1、I wanted my mother to give me some money, but I _________a good scolding(责骂).
A.gave
B.had been given
C.had given
D.was given
2、The stormy and treacherous weather difficulty and uncertainty in the search for the missing passengers.
A.added to B.added up to C.added up D.added
3、The three-wheeled vehicle was very slow, small and low to the ground, making it look like a children’s toy ________ a proper vehicle for an adult.
A. more than B. other than
C. rather than D. less than
4、The film Avatar 2 _____in the USA in December , 2017 and then is brought to China.
A. will release B. will be released
C.is released D. to be released
5、The Greens’ shop has been broken into three times in the last two years, ______ resulting in their great loss.
A. each B. ever C. any D. either
6、—Did Tony win the game?
—No. Staying up late made him at his worst ________ physical situation.
A.in case of
B.in terms of
C.in favor of
D.in spite of
7、Walk faster,________you may catch up with your friends ahead.
A. or B. but
C. and D. yet
8、—Cathy,did you attend the lecture given by Mr.Black last night?
—No.I ______ a report at the office.
A.was writing
B.wrote
C.had written
D.have been writing
9、The number of smokers, ______ is reported, has dropped by 17 percent in just one year.
A. which B. as
C. that D. what
10、Don’t stop ________ you meet with a word you don’t understand.
A.at that time
B.each time
C.sometimes
D.before
11、 Children under fifteen are not permitted to see such kind of film _________ is bad fortheir mental development.
A. as B. what
C. which D. that
12、— How is your father feeling at present?
— He __ quite fine after the operation, but unluckily he is taking a turn for the worse today.
A. feels B. felt
C. has been feeling D. had felt
13、Afraid of making mistakes, students in this school are always slow in answering teachers’ questions, _____ is often the case in many other schools.
A.as
B.it
C.that
D.such
14、It’s more than half a century ________ my grandfather joined the Party and became a servant to the people.
A.when
B.that
C.since
D.as
15、Body language can ______ a lot about your mood , so standing with your arms folded can send out a signal that you are being defensive.
A. give away B. give up
C. give in D. give way
16、With more people _____the traffic rules, our city is becoming better organized.
A. respect B. being respected
C. respected D. respecting
17、The sportsman ________save a drowning boy that afternoon;the boy's parents appreciated him very much.
A. might B. could
C. was able to D. must
18、- The zookeeper was really annoyed with me.
- How could he have been if you ______ stones at the animals?( )
A.didn’t throw B.don’t throw
C.hadn’t thrown D.haven’t thrown
19、He got up late and hurried to his office, ___________ the breakfast _________.
A.left; untouched
B.to leave; untouching
C.leaving; untouched
D.having left; untouching
20、—Have the arrangements for the concert next Saturday been all ________?
—Not yet. We haven’t found a free band.
A.in store
B.in wonder
C.in turn
D.in place
21、Lenin Gutierrez was working his usual shift Starbucks when he noticed a customer, Amber Lynn Gilles, wasn’t wearing a face mask. San Diego County requires all residents to wear face masks in public places, including restaurants. According to the county, “Everyone should help protect others by following health orders.”
So when Gutierrez noticed Gilles wasn’t wearing a mask, he decided to follow the county’s guidelines. But it didn’t work out too well for him at first.
Gutierrez said he couldn’t serve her. This angered the woman, who has been referred to as “Karen” on social media. She cursed him before he had the chance to explain the county’s regulations. Then, she posted a picture of Gutierrez wearing a mask on Facebook, complaining that she wasn’t served when she walked into the coffee shop without wearing a mask.
Gilles probably thought she was going to attract attention with positive remarks about her, but it was just the opposite. Social media users supported Gutierrez, who was following the county’s order.
Within days after Gilles made her Facebook post, Matt Cowan created a GoFundMe page for Gutierrez. He described, “Raising money for Lenin for his honorable effort standing his ground when faced with a Karen in the wild.” Every donation made would be considered a “personal gift” to the barista (咖啡服务员).
Cowan didn’t think that many people would donate money, but he was quickly proven wrong. He added, “Everybody is rallying around (集体声援) somebody for doing what they’re supposed to do and trying to protect everyone else.”
Cowan plans to give the money to Gutierrez, who can then decide how he wants to use the donation. Gutierrez posted a video on his personal Facebook page, thanking everyone who donated money. With the donation, he can pursue his dream of becoming a dancer.
【1】Which of the following best describe Amber Lynn Gilles?
A.Mean.
B.Determined.
C.Selfish.
D.Responsible.
【2】Why did Cowan raise money for Lenin Gutierrez?
A.To show his kindness.
B.To attract people’s attention.
C.To help him realize his dream.
D.To praise Lenin Gutierrez for his behavior.
【3】What’s the attitude of the public toward Lenin Gutierrez?
A.Critical.
B.Supportive.
C.Negative.
D.Unconcerned.
【4】What can we learn from this text?
A.No rules, no justice.
B.Many hands make light work.
C.Helping others is helping ourselves.
D.Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door.
22、He ran between two defenders, past a third, and a couple of seconds later his team had two more points. At the end of his final game, on April 11, he had scored 30 points.
This was the end of a career for Dwyane Wade, nicknamed “Flash”. It was the 37-year-old’s last game for the Miami Heat and his last appearance on an NBA basketball court. Over his storied career, Wade played in 1,054 regular-season games and 177 post-season games, scored more than 23,000 points, appeared in three NBA championships and earned one Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) award.
Coming from Chicago, Wade’s attitude and style of play moved many people, including former US President Barack Obama. “Whenever you got knocked down, you always showed us how to get back up,” Obama said in a video. “You showed some Chicago spirit... and you did us proud.”
Wade broke down the door to the NBA in 2003 with his outstanding ball-handling skills and jumping ability. He had a strong principle, taking practice as seriously as he took games. He trained in the gym by himself during the off-season and exercised hard to stay in shape.
Wade has also spoken out on social issues. In 2012, 17-year-old Heat fan Trayvon Martin, an African-American, was shot in a racist (种族主义的) attack on his way home from watching the NBA All-Star Game. Wade, together with LeBron James, led the Miami Heat squad, pulling up their hoodies (连帽衫) in support of justice for Martin, who had his hoodie up when he was killed. Wade hoped this action would bring attention to racist violence.
In 2003, he founded the Wade’s World Foundation, which provides support to various education, health, and family service programs. “Obviously, I’m one person. I can’t change the world, but I can help affect change in communities,” Wade told ESPN. “That’s what I want to continue to do.”
This is not the end of Wade’s story. He wants to continue fighting for economic and social equality (平等) in the US.
【1】How many games did Wade play in his professional career?
A.1,054.
B.177.
C.23,000.
D.1,231.
【2】Wade was praised by Obama because of ________ .
A.his strong will
B.his flexible playing style
C.his excellent skills
D.his great aim
【3】Why did Wade and his teammates pull up their hoodies?
A.To follow Martin’s heroic behaviour.
B.To support Martin.
C.To try on the latest fashion.
D.To show racial equality.
【4】This passage is mainly about Wade’s ________.
A.outstanding professional career
B.wonderful life experiences
C.achievements in social equality
D.influence in sports and society
23、Maggie Perkins had been working as a teacher in Georgia for nearly five years before she decided to “quietly quit” her job. The decision didn’t mean leaving her position, but rather limiting her work to her contract(合同) hours, nothing more and nothing less.
Perkins joins a larger online community of workers who have been sharing their experiences on TikTok. But as “quiet quitters” defend their choice to take a step back from work, company managers and workplace experts argue that although doing less might feel good in the short term, it could harm their career and their company in the long run.
In the wake of the global pandemic and the following Great Resignation, employees began to reimagine what work could look like. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report in June found job dissatisfaction being at an all-time high. Disengaged(工作不投入的) workers cost the global economy about $7.8 trillion in lost productivity.
But with worries of an economic slowdown, and falling worker productivity, Johnny C. Taylor Jr., president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, warns that anyone who tells their business leader they are a quiet quitter is likely not to have a job for very long. He says companies have become sensitive to worker burnout, especially for employees who are working from home.
Gergo Vari, CEO of the job board Lensa, suggests another choice for quiet quitting: “loudly persisting(坚持)” . That is, allowing employees to speak up about how their organization can serve their goals. “When you loudly persist, you have a sense of belonging and have a share in where the company is going,” he says.
Career coach Allison Peck says she views “quiet quitting” as a sign of employees not connecting to their work or managers. Her career advice for quiet quitters is to take even braver action. “Finding a new job, manager, team, or company that better fits you can improve your attitude towards work,” she says.
【1】What will “quiet quitters” do in real life?
A.They quit their jobs.
B.They work part-time.
C.They hate their jobs.
D.They refuse extra work.
【2】What consequence will “quiet quitters” bring?
A.A global economic loss.
B.Less competition at work.
C.Conflicts between colleagues.
D.A shortage of labor on the market.
【3】In Johnny’s view, who do companies care about more regarding worker burnout?
A.Those working at home.
B.Those taking several jobs.
C.Those just returning to offices.
D.Those sticking to their duties.
【4】Instead of quiet quitting, what should employees do according to Gergo Vari?
A.Find a more suitable job.
B.Improve their work efficiency.
C.Get along with their colleagues.
D.Speak up about their demand for the company.
24、 The world is too big to take in all at once. To make sense and beauty of it, you have to look at a small part at a time.
In using a camera, you choose a small part through he view finder. You move the camera, “framing” pictures until you see one that pleases you. Then-click! If you make a good choice, your picture will please others, as well as yourself.
“Wherever you are,” says photographer Ernst Haas, “you are surrounded by pictures. The trick is to recognize them.” His photograph of a twist of barbed wire shows what he means.
Mr. Haas tells us of ways to practice seeing. Make a simple frame of black cardboard. Take it out of the doors and look through it at everyday things, large or small, far away or near.
At first you may see nothing to interest you. But soon pictures seem to leap (跳) at you through the frame. Oil floating on water makes a picture in rainbow colors. Three people on the steps of an old house form a picture that seems to tells a story.
Did you notice such things before you used the frame? Perhaps not. But, with practice, you soon do not need its help. You see things as artists do. Everywhere, shapes and colors catch your eye. Your mind takes “snapshots (快照)” of their patterns. Then, if you wish, you can share what you see by taking a photograph or by making a drawing or a painting.
Sometimes it’s fun to “see small”. Did you ever notice the design of the seeds in sliced bananas? Have you looked deep inside a lily? Or seen the starburst in the center of a wet ice cube?
Do you see colors as they really are? When you paint tree trunks, you would make them brown or black. But tree trunks are really gray, purple, yellow-green—almost any color except brown or black!
Do you notice detail? Doing so can be in many ways. Remembering what you see is often useful, too. Practice can help you.
A trick for helping you to remember detail is the double take. Look—don’t look—then look again.
【1】What does the underlined word “trick” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. joke B. magic
C. habit D. skill
【2】What does the author want to tell us?
A. The better you learn to see, the more alive you are.
B. Walking in the country, you should look closely at the trunks.
C. A branch with a few leaves fills the frame with a beautiful design.
D. Close your eyes and try to remember how it looks.
【3】Which of the fallowing is true according to the text?
A. When you paint trees, you would make them gray.
B. Glance at a bill and you remember how it looked.
C. Seeing is one way of living.
D. Give a second look and you remember all the detail.
【4】What is the main idea of the text?
A. The world is too big to travel around.
B. Look around—and see!
C. Wherever you are, a camera is important.
D. A good way to see is to carry a camera
25、 As a music teacher, I will be retiring at the end of the current school year. When that checklist from the HR department about my __ plans for the next school year arrived, I was feeling __
My music room was in the basement. Heating pipes hung from the ceiling and large ___columns ran floor-to-ceiling,making __ challenging. I had seen kids come to school with bruises(擦伤)or cigarette burns on their arms. I had had my purse stolen. I had been pushed up against a wall and __ breathless by an angry eighth- grade girl.
When this year started,things were going much __.Kids were coming before school and during break to learn __ to play,and by Christmas,we had a concert band of 100 kids. Good behavior and fascinated attention led to __ rehearsals(排练).As the students' playing improved,I could see their pride and sense of __ grow.I hadn't even thought about the checklist. Then one afternoon, there it was. I picked it up, planning to go back to my office to sign it ___ But holding it in my hand,I was ___ by thoughts and emotions I hadn't anticipated. I felt like a mother __ her children. I have loved unexpected comments of kids. __ ,I have enjoyed the challenges of motivating the unmotivated as well as the 30-second conversations with teachers,making me embrace the___ learning and growing.
The checklist suddenly made me feel __,old and sad. I stood where I was, checked the box and sent it to the HR. Then I walked the long hallway back toward the music room...
【1】A.treatment B.family C.employment D.travel
【2】A.thrilled B.embarrassed C.relieved D.discouraged
【3】A.plain-looking B.weight-bearing C.environment-friendly D.energy-consuming
【4】A.breath B.advance C.growth D.movement
【5】A.choked B.transferred C.attached D.surrounded
【6】A.worse B.better C.further D.harder
【7】A.how B.what C.where D.when
【8】A.booming B.winding C.fulfilling D.varying
【9】A.security B.taste C.belonging D.accomplishment
【10】A.in sight B.in private C.in place D.in brief
【11】A.overwhelmed B.sustained C.swung D.regulated
【12】A.rejecting B.denying C.abandoning D.removing
【13】A.Contrarily B.Meanwhile C.Accordingly D.Otherwise
【14】A.fundamental B.independent C.voluntary D.constant
【15】A.helpless B.speechless C.useless D.priceless
26、假如你是李华,计划这个周日和同学一起去阳光儿童福利院(the Sunshine Children's Home)看望孩子们,想邀请外教Chris一同前往。请给他写一封电子邮件,内容包括:
1.出发及返回时间;
2.具体活动安排。
注意:
1.词数80左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Chris,
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Yours,
Li Hua