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—Oh, Tom, what did you do this summer vacation? —Guess what? I had _____ great fun in _______ show performance “the Voice of China”. A. a, the B. the, the C. /,a D./, the
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—What do you think of Thomas? —Well, he is good, warm-hearted, hard-working and intelligent; _______, I can’t speak too highly of him. A. in a word B. as a result C. by the way D. on the contrary
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With the living expense increasing rapidly, I, a fresh clerk in a company, have to take three part-time jobs, which _____ about extra $ 4,000 a year． A. take in B. bring in C. get in D. put in
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They in Holland for ten years. Now they have settled down in Paris. A. lived B. have lived C. had lived D. were living
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_____ on a clear day, far from the city crowds, the mountains gave him a sense of peace. A. If walking B. While walking C. Walking D. When he was walking
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It is reported that many a new house ____ at present in the disaster area in Gansu Province. A. was being built B. were being built C. is being built D. are being built
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The question that puzzled them is ____ they can get rid of the air pollution in the area. A. how is it that B. that how C. that it is how D. how it is that
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一I’m sorry! I would have taken him to hospital if I had known he was seriously ill. 一But ______ . A. you didn’t B. you hadn’t C. he wasn’t D. you aren’t
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I fixed my eyes upon the newcomer, wondering whether I ________ him somewhere before． A. saw B. has seen C. had seen D. would see
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He suggested the problem worth paying attention ______ at the meeting. A. to be discussed B. to being discussed C. to discuss D. to discussing
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This sweater fits me, but I can’t afford to buy __________. I have to choose _________ which is cheap enough for me. A. it; that B. that; it C. it; one D. that; the one
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After a long vacation, Mike came back _________. A. freshly and strongly B. fresh and strong C. being fresh and strong D. to be fresh and strong
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Students are required to go out in couples, especially in the evenings, with friends ______ they get into trouble. A. even if B. if only C. in case D. when
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Rock-climbing is a breathtaking activity, very popular nationwide among young people, ______ cooperation as well as courage plays an important role. A. who B. where C. which D. of which
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| 15. 难度：中等 | |
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一I just can’t stop worrying about the result of my medical examination. 一_________. There’s nothing you can do now but wait. A. Take your time B. Watch out for it C. Just a moment D. Sit back and relax
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| 16. 难度：中等 | |
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The Healing Jim and his wife, Connie, were shocked by the loss of their four-month-old son—Joshua, whose life was taken by SIDS—sudden infant death syndrome. Thirty hours ago, Jim drove to the baby-sitter’s home to Joshua. It was a trip, like the one he made five days every week. He arrived, and little Joshua could not be from his nap. The next few hours were a time of life and death: the racing ambulance, swift-moving doctors and nurse. But 12 hours later, at Children’s Hospital, the doctors had exhausted（用尽） all , little Joshua was gone. Yes, they wanted of Joshua’s usable organs to be donated. That was not a decision for Jim and Connie, a loving and couple. The next morning dawned and many things had to be arranged. Telephone calls and funeral plans. one point Jim realized he needed a .When Jim settled into the chair the barber’s, he began to the past hours, trying to some sense of it all. had Joshua, their first-born, the child they had waited so long for, been taken so soon….He had begun his life. The question kept coming, and the pain in Jim’s heart just him. While talking with the barber, Jim mentioned the organ donations, looking at his watch, “They are transplanting one of his heart valves（瓣膜）right now.” The stopped and stood motionless. Finally she spoke, but it was only a whisper. “You’re not going to believe this. But about an hour ago the customer sitting in this chair wanted me to hurry she could get to Children’s Hospital. She here so full of joy. Her prayers had been answered. Today her baby granddaughter is receiving a needed transplant—a heart valve.” Jim’s healing began. 1.A. pick out B. pick up C. set out D. set up 2.A. routine B. annual C. average D. difficult 3.A. called B. disturbed C. awakened D. survived 4.A. though B. since C. because D. as 5.A. medicine B. strength C. attempts D. spirits 6.A. part B. few C. some D. wise 7.A. giving B. tiring C. boring D. thinking 8.A. Of B. In C. On D. At 9.A. haircut B. break C. donation D. decision 10.A. with B. at C. by D. near 11.A. decide on B. reflect on C. keep on D. focus on 12.A. get B. take C. hold D. make 13.A. How B. Why C. Whether D. If 14.A. barely B. nearly C. seldom D. almost 15.A. covered B. drew C. enveloped D. choked 16.A. hairdresser B. customer C. father D. parent 17.A. since B. as C. so D. and 18.A. arrived B. left C. stayed D. sat 19.A. desperately B. deadly C. clearly D. obviously
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| 17. 难度：中等 | |
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When Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution in communication. For the first time, people could talk to each other over great distances almost as clearly as if they were in the same room. Nowadays, though, we increasingly use Bell’s invention for taking photographs, accessing the internet, or watching video clips, rather than talking. Over the last two decades a new means of spoken communication has appeared: the mobile phone. The first real mobile telephone call was made in 1973 by Dr Martin Cooper, the scientist who invented the modem mobile handset（手机）. Within a decade, mobile phones became available to the public. The streets of modem cities began to feature sharp-suited characters shouting into giant plastic bricks. In Britain the mobile phone quickly became the same with the “yuppie”, the new type of young urban professionals who carried the expensive handsets as status symbols. Around this time many of us said that we would never own a mobile phone. But in the mid-90s, something happened. Cheaper handsets and cheaper calling rates meant that, almost overnight, it seemed that everyone had a mobile phone. And the giant plastic bricks of the 80s had changed into smooth little objects that fitted nicely into pockets and bags. Moreover, people’s timekeeping changed. Younger readers will be amazed to know that, not long ago, people made spoken arrangements to meet at a certain place at a certain time. But later Meeting time became approximate under the new order of communication: the Short Message Service （SMS） or text message. Going to be late? Send a text message! It takes much less effort than arriving on time, and it’s much less awkward than explaining your lateness face to face and the text message has changed the way we write in English. Traditional rules of grammar and spelling are much less important when you’re sitting on the bus, hurriedly typing “Will B 15mm late - C U @ the bar. Sorry! -).” Alexander Graham Bell would be amazed if he could see how far the science of telephony has progressed in less than 150 years. If he were around today, he might say “That’s gr8! But I’m v busy rite now. Will call U 2nite.” 1.What does the underlined part in Para.2 refer to? A. Houses of modern cities. B. Sharp-suited characters. C. New type of professionals. D. Mobile phones. 2.According to Paragraph 4, why did Meeting time become approximate? A. People were more likely to be late for their meeting. B. SMS made it easier to inform each other. C. Young people don’t like unchanging things. D. Traditional customs were dying out. 3.If you want to meet your friend at the school gate this evening, which of the following message can you send him? A. Call U@ SKUg8 2nite. B. IM2BZ2CU 2nite. C. CU@ the bar g8 2nite. D. W84U@ SKUg8 2nite. 4.What does the passage mainly tell us about? A. Alexander Graham’s invention. B. SMS as a new way of communication. C. New functions of the mobile telephone. D. The development of the mobile phone.
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| 18. 难度：中等 | |
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I lost my sight when I was four by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left. Life, I believe, asks constant adjustments to reality. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I mean: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a new kind of baseball. We called it ground ball. All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was out of reach. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress. 1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______ A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash. B. the author wouldn’t love life if the disaster didn’t happen. C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had. D. the disaster strengthened the author’s desire to see. 2.What’s the most difficult thing for the author? A. How to adjust himself to reality. B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life. C. Learning to manage his life alone. D. How to invent a new kind of baseball. 3.According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _________. A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life. B. would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair. C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties. D. would sit in a chair and stay at home. 4.What is the best title for the passage? A. A Miserable Life B. Struggle Against Difficulties C. A Disaster Makes a Strong Person D. An Unforgettable Experience
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Men and women are still treated unequally in the workplace. Women continue to earn less, on average, for the same performance. Research has shown that both conscious(有意识的) and subconscious biases (偏见) contribute to this problem. But we’ve discovered another source of inequality: Women often don’t get what they want and deserve because they don’t ask for it. In three separate studies, we found that men are more likely than women to negotiate for what they want. The first study found that the starting salaries of male MBAs who had recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon were 7.6%, or almost $4,000, higher on average than those of female MBAs from the same program. That’s because most of the women had simply accepted the employer’s salary offer; in fact, only 7% had attempted to negotiate. But 57% of their male counterparts--or eight times as many men as women—had asked for more. Another study tested this gender difference in the lab. Subjects were told that they would be observed playing a word game and that they would be paid between $3 and $10 for playing. After each subject completed the task, an experimenter thanked the participant and said, “Here’s $3. Is $3 OK?” For the men, it was not OK, and they said so. Their requests for more money are nine times as many as the women’s. The largest of the three studies surveyed several hundred people over the Internet, asking them about the most recent negotiations they’d attempted or started and when they expected to negotiate next. The study showed that men place themselves in negotiation situations much more often than women do. There are several reasons accounting for the phenomenon. First, women often are taught from an early age not to promote their own interests and to focus instead on the needs of others. The messages girls receive—from parents, teachers, other children, the media, and society in general—can be so powerful that when they grow up they may not realize that they’ve made this behavior part of them, or they may realize it but not understand how it affects their willingness to negotiate. Women tend to think that they will be recognized and rewarded for working hard and doing a good job. Unlike men, they haven’t been taught that they can ask for more. 1.According to this passage, what causes the inequality in the workplace? A. social bias B. women’s poorer working ability C. women’s worse academic background D. women’s less negotiating 2.Which can be the result of the following survey, according to Para 4?
When do you expect to negotiate next? 3.Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. Women are more likely to accept the employer’s salary offer. B. Men tend to ask for more money than woman. C. Women care more about other’s interest instead of themselves’. D. Men believe that the better they work, the better they’re paid. 4.What will be discussed in the following paragraph? A. The suggestions given to women. B. The warnings to men. C. Another reason for women’s not asking. D. Another reason for men’s asking.
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Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. ‘‘Father!” Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced out of the living room. “Father! What’s that sound?” Hassan screamed, his hands outstretched toward Ali. Ali wrapped his arms around us. A white light flashed and lit the sky in silver. It flashed again and was followed by rapid sharp sounds of gunfire. “They’re hunting ducks, ” Ali said in a hoarse voice. “They hunt ducks at night, you know. Don't be afraid.” A siren(汽笛）went off in the distance. Somewhere glass broke and someone shouted. I heard people on the street, woken up from sleep. Hassan was crying. Ali pulled him close and held him with tenderness. We stayed huddled (蜷缩）that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generations of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of the bombs and gunfire were not yet born. Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any idea that a way of life had ended. The end came when Russian tanks were rolling into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting. Just before the sunrise, Baba’s car pulled into the driveway. His door slammed shut and his running footsteps pounded the stairs. Then he appeared in the doorway and I saw something on his face. Something I didn’t recognize right away because I’d never seen it before: fear. “Amir! Hassan!” He cried as he ran to us, opening his arms wide. “They blocked all the roads and the telephone didn’t work. I was so worried!” We let him wrap us in his arms and, for a brief moment, I was glad about whatever had happened that night. 1.Who is the author of this passage? A. Amir. B. Ali. C. Baba. D. Hassan. 2.By saying “They’re hunting ducks”, Ali _______. A. told the children the truth B. played a joke on the children C. tried to calm the children D. cheered the children up 3.We can infer from the passage that _______. A. there were thunderstorms that night B. Afghan children were used to the war C. people on the street shouted and broke the windows D. that night was the end of people's peaceful life 4.From the last sentence of the passage, we know _______. A. Baba's arms gave the author temporary comfort and joy B. there was a chance that a world in peace was to come C. what happened that night seemed nothing to the author D. the author was glad to see his father come home safe
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根据课文内容，在空格内填入正确的英语单词，并将该词完整的写在答题卷上。所填单词要求与课文一致，每空一词。 1.Throughout the city, smartly dressed business people _________ __________ their offices or the nearest department stores, mobile phones ________ to their ears and visitors can only watch and imagine the deals and fortunes _________ _________ at that very second. 2.Travellers of the 1920s remember it mainly as a city of busy lanes with homes built around courtyards, but these have _________ _________ _________ the high-rise apartment blocks of the 21st century. 3.The mobile, _________ __________ a toy for the rich, has today __________ social and geographical __________ to find its way into the hands of the young, the old, the rich and the poor, even in communities largely untouched by new technologies. 4.This time I managed to hit one of the balls in the mid-air so that it bounced and rolled off the stage. The audience _________ __________ __________ and I __________ __________ the stage to get the ball, I _________ my ankle. 5.Good health is everyone’s ___________ ___________ of wealth.
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阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整的写在答题卷上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。 Dear Miguel, I’m writing this letter to you because I really want you to hear how strongly I believe you have the ability to go far in life, and ____________ I believe staying in school will help you get there. I was _________(失望) to hear that you wanted to leave school. You and I both know that, when you put your mind __________ it, school work is pretty easy for you. ___________, for some reason, you often decide you just don’t want to do it. G_____________ from high school is going to open a lot of d___________ for you in life – for work and for f____________ schooling or training. I hope you make a _____________ (决定) to finish this school year strong and approach next year with a positive attitude. You are very smart. It would be sad–both for you and for o_______ in your life, like your parents and me – if you ___________ (选择) not to use all the “smarts” that you do have. Sincerely, Mr. Ferlazzo
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有人曾说 “Man is the maker of his own happiness”，你是如何理解这句话的？请按下面的要求用英文写一篇短文。 内容要求： 你对这句话的理解； 你认为什么是happiness； 如何获得你自己的happiness； 注意： 词数120左右； 文中不能出现考生的具体信息。 _______________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
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