1、______ when we passed by its nest.
A. Up into the blue sky did the bird fly
B. Up into the blue sky flew the bird
C. Up into the blue sky the bird flew
D. Flew up into the blue sky the bird
2、The problems to be discussed at the meeting tomorrow are really hard ________.
A.to be solved
B.solved
C.solving
D.to solve
3、China advocates ________ international law and universally recognized norms governing international relations, and promotes the ________ of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security.
A.to uphold; function
B.upholding; function
C.to uphold; vision
D.upholding; vision
4、________ there is kindness, ________ is goodness.
A.Where, there
B.When, there
C.Where, it
D.When, it
5、Our flight ______ at 8:00 pm, so we have enough time to go to the airport.
A.has taken off
B.takes off
C.took off
D.had taken off
6、 is reported in the newspapers, talks between the two countries are making progress.
A.Which
B.What
C.As
D.It
7、—Robert remained depressed at home before his school reopened.
—If only the new term___________for the virus.
A.were not delayed B.would not be delayed
C.had not been delayed D.were not to be delayed
8、The dictionary is what I want, but I don't have enough money me.
A.by B.for C.with D.in
9、The researchers ________ red balls for blue balls to see if the baby would notice.
A.exchanged
B.substituted
C.replaced
D.alternated
10、Which underlined part has a different sound?
A.look B.book C.kangaroo D.good
11、The sports meeting we have been looking forward to ___________ finally.
A. comes B. come C. coming D. have come
12、 The exhibition _____ such endangered animals as the giant panda and the Siberian tiger and describes the work being done to protect them.
A. exploits B. features
C. demonstrates D. inspects
13、While I was waiting for the rain _________, I saw a car which knocked down a woman_______ away.
A.to stop…ran B.stopping…run C.stopping…running D.to stop… run
14、He did it it took me.
A.one-third a time B.one-third time C.the one-third time D.one-third the time
15、He would’t leave the TV set,______ he was going to have an important exam the next day.
A. even if B. as if
C. as though D. even so
16、As we know, a red jacket doesn’t ______ green trousers. But when a little girl wears them, they ______ her very well.
A. fit; suit B. suit; fit C. fit; match D. match; suit
17、The company has ______ the gas supply temporarily to repair the damaged gas pipe.
A.cut in B.cut up C.cut off D.cut out
18、Greatly moved by what the little girl did, I could hardly__________my tears.
A. take back
B. get back.
C. hold back
D. bring back
19、______is often the case, whoever hangs on in any adversity will succeed some day.
A.Why
B.What
C.That
D.As
20、My hotel is near downtown, in the Mission District, one of the oldest parts of the city.句中的主语是: ________。
A.My hotel
B.downtown
C.Mission District
D.the city
21、There once was a little boy who wanted to meet the king. He set off, walking towards the king’s castle. After many years of walking, the king’s castle came into his view. However, as the boy drew closer to the outside of the castle, the guards noticed him.
“Get out of here!” ordered the guards.
Well, the little boy didn’t have to be told twice. He turned…and ran. All he wanted to do was to tell the king wonderful things, and see all the beautiful things in the king’s house. But he couldn’t even get near the castle! The boy finally stopped running, sat down and cried.
A young man happened to be coming down the path at the very moment. He saw the little boy and stopped. “What’s wrong, young man?” he asked.
“Sir, I walked and walked just to see the king. But these guards made me scared. I wanted to tell the king how lovely everything is and just tell the king that I just wanted to see him!”
The man looked at the little boy thoughtfully. “Look, why don’t you try again? I’ll come with you this time.”
The little boy got up and took the man’s hand. The king’s guards spotted them.
“Look, mister, we don’t have to do this…I don’t want you to get hurt. We can just turn around now.”
The man held the little boy’s hand and went on. The boy really thought the man might be crazy until he looked back up at the guards. They were all smiling now. The little boy was amazed.
“Who are you?” asked the little boy in astonishment.
“Why, I’m the king’s son. You can enter the castle and be with the king.” Said the man.
The little boy broke into a huge smile.
【1】Why did the boy want to see the king?
A. To get some help from the king.
B. To invite the king to visit his beautiful village.
C. To share wonderful things with the king.
D. To ask the king to play with him.
【2】What does the underlined sentence in the paragraph mean?
A. The little boy didn’t understand the guards’ words at first.
B. The guards repeated the words to the boy.
C. The little boy had been to the castle twice.
D. The little boy understood the guards’ words immediately.
【3】According to the passage, the man is .
A. kind B. stupid C. ambitious D. mean
【4】Which of the following best suits the story’s lesson for us?
A. Never judge a book by its cover.
B. Anything is possible if one tried hard enough.
C. Life can sometimes be unfair.
D. Make new friends and keep the old.
22、 A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It's extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. "The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it's connected to, said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers' fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”
【1】According to the first paragraph, the robotic fly is ________.
A.larger than a fat housefly
B.as large as a fat housefly
C.smaller than a fat housefly
D.as large as a housefly
【2】The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that ________.
A.they had no model in their mind
B.they did not have sufficient time
C.they had no ready-made components
D.they could not assemble the components
【3】It can be inferred from Paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly ________.
A.consists of a flight device and a control system
B.can just fly in limited areas at the present time
C.can collect information from many sources
D.has been put into wide application
【4】Which of the following can be learned from the passage?
A.The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.
B.Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.
C.There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.
D.Wood's design can replace animals in some experiments.
23、Climate change demands a food revolution. Faced with heat, drought, pests and diseases, the crops we eat every day might disappear in a generation or less, at least where they are currently grown. From beef and fish to chocolate and wine, one beloved food after another is joining the at-risk list.
Take coffee. Right now, Arabica and Canephora, the most popular two species in the industry, are under urgent threat worldwide—as are the 125 million people who depend on coffee crops for their income. Coffee Arabica plants, which produce 70% of all commercial coffee, can be negatively affected by even a half-degree change in typical weather conditions. This sensitivity to temperature puts the plant at increased risk of the effects of climate change.
In Central America the average temperature has risen by a full degree Celsius since 1960. In Ethiopia the average temperature has increased by 1. 3 degrees. This increase is enough to have significant effects on the plants. In Tanzania the productivity per hectare of coffee has fallen by 45% since the 1960s due to changes in temperature.
Indeed, studies claim that by 2050 the area of the world suitable for growing coffee will be cut by 60%. Coffee production is likely to then be pushed to higher elevations(海拔) to take advantage of lower temperatures, but this will not be enough to make up for lost lowland areas.
Coffee is the second most traded goods by developing nations, and the inability of producer nations to export it could cause dramatic chain reactions in their economies. Millions of people make a living in the production, processing, transport, and sale of coffee; their livelihoods would stand to take a blow as growing areas decrease and prices rise.
As the temperature keeps rising, your cup of coffee will become much more expensive, and it may also carry an aftertaste bitterer than usual, for all those workers in the coffee belt left without the means to make a living as conditions worsen. Not only that, but the economic effects will cost the West millions in increased foreign aid.
【1】Which is NOT one of the contributors to the disappearing food species?
A.Drought.
B.Poverty.
C.Climate change.
D.Pests.
【2】How does the author prove the effects of climate change on coffee planting?
A.By listing examples of foods.
B.By presenting figures.
C.By making a prediction.
D.By analyzing causes and effects.
【3】Why will people have to grow coffee in highland areas?
A.To adapt to the change of temperature.
B.To increase the quality of the produce.
C.To reduce the cost of coffee production.
D.To get access to water supply more easily.
【4】What can be learnt from the last two paragraphs?
A.The rich will get richer and the poor poorer.
B.It will cost you more to have a cup of coffee.
C.Developed countries ought to aid poor countries.
D.Coffee trade will eventually disappear in the world.
24、Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not bring so much material home in the first place.
The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.
But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.
There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary material we are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.
【1】What does the underlined word “over-consumption” refer to?
A.Using too much packaging.
B.Recycling too much waste.
C.Making more products than necessary.
D.Having more material than is needed.
【2】The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show ________.
A.the tendency of cutting household waste
B.the increase of packaging recycling
C.the rapid growth of supermarkets
D.the fact of packaging overuse
【3】What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A.Unpackaged products are of bad quality.
B.Supermarkets care more about packaging.
C.It is improper to judge quality by packaging.
D.Other products are better packaged than food.
【4】What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.Fighting wastefulness is difficult.
B.Needless material is mostly recycled.
C.People like collecting recyclable waste.
D.The author is proud of his consumer culture.
25、Rehn Staton recently found he was accepted by Harvard Law School — as well as to law schools at Columbia, UPenn, USC and Pepperdine. For Staton, the sky’s the limit, _________ it wasn’t always that way. He once worked as a sanitation worker (环卫工人) in Maryland before _________ his dreams and applying for law school.
Staton, 24, was raised by a single father who worked hard to _________ him and his brother. Staton said growing up was _________ and he used to struggle in school. One teacher even _________ he switch to a special education class. But with the help of a tutor, who worked with Staton for free, he _________ it.
Staton was a high school _________ , focusing on martial arts and boxing. After suffering an injury, Staton said his _________ for college became fewer. “It ruined the chances of me turning _________ in sports. So, that’s to say, when applying to college, I got denied by every single one,” he said.
Instead of pursuing higher __________ , Staton started working at Bates Trucking & Trash Removal, which he said changed his life in ways he never __________. He said he wanted to work there __________ there was something he could do to help his dad pay for the mortgage (按揭贷款). “What I didn’t expect to __________ was, most of the people I worked with were formerly incarcerated (监禁)… So, it caught me __________ surprise how much they uplifted me and really wanted me to make __________ of myself. It was the people that were on the __________ of the hierarchy (等级) who really lifted me up,” he said.
His __________ encouraged him to apply to Bowie State University in 2014, and in 2016, he transferred to the University of Maryland. “After I started doing well there, I just knew I wanted to go and __________ law,” Staton said. He took the LSAT and applied to nine schools — getting __________ to five and wait listed at the other four. __________, Staton decided to commit to Harvard Law School — and he’ll never forget all the people who helped him get there.
【1】
A.since
B.but
C.for
D.or
【2】
A.making
B.following
C.remembering
D.forgetting
【3】
A.count on
B.feed on
C.provide for
D.provide with
【4】
A.simple
B.tough
C.smooth
D.sharp
【5】
A.persuaded
B.claimed
C.acknowledged
D.suggested
【6】
A.made
B.got
C.repeated
D.helped
【7】
A.coach
B.singer
C.athlete.
D.teacher
【8】
A.preferences
B.changes
C.advantages
D.options
【9】
A.professional
B.personal
C.hopeful
D.active
【10】
A.education
B.career
C.position
D.salary
【11】
A.wanted
B.needed
C.promised
D.imagined
【12】
A.though
B.because
C.while
D.unless
【13】
A.present
B.happen
C.prepare
D.ignore
【14】
A.in
B.for
C.by
D.on
【15】
A.something
B.nothing
C.someone
D.nobody
【16】
A.bottom
B.middle
C.centre
D.top
【17】
A.classmates
B.coworkers
C.tutors
D.professors
【18】
A.practice
B.obey
C.violate
D.issue
【19】
A.received
B.denied
C.admitted
D.reserved
【20】
A.Additionally
B.However
C.Eventually
D.Instead
26、阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
“There’s our guide,” I said to the bus driver. He stopped and opened the door to let me off. “You must be Becky.” she said.”My name is Anne.”
As the tour director for a group of forty-three. I quickly confirmed with Anne the sites we would like to see during the next four hours: the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the White House.Most importantly, we discussed when and where to let everyone have a break. It was not a simple matter for so many people. Then we climbed aboard to begin our tour of Washington D.C..
After introducing Anne to the busload of waiting tourists, I handed the microphone to her and made my way toward the last seat. The conversation with a guide usually ended there since she stayed busy engaging guests. My job was to ensure nobody got lost. But on that day, we managed a brief chat in the shade of a tree by the lawn.
“Where are you from?” Anne asked.” Alabama. Are you from Washington.D.C.?” “Well, I live here now, but I was born in Ohio,”she said.“ I was born in Ohio, too.” “Where did you grow up?” she asked in surprise. “ Middletown,” I answered. “Me too!”“Why did you leave home and come here?” I asked. “My father is an orthopedic(骨科的)doctor and he came here for further study……” “An orthopedic doctor? Sorry to interrupt you, but what’s your father’s name?”I felt like I couldn’t breathe at the moment. “Edward Cooper,” she answered. “ Mr.Cooper! My doctor’s name was Edward Cooper,”I said. “That’s really my dad!”Anne exclaimed.
My parents had told me a story. I was born without the left arm, and my left leg turned inward. Then an orthopedic doctor placed a cast from my hip to my tiny toes magically. Thankfully, my leg straightened out and grew strong. By ten months, I could take my first steps.
Paragraph 1:
At the time of the joy, however, my parents dreaded the final bill for the months of orthopedic care.
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Paragraph2:
The doctor who showed such great kindness to my family was Anne’s father.
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