1、Never ______ for school this term so far.
A.I am late
B.am I late
C.have I been late
D.I have been late
2、A sport with a broom on ice ________ requires bowling ________ makes curling one of the most unique sports out there.
A.that … precision
B.that … diversity
C./ … precision
D./ … diversity
3、Meng Hao is much too ________ about food. He eats only what he likes.
A.specific
B.particular
C.calm
D.careful
4、The largest organ of your body is the ________.
A.brain
B.mouth
C.stomach
D.skin
5、Students are advised to keep the list of books near the desk for easy .
A. reference B. preference
C. purpose D. function
6、He learns ____ wealth does not buy happiness and _____ friends are more important than a fancy education.
A. that; / B. what; /
C. /; that D. /; what
7、________there is a wide variety of clothes in her wardrobe, the lady still complains about having no suitable clothes to wear.
A.Even though
B.Provided that
C.If only
D.As if
8、— Lucy’s difficulty in numbering and pronunciation makes her feel ______ in class.
— Let’s try our best to help her out.
A. stood out B. left out
C. made out D. turned out
9、Last month, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, ______ effects people are still suffering from.
A.that B.those C.which D.whose
10、I have bought some books recently, but ________ interests my father.
A. nothing of which B. neither of them
C. none of which D. none of them
11、It is very difficult for me ________ such a naughty boy.
A.teaching
B.to teach
C.taught
D.teaches
12、It’s going to be some time ________ he sees his father again, ________ business has just been started in Switzerland.
A.after; who
B.since; who
C.when; whose
D.before; whose
13、These devices have to undergo careful tests before they ________.
A.will be used
B.are used
C.are being used
D.can use
14、She accused the press photographers of ________ her privacy.
A.challenging B.violating C.abusing D.confirming
15、 After school we went to the reading-room to do some reading, only to be told that it ______.
A. was decorated
B. had decorated
C. had been decorating
D. was being decorated
16、Blue _____ you. You should wear it more.
A. fits B. suits
C. matches D. goes with
17、Her mother is a warm-hearted old lady.______.
A.So my mother is
B.So is my mother
C.Is my mother so
D.my mother so is
18、But for my casual attitude, I wouldn’t have been dismissed and ________ with my colleagues on the project now.
A.might have worked
B.would be working
C.were to work
D.had worked
19、(2017·北京) Jane moved aimlessly down the tree-lined street, not knowing ______she was heading.
A. why B. where
C. how D. when
20、With Mike _____ as our group leader, we had no trouble finishing the task ahead of time.
A. act B. to act
C. acted D. acting
21、 I took a motor rickshaw to the train station in the city of Belapur. The driver didn't speak much English, but understood, “Belapur Railway Station”. I had my tabla, a traditional drum from India, my suitcase with my clothes and other essentials. The feeling of flying by cars in this little machine seems as if you are inside a box with tiny wheels, dashing through disorderly traffic.
I arrived at the station safely, and took a heavy breath as I unloaded my baggage before the ticket office. It was the first time that I had taken a local train to Tilak Nagar, where I was going to learn traditional vocal music. Standing in line, I counted at least 20 people staring at me. I bought my ticket, which was only 55 cents for a 20-minute train ride. The prices still blow me away.
When the train came after 15 minutes or so, I got on at full speed, as the train only stopped for a few seconds. The locals again stared at me. This was a train especially for local transport. After a while, a young man asked me if he could talk to me. He wanted to know if I was in a band. I stated no, but I love to play the tabla. Through the conversation I knew he was a student of engineering with his exams being tomorrow. I wished him good luck for the exams sincerely, as I knew what it means to Indian students to get good marks on their exams. If students do not get good enough scores, job opportunities will be few in a highly competitive environment.
The student I met helped me unload my luggage as the train reached Tilak Nagar Station. He shook my hand strongly and looked into my eyes with the mark of genuine kindness, despite us meeting for only 20 minutes.
【1】How did the author feel about the ride by a motor rickshaw?
A.Worthless.
B.Worrying.
C.Common.
D.Expensive.
【2】What does the underlined part mean in the passage?
A.The train ticket cost him too much.
B.It was quite cheap to take the train.
C.The train was so convenient for him.
D.It was unusual to take a train there.
【3】What can we know about the young man mentioned in the passage?
A.He wanted to learn to play the tabla from the author.
B.He was going to a university to learn vocal music.
C.He would take his examinations seriously.
D.He wished to find a job in Tilak Nagar.
【4】What is the author's purpose of writing the passage?
A.To tell readers he got to know an Indian young man.
B.To imply it was unsafe to travel alone in India.
C.To complain about the messy and dirty Indian train.
D.To share his firsttime experience on a train in India.
22、Job description
• Teaching group ESL lessons online to Chinese kids 5-15 years old.
• Group classes from 3 or more (12 to 25) students are available for exceptional teachers with an excellent internet connection and computer hardware.
• A variety of courses available including Phonics, Science, STEM, etc.
• Work from anywhere with a computer and stable internet connection
• Set classes semester by semester and allow you to see your students’ progress
Requirements
• A Bachelor’s degree or above
• Must be a holder of TEFL/TESOL/CELTA or a valid teaching license
• Minimum 1-year teaching experience or ESL experience
• Wired, high-speed internet connection
• Responsible, good communication skills and easy-going
Work schedule:
Below times are all in Beijing Time (GMT+8)
Availability within the times shown below would be required
Mon-Fri: Between 5 pm-9 pm Sat-Sun: Between 8:30 am- 9 pm
Term of the contract:
At BlingABC, classes are arranged by semesters, so are the contracts offered to teachers. There are generally 4 semesters: Spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each semester will come with a contract of different starting date and there will also be differences in the booking rate. Summer and Winter are the most popular semester with more bookings
Now we need teachers for the coming summer semester (starts in July).
【1】What can you do in the job?
A.Learning computer skills.
B.Teaching children ESL lessons.
C.Studying different language courses.
D.Ensuring students’ progress in language.
【2】If you want to apply for the job, you should ________.
A.have a valid teaching license
B.speak both English and Chinese
C.have rich online teaching experience
D.make the same contract in different semesters
【3】What’s the purpose of the passage?
A.To promote language courses.
B.To introduce Bling ABC group.
C.To make a summer plan for children.
D.To hire some online English teachers.
23、My best friend traveled to stay with our family last weekend. When she arrived, she went straight to the kitchen and, without asking, ate a spoonful of raspberry jam and some dried fruit. She wasn’t being rude. I knew she would do this. We’ve known each other for almost 20 years. She can eat anything she wants from my kitchen. Indeed, I bought her favorite fruits and snacks at the shop that morning.
Our long weekend together was luxuriously simple. I was recovering from surgery and couldn’t go to shopping malls. We passed the time running errands, going to the post office and collecting dry cleaning. We drank away too many cappuccinos. But we talked about every little detail of our lives.
There’s never been a quiet moment in our friendship. We’ve lived in different cities for almost a decade. Reunions demand constant conversation. Our personalities are matched, to be sure, and a shared history is indescribably valuable. We were competitors in high school before bonding over a bad experience. Then we discovered the many interests that we had in common. Our friendship strengthened itself quickly. We stayed companions through law school, through our first jobs and our first boyfriends. We supported each other through break-ups and breakthroughs. Ours is a friendship for ages.
There is something special about friends who know everyone and everything about you. They are rare. These are the people you’ve chosen to witness your life. They have seen the bright lights of achievement, the depths of despair and the boring routine of the in-between.
It’s special to unpack feelings and frustrations without wasting time filling in the blanks. As my long weekend shows, with such friends we don’t have to “do”, we simply have to “be”. We drop the act, the performance, the public version of ourselves.
The special friendships are those which never fail to delight, the continuation of which is worth the extra effort, despite distance and difference sneaking into your separate lives. I had the very great joy of this reminder last weekend. I’m lucky to have found this friend, to see a future where her companionship remains. Being together is perfection.
【1】What happened during her best friend’s visit?
A.They enjoyed an eventful long weekend.
B.They talked constantly about their lives.
C.They made their favorite snacks and coffee.
D.They talked about what happened in their lives.
【2】One thing that the author appreciates about their friendship is that ________.
A.they help each other deal with the boredom of life
B.they prefer to witness each other’s lives from far away
C.they try to show each other their best selves
D.they are comfortable just being themselves when together
【3】Which of the following would the author agree with?
A.Charm comes from difference.
B.Politeness brings best friends closer.
C.Good friendships need devotion.
D.Distance can separate good friends.
【4】What is the tone of the passage?
A.Light-hearted.
B.Humorous.
C.Serious.
D.Desperate.
24、Two things changed my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket. I have thought long and hard about it and it’s true. I would be a different person if my mom hadn’t turned a silly bicycle accessory into a life lesson I carry with me today.
My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but it mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out. Looking back, I honestly don’t know how she did it. Managing the family budget must have been a very hard task, but she made it look effortless. If we complained about not having what another kid did, we’d hear something like, "I don’t care what so-and-so got for his birthday, you are not getting a TV in your room/a car for your birthday/a lavish sweet-16 party." We had to earn our allowance by doing chores around the house. I can still remember how long it took to polish the legs of our coffee table. My brothers can no doubt remember hours spent cleaning the house. Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds (no one left the house until that was done) and picked up after ourselves. We had to keep track of our belongings, and if something was lost, it was not replaced.
It was summer and, one day, my mother drove me to the bike shop to get a tire fixed — and there it was in the window. White, shiny, plastic and decorated with flowers, the basket winked at me and I knew — I knew — I had to have it.
"It’s beautiful," my mother said when I pointed it out to her. "What a neat basket."
I tried to hold off at first. I played it cool for a short while. But then I guess I couldn’t stand it any longer: "Mom, please can I please, please get it? I’ll do extra chores for as long as you say. I’ll do anything, but I need that basket. I love that basket. Please, Mom. Please?"
I was desperate.
"You know," she said, gently rubbing my back while we both stared at what I believed was the coolest thing ever, "If you save up you could buy this yourself."
"By the time I make enough it’ll be gone!"
"Maybe Roger here could hold it for you," she smiled at Roger, the bike guy.
"He can’t hold it for that long, Mom. Someone else will buy it. Please, Mom, please?"
"There might be another way," she said.
And so our paying plan unfolded. My mother bought the beautiful basket and put it safely in some hiding place I couldn’t find. Each week I eagerly counted my growing savings increased by extra work here and there (washing the car, helping my mother make dinner, delivering or collecting things on my bike that already looked naked without the basket in front). And then, weeks later, I counted, re-counted and jumped for joy. Oh, happy day! I made it! I finally had the exact amount we’d agreed upon....
Days later the unthinkable happened. A neighborhood girl I’d played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles. I rode hard and fast home to tell my mother about this disaster. This horrible turn of events.
And then came the lesson I’ve taken with me through my life: "Honey, your basket is extra-special," Mom said, gently wiping away my hot tears. "Your basket is special because you paid for it yourself."
【1】What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?
A. The mother raised her children in an unusual way.
B. The children were fond of the US president’s daughters.
C. The author came from a well-off family.
D. The children enjoyed doing housework.
【2】When the author saw the basket in the window, she ________.
A. recognized it at once B. went up to the bike guy
C. fell in love with it D. stared at her mother
【3】Why did the author say many "pleases" to her mother?
A. She wanted to be polite to her mother.
B. She longed to do extra work.
C. She was eager to have the basket.
D. She felt tired after standing too long.
【4】By using "naked" (Paragraph 12), the author seems to stress that the basket was ________.
A. something important to her B. something she could afford
C. something she could do without D. something impossible to get
【5】To the author, it seemed to be a horrible turn of events that ________.
A. the basket cost more than she had saved
B. someone else had got a basket of the same kind
C. something spoiled her paying plan
D. a neighborhood girl had bought a new bike
【6】What is the life lesson the author learned from her mother?
A. Save money for a rainy day. B. Good advice is beyond all price.
C. Earn your bread with your sweat. D. God helps those who help themselves.
25、 One day, Luke Fortune drove from Oregon to Portland, where he parked his car in a paid garage overnight. The next morning, he ____ the car’s window had been broken, along with his ____ for the future: his computer was ____. “Everything important to me was on that computer,” said Fortune. “I felt ____.”
Two days after the ____, another young man called Fortune. Masoud Almazrouei was an exchange student from the United Arab Emirates. He’d been ____ by a man who said he had a computer for sale. Only $200. Almazrouei ____ a computer, so he bought it, took it home, and turned it on. Within seconds, he saw files and photographs. “I wondered who would ____ a computer with all of this on it,” he said. “I ____ it could be stolen.”Almazrouei found what appeared to be the owner’s phone number and called it ____.
“He told me the story and said it was his fault. I thought it was a ____. I told him if he really had the ____, he should take it to the police,” Fortune said.
___, a police officer called Fortune to say that a man had dropped the computer off and had said he was ____. He passed on the man’s number.
Fortune called and thanked Almazrouei and ____ paying him a reward of $200 —the money he was out. Almazrouei ____.
When a report about the two young men’s story made it to the local papers, Almazrouei received a(n) ____ from Wim Wiewel, the president of the university where Almazrouei is studying. Impressed with his student’s ____, Wiewel gave Almazrouei a new computer. “We thought since you ____ the computer, we should give you a computer so that you’ll have one,” Wiewel told him. “We’re very ____ you.”
【1】A.expected B.concluded C.discovered D.remembered
【2】A.dreams B.skills C.decisions D.imaginations
【3】A.robbed B.hidden C.broken D.gone
【4】A.respectful B.depressed C.ridiculous D.regretful
【5】A.theft B.conflict C.adventure D.emergency
【6】A.inspired B.reminded C.interviewed D.approached
【7】A.operated B.needed C.possessed D.assessed
【8】A.return B.like C.sell D.throw
【9】A.realized B.predicted C.admitted D.guaranteed
【10】A.unwillingly B.cautiously C.immediately D.automatically
【11】A.mistake B.catastrophe C.misunderstanding D.trick
【12】A.chance B.computer C.bravery D.experience
【13】A.Besides B.However C.Afterwards D.Therefore
【14】A.sorry B.moved C.lucky D.terrified
【15】A.enjoyed B.practised C.succeeded in D.insisted on
【16】A.ignored B.refused C.hesitated D.withdrew
【17】A.invitation B.apology C.warning D.call
【18】A.virtue B.achievement C.independence D.determination
【19】A.took back B.paid back C.gave back D.held back
【20】A.tired of B.proud of C.curious about D.concerned about
26、假如你是交换生李明,正在美国一所高中学习。近日你在学校网站上看到学校篮球体育俱乐部要招收一名成员的消息。要求如下:
1. 爱好并擅长篮球;
2. 英语流利;
3. 有一定的比赛经历。
请根据以上要点给俱乐部负责人Mr. Brown写封信,表达你想加入该俱乐部的愿望。
注意:
1. 词数:100词左右
2. 行文连贯,不可逐字翻译。
Dear Mr. Brown,
I am learning English painting in our school as an exchange student from China. Recently I read it from notice on our school website that
Yours,
Li Ming