1、--- I can’t go for a picnic with you because something urgent has _____.
---What a shame!
A. come up B. cleared up C. stayed up D. ended up
2、All of the children ______ in the school play and they are in high spirits.
A.are involving B.involve
C.are involved D.have involved
3、I thought there would be many people at the show, but when I arrived, I found ________.
A.nobody
B.nothing
C.no one
D.none
4、One factor _______ my weight gain was my love for cooking, especially rich, high-fat desserts, which I enjoyed preparing and of course, eating.
A. turning out B. accounting for
C. resulting from D. putting on
5、Susan didn’t ________ the school rules last night. Therefore, she got severely punished this morning.
A. observe B. confirm C. break D. deliver
6、 In this new city, we everyone will meet the when we don’t know what to do.
A. occasion B. statement
C. place D. information
7、I have read the letter twice, but I can’t make _____ of it.
A.sure B.sense C.notice D.use
8、It rained continuously for seven days, completely ________ our holiday.
A.ruined
B.to ruin
C.ruining
D.being ruined
9、With no gravity to push against, astronauts’ bones and muscles ________become weak.
A.should
B.must
C.can
D.need
10、 is going to do the job will be decided in tomorrow’s meeting.
A. Which B. That
C. What D. Who
11、For________ cancer patients there may not be ________ bright future; today has to count.
A. / ; / B. /; a C. the; / D. /; the
12、Although the ring is not made of real diamonds, its shape and design still ____ many young girls.
A. appeal to B. fit for
C. attend to D. apply for
13、----Fancy meeting you here, Lucy! I never thought you visit us today.
----Sorry, I forgot to tell you I was coming. I hope you don't mind me____.
A. calling in B. pulling in
C. breaking in D. dropping in
14、— Why are you still here! Everybody has gone to attend the lecture by the president!
— Oh, I ____ about it!
A. wasn’t informed B. didn’t inform
C. haven’t informed D. hadn’t been informed
15、I don’t mind what kind of car it is. I just want ______ that gets me there.
A.those
B.one
C.that
D.ones
16、The old building is in a good state of _______ except for the wooden floors.
A. presentation B. separation
C. preservation D. reception
17、--- What do you think made Ceha so happy?
--- ________ a prize in the recent competition.
A.Winning
B.Won
C.As she won
D.Because of winning
18、 Life is always full of hardships. _______ a better life, we need positive energy.
A. Live B. To live C. Living D. Lived
19、Although an earthquake has just happened, people here still ______ their lives as usual.
A. go about B. go through
C. get about D. get through
20、The young man, ________ in heavy traffic on the way, got home an hour later than usual.
A.being caught
B.having caught
C.to be caught
D.caught
21、 Some of my earliest memories involve sitting with my dad in his study every night when he came home from the office. I'd watch as he put his personal items away:his watch, wallet, comb and car keys. Every night, he would smile, hand me the comb and say:" Help Daddy clean it, OK?" I'd excitedly turn the tap on, then brush the comb with a used toothbrush as hard as I could. Then I’d proudly return the comb to Dad. He would smile at me, and place it on top of his wallet.
About two years later, Dad left his sales job and started his own business. I started primary school. That was when things started to change. Dad's business wasn't doing so well, and our stable life started getting shaky. He didn't come home as much as he used to. And when he did come home, it was always late and I'd already be in bed. I started to get mad. Why didn't he listen to Mum and just stick to his old job? Over the years, I stopped waiting for him to come home.
Now 28, I've graduated from college and got a job. Dad's business has also started to get back on track. Yet the uncomfortable silence between Dad and me persisted.
Yesterday, Dad came home early. As usual, I helped him carry his bags into his study. When I turned to leave ,he said :" Hey, would you like to help me clean my comb?" I looked at him a while, then took the comb. After cleaning, I passed it back to Dad. He looked at it and smiled. But this time, I noticed something different. My dad has aged. He has wrinkles next to his eyes, yet his smile is still as heartwarming as before, the smile of a father who just wants a good life for his family. Dad carefully placed his comb on top of his wallet. After so many years,I guess some things never change. And for that, I'm glad.
【1】What was the author asked to do by the father when young?
A.Brushing his comb. B.Cleaning his toothbrush.
C.Chatting with him in his study. D.Greeting him at the door.
【2】Why did the father set up his own business?
A.He was laid off by his former company.
B.He desired to struggle for a big fortunate.
C.He wanted to fulfill a good life for his family.
D.He followed his wife's advice and tried new.
【3】What accounted for the uncomfortable silence between the author and the father?
A.The father's new business wasn't going so smoothly.
B.The father came home rarely or very late.
C.The tough primary school and little time with the dad.
D.The misunderstanding of the author and less communication between them.
【4】Which words can best describe the author's father?
A.Generous and humorous. B.Modest and conventional.
C.Struggling and devoted. D.Ambitious and strict.
22、On Dec 15, 2020, Oleita posted a request online: “The cold weather is upon us and will only be getting worse. I am wanting to collect 10,000 chip bags to make 60 sleeping bags. These sleeping bags will be distributed to the homeless.”
And with that, the Chip Bag Project was born,which is a way to help clean up the city’s streets,reduce waste and support folks in need.
Almost immediately after Oleita posted that first call for bags, people took notice. Local businesses offered to serve as collection points, and volunteers raised their hands to get involved.
However, the road to success has its ups and downs, and Oleita is very familiar with each. For a while, the Chip Bag Project operated out of a small space donated by a local business, but the team recently had to leave. “It’s ironic(讽刺的)that we provide resources for displaced people and are now displaced,” says Oleita. “Not having a permanent place is our biggest headache.”
Yet they’re not giving up. Instead, the team does everything—including production, equipment and supply storage—in volunteers’ homes, or community spaces they can use for an afternoon or weekend.
It’s hard work, but it has already paid off in one major win: The Chip Bag Project recently partnered with Cape Cod Chips. The snack food company sends Oleita its “reject” chip bags—those that were misprinted or cut off-center—in large rolls and also provides permanent space.
Oleita has served as a community organizer for the past decade, and she has experienced homelessness herself. So she knew that this project needed to do more than just hand out sleeping bags. “I don’t make economic change by giving people a sleeping bag,” she says. “This also isn’t just about trash. That’s a passive approach.” The 26-year-old is working on growing the Chip Bag Project into an organization that also creates green jobs, helps vulnerable(脆弱的)community members find resources and continues to raise environmental awareness.
【1】Why does Oleita collect chip bags?
A.To make sleeping bags.
B.To produce blankets.
C.To design jackets.
D.To build moveable houses.
【2】What was the biggest difficulty for the Chip Bag Project?
A.A shortage of team spirit.
B.The poor skills of volunteers.
C.A lack of a fixed workplace.
D.The worn-out equipment.
【3】Which of the following can best describe Oleita?
A.Humorous and courageous.
B.Sympathetic and ambitious.
C.Optimistic and peace-loving.
D.Patient and knowledgeable.
【4】What can we say about the project?
A.It is viewed as impractical.
B.Its mission is to get rid of homelessness.
C.It is a“two birds with one stone”solution.
D.It is ignored by the local communities.
23、At the age of twelve years, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has yet to reach its full size and strength, and its owner his or her full intelligence; but at this age the likelihood of death is least. Earlier, we were infants and young children, and consequently more vulnerable; later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigor and resistance which, though imperceptible at first, will finally become so steep that we can live no longer, however well we look after ourselves, and however well society, and our doctors, look after us.
This decline in vigor with the passing of time is called ageing. It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we escape wars, accidents and disease we shall eventually "die of old age", and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favor of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty. Some of us will die sooner, a few will live longer—on into a ninth or tenth decade. But the chances are against it, and there is a virtual limit on how long we can hope to remain alive, however lucky and robust we are.
Normal people tend to forget this process unless and until they are reminded of it. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigor with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident, like the cooling of a hot kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes. They have also assumed that all animals, and probably other organisms such as trees, or even the universe itself, must in the nature of things "wear out".
Most animals we commonly observe do in fact age as we do, if given the chance to live long enough; and mechanical systems like a wound watch, or the sun, do in fact an out of energy in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics (热力学) (whether the whole universe does so is a moot point at present). But these are not analogous to what happens when man ages. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending. But a watch could never repair itself—it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction. We could,at one time, repair ourselves—well enough, at least, to overcome all but the most instantly fatal illnesses and accidents. Between twelve and eighty years we gradually lose this power; an illness which at twelve would knock us over, at eighty can knock us out, and into our grave. If we could stay as vigorous as we are at twelve, it would take about 700 years for half of us to die, and another 700 for the survivors to be reduced by half again.
【1】Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. Our first twelve years represent the peak of human development.
B. People usually are unhappy when reminded of ageing.
C. Normally only a few of us can live to the eighties and nineties.
D. People are usually less likely to die at twelve years old.
【2】The word "it" in the last sentence of Paragraph Two refers to .
A. remaining alive until 65.
B. remaining alive after 80.
C. dying before 65 or after 80.
D. dying between 65 and 80.
【3】What do the examples of watch show?
A. Normally people are quite familiar with the ageing process.
B. All animals and other organisms undergo the ageing process.
C. The law of thermodynamics functions in the ageing process.
D. Human's ageing process is different from that of mechanisms.
24、Witchcraft(巫术)was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563 though it was disapproved by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750, some 200,000 witches(女巫)were burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and always poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be an old woman with broken teeth, sunken cheeks and sockets and a hairy lip were assumed to possess the “Evil Eye”. It was more the case if they also had a cat. Many unfortunate women were taken away on this sort of evidence and hanged.
Witch fever held East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645—1646. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, contributed a lot! He became known as the “Witchfinder General”. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsfor in a single day. After Chelmsford he set off for other countries. Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of telling a witch were based on Devil’s Marks. He took a small mark to be a Devil’s Mark and he used his “needle” to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His “needle” was basically a trick so the unfortunate women never felt any pain.
There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes she was thrown into the river. If she floated she was guilty; if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
Though many of the acts againsts witchcraft were put to an end in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, a suspected male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex and 1945 the body of an elderly farm laborer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut and his body was pinned to the earth. The murder remains unsolved; however, the man was said, locally, to be a male witch. It seems that belief in witchcraft has not entirely died out.
【1】A female witch was often found to be ________
A. a young lady B. a lucky woman
C. an ugly woman D. a blind girl
【2】Matthew Hopkins can be best described as __________
A. kind and smart
B. tricky and merciless
C. successful and nice
D. famous and fortunate
【3】Why did people throw Mary into the river?
A. To take her life.
B. To tell if she was a witch
C. To test her swimming skills.
D. To prove that she was guilty
【4】What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Witches are still badly treated all over the world.
B. Witches were terribly treated in the European history.
C. Some people still have been using magic in daily lives.
D. There have always been people believing in witchcraft
25、 Todd wore the same clothes every day for the first three weeks of school. When the other kids began to _______ that he was wearing the same black pants and gray long-sleeved shirt day after day, Todd became target of _______. But there was little Todd could do. His mother simply couldn't _______ to buy him new clothes.
Two of the _______ teasing him were Garrett and Graham. But over time, they _______ that their disparaging(贬低) words felt like bullying(欺凌) and seemed to be slowly destroying Todd's _______. "I felt like I needed to do something," Graham said. So he and Garrett created a(an) _______ secretly. They went home and _______ through their own drawers and closets. The next day at school, they met Todd at their third period class and _______ him to come into the hall. Todd was understandably __________ about being called out by the larger boys.
"He wasn't __________, and I was like, 'I think this is going to make you smile,'" Graham said. "I told him, 'We're in the same third period, and I __________ for laughing at you, and I want to give something to you to __________.'" He then handed Todd a large and heavy bag. Inside the bag were __________ shirts and shorts, plus a brand-new pair of __________. Todd was blown away. "I was very happy and completely __________." And Todd got much more than a new wardrobe. He no longer sits __________ at lunch. Now he eats with his two new friends.
"I've been bullied in my entire life," Todd said. __________ the day Garrett and Graham called him into the hall, he __________, "It was the best day of my entire life, __________."
【1】A.sympathize B.notice C.insist D.announce
【2】A.adoration B.complaint C.assistance D.laughter
【3】A.refuse B.wait C.afford D.swear
【4】A.kids B.adults C.friends D.teachers
【5】A.realized B.argued C.assumed D.predicted
【6】A.virtue B.spirit C.nature D.quality
【7】A.attack B.trap C.opportunity D.plan
【8】A.checked B.saw C.hunted D.went
【9】A.asked B.commanded C.advised D.begged
【10】A.disappointed B.embarrassed C.delighted D.worried
【11】A.smiling B.crying C.trembling D.yelling
【12】A.hesitate B.switch C.apologize D.compensate
【13】A.make up B.show off C.mark D.enjoy
【14】A.messy B.clean C.unique D.common
【15】A.buttons B.earrings C.sneakers D.glasses
【16】A.confused B.panicked C.annoyed D.shocked
【17】A.peacefully B.alone C.still D.nervously
【18】A.Exposed to B.Lost in C.Living through D.Reflecting on
【19】A.whispered B.added C.exploded D.sighed
【20】A.normally B.probably C.basically D.ridiculously
26、阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
My sister Priscilla and I just came back from a week-long vacation in Portugal with lots of photos.I'll remember so many wonderful things about my trip to the cities of Lisbon and Porto, but one experience in particular sticks out, something that happened on our last night in Lisbon.
Before the trip, I put together a very detailed route of places to see.One of the must-visit places on my list was Livraria do Simão, the smallest bookstore in Lisbon.On our very first day in Lisbon, Priscilla and I searched for it.We found the oldest bookstore in the world.But the smallest one was impossible to find! Back at the hotel, where we had Wi-Fi, I looked the bookstore up again, hoping we'd have time to find it on another day.But our schedule was delayed, and we probably wouldn't have time to look for it.
On our last full day in Lisbon, Priscilla and I took a day trip to Cascais, a coastal town outside the city.We decided, at the last minute, to visit a historic flea market (跳蚤市场).We walked for about an hour, up many steep hills.When we finally reached the market, completely out of breath, all the sellers were closing up.Not to mention that we were both tired and hungry.Priscilla and I argued over the directions.I insisted we turn right, which ended up being another had decision.We climbed up more steep hills, farther and farther away from any area we recognized.We made another right turn onto a random street and Priscilla stopped to check the map.Meanwhile, I looked up at the street sign, Rua da Madalena.I'd heard that name before.We continued a little farther up the street, and I spotted a few people hanging out in a lane.There was something particularly familiar about the scene.I looked closer.There was a small store practically hidden in the lane.It had books in its windows.
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:
Oh my goodness! The bookstore!
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Paragraph 2:
Soon, it was time for us to say goodbye.
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