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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。 Many years ago, whites ruled South Africa. Apartheid（种族隔离制度）was the 16 of the land. One evening, two middle-aged blacks met in a “whites only” section of Johannesburg. One of them had a permit to work in the area, the other did not, which 17 he could be put behind bars（关押）for staying in this zone. 18 they saw a policeman coming towards them, and 19 . “Run!” whispered the man with the permit to his friend, “I’ll 20 .” They started running and the policeman began chasing them, shouting “stop, stop”. Finally he caught the second man. “Did you think you could outrun me!” he snarled. “Show me your 21 ！” The man, playing for time, began reaching in his pocket and finally took out his permit. The policeman was surprised and realized that he had been 22 . The man without the permit was now too far away to be caught. “When you had a permit why did you run!” he shouted 23 . “Doctor’s 24 ,” said the man. “He has asked me to run a mile every evening.” “Oh, yes? ” Sneered the policeman. “Then why was your friend 25 ?” “His doctor has also ordered him to run,” said the man. The policeman became 26 with anger. “You think you’re very 27 , don’t you?” he snarled. “But tell me, if you were running 28 for your health why didn’t you stop when you saw me running after you? And don’t tell me you didn’t see me chasing you. I know you did!” “Of course I 29 you were running after me,” said the man. “Then why didn’t you stop?” asked the policeman. “It was 30 of me,” said the man, “but I thought you too had been ordered to run by your doctor.” 1. A．property B．mistake C．law D．custom
2. A．meant B．showed C．replied D．imagined
3. A．Happily B．Suddenly C．Finally D．Generally
4. A．hid B．fell C．cried D．froze
5. A．fight B．explain C．follow D．walk
6. A．invitation B．permit C．pocket D．ticket
7. A．fooled B．hurt C．blamed D．abandoned
8. A．nervously B．sadly C．carefully D．angrily
9. A．attitudes B．methods C．orders D．hopes
10. A．stopping B．missing C．staying D．running
11. A．shy B．strict C．red D．serious
12. A．brave B．healthy C．native D．smart
13. A．only B．also C．never D．often
14. A．remembered B．knew C．believed D．agreed
15. A．stupid B．rude C．kind D．wise
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Some young Cambodians are learning a new sport — skateboarding. Fifteen-year-old Chea Sophanit 1 (skate) for about six months. “When I see the different skaters, I just want to be like 2 .” he says. Sports like boxing and soccer are wildly popular in Cambodia, 3 Chea says skating has already become his favourite sport. 4 nongovernmental organization called Skateistan Cambodia organizes 5 (week) programs at the park. Skateistan Cambodia started its work in Afghanistan. Rory Burke works with the group, 6 expanded to Cambodia later. He says learning to deal 7 difficulties is part of the lesson for these young skateboarders. Seventeen-year-old Sang Rotha began skateboarding more than a year ago. “Sometimes I don’t do well 8 subjects like math,” he says. “I feel bad when I find 9 hard to keep up with my lessons.” Before he started training, it seemed very easy. But it was very difficult to learn tricks, and he got hurt a lot from falling off. 10 (learn) skateboarding has taught him to face difficulties and challenges.
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As a teenager in 1972, Bill Gates boasted that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20. While he did not quite achieve that goal, only 15 years later, he was a millionaire. And by 1992, as head of the Microsoft company, he became the richest man in America with assets（资产）of nearly US $ 6.3 billion. Born in Seattle, Washington on 28, October, 1956, Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather. From the beginning, he was an extremely energetic and intelligent child. He had read the entire world book encyclopedia（百科全书）by the age of nine. His favorite subjects at school were science and math and his favorite pastime was "thinking". Gates first started to play with computers at the age of 13. Before long he became an expert at working the school's computer. After his graduation from secondary school, Gates was accepted by the three top universities in the USA-Princeton, Harvard and Yale. He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autunm, majoring maths. But he was still obsessed（占据心里）with computers and spent as much time in the computer laboratories as he did in the lecture halls. By 1975, Gates and a partner, Paul Allen, had developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it. BASIC was a success because until it came along, there had been no efficient way of getting computers to carry out instructions. Although he had not completed his degree, Gates left university and went to work full time for the new company he had formed called Microsoft. His next project was the software program that made him famous and very rich. It was called DOS, short for Disk Operating System, and it was purchased by IBM in 1980. Today it is the operating system used in more than 14 million personal computers around the world. As chief executive officer（首席行政长官）of Microsoft, Gates is known as a bright man, but one who is not easily satisfied. He is quick to criticize his staff and hates to be questioned about decisions he has made. He was regarded as a loner and unfashionable boring computer nut until his marriage to Microsoft manager Melinda French on New Year's Day 1994. Yet to many people now, Gates, is a person who is, in spite of his great wealth, humble（谦恭）and ordinary. He spends his money carefully. He eats in fast food restaurants and flies economy class. And when praised for Microsoft's great success, he has been heard to say, "All we do is put software in a box and if people see it in the stores and like it, they buy it." 1.When he was a teenager, Bill Gates wanted to be a ______. A．teacher B．doctor C．businessman D．professor 2.When Gates went to Harvard, he ______. A．was only interested in maths B．spent most of his time in computer laboratories C．developed the first computer software program D．divided his time between his maths studies and the computer laboratories 3.Before the development of BASIC, ______. A．no one was interested in computer software B．software programs were not considered commercial projects C．software programs were very expensive D．no one wanted to pay for computer software 4.When the writer says "He was regarded as a loner and unfashionable boring computer nut", he means ______. A．Bill was so strong-minded that no one could change his mind B．The only thing that could interest Bill in his life was computer C．Bill was such a boring young man that nobody would like to talk to him D．Bill couldn't work out the boring computer programs 5.Most people think that Bill Gates is ______. A．a crazy person B．a person obsessed with making money C．someone who spends money freely D．a quite common, normal person
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People often hear each others' voices without ever seeing the faces they belong to. "Nowadays we are talking away on the phone without meeting people," says Seung-Jae Moon. And from business conference calls to chat lines, people often imagine they would recognize the speaker if they saw him or her. Seung-Jae Moon, a linguist of Korea found that, under certain conditions, they're actually right. Moon decided to see just how close those mental pictures match up with reality and if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying. He recorded 16 Koreans, half men and half women, reading the same passage, and took a full-body photo and head shot of each speaker. Then he played the tapes for 361 Koreans and 173 Americans who did not speak Korean and asked his subjects to match up voice and picture. The Korean participants viewing full-body photos were quite perceptive. A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men. With the Korean group shown only faces, accuracy plummeted, but more than 20 percent of the subjects selected the same incorrect picture. The Americans showed no accuracy in matching the foreign voices to photos, but they too were consistent in their errors. That disconnection reveals conflicting ideas of physical and vocal beauty. Moon asked people to pick a favorite face and voice. Seventy percent of the Koreans picked one voice, but there was no agreement on a face. Americans didn' t agree on either count. And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice. Moon hopes to use software to break voices into components like pitch and hoarseness to narrow down which elements trigger certain mental pictures. "If we can map which characteristics of the voice triggers what kind of linage, and it doesn't matter whether that image is the right or wrong one of the actual speaker, then we can create an image through voice,' he says. That capacity could help to create computer-synthesized voices tailored to conjure up specific associations — audio books for children that inspire motherly visages, or warning alerts that bring to mind a stern police officer. 1.People often think that they would ______ the speaker when they saw the speaker. A．understand B．recognize C．like D．surprise 2.Moon decided to do the experiment to ______. A．see how close mental pictures match up with reality B．how people speak C．see if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying D．both A and C 3.He asked ______ Korean women to speak and recorded their voices. A．12 B．16 C．8 D．10 4.______ were more perceptive in recognizing full-body photos. A．The Koreans B．The American women C．The Korean women D．The Americans 5.______ percent of Koreans and Americans matched their favorite face with their favorite voice. A．Less than 65 B．Less than 35 C．Over 65 D．About 20
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A small town in Tasmania, an island off the south coast of mainland Australia, is making itself an environmental role model by becoming the country's first plastic bag-free town. Since April 28, Coles Bay's population of 175 and its tourist shoppers have been using reusable paper or cloth bags to carry their shopping. Ben Keamey, a local businessman who supports the bag ban, said it would cut the amount of waste and prevent damage to native wildlife that try to eat the plastic. "Most businesses here come from the tourism and that's all based on the environment, so people were pretty supportive," he said. Every year Australians use more than six billion plastic bags. More than half of these come from the supermarket. Since it takes years for the bags to biodegrade（生物递减分解）, tens of millions end up polluting the environment. They kill about 100,000 sea-birds and animals, which mistake bags for food, every year. Only in the past few months have major Australian supermarkets begun cutting on their use of plastic bags. Environmental groups are pushing for a plastic bag fee like that in Ireland. There, since plastic bags cost 10 pence (about 1 yuan) each, their use has been cut by 90 per cent. Pollution caused by plastic bags is a big headache for countries all over the world. As early as 1999, Beijing said that only plastic bags of certain thickness could be used. This was to encourage them to be used again and again, since an average of six million plastic bags are used there every there every single day. 1.Which might be the best title for this passage? A．Deadly Plastic Bags B．The End of Plastic Bags C．How to Reuse Plastic Bags D．The Present Situation of Plastic Bags 2.Plastic bags will not be used by the native people of Coles Bay because they ______. A．cause the environmental pollution B．are not easy to be reused C．are not as good as cloth bags D．are not strong enough 3.Which of the following statements is NOT true? A．Plastic bags kill many animals in Australia each year. B．Most Australian supermarkets have begun cutting on their use of plastic bags. C．People at Coles Bay think poor environment may affect their tourism. D．You have to pay for the plastic bags if you go shopping in Ireland. 4.The example of Coles Bay is to show that ______. A．people take serious actions to deal with the plastic bag problem B．people begin to realise the harm of using plastic bags C．Australia is the first country in solving the plastic bag problem D．Australians are aware of the importance of protecting the small town 5.Which of the following measures on plastic bags is NOT mentioned in the passage? A．To forbid to use them by law. B．to charge fee for plastic bags. C．To make them thick enough to be reuseable. D．To make them environmentally friendly.
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首先，请阅读下列应用文： A. TV 3 5.:30 pm. An hour-long children's programme presented by Terri Reene. Today's programme includes a documentary on Eastern Europe plus a look at one of the world's great orchestras in rehearsal. Also a new competition for children at secondary school. B. TV 1 7:20 pm. Find out more about Australia's animal life. This film was made last year by one of Australia's best-known cameramen, Dougie Bond. He spent over 200 hours filming the birds, animals and fish that inhabit this beautiful continent and for the first time brings some of these unusual animals to our TV screens. C. TV 3 9.00 pm. The popular science programme is back with the latest in technology and medicine. This week, cars that run on sunlight and the story of one baby's fight to live. D. TV 1 5:15 pm. Busy parents? Bored children? Do you want something educational to entertain your children while you do something else? This popular magazine programme is for the under-fives. More music, fun, songs and games with Carla and Larry. E. TV 3 6:45 pm. If you've always wanted to cook, now's your chance to learn. In the studio are two chefs who will take you through some simple recipes step by step. This is a repeat of the popular series shown last year, and a recipe book to accompany the series is available from most good bookshops. F. TV 3 7:40 pm. The latest music. Pete Hogg looks at the best of the current rap, ragga and new jack swing plus new video releases. This is the programme that tells you all about what's happening on the music scene and brings you interviews with tomorrow's young artists. 从以上选项选择出最适合以下人物的节目： 1.Although Rob leads a quiet life in a small village, that doesn't stop him from wanting to find out about the latest scientific developments. 2.Bella enjoys eating out but can't afford to spend very much at the moment as she is saving for a holiday. She has never learnt how to cook, so now might be quite a good time to find out! 3.Dan is interested in taking wildlife photographs and enjoys any kind of programme which gives him a chance to see a professional photographer at work. 4.Gina is a music teacher. Although she prefers classical music she likes to follow the kind of music that interests the teenagers she teaches. 5.Ron's wife is in hospital. He wants to find a programme suitable for his three-year-old son while he gets on with the housework and prepares a meal.
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根据首字母和英文解释完成下面的句子（每题1分，共11分）。 1.A survey c______(carry out; do) by China Daily shows that about 50% of the students use the Internet to study. 2.His words were beginning to a______(being angry or not pleased) me but he realized it and changed the topic. 3.Those who d_____( to refuse to do what a person, law, order, etc. tells you to do) must be punished by law. 4.In my opinion, the design is s_______(right for someone) for middle-aged women. 5.What we choose and decide forms our life, but a________(a strong wish to succeed) decides our choice and decision. 6.I was a bit a_______(worried or frightened) at how much weight she’d lost.
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运用所给单词的正确形式完成句子。 1.Fresh air is ______(benefit) to your father’s health. 2.Do you feel a sense of s_________(satisfy) at the end of the working day? 3.Praise acts as an _________ to the players, and therefore they will feel ______ and get the _________ to continue and improve their performance. (encourage)
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根据中文意义完成句子（每空1词，每题2分，共14分） 1.Tony just called me up to ____ ____ ____ ____. Tony打电话祝贺我的成功。 2.____ ____ ____ ____ the number of private cars, government should also provide more public transport. 除了减少私家车数量，政府还应该提供更多的公共交通工具。 3.Jim was sorry ____ ____ ____ ____ his wife to hospital when their baby was born. 在他们孩子出生时Jim对于没能陪他妻子去医院感到很抱歉。 4.William can’t bear ____ ____ ____ ____ like this before the whole class. William无法忍受在全班同学前被这样取笑。 5.I have a busy life with ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ feeling sorry for myself. 我生活充实，没有时间闲坐着自怜。 6.He was ____ ____ ____ ____ her yet he didn’t know what to say. 他对她充满了同情，却不知道该说什么。 7.She was adopted as a little baby, thus she ____ ____ ____ ____ her natural parents. 她在小婴儿的时候被收养，因此她对生身父母没感情。
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阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。 Here are some comments on Li Hua from his classmates. Lily said, "Li Hua is the smartest student in our class and usually scores the highest marks in the English and mathematics exams. His homework and assignments are always done to a very high standard so our teachers ask us to follow his example. We all admire his intelligence." Kate said, "Li Hua is really a hard-working student. He spends at least four hours every day reviewing his lessons and his homework is never late. As the exams get closer he becomes even more diligent and works into the early hours of the morning, making sure he has gone over all of the information covered in our classes." John said, "Li Hua is the kind of person who is easy to co-operate with. Although he's very clever he is still willing to listen to others' opinions and take their suggestions. When we do groupwork in class we all want to be in his group because he always does his share of the work and is easy to get along with." Tim said, "Li Hua is the class monitor and the most helpful student in our class. He always makes sure the classroom is kept clean and assists the teacher in handing out and collecting the students' books and homework. When a student is absent from school he will call and tell them what they have missed." 【写作内容】 假设你叫李平，你的同学李华拟申请到美国某大学学习。申请材料需包括同伴的推荐信。李华邀请你为他写一封推荐信。上文是其他同学对李华的一些评价，请根据这些材料和你自己对李华的看法，写一封推荐信。以下是信的内容（信的开头和结尾已经为你写好）： 1. 以约30个词概括同学们眼中李华的特点和优点； 2. 以约120个词表达你对李华的看法，并包括如下要点： ⑴ 你对同学们评价意见的看法； ⑵ 以你和李华之间的经历来说明其中的一点看法。 【写作要求】 1. 作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子； 2. 信中不能出现真实的姓名和学校名称。
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