ for better care.
In August, thanks to her excellent work,Stella_______ an International Eco-Hero Award, which _______ the efforts of environmental youth activists. "I never thought I'd be where I am today _______ a science project," says Stella, who is considering a career in environmental law.
【1】A.chance B.regret C.determination D.imagination
【2】A.unfit B.perfect C.easy D.unpopular
【3】A.when B.why C.how D.where
【4】A.proud B.upset C.satisfied D.relieved
【5】A.suddenly B.carefully C.directly D.quickly
【6】A.confident B.curious C.excited D.sick
【7】A.look into B.refer to C.point out D.set aside
【8】A.heat B.protect C.store D.test
【9】A.Normally B.Unfortunately C.Naturally D.Strangely
【10】A.Therefore B.Otherwise C.Moreover D.However
【11】A.avoiding B.causing C.facing D.sensing
【12】A.awareness B.doubts C.fears D.cash
【13】A.ignore B.respect C.convince D.follow
【14】A.agreed B.failed C.pretended D.happened
【15】A.just B.still C.even D.yet
【16】A.approve B.attempt C.persuade D.demand
【17】A.call B.allow C.answer D.wait
【18】A.missed B.refused C.earned D.presented
【19】A.demands B.assesses C.collects D.recognizes
【20】A.apart from B.because of C.instead of D.far from
26、假如你是李华,你的英国笔友Jack来信询问中国人是如何庆祝国庆的。请根据以下提示,给他回一封电子邮件。
1. 普天同庆:大街小巷及各大商店焕然一新,悬挂中国国旗,有些出租车和私家车也悬挂国旗。
2. 休闲度假:国庆期间,人们可以外出旅游,也可以回家与家人团聚等.
3. 你自己度过这次国庆节的方式。
注意:
1. 不要逐字逐句翻译。
2. 词数100左右(开头与结尾已给出,不计入总词数)
参考词汇 国庆节:National Day 私家车:private car 国旗: national flag
Dear Jack,
You asked me in your letter how people in China celebrate National Day. Let me tell you.
Yours,
Li Hua