1、— ______ is it that makes you so happy?
—The fact that our volleyball team has got into the final.
A.Which B.Why C.Who D.What
2、— How did ________ feel to run 3,000 meters at the sports meeting?
—Terrible! Especially when I saw I was left so far ________ by others.
A.that; alone B.it; alone C.that; behind D.it; behind
3、The economist argues that no society can surely be flourishing and happy, ________ of the members are poor and miserable.
A.of which the far greater part
B.of which far greater part
C.of whom the far greater part
D.of whom far greater part
4、By 16:30, ______ was almost closing time, nearly all the paintings had been sold.
A.which B.when C.what D.that
5、The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain ____ as the plane was making a landing.
A. to be seated B. seating
C. to be seating D. seated
6、At last, I should thank Mr. White for the ________ of speaking here.
A.prejudice B.privilege C.ambition D.favor
7、American Indians_______ about 5% of the US population.
A.keep off B.keep up C.make up for D.make up
8、(2014·东北三省三校一联)Traffic conditions in Beijing________for decades.At first people only complained about jams during rush hours,but today every hour is rush hour.
A.is worsening
B.have worsened
C.have been worsening
D.worsened
9、Harvard has the right to ________ offers of acceptance if an admitted student engages in behavior that brings into question his or her honesty, maturity or moral character.
A. take B. reject
C. withdraw D. split
10、Have any new novels about solving murder cases ____ up to the present?
A. come out B. come about C. brought about D. brought out
11、Rather than ___ on a crowded bus, he always prefers _____ a bicycle.
A.ride; to ride
B.riding; ride
C.ride; ride
D.to ride; riding
12、If people don’t learn from this, his suffering and death were________.
A.in comfort B.in vain C.in despair D.in hope
13、________ comes first to the class room can get a free ticket for the lecture.
A.Anyone
B.The one
C.Whoever
D.Who
14、 —Excuse me, but I want to use your computer to type a report.
—You _____ have my computer if you don’t take care of it.
A.shan’t B.might not C.needn’t D.shouldn’t
15、In the _______ of proof, the police could not take action against the man.
A.lack
B.shortage
C.absence
D.failure
16、 into English , the sentence was found to have an entirely different word order.
A. Translating B. Translated
C. To translate D. Having translated
17、After five days’ climbing in the mountain, they reached ____ they thought was the place they’d been dreaming of.
A.that
B.where
C.which
D.what
18、Climate change has arrived and is _____ faster than many scientists expected.
A.uniting B.accelerating C.declining D.twisting
19、It’s not doing the things we like, but liking the things we have to do______ makes life happy.
A. that B. which
C. what D. who
20、Scientists are hoping for a ____________ in the search for a cure for cancer.
A. reputation B. breakthrough
C. civilization D. sensation
21、Stars ___________ their own light, while planets only ___________ the light.
A.give off; reflect B.give away; reflect C.reflect; give off D.reflect; give away
22、Nobody believed the reason ________ he was absent from the class was ________ he had to meet his uncle in the airport.
A.why; why
B.that; that
C.why; that
D.which; that
23、Millions of pounds' worth of damage by a storm which swept across the north of England last night.
A.will be caused B.had been caused
C.has been caused D.will have been caused
24、Heat the water. ___________, it will freeze.
A.However B.Otherwise C.Meanwhile D.Therefore
25、Festival celebrations provide a(n) ____ to celebrate together, sharing warmth and good times.
A.pipe B.patent C.avenue D.antique
26、It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious to the listeners, why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say, they hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech — “I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumbles over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
【1】You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ________.
A.you find the way of speech-making more important
B.you don’t fully understand the speech
C.you attention is on the content
D.you don’t know what the speaker plans to say
【2】What does the underlined phrase “stumbles over” in Paragraph 2?
A.Walks wrongly.
B.Makes an error with.
C.Misunderstands.
D.Forgets.
【3】It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A.one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
B.giving a speech is like giving a performance
C.the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
D.the more mistake a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be
【4】Which of the following statements is true?
A.If you are careful enough, you can make a perfect speech.
B.Listeners are not judges and they pay more attention to the message.
C.Speech-making is a kind of performance.
D.Martin Luther King is not a good speaker.
27、Many children love using a trampoline(蹦床)for fun. They love the excitement the activity brings to them. But are trampolines safe to use?
Starting in the early 1990s, trampolines saw a major increase in popularity. In 1989, 140,000 trampolines were sold in the United States and by 1998 that number had increased to 640,000. But with the increase in popularity there was a rise in pain. From 1990 to 1995, trampolines-related injuries jumped by 98% and in 1999 over 100,000 kids were treated in the emergency room because of using trampolines.
The data behind the danger is clear, but parents may not know that even though trampolines are made for children, they are not suitable for kids under the age of six. Kait Ellen posted an article on Facebook about her visit to a trampoline gym with her son Colton. Actually the visit was anything but enjoyable for the little guy. Colton, who was three years old, broke his bone while jumping up and down on a trampoline. And in her article there was a warning from a government department, which advised that children under the age of six should never use a trampoline.
In 2004, the first indoor trampoline park opened Thursday in LasVegas, Nevada and parks have been growing rapidly ever since. Parents should keep in mind the advice of experts for keeping their kids safe. To keep your kids from getting injured while using trampolines, you’d better keep them away from them.
【1】What’s the author’s purpose in writing Paragraph 2?
A.To make comparisons.
B.To show trampolines’ popularity in America.
C.To advise people to buy trampolines.
D.To prove trampolines are unsafe.
【2】How did Kait Ellen learn the danger of trampolines?
A.Through the advice of expert.
B.Through a government department.
C.Through her son’s accident.
D.Through the data behind the danger.
【3】What’s the author’s attitude towards trampolines?
A.Negative
B.Cautious
C.Uncertain.
D.Approving.
【4】What’s the passage mainly about ?
A.Kids can easily get hurt while playing.
B.Trampolines are dangerous for kids under 6.
C.Parents often make trampolines for their children.
D.Trampolines are very popular with children.
28、 Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at — nothing — at nothing, simply.
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly by a feeling of happiness — absolute happiness.
Oh, is there no way you can express it without being “drunk and disorderly”? How stupid civilization is! Why should you be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle(小提琴)?
“No, that about the fiddle is not quite what I mean,” she thought, running up the steps and feeling in her bag for the key — she’d forgotten it, as usual — and rattling the letter-box. “It’s not what I mean, because — Thank you, Mary” — she went into the hall. “Is nurse back?”
“Yes, M’m.”
“I’ll go upstairs.” And she ran upstairs to the nursery.
Nurse sat at a low table giving Little B her supper after her bath. The baby looked up when she saw her mother and began to jump.
“Now, my lovey, eat it up like a good girl,” said nurse, setting her lips in a way that Bertha knew, and that meant she had come into the nursery at another wrong moment.
“Has she been good, Nanny?”
“She’s been a little sweet all the afternoon,” whispered Nanny. “We went to the park and I sat down on a chair and took her out of the pram (婴儿车) and a big dog came along and she pulled its ear. Oh, you should have seen her.”
Bertha wanted to ask if it wasn’t rather dangerous to let her pull a strange dog’s ear. But she did not dare to. She stood watching them, her hands by her side, like the poor little girl in front of the rich girl with the doll.
The baby looked up at her again, stared, and then smiled so charmingly that Bertha couldn’t help crying.
“Oh, Nanny, do let me finish giving her supper while you put the bath things away.
“Well, M’m, she oughtn’t to be changed hands while she’s eating,” said Nanny, still whispering. “It unsettles her, it’s very likely to upset her.”
How absurd it was. Why have a baby if it has to be kept—not in a case like a rare, rare fiddle — but in another woman’s arms?
“Oh, I must!” said she.
Very offended, Nanny handed her over.
“Now, don’t excite her after her supper. You know you do, M’m. And I have such a time with her after!”
Thank heaven! Nanny went out of the room with the bath towels.
“Now I’ve got you to myself, my little precious,” said Bertha, as the baby learned against her.
She ate delightfully, holding up her lips for the spoon and then waving her hands. Sometimes she wouldn’t let the spoon go; and sometimes just as Bertha had filled it, she waved it away to the four winds.
When the soup was finished Bertha turned round to the fire. “You’re nice — you’re very nice!” said she, kissing her warm baby. “I’m fond of you. I like you.”
And indeed, she loved Little B so much — her neck as she bent forward, her pretty toes as they shone transparent in the firelight — that all her feeling of happiness came back again, and again she didn’t know how to express it — what to do with it.
“You’re wanted on the telephone,” said Nanny, coming back in victory and seizing her Little B.
【1】In paragraph 3 and 15, a “rare, rare fiddle” is used to show that ________.
A.Bertha is frustrated by not feeling free to express her musical talents
B.wealthy mothers are not allowed to look after their children
C.Bertha considers her baby girl an extraordinary child
D.people of a certain age are expected to follow a certain code of behavior
【2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 11 imply?
A.Bertha wishes to have care-giving time with her baby.
B.Bertha lacks emotional and psychological strength.
C.Bertha desires a closer relationship with Nanny.
D.Bertha suffers from an unrealistic hope of having more babies.
【3】Which of the following best describes the relationship between Bertha and Nanny?
A.Bertha feels that Nanny is a competent nurse and will do anything liberate her from chores.
B.Nanny considers herself the baby’s primary caregiver and Bertha just an occasional visitor.
C.Bertha prefers to leave the child in Nanny’s care so that she can fulfill her inappropriate fantasies.
D.Nanny is tired of working hard for Bertha and would like to find other pleasant employment.
【4】Which of the following sentences best describes Nanny’s possessiveness (占有欲)?
A.“She’s been a little sweet all the afternoon,” whispered Nanny. “...Oh. you should have seen her.”
B.“Now, my lovey, eat it up like a good girl,” said nurse, setting her lips in a way that Bertha knew.
C.“Now, don’t excite her after her supper. You know you do, M’m. And I have such a time with her after!”
D.“You’re wanted on the telephone,” said Nanny, coming back in victory and seizing her Little B.
29、Learning a second language is tricky at any age. Now, in a new study, scientists have worked out the exact age at which your chances of reaching fluency in a second language seem to drop: 10.
The study, published in the journal Cognition, found that it's nearly impossible for language learners to reach native-level fluency if they start learning a second tongue after age 10. But that's not because language skills start to go downhill. "It turns out you're still learning fast, "says study co-author Joshua Hartshorne, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College. "It's just that you run out of time, because your ability to learn starts dropping at around 17 or 18 years old. People who start a few years after age 10 may still become quite good at a language," the authors say, "but they are unlikely to become fluent." Kids may be better than adults at learning new languages for many reasons. Children's brains are more plastic than those of adults, meaning they're better able to adapt and respond to new information. "All learning involves the brain changing," Hartshorne says, "and children's brains seem to be a lot more skillful at changing. " Kids may also be more willing to try new things and to potentially look foolish in the process than adults are. Their comparatively new grasp on their native tongue may also be advantageous. Unlike adults, who tend to obey the rules and patterns of their first language, kids may be able to approach a new one with a blank page.
These findings might seem discouraging, but it was heartening for scientists to learn that the critical(关键的) period for fluent language acquisition might be longer than previously thought. Some scientists believed that the window began to close shortly after birth, while others extended it to early adolescence. Compared with those estimates (评估), age 17 or 18 — when language-learning ability starts to drop off—may seem relatively old.
【1】What is the best period to learn a second language?
A.Before ten.
B.Early adolescence.
C.Age fifteen.
D.Age seventeen or eighteen.
【2】When it comes to new things, what does the writer think of kids compared with adults?
A.They're less skillful.
B.They're less interested.
C.They're more flexible.
D.They're more stubborn.
【3】What does the underlined word "window" in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Interest.
B.Chance.
C.Confidence.
D.Motivation.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A.It's Never Too late to Learn a Second Language.
B.It Takes Time to Be Good at a Second Language.
C.Do We Really Need to Learn Foreign Languages?
D.Why Kids Learn Languages More Easily than Adults.
30、 It started when I called 911 after finding my partner unconscious on the floor. Within ________, a police car arrived, followed by a(n) ________ filled with doctors and nurses who ________ my partner to the emergency room, where he received the critical ________ he needed.
A week later, I wrote thank-you notes and ________ them off at the police station and the ________ with packs of still-warm chocolate cakes made by myself. After the firefighters thanked me for ________ the gifts, I drove away feeling both ________ and happy.
Whenever you express gratefulness, you make yourself happier. But when you share it directly with the person you feel grateful to, the benefits ________.
John Kralik of California ________ this firsthand. Divorced twice, he wasn’t as close with his children as he wanted to be, and his law practice wasn’t earning money despite the ________ hours he devoted to working. At a particularly ________ point, he remembered his grandfather telling him decades earlier about the importance of ________. He decided to write 365 thank-you notes over 365 days, hoping for a ________ change.
_____ he noticed that his attitude and his ________ improved. At the end of his thank-you note year, he wrote an autobiography about his experience, A Simple Act of Gratitude: How Learning to Say Thank You ________ My Life. “I don’t need a scientific study to know that if you are grateful to people and if you learn how to accept gratitude well from other people, your life will be ________,” Kralik says. “The first effects are that you realize you have a much better life than you thought.”
That’s the magic of the two simple words, which can ________ blood pressure, improve sleep, and ________ relationships, “Thank you!”
【1】A.years B.days C.hours D.minutes
【2】A.truck B.ambulance C.bus D.motorcycle
【3】A.called B.persuaded C.rushed D.dragged
【4】A.treatment B.money C.advice D.information
【5】A.cut B.tore C.dropped D.saw
【6】A.bank B.school C.library D.firehouse
【7】A.buying B.delivering C.promoting D.selling
【8】A.light B.sad C.nervous D.hopeless
【9】A.decrease B.stop C.disappear D.accumulate
【10】A.offered B.experienced C.denied D.challenged
【11】A.exhausting B.limited C.desirable D.attractive
【12】A.exciting B.discouraging C.perfect D.dangerous
【13】A.education B.economy C.career D.gratitude
【14】A.passive B.frequent C.positive D.negative
【15】A.Immediately B.Temporarily C.Constantly D.Permanently
【16】A.health B.skills C.fortunes D.production
【17】A.Lit Up B.Escaped From C.Walked Out Of D.Broke Into
【18】A.created B.ruined C.described D.enriched
【19】A.monitor B.raise C.lower D.measure
【20】A.destroy B.strengthen C.end D.expose
31、 Hawthorne worked as a clerk in a small company. He suffered a heavy _______ when he lost his job.His boss had spoken _______, “Your services are no longer needed.” Hawthorne left the building filled with despair.By the time he reached home, he was in deep _______.When he entered his house, he blurted out(脱口而出) to his wife Sophia, “I lost my job.I am a complete _______.” A tense silence followed._______ a smile crept across Sophia's _______. “What great news!” she responded, “Now you can write the book you have always wanted to write.”
“But I have no job and no prospect of a job,” he _______, completely without hope.“If I _______ to be an author, then what will we _______? Where will the money come from?”
Sophia took her husband by the hand and ________ him to the kitchen.Opening a drawer, she took out a box that was full of ________.“Where on earth did you get this?” Hawthorne asked.“To whom does it ________?”
“It's ours!” Sophia replied."I always knew that one day you would become a great writer ________ you were given the chance.From the money you gave me for housekeeping every week, I have ________ as much as I could ________ you would have your chance.Now there is enough to ________ us a whole year.”
What a(n) ________! What a wife! The ________ husband did concentrate on writing that year, and the novel he wrote became a literary masterpiece.The book is The Scarlet Letter.Sophia had an even greater ________, -- she turned Nathaniel Hawthorne from a poor clerk into a world famous ________.
【1】A.headache B.blow C.disease D.affection
【2】A.rudely B.ambiguously C.patiently D.hesitantly
【3】A.thrill B.trouble C.relief D.sadness
【4】A.danger B.fool C.failure D.glory
【5】A.Instead B.Then C.Again D.Thus
【6】A.mind B.skin C.head D.face
【7】A.withdrew B.objected C.nodded D.laughed
【8】A.refuse B.afford C.deserve D.struggle
【9】A.live on B.stick to C.go over D.pay off
【10】A.invited B.persuaded C.led D.advised
【11】A.dust B.cash C.wonder D.treasure
【12】A.owe B.give C.go D.belong
【13】A.in case B.so that C.as long as D.even though
【14】A.saved B.consumed C.collected D.donated
【15】A.so B.but C.or D.yet
【16】A.provide B.present C.last D.contribute
【17】A.situation B.opportunity C.dilemma D.encouragement
【18】A.unemployed B.adventurous C.professional D.energetic
【19】A.importance B.achievement C.consequence D.status
【20】A.millionaire B.professor C.master D.administrator
32、 When our second child was born, the doctor pointed out that her feet were turned inward (内向). “Left uncorrected, it would be a _______,”he told us.
We _______ to do anything we could do to help our baby. _______ she was growing I had to take her back to the doctor every two weeks to have each foot recast(重塑). _______ the casting was finished and it was time for corrective _______. Jim and I watched with hope and concern as she _______ to walk. Those first, awkward steps made us so _______. By the time she entered preschool, her steps appeared quite _______. Encouraged by her progress, we looked for something else to help strengthen her _______ body.
As it turned out, she loved the ________! When she turned six, we helped her join in skating lessons and soon she was skating ________ a swan. She kept working hard at every new ________, and her efforts ________. At fifteen, she competed in both pairs-skating and the ladies' singles at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Australia, winning both ________!
I thought back to the early years of ________ for Kristi—the years of fear for us as her parents, and the same years of frustration for her as a child who ________ wanted to walk. During those years, we didn't expect gold medals and a good professional career ________ her. We admired Kristi, ________her strength and efforts, and how far she had come on two tiny feet that had ________ been bound in heavy casts. In our eyes, Kristi had always walked with the ________ of a true champion.
【1】A.problem B.mistake C.wound D.scar
【2】A.aimed B.promised C.stopped D.refused
【3】A.So B.If C.Because D.But
【4】A.Suddenly B.Immediately C.Especially D.Eventually
【5】A.shoes B.books C.bags D.hats
【6】A.failed B.struggled C.wanted D.attempted
【7】A.lucky B.upset C.proud D.helpless
【8】A.hard B.special C.common D.normal
【9】A.weak B.brave C.firm D.small
【10】A.water B.ice C.fire D.air
【11】A.for B.with C.like D.on
【12】A.project B.side C.text D.movement
【13】A.got off B.paid off C.put off D.showed off
【14】A.events B.programs C.courses D.occasions
【15】A.task B.reward C.challenge D.hope
【16】A.seldom B.almost C.easily D.merely
【17】A.in need of B.in spite of C.ahead of D.instead of
【18】A.doubting B.respecting C.limiting D.controlling
【19】A.once B.still C.never D.seldom
【20】A.look B.shadow C.smile D.beauty
33、 I have eyes that are said to be “cow brown, ” and my long fair hair is my best feature (特征) .I'm not overweight, but I'm not too _______ either. I'm relatively happy with my _______, but where did I get it?
Do I share the same features as some unknown stranger? _______ while walking down the street, I tried to _______ that stranger, imagining that one of the women I passed _______ possibly be my biological mother(生母) .
For along time I wondered what life would be like with _______. I was never _______ with my life. I just never _______ wondering what it would be like to have been raised by my biological mother. And the none day, I _______ a poem which compared adoption(收养) ____________ a seed that was planted by one person and then taken care of by another. The second person had ____________ the seed and made it grow to be tall and beautiful. I found that it compared perfectly to my ____________
Gradually I ____________ that my mom had made me who I am today. She did my hair for my first dance. She was there for my first heartbreak... She'd been there for ____________ that ever mattered. And I started to notice that we had the same silly ____________, the same attitude to life, and the same way of treating people.
Sometimes when we're out somewhere, people comment on ____________ we look alike, and we turn to each other and laugh, ____________ that she wasn't the one who gave birth to me.
____________ I may not know why I look the way I do, I know why I am who I am. The mom I have now is the ____________ one I ever could have hoped for, not only because she holds a huge amount of unconditional(无条件的) love, but because she has ____________ who I am today
【1】A.thin B.fat C.strong D.weak
【2】A.eyes B.hair C.weight D.appearance
【3】A.Still B.Even C.Again D.Often
【4】A.pick out B.run after C.bring back D.turn down
【5】A.should B.would C.could D.must
【6】A.the biologist B.my birthmother C.The stranger D.my adoptive mother
【7】A.dissatisfied B.content C.angry D.pleased
【8】A.enjoyed B.stopped C.escaped D.allowed
【9】A.wrote down B.put up C.handed out D.came across
【10】A.with B.for C.to D.as
【11】A.watered B.harvested C.planted D.buried
【12】A.thought B.seed C.situation D.history
【13】A.realized B.guessed C.hated D.expected
【14】A.something B.everyone C.everything D.someone
【15】A.problem B.illness C.adoption D.personality
【16】A.how much B.how far C.where D.why
【17】A.proving B.noticing C.remembering D.forgetting
【18】A.As B.Though C.Unless D.Until
【19】A.happiest B.best C.prettiest D.wisest
【20】A.saved B.regretted C.shaped D.declared
34、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.
Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.
The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.
If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【7】 of all resources.
And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.
35、根据句意填空
In the USA, the Amish-a Christian group-are famous because they drive 【1】 instead of cars, do not use TVs or refrigerators, and do not have personal telephones. Many people assume the Amish must have 【2】 reasons for their many rules, but this is not true. In truth, whenever a new technology is introduced, the Amish meet and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. They then vote on whether they will accept it. The Amish 【3】 cars because they like having 【4】 communities where everyone lives close together. They have no TVs or refrigerators because their homes do not have electricity-they do not think it is necessary and 【5】 dealing with strangers, such as the people who work at the electric company.
36、Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit 【1】 into the hand?
Now something like a tablet-shaped but fold-able phone is about to become 【2】. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China’s Huawei both unveiled fold-able phones Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X 【3】. Mobile phone use has entered the “fold-able future”, The Verge noted.
The technology could change our lives in significant ways. These devices, due to their 【4】 screens, give us the larger screens we want. Meanwhile, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they’re “the 【5】 of a small tablets and smart-phone, all in a single device”.
The technology could 【6】 other devices too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modem cities, they will help us to 【7】 available space.
In a keynote address, Samsung’s senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the fold-able screen “the 【8】 for the smart-phone of tomorrow.” “It’s a balank canvas for us to do something beautiful together,” he said.
So is there nothing to stand in the way of the fold-able future?
According to tech news website Android authority, the necessary displays were difficult to produce. In 2012, nine out of every to OLED screens produced were 【9】. Today, that 10 percent rate has been improved to between 50 and 90 percent. However, at present these fold-able devices are expensive. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That’s a price that may 【10】 the majority of people.
But if the fold-able device isn’t going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming.
Patrick Moor-head, an industry analyst told The Verge, “Few are debating if fold-able or roll-able mobile displays are the future of smart-phones; the only question is when and by whom.”
37、阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Everyone has their own unique fingerprint; 【1】 makes fingerprints an ideal way to unlock smartphones. However, this may be 【2】 (safe) than we think.
Scientists at New York University and Michigan State University in the US have developed a set of fake fingerprints. They say that the prints 【3】 unlock any fingerprint-enabled smartphone up to 65 percent of the time.
The artificial fingerprints 【4】 (create) by using many common features found in human prints. They work 【5】 taking advantage of the way smartphone scanners check a fingerprint.
The fingerprint scanners 【6】 (use) in smartphones are so small that they only read parts of fingerprints. So they have to take many scans of your finger or thumb (拇指) 【7】 they work properly. Smartphones also let users save several finger and thumbprints. Since a print only has to match one of the saved images 【8】 (unlock) the phone, the scanner is more likely to make mistakes.
Although the scientists have only tested their findings in computer simulations (模拟), 【9】 (worry) about the safety of using fingerprints are reasonable .They warn that the technology used to create artificial fingerprints is improving 【10】 (extreme) fast.
38、假定你是李华,你的英国朋友Tom对中国传统文化有浓厚的兴趣。你校将举办一场介绍中国艺术的讲座,请写封邮件邀请他参加,内容包括:
1.时间和地点;
2.讲座内容(介绍中国画、剪纸和京剧);
3.准备工作(简要了解一下相关知识)。
注意:
1. 词数80左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
Here comes a piece of good news.
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If you have any questions,please don’t hesitate to contact me.Looking forward to seeing you!
Yours,
Li Hua
39、假定你是李华,你校将举行“读书节” ,请你写封邮件邀请在你校学习的Tony参加。内容包括:
1.目的和时间:
2.内容:交换书籍、西方文学讲座、中国诗歌朗诵比赛等。
注意:
1.词数100左右;信的开头已经写好。
2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇: 读书节Reading Festival 交换exchange 文学literature 诗歌朗诵poetry reading
Dear Tony,
How are you doing?
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Yours,
Li Hua
40、假如你是李华,由于新冠状病毒严重蔓延,你的美国笔友Sam也不得不在家上网课,他来信说感到焦虑,非常想念自由的学校生活。请你给他回复邮件,邮件内容包括:在这特殊时期如何克服焦虑并保持身心健康,至少3条建议。
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:自我隔离:self-isolation; 网络课程:online classes;
Dear Sam,
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Yours
Li Hua
41、培养孩子的兴趣爱好是非常必要的,但现在有很多家长一味地追求子女的多才多艺,迫使孩子学习他们不感兴趣的东西,请你以大约120个词谈谈对这种现象的看法,内容包括:
(1)你是否赞同上述家长的做法;(2)以你或你朋友的经历说明你的观点;(3)呼吁家长们要尊重孩子的意愿。
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