阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at the music students, 1. (struggle) with their heavy instrument cases, and turning up at school for practice hours 2. anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to avoid music, as he hated getting to school extra early.
However, one day, in the music class that was part of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing idly on 3. piano and found it easy to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually enjoyed doing it. He tried to hide his obvious pleasure from the music teacher, 4. had wandered over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, because the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good ear and suggested that Gabriel 5. (go) into the music storeroom to see if any of the 6. (instrument) there appealed to him. There he decided to give the cello a chance. When he began practicing, he took it very casually. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and 7. (commit) to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing 8. (reason) well.
This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, dragging his heavy instrument case 9. the campus to the music room to the pitying looks of the non-musicians he 10. (leave) behind.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we____realize that those challenges are the very things that____us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with____.
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two____. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing____the challenge isn’ t worth the____and call it quits. Although there are certainly____when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most____all that is needed is____and communication.
When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how____or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to____it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a____for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong.____you can say to a friend, “ I got my feeling hurt,”____“You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with the many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for____they are: small hurdles you need to jump or____on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is____to get over, and hurt only____to make us stronger. It is all part of growing up, it____to everyone, and some day you will____all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”
1.A.seem to B.come to C.hope to D.try to
2.A.design B.promote C.direct D.shape
3.A.confidence B.pressure C.friendship D.difficulty
4.A.opportunities B.expectations C.choices D.aspects
5.A.demanding B.deserving C.predicting D.presenting
6.A.comment B.loss C.trouble D.expense
7.A.spans B.times C.dates D.ages
8.A.cases B.fields C.parts D.occasions
9.A.assessment B.commitment C.encouragement D.adjustment
10.A.doubtful B.shameful C.harmful D.painful
11.A.keep B.control C.face D.catch
12.A.space B.plan C.topic D.room
13.A.If B.As C.While D.Unless
14.A.other than B.rather than C.or rather D.or else
15.A.what B.who C.where D.which
16.A.pass by B.come across C.get through D.run over
17.A.unnecessary B.necessary C.impossible D.possible
18.A.serves B.means C.aims D.attempts
19.A.opens B.appeals C.goes D.happens
20.A.look down on B.look back on C.look forward to D.look up to
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。选项中的两项为多余选项。UrbanizationUntil relatively recently, the vast majority of human being lived and died without ever seeing a city. The first city was probably founded no more than 5,500 years ago.1.In fact, nearly everyone lived on farms or in tiny rural (乡村的) villages. It was not until the 20th century that Great Britain became the first urban society in history—a society in which the majority of people live in cities and do not farm for a living.Britain was only the beginning.2.The process of urbanization—the migration (迁徙) of people from the countryside to the city—was the result of modernization, which has rapidly transformed how people live and where they live.In 1900, fewer than 40% of Americans lived in urban areas. Today, over 82% of Americans live in cities. Only about 2% live on farms.3.Large cities were impossible until agriculture became industrialized. Even in advanced agricultural societies, it took about ninetyfive people on farms to feed five people in cities.4.Until modern times, those living in cities were mainly the ruling elite (精英) and the servants, laborers and professionals who served them. Cities survived by taxing farmers and were limited in size by the amount of surplus（过剩）food that the rural population produced and by the ability to move this surplus from farm to city.Over the past two centuries, the Industrial Revolution has broken this balance between the city and the country.5.Today, instead of needing ninetyfive farmers to feed five city people, one American farmer is able to feed more than a hundred nonfarmers.
A. That kept cities very small. |
B. The rest live in small towns. |
C. The effects of urban living on people should be considered. |
D. Soon many other industrial nations became urban societies. |
E. But even 200 years ago, only a few people could live in cities. |
F. Modernization drew people to the cities and made farmers more productive. |
G. Modern cities have destroyed social relations and the health of human beings. |
This holiday season, holiday shoppers can for the first time send festive greetings that help protect rather than destroy our evergreen world. The beautiful e-card can be sent via TreeGreetings, available at http://www. TreeGreetings. com.
Each $8.95 TreeGreetings e-card comes with a virtual tour of the actual location where the gift tree will be planted along with a full-color, personalized planting certificate. The greetings feature musical slide shows with nature photography and inspirational messages.
“Our cards exemplify (是…的典型) the spirit of holiday giving,” said Alan Shamir, founder and CEO of Your True Nature Inc., which markets TreeGreetings electronic products. “Our customers can give back to the Earth by contributing to reforestation while sharing holiday goodwill with friends and family.” TreeGreetings offers a full range of e-cards to celebrate any occasion including birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, new homes, congratulations, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.
Individuals and organizations can easily send personalized TreeGreetings to their entire holiday lists at quantity-discounted rates, and distribution on a selected date can be scheduled days, weeks, or months in advance.
Gift trees are planted and cared for by well-established, reliable non-profit organizations including the internationally recognized Trees, Water & People, which has planted 1.2 million trees in Central America, and Plant-It 2020, a foundation created by singer John Denver in1992.
After having received a Magnolia tree for his 11th birthday, Shamir gained a lifelong appreciation for the value and joy of receiving a living growing gift. He said, “My tree and I ‘grow up’ together! It has been such a valuable and important part of my life that I want to give others the experience of having a tree planted for their special occasions.”
1.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A.Creating an e-card for yourself B.The e-card that plants a tree
C.What to send on special occasions D.The spirit of holiday giving
2.What is special about the TreeGreetings e-card?
A.It can be sent to the receiver in advance.
B.It will be attached to the tree planted for you.
C.It can be used as a personalized planting certificate.
D.It is mainly intended for environmental protection.
3.What do we know about John Denver from the 5th paragraph?
A.He used to be engaged in tree planting.
B.He often sends e-cards to his friends.
C.He is the founder of Plant-It 2020.
D.He sang songs to protect our environment.
4.What can we learn about Shamir?
A.He will send e-cards to others on their birthdays.
B.He plants a tree every year on his birthday.
C.He often helps others to plant trees.
D.He planted a tree in his garden.
A day in the life of a sun bear is what you might expect from the name: sunny. In its natural habitat, the sun bear spends over 80 percent of its active waking time in daylight.
But when disturbed by human activity, that changes dramatically. In areas where people are pushing into the sun bear’s habitat, the animals are spending 90 percent of their waking time after dark. Effectively, the threat of human presence is making the sun bear change into “the moon bear”.
Led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, the study found that human activity is driving scores of mammals to shift their activity from the daytime into the dark hours of the night. As many animals have already been forced out of their local habitats, others are attempting to avoid interaction with humans by separating themselves in time rather than in space.
For the work, the researchers examined the behaviors of 64 mammal species, including deer, tigers, boars, and, of course, sun bears. They observed increased nocturnal (夜间的) behavior in a large majority of them, with species that are naturally active during the day tending to shift their activity to after dark, and those that are naturally nocturnal becoming more so. The mammals affected ranged across body size, habitat type, region of the world, and diet.
Human activity of all sorts affect animals，lives, including activities like hunting, agriculture and land development, harvesting local natural resources, even hiking or walking through wild areas. Sport hunting in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe drove antelopes to spend more of their active waking hours at night, restricting their access to water. Similarly, hikers in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California made coyotes (郊狼) more nocturnal, forcing them to find new preys (猎物) among traditionally nocturnal animals.
The researchers warn that profound shifts in the natural behavior patterns of so many species disturb dynamics that have evolved over generations, leading to a series of unknown effects on the entire ecosystems.
1.What did the study find?
A. More animals separate themselves in space.
B. Human activity changes animals’ way of life.
C. Many animals were pushed out of their local habitats.
D. The sun bear spends over 80% waking time in daylight.
2.What does the underlined word “that” refer to?
A. The sun bear. B. The waking time.
C. Human activity. D. The natural habitat.
3.What can we infer from paragraph 5?
A. Antelopes have easier access to water.
B. Coyotes have to prey on new types for survival.
C. Human activity shortens animals’ sleeping time.
D. Animals have managed to escape interaction with humans.
4.What does the author want to tell us in the text?
A. Human threat makes the sun bear nocturnal.
B. Animals are badly hurt by human presence.
C. Animals become more adaptable thanks to human.
D. Ecosystems may be reshaped due to human activity.
One evening last summer, when I asked my 17-year-old son, Ray, for help with dinner, his response took me by surprise. “What’s a colander (漏勺)?” he asked.
I could only blame myself. In the family, nobody’s hands went in the sauce except my own. But that night, as I explained with a touch of panic that a colander is the thing with holes in it, I wondered what else I hadn’t prepared Ray for. I felt confident that I’d raised a self-reliant boy, as we all try to do. But could he boil water? Suddenly it hit me: He’d be leaving the house in a year to attend college. No way was I going to send a spoiled prince into the world.
As parents, while we focus on our children’ s confidence and character, we perhaps don’t always consider that we are also raising someone’s future roommate, boyfriend, husband, or father. I wanted to know that I’d raised a boy who would never ask the woman in his life, “What’s for dinner?” So I came up with a plan: I would offer Ray a private home economics course. I was delighted to find that he didn’t say no.
For two hours, three days a week, Ray was all mine. One day, as his tomato sauce reduced on the stove, he washed and seasoned a chicken for roasting. Then he rolled out the piecrust and filled it with apples, all while listening to my explanation on the importance of preheating an oven.
Grandparents being tailors, Ray was genetically programmed to quickly master the basics like refastening a button. One day we covered Advanced Laundry, in which I taught him never to mix a red sweatshirt with white or put sweaters in the dryer. I knew that he would rather have been shooting hoops in the driveway than learning to mend socks with his mother — he tried to beg off sewing lessons, even though I insisted that one day, someone would find the sight of him fixing his own shirt very attractive — but it couldn’t be denied that he was learning, and more than just housekeeping. “I appreciate what you do as a mom,” he told me one day.
Ray now understands the finer points of cooking, and more importantly, he realizes there’s nothing masculine (男子气概的) about being helpless. Not only can he make his own dinner, but also he can make a big meal for his family. That’s what I call a man.
1.Hearing her son’s question, the author felt ______.
A.angry B.shocked
C.disappointed D.calm
2.What can we learn from the text?
A.Ray made great progress in cooking.
B.Ray preferred sewing to cooking.
C.Ray was unwilling to take the course initially.
D.Ray always thought it attractive to do housework.
3.The underlined part “more than just housekeeping” in the 5th paragraph shows that Ray ______.
A.fell in love with housework
B.did other work in the house
C.acknowledged his mother’s efforts
D.began to be more independent
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A.Are women Programmed for Housework?
B.Should Boys be Involved in Housework?
C.I’m Proud of My Private Cooking Course
D.A Present for My Future Daughter-in-law
