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The Chinese astronauts were so struck by ____ beauty of _____ nature that they took lots of pictures in space. A. /; / B. /; the C. the; the D. the; /
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Hundreds of people gave their lives in _____ of freedom. A. protection B. guard C. defense D. favor
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The newly discovered star was named _____ a Chinese astronomer ____ honor of his contributions to astronomy. A. for; in B. after; for C. as; in D. after; in
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When I got off the crowded bus, I found my pocket _____ and the disk in it with the important documents gone. A. picked B. stolen C. missing D. lost
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_____ some teenagers don’t realize is ____ difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs. A. What; how B. That; how C. That; what D. What ; what a
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Was it not until you began to work ____ how much time you had wasted? A. did you realize B. that you realized C. did you not realize D. that you didn’t realize
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----- Sally is strongly against taking the trip to Hainan. ----- _______? It was she who suggested the plan. A. How come B. What about C. Real D. Why not
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------ What made little Tony so unhappy and cry in his room? ------- _________to go biking with his brother. A. Having not been allowed B. Not having allowed C. Having not allowed D. Not having been allowed.
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Someone called me up in the middle of the night, but he hung up ____ I could answer the phone. A. as B. since C. before D. until
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| 10. 难度：中等 | |
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The traditional approach ____ with complex problems is to break them down into smaller, more easily managed problems. A. to dealing B. in dealing C. dealing D. to deal
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He is only too ready to help others, seldom, ____ refusing them when they turn to him. A. if never B. if ever C. if not D. if no
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It was foolish of you to take a taxi ___ you could easily walk there in five minutes. A. while B. when C. since D. before
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By looking at a problem in as many ways as possible, creative thinkers can find solutions that would ___ remain invisible. A. otherwise B. yet C. already D. forever
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The news has just ___ that the president is going to visit China next month. A. come out B. put out C. let out D. given out
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Had the weather been good, the children ____ out for a walk. A. had gone B. could have gone C. would go D. went
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完形填空（共20小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选取出适合填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 When my son unexpectedly volunteered for the Marines, I was busy writing my novels and giving little thought to the men and women in the army. My son, John Schaeffer, recently came home _36__ from the Middle East. He slowly appeared from a broken car; John _37__ all night from a base near Washington, _38__ he had landed the day before. He did not want me to 39___ him there. “I’ll need time to myself,” my son said _40__ calling from Kuwait on the way home. I gave my wife a head start. Mother_41__ son, “I was so worried”, Genie said. She pulled away to look up again and again to _42___ he was really there. My wife gave me a great gift: _43__ alone with my boy. John was tired and lay _44__ on his bed. I lay down next to him and was grasping his hand the whole time. I just wanted to be certain that the nightmares I’d had about John being killed were _45__ . I kept holding my son, the way I _46__ when he was two and came into our bed after a _47__ dream. I asked John if he’d rather sleep than talk, and he said there would be time for 48___ later. With the 49___ over, under and around me came incredible tiredness. I slept with his voice dying away. It was the first good _50__ I’d had in months. I woke and John was asleep next to me. Sitting by his bed watching him breathe, I found myself praying and _51__ for all the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives of those who were not coming home. For the first time in my life, I was weeping for _52___. Before my son went to war I would never have shed tears for them .My son _53__ me. He taught me that our men and women in uniform are not the _54__”. They are our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters. Sometimes shedding ears for strangers is a holy _55___. Sometimes it’s all we can do. 1. A. angry B. excited C. frightened D. alive 2. A. drove B. was driving C. had driven D. would have driven 3. A. where B. when C. which D. who 4. A. meet B. congratulate C. permit D. accept 5. A. once B. when C. unless D. since 6. A. abolished B. patted C. rated D. embraced 7. A. make sure B. set down C. get across D. make sense 8. A. period B. chance C. time D. moment 9. A. hesitated B. stretched C. supporting D. spreading 10. A. facts B. truth C. proofs D. lies 11. A. used to B. ought to C. should D. must 12. A. happy B. cheerful C. scary D. sleep 13.A. advice B. discussion C. talk D. sleep 14. A. chat B. worries C. meeting D. curiosity 15. A. conversation B. observation C. sleep D. independence 16. A. crying B. marching C. screaming D. regretting 17. A. friends B. neighbors C. strangers D. soldiers 18. A. persuaded B. changed C. frightened D. arrested 19. A. another B. other C. others D. one 20. A. function B. adventure C. shame D. duty
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The American book Who Moved My Cheese has been a bestseller all over the world. It teaches people how to face changes in their lives. Now its author Spence Johnson has written a book just for teens. The book tells us that when facing change in our lives, like a new school or new friends, don't be afraid. Instead, use this change to make a better life. The book gives an example of a change at school. A school is changing from having two terms to three terms because there are too many students. Several teens are talking about this. Most of them are unhappy and worried. But Chris is not. He laughs and tells a story about two mice, two “little people” and some cheese. The four are in a maze looking for the cheese. Here, cheese means something important in life, like moving to a new class or getting into college. But they find the cheese is gone. The mice realize that they can’t change what has happened and have to find more cheese. This means finding different dreams. The little people, however, can’t do this. They are afraid of change so they find no cheese. After Chris finishes the story, the friends understand one thing: to get more cheese, move in a new direction quickly. His friends understand how this can be used in the changes all teens face, such as doing well at school or having good relationships or just feeling good about yourself. 1.The book Who Moved My Cheese is __________. A. written all over the world B. read across the world C. sold only in America D. loved only by teens 2.What does the text mainly discuss? A. Never change in our life. B. Change whenever you like . C. Change with the changes. D. Pay attention to the changes, 3. The underline word “four”（paragraph 3） refers to __________. A. mice and little people B. students C. cheese D. readers 4. In our lives, we should learn from __________. A. mice B. little people C. Chris D. Spence Johnson
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About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn't help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied. “Frankly, I've been feeling a little depressed lately.” This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn't find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school. Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don't seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why? Human development depends not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders. In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation（揭示） machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation （诱惑）, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures. Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials. 1. According to the author, feeling depressed is ____________. A. a sure sign of a mental problem in a child B. a mental state present in all humans, including children C. something that cannot be avoided in children's mental development D. something hardly to be expected in a young child 2.According to the author, that today's children seem adult-like results from ____________. A. the widespread influence of television B. the poor arrangement of teaching content C. the fast pace of human scientific development D. the rising standard of living 3. What does the author think of communication through print for children? A. It enables children to gain more social information. B. It develops children's interest in reading and writing. C. It helps children to read and write well. D. It can control what children are to learn. 4. What does the author think of the change in today's children? A. He feels their adult-like behavior is so funny. B. He thinks the change worthy of note. C. He considers it a rapid development. D. He seems to be upset about it.
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Sheep Smarter than Thought London—Sheep, like turkeys and ostriches, are not considered the most clever animals. British scientists said last Wednesday humans may have underestimated the woolly creature. They could be much smarter than we think. Researchers at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, southern England, have shown that the animals have a good memory system and are extremely good at recognizing faces—which they think is a sure sign of intelligence. Behavioral scientist Keith Kendrick and his friends trained 20 sheep to recognize and distinguish 25 pairs of sheep faces and used electrodes (电极) to measure their brain activity , which showed they could remember 50 faces for up to two years . “If they can do that with faces, they have to have reasonable intelligence; otherwise, what is the point of having a system for remembering faces and not remembering anything else?” Kendrick said in an interview. So hours of seemingly mindless eating grass may not be so mindless after all. Kendrick believes sheep got their reputation as dumb (unable to speak, unintelligent) animals because they live in large groups and do not appear to have much individuality and are frightened of just about everything. “All animals, including humans, once they are frightened, don’t tend to show signs of intelligent action,” he explained. In research reported in the science journal Nature, Kendrick and his team showed that sheep, like humans, have a specialized system in the brain which allows them to distinguish between many different faces which look extremely similar. “The most important finding (of the study) is that they are able , both from a behavioral point of view and from looking at the way the brain is organized , to remember a large number of individuals for a very long time,” said Kendrick. “It is a very strange system. They are showing similar abilities in many ways to humans.” 1.From the first paragraph we can find that______. . A．people used to think sheep are smarter than the other animals B．people used to raise sheep in a wrong way C．people don’t consider sheep as clever animals D．people have done a lot of research on sheep 2.From what Kendrick said in the interview we learn that_____. . A．scientists have learned everything about sheep’s intelligence B．scientists have learned a little about sheep’s intelligence C．scientists can’t do anything more about sheep’s memory D．scientists do not have to research animals’ memory 3.As is known in the passage,__________. A．sheep are among the week animals B．it is not right for people to raise sheep in groups C．when sheep eat grass in the field their minds may be active D．if people feel frightened, they may become braver
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Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play with it until their hands were burnt away. Similarly, if pain existed but fear didn’t, a child would burn himself or herself again and again, because fear would not warn himself or herself to keep away from the fire that had burnt himself or herself before. A really fearless soldier—and some do exist is not a good soldier because he is soon killed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which men and animals might soon die out. In our first sentence we suggested that fear should be properly used. If, for example, you never go out of your house because of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too much. Even in your house you are not absolutely safe: an aeroplane may crash on your house, or ants may eat away some of the beams in your roof so that the latter falls on you, or you may get cancer! The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but instead to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; then you have to decide what action to take. In many cases, you can take quick and successful action to avoid the danger. For example, you see a car coming straight towards you. Fear warns you, you jump out of the way, and all is well. In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to avoid the danger. For example, you can’t prevent an aeroplane crashing onto your house. In this case, fear has given you its warning; you have examined it and decided on your course of action, so fear of this particular danger is no longer of any use to you, and you have to try to overcome it. 1.Children would play with fire until their hands were burnt away if _________. A. they were given no warning beforehand B. they had never burnt themselves C. they had no sense of pain D. they were fearful of the fire 2. A really fearless soldier _____________. A. is of great use to the army B. is not a real soldier C. is nothing but a dead soldier D. easily gets killed in a battle 3.People sometimes succeed in timely avoiding the danger because _________. A. they have gained experience B. they jump out of the way in time C. they are calm in the face of danger D. they are warned of the danger by fear and take quick action 4.What's the writer's suggestion when the danger can't be avoided? A. You have to try to overcome it. B. Fear can really help you to run away. C. Fear always helps you stay safe. D. Fear is of great use to you.
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根据短文内容，从短文后的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。（★★请将答案填涂在答题卡上。 E=AB F=AC G=AD） In our modern society, we have to rely on different kinds of services. 1________.Without packaging, many goods, especially food, could not reach consumers. Packaging prevents perishable(易坏的) food from early rot. As a result , it makes shelf life longer and makes distribution possible to a greater distance . The function of waste reduction is also evident in food packaging. According to a scientific report, food wastage can be as high as between 20% and 50% in some areas because of poor or lack of packaging . 2________.It is estimated that for every 1% increase in packaging materials ,food wastage decreases by about 1.6%. Apart from practical functions, modern packaging also has aesthetic(美学的) value. 3_______.And for the consumers, this makes shopping more enjoyable. 4________.Sometimes, people cannot help but feel puzzled by the huge packaging of some goods, which often prove to have nothing to do at all with the protection of the goods inside. Such packaging can only lead to misunderstanding and waste of money of the part of the comsumers. 5_______ Perhaps it is difficult to decide whether the service of packaging has more advantages or disadvantages. It seems quite obvious that modern packaging , to a certain degree, reflects the inner quality of the people or company who produce the products. A. Appropriate packaging can cut this number down to only 2 to 3%. B. Packaging is just one of them. C.Goods are made more attractive and inviting. D. People are sometimes unwilling to spend more money on packaging. E. And more seriously, it can cause a great deal of damage to the environment. F. However, the service of packaging does not always enjoy a good reputation. G. Advantages and disadvantages of packaging have been well argued.
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