Trade, industrialization and especially globalization in the past few decades     many languages to disappear.

A.had caused B.caused C.have caused D.causes

—If we work on the project together, we should be able to complete it ahead of schedule.

—      ! Many hands make light work.

A.You bet B.Have fun C.Good job D.Forget it

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 续写的词数应为150左右。

I received an urgent call from my aunt. " Turn on the TV. Granny's on the Channel 10 news. " It turned out that Granny had made a sandwich run for her office and was stopped at a red light downtown. She had the window rolled down to enjoy the breeze when a man rushed up to the driver's side window, intending to carjack（劫车）her.

Now, what the would-be carjacker couldn't have known was that this woman simply wasn't " a granny" . This was Nancy Johnson — the same woman who owned and lived on a Texas cattle farm, drove her own tractors, and dug her own post holes to lay fence. The week before, she had shot a rattlesnake and chopped off its head with a shovel . She was the proud owner of the new minivan（小型货车）she was driving. In other words, she was not your normal kind of granny.

The carjacker leaned into the open window, one hand stuffed in his pocket, and said, " Get out of this car. I have a gun, and I will shoot you.” A statement like that would have terrified anyone else. Instead, Granny saw it as a challenge." If you really had a gun in your pocket, you would've pulled it out and led with that first," she shouted at him, apparently unworried.

She was right. The criminal didn't have a gun. He instead reached into the window, grabbed her, and tried to pull her out of the van. He pulled open the door, wildly catching Granny's arms. Granny leaned her shoulder inside to press the horn（喇叭) and started yelling to make people around notice what was happening. With the door now open, she held tight the steering wheel with one arm and started kicking the man anywhere her foot could make contact. This tall woman had quite a reach.

假定你是李华，受母亲影响，喜欢中国传统手工艺刺绣。最近，得知你的英国朋友 Lisa正在苏州学习刺绣。请你给她写封邮件，内容包括：

1.询问学习情况；

2.分享你的作品；

3.希望保持交流。

注意：

1.词数80左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

注:刺绣 embroidery

    Chris Waba, a sixth grade math teacher in South Dakota, is getting praise in his own way. He went to help a student1.(lock) down at home with her homework after schools switched 2. virtual learning because of the coronavirus pandemic.

After receiving a message from Rylee Anderson, 12, 3. she was struggling with a math problem, Waba grabbed a whiteboard and hurried to her front door.

"We had really tried to work through it 4.(digital), but you can just tell when you need to do something else. I just said, ' I'll be over in 5. couple of minutes.' "Then all Rylee was looking forward to 6.(be) to be able to see Waba's appearance.

7.( help) her figure out the problem, Waba spent about 15 minutes kneeling outside the front door and drawing on the whiteboard while Rylee stood safely inside. The moment 8.(shoot) on camera by Ry lee's dad, Josh Anders on. He then posted the photo on Twitter, where it quickly went viral.

Waba stressed that as an 9.(educate) it is right to go above and beyond for their students in this tough time. "I'm not one on an island," he said. “There are thousands and thousands of teachers 10.(go) the extra mile for their kids."

    Hansen and his 10-year-old son Chase search the streets of Salt Lake City every weekend for the homeless to take to lunch. They started Project Empathy(共情)four years ago to _______a meal, listen to their stories and figured out how they could _______ help .

"Just start with a smile, a hello. It really just starts with that. If you do it, you can make a connection. A small gesture can have a _______ impact on others less fortunate," Hansen _______ in an interview.

Some of these shared meals have turned into stronger _______Ward, a homeless, was _______ in a flat. He credited the Hansens with helping him _______the difficult process of moving off the streets. "It is great to have friends who make us feel _______ and I'm impressed with the pair," Ward said.

Father and son's _______have developed into a passion project that ________ faith and community, which emphasizes the ________ community members can have in uplifting the homeless. They know they can't settle the homeless ________ alone. They're hoping empathy will ________

"My hope for the future is to ________ more connection across our country. We could and we will succeed ________ we have other people join in and help the homeless," Chase said.

1.A.buy B.cook C.share D.eat

2.A.often B.further C.also D.even

3.A.dramatic B.different C.minimum D.decisive

4.A.remarked B.praised C.joked D.quoted

5.A.desires B.connections C.motivations D.opinions

6.A.provided B.permitted C.abandoned D.housed

7.A.through B.for C.despite D.to

8.A.surprised B.relaxed C.awesome D.calm

9.A.dreams B.influences C.experiences D.efforts

10.A.assesses B.compares C.highlights D.respects

11.A.importance B.task C.chance D.role

12.A.argument B.problem C.debt D.conflict

13.A.go away B.catch on C.fade out D.give off

14.A.spread B.miss C.exchange D.maintain

15.A.before B.if C.until D.so

    Including children in the farming lifestyle has many benefits. Sure, it is nice to have the additional help with chores(家庭杂务),but it also fosters so much growth, sending our kids down a good path towards who they will someday become. It is possible that our children will grow up to lead lives that do not include farming. 1.

Through caring for farm animals, kids learn that in life others often come before self.

2. It doesn't matter if we don't feel like it or if we are sick and tired. What matters is that we take care of the animals that take care of us and do so in a timely manner.

3. If the work on a farm does not get done, the operation fails. It takes discipline and commitment to get down to business every day, and seeing this in action will give kids a good work attitude. They will know and understand that nothing good comes easy and that they have to work to survive. 4. Functioning as part of a productive team will surely be playing a crucial role sooner or later in all walks of life.

Additionally, fanning teaches patience. 5. Cattle will be difficult to control. Horses will run away when you try to catch them. Goats will kick over that bucket of hard-earned milk. A rooster will decide you got too close to his hens and give you a run for your money. In spite of all that, kids will learn to be patient and take things easy.

There may not be any instant reward, but in the long-term kids will see the benefit of all their efforts during those hard days.

A.At the same time, they learn to work with others.

B.Farm life also teaches kids the value of hard work.

C.Children learn to be grateful for animals for eating purpose.

D.Teamwork is no longer an important skill to develop and use.

E.There are going to be a lot of days when things do not go your way.

F.However, what they learn on a farm can also be instrumental in their future lives.

G.Animals need to be fed, watered, and cared for before we get to sit down and relax.

    Those driving forward the movement of paying college athletes are forgetting the reason one goes to college: to get an education.

In an era struggling for competitive balance, how would the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) keep from giving schools like Kentucky and Alabama even more of a competitive advantage than schools like Valparaiso and Florida Gulf Coast? The issue gets complicated when taking into consideration how the salary difference between different teams gets decided.

Even worse, imagine athletes just coming to college for the money. We call college athletes amateurs. Oxford's definition of amateur is "a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis." The keyword is unpaid. The history of the word "amateur" dates back to the French word "amator”, which means lover. Essentially, college athletes should be playing their sport for the love of the game, not the money that would be given to them.

Rules should not be made for the minority, and in this instance only two percent of athletes play professional sports. The expected career span of that two percent is 10 years, three and a half years in the National Football League (NFL). An astonishing 80 percent of retired NFL players go broke within three years of retirement, 60 percent in the NBA within five years. This is why the NCAA and its member institutions should apply a "stay and learn”, rule.

This rule should state that if athletes choose to come to college, they will get paid in scholarships that last the entire educational process and the athlete must stay in school until they earn a degree in the area of study they choose. That money from going professional is going to run out sometime, but the degree will always be there.

Look at college athletics for what it is and should always be, a high-pressure learning environment and an avenue to earn an education. A much more fun extension of the classroom if you will. After all, they are called student-athletes.

1.How can the salary difference influence college teams?

A.It is likely to promote cooperation.

B.It can increase their independence.

C.It can lead to more communication.

D.It will probably cause more imbalance.

2.Why does the author give explanations to the word "amateur”?

A.To give an individual comment.

B.To confirm the origin of the word.

C.To make the point more authoritative.

D.To provide an example for the argument.

3.How will college athletes benefit from the "stay and learn” rule?

A.Increase their earnings.

B.Get trained for scholarships.

C.Ensure themselves to get a degree.

D.Continue their professional careers.

4.What does the author mainly argue about in the text?

A.For money or for career?

B.A college education or not?

C.Going professional or being amateur?

D.To pay or not to pay college athletes?

    Blue whales, the earth’s largest animals, call to others of their kind, though exactly what these cries communicate remains a mystery. But these sounds have begun evolving (演变). Since at least the 1960s, the pitch (音调) of Antarctic blue whales has downshifted. Scientists have theories as to why: all involving humans.

The deepening of their sounds is not unique. Many blue whales around the world have also dropped their pitch. In a study last year that analyzed more than 1 million individual recordings of whale calls, scale shifts were found across species, and among populations that don’t necessarily interact with one another. This is to say, whatever has caused the change doesn’t seem to have a specific geographic origin.

The underwater noises caused by ocean traffic and at-sea industries might seem a likely criminal. However, scientists have identified lowered pitches even across populations of whales that live in seas without major shipping routes.

One possible explanation for the change is the achievements of global conservation efforts. As their populations have grown, then, the whales may have decreased their volume because they are more likely to be communicating over short distances.

Last year’s study of whale calls also suggests a threatening reason for the drop in pitch, however. Perhaps whales don't need to be so loud because sound waves travel farther in oceans made acidic by the absorption of carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, meanwhile, may also indirectly influence whale voices in other ways. Recent study shows that, during the summer, the whales must use their top volume to be heard in the cracking ice — a natural sound increased by unnatural processes, as rising temperatures worsen ice-melt. So the impacts of a warming planet may modulate animal sounds even in remote places.

1.To what extent is whales’ pitch drop?

A.Across the species.

B.In the Antarctic Ocean.

C.Among some populations.

D.Within one million individuals.

2.What causes the evolving of whales’ pitch according to the text?

A.Less communication and more threat.

B.Protection efforts and acidic sea water.

C.Sharp decrease of whales’ populations.

D.Underwater noises by ships and industries.

3.What does the underlined word “modulate” mean in the last paragraph?

A.Produce. B.Damage. C.Balance. D.Change.

4.What can we infer from the text?

A.Man is the soul of nature.

B.Man and nature are in one.

C.Nature pardons no mistakes .

D.Nature has the final say over man.

    I work at a grocery store in Montreal's Plateau neighbourhood, which gets a lot of regulars. On March 12, the Quebec government announced to close all public places to stop the spread of the pandemic(流行病)of coronavirus.

The next day the store was the busiest I've ever seen. The six cash registers had to be kept open from 10 a. m. until close. It was nuts. I didn't have time to eat lunch, and whenever one of us on cash had to use the bathroom, we’d have to bring in a coworker off the floor to cover for us.

Since then, the atmosphere in the store has been different. Customers are mostly considerate, but whenever someone coughs or sneezes, everyone turns around to make sure that person sneezed into their elbow. I've even seen customers come in wearing some strange get-ups. One guy even came in with a plastic Walmart bag wrapped around his entire head, with a slit cut out for his eyes.

A lot of my coworkers have left to avoid a public-facing job during the pandemic. Grocery store workers across Canada are putting their health at risk every time they come in to work, but a lot of us are still making close to minimum wage. I realized that I feel more exhausted than normal even though I'm working the same hours.

There still have been some moments of kindness in the midst of the chaos. I've overheard people talking on the phone who sounded as though they were organizing grocery deliveries for those stuck at home. And this past weekend a very nice lady thanked us for continuing to work. I know everyone is worried, but it's uneless having the same scary conversations day after day. Instead, tell us a funny anecdote, or about Homething nice. We'll appreciate the distraction, and you'll make our day just a bit brighter.

1.What does the author intend to show by " It was nuts." in paragraph 2?

A.The goods were in short supply.

B.The store was having a big sale.

C.The cashiers complained about their work.

D.The locals rushed to do shopping like crazy.

2.What does paragraph 3 convey about customers?

A.They like to shop here in disguise.

B.They are panicky about the disease .

C.They are more friendly to each other.

D.They have taken proper preventive measures.

3.Which of the following best describes the author?

A.Optimistic. B.Talented. C.Ambitious. D.Efficient.

4.What is the best title for the text?

A.It is not work but worry that kills

B.Helping others is helping ourselves

C.Moments of kindness shine in a time of chaos

D.Here is what it's like working in the pandemic

    Summer vacation is the perfect time to catch up on all that reading you couldn't do during the busy school year・Here are some of the best YA books to read this summer.

◆Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

More than anything, Spensa wants to become a pilot and defend her planet against the frequent attacks from alien starfighters ・ When she discovers the wreckage （残骸）of an old battleship, she realizes that her dreams might be within reach.

◆ Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

Put on your crime-solving cap and get swept away in this thrilling novel about a girl, a boy, and a string of unsolved murders・ As threats and clues pile up, you'll be burning the midnight oil trying to finish the book before dawn.

◆Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

The five Dunbar brothers haven't seen their father in eight years. When he reappears and asks for help building a bridge, only the middle brother, Clay, agrees to go with him. Unforgettable and touching, it is a must-read story .

♦If I'm Being Honest by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

In an effort to win her boyfriend back, Cameron decides to become a nicer person and make up for people she's hurt. Loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, this is a delightfully sweet and positive tale of self-discovery, and true love.

1.Who may be interested in Skyward?

A.Pilots on battleships. B.Fans of outer space.

C.Peace keepers. D.Planet defenders.

2.Which book is probably a detective story?

A.Skyward B.Two Can Keep a Secret

C.Bridge of Clay D.If I'm Being Honest

3.What is special about If I'm Being Honest?

A.It is a work of joint authors.

B.It is one of Shakespeare's plays.

C.It mainly talks about being honest.

D.It appeals to readers feeling hopeless.

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。

Jenny was the only child in her home. She had a quarrel with her mother that afternoon and she ran out of the house angrily.

She couldn’t help crying sadly when she thought of the scolding (指责) from her mother. Having wandered aimlessly in the street for hours, she felt a little hungry and wished for something to eat, but it was not possible for her, since she had nothing with her. She stood beside a stand for a while, watching the middle-aged seller busy doing his business. However, with no money in hand, she had to leave。

The seller behind the stand noticed the young girl and asked, "Hey, girl, you want to have the noodles?

“oh, yes…,but I don't have money on me...” she replied.

“That’s nothing. I'll treat you today,” said the man, “come in.” The seller brought her a bowl of noodles, whose smell was so attractive. As she was eating, Jenny cried silently.

“What is it?” asked the man kindly.

“Nothing, actually I was just touched by your kindness! ” said Jenny as she dried her tears， “ Even a stranger on the street will give me a bowl of noodles, while my mother, drove me out of the house. She showed no care for me. She is so cruel compared to a stranger! ! ”

Hearing the words, the seller smiled, “Girl, do you really think so? I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you thanked me a lot. But it is your mother who has raised you since you were a baby. Can you number the times she cooked for you? Have you expressed your thanks to her?”

Jenny sat there, speechless; she remembered mother’s familiar face and weathered hands. “Why did I not think of that? A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel thankful, but I have never thanked my mum for what she has done for me.”

On the way home, Jenny made up her mind to make an apology (道歉) to her mother for her rudeness as soon as she arrived home.

注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；

2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3. 续写部分分为两段，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:

Approaching (走近) the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath.

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Paragraph 2:

A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back.

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假定你是李华，你想参加学校举办的英语诗歌朗诵比赛，请你给外教Mr.Smith发一封邮件，请他帮你选一首诗，并给予指导。内容包括：

1.请求帮助；

2. 主题必须是爱和友谊；

3.期待回复。

注意：1. 词数不少于100；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mr.Smith,

How is everything going?

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

When you think of robots,what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do you think of science fiction movies like Star Wars , 1. robots of all shapes and sizes are part of daily life?Robots were once just a product of fiction.The word itself comes from the play Rossum's Universal Robots, 2.(write)in 1920 by Karei Capek.

Today most robots don't look human.They appear in many forms and 3.(program)to perform a wide variety of things,from working in factories 4. exploring the surface of Mars.But there is a surprising problem in the world of robots:What humans find easy is 5.(extreme)complicated for a robot.For example,picking up clothes in a messy room is simple for humans, 6.it is difficult for robots to do that. 7.problem is programming a robot to pick up some objects of different shapes and sizes without damaging them.

It shows that one of the most difficult things 8.(improve)in robots is their flexibility.Exciting 9.（develop)in making human-like hands and legs are under way.But the biggest advancements are to teach robots to guess what they can do and 10. they help us with daily tasks.

根据提示，在空白处填入适当单词的正确形式。

1.Compared to his greedy mother,his____________（慷慨）has won him many friends.

2.Miss Green often said "God helps those who help themselves",_________（打算）to impress on us the significance of being independent.

3.Instantly Jane Eyre came back home, Rochester___________（转身）around to hug her, saying "I love you".

4.The small business has s__________up since the adoption of reform and opening-up policy.

5.We believe that South-South co-operations offer significant o___________for all developing countries.

    I was 18 years old, fit, strong and ambitious. One day, I fell down for no_______reason. I saw many different specialists and was finally diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy(MD).

It was a very difficult time. I had no idea what life was going to_______at me and I was scared. By my late 30s it was_______and I had transitioned(转变）from a walking stick to a wheelchair. I wanted to be master of my own _______, so I had to recognize my_______ and play to my weaknesses. What I wanted to make _______was a trip to the north pole.

People with MD feel the cold. So why did I want to go to one of the most extreme, cold and_______places on Earth?I'd read about Chris Cope, who wanted to go to the north pole to raise money for MD, and it had _______ my adventurous spirit: I wanted to raise awareness about the _______, but I also wanted to find out what I was capable of. I'm very________

In the two years it had taken to organize the expedition, my muscles had worsened but we ________regardless. The unpleasant life coaching and cold training helped me to ________ how my body would behave in extreme cold, which made me aware of what to________.

I had an amazing team around me,________ the four different flights we took to get to the inner Arctic ice shelf were nevertheless discouraging. While we were on the ice the runway________and we had to wait for it to refreeze.________ we reached the north pole, I was bitterly cold, exhausted and a complete ________.I was on  the ice for the best part of three long days,then ________the final 350m.The expedition raised50,000 for ________MD is slowly destroying my life but I have chosen to fill it with ________ and I live life to the full.

1.A.adequate B.apparent C.sound D.major

2.A.yell B.target C.throw D.direct

3.A.advanced B.initial C.modest D.minor

4.A.disease B.fortune C.fate D.business

5.A.achievements B.strengths C.privileges D.commitments

6.A.differ B.happen C.count D.work

7.A.autonomous B.mysterious C.fantastic D.inaccessible

8.A.referred to B.appealed to C.belonged to D.applied to

9.A.significance B.conservation C.ambition D.condition

10.A.trustworthy B.delicate C.competitive D.ridiculous

11.A.pulled out B.took off C.pressed on D.hung about

12.A.illustrate B.assess C.stress D.clarify

13.A.value B.forgive C.require D.expect

14.A.though B.but C.so D.as

15.A.floated B.disappeared C.twisted D.split

16.A.Because B.Once C.Before D.Unless

17.A.envy B.failure C.pride D.mess

18.A.ran B.climbed C.rolled D.walked

19.A.treatment B.charity C.training D.ecology

20.A.imaginations B.experiences C.recreations D.responsibilities

    Many healthcare workers know that washing hands is important to prevent the spread of infectious disease. 1. During a study conducted by Nicas and Best at Berkley University, they counted the number of times people touched their face with their hands. 2.Whether we are aware of our actions or not, most of us can agree that we touch our face with our hands frequently enough.

Imagine that you are able to record a full day of your actions. Better yet, reflect on what you did when you woke up yesterday morning. Let me give you an idea of my previous morning. I was woken by the alarm clock at 6 am. 3.Then I checked my phone for messages, turned on the TV for my morning news, started making my coffee and finally hit the shower. It wasn’t even 5 minutes from the time I awoke and I already touched different objects. The point of this is to be aware that even in our homes we are exposed to germs in places we don’t realize.

Luckily, the human body has amazing defense against harmful germs. 4.Our white blood cells are like soldiers coming to the rescue. Unfortunately, there are a lot of areas on our face that do not have the protection of skin such as the eyes and mouth. There’s a reason to every wise proverb and our parents annoying us to wash our hands before dinner is not for nothing.

5.If you have children, it is even more important to set the example because children are known to learn from adults. Let’s start a good habit of washing hands. As for your friends, don’t be shy about checking to make sure their hands are clean. Asking someone if they have washed their hands is caring. Checking to see if someone has washed their hands will benefit not only that person, but you and your family.

A.Our skin is the first line of defense.

B.Several minutes later, I turned off the alarm clock.

C.It is easy for us to admit that we wash our hands regularly.

D.They are more self-aware that hand washing should be practiced as needed.

E.Most importantly, it is our duty to set the right example for friends and family.

F.They found that the subjects touched their face 15.7 times per hour on average.

G.Do the rest of your family members, especially children, wash their hands regularly?

    Perhaps the first novel to best express the modern idea of the self was Jane Eyre, written in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte.

Those who remember Jane Eyre solely as required reading in high-school English class likely recall most vividly a childhood banishment(流放) to a death-haunted room, a mysterious presence in the attic, and a cold mansion going up in flames. It’s more seemingly the stuff of Lifetime television, not revolutions. But as unbelievable as many of the events of the novel are, even today, Bronte’s biggest accomplishment wasn’t in plot devices. It was the narrative voice of Jane — who so openly expressed her desire for identity, definition and meaning — that rang powerfully true to its 19th-century audience. In fact, many early readers mistakenly believed Jane Eyre was a true account (in a clever marketing scheme, the novel was subtitled, “An Autobiography”)，perhaps a validation of her character’s authenticity.

The way that novels paid attention to the particularities of human experience (rather than the universals of romances) made them the ideal vehicle to shape how readers understood the modern individual. The novel seemed perfectly designed to tell Bronte’s first-person narrative of a poor orphan girl searching for a secure identity—first among an unloving family, then a charity school, and finally with the wealthy but unattainable employer she loves. Unable to find her sense of self through others, Jane makes the surprising decision to turn inward.

The broader cultural implications of the story—its insistence on the value of conscience and will—were such that one critic worried some years after its publication that the “most alarming revolution of modern times has followed the invasion of Jane Eyre：' Before Rene Descartes's cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”)，when the sources of authority were external and objective, the aspects of the self so central to today’s understanding mattered little then.

To be sure, no earlier novelist had provided a voice so seemingly pure, so fully belonging to the character, as Bronte, She developed her art alongside her sisters, the novelists Anne and Emily, but it was Charlotte whose work best captured the sense of the modern individual. Anne Bronte's novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall contributed to the novers ability to offer social criticism, while the Romantic sensibilities of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights explored how the “other,” in the form of the dark, unpredictable Heathcliff，can threaten the integrity(完整) of the self.

One of the greatest testimonies(证明) to Bronte's accomplishment came from a modernist pioneer, Virginia Woolf, who declares, “Jane’s voice is the source of the power the book has to absorb the reader completely into her world.” Woolf explains how Bronte depicts: ...an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt. There is in them some untamed ferocity perpetually at war with the accepted order of things which makes them desire to create instantly rather than to observe patiently.

It is exactly this willingness — desire, even — to be “at war with the accepted order of things” that characterizes the modern self. While we now take such a sense for granted, it was，as Bronte’s contemporaries rightly understood, radical (激进的) in her day.

“_______,’’ Jane says as she is dragged by her cruel aunt toward banishment in the bedroom where her late uncle died. This sentence, Joyce Carol Oates argues, serves as the theme of Jane’s whole story.

Charlotte Bronte created a new mold for the self—a person’s inner life can allow her to change from the inside out.

It is true Jane does right and exercises great moral strength.

1.Which of the following rang powerfully true to 19th-century audience?

A.The subtitle“An Autobiography". B.Jane' s real character.

C.The clever marketing scheme. D.Jane' s inner voice for herself

2.What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A.The self started to be rooted in individuals 'hearts.

B.Jane Eyre gave rise to a cultural revolution comprehensively.

C.Jane Eyre changed people's viewpoints of their society.

D.The self failed to affect the course of an individual's life.

3.Why does the author mention Anna and Emily in Paragraph 5?

A.To argue how outstanding the sisters were.

B.To show how Charlotte was influenced by her sisters.

C.To prove how unique Charlotte's art of writing was.

D.To explain how the three sisters shaped English literature.

4.What does Virginia Woolf mean by"Jane' s voice is the source of the power the book has to absorb the reader completely into her world”？

A.Jane' s pursuit for individualism attracts readers.

B.Readers can express themselves through Jane.

C.Readers can find themselves in Jane' s voice.

D.Jane' s personality makes the book popular.

5.Which of the following can be put in the blank of the text?

A.I moved forward all the way B.I resisted all the way

C.I cried all the way D.I thought carefully all the way

6.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Readers recognized the modern individualism by nature of romance.

B.High-school students enjoy recalling what happens to Jane Eyre.

C.Jane Eyre is a reflection of its author Charlotte Bronte.

D.Jane Eyre' s publication changed the way people understood their internal world.

    Humanity has begun wrestling with the dangers of global threats such as climate change.But few authorities are planning for catastrophic solar storms -huge eruptions of mass and energy from the sun that destroy Earth’s magnetic field. In a recent paper,two Harvard University scientists estimate the potential economic damage from such an event will increase in the future and could equal the current U.S.GDP-about＄20 trillion-150years from now.

This kind of storm has happened before.The so-called Carrington Event in 1859,the most intense magnetic storm ever recorded on Earth,caused auroras(极光）in the atmosphere and even delivered electric shocks to telegraph operators.But a Carrington-scale storm today would cause far more harm because society now depends so heavily on electrical power grids,communications satellites and GPS.

In an effort to quantify that threat,astrophysicists Abraham Loeb and Manasvi Lingam of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics developed a mathematical model that assumes society's vulnerability(脆弱性）to solar storms will grow with technological advances.Under this model,during the next 50 years the potential for economic damage will depend primarily on the rising odds of a strong solar storm over time.Beyond 50 years our vulnerability will increase dramatically with technological progress until the latter levels off.

Some scientists question the model’s predictions. “Estimating the economic impact is challenging now, let alone in over a century,” says Edward Oughton, a research associate at the University of Cambridge's Center for Risk Studies.Yet he warns that uncertainty should not stop us from practical preparations, such as making power grids stronger and improving early-warning systems.

Loeb and Lingam think up a much wider strategy:$100-billion magnetic deflector shield(导流板）, positioned between Earth and the sun. This idea seems “pretty preposterous, ”however, given that solar particles arrive at Earth from all directions,says Daniel Baker,director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

A better understanding of"space weather"-the changing condition in Earth's outer space environment, including solar radiation and particles-could help find the best strategies for confronting a dangerous solar storm,says Stacey Worman,a senior analyst at consulting firm Abt Associates."This is a challenging but important question,"Worman says,"that we need more eyes on."

1.According to Edward Oughton,which of the following about solar storms is right?

A.They will become much stronger in 150 years.

B.Technology makes their potential damage grow.

C.Space weather forecast can effectively help deal with them.

D.It's difficult to predict their possible economic damage.

2.The underlined word “preposterous” in Paragraph 5 means

A.innovative B.practical

C.unreasonable D.inflexible

3.The author writes the passage mainly to_

A.remind people to guard against solar storms

B.report the damage of solar storms

C.introduce the characteristics of solar storms

D.analyze the possible cause of solar storms

    One day, gardeners might not just hear the buzz of bees among their flowers, but the whirr of robots, too. Scientists have managed to turn an unassuming drone (无人机) into a remote controlled pollinator (授粉媒介) by attaching horsehairs coated with a special, sticky gel to its underbelly.

Animal pollinators are needed for the reproduction of 90% of flowering plants and one third of human food crops. Chief among those are bees — but many bee populations in the United States have been in steep decline in recent decades. Thus, the decline of bees isn’t just worrisome because it could disrupt ecosystems, but also because it could disrupt agriculture and economy. People have been trying to come up with replacement techniques, but none of them are especially effective yet.

Scientists have thought about using drones, but they haven’t figured out how to make free-flying robot insects that can rely on their own power source without being attached to a wire. “It’s very tough work,” said senior author Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. His particular contribution to the field involves a gel, one he’d considered a mistake 10 years before and stuck in a storage cabinet. When it was rediscovered a decade later, it hadn’t dried up or degraded at all. “I was so surprised because it still had high viscosity,” Miyako said.

The chemist noticed that when dropped, the gel absorbed an impressive amount of dust from the floor. Miyako realized this material could be very useful for picking up pollen (花粉). He and his colleagues chose a drone and attached horsehairs to its smooth surface to mimic a bee’s fuzzy body. They coated those horsehairs in the gel, and then controlled the drones over lilies, where they would pick up the pollen from one flower and then deposit the pollen at another one, thus fertilizing it.

The scientists looked at the hairs under a scanning electron microscope and counted up the pollen grains attached to the surface and found that the drones whose horsehairs had been coated with the gel had about 10 times more pollen than those that had not been coated with the gel.

Miyako does not think such drones would replace bees altogether, but could simply help bees with their pollinating duties. There’s a lot of work to be done before that’s a reality, however. Small drones will need to become more controllable and energy efficient, as well as smarter, with better GPS and artificial intelligence.

1.What does the underlined word “viscosity” in Para.3 probably mean?

A.Hardness. B.Stickiness.

C.Flexibility. D.Purity.

2.We can learn from the passage that______.

A.bees disrupt both agriculture and economy

B.scientists have invented self-powered robot insects

C.bees in the United States are on the edge of extinction

D.Miyako found the special feature of the gel by chance

3.According to Eijiro Miyako, the drones______.

A.are not yet ready for practical use

B.may eventually replace bees in the future

C.are much more efficient than bee pollinators

D.can provide a solution to economic depression

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1.If you make a Purchase for$300 at Amazon.com with the Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card,how many points can you get?

A.9 B.30

C.600 D.900

2.Which of the following is Not the feature of the amazon.com Rewards visa card?

A.You needn't pay the annual fee.

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C.$30 will be instantly loaded into your amazon.com account upon the approval of your credit card application.

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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为80左右。

A little boy selling magazines for school walked up to a house that people hardly visited. The house was very old and the owner hardly ever came out. When he did come out he would not say hello to neighbors or passers by but simply just glare(瞪眼看)at them.

The boy knocked on the door and waited, sweating from fear of the old man. The boy's parents told him to stay away from the house. A lot of the other neighborhood children were told the same from their parents.

As he was ready to walk away, the door slowly opened. " What do you want?" the old man said. The little boy was very afraid but he had a quota(份额) to meet for school with selling the magazines.

"Uh, sir, I uh am selling these magazines and uh I was wondering if you would like to buy one." The old man just stared at the boy. The boy could see inside the old man's house and saw that he had dog figurines(小狗雕像) on the wall. "Do you collect dogs?" the little boy asked. "Yes, I have many collections in my house. They are my family here. They are all I have." The boy then felt sorry for the man, as it seemed that he was a very lonely soul. "Well, I do have a magazine here for collectors. It is perfect for you. I also have one about dogs since you like dogs so much." The old man was ready to close the door on the boy and said, "No boy, I don't need any magazines of any kind, now goodbye."

The little boy was sad that he was not going to make his quota with the sale. He was also sad for the old man being so alone in the big house that he owned. The boy went home and then had an idea. He had a little dog figurine that he got some years ago from an aunt. The figurine did not mean nearly as much to him since he had a real live dog and a large family.

Paragraph 1: The boy headed back down to the old man's house with the figurine.

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Paragraph 2: From that day on something changed inside the old man.

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假定你是李华，你校交流生John对中国文化很感兴趣。近期你校将面向外国交流生开设中国书法课，请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1. 课程的开设目的；

2. 教师简介；

3. 报名时间、地点和方式。

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：中国书法Chinese calligraphy；交换生exchange students

Dear John,

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

根据所给单词的首字母或汉语提示，写出空缺处单词的正确形式，每空一词。

1.Please accept my sincere c______________ on your success.

2.Nearly 90 years old as the scientist is, he remains e____________.

3.Candidates who fail to meet these requirements will not be a____________ to the university.

4.Yesterday it o__________ to me to phone them about the news.

5.I had a strong d__________ to help and care for the old people.

6.Yesterday another student and I ____________ (代表)our university’s Student Union to see him off at the airport.

7.I _________(贴)a photo to my application form and sent it to the company.

8.He_________(发信号) wildly for help, but nobody noticed.

9.Many of my friends ___________(寻求) their fortune in this big city these years, while I just wanted to start a business in my hometown.

10.Before I try and run my program, I will test each part of it _______________(独立地).

    Every year about 40,000 people attempt to climb Kilimanjaro(乞力马扎罗山), the highest mountain in Africa. They _________with them lots of waste. The __________ might damage the beauty of the place. The glaciers (冰川) are disappearing, changing the face of Kilimanjaro.

Hearing these stories, I'm _________ about the place — other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.

However, I soon __________ that much has changed since the days of disturbing reports of __________ among tons of rubbish. I find a __________ mountain, with toilets at camps and along the paths. The environmental challenges are __________ but the efforts made by the Tanzania National Park Authority seem to be __________.

The best of a Kilimanjaro __________, in my opinion, isn’t reaching the top. Mountains are _______ as spiritual places by many cultures. This view is especially evident on Kilimanjaro as _________ go through five ecosystems (生态系统) within a few kilometers. At the base is a rainforest. It ends suddenly at 3, 000 meters, _________ lands of low growing plants. Further up, the weather __________ — low clouds envelope the mountainsides, which are covered with thick grass. I counted  twelve shades of green from where I stand. Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert : gravel (砾石), stones and rocks.  _________ you climb into an arctic-like zone with permanent(永久的) snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.

Does Kilimanjaro deserve(值得) its reputation as a crowded mountain with lines of tourists _______ the atmosphere of peace? I found the opposite to be true.

1.A.keep B.mix C.connect D.bring

2.A.stories B.buildings C.crowds D.reporters

3.A.silent B.doubtful C.serious D.crazy

4.A.discover B.argue C.decide D.admit

5.A.equipment B.grass C.camps D.stones

6.A.clean B.quiet C.tall D.faraway

7.A.new B.special C.significant D.necessary

8.A.fading away B.spreading out C.carrying on D.paying off

9.A.atmosphere B.experience C.experiment D.sight

10.A.seen B.observed C.explored D.studied

11.A.scientists B.climbers C.locals D.officials

12.A.holding on to B.going back to C.setting out to D.giving way to

13.A.changes B.clears C.improves D.permits

14.A.Obviously B.Easily C.Absolutely D.Finally

15.A.keeping B.ruining C.replacing D.creating

    In the future, people will work fewer hours a week than today, right?1.Too much work takes up a most all of their time. They are busy and feel very tired. Many people are asking,“When will I get some free time?”

2.One reason is the increase in the cost of living. In order to support a family today，many people have to work longer hours or work at a second job.3.She works in New Jersey as a social worker from 8:30a.m.until 12:30p.m. In the late afternoon and in the evenings， she sees private customers. On the weekends, she works as caterer(宴会承办者) . It costs so much to support her family, she says, that working less is not impossible.

But there is a second reason for peoples overwork. 4.Employees feel that they have no choice. If they don't agree to work overtime, they are afraid that they will he fired by their companies. Changes in technology make it easier for people to be working all the time.With faxes， cellphones, and e-mail, people can work even when they are on holiday.

5.If things continue this way into the future, we may never get to leave the office, at least not for long. Or people may begin to say, “This is enough. I need my relaxing time.”

A.Take the example of Lily P.

B.Most of people's work will be replaced by the robots.

C.People working longer hours will be much better paid.

D.More people are working long hours for two reasons.

E.Where will technology and the demands of the workweek take us?

F.Today, many companies are trying to do more work with fewer workers.

G.Actually, more people nowadays are working 10 to12 hours a day, six days a week than ever before.

    Marian Bechtel sits at West Palm Beach’s Bar Louie counter by herself, quietly reading her e-book as she waits for her salad. What is she reading? None of your business! Lunch is Bechtel’s “me” time. And like more Americans, she’s not alone.

A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America. More than half（53 percent）have breakfast alone and nearly half（46 percent）have lunch by themselves. Only at dinnertime are we eating together anymore, 74 percent, according to statistics from the report.

“I prefer to go out and be out. Alone, but together, you know? “Bechtel said, looking up from her book. Bechtel, who works in downtown West Palm Beach, has lunch with coworkers sometimes, but like many of us, too often works through lunch at her desk. A lunchtime escape allows her to keep a boss from tapping her on the shoulder. She returns to work feeling energized. “I prefer to go out and be out . Today I just wanted some time to myself.” she said.

Andrew Mazoleny, a local videographer, is finishing his lunch at the bar. He likes that he can sit and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper. “It’s a chance for self-reflection(自我反思). You return to work energetic and with a plan.” said he.

That freedom to choose is one reason more people like to eat alone. There was a time when people may have felt uncomfortable about asking for a table for one, but those days are over. Now, we have our smartphones to keep us company at the table. “It doesn’t feel as alone as it may have before all the advances in technology,” said Laurie Demerit, whose company provided the statistics(数据)for the report.

1.What are the statistics in Paragraph 2 about?

A.Food variety. B.Eating habits.

C.Table manners. D.Restaurant service.

2.Why does Bechtel prefer to go out for lunch?

A.To meet with her coworkers.

B.To catch up with her work.

C.To have some time on her own.

D.To collect data for her report.

3.What is the text mainly about?

A.The advantage of wireless technology.

B.The importance of self-reflection.

C.The stress from working overtime.

D.The popularity of having meals alone.

    Twelve years ago, I arrived in Central Florida from Puerto Rico. I had heard of a job opportunity and decided to pursue it. But it never became a reality. I quickly learned that being alone without resources in an unfamiliar city was not a comfortable situation to be in.

Once my limited funds ran out I became homeless and spent a year and a half living on the streets of Orlando. Apart from feeling not being noticed and missing my family, I had to face another challenge — hunger.

For the first time in my life, I, as a foreign man, who had lived my life in the relative comfort of the middle class, understood the desperation someone feels when they don’t get enough to eat. I clearly remembered having run a distance of more than 7 miles on many occasions just to make it to a local feeding program before they closed at 7 pm.

Once the need for food was met, the next challenge would arise — where to find a place to sleep for the night. Fortunately, local programs like the Coalition for the Homeless, Second Harvest Food Bank and the Wayne Densch Center were an important part of my ability to survive my painful experience.

With the assistance of these programs, I was accepted by a college scholarship program through the Coalition and obtained two degrees from Valencia.

My experience has helped me understand that devoting my life to helping others offers lasting rewards. Today, I am employed as Childhood Hunger Programs Manager at Second Harvest Food Bank and oversee the summer feeding, Hi-Five Kids Pack, and Kids Café programs. I am so proud to be able to distribute food resources to those wonderful programs and help hundreds more like me.

1.What can be inferred from Paragraph 1?

A.The author rejected many chances to get a job in Florida.

B.Florida was not a good place for people living there.

C.It was impossible for the author to get a job then.

D.Many local people were out of work in Florida.

2.Before being accepted by a college scholarship program, the author_____.

A.had been struggling financially

B.had won his degree in a university

C.had lived with his relatives happily

D.had lost hope of facing the future

3.From his experience, the author learns that ______.

A.a friend in need is a friend indeed

B.one good turn deserves another

C.misfortune may be an actual blessing

D.where there is a will there is a way

    It was February and Danny Filippidis and his friends were skiing around. After a few days of fun and relaxation, their annual trip was coming to a close. Danny wanted to capture(捕捉) a few more memories of it to post online when they got home. The problem was, he’d left his cell phone in the car.

By the time Danny realized this, he and his friends were already halfway up Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid. Not wanting to miss a moment, he told his friends to wait while he skied back down to fetch the phone. Danny was an adult and an experienced skier, so they had no reason to doubt his return.

However, it wasn’t until it began to get dark that his friends finally realized something may have gone wrong. They called the police, who began a ground search in no time. Before long, his family and friends came down to help as well. But Danny was nowhere to be found.

What the rescue teams didn’t know at the time was that, by the time the alarm went out, Danny wasn’t even in Lake Placid anymore. He’d taken a wrong turn on his way back to the car, falling down and becoming knocked out. It was dusk by the time he woke up, not knowing where he was.

Danny struggled his way to the road. He flagged down a truck in the hope of securing a ride off the mountain. The truck stopped and he climbed into the warm cab. After telling the trucker where he was going, he fell into a heavy sleep. When the trucker finally informed him that they had arrived, it had been midnight, when his family and friends were still searching the cold wilderness for any sign of him.

Danny often reflects on what might have happened if he hadn’t been found by that trucker. To this day, Danny Filippidis doesn’t know the trucker’s name. He doubts whether he could even point him out if he saw him on the street and the police have been unable to track the man down as well.

1.Why did Danny ski back to fetch his phone?

A.To surf the Net. B.To avoid it being stolen.

C.To make a call. D.To shoot some photos.

2.What happened to Danny on his way down the mountain?

A.He got stuck in a rock. B.He fell down the mountain.

C.He met with a snowstorm. D.He crashed into a truck.

3.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.Danny was grateful to the trucker. B.Danny was extremely forgetful.

C.The authorities took no action at all. D.The trucker was hard to recognize.

Street Photography 2020 Contest by Blank Wall Gallery

Street Photography Contest for 2020 has opened. Here are some details for you.

☆ All photographers, amateurs and professionals who are over 18, are qualified to participate in the contest.

☆ Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.

☆ We only accept digital submissions. Each image file should be RGB, JPG Format, 1,800 pixels (the longest side) on 72 dpi.

Entry Fee: Free to enter

Contest Category: Street Photography

Prizes:

The artists who will be chosen to participate in the exhibition and be presented at the web page of Blank Wall Galley, will have to pay the amount of € 35 if their photo is printed, and € 15 it their work is displayed on the digital screen.

This way, only the photographers who will exhibit their work will pay a small fee for participating in the exhibition. All the other artists will not be charged.

The photographs exhibited at the gallery will be printed at the labs of Blank Wall Gallery free of charge. In case an artist wishes to send us the printed photos, they are free to do it.

The exhibitions organized by Blank Wall Gallery last for 2 weeks and everything needed for the realization of the exhibition ( printing of your photographs on 260 gsm paper, framing, hanging of the photos, press releases, invitations, opening night and supervision) are provided by our gallery without any additional charge.

Submission Deadline: March 19

Exhibition Time: May 1-May 14, 2020

Copyright Information: You are the only copyright owner and creator of the photographs.

1.What is the requirement of joining in the contest?

A.Reaching a certain age. B.Paying entry fees online.

C.Submitting at least 5 files. D.Getting the photos printed.

2.When will the exhibition of photographs close?

A.March 19. B.May 1.

C.May 14. D.May 19.

3.How much will you pay to get your work displayed on the digital screen?

A.€ 0. B.€ 15.

C.€ 35. D.€ 260.