1、That party has been in ________ for many years and it has showed its ________ in dealing with many important problems.
A.power;energy B.power;strengths
C.force;energy D.force;strengths
2、―Have you seen the documentary named A Bite of China?
―Yeah!It’s the funniest one______I have ever seen.
A.what B.which C.that D.when
3、“What are you doing?” Bruno asked in _______, although he wasn't happy to come home and find someone going through his possessions.
A.as a polite tone as he could muster B.as polite a tone as he could muster
C.as polite as a tone he could muster D.a tone polite as he could muster
4、It was not until he came to my support________I freed myself from constant worries.
A.that B.when C.which D.so
5、Don’t bother to look for my umbrella; it will _______ some day.
A.turn down B.turn out C.turn up D.turn over
6、Only when he left his home _________ to know how important the family was for him.
A.he began
B.did he begin
C.had he begun
D.he had begun
7、All bad things must come to________end, ________ terrible an experience is.
A.the; whatever B.an; however C./; how D.a; what
8、Either the beautiful sights of this modern city or its local custom____ thousands of visitors during the past years.
A. have attracted B. were attracting C. has attracted D. was attracting
9、I prefer ______ at home all night to make up the lost time rather than ______ TV programs.
A.stay; to watch B.staying; watching C.to stay; watch D.staying; watch
10、Mark said that he was unfit for the job, so he decided to _____ from the company.
A.suffer B.resign C.retire D.escape
11、My family used to live in _____ city of Shanghai but now have moved to _____ countryside.
A.a; a B.the; the C.a; the D.the; 不填
12、—Who will ask Mr. Finkelstein to keep his dangerous dog in his house or ______?
—I will give it a go. He often listens.
A.tied up B.tying up C.to tie up D.tie up
13、—Mum ,why do you always make me eat an egg every day?
—______enough protein and nutrition as you are growing up.
A.Get B.Getting C.To get D.To be going
14、Sandy could do nothing but ______ to his teacher that he was wrong.
A.to admit B.admitted C.admit D.admitting
15、He claimed _______ in the supermarket when he was doing shopping yesterday.
A.being badly treated B.to be treated badly
C.treating badly D.to have been treated badly
16、I don't _______ stress, for I'm a kid and my parents are holding up all the pressure for me.
A.suffer from B.differ from C.protect from D.come from
17、The publisher resigned and left the press, never _______ again.
A.to be met B.to meet
C.be met D.being met
18、Arconic is working on a project, ______ EcoClean, a special coating (涂料) allowing the building to self-clean and purify the surrounding air.
A.is called B.which called C.called D.that is called
19、How did he manage to______ the three children? I couldn’t believe my eyes.
A.bring out B.bring down C.bring up D.bring about
20、In the darkness we felt our way forward, trying to cross the stream _______ it was shallowest.
A.in which B.that C.as D.where
21、---- The meeting is on Wednesday.
---- __________.
---- I said the meeting is on Wednesday.
A.Excuse me B.Never mind C.I beg your pardon D.All right
22、Eating too much fat can ________ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.
A.result from B.attend to C.contribute to D.lead in
23、To those of you who received honors, awards, and ____, I say, well done. And to the average students, I say, you, too, can be President of the United States.
A.distinctions B.contributions C.solutions D.attractions
24、―Listen!What’s happening?
―Oh,it______be a girl crying next door.I saw her inside just now.
A.must B.can C.would D.might
25、More than one boy of your members ______ to act in the short play, which is ______ tomorrow.
A.are; to be performed
B.are; to perform
C.is;to be performed
D.is; to perform
26、 Today, we drive safer cars on safer roads, but most car accidents are the result of human error. 【1】 So it’s a good idea to review some basic rules for safe driving. Here are four driving tips that will help bring you and your passengers home unharmed.
1. Practice defensive(保护的)driving.
Defensive driving includes keeping a safe distance and not speeding. 【2】 Accept small delays, such as staying in line behind a slower car instead of suddenly changing lanes.
2. 【3】
Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how safely you drive. You are driving at the speed limit and obeying all traffic rules but someone else can crash into you. One good rule is to think everyone else on the road is a fool and be prepared for anything unexpected. 【4】 And it pays to be ready when you do.
3. Don’t follow too closely.
Drivers need enough time to react if the car in front makes a sudden turn or stop. It can be too difficult for drivers to judge the proper distances while driving and the exact distance is adjusted by speed, so most experts suggest a “three-second rule”.
4. Be more careful in bad weather.
【5】 Drive below the speed limit if necessary, keep extra space between you and the car ahead, and be especially careful around curves. If the weather worsens, just find a safe place to wait out the storm.
A.Wear your safety belt.
B.Watch out for other drivers.
C.Chances are that you’ll eventually meet someone foolish.
D.The best way to reduce accidents is to practice safe driving behaviors.
E.If you’re driving through fog, heavy rain or on icy roads, be extra careful.
F.Remaining calm in the face of annoying traffic is another major part of the idea.
G.If a driver is tired enough to fall asleep while driving, the results are terrible.
27、 Although there are fillers(滤镀)which can change digital photographs to make them similar to a painting, obvious differences still exist.
A brand-new painting Al has been made public recently. Much like the pupils of the old masters, the new Al studies the work of great painters like Vermeer and Van Gogh and learns to reproduce their works.
The Al, named "paintBot", is the creation of a team of researchers from the University of Maryland, the Bytedance Al Lab and Adobe Research.
PaintBot can not only reproduce the work of different artists but create new works based on photographs in the chosen painter's characteristic style.
To train the Alto imitate(模 仿)a given artist's technique, the researchers would present it with between 3 and 10 reference paintings. With each reference painting it studies, the Al gradually learns to recognize the various characteristics of the given artist's technique, including the stroke(笔画)color, position and size—along with the order in which each brushstroke should be made.
PaintBot uses a technique known as reinforcement learning(强化学习).During the learning process, the Al would practice reproducing reference paintings, which it would then compare with the original work to see how similar the two were and if it was improving its imitation of the artist's style. It takes around six hours for the Al to learn to imitate a given painter.
Once the Al has mastered a particular artist's technique, the researchers could present it with a new image to reproduce in the same style. The Al then uses what it has learnt to produce a new painting, putting down each brushstroke one at a time.
After being trained in a given style, PaintBot takes only around five minutes to produce each of its digital masterpieces.
The way that PaintBot's compositions are built up from thousands of individual brushstrokes makes the AI's works more realistic than those online filters.
【1】What does the author say about filters used to change digital photos?
A.They do amazing work. B.They are out of date.
C.They have different uses. D.They are not good enough.
【2】What does PaintBot need to do first before imitating a certain artist's painting?
A.Learn the artist's techniques.
B.Recognize the value of the painting.
C.Compare the painting with other works.
D.Understand the artist's family background.
【3】How does PaintBot create works?
A.It follows the given style. B.It learns from the researchers.
C.It just imitates the reference paintings. D.It mixes techniques of different artists.
【4】Which of the following best describes PaintBot's paintings according to the author?
A.Popular. B.Valuable. C.Advanced. D.Lifelike.
28、Laptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a $10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. In addition, they will be able to use e-mail to “peak” with their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or under the trees—anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, the portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher-education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.
At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff use computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, “Here we are in the middle of Virginia and we’re giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything.”
【1】The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to ________.
A.use for their schoolwork
B.access the Internet
C.work at home
D.connect them to libraries
【2】Which of the following is true about Westlake College?
A.All teachers use computers.
B.1500 students have laptops.
C.It is an old college in America.
D.Students there can do everything.
【3】A window on the world in the last paragraph means that students can ________.
A.attend lectures on information technology
B.travel around the world
C.get information from around the world
D.have free laptops
【4】What can we infer from the passage?
A.The program is successful.
B.The program is not workable.
C.The program is too expensive.
D.We don’t know the result of the program yet.
29、 Until now, much of the effort in search for life on the other planets has been on finding liquid water, because most of the extremely important chemical reactions that happen in plants and animals can only take place in the presence of water. And water is very common. In fact, the elements (元素) that make water (hydrogen and oxygen) are the first and third richest chemicals in the universe. This means that we can find water almost everywhere we look, from the surface of planets in our Solar System to the depths of space.
But for life as we know it to exist, it needs a planet where water exists in a liquid state, or its cells (细胞) would freeze or boil away. Earth is the only known planet that stays in a perfect position from our Sun to support water in a liquid state. Astronomers call this perfect distance from a star the “habitable (宜居的)” or “Goldilocks zone”.
Scientists last year discovered that there is liquid water on the Mars, which made a lot of people very excited since finding a world within a star’s habitable zone where liquid water can exist would be a great start to finding life.
Water is also found on the Mercury, and there are vast water oceans on some of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons. But we still haven’t found life on the Mars, or any other planet in our Solar System.
Therefore, finding liquid water isn’t enough. We still need to be able to detect other conditions that support life forms (scientists call them “biosignatures”). For example, we have to look into a planet’s atmosphere and see what gasses are in it. If we find a planet with lots of oxygen, we have one more evidence to support the idea that there may be life there. Unfortunately, at the moment, it is not possible for us to detect the biosignatures on Earth-like planets beyond Mars. We have not perfected the technology to do it yet.
【1】What can we know about the planets in the so-called “Goldilocks zone”?
A.They are very cold. B.They are extremely hot.
C.Life might be found on them. D.Water is not common there.
【2】Where have the scientists found liquid water?
A.On the Saturn. B.On the Mars.
C.On the Jupiter. D.On the Moon
【3】What does the author mean in the last paragraph?
A.There is no life form on the other planets.
B.It is impossible for us to detect the other biosignatures.
C.Liquid water is extremely important for plants and animals.
D.We still have a long way to go to find life beyond the Mars.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A.The conditions for a livable planet.
B.The importance of liquid water to life.
C.The latest discovery about livable planets.
D.The exploration of life forms on the Mars.
30、 I was sitting in the surgical waiting area(手术等候区) at the hospital waiting for word of my wife's operation. The small room was filled with other families and friends, who were ____ waiting to hear how their loved ones were doing.
There was a young boy sitting quietly in the ____. He held a small box of ____in one hand and a tablet (写字板) in the other. Every so often he'd place the tablet on his lap and draw something. As the hours passed I began to see the room almost ____. And there was a strange silence.
"Daddy, when is Mommy going home?" the young boy asked, breaking the ____.
"Tomorrow." his father replied. The boy picked up his crayons (蜡笔) and ____ something on the tablet.
I ____him as he moved his feet back and forth, looking up at the ceiling and then toward the sunshine-filled window. "When's ____, Daddy?" he asked. His father ____ him over to sit by him. "Come, ____ here next to me," he said with a gentle tone in his voice. ____ his things, the little boy walked slowly to his father's side from the corner. The man ____ out and held his son by his shoulder.
"There are three days in life. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. One is over and done, one we live in, the other we ____. We can't live in yesterday, but if we are happy enough today, we will be even happier tomorrow," he said in an attempt to ____ the boy.
The little boy looked at him for a moment and said, "If Mommy is going home tomorrow, I'll be _____. So, I want it to be tomorrow already, Daddy."
Now hanging on every word of this ____, I leaned forward to hear his response. It was ____.
"Son, the one great thing about today is once it ____, it is already almost tomorrow."
I thought about how ____ it was. Even in my adult life, I still live waiting for what tomorrow may_____. Now I know that it is already "almost tomorrow".
【1】A. patiently B. happily C. peacefully D. eagerly
【2】A. chair B. distance C. corner D. shadow
【3】A. gifts B. crayons C. chalks D. toys
【4】A. dark B. empty C. full D. clean
【5】A. promise B. rule C. record D. silence
【6】A. wrote B. printed C. drew D. expressed
【7】A. followed B. found C. caught D. watched
【8】A. today B. yesterday C. tomorrow D. future
【9】A. knocked B. ordered C. pulled D. called
【10】A. stand B. lie C. sit D. sleep
【11】A. Saving B. Forgetting C. Gathering D. Choosing
【12】A. reached B. took C. set D. got
【13】A. spend B. waste C. expect D. kill
【14】A. frighten B. warn C. persuade D. satisfy
【15】A. better B. calmer C. smarter D. happier
【16】A. story B. conversation C. opinion D. discussion
【17】A. perfect B. silly C. active D. humorous
【18】A. loses B. gets C. starts D. lasts
【19】A. sincere B. important C. interesting D. meaningful
【20】A. happen B. come C. need D. bring
31、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Scientists have proved what students have long suspected: Maths equations can actually trigger physical pain.
Regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical 【1】 were activated in those fearful of maths when they were presented with a tough equation, researchers have found. The higher a person’s anxiety of a maths task, the more it 【2】 activity in regions of their brain associated with visceral (内脏的) threat detection, and often the experience of pain itself.
However, the researchers say their study examines the pain response associated with anticipating an anxiety-provoking event, rather than the pain associated with a 【3】 event itself. A maths task itself is not painful but 【4】 the thought of it is highly unpleasant to certain people.
“Maths can be difficult, and for those with high levels of mathematics-anxiety (HMAs), math is associated with tension, apprehension (忧虑) and fear,” the researchers said in their paper titled. When Math Hurts. “【5】, this relation was not seen during math performance, 【6】 that it is not that math itself hurts, rather, the anticipation of math is painful. These results may also provide a potential neural mechanism to explain why (people with) HMAs tend to 【7】 math and math-related situations, which in turn can bias (使有偏见) (those with) high levels of mathematics-anxiety away from taking math classes or even entire math-related 【8】 paths. We provide the first neural 【9】 indicating the nature of the subjective experience of math-anxiety.
Other forms of psychological stress, such as social 【10】 or a traumatic break-up, can also elicit feeling of physical pain.”
32、假定你是李华,你所在的英语俱乐部请你通过电子邮件向留学生推荐一本你最喜欢的名人传记(biography)。主要内容包括:1.传记简介(如书名、作者及内容等);2.推荐的理由。
注意:1.词数80左右;2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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