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What is the man most probably doing? A.Having a job interview. B.Applying for a college. C.Visiting sick kids.
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| 2. 难度：中等 | |
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What are the speakers mainly talking about? A.A musical instrument. B.A volleyball player. C.A familiar person.
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| 3. 难度：简单 | |
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How much is the mountain bike now? A.$200. B.$160. C.$40.
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| 4. 难度：简单 | |
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What does the man probably do? A.A visitor. B.A writer. C.A singer.
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| 5. 难度：中等 | |
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What does the woman mean? A.She doesn’t agree with the man. B.Jason is likely to be the winner. C.Jason will fall on the ball.
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| 6. 难度：中等 | |
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.How is the woman feeling? A.Good. B.Sad. C.Angry. 2.What is the “something terrible”? A.Her ball got lost. B.Her car was damaged. C.Her dog got killed.
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| 7. 难度：中等 | |
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.Why does the woman want to change the meeting time? A.She has another meeting too close to it. B.She has a problem with her report. C.She has to move to a new house. 2.What is the new meeting time? A.11 am. B.1 pm. C.9 am. 3.What is the woman going to do at the meeting? A.Chair the meeting. B.Give a report. C.Share an agenda.
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| 8. 难度：中等 | |
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.How did the boy do in his economics exam? A.He passed it. B.He failed it. C.He missed it. 2.What does the woman think of the boy? A.He didn’t work hard enough. B.He should have relaxed more. C.He already tried his best. 3.What do we know about the family? A.Unkind. B.Unwealthy. C.Unhealthy.
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| 9. 难度：中等 | |
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.What is the man’s plan for the weekend? A.To climb mountains. B.To do snowboarding. C.To go dirtboarding. 2.What is the woman going to Paris for? A.Sightseeing. B.Taking photos. C.Learning art. 3.How long will the woman stay in Paris? A.One weekend. B.Four days. C.One week. 4.What is the woman’s big interest? A.Art. B.Sports. C.Photography.
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| 10. 难度：中等 | |
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。 1.Who will hold a birthday party? A.Jack. B.Betty. C.Lucy. 2.Where is the party held? A.At Lucy’s home. B.In a country hotel. C.At a swimming club. 3.What is the relationship between Betty and Lucy? A.Workmates. B.Friends. C.Cousins.
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| 11. 难度：中等 | |
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On June 10, at 8 pm, more than a hundred people were gathered in a tent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were there to play video games. But they wouldn’t be playing on any ordinary gaming system. Instead, they were prepared to play games that would be displayed on a glass skyscraper called the Cira Center. “There was really a great energy in the tent that night,” Ainsley Soulchin, 13, said. She participated in Skyscraper Video Games for Kids. It is a programme that teaches middle school students to code (编程) video games. In the programme, Ainsley coded a game. She calls the game Dot Man. In Dot Man, a player has to pass through a maze (迷宫) without getting caught by a dot. On June 10, the public got to play Dot Man and other student-made video games on the outside of the Cira Centre. Ainsley was proud of her accomplishment. “When you see your game on the building,” she said, “you’re like ‘Wow, I made this.’” Frank Lee founded Skyscraper Video Games for Kids. He’s a professor of digital media at Drexel University, in Philadelphia. He wanted to involve others in the joy of playing video games. So he found a way to make that happen. “Years ago, I was driving past the Cira Centre,” Lee said. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to make a game out of that building?’” He noticed there were LED lights fixed between the skyscraper’s floors. Lee knew if he could access the building’s computer system, he could control the LED lights. This would allow him to display video games on the skyscraper. People could play these games using a joystick (游戏杆). The joystick would be connected to a computer outside the building. And the computer would send wireless commands to the skyscraper’s internal system. Now Lee shares his passion for game design with kids. With funding from Intel, he trains educators to create video games. The educators then teach their students those same skills. 1.What was special about the video games? A.They would be played in a tent. B.They would be played by over 100 people. C.They would be played by children. D.They would be displayed on a skyscraper. 2.Which of the following best describes the participants in the tent? A.Enthusiastic. B.Exhausted. C.Relaxed. D.Stressed. 3.What inspired Frank Lee to found Skyscraper Video Games for Kids? A.The skyscraper’s floors. B.The ads on the skyscraper. C.The LED lights on the skyscraper. D.The skyscraper’s computer system. 4.Where is the text most likely from? A.A guidebook. B.A website. C.A fiction. D.A diary.
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| 12. 难度：中等 | |
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I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American, who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects, has died at the age of 102. Although he worked mostly in the United States, Pei will always be remembered for a European project: His redevelopment of the Louvre Museum in Paris in the 1980s. He gave us the glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard, along with three smaller pyramids and a vast subterranean (地下的) addition to the museum entrance. Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French — and everyone else — were won over. Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century “some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms. His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.” After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Pei set up his own architectural practice in New York in 1955. Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in 1964 established him as a name. His East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978 changed people’s ideas of a museum. The site was an odd trapezoid (梯形) shape. Pei’s solution was to cut it in two. The resulting building was dramatic, light and elegant — one of the first crowd-pleasing cathedrals of modern art. Though known as a modernist, and notable for his forms based on arrangements of simple geometric (几何的) shapes, he once urged Chinese architects to look more to their architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style. In person, I.M. Pei was good-humored, charming and unusually modest. His working process was evolutionary, but innovation (创新) was never an intended goal. “Stylistic originality is not my purpose,” he said. “I want to find the originality in the time, the place and the problem.” 1.What can we learn about the result of redevelopment of the Louvre Museum? A.It was criticized by the French. B.It turned out to be a success. C.It made the Louvre Museum look strange. D.It changed the function of the Louvre Museum. 2.What can we learn from the underlined sentence in paragraph 4? A.He is a master in applying materials. B.He is skilled in writing poems. C.He often combines poetry and construction. D.He gets inspiration from poetry in designing. 3.What’s the correct order of the following events? a. Design the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. b. Study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. c. Design the National Gallery of Art. d. Win the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize. A.abcd B.bacd C.bcad D.dacd
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| 13. 难度：中等 | |
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Being bored, lazy and disconnected from physical work leaves lots of time and space for your body and mind to fill with negative substitutes. Just as an old saying goes, idle hands are the devil’s playground. Neuroscience (神经科学) actually supports this theory. Or at least, research shows that the opposite is true − active hands stimulate your brain to produce chemicals that balance emotions and lower anxiety. In the 19th century anxious women were often given the prescription to knit (编织) because doctors sensed that it kind of calmed them down. That is not to say that anxiety can be cured by knitting. But it does highlight how repetitive hand movements involved in the craft combine with the satisfaction of casting off a finished product to wear or give. It carries mental health benefits at a deep, biochemical level. Other research has focused on knitting’s emotional benefits. One study showed that knitting lowers the heart rate by 11 beats per minute. Another linked knitting with a decreased chance of developing cognitive impairment (认知障碍) and memory loss. And still others point to positive benefits in managing chronic (慢性的) pain and depression. Of course, knitting is not the only way to take your emotional well-being into your own hands. Woodworking, gardening, pottery and painting will also benefit your mental health. And they all involve putting your two hands to work. What do you do with your hands to keep them busy and keep yourself calm and happy? 1.What does the underlined word “idle” in Paragraph 1 mean? A.Inactive. B.Occupied. C.Flexible. D.Awkward. 2.Why did doctors in the 19th century advise anxious women to knit? A.To satisfy their need. B.To reduce their anxiety. C.To help them make money. D.To equip them with a new skill. 3.Which of the following best expresses the key point of the text? A.The advantages of active hands. B.The effects of repetitive knitting. C.The reliability of the scientific research. D.The benefits of keeping positive.
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| 14. 难度：中等 | |
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“Cash is king” is an age-old saying. 1. When in Berlin, do not count on getting around easily with just a credit card. “Cash only” signs hang on front doors of shops and restaurants across the city. 2. After all, Germany is Europe’s leading economy and famous technological know-how. But, even while some of its neighbors in Europe and elsewhere are quickly swapping physical money for new pay technologies, many Germans prefer their euro bills. Cash is quick and easy to use, they argue. It provides a clear picture of personal spending, keeps transactions (交易) more private and is widely accepted in the country. A study by the country’s central bank said Germans carried an average of 107 euros in their wallet. 3. Three-quarters of Americans in a U.S. bank survey said they carried less than $50, and one-quarter said they kept $10 or less in their wallet. 4. In 2008, for the first time, Germans used plastics for payments more than bills. According to a report, in Cologne, 48.6% of sales took place with a debit or a credit card, compared with 48.3% in cash. Still, Germany has one of the highest rates of cash use in the European Union. The most important reasons for the close relationship of Germans to cash are their needs for protection of personal data, security and confidentiality (保密) of payments. 5. But the average German’s need for security will be sure to slow the process. A. This may be surprising to some. B. It’s far more than what Americans carry. C. Change may happen in future generations. D. Germany is not the only country that prefers cash. E. For much of Germany, however, the phrase is still up to date. F. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never heard of the saying. G. That’s not to say that Germans rule out other modern payment methods.
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| 15. 难度：中等 | |
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I had driven home to celebrate my 38th birthday with my mother. When I arrived, I found her _______ proudly at the kitchen table, a chocolate cake and two boxes wrapped orange ribbon (丝带) in front of her. “Happy birthday!” she said, _______ at the boxes. “Open them.” As she knows me _______ than anyone, she’d gotten me exactly what I wanted—running clothes. I _______ her and thanked her and proceeded(接着) to eat the cake. “Too many _______,” I said, not really caring. “You’ll run them off tomorrow,” Mom said. Many adult children with a parent suffering from _______ memory will tell you there was one day that _______ to them that their relationship with their mother or father would be forever changed. For me that day _______ two weeks later, when I drove back for another short _______. I came upon exactly the same ________: my mom sitting at the kitchen table; a chocolate cake resting next to two ________ wrapped in curly ribbon. The ribbon was green this time. That was the only ________ “Happy birthday!” my mom said. I was totally ________. “What’s going on?” I asked. Mom smiled. “Can’t I celebrate my daughter’s birthday?” This was no ________. This was real life, and since my mother clearly only wanted to make me ________, I pushed aside my fear and fulfilled my role as the ________ daughter. I hugged her, thanked her and ________ the clothes... I did not mention to her that we’d done all this two ________ ago. My house is her world now. My mother and I have the ________ conversation roughly 10 times a day. ________, I consider it a pleasure, because every minute is new for her. 1.A.cooking B.sitting C.singing D.dancing 2.A.shouting B.running C.staring D.gesturing 3.A.earlier B.longer C.better D.less 4.A.paid B.hugged C.comforted D.ignored 5.A.calories B.presents C.decorations D.candles 6.A.sad B.lasting C.failing D.past 7.A.signaled B.added C.appealed D.contributed 8.A.ended B.came C.changed D.disappeared 9.A.memory B.birthday C.party D.visit 10.A.day B.idea C.scene D.celebration 11.A.boxes B.bags C.dresses D.hats 12.A.color B.choice C.attraction D.difference 13.A.moved B.confused C.embarrassed D.excited 14.A.pleasure B.trouble C.trick D.end 15.A.happy B.shocked C.puzzled D.upset 16.A.friendly B.successful C.forgetful D.grateful 17.A.admired B.washed C.declined D.wrapped 18.A.days B.weeks C.months D.years 19.A.previous B.annoying C.only D.same 20.A.Therefore B.Instead C.However D.Moreover
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| 16. 难度：中等 | |
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 The world’s first 5G-enabled railway station is 1. its way! China Mobile Shanghai and tech giant Huawei jointly made an 2. (announce) on Monday that they will start the construction of 5G network in Shanghai Hongqiao Railway station, 3. (make) the station the world’s first to build upon a 5G system. It 4. (expect) to realize a deep indoor 5G coverage inside the station by the end of 2019 when 5. (traveller) will be able to enjoy various 5G network-based services. Using the super fast 5G WiFi, people can download a movie in less than 20 seconds in the 6. (crowd) station. A 5G network in the railway station will be part of the effort 7. (promote) the digital economy development in Shanghai. Just 8. Peter Zhou, chief marketing officer for Huawei Wireless Network Product Line, said, “The railway stations of the future may be more intelligent than we can 9. (possible) imagine. While 4G changes our life, 5G will change the society, 10. means using 5G technology to connect everything, such as robotics, cars, and so on. It will make the world fully digitalized and intelligent.
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| 17. 难度：中等 | |
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假设你是晨光中学高二(1)班的班长李华,得知美国学生Chris 作为交换生下学期将到你班学习。请根据提示给他写封邮件: 1.表示欢迎； 2.介绍本班情况； 3.希望Chris尽快融入新学校的生活。 注意: 1.词数80左右; 2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Chris, ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua
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| 18. 难度：中等 | |
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阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。 Early in the morning I went to the ocean beach to play my guitar. The usually crowded beach was deserted except for two people. On one side of the boardwalk (木板人行道) was a woman who was cleaning the beach with a broom; on the other side was a lone figure sitting and staring to sea. I chose a spot between them and began to play. As I played, the woman with the broom swept her way right next to me. She stopped sweeping and leaned on her broom, smiling at me. She appeared to be homeless with dirty mismatched clothes. “You sure play beautiful music.” she said. “I think my friend would like you music. I want to hire you to play for her.” She pointed to the lone figure staring out at the ocean, then produced a few coins from her pocket. “I don’t have much, and I know you’re worth a lot, but if I give this to you, will you play a song for her? She’s going through a lot. I know the music will make her feel better.” I told her I’d be happy to play for free. As we walked over to her friend, the Broom Lady told me that her friend had not talked for weeks.We approached, and the Broom Lady introduced me, “Annie, I got you a present to cheer you up. It’s a guitar man who is going to play a song specially for you.” Annie didn’t move. She was wearing dark sunglasses and had an old coat pulled up to cover most of her face. I sat next to Annie and played. As I played I put every thought into having good things happen for this woman. I played for quite a while. Suddenly, Annie turned toward me and said, “You make it so beautiful. I can feel it inside my heart.” 注意: 1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右； 2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语； 3. 续写部分分两段，每段的开头语已为你写好； 4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。 Paragraph 1: She took off her sunglasses. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: When I stopped playing and looked up, I was shocked to see a small crowed around us. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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