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阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Young men often give flowers to young women when they are in love. This ______ may have come from Turkey.
In the 1700s in Turkey, it was quite ______ for people in love to send each other baskets full of strange ______ . The baskets were sent ______ to the person who was receiving it. Usually, an old woman who sold flowers or fruit on the street______ the basket beside the person’s door.
These baskets included a variety of “gifts”: flowers, stones, feathers, wax, and even charcoal(木炭). Each thing in the basket had a ______ meaning. By ______ the secret message contained in each item, the person who ______ the basket began to understand little by little what the sender really______ . This idea of sending gifts of love with secret meanings quickly______ to Germany, France, and England. ______, as time passed, only flowers ______ popular.
A bunch of flowers told young ladies about the ______ in the hearts of young men. Each different flower held a different meaning. ______ , the flowers from an orange tree meant, “You are beautiful and pure.” Pink carnations (康乃馨)meant, “My love for you is strong and great.” Yellow roses, on ______ hand, meant, “I saw you with someone else.” so a person had to be ______ about the flowers they chose to send.
By the 1880s, using flowers to send messages ______out of fashion, and ______ , the more direct way of sending love began. Today, flowers are still ______ as a lovely gift, but the meaning for each kind of flower is somewhat ______ .
1.A. story B. tradition C. saying D. hobby
2.A. interesting B. crazy C. strange D. popular
3.A. things B. flowers C. letters D. toys
4.A. carefully B. quickly C. secretly D. honestly
5.A. took B. left C. hid D. made
6.A. difficult B. correct C. positive D. special
7.A. finding out B. passing on C. asking for D. talking about
8.A. sold B. filled C. received D. chose
9.A. said B. meant C. had D. bought
10.A. responded B. led C. turned D. went
11.A. However B. Instead C. Therefore D. Besides
12.A. sounded B. proved C. remained D. seemed
13.A. plans B. feelings C. dreams D. gifts
14.A. As usual B. In fact C. For example D. At first
15.A. the other B. other C. another D. one
16.A. right B. careful C. worried D. meaningful
17.A. felt B. had felt C. had fallen D. has fallen
18.A. cards B. emails C. phones D. letters
19.A. regarded B. wished C. offered D. served
20.A. clear B. true C. deep D. different
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While it is impossible to live completely free of stress, it is possible to prevent stress as well as reduce its effect when it can’t be avoided. 1. .
Try physical activity.
2. . Running, walking, playing tennis, and working in your garden are just some of the activities you might try.
Make time for yourself.
Schedule time for both work and entertainment. Don’t forget, play can be just as important to your overall well-being as work. 3. Go window-shopping or work on a hobby. Allow yourself at least a half hour each day to do something you enjoy.
Take care of yourself.
4. If you easily get angry and can’t sleep well enough, or if you are not eating properly, it will be more likely that you will fall into stressful situations. If stress repeatedly keeps you from sleeping, you should consult a doctor.
5. .
Stress can result from disorganization and a feeling that “there’s so much to do, and not enough time”. Trying to take care of everything at once can be too much for you and as a result, you may not achieve anything. Instead, make a list of everything you have to do, then do one thing at a time, checking off each task as it is completed. Set out to do the most important task first.
A．You should make every effort to eat well and get enough rest.
B．Do whatever you like and want to do.
C．The following are suggestions for ways to deal with stress.
D．You need a break from your daily routine to just relax and have fun.
E．When you are nervous, angry or upset, try releasing the pressure through exercise or physical activity.
F．You could smile to yourself in front of a mirror every day.
G．Make a list of things to do.
When building houses, people used to think about not only the climate of the areas but also the building materials and the fashions for their houses. However, since electricity became more and more expensive, people began to pay much more attention to the energy they could get for their houses and the new ways they could find to protect their houses from both cold and heat.
Houses of an old yet new type have been widely built. In some parts of the world, people share their houses with their livestock (家畜). During cold weather, they gather their cows, goats, or other animals and keep them on the first floor of their houses. The reasons are that the animals can be protected from the cold and that they can help to heat the houses as well. The body heat given off by the animals rises to the second floor of the houses, where people live. By sharing their houses with their livestock, people gain a source of heat.
People who live in or near cities do not usually keep livestock. However, home builders use the fact that heat rises. This natural law can be used in building houses in these areas. Instead of keeping livestock on the first floor, builders fill it with large rocks. As they are open to the sun’s rays during cold weather, these rocks take in heat. They also give off the heat, and, of course, the warm air rises into the living areas of the houses. So these houses are energy saving.
House building becomes a great challenge to building designers and energy engineers. They try to meet this challenge by learning from old traditions and by using modern technology. And someday in the future, people will be able to live in more energy saving houses.
1.What did people begin to consider as electricity was no longer cheap?
A．The climate of their areas
B．The energy for their houses
C．The fashions for their houses
D．The building materials for their houses
2.People in some areas gain a source of heat by _________.
A．Keeping their livestock downstairs
B．Protecting their livestock from the cold
C．Sharing their houses only with their cows
D．Living on the second floor with their livestock
3.The underlined words “natural law” in the third paragraph refer to the fact that ________.
A．Heat raises the temperature in the houses
B．Heat increases the temperature of rocks
C．Heat goes up if temperature is raised
D．Heat goes in the upward direction
4.From the passage, we can infer that __________.
A．People will no longer consider building materials in the future
B．Energy saving buildings will become more popular in the future
C．Almost all people will move into the houses heated by large rocks
D．Energy engineers will devote themselves only to modern technology.
Happy birthday
The China National Opera (CNO) will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday.
Different generations of CNO vocalists(声乐家), like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous operas like “The White-haired Girl” and “The Hundredth Bride”, as well as arias(独唱曲) of such Western opera classics as “Madame Butterfly”, “La Traviata” and “Rigoletto”.
Time/Date:7:30pm, September 7,8
Location: Tianqiao Theatre
Tel: 65514787, 83156170
Tickets:60～500 yuan (US $7.3～60.2)
Folk music
A concert will be held to feature some recently-composed traditional Chinese music works.
The concert, given by the Folk Orchestra of China Opera and Ballet Theatre, will include such pieces as “Memory of Childhood”, “Memorial Ceremony for God” and “Wine Song”.
Time/Date:7:30pm, September 13
Location: Concert Hall at the National Library of China
Tel: 68485462, 68419220
Tickets:30～200 yuan (US $ 3.6～24.1)
Moon music
A concert of traditional Chinese music will be given on the eve of the Moon Festival which falls on September 21 this year.
The concert will feature a number of famous pieces centered on the theme of the moon, such as “Moonlight”, “Spring Night on a Moonlit River” and “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River”.
A number of established traditional Chinese music performers, like Zhou Yaokun and Fan Weiqing, will play solos as well as collaborate(合作) with the folk music orchestra.
Time/Date:7:30pm, September 20
Location: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
Tel : 66068888, 66069999
1.If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music “Memory of Childhood”, you will dial ____ .
A. 65514787 B. 83156170 C. 68485462 D. 66069999
2.Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei stand for the same generation of CNO vocalists.
B. “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River” is a traditional Chinese music.
C. “Rigoletto” is a famous piece on the theme of the moon.
D. Zhou Yaokun will play solos and Fan Weiqing will collaborate with the folk music orchestra.
3. “Madame Butterfly” is .
A. a Chinese opera B. a song
C. a piece of music D. a Western opera
4.In which part of a newspaper will the article be published?
A. Entertainment B. Sports C. Culture D. News
Dolphins are not fish, but warm-blooded animals. They live in groups, and speak to each other in their own language. In this way they are like other animals, such as bees and birds. But dolphins are very different from almost all land animals. Their brain is nearly the same size as our own, and they live a long time --- at least twenty or thirty years.
Like some animals, dolphins use sound to help them find their way around. They also use these sounds to talk to each other and to help them find food. We now know they do not use their ears to receive these sounds, but the lower part of the mouth, called the jaw.
Strangely, dolphins seem to like man, and for thousands of years there have been stories about the dolphin and its friendship with people.
There is a story about sailors in the 19th century. In a dangerous part of the sea off the coast of New Zealand, they learnt to look for a dolphin called Jack. From 1871 to 1903 Jack met every boat in the area and showed it the way. Then in 1903 a passenger on a boat called The Penguin shot and wounded Jack. He recovered and for nine years more continued to guide all ships through the area－except for The Penguin.
Today, some people continue to kill dolphins, but many countries of the world now protect them and in these places it is against the law to kill them.
1.Dolphins are different from many other animals in that they _____.
A. live in groups B. have their own language
C. are warm-blooded D. have large brains
2.Which of the following does the dolphin use to help it find its way around?
A. Its jaw. B. Its ears
C. Its nose. D. Its eyes.
3.By telling the story of Jack the writer wanted to show that _____.
A. people are cruel to animals
B. Jack is different from other dolphins
C. dolphins are friendly and clever
D. dolphins should be protected by law
4.Why did the sailors off the coast of New Zealand look for Jack?
A. They wanted his help.
B. They enjoyed playing with him.
C. He was lonely and liked to be with people
D. He was seriously wounded.
When I was young, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never shouted at us for playing in his yard. I remembered him as a neighbor who was nicer than anyone else in the neighborhood. When Dr. Gibbs was happy, he was planting trees. And his life’s goal was to make it a forest.
Dr. Gibbs had some interesting theories about planting. He talked about trees that weren’t watered would grow deep roots in search of water. So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak (橡树) and, instead of watering it every morning, he beat it with the rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died a couple of years. Every now and then, I walk by his house and look at the trees that he planted twenty-five years ago. They’re very strong now.
I planted a couple of trees a few years later. I watered them regularly and took good care of them. Whenever a cold wind blows, they shake their leaves and branches.
The funny thing about those trees of Dr. Gibbs was that difficulty seemed to help them in ways comfort and ease never could.
1.What was Dr. Gibbs’ life goal?
A. To save more lives. B. To build a forest.
C. To make a lot of money. D. To study plants.
2.One of Dr. Gibbs’ theories about planting was that ______.
A. he often talked to the trees
B. he kicked the trees heavily
C. he never watered the trees
D. he buried the leaves around the roots
3.What does the writer mainly want to tell us?
A. Trees are not as weak as we think.
B. Difficulty is necessary for growth
C. Planting trees is good for the environment.
D. We should listen to others’ advice.
