1、In the________of further evidence,the police were unable to solve the murder in a short term.
A.presence B.charge C.control D.absence
2、—What has made him upset recently?
—________ alone to face the troublesome case.
A. Left B. Being left
C. Having left D. To leave
3、Modern plastics can ______ very high and very low temperatures.
A. stand B. hold
C. carry D. support
4、Unfortunately, when we dropped in, Mr Smith ______ for Indonesia to rescue the injured people there, so he could spare little time for a few words.
A.has just left B.just left C.had just left D.was just leaving
5、—The man ______ who was not allowed to enter the restaurant turned out to be a millionaire.
—So we cannot judge a person by his or her appearance.
A. in vain B. in danger
C. in rags D. in debt
6、This phrase doesn’t just describe work, but can describe any situation ______ someone is very busy.
A.where B.when C.that D.which
7、We should improve our ability to engage in international communication so as to tell China’s story well and make the voice of China ______.
A.hearing B.heard C.having heard D.to hear
8、I don’t believe what you said, but if you can prove it, you may be able to __-me.
A. convince B. inform
C. guarantee D. refuse
9、As ______ father you must believe that you make ______ difference to the lives of your children.
A. the;/ B. the; a C. a; / D. a; a
10、Quite a few tall buildings _______in the last two years.
A.have been put up B.were put up C.had put up D.put up
11、Only after we have learned the table manners well ________ know how to ________ ourselves at table in a foreign country.
A.can we; behave
B.we can; dress
C.we will; tell
D.must we; show
12、 —What shall we do tonight then?
— ________ —whatever you want.
A. Help yourself B. It’s a deal
C. It’s up to you D. No problem
13、It was the first time in six attempts that Peters ______the world champion.
A.has beaten
B.was beaten
C.beat
D.had beaten
14、George bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago . The ________ opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500000.
A.medals
B.awards
C.rewards
D.sum
15、“The day of my birthday ________soon, Dad. What gift will you give to me this time?” Tom asked his father excitedly.
A.is coming
B.came
C.was coming
D.has come
16、Nowadays each classroom is equipped with the whiteboard system in the majority of schools in Nantong, making the Internet more to the students.
A. plain B. effective
C. practical D. accessible
17、Last night I had just gone to bed ______ an odd delivery man knocked on the window of my house.
A.as
B.before
C.when
D.while
18、—Real Madrid is sure to win the match !
—It’ s hard to say. You know, anything ________ happen even in the last minute.
A.need
B.must
C.should
D.can
19、---How beautiful he draws!
---Yes, the little boy has a____for drawing. He will be a painter_____.
A. present; on time
B. gift; in time
C. power; at a time
D. sense; at one time
20、We that the math teacher explain the puzzle again, but he refused.
A. ordered B. requested
C. commanded D. hoped
21、 The letter arrives from a school that your son told you is his dream school. You dare not open it,instead,you hand it to him when he arrives home from school. You watch as his eyes light up and you know this is the beginning of something. You are just not sure what. Your son insists that the coach must really want him since he took the time to write him a letter. Is this in fact true?Did he write other kids and if so how many?How would you know?
The simple fact of the matter is that you can read very little into that first letter. Coaches cast a wide net in the first few stages of the recruiting(录取)cycle. That letter may in fact,be the first and last time your son ever hears from that particular coach. Think about it:if he has not seen your sons transcripts or his standardized test scores,if you have not visited the school,if he has no knowledge of your financial needs,can it be anything significant?
So how do you treat these letters or emails?Is there some format you can apply?Say tor instance,three letters mean real interest…or three letters and a call means a greater degree of interest?
My experience in deal with cases of various applications is that answers will not come automatically. Call the coach and find out how real the interest in fact is. "Is my son a top recruit in your mind?" "How many players at his position will you be recruiting this year?" By asking these simple and direct questions,you as a parent,will have established a dialogue and hopefully figured out how much interest,if any really exists. However,here comes the challenge. Applicants and parents are vague with coaches about their intention and level of interest all the time. In fact,the coach's situation is no less confusing than yours. He is fighting a similar battle on multiple choices. There is little clarity on either end.
Enjoy that first letter. Let's hope it is one of many and let's hope you apply a bit of realism with a bit of wishful thinking about how happy your son should be when this is all over.
【1】How did the parent feel about the letter that his son got from his dreamed school? ______
A.expectant B.hesitant
C.doubtful D.hopeful
【2】According to the passage,by calling the coach,parents can______ .
A.determine the level of interest from coach
B.build up a communication with the coach
C.identify the real intention of the coach
D.understand more about the situation of the coach
【3】The author of the passage is most likely to be ______ .
A.a consultant to help students with their application
B.a parent with similar experiences
C.a school authority that supervises the application
D.a coach in charge of the application
【4】The purpose of the passage is to ______ .
A.remind parents of the importance of the first letter from coaches
B.tell parents how to react to the first letter from coaches
C.advise parents to ignore the first letter from coaches
D.warn parents to be realistic towards the first letter from coaches
22、Having a sense of humor can make your entire life much more enjoyable. For some of us, this comes naturally.【1】If you want some tips to improve your sense of humor, try these out:
•Appreciate more stand-up comedies.
【2】If you don’t know where to start, look for something to your taste or start with something popular. The law of attraction will help you increase your sense of humor by understanding jokes, pick up lines and other metaphors(比喻)that make people laugh.
•【3】
If you really want to develop your humor, then try to take something ordinary and make a joke out of it. In fact, there is a hidden joke behind every little event and situation you come across. Go ahead and try it. You will find out that almost everything you see in daily life has a funny side.
•Learn some simple jokes.
In the beginning, you don’t have to be creative. Just go out and do some research! The internet is full of great resources for jokes, humor, funny pictures, etc. Try searching for stuff that you like and add funny jokes to the end of your search.【4】
•Know the difference between funny and mean.
Making fun of someone for things they can’t change can come off as mean. The person who is the target of the joke can grow really embarassed and it can turn their mood off.【5】You can also make self-depreciating(自嘲)jokes. And there will always be jokes where no one gets hurt.
A.Observe other funny people.
B.Try to see the funny side to things.
C.You will find millions of things to make people laugh.
D.For others, we might have to work a little to unlock it.
E.To increase your sense of humor, watch more comedies.
F.It’s a lot better than watching something that’s a bit of a struggle.
G.Instead, make jokes about something they can easily change about themselves.
23、Swot satellite is scheduled to be launched Thursday morning to conduct a comprehensive survey of Earth’s vital resource. By using advanced microwave radar technology it will collect height-surface measurements of oceans, lakes and rivers in high-definition detail over 90% of the globe. It’s rally the first time to observe nearly all water on the planet’s surface.
The major mission is to explore how oceans absorb atmospheric heat and carbon dioxide in a natural process that adjusts climate change. Oceans are estimated to have absorbed more than 90%, of the extra heat trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere by human-caused greenhouse gases. Swot will scan, the seas and precisely measure fine differences in surface elevations (高度) around smaller currents and eddies (漩涡), where much of the oceans’ decrease of heat and carbon is believed to occur. “Studying the mechanism will help climate scientists answer a key question: What is the turning point at which oceans start releasing, rather than absorbing, huge amounts of heat back into the atmosphere and speed up global warming, rather than limiting it,” said NadyaShiffer, Swot’s program scientist.
By comparison, earlier studies of water bodies relied on data of rivers or oceans taken at specific, points, or from satellites that can only track measurements along a one-dimensional line, requiring scientists to fill in data gaps through extrapolation (外推法). Thanks to the radar instrument, Swot can scan through cloud cover and darkness over wide ranges of the Earth. This enables scientists to accurately map their observations in two dimensions regardless of weather or time of day and to cover large geographic areas far more quickly than was previously possible.
“Rather than giving us a line of elevations, it’s giving us a map of elevations, and that’s just a total game changer,” said Tamlin Pavelsky, Swot freshwater science leader.
【1】What do the underlined words “vital resource” in the first paragraph refer to?
A.Technology.
B.Climate.
C.Oceans.
D.Water.
【2】What is the major mission of Swot satellite?
A.To explore where oceans absorb heat and CO2.
B.To explain why greenhouse gas comes into being.
C.To identify when global warming is worsened.
D.To study how oceans influence climate change.
【3】What is an advantage Swot has over previous satellites?
A.It fills in data gaps automatically by extrapolation.
B.It contributes to mapping the observation accurately.
C.It covers specific rivers and oceans in one dimension.
D.It keeps track of the weather change at any time of day.
【4】Which is the most suitable title for the text?
A.First Global Water Survey from Space
B.Successful Launch of Swot Satellite
C.A Breakthrough in Space Travel.
D.A Solution to Climate Change
24、A day away from the stress of city life!
A perfect experience for nature lovers!
Our One — Day tour will take you to see the most beautiful sunset and sunrise at the top of Mt. Huangshan (Yellow Mountain).
Schedule
Early in the morning: take the cable car to the top of the mountain to see the breathtaking sunrise at Cloud Dispelling Pavilion.
Late in the morning: Visit such famous places as the Sixinfeng Peak, the Black Tiger pine tree, the Writing Brush Peak or the Xihai Scenic Area.
At noon: have a traditional Chinese lunch at a hotel on the top of the mountain.
In the afternoon: go to the city centre of Huangshan and take a walk along Tunxi Old Street, where traditional old buildings line the quiet street.
In the evening :Return to the Cloud Dispelling Pavillion to enjoy the sunset.
Price:$327
What's included
Professional and friendly English-speaking tour guide; Breakfast, lunch, dinner; All entrance fees; Cable car fees to and from the Cloud Dispelling Pavillion; Two nights at Beihai hotel or similar standard hotels; Hotel pickup and drop-off.
What's not included
Expenses to and from Mt. Huangshan;
Local Chinese-speaking tour guide;
Other attractions not included in the schedule.
【1】Where should the tourists go to see the sunset and sunrise?
A.Sixinfeng Peak.
B.Xihai Scenic Area.
C.Cloud Dispelling Pavilion.
D.Writing Brush Peak.
【2】When will the tourists go to Tunxi Old Street?
A.In the morning.
B.At noon.
C.In the afternoon.
D.In the evening.
【3】This one-day tour is most probably suitable for .
A.the British
B.the Chinese
C.the Dutch
D.the Germans
25、Last winter, we were on a vacation in Dubai. One day, we were ____ Abu-Dhabi, traveling with a few passengers in a bus. At our first stop, we got out to ____ some pictures. At our second top, we ____ that we’d forgotten our shoulder bag at the first stop. The ____ part was that our passports and many other valuables were inside it. We were in great ____, as we had to return to India in 2 days.
During the process of ____ our bag we met so many strangers who were quite concerned and helpful with our ___.
A tour guide helped us stop a taxi so that we could travel back to the first stop to ____ our bag.
A taxi driver stayed with us for 3 hours. He took us to a mosque(清真寺)near the first stop, ____ that a cleaner might have found the bag and taken it to a ____ place. He took us to the nearest police station and helped us with our ____ with the policeman, who only spoke Arabic, He ____ comforted us by saying, “Nobody ____ their goods in our country. There’s no ____ for you to worry!”
A tourist who was walking outside the masque hail to be somewhere. ____, he decided to lend us a helping hand.
A local man, who ____ found our bag,cheeked the bag and found a (n) ____ of a travel guide. He called him, so we got our bag back at last.
On that day t there was ____ worry inside me and I was thinking of what would happen next all the time.
I’ll never forget those strangers. I’m grateful to them for their acts of _____! The world needs more humane like them and I decide to try to ____ one of them.
【1】
A.following
B.visiting
C.evaluating
D.distributing
【2】
A.enjoy
B.purchase
C.deliver
D.take
【3】
A.realized
B.ignored
C.decided
D.admitted
【4】
A.most
B.latest
C.worst
D.least
【5】
A.regret
B.panic
C.embarrassment
D.disappointment
【6】
A.searching for
B.aiming at
C.coming across
D.looking through
【7】
A.ambition
B.dilemma
C.situation
D.expectation
【8】
A.lake over
B.send for
C.greet
D.find
【9】
A.hoping
B.remembering
C.promising
D.doubting
【10】
A.private
B.safe
C.busy
D.new
【11】
A.relation
B.negotiation
C.discussion
D.communication
【12】
A.eventually
B.personally
C.constantly
D.immediately
【13】
A.leaves
B.hides
C.misses
D.loses
【14】
A.time
B.need
C.chance
D.luck
【15】
A.Besides
B.Otherwise
C.However
D.Therefore
【16】
A.actually
B.merely
C.specially
D.deliberately
【17】
A.address
B.number
C.certificate
D.photo
【18】
A.real
B.slight
C.temporary
D.innocent
【19】
A.bravery
B.patience
C.kindness
D.generosity
【20】
A.benefit
B.promote
C.influence
D.become
26、假定你是学生会主席李华, 学生会举办了英语演讲比赛,得到了外教Miss Smith的大力帮助。活动圆满结束后,请给她写一封感谢信, 内容包括:
1. 表达感谢;
2. 回顾外教的帮助;
3. 总结同学们的收获。
注意:1. 词数80左右;
2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
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