1、I lost everything except my watch while ___________ in that hotel.
A. lived B. to live
C. living D. having lived
2、She _________the sign language before she served as a volunteer to help the deaf.
A. learns B. has learned
C. was learning D. had learned
3、When I walked across the playground, I saw the new foreign teacher ________ with sweat.
A.to run
B.running
C.having run
D.runs
4、Donald survived when the car ________ he was in crashed into a truck from the opposite side.
A.as
B.where
C.that
D.once
5、He is ______ the army.
A.old enough to join
B.enough old to join
C.old enough to join in
D.enough old to join in
6、The police officers decided to conduct a thorough and _______ review of the case.
A.comprehensive
B.complicated
C.conscious
D.crucial
7、We’ll have to have our house_____.
A. repair B. repairing
C. repairs D. repaired
8、Sir, could you please take your seat? The plane .
A.takes off
B.has taken off
C.is taking off
D.took off
9、The restaurant is so popular that you have to book a table ________.
A.in advance
B.in time
C.in return
D.in turn
10、Several swimmers have been drowned in the sea recently. So I don’t _______of your going swimming alone.
A.approve B.agree C.support D.admit
11、—Wow, Parasite (寄生虫) won the Oscar for Best Picture this year.
—I was really _______________when I heard about it, because it is the first time that an Asian film won the award.
A.surprised B.lucky C.confident D.sure
12、--- Do you think we can get there on time?
--- __________ the car doesn’t break down.
A. So long as
B. Even though
C. As soon as
D. As if
13、Nowadays, some people tend to drink and gamble for the sake of ________ they call the circles, which is definitely stupid.
A. why B. how C. where D. what
14、The doctor tried to laugh my brother _____ his fears about the coming operation.
A. from B. against C. off D. Into
15、 you keep away from them, they won’t do you any harm.
A.As long as B.Even if C.As far as D.As if
16、After the deadly stampede(踩踏) in Shanghai, we can’t______ the importance of safety in public places too
much, particularly during holidays.
A. stress B. press
C. impress D. possess
17、________ my teachers’ help, I wouldn’t have made such great progress.
A. Thanks to B. But for
C. In terms of D. With regard to
18、It is a great____________ for our country to hold the 2022 Winter Olympic.
A.signal B.function C.honor D.agreement
19、The fact ____ ancient Greek civilization had a great influence on Western culture is known to many people.
A. whether B. that
C. if D. how
20、The students have decided on a final date by which everyone reading the books assigned by their professor.
A. finishes B. finished
C. have finished D. will have finished
21、Two weeks ago, I had volunteered to raise three newborn American barn owls(仓鸮). When the director of a local wildlife rehabilitation (康复) center first approached me and asked if I would be interested in raising “the babies,” I was overjoyed! Twelve years earlier, the center had received a pair of barn owls, and since then more than 100 of them have been bred and released. Thoughts poured through my head of hours happily spent raising these babies and working with them until they were fully grown. Tossing them up into the sky where they would begin their lives anew in the wild would be so incredibly rewarding.
However, I had assumed incorrectly that we were going to release all of them. In fact, two of the owls were to be released, but the third owl was to be used as an educational animal. For the center to keep one owl when his two siblings were going to be freed seemed cruel, and this angered me. Sensing my anger, our director suggested that before I denounced the plan for this owl, I should at least go out and help with the educational assignment, to see what is accomplished. While still ready to regard this plan as a horrible use of an owl, I reluctantly agreed to go.
Then, things took a 180-degree turn. I found that I had been naive (天真的) in my assumption that most people knew as much about wildlife as I did, and that they shared my respect for animals. The children at the school where I spoke had never seen the owls or the opossum(负鼠) that I showed them, though both were common inhabitants of our area. Many of them had never even heard of an ocelot(豹猫). They were full of questions and eager to know more. At that moment, it occurred to me that in front of me were rooms full of 6- and 7-year-olds who, with the “help” of the owls, were learning to view nature in a whole new light.
That afternoon, I returned from the educational assignment with a new-found sense of purpose and happily commenced the task at hand — feeding little pieces of mice to Athena, our newest educational ambassador.
【1】How did the author react to the director’s request?
A.He agreed happily.
B.He turned it down.
C.He said yes unwillingly.
D.He questioned his intention.
【2】What does the underlined word “denounced” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Finished.
B.Agreed.
C.Changed.
D.Blamed.
【3】What did the author find about the school children?
A.They explored the outdoors often.
B.They were eager to raise an animal.
C.They knew little about the surrounding wildlife.
D.They had volunteered to join the animal education program.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A.A kept owl is protecting the owl’s future
B.Saving the world begins with saving an owl
C.The earth’s future is in the hands of children
D.Sending animals back to the wild is not the end
22、In the United States, most cities have public libraries. Inside most libraries are thousands of books — and sometimes more — many of which are available for taking home. Of course, you have to bring any book you borrow back to the library when you’re done.
Libraries help people find information. As the ways people find information change, libraries also need to do something. The Internet is a tool that helps people find information much faster than if they were to look up in books. That transforms libraries, and a lot of libraries have begun using computers and technology to help people keep learning.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is the most famous library in New York City. It was opened in 1911. Since the library is old, bringing in new technology is not easy. However, it now has computers in every building. You can use the computers to go on the Internet or to write a paper. The librarians will help if you have a question and there are even free classes to help people learn how to use new computer programs. But this is only the beginning of how the library wants to use technology.
In the basement of the library, there is a room filled with computer programmers and designers who are bringing new technology to the library. This place is called the NYPL Labs. Ben runs the NYPL Labs and wants to help the library reach more people. He runs projects using “crowdsourcing”. For example, Ben is currently using the Internet to find people to deal with the library’s collection of menus. The library has thousands and thousands of old menus. You can see what people ate in the year 1900 and find out how much that food cost.
In the past, only people in New York could use the New York Public Library. Now, the library is online and everyone can enjoy it. Thanks to technology, we have a new kind of library.
【1】Why has US libraries turned to technology?
A.Paper books are less popular now.
B.The Internet makes information easily found.
C.More and more people don’t visit libraries.
D.Their complex procedure causes inconvenience.
【2】According to paragraph 3, the NYPL ________.
A.is the most well-known in the US
B.has a nearly 100-year-long history
C.meets much opposition to new technology
D.helps people to follow its transformation
【3】What does “crowdsourcing” underlined in paragraph 4 mean?
A.Getting people to assist in the project.
B.Researching old menus in the library.
C.Teaching people how to use the Internet.
D.Updating the library by advanced technology.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A.The new NYPL influences people’s life.
B.Online libraries replace traditional ones.
C.Technology and computers change the NYPL.
D.US public libraries are under transformation.
23、Fu Cong, a Chinese-born pianist, died on Monday at a hospital in London, where he had lived for many years.
A lover of classical music from a young age, Mr. Fu began taking piano lessons when he was 7. He made his first stage appearance in 1952. The concert caught the attention of officials in Beijing, who selected him to compete and tour in Eastern Europe. Mr. Fu soon moved to Poland, where he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory (音乐学校) on a scholarship. To prepare for the fifth Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1955, he practiced so hard that he hurt his fingers and was nearly cut from the first round of the competition.
Mr. Fu was one of the first Chinese pianists to achieve global fame when he took third place in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955. He also won a special prize for his performance of Chopin's mazurkas. Almost overnight, he became a national hero. To China, Mr. Fu's recognition in a well-known international competition was evidence that the country could stand on its own artistically in the West. Chinese reporters came to interview Mr. Fu, while many others went to his father, Fu Lei, for advice on child-raising.
In 1981, a volume of letters written by his father, was published in China. Full of advice, encouragement, life teachings and strict paternal love, the book Fu Lei's Family Letters became a best-seller in China. Besides influencing a generation of Chinese, Mr. Fu's words resonated (引起共鸣) long after his death with the person for whom they were intended.
“My father had a saying that 'First you must be a person, then an artist, and then a musician, and only then can you be a pianist,'" Mr. Fu Cong once recalled in an interview. "Even now, I believe in this order-that it should be this way and that I am this way.”
【1】What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A.Fu Cong's achievements in music.
B.Fu Cong's stage performances.
C.Fu Cong's experiences of learning music.
D.Fu Cong’s efforts for competitions.
【2】Why does Fu Cong's global recognition mean a lot to China?
A.It earns Chinese arts a place in the West.
B.It promotes the spread of Chinese culture.
C.It proves Chinese people's love for music.
D.It enables Chinese art education to be recognized.
【3】What docs the underlined word "they" in paragraph 4 refer to?
A.Fu Lei's Family Letters.
B.Young people of China.
C.Fu Cong and his family.
D.Readers of Fu Lei's Family Letters.
【4】Which of the following agrees with Fu Lei's ideas in the last paragraph?
A.It's easy to be an artist.
B.It requires various qualities to be a pianist.
C.Everyone should develop an interest in art.
D.Talent is of greatest importance for a pianist.
24、 There are breathing robots versed in “thousands of years of Buddhist breathing techniques” that claim to soothe you to sleep. Then there are weighted blankets that press around 10% of your body weight down as you take a nap. And there are apps, such as supermodel Natalia Vodianova's Loona, designed to create a "sleepscape" by combining visual and aural storytelling with relaxation-based activities such as colouring in. These are just some of the products at the heart of the “sleep aid revolution”.
Sleep occupies almost as much of the national conversation as weather—how much, when, how deep it is—and we are more than prepared to spend our money on more, and better, shut-eye.
In the past 12 months, sales of sleep-related products have soared. At John Lewis, silk pillowcase sales have increased by 533%. At weighted blankets company Mela, sales are up by 250%, while at Holland & Barrett sales of products in the sleep and relaxation category have grown by over 30% year-on-year.“ sleep” is the third most common unique search term for visitors to Neal's Yard Remedies' site.
But there are some dissenting voices. "The sleep-aid industry steps in, with claims that we're not sleeping because it's time for a new mattress, and offers us products to enable sleep," says Darian Leader, author of Why Can't We Sleep? “However," he points out, “what we are seeing is a depoliticizing of sleep - ignore the socio-economic burdens and internal pain that people face and see lack of sleep as a separate problem with a 'separate solution'."
The growing interest isn't limited to those suffering from diagnosable sleep issues—sleep has become a pillar of the wellness market and tracking it has become another symptom of the rise of the quantified self, a movement that sees people tracking their every step.
Sleep expert Dr. Neil Stanley distrusts the market: “It is a trick to scare everybody because nobody's going to make any money if you just go around saying 'it's common sense, you know how to sleep' .”
While rebutting any scientific evidence for many of the products, he admits that anything—a silk pillowcase, camomile tea, yoga or listening to Pink Floyd really loudly - could, in theory, help.
But, he says, many are overlooking the simple things. "You need three things for a good night's sleep: a bedroom that's comfortable, a relaxed body and a quiet mind ... you need to make space in your life for sleep.”
【1】What does the underlined word “dissenting” probably mean?
A.Approving
B.Opposed
C.Indifferent
D.Pessimistic
【2】What message does Darian Leader intend to convey in Paragraph 4?
A.A sleep problem is mainly caused by lack of a good mattress.
B.Social and psychological factors should be taken into account.
C.Social and psychological factors are more important than the physical setting.
D.Manufacturers trick people into buying those sleep-related products.
【3】What can we infer from the passage?
A.Sleep-related products meet a mixed reception among customers.
B.Only people with sleep problems need sleep-related products.
C.There is a trend that more people monitor their sleep situation.
D.Darian and Dr. Neil hold contradictory opinions towards sleep-related products.
【4】Why does Dr. Neil Stanley say the words in the last paragraph?
A.To give a warning.
B.to provide a comment.
C.To express a concern.
D.To make a suggestion.
25、On April 6, 1909, six men claimed their place as the first explorers to reach the North Pole.
Many had tried to reach the pole, but Peary’s team_______them through clever planning. He also gave _______to Henson, an African American explorer with_______ skills. “The team needed his knowledge of the Inuit, and Henson was fluent in their language. Also, he has shared all the physical hardships of my Arctic work,” Peary said.
_______ winds blew. “Freezing of the face is a(n) _______ occurrence,” Henson wrote. “We could even lose fingers or toes. If anyone’s foot began to freeze, another man held the bare foot _______ his stomach to warm it up. There was no other way to _______ the foot.”
After four journeys to the Arctic, Peary learned how to _______ better for the trip. This time, he had other teams go ahead and leave _______ along the way to provide for their final dash. They drove long hours every day. “Forced ________ all the time,” Peary explained.
They were ________ because they came across no open water to ________ the team. They spent 30 hours at the pole before they began their ________. They couldn’t stay longer as spring was coming and the ice was about to melt. Henson set such a fast pace that Peary warned him not to work the dogs to death. “I know,” Henson replied. “ ________ we have to hurry.”
They did it. They reached safety in 16 days and ________ their place in history.
【1】
A.employed
B.helped
C.chose
D.beat
【2】
A.credit
B.way
C.place
D.support
【3】
A.academic
B.technical
C.comprehensive
D.communicative
【4】
A.Mild
B.Fresh
C.Refreshing
D.Biting
【5】
A.dangerous
B.ordinary
C.temporary
D.challenging
【6】
A.against
B.towards
C.over
D.below
【7】
A.feel
B.save
C.lift
D.hold
【8】
A.plan
B.pack
C.train
D.budget
【9】
A.tips
B.supplies
C.footprints
D.messages
【10】
A.duties
B.requests
C.marches
D.measures
【11】
A.upset
B.stuck
C.tough
D.lucky
【12】
A.freeze up
B.hold up
C.let down
D.put down
【13】
A.work
B.trip
C.return
D.race
【14】
A.But
B.And
C.Unless
D.So
【15】
A.took
B.found
C.spotted
D.secured
26、假设你是新华中学的学生李华,你的美国朋友Tom一周前给你发电子邮件,询问你暑假里的打算,但你因准备期末考试未能及时回复。请根据以下要点给他回封邮件:
1.未及时回信的原因;
2.你假期的打算(如做兼职、旅行、做志愿者等)。
注意:
1.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯
2.词数:120左右。
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua