1、I have to say ______ the boy that he actually didn’t break the school rule.
A. in honor of B. in defense of
C. in favor of D. in celebration of
2、It is ________ practice to bring a present to the hostess when one is invited to dinner.
A.common B.ordinary C.general D.usual
3、In the _______ of proof, the police could not take action against the man.
A.lack
B.shortage
C.absence
D.failure
4、—How about a chat over a cup of coffee this afternoon?
—Sorry,I’m________today and can’t put you in.Let’s make it sometime next week.
A.on a limited budget B.in high spirits
C.on a tight schedule D.in deep doubt
5、Between the two parts of the concert there was an interval, _____ audience can go and buy some snacks.
A.where B.when C.how D.why
6、—Why do the researchers sometimes have to climb so high?
—As far as I know, _____________on the top of the mountain is a certain wild plant said to have some medical value.
A.grown B.growing C.being grown D.having grown
7、______ I saw it, I knew I had seen it before.
A. At the moment B. Immediately
C. For the first time D. The minutes
8、_____ the delicious food here, why not enjoy yourself shopping for handsome jewelry?
A. Upwards of B. Apart from
C. Instead of D. Regardless of
9、After the earthquake, the first thing the local government did was to provide ______ for the homeless families.
A.furniture B.accommodation C.occupation D.basement
10、—The light in the office is still on.
— Oh I forgot _______.
A.turning it off B.turn it off C.to turn it off D.having turned it off
11、I gratefully ______ financial support from several local businesses.
A. contradict B. recommend
C. distribute D. acknowledge
12、________ on a famous novel, the TV play presents a colorful picture of the 196os’ China to the viewers.
A.Basing B.Based C.To base D.Being based
13、We choose this hotel because the price for a night here is down to $20, half of _______ it used to charge.
A.that
B.which
C.what
D.how
14、While ________ thin, this kind of paper ________ easily.
A. looked; doesn't torn B. looking; isn't torn
C. looked; isn’t torn D. looking; doesn’t tear
15、People with simple names enjoy quicker career advancement because names which are hard to pronounce inspire negative ________ from superiors.
A. considerations B. consequences
C. expectations D. reactions
16、Agatha didn’t tell me ______ she would pick up her son from school.
A.which
B.when
C.where
D.what
17、The Internet users have been warned to ______ any messages that ask you to send cash or personal information, no matter how formal they are.
A.abandon B.reject C.decrease D.withdraw
18、______ to the gift was a note on which he expressed his appreciation for our reception during his stay here.
A.Being attached B.Attached C.Attaching D.Having attached
19、Each star on the flag of the United States _______ a state of this nation.
A.stands by B.stands out C.stands for D.stands up
20、It is six months _____ the online class started.
A.that B.until C.before D.since
21、________ that the small village ________ him. He knows almost everything about it.
A.There is no doubt; is familiar with
B.There is no doubt; is familiar to
C.It is no doubt; is familiar with
D.It is no doubt; is familiar to
22、Many Chinese brands, ______ their reputations over centuries, are _______ new challenges from the modern market.
A. having developed, facing B. being developed, faced
C. developed, faced D. developing, facing
23、At present, acupuncture has become popular round the world, ________ other traditional Chinese medicines.
A.so are B.as are C.so have D.as have
24、A new house ________ at the corner of the road and will be completed next month.
A. is building B. been built
C. is being built D. be building
25、Some insects________the colour of their surroundings to protect themselves.
A. take in B. take off
C. take on D. take out
26、Planning a trip abroad with your family or friends this summer vacation? Here are a few travel tips about travel abroad do’s and don’ts to keep you safe.
1. If you want to make your trip safe and easy, plan ahead. 【1】 . The less you have to carry around, the more quickly you can move. Besides, planning ahead will save your time and make sure you don’t miss best things.
2. 【2】 . No one wants bad things to happen but you’ll feel better when you’re ready for them if they do. When you travel abroad, you are in a place you don’t know well and you can always be a target, especially your valuables. Don’t keep large amounts of cash in your wallet.
【3】 .Also, take copies of your travel documents with you and leave your passport and other important documents in the hotel.
3. Nothing ruins a trip faster than the unexpected crisis. 【4】 . It will insure yourself against unexpected accidents, so it is necessary to buy the insurance. But you need to be careful about the items in the contract (合同), so that you know what you are and are not covered for when you book travel insurance.
4. While enjoying the moment in the bar, be cautious and keep an eye on your drink at all times. Besides, being on holidays doesn’t mean you have the right to do what you want.【5】. Keep these tips in mind and make the most of your time. Have fun with family and friends and explore and enjoy your time away.
A.Expect the unexpected
B.Try putting smaller notes in several different pockets
C.Don’t leave your hotel alone
D.Take the necessities with you
E.Take more in any case
F.Don’t forget to buy the travel insurance
G.Be respectful and don’t do anything illegal
27、 When Rachel Ratelle saw a news video of a burned koala trying to climb a tree to safety in fire-ravaged (火灾肆虐的) Australia, she decided to do something about it.
She looked up wildlife rescue and relief agencies in Australia to find out what they needed most. Besides donations, many organizations asked for hand-sewn (手缝的) and knitted pouches (袋子) and wraps for koalas and other animals that were burned or had lost their homes and parents in the fires.
This idea attracted Ratelle, but there was just one problem.
“I’d never sewn in my life,” said Ratelle, 17, a senior at Rancho Buena Vista High School in Vista, US. “Giving money seemed like something too simple. But I wanted to directly help these animals by doing something myself, so I decided to learn how to sew.”
Over the next few months, Ratelle bought her own sewing machine and taught herself how to sew via videos online. Then she purchased 18 yards of fabric and sewed 25 pouches of different sizes and shipped them off to For Australian Wildlife Needing Aid (FAWNA), one of several relief organizations that have rushed to rescue koalas, kangaroos and other species suffering from burns.
A week later, she received a photo from FAWNA with a young joey (幼兽) in one of her larger pouches. “It made me feel like I contributed to the world and it showed how a simple act of kindness can go a long way,” said Ratelle, who hopes to study biology for a future career as a nurse practitioner.
“I plan to use my new sewing skills to help animals and people devastated (蹂躏) by natural disasters,” she said.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, it estimated that 1.2 billion animals have died, as a result of the bushfires, which have burned more than 26 million acres in Australia.
Several craft guild (手工业行会) websites around the world have mobilized (动员) for Australian relief by making the animal pouches. Karen Newberry and her two daughters Madison, 12 and Rochelle, 8, from San Diego also offered their help in such a way. For Newberry, “it was a big push that made we crafters, sewers to realize there’s something more we can do than just make things for ourselves,” she said.
【1】What do the first two paragraphs mainly talk about?
A.What inspired Ratelle to learn to sew.
B.What is needed to save koalas and other species.
C.The poor living conditions of wild animals in Australia.
D.Different ways to help koalas and other animals in Australia.
【2】How did Ratelle feel when she received a photo from FAWNA according to the text?
A.Proud. B.Calm.
C.Surprised. D.Disappointed.
【3】The statistics (统计数字) in Paragraph 8 are used to show ______.
A.how frequent the bushfires are in Australia
B.how harmful the bushfires are in Australia
C.the great varieties of wild animals in Australia
D.the difficulties facing relief organizations in Australia
【4】What do Newberry’s words in the last paragraph suggest?
A.People should stay united through difficult times.
B.Life is not easy for crafters and sewers in Australia.
C.It is challenging for crafters and sewers to do relief work.
D.Crafters and sewers can do more to help animals.
28、 You may think that light pollution isn’t something extraordinarily important. You may believe that every other type of pollution has a larger impact on the environment than light pollution does. But light pollution is serious.
Light pollution, or “sky glow”, is the glow you can see at night above cities and towns. Light pollution is a problem that has been accompanying man ever since he started his first fire some 15,000 years ago. Light pollution is the light that comes from streetlights, buildings, parking lots and any other source of light that is reflected or directed into the atmosphere.
Urban light pollution means that one-fifth of the world’s population can no longer see the Milky Way with the naked eye(肉眼). Many city kids, even if they did look through the orange smog above their heads, would probably see only a handful of stars. We have lost our view of the stars, and we have mucked up our night-time environment as well. Astronomers are calling for the dark places on Earth to be preserved as national parks.
Lots of people find the ever-brightening night annoying, and animals that are programmed to prefer the dark may avoid a brightened habitat. Sea turtles can get lost searching for a beach to lay eggs, and their hatchlings(孵化的幼仔)may confuse over-lit beachfront resorts for the ocean horizon, wasting precious energy needed to find the sea and escape predators(食肉动物). Because their necks aren’t yet long enough to see things far away, baby turtles rely on the mirror image of the moon to guide them to the sea, to begin their new life. A car may even hit a particular turtle, which was thinking the light from a nearby city was moonlight reflecting off the ocean waves. Birds that live in and around cities can die because of sky glow, too. The bright lights can blind them, leading to countless collisions with buildings and other tall structures.
On an individual level, people can help reduce much sky glow by using lighting only when necessary. The stars above us are priceless heritage— for not only for astronomers but for all humans. More of our children should be able to look up at night and see the Milk Way.
【1】According to Para.2, light pollution_________.
A. has existed for nearly a century
B. is mainly caused by the light at night
C. doesn’t include the light coming from buildings
D. refers to the light only shining directly into the atmosphere
【2】The underlined phrase “mucked up” in Para. 3 probably means_________.
A. protected B. blamed
C. praised D. spoiled
【3】To find the sea, baby sea turtles mainly depend on_________.
A. the moon B. the ocean waves
C. the sky glow D. the mirrors
【4】The author mentions the Milk Way in the last paragraph to show that_________.
A. light pollution isn’t something important
B. the Milk Way can’t be seen with naked eye
C. we should take action to reduce light pollution
D. most kids are looking forward to seeing the Milk Way
29、Buildings can become greener. They can use more recycled steel and can be built in off-site factories,greatly reducing lorry journeys. But no other building material has environmental credentials(认证)as exciting and overlooked as wood.
The energy required to produce a laminated(复合的)wooden beam is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing,wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. When a mature tree is cut down,a new one can be planted to replace it,capturing more carbon. After buildings are pulled down,old beams and panels are easy to recycle into new structures. And for improving older buildings to be more energy efficient,wood is a good insulator(绝缘体),A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminium one.
A race is on to build the world's tallest fully wooden skyscraper. But such buildings are still uncommon. Industry disunity,cut-throat competition for contracts and low profit margins(差额)mean that most building firms have little money for greener construction methods beyond what regulation requires
Governments can help urge the industry to use more wood,particularly in the public section. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be changed to take account of the emissions that exist in materials. This would favour wood as well as novel ways of producing other materials.
Construction codes could be adjusted to make building with wood easier. Here the direction of travel is wrong. Britain,for instance,is banning the use of wood on the outside of tall buildings after 72 people died in a tower fire in London in 2017.That is a nonsense. Grenfell Tower was covered in aluminium and plastic,not wood. Modern cross-laminated wood panels perform better in fire tests than steel ones do.
Carpentry alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world's buildings into line.
【1】What's the text mainly about?
A.Wood is the first choice for green buildings.
B.The public section makes good use of wood.
C.Building companies cannot afford greener construction.
D.Steel can reduce the environmental costs of buildings.
【2】What does Paragraph 2 focus on?
A.Origins of wood structures.
B.Advantages of wood for building.
C.Reasons for green window frames.
D.Differences between steel and wood
【3】Which of the following will discourage greener construction?
A.The races of wooden skyscrapers.
B.Strict regulations on materials.
C.The push of the government.
D.Fierce industry competition.
【4】What can be inferred from the text?
A.Wood is to blame for a big building fire.
B.Britain will lift the ban of using wood on the outside wall.
C.Building with wood is facing an unfavorable situation.
D.The environmental costs of buildings rely on carpentry.
30、This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series from the Hidden Brain team about people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.
Mary Amato was having a(n) _________ crisis. She quit her job and became a stay-at-home mother after her first child was born.
People would say, “You _________ working.” and for Amato, that felt more like an accusation(指责) than a(n) _________ of fact.
“I had been working harder than I had ever worked and not getting a single paycheck or _________ from my social network,” she said.
_________, her husband, a(n) _________ science writer, did get recognition for his work. He won an award from a chemistry association. She joined him at a feast in California where he was praised for his work.
The room was filled with a lot of scientists, _________ men. It was a(n) _________ affair and the couple dressed up in a tuxedo(无尾晚礼服) and a formal black dress.
Eventually, the host _________ her husband with a very long list of his accomplishments. Then, he turned his __________ to Amato and gestured to her, “A homemaker and mother of two.”
Amato was __________. “I remember feeling a sense of __________, and I thought they must see me as stupid or as a traitor to the cause,” she said.
Amato became very self-conscious, too embarrassed to __________ with people after the speeches. So she just sat at her table staring at her dessert plate until an older female scientist walked up to her.
“She said, ‘I just want you to know that what you’re doing is so __________,’ ” Amato said.
Those simple words were exactly what Amato needed at that time and they completely changed her __________.
That moment happened years ago, but it still has a big influence on Amato.
【1】
A.marriage
B.identity
C.school
D.family
【2】
A.released
B.kept
C.stopped
D.continued
【3】
A.statement
B.possibility
C.evidence
D.result
【4】
A.trust
B.belonging
C.recognition
D.accomplishment
【5】
A.However
B.Thus
C.Likewise
D.Besides
【6】
A.easy-going
B.warm-hearted
C.self-employed
D.award-winning
【7】
A.mostly
B.partly
C.exactly
D.slightly
【8】
A.preparatory
B.celebratory
C.awkward
D.temporary
【9】
A.criticized
B.congratulated
C.addressed
D.introduced
【10】
A.construction
B.application
C.attention
D.invitation
【11】
A.embarrassed
B.guilty
C.doubted
D.blessed
【12】
A.humor
B.shame
C.responsibility
D.refreshment
【13】
A.agree
B.compare
C.communicate
D.compete
【14】
A.valuable
B.amazing
C.reasonable
D.convincing
【15】
A.fortune
B.option
C.mission
D.viewpoint
31、 People have been saying great things about my dad lately. They keep telling me that my dad is a hero because of his __________.
My dad is a surgeon, and like many other doctors in China, he __________ to go to Wuhan to care for patients there. But the hospital where he works only asked him to make sure that _________ patients are still able to receive regular treatment. So my dad just follows his normal _________, analyzing patients’ diseases and performing chest operations.
With all kinds of compliments toward my dad, I became ___________. My dad has been a doctor long before this COVID-19 outbreak; why has no one else praised him as a hero before? Didn’t he __________ such compliments when this disease wasn’t around?
When we talk about heroes, what kind of __________ often jumps into our minds? War leaders who conquered everything that stood __________ their way? Historic characters who __________ a strong kingdom? Or our dear movie stars: the Avengers?
Well, they are indeed heroes, and they made marvelous achievements. __________, are the pages of heroes just prepared for these so-called “supermen” and “superwomen”?
I don’t think so. Heroes exist in our real lives. They can be seen and they are __________ just like you and I.
Now many streets of Chinese cities are almost __________, the schools are closed and the shops are shut. But in this world, some things remain __________.
If there’s a fire, just call 119, and you know that the firefighters will be there within minutes. If you happen to go out on the road, you’ll come across police officers waving their flags to __________ the traffic. __________, in hospitals, from doctors to nurses, cleaners to security guards, these people still __________ their jobs, doing the same services as they __________ did. The reason why they are still dedicated is not a __________ for compliments, but out of a willingness for their __________.
These people, who are or were __________ themselves to the job, do not need to be praised as heroes only now because they are heroes all the time.
【1】A.ambition B.qualification C.occupation D.passion
【2】A.offered B.claimed C.plotted D.intended
【3】A.terminal B.acute C.stubborn D.local
【4】A.section B.routine C.trend D.criterion
【5】A.proud B.confused C.content D.disappointed
【6】A.demand B.adore C.deserve D.undertake
【7】A.image B.occasion C.script D.scene
【8】A.on B.for C.in D.against
【9】A.enlarged B.seized C.sought D.ruled
【10】A.Therefore B.However C.Eventually D.Moreover
【11】A.ordinary B.consistent C.clumsy D.fragile
【12】A.evident B.broad C.diverse D.empty
【13】A.dynamic B.holy C.unchanged D.abundant
【14】A.direct B.address C.classify D.convey
【15】A.Universally B.Similarly C.Partly D.Originally
【16】A.stick to B.show off C.touch on D.live up to
【17】A.never B.seldom C.rarely D.ever
【18】A.tendency B.desire C.substitute D.preference
【19】A.reputation B.growth C.duty D.opportunity
【20】A.withdrawing B.exposing C.submitting D.committing
32、 Deep down in the sea there is the palace of the Sea King. It is said that once the Sea King had six daughters. The youngest was the most beautiful of them all. Though they were beautiful, they had no _______, only a fish's tail. They were called mermaid.
_______ gave the youngest Princess greater pleasure than to hear about the world of human beings up above. One day the youngest Princess _______ up above the water. She saw so many beautiful things. She was most _______ in a big ship. There was a young and handsome Prince _______.
There was suddenly a _______ on the sea, and the ship sank. The Prince was _______ drowned. In order to save him the mermaid stayed with the Prince and carried him to the shore. She kissed the _______ Prince and sadly returned to her father's palace under the sea.
In order to win the love of the Prince, the mermaid wanted to _______ her fish's tail and to have a pair of legs. She went to the Sea Witch for help.
“It is very ________ of you.” said the witch. “But I will help you. Take the bottle of ________ with you, sit down on the shore and drink it. You will have legs, but it will hurt as if a sharp sword were ________ through you.”
“I'm willing to stand all the ________,” said the mermaid.
“But remember,” said the witch, “If you do not win the love of the Prince, and if he marries someone ________, punishment will fall on you and you will become ________.”
“I am willing.” said the mermaid.
“But you have the most beautiful ________,” said the witch., “so I must have that in ________.” then the witch cut out the tongue of the little mermaid, who could not speak from then on.
The next morning, the mermaid did ________ the witch had told her to do. When the Prince saw her, he fell in love with her at once ________, before long, the Prince was going to a neighboring kingdom to marry another princess. And the mermaid's heart seemed to be ________.
She decided to wish for the Prince's happy life with his beautiful wife. And she herself turned into foam on the sea .
【1】A.skin B.hair C.feet D.heart
【2】A.Nothing B.Something C.Anything D.Everything
【3】A.jumped B.stood C.flowed D.rose
【4】A.anxious B.eager C.interested D.longing
【5】A.on show B.on board C.on sale D.on holiday
【6】A.darkness B.lightning C.storm D.wind
【7】A.nearly B.suddenly C.immediately D.instantly
【8】A.unanswered B.untouched C.unconscious D.unspeakable
【9】A.get rid of B.live along with C.let alone of D.give up to
【10】A.determined B.brave C.foolish D.attractive
【11】A.pills B.medicine C.ash D.soup
【12】A.putting B.digging C.going D.cutting
【13】A.pain B.difficulty C.trouble D.sorrow
【14】A.beautiful B.better C.later D.else
【15】A.fish B.foam C.mermaid D.wave
【16】A.shape B.legs C.voice D.hair
【17】A.award B.exchange C.price D.cost
【18】A.what B.that C.which D.each
【19】A.Besides B.In addition C.Moreover D.However
【20】A.breaking B.beating C.burning D.sliding
33、 In October 2015, Shah began picking up rubbish from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began_________others to join in. Word spread and with help from social media, more volunteers got_________.
Shah hasn't stopped since. He's now spent 209 weekends_________to this mission, inspiring more than 200,000_________to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was_________clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another_________as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.
For Shah, the work has_________been a personal journey, but it has earned_________attention. After he was_________as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Bollywood celebrities and politicians__________his mission and joined in his cleanups.
Today, Shah is also working with coastal communities to__________plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking waste management systems, __________often end(s)up in streams and rivers that empty into the__________. Shah and his volunteers__________and assist villagers in reducing, managing and recycling their plastic waste.
"This world__________too much. I think you must talk less and do action__________," he said. “Every citizen on this __________must be in for a long pull. I feel the__________to do something for my planet, so this will__________for life. If each one could start, this journey could become__________Can we do it together?”
【1】A.asking B.ordering C.warning D.forcing
【2】A.challenged B.encouraged C.involved D.required
【3】A.compared B.adapted C.related D.devoted
【4】A.workers B.volunteers C.journalists D.clerks
【5】A.originally B.finally C.suddenly D.theoretically
【6】A.park B.bank C.beach D.market
【7】A.occasionally B.hardly C.already D.always
【8】A.global B.local C.national D.coastal
【9】A.described B.honored C.opposed D.elected
【10】A.simplified B.changed C.accepted D.finished
【11】A.make B.discuss C.throw D.handle
【12】A.trees B.materials C.rubbish D.tools
【13】A.ocean B.factory C.mountain D.forest
【14】A.protect B.control C.scold D.educate
【15】A.talks B.complains C.thinks D.argues
【16】A.earlier B.faster C.more D.better
【17】A.sea B.planet C.water D.sands
【18】A.pity B.need C.pain D.effect
【19】A.come on B.get on C.look on D.go on
【20】A.great B.complex C.complete D.difficult
34、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but 【1】 number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the 【2】. Recent additions in the United States 【3】 projects at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are 【4】 at the Apple iTunes store.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early 【5】 with its Open Course Ware project, first 【6】 in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These 【7】 from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide 【8】 with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.
Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of 【9】 online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is 【10】 popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.
35、I have a muscle disease but I don't look any different from other people. Sometimes, I was too weak【1】 go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after an【2】(absent), I felt stupid because I was behind the others.
My life is a lot easier at high school because few fellow students make me【3】(annoy). My ambition is to work for a firm【4】develops computer software when I grow up. Last year I invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me. I have a very busy life with no time to sit around【5】(feel) sorry for myself. As well as going to the movies and football matches with my friends. I spend a lot of time looking after my pets【6】(proper) but I find it worthwhile.
In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and become more【7】 (independence). I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been worth it. If【8】(have) a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having a disability does not mean your life is not satisfying. So don't feel sorry for the disabled or make fun【9】them, and don't ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them encouragement to live【10】rich and full a life as you do.
36、阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空,在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当单词,在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A
I have the【1】(great)job in the world. I travel to unusual places and work alongside people from all over the world. Sometimes using【2】(science)equipment and sometimes meeting local people and tourists, I am never【3】(bore).Although my job is occasionally dangerous, I don’t mind because danger excites me and makes me feel alive. However, the most important thing about my job is that I help protect ordinary people【4】 one of the most powerful forces on earth—the volcano.
B
Water is a precious resource. Every person needs it【5】 (survive),and we use it for cooking, drinking, growing our food and washing. However,it is scarce(缺乏的).Just 1% of water on Earth can【6】 (use)by humans. What’s more,treating water to make it clean and safe and pumping it to our homes uses up lots of energy. So, what can you do to help save water? One easy way is by【7】(turn)off the tap when you brush your teeth.
C
Robbie Phillips has become the first British person to complete one of the toughest challenges in rock climbing. 【8】(know)as the Alpine Trilogy(阿尔卑斯三部曲),the challenge consists of three climbs on mountains in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 【9】Phillips completed in four years. Until now, only four other people【10】(conquer)all three of the extremely difficult climbs.
37、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.
I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.
For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.
At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.
The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”
38、假定你是学生会主席李华,在高三毕业前夕邀请你们学校的外籍家长来校参加毕业典礼,请你写一封电子邮件,内容要点如下:
1. 毕业典礼时间地点;
2. 主要安排。
参考词汇:文凭:diploma
注意:1. 词数80左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Father/Mother,
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Yours,
Li Hua
39、假设你是营养专家,请你根据下面的内容写一篇题目为 “Top Meal of the Day”的文章登在营养杂志上。
现状:许多高中学生不吃早餐(skip breakfast),其结果不仅影响白天的学习,而且导致身体变差。
原因:1.认为早餐不重要,可有可无;
2.早晨时间匆忙,为了节省时间不吃早晨;
3.女孩为了减肥而不吃早晨。
建议:每位学生都应该每天吃早餐。原因……(自定,至少两个)。
要求:1. 请按照要求使文章内容充实,上下文连贯通顺;
2. 词数:100左右。
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40、假设你是李华,你的美国朋友John对福建茶文化感兴趣,请你为他做简要介绍。
内容:
1. 福建是中国茶文化的发源地之一,有着悠久的历史;
2. 不同种类的茶造就了福建丰富的茶文化;
3. 喝茶已成为福建人增近亲情友情风俗习惯。
注意:
1. 词数100词左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 开头和结尾语已给出,不计入总词数.
Dear John,
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Best wishes.
Yours ,
Li Hua
41、假定你是李华,在新冠状病毒肺炎疫情如此严峻的时刻,有少数不良商家以原价数倍的价格销售口罩。针对这一现象,老师让你们用英语给消费者协会写一封投诉信,作为今天的作业发到班级微信群里。要点如下:
1. 介绍自己,写信目的。
2. 说明情况,表示气愤。
3. 希望重视,尽快解决。注意:
1. 词数 80 左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。参考词汇:
传染病,泛滥 epidemic
新冠状病毒 novel coronavirus
消费者协会 Consumers' Association
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