阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
We live in a world where there is so much competition. Every single person has a(n)_______ to succeed and be the best at what they can. There are college basketball players _______ reaching the professional level and students trying their best to get an "A" on their math test. We meet businessmen that have _______ a lot of money. We all have a role _______ we look up to, or have looked up to at some point in life, whether it is a respected elder in our family, a trusted friend around us, or a(n) _______ person often appearing on TV screens or magazine covers.
It is _______ having role models and looking up to people that _______ us. However, how often do you ask yourself, "why is he smarter than me?" or "How did this person achieve such a great _______ at such a young age?" I went to a great high school that was very _______ and demanding; I saw many very _______ student graduate and get into Ivy League a famous school. I also _______ when I got my math test papers back, I sometimes _______ why I never got consistent "A"s like the student sitting two seats away from me.
However, what I _______ after entering college was that one should never _______ their skills or levels of success with other people's. Every single person is_______ and we all have some sort of unique talent. If you are not good at _______ or want to improve a specific skill, you have to learn how to be patient and understand your _______ and try to overcome them.
The _______ is you can all become an honor student if you want to or even improve your running skills. But you have to keep in _______ that understanding your weaknesses and strength is a very _______ step in the process. You have to learn how to look at yourself and set goals step by step so that you can track your improvement.
1.A. stress B. choice C. desire D. ability
2.A. dreaming of B. informed of C. getting into D. broken into
3.A. spent B. taken C. earned D. offered
4.A. style B. model C. type D. pattern
5.A. cheerful B. strange C. famous D. awkward
6.A. funny B. astonishing C. ashamed D. great
7.A. oppose B. persuade C. motivate D. follow
8.A. prizes B. goals C. tendency D. success
9.A. competitive B. acceptable C. diverse D. positive
10.A. careful B. delicate C. bright D. curious
11.A. suspect B. suggest C. advocate D. remember
12.A. noticed B. wondered C. explained D. believed
13.A. achieved B. learnt C. checked D. removed
14.A. combine B. compare C. adopt D. relate
15.A. perfect B. simple C. ordinary D. different
16.A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything
17.A. advantages B. weaknesses C. potential D. personalities
18.A. problem B. question C. truth D. doubt
19.A. contact B. touch C. action D. mind
20.A. important B. difficult C. interesting D. obvious
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All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer.
1. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when “their” player or team wins. 2. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! 3. Think how many people love to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.
Some sports or games go back to thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. 4. Water skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. 5. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.
A. And think of people in cold countries.
B. Sports help to train a person’s character.
C. Not a few people like sports in the world.
D. Many people like to watch others play games.
E. People aren’t inventing new sports or games.
F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them.
G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.
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Two of the hardest things to accomplish in this world are to acquire wealth by honest effort and, having gained it, to learn how to use it properly. Recently I walked into the locker room of a rather well-known golf club after finishing a round. It was in the late afternoon and most of the members had left for their homes. But a half-dozen or so men past middle age were still seated at tables talking aimlessly and drinking more than was good for them. These same men can be found there day after day, and, strangely enough, each one of these men had been a man of affairs and wealth, successful in business and respected in the community if material prosperity were the chief necessity for happiness, then each one should have been happy. Yet, it seemed to me, something very important was missing, or else there would not have been the constant effort to escape the realities of life through Scotch and soda. They knew, each one of them, that their productivity had ceased(停止)．When a fruit tree ceases to bear its fruit, it is dying. And it is even so with man.
What is the answer to a long and happy existence in this world of ours? I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book of Genesis which caught my eye while I was looking through my Bible. The words were few, but they became memorably impressed on my mind:“In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread．”
To me, that has been a challenge from my earliest recollections (memories). In fact, the battle of life, of existence, is a challenge to everyone. The immortal words of St. Paul, too, have been and always will be a great inspiration to me. At the end of the road I want to be able to feel that I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
1.Which of the following is indicated in the first paragraph?
A. Wealth results from honest effort.
B．The men seated at tables in the locker room are lost in the significance of life.
C．For some people, no way can be found to escape the realities of life other than Scotch and soda.
D．The men acquire wealth by planting fruit trees.
2. The underlined sentence “In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread” means “________”.
A. Bread tastes delicious when sweat pours off your face
B．No pains, no gains
C．Failure is the mother of success
D．Bread comes from the sweat on your face
3.We learn from the passage that the author ________.
A．was a wealthy person in the community
B．held a positive attitude towards an active life
C．was fond of associating with celebrities (名人)
D．kept a secret of the reason why he was so impressed
4.What is implied in the passage by the writer?
A．To use wealth properly, eat, drink and be merry.
B．Where there is a will, there is a way.
C．As life is but like a dream, a man is like a fruit tree.
D．If you cease to struggle, you cease to live.
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Very mobile ears help many animals direct their attention to the rustle of a possible attacker. Researchers say these mobile ears have become a useful communication tool. Their studies of animal behaviour build up a picture of how communication and social skills developed.
“We're interested in how they communicate,” said lead researcher Jennifer Wathan.“And being sensitive to what another individual is thinking is a fundamental skill from which other more complex skills develop.”
Ms Wathan and her colleague Prof Karen McComb set up a behavioural experiment where 72 individual horses had to use visual clues from another horse in order to choose where to feed. They led each horse to a point where it had to select one of two buckets. On a wall behind this decision-making spot was a life-sized photograph of a horse's head facing either to left or right. In some of the trials, the horses’ ears or eyes were covered.
If the ears and eyes of the horse in the picture were visible, the horses being tested would choose the bucket towards which its gaze and its ears were directed. If the horse in the picture had either its eyes or its ears covered, the horse being tested would just choose a feed bucket at random.
Like many mammals that are hunted by predators（捕食者）, horses can rotate（旋转）their ears through almost 180 degrees - but Ms Wathan said that in our "human-centric" view of the world, we had overlooked the importance of these very mobile ears in animal communication.
"It seems there's something in the visual clues----from both the eyes and the ears-----that are really important," she told BBC News. "Horses have quite rich social lives and relationships with other horses, so they're a good species to look at this in." And the more we look at communication across different species, the more we can consider what might have promoted the evolution of sophisticated communication and social skills."
1.Why does a horse rotate its ears?
A. To tell each other where they can go for the buckets.
B. To be curious about what the other horse is thinking.
C. To warn the other horse when an attacker is coming closer.
D. To express its hope to build up social relations with others.
2.Why did the researchers use the life-sized photograph of a horse in the experiment?
A. To help develop horses’ complex skills.
B. To lead other horses to feed themselves.
C. To make the horses in the experiment excited.
D. To provide clues for the horses in the experiment.
3.Why are ears and eyes important to horses?
A. They can find the feeding buckets more easily with ears and eyes.
B. With ears and eyes they can escape from dangers more easily.
C. With ears and eyes they can communicate with other horses.
D. Horses have quite rich social lives with ears and eyes.
4.What can be the best title of the passage?
A. Rotary Ears Serve as Communication Tools.
B. Horses Have More Social Skills than Other Species.
C. Experiments with Horses’ Ears.
D. Fundamental Skills of Horses.
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As is known to all, colors appear in every language to express people’s feeling and thoughts. Then, what is the situation in American English?
Red is a hot color. Americans may say they are red hot about something unfair. They are red hot when they are very angry about something. The small hot-tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hot for their color and their fiery taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, especially the kind called Dixieland Jazz.
Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health．The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It comes from the fact that many babies are born with nice pink skin that shows that they are in good health.
The color black is often used in expressions. People describe a day on which everything goes wrong as a black day. People or things on a blacklist are connected with things illegal now. But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.
The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling in his stomach may say he feels a little green. A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green.
Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because green is the color of the back side of the paper money．
1.People use “in the pink” to express they are in good health because ________.
A．the expression has a very long history
B．the color pink makes people feel happy
C．people think the color pink is gentler than red
D．healthy babies are born with nice pink skin
2.When we say someone feels a little green, it means he/she ________.
A．enjoys himself in boating B．is hit by a high wave
C．has a stomachache D．likes trees and grass
3.In the writer’s eyes, what is related to a black day?
A．Being sent a beautiful gift.
B．Passing a very difficult test.
C．Failing in an important interview.
D．Being invited to an exciting party.
4.Someone got upset because he/she wasn't as rich as others, so we can say he/she is ________ with jealousness.
A. red B. green
C. pink D. dark
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Saturday, March 24th
We have arrived in the hot, wet city of Bangkok. This is our first trip to Thailand(泰国). All the different smells make us want to try the food. We are going to eat something special for dinner tonight. The hotel we are staying in is
cheap, and very clean. We plan to stay here for a few days, visit some places in
the city, and then travel to Chiang Mai in the North.
Tuesday, March 27th
Bangkok is wonderful and surprising! The places are interesting. We visited
the famous market which was on water, and saw a lot of fruits and vegetables.
Everything is so colorful, and we have taken hundreds of photos already! Later
today we will leave for Chiang Mai. We will take the train north, stay in
Chiang Mai for two days, and then catch a bus to Chiang Rai.
Friday, March 30th
Our trip to Chiang Rai was long and boring. We visited a small village in
the mountains. The village people here love the quiet life-no computers or
phones. They are the kindest people I have ever met. They always smile and say
"hello". Kathy and I can only speak a few words of Thai, so smiling is the best
way to show our kindness. I feel good here and hope to be able to come back
next year.
1.The diaries above show the writer's _____ days in Thailand.
A. 3 B. 7
C. 15 D. 30
2.It seems that visitors _____ in Bangkok.
A. often feel hungry
B. can always find cheap things
C. can’t take any photos
D. can enjoy themselves
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Chiang Mai is a beautiful city in the south of Thailand.
B. The writer left Chiang Mai for Chiang Rai by bus.
C. Chiang Rai is a boring city in the mountains.
D. The writer is traveling alone in Thailand.
