1、What’s touching about being a volunteer is seeing _____ helping brings out the best in people.
A. what B. whether
C. why D. how
2、–There is a story here in the paper about a 110-year-old man.
--My goodness! I can’t imagine ______that old. .
A. to be B. to have been
C. being D. having been
3、She lost her temper, ______ I decided to go back home.
A. in this case B. in which occasion
C. at which point D. in the event
4、Have you ever seen a flock of geese heading south for the winter flying along in a V formations? Learning to synergize is like learning to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You"ll be amazed at how much faster and farther you' ll go! Therefore, synergy is not _________.
A.celebrating differences B.working independently
C.open-mindedness D.finding new better ways
5、Cunningham would go out onto the streets of New York each day, ________ the weather.
A.rather than
B.in terms of
C.regardless of
D.due to
6、A famous old name on a firm is not necessarily a ______ of quality.
A.guarantee B.security C.certainty D.qualify
7、What is known to all is ________ the outstanding academic atmosphere, as well as various festivals and sports________ many students to our school.
A.what; draw
B.that; draw
C.what; draws
D.that; draws
8、The film ________ on the novel by Simpson has got the first prize in the Oscar film festival.
A.based
B.basing
C.bases
D.being based
9、It's an either-or situation—we can buy a new car this year or we can go on holiday but we can't do ________.
A.others B. either
C.another D. both
10、The newly-shown movie is well worth ________. Hence, your first main job today is ________ to the cinema! I assume that this experience you’ve been looking forward to ________ rewarding.
A.being seen; going; being
B.seeing; to go; is
C.seeing; to go; being
D.being seen; to go; is
11、We should take effective measures to the infectious disease.
A. work out B. stamp out C. turn out D. carry out
12、As is known to all language learners, newly learnt words will soon be forgotten unless ______.
A. exactly B. finally C. frequently D. gradually
13、—Its so hard to find a job with a degree in literature.
—Yeah, ________.
A.you can’t be serious
B.I know what you mean
C.it’s not a requirement
D.I didn’t get it
14、I was watching an English movie when a thought me that I could actually improve my vocabulary in this way.
A.occurred to B.happened to C.switched to D.struck to
15、_______all my classmates, I wish to say thanks to the teachers for giving us so much support.
A.In spite of
B.Instead of
C.On behalf of
D.Regardless of
16、I was eager to have these photos _________ because I wanted to send them to my mother.
A. developing B. developed
C. to develop D. develop
17、She was the first woman________to the board.
A. to be appointed B. having been appointed
C. appointing D. to appoint
18、When you snack (吃零食)throughout the day, it's easy to lose _______ of how much you've eaten.
A.sight B.track C.balance D.contact
19、A quick review of successes and failures at the end of year will help _________your year ahead.
A.shape
B.switch
C.stretch
D.sharpen
20、—How was your recent trip to Sichuan?
—I’ve never had ________one before.
A.a pleasant B.a more pleasant
C.a most pleasant D.the most pleasant
21、“Homestay is a form of study-abroad program.It allows the visitor to stay with a local family to better understand the local lifestyle.It also helps to improve the visitor’s language ability.If you wish to learn more about foreign cultures or to get foreign experience,you should join this kind of holiday.【1】” said a teacher during a school meeting last term.
【2】 At last,I had such a chance to go on such a holiday with some of my schoolmates last month.We went to London,a place where I had wanted to go since years ago.
After we got to London,we went to stay with different families.I was lucky that my host family (寄宿家庭)was a white couple who had a daughter about my age.【3】 They were interested in me and I learnt a lot of things from them.
【4】 After breakfast,a local teacher would come to take us in his car.Then we would have classes or go on a sight-seeing trip to different places of interest like Big Ben and London Bridge.We would go back to our own homes after the activities.
The holiday was a valuable experience for me.I enjoyed every minute of it.【5】 Three weeks later,we had to leave “home” for Hong Kong.
A.Yes,time really flew fast.
B.I am sure you won’t be disappointed.
C.After this meeting,I always thought about this kind of holiday.
D.It took me 8 hours to fly to London.
E.They treated me as a daughter of their family.
F.The holiday was filled with activities every day.
G.This is really a good choice.
22、 Besides regularly donating blood, Ashish, the 48 year- old surgeon also encourages others to do the same through Bloodline, a nonprofit association he founded in 2017.
According to Ashish, who has been a doctor at a United Family Healthcare hospital in Shanghai since 2007, Bloodline is aimed at creating a blood bank that can help the community as well as individuals with rare blood types who face an urgent need for blood.
“My father, a doctor who specialized in treating chest infections, only charged those who could afford the medical treatment. For those who couldn't pay, he never mentioned money and instead gave them the drugs for free." he says.
During his growing up years, Ashish was also exposed to social services, helping collect food and money for a local children's hospital.
Ashish first donated blood when he was 18. After arriving in China in 2003, Ashish learned mandarin at Fudan University in Shanghai before becoming a graduate student in general surgery at Shanghai Huashan Hospital. Here, he continued participating in blood donation drives as his way of giving back to society. In 2011, he became a volunteer at the Shanghai Blood Center where he helped raise public awareness about blood donations.
The idea of setting up an online community for this cause came in 2013 as he believed that there should be a group of expats who get together voluntarily to work with patients and organize regular gatherings to raise public awareness. In 2017, this community was officially registered as Bloodline.
“Our organization currently has a presence in 14 cities, including Beijing, Dalian, and Guangzhou. I's often a small group of people in each city but they can help a great deal." says Ashish, who holds the roles of ambassador and director of the foreign volunteers group at the Shanghai Blood Center.
Ashish has also placed greater emphasis on raising awareness of their causes in children, noting that people from the younger generations are more receptive to the idea of donating blood. Bloodline is currently planning to launch a junior club within the organization where youth will get to tour blood donation centers, witness how the blood is processed, who the end users are, and the difference that they can make to the lives of those in need of blood.
“We come from different countries and have different skin colors but the blood streaming through our bodies is the same. When there is a need to roll up sleeves and save lives, we will step forward bravely." he says.
【1】The aim of Bloodline is to ________.
A.assist people with rare blood type
B.reduce the financial burden of poor people
C.help people with urgent need for rare blood
D.raise public awareness about blood donation
【2】According to the passage, we know that Ashish ________.
A.benefited from blood donation himself
B.got involved in other social services as well
C.received his medical degree in Fu Dan University
D.got the idea of founding Bloodline from his father
【3】What does the passage mainly convey to us?
A.Love is without boundaries.
B.Hard work leads to success.
C.One needs to return the favour.
D.Family influences children most.
23、Saying no can be really tough. Maybe a friend is asking you for a favor, or a co-worker is asking you to cover their shift for the afternoon. 【1】 Don’t worry. We’ve put together plenty of tips and tricks to help you in the future.
Keep your refusal simple. Refusing someone doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, experts suggest keeping your explanation short, sweet, and to the point. When you give a long, drawn-out explanation about why you can’t do something, the requester may keep prodding(促进、刺激) you. Give a short, brief explanation instead. You might say, “Sorry, I’m busy that day” or “I’d love to help, but my schedule is tied up at the moment.” 【2】
【3】 See if someone else can help out. Chances are, you aren’t the only person out there who can lend the requester a hand. After saying no, recommend someone else who might be able to help in the meantime.
Get back to them if you feel nervous. 【4】 In many cases, a simple “Let me think about it” can buy you a little more time. If you don’t want to meet their request but don’t have an excuse lined up, this is the option for you.
Thank the person instead of feeling annoyed. Try to view their request in a positive light. 【5】 Instead of feeling annoyed or obligated, thank them for thinking of you, even if you aren’t able to help out.
A.Suggest an alternative.
B.Give an excuse for an easy out.
C.There’s no rule saying you have to answer right away.
D.If your first refusal doesn’t get the message across, stand strong.
E.How can you stand your ground without feeling guilty?
F.The fact that they reached out means that they probably think you’re responsible and trustworthy, which is definitely a kind of praise.
G.You could also say, “No, I’ve got a lot on my plate this weekend” or “Sorry, that doesn’t really interest me.”
24、How does an ecosystem (生态系统) work? What makes the populations of different species the way they are? Why are there so many flies and so few wolves? To find an answer, scientists have built mathematical models of food webs, noting who eats whom and how much each one eats.
With such models, scientists have found out some key principles operating in food webs. Most food webs, for instance, consist of many weak links rather than a few strong ones. When a predator (掠食动物) always eats huge numbers of a single prey (猎物) , the two species are strongly linked; when a predator lives on various species, they are weakly linked. Food webs may be dominated by many weak links because that arrangement is more stable over the long term. If a predator can eat several species, it can survive the extinction (灭绝) of one of them. And if a predator can move on to another species that is easier to find when a prey species becomes rare, the switch allows the original prey to recover. The weak links may thus keep species from driving one another to extinction.
Mathematical models have also revealed that food webs may be unstable, where small changes of top predators can lead to big effects throughout entire ecosystems. In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species—including species they did not directly attack.
And unplanned human activities have proved the idea of top-down control by top predators to be true. In the ocean, we fished for top predators such as cod on an industrial scale, while on land, we killed off large predators such as wolves. These actions have greatly affected the ecological balance.
Scientists have built an early-warning system based on mathematical models. Ideally, the system would tell us when to adapt human activities that are pushing an ecosystem toward a breakdown or would even allow us to pull an ecosystem back from the borderline. Prevention is key, scientists say, because once ecosystems pass their tipping point (临界点) , it is remarkably difficult for them to return.
【1】A strong link is found between two species when a predator ______.
A.has a wide food choice
B.can easily find new prey
C.sticks to one prey species
D.can quickly move to another place
【2】What will happen if the populations of top predators in a food web greatly decline?
A.The prey species they directly attack will die out.
B.The species they indirectly attack will turn into top predators.
C.The living environment of other species will remain unchanged.
D.The populations of other species will experience unexpected changes.
【3】What conclusion can be drawn from the examples in Paragraph 4?
A.Uncontrolled human activities greatly upset ecosystems.
B.Rapid economic development threatens animal habitats.
C.Species of commercial value dominate other species.
D.Industrial activities help keep food webs stable.
【4】How does an early-warning system help us maintain the ecological balance?
A.By getting illegal practices under control.
B.By stopping us from killing large predators.
C.By bringing the broken-down ecosystems back to normal.
D.By signaling the urgent need for taking preventive action.
25、Never criticize someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. During the past twenty-five years, I’ve often found that the message used to be on my fridge has helped me see _________ from a different view.
Once I was on my way to a party with several _________. As we were leaving the office, we met another colleague, Wendy, who had _________ planned to attend the event. We asked her to go together, but she _________ our invitation roughly (粗暴地). My other colleagues were quite annoyed and clearly _________ with Wendy’s behaviour.
_________ how tired Wendy appeared, I commented that perhaps we should forgive her. She was _________ having a bad day, and it wasn’t worth holding a grudge (恶意) against her if we weren’t _________ of what led to her unusual behaviour. A week later, I _________ that Wendy had a serious illness. Wendy wasn’t being ______________ to us but she had just received very bad news.
Whether it’s a family member who let me ______________, a friend who betrayed (背叛) my ______________, or a difficult colleague, the words ______________ me. Although it’s not always easy to ______________, I’ve been able to get rid of a lot of ______________ over the years by focusing on my magical sentence.
【1】
A.consequences
B.situations
C.rules
D.results
【2】
A.customers
B.colleagues
C.neighbors
D.relatives
【3】
A.frequently
B.eventually
C.previously
D.occasionally
【4】
A.refused
B.accepted
C.suspected
D.ignored
【5】
A.angry
B.content
C.strict
D.pleased
【6】
A.Depending upon
B.Reflecting on
C.Comparing with
D.Accounting for
【7】
A.naturally
B.accidentally
C.seriously
D.obviously
【8】
A.afraid
B.aware
C.ashamed
D.fond
【9】
A.learned
B.guessed
C.determined
D.concluded
【10】
A.selfish
B.aggressive
C.rude
D.impatient
【11】
A.out
B.in
C.down
D.off
【12】
A.judgment
B.respect
C.ability
D.trust
【13】
A.honors
B.persuades
C.guides
D.follows
【14】
A.persuade
B.achieve
C.forgive
D.appreciate
【15】
A.trouble
B.danger
C.pressure
D.annoyance
26、阅读下面材料, 根据其内界和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。
注意:
I have kept a watch from my grandfather. When I was a schoolboy,the watch hung by my grandfather's bed. The face was marked with elegant Roman numerals and the case was gold. It was a splendid watch and I often stared at it longingly sitting with my grandfather. He would often ask about my progress at school. The day I told him my success in the examinations,he was overcome with pleasure. “You'll be going to a new school next. And then you'll go to university,will you?”he asked. “But you'll need plenty of patience. Patience and hard work. That's the way to succeed.”
He took off the watch and wound it. “It was given me for fifty years of faithful service with my firm,” he said proudly. Finally,he handed me the watch due to the progress in school. I held it,feeling its weight. As I was leaving him,he said,“And you'll not forget what I told you?” I was suddenly very moved. “No,Granddad,” I promised,“I'll not.”
Arriving home,my mother was to hold it in trust until she considered me old enough to look after it,but I protested so strongly that she finally agreed to hang it where I could always see it. The summer ended and it was time for me to enter the new school. I never made friends easily there. One boy,Crawley,was a welltodo fellow whose way of impressing us was to show off his possessions. His bicycle was new;his boots were of the best hide;everything,in fact,was better than ours—until he brought a watch. Crawley said his watch was absolutely the finest watch.
“I have a better watch,” I announced. “Well,show it to us,”Crawley said sneeringly(讽刺地).“I'll bring it this afternoon,” I said. “Then you'll see.” I rode my bike home,wondering how I would persuade my mother to let me take the watch. Luckily,she stepped outside and I slipped the watch into my pocket.
1. 续写词数应为150左石:
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:
I rode my bike fast to school after lunch,excitement through me.
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Paragraph 2:
When I said my mother couldn't let me bring the watch,they burst into laughter.
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