1、For many students, math is not something that comes _________. It takes effort.
A. regularly B. possibly
C. automatically D. secretly
2、On the top of the hill ______ many trees.
A. stand B. stands
C. is standing D. have stood
3、The boss has ______ difficulty in finding a man to take the place of ____ manager.
A.a; the B./; the C.the; / D./; /
4、The woman murdered her friend and to .
A. was sentenced, death B. sentencing, die
C. sentenced, death D. sentenced, die
5、Encourage your kids to try new things, but try not to _________them too hard.
A. push B. pull
C. pump D. put
6、The other day, my father drove his car down at ____ I thought was a dangerous speed.
A.as B.that C.which D.what
7、----I have won the first prize in singing.
----_____
A. Congratulations! B. That’s right.
C. You can’t be serious. D. Absolutely!
8、The prediction Asimov made ahead of time eventually turns out to be________with the advancement of science technology.
A.opposite
B.automatic
C.consistent
D.familiar
9、She didn't recognize the man who hit her because she could only a dark shape moving towards her.
A.turn out B.make out C.set out D.bring out
10、The couple have five children ______ .
A. above all B. of all
C. in all D. at all
11、About 270 million people in rural areas in China have no ______ to safe drinking water.
A. entrance B. access C. solutions D. sources
12、The terrible earthquake _________ many people leave their homes.
A. caused B. made C. got D. left
13、English is a(n) ________ language in North America and Europe.
A.usual B.ordinary C.common D.normal
14、Jenny hopes that Mr Smith will suggest a good way to have her written English ________ in a short period.
A.improved
B.improving
C.to improve
D.improve
15、Mary was put _______ the baby when her aunt went abroad on business for a week.
A.in the charge of
B.in charge of
C.in the charge
D.in charge
16、Before climbing the tall tree, he gave me a ______ look.
A.determine
B.determining
C.determination
D.determined
17、Her display of bad temper completely _____ the party.
A.harmed B.damaged C.spoilt D.hurt
18、I have an appointment _______ Dr.Brown,but I need to change it.
A.to B.off C.with D.from
19、 Tom kept quiet about the accident _____ lose his job.
A. in not order to B. in order not to
C. in order to not D. not in order to
20、_______ many of us today take the television for granted, it’s actually one of the greatest invention of the 20th century.
A. If B. Unless C. While D. Since
21、One Sunday, I took my daughter to the seaside. On arriving at the beach, I saw JoJo, a wealthy man in hotel business. We sat down to chat in an open air cafe while I watched my daughter enjoy herself on the swings (秋千) in front of us.
Suddenly, our conversation was interrupted by a stranger, who politely asked permission to speak to me privately. People often want to tell me something about my TV show.
We stood a bit away from my table. He said, “I’m James, the father of a 7-year-old girl who’s very sick. The doctors said that if she was treated in the UK, she would probably survive. But I’m poor, so can you help me, please?”
I stared into the man’s eyes full of tears and asked how I could help. After I went back, JoJo asked me, “What's wrong?” I told him about it and he was very sorry for that family.
All day I thought about James's family. I even thought about making a special TV show to raise money for the sick child.
On Monday morning, JoJo walked into my office. Actually, JoJo was very busy, and I never imagined he would have the time to come and see me.
“Please, call the man and tell him I’ll pay all the expenses for the girl’s treatment,” JoJo said with a cheque in his hand. “I've been married for 35 years; I wasn’t lucky enough to have a child. Sometimes I feel lonely. I want to help this child.” I picked up the phone to call James.
Now James’s daughter is well and JoJo sometimes goes to visit her. I’m so happy that there are so good people on this earth.
【1】According to the passage, the writer _____ .
A. often go to the beach with his daughter
B. is often troubled by his audience
C. was unwilling to help James
D. met JoJo at the beach by accident
【2】James turned to the writer for help probably because he _____.
A. guessed the writer was rich enough to help him
B. wanted the writer to ask JoJo for help
C. thought the writer could help him through TV
D. knew the writer was warm-hearted
【3】Why did JoJo make up his mind to help James? _____.
A. To show his love for a child.
B. To remove his loneliness by doing something.
C. To show his warm heart and kindness.
D. To build a relationship with Jame's family.
22、The chimp didn’t feel well. She fell over, ignoring the other wild chimps. Finally, the sick chimp crawled over to a bush, picked some leaves and swallowed them. By the next afternoon, the chimp was as good as new!
Biologists watching the chimp were surprised. Somehow, the plant had cured the chimp! Did the chimp know the plant would make her feel better? Or was it just a lucky accident?
Many scientists don’t think it has anything to do with luck. They’re discovering that some animals seem to use plants to cure themselves. And these animals are leading scientists to new plants that could cure humans!
Dr. Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard University, agrees that animals may know something we don’t know about forest plants.
Wrangham got to know chimps and their diets while studying them for three years in Tanzania. “You must know a lot about an animal’s feeding habits to know what it doesn’t consider food,” Wrangham explains. Every morning, he saw that most chimps ate fruit near their nests. Later on, they ate on leaves.
When he noticed chimps eating the leaves of a plant they usually ignored, Wrangham thought something interesting was going on---especially when he saw that they’d sometimes walk for 20 minutes to find the plant. Another strange thing that caught his eye was how they ate the bitter leaves.
“They swallowed the leaves whole,” explains Wrangham, noting that chimps usually chew their food well. “They seemed to rub(摩擦)the leaves around the roofs of their mouths. They closed their eyes, wrinkled their noses and swallowed slowly. ”
Wrangham wondered what could be so good about something tasting so bad. He had a chemist analyze the leaves. He discovered that the leaves contain a red oil that kills different viruses(病毒). Later tests showed that the oil might even fight cancer and the AIDS virus!
Why don’t the chimps chew the leaves? “Rubbing the leaves between the tongue and the inside of the mouth might allow the chemicals to enter the bloodstream directly,” he suggests, “instead of going to the stomach, where they might get destroyed by acids. The chimps seem to know what they’re doing.”
【1】We can learn from the passage that _________.
A. chimps cure themselves by chewing plants
B. chemicals in plants help cure animals
C. scientists live with chimps to study their diets
D. Dr. Wrangham knows a lot about forest plants
【2】How can Dr. Wrangham tell which plants are medicine for chimps?
A. By talking with the biologists.
B.. By studying the chimps’ feeding habits.
C. By analyzing the chimps’ favorite food.
D. By comparing other scientists’ discoveries.
【3】The author wrote the passage to ___________.
A. provide a solution B. test a theory
C. present a finding D. describe an experiment
【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Animal doctors. B. Forest plants.
C. Chimp’s diets. D. A cure for cancer.
23、In the countryside in Fuzhou, Fujian, there is a girl, her little brother, their grandma and a cat named Hua Juan. In the eyes of Hua Juan, the grandma treats the boy and the girl very differently — she saves milk for the boy and feeds him as if he were a baby, not paying much attention to the girl. One day, Hua Juan falls asleep and starts to have a dream. Everything begins to change.
This is the story told in the short film I’m Hua Juan, which explores a heavy topic -the traditional preference for sons over daughters. The film helped 18-year- old Zhu Manlin win the best director award at the 2021 International Teen Short Film Festival. The competition aims to encourage middle school students internationally to look at the world around them through images and pay attention to their position within it.
Zhu, a student at Fuzhou Senior High School, said she got the idea of the film from stories she heard. “Gender (性别) preference is still a common thing. Three out of the five members of our filming team have such families with older sisters and younger brothers,” said Zhu. “Many people may take it for granted, but not for a cat. I tell the story from the viewpoint of a cat to encourage the audience to take another look at reality.”
As the director and photographer, Zhu together with her teammates spent about two months writing the script (剧本), shooting the video and editing. She used several key scenes to show the grandma’s preference for the boy: more meat in his bowl, gentler words and interesting toys, while the girl is ignored and accompanied only by Hua Juan. The strong comparison can help viewers better emotionally connect with the girl and reflect on the unfavorable situation of other girls in the same situation. Zhu also set a scene in which the girl looks through the crack of a door and sees a part from the film Sister, which describes An Ran, a girl who struggles to pursue her own dream while having to raise her younger brother after their parents died in a car crash. “I want fewer girls to have to bear such burdens as An Ran and instead bravely fight for their own rights,” said Zhu.
While the theme is realistic, the visuals are artistic. In the film, real life is in black and white while dreams are colorful. Zhu also shot the film in a square format to give it an unusual feeling as well as a sense of seriousness. She wants viewers to focus on the main story, using close-up shots to resonate with the emotions of the young actors while ignoring other unimportant factors.
Zhu said her favorite director is Lee Chang-dong from South Korea, who cares about reality but also stays poetic. “I wish I could make such films one day,” she said.
【1】What can be known about the film I’m Hua Juan?
A.It has a theme of gender preference.
B.It is adapted from a novel of the same name.
C.It took the team about half a year to make it.
D.It is based on the director’s personal experience.
【2】Why is the story told through a cat’s eyes?
A.To make the story more attractive.
B.To explain what role pets play in our life.
C.To get people to look at things in a different way.
D.To connect the story better with a younger audience.
【3】What is paragraph 4 mainly about?
A.The problems Zhu had shooting the film.
B.The way Zhu directed and made the film.
C.The inspiration Zhu got from the film Sister.
D.The similarity between Zhu’s film and the film Sister.
【4】How does Zhu attract viewers to the main story?
A.By focusing on social reality.
B.By using close-up shots in the film.
C.By shooting the film in black and white.
D.By expressing emotions in a poetic way.
24、Characters in novels don’t always do what the writer wants them to do. Sometimes they cause trouble, take on lives of their own, or even work against the writer. It’s not just a problem for inexperienced authors: famed children’s novelist Roald Dahl said he got the main character in his book Matilda so “wrong”that when he’d finished his first version, he threw it away and started again.
Of course it’s not the characters’ fault. The problem lies with the author. Take Stephen King, who admitted that writing working-class characters is more difficult nowadays because his own circumstances have changed. “It is definitely harder,”King said.“When I wrote Carrie many years ago, I was one step away from physical labour.”
This is also true for characters’ ages, added King.“When you have small children, it is easy to write young characters because you observe them and you have them in your life all the time. But your kids grow up, it’s been harder for me to write about this little 12-year-old girl in my new book because my models are gone.”
For other authors, such as Karen Fowler, there’s one quality that can stop a character in its tracks: boredom.“I had particular problems with the main character in my historical novel Sister Noon,”she says.“She had attitudes about race and religion that seemed appropriate to me for her time and class, but they were not attitudes I liked. Eventually I grew quite bored with her. You can write a book about a character you dislike or a character you disagree with, but I don’t think you can write a book about a character who bores you.”
According to Neel Mukherjee, it was Adinath, a character in The Lives of Others, who made him work the hardest.“I think I struggled because it’s difficult to write a character whose most prominent personal feature is weakness, as Adinath’s is, without making that feature define him,”Mukherjee says. But a troublesome character is far from an unwelcome guest, he continues, arguing that “when characters work against the author they come alive and become unpredictable”.
“That is a fantastic thing to happen,”Mukherjee says.“I celebrate it. It is one of the great, lucky gifts given to a writer.”
【1】What can we infer about Stephen King’s book Carrie?
A.It was his most difficult book to write.
B.It was the first successful novel King wrote.
C.There were few children featured in the story.
D.Some of its main characters were working class.
【2】Why did Karen Fowler have trouble writing the main character in her novel Sister Noon?
A.She disagreed with the character’s attitudes.
B.The age difference between the two was too large.
C.She found the character very uninteresting.
D.The historical setting made accuracy difficult.
【3】What does Neel Mukherjee think of his difficult-to-write characters?
A.They are a sign that the story is not realistic.
B.They are often the most interesting.
C.They should be praised by all authors.
D.They need to be researched more thoroughly.
【4】In which part of the newspaper would you expect to find the passage?
A. Careers. B. Culture.
C. Entertainment. D. Lifestyle.
25、Many people learn at an early age to associate the color red with danger. So might it make sense to print medication ________ in red ink? And since the color blue is known to call to mind the freedom of open skies, might it help artists to ________ in a studio painted in that color? According to new research into how the brain reacts to ________ , the answer to both of these questions is yes. The study revealed that the color red seems to improve a subject’s attention to ________ , while blue appears to stimulate creativity—all without the subject realizing that his or her brain is being influenced.
“People are not ________ this effect at all,” marveled the study’s lead researcher Juliet Zhu, who studies the effects of environmental cues on behavior. To study the brain’s response to specific colors, Zhu’s team administered a series of ________ tests to college students. For most of the tests, the students were placed in front of a computer screen that was colored either red or blue.
The researchers found that when the screen was red, subjects performed better on detail-oriented tasks. In one test, ________ , students were asked to memorize a list of words. Zhu found that students who studied the list displayed on a red screen were able to recall more words than students who studied the list on a ________ screen.
In other tests, creative abilities seemed to be ________ by looking at the color blue. For instance, the students were asked to brainstorm potential uses for bricks. Students sitting in front of blue screens tended to come up with ideas that were ________ , such as “make a paperweight” and “build a pet scratching post.” Students sitting in front of a red screen, on the other hand, were more likely to list ________ uses for bricks, such as “build a house.”
Researchers concluded from the tests that seeing red causes people to take the extra time to think ________ when performing detail-oriented tasks, such as ________ , proofreading— and, of course, reading those all-important warning labels. ________ most people learn early in their development that red signifies potential danger, Zhu said, seeing red perhaps helps people to slow down in order to perform at their best in a potentially risky situation. Seeing blue, on the other hand, produces images of the sky, freedom and peace. Perhaps these images, researchers supposed, ________ feelings. “It’s really this learned association with these colors that drives these different motivations,” Zhu said.
【1】
A.instructions
B.symptoms
C.warnings
D.treatments
【2】
A.create
B.relax
C.decorate
D.design
【3】
A.skies
B.medication
C.colors
D.paint
【4】
A.danger
B.detail
C.emotions
D.vigor
【5】
A.distracted by
B.aware of
C.content with
D.curious about
【6】
A.cognitive
B.intelligence
C.mental
D.memory
【7】
A.on one hand
B.at the same time
C.for example
D.that is
【8】
A.grey
B.blue
C.green
D.white
【9】
A.proven
B.acquired
C.recognized
D.enhanced
【10】
A.more abstract
B.more positive
C.more innovative
D.more valuable
【11】
A.practical
B.academic
C.economical
D.profitable
【12】
A.critically
B.logically
C.carefully
D.independently
【13】
A.painting
B.memorizing
C.designing
D.brainstorming
【14】
A.Unless
B.When
C.Since
D.Though
【15】
A.turn up
B.stir up
C.set off
D.give off
26、假设你是某国际学校学生会的主席李华。你校学生会打算组织一次有机蔬菜采摘活动。请你用英语写一份通知。内容包括:
1. 活动目的:了解有机蔬菜的种植;体验采摘乐趣;
2. 活动时间及地点:本周日上午,西星农场;
3.活动内容:导游带领参观农场;采摘蔬菜(黄瓜,西红柿,茄子等);在农场提供的厨房亲自烹饪自己摘到的蔬菜。
注意: 1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:采摘:pick 有机农业:organic farming
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