1、_____manners are very important in every country is known to all,but the trouble is that different countries have different ideas about ______good manners are.
A. That;what B. That;that
C. What;that D. What;what
2、We can ______ the two islands with a bridge.
A.unite B.connect C.relate D.combine
3、It was with deep sadness that the House of Chanel announced the passing of Karl Lagerfeld, ________ talent for all the branding campaigns related to fashion it benefited since 1987.
A.of which
B.whose
C.of whom
D.from whose
4、Yuan Long Ping is known ______ his hybrid rice ______ an agricultural scientist.
A. for, as B. as, for C. for, to D. to, as
5、Beyond, a famous rock band, played its last concert in 2005 and then it officially ______ in Singapore.
A.broke away B.broke off C.broke up D.broke out
6、--Our English teacher is back home from Britain now.
--Yes, she _____there for just three months.
A. has been B. had been
C. is D. was
7、He was living in France when the war _________.
A.broke off B.broke into C.broke out D.broke through
8、There’s no way of knowing why one man makes an important discovery ________ another man, also intelligent, fails.
A.since B.if C.as D.while
9、It is recommended that the project ______ until all the preparations have been made.
A.is not started
B.will not be started
C.not be started
D.is not to be started
10、Mary is so quiet a girl that she seldom speaks in public places unless _____ to.
A. is spoken B. is speaking
C. speaking D. spoken
11、The reason why I declined your invitation to the picnic was ______ a job interview that day.
A.because I had B.because of having C.due to D.that I had
12、Dad is busy with his essay on the SG networks Exactly. He______ a lecture this time next week.
A. is giving B. was giving C. will be giving D. has been giving
13、I was the first reporter ________ to take pictures of giant pandas in the reserve.
A.to permit B.to be permitted C.permitted D.permitting
14、Being able to _____ on a stage will for sure serve as a great inspiration for their future careers if they hold on.
A.shine B.pour C.benefit D.select
15、They tried to convince her _______ his innocence.
A.of
B.about
C.to
D.in
16、Please bear in mind that nobody but doctors or nurses____ to enter the patient's room.
A.allow B.allows C.is allowed D.are allowed
17、I can’t_________ not seeing him again, for he is the most important person in my life.
A.bear B.beg C.ban D.bend
18、You need to ________ here, for the ground is wet and soft on either side of the path.
A. watch out B. stand out C. figure out D. work out
19、Actually, our hobbies vary a lot—I like outdoor activities, _________ square dance is my wife’s preference.
A.although B.when C.while D.as
20、From space, the earth looks blue.This is _______about seventy-one percent of its surface is covered by water.
A.why B.how
C.because D.whether
21、It is important to____________ exactly what you want the audience to know and what you get them to do.
A. put out B. figure out C. bring out D. turn out
22、The students in Shanghai are using the same textbooks _______ we are now using.
A.as B.that C.which D.whose
23、It is Russia ________ will hold the 2018 World Cup.
A. that B. which
C. where D. when
24、We were walking on the fine, soft sand, which kept the ______ of the waves.
A.impression B.exploration C.expression D.inspiration
25、He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming ________.
A.fascinated B.concerned
C.committed D.exhausted
26、How to Design a Logo
A great logo is more than images and words,and a good logo tells a story about your company-who you are,what you do and what you stand for.【1】And it is why it’s important that you take the time to do it right. Fortunately, you don’t have to do it alone.The steps below will help you design a good logo.
Determine the primary function of your logo.
Being clear on why you need a logo can guide your design.Having a strong logo can help consumers recognize your brand more readily. Consumers shop with their eyes and logos can be easier to remember than names,products and services【2】
【3】
It’s important to be clear on who your potential customers are and design the look of your logo to appeal to those who will be using your services.A logo for a flower shop could include a unusual character style and a bright color.
Decide whether to include your company’s name into the logo.
Of course,you want to build name recognition for your business,but making the name part of your logo design may not always be a good idea.Include the name if it is reasonably distinctive but not yet a household word.Do not include the name if it is too long,and doesn’t translate well globally or lacks personality.
Be inspired by but don’t copy successful logos.
While it might be easy to create something that looks like your favorite company’s logo,it will leave an impression on consumers that you’re lazy and uninspired. Look at logos of other companies.【4】These examples give you ideas of what to do and what to avoid.
Keep it simple.
While it may be easy to try to give a lot of messages with your design,trying to do too much will ruin your logo.【5】If there are too many messages in your logo, it will be difficult for the customer to process.
A.Think about your target market.
B.That’s a lot to ask of one piece of art.
C.Ask yourself what you like and don’t like about them.
D.Avoid too many colors, different characters and images.
E.A good logo that conveys your honesty can help put customers at ease.
F.Over time, a customer comes to associate your logo with your company.
G.Show your logo to those connected to you and listen to what they have to say.
27、 Travelling abroad is becoming increasingly popular these years. Some people are afraid of making linguistic mistakes while traveling. Actually, cultural mistakes may be more serious, which can lead to serious misunderstanding.【1】
●Touching Someone
【2】In Mediterranean countries, if you don’t touch someone’s arm when talking to them or if you don’t greet them with kisses or a warm hug, you’ll be considered cold. But backslap(拍背) someone who isn’t a family member or a good friend in Korea, and you’ll make them uncomfortable. In Thailand, the head is considered sacred(神圣的)-never even pat a child on the head.
●Talking Over Dinner
In some countries, like China, Japan and some African nations, the food is the thing, so don’t start chatting about your day’s adventures while everyone else is digging into dinner. 【3】 It’s not because your group is unfriendly, but because meal times are for eating, not talking.
● Removing Your Shoes or Not
Take off your shoes when arriving at the door of a London dinner party and the hostess will find you uncivilized, but fail to remove your shoes before entering a home in Asia, Hawaii, or the Pacific Islands and you’ll be considered disrespectful. So, if you see a row of shoes at the door, start undoing your shoelaces. 【4】
Once you are on the ground of a different country, remain highly sensitive to native behavior. 【5】And don’t feel offended if something seems offensive-like queue jumping. After all, this is a global village, and we are all very different.
A.If not, keep the shoes on.
B.As the saying goes: “Do as Romans do.”
C.Never be completely surprised by anything.
D.Personal spaces are different among countries.
E.You’ll be likely to meet with no response.
F.The linguistic mistake means that someone is not fully expressing his idea.
G.Watch out for the following cultural mistakes and try to avoid them.
28、A study on astronauts found that a short sleep during the day up to two and a half hours long improved working memory performance. Working memory includes focusing attention on one task while holding other tasks in memory, so a poor working memory could result in errors.
Taking a short sleep may make you think more clearly for the period right after you wake up and maybe hours into the day. Taking a short sleep once or twice a week could lower the risk of heart attacks, according to a 2019 study published in the journal Heart. After tracking more than 3,400 people between the ages of 35 and 75 for slightly more than five years, the researchers found that those who enjoyed occasional short sleep — once or twice a week, for five minutes to an hour — were 48% less likely than those who didn't take a short sleep to experience a heart attack or heart failure.
A lack of quality sleep could lead to overeating because not enough sleep is believed to stimulate hunger and stop hormone (荷尔蒙) signals that communicate fullness. The findings were important because women were at high risk of fatness and sleep disorders, the researchers said, which could both be driven by a high intake of food. Taking a short sleep has been found to improve your creativity. The right side of your brain might experience a strong mental feeling during a short sleep, research suggested. The right side is the hemisphere (半球体) most associated with creative tasks, such as imagination and thinking, while the left is more logical. Researchers monitoring the brain activity of 15 people found that the right side of their brain communicated busily with itself as well as with its left part. The left side of the brain, however, remained relatively quiet. In a January 2020 study of 2,214 Chinese adults aged 60 and older, those who took afternoon sleep for five minutes to two hours showed better mental response than those who didn’t take a short sleep.
【1】What do we know about the study on astronauts?
A.Taking a short sleep surely results in errors.
B.Improving working memory ability needs a long sleep.
C.Sleeping up to one and a half hour is needed during the day.
D.Having a good working memory may complete the task better.
【2】What can we infer about taking a short sleep from paragraph 2?
A.It may make you think clearly all day.
B.It could reduce the risk of heart attacks.
C.It made 48% of people free from a heart attack.
D.It may cause over 3,400 persons to suffer from heart attack.
【3】What does the underlined word “stimulate” in paragraph 3 mean?
A.Refer to.
B.Focus on.
C.Give up.
D.Result in.
【4】In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?
A.Sports.
B.Education.
C.Health.
D.Technology.
29、 Breathing dirty air can cost someone's life span(寿命) months—even years, a new study finds.Worldwide, air pollution lowers average life spans by a year. Scientists shared their new findings in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
Air pollution has been linked to many health problems.Most earlier studies has looked at how tiny air pollutants affected rates of illness or death. But now an environmental scientist, Joshua Apte, is going even further. He works at the University of Texas, Austin. He together with his team is looking at life expectancy, hoping to make the threat easier to understand.
PM 2.5 is what scientists call tiny particles of pollution in the air. Higher levels of PM 2. 5 can cause health problems and cut months, if not years, from the average life span. This analysis show show pollution affects life expectancy in different parts of the world.
The World Health Organization(WHO) recommends limiting PM 2.5 to 10 micrograms(微克) per cubic (立方)meter of air. Apte's group used data to try to find how this low level would help people. But meeting the WHO standard won't get rid of health damage from dirty air.That's because even below 10 micrograms per cubic meter pollution still causes huge risks.
Reducing air pollution could increase life expectancy. The scientists also compared how other threats shorten life spans across the globe. These risk factors included smoking and cancer.
These results show that in poor countries, cleaning up dirty air could greatly increase life spans. It could have as big an effect as cleaning up drinking water, or curing lung cancer. However, in wealthier countries air pollution shortens life expectancy by less than half a year. All forms of cancer, in fact, shorten the average life expectancy by more than 3.5 years.“Knowing this can really help people, or policymakers, decide where to spend their money,” says Kirk Smith.
【1】What is Joshua Apte's team trying to do?
A.Let people understand air pollution better. B.Know how small air pollutants are.
C.Study the life expectancy of different people. D.Study many different healthy problems.
【2】What will happen if one country limits PM 2.5 to 10 micrograms per cube meters?
A.Its people will live a healthy life. B.Its air is very clean.
C.It will get a prize from WHO. D.It still has pollution risks.
【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.Cancer is the leading killer in all kinds of diseases.
B.It's very hard to clean up dirty air in a short time.
C.The study will help different countries take different policies.
D.Reducing air pollution can increase all people's lifespans much.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A.The Effect of Cancer Is Worse than Dirty Air
B.Air Pollution Is Shortening Lives Worldwide
C.Many Factors Are Affecting People's Health
D.Governments Are Trying to Make Life Span Long
30、 Living in a foreign culture can be exciting, but it can also be __. A group of Americans who taught English in other countries __ discussed their __.They decided that miscommunications were always __, even over something as __ as “yes” and “no.”
On her first day in Micronesia, Lisa thought people were __ her requests. The day was hot, and she needed a cold drink. She went into a store and asked, “Do you have cold drinks?” The woman there didn’t say anything. Lisa __ the question.Still the woman said nothing.Lisa gave up and left the store. She later learned that the woman had __ her: She had raised her eyebrows, __ in Micronesia means “yes.”
This __ Jan of an experience she had in Bulgaria. She had gone to a restaurant that was well-known for a __ named stuffed cabbage( 塞馅卷心菜). She asked the waiter, “Do you have stuffed cabbage today?” He __ his head. Jan eagerly waited, __ the cabbage __ came. In that country, a nod means “no.”
Tom had a __ problem when he arrived in India. After __ something in class, he asked his students if they understood. They responded __ many different nods and shakes of the head. He guessed some people had not understood, so he explained again. When he asked again if they understood, they did the same thing. He soon __ that his students did understand. In India, people nod and shake their heads in different ways __ where they come from. You have to know where a person is from to __ whether they are indicating(表示) “yes” or “no.”
【1】A. confusing B. shocking C. amazing D. unsafe
【2】A. recently B. immediately C. actually D. shortly
【3】A. approaches B. opinions C. experiences D. schedules
【4】A. amusing B. possible C. unnecessary D. important
【5】A. short B. useful C. simple D. personal
【6】A. judging B. meeting C. receiving D. ignoring
【7】A. reconsidered B. faced C. solved D. repeated
【8】A. answered B. forgotten C. forgiven D. mistaken
【9】A. who B. which C. that D. where
【10】A. convinced B. reminded C. informed D. warned
【11】A. meal B. diet C. dish D. vegetable
【12】A. turned B. shook C. hung D. nodded
【13】A. because B. though C. but D. so
【14】A. ever B. never C. yet D. once
【15】A. difficult B. special C. normal D. similar
【16】A. explaining B. admitting C. proving D. announcing
【17】A. for B. with C. as D. to
【18】A. realized B. hoped C. showed D. pretended
【19】A. thanks to B. apart from C. instead of D. according to
【20】A. read out B. let out C. figure out D. point out
31、按照课文原文填空
Daisy smiled. "That's good news. It shows the 【1】of wildlife protection, but I'd like to help as the WWF suggested." The carpet 【2】 again and almost at once they were in a thick forest. A monkey watched them as it 【3】 itself. "What are you doing?" asked Daisy. "I’m 【4】 myself from mosquitoes," it replied. "When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It contains a 【5】 drug which 【6】 mosquitoes. You should pay more 【7】 to the rainforest 【8】 I live and 【9】how the animals live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs."
Daisy was amazed. "Flying carpet, please take me home so I can tell WWF and we can begin producing this new drug. Monkey, please come and help." The monkey【10】. The carpet flew home.
32、请根据以下提示写一篇关于早起有益的短文。(100 字左右)
1. 早起锻炼可使身体健康强壮。
2.早起朗读,有助于记住学过的东西。
3.可为一天的活动做好准备。
4.坚持早起对培养好的性格也很有益处。