1、You should apologize ____ him _____ your rude words.
A. to, since B. for, to
C. to,for D. towards, in
2、You’d better write down the phone number of that botel for future ________ .
A. reference B. purpose
C. progress D. memory
3、To her joy, Della earned first the trust of her students and then ________ of her colleagues.
A.that B.one
C.ones D.those
4、Only _______ as an interpreter _______ how important it is to grasp English.
A.when did I work; I realized
B.when I worked; I realized
C.when did I work; did I realize
D.when I worked; did I realize
5、We need to thoroughly ________ your father's health before deciding on a program of treatment.
A.evaluate
B.enjoy
C.risk
D.damage
6、The cloth _______smooth and soft _______.
A. feels; sells well B. feeling; is sell sold
C. is felt; sells well D. feeling; sells well
7、John thinks it won’t be long ______he is ready for his new job .
A.when
B.after
C.before
D.since
8、He did not regret saying what he did but felt that he ______ it differently.
A. could express B. would express
C. could have expressed D. must have expressed
9、_____ you may have, you should gather your courage to face the challenge.
A.However a serious problem B.What a serious problem
C.However serious a problem D.What serious a problem
10、We would have called a taxi yesterday if Jim ___________ us a lift.
A.didn’t give B.wouldn’t give C.hasn’t given D.hadn’t given
11、In this match, the women will ______ with the men for the gold medal.
A.agree B.compete C.deal D.fight
12、--- Nobody in life gets _______ what they thought they were going to get.
--- But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
A. simply B. exactly
C. seemingly D. really
13、Technology like the Internet, videos and tablets has exposed us more to English in the classroom.
A.showed...to
B.revealed...to
C.connected...to
D.convey...to
14、Look out!Don’t get too close to the house ________ roof is under repair.
A. which B. whose C. what D. that
15、 The Greens stayed in Beijing for a week, during ______ time they visited places of interest here guided by me.
A. which B. whose C. that D. when
16、Life has become so easy for children today that they the spirit to work hard.
A.lack B.lack of
C.are lacked D.are lacking of
17、He hurried to the station only that the train had left.
A. to find B. finding C. found D. to have found
18、Susan was determined to work hard at her lessons this term to ________ the expectations of her parents.
A. live up to B. come up to
C. get down to D. look forward to
19、—My flight will land in Tianjin Binhai Airport at 6:00p.m. tomorrow. Could you pick me up?
—Sure. I shall________ be at the airport to meet you.
A.definitely
B.unlikely
C.closely
D.especially
20、____ back made her parents angry and sad.
A.Not her coming B.your coming
C.Her not coming D.Her no coming
21、Looking for something new to read? Check out the English writer W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham has lately gotten popular on Chinese social media. 【1】 That makes sense. Maugham's words are easy to relate to. They are even easier to understand. For example, "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." With the above line, Maugham says nobody knows how to write a novel. 【2】
Maugham's most famous work is the novel of Human Bondage. It's about a young man searching for the meaning of life and finding that the world is cruel. 【3】 It is The Moon and Sixpence which is based on the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.
Young readers may prefer his many short stories. 【4】 According to Britannica (大英百科全书), Maugham believed that people are unpredictable and forever trapped with their emotions. By joking about life's troubles, his stories mix the silly and the serious.
【5】 He had a lot of unusual life experiences. He grew up as an orphan. He was a doctor until his first novel became a hit. He then became a famous playwright. During World War I, he worked as a spy. Later, he traveled around Southeast Asia. All of these things would appear in his novels.
A.Not even himself, a famous novelist!
B.Chinese people like many of his writings.
C.They show the unpredictability of human actions.
D.Why are Chinese attracted by Maugham's novels?
E.Chinese readers have fallen in love with another novel.
F.In many of Maugham's novels the surroundings are international.
G.Where did Maugham get this uncommon way of looking at the world?
22、Have you ever been in mid-conversation with someone, when you look over and find them standing in the same position as you or holding the same facial expression? It may seem like they have consciously (有意识地) copied you, but it is much more likely that it is the chameleon (变色龙) effect at play.
The chameleon effect is the unconscious imitation (模仿) of another person’s gestures or behaviour. Just as a chameleon attempts to match any environment’s colours, people acquire the behaviour of others to bring them closer together and help make their interactions smooth.
The chameleon effect was confirmed in an experiment by psychologists John Bargh and Tanya Chartrand in 1999. The first part of their experiment included 78 people, who each spoke with an experimenter. During the test, Bargh and Chartrand studied whether participants would copy the actions of someone they hadn’t met before, like moving the foot and touching the face. The second part measured the impact that copying someone has on the person being imitated.
In the first stage, participants increased their face touching by 20% and their foot movement by 50% while in conversation about a photograph with the experimenter. The individuals weren’t aware of what they were being studied for, and the photograph was used to catch their attention to ensure unconscious acts. The second stage involved half of the participants being copied, and then rating the likeability of the experimenter. The results showed that those who were imitated scored the experimenter higher. It has shown that when someone copies our behaviour, we develop more positive feelings about them. These interactions could be a person unconsciously willing to be liked, and forming a moment of connection.
The main reasons behind humans’ imitation are positive. However, when people carry this chameleon effect to the extreme, they can lose their sense of self. Those who change their entire personalities in different groups often go undetected. But more common signs of the chameleon effect are easier to notice. Next time you are in a social gathering, take a look around and you might just see some chameleons for yourself.
【1】Why do people acquire others’ behavior?
A.To match the environment’s colour.
B.To attract others’ attention.
C.To establish a connection with others.
D.To adapt to the surroundings.
【2】How did the experimenter guarantee participants’ unconscious behaviors?
A.By directing their attention to a photo.
B.By keeping an eye on their actions.
C.By telling them the purpose of the study.
D.By evaluating the impacts of imitation.
【3】What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment?
A.People tend to like those who imitate their behavior.
B.Too much of the chameleon effect can be beneficial.
C.People imitating others are not easy to be detected.
D.The copied movements help people to feel relaxed.
【4】Which of the following shows the chameleon effect according to the passage?
A.Students adopt teachers’ accents for fun after class.
B.People change their habits to please others on purpose.
C.A comedian copies a celebrity vividly on stage.
D.A husband and his wife share similar behaviours over time.
23、National Forecast
Fri, Aug 24,
LONDON —This Evening and Tonight:
Rain, locally heavy across northwest Scotland. Mostly cloudy but dry in other northern and western areas. Dry with clear spells(持续时间)in more central and eastern parts, but some low cloud and fog will develop. Generally mild with light winds.
Saturday:
Cloud and rain over western Scotland at the beginning will gradually push down over N.Ireland and northwest England. Largely dry, warm with sunny spells elsewhere, once early fog and low cloud clears.
http ://www. times online. co. uk/tol/news/weather/
The Nation's Weather
Fri, Aug 24,
NEW YORK—Heavy rain was forecast throughout Friday in parts of the Midwest. The heaviest rainfall was over northern Illinois, with more than 4 inches possible around Chicago.
Wet weather was also expected in the Plains as the same storm system tracks through the region.
Periods of heavy rain were also forecast for the Northeast as the remnant(剩余部分)of tropical storm Erin moves into the Canadian Maritimes.
Hot weather was expected to continue in the South and West.
http ://www. wunderground. com
Death toll rises to 36 in China typhoon
Wed, Aug 22,
BEIJING— At least 36 people were killed by Typhoon Sepat in four provinces in eastern and central China in widespread destruction that also forced the evacuation (撤退)of l.37 million people.
More than 60,000 homes in the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Hunan also were destroyed or damaged, Xinhua News Agency said.
Total economic losses in the provinces have reached $ 663 million.
Fujian was the worst-hit province, with 18 people killed, Xinhua said.
Earlier, the storm, named after a Malaysian fish, killed at least one person in Taiwan, and left three dead in the Philippines.
http ://news. yahoo. com/s/ap
【1】On August 25, in N. Ireland and northwest England, there will be _____.
A. low cloud and fog B. typhoon and flood
C. cloud and rain D. sunshine and mild wind
【2】What was the weather like in the south and west of the USA on Friday?
A. It was hot. B. It was rainy.
C. It was foggy. D. It was warm.
【3】The storm named Sepat _____.
A. caused one death in the Philippines
B. killed 18 people in Taiwan
C. destroyed about 60,000 homes in Fujian
D. caused great economic losses
【4】The name of Typhoon Sepat comes from _____.
A. a tropical storm B. a Malaysian fish
C. a place D. a person
24、Six-month-old babies are strictly limited in what they can remember about the objects they see in the world. If you hide several objects from babies, they will only remember one of those objects. But a new study, which was published in an issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that when babies “forget” about an object, not all is lost. Researchers used to think that babies less than two years old did not understand that an object continues to exist when it is not in the baby’s view. But in mid-1980s, new ways of doing experiments with babies found that they do, in fact, know that objects don’t disappear when they do not look at them -- a concept known as object permanence. But it was still unknown what babies needed to remember about objects in order to remember their existence.
Now Melissa Kibbe, of John Hopkins University, and Alan Leslie, of Rutgers University, are working to figure out exactly what it is that babies remember about objects. For the new study, they showed six-month-old babies two objects, a disk and a triangle. Then they hid the objects behind small screens, first one shape, then the other. Earlier research has shown that young babies can remember what was hidden most recently, but have more trouble remembering the first object that was hidden. Once the shapes were hidden, they lifted the screen in front of the first object. Sometimes they showed babies the shape that was hidden there originally, but sometimes it was the other shape, and sometimes the object had vanished completely.
Psychologists (心理学家) measure how long babies look at something to see how surprised they are. In Kibbe and Leslie’s study, babies weren’t particularly surprised to see that screen had changed, for example, from a triangle to a disk. But if the object was gone altogether, the babies looked significantly longer, indicating surprise at an unexpected result: “This shows that even though babies don’t remember the shape of the object, they know that it should continue to exist,” Kibbe says. “They remember the object without remembering the features that identify(鉴别) that object.”
This helps explain how the young brain processes information about objects, Leslie say. He thinks the brain has a structure that acts like a kind of pointer, a mental finger that points at an object.
【1】Before the study, which of the following was unclear?
A.Whether babies know objects are gone.
B.What made babies remember objects’ existence.
C.Whether babies can remember what was hidden first.
D.Why babies were interested in what was hidden.
【2】In the second paragraph, the underlined word “vanished” probably means “_____________ ”.
A.forgotten
B.disappeared
C.discovered
D.hidden
【3】The study helps us better understand _____________.
A.how the young brain deals with information about objects
B.whether babies can remember features of hidden objects
C.whether babies were surprised when they found the objects disappeared
D.why babies less than two years did not understand a hidden object still existed
【4】Which would be the best title for the passage?
A.A new concept — object permanence
B.All remembered isn’t lost
C.What babies remember about objects
D.A new study on psychology
25、My father often works very hard. And he _________ goes to the movies. Here I’ll tell you a(n) _________ story about him.
One afternoon, when he finished his work, and _________go home, he found a film_________under the glass on his desk. He thought he _________ to have not much work to do that day and it was quite wonderful to pass the _________ at the cinema. So he came back home and_________finished his supper. Then he said _________ to us and left.
But to our_________, he came back about half an hour later. I asked him what was the__________. He smiled and told us about the funny thing that happened at the__________.
When my father was sitting in his seat, a __________ came to my father’s seat and said that seat was hers. My father was__________. He took out the ticket and looked at it carefully. It was Row17, __________. And then he looked at the seat. It was__________. So he asked her to show her ticket. She took out her ticket at once and the seat __________ on it was Row 17, Seat 3.
Why? What’s the matter with all this? While they were__________, suddenly the woman said, “The__________ of tickets are different.” So they looked at the tickets more carefully. After a while my father said, “Oh, I’m __________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the__________ a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words he left.
【1】
A.seldom
B.often
C.sometimes
D.never
【2】
A.bad
B.strange
C.funny
D.interested
【3】
A.will
B.would
C.was about to
D.ought to
【4】
A.ticket
B.glass
C.box
D.shoes
【5】
A.liked
B.planned
C.took
D.happened
【6】
A.morning
B.afternoon
C.evening
D.day
【7】
A.surely
B.quickly
C.early
D.suddenly
【8】
A.sorry
B.hello
C.goodbye
D.luck
【9】
A.joy
B.surprise
C.delight
D.fun
【10】
A.matter
B.thing
C.film
D.story
【11】
A.cinema
B.office
C.theatre
D.party
【12】
A.woman
B.boy
C.man
D.doctor
【13】
A.interested
B.surprised
C.frightened
D.disappointed
【14】
A.Seat 1
B.Seat 2
C.Seat 3
D.Seat 4
【15】
A.different
B.usual
C.the same
D.likely
【16】
A.shown
B.taken
C.named
D.told
【17】
A.wondering
B.wanting
C.looking
D.making
【18】
A.design
B.prices
C.shapes
D.colors
【19】
A.sorry
B.shy
C.worried
D.right
【20】
A.action
B.speech
C.film
D.play
26、假定你是李华, 你的英国朋友Peter来信向你咨询如何才能学好中文。请你根据下列要点写回信。
要点:1. 参加中文学习班;2. 看中文书刊、电视节目;3. 学唱中文歌曲;4. 交中国朋友。
注意:1. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;2. 开头语已为你写好;3. 词数100-120左右。
I’m glad to receive your letter asking for my advice on how to learn Chinese well.
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