1、Thanks to their ________ effort, the iconic building was not pulled down.
A.political
B.joint
C.hazy
D.rigid
2、Tom in the library every night over the last three months.
A.works
B.worked
C.has been working
D.had been working
3、Timmy, why in the mud? I have already told you so many times not to!
A.must you sit
B.should you sit
C.will you sit
D.can you sit
4、He never depends ______ his parents. He likes to do everything ______ himself.
A.on; by
B.with; on
C.in; by
D.from; with
5、Don’t ______ to personal feelings, Jack. We will have to take the company’s policy into consideration.
A. give off B. give in C. give up D. give out
6、The lack of self-interest and promotion kept Cunningham ________ on his craft, ________ him to capture New York’s unique street style.
A.focused, to enable
B.focused, enabling
C.focusing, enabled
D.to focus, enabling
7、Paul, _______ for years to make money, finally paid off his debts.
A. struggled B. struggling
C. having struggled D. to struggle
8、I hadn’t had trouble learning English ________ one day my five-year-old son asked me whether there was ham in a hamburger.
A.unless
B.until
C.after
D.when
9、The message has been clearly conveyed in Xi Jinping’s speech ________ the modernization of Chinese navy is to be sped up.
A. whether B. that C. why D. which
10、The manager put forward a suggestion ______ we should have an assistant. There is too much work to do.
A.whether
B.that
C.which
D.why
11、The old man stood there, __________by his five sons and daughters, __________ very happy.
A.surrounding; looked B.surrounded; looking
C.to be surrounded; looked D.were surrounded; looking
12、I came to realize that to ________ in America, you couldn’t depend on others.
A.get through
B.get over
C.get ahead
D.get at
13、However, once the ability to record sound was invented, music players_____ underwent a series of rapid changes.
A. passed B. conducted C. experienced D. recommend
14、 China’s player Wang Hao has retired, with the_____ of an Olympic single’s gold medal his only regret.
A. ban B. lack C. aid D. aim
15、 We _________ the difficulty together, but why didn’t you tell me?
A.should face B.might face C.must have faced D.could have faced
16、A lot of measures have been taken recently, of benefits, however, some are difficult to see in the short term.
A. what B. whose C. which D. whom
17、No matter how frustrated she was in her heart, she would _______ others with a smile as usual; she didn’t want to let them know.
A.inspire B.serve C.help D.treat
18、________ the COVID-19 pandemic was a primary factor affecting enrolment of international students, the strained relationship between the US and China also accounted for it.
A.As
B.Since
C.If
D.While
19、Now scientists are doing their best to make _______ breakthrough in cancer research.
A.the B./ C.a D.one
20、 ______doubt, I turned to one of my English friends for an answer, only ______myself more
Puzzled---I was told that it was the way people behaved.
A. Filled with; finding B. Filled with; to find
C. Filling with; finding D. Filling with; to find
21、One thing is certain about globalization—it is ________. Advances in technology combined with more opening-up policies have already created an interconnected world.
A.irrecoverable
B.irreversible
C.irresponsible
D.irreplaceable
22、Under the present economic situation many college students cannot ________ that they can find ideal jobs after they graduate.
A.guarantee
B.fear
C.whisper
D.criticise
23、The spokesman said that Japan should, ________ ignore its aggressive past, reflect on its own history and its current policies.
A. more than B. other than
C. better than D. rather than
24、He has worked out exactly what his income will have to be during the first six months to _____ his costs.
A. spare B. cover C. save D. spend
25、— I’m tired out after three-day work day and night.
— ________ have a rest? Go out and enjoy the natural beauty.
A.Why don’t
B.Why not
C.What about
D.Let’s
26、Theme parks are magical places where adults can act like children who have the time of their lives. Here are the top four theme parks across the world.
Ferrari World — Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi in the Middle East is home to the world’s largest indoor theme park. The main attraction is the Formula Rossa - officially the fastest roller coaster in the world. The ride goes from 0 to 239 kilometres per hour in less than five seconds. The force is so strong that those brave enough to go on it have to wear safety glasses.
Tickets: £ 40 per adult and half price for children under 1.2 metres tall.
Alton Towers — Staffordshire, England
Alton Towers is the most visited theme park in the UK. The park offers rides such as the popular 800-metre-long roller coaster. Or if you’re interested in experiencing the sense of flying, head for the famous ride Air, where you’ll need to avoid objects and trees as you fly. The park also has many other attractions, including live shows.
Tickets: £ 43 per adult and £ 21 per child. Children under the age of 3 get in for free.
Disneyland Paris — Paris, France
Disneyland Paris creates a fantasy world that both children and adults can enjoy. Disneyland Park gives girls the chance to meet their favourite Disney Princesses and to explore Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Exciting roller coasters will keep the whole family entertained for hours on end.
Tickets: £ 34 per adult and £ 27 per child. Children under the age of 3 get in for free.
Oakwood Theme Park — Pembrokeshire, Wales
If you are eager to experience fast turns and drops, then this is the park for you. Be brave and go on the Megafobia roller coaster, a wooden coaster making you scream.
Tickets: £ 48 for adults, £ 22 per child. Children under 3 years get in for free.
【1】Where can live shows be enjoyed according to the text?
A.In Ferrari World.
B.In Alton Towers.
C.In Disneyland Paris.
D.In Oakwood Theme Park.
【2】How much should a couple with their 2-year-old daughter pay in Disneyland Paris?
A.£ 61.
B.£ 68.
C.£ 86.
D.£ 95.
【3】What do all the parks have?
A.Indoor activities.
B.The ride Air.
C.The roller coaster.
D.The castle.
27、Live music is back! Do you want to start booking tickets to shows ahead of time? Here’s a guide to the hottest artists that will be hitting the stage this summer.
Doja Cat
Doja Cat will be celebrating the release(发行)of her album with a July 4th performance in Brooklyn. She’s also set to perform at Miami’s Rolling Loud Festival, Leeds and Reading Festival(UK)and Austin City Limits Festival throughout the summer and early fall.
Madison Beer
Madison Beer will be touring Canada and the US starting in October as a part of her “Life Support” tour. which is also going international in the spring. Alongside Doja Cat, she’s also playing at Leeds and Reading Festival in the UK over the summer.
Bleachers
Bleachers, the official stage name of songwriter and record producer Jack Antonoff, is officially going on tour across America starting in September. “We don’t waste time live and there has not been a stage where we haven’t shown what we are…we are coming home,” Bleachers said in an Instagram post.
Haim
Our favorite sisters are set to play at various music festivals and shows. By far, we know they’re playing the Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas and the All Things Go Music Festival in Maryland. If you live in the UK, you’re in luck because Haim also announced that their UK tour is officially rescheduled for this September. They’ll be hitting up Glasgow, Nottingham, Cardiff, Manchester and London!
Billy Joel
Billy Joel will be touring across some cities in the US starting in August and performing at the United States Grand Prix in October. He will be primarily performing in New York City with six shows at Madison Square Garden in the fall.
【1】What’ s the purpose of Doja Cat’s July 4th performance?
A.To celebrate a festival.
B.To promote her new album.
C.To support her foreign tour.
D.To collect money for another album.
【2】At which of the following can you see two artists mentioned in the text?
A.Austin City Limits Festival.
B.The show at the United States Grand Prix.
C.Leeds and Reading Festival.
D.The shows at Madison Square Garden.
【3】Who will bring the audience the enjoyment of group singing?
A.Haim.
B.Billy Joel.
C.Bleachers.
D.Madison Beer.
28、Over the years working as a psychologist, I have found that the following habits seem to be the most important for developing a happier, healthier mind,
【1】
By nature, most of us are critical of our emotions—especially the difficult ones: You feel anxious and afraid and then immediately criticize yourself for being weak. Though something feels bad, it doesn’t mean it is bad. 【2】 When your muscles are painful after a good workout, your pain is a sign of growth and health. Sometimes pain is helpful. By avoiding it or trying to get rid of it, you could be making things worse on yourself.
Be realistic with your expectations.
When you create an expectation in your head—which is really just you imagining the thing you want to be true—it relieves some of that anxiety and uncertainty for the time being. But in reality, your expectations are merely fictions in your own mind.
Expectations have their place. 【3】 If you want a calmer and more peaceful mind, get into the habit of checking on your expectations regularly and make sure they aren’t too far outside of reality.
Practice compassion (同情) in your self-talk.
【4】When you’re too negative and particular about yourself, you turn normal embarrassment into intense shame; everyday depression into anger; ordinary sadness into desperation. If you want to start being kinder toward yourself, follow The Other Golden Rule: 【5】 The next time you feel bad, imagine that a good friend felt the same way and came to you for support and advice... What would you say to them?
A.Acknowledge your emotions.
B.Try to avoid painful emotions.
C.Negative self-talk worsens your emotions.
D.In much of life, pain is actually a good thing.
E.Treat yourself like you would treat a good friend.
F.But they may run wild and cause negative effects if ignored.
G.They teach your brain that your emotions are bad and dangerous.
29、Doctors have a new weapon in the battle against obesity (过度肥胖) — a talking plate that tells people not to eat too quickly. The Mandometer monitors the amount of food leaving the plate, and tells users, “Please eat more slowly.”
The £1,500 Swedish device is to be used in a National Health Service plan to help hundreds of obese families lose weight. It comes in two parts — a scale placed under the plate and a small computer screen showing a graphic(图表) of the food gradually disappearing as the user eats. A red line on the screen shows the user’s eating speed, while a blue line shows a healthy rate. If the user eats too fast, the red line angles away from the blue one, warning him or her to ease off. If the lines deviate (偏离) too much, the computer voice comes on, and the screen flashes the message “Are you feeling full yet?” to remind users to think about whether they have had enough.
Britain has an increasingly serious obesity problem, with one in four adults and one in seven children classed as obese. After a recent trial using the device, experts believe teaching obese people to eat more slowly will help them know when they are full. Around 600 families with at least one obese parent and child (aged five or older) were targeted in the project by Bristol University, along with GPs and nurses.
Professor Julian Hamilton-Shield, who is leading the plan, says obese children and adolescents using the Mandometer ate from 12 to 15 percent less per meal at the end of the 12-month trial. Six months after they stopped using the device they still ate less, and continued to lose weight. “It will be a powerful tool to help families retrain their eating habits,” he says.
【1】What does the red line on the screen show?
A.A healthy rate of eating.
B.Too much food is left.
C.The user’s eating speed.
D.The user is full.
【2】What can we infer from the text?
A.The device can help obese people form good eating habits.
B.Every family will have such a device soon.
C.This device is the best way to lose weight.
D.People will no longer worry about obesity.
【3】The underlined phrase ease off is closest in meaning to ______.
A.to become less tense
B.to eat more slowly
C.to remove gently and slowly
D.to stop
【4】Which of the following is TRUE, according to the text?
A.25% of children are obese in Britain.
B.One in seven adults is obese in Britain.
C.Children using the Mandometer ate less after the trial.
D.Six months after the trial, obese people are still eating a lot.
30、 In a development that would have seemed hardly possible just over a decade ago, many of us have gained constant access to information. If we need to find out the score of a ballgame, learn how to perform a complicated mathematical task, or simply remember the name of the actress in the movie we are viewing, we need only turn to our ____ or smart phones and we can find the answers immediately. It has become such an ordinary ____ to look up the answer to any question the moment it occurs. It can feel like going through withdrawal when we can’t find out something immediately. We are seldom offline unless by choice and the Internet, with its search engines like Baidu and Google and the information stored there, has become an ____ memory source that we can access at any time.
Storing information externally is nothing particularly ____, even before the invention of computers. In any group relationship, people typically develop a transactive(交换式) memory, which is a combination of memory stores held directly by individuals and the memory stores they can ____ because they are in touch with someone who knows that information. Like ____ computers that can address each other’s memories, people in groups form transactive memory systems.
In a rec arch led by Besty Sparrow of Columbia University, researchers have ____whether having online access to search engines has become a primary transactivc memory source in itself. If asked the question whether there are any countries with only one color in their flag, for example, do we think about flags — or immediately think to go online to find out the answer?
In one experiment, the participants were asked to read 40 memorable unimportant statements of the type that they could ____ online (e.g., an ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain). Then they were asked to type the statements into computer to assure memory. Half the participants believed the computer would save what was typed and the other half believed the item would be ____. After the reading and typing task, participants wrote down as many of the statements as they could ____. It turned out that participants who believed the computer would erase what they had typed had ____ recall than those who regarded the computer as the memory source.
The Internet has become a primary form of transactive memory, and processes of human memory are ____ to the new computing and communication technology. Just as we learn through transactive memory who knows what in our families and offices, we are learning what the computer “knows” and when we should attend to where we have stored information in our computer-based memories. The importance of the information from the Internet is almost ____ to that of all the knowledge we gain from our friends and coworkers—and lose if they are out of touch. The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a ____. We must always remain ____ to know what the Internet knows.
【1】A.televisions B.newspapers C.dictionaries D.laptops
【2】A.practice B.custom C.regulation D.routine
【3】A.additional B.external C.aggressive D.significant
【4】A.traditional B.new C.amazing D.unique
【5】A.obtain B.create C.access D.exchange
【6】A.professional B.updated C.feasible D.linked
【7】A.explored B.discussed C.experienced D.investigated
【8】A.track down B.look up C.take in D.bring about
【9】A.disappeared B.increased C.erased D.broken
【10】A.guess B.remember C.claim D.announce
【11】A.better B.high C.temporary D.shorter
【12】A.contributing B.adding C.tending D.adapting
【13】A.peculiar B.beneficial C.equal D.superior
【14】A.assistant B.library C.friend D.dictionary
【15】A.backed up B.taken out C.called off D.plugged in
31、阅读下列材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(每空的字数不限,要和课文一致)。
He immediately asked 【1】 number of nearby people for bandages, but when nobody could put their 【2】 on any, his father got some tea towels and tape from their house. John used these to treat the most severe injuries 【3】 Ms Slade’s hands. He slowed the bleeding by 【4】 pressure to the wounds until the police and 【5】 arrived.
32、假如你是李华,前几天你收到了你的朋友Vince的来信,询问你的高三生活,你打算在回信中介绍以下三个方面的内容:
1.生活安排; 2.学习计划; 3.理想的大学及专业。
注意:1.词数l00左右;2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯; 3.开头与结尾已为
你写好,不计入总词数。
Dear Vince,
I'm very glad to hear from you.
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Best wishes!
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua