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1、 阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In some parts of Central China's Henan province, daughters will1 wild goose-shaped cakes for their parents before the leap month (闰月) comes, wishing for auspiciousness. There is a 2 surrounding the tradition.
Long ago, there was a girl living at the southern foot of the Songshan Mountain in Henan, who was very 3 . In a year which had a leap month, the married girl 4 of her parents, who never had enough food to eat and might suffer from hunger due to the5 month. So, she collected some leftover millet (小米) and headed toward her parents' home. On the mountainous road, she6 fell down and when she woke up, the millet was already7 up by birds. Seeing this and thinking of her parents, she cried loudly and slowly fell asleep again.
Then she heard some weak voice and woke up again, seeing a couple of wild geese were staying in her bag and not willing to leave, so she took them with her. When she arrived at her parents' home, the village was 8 famine and plague, and her parents were on the verge of 9 . She hurriedly boiled the wild geese and fed them to her parents, and her parents recovered soon. She then gave the leftover food to the neighbors and the 10 miraculously disappeared the next day.
After that, before each leap month, daughters began to visit their11 and bring gifts. As wild goose is a12 bird, people use dough to make wild goose-shaped cakes in13 of the actual bird for their parents, wishing them healthy and hoping to banish any plagues.
In some parts of East China's Shandong province, the married daughters will send dough-made fish and toad to their parents, which 14 "wealth" and "health" respectively.15 , it is said that the dough fish is for a mother and the dough toad is for a father.
(1)A 、 bury B 、 send C 、 prepare D 、 decorate(2)A 、 book B 、 song C 、 title D 、 legend(3)A 、 beautiful B 、 filial C 、 brave D 、 smart(4)A 、 warned B 、 thought C 、 heard D 、 reminded(5)A 、 relevant B 、 repetitive C 、 representative D 、 respective(6)A 、 eventually B 、 accidentally C 、 hurriedly D 、 mysteriously(7)A 、 taken B 、 made C 、 eaten D 、 set(8)A 、 suffering from B 、 learning from C 、 taking from D 、 recovering from(9)A 、 delight B 、 penalty C 、 death D 、 performance(10)A 、 neighbors B 、 food C 、 plague D 、 village(11)A 、 parents B 、 relatives C 、 friends D 、 classmates(12)A 、 delicate B 、 abnormal C 、 outstanding D 、 rare(13)A 、 place B 、 point C 、 pursuit D 、 praise(14)A 、 symbolize B 、 suspect C 、 simplify D 、 state(15)A 、 However B 、 Therefore C 、 Otherwise D 、 Besides -
2、 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Choose Your Purpose-Filled Career
When you think about choosing a career, you often do it in the following two ways.
Think about what you like to do. If you like writing or doing crafts, you might consider these things. This is not a bad way to go, of course, but you can't always make money doing things you like (like video games or drinking beer).
Think about a well-paid job that you can do and doesn't sound so bad. Or maybe that's out of your educational reach, so you choose office or retail worker. These are all great choices. But often they are not something you're really passionate about. It's kind of like just doing something because it's there——not very inspired.
Try to do something to serve a community or make the world better. For example, taking care of children, because you really want to help children get a great start in life, or blossom into who they want to be or getting into government or social work to improve the conditions of the community you live in or becoming a scientist to help ease the environmental crisis or find a cure for a terrible disease. And if you choose one of them for that purpose, you will serve in that work feeling a sense of purpose each day.
The point isn't how you serve the world, but just serving the world in some way will help you feel filled with purpose. If you choose a purposeful and enjoyable job, you're always further along than most people.
A. There are endless ways to do that.B. Maybe a doctor, engineer or lawyer?
C. However, there's another way that is perhaps better.
D. You are dreaming of a well-paid job which you like best.
E. It's essential not to concentrate on interests and good payment.
F. Each of these is just one of many possibilities filled with purpose.
G. And sometimes things you like are better as a hobby or side passion.
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Every language and culture has curse words (脏话). What gives a curse word its power is partly its meaning and partly its sound. "In English, for example, curse words tend to contain a high percentage of plosive(爆破音) sounds—including P, T and K, " said Ryan McKay, a psychologist at University of London.
Dr. McKay teamed up with his colleague Shiri Lev-Ari to learn whether this familiar pattern went beyond English. They wondered whether it might even represent what's called sound symbolism. Sound symbolism is when a word sounds like what it means.
The researchers first asked fluent speakers of Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean and Russian to list the most vulgar (粗俗的) words they could think of. Once they'd made a list of each language's most frequently used curse words, the researchers compared these with neutral words from the same language. In these languages, they didn't find the plosive sounds that seem common in English curse words. "Instead, we found that the vulgar words were defined by what they lacked: the approximant (近似音) sounds that include letters I, L, R, W and Y, "Dr. Lev-Ari said.
Next, the scientists invited 215 native speakers of six languages: Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German and Spanish. The participants listened to pairs of words in a language they didn't speak, and guessed which word in each pair was offensive. In reality, all the words were invented. For example, the researchers started with the Albanian word "zog, " for "bird, "and created the pair of fake words "yog" and "tsog. "Participants were more likely to guess that words without approximants, such as "tsog, " were curses.
Finally, the researchers combed through the dictionary for English curse words and their cleaned-up versions. Once again, the clean versions included more of the sounds I, L, R, W and Y.
A 20th-century linguistic principle claimed that the sounds of words were arbitrary: Any word could have any meaning. With curse words, though, as in other cases of sound symbolism, "the sounds themselves seem to carry meaning, "said Lev-Ari. "That's a new thing, "said linguist Benjamin Bergen. "Curse words across languages, unrelated to each other, may pattern similarly. "He also pointed out, to make sure the pattern of approximants missing from curses isn't an accident, it would be nice to find it in an even larger sample of languages.
(1)、What is the purpose of McKay and Lev-Ari's research?A、To analyze a phenomenon. B、To explain a definition. C、To confirm an assumption. D、To challenge a theory.(2)、What were the participants asked to do in the second part of the research?A、To tell the rude word according to its sound. B、To make up new curse words from real words. C、To decide which curse words are used more frequently. D、To identify the approximants in curse words.(3)、According to Lev-Ari, which of the four is likely to sound offensive?A、Tusck B、Sola C、Darn D、Biach(4)、What can we learn from the last paragraph?A、The old linguistic principle of sounds and meanings is wrong. B、In sound symbolism, a word's sound represents its meaning. C、The research reveals the similarities between different languages. D、The result of the research is not fully accepted by scientists. -
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"I like pigs, " Winston Churchill supposedly once said. "Dogs look up at us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals. " Whether Churchill's contemporary George Orwell also liked pigs is less clear. But he, too, surely saw something in them that was lacking in other domestic beasts, for it was they who ended up running the show in novel Animal Farm. Pigs, then, are intelligent social creatures.
And, like all animals, they sometimes fight. A study just published in Animal Cognition by Ivan Norscia, a biological anthropologist at the University of Turin, in Italy, and his colleagues, looked at how a group of 104 domestic pigs went about resolving such incidents. In total, Dr. Norscia and his team studied the details of 216 pig conflicts over the course of six months.
Some pigs tend to be attackers; others tend to be victims. Who is what depends largely on weight, for, among pigs pounds mean power. The attacker might bite, kick, bump or lift the victim (or string together a sequence of those actions). Most conflicts ended in seconds, but some lasted a minute or two.
In most animal species that would be that. However, many of the pig conflicts Dr. Norscia observed had interested parties beyond the protagonists (主角). He therefore wanted to understand the role of these bystanders in resolving fights— and what this says about pigs" cognitive (认知)abilities.
Since there was usually not enough time for a bystander pig to intervene during the heat of a conflict (though this did occur), he and his colleagues looked at what happened in the three minutes directly following an aggressive interaction. Sometimes, they found, the protagonists made up on their own—for instance, by touching noses.
On other occasions, though, a third pig stepped in. Sometimes this bystander acted as a peacemaker, engaging with the attacker and reducing the number of subsequent attacks compared with what might otherwise have been expected. Sometimes, by contrast, the bystander engaged with the victim. This appeared to calm the victim down, for it reduced anxiety-related behavior such as shaking and scratching.
(1)、Why does the author mention Winston Churchill in the first paragraph?A、To introduce the topic of the text. B、To show pigs are inspirational. C、To state Churchill loves pigs. D、To prove pigs are clever.(2)、What probably decides on the pigs' roles in pig conflict?A、Their ages. B、Their weight. C、Their safety needs. D、Their cognitive abilities.(3)、Why did Ivan Norscia and his colleagues conduct the study?A、To record the details of 216 pig conflicts. B、To figure out the relationship between pigs. C、To comprehend the role of bystanders in conflict resolution. D、To find out the reason for pigs' conflicts.(4)、How will the bystander interact with the victim after a fight?A、By shaking it. B、By offering comfort to it. C、By scratching its back. D、By touching its nose. -
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Mary O'Connor and her husband Bobby Hughes had been in Letterkenny for a couple of days, when they decided they would spend the afternoon at Rathmullan beach.
Bobby is a diabetic (糖尿病患 者) and needs to take insulin (胰 岛素) regularly. On that morning, he had checked his blood sugar levels, which were fine. He ate breakfast without any difficulty. However, an unlucky incident happened. Mary said, "Ten minutes after we were there he just completely went down. It was just scary and it was so sudden. I think the really severe heat was a key factor, but it reflected how quickly things could change. "
A few moments later, two women from Derry noticed that and rapidly came over. One called Sara who also was a similar patient recognized straight away what was going on. She said, "I had a bottle of glucose gel (葡萄糖凝胶) that I kept for emergencies and I was rubbing it onto Bobby's gums, "
Mary said, "Some young lifeguards were able to call an ambulance and another lady called Emma, who was a nurse, stopped by to help us as well. Eventually we got him into the ambulance and I started to shake from the shock of it all. A nice man, Liam McAteer, whose mum owns the pub in Rathmullan, offered to drive me to the hospital and even took me back again to get my car. " Mary said that the staff at the Letterkenny hospital were so brilliant in treating Bobby that he was able to be discharged later that day at 6: 30 pm.
She said that while there was much more drama in their holiday than she thought there would be, she was very touched by the kind strangers. Mary continued, "It is wonderful to know there are good people and we are both so grateful for all help that they gave us. "
(1)、What did Mary and Bobby go to Letterkenny for?A、To visit Rathmullan beach. B、To go on holiday. C、To go to hospital. D、To go on business.(2)、Why did Bobby go down fainted suddenly by the beach?A、Checked his blood sugar levels. B、Not taking medicine irregularly. C、The severe heat of that day. D、Being on the beach too long.(3)、What can we learn from the scene of the first aid?A、Emma recognized straight away what was going on. B、Sara was a diabetic (糖尿病患者). C、Liam McAteer was an owner of a pub in Rathmullan. D、The staff at the Letterkenny hospital were brilliant in treating Bobby.(4)、Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A、An Awkward Holiday B、A Medical Incident C、The Powerful Aid D、The Unusual Couple -
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Endangered Species Youth Art Contest
2023 Contest Now Open!
Join us for our 6th annual Endangered Species Youth Art Contest! In celebration of Endangered Species Day (May 19, 2023), Roger Williams Park Zoo is accepting art entries from local K-12 grade students in the New England area showing threatened and endangered species. Together we hope to raise awareness about the importance of saving endangered species and their wild habitats.
Winners will be formally announced by May 2023.
Rules & Art Submission Instructions:
▲All entries are to be submitted electronically. Web form will be made available beginning February 1, 2023.
▲Students' artworks must be original. Computer-produced images will NOT be judged.
▲All artworks must be about threatened/endangered species.
▲Each art entry must also include a short explanation (3-5 sentences) as to why saving your chosen species from extinction is important.
Deadline: Entries must be received by Sunday, April 2, 2023. Late entries will not be judged.
2023 Art Contest Prizes
GRAND PRIZE(Judges Choice)
▲One Family RWPZoo membership (a S149 value; or extra year added to current Zoo membership)
▲An adopt-an-animal package of your choice
▲One $100 gift card
GRADE CATEGORY WINNERS (Grades K-2, Grades 3-12)
Each grade-winner shall receive:
★Six General daytime admission tickets to RWPZoo
★One $25 gift card
HONORABLE MENTIONS (Grades K-2, Grades 3-12)
Each grade-honorable mention shall receive:
★Four General daytime admission tickets to RWPZoo
★An award certificate
All winning artworks will be highlighted on the Zoo's website and social media pages, and in the Zoo's summer WILD Magazine issue.
(1)、How can you submit your artwork?A、By sending it in an envelope. B、By turning it in on the website. C、By handing it to the zoo in person. D、By having it delivered to the judges.(2)、What should you explain in your entry?A、The habitats of threatened and endangered species. B、The relationship between humans and endangered species. C、The measures to protect endangered species. D、The reason of protecting your targeted species.(3)、What award will a grand prize winner get?A、A choice to adopt an animal. B、A $25 worth of gift card to the zoo. C、An exhibition of the artwork all year round. D、Six tickets to RWPZoo for general daily time admission. -
7、 听材料,回答问 题。(1)、Who is the speaker talking to?A、People who have read her books. B、People who are looking for jobs. C、People who want to write their own books.(2)、What does the speaker compare writing a book to?A、Completing a work assignment. B、Writing a university essay. C、Reading a magazine article.(3)、How does the speaker get most of her ideas?A、By reading papers. B、By speaking to people. C、By spending time online.
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8、 听材料,回答问 题。(1)、What are the speakers talking about?A、Shopping for Christmas. B、Performing on Christmas. C、Selecting Christmas lights.(2)、Why will the event get press attention?A、The lead actors are well known. B、The market is in a famous location. C、The new actors have good images.(3)、How does the woman feel about the opportunity?A、Excited. B、Uninterested. C、Worried.(4)、What must be perfect on the day according to the woman?A、The ticket sales. B、The sound quality. C、The costumes.
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9、 听材料,回答问 题。(1)、What is the weather like at the moment?A、Foggy. B、Rainy. C、Clear.(2)、Where is the woman going?A、The sea. B、The forest. C、The mountains.(3)、What does the man ask the woman to do?A、Book a hotel for him. B、Bring him a coffee. C、Contact him.
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10、 听材料,回答问 题。(1)、Why does the woman want to park the car in another place?A、The parking space is small. B、There are larger spaces available. C、She parks in a spot for the disabled.(2)、Where will the woman and Jenny go first?A、The drugstore. B、The hair salon. C、The shoe store.(3)、What's the probable relationship between the speakers?A、Mother and son. B、Husband and wife. C、Garage attendant and car owner.
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11、 听材料,回答问 题。(1)、Who is Helen probably?A、The girl's friend. B、The man's daughter. C、The man's wife.(2)、What will the girl do at 5:00 p. m. ?A、Have a meal with the man. B、Buy some snacks. C、Do sports.
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12、 How much does the cake cost?A、$2. 00. B、$3.50. C、$5.50.
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13、 What do the speakers think of Gary?A、He's unqualified. B、He's well-behaved. C、He's faithful.
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14、 What will the man do next?A、Organize a trip to France. B、Send a letter to the school. C、Prepare a teaching course in traveling.
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15、 What does the man suggest the woman do?A、Make more friends. B、Try harder at work. C、Have a positive attitude.
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16、 Where does the conversation probably take place?A、At a shoe shop. B、At a clothes shop. C、At a paint shop.
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17、 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。
Polly Goodman, 82-year-old, was a rich old woman. Her husband was a businessman and left her a large fortune after his death, so she had no problems supporting herself. The only problem was that her son who was a doctor busy with his work seldom had time to visit her, leaving her living lonely.
One day, Polly was walking along the beach, like she did every evening near her seaside house, when she noticed a young boy and his little sister playing there. As she was passing by them, she heard their mother calling out to them. "Corey! Daisy! Be careful! Stay away from the water!"
Polly noticed their mother resting on a bench, appearing sick and tired. The dark circles under her eyes were quite obvious, and she coughed frequently. Polly always had a desire to have a chat with someone. So she walked carefully towards the mother with a kind smile on her face.
"Hi, I'm Polly. I live by the beach." Polly said.
The mother looked up at Polly, feeling a little surprised. The mother told Polly she was Lydia and had worked as a waitress. Lydia further said that she and her children had only recently moved to that location because her children had always wanted to see the ocean. Then Lydia stopped to cough heavily. After she calmed down, it seemed she wanted to say something, but stopped as if there was something difficult to tell. Polly did not follow up, saying goodbye and left.
When Polly went to the beach the next day, she saw the kids again, but this time their mother wasn't with them. She observed them playing by themselves until late in the evening before heading home. The third day came and again the two kids played at the seaside until late in the evening, still without their mother's company. Then the elder brother was about to lead the sister back home. Out of curiosity and care Polly decided to follow them to their house.
注意:1.续写词数应150个左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。Upon arrival, the kids invited Polly inside.
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Polly took the mother to the hospital her son worked in.
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18、近期,我校校报英文版开展征文活动,请以"My Favorite Food"为主题,向该栏目投稿,介绍你最喜爱的食物。内容包括:
1. 品尝的经历;
2. 食物的特点注意:1.写作词数应为80左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。My Favorite Food
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19、 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
A comforting cup of tea is essential part of the day for hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Worldwide, three cups of tea (consume) for every cup of coffee. To fully appreciate the ancient roots of the herbal drink, a visit to the China National Tea Museum might be in order. The institution has a long history.
(locate) in Hangzhou, the museum occupies a parklike setting. Inside, various halls demonstrate the story of tea, its ceremonies and its tools. Records of tea drinking date far back as the tenth century B. C. in China. (origin) the leaves were baked into a brick, a part of could be broken off and made into a powder. Tea spread into northern China during the Tang Dynasty; by the Song Dynasty it (acquire) a loose-leaf production as well as the ceremonies that made (it) consumption an art form.
The art of tea extended to its fancy (contain), which are on display at the museum. Gracefully rounded kettles date back 5,000 years; tea bowls from the Tang Dynasty have a beautiful simplicity. Today visitors can observe a tea ceremony that might be enough (change) even the most passionate coffee drinker.
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20、 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was getting ready to go to bed when the phone rang. This could not be good. My mind 1 through the list of family members who might need help, but the 2 was hardly familiar.
"Lindy, this is Lesley." I didn't know Lesley well. We did 3 speak with each other, but to say we were friends was not appropriate. I asked what she needed. Perhaps something really awful caused her to 4 someone she barely knew. 5 , she asked me, "Do you have room for a turkey? In your freezer?" We had lots of room in our freezer, and in fact, too much. "Sure," I responded, "did your freezer6 ?" "Not exactly," Lesley replied, "but I will explain when I arrive."
Minutes later came a huge freezer truck. Lesley stepped down and 7 the lease(租约) of the grocer store her husband serviced had 8 and that they had to empty all the freezers that very night. Thinking it was a shame to throw away all this good food, they decided to 9 off food to anyone she could think of. 10 our freezer was pretty empty, Lesley asked to fill it up. Our home was their 11 stop and anything left would have to be put in our freezer. An hour later, everything finished, I asked her, "When will you come back for all this?" Lesley 12 , "We don't want it back. It is yours! Thanks for helping us out!" Then they waved goodbye and drove away.
"For helping them out?" We opened our freezer door. Inside were all expensive foods we never bought but often 13 to try. We were struggling to buy groceries, 14 it was not something we shared with anyone. However, our 15 were met in an unexpected way, by that "Do you have room for a turkey?"
(1)A 、 walked B 、 raced C 、 competed D 、 crossed(2)A 、 voice B 、 picture C 、 vision D 、 discussion(3)A 、 consistently B 、 regularly C 、 routinely D 、 occasionally(4)A 、 stimulate B 、 reach C 、 fascinate D 、 impress(5)A 、 Therefore B 、 Consequently C 、 Additionally D 、 Instead(6)A 、 break down B 、 break away C 、 break in D 、 break up(7)A 、 explained B 、 reasoned C 、 concluded D 、 questioned(8)A 、 tried out B 、 drawn out C 、 run out D 、 worked out(9)A 、 take B 、 cut C 、 drop D 、 put(10)A 、 Ignoring B 、 Noticing C 、 Praising D 、 Complaining(11)A 、 premier B 、 middle C 、 first D 、 last(12)A 、 laughed B 、 sobbed C 、 screamed D 、 frowned(13)A 、 tolerated B 、 doubted C 、 longed D 、 rejected(14)A 、 as B 、 yet C 、 since D 、 so(15)A 、 requirements B 、 conditions C 、 needs D 、 cost