1、Students are given a lot of exercises to do, ________ to improve their grades.
A.aimed
B.aiming
C.to be aimed
D.to aim
2、Social media in China is gaining more popularity than ever, studies show, while user groups with different age shows various ________, according to Kantar.
A. inspirations B. interests C. prejudices D. preferences
3、 This special school accepts all disabled students, ______ educational level and background.
A. in addition to B. according to
C. in terms of D. regardless of
4、Generally speaking, when _____ according to the directions, the medicine has no side effect.
A.taken B.taking C.to take D.to be taken
5、I couldn’t make sense of the passage. You must have ________ some important information while copying it.
A. found out B. held out
C. given out D. left out
6、_______ the morning train, he would not have been late for the meeting.
A. Did the catch B. Should he catch
C. Has the caught D. Had he caught
7、This medicine called artemisinin soon became a standard treatment for malaria to save people’s life. 此句中谓语动词为_______.
A.called
B.became
C.treatment
D.save
8、Earning money by collecting rent from tenants (房客) is easy and happy, but that’s not ________ we study for.
A. what B. whom
C. why D. when
9、The view from the other side is even more _____ because there is a large lake beside the mountain in the area.
A. convenient B. worse
C. impressive D. better
10、Our headteacher sincerely expects his students to________and make more contributions to our country.
A.be stricken blind and deaf
B.follow in the hero’s footsteps
C.Think on their feet
D.roar with laughter
11、. As a result of destroying the forests, a large ___ _ of desert
___ covered the land.
A.number; has B.quantity; has C.number; have D.quantity; have
12、Not until he retired from teaching three years ago ___ having a holiday abroad.
A. he had considered B. had he considered
C. he considered D. did he consider
13、We have only twenty minutes left, so please get to the point and don’t say anything that isn’t ______ to our problem.
A.relevant
B.ambitious
C.precious
D.prosperous
14、Some psychologists believe that obsessive online photo editing ________ a lack of confidence and a desire for attention.
A.boosts
B.indicates
C.pretends
D.bothers
15、There is no need_____and it’s no use_____there too early.
A.to rush;arriving B.to worry;to arrive
C.worrying;arriving D.to rush;to arrive
16、It was some time I finally realized what he really meant.
A.when B.that C.before D.after
17、________ in school uniforms, the students seem to be in good spirits.
A. Dressed B. To dress
C. Dressing D. Having dressed
18、—I haven't heard from John for a long time.
—What do you suppose ________ to him?
A.was happening
B.to happen
C.has happened
D.had happened
19、—I am going to stay in Beijing for two days.
—______!
A.Thanks
B.It’s my pleasure
C.Have fun
D.With pleasure
20、‘Three months!’ Dad ____________, as my mother thrust a cup of sweet tea into my hands. ‘Well, that’s big of him, given she’s worked like a ruddy Trojan in that place for the last six years.’
A.betrayed B.exploded
C.swallowed D.assessed
21、Think to yourself that every day is your last and the hour to which you do not look forward may come as a(n) ________ surprise.
A.welcomed B.welcoming C.welcome D.unwelcome
22、When the students are required to discuss questions in groups, everybody has the _______ in class.
A. right B. reward
C. floor D. freedom
23、My brother wants to leave the company as it is ________ I would like to expand it.
A. unless B. since C. before D. while
24、Try to set ________ a few hours a week for exercise ________ tight your schedule may be.
A.away; whatever
B.aside; however
C.away; however
D.aside; whatever
25、Unfortunately, families of lesser means are likely to ________sports because of high cost.
A.put up with
B.opt out of
C.get rid of
D.clear out
26、 The outstanding biography — from the same author who brought us Steve Jobs and Einstein — portrays the life of the complicated Renaissance (文艺复兴时期的) artist with details. We come to see da Vinci as not only an inventor of musical instruments and early flying machines, but also a notebook keeper and vegetarian (素食者), who had trouble finishing many of the projects and paintings he started.
Yet what is most thrilling is getting to know da Vinci the scientist. Isaacson explains how loving science and applying the scientific method to observing the world was really what made da Vinci a great artist and, Isaacson argues, a genius.
Da Vinci was fascinated with observing and understanding phenomena in nature, from the proportions of the human body to how the muscles of the lips moved. He wanted to know about everything around him, in minute detail, Isaacson writes. He wondered about questions “most people over the age of ten no longer puzzle about”— for instance, how the tongue of a woodpecker works.
To learn about the world, da Vinci combined his own observations with experimentation. Never formally schooled, “he preferred to induce from experiments rather than deduce from theoretical principles,” Isaacson explains. He recorded his observations, looked for patterns among them, and then tested those patterns through additional observation and experimentation.
“When he became fascinated with the idea that he could invent flying machines, three and a half centuries before the Wright brothers flew the first airplane, he observed various birds and filled notebooks with the function and speed at which their wings flapped. That’s why lsaacson calls da Vinci an exemplar of this scientific method.” He goes on: “Galileo, born 112 years after Leonardo, is usually credited with being the first to develop this kind of approach and is often regarded as the father of modern science,” the historian Fritjof Capra wrote. “There can be no doubt that this honor would have been bestowed (赐予) on Leonardo da Vinci had he published his scientific writings during his lifetime, or had his notebooks been widely studied soon after his death.”
Da Vinci’s emphasis on empirical observation also helped him improve his art. First, he was able to use what he learned from looking at nature to paint and draw. His studies of the body, animals, motion, shadow and light, perspective and proportion helped him better understand what he was seeing in front of him, and render it in art more accurately and finely than anyone else of his time. He also used his observations of nature to make connections among phenomena. A recorder (竖笛) was like a larynx (喉管) in the throat. Here’s Isaacson again: What Leonardo probably began as four distinct elements ended up woven together in a way that illustrates a fundamental theme in his art and science: the interconnectedness of nature, the unity of its patterns, and the similarity between the workings of the human body and those of the earth.
Most importantly, his curiosity-driven explorations, and ability to connect art and science, helped him innovate in his work. They helped him think differently, Isaacson argues. Da Vinci made surprisingly diverse series of discoveries, including conceptualizing the helicopter and solar power and advancing knowledge about everything from the reproductive organs to botany. This genius is also what drew lsaacson to Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs as subjects: They’re all innovators who were inspired by and drew connections between art and science.
“Leonardo da Vinci is the ultimate example of the main theme of my previous biographies: how the ability to make connections across disciplines — arts and sciences, humanities and technology — is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius,” Isaacson writes. And this wonderful book is a reminder, in a time of increasingly narrow specialization and focus, that the methods of Renaissance men like da Vinci are as relevant as ever.
【1】What made da Vinci’s thinking different from others?
A.He was used to skipping school.
B.He kept his childhood’s sense of curiosity.
C.He was filled with ambition to become an artist and inventor.
D.He developed a fascination with historical novels.
【2】Why does Isaacson mention Galileo in the book?
A.To introduce his important findings.
B.To memorize the father of modern science.
C.To show the prejudice faced by da Vinci during his lifetime.
D.To illustrate the significance of da Vinci' s research method.
【3】The underlined word “render”in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by “______”
A.express B.mix C.confirm D.associate
【4】What does Isaacson think of the methods of Renaissance men?
A.They are too complicated to understand.
B.They focus on the workings of the human body.
C.They are more accurate than modern methods.
D.They still apply to contemporary scientific research.
【5】What might be the best title for the passage?
A.How a Genius Changed the World
B.The Features of Renaissance Art
C.How Science Shaped His Art
D.The Comparison between Induction and Deduction
27、根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 EmpathyLast year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years.【1】Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.Jennifer Freed, a co-director of a teen program, has another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect.【2】There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature.【3】Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers.【4】“Academics are important. But if you don’t have emotional (情感的) intelligence, you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life,” she says.What’s the best way to up your EQ (情商)? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others.【5】To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.
A.Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person.
B.That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said.
C.“One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says.
D.Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic.
E.Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel.
F.Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.
G.Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships.
28、 In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion,the storyline centers around three main characters:Eliza Doolittle,Professor Henry Higgins,and Colonel Pickering.Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl who is under the instruction of Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering to learn proper grammar and phonetics.Eliza can be characterized as a very sensitive(敏感的)and emotional person.She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men.Her personality clashes(冲突)with the personality of Professor Higgins in an extreme way.Professor Higgins is an arrogant(傲慢的),work-obsessed expert in phonetics who views Eliza simply as an experiment.He is a bachelor who has never found a place for women in his life due to his obsession(痴迷)with language.Colonel Pickering is a gentleman from India who is also an expert in language.He is gentler than Higgins and treats Eliza with respect while maintaining a professional interest in her.These three characters make up the main action of the play as Eliza learns speech of the upper class from them.She manages to pass herself off as a Hungarian princess at a formal party.This achievement makes Eliza give credence to the efforts of Higgins and Pickering.After experiencing life in the upper class,Eliza settles for a lower-class life with a man who loves her for who she is and wants to marry her.After some small and unimportant disputes,Eliza and Higgins remain friends later.Other memorable characters include Mrs Higgins who maintains an authoritative(权威的)figure over her grown son and Mr Doolittle who rises from a dustman to a respected speaker in the community.
I think that this is a good book because it shows that happiness can be achieved without wealth and fame,I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.
【1】Eliza learns speech of the upper class because________.
A.she wants to do an experiment B.she wants to marry a gentleman
C.she has to play a princess at a party D.she wants to be treated respectfully
【2】The author highly recommends Pygmalion because it can teach people________.
A.to use and speak English in the right ways
B.the right attitude towards life
C.the ways to deal with different people
D.the determination to succeed
【3】What does the underlined part“give credence to”in Paragraph I mean?
A.Believe. B.Change. C.Fancy. D.Obtain
【4】The passage is probably________.
A.a research paper B.a teaching plan
C.a book report D.a diary
29、An afternoon nap (午睡) is one of the joys of life, although too much napping is not very good. In some cultures, people will have a daily nap — this is fine. The warning comes when people start sleeping during the daytime, when they did not before. There is certainly a good reason to believe that daytime sleepiness — as in the Alzheimer’s study (阿兹海默症) — can be a marker of a potential condition.
For most people, napping during the day is mainly a sign that you are not getting enough sleep at night, says Dr. Neil Stanley, a sleep expert. “If you feel sleepy during the day, you should think about taking a nap. That is what the body needs — it doesn't need to be kept awake with caffeine, it needs sleep. ”The feeling to notice is “sleepiness”, he says, not “tiredness”, which could be more psychological and linked to stress.
So how do you nap well? The key thing, says Stanley, is how long your nap lasts. Choose either a 20-or 90-minute nap. “When you fall asleep, you'll quickly go through the lighter stages of sleep into your first period of deep sleep. You don't want to wake up in deep sleep because that’s when you wake and feel worse than you did before. ”Napping for 20 minutes means you will wake up before you go into deep sleep; napping for 90 minutes means you’ll complete a sleep cycle.
Once you calculate the time it takes to fall asleep — some people are better at napping than others but, says Stanley, “a healthy adult will fall asleep in between 5 and 12 minutes” — you can set an alarm, allowing a 30- to 40-minute period for a short nap, and up to two hours for a longer one.
A good time to nap is during the body’s natural circle in the afternoon, between 2 pm and 4 pm. “You don’t really want to be napping much past that because then you are going to consume your night-time sleep,” Stanley says. The point, he stresses, is to get good night-time sleep, which would ensure you probably don’t need to nap at all.
【1】What does an afternoon nap mean for most people?
A.Caffeine addiction.
B.Insufficient night sleep.
C.Psychological stress.
D.Potential physical illness.
【2】What is the key to a good nap?
A.Health condition.
B.Surroundings.
C.Period of the nap.
D.Sleeping patterns.
【3】What does the underlined word “that” in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Between 2 pm and 4 pm.
B.A 30- to 40- minute period.
C.Between 5 and 12 minutes.
D.A 20- to 90-minute period.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A.Why to phase a nap?
B.When to take a good nap?
C.What to learn from a nap?
D.How to have a successful nap?
30、Over half a century has passed since Xu Qiusheng, 81, graduated from medical school and started to work as a village doctor in Yangfang village, Fengsheng city, in East China’s Jiangxi province.
Dubbed “guardians of health”, village doctors like Xu have played an important role in _________ hundreds of millions of farmers in rural areas. They always keep a _________ schedule—offering outpatient services during the day and _________ emergency cases now and then in the evening, staying on _________ around the clock for patients.
Xu says that treatment and medicine are usually free of charge for villagers facing _________ difficulties. _________ he lives a plain life himself, he never asks for the medical expenses owed by villagers. Xu also _________ regular contact with high-risk people in the village to keep track of their health conditions.
Ahead of this year’s Spring Festival. Xu, together with his daughter, who _________ to the village and followed in his footsteps of becoming a village doctor, _________ door to door visiting the elderly. Xu’s daughter helped them ____________ their blood pressure and blood oxygen.
The ____________ of more than 1,400 villagers in Yangfang has become the ____________ for rural doctors like Xu and his daughter. The clinic receives, at most, 30 patients a day, and doctors will deliver medicines to villagers’ doors. Early this year, the village smoothly ____________ its peak COVID-19 infection rate.
“I ____________ my patients as my family members, and I hope the next generations of doctors in rural areas can continue to be the ____________ of villagers,” Xu says.
【1】
A.curing
B.healing
C.caring
D.treating
【2】
A.busy
B.strict
C.common
D.regular
【3】
A.helping with
B.dealing with
C.finding out
D.figuring out
【4】
A.help
B.line
C.call
D.target
【5】
A.commercial
B.social
C.practical
D.financial
【6】
A.Although
B.When
C.Since
D.Because
【7】
A.maintains
B.makes
C.prefers
D.continues
【8】
A.headed
B.belonged
C.returned
D.attended
【9】
A.drove
B.ran
C.went
D.knocked
【10】
A.count
B.estimate
C.assess
D.measure
【11】
A.health
B.safety
C.happiness
D.lives
【12】
A.burden
B.ability
C.profession
D.responsibility
【13】
A.reached
B.passed
C.missed
D.hit
【14】
A.compare
B.think
C.see
D.imagine
【15】
A.friends
B.guardians
C.helpers
D.families
31、根据课文内容,在空白处填入所缺的单词。
Finally, studying abroad provides a great opportunity to contribute to the development of our motherland. China’s global 【1】, with projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative, has【2】 us make connections across the world. 【3】, China needs more talented young people with a global perspective who are highly 【4】 with languages, have leadership and organisational skills, and have strong cultural awareness. Students 【5】 study abroad will develop such skills and abilities, and these in turn will provide them with better career opportunities.
32、假如你是李华,最近在英语阅读理解学习上遇到了困难,英语老师说只有扩大词汇量才能做好阅读理解,但你在记忆单词方面有困难,所以现在你向常常给予你帮助的已经回国的外教Mark写信求助,希望他能提供一些记忆单词的建议。
注意:1)词数:80词左右; 2)可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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